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The official magazine of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Ward Stare, Music Director
Jeff Tyzik, Principal Pops Conductor
Michael Butterman, Principal Conductor for Education and Community Engagement
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair
Christopher Seaman, Conductor Laureate
The Christopher Seaman Chair, Supported by Barbara and Patrick Fulford and The Conductor Laureate Society
in this issue
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Welcome from the
President & CEO
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RPO Board of Directors
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Bravo to Our Sponsors
Bravo to Our Generous Supporters
Rochester Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra
Bravo to Our Volunteers/
Philharmonic League
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Mozart and Prokofiev
October 23 and 25
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The Phantom of the Opera Silent Film
October 31 and November 1
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Portraits of Film Music
November 2
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Brahms and Rachmaninoff
November 6 and 8
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Van Cliburn Gold and Mozart’s “Jupiter”
November 13 and 15
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Beyond the Score®: Scheherazade
November 22
ON THE COVER:
Birch Grove by Denise Hocking
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Dear Friends,
Welcome
from the President & CEO
All of us in the RPO family deeply mourn the passing
on September 21st of our dear friend Jay Friedman,
an Honorary Board Member, longtime supporter and
enthusiastic fan of his beloved orchestra.
For more than 15 years, Jay Friedman served
the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra through
appointments on the Board of Directors, Honorary
Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Finance
Committee. He also was actively involved as an
outspoken advocate for the future of the RPO as a leader of the Citizens
for a Quality Philharmonic, and he was influential in the addition of two
musicians to regularly serve on the RPO Board of Directors. A respected
trial attorney, he was active in the Rochester legal community for 52 years,
serving many leadership roles including Vice President and Trustee of the
Monroe County Bar Association.
Jay’s appreciation for the RPO shone through in many ways. An avid
concertgoer, Jay held season tickets to every RPO concert in every series
offered since graduating from Cornell Law School. His love for the RPO
began at an early age, when he attended concerts with his parents, and Jay
often claimed to have attended more RPO concerts than anyone else in the
community.
The passing of this passionate and devoted supporter is a deep loss for the
RPO, and we extend our deepest sympathies to his wife, Betsy, and their
extended family.
In October, our Philharmonics Series continues with Prokofiev’s Symphony
No. 5 and Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, featuring Principal Bassoonist
Matthew McDonald’s first solo performance with the RPO (Oct. 23 & 24). On
November 6 and 8, pianist Douglas Humpherys joins us for Rachmaninoff’s
Piano Concerto No. 1, with guest conductor Christoph König. The following
week, Van Cliburn gold medalist Vadym Kholodenko performs Prokofiev’s
scintillating Second Piano Concerto under the baton of guest conductor
José Luis Gomez. (Nov. 13 & 15).
Just in time for Halloween, the RPO presents a special screening of The
Phantom of the Opera, the original 1925 silent film set in a haunted opera
house (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1). For more music in film, our second Sunday
matinee honors such classic film scores as E.T. and the 1927 sci-fi classic
Metropolis (Nov. 2).
Multimedia projects continue as we kick off a season of exciting specials
with Video Games Live (Nov. 21) and a thrilling presentation of RimskyKorsakov’s exotic Scheherazade from the Chicago Symphony’s acclaimed
Beyond the Score® series (Nov. 22). These back-to-back projects remind us
how grateful we are to the Davenport Hatch Foundation for recent grants
enabling us to bring state-of-the-art digital technology to the concert hall.
Enjoy the concert – and please stay in touch and tell us what you think!
Charles H.Owens, President & CEO
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FLUTE
First Violin
Juliana Athayde, Concertmaster Rebecca Gilbert, Principal
TUBA
W. Craig Sutherland, Principal
Wilfredo Degláns,
Associate Concertmaster
Shannon Nance,
Assistant Concertmaster
Perrin Yang
Tigran Vardanyan
Ellen Rathjen
Molly Werts
Aika Ito
William Hunt
Kenneth Langley
Jeremy Hill
An-Chi Lin
Heidi Brodwin
Margaret Leenhouts
TIMPANI
Charles Ross, Principal
Viola
Melissa Matson, Principal
Olivia Chew, Assistant Principal
Marc Anderson
Elizabeth Seka
Olita Povero
Lisa Steltenpohl*
David Hult
Samantha Rodriguez
Christiana Reader
Cello
Lars Kirvan, Principal
The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Kathleen Murphy Kemp,
Assistant Principal
Christopher Haritatos
Mary Ann Wukovitz
Ben Krug
Andrew Barnhart
Ingrid Bock
Melissa Burton Anderson
Alexa Ciceretti ~
Weiting Sun ~
Bass
Colin Corner, Principal
The Anne Hayden McQuay Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Michael Griffin,
Assistant Principal
Gaelen McCormick
Edward Castilano
Fred Dole
Jeff Campbell +
Eric Polenik
Spencer Jensen ~
Joanna Bassett
Jan Angus+
Diane Smith
PICCOLO
Joanna Bassett
Jan Angus+
OBOE
Erik Behr, Principal
The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Anna Steltenpohl
Geoffrey Sanford
ENGLISH HORN
Anna Steltenpohl
CLARINET
Kenneth Grant,+ Principal
The Robert J. Strasenburgh Chair
Funded in perpetuity
William Amsel
Andrew Brown
Alice Meyer
E-FLAT CLARINET
William Amsel
BASS CLARINET
Andrew Brown
SAXOPHONE
Ramon Ricker+
BASSOON
Matthew McDonald, Principal
The Harold and Joan Feinbloom Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Jim Tiller, Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Jim Tiller, Principal
Brian Stotz
John McNeill
Robert Patterson
Jillian Pritchard Fiandach
HARP
Grace Wong, Principal
The Eileen Malone Chair, A Tribute by
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Funded in perpetuity
Barbara Dechario
KEYBOARD
Joseph Werner, Principal
The Lois P. Lines Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Cary Ratcliff
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Joseph Werner
PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN
Kim Hartquist
The Orchestra
Second Violin
Thomas Rodgers, Principal
Daryl Perlo, Assistant Principal
Patricia Sunwoo
John Sullivan
Lara Sipols
Nancy Hunt
Boris Zapesochny
Liana Koteva Kirvan
Ainur Zabenova
Julie Gray
Karine Stone
Hee Sagong
The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair
Funded in perpetuity
2014/15 Season
The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward
Chair, Funded in perpetuity
STAGE MANAGER
Curtis Bradley
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
David Zaccaria
The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Charles Bailey
Martha Sholl
CONTRA-BASSOON
Charles Bailey
HORN
W. Peter Kurau,+ Principal
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The Cricket and Frank Luellen Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Byron Johns, Assistant Principal
Jennifer Burch
David Angus
Stephen Laifer
TRUMPET
Douglas Prosser,+ Principal
The Elaine P. Wilson Chair
Wesley Nance
Herbert Smith
Paul Shewan
TROMBONE
Mark Kellogg,+ Principal
The Austin E. Hildebrandt Chair
Funded in perpetuity
Lisa Albrecht
Jeffrey Gray
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Our Conductors
Ward Stare has been described as a “rising star
in the conducting firmament” by the Chicago
Tribune. His current season includes debuts
with orchestras around the world, including
performances with the Baltimore, Sydney,
Pittsburgh and New World symphonies, as well
as the Calgary Philharmonic. In November, he
will return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to lead
performances of Porgy and Bess.
Halski Studio
Ward Stare
Music Director
2014/15 Season
Stare’s frequent collaboration with the Lyric Opera of Chicago began with
his debut in 2012 conducting performances of Hansel and Gretel, and he
returned in 2013 to lead Die Fledermaus. He led the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Orchestra and Chorus in 2013 for his Millennium Park debut at LOC’s annual
“Stars of Lyric Opera” concert. Following his debut with the Opera Theater of
St. Louis in 2013 conducting Il Tabarro and Pagliacci, Stare returned to OTSL
the next season for performances of Dialogues of the Carmelites. He made
his debut with the Washington National Opera conducting Donizetti’s comic
opera L’elisir d’amore in 2014.
Stare served as the Resident Conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony
Orchestra from 2008 to 2012. In 2009, he made his Carnegie Hall debut
with the orchestra, stepping in at the last minute to lead H.K. Gruber’s
Frankenstein!! The 2013-14 season saw his return to the Atlanta and Detroit
symphony orchestras, as well as his debuts with the Syracuse Symphoria,
the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic. Other recent
engagements include the Houston, Québec, and Dallas symphonies, as well
as numerous engagements with the Saint Louis Symphony. wardstare.com
Michael Butterman
Principal Conductor for Education and Community Engagement
Glenn Ross
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair
Michael Butterman is making his mark as a model for today’s conductors and
is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming,
and to audience and community engagement.
Now in his 15th season as the RPO’s Principal Conductor for Education and Community
Engagement—the first position of its kind in the United States—Butterman is also currently in his
ninth season as music director for both the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shreveport
Symphony Orchestra, and is the new Music Director of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, celebrating
its inaugural season in 2014-2015. He is also the Resident Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony
Orchestra, a post he has held since 2009.
He made his debut with the renowned Cleveland Orchestra in 2012, and was immediately
reengaged for two concerts the following season. Other recent engagements include appearances
with the symphonies of Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Oregon, Phoenix, Kansas City, Charleston,
Hartford, San Antonio, Louisiana, Syracuse, New Mexico, California, Spokane, El Paso, Mobile
and Winston-Salem, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and the Ohio Light Opera, Opera
Southwest, Pensacola Opera, and Asheville Lyric Opera. In the 14-15 season, he will make his
debut with the Victoria Symphony in Canada and return to the podium of the Santa Fe Symphony.
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Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
(Founded in 1923 — Incorporated in 1930)
2014/15 Season
RPO Board
Ex-Officio
Officers
William L. Cahn
Dawn F. Lipson
Chairperson of the Board Chairperson,
Honorary Board
Jules L. Smith
Mark Kellogg
Chairperson-Elect
Orchestra Representative
& Secretary
Charles H. Owens
President & CEO
Wesley Nance
Orchestra Representative
Ilene L. Flaum
Vice Chairperson
Charles H. Owens
President & CEO
Mark Siwiec
Vice Chairperson
Elizabeth F. Rice
Immediate Past
Chairperson
Ingrid A. Stanlis
Vice Chairperson
Elizabeth F. Rice
Treasurer & Immediate
Past Chairperson
Board of Directors
(Term Expires
Jan. 2015)
David W. Ackroyd
Dr. John M. Bennett
William D. Eggers
La Marr J. Jackson
Douglas W. Phillips
Christopher N. Pipa
Elizabeth F. Rice
Dr. Stephen I. Rosenfeld
Katherine T. Schumacher
Robert B. Stiles
Deborah Wilson
(Term Expires
Jan. 2016)
James M. Boucher
Lauren Dixon
Dr. Steven E. Feldon
Patrick Fulford
Dawn F. Lipson
Mark Siwiec
Ingrid A. Stanlis
Dr. Eugene P. Toy
Dawn F. Lipson,
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Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq.
Ilene L. Flaum
Steven Hess
Patrick J. Kelly
Michael B. Millard
Sandra A. Parker
Jules L. Smith
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Dr. Jamal J. Rossi
Dean, Eastman School
of Music
Honorary Board
William L. Cahn
Chairperson
Cricket Luellen
Vice Chairperson
Nancy & Harry Beilfuss
James M. Boucher
Dr. John Bouyoucos
Paul W. Briggs
Catherine B. Carlson
Louise Epstein
Joan Feinbloom
Mary M. Gooley
David C. Heiligman
A. Thomas Hildebrandt
Robert D. Hursh
Marie Kenton
Dr. James E. Koller
Harold A. Kurland
Dr. Jacques M. Lipson
Frank Luellen
Dr. Paul F. Pagerey
Nathan J. Robfogel
Jon L. Schumacher
Katherine T. Schumacher
Norman M. Spindelman
Betty Strasenburgh
Josephine S. Trubek
Suzanne D. Welch
Patricia C. Wilder
The RPO expresses its gratitude
to all those who have served
as Honorary Board members in
the past.
Past RPO Chairpersons
1930–32: Edward G. Miner*
1932–34: Simon N. Stein*
1934–38: George E. Norton*
1938–41: Leroy E. Snyder*
1941–42: Frank W. Lovejoy*
1942–43: Bernard E. Finucane*
1943–46: L. Dudley Field*
1946–48: Edward S. Farrow, Jr. *
1948–51: Joseph J. Myler*
1951–52: Joseph F. Taylor*
1952–55: Raymond W. Albright*
1955–57: Arthur I. Stern*
1957–59: Thomas H. Hawks*
1959–61: Walter C. Strakosh*
1962–63: Ernest J. Howe*
1963–65: O. Cedric Rowntree*
1965–67: Frank E. Holley *
1967–69: Thomas C. Taylor*
1969–71: Thomas H. Miller*
1971–72: Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens*
1972–73: Edward C. McIrvine
1973–74: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1974–75: John A. Santuccio
1975–76: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1976–78: Dr. Louis Lasagna*
1978–80: Edward C. McIrvine
1980–82: Peter L. Faber
1982–84: Paul F. Pagerey
1984–85: Peter L. Waasdorp*
1986–89: Robert H. Hurlbut*
1989–91: Paul W. Briggs
1991–93: Karen Noble Hanson
1993–95: Ronald E. Salluzzo
1995–98: A. Thomas Hildebrandt
1998–00: Harold A. Kurland
2000–04: David C. Heiligman
2004–06: Ingrid A. Stanlis
2006–09: James M. Boucher
2009–11: Suzanne D. Welch
2011–13: Elizabeth F. Rice
* Deceased
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Bravo to Our Sponsors
2014/15 Season & Series Sponsors:
Concert Sponsors:
Brahms and Rachmaninoff
November 6 and 8
This concert featuring Douglas Humpherys is underwritten with admiration
by SHERMAN LEVEY AND DEBORAH RONNEN
Government Support:
RPO Performances are made possible by
the New York State Council on the Arts,
with the support of Governor Andrew
Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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THU
oct 23
SAT
oct 25
8 pm
KODAK HALL
AT EASTMAN
THEATRE
ALAN HOVHANESS
Case Scaglione, guest conductor
Matthew McDonald, bassoon
The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair
Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain”
Andante con moto
Double Fugue: Moderato maestoso Allegro vivo
Andante espressivo: Con moto
16:00
WOLFGANG
AMADÈUS MOZART Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 186e
Allegro
20:00
Andante ma adagio
Rondo: Tempo di menuetto
Matthew McDonald, bassoon
Mozart and Prokofiev
7:30 pm
INTERMISSION
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100
Andante
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Allegro giocoso
46:00
2014-2015 Season presented by:
Philharmonics Series sponsored by:
The performance of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto is made possible by
The Mozart Performance Fund: Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. and Steven Hess
media sponsor:
We kindly ask you to please silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Also, please note that
photography and video recordings are prohibited during the performance.
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Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2, Op. 132 ‘Mysterious Mountain’
b. March 8, 1911
Somerville, Mass.
d. June 22, 2000
Seattle, Wash.
Of mixed Armenian and Scottish heritage, Hovhaness incorporated
elements from numerous international folk traditions into his music,
while his interest in spirituality and Renaissance music lend many
works visionary and introspective qualities.
First/last performance
by the RPO
January 15, 1959;
Leopold Stokowski,
conductor
He composed at least 67 symphonies, across a 55-year period
stretching from 1937 to 1992. The second of these, his best-known
orchestral work, dates from 1955. “I named the symphony for the
mysterious feeling that one has in the mountains – not for any
special mountain, but for the whole idea of mountains. Mountains
are symbols, of man’s attempt to know God. Mountains are symbolic
meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” The
first and last movements are hymn-like and lyrical, using irregular
metrical forms. The first subject of the second movement, a double
fugue, is developed in a slow vocal style. The rapid second subject is
played by the strings. In the last movement, a chant in 7/4 is played
softly by muted horns and trombones. A middle melody is sung by
the oboes and clarinets in a quintuple beat. Muted violins return with
the earlier chant, which is gradually given to the full orchestra.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 186e
b. January 27, 1756
Salzburg, Austria
d. December 5, 1791
Vienna, Austria
This is the first
performance by the RPO.
For many years it was believed that the 18 year-old Mozart composed
this Concerto for Thaddäus Baron von Dürntiz, a wealthy amateur
bassoonist. Supposedly it was part of a group of commissioned works
that included further bassoon concertos and a sonata for bassoon
and piano. A more recent and more likely theory is that Mozart
composed this concerto for one of his two bassoonist colleagues in
the Court Orchestra of Salzburg. It was completed on June 4, 1774.
After his death, the manuscript score was sent to the publisher
J.A. André in Offenbach, Germany where it vanished and has yet
to reappear. André published the work in 1805, in an edition likely
derived from performance materials that had been altered or edited
without the composer’s supervision.
With effortless fluidity and poise, the first movement explores the
entire range of the bassoon. It touches on the smoothness, the
humor, the ability to perform wide leaps between notes, and an
agility that the greatest singer might envy. Sweet yearning flows
through the aria-like slow movement, a most eloquent rebuttal to
the bassoon’s supposed lack of expressiveness. A recurring theme
in the stately style of a minuet dominates the finale. In between its
appearances, Mozart has the bassoon perform variations on it laced
with charm and unexaggerated humor.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5 in
B-flat Major, Op. 100
b. April 27, 1891
Sontsovka, Ukraine
d. March 5, 1953
Moscow, Russia
The young Prokofiev’s brittle, aggressive
music found only limited success in his
musically conservative homeland. Seeking
greater appreciation, he left the newlyestablished Soviet Union in 1918 and headed
west. Based in Paris throughout the 1920s, he
won a sizeable reputation through his works
for the theatre and concert hall. Despite his
success in Europe, nostalgic longing for
the home country began to settle in and he
returned by the mid-1930s.
First performed by the RPO
December 5, 1946;
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Last performed
November 7, 2009;
Arild Remmereit, conductor
In June 1944, he took up residence at a vacation estate, a collective poultry farm that the Union
of Composers operated near Ivanovo, 80 kilometers west of Moscow. There he composed his
Fifth Symphony, “to which I attach great importance,” he wrote, “firstly because of its thematic
material, and secondly because with this work I returned to the genre of the symphony after a
break of 16 years. I thought of the Fifth as a work glorifying the human spirit. I wanted to sing
of man free and happy, his strength, his generosity and the purity of his soul. I cannot say that I
chose this theme; it was innate in me and had to be expressed.”
He conducted the first performance himself, in the Moscow Conservatory, on January 13, 1945.
The symphony’s immediate popularity sprang in part from its representing precisely what
Soviet audiences needed: a hopeful vision of better times after six years of horrific conflict.
It has maintained its international reputation (it is his most frequently performed large-scale
concert work) through its superb balance of grandeur, powerful, eventually uplifting emotions,
and sparkling wit. In it he may be heard to achieve, after a decade of post-relocation struggle,
the language – direct and approachable yet still individual – that would satisfy both himself
and his masters.
The four movements alternate slow and fast tempos. The first generates an impression of
optimism, rising to a climax of overwhelming heft and forcefulness. A bustling movement
laced with typically biting Prokofiev humor follows. The dark, questioning third movement
mirrors the matching section of Shostakovich’s Fifth, which since its debut in 1937 had been
the model for Soviet symphonic tragedies. The finale opens in a mood of gentle musing, only
to shift to an impudent, carnival-like atmosphere that sweeps the music along joyfully to the
resounding conclusion.
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artists
Case Scaglione, guest conductor
John Smillie
Christian Steiner
In the 2014-15 season, Case Scaglione returns
to the New York Philharmonic for concerts
with violinist Joshua Bell. These concerts
follow Scaglione’s promotion to Associate
Conductor at the New York Philharmonic—
Case Scaglione
Matthew McDonald
a position that was revived especially for him by
Music Director Alan Gilbert. Scaglione began his
tenure as Assistant Conductor with the orchestra in 2011 and made his subscription debut in
November 2012, stepping in for Kurt Masur.
Also this season, Scaglione makes his debuts with the RPO, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, and
Dallas Symphony and returns to the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
He made his professional conducting debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2010 after being
awarded the Aspen Conducting Prize in the same year, and in 2011 he was recipient of the
Conductor’s Prize from the Solti Foundation US.
Since then, he has appeared as a guest conductor with the Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Houston, Colorado, and Jacksonville
symphony orchestras, as well as many others. In September 2013, he assisted Sir Andrew Davis
on Elektra at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Scaglione is a regular visitor to China, where he has given concerts with the orchestras of
Shangai, Guangzhou, and the China Philharmonic. Last season he conducted a performance of
Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia in Madrid.
Scaglione was a student of David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen,
where he won the James Conlon Prize, and was Assistant Conductor of the Aspen Music
Festival and School. He was one of three Conducting Fellows at Tanglewood in 2011, chosen
by James Levine and Stefan Asbury. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland
Institute of Music and his postgraduate studies were spent at the Peabody Institute, where he
studied with Gustav Meier. casescaglione.com
Matthew McDonald, bassoon
The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair
Matthew McDonald was appointed Principal Bassoon of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
in September 2013. Prior to this appointment, he was Principal Bassoon of the Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra and Co-Principal Bassoon of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra
in Columbus, Ohio. McDonald has performed as soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic
Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School
Chamber Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as at the International Double Reed
Society conference. He has appeared with festival orchestras such as the Schleswig-Holstein
Festival Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Born in Huntsville, Alabama, McDonald’s early teachers included Hunter Thomas, and
Benjamin Kamins. A graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of
Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, McDonald also studied with Barrick Stees, Bernard
Garfield, and Daniel Matsukawa. Along with soprano Susanna Phillips, McDonald co-founded
Twickenham Fest, a chamber music festival in Huntsville, Alabama, which had its inaugural
summer in 2010.
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SAT
nov 1
Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
8 pm
KODAK HALL
AT EASTMAN
THEATRE
The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
CREDITS
CAST
Lon Chaney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik, The Phantom
Mary Philbin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Daaé
Norman Kerry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raoul de Chagny
Arthur Edmund Carewe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Persian
Gibson Gowland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon Buquet
John Sainpolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comte Phillippe de Chagny
Snitz Edwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Florine Papillon
Virginia Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlotta
The Phantom of the Opera
Silent Film
oct 31
8 pm
FROM THE CELEBRATED NOVEL BY
Gaston Leroux
DIRECTED BY
Rupert Julian
PRODUCED BY
Carl Laemmle
STORY ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY
Elliott Clawson
Film courtesy of Universal Pictures
Musical accompaniment for this evening’s performance compiled
and arranged by Donald Hunsberger
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About the accompaniment
by Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
Silent films were never really “silent.” From solo performers or chamber-sizes ensembles
performing on movie sets to establish proper moods for the actors, to the pianists, organists,
and orchestral musicians performing in theater pits throughout the country, silent films always
had music as an integral part of their presentation.
To compile this evening’s accompaniment, I compiled a “cue sheet” on which the titles, scenes,
emotional content, action, and similar instructions from the film are provided for the performers
to assist them in selecting proper music to reflect the pathos, intensity, and movement of each
of the film’s sections. A musical identity scoring system was employed to provide audiences
with a musical background coupled with screen action and development. Thus, the musical
accompaniment plays an integral part in the presentation underscoring the visual with the aural.
About the story
Erik, The Phantom (Lon Chaney) is a disfigured, maniacal composer who rules the backstage
and subterranean regions of the Paris Opera House. He has fallen in love with Christine
Daaé (Mary Philbin), a young singer, and wishes to make her the Prima Donna of the Opera
House. To accomplish this, he creates difficulties for the reigning soprano, Carlotta (Virginia
Pearson). Christine has an admirer, Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), who is determined to win
Christine’s hand in marriage. A constant presence in the Opera House is The Persian, actually
Inspector Ledoux of the Paris Special Police (Arthur Edmund Carewe), who has been pursuing
The Phantom for several years.
Originally too frightening for mid-1920s movie audiences, the film was re-shot and comedy
scenes were added, utilizing the talents of Snitz Edwards, a well-known character actor.
artists
Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
Donald Hunsberger is conductor emeritus of the Eastman Wind
Ensemble at the Eastman School of Music, having served as its music
director from 1965 to 2002. He also holds the title professor emeritus
of conducting and ensembles at Eastman, where he served for many
years as chair of the conducting and ensembles department. He has
been the recipient of numerous awards including the Herbert Eisenhart
Award (pedagogy), the National Association for State and Local
Historians Award (research) and the Crystal Award, Asahi Broadcasting
Company, Osaka, Japan (performance).
In the orchestral world, since 1980, Hunsberger has created and conducted performances of
orchestral accompaniments to over 18 silent films working with the Film Division of the George
Eastman House. He has conducted performances with 45 orchestras including the National,
San Francisco, Houston, Vancouver, Utah, Virginia, Florida, Winnipeg, San Diego, Syracuse,
and North Carolina symphony orchestras, and the Rochester, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Calgary
philharmonic orchestras, among others. His last appearance with the RPO was in 2003.
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SUN
PERFORMANCE
HALL AT
HOCHSTEIN
ERICH KORNGOLD
(ARR. MAUCERI)
Michael Butterman, conductor
Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
Adventures of Robin Hood Suite (1938)
Old England
Robin and His Merry Men
Love Scene
The Fight, Victory and Epilogue SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Alexander Nevsky (1938)*
ARR. DONALD HUNSBERGER
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)*
ANATOLY K. LYADOV
Metropolis (1927)*
JOHN HUNTER
Numberlys (2012)*
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Suite No. 3*
J. RALPH/BAIRD
The Cove (2009)*
JOHN WILLIAMS
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Music will have film accompaniment
Battle on the Ice
Excerpt
Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
Baba Yaga
Portraits of Film Music
nov 2
2 pm
NY premiere of short film from Academy
Award-winning Moonbot Studios
The Cove
Dolphins and Mandy
Adventures on Earth
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Outstanding students and faculty. Great artists.
November 2
An Afternoon
with Arturo Sandoval
Winner of 10 Grammy awards, an emmy award,
and the 2013 Presidential
medal of Freedom
Kodak Hall 3 PM I Tickets required
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box office, 433 east main street,
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Other Great Eastman Performances
Benjamin Britten’s
November 6–8, 7:30 Pm
November 9, 2 Pm
Tuesday, November 18, 8 Pm
Eastman Kilbourn Series
Eastman Opera Theatre Gryphon Trio
Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; Roman Borys,
A rollicking comedy and a pointed satire
of British small-town attitudes.
KilbourN Hall I Tickets required
cello; James Parker, piano
Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat Major, K. 254
Silvestrov: Fugitive Visions of Mozart
Ravel: Piano Trio
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Christoph König, guest conductor
Douglas Humpherys, piano
JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Allegro con brio
Andante
Poco allegretto
Allegro
33:00
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RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Vivace
26:00
Brahms and Rachmaninoff
THU
Andante
Allegro vivace
Douglas Humpherys, piano
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY
Dances of Galánta
Douglas Humpherys will perform on a Steinway
piano donated in honor of Jon Nakamatsu,
a special friend of the RPO.
15:00
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Brahms needed an unusually long time to
develop an individual style. Much of the
difficulty sprang from his awe of Beethoven,
even though many of his supporters and
colleagues saw him as the earlier composer’s
true symphonic heir. “I shall never write a
symphony,” he told conductor Hermann Levi.
“You have no idea how the likes of us feel
when we hear the tramp of a giant like him
(Beethoven) behind us.”
b. May 7, 1833
Hamburg, Germany
d. April 3, 1897
Vienna, Austria
First performed by the RPO
November 15, 1934;
Guy Fraser Harrison,
conductor
Last performed
January 30, 2010;
Christopher Seaman,
conductor
Time and experience eventually convinced
him to renounce that vow. Some 20 years
passed after he began work on his first
symphony before he felt it was ready to be played in public. The premiere in 1876 won great
success, confirming in his mind that he really did possess the necessary skills to follow in
Beethoven’s footsteps as a great composer of symphonic music. Where the first symphony was
tense and dramatic, the second, which followed just one year later, was relaxed and lyrical.
He composed Symphony No. 3 in 1883. Hans Richter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in
the premiere on December 2, 1883. It is a more individual and characteristic symphony than
its two predecessors. In its striking mixture of passion and pessimism, of restlessness and
serenity, Brahms offers a compelling, highly revealing musical self‑portrait. “What harmonious
mood pervades the whole!” his close friend, Clara Schumann, wrote to him after playing
through the symphony at the piano. “All the movements seem to be of one piece, one beat of
the heart, each one a jewel.”
One of its most striking features is that all four movements end quietly. Such an unusually
reserved practice reveals the degree of confidence that Brahms had attained by this point in his
career, and also perhaps a growing pessimism.
The opening movement is rich with incident and feeling. Surges of emotion, positive and
doubting alike, roll across its richly textured surface. The following two movements are
peaceful interludes. Only at the climax of the second section does its overall atmosphere of
almost rustic gentleness give way to a more heated style of utterance. The third movement is
a dance: slow, melancholy, and hauntingly beautiful. The symphony’s emotional conflicts are
resumed in the finale, only to dissipate, unresolved, as the music winds down to a resigned,
almost exhausted coda.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
b. March 20, 1873
Oneg, Russia
d. March 28, 1943
Beverly Hills, Calif.
First performed by the RPO
January 20, 1944;
José Iturbi, conductor
Amparo Iturbi, piano
Last performed
May 5, 1993;
Peter Bay, conductor
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Composed in 1891 when he was 18 years old, Rachmaninoff’s
Piano Concerto No. 1 was the composer’s longest and most
ambitious piece to date, and the first he deemed worthy of bearing
an opus number. He composed and fully orchestrated the last
two movements in less than three days. Though Rachmaninoff
himself performed as soloist at the premiere at a student concert
the following March, the composition left little impression on the
audience. He refused to perform it again until it was revised, which it
was in 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution and shortly before his
reluctant and permanent departure from his homeland. This revised
version of Concerto No. 1 has been performed ever since.
For all its considerable appeal, Concerto No. 1 has never achieved
the same level of appreciation as the second and third concertos.
Possible reasons for that neglect may lie in orchestral textures that
are less opulent than those of its successors, and the displays of
youthful impulsiveness that are absent from them.
Rachmaninoff’s Concerto includes characteristics familiar from his
later compositions: the commanding and meltingly romantic themes,
and the brilliance and power of the solo part, which reflected his own
abilities. The slow second movement is perhaps the most memorable
segment. It is a tender, nocturne‑like creation where Rachmaninoff
skillfully used the woodwind instruments to support the piano.
Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Galánta
b. December 16, 1882
Kesckemét, Hungary
d. March 6, 1967
Budapest, Hungary
First performed by the RPO
November 2, 1944;
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Last performed
April 30, 2005;
Jorge Mester, conductor
Kodály spent the years 1885-1892 in Galanta, where his father
served as railroad stationmaster. He recalled the period he spent in
this trading center west of Budapest as “the best seven years of my
childhood.” In 1933, he received a commission from the Budapest
Philharmonic Society for a new work. For inspiration, he turned to a
collection of Hungarian folk tunes published in Vienna in 1804. The
melodies were attributed to a band that had operated in the vicinity
of Galanta and their descendants made up one of the ensembles he
had heard in his youth. Kodály composed Dances of Galánta in 1933;
the work premiered later that year in Budapest under the baton of
Ernö Dohnányi.
Dances of Galánta opens with a mysterious introduction in slow
tempo, followed by the solo clarinet that introduces the theme that
recurs throughout the piece. Its rapid shifts between brooding and
fire are typical of native Hungarian music. Pizzicato strings usher in
the first episode, a charming tune first voiced by flute and piccolo. The
main theme returns, on full strings and more passionate in feeling.
The second episode is scored in light, sparkling colors. An incomplete
restatement of the main theme sets up the concluding and lengthiest
segment, a series of dances. It rushes forward with abandon, only to
pause abruptly for breath. Fragments of the main tune drift by in the
wind instruments before the dance ends in a full gallop.
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artists
Christoph König, guest conductor
Gunter Gluecklich
Born in Dresden, Germany, Christoph König’s
conducting is marked by an energetic and
serious approach to musical collaboration
and a commitment to thoughtful and
stimulating programming. He currently
Christoph König
Douglas Humpherys
holds positions as Principal Conductor of
the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto at the Casa da Música, and Principal Conductor and Music
Director of the Solistes Européens in Luxembourg.
Following a string of successes last season with symphonies such as Baltimore, Houston,
and Toronto, König’s upcoming debuts include the Calgary and Cincinnati symphonies, as
well as return appearances with the symphonies of Indianapolis, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh.
He has also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the symphonies of Colorado,
Milwaukee, Oregon, Pacific (Costa Mesa), and Vancouver. Worldwide highlights include debuts
with the Dresden Philharmonic, Euskadi Symphony, and St. Gallen Symphony, as well as
return appearances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orquesta de la Communidad
de Madrid, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, and the Stuttgart
Philharmonic. This is his first appearance with the RPO.
König’s reputation as an opera conductor began with the Zürich Opera’s 2003 production
of Jonathan Miller’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Other operatic productions include
engagements with the Teatro Real (Madrid), Staatsoper Stuttgart (Germany), Deutsche Oper
Berlin, and the Malmö Symphony (Sweden).
For the Ao Vivo label, he has recorded works by Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Saariaho, and Sibelius
with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto. For Hyperion, he has recorded music by Henryk Melcer,
with pianist Jonathan Plowright and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. christophkoenig.at
Douglas Humpherys, piano
Since winning the gold medal at the first Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Douglas
Humpherys’ concert career has spanned more than three decades across four continents.
During recent years, he has concertized in many of the major cities of Asia. A frequent guest
artist in Beijing, he has performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts, the Beijing
Concert Hall, and the Forbidden City Concert Hall. In addition to concerts in the cities of Hong
Kong and Chongqing, he has presented concerts and lecture-recitals throughout the Chinese
conservatory and university system. In Europe, Humpherys has presented solo concerts in
the cities of Moscow, Novgorod, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Venice, and Dublin, with additional
concert engagements in Germany, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, and Serbia. He has
performed throughout the United States and Canada at numerous universities and festivals,
and is frequently a guest artist at conferences of the Music Teachers National Association. He
has recorded for the Gina Bachauer Piano Foundation, American Public Radio, and has been
featured in live performances on affiliates of NPR and PBS. A frequent adjudicator, he has served on the jury of the Gina Bachauer International Piano
Competition 14 times. He completed graduate degrees at the Juilliard School (MM) and
the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where he is currently professor and chair of the piano
department and also founder/director of the biannual Eastman Young Artists International
Piano Competition and Festival. This is his first performance with the RPO.
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José Luis Gomez, guest conductor
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
8 pm
KODAK HALL
AT EASTMAN
THEATRE
RICHARD STRAUSS
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16
Andantino
Scherzo: Vivace
Moderato
Finale: Allegro tempestoso
24:00
31:00
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
INTERMISSION
WOLFGANG
AMADÈUS MOZART Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Allegro vivace
26:00
Van Cliburn Gold
and Mozart’s “Jupiter”
7:30 pm
Andante cantabile
Allegretto
Molto allegro
Vadym Kholodenko will perform on a Steinway
piano donated in honor of Jon Nakamatsu,
a special friend of the RPO.
2014-2015 Season presented by:
Philharmonics Series sponsored by:
Vadym Kholodenko’s performance is made possible in part by
The Alfred Davis and Brunhilde Knapp Artists Performance Fund
The performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 is made possible by
The Mozart Performance Fund: Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. and Steven Hess
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Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
b. June 11, 1864
Munich, Germany
d. September 8, 1949
Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany
First performed by the RPO
October 23, 1924;
Eugene Goossens, conductor
Last performed
May 27, 2006;
Christopher Seaman,
conductor
Strauss completed Death and Transfiguration in November 1889 and
conducted the premiere in Eisenach the following June. Five years
later, he revealed his inspiration in a letter to a friend: “The idea came
to me to write a tone poem describing the last hours of a man who
has striven for the highest ideals, presumably an artist. He lies in bed
breathing irregularly in his sleep. Friendly dreams bring a smile to his
face; he awakens. Fearful pains begin to torture him, fever shakes his
body. When the attack is over and the pain recedes, he recalls his past
life; his childhood passes before his eyes; his youth with its striving
and passions and then, while the pains return, there appears to him
the goal of his life’s journey, the ideal, the ideal which he attempts to
embody in his art, but which he was unable to perfect because such
perfection can be achieved by no man. The fatal hour arrives. The soul
leaves the body, to discover in the eternal cosmos the magnificent
realization of the ideal which could not be fulfilled here below.”
Death and Transfiguration is a purely imaginary work, the 25 year-old
composer having not undergone any life-threatening experiences by
that point in his life.”
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16
b. April 27, 1891
Sontsovka, Ukraine
d. March 5, 1953
Moscow, Russia
Prokofiev composed Piano Concerto No. 2 in the summer of 1913. On
September 5, he played the premiere in Pavlovsk at a lawn party. The
bold, saucy music appalled the audience, who were accustomed to
familiar, non-threatening background music as they dined.
First performed by the RPO
March 11, 1954;
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor,
Jorge Bolet, piano
Twice as long as the First Concerto, No. 2 was Prokofiev’s biggest, most
ambitious work to date. He left the manuscript score behind when he
departed from Russia in 1918 and it has yet to reappear. In 1923, the much
more experienced composer (he had already written Concerto No.3)
created a reconstructed and revised version, which we still use today.
Last performed
May 12, 1984;
David Zinman, conductor,
Horacio Gutiérrez, piano
It opens with a dreamy, relaxed movement. The first theme has a
melancholy, folk-like quality, reminiscent of Serge Rachmaninoff’s
Second Concerto. However, Prokofiev’s theme, especially the
substantial, bristling solo cadenza, is a far cry from Rachmaninoff’s
lush, late-Romantic world.
Following the first movement, Prokofiev adds an extra section to
traditional three-movement concerto form by way of a compact,
propulsive scherzo. In the ensuing Intermezzo, the soloist leads the
orchestra on a moderately paced stroll. The pell-mell opening of the
finale promises further hijinks, but a more reflective section akin
to the first movement arrives to offer repose. The music eventually
regains its momentum and charges robustly forward.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C Major,
K. 551, “Jupiter”
b. January 27, 1756
Salzburg, Austria
d. December 5, 1791
Vienna, Austria
Mozart could not have known that the
First performed by the RPO
symphonies he composed in the summer of
October 31, 1923;
1788 would be his last. A number of mysteries
Eugene Goossens, conductor
surround these works. No commission
that would have inspired their creation has
Last performed
been discovered. Some writers speculate
July 15, 2009;
that he composed them strictly for his own
Christopher Seaman,
pleasure, while others, such as the noted
conductor
scholar Neal Zaslaw, feel otherwise: “The very
idea that Mozart would have written three
such symphonies, unprecedented in length,
complexity, and seriousness, merely to please himself or because he was ‘inspired,’ flies in the face
of his known attitudes to music and life and the financial straits in which he then found himself.”
The identity of the person who gave No. 41 the nickname “Jupiter” has been lost, but this subtitle,
linking it with the most powerful of the gods of ancient Rome, seems altogether appropriate.
Mozart plunges us immediately into the joyous energy with which the opening movement
abounds. For all its trumpet-and-drums brilliance, it still retains an unforced elegance. He drops
the trumpets and drums for the slow movement. His tempo indication, cantabile (singing),
describes this restful idyll perfectly. The minuet is truly symphonic in scale and bearing, with
a quieter trio section at its heart. The finale looks not only to the future – through its increased
expressive weight – but also the past, specifically to the Baroque world of Bach and Handel, by
incorporating elements of fugal writing. Knowledge and joy join hands to conclude Mozart’s
career as a symphonist in a burst of creative brilliance. © 2014 Don Anderson. All rights reserved.
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artists
José Luis Gomez, guest conductor
Gina Bachauer
Matthieu Gauchet
The Venezuelan-born, Spanish conductor
José Luis Gomez was catapulted to
international attention when he won First
Prize at the International Sir Georg Solti
Conductor’s Competition in Frankfurt
José Luis Gomez
Vadym Kholodenko
in September 2010 after just six months of
studying conducting, securing a sensational and rare unanimous decision from the jury.
Gomez’s electrifying energy, talent, and creativity earned him immediate acclaim from the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra where he was appointed to the position of Assistant
Conductor, a post created especially for him by Paavo Järvi and the orchestra directly upon the
conclusion of the competition. Since then he has worked with the RTVE National Symphony
Orchestra of Madrid, Houston Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa,
Hamburg Symphony, Basel Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Castilla y Leon, Orquesta Sinfonica do
Porto, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, Grand Rapids Symphony, Macao Symphony, Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic, Colorado, Vancouver, Edmonton, Elgin, Pasadena, and National
Taiwan symphony orchestras.
Opera highlights have included a full run of La Bohème at Frankfurt Opera and a new production
of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Stuttgart Opera. More recently, Gomez has made debuts with
Stuttgart Radio, Weimar Staatskapelle, Alabama, Winnipeg, and Tucson symphony orchestras,
and he closed last season with a spectacular production of Cavalleria rusticana in Como. Future
highlights include a European tour of a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni directed by
Graham Vick with Teatro Sociale di Como, and debuts with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
and at Staatstheater Karlsruhe. José Luis Gomez is the Principal Conductor of the orchestral
season of the Teatro Sociale di Como. This is his first performance with the RPO.
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Winner of the coveted gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition in 2013, Vadym Kholodenko captured the attention of jury, audience, and critics
alike for powerful, exhilarating performances. Also taking home prizes for best performance of
the piano quintet and best performance of the commissioned work, he further demonstrated
his artistry with a stunning cadenza in Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 — which he
composed himself on the plane from Moscow to the competition.
Under the direction of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra recently
named him its first artistic partner, a three-year collaboration that begins with performances of
the complete Prokofiev concertos in the first two seasons, which will be recorded and released
by harmonia mundi USA. He also will join them in a tour of Spain in May 2016 — the orchestra’s
first international tour in more than 25 years.
In the 2014–15 season, Kholodenko will make debuts with the orchestras of Indianapolis,
Kansas City, Phoenix, and San Diego, among others. This is his first performance with the RPO.
He also will give solo recitals in Boston, Louisville, Miami, and Seattle, and make his Brevard
Music Center Festival debut. Outside of the U.S., he will make appearances with the Malmö
Symphony and Madrid’s RTVE Symphony, at the Al Bustan Festival, and on tour throughout
Japan, South America, and Russia.
Born in the Ukraine, Kholodenko is the first musician in his family. He made his first
appearances in the U.S., China, Hungary, and Croatia at the age of 13.
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Marcy Savastano, narrator
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by a Bronze Warrior
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Beyond The Score® Scheherazade
Since 2005, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score (BTS) has become one of the
most successful and original audience development tools in the field of classical music. The
program seeks to open the door to the symphonic repertoire for first-time concertgoers as well
as to encourage an active, more fulfilling way of listening for seasoned audiences. At the core
of Beyond the Score is its live format: musical extracts, spoken clarification, theatrical narrative,
and hand-paced projections on large central surfaces are performed in close synchrony. After
each 60-minute program focusing on a single masterwork, audiences return from intermission
to experience the piece performed in a regular concert setting, equipped with a new
understanding of its style and genesis.
This format’s potential was quickly recognized by orchestras in the United States and abroad;
a rapidly expanding licensing program has since brought Beyond the Score to audiences
throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada and Holland, presented by organizations of many sizes.
Recognizing that a large population is economically or geographically unable to attend these
performances in person, the Chicago Symphony also offers digital video streaming of select
programs at beyondthescore.org. In September 2008, the CSO released Shostakovich’s Fourth
Symphony, led by former CSO principal conductor Bernard Haitink, on its CSO Resound label.
Accompanying this Grammy Award–winning recording of the symphony is a free bonus DVD
video of the gripping Beyond the Score production examining Shostakovich’s controversial and
powerful work—the first commercially released video from this concert series.
artists
German conductor Alexander Mickelthwate made his European
debut with the Hamburg Symphony in April 2006. Since then, he has
appeared with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Nurnberg
Symphony, Bucharest Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de
Monte Carlo, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
He has appeared as guest conductor with the philharmonics of New
York and Brooklyn, as well as the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Fort
Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Nashville, New Jersey, Oregon, Toronto, and San Antonio. In 2011,
Mickelthwate made his debut in Australia with the Adelaide and Tasmanian symphony orchestras.
His last appearance with the RPO was in 2008. Recent highlights include debuts with the Houston
Symphony, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra, a reengagement
with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and highly successful last-minute replacements
with the symphonies of Seattle and Atlanta, as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
After completing his tenure as Assistant Conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in
2004, Mickelthwate was Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for three years
under the direction of Essa-Pekka Salonen. Now in his seventh season as Music Director of
the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Mickelthwate has significantly developed the orchestra’s
profile through active community engagement and innovative programming initiatives like
the annual New Music Festival and the Indigenous Music Festival. He also led the orchestra at
the Carnegie Hall Orchestra Showcase in 2014.
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Tony Nardella
Alexander Mickelthwate, guest conductor
artists
Paul Burgett, narrator
Paul J. Burgett, Ph.D., earned undergraduate
and graduate degrees at the Eastman School
of Music of the University of Rochester. His
doctoral dissertation treated the aesthetics of
the music of Black Americans, a subject that
continues to occupy him as a teacher and scholar.
Paul Burgett
Marcy Savastano
He currently serves as Vice President, Senior Advisor to the President, and University Dean
at the University of Rochester. In that capacity, he has key responsibilities for advising the
President and is the principal interface between the President and students of schools across
the university, as well as alumni, civic, and local community organizations. As a faculty member
in the college music department, he teaches courses in the history of jazz, the music of Black
Americans, and music appreciation.
His interest in University of Rochester history is a natural outgrowth, as he likes to say, of
having been at the University “since the earth’s crust began to cool” and the inevitable curiosity
about one’s roots that results from that lengthy tenure. He has discovered that the University of
Rochester’s history is a rich story, replete with fascinating people and events, over 162 years,
whose efforts and circumstances combine to make it the vibrant and successful institution it is.
Earlier professional appointments include: Dean of Students, Eastman School of Music;
Assistant Professor of Music at Nazareth College; Executive Director, Hochstein Memorial Music
School; and Music Teacher in the Greece Central School District. Burgett has appeared as a
narrator for several RPO performances. His most recent appearance was in July 2013.
Marcy Savastano, narrator
Marcy J. Savastano is delighted to appear once again with the Rochester Philharmonic
Orchestra in this lovely production. She first appeared with the RPO in Peter vs. the Wolf
during the 2010-2011 season. Regional: Death of a Salesman (Geva Theatre Center); All’s Well
in the Kingdom of Nice (Geva’s Nextstage); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and
Perestroika with METHOD MACHINE and Geva Theatre Center (Nextstage). Other theatre credits:
Sylvia Plath in EDGE (national tour) and Alice in Closer with METHOD MACHINE; Elisa in Marie
Antoinette: The Color of Flesh and Jackie in Hot L Baltimore with Blackfriars Theatre; Sweetheart/
Peaches/Superkyle in Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Natasha in Enemy in the Ranks (Lady Parts
Theatre Co.); Agnes in Agnes of God (GRRC); Measure for Measure and As You Like It (The
Shakespeare Players of Rochester); Callie in Stop Kiss (Out of Pocket Productions). She will be
appearing in The Drowning Girls with Lady Parts Theatre Co. in December. Film credits: AFTER,
Fury, Delicious Ambiguity. TV: “Modern Love,” “Serial Killers: Arthur Shawcross.” Savastano has
traveled across the country as a theatre-based training artist and performer and is featured
in several regional commercials as well as web series. She would like to thank her family and
friends for their inspiration and support.
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Bravo to Our
Generous Supporters
Corporate Partners, Foundations & Organizations
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following corporate,
foundation, and community organizations for their generous support. Listings are as of
September 12, 2014. Please call 454-7311 x252 with questions or corrections.
Symphony
($50,000+)
Davenport-Hatch Foundation
G.W. Lisk, Inc. of Clifton Springs
Wegman Family Charitable
Foundation
Elaine P. & Richard U. Wilson
Foundation
Concerto
($25,000–$49,999)
Canandaigua National Bank &
Trust
Constellation Brands
Fibertech Networks
Glover Crask Charitable Trust
Gouvernet Arts Fund
Kilian J. & Caroline F. Schmitt
Foundation
M&T Bank
The Max and Marian Farash
Charitable Foundation
Wendy’s Restaurants of
Rochester
Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust
Cornell/Weinstein Family
Foundation
Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson
Foundation
The Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk
Foundation
Partner
($1,000–$2,999)
AlphaGraphics
Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust
Braitman Family Foundation
ALSTOM Signaling Foundation
T.M. & M.W. Crandall Foundation
Durwood Management, Inc.
Five Star Bank
Fred L. Emerson Foundation
Genesee Valley Penny Saver, Inc.
G-S Plastics Optics/
Tel-Tru Mfg. Co.
Harris Beach PLLC
May Kay Houck Foundation
Klein Reinforcing Services
Kovalsky-Carr Electric Supply
Manning & Napier Advisors
The Guido and Ellen Palma
Foundation
Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.
Rochester Midland Corporation
Rochester Philharmonic League
Sonata
($10,000–$24,999)
Melvin & Mildred Eggers Family
Charitable Foundation
High Falls Advisors
MVP Health Care
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Rochester General Health System Associate
Unity Health System
($600–$999)
Xerox Foundation
Bio-Optronics, Inc.
Boydell & Brewer, Inc.
Suite
O’Connell Electric Co.
($5,000–$9,999)
AAA of Western & Central New
Supporter
York
($350–$599)
Corning Incorporated
Bergmann Associates
Dixon Schwabl
Datrose
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
DeCarolis Truck Rental
Dreyfus Foundation
45 East Fine Jewelers
Joseph & Anna Gartner
Hayes Asset Management, LLC
Foundation
Gary & Nancy Penisten Family
Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
Foundation
KPMG LLP
Matthews & Fields Lumber Co.
Linden Oaks Office Park
Peko Precision Products Inc.
The Przysinda Family Foundation Reimer Piano Tuning
Paul Klingenstein Family
Star Headlight & Lantern Co., Inc.
Foundation, Inc.
West Herr Automotive Group
Spindler Family Foundation
The Pipa Tagliarino Group
Gifts In Kind
Thomson Reuters
Alexandra Northrop & Jules Smith
Wegmans Food Markets
Christopher Seaman
Fred and Floy Willmott
City Newspaper
Foundation
Constellation Brands
Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP
Dixon Schwabl
Ed & Barbara Burns
Overture
Hedonist Artisan Chocolates
($3,000–$4,999)
Ingrid Stanlis & Paul Donnelly
Caldwell Manufacturing Company Janet Kellner & Jim Kurtz
The Elizabeth F. Cheney
Jay Advertising
Foundation
John Grieco
The Community Foundation
Jon & Kathy Schumacher
Rufus K. Dryer II Fund
JR McCarthy
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Kevin Gavagan
KidsOutAndAbout.com
Kurt & Judy Feuhern
Mark Siwiec & Duffy Palmer
Michael Butterman &
Jennifer Carsillo
Patricia Wilder
Peter and Joan Faber
Richie Rich Events
Robin Lehman
Steve Hess &
Sarah Atkinson, MD
Suzanne Welch & Bill Watson
Tom & Nan Hildebrandt
Matching Gift
Companies
Bank of America
ExxonMobil
Gleason Foundation
IBM Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorganChase
Oppenheimer Funds Inc.
Pfizer Foundation
Verizon
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE SOCIETY
The Artistic Excellence Society (AES) recognizes donors for making a three-year pledge of $2,500 or more.
The AES is designed to engage our most passionate contributors and to ensure financial stability and ongoing
support. Contact Judith Lemoncelli at 585.454.7311 x238 to learn more about the AES.
Anonymous (1)
Nancy & Harry Beilfuss
Carol & John Bennett
Stuart & Betsy Bobry
Chris & Tom Burns
Mary Ellen Burris
Margaret J. Carnall
Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Chapman
Jeff & Sue Crane
Lauren Dixon & Michael Schwabl
Dr. Eric Dreyfuss
Larry & Kas Eldridge
Fred L. Emerson Foundation
James & Ellen Englert
Paul Marc & Pamela Miller Ness
Charles H. Owens
William & Barbara Pulsifer
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Reed
Elizabeth & Larry Rice
Paul & Brigid Ryan
Katherine T. & Jon. L. Schumacher
Vicki & Richard Schwartz
Nancy Skelton
Ingrid A. Stanlis & Paul R. Donnelly
Dr. & Mrs. Tae B. Whang
Michael & Patricia Wilder
Kitty J. Wise
Louise Epstein
Barbara & Patrick Fulford
Charles & Cindy Gibson
Rob W. Goodling
David & Barrie Heiligman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh
Ralph F. Jozefowicz
Myrta & Robert Knox
Jim & Marianne Koller
Stephen Lurie & Kathleen Holt
Dr. Jacques & Mrs. Dawn Lipson
Jane & Jim Littwitz
Swaminathan & Janice Madhu
Deanne Molinari
CAMPAIGN FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
The Campaign for Artistic Excellence was launched in 2012 to help the RPO achieve its long-term goals of
attracting and retaining the best possible artistic talent, continuing a tradition of community service, building
national recognition, and ensuring financial stability and organizational excellence.
$100,000 and above
G. W. Lisk Company, Inc.
Dr. Jacques & Mrs. Dawn Lipson
$50,000–$99,999
Elaine P. & Richard U. Wilson Foundation
Louise Woerner & Don Kollmorgen
$30,000–$49,999
High Falls Advisors
$15,000–$29,999
John & Carol Bennett
Marie & Charlie Kenton
Elizabeth & Larry Rice
$10,000–$14,999
Robin & Michael Weintraub
$5,000–$9,999
William Eggers & Deborah McLean
GEORGE EASTMAN LEGACY SOCIETY
The George Eastman Legacy Society honors those individuals who have included the RPO in their estate plans.
Interested in joining a growing group of dedicated individuals who appreciate the value that the RPO brings to
their lives and the life of our community? Call Judith Lemoncelli at 585.454.7311 x238 to find out how you can
help ensure that the RPO will be here for future generations.
Anonymous (1)
Nancy & Harry Beilfuss
Carol & John Bennett
Jack & Carolyn Bent
Ellen S. Bevan
Stuart & Betsy Bobry
William & Ruth Cahn
Margaret J. Carnall
Joan & Paul Casterline
Dr. & Mrs. John J. Condemi
Janis Dowd & Daan Zwick
Joan & Harold* Feinbloom
Donald & Elizabeth Fisher
Suressa & Richard H. Forbes
Catherine & Elmar Frangenberg
Carolyn & Roger Friedlander
Jay* & Betsy Friedman
Patrick & Barbara Fulford
William L. Gamble
Mary M. Gooley
Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff
George Greer
H. Larry & Dorothy C. Humm
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh
Jim & Marianne Koller
Dawn & Jacques Lipson, M.D.
Sue & Michael Lococo
Cricket Luellen
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mahar
Joseph J. Mancini
Pete & Sally Merrill
Robert J. & Marcia
Wishengrad Metzger
Deanne Molinari
Suzanne F. Powell
Dr. Ramon L. & Judith S. Ricker
Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers
Wallace R. Rust
Peggy W. Savlov
David G. & Antonia T. Schantz
William & Susan Schoff
Peter S. Schott & Mary Jane Tasciotti
Jon L. & Katherine T. Schumacher
Gretchen Shafer
Ingrid Stanlis & Paul Donnelly
Ann & Robert Van Niel
Patricia Ward-Baker
Fred M. Wechsler
Robin & Michael Weintraub
Patricia Wilder
Kitty J. Wise
Nancy & Mark Zawacki
Alan R. Ziegler & Emily Neece
The RPO is most grateful for the
generous gifts from the estates
of Jean Groff and
Elbis A. Shoales, M.D.
*
Deceased
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Maestro’s Circle
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the generous individuals who help us continue
to enrich and inspire the community through the art of music. Listings are as of September 12, 2014. Please
call 454-7311 x232 with questions or corrections.
Maestoso ($50,000 and above)
Georgia P. Gosnell
Dr. Jacques & Mrs. Dawn Lipson
Cricket & Frank Luellen
Mrs. Marjorie Morris
Prestissimo ($25,000–$49,999)
Nancy & Harry Beilfuss
Bill & Victoria Cherry
William Eggers & Deborah McLean
Louise Epstein
Barbara & Patrick Fulford
Louise Woerner & Don Kollmorgen
Presto ($15,000–$24,999)
Anonymous
Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. & Steven Hess
Carol & John Bennett
Jim Boucher
William L. & Ruth P. Cahn
VIVACE ($10,000–$14,999)
Lauren Dixon & Michael Schwabl
Mr. & Mrs. James T. Englert
Dr. & Mrs. Steven Feldon
Ronald H. Fielding
Jeff & Alleen Fraser
Jay* & Betsy Friedman
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Furman
Marie & Charlie Kenton
Ilene & David Flaum
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh
Sherman Levey & Deborah Ronnen
Kathy & John Purcell
Larry & Elizabeth Rice
Jim & Marianne Koller
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Konar
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Millard
Charles H. Owens
Mrs. Richard Palermo
Douglas & Diana Phillips
Fayga Press
Mark Siwiec & Duffy Palmer
M
Elise & Stephen Rosenfeld
Katherine T. & Jon L. Schumacher
Ingrid Stanlis & Paul Donnelly
Josephine S. Trubek
Michael & Patricia Wilder
Jules L. Smith & Alexandra Northrop in
memory of Karl Speitel
Bob & Gayle Stiles
Dr. Eugene P. Toy
*
Deceased
ALLEGRO ($5,000–$9,999)
Marlene Alva in memory of Ruth G. Alva
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Briggs
Chris & Tom Burns
Mr. & Mrs. Harlan D. Calkins
Catherine B. Carlson
Joan & Paul Casterline
Dr. Eric Dreyfuss
Joan & Peter Faber
Joanne Gianniny
Patricia A. Guttenberg
William B. Hale
David & Barrie Heiligman
Patrick & Kathleen Kelly
Ernest & Sarah Krug
Harold & Christine Kurland
Joanne Lang
Mrs. Frank W. Lovejoy, Jr.
Stephen Lurie & Kathleen Holt
Mr. Lawrence Martling
Deanne Molinari
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Reed
Riedman Foundation
Mrs. Norma Riedman
Nathan & Susan Robfogel
Sunny & Nellie Rosenberg
M
Sandra & Richard Stein
Robert C. Stevens
Krestie Utech
M
Skip & Karen Warren
Dr. Sidney & Linda S. Weinstein
Robin & Michael Weintraub
ANDANTE ($2,500–$4,999)
Anonymous (2)
Miriam H. Ackley
Judith M. Binder & Barbara Erbland
Stuart & Betsy Bobry
Allen & Joyce Boucher
Priscilla & Rob Brown
Barbara & John Bruning
Mary Ellen Burris
Paul & Mary Callaway
Margaret J. Carnall
Betsy & John Carver
Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Chapman
Thomas Chase
Mary Ellen Clark
Dr. John & Carol R. Condemi
Mary Cowden
Jeff & Sue Crane
Joyce Crofton
Richard & Michele Decker
Gary DeTaeye
Michele Dryer
In Memoriam for Anita B. Dushay
by Frederick Dushay, M.D.
Larry & Kas Eldridge
John R. Ertle
Joan Feinbloom
Helen & Dan Fultz
Patty & Dick George
Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gibson
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ginsberg
Rob W. Goodling
Suzanne Gouvernet
George & Mary Hamlin
Alan J. Harris
Warren & Joyce Heilbronner
Norman Horton
Dr. Jack & Harriette Howitt
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest J. Ierardi
Stephen & Leslie Jacobs
La Marr J. Jackson, Esq.
Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz
Daryl & Charles Kaplan
Norman & Judith Karsten
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Richard & Karen Knowles
Myrta & Robert Knox
Marcy & Ray Kraus in loving memory
of Dr. Allan & Charlotte Kraus
Nancy & David Lane
Dr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Leone, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Hobart A. Lerner
Jane & Jim Littwitz
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Edith M. Lord
Swaminathan & Janice Madhu
Dan & Kiki Mahar
Saul & Susan Marsh
William P. McCarrick
Pamela McGreevy
Mr. & Mrs. James R. McMillen
Duane & Ida Miller
James E. Morris, Esq.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Mullen
Paul Marc & Pamela Miller Ness
Drs. Avice & Timothy O’Connor
Bernard & Molly Panner
Brock & Sandra Powell
William & Barbara Pulsifer
John B. Rumsey
Paul & Brigid Ryan
Ron & Sharon Salluzzo
Richard & Vicki Schwartz
Nancy A. Skelton
Janet Buchanan Smith
Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Sobel
ADAGIO ($1,000–$2,499)
Anonymous (10)
Robert E. & Carol G. Achilles
Barbara & David Ackroyd
Jacqueline Adams
Edward & Joan After
Dr. & Mrs. Henry W. Altland
Stephanie & Geoffrey Amsel
Marvin & Frederica Amstey
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Elaine Anderson
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Betsy Ann Balzano
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Mr. & Mrs. Bruce B. Bates
Lloyd F. Bean & Ursula Burns
William J. Beenhouwer
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David M. Berg & Dawn K. Riedy
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Bielaska, Jr.
Don & Peggy Bolger
(M) William & Grace Boudway
John & Kristine Bouyoucos
Susan Kay Brown
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Josh & Beth Bruner
Ann Burr & A. Vincent Buzard
Alan Cameros
Philip & Jeanne Carlivati
William T. Chandler
Tina Chandler
Oliver Chanler
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Christine Colucci
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Allison & John Currie
Joseph & Judith Darweesh
Linda Wells Davey
Horace R. Davis
David F. Dean
Jacques & Monique Delettrez
Tex & Nicki Doolittle
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Janis Dowd & Daan Zwick
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Ms. Marilyn Drumm
The Honorable Robert & Barbara Duffy
Dr. & Mrs. James Durfee
Mrs. C.M. Durland
Rose Duver
Wendy & David Dworkin
Ellen & Lester Eber
Dr. Steven & Susan Eisinger
Mohsen Emami, M.D.
New Horizons Band & Orchestra
Gerald G. Estes
Julia B. Everitt
Trevor & Elizabeth Ewell
John & Kristy Farar
Samuel J. & Marsha R. Fico
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Jill Sutton Finan
Thomas & Janet Fink
Charles Fitzgibbon
Gail R. Flugel
John & Sandy Ford
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Mrs. Charles R. Fordyce
Jonathan Foster
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Fox
Dr. & Mrs. Elmar Frangenberg
Shirley B. & Kevin Frick
Harry & Marion Fulbright
Johanna M. Gambino in memory
of Jerry J. Gambino
William L. Gamble
Dr. Richard & Josie Gangemi
David & Patricia Gardner
Ann S. Garrett
Winston E. Gaum
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Craig & Shirley George
Mr. & Mrs. Wesley P. Ghyzel
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George Greer
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Richard & Sidney Killmer
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Ann & Robert Van Niel
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the Christopher Seaman Conductor Laureate Chair
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the Society for Chamber music in rochester, led by
artistic Directors erik Behr and Juliana athayde presents:
HAUNTED HOUSE MUSIC
Sunday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Hochstein Performance Hall
Juliana Athayde, violin
Phillip Ying, viola
Colin Corner, string bass
Erik Behr, oboe
William Amsel, clarinet
Joseph Werner, piano
Michael Landrum, piano
Artistic Directors
Juliana Athayde
and Erik Behr
CoNtemPorary VigNetteS
Sunday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m.
memorial art gallery
Chien-Kwan Lin
Chien-Kwan Lin,
saxophone
Rebecca Gilbert, flute
Renée Jolles, violin
Nicholas Goluses, guitar
Tony Caramia, piano
Students admitted free with current school ID
LearN more at 585-377-6670 or ChamberMusicRochester.org
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Administration
Charles H. Owens, President & CEO
Ellen Beck, Executive Assistant
2014/15 Season
RPO Staff
Artistic Operations & Education
Richard Decker, Vice President of Artistic
Administration
Chris Beyer, Director of Concert Operations
Barbara Brown, Director of Education
Boon Hua Lien, Eastman Conducting Fellow
Cameron Bender*
Ainsley Kilgo ~
Development and special events
Judith F. Lemoncelli, Vice President of
Development
Pavel Sullivan, Associate Director of Annual
Giving & Donor Relations
Jason V. Polasek, Major Gifts Officer
Brigid Ryan, Manager of Volunteers
& Special Events
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Olivia Grant, Development Assistant
Sumner Truax ~
Seo Hee Min~
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& Communications
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& Sales
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Teddy Sainphor, Ticketing Manager
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Matthew Langford ~
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Rochester Philharmonic League
Laura Morihara+, RPL Administrator
Rochester Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra
Susan Basu+, Manager
Lourdes Cossich ~
+ Part Time
* Intern
~ Indicates Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership
Intern from the Eastman School of Music
Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
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NOV 16
3 pm
HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL
SUN
MAR 8
3 pm
KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE
SUN
MAY 17
3 pm
HALE AUDITORIUM
ROBERTS WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Musical Stories
Dr. Paul Shewan, guest conductor
Berlioz, Khachaturian, Schubert, Tchaikovsky,
and Kodály’s Háry János Suite
Great Romantics
Side-by-Side concert with the RPO
Dr. Ching-Chun Lai, guest conductor
RPYO Concerto Competition Winners
Hanson, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky
Resounding Finale
Dr. James Mick, guest conductor
RPYO Concerto Competition Winners
Mussorgsky, Schubert, Bach/Stokowski, and Dvořák
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Michelle Bello Dispatcher
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“Rear Guard” Volunteers
Jean Webster, Chair
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our Music, Munch & Mingle series where members attend select RPO rehearsals followed
by lunch with an RPO musician, and the Glimmerglass Opera trip. Contact Laura Morihara,
Administrator: (585) 399-3654 or email [email protected].
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Since its founding by George Eastman in 1922, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been
committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music. Currently in its
92nd year, the RPO is dedicated to maintaining its high standard of artistic excellence, unique
tradition of musical versatility, and deep commitment to education and community engagement.
Today, the RPO presents up to 130 concerts per year, serving nearly 150,000 people through
ticketed events, education and community engagement activities, and concerts in schools and
community centers throughout the region. A highlight of the 2013–14 season was the RPO’s
performance at Carnegie Hall on May 7, 2014, as part of the Spring For Music festival. RPO
concerts are rebroadcast on WXXI 91.5 FM. For more information about the RPO, visit rpo.org.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
TICKETS: The Eastman Theatre Box Office is located at 433 East Main St., downtown Rochester.
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performances and through intermission. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 585-454-2100 or online
through rpo.org; tickets are also available at all Rochester-area Wegmans. Discounts are available for groups
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PARKING: Paid parking for Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre is available at the East End Garage, located next
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Hochstein is available at the Sister Cities Garage, located behind the school at Church and Fitzhugh Streets.
PRE-CONCERT TALKS: Philharmonics ticket-holders are welcome to attend pre-concert talks, held one hour
before all philharmonics concerts in the orchestra level of the theatre.
SERVICES FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES: Wheelchair locations and seating for those with disabilities
are available at all venues; please see the house manager or an usher for assistance. Elevators are located in
the oval lobby of Kodak Hall and in the East Wing. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available on the first floor.
SERVICES FOR HARD-OF-HEARING PATRONS: Audio systems are available at Kodak Hall at Eastman
Theatre; headsets may be obtained from an usher prior to the performance.
CHANGING SEATS: If you find it necessary to be reseated for any reason, please contact an usher who will
bring your request to the House Manager.
LOST AND FOUND: Items found in Kodak Hall will be held at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 E. Main
Street. For more info, call 585-454-2100.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES: The use of cameras or audio recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Patrons are
asked to turn off all personal electronic devices prior to the performance.
Refreshments: Food and drink are not permitted in the concert hall, except for bottled water.
Refreshments are available for purchase in Betty’s Café located on the orchestra level of Kodak Hall at
Eastman Theatre.
TICKET DONATION: If you are unable to attend a concert, please consider donating your tickets to us as a
tax-deductible contribution. Return your tickets to the RPO no later than 2PM the day of the performance to
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