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Charles Lane, Chair
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Dorothy Fishman
Joseph Griffin
Sebrina Maria Alfonso, Music Director, Ex Officio
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CONSULTANTS
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MISSION
“Enriching lives through the performance of intellectually and
emotionally powerful symphonic music.”
Mozart Symphony No. 36
The Master Chorale of South Florida joins the
Symphony for a performance of Beethoven’s
most beloved and most played masterpiece.
A salute to some of your favorite Tony Award
winning Broadway shows and songs. Join tenor
Davron Monroe & Friends and the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra for a night to remember!
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Elena Urioste, violin
Joan Tower: Sequoia
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Schumann: Cello Concert in A Minor
Carter Brey, Cello
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
THE SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
2015-2016 MASTERWORKS CONCERT SERIES
Saturday, November 14, 2015 • 7:30pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West
Sunday, November 15, 2015 • 4:00pm
Kaye Auditorium, FAU, Boca Raton
Tuesday , November 17, 2015 • 7:30pm
Amaturo Theater, Broward
Thursday, January 21, 2016 • 7:30pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West
Saturday, January 23, 2016 • 7:30pm
Parker Playhouse, Broward Center
Sunday, January 24, 2016 • 4:00pm
Kaye Auditorium, FAU, Boca Raton
Monday, January 25, 2016 • 7:30pm
Arsht Center, Miami
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 • 7:30pm
Amaturo Theater, Broward Center
Thursday, February 25, 2016 • 7:30pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West
Sunday, February 28, 2016 • 4:00pm
Kaye Auditorium, FAU, Boca Raton
Saturday, April 2, 2016 • 7:30pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West
Sunday, April 3, 2016 • 4:00pm
Kaye Auditorium, FAU, Boca Raton
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 • 7:30pm
Amaturo Theater, Broward
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR BOARD CHAIR Charles Lane
It is truly an honor to serve as the Board Chair of the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra, I and the entire Board look forward to making
this year one of the best and most productive seasons ever. I find
great joy in the spectacular musical delights from the tremendously
talented musicians at each event, as well as the wonderful work that this
organization and its volunteers, board members and enthusiastic music
fans deliver to our community every day. This year has already started
out on a high note with increased ticket sales as well as an increase in
the number of events (40+!) that we have on our schedule.
Additionally, I am very excited to share with you our expanded music
education program to include a new partnership with the President’s
Council on the Humanities, Turnaround Arts, the Wyland Foundation, and
Broward and Monroe County Schools. With many of our country’s schools
downsizing or eliminating their music educational programs, I am proud
that the South Florida Symphony Orchestra is giving school children the
opportunity to be a part of a music program to enhance their growth and
creativity within the musical world.
The recent successes aside, the Symphony needs your help and generous consideration to carry on the tradition
of making positive impacts on the community. We are so indebted to each of our wonderful Stradivarius Society
Members whose ongoing generosity serves as a model for sustainability. Please consider joining them in this
endeavor. Each year the Symphony expands its community impact. Your support is integral to the continued success.
We are excited to move into this coming season, which offers an outstanding variety of classical music.
I am very proud to be part of this great organization and I am certain that you will enjoy what Maestra Sebrina Maria
Alfonso and the musicians under her baton will provide.
We are excited to move into this coming season, which offers an outstanding variety of classical music.
Charles Lane
A MESSAGE FROM OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR Sebrina Maria Alfonso
Dear Friends,
We thank you, the audience, our patrons, sponsors, and musicians for taking part in
making this season the best ever. We envision so many wonderful opportunities coming
our way to ensure our growth and enhance our ability to continue to bring South Florida
inspiring and heartfelt performances.
I have had great pleasure working with our musicians to prepare for this season. We
are sure that the musical selections we bring to you this season will resonate with your
hearts and minds.
You are all integral to our musical journey; we hope you will continue to join us for years
to come. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to share our dreams with you.
We look forward to experiencing this season with you.
Sincerely,
Sebrina
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT / CEO Jacqueline Lorber
The stars must be in alignment. Last season, member support of the Stradivarius Soci-
ety’s fundraising initiative exceeded all expectations, reaching over $1,000,000. These
funds were the foundation for the success of the 2014 -2015 season. This represents an
incredible 80% one year increase in revenue! The Symphony has experienced a signifi-
cant increase in memberships, legacy gifts, grants, and major giving activity. Our multi-
year transformation to serve the South Florida Region is nothing short of extraordinary.
The South Florida Symphony Orchestra has a long standing commitment to offering
the finest symphonic performances to South Florida. We enlist professional musicians,
soloists and vocalists for Masterworks and Pops concerts. The Tropical Beats and Cham-
ber Music Concert series bring the arts to a wide and varied audience throughout the area. Our Symphony in the
Schools program brings the same level of excellence to inspire the next generation of music lovers and performers.
No group has been more instrumental in our ability to offer such exquisite orchestral concerts than the Stradivarius Society.
The 2015 -2016 season begins with over 30 Stradivarius Society members. What began as a typical fundraising
effort quickly grew into a movement that exceeded our goals and expectations. Member commitment and generosity
have laid the foundation for the future of the Symphony in South Florida.
The Stradivarius Society is inspired to create an endowment that will ensure the stability and financial security of the
South Florida Symphony Orchestra. Their two year plan, the 88 Keys Initiative, is more than a fundraising effort. It
is a promise to the South Florida community that quality musical performances will continue to be part of our cultural
heritage for generations to come. Each of the 88 keys of the piano symbolizes patrons’ shared commitment to this
ideal, establishing a legacy of harmonious giving. Please consider joining this committed group of individuals to
surpass last season’s success.
On behalf of our Board of Directors, we invite you to be part of the South Florida Cultural Renaissance. With grati-
tude, we thank you for joining us in our musical passion.
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The Master Chorale of South Florida joins the South Florida Symphony
for a performance of Beethoven’s most beloved and most played masterpiece.
Eileen Strempel, Soprano
Janna Baty, Mezzo-Soprano
Ray Bauwens, Tenor
Neil Nelson, Bass Baritone
MASTERWORKS II
SCHEDULE
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE, KEY WEST
Thursday – January 21, 2016 - 7:30pm (6:45pm, pre-concert chats with Edward Pitts)
PARKER PLAYHOUSE, FORT LAUDERDALE
Saturday – January 23, 2016 - 7:30pm (7:00pm, pre-concert chats with Ian Fraser)
CAROLE AND BARRY KAYE AUDITORIUM AT FAU, BOCA RATON
Sunday – January 24, 2016 - 4:00pm (3:30pm, pre-concert chats with Ian Fraser)
ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MIAMI
Monday –January 25, 2016 - 7:30pm (Ticket sales at the Arsht Box Office)
(7:00pm, pre-concert chats with Ian Fraser)
PROGRAM
W. A. Mozart (1751-1791): Symphony No. 36 in C Major
Adagio; Allegro spiritoso
Andante con moto
Menuetto
Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Allegro ma no troppo, un poco maestoso
Scherzo: Molto vivace – Presto
Adagio molto cantabile
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Chamber Philharmonia Orchestra of New York and Vista
Lirica. Upcoming engagements include a reprisal of the
role of Bacchus for Palm Beach Opera.
Recently, Mr. Hartman made his international debut
with Hong Kong Opera in January 2013 in the roles of
Canio in I Pagliacci and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana;
he then made his Central American debut in Costa Rica
with Compania Lirica in June 2013 in the same dual
roles of Canio and Turiddu. He returned to Hong Kong in
December 2013 to sing the role of Il Duca di Mantova in
Rigoletto to positive reviews. He also joined the roster of
Boston Lyric Opera to cover Cavaradossi.
Other roles he has performed include Pinkerton in
Madama Butterfly, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Edgardo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role in Faust, Malcolm in
Macbeth, Ismaele in Nabucco, Alfredo in La Traviata,
Danielle in La Tristezza, Nardo / Lampionaio in Un
Racconoo Fiorentino, and Edwin in The Gypsy Princess.
This is Mr. Hartman’s debut performance with the
Symphony.
JANNA BATY,
MEZZO SOPRANO
Praised by the Boston
Globe for a rich, viola-like
tone and a rapturous, luminous
lyricism, mezzo-soprano Janna
Baty enjoys an exceptionally
versatile career. She has sung with
Boston Symphony, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, Hamburgische
Staatsoper, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony,
Tuscaloosa Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Hartford
Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmanica de Bogota, Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera, Opera North, and
Boston Lyric Opera. She has sung under the batons of
James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis,
Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Stephen Lord, Stefan
Asbury, Gil Rose, David Hoose, and Shinik Hahm, among
numerous others. As a soloist, chamber musician, and
recitalist, she has performed at festivals worldwide,
including the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England,
the Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de
Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood, Norfolk,
Monadnock, and Coastal Carolina festivals in the United
States.
A noted specialist in contemporary music, Ms. Baty
has worked alongside many celebrated composers,
including John Harbison, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner,
Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, Paul Salerni,
and Paul Moravec, on performances of their music. Ms.
Baty has enjoyed a long collaboration with Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, and with them has recorded the critically
lauded Vali: Folk Songs (sung in Persian); Lukas Foss’ opera
Griffelkin; the world-premiere recording of Eric Sawyer’s
Civil War-era opera Our American Cousin; and John
Harbison’s Mirabai Songs. An alumna of Oberlin College
and the Yale School of Music, she joined the faculty of the
Yale School of Music in 2008. This is Ms. Baty’s second
performance with the Symphony.
NEIL NELSON, BASS
BARITONE
Born in Kingston, Jamaica
bass baritone Neil Nelson moved
to the United States with his family
at the age of two, settling in
Queens, New York. It has been
said by colleagues and critics
alike, that Mr. Nelson possesses
one of the purest and most resonant bass baritone voices of
recent times.
An excellent musician and linguist, Mr. Nelson
graduated from The New England Conservatory of Music
with a degree in music performance. Winning awards such
as the Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence (Boston
Lyric Opera), the Heinz Refuss Singing Actors Award
(Orlando Opera), and appearing as a finalist in the New
York Metropolitan Opera Auditions launched him into his
professional career. Mr. Nelson has performed operatic roles
with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Palm
Beach Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Berkshire Opera,
Orlando Opera, The New York Harlem Opera Theater and
the Tartar State Opera Theater in Kazan, Russia.
Although opera is his first love, Neil has a passion for
oratorio and concert stage. He has appeared as a soloist
with ensembles such as the Lynn Conservatory Orchestra, the
Ocean City Pops, the Southwest Florida Symphony, and the
New England Conservatory Orchestra.
Future engagements include Schaunard in La Boheme
with Opera Naples and Jake in Porgy and Bess with the
Tatar State Opera Theater in the Chaliapin Music Festival in
Kazan, Russia.
Mr. Nelson resides in South Florida with his wife and
4-year-old daughter. When he is not singing, Neil can be
found having fun with his family, fishing, or working with
young men in his community as a mentor and a football
coach. This is Mr. Nelson’s second performance with the
Symphony.
MASTERWORKS II – ABOUT THE ARTISTS
P
residential Scholar in the Arts Eileen Strempel “is
very striking, overpowering, exacting, and musical...
a magnificent coloratura, a lyrical soprano,” raved
the Associated Press about the soprano’s Bolshoi Opera
debut as Violetta in La Traviata. Ms. Strempel has won
numerous competitions: first prize of the Loren Zachary Vocal
Competition, both prestigious Sullivan Awards, the Licia
Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Liederkranz as well as the
Enrico Caruso Vocal Competition. This last victory led to an
acclaimed recital at Casa Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, as well as
a concert in the historical opera house of Imola, Italy.
Ms. Strempel is an alumna of the Jerome Hine’s Opera
Music Theater International as well as the Eastman School
of Music and holds a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana
University. She has taken part in the American Music Festival
of the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, and
gave her Avery Fisher Hall debut with the National Chorale
as the soprano soloist for the Bach B Minor Mass. Ms.
Strempel has performed with Indianapolis Opera, Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Syracuse Opera, the Berkeley Early Music
Festival, the Chautauqua and Skaneateles Music Festivals,
Masterworks Chorale, Westchester Hudson Opera, the San
Francisco’s First Church Concert Series, the Adirondack
Music Festival, Syracuse’s Society for New Music, the Bolshoi
Orchestra Sextet, The West Point Concert Series, and with the
Liederkranz Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.
Strempel can also be heard with Canadian pianist Sylvie
Beaudette in their 2015 Centaur recording of song settings by
American women composers of E.E. Cummings’ poetry. This
project includes songs by Libby Larsen, Hilary Tann, Regina
Harris Baiocchi, Christine Donkin, Judith Cloud and Jocelyn
Hagen, and includes ravishing settings of classic Cummings
poetry, ranging from “unto thee i burn” and “i carry your
heart with me.”
Libby Larsen also composed a new song cycle specifically
for Ms. Strempel and string quartet entitled This Unbearable
Stillness, which had its New York première at Merkin Hall as
part of a gala benefit for Chamber Music America. It was
subsequently premiered in a version for orchestra with Ms.
Strempel and the Syracuse Symphony. Strempel can also be
heard singing songs by Libby Larsen on her Centaur Records
release, Love Lies Bleeding. This project features the premiere
recording of Try Me Good King: The Lives of the Wives of
Henry the VIII.
Ms. Strempel’s With All My Soul is on the Orchard label,
also with Sylvie Beaudette. This disc features previously
unrecorded works by Marie de Grandval, along with
melodies by Lili Boulanger and Pauline Viardot-Garcia.
Other recordings include Songs of Innocence (Centaur);
Creation’s Voice (Albany Records); as well as the companion
CDs to Indiana University Press The New Historical Anthology
of Music by Women. Strempel is a noted scholar of song
literature, especially those by women composers, and her
articles and reviews can regularly be found in The Classical
Singer; Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Criticism, and
Theory; Journal of Singing; Chronicle of Higher Education;
Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture; and in
American Music Teacher.
Strempel’s other noted recordings include: (In)habitation:
Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women
Composers, composed expressly for the duo by some of the
top female composers of our time, including Libby Larsen, Lori
Laitman, Amanda Harberg, Elisenda Fabregas, Tania Leon,
and Judith Cloud.
Strempel is the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
at the University of Cincinnati, was awarded an Initiative
Professorship by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and
was a 2010-11 ACE Fellow. This is Ms. Strempel’s debut
performance with the Symphony.
JEFFREY HARTMAN, TENOR
Jeffrey Hartman, a native
of Anderson, Indiana and 2011
Wagner Society of New York
Award winner, joined the roster
of the Lyric Opera of Chicago in
January 2015, where he covered
the role of Cavaradossi in Tosca.
Following Chicago, he made his
house and role debut as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos for
Seattle Opera, and also sang Mahler’s Das Lied von der
Erde with both the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and
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MOZART’S REQUIEM
Friday, OCTOBER 23, 2015 • 8 pm
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale
Saturday, OCTOBER 24, 2015 • 8 pm
First United Methodist Church, Coral Gables
Sunday, OCTOBER 25, 2015 • 4 pm
Roberts Theatre, St. Andrew‘s School, Boca Raton
COCOA AND CAROLS
Friday, DECEMBER 4, 2015 • 8 pm
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale
* Tickets available through www.crpc.org or (954) 771-8840
Saturday, DECEMBER 5, 2015 • 8 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Miami
Sunday, DECEMBER 6, 2015 • 4 pm
St. Mark’s Greek Orthodox Church, Boca Raton
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Friday, DECEMBER 11, 2015 • 8 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach
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Friday, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 • 8 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Miami
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Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale
Sunday, FEBRUARY 21, 2016 • 4 pm
Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton
HAYDN’S LORD NELSON MASS
Friday, APRIL 29, 2016 • 8 pm
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Saturday, APRIL 30, 2016 • 8 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Miami
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Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton
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Chorale of South
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symphony chorus, for
which he conducts
choral-orchestral
masterworks, as well
as prepares the chorus
for collaborations with
renowned artists like
Andrea Bocelli and the
Cleveland Orchestra,
and the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Karlin began his South Florida musical career
in 2009 as the assistant conductor for Seraphic Fire,
where he assisted with both of the ensemble’s Grammy-
nominated recordings, A Seraphic Fire Christmas
and Brahm’s Ein Deutches Requiem. Subsequently,
Mr. Karlin served as director of choral studies at
Hillsborough Community College, where he doubled
the choral department’s enrollment and stage directed
and conducted the college’s first opera and oratorio
performances. Mr. Karlin also brings his wealth of
experience as educator and high caliber professional
musician to the young singers of Florida Singing Sons,
resulting in a thrilling musical experience for the South
Florida community.
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Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties with
a repertoire of perennial favorites that includes the
Requiems of Brahms, Mozart and Verdi; Handel’s
Messiah; Orff’s Carmina Burana; Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9; and works by Schubert, Vaughan
Williams, Mendelssohn, Bernstein and other revered
composers.
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class performances of major works written for
chorus and orchestra remain part of South Florida’s
cultural fabric, the Master Chorale of South Florida
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as its performance partners. Recognized for musical
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the Cleveland Orchestra and the Russian National
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
(1756-1791)
SYMPHONY NO. 36 THE LINZ
Mozart, history’s most amazing prodigy, wrote
the first of his forty-nine symphonies when he was but
eight years of age. While Mozart never completely
realized his potential as a symphonist and wrote only
ten symphonies in his mature period (after 1775), he
nevertheless produced masterpieces of the genre as
he possessed more pure, overwhelming technique and
melodic and harmonic taste than any composer before
or after him.
Mozart was the most versatile composer who ever
lived as there was no form or medium of music of
which he did not prove himself a consummate master
and which did not become transformed through him.
While the piano concerto and opera were his favorite
genres, the symphony, which was still a new idea in
mid-eighteenth century Europe, assumed an important
component of his overall input.
The composer’s move to Vienna was perhaps the
most important turning point in his life, when he had
already to his credit a corpus of music that many a
lesser talent would gladly have accepted as the fruits
of a lifetime. He decided to break with his dominating
father, relinquish his post with Salzburg’s Archbishop
Colloredo, whom he detested, and move to Vienna
as a free-lance teacher, performer and composer. In
so doing he was the first major composer in history to
leave the traditional system of patronage and strike out
on his own. Despite his father’s strong objections he
even decided to marry.
In 1783, Mozart had taken his wife to visit his family
in Salzburg and on their return to Vienna stopped in the
Austrian town of Linz. The local count, upon hearing of
Mozart’s arrival, announced a concert and, as Mozart
had failed to bring a gift to the count, he wrote The Linz
Symphony in four days! The freshness of material and
over-all charm of the work is undeniable.
The Symphony is in the typical four-movement
format. Except for the third, the Minuet, all are in
sonata allegro form. The first movement features a slow
introduction, the first of Mozart’s Symphonies to do
so. Typical of a C-major symphony The Linz is full of
fanfares and flourishes and ends with a brilliant and
festive finale.
Edward Pitts
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
(1770-1827)
SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR
The progression in Beethoven’s musical
achievements is truly astounding and nowhere is his
compositional development better illustrated than in
his nine symphonies. Not disposed to repeat himself
stylistically, his symphonies are a musical diary of his
evolution as a composer.
His first and second symphonies demonstrated
mastery of the Viennese Classical tradition. His third,
the Eroica, broke the mold of Classicism and ushered
in the Romantic Period. The Fifth Symphony became
an icon of Western culture and the world’s most well–
known symphony. Each of his first eight works in the
genre displayed his belief in originality and personal
self-expression.
While the first eight symphonies took twelve years
to complete, Beethoven waited twelve more years
before reinventing himself and composing Symphony
No. 9. Music was never the same again! It first three
movements are soul inspiring masterworks but it is the
fourth movement and its inclusion of vocal texts that
changed music history. He obliterated the line between
instrumental and vocal music, thereby eliminating the
distinction between the genre of symphony and the
vocal genres of opera, cantata and oratorio.
The impact of the Ninth Symphony rippled outward
for the next eighty years. It was the most influential
work of the Nineteenth Century. Beethoven’s message
was that the expressive needs of the composer must
take precedence over any musical tradition. The
Romantics used Beethoven as their model and sought
an ever freer, more self-expressive approach to
composition.
Edward Pitts
“Music expresses that
which cannot be put into
words, and that which
cannot remain silent.”
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PROGRAM
Joan Tower (1938- ): Sequoia
F. Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor
Allegro molto appassionato
Andante
Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace
Elena Urioste, violin
N. Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): Scheherazade Symphonic Suite
The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
The Kalendar Prince
The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Festival at Baghdad
SCHEDULE
BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, FORT LAUDERDALE
Wednesday – February 24, 2016 - 7:30pm (7:00pm, pre-concert chats with Ian Fraser)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE, KEY WEST
Thursday – February 25, 2016 - 7:30pm (6:45pm, pre-concert chats with Edward Pitts)
CAROLE AND BARRY KAYE AUDITORIUM AT FAU, BOCA RATON
Sunday – February 28, 2016 - 4:00pm (3:30pm, pre-concert chats with Ian Fraser)
MASTERWORKS III
Concert Underwriting: Beth Holland, Herving Madruga
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V
iolinist Elena Urioste, a BBC New Generation
Artist featured on the cover of Symphony
magazine, is hailed for her lush tone, the nuanced
lyricism of her playing, and commanding stage presence.
Since appearing with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age
thirteen, she has made acclaimed debuts with major
orchestras throughout the United States, including the
Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston
Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Chicago, National,
Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and
San Antonio Symphony Orchestras. Abroad, Elena has
appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC
Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, Salzburg Philharmonic, Hungary’s Orchestra
Dohnanyi Budafok and MAV Orchestra, and Orquésta
Sinfonìca de la Universidad de Guanajuato.
She has performed recitals in Wigmore Hall in
London, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Konzerthaus
Berlin, the Sage Gateshead in Newcastle, and the
Mondavi Center at the University of California-Davis.
Recent engagements include return performances with the
Chicago Symphony and Detroit Symphony Orchestras,
the BBC Philharmonic, and the BBC National Orchestra
of Wales; and debuts with the Tucson, Asheville, and
Edmonton Symphony Orchestras, the San Francisco
Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the New York Youth
Symphony.
Elena’s 2015/16 season highlights include debuts
with the San Francisco, Alabama, Kitchener-Waterloo,
South Florida, and Des Moines Symphony Orchestras;
returns to the Knoxville, Tucson, and Amarillo Symphony
Orchestras and the Heartland Festival Orchestra; and
residencies at the Roman River Festival in England,
the Verbier Festival at Schloss Elmau in Germany, and
Chamber Music Sedona WinterFest in Arizona.
As first-place laureate in both the Junior and Senior
divisions of the Sphinx Competition, Elena debuted at
Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium in 2004 and
has returned annually as soloist. She has collaborated
with acclaimed conductors Sir Mark Elder, Christoph
Eschenbach, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Robert Spano, and
Keith Lockhart; pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Dénes Várjon,
Christopher O’Riley, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; cellists
Peter Wiley, Colin Carr, and Carter Brey; violists Kim
Kashkashian and Michael Tree; and violinists Joseph
Silverstein, Shlomo Mintz, and Cho-Liang Lin. An avid
chamber musician as well as soloist, Elena frequently
performs in recital with pianist Michael Brown and cellist
Nicholas Canellakis, and has been a featured artist
at the Marlboro, Ravinia and Ravinia’s Steans Music
Institute, La Jolla, and Sarasota Music Festivals, as well
as Switzerland’s Sion Valais International Music Festival.
Elena’s awards include the inaugural Sphinx Medal
of Excellence, a London Music Masters Award, a Salon
de Virtuosi career grant, and first prize in the Sion
International Violin Competition, which also awarded her
its audience prize and the prize for best performance.
Her media credits include the popular radio
programs From the Top and Performance Today,
appearances on Telemundo and NBC’s Today Show,
and a McGraw Young Artists Showcase performance
for a live studio audience at WQXR’s Greene Space in
New York City. She was featured in the Emmy award-
winning documentary Breaking the Sound Barrier,
and in numerous magazines including Symphony, The
Strad, Strings, and Latina, which included her in its 15th
anniversary issue as one of its Future Fifteen. Her first CD
was released on the White Pine label, and her second
recording — with pianist Michael Brown — will be
released in 2015.
Elena made her acting debut in the independent
feature film But Not For Me, written and directed by
Ryan J. Carmichael, as the lead female role of Hope. The
film premiered at the 2015 Brooklyn Film Festival and
won the award for Best Original Score, to which Elena
contributed.
Elena is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music
where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank,
and Ida Kavafian. She completed graduate studies
with Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School. Other notable
teachers include David Cerone, Choong-Jin Chang,
Soovin Kim, and the late Rafael Druian.
The outstanding instruments now being used by Elena
are an Alessandro Gagliano violin, Naples c. 1706, and
a Nicolas Kittel bow, both on generous extended loan
from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King through
the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
“[...] as the buoyant, highly charged finale unfolded [...] Urioste revealed her
brilliant technical abilities along with her consistently sweet sound.”
Elena Urioste, violin
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
YOUR ORCHESTRA,
YOUR COMMUNITY
“Music is a universal language
- it speaks to everyone and is
the birthright of all of us. It is
no longer limited to privileged
classes in cultural centers.
This is as it should be, because
music speaks to every man,
woman, and child - high or
low, rich or poor, happy or
despairing - who is sensitive
to its deep and powerful
message. Not only is it
universal as a language, but it
is universal in its expression:
it may be a children’s song,
a soldiers’ march, a country
dance, a simple folk melody
- or it may be the highest
and greatest in art music
- its range of expression is
without limit. All art receives
its inspiration from the
same root - a passionately
strong feeling for the poetry
of life - for the beautiful, the
mysterious, the romantic,
the ecstatic, the loveliness
of nature, the lovability of
people, everything that excites
us, everything that starts
our imagination working,
laughter, gaiety, “pretending”
in the way that children do,
strength, heroism, love, and
tenderness. Music is the
most intimate and direct
of all language. Some of us
are born to be sensitive to
music - others find it difficult
to understand at first, but
after a time they become
responsive to its message, and
their whole life is enriched by
music - a new source of joy
and understanding gives to
them an enlarged meaning
to life”.
Music for All of Us by
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MASTERWORKS III PROGRAM NOTES
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)
SCHEHERAZADE
Born into an aristocratic family, Rimsky-Korsakov
was destined to become a naval officer and entered
the naval college at St. Petersburg at the age of twelve.
Although he remained a naval officer for six years and
sailed on a three-year cruise around the world, he was
slowly drawn toward a musical career. Influenced by the
fiercely nationalistic Mily Balakirev, he joined a group
of young composers who became known as “The Five”
or “The Mighty Handful.” Reacting against the more
orthodox pro-western faction led by Anton Rubenstein and
Peter Tchaikovsky, they urged composers to stress their
national heritage and use indigenous Russian folk sources
and exotic non-Western scales in their music. It is of little
wonder that national identity is the predominating trait of
Rimsky Korsakov’s music.
With scant professional training in music and
while maintaining his naval commission, he was
appointed professor of composition at the St. Petersburg
Conservatory. After several years of intense self-education
the composer emerged as one of the world’s greatest
music theorists and became an inspirational teacher.
He had a decisive influence on Russian music teaching
Glazunov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovitch. He
was also a conductor, editor, writer and led a full and
busy life in the bosom of his family.
Rimsky Korsakov was essentially an opera composer,
but, with the exception of the Golden Cockerel, few of his
sixteen operas are performed outside of Russia. From his
operas, which he considered his finest works, come Song
of India and The Flight of The Bumble Bee.
Rimsky Korsakoff is known to the Western World
largely through three compositions of 1888-89: Capriccio
Espanol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture and the
symphonic suite Scheherazade. Influenced by the
contemporary fashion for Oriental and exotic sounds,
Scheherazade is a four movement setting of Hoffman’s
tales from The Arabian Nights. The use of the orchestra to
produce striking tonal effects was his greatest strength. His
orchestral technique characteristically casts the principal
melodic line in bold relief with inventive doublings and an
avoidance of competing activity in the middle and lower
ranges. Bass support tends to be unobtrusive and the
accompanying parts of the orchestra often supply splashes
of color. Intense melody supported by blocks and strata
of sound rather than competing melodic lines provides a
level of brilliance, clarity and vivid tone color that was to
exert a powerful influence in the new century on Prokofiev,
Stravinsky and even Debussy and Ravel.
In his published score of Scheherazade the composer
added the following explanatory paragraph: “The Sultan,
convinced of the faithlessness of women, had sworn to
put to death each of his wives after the first night. But
the Sultana saved her life by diverting him with stories,
which she told him during a thousand and one nights. The
Sultan, conquered by his curiosity, put off from day to day
the execution of his wife and at last renounced his bloody
vow.”
Edward Pitts
JOAN TOWER (B. 1938 - ): SEQUOIA
Joan Tower is one of America’s most dynamic and
colorful living composers. Her bold and assertive music
with its novel structural forms and vivid imagery has won
her large, enthusiastic audiences. She is also a favorite
among performers. Like her contemporary, Ellen Zwillich,
her years of performing (Zwillich as a violinist, Tower as
pianist) helped give her music a special sensitivity to the
needs and interests of performers.
Tower was born in 1938 in New Rochelle, New
York. She grew up in South America where her father
worked as a mining engineer. After graduating from
Bennington College in Vermont, she earned a doctorate
in composition from Columbia University. In 1969 she
founded the Da Capo Chamber Players with whom she
served as pianist for fifteen years. After fulfilling a three-
year term as Composer-in-Residence for the St. Louis
Symphony under Leonard Slatkin she joined the faculty of
Bard College where she has been a dedicated teacher
since 1972.
Tower’s first orchestral work, Sequoia, was premiered
in New York in 1981 and is of sixteen minutes duration in
three continuous movements. The work abstractly portrays
the disparity between the Sequoia tree’s majestic height
and mass and its incongruously tiny needles. Filled with
musical contrasts and surging rhythmic energy, Sequoia
is based on an idea gleaned from Tower’s favorite
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composer, Beethoven, which she calls the “balancing”
of musical energies. Inspired by nature’s incredible
balancing act of giving the California redwood trees
such great height, Tower begins with a pedal point on G
and fans out on both sides of the harmonies which are
symmetrically built up or down from G. This “balancing”
of registers like the branching of a tree, continues to
develop into more complex settings as the “branches”
start to grow sub branches. “Balancing” extends to loud
and soft dynamics; heavy and thin sound of both static
and moving harmony; of low and high registers, and so
on. Overall, the energetic pacing of the piece suggests
the magnificent tree.
Edward Pitts
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847):
VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR
The Violin Concerto in E Minor is universally
ranked as one of the greatest violin concertos ever
composed; many consider it the greatest. Mendelssohn’s
gift for melody is evident in the instant appeal of its
extraordinarily compelling lyricism. Even Mendelssohn
complained that he couldn’t get some of the main themes
out of his head. The work is in three movements and
while the violin part is clearly dominant, it balances
well with the lively orchestra as it alternates between
virtuosic and lyrical passages. Mendelssohn began
the composition at age twenty-seven when he had just
become musical director of the Gewandhaus concerts in
Leipzig but did not complete the work until 1844, nearly
six years later. He collaborated closely with his friend,
violin virtuoso Ferdinand David, in working out the
details for the solo parts.
Felix Mendelssohn, the “Prince of German Music”,
was both genius and renaissance man. His privileged
education in the bosom of his cultured and well-to-do
Jewish family contributed to his sophisticated urbanity
and his broad array of accomplishments. A prodigy
comparable to Mozart, he completed two works by
age seventeen, Octet For Strings and Overture to A
Midsummer Nights Dream, which are amongst the
world’s greatest musical achievements. It has often been
remarked that many of his later works do not match
these earlier undertakings and that he never fulfilled
his initial promise. Nevertheless, in addition to being
a marvelous composer he was a world-class pianist,
violinist and organist. Moreover, he was a fine painter,
writer, teacher, administrator and one of the truly great
conductors of his age. He was the first to regularly
use a baton. As he objected to the habit of audiences
applauding between movements of a composition
he linked the three movements of the Violin Concerto
together without a break, which had never been done
before in a concerto. At the end of the vigorous first
movement the bassoon holds its note during what would
normally be silence in order to forestall the intrusive
applause.
An early romantic, Mendelssohn was the champion
of classic form. His intense study of Palestrina, Bach,
Mozart and Beethoven prompted Berlioz’ complaint: “I
fear he is too fond of the dead.” His Romanticism was
by far the most restrained of any of his contemporaries.
He strove for simplicity, grace and elegance and
instinctively shrank from excesses of any kind. Indeed,
his increasing conservatism and emotional inhibitions
could explain his failure to live up to his initial creative
promise. Early twentieth century musicologists shared
a low opinion of Mendelssohn. But now that serial and
post serial music has run its course and neo-Romanticism
is returning, Mendelssohn’s music, like Liszt’s, is being
revalued and he is again beginning to be recognized as
the elegant, perfectly proportioned master that he was.
Edward Pitts
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PROGRAM
A. Copland (1900-1990): Appalachian Spring Suite (1954 Orchestra Complete)
R. Schumann (1810-1856): Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A Minor
Nicht zu schnell
Langsam
Sehr lebhaft
Carter Brey, cello
J. Brahms (1833-1897): Symphony No. 4 in E Minor
Allegro non troppo
Andante moderato
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MASTERWORKS IV
Concert Underwriting: Theodore Schultz
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Carter
Brey,
Cellist
C
ellist Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cellist
of the New York Philharmonic in 1996, and
made his subscription debut as soloist with the
Orchestra in May 1997, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo
Variations led by then-Music Director Kurt Masur. He has
performed as soloist in subsequent seasons in the Elgar
Cello Concerto with Andre Previn conducting; in William
Schuman’s A Song of Orpheus with Christian Thielemann;
in the Barber Concerto with conductor Alan Gilbert; in
Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote with Music Director Lorin
Maazel and with former Music Director Zubin Mehta; and
in the Brahms Double Concerto with Concertmaster Glenn
Dicterow and conductor Christoph Eschenbach, as well as
with Lorin Maazel on the orchestra’s 2007 tour of Europe.
The Brahms was also performed at the Tanglewood Music
Center in the summer of 2002 as part of Kurt Masur’s final
concerts as Philharmonic Music Director. Mr. Brey most
recently performed Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in D with
Riccardo Muti conducting in April of 2010.
Carter Brey rose to international attention in 1981
as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello
Competition. Subsequent appearances with Mstislav
Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra were
unanimously praised. His awards include the Gregor
Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, the Avery Fisher Career
Grant, and Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award. He
was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America’s
Performing Arts Prize. Mr. Brey has performed as soloist
with many of America’s major symphony orchestras.
His chamber music career is equally distinguished.
He has made regular appearances with the Tokyo and
Emerson string quartets as well as the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival in the U.S.
and Italy, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music and La Jolla
Chamber Music festivals, among others. He presents an
ongoing series of duo recitals with pianist Christopher
O’Riley; together they have recorded The Latin American
Album, a disc of compositions from South America and
Mexico (Helicon Records). His recording with Garrick
Ohlsson of the complete works of Chopin for cello and
piano was released by Arabesque in the fall of 2002 to
great acclaim. A faculty member of the Curtis Institute,
Mr. Brey appeared as soloist with the Curtis Orchestra at
Verizon Hall and Carnegie Hall in April of 2009.
Mr. Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute,
where he studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates,
and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot
and was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. He
lives in New York City with his wife, Ilaria Dagnini Brey,
and their two children, Ottavia and Lucas. Among his
outside interests are marathon running, ballroom dancing,
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MASTERWORKS IV PROGRAM NOTES
AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)
APPALACHIAN SPRING
Aaron Copland is regarded as the first truly great
American Composer. He wrote about one hundred
works, not a huge output but one of consistently high
quality and exceptional diversity, embracing opera and
ballet, chorus and song, orchestra and band, chamber
ensemble and solo piano, radio, film and television.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant Jewish
parents, he studied piano and composition in New York
before traveling to Paris for three years of study with the
fabulous Nadia Boulanger whose influence on Copland
was profound.
Returning to America in 1926 he set out to create
a distinctly recognizable American musical style. He
wanted a place for American art music in a world
crowded with European exports. Using popular and folk
tunes, jazzy polyrhythms, melodic vigor and angularity,
lean and bare textures, his music has the big healthy
sound of America. His influence on younger American
composers was extraordinary as teacher, guide,
confidant, patron, benefactor, pen pal, psychologist and
friend. His well-earned reputation as “Dean of American
Music” remains uncontested. He is our Bach!
“He was as free of neurosis as anyone I’ve ever
met”, wrote biographer Vivian Perlis, “…the dearest,
kindest, most thoughtful and fundamentally good human
being I’ve ever known.” His genial and generous spirit
was recognized by John F. Kennedy who described the
tall, lanky, “stunningly ugly” composer as “a very loving,
sweet man.” Like the man, his music is simple, touching
but not excessively emotional. The simplicity of his spare,
economical and harmonious music defines America.
His most popular work is music for Martha Graham’s
ballet Appalachian Spring which he composed in 1943
and from which we wrote his orchestral suite. It is a
jewel of Americana, a classic national treasure whose
defiant innocence, affirmation, freshness and strength
reaffirmed national values and ideals at a time of world
chaos.
The scenario of the ballet is a love story by the
legendary dancer/choreographer Martha Graham
celebrating the marriage of two Pennsylvania pioneers.
The music has a quiet glow, a Puritan restraint and
the tenderness of young love. The orchestral suite, his
best known work, is a condensed version of the ballet,
omitting primarily choreographic sections and expanding
the instrumentation from small ensemble to full orchestra.
It is written in eight sections which are played without
interruption. Copland loved folk music and included five
variations on a Shaker theme in the work. Appalachian
Spring won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and reaffirmed
Copland’s position as our country’s greatest composer.
Edward Pitts
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1811-1856)
CELLO CONCERTO IN A MINOR
Robert Schumann loved the cello and turned to it
for comfort. He wrote little for that instrument of the soul
but when he did, in his quartets, quintets and his one
orchestral work for the instrument, the Cello Concerto
in A minor, he wrote music that manifestly exhibits joy
in the instrument’s unique ability both to richly underpin
and to express lyrical song. He completed the concerto
in a two week period in 1850 but never heard the work
performed as it was not premiered until four years after
his death in 1856.
The poetically expressive Cello Concerto is in three
movements, played without pause. The work is unified
as thematic material introduced in the first movement is
repeated and developed throughout. The same themes
are employed in very different contexts and moods,
however, widening the emotional scope of the piece
and mirroring the composer’s current psychological
mood swings. Perhaps the most compelling feature of
the concerto is the contrasts within, a reflection of the
composer’s worsening mental state.
Schumann was experiencing increasingly frequent
hallucinations and auditory disturbances as a result
of advanced syphilis. Episodes of mental illness had
plagued him from his early twenties. In 1853 he tried to
commit suicide by leaping into the Rhine, was sent to an
insane asylum and, descending into madness, died two
years later at the age of fifty-five. He was survived by his
wife, Clara, his seven children and his young protégé,
Johannes Brahms.
Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure,
Schumann has also been portrayed as a profoundly
tragic one. If romance consists of passion and suffering,
he had more than his fair share. After convincing his
family to condone the abandonment of his hated law
studies for a career as a virtuoso pianist he severely
injured a finger, virtually putting an end to a virtuoso
career before it had begun. He fell in love with Clara
Wieck, the daughter of his intransigent teacher, and
spent four agonizing years in a fierce life-and-death
struggle before he could win the hand of the woman
he loved. The love affair of Robert Schumann and
Clara Wieck was surely one of the most beautiful and
celebrated in all music biography but it was also one of
the most tempestuous and tortured.
Schumann’s creativity was most perfectly expressed
in miniature – in small-scale works for the piano and
in songs. It was late in his career that he attempted
large- scale orchestral works. His famous A Minor Piano
Concerto was well received but reaction to his four
symphonies was more problematic, criticized for their
lack of brilliance and generally ineffective orchestration
yet containing some of his most inspired music.
Edward Pitts
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR
Brahms synthesized the discipline of the Classical
– era symphonic forms and procedures with the
expressive drama of Beethoven and the harmonic
and melodic language of late Romanticism more
capably than any other composer of the century. He
was a composer of impeccable craft and technique
who created a body of work that was modern but
affirmed his debt to the musical past. He was a
classical romantic who wrote works of uncompromising
intellectual complexity and refinement.
When Brahms was twenty his esteemed mentor,
Robert Schumann, told the musical world that Brahms
would one day compose a symphony that would be
the worthy successor to Beethoven’s Ninth. Terrified by
Schumann’s prediction, Brahms was unable to complete
his first symphony for the next 23 years. When it was
finally introduced in 1876 and included a choral
theme in the last movement it was immediately dubbed
“Beethoven’s Tenth.” The piece resurrected the genre of
the symphony from years of failure and rendered it once
again the king of musical forms. The second age of the
symphony had begun.
Brahms realized what he had accomplished and,
in a sense, felt that he had nothing left to prove. His
remaining three symphonies followed rather quickly. The
pastoral Second was completed a year later in 1877,
then the heroic Third in 1883 and the magnificent
Fourth in 1885. By then he seemed to be writing for
himself, imbuing deep romantic sincerity into classical
structures. The Fourth is a summation of the composer’s
learning and technique, music that cuts as close to
the heart as music can. It reveals the essence of the
composer, where form and function are balanced and
the technical means serve expression and expression is
discovered through technique.
Symphony No. 4 is in four movements. The
unremitting seriousness of the first two movements is
relieved in the aggressively upbeat Scherzo but then is
plunged into darkness in the most somber conclusion
ever heard in a symphony. It is the single most
remarkable symphonic movement that the composer
ever wrote, one of the most unique in the repertory, a
Baroque-era Passacaglia, composed of a series of thirty
variations built on a repeated ground base. Brahms, the
traditionalist, was fascinated with the music of Bach and
Handel. He knew more of the old forms than anyone and
he employed old forms to create new life.
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Symphony’s fundraising, exemplifies the
Spirit of Leadership in Philanthropy by
raising $1,000,000 since its inception.
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The South Florida Symphony gratefully acknowledges the donors
who have made our 18th Season possible.
No group has been more instrumental in enabling our ability to offer such exquisite
orchestral concerts than the Stradivarius Society. What began as a typical fundraising effort
quickly grew into a movement that exceeded our goals and expectations. Member commitment
and generosity have laid the foundation for the future of the Symphony in South Florida.
This movement has inspired us to create an endowment that will ensure the stability and financial
security of the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. Our two year initiative, the 88 Keys, is more than a
fundraising campaign. It is a promise to the South Florida community that quality musical performances
will continue to be part of our cultural heritage for generations to come. Each of the 88 keys of the
piano symbolizes patrons’ shared commitment to this ideal.
The following pages are dedicated to those important individuals who comprise the
88 Keys that make up the Stradivarius Society.
Black Ke Societ
Marilynn Weber
Marilynn Weber is a
former educator and longtime
supporter of the Symphony.
She has dedicated her life to
educating future generations
through her Do It For M.E.
(Music Education) Fund. The
Symphony in the Schools
program, made possible
due to Marilynn’s support, has impacted the lives of over
25,000 children since its inception. Marilynn is a lifelong
lover of music.
“My experiences of seeing and hearing the Symphony
have created unforgettable and wonderful memories for
me. I hope my gift will encourage others who love the
symphony as much as I do, to recognize its inspiring
performances, and education programs as important
assets in our community. My intention is for this gift to
motivate others to support the Symphony to the greatest of
their ability.”
John D. Evans &
Steven Wozencraft
John D. Evans
is an internationally
recognized expert in
the telecommunications
industry and a leader in
technological innovation,
including the cable television
industry and Internet2, a
consortium of 255 U.S. research universities & institutes.
Gifts from the John D. Evans Foundation serve as
inspiration to a growing group of cultural ambassadors
who are advancing the Symphonyin the region. With the
Foundation’s leadership and challenge, over $1,000,000
has been raised in new contributions from Symphony
supporters. The impact has placed the Symphony as one
of Broward County’s most important cultural keystones, with
over 30 individuals committing to providing a minimum of
$25,000 in support.
John’s partner, Steven Wozencraft, is Chairman and CEO
of JOD Global Philanthropies, and has spent the last 30 years
of his career working with NGOs and not-for-profits.
”The South Florida Symphony Orchestra is outstanding,
producing exquisite concerts, events, and educational
programming, and has set a course toward sustainability by
creating a legacy for harmonious giving.”
Bruce Presley
Bruce W. Presley, a
graduate of Yale University,
taught computer science and
physics at the Lawrenceville
School in New Jersey for
twenty-four years. In 1981,
he founded Lawrenceville
Press, a computer textbook
publishing company, which
he sold in 2007. Since then, Bruce has served as founder
and president of Downtown Loft Studio, a multimedia
production company located in South Florida.
Richard Jones
Mississippi native
Richard “Dick” Jones was
a career executive with
advertising giant, J. Walter
Thompson, in New York
City. Dick enjoys tennis,
dancing, theater, opera,
and classical music. After
retirement, Dick split his
time between the mainland and Key West. It was there
that he discovered the South Florida Symphony. Dick later
was among the founding members of the Symphony’s
Stradivarius Society which also included John Evans and
Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A.. Together their leadership has
forged a path for others to follow.
Stradivarius Societ
88 Keys
INITIATIVE
Establishing a Legacy of Harmonious Giving
$250,000+
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Overture$25,000+
Stradivarius Societ
BETH HOLLAND
The arts and politics have
been Beth Holland’s passions
for many years. She feels
blessed to be in a position to
combine the two, having served
as an arts funding consultant for
the New York State Legislature,
and New York local president
of AFTRA.
Beth has a long history of supporting the arts and
charities in South Florida. In 2011, Beth was honored with
the Florida Woman of the Year award from the 1000+ Club
to benefit cancer research. In 2015, Beth was bestowed
the Dr Sanford & Beatrice Ziff Honors for Outstanding
Contributions to the Arts at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral
Gables.
Beth is committed to the success of the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra. She invites you be a part of her
passionate journey to create a soul-filled cultural scene that
we can all be proud of.
Concerto$50,000+
CHRISTINE A. GUDAITIS
Christine A. Gudaitis is
a shareholder in the law firm
Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A. The
firm was founded in Miami
in 1995 and concentrates
its practice in the areas of
insurance coverage and bad
faith litigation, representing
individual and corporate
policyholders in state and
federal courts in Florida and nationwide. The firm also
maintains an active appellate practice.
Since its inception, Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin has recognized
that there can be no community without the arts, but also that
there can be no arts without the community. It is therefore
our privilege to have been able to support the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra for many years. We are proud to be
the first corporate member of the Stradivarius Society, and are
pleased to sponsor SFSO’s first performance at Miami’s Arsht
Center in January 2016.
Ms. Gudaitis received her undergraduate degree from
Mount Holyoke College and her J.D., cum laude, from the
University of Miami. In addition to numerous law-related
organizations, Ms. Gudaitis is Vice Chair of the Miami-
Dade Public Library Foundation, a member of the University
of Miami Citizens Board, and a South Florida alumnae
representative for Mount Holyoke College. She resides in
Miami Beach.
CHARLES LANE
As Vice President and
Senior Relationship Manager
at PNC, Charles Lane serves
as the primary contact for his
clients’ Wealth Management
services. He establishes a
business plan for each, delivers
investment funds performance
reviews, and works with the
Wealth Management team
to achieve results. Mr. Lane has planned and frequent
interaction with clients to ensure strong client commitment,
enhanced retention, and additional revenues.
Charles Lane has more than 25 years banking
experience in the residential, commercial and securities
based lending industries. His focus on building strong
and long lasting client relationships frames his success in
providing guidance, direction, and personalized multiple
disciplined solutions. Charles’ key to success is in serving as
an advocate and advisor to develop strategies that focus on
clients’ unique needs.
Prior to PNC, Mr. Lane held positions with Bank of
America and Regions Bank. He is a native of Savannah,
Georgia living in the Fort Lauderdale area for the past 30
years. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
Charles is an active participant in the community and
serves on the Board of Directors for the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra.
Elizabeth Baker Robert Dooley Camille Fox Joseph Griffin Constance & Peter Prowant
John Teets & Robert Rymer* Jan & Rosemary ToncarDavid B. Eccleston & Manuel Ramirez Harry Thomas Wilson
Elena & Robert Spottswood Dr. Kenneth Stevenson & George Kress Cathy Rakov
Theodore Schultz
Paula Valad
Jenny Brody Ross Claiborne Lewis & Raquel Cohen Shirley Freeman &
Harvey Server
Dorothy Fishman
Jacqueline Grimm Margaret Kennedy &
Marilyn Blumberg Cane
Jo Anne Lewis Cliff Pettit Phil Miani Linda Shagena
Betty Diener*
*IN MEMORIAM
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John D. Evans Foundation
Downtown Loft Studios
$25,000 - $49,999
Runyan Law Firm, P.A.
Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A.
Sonia J. Alden Foundation
PNC Bank
The Driftwood Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
World AIDS Museum
Community Foundation of Broward
Drial Foundation
Robert M. Sandelman Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Funding Arts Broward
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
RBC Bank & RBC Wealth Management
ArtServe
$1,000 - $4,999
Coldwell Banker
Bessemer Trust
BMI Foundation
Clements Family Charitable Trust
Florida Keys Council of the Arts
MATCHING GIFTS
Boeing
School Board of Broward County
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
$100,000+
Broward County Cultural Division
State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
Tourist Development Council of Monroe County
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION GIFTS
Create your legacy, while helping to ensure the continued stability and
artistic excellence of the South Florida Symphony Orchestra.
The South Florida Symphony Orchestra offers a range of gift planning
opportunities which will allow you to make a lasting difference, while
providing future generations with the gift of music.
Make the decision to meet your personal, financial and philanthropic goals
by sustaining the melodic composition of the South Florida
Symphony Orchestra for generations to come.
If you have already included the Symphony in your estate plan, we thank you.
For more information about Legacy Gifts, contact our
Planned Giving Department at 954-522-8445.
Legacy Planning with the
South Florida
Symphony Orchestra
Note: Gifts given after December 31, 2015
will be listed in program insert.
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Perry Frantzman
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John Huss &
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Jeffrey & Susan Liggio
Herving Madruga
Ty Mak
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David Venticich
Hanna & Jay Zukoski
CONTRIBUTORS
Edward Asvazadourian
Michael Baskin
Richard Bierly
Thomas & Kathy
Cawley
Brenda Colon
Robert Curry
Edwin Davis
George Douglas
Ian Fraser
Grace Freedman
John French
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Flowers by Gilda
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Jeffrey Starr
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Richard Ziter, MD
This page reflects donations March 1 through December 31, 2015.
Due to space considerations we only list donations above $250,
although all gifts are appreciated. Kindly contact the Symphony with any errors or omissions.
Every effort has been made to provide accurate information.
All donations benefit the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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SFSO CHAMBER SERIES
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Monday, May 16, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – The Studios of Key West
Friday, June 10, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – The Studios of Key West
Sunday, June 12, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – Leiser Center / Fort Lauderdale
Sunday, July 10, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – The Studios of Key West
Monday, July 11, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – Leiser Center / Fort Lauderdale
Excelsa Quartet
“Fresh and youthful…projected power and excitement”
praised the Washington Post. Maestra Sebrina Alfonso
and the South Florida Symphony will welcome this
exemplary group of four women during the 2015-2016
season. Excelsa Quartet takes its name from Picea
excelsa, a distinct species of Northern European spruce
trees used to make the top panel of fine string instruments.
The quartet was the First Prize winner of “The Provincie
Limburg Prijs” along with the “EMCY Artprize” at the
Charles Hennen 26th International Chamber Music
Competition for Strings in The Netherlands. Excelsa
Quartet is now the Graduate Fellowship String Quartet at
the University of Maryland in College Park, MD.
Studies and collaborations: acclaimed quartets in Europe
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Miami; world renowned conductor Benjamin Zander;
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Contact our team of experts to customize your special day.
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Lori Kennedy, Charter Specialist
954 895 9914 | Lori@Apollojets.com | www.Apollojets.com
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