Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Christopher Seaman, Music Director Jeff Tyzik, Principal Pops ConductorMichael Butterman, Principal Conductor for Education and Outreach The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair

2008-09 SeasonVolume 86, Book 5: January 9-February 14, 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Eastman Theatrewith the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

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love and jealousy, torture, murder, suicide, and betrayal, all set

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by Giacomo Puccini

Welcome to another year of world-class music-making by the musicians of your RPO! Musiclovers in Rochester have much to look forwardto in 2009, as the countdown begins toOctober’s Opening Night in the beautifullytransformed Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.We will keep you apprised of these excitingdevelopments as that date draws nearer in thecoming months.

The six programs included in this edition ofour Bravo concert guide are testament to therich diversity of programs the RPO offers allseason long. Our conductors and artistic staffhave created an imaginative smorgasbord ofartists and repertoire designed to appeal to awide range of musical tastes and to first-timersand aficionados alike. On Valentine’s Weekend,we are especially proud to be presenting theEast Coast premiere performances of theBrazilian-born Sérgio Assad’s new concerto,Interchange, featuring the remarkable virtuosityof the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

On the Pops front, the dazzling feats of theCirque du Soleil artists at Cirque de laSymphonie (January 9 & 10) and our 90thbirthday celebration of Leonard Bernstein’sgreatest Broadway hits (February 6 & 7)—arethe perfect antidotes to the mid-winter bluesand the perfect way to continue ourcommemoration of Jeff Tyzik’s 15thAnniversary Season as our immensely talentedand versatile Principal Pops Conductor.

Your RPO will perform more than 200concerts in the coming year, and we hope youand your family will enjoy them often.

As always, please stay in touch. I’d love to hearfrom you.

Cordially,

Charles H. OwensPresident & CEOcowens@rpo.org

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Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

BRAVO!The official magazine of the

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

This program book is published cooperatively by theRochester Philharmonic Orchestra and

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CONTENTSRochester Philharmonic Orchestra ..................... 5

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. ............. 9

RPO Staff ............................................................... 10

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra ....... 11

Sponsor Spotlight ................................................ 12

Corporate Partners & Foundations .................. 13

Maestro’s Circle..................................................... 14

Philharmonic Friends ........................................... 16

WPOP Series No. 4: Cirque!January 9 & 10, 2009 ....................................... 19

Philharmonics Series No. 5: Mussorgsky, Nielsen, Shostakovich

January 22 & 24, 2009 ..................................... 21

Philharmonics Series No. 6: Gabrieli, Beethoven, Smetana, Janácvek

January 29 & 31, 2009 ..................................... 27

Symphony 101 Series No. 3:Grieg, Wagner, Brahms

January 30 & February 1, 2009 ...................... 33

WPOP Series No. 5: Bernstein on StageFebruary 6 & 7, 2009 ....................................... 35

Eastman Theatre Renovation Project .............. 38

Philharmonics Series No. 7: Debussy, Assad, Bizet, Prokofiev

February 12 & 14, 2009 ................................... 39

Applause for Our Volunteers! .......................... 44

For Your Information .......................................... 46

From the President & CEO

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2008-2009Government

SupportThe Rochester

Philharmonic Orchestrais supported in part

by grants from:

New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency

County of Monroe, County Executive Maggie Brooks

New YorkState SenatorJim Alesi

Robert J. Duffy, MayorCity of Rochester,New York

National Endowmentfor the Arts

New YorkState SenatorJoseph E. Robach

Maggie BrooksCounty Executive

SENATORJIM ALESI

SENATORJOSEPH E.ROBACH

ROCHESTERR PHILHARMONICC ORCHESTRA

RPO performances are made possible with public funds fromthe New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Christopher Seaman, Music DirectorJeff Tyzik, Principal Pops Conductor

Michael Butterman, Principal Conductor for Education and OutreachThe Louise & Henry Epstein Family Chair, Funded in perpetuity

2008-2009 Season

Violin IJuliana Athayde,

ConcertmasterThe Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair Funded in perpetuity

Wilfredo Degláns, Associate Concertmaster

Shannon Nance,Assistant Concertmaster

Perrin YangTigran VardanyanEllen RathjenJanice MacisakWilliam HuntSabina SlepeckiKenneth LangleyLise StoddardJoanna OwenChristine Hauptly Annin*An-Chi OuYangMargaret LeenhoutsSophia Lee~Kitty Cheung~

Violin IIDavid Brickman, PrincipalDaryl Perlo,

Assistant PrincipalPatricia SunwooJohn SullivanLara SipolsNancy HuntBoris ZapesochnyLiana KotevaJeremy HillAinur Zabenova Fang-yu LiuLee Wilkins

ViolaMelissa Matson, PrincipalMichael Larco,

Assistant PrincipalMarc AndersonElizabeth SekaOlita PoveroMichail VerbaLinda KirkwoodDavid HultThomas DummLeslie DraganAnne Aderman~

CelloStefan Reuss, Principal

The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh ChairFunded in perpetuity

Kathleen Murphy Kemp, Assistant Principal

Lars KirvanBenjamin KrugMary Ann WukovitzDon Reinfeld*Patricia GarveyBeiliang ZhuIngrid BockMelissa Burton AndersonJeffrey HoodMorwenna Del Mar~Anna Beryl~

BassColin Corner,

PrincipalThe Anne Hayden McQuay ChairFunded in perpetuity

Michael Griffin, Assistant Principal

Jack StauberRobert ZimmermanGaelen McCormickJeff Campbell+Eric Polenik

FluteRebecca Gilbert, Principal

The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair Funded in perpetuity

Joanna BassettJan Angus+Diane Smith

PiccoloJoanna BassettJan Angus+

OboeErik Behr, Principal

The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair Funded in perpetuity

Anna SteltenpohlAnna Petersen StearnsPriscilla Brown

English HornAnna Steltenpohl

ClarinetKenneth Grant,+ Principal

The Robert J. Strasenburgh Chair Funded in perpetuity

Robert DiLutisRamon Ricker+*Andrew BrownAlice Meyer

E-flat ClarinetRobert DiLutis

Bass ClarinetRamon Ricker+*Andrew Brown

BassoonAbraham Weiss, PrincipalCharles BaileyMartha Sholl

Contra-BassoonCharles Bailey

HornW. Peter Kurau,+ Principal

The Cricket and Frank Luellen ChairFunded in perpetuity

Matthew Annin*Alex Rosenfeld,

Assistant PrincipalJennifer BurchDavid AngusStephanie Blaha

TrumpetDouglas Prosser,+ Principal

The Elaine P. Wilson ChairWesley NanceHerbert SmithPaul Shewan

TromboneMark Kellogg,+ Principal

The Austin E. Hildebrandt Chair Funded in perpetuity

Mark SalatinoAndrew Chappell

TubaW. Craig Sutherland,

Principal

TimpaniCharles Ross, Principal

The Harold and Joan Feinbloom Chair Funded in perpetuity

Jim Tiller, Assistant Principal

PercussionJim Tiller, PrincipalBrian StotzJohn McNeillRobert PattersonJillian Pritchard

HarpGrace Wong, Principal

The Eileen Malone Chair, A Tribute by Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt M. Sylvester Funded in perpetuity

Barbara Dechario

KeyboardJoseph Werner, Principal

The Lois P. Lines Chair Funded in perpetuity

Cary Ratcliff

Personnel ManagerJoseph Werner

Principal LibrarianKim Hartquist

Stage ManagerCurtis Bradley

* On Leave+ Full time faculty at the

Eastman School of Music~ Eastman School of Music

Orchestra Studies Diploma Intern

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The RPO’s Steinway wasdonated in honor of

pianist Jon Nakamatsu, aspecial friend of the RPO and the late Alfred L. Davis.

A special fund established byMr. Davis will provide qualityconcert pianos for the RPO in perpetuity.

Christopher SeamanMusic Director

This 2008-2009 season marks Music DirectorChristopher Seaman’s eleventh with theRochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Theinternationally renowned British conductor hasbecome an integral part of the RPO and theGreater Rochester community, and isrecognized as having raised the artistic level ofthe Orchestra to its present excellence.

Recognized worldwide as one of today’s leadingconductors, he completed a highly successfultenure as conductor-in-residence at the BaltimoreSymphony Orchestra, where he had workedwith former RPO Music Director DavidZinman since 1987. Other tenures have includedPrincipal Conductor of the BBC ScottishSymphony and the Northern Sinfonia.

Highly sought-after as a guest conductorthroughout the world and noted for his strongcommand of a broad repertoire, Mr. Seamanhas regular engagements in North America,Israel, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Australia,and New Zealand, as well as in Great Britain.

Recent guest conducting engagements in theU.S.—many of them return engagements—have included the orchestras of San Francisco,Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit, Columbus,Seattle, and Utah, as well as at Chicago’s GrantPark Festival. He has previously conducted theorchestras of Saint Louis, New Jersey, Minnesota,Cincinnati, Colorado, Louisville, and Atlanta.In the summer of 2003, he taught at theAmerican Academy of Conducting at Aspen.

Abroad, his schedule includes concerts with allof the London orchestras; the major UnitedKingdom orchestras including the City ofBirmingham Symphony, the BournemouthSymphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, theUlster Orchestra, and the various BBC orchestras.He also has led the symphony orchestras ofBudapest, Prague, Warsaw, Trondheim, and theNorth German Philharmonic, among others,and will make return visits this season as well asconducting in Holland and Portugal.

He visits Australia annually, conducting themajor orchestras there (often including concertsin the Sydney Opera House) and also leadingmaster classes for young Australian conductors.

His recordings include performances with theRoyal Philharmonic, the PhilharmoniaOrchestra, and the National Youth Orchestra ofBritain. Mr. Seaman has recorded two CDswith the RPO, one with pianist Jon Nakamatsureleased in September 2001, and one withpianist Olga Kern, released in the fall of 2003and hailed by the Democrat and Chronicle as“sensational.”

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Jeff TyzikPrincipal Pops Conductor

Jeff Tyzik has earned a reputation as one ofAmerica’s most innovative pops conductors,recognized for his brilliant arrangements,original programming, and engaging rapportwith audiences of all ages. 2008-09 marks hisfifteenth season as Principal Pops Conductor ofthe Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

During his tenure, he has written over 160works for the Orchestra and conducted Popsand classical concerts alike. On his classicalseries concerts, Tyzik has performed works bysome of the greatest American composers tocritical acclaim and conducted the premiere ofhis own Trombone Concerto, which wasfunded by a grant from the NationalEndowment of the Arts and subsequentlyperformed at Carnegie Hall.

This season, Tyzik begins a new role asPrincipal Pops Conductor of the OregonSymphony and continues to serve as PrincipalPops Conductor of the Vancouver SymphonyOrchestra. Highly sought-after as a guestconductor, he recently has appeared withorchestras such as the Boston, Cincinnati, andNew York Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra atthe Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and theLos Angeles Philharmonic at the HollywoodBowl. This season he performs with orchestrasacross North America including Dallas, Detroit,Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and New Jersey, aswell as The Florida Orchestra, TorontoSymphony, and the National Arts CentreOrchestra in Ottawa, among others.

A native of Hyde Park, N.Y., Jeff first picked upa cornet when he was nine years old. Hestudied both classical and jazz throughout highschool, and went on to earn both his bachelor’sand master’s degrees from the Eastman Schoolof Music, where he studied composition/arranging with Radio City Music Hall’s RayWright, and jazz studies with the great bandleader Chuck Mangione, both of whomprofoundly influenced him as a musician.

Tyzik spent the next few years working withChuck Mangione and becoming a skilled

record producer. These experiences led him toone of the great early opportunities of hiscareer—the chance to co-compose a trumpetconcerto with friend and virtuoso trumpeterAllen Vizzutti to be recorded by pops legendDoc Severinsen. He orchestrated many of thegreat band leader’s symphony orchestraprograms, and produced a GRAMMY® Award-winning album, The Tonight Show Band withDoc Severinsen, Vol. 1.

His compositions and arrangements have beenrecorded by the London Symphony Orchestra,the RPO, Summit Brass, Erich Kunzel and theCincinnati Pops Orchestra, VancouverSymphony Orchestra, and Doc Severinsen withthe Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.In May 2007, harmonia mundi released hisrecording of works by Gershwin with pianistJon Nakamatsu and the RPO, which reachedNo. 3 on the Billboard classical chart. He alsohas produced and composed theme music formany of the major television networks andreleased six of his own albums.

Jeff Tyzik currently serves on the Board ofManagers of the Eastman School of Music, andis a board member of the Hochstein School ofMusic and Dance. He lives in Rochester withhis wife Jill.

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and program notes, listen to music clips, find details onupcoming concerts, purchasetickets online, and more!

Michael ButtermanPrincipal Conductor for Education and OutreachThe Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair

Now in his ninth season with the RPO,Michael Butterman is also Music Director forboth the Shreveport Symphony and theBoulder Philharmonic Orchestras.

In demand as a guest conductor, Michael’srecent engagements include appearances withthe symphonies of Detroit, Houston, Colorado,Oregon, Kansas City, Hartford, San Antonio,Syracuse, New Mexico, Spokane, Santa Fe,Mobile, and Quad City, as well as the LouisianaPhilharmonic, Pensacola Opera, and AshevilleLyric Opera. Summer appearances includeTanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley MusicFestival in Colorado, and the WintergreenMusic Festival in Virginia.

Butterman gained international attention as adiploma laureate in the Prokofiev InternationalConducting Competition and as a finalist inthe prestigious Besançon InternationalConducting Competition. As the 1999recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, hestudied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano,Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, and sharedthe podium with Ozawa to lead the season’sopening concert. In 1997, he was sponsored byUNESCO to lead the National PhilharmonicOrchestra of Moldova in a concert of music bygreat American masters.

From 2000 to 2007, Michael held the post ofAssociate Conductor for the JacksonvilleSymphony in Florida. For six seasons, he alsoserved as Music Director of Opera Southwest inAlbuquerque, N.M. Prior to joining theJacksonville Symphony, he was Director ofOrchestral Studies at the LSU School of Musicfor five years, and was Principal Conductor ofthe LSU Opera Theater. Previously, Michaelheld the post of Associate Conductor of theColumbus Pro Musica Orchestra, and served asMusic Director of the Chamber Opera, StudioOpera, and Opera Workshop at the IndianaUniversity School of Music. For two seasons, hewas also the Associate Music Director of theOhio Light Opera, conducting more than 35performances each summer.

At Indiana University, Butterman conducted ahighly acclaimed production of LeonardBernstein’s little-known 1600 PennsylvaniaAvenue in a series of performances at theKennedy Center in Washington, D.C, receivingunanimous praise from such publications as theNew York Times, Washington Post, Variety, andUSA Today. He subsequently was invited toNew York at the request of the Bernstein estateto prepare a performance of a revised version ofthe piece.

Michael’s work has been featured in fivenationwide broadcasts on NPR’s PerformanceToday, and can be heard on two CDs recordedfor the Newport Classics label.

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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 - Incorporated in 1930)

Officers James M. Boucher

Chairperson of the BoardCharles H. Owens

President & CEO Suzanne D. Welch

Vice ChairpersonKeith M. Wilson

Vice Chairperson Elizabeth F. Rice

Treasurer William D. Eggers

Secretary David C. Heiligman

Immediate Past Chairperson

Board of Directors (Term Expires Jan. 2009) David W. Ackroyd Dr. John M. BennettWilliam D. EggersLaMarr J. JacksonElizabeth F. RiceDr. Friederike SeligmanDr. Gwen K. Sterns Dr. Sidney S. Weinstein Suzanne D. Welch

(Term Expires Jan. 2010) Patrick C. BurkeDr. Steven E. FeldonPatrick FulfordAnn M. HustonMarie KentonDawn F. LipsonAnne SartoriIngrid A. StanlisKeith M. Wilson

(Term Expires Jan. 2011) Dr. Sarah AtkinsonJames M. BoucherEdward L. FiandachPatrick J. KellyKathleen Murphy KempEric PaleyPaula H. PattisonGregory W. SmithJules L. Smith

Ex-OfficioJennifer Burch

RPO Orchestra Representative David C. Heiligman

Immediate Past Chairperson Robert D. Hursh

Chairperson, Honorary Board Douglas Lowry

Dean, Eastman School of Music Charles H. Owens

President & CEO Anne Selgas

Chairperson, Volunteer Services Committee

Honorary Board Robert D. Hursh

ChairpersonDr. James E. Koller

Vice ChairpersonBetty J. Altier Dr. John Bouyoucos Paul W. Briggs William L. CahnCatherine B. Carlson George M. Ewing, Sr. Harold & Joan Feinbloom Jay M. FriedmanMary M. GooleyAustin E. Hildebrandt A. Thomas Hildebrandt Robert H. Hurlbut Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Cricket & Frank Luellen I.A. Morris Dr. Paul F. Pagerey Herbert L. Rees Nathan J. Robfogel Jon L. SchumacherKatherine T. SchumacherNorman M. Spindelman Betty Strasenburgh Josephine S. TrubekMrs. Richard L. Turner Patricia C. Wilder The RPO expresses its gratitude to all thosewho 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. McIrvine1973-74 - Robert J. Strasenburgh* 1974-75 - John A. Santuccio1975-76 - Robert J. Strasenburgh* 1976-78 - Dr. Louis Lasagna*1978-80 - Edward C. McIrvine1980-82 - Peter L. Faber1982-84 - Paul F. Pagerey1984-85 - Peter L. Waasdorp1986-89 - Robert H. Hurlbut1989-91 - Paul W. Briggs1991-93 - Karen Noble Hanson 1993-95 - Ronald E. Salluzzo1995-98 - A. Thomas Hildebrandt 1998-00 - Harold A. Kurland 2000-04 - David C. Heiligman 2004-06 - Ingrid A. Stanlis* Deceased

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Thanks to ourgenerous sponsors!

Philharmonics Series:

WPOP Series:

Symphony 101 Series andPhilharmonic Partners Program:

Casual Sunday Matinee Series:

orKIDStra Series:

Concert SponsorsJanuary 9 - February 14, 2009:

RPO StaffAdministrationCharles H. Owens, President & CEO Ellen Beck+, Executive Assistant

DevelopmentSteven M. Schwab, Vice President for DevelopmentSarah Goldstein Post, Manager of Annual GivingPavel Sullivan, Development Projects CoordinatorKristen Butler, Development AssociateMarilyn Merrigan, Manager of Volunteers & Special EventsJillian Pritchard+, Coordinator of Donor Cultivation

and StewardshipAndrea Mumm~

Marketing and Patron ServicesNancy Goldsmith Zawacki, Director of MarketingJanice Hanson, Manager of Marketing

and Electronic CommunicationKatherine M. Wahl, Manager of Patron Relations and SalesBrian Piazza, Box Office ManagerDudley Duberry, Assistant Box Office ManagerJan Beneway, Office AdministratorRebecca Delaney*

Patron Services RepresentativesCourtney Bonifant+Abby Chapman-Duprey+Emily Grissing+Anna Heller-JacksonBrad Hogarth+Jubin Matloubieh+Casey Paulozzi+Marcy Savastano+

Public RelationsAmy Blum, Director of Public RelationsSara K. White*

Artistic Operations J. Andrew Cassano, Director of Artistic OperationsNana Stotz, Operations ManagerDavid T. Meyer+, House ManagerMaria Kanakis~

EducationKrishna Thiagarajan, Director of Resource Development &

Education ProgramsElizabeth Stefan~

Rochester Philharmonic LeagueLaura Morihara+, RPL Administrator

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Susan Basu+, Manager

FinanceRonald L. Steinmiller, Vice President of Finance &

AdministrationIrene Shaffer, Director of FinanceMark Pignagrande, Staff AccountantNancy Carey, Bookkeeper

Information SystemsNancy Atwood-Stone, Director of Information Systems

+ Indicates Part-time

~ Indicates Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Internfrom the Eastman School of Music

* Indicates Intern from St. John Fisher College

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Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 3:00 pm Eastman TheatreAnnual Side-by-Side Concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

David Harman, conductorRPYO Concerto Competition Winners

Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite, No. 2RPYO Concerto Competition Winners With the RPO:Berlioz Roman Carnival OvertureBerlioz Symphonie fantastique (mvts 2, 4, 5)

Tickets: Adults $12, Students and Seniors $8

Sunday, May 10 at 3:00 p.m. FROM THE NEW WORLDRoberts Wesleyan College RPYO Percussion EnsembleTickets: $8 and $5 Concerto Competition Winners

Dvorvák, Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Tickets are available online at www.rpo.org, at the RPO Box Office,from RPYO musicians, and at the time of the performance

The RPYO is sponsored by the Education Department of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

The Fantastic French

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

David Harman, Music Director

The Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra is a symphonic orchestra composed of 100 of theGreater Rochester Area’s most accomplished middle- and high-school musicians. Sponsored by theEducation Department of the RPO, the RPYO was founded in 1970 to provide enriching musicalensemble experiences for very accomplished students from varied backgrounds. It facilitatesmusical, personal, and social development within a challenging and supportive environment, andlays an excellent musical foundation for future professional or amateur careers in music. Admittedthrough competitive annual auditions, RPYO musicians rehearse and perform under the directionof Dr. David Harman and with mentors from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Board of Directors, 2008-2009

David AckroydChairperson

Julia Figueras Roselyn Freedman BaumJeanne GrayEdward GrissingDavid HouAlice KanackBonnie Kramer

Gregory ParrisSita RaghunathanKevin RyckJessica SchusterTerry Fonda SmithDan Stare Fred Weingarten Mary Ellen WomackGrace Wong

Ex-OfficioSusan Basu David HarmanCharles OwensKrishna ThiagarajanJosephine Whang

Past Board Chairs Joyce Burrell William Cahn Jeanne Gray

RPYO Music DirectorDavid Harman

RPYO ManagerSusan Basu

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Sponsor Spotlight

First envisioned by community leaders to meet thehealth care needs of the growing suburban population,Park Ridge Hospital opened in 1975. In 1997, Park

Ridge aligned with the former St. Mary’s Hospital in the City of Rochester to form Unity HealthSystem; and in 2006, it was renamed Unity Hospital.

Today, Unity is a 681-bed health care network serving the City of Rochester and western MonroeCounty. Unity Health continuously strives to make a positive difference in the lives and healthstatus of individuals in the Rochester area. The company works hard to educate the community, itsproviders, and future health care professionals in order to offer the highest quality care to allmembers of the community, especially those who are underserved and most vulnerable.

Unity Health knows that good health is about more than physical wellness . . . it involves everyaspect of living, including nourishing minds and upholding high spirits. For this reason, thecompany appreciates the importance of arts and culture programs that bring our communitytogether. For more information, visit www.unityhealth.org.

The RPO recognizes its newest sponsor, Unity Health, for generous support of the Orchestra and astrong commitment to the health and well-being of Rochester.

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Corporate Partners, Foundations & Organizations

The RPO thanks the following corporate, foundation and community organization supporters for their generous support. Please call 454-7311x238 with questions or corrections.

Symphony ($25,000 & above)Bausch & LombConstellation BrandsDavenport-Hatch FoundationDemocrat and ChronicleEastman Kodak CompanyFirst Niagara Financial GroupThe Gouvernet Arts FundPreferred CareTime Warner CableWegmans Food MarketsElaine P. & Richard U.

Wilson FoundationXeroxZimmer Sales & Service Corp.

Concerto($10,000-$24,999)AAA of Western New YorkBank of AmericaThe Brown Group - Private

Banking & InvestmentGroup of Merrill Lynch

Dominion TransmissionMax & Victoria Dreyfus

FoundationExcellus BlueCross BlueShieldFiandach & FiandachGlover Crask Charitable TrustG.W. Lisk, Inc. of Clifton

SpringsHalcyon Hill FoundationHarter Secrest & Emery LLPThe Lennox FoundationM&T BankNixon Peabody LLPPAETEC Communications,

Inc.Rochester Area Community

Foundation- Castle Music Fund at RACF- The Gertrude Chanler

RPO Fund- Rufus K. Dryer II Fund- Anne McQuay Arts &

Cultural Fund II- Mabel Messinger Fund- John F. Wegman Fund

University of RochesterMedical Center

Unity HealthWendy’s Restaurants of

RochesterWoods Oviatt Gilman LLP

Sonata($5,000-$9,999)Anonymous (1)Canandaigua National Bank

& Trust

Corning IncorporatedAnn & Gordon Getty

FoundationGoldberg Berbeco FoundationHylan Enterprises IncMacy’s Morgan StanleyOrtho Clinical Diagnostics, a

Johnson & JohnsonCompany

Paychex, Inc.Thomson ReutersWan Jou Family FoundationMarie C. & Joseph C. Wilson

Foundation

Overture($3,000-$4,999)Badge Machine Products IncFidelity InvestmentsThe Louis S. & Molly B.

Wolk Foundation

Partner($1,000-$2,999)ALSTOM Signaling

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TrustBartholomew Health Care

GroupBonterra WinesBoylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor

& Wilson LLPBroadstone Real Estate LLCBrown & Brown, Inc.Caldwell Manufacturing Co.The Elizabeth F. Cheney

FoundationMary W. Clark Charitable

Lead TrustCMI Communications, Inc.Cornell/Weinstein Family

FoundationT.M. & M.W. Crandall

FoundationDPI Commercial PrintingFibertech NetworksFive Star BankFrontierJoseph & Anna Gartner

FoundationGenesee Valley Penny SaverGenesee Valley Trust CompanyHazlow Electronics, Inc.Hickey-Freeman Co., Inc.May K. Houck FoundationInsley McEntee Equipment

Company, Inc.

Interlakes Oncology &Hematology P.C.

Kovalsky-Carr Electric SupplyKPMG LLPMax of Eastman PlaceM/E Engineering P.C.Paychex, Inc.Gary & Nancy Penisten

Family FoundationRochester Gas & Electric Corp.Rochester HomebuildersRochester Midland CorporationRochester Philharmonic

LeagueRubens Family FoundationSentry GroupStar Headlight & Lantern Co.,

Inc.Ted Collins AssociatesTelecomp, Inc.Tri-Delta Resources Corp.UCB Manufacturing, Inc.

Associate($600-$999)Alleson of Rochester, Inc.Bonadio & Co.The Cabot GroupCanandaigua Dental HealthCity Blue PrintingDurwood Management, Inc.G-S Plastic Optics & Tel-Tru

Manufacturing CompanyHarris Beach, PLLCHigh Falls Brewing CompanyKetmar Development GroupLandfear & Brophy, Inc.Marsh Construction Services,

Inc.Morning MusicaleNew Horizon Band &

Orchestra Qualitrol Company, LLCRobert G. Relph AgencyStantec Consulting Services Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C.

Townson FoundationUniland Development Co.Xerographic Solutions

Supporter($300-$599)Anonymous (1)ABR WholesalersAnnese & Associates, Inc.Buell AutomaticsCooper/Haims Advisors, LLCChampion Moving & StorageDeCarolis Truck Rental, Inc.Eastman School of MusicErdman Anthony

Exele Information Systems, Inc.Finger Lakes Roofing Co., Inc.Hammer PackagingHunt Engineers, Architects &

Land SurveyersJava’sKarpus Investment

ManagementLandsman Development Corp.Leuze ElectronicsLiberty MutualMatthews & Fields Lumber Co.O’Connell Electric Co.Reimar Piano Tuning ServiceMr. & Mrs. Philip R. WegmanYoung Explosive Corp.

Gifts in KindAce Mailing Services, Inc.A Plus Window CleaningAlliance BarterAnthony Road Wine CompanyApplied AudioBill’s Carpet CenterBlue Cactus Mexican GrillBourbon Street ParadeBroccolo Tree & Lawn CareBruegger’s BakeriesBTU Parties Inc.Canfield &Tack, Inc.Casa Larga Vineyards & WineryClark Moving & Storage, Inc.Clear ChannelCrown ElectricCurrent ServiceDenton Cottier & DanielsDixon SchwablThe Doyle GroupEast Avenue Liquor & Wine

StoreElam MaterialsFeldman Heating & CoolingFour Seasons Spirits & Wine

CellarGeorgetown Discount LiquorsGoose Watch WineryHansen & Hill InteriorsJasmine’s Asian FusionJP Tovey Co.Kate Lee & No Strings

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University of RochesterCatering Services

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Matching GiftCompaniesCitigroup ExxonMobilGannett FoundationGleason FoundationHome DepotIBM Corporation

Illinois Tool WorksFoundation

Johnson & JohnsonJPMorganChaseMassMutual Financial GroupMerrill Lynch

New York TimesOppenheimerFunds Inc.PactivPfizerPrudentialVerizon

Looking for an Opportunity toPartner with the RPO? Corporate sponsorship opportunities currently areavailable for concerts, special events, and educationand community engagement programs.

Contact Sarah Goldstein Post at (585) 454-7311 x238for more information.

Maestro’s CircleThe Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the generous individuals who help us continue to enrich andinspire the community through the art of music. Please call 454-7311 x238 with questions or corrections.

Presto($25,000 & above)Nancy & Harry BeilfussLouise EpsteinAustin HildebrandtDr. Jacques & Mrs. Dawn LipsonMr. & Mrs. I.A. MorrisBetty StrasenburghPatricia Ward-BakerRobin & Michael Weintraub

Vivace($10,000-$24,999)Anonymous (2)Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. &

Steven HessCarol & John BennettChristopher & Gail BoothJim & Karen BoucherWilliam Eggers & Deborah

McLeanEd FiandachRonald & Donna FieldingCarolyn & Roger FriedlanderJay & Betsy FriedmanBarbara & Patrick FulfordMr. & Mrs. Ronald A. FurmanMr. & Mrs. Robert D. HurshAnn M. & Samuel R. HustonMr. & Mrs. Cameron JamesonMarie & Charlie KentonMRichard & Karen KnowlesJim & Marianne KollerMr. & Mrs. Wm. KonarMrs. Frank W. Lovejoy, Jr.Cricket & Frank LuellenCharles H. OwensMJohn & Paula PattisonFayga PressLarry & Elizabeth RiceMPaul & Anne Sartori

Katherine T. & Jon L.Schumacher

Josephine S. TrubekWilliam Watson & Suzanne

WelchKeith & Betsy WilsonEric I. Zeller

Allegro($5,000-$9,999)Anonymous (1)Mrs. Theodore J. AltierJames S. BadgerMr. & Mrs. Paul W. BriggsRichard F. BrushWilliam L. & Ruth P. CahnJune ClaseLouis & Allis D’AmandaJoan & Harold FeinbloomDr. & Mrs. Steven FeldonGail R. FlugelGerald W. & Mary M. GooleyWilliam B. HaleKaren Noble HansonDavid & Barrie HeiligmanKathleen Holt & Stephen LurieAllen J. MardorfMr. Lawrence MartlingHerb ReesSusan & Nathan RobfogelMrs. Frederick H. Schleber, Sr.Nancy & David SchraverFriederike & Joel SeligmanMark Siwiec & Duffy PalmerRuth & Frank SklarskyJules L. Smith &

Alexandra NorthropGlenna & Norman SpindelmanRichard & Gwen SternsFrank M. & Mary Lou StotzMrs. Richard L. Turner

Dr. Sidney & Linda S. Weinstein

Andante($2,500-$4,999)Anonymous (5)Allen & Joyce BoucherKristine & John BouyoucosChris & Tom BurnsJudith L. Byorick &

Gary J. SchulzeMr. & Mrs. Harlan D. CalkinsMr. & Mrs. Terrance CarneyBetsy & John CarverJoan & Paul CasterlineThomas ChaseMary Lu ClarkTim EldredJohn R. ErtleJeff & Alleen FraserRobert & Joanne GianninySuzanne GouvernetMr. & Mrs. Charles HallaganMr. & Mrs. William Z. HarperDr. Jack & Harriette HowittMr. & Mrs. Ernest J. IerardiMarcia KarchNorman & Judith KarstenDave & Mary Alice KendallHarold & Christine KurlandNancy & David LaneJoanne LangSherman Levey &

Deborah RonnenJane & Jim LittwitzDan & Kiki MaharWilliam P. McCarrickMr. & Mrs. James R. McMillenRichard & Mary Moglia-CannonJim & Ginny MorrisJohn & Annabel MuenterBernard & Molly Panner

David & Marjorie PerlmanWilliam & Barbara PulsiferDrs. Raman & Savita Qazi, M.D.Elise & Stephen RosenfeldJohn B. RumseyRichard & Vicki SchwartzMGloria A. SmithJanet B. SmithDr. & Mrs. Sidney H. SobelMSandra & Richard SteinRichard & Gwen SternsRobert C. StevensDavid & Grace StrongMrs. Schuyler TownsonJohn UrbanJean & Bill WeberDr. & Mrs. Tae B. WhangPatricia & Michael WilderDr. & Mrs. Burton D. WilsonLouise Woerner &

Don KollmorgenRobert A. Woodhouse

Adagio($1,000-$2,499)Anonymous (14)Robert E. & Carol G. AchillesMiriam H. AckleyBarbara & David AckroydJames T. & Jacqueline AdamsEdward & Joan AfterMarvin & Frederica AmsteyAllan & Polly AndersonChristian & Courtney AndreachEtta K. AtkinMDr. & Mrs. Edward C. AtwaterRuth & William Balderston IIIMr. & Mrs. Bruce B. BatesWilliam J. BeenhouwerMr. & Mrs. Richard G. BennettAlan & Bunny Bernstein

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Maestro’s Circle cont’d.Mr. & Mrs. Rodney BlumenauStuart & Betsy BobryAllen & Joyce BoucherRobert BradacsMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. BriggsDr. & Mrs. George G. BrowningLisa BrubakerJosh & Beth BrunerBarbara & John BruningJune BrushB. Edward CainAlan & Nancy CamerosMargaret CarnallMrs. Richard D. CastleMr. & Mrs. Ronald S. CastorTina ChandlerMr. & Mrs. Russell D. ChapmanKen & Janice ChengDr. & Mrs. William CheyHelen T. ClarkAnn & Don ClarkeLorraine W. ClarkePatricia ClearyJeanne ClidasSusan Cohn & Jonathan KleinDr. John & Carol R. CondemiMarj & Wiles ConverseWalter CooperJeff & Sue CraneJoyce CroftonMr. & Mrs. James V. D’AmicoJoseph & Judith DarweeshLinda Wells DaveyA.A. Davis 3rd.Horace R. DavisDr. William W. Destler &

Dr. Rebecca JohnsonHugo DiversMr. & Mrs. Kenneth K. DoolittleJanis Dowd & Daan ZwickMrs. Donn P. DrakeDr. Eric DreyfussMMs. Marilyn DrummDr. & Mrs. James DurfeeDavid P. & Margaret M. DurrIn memoriam for Anita B. Dushay

by Frederick Dushay, M.D.Mr. & Mrs. James C. EatonMr. & Mrs. Lester EberRichard & Virginia EisenhartDr. Steven & Susan EisingerMichele ElyMohsen Emami, M.D.George M. Ewing, Sr.Mr & Mrs. George M. Ewing, Jr.MDonald & Jean EygnorSamir & Sato FaridSherman & Anne FarnhamMJill Sutton FinanThomas & Janet FinkCharles FitzgibbonIlene & David FlaumJack & Vera FoggJames & Catharine FordJohn & Sandy FordIn Memory of Dr. & Mrs.

Charles R. Fordyce

John & Chris ForkenMr. & Mrs. Thomas ForsythMary Alice FournierMr. & Mrs. Richard C. FoxMrs. Richard FreemanAnn & Tim FulreaderMr. & Mrs. Daniel G. FultzMrs. Jerry Gambino in memory

of Jerry J. GambinoWilliam L. GambleDr. Richard & Josie GangemiMrs. Richard J. Garrett, Sr.Winston E. GaumCraig & Shirley GeorgeMr. & Mrs. Wesley P. GhyzelTom & Kelly GilmanMr. & Mrs. Donald GinsbergWarren & June GlaserPaul & Carol GoldbergJohn & Roslyn GoldmanRob W. GoodlingMarsha R. GottoviJeanne Gray in memory of

Robert C. GrayRussell GreenawaltHelen & George GreerEd & Terry GrissingBrigitte & Klaus GueldenpfennigDr. & Mrs. Robert J. HaggertyPeggy & David HallJoan & Alfred HallenbeckGeorge & Mary HamlinMary Lou HansonDon & Nancy HareAlan J. HarrisMarguerite Harris &

Lawrence KotowiczWarren & Joyce HeilbronnerCarole & Bob HendricksMBarbara & Dieter HentschelWalter B.D. Hickey, Jr.Tom & Nan HildebrandtDavid C. & Patricia M. HinkleArt & Barb HirstWilliam & Kathleen HoegerSusan HollidayJack & Nancy HollingsworthDr. Robert J. & Daryl C.

HolzhauerMary Jo & Jack HultzHerbert HumphreyMarjorie S. HumphreyMr. & Mrs. Robert H. HurlbutBob & Elaine JacobsenDouglas Jones & Rosemary UtzDr. Ralph F. JozefowiczDaryl & Charles KaplanGary & Maryel KelloggLeo & Cynthia KesselringBob & Connie KleinMyrta & Robert KnoxMr. & Mrs. William KochKaren S. KralMarcy & Ray Kraus in loving

memory of Charlotte KrausBarbara & Jack Kraushaar

Drs. Richard Kreipe & Mary Sue Jack

Werner & Susan KunzJim Kurtz & Janet KellnerRonald Kwasman, D.D.S.Lane Family FundJohn & Alice LeddyNorman & Arlene LeenhoutsGay & Don LenhardJames & Kathleen M. LeoDr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Leone, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Hobart A. LernerT.C. & Pam LewisJohn & Dolores LoftusArthur E. LowenthalHarold D. LowryMrs. William P. ManrySaul & Susan MarshMrs. Bruce P. MarshallFrances & Robert MarxCarol A. McFetridgePamela McGreevyBruce & Eleanor McLearMarion & Ed MenchPete & Sally MerrillDr. & Mrs. Edward MessingDaniel M. MeyersDeanne MolinariMary & Don MonefeldtDr. & Mrs. James E. MoonPaul & Helga MorganThomas W. MorrisRuth I. MortonMr. & Mrs. Edward MullenMrs. Edward T. MulliganJules & Susan MusingerCharles & Rita MyersMr. & Mrs. Philip NeivertEleanor & Raymond Newell, Jr.Sara & David NiemeyerKathy & Ted NixonDrs. Avice O’Connell &

Timothy O’ConnorMrs. Betty L. PaddockDr. Paul PagereyEric & Jennifer PaleyDr. & Mrs. Kishan J. PandyaPatricia & Philip ParrClifford & June PartonDavid & Virginia PixleyBrock & Sandra PowellSue PowellMrs. Frederick I. PriceKatherine & John PurcellSusan A. RaubDr. & Mrs. Vincent F. RealeMr. & Mrs. Thomas S. RichardsRay & Judy RickerMr. & Mrs. Frank J. RiedmanMary RobDaniel & Nancy RobbinsDr. Suzanne H. RodgersMrs. Stanley M. RogoffMrs. David RomigMrs. Haskell RosenbergNellie J. RosenbergDrs. Carl & OJ Sahler

Ron & Sharon SalluzzoDrs. Eva & Jude SauerWilliam & Barbara SaundersPeggy SavlovJames ScanzaroliMr. & Mrs. Richard SchenkelPeter Schott &

Mary Jane TasciottiMrs. Frederick SchwertzAnthony & Gloria SciolinoTom & Ann SelgasGretchen ShaferJan & Sid ShapiroWayne & Sonja SheltonMary E. ShermanAlice & Ken SliningPatricia SouthcombeDavid & Susan SpectorIngrid Stanlis & Paul DonnellyMDaniel & Susan StareAnn H. Stevens &

William J. ShattuckForrest & Edith StromeMark & Kathleen SuherMrs. Frank V. SummersJohn & Barbara SzulgitChris Thomas &

Catherine CerulliMiriam ThomasDr. & Mrs. Mark TornatoreStephen & Shirley TownsendDr. & Mrs. Eugene P. ToyMarcia & David TrauernichtMr. & Mrs. Arthur G. TweetDorothy & Marshall TylerJeff & Jill TyzikGeorge & Krestie UtechMrs. Marjorie Van DemarkAnn & Robert Van NielBill & Jean Vincent-RappThomas R. Wahl, Jr.Harry & Ruth WalkerJohn & Elizabeth WallaceMSkip & Karen WarrenJoseph Werner & Diane SmithMrs. Frederick C. WhiteMrs. Kay R. WhitmorePuck & Claes WinqvistKitty & Sergeant WiseDr. Robert WolfMrs. Jessie P. WoodwardMCorporate Matching Gift

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Advocate ($700-$999)Anonymous (5)Armondo & Leita AcostaMr. & Mrs. Mehdi N. AraghiDavid BassettJohn & Ellen BeckMiss Anne BellHays & Karen BellDavid M. Berg & Dawn K. ReidyDr. & Mrs. Robert F. BettsDr. John BickmoreJeff & Kathy BowenClaire M. BrownPhilip & Jeanne CarlivatiMr. & Mrs. George A. CefaluDorothy G. CentnerWilliam T. ChandlerAbby & Mark ChodoffMary Ellen ClarkSarah H. CollinsMChristine ColucciMr. & Mrs. Dennis M. DeleoJacques & Monique DelettrezDon & Jean DelwicheMichael & Anne deStefanoWendell & Mary DischerCharles R. DispenzaMMr. & Mrs. Richard J. EganMr. & Mrs. James T. EnglertGerald G. EstesJulia B. EverittRuth & Matson EwellTrevor & Elizabeth EwellMrs. Walter FallonDonald & Elizabeth FisherMr. & Mrs. Lee J. FleckensteinRichard & Suressa ForbesDr. & Mrs. Elmar FrangenbergHenry & Isabel GadjoPeter & Nancy GaessJerry J. Gambino, Jr.Holly & Tom GarverDr. & Mrs. David GentilePatty & Dick GeorgeEssie & Irving GermanowDr. & Mrs. Charles J. GibsonDr. & Mrs. Marvin N. GoldsteinDane & Judy GordonDr. & Mrs William GrammarBarbara J. GraniteJames & Dorothy GreenAlan & Julie GriesingerMarilyn & Dick HareLouise B. HarrisMr. & Mrs. H. Lawrence HelferDr. & Mrs. Raul HerreraRosanne & Sam HodgettsGwendolyn & David L. HoffbergCarol E. HopkinsRonna L. HudsonMr. & Mrs. Jerome L. HuffGwyneth HuntingEarl & Mary IngersollMr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Iwan

Ronald & Martha JodoinPatricia C. JohnsonMiles & Silvija JonesMr. & Mrs. Bruce M. KennedyMark & Kathy KeoghWendy Keyes-TurnbullMr. & Mrs. Robert T. KimbroughMarilyn & David KlassMarcella Klein & Richard SchaefferDr. Paul La CelleDebby & Elliott LandsmanHal & Nikki LangworthyWerner & Sandra LemkeMarion & Lawrence LewinMr. & Mrs. James A. Locke IIIEdith M. LordSwaminathan & Janice MadhuJoseph J. ManciniSandra McDonaldMelissa McGrain & Andrew SternRichard McGrathKathleen McNamaraRobert J. & Marcia Wishengrad

MetzgerKen & Nancy MihalyovDuane & Ida MillerMargaret-Anne MilneJonathan Mink & Janet CranshawIlene MontanaMrs. William B. MorseElizabeth Neureiter-SeelyDr. & Mrs. David C. O’BrienRobert & Penelope PetersonWilliam & Elizabeth PowellMargaret QuackenbushRuth L. RappeneneckerDr. & Mrs. Ronald Reed, M.D.G.W. RichterMr. & Mrs. Richard M.

RosenbaumDr. Frank & Elizabeth SalamoneCatherine & Richard SeegerMr. & Mrs. Eugene P. SeymourRobert & Nancy ShewanMr. & Mrs. Michael O. ShipleyDaniel & Sarah SingalCarl & Kate SmeenkCarol Snook in Memory of

Richard SnookMelissa S. StifflerDr. Robert & Sally Jo StookeyMMr. & Mrs. Michael SundbergFrank & Rose SwiskeyHenry & Ellen ThiedeMimi & Sam TiltonCatherine UsandivarasScott & Sharon Clark ValetMrs. Robert van der StrichtVic VinkeyDr. Laura von DoenhoffMr. & Mrs. Charles E. WasleyMr. & Mrs. Herbert WatkinsStephen R. WebbAnn Weitzel

Dr. Lucy M. WhiteDale & Lorraine WhittingtonMDelphine & John WiseElise & Joseph WojciechowskiCharlotte C. WrightRobert ZackMr. & Mrs. Ted Zornow

Benefactor ($375-$699)Carol & John AldridgeDr. Norman AllentoffFrank AloiMaureen T. AlstonPeter & Jane AndersonProfessor & Mrs. William A.

AndrewsMr. & Mrs. F. L. Angevine, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. George M. AngleAllegra AngusDave & Jan AngusDavid & Elaine AnselmDr. & Mrs. E. David AppelbaumBetsy & Gerald ArchibaldJohn & Jeanne ArthurDean & Joan ArvanMrs. Edwin H. Atwood IIINancy Atwood-Stone &

Kevin StoneReuben Auspitz & Dawn GoodelkMarion P. AveryStephen AveryJean Boynton BakerMr. & Mrs. Thomas BaltaDr. Betsy Ann BalzanoEdmund & Maria-Elena BanghartBarbara BansbachMaureen BaranDr. & Mrs. Donald BarrettJ. Dolf & Edie BassRichard & Valerie BaumLeonard BayerMr. & Mrs. Michael BeecheyDoug & Judy BeersDavid BellFrancis H. BenhamDr. & Mrs. Paul BernsteinDr. & Mrs. Donald BishopMr. & Mrs. Warren BishopMary BodensteinerDon & Peggy BolgerAgneta M. Borgstedt, M.D.Mrs. Richard H. BowenBetty BowmanJudith BoydMr. & Mrs. Mark M. BradleyDr. & Mrs. Albert BraultMr. & Mrs. James T. BriggsPeter W. BriggsMr. & Mrs. Keith BrillMark & Susan BrodaMrs. George H. BrownLeroy W. BrownSusan Brown & Terence ChrzanLynn E. Browne

Doug & Chris BrushBill & Anne BuckinghamJosephine BuckleyEileen BuholtzVytautus BurkunusDavid J. & Margaret M. BurnsDarlene & John ButlerEric & Lee CaineKatherine CalkinsRobert & Kathleen CampbellJane A. CapellupoNorris & Betty CarlsonMary CarltonJohn & Diane CaselliDiane & Roger CassJ. Andrew & Erin CassanoWilliam & Musette CastleW.V. Castle, Jr.Robert & Susan Chapman in

memory of Lucille GigliaLinda Negus & John ChassePeggy & Don CherrMarilyn ChristopherVictor Ciaraldi & Kathy MarchaesiJohn CiaricoAlyce & Rollo ClarkGloria & Pincus CohenMary Ellen CollingeTom & Michelle ConnersDorothy ConnorsMrs. Maurice J. CornellBarry R. CorwinWilliam CostelloRich & Sue CringoliPatricia M. CrippenMr. & Mrs. Henry G. CurmeMrs. William Cuthbert, Jr.Roy Czernikowski &

Karin DunniganCarolyn & Bill DanielsMSamuel B., Jr. & Marlene DattiloDr. & Mrs. Claude L. DavidJerry & Myrna DavidsonDr. & Mrs. Daniel C. DaviesMr. & Mrs. Terrence DavinDr. & Mrs. H. George Decancq,

Jr.Ken & Jean DeHavenBonnie & Duane DeHollanderJanis DeMay-ConnorDr. Elise DePappJoseph & Marie DeRitisJosephine DeweyMr. & Mrs. Michael DewoodyNancy & Sreeram DhurjatyJane DieckRuth DiederingDonald & Stephanie DoeEdward DoernerWarren DoerrerGail & Douglas DoonanMr. & Mrs. M. DoromalMr. & Mrs. Robert J. DouglasDiane Drumm

New this season: Both Benefactor ($375+) and Advocate ($700+) donors will be recognized in all issues of Bravo! Please call RPO Development at 454-7311 x238 with questions or corrections.

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Philharmonic Friends cont’d.Jane T. DuerrMrs. C.M. DurlandLois & Ronald DworskyDr. Margaret V. EkstromCarol & Tom ElliottLarry & Peggy ElliottHolly ElwellMarcia L. ElwittMr. & Mrs. Henry A. EmmansCraig EppersonMr. & Mrs. Erdal ErturkEleanor R. EvansCathy EwingUdo Fehn & Christine LongMarilyn FeldmanMr. & Mrs. Sammy FeldmanClara S. FirthMary V. FisherMarie FollettEugene FontanaMr. & Mrs. Benn ForsythCortlandt F. Fowler, Sr.Dr. & Mrs. Henry P. FrenchBob & Irene FrostMarjorie & James FulmerJohn & Miriam GanzeMr. & Mrs. David GardnerLee & Sharon GarelickConnie Gates & Jenny LloydCarl & Nancy GerardWalter & Patsy GilgesRobert & Marie GintherAndrea S. GiuffreeAndrew GlasgowCoral T. GlassmanElizabeth GordonMr. & Mrs. Julian M. GordonSusan & Stanley GordonJean GostomskiRobert & Jeanne GraceJanet & Roger GramKen & Laurel GrantMr. & Mrs. William Grason, Jr.Pat GrayBarbara Jean Gray-GottorffKarl GreenhagleMichael & Joanna GrosodoniaMr. & Mrs. James P. Growney, Sr.Dr. & Mrs. Harold F. Grunert, Jr.Ann L. HaagJames C. HaefnerCarol Sue HaiCharles & Carolyn HainesHelen E. HalliganMrs. Laura J. HameisterPat & Joe HammeleMartin & Sherrie HandelmanJoan Holub HandfieldPat & Joe HammeleAnn & Ed HanleyMrs. Alexander D. HargraveMark & Barbara HargraveRobert T. & Mary Ann HargraveMrs. Emily V. HarrisMrs. Horace HartMr. & Mrs. Joseph J. HartmanStanley & Rosemarie Hattman

Art & Pam HattonDr. Allyson Haymes &

Mr. Robert Vit & familyMr. & Mrs. John S. HaywardBarbara & Warren HeiligmanMrs. Robert A. HeinleSarah & Peter HelmersMs. Judith HensleyBill & Betty HerbertCorinne HickeyDr. & Mrs. Theodore HirokawaCarol & Michael HirshDr. & Mrs. Christopher HodgmanJohn & Ginny HoenigJohn & Barbara HolderSheila & Josh HollanderMr. & Mrs. Thomas HoltzMr. & Mrs. John B. HoodAl & Peela HookeDr. & Mrs. Robert HornNorman HortonMrs. Samter HorwitzJackie & Rick HowittDrs. Geza & Minou HrazdinaDr. Kelly R. HuiattH. Larry & Dorothy HummJames R. Humphrey, Sr.Richard & Joyce HumphreysMr. & Mrs. Christopher J. HussonJoan IrvingFrank & Barbara JablonskiMary Kay & Charles JacksonBruce JacobsStephen & Leslie JacobsMr. & Mrs. Gerald JenkinsMr. & Mrs. Robert E. JohnMr. & Mrs. Byron JohnsonDr. & Mrs. H. Douglas JonesDr. J. Elmore JonesDr. & Mrs. Robert H. JonesJohn & Carole JoyceJack & Anne KampmeierRobert J. KennedyMr. & Mrs. Alvie KiddLincoln KinnicuttJack & CB KinsellaCarolyn KitchenBrunhilde KnappGlenn & Nancy KochMark & Mona Friedman KolkoMr. & Mrs. Mordecai KolkoBrenda E. KoomanDr. & Mrs. Jacob KriegerSalvatore & Sandra LaBellaJane LabrumMr. & Mrs. Robert J. LambrixDr. & Mrs. Leo R. LandhuisSally & Lou LangieMrs. Robert F. LargeDiana LauriaAllan R. LawJoyce LawrenceMr. & Mrs. Alfred LawsonDonna Lechleiter-ThompsonEdith M. LehrMrs. John R. LeinenHelen Lenhard

Doris & Austin LeveMyron D. Lewis, Jr.Sue & Michael LococoDr. Erwin Loewen &

Anita RosenfeldBarbara & Paul G. LofgrenBetty LohrDr. & Mrs. Norman R. LoomisMr. & Mrs. John LooneySandra LovellDoris & George LuckeyGeraldine LynchEdward J. & Kathleen L. LyndSandra MaceykaNancy & Jim MacWhinneyChuck & Elaine MaginnessEmma L. MaherH. Edwin Maier &

Barbara Ann MattleAngela MambroRalph Manchester &

Cynthia ChristySandy & Jack ManiloffKathryn MarkakisJeffrey & Laura MarkwickCharlotte MarshBernie MartinezStephen MatkowskyDr. & Mrs. Paul MaurerMr. & Mrs. William C. MayerMary Lou MaynardC. Thomas & Emily McCallStuart & Mary Soons McCartyStan & Janis McCormackGilbert Kennedy McCurdyJames & Rita McHaleTerrance McInteeDr. & Mrs. Neal McNabbKatharine & James McNallyMargaret & Bob MecredyCarl Mecendetti & Valerie MareshLorraine & Sy MerrallMargaret MiddletonEmmett & Mary E. MillerHinda & Michael MillerOnnalie & Daniel MillerTom & Nancy MillerDr. & Mrs. William L. MorganDarryl Mounts &

Susan Wilke-MountsNeil & Valerie MurphyRuth & Gary MyersFlora T. NelsonMildred G. NessNancy & Richard NewtonW. Robert NolanMr. & Mrs. George J. NovakLarry & Betsy NovyJennie & Jim OberholtzerPeter J. ObournJohn & Patricia O’BrienSuzanne J. O’BrienSusan & Thomas E. O’BrienW. Smith & Jean O’BrienRobert & Betty OppenheimerRita B. OtterbeinDavid E. Owens

Dr. & Mrs. Leon PacalaMyrna & Gary PaigeDavid & Monica PanipintoRobert R. PerryMr. & Mrs. Kirkwood PersoniusPaul & Tamara PetersenJoyce & Victor PoleshuckJoyce R. PollackDr. & Mrs. Lee D. PollanVera PowleyDr. Jack PresbergMary Jane ProschelBill & Beverly PullisBarry & Jean RabsonRichard & Susan ReedDr. & Mrs. Paul ReevesStan & Anne RefermatJames & Barbara RenoCharles RevealBob & Shirley RheinwaldMr. & Mrs. Donn P. RiceDavid RichardsSandra & Eugene RileyDr. & Mrs. Gordon N. RobinsonFr. Michael R. RockMrs. James A. Rockwell in

Memory of Rev. James A.Rockwell

Lawrence & Virginia RockwellMargaret M. RogersDr. Gerald & Maxine RosenDick & Bea RosenbloomThomas & Elizabeth RossBeatrice & Paul RoxinMr. & Mrs. Philip RubensteinTom & Ellen RuslingHon. & Mrs. Franklin T. RussellDr. & Mrs. Robert M. SantoEd & Gabriel SapharCarl & Barbara SassanoSusan Scanlon &

Croft K. HangartnerMrs. Thomas A. SchaumanRuth C. SchnabelDavid & Antonia SchantzDavid & Naomi SchrierJoan M. SchumakerSteven M. SchwabGeorge J. Schwartz, M.D.Elaine & Peter SchwarzJoan & Arthur SegalIrene ShafferMr. & Mrs. Thomas P. SheaJim & Betsy SheplerElbis A. Shoales, M.D.Dean & Marjorie ShollMyron S. Silver & Rivka ChatmanNaomi SilverMSimi & Leonard SingerNancy A. SkeltonElizabeth SkerrittDavid & Elizabeth SmithGeorge Smith & Diane AhlmanRobert & Norman SnyderWilliam H. Spelman &

Cynthia WoolbrightCharles H. Spiers

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The George Eastman Legacy Society honors all those who remember the RPO through abequest or other planned gift. Please let us know if you have included the Orchestra in yourwill or other estate plans by calling the RPO Development Department at 454-7311 x249.

Anonymous (1)Nancy & Harry BeilfussCarol & John BennettEllen S. BevanStuart & Betsy BobryWilliam & Ruth CahnMargaret J. CarnallJoan & Paul CasterlineDr. & Mrs. John J. CondemiAlfred L. DavisJanis Dowd & Daan ZwickJoan & Harold FeinbloomDonald & Elizabeth Fisher

Suressa & Richard H. ForbesCatherine & Elmar

FrangenbergCarolyn & Roger FriedlanderJay & Betsy FriedmanKaryl P. FriedmanWilliam L. GambleGerald W. & Mary M. GooleyBarbara Jean Gray-GottorffHelen & George GreerH. Larry &

Dorothy C. HummMr. & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh

Jim & Marianne KollerDawn & Jacques Lipson, M.D.Sue & Michael LococoCricket LuellenMr. & Mrs. Daniel MaharPete & Sally MerrillRobert J. & Marcia

Wishengrad MetzgerElizabeth O. MillerSuzanne F. PowellDr. Suzanne H. RodgersWallace R. RustPeggy W. Savlov

David G. & Antonia T. Schantz

Jon L. & Katherine T.Schumacher

Gretchen ShaferElbis A. Shoales, M.D.Ingrid Stanlis & Paul DonnellyBetty StrasenburghIvan L. TownAnn & Robert Van NielJean Vincent-RappFred M. WechslerPatricia Wilder

Thank you for tonight’sperformance!Every year, more than 6,500 people donate to the RPO—helping us achieve great success! Simply put, you help make the music come alive.

When you give an annual gift of more than $75, you’llreceive free tickets, invitations to our exclusive RPO to theMax series, and 20% discounts on upcoming performances.

Please give today and help make the music happen. Call Sarah Goldstein Post at (585) 454-7311 x238, ordonate online at www.rpo.org. Thank you!

IN MEMORY OF . . .

Anne GitlinEleanor Gitlin Lange

Earl KageEleanor Gitlin Lange

Ory PrangerEleanor Gitlin Lange

Lenore ShapiroRudy & Gene Salesin

N HONOR OF . . .

Mr. & Mrs. Carl BuchmanRudy & Gene Salesin

Nicole Cabell’s spectacularperformance in The PearlFishers

Dr. Gary J. Friend & Lois Wolff-Friend

Muriel, Elizabeth & LindsaySteinberg

Rudy & Gene Salesin

Suzanne WelchMr. & Mrs. William Rubley

Bravo TributesTribute gifts are a meaningful way to remember loved ones orcommemorate special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries,weddings, births, or graduations. If you would like to make amemorial or honorarium gift, please contact the RPODevelopment Department at 454-7311 x238.

Mr. & Mrs. Karl SpeitelMr. & Mrs. Raymond C. StarkWin SteeleArthur & Catherine SteffenMr. & Mrs. Frederick StehlerRobert SterrettMary & Robert StevensonMax T. StonerDr. & Mrs. Alexander StrasserMargaret A. StriteGary M. SweetRobert & Catherine SykesDr. Hechmat & Marjorie

TabechianDaniel TackMichael & Laurel Ann TarcinaleMr. Paul TascaKatherine S. TaylorJonathan G. Terry

Mrs. Otto F. ThalerKrishna & Joanna ThiagarajanJ. Russell & Kathleen ThomasRobert E. TitusMr. & Mrs. Joseph N. TomlinsonDr. & Mrs. Frederick TonettiCelia & Doug ToppingDonald & Donna TraverJohn & Betty TravisWilliam J. TribelhornMr. & Mrs. Perry R. Trout, Jr.J. Michael & Sally TurnerJohn & Janet TylerEugene & Gloria UlterinoMrs. Clay D. VallandinghamCharles & Susan Van BurenWayne & Anne VanderbylGary & Marie VanGraafeilandBruce & Lauri Van Hise

Betsy Van HornJohn Van LareJim Van Meter & Marlene PiscitelliLorraine Van Meter-Cline &

Doug ClineMargaret VanasSamantha VitaglianoTackla E. VoigtBonnie & Ted Voll, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. William VonDohlenRichard & Brenda VuillequezPhilip WaclawskiHon. & Mrs. Robert H. WagnerAnn L. WalkerDr. Stuart & Kathleen WaxMMr. & Mrs. D. John WeaverDr. & Mrs. Pierce WebbWilliam B. WebberStephen C. WeberMrs. John Wehle, Jr.John & Kathryn WeiderDavid WelkerCharles L. WernerRichard & Nancy WernerRichard & Shirley WersingerDouglas WetzelMr. & Mrs. Stanley W. Widger, Jr.

Peggy WierJohn WilcoxSally D. WilkensHenry Williams &

Barbara DimmickMr. & Mrs. Robert N. WilliamsMrs. Gerald G. WilmotLeonore & Lee WiltseJohn & Laurie WitmeyerLois Wolff-FriendGrace WongDoris Wright & Gerald GlaserTrude & Kevin WrightGeorge & Caroline WuPaul & Susan WuestEileen M. WurzerLaura & Joel YellinMarsha YoungThomas & Deborah YoungWilliam & Anne YoungBeverly ZaffinoMr. & Mrs. William ZaretskyNancy & Mark ZawackiBernie & Virginia ZeifangKaren & Sy ZivanMCorporate Matching Gift

Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Friday, January 9, 2009, at 8:00 pm Michael Krajewski, guest conductorSaturday, January 10, 2009, at 8:00 pmEastman Theatre2008-2009 Season • Program No. 4

THE WEGMANS

POP SERIES

Cirque de la SymphonieRimsky-Korsakov “Dance of the Tumblers” from The Snow Maiden

Saint-Saëns Danse MacabreShana Lord, aerial rope artist

Bizet “Les Toréadors” from CarmenAlexander Streltsov, cube artist

Bizet “Habeñera” from CarmenBizet “Danse Bohème” from Carmen

Vladimir Tsarkov, juggler

Khachaturian “Valse” from MasqueradeElena Tsarkova, contortionist

Saint-Säens “Bacchanale” from Samson and DelilahAloysia Gavre, aerial hoop artist

______________________________________________________________________________________Intermission______________________________________________________________________________________

Dvorvák Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 7Vladimir Tsarkov, jugglerElena Tsarkova, ribbon dancer

Wendel Under The Big Top

Waxman “The Ride of the Cossacks” from Taras BulbaLarissa Sherman, hoop artist

John Williams “Across the Stars” from Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of the ClonesAlexander Streltsov, aerial silks artist

Ravel BoléroJarek and Darek, strongmen

Sponsored by Mrs. Dawn & Dr. Jacques Lipson. Additional support from 98.9 The Buzz.

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Known for hisentertaining programsand wry sense ofhumor, MichaelKrajewski is a highlysought-after conductorof symphonic popsconcerts. He is thePrincipal PopsConductor of the New

Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra and thesymphonies of Houston and Jacksonville. Formany years, he was the Principal PopsConductor of the Long Beach Symphony, andbefore that, the New Mexico Symphony. Hefrequently takes the stage as a guest conductorwith the Atlanta Symphony.

Very popular with audiences, Mr. Krajewski hasperformed as guest conductor with orchestrasacross the country—from the Boston Pops tothe Hollywood Bowl, and many in between.His Canadian conducting credits includeOttawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra andthe Edmonton and Winnipeg symphonies. Hehas performed with the Hong KongPhilharmonic and has led the Ulster Orchestrain concerts in Belfast and Dublin.

Mr. Krajewski has collaborated with an eclecticgroup of musicians including flutist JamesGalway, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, pianistAlicia de Larrocha, and guitarist Angel Romero.Among the pop artists he has worked with areRoberta Flack, Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel,Doc Severinsen, Al Hirt, Cab Calloway, theKingston Trio, Ben E. King, Mary Wilson, PattiAustin, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, theCanadian Brass, Pink Martini, and Big BadVoodoo Daddy.

Mr. Krajewski holds degrees from Wayne StateUniversity and the University of CincinnatiCollege-Conservatory of Music. He was aDorati Fellowship Conductor with the DetroitSymphony, and later became its assistantconductor.

Michael Krajewski, conductor

Cirque de la Symphonie is a new productionformed to bring the magic of cirque to themusic hall and showcasing many of the bestcirque artists in the world.

Alexander Streltsov is a Russian aerial artistwho, at age 12, started working with futureCirque du Soleil choreographer Pavel Brun andfamed producer Valentin Gneushev, performingon Broadway at the Gershwin Theater.

The dynamic and exciting balancing act Jarekand Darek consists of Jaroslaw Marciniak andDariusz Wronski, former Polish national hand-balancing champions.

Vladimir Tsarkov provides a spellbindingperformance with combinations of mime andjuggling feats.

Aloysia Gavre is another incredible aerialperformer from the École National de Cirque,Montréal, with early training from Master Lu-Yi and the Pickle Family Circus School.

Elena Tsarkova, the “Lady in White,” is agraduate of the famed Moscow Circus Schooland first-place winner of the prestigiousNational Russian Circus Festival.

Larissa Sherman graduated from the CircusSchool of Ukraine, specializing in the art ofacrobatics with hoops.

Shana Lord is an accomplished performer withaerial silks, hammock, bungees, Chinese poles,duo trapeze, and her self-designed aerial web act.

Cirque de la Symphonie

THE EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY AND BAUSCH & LOMB

PHILHARMONICS SERIES

Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 8:00 pm Jahja Ling, guest conductorSaturday, January 24, 2009, at 8:00 pm Rebecca Gilbert, fluteEastman Theatre The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair2008-2009 Season • Program No. 5

Modest Mussorgsky (Orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)Prelude to Khovanshchina 5:00

Carl NielsenConcerto for Flute and Orchestra 20:00

I. Allegro moderatoII. Allegretto

Rebecca Gilbert, flute______________________________________________________________________________________Intermission______________________________________________________________________________________

Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 46:00

I. ModeratoII. Allegretto

III. LargoIV. Allegro non troppo

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Jahja Ling’sdistinguished career asan internationallyrenowned conductorhas earned him anexceptional reputationfor musical integrity,intensity, andexpressivity. He hasconducted all the major

orchestras in the United States as well as theprominent orchestras of Europe and Asia. Mr.Ling is in his fifth season as music director ofthe San Diego Symphony.

Acclaimed for his interpretation of the standardrepertoire, and recognized for the breadth ofcontemporary music in his programs, Mr. Lingcelebrates his 25th anniversary this season withThe Cleveland Orchestra. As associateconductor in the 1984-85 season, and thenresident conductor for the next 17 years, heconducted the Orchestra in more than 450concerts. He continues to appear as guestconductor every season.

Recent and upcoming guest engagementsinclude the orchestras of Baltimore, Boston,Cleveland, Honolulu, Houston, Phoenix,Pittsburgh, San Antonio, and Utah; theChamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; and theAspen Music Festival. Abroad, he will conductthe Royal Philharmonic in London, the ChinaPhilharmonic, The Hong Kong Philharmonic,Taiwan National Symphony, and thesymphonies of Singapore, Macao, andGuangzhou.

Mr. Ling has recorded a broad range of workson the Telarc, Azica Records, and Continuumlabels. The New York Philharmonic’s AmericanCelebrations collection includes his world-premiere performance of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’sThird Symphony.

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese descentand now an American citizen, Jahja Ling holdsa master’s degree in piano performance fromThe Juilliard School, and a doctorate from YaleUniversity School of Music.

Jahja Ling, conductor

Since joining theRochester PhilharmonicOrchestra as PrincipalFlute in September1996, Rebecca Gilberthas illuminated theRPO’s classical and popsperformances with herexpressive and versatileplaying. Rebecca also

has performed as Acting Principal Flute of theSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra and GuestAssistant Principal Flute with the BostonSymphony at Tanglewood. She is a regularlyfeatured soloist with the Rochester PhilharmonicOrchestra and has performed concertos withthe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and theCharleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra.

Rebecca appeared as Visiting Artist in Residenceat the Jeanne Baxtresser International FluteMasterclass at The Juilliard School, and hasgiven masterclasses in orchestral flute playingacross the United States. Her interest in thesimilarities between orchestral playing andchamber music playing was the subject of aprogram entitled “The Chamber Music ofOrchestral Teamwork” that she presented withthe RPO flute section for the National FluteAssociation.

Rebecca has served as Lecturer in FlutePerformance at Ithaca College and has served asVice President and Program Coordinator of theRochester Flute Association. She maintains anactive teaching schedule with her private flutestudio and as coach/mentor with the RochesterPhilharmonic Youth Orchestra.

A Wisconsin native, Rebecca began playing theflute at age nine. She earned a master’s degree inmusic from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and attended the CentreInternational de Formation Musicale in Nice,France. A novice triathlete, her hobbies includewalking her dog, reading, and yoga. And shemakes one mean cheesecake!

Rebecca Gilbert, f luteThe Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair

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Program Notes Mussorgsky, Nielsen, Shostakovich

A Note from the Music Director

We are very pleased to welcome back Jahja Lingas our guest conductor this week. Jahja made avery successful visit to Rochester five seasonsago, and we look forward to his concerts thisweek. He begins with a very atmospheric piece,the Overture to Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky,much of which depicts dawn. In fact, this wassymbolic of the new “dawn” heralded by thereign of Peter the Great, the first of the“enlightened despots,” in whose time the storyof Khovanshchina takes place.

Then our principal flutist, Rebecca Gilbert, takescenter stage to play Nielsen’s Flute Concerto. Itis always good to see one of our wonderfulprincipal players shine as a soloist. Thisconcerto opens with a highly dramatic gesturefrom the Orchestra, contrasting with the gentlercharacter of the flute. In fact, this contrastremains a feature of the piece as a whole.

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is one of thegreat masterpieces of the 20th Century. Frombar 1, there is no doubt that the composermeans business! The opening is both heroic andtragic, and much of the piece reflects this mood,particularly the beautiful third movement. Thesecond movement (scherzo) has the biting witfor which the composer is known. The apparentjoy of the finale’s close is also tinged withsarcasm, like somebody being forced to smileon pain of death. Stalin, of course, ruled Russiaat the time, and Shostakovich (like other artists,writers, and musicians) lived in fear of his life.So be prepared for a powerful experience!

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Overture to KhovanshchinaModest Mussorgskyb. Karevo, Russia / March 21, 1839d. St. Petersburg, Russia / March 28, 1881arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on November 9,1933; Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor.

During the 1870s, Mussorgsky composednumerous sketches for what he called a “musicdrama of the people,” Khovanshchina (TheKhovansky Plot). Left incomplete at his death, itwas edited, completed and orchestrated by hisfriend, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto,based on Russian history of the late 17thcentury, tells of the struggle waged by variouspolitical and religious factions over the country’sdestiny. In the Introduction, subtitled Dawn onthe Moskva River, the first rays of the winter sunstrike the golden domes of the Kremlin at amoment that witnesses not only the break of anew day, but the dawn of the reforms, shortly

to be instigated by Tsar Peter the Great, thatwill change Russia forever. A melancholy themewith a distinctively Russian profile is heard;cocks crow to announce the dawn; Moscow’scathedral bells ring out in somber fashion tosummon the faithful to morning prayers.

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Flute ConcertoCarl Nielsenb. Sortelung, Denmark / June 9, 1865d. Copenhagen, Denmark / October 3, 1931____________________________________

First performance by the RPO.

Unlike his contemporary and fellowScandinavian, Jean Sibelius, Nielsen did notmake a major international impact during hislifetime. Until the last 50 years, his music washardly known outside his homeland. Thanks torecordings and a dedicated group of performers,his bold, life-enhancing compositions havegradually been reaching the audiences theydeserve. After completing his education, heembarked upon a career which saw him, at

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various times, as a violinist in the orchestra ofthe Royal Danish Opera, a conductor, and adistinguished academic. All the while, he devoteda significant part of his time to composing. Hiscatalogue of works came to include six remarkablesymphonies, three concertos, numerouschamber and solo works, pieces for chorus, andincidental music for stage productions.

He developed a high regard for the members ofthe Copenhagen Wind Quintet. This led to hiswriting a piece for them in 1922. He was sopleased with their performances that hepromised to write a solo concerto for eachplayer. His plan, alas, proceeded only so far asconcertos for flute and clarinet.

He composed the Flute Concerto in Italyduring the summer of 1926. It was premieredby its dedicatee, Holger Gilbert Jespersen, at anall-Nielsen concert in Paris. “This evening’sconcert was one of the great experiences of mylife,” the composer wrote. “The famousConservatoire Orchestra played magnificently.(The conductor) started the rehearsals in asomewhat cool manner but by the end wasglowingly enthusiastic! The cream of musicallife was in attendance; Roussel and Honeggerand many German conductors paid theirrespects and the two composers mentionedspoke most highly of me.” Shortly thereafter,Nielsen wrote a new conclusion for theConcerto, and it is this revised version that hasbeen the standard edition ever since.

“The flute cannot deny its own nature,” hewrote. “Its home is in Arcadia and it preferspastoral moods. Hence the composer has toobey its gentle nature, unless he wants to bebranded a barbarian.” Mindful of its personalityand sound, in this Concerto he supports it witha chamber-sized orchestra.

There are two movements. The first opens inabrupt, dramatic fashion, but this atmosphere isquickly dissipated by the flute’s entrance with abright, cheeky theme. This rapid alteration oflight and dark elements is a primary characteristicof the Concerto. As expected, a solo cadenza isincluded, but instead of being totally

unaccompanied, it is backed first by timpani,then clarinet, and eventually full orchestra. Itwinds down to end the movement in anengagingly wistful mood. The second movementopens with gentle humor, only to exchange itfor a deep sense of melancholy, even menace.Bolstered by rude remarks from solo trombone,playfulness and wit eventually reassert themselvesand the Concerto ends in bright spirits.

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Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47Dmitri Shostakovichb. St. Petersburg, Russia / September 25, 1906d. Moscow, Russia / August 9, 1975____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on January 29, 1942;José Iturbi, conductor.

Shostakovich spent much of his life under theoppressive regime of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.The brutality of the time naturally left its markupon such a sensitive, creative artist. In 1936,his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk Districtcame under fire from Soviet officials as “formalist”music, exactly the sort of personalized,pessimistic music that the country’s composersought not to be writing. OvernightShostakovich became persona non grata. Herecognized how crucial the reaction to his nextsymphony, No. 5, would be. Failure would mostlikely result in his “disappearance,” a fate thatbefell countless victims of Stalinist purges.

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducted the premiere inLeningrad on November 21, 1937, and it wona resoundingly positive reception. Some officialsvoiced suspicions regarding the sincerity of thissymphonic apology, but their concerns wererapidly drowned in a sea of praise. Early in1938, after the Symphony had firmlyentrenched itself, the composer broke his silenceregarding his intentions by writing (or havinghis name unknowingly attached to) thefollowing: “The theme of my symphony is themaking of a man. I saw man with all hisexperiences at the center of the composition . . .In the finale the tragically tense impulses of the

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earlier movements are resolved in optimism andthe joy of living.”

Testimony, the book of memoirs that waspublished after his death, offered a muchdifferent view, especially regarding the seeminglytriumphant Finale: “The rejoicing is forced,created under threat. It’s as if someone werebeating you with a stick and saying, ‘Yourbusiness is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’and you rise, shaky, and go marching off,muttering, ‘Our business is rejoicing, our businessis rejoicing.’ What kind of apotheosis is that?You have to be a complete oaf not to hear that.”

Is the concluding section “triumphant”? Muchdepends on the conductor’s approach. At a fasttempo, the coda of the Finale does indeedsound positive, even festive. At a slow pace, itbecomes a hollow, agonized funeral march.More important than finding a “definitive”answer to this uncertainty is to appreciate thesearing portrayal of human suffering thatShostakovich offers in the third movement.This is the heart and soul of the piece. Its

sincerity—as attested to by the weeping of theaudience at the premiere—is unassailable.

The first movement opens with the starkest andsimplest of dramatic gestures. After muchdesolate rumination, momentarily brightenedby themes on violins and solo flute, a ragingemotional tempest is launched by a harsh,machine-like tread in the depths of theorchestra, including piano. Once this blazing,goose-stepping hurricane has blown itself out,the quasi-optimistic flute theme reappears, butonly briefly.

The following scherzo-like movement is ripewith grotesquery and satire. With its heavy-footed dance rhythms and intentionally schmaltzyviolin solo, it demonstrates Shostakovich’sstrong affinity with Mahler, whose music hehad been studying for more than a decade.After the tragic third movement, the Finaleopens in a mood of defiance. In the wake of apowerful central climax, something of theopening movement’s wistfulness returns. Thencomes the conclusion. See what it says to you.

© 2009 Don Anderson. All rights reserved.

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THE EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY AND BAUSCH & LOMB

PHILHARMONICS SERIES

Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 8:00 pm Christopher Seaman, conductorSaturday, January 31, 2009, at 8:00 pm Leila Josefowicz, violinEastman Theatre2008-2009 Season • Program No. 6

Andrea Gabrieli (ed. Mark Scatterday)Aria della battaglia 7:00

Ludwig van BeethovenConcerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 42:00

I. Allegro ma non troppoII. Larghetto

III. Rondo: AllegroLeila Josefowicz, violin

______________________________________________________________________________________Intermission______________________________________________________________________________________

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I. AllegrettoII. Andante - Allegretto

III. ModeratoIV. Allegretto

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Violinist LeilaJosefowicz came tonational attention atage 16 when she madeher Carnegie Halldebut with Sir NevilleMarriner and theAcademy of St. Martinin the Fields. She hassince won the hearts of

audiences worldwide with her fresh approach tothe repertoire and her dynamic virtuosity.

Ms. Josefowicz’s affinity for new music isreflected in her diverse programs and herenthusiasm for premiering new compositions.She regularly collaborates with leadingcontemporary composers, and in upcomingseasons will debut works written for her by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steve Mackey, and ColinMatthews. This season, she premieres theThomas Adès Violin Concerto with the

Philadelphia Orchestra as well as the SanFrancisco, Seattle, and Alabama symphonies.

Other orchestral engagements includeappearances with the Cleveland and Philadelphiaorchestras; the New York Philharmonic; and theChicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore,Dallas, and Cincinnati symphonies. She alsoperforms extensively in Europe and Asia.

Ms. Josefowicz’s 1994 debut recording wasawarded a Diapason d’Or, as was Solo, a disc ofunaccompanied works. Her latest release is a liverecording of Oliver Knussen’s Violin Concertoat the 2007 London Proms with the composerconducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Josefowicz received a 2008 MacArthurFoundation Fellowship, as well as the prestigiousAvery Fisher Career Grant. A graduate of theCurtis Institute of Music, she studied with JaimeLaredo and Jascha Brodsky. She performs on a1724 Guarneri del Gesù.

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Program Notes Gabrieli, Beethoven, Smetana, Janácvek

A Note from the Music Director

If you particularly love the brass instruments,this is the concert for you! We begin with aBaroque brass piece by Andrea Gabrieli,featuring two brass choirs, in an arrangementby Mark Scatterday, Chair of the ConductingDepartment at the Eastman School of Musicand conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.It’s called “Battle Aria,” as there was a fashion atthat time for war-like pieces of music. Theinteresting feature of this work is that there iscontrasting music of a much more tendernature, so the two brass choirs answer eachother with different moods.

We welcome back to the RPO our friend LeilaJosefowicz, who has made a number of highlysuccessful appearances in Rochester, and is ofcourse deservedly established as a majorinternational soloist. Leila plays the Beethovenconcerto, famous for the drum-taps at theopening which, amazingly, turn into one of themain themes of the movement. The profoundslow movement is no less impressive, and theelegant Finale, with its dance-like rhythms,brings this masterpiece to a perfect conclusion.

After the intermission we play two Czechpieces. First, “From Bohemia’s Fields andGroves,” from My Country by Smetana. Thiscomposer pioneered a really Czech style ofmusic, rooted in folk-song. He evokes theglorious countryside of his fatherland, andgratefully celebrates all its features—including aPolka (presumably danced in a rural village!).

Finally, another piece with a large brass section—Sinfonietta by Janácvek. This work started lifeas a Fanfare (indeed it begins and ends with it),but Janácvek expands the work into somethingfar more ambitious. He wanted to describe thejoy of his town, Brno (whose orchestra I haveconducted several times), when an independentCzech state was established after World War I.So there is struggle, yearning, dancing, andcelebration, beginning and ending with thosemagnificent fanfares, which include ninetrumpets and two bass trumpets!

A Note About the Beethoven Cadenzas

It was rewarding to write my own cadenzas tosuch a beloved masterwork. I aimed to give arefreshing perspective on musical ideas thatBeethoven used. While still using as much ofhis own compositional motifs as possible, thecadenzas take a harmonically eclectic andspontaneous approach. I am inspired byBeethoven’s use of the timpani in the firstmovement cadenza he wrote for the pianoversion of the violin concerto, and so decided toincorporate this unusual instrumentalcombination in my own cadenza. It is ironicthat the creation of one’s own cadenzas mayseem adventurous and almost artistically riskyin today’s age of respect for the written score;when at the time that the concerto was written,performing one’s own cadenzas was theexpected norm. I strongly value individuality in

musical interpretation, and the open mind-frame it demands of musician and audience,especially when performing and studying such arenowned and respected work.

— Leila Josefowicz

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Aria della battagliaAndrea Gabrielib. Venice, Italy / c. 1532-3d. Venice / August 30, 1585Arranged by Mark Scatterday____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on September 28,2002; Christopher Seaman, conductor.

Venice’s devotion to the arts made it one of thecrown jewels of Renaissance Italy. Its cathedralsand public squares regularly witnessed elaboratefestivals, rituals, and ceremonies. Two of the most

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important composers who spiced these activitieswith appropriately majestic music were relatives:Andrea Gabrieli and his nephew, Giovanni. Eachserved as principal organist at Venice’s primarycathedral, St. Mark’s, and both wrote pieces tobe played within its imposing, gilded walls.

Andrea Gabrieli composed in all the major musicalforms of the day, including masses, motets,madrigals, theater music, and keyboard works.The stirring Aria della battaglia (Battle Aria,published in 1590) is one of only two survivingpieces that he designed for large instrumentalensembles. In this case, he asked for windinstruments, but did not specify exact scoring.The arrangement to be heard at this concertinvolves the modern orchestral brass section.

The Aria follows a tradition of music evokingor describing warfare that enjoyed widespreadpopularity throughout the sixteenth century.Unlike most later pieces of this kind, it does notrelate to a particular battle. It includes not onlythe expected fanfares and imitations of conflict,but also passages of remarkable beauty andsubtlety.

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Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61Ludwig van Beethovenb. Bonn, Germany / December 15, 1770d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on December 8, 1927;Eugene Goossens, conductor; Gustav Tinlot, violin.

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is widely held tobe the greatest piece of its kind, not simplybecause it is a fine concerto, but because it is amasterly composition, period. It wascommissioned by 26-year-old Franz Clement.This child prodigy had risen to the status ofacclaimed soloist, and also served asConcertmaster and conductor of the pitorchestra in Vienna’s prestigious Theatre an derWien for a decade. Beethoven reflectedClement’s refined, aristocratic style in theconcerto he wrote for him. Although by nomeans an easy piece technically, its principal

challenges lie in expressiveness, spirituality, andbecause of its broad dimensions, in sheerphysical stamina.

Clement set a specific date for the premiere:December 23, 1806. Due to the foot-draggingcasualness with which Beethoven regularlycompleted commissioned works, the firstperformance turned out to be virtually a read-through at sight. Clement’s playing drew ravesfrom the press, but the piece itself received atbest a lukewarm reception. It was only in 1844,when 13-year-old soloist Joseph Joachimdemonstrated the concerto’s manifoldexcellences through his performances inLondon under Felix Mendelssohn’s direction,that it began to establish itself.

The expansive first movement bears a relaxed,leisurely expression. From time to time, momentsof drama and unease provide contrast. The slowsection, a set of variations on a lyrical theme,glows with Olympian warmth. The gracefullydancing final rondo, which follows on withouta break, brings the concerto firmly and joyfullyback to earth.

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“From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves,” No. 4from Má vlast (My Homeland)Bedr

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First performed by the RPO on November 6,1986; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor.

Smetana established the Czech branch of thefolk-flavored Nationalist movement that sprangup during the mid-nineteenth century. Hismost important orchestral work is Má Vlast (MyHomeland), a cycle of six thematicallyinterrelated symphonic poems. He wrote that thefourth piece, From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves,“is a painting of the feelings that fill one whengazing at the Bohemian landscape. On all sidessinging, both gay and melancholic, resoundsfrom fields and woods: the forest regions,depicted on the solo horn; the gay, fertile

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lowlands of the Elbe valley are the subject ofrejoicing. Everyone may draw his own pictureaccording to his own imagination; for the poethas an open path before him, even though hemust follow the individual parts of the work.”

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SinfoniettaLeos

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First performed by the RPO on January 12, 1950;Erich Leinsdorf, conductor.

Janácvek’s music is very much his own: quirky,mercurial, bursting with inventiveness andsharp contrasts. His most importantcompositions are his nine operas, compellingworks marked by powerful emotions andmelodies patterned on the rhythms of speech.Other major scores include two string quartets,choral works, and the spectacular GlagoliticMass (1926) for chorus and orchestra. His mostsignificant orchestral works are the rhapsody,Taras Bulba, and the Sinfonietta.

For a dedicated patriot such as Janácvek, thedeclaration of an independent Czech state inthe aftermath of the First World War fulfilled alifelong dream. Eight years after the fact, he wasstill giving voice to his joy through theSinfonietta. He declared that its purpose was “toexpress the free Czech citizen of today, in hisbeauty and joy, his strength and courage toadvance through battle to victory.”

The initial inspiration came from fanfares heheard in 1925, at an open-air military bandconcert. Early the next year he received acommission to compose a fanfare for the SokolGymnastic Festival, to be held in Prague thatsummer. After deciding to make it the openingmovement of a larger work, he sketched fourfurther movements in just a few weeks. The titleSinfonietta aptly describes this work, whichconsists of five brief movements bearing littletrace of traditional symphonic development.

By the time of the premiere, he adapted hisconception into a tribute to his adopted city, Brno,and an embodiment of his happiness at itsbeing freed from German occupation. For thepremiere, he supplied titles for the movements.They refer to locations in Brno: I: Fanfares; II:The Castle; III: The Queen’s Convent; IV: TheStreet; V: The Town Hall. He supplied furtherdetails in an essay entitled My Town: “One day Isuddenly saw a miraculous change in this town. . . Over the town the light of freedom blazed,the rebirth of October 28, 1918! The blare ofvictorious trumpets, the holy quiet of theQueen’s Convent, night shadows and the gentlebreezes from Green Hill. The beginning ofupsurge and greatness in our town gave birth tomy Sinfonietta which carries this understandingof my town—Brno.”

The Sinfonietta is an astonishingly bold andinventive creation, especially for a composerpast 70. The sound-world alone is immenselyimpressive, as are its spontaneity and itssatisfying cyclical structure. Janácvek establishes asense of awe from the very first bar, as theensemble he created for the opening fanfare—nine trumpets, two bass trumpets, two tenortubas and timpani—strikes up this majesticmusic. The fanfare promises an event of epicvision, of dynamic, barbaric splendor, andJanácvek does not disappoint.

The ensuing movements include two scherzo-like, dance-influenced segments as the secondand fourth portions. They frame a moremoderately paced central movement whichitself encloses an exhilarating, almost war-likecentral panel. An epic Finale crowns the score.Tension grows from the conflict betweeninnocent and disruptive elements, but all isresolved by the spectacular return of theopening fanfare in augmented scoring, includingstrings, winds, and a further three trumpets.

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Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Friday, January 30, 2009, at 7:30 pm Christopher Seaman, conductorSunday, February 1, 2009, at 3:00 pmPerformance Hall at Hochstein2008-2009 Season • Program No. 3

Excerpts will be selected from the following works:

Edvard Grieg Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46 (1874-75)(1843 - 1907)

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (1855-76)(1833 - 1897)

Richard Wagner “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” from Gotterdämmerung(1813 - 1883) (Twilight of the Gods) (1869-74)Arr. Engelbert Humperdinck

Richard Wagner “The Ride of the Valkyries” from Die WalküreArr. Hutschenruyter (The Valkyrie) (1854-56)

Made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Artswith media support from WARM 101.3.

Christopher Seaman would like to thank Ralph P. Locke, Professor of Musicology atthe Eastman School of Music, for serving as a consultant for the Symphony 101 Series.

The use of ALL electronic devices—including cellular phones, cameras and recording devices—is strictly prohibitedwhile in the hall. Please completely turn off all hand-held electronics as well as any pagers or watch alarms that maysound during the performances.

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Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Friday, February 6, 2009, at 8:00 pm Jeff Tyzik, conductorSaturday, February 7, 2009, at 8:00 pm Jamie Bernstein, narratorEastman Theatre Jeffrey Picón, tenor2008-2009 Season • Program No. 5 Michelle Areyzaga, soprano

THE WEGMANS

POP SERIES

Bernstein on Stage

All music by Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

From Candide Overture“O Happy We”

Jeffrey Picón & Michelle Areyzaga

From Wonderful Town “A Little Bit in Love”Michelle Areyzaga

From On the Town “Three Dance Episodes”s

Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs______________________________________________________________________________________Intermission______________________________________________________________________________________

From West Side Story Suite No. 1“Maria”“One Hand, One Heart”“Somewhere”Balcony Scene

Symphonic Dances

Sponsored by Fidelity Investments. Additional support from WBEE.

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Jamie Bernstein is anarrator, writer, andbroadcaster. She grewup in an atmospherebursting with music,theater, and literature.Her parents, composer-conductor LeonardBernstein, and pianistand actress Felicia

Montealegre, and their legions of friends in thearts, created a spontaneous, ebullient householdthat turned Jamie into a dyed-in-the-woolcultural enthusiast.

Replicating her father’s lifelong compulsion toshare and teach, Ms. Bernstein has written andproduced concerts for families and youngpeople on the music of Copland, Mozart,Bernstein, and others. The acclaimed programThe Bernstein Beat, a family concert about herfather modeled after his own groundbreakingYoung People’s Concerts, has been presented byCarnegie Hall Family Concerts, the CaramoorFestival, and the Philadelphia and MinnesotaOrchestras, among others. Ms. Bernstein hadher debut with the New York Philharmonic inOctober 2008 in a program to celebrateBernstein’s Young People’s Concerts.

Ms. Bernstein also appears as a narrator withorchestras in classic concert works, such asWalton’s Façade, Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait,and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3,“Kaddish.” As a broadcaster she has hostedseveral seasons of the New York Philharmonic’slive national radio broadcasts, in addition toseveral series for New York’s classical station,96.3 FM WQXR, including annual livebroadcasts from Tanglewood.

Ms. Bernstein’s articles and poetry have beenpublished in Town&Country, Symphony,DoubleTake, and Gourmet.

Jamie Bernstein, narrator

Jeffrey Picón performs adiverse repertoire asboth a concert singerand an opera singer.His recent debutperformance with theArizona Opera was asAli in Zémire et Azor byAndré-Ernest-ModesteGrétry. He also has

sung Almaviva in the Opera Company ofNorth Carolina’s production of Rossini’s TheBarber of Seville. With Lyric Opera of KansasCity, he played Don Ottavio in Mozart’s DonGiovanni and Ramiro in Rossini’s LaCenerentola.

Mr. Picón’s other recent appearances includeroles in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti;Verdi’s Falstaff, and The Secret Marriage byDomenico Cimarosa. He played Tony in WestSide Story with the Ash Lawn Opera Festival,and this season, he will take the stage with theNew York City Opera in its productions ofCarmen, Cendrillon, Madama Butterfly, andTosca.

In concert, Mr. Picón performs nationwide. Hehas sung in two New York Festival of Songprograms, Teatro Espanoles and Songs of Peaceand War; Janácvek’s From the House of the Deadwith the American Symphony Orchestra;Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes with Moab MusicFestival; and Ned Rorem’s Evidence of ThingsNot Seen with the Philadelphia Chamber MusicSociety.

Mr. Picón sang the role of Mike on Lyric Operaof Chicago’s recording of William Bolcom’s AView from the Bridge. He appeared in Fiesta atthe Philharmonic with the Naples Philharmonic,a PBS production led by Erich Kunzel. A Texasnative, he is a graduate of the University ofNorth Texas and The Curtis Institute of Music.

Jeffrey Picón, tenor

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Michelle Areyzaga, soprano

Michelle Areyzagadebuted with ChicagoOpera Theatre in TheKaiser of Atlantis andhas since demonstratedher vocal versatility indiverse operatic rolesand concertappearances. Mostrecently, she made her

first appearance with Opera Birmingham in therole of Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, andalso was seen on public television as Pamina inMozart’s The Magic Flute in Chicago’s Silk RoadInitiative. In 2006, Pioneer Press named herChicago’s “Artist of the Year.”

In concert, Ms. Areyzaga recently performed inGustavo Leone’s Mundo at the Grant Park MusicFestival. She sang in Bernstein on Broadwayduring the Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Festivalas well as at the Tilles Center on Long Island.

In June 2009, Ms. Areyzaga will perform withCosta Rica’s National Symphony Orchestra andChoir in its premier performance of Bach’s Massin B Minor.

Ms. Areyzaga’s first European concertappearance was as soloist in Vaughan Williams’Mass in G Minor. In Paris, she performed assoloist in the Lord Nelson Mass with theorchestra of London’s Royal Academy of Musicand the St. Charles Singers.

Upcoming performances include recitals at theRavinia Festival Day of Music, where shedebuted singing jazz under conductor ErichKunzel. She also will appear with the New YorkFestival of Song.

Ms. Areyzaga performs songs by Americancomposer Gwyneth Walker on her disc The SunIs Love, released on the Proteus label. Hercurrent recording projects feature the songs ofLita Grier and William Ferris.

ROCHESTERR PHILHARMONICC ORCHESTRACHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, Music Director JEFF TYZIK, Principal Pops Conductor

RPO performances are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

TICKETS: (585) 454-2100, www.rpo.org, or any area Wegmans

Upcoming Performances ...

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth – February 19 & 21That’s Amore! – February 27 & 28Sounds of New Orleans – March 1

See all of our upcoming performances at

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Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14 at 8:00 pm

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ventilation, and cooling systems, andsound-attenuated ductwork.

The second part of the renovationproject will be done during the summerof 2009 in time for the opening of our2009-10 Season, when the Theatre willbe renamed Kodak Hall at EastmanTheatre, recognizing the $10 million giftfrom Eastman Kodak Company.

Improvements in this phase include astate-of-the-art sound system, anexpanded orchestra-level lobby with abeautiful new food concessions area andcafé, a second concessions area in thebalcony lobby, and improved houselighting. Other enhancements includeimproved accessibility to the stage andseating areas on all levels. Completelynew seating will be installed throughoutthe balcony and orchestra levels, withbeautifully refurbished seats in the

mezzanine and loges. Twelve newly built boxeswith a total of 98 seats (sure to be the mostcoveted in Rochester!) will be built on theorchestra and mezzanine levels, creatingacoustical intimacy and envelopment.

All this will be done with careful considerationof the historic character of the Theatre and itssignificance within the Rochester community.The project will reduce the seating capacity byapproximately 800 seats from the orchestralevel, on the sides and directly below themezzanine. This, coupled with construction ofbox seats, will improve the acoustics and makespace for the expanded lobby. The moreintimate 2,250-seat Theatre truly will enhanceand transform the entire concert experience.

Stay tuned for further information at a later dateon the third and final phase, a substantialaddition which will include the new 230-seatHatch Recital Hall, a host of new patronamenities, teaching studies for Eastman Schoolfaculty, and more.

Eastman Theatre Renovation Project

Several years ago, the Eastman School of Musicdeveloped a multi-phased plan to renovateEastman Theatre to the highest contemporarystandards. The Theatre has been carefullymaintained through the years; however, it hasnot been renovated to incorporate advances inacoustics, lighting, and accessibility.

The shared vision of the RPO and the EastmanSchool of Music is to strengthen EastmanTheatre’s ranking among the finest music hallsin the nation. The renovation will create anenvironment that better meets the needs andexpectations of our discerning audiences,serving to transform the concert experience.

In October 2004, an elegantly crafted new stagewas unveiled in the historic Eastman Theatre.The custom shell was designed to enhanceacoustics and complement the aesthetics of thehall. The stage represents the completion of thefirst of a planned three-phase renovation andexpansion project.

The actual Theatre renovation is being done intwo parts. The first part was completed this pastsummer, with work on the Theatre’s existinginfrastructure including upgraded heating,

THE EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY AND BAUSCH & LOMB

PHILHARMONICS SERIES

Rochester Philharmonic OrchestraChristopher Seaman, Music Director

Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 8:00 pm Christopher Seaman, conductorSaturday, February 14, 2009, at 8:00 pm Los Angeles Guitar QuartetEastman Theatre2008-2009 Season • Program No. 7

Claude Debussy“Ibéria,” No. 2 from Images 20:00

I. Par les rues et par les chemins (In the Streets and Byways)II. Les parfums de la nuit (The Fragrances of the Night)

III. Le matin d’un jour de fête (Morning of a Feast-Day)Sérgio AssadInterchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra (EAST COAST PREMIERE) 25:00

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

I. Sephardic PassagesII. Gypsy Slopes

III. Pacific OverlookIV. Forroblues DetourV. Crossings

______________________________________________________________________________________Intermission______________________________________________________________________________________

Georges BizetSuites Nos. 1 and 2 from Carmen 13:00

1. Prélude2. Intermezzo3. Les Toréadors4. La garde montante5. Danse Bohème

Sergei ProkofievSuites Nos. 1 and 2 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 21:00

1. Montagues and Capulets2. The Young Girl Juliet3. Dance of the Antillian Girls4. Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet5. Masks6. The Death of Tybalt

Sponsored by Unity Health, with additional support from 98 PXY.The RPO gratefully acknowledges the PAETEC Philharmonic Partners program, which offers

discounted Philharmonics tickets to students. For more information, visit www.rpo.org.

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John Dearman, Matthew Greif, WilliamKanegiser, Scott Tennant

Recognized as one of America’s premierinstrumental ensembles, the GRAMMYAward-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet isone of the most charismatic groups performingtoday. Popularly known as LAGQ, these fourvirtuosi bring a new energy to the concert stagewith their eclectic programs and dynamicmusical interplay. Their critically acclaimedtranscriptions of concert masterworks provide afresh look at the music of the past, while theirinterpretations of works from the contemporaryand world-music realms continually break newground. LAGQ has set new standards for theguitar quartet medium.

LAGQ’s 2008-09 season features two excitingadditions to its repertoire. Interchange is a newconcerto written for LAGQ by Braziliancomposer and guitar master Sergio Assad. Thiswork will be premiered by the San AntonioSymphony in February 2009. Subsequentperformances this season include the RochesterPhilharmonic and the Seattle, New Jersey,Delaware, and Santa Barbara symphonies.

LAGQ’s appearance in Santa Barbara is part ofthe second week-long guitar celebration that thequartet helped to curate. In addition to theconcerto, LAGQ will premiere Don Quixote ySu Musica, a musical adaptation of theCervantes classic, in collaboration with Britishactor John Cleese. In addition, LAGQ performsthe vibrant Rodrigo Concierto Andaluz with theNorth Carolina, Virginia, and Grand Rapidssymphonies, and brings their popular soloperformances and residencies to venuesthroughout the United States and Europe.

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s latest CD onthe Telarc label is LAGQ Brazil.

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Eastman Guitarfest February 10-15, 2009

Music of the Americas Tuesday, February 10

Nicholas Goluses, guitar; Bonita Boyd, flute; Kathryn Louise Lewek, soprano

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Recital Sunday, February 15

Plus, masterclasses with members of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

and other concerts.

For more information, visit www.esm.rochester.edu

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Program Notes Debussy, Assad, Bizet, Prokofiev

A Note from the Music Director

In our mission to promote works by livingcomposers, we joined a group of orchestras tocommission our concerto tonight—which is bySergio Assad, and is for four guitars andorchestra. The wonderful Los Angeles GuitarQuartet will perform this fascinating piece,which visits many different styles of musicassociated with the guitar, already regarded as aserious instrument in the baroque period. Thecomposer knows the soloists really well, and haswritten music which highlights their brillianceand artistry. This will be a unique experience.

To set a Spanish mood before the concerto, weplay a wonderful impressionistic piece byDebussy—“Iberia” (Spain)—in which thecomposer uses his incredible sense of color toevoke different scenes in that country: thestreets, the perfumes of the night, and a festival.Look for the place in the last movement where

the violins play with the instruments undertheir arms, like guitars!

After the intermission, two pieces with a“Valentine’s Day” connection—a suite from thetragic opera Carmen by Bizet, music whichnever loses its freshness and tragic impact, andsome of the music written to accompanyShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev.Romeo and Juliet has to be one of thecomposer’s two or three greatest works. Thedrama and tragedy of the story are portrayedwith extraordinary power and skill, and thegrace and elegance of the aristocratic families arealso perfectly captured. We trust that yourValentine’s Day is happier than the outcome ofthe stories of either Carmen or Romeo and Juliet!

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Ibéria, No. 2 from ImagesClaude Debussyb. St. Germaine-en-Laye, France / August 22,1862d. Paris, France / March 25, 1918____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on October 29, 1925;Eugene Goossens, conductor.

Debussy composed the three orchestral Imagesbetween 1905 and 1912. In the second piece inthe collection, Ibéria, he crystallized acelebratory vision of Spain. He paid a singlevisit there, even then only to spend part of oneday attending a bullfight. That encounter, plusbooks, paintings, travel tales told by friends, andhis vivid imagination—the last as always hispreferred and most potent inspiration—sparkedhim to create several Spanish-flavored works.The outer panels of Ibéria bask in the diamond-bright glow of Spanish sunshine. In the Streetsand Byways blazes with bright, sharply chiseledcolors and pulses with vivacious rhythms. TheFragrances of the Night is a still, shimmering

nocturne. As the warmth of the night graduallydissolves with the approach of daybreak, thispanel overlaps ingeniously with the exuberant,freewheeling final portion, The Morning of aFeast-Day.

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Interchange, for Guitar Quartet and ChamberOrchestraSérgio Assadb. Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil / December 26,1952____________________________________

First performance by the RPO.

Sergio Assad began creating music for the guitarnot long after he began playing the instrument.By age 14, he was arranging and writingoriginal compositions for the guitar duo he hadformed with his brother, Odair. He went on tostudy conducting and composition at theEscola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro.

Over the last 20 years, he has concentratedmost of his efforts on building a repertoire for

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the guitar duo. He has extended the possibilitiesof the two-guitar combination through hisarrangements of Latin American music bycomposers such as Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos andGinastera, as well as baroque to modern musicby Scarlatti, Rameau, Soler, Bach, Mompou,Ravel, Debussy, and Gershwin, among others.

As a composer, he has completed more than 50works for guitar, many of which have becomestandards in the repertoire. As of September2008, Mr. Assad is a faculty member in guitarat the prestigious San Francisco Conservatory ofMusic.

The composer has provided the followingintroduction to his new composition,Interchange.

It was an old dream of mine to write asubstantial piece for the Los Angeles GuitarQuartet (LAGQ) with orchestra. A few yearsago, Bill Kanengiser, a member of the LAGQ,encouraged me to sketch a piece that was latercommissioned by Matthew Dune, Director ofthe Southwest Guitar Festival, to be premieredby the San Antonio Symphony during the2008-2009 season.

Interchange grew out of my view of the quartet’sgreat ability to blend different music styles intoa unique and novel interpretation. I used theirindividual taste in music as starting points forthe first four movements, and I end the piecewith the coalescence of these four differentpieces forming an Interchange.

Since I have known Bill Kanengiser, ScottTennant, and John Deerman for over twodecades as great musicians and friends, I hadmany good memories to choose from forinspiration. Matthew Greff is their new partner,having recently joined the quartet. Each of thefirst four movements highlights one member ofthe quartet with a specific blend of music stylesand a short solo cadenza. A larger cadenzainvolving the four guitars announces the finalmovement.

To honor Bill in the first movement, I crossedsome Renaissance-type of dances with the

Jewish scale following the idea that Bill has avast interest in different types of music whileremaining the most classical of all fourmembers. To portray Scott, a big fan andexcellent performer of flamenco style, I offered amix of Spanish buleria with another area of hisinterest that is Balkan music. For Matt, whoadded to the group his great skills in jazzimprovisation, I wrote a slow movementreminiscent of a jazz ballad with an opensection for his inventive melody lines. For John,who lately became passionate about Brazilianmusic, I mixed baião and blues. Baião is arhythm from the northeast of Brazil and I hadlots of fun submitting some blues phrasing tothe peculiar syncopation of the Baião. The fifthand last movement crosses all four themes andthat is what inspired the name Interchange. Theword Interchange represents my intentions inusing traditional music styles of the worldblended as a whole organic unit. At the sametime, Interchange also suggests a casual meetingof different people on the L.A. turnpike.

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Selections from CarmenGeorges Bizetb. Paris, France / October 25, 1838d. Bougival, France / June 3, 1875____________________________________

First performance of the full opera was January14, 1943; José Iturbi, conductor. Firstperformance of the Carmen Suite was January 11,1945; Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor.

The path to Carmen, Bizet’s masterpiece,involved numerous other operas through whichhe developed the profound understanding ofmusical theater which Carmen so clearlydisplays. It premiered in Paris on March 3,1875. The savagely negative reviews ensuredthat it gradually dropped from sight. Its ascentto worldwide popularity began in the autumnof that year, with the triumphant success of thefirst production in Vienna. Alas for Bizet, sinceby then he had died, just 37.

Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based theirlibretto on the story by Prosper Merimée. The

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action takes place in and around Seville, Spain,during the 1820s. Carmen is a heartless gypsywho seduces and abandons Don José, a weak-willed soldier. In a fit of jealous rage, he killsher. The brilliantly scored orchestral selectionsyou will hear at this concert vividly evoke theopera’s sultry setting, dramatic events, andvibrant characters, who include gypsies,toreadors, soldiers, and street urchins.

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Suite from Romeo and JulietSergei Prokofievb. Sontsovka, Ukraine / April 27, 1891d. Moscow, Russia / March 5, 1953____________________________________

First performed by the RPO on November 6,1952; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor.

In 1934, the Leningrad Opera and BalletCompany (later the Kirov Ballet) commissionedProkofiev to compose a ballet based onShakespeare’s immortal love drama, Romeo andJuliet. He and the company’s director, SergeiRadlov, spent months working on the scenario.Meanwhile, a newly installed companymanagement decided to withdraw from theproject. Undaunted, Prokofiev struck a deal tohave it staged by Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Hethen proceeded to complete his score, which hedid in five months’ worth of concentrated,inspired effort. Alas, history repeated itself andthe Bolshoi decided to pass on it, too. In order tohave the music heard, Prokofiev drew upon it fora set of 10 piano transcriptions and two concert

suites. Romeo and Juliet finally saw the stage inDecember 1938 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Thatproduction was successful enough. More than ayear passed before the appearance of the firststaging to do the score justice, once the Kirovagreed to mount the premiere productionwithin the Soviet Union. It scored anunqualified triumph on January 11, 1940.

Romeo and Juliet may well be Prokofiev’smasterpiece. None of his other scores displaywith equal consistency the same degree ofpassion, or a comparable variety of color andmood. The selections that Maestro Seaman haschosen include the menacing dance performedat a grand ball by the members of the lovers’rival families (Montagues and Capulets), themischievous and wistful portrait of the youngJuliet, and the terrifying scene in which Romeoavenges the death of his friend Mercutio bykilling Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt.

© 2009 Don Anderson. All rights reserved.

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Applause for Our Volunteers!

Heartfelt thanks to our more than 850 volunteers for their ongoing and vital contributions to education, office, outreach, special events, and theatre operations. Below is a list of the RPO’s formal volunteerorganizations and active committees. For more information on how you can lend your time and talents to theRPO, call 454-7311 x243.

Volunteer Services CommitteeThe Committee reports directly to the RPO Board and is responsible for the viability of the entire RPO volunteerprogram. Committee members represent various areas of RPO volunteer activity.

Anne Selgas, ChairRobert AchillesDiane BaltadonisSusan BasuMichele Bello

Mary M. GooleyPatricia A. HarrisonJohn HaywardKathleen HoltCharles Kaplan

Dawn LipsonJanice MacisakMargaret-Anne MilneMolly PannerMarlene Piscitelli

David SchantzForrest C. StromeCarole Avery WebsterJosephine Whang

Special Events Oversight Committee Provides long-range planning and evaluation

for event fundraisers.Anne Selgas, Chair

Volunteer Enrichment Committee Plans and presents enrichment programs

exclusive to volunteers.Anna Petersen Stearns, Chair

Leadership Training A program offering in-depth training

for our volunteer leaders.

Bagel Brunch Provides an opportunity for Casual Sunday Matinee

audiences to mingle with the artistsand meet the conductor.

Diane Baltadonis, Chair

RPO Archive Committee Archives the history of the RPO with assistance from

the Sibley Music Library at Eastman.Kathleen Holt, Chair

Volunteer Voice Production of a monthly electronic newsletter.

David Schantz

Rochester Philharmonic LeagueFounded in 1929, the RPL is an active organization of men and women who support the RochesterPhilharmonic Orchestra’s educational programs for young people and encourage the musical talent of ouryouth. Its projects include escorting at the Orchestra’s educational concerts, in-school docent presentations, theYoung Artist Auditions for the area’s outstanding high school-age musicians, an annual Glimmerglass Operatrip, the popular Music, Munch & Mingle series—where members and guests attend RPO rehearsals followedby lunch with an RPO musician—and the Gibbs Street Assistance program. League membership is open to all.To learn more, call the League office: 454-7311 x254 or visit www.rpo.org/League.

Margaret-Anne Milne, PresidentMargie Sabath, Vice-President Charles Kaplan, President-Elect

Leonore Wiltse, Secretary Carlotta Lustik, Treasurer

Directors—2009Donna EdelsteinSherrie HandelmanCharles KaplanCarlotta LustikMillie NessMolly PannerAlice SpitulnikAlice SwetmanLeonore Wiltse

Directors—2010Roselyn Freedman-BaumGeorge GreerCarol Ritter WrightBea RoxinMargie SabathCarol ShulmanKitty WiseKaren Zivan

Directors—2011Carol BennettMarjorie ConverseJohn HaywardMidge HewittMarilyn KlassRobert LaysMargaret-Anne MilneEileen RamosYvonne Tolliver

Active Committees

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Dr. Sue DeBruyne Audiologist

Hearing Evaluations, Hearing Aids,

Assistive Listening Devices, Musicians’ Earplugs

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in the Livingston Health Services Building

(585) 243-7690

. . . because the Fine Arts Deserve Fine Hearing

Chamber Music Rochester presents

THE FINGER LAKESCHAMBER ENSEMBLESUNDAY, JANUARY 257:30 P.M. AT THEMEMORIAL ART GALLERY

The popular ensemble plays a premierepiece by Rochester’s own David Liptakand a piano quartet by Shostakovich

David Brickman and Patricia Sunwoo, violinsRoberta Crawford, violaStefan Reuss, celloMichael Salmirs, piano

Call (585) 377-6770 or www.chambermusicrochester.org

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For Your Information

All Philharmonics, WPOP, Casual SundayMatinees, orKIDStra Holiday and Special Eventperformances are at Eastman Theatre, 60 GibbsStreet. Symphony 101 and orKIDStra Series concertsare at Performance Hall at Hochstein, 50 N.Plymouth Avenue.

Parking for the Eastman Theatre is available at EastEnd Garage, located next to the theatre withentrances on Main, Scio and Swan Streets. Paid parking for the Performance Hall at Hochstein is available at Sister Cities Garage, located behind theschool at Church and Fitzhugh Streets.

RPO tickets may be purchased at the RPO BoxOffice (108 East Ave.) Monday-Saturday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (10:00 am - 3:00 pm on non-concert Saturdays). On concert evenings, tickets maybe purchased for that evening’s concert beginning 60minutes prior to the performance in the lobby of thetheatre. Tickets may be charged by phone by calling(585) 454-2100, or visit us online at www.rpo.org.RPO tickets also are available at all Rochester-areaWegmans. Discounts are available for senior citizens,students and children. All patrons one year of ageand older need a ticket to attend a performance tocomply with fire code regulations. Groups of 10 ormore also can save. Call the RPO Box Office at(585) 454-2100 for more information.

Pre-Concert Chats are held one hour prior to allPhilharmonics concerts in the Orchestra level of thetheatre. Ticket-holders are invited to attend.

Seating for people with wheelchairs and specialneeds is available in all venues; please see the housemanager for assistance. People who use wheelchairscan enter Eastman Theatre through the first entranceto the lobby on Gibbs Street. Audio systems areavailable at Eastman Theatre; headsets may beobtained from an usher prior to the performance. Anelevator is located in the lobby of Eastman Theatre,opposite the box office and will-call table. Assistancedogs are welcome at any performance and do notrequire special arrangements. Large print programsare available upon request.

Restrooms and coat check are available on the basement, mezzanine, and balcony levels of EastmanTheatre. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is availableon the first floor—please see an usher for assistance.

Refreshments are available for purchase in the lobbyand balcony of Eastman Theatre. Food and drink arenot permitted in the seating area of the theatre, exceptfor bottled water.

Cough drops are available through the generosity ofWegmans Food Markets. Dispensers are located inthe lobby and balcony of the theatre.

Concert etiquette dictates that patrons refrain fromextraneous noise such as whispering, rustling programs,or unwrapping cough drops once the conductor hastaken the podium. Traditionally, applause is helduntil the end of multi-movement pieces. Please referto your program for the number and title of movements. As a courtesy to the performers andaudience, patrons arriving after a performance hasstarted will be seated between movements or pieces.We ask that patrons who find it necessary to leaveearly do so at an appropriate break.

The use of ALL electronic devices—includingcellular phones, cameras, and recording devices—is strictly prohibited while in the hall. Pleasecompletely turn off all hand-held electronics as wellas any pagers or watch alarms that may sound duringthe performances. Pagers may be left with the housemanager along with your exact seat location.

In case of an emergency in the Theatre, please donot call 911—please see an usher. Eastman Theatrehas security personnel on-site.

Emergency messages may be relayed by leaving yourexact seat location with your family and paging services. The emergency phone numbers are:• Eastman Theatre - (585) 274-1121• Hochstein Stage Manager - (585) 278-3683

Lost and found: Items found in the EastmanTheatre after an RPO performance will be held atthe Information Window at the Eastman School ofMusic. For more information, please call 274-1000the next business day following the concert.

If you find that you cannot attend a performance,please don’t let your tickets go unused. Tickets makeexcellent gifts for family, friends, colleagues, andclients. If you are unable to make otherarrangements, please consider donating your tickets tous as a tax-deductible contribution. Return yourtickets to the RPO no later than 2:00 pm the day ofthe performance to make them available for resale.Tickets may not be returned for a tax credit after theconcert has taken place.

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