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James Villani, Music Director
NOVEMBER 7, 2015HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Anthony Michael CornetPiano
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Manassas Symphony Orchestra Presents
Every Kid - Every Concert - Always Free
Welcome to our opening concert for the 2015 – 2016 season. This season promises an exciting year of extraordinary music including performances by remarkably talented guest soloists along with MSO’s own dedicated musicians. We are very glad that you are here with us tonight.
Tonight American Prize-winning pianist Anthony Michael Cornet joins the Symphony for an all-American Program, playing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody
in Blue. In addition, our All-American concert includes Aaron Copland’s Rodeo,
Serenades, a piece for strings composed by Stonewall Jackson High School alum and U.S. Army Major J. Scott McKenzie and Eternal Father, Strong to
Save by the late Claude T. Smith, which is based on the Navy Hymn and was first performed forty years ago by the Navy Band at the Kennedy Center. We welcome his daughter, Pam Kelly, to our audience tonight.
All of the musicians you see in front of you volunteer their time and copious talent to make the MSO a success. Travelling from all around the region – some as far as Southern Maryland, the mission and music of the MSO is a labor of love for all of them.
We hope you find an opportunity after the concert, as you pass through the beautiful Hylton Center Didlake Grand Foyer, to greet our hard-working and talented musicians and thank them for their dedication in bringing you this wonderful concert.
Please consider supporting MSO with a monetary donation. Your donations helped us grow and develop into the inspirational community-service orchestra that we are today – recognized locally and nationally for excellence. You will find a donation form in this program to facilitate your contribution. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.
For more information regarding the Symphony, membership, donations and tickets, please visit ManassasSymphony.org. You may also reach us at 703-853-0749 or by email at [email protected].
Thank you all for joining us tonight. We will see you again on December 12th at 3:30 PM for our annual holiday family concert, Child’s Play, celebrating the imagination of children at play. The concert will feature the talents of Patriot High School flutist Natalie Wong and new songs written and performed by the students from Chris Yung Elementary School in Bristow under the creative direction of Kid Pan Alley.
AbOut the COnduCtOrJames Villani, Music Director
James Villani has been the conductor and music director of the Symphony since 2004. As a long-time strong advocate for continuing adult music education and volunteerism in the arts, Mr. Villani has been involved in community musical organizations since coming to Northern Virginia in 1986. He was associate conductor and clarinetist for the Reston Chamber Orchestra for 10 years, and has been involved with countless other area performances. He is an active judge and clinician for local music festivals and competitions. He is a member of the
League of American Orchestras and the Conductors Guild. Mr. Villani was a semi-finalist for The American Prize for Community Orchestra Conductors in 2010.
A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mr. Villani began playing clarinet in school at the age of 8. He honed his skills, as many in town did, in the back room of Al Colella’s Shoe Store, where Mr. Colella taught a steady stream of clarinetists for decades while servicing the occasional shoe customer. Later, while in high school, Mr. Villani studied with Carl Marks, a noted faculty member at Duquesne University and Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music. Mr. Marks was himself a student of the legendary Daniel Bonade.
Mr. Villani received Bachelor’s Degrees in Clarinet Performance and Music Education from Penn State University, where he studied with Smith Toulson and was a member of every major ensemble, from the marching Blue Band to the Symphony Orchestra. Among his PSU highlights were four major bowl games, playing tenor saxophone in Disney’s All-American College Marching Band at the grand opening of the EPCOT theme park, and performing with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas.
He received a Master of Music in Conducting from Northwestern University, where he studied conducting with John P. Paynter and was a graduate assistant for the university wind ensembles. He had a rather unique opportunity for a conducting major -- playing bass clarinet in the top wind ensemble alongside classmates who are now members of top symphony orchestras, including the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Villani was also a student of Clark Brody, principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner, and Alan Stout, a renowned contemporary composer.
Mr. Villani taught in the public schools of Chalfont, PA; East Palestine, Ohio; and at Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas. Mr. Villani is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM
Audio or video recording without expressed consent from the Manassas Symphony Orchestra is prohibited. Please refrain from flash photography during the performance. Please turn off all electronic devices. No food,
drink or gum is allowed in Merchant Hall. Patrons will be seated during appropriate pauses in the music.
Saturday, November 7, 2015 • 7:30 PMMerchant Hall of the Hylton Performing Arts Center
James Villani, Music DirectorAnthony Michael Cornet, Piano Soloist
New England Holiday ....................................Robert Washburn (1928-2013)
Serenades ........................................................... J. Scott McKenzie (b. 1971)I. AllegroII. Suzan’s GigueII. Colleen’s WaltzIII. Karen and Rebecca’s TangoIV. Allie’s LullabyV. Anne’s Hoedown
Rhapsody in Blue ........................................... George Gershwin (1898-1937)orchestration by Ferde Grofé
Mr. Cornet, piano
INTERMISSION
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
(Orchestral Premiere) ............................................Claude T. Smith (1932-87)orchestration by James Villani
Four Dance Episodes from “Rodeo” ........................Aaron Copland (1900-90)
I. Buckaroo HolidayII. Corral NocturneIII. Saturday Night WaltzIV. Hoe-Down
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Meet AnthOny MiChAel COrnet Anthony Michael Cornet, a doctoral student at Shenandoah Conservatory, is the featured piano soloist for The Americans on November 7, 2015. He is playing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Pianist Anthony Michael Cornet is establishing a reputation as an emerging artist with a penchant for expressive playing and tour-de-force virtuosity. Anthony is a prize winner in many nationally and internationally recognized piano competitions. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a First Prize Winner in the Bradshaw & Buono Interna-tional Piano Competition. He has returned to New York City to perform at the Dicapo Opera Theatre Concert Hall, Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman
Center, and the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
A recent international concert tour throughout Austria, Germany, Italy, and Russia has taken Anthony to many of the world’s most prestigious concert venues in cities such as Dresden, Eisenach, Frankfurt, Innsbruck, Kostroma, Leipzig, Milan, Moscow, Venice, Verona, Weimar, and Zwickau. Specific high-lights of the tour include solo debuts at the Altenburg Liszt House, the Robert Schumann Museum, the San Fermo Maggiore, and Moscow Conservatory. His performance with the Kostroma Symphony Orchestra in Russia’s Philharmonic Hall was particularly well received.
As the 2013 recipient of the American Prize in Piano Performance, Anthony was nationally recognized for his particular talents performing as soloist with orchestra. His concert repertoire extends from the Classical Period through to the most recent, electronic compositions. Recently, he has been heard as soloist with the Nittany Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, among others.
As a solo artist, Anthony has been dedicated to merging his artistic ambi-tions with the humanitarian effort. In recent years, he has been able to raise thousands of dollars for many reputable charities through the medium of his own concert series, “A Special Evening with Pianist Anthony Michael Cornet.” Recent organizations include Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Miracle League, and the Shropshire Music Foundation. The series has received high acclaim and has established Anthony as a dynamic and engaging recitalist.
Anthony is a graduate of Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia. He received the Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance while studying with pedagogue Harvey Wedeen on a full-tuition
scholarship. Anthony received his Masters Degree in Piano Performance from Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music in Pittsburgh. Attending on a full-tuition assistantship, he studied with renowned pianist, David Allen Wehr. Other principle mentors include Steven Herbert Smith, Arthur Goldstein, and his father, Richard Cornet. He is also an alum of the Pennsylvania Gover-nor’s School for the Arts: an intensive, full-scholarship program for budding artists and musicians.
Anthony is currently working towards a Doctorate (DMA) in music at Shenan-doah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Anthony was attracted to Shenandoah to study with pianist John O’Conor, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists performing today. In addi-tion to music, Anthony enjoys casual reading and writing. Subjects of particular interest include philosophy, theology, and science.
The following program notes are copyright Susan Halpern, 2015.
New England Holiday ................................................................. Robert Washburn
(Born July 11, 1928 in Bouckville, NY; Died November 13, 2013 in Ogdensburg, NY)
Washburn composed over 150 works. He attended the Crane School of Music where he received both his BA and MA. He was awarded a Danforth Founda-tion Fellowship to complete a Ph.D. in composition at the Eastman School of Music where he worked with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovha-ness. His further studies included a summer at the Aspen Music School where he studied with Darius Milhaud, and a season in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He also participated in seminars at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Oxford in England. His military service included duty as chief arranger for the Air Force Band of the West and the Air Force Sinfonietta. Following that, he spent a year as a member of the San Antonio Symphony before joining the faculty of the Crane School of Music, Potsdam.
Washburn later received a Ford Foundation Grant as well as grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juilliard Repertory Project, and Meet the Composer. He was a fellow of the MacDowelI Colony and held a scholarship at the Bennington Composers Conference.
He performed at the White House, where he was the guest of President and Mrs. John Kennedy. In 1980 he was commissioned to compose music for the opening ceremonies of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, which was broadcast over ABC, CBC and BBC television. Washburn was a former Dean and a Profes-sor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam
Washburn was the recipient of annual awards from ASCAP. He received a num-ber of commissions for works which were performed at the American Music Festival of the Eastman School, the American Music Festival of the National Gallery, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, the Spring Festival of the Arts at SUNY Potsdam, the Inter-American Symposium of the University of Texas, the San Jose Festival, Expo ‘67 in Montreal, the Farnham Festival in England, and the St. Moritz Festival in Switzerland.
He participated in seminars in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and York University in England. He authored the portion of a college music text dealing with non-western music and was a Composer-Member of Ars Nova Press, Inc., a non-profit publishing house dedicated to promoting the musical compositions of skilled modern classical composers.
PROGRAM NOTES
Serenades .................................................................................. J. Scott McKenzie(Born in 1971)
J. Scott McKenzie, a composer, arranger and conductor, writes and arranges music mostly for bands and wind ensembles, although Serenades was con-ceived for strings alone.
McKenzie holds a BA from Virginia Tech and an MA in composition from George Mason University where he was a student of Dr. Glenn Smith and Mark Camphouse. He previously studied music education and conducting at Old Do-minion University and the Peabody Conservatory. Prior to enlisting in the Army, he taught band, chorus, and general music at the middle school level.
Serenades for string orchestra was premiered by The United States Army Strings of The U.S. Army Band on October 26, 2014 at Fairfax United Methodist Church, Fairfax, VA, First Lieutenant Silas Nathaniel Huff, conducting. It has five movements: Suzan’s Gigue; Colleen’s Waltz; Karen and Rebecca’s Tango; Allie’s Lullaby; and Anne’s Hoedown.
McKenzie wrote the following about Serenades: “When I was assigned to The United States Army Band, I often heard the rehearsals of The U.S. Army Strings emanating from the studio down the hall. What a wonderful sound it was, and not at all conductive to getting work done–all I’d want to do is stop whatever I was doing and listen to the music.
“My primary instrument in school was saxophone, so I often joke no one would let me play in the orchestra let alone write for it! I’d composed for years without an opportunity to write for the soothing, lush sound of the strings, and I knew I’d have to take advantage of it while I was assigned to The U.S. Army Band.
“The most important performances by The Army Strings are State dinners and other official government functions. They will literally serenade the senior civilian and military leaders of the U.S. by strolling around the room, usually during coffee and dessert. It’s a wonderful way to demonstrate professional-ism and respect to honored guests. The title of my work, ‘Serenades,’ is both a nod to what the Army Strings do for our country, but also a tip of my hat to the famous string serenades of Tchaikovsky and Dvorak (which I studied during the composition of these movements).
“As I composed this piece, it occurred to me that I was writing music that suited the personalities of the women of my life, so I dedicated the five movements appropriately. I had always envisioned the first melodic idea for ‘Suzan’s Gigue’ as a piano piece, so it is dedicated to my mom, Suzan. My daughter Colleen, a ballerina, gets a Tchaikovsky-esque waltz. My sisters, Karen and Rebecca, would sometimes get silly around each other, and I picture them doing a mock tango during the third movement. My other daughter Allie was just a baby while I was composing this piece, so she gets a lullaby. Finally, my wife is a fan of coun-try music (and jokes that she’s a ‘country bumpkin’), so the hoedown is for her.”
Rhapsody in Blue.........................................................................George Gershwin
(Born September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York; Died July 11, 1937, in Hollywood, California)
Rhapsody in Blue remains an important monument in the history of American music as well as George Gershwin’s first major achievement in which he com-bined jazz and classical music in an extended composition. The composer’s great natural melodic gifts had already made him famous as a writer of popular songs, but he had not yet succeeded with larger musical forms and was just learning how they worked and what held them together.
Paul Whiteman’s Aeolian Hall concert on February 12, 1924 was an “Experi-ment in Modern Music” that launched George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Whiteman, who regularly led a popular band famous for jazz renditions, had played in major symphony orchestras, but made his reputation with an early version of the “big band sound,” popular in the 1930’s. He asked Gershwin to contribute a “serious” piano composition for this unusual formal concert in which his popular band was to perform. Whiteman knew Gershwin’s songs, and Gershwin ultimately felt flattered by Whiteman’s invitation to write and play a piece for piano and jazz band. Initially Gershwin had believed the proj-ect to be a prank and dismissed Whiteman’s proposal until an announcement in the New York Tribune stated that a Gershwin jazz concerto would be de-buted at the concert. Gershwin began work on January 7, 1924 for the Febru-ary 12th concert, and in a very short time, he composed a piano version of Rhapsody in Blue and Whiteman’s arranger, Ferde Grofé, who later wrote the Grand Canyon Suite, developed the orchestration. “There had been so much chatter about the limitations of jazz,” Gershwin said later, “not to speak of the manifest misunderstandings of its function [that] I resolved to kill that miscon-ception with one sturdy blow. I set to work with no set plan, no structure to which my music would conform. The Rhapsody began as a purpose, not a plan. I worked out a few themes and tried to conceive the composition as a whole. I hear it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America.” The occasion marked Gershwin’s first appearance as a concert pianist performing his own work.
Whiteman promoted the concert brilliantly and attracted an overflow audi-ence that included many musicians: Kreisler, Rachmaninoff, Stokowski, Heifetz and Sousa. What qualified as “experimental” about this event was the concert itself and the idea of legitimizing the American popular musical idiom. The audience’s reaction to Rhapsody in Blue was electric: at the work’s end, people stood and clapped and cheered; Gershwin had conquered a new world.
Gershwin often performed Rhapsody in Blue as a piano solo. For the first con-cert occasion though, his performance resembled those fabled performances of Mozart’s: Gershwin had left huge sections of the solo piano part blank with the instruction that he would nod to conductor Whiteman when it came time to bring in the orchestra. Gershwin improvised or reconstructed from memory the solo passages and wrote them on paper only after the premiere, when he had more time to concentrate on finalizing the composition.
Rhapsody in Blue is a succession of melodies rather than an organic whole, a work in which, as in the music of Liszt and Tchaikovsky, slight variation may take the place of true development. The striking quality of the melodies Gershwin assembled, the vitality of the piece’s rhythms and the force and the strength of the creative energy that the young composer put into creating Rhapsody in Blue, have given it a long and vigorous life. Today it is much loved for its evoca-tive nature and for its apotheosis of the American spirit.
Eternal Father, Strong to Save ........................................................Claude T. Smith(Born March 14, 1932 in Monroe City, MO;
Died December 13, 1987 in Kansas City, MO)
Claude Smith composed instrumental and choral music, completing over 110 band works, 12 orchestral works and 15 choral works; he composed solos for such artists as “Doc” Severinsen, Dale Underwood, Brian Bowman, Warren Covington, Gary Foster, Rich Matteson and Steve Seward.
He received his undergraduate training at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri and at the University of Kansas. Smith taught instrumental music in the public schools of Nebraska and Missouri. He also served as a member of the faculty of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, where he taught composition and theory and conducted the University Symphony Orchestra. Smith received numerous prestigious commissions including works for the U. S. Air Force Band, the “President’s Own” U. S. Marine Band, the U. S. Navy Band and the Army Field Band. His composition “Flight” was adapted as the “official March” of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute.
The hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save is the official hymn of the United States Navy. This treatment was Claude T. Smith’s first composition written specifically for and performed by a United States military band. It was also a significant turning point in Smith’s career as a composer as he met Dale Underwood, a saxophonist in the U. S. Navy Band, while the Navy Band was on tour and their friendship developed into a lasting relationship that would have important musical consequences. In 1975, Underwood suggested to the Navy Band that Smith would write an original work for the Navy Band’s 50th Anniversary Concert using the Navy hymn. Smith agreed, knowing that there were no funds to help with expenses, but he realized that this exposure could be very valuable for him.
Eternal Father, Strong to Save was premiered on March 4, 1975 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C. with Commander N. E. Muffley conducting. Based on the missionary hymn of the same name, composed in 1860 by William Whiting, Eternal Father, Strong to Save is distin-guished by its rich harmonies. It begins with a brilliant fanfare. The melody
of the hymn appears in a fugue. The finale is reminiscent of the introductory fanfare.
Tonight’s orchestral premiere was commissioned by the Manassas Symphony and orchestrated by Music Director James Villani.
Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo ................................................... Aaron Copland
(Born November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York;Died December 2, 1990 in North Tarrytown, New York)
In 1942, Copland composed Rodeo, the second of his three popular ballets on American subjects, to a commission from Agnes de Mille, who wrote him in early that year asking that he compose a score for a “cowboy ballet” that she wanted to choreograph for the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo, (the former Diagilev Ballet) which had been relocated to New York due to World War II. Subtitled “The Courting at Burnt Ranch,” the original title that Copland gave to the composition, Rodeo details the story of a young cowgirl who desperately attempts to find herself a man. She finally succeeds in making the desired impression on the head cowhand when she appears at a hoedown in a fetching red dress.
The ballet Rodeo tells its simple story with warmth and humor. Its premiere on October 16, 1942, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York was a large success, and Copland soon produced a four-movement suite from the ballet, which the Boston Pops Orchestra premiered in May 1943.
Copland quoted folk songs in this work in order to create a feel of time and place of the setting. He also used cowboy songs, fiddle melodies, railroad songs and a Scottish dance song. In “Buckaroo Holiday” he quotes “Sis Joe” and “If He’d be a Buckaroo;” the second movement, “Corral Nocturne” has no borrowed tunes; the slow tempoed third movement “Saturday Night Waltz” begins with the sound of country fiddlers tuning up, then goes on with a dance-like almost-quotation of “Goodbye, old Paint.” (or “I Ride an Old Paint”). The fi-nale, Hoe Down” is based on “Bonyparte,” and it also briefly quotes “McLeod’s Reel” as well as “Gilderoy” and “Tip Toe, Pretty Betty Martin,” all tunes Copland found in Traditional Music by Ira Ford. Most of these songs appear whole and in generally traditional settings; Copland also composed some original music in folk style, making it hard for the listener to know which is the original material and which not. Even though he incorporates folk-type music, the piece defi-nitely displays Copland’s musical personality and his brilliant orchestration.
The concert work Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo actually includes all but about five minutes of the full ballet. The score calls for three flutes (second and third doubling piccolo), two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, xylophone, glockenspiel, cymbals, wood block, snare drum, slapstick, bass drum, triangle, celesta, piano, harp, and strings.
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nedajewelersofmanassas.comManassas Shopping Center
9046 Mathis Avenue • Manassas, VA
“I would like to thank our loyal customers for 33 years in business.
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Dominion Valley Market Square571-248-6290 / 571-248-6291
TONYSNEWYORKPIZZA.COM9550 Center Street, Manassas, VA 20110
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Make checks payable to “Manassas Symphony Orchestra” and mail to P.O. Box 1370, Manassas, VA 20108, or visit our table in the lobby of the Hylton Center during
intermission. Any contributions received will be included in the next program.
The Manassas Symphony Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Conductor’s Circle $5000 +
Concert Sponsor $2500 - $4999
Patron $1000 - $2499
Associate $500 - $999
Sustainer $300 - $499
Supporter $100 - $299
Friends $10 - $99
I would like to support the Manassas Symphony Orchestra!
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Conductor’s Circle $5,000 Prince William County Park AuthorityNational Endowment for the Arts
Grand Patrons $2,500 - $4,999Dominion FoundationNOVECDonald B. Kenworthy In memory of Elizabeth Kenworthy, Mother of Natalie and Chris Short
Patrons $1,000 - $2,499Virginia Commission for the ArtsPiedmont Music ClubJim and Loretta BaxaAllen and Lisa HoweClaire and Andy LoerchJohn and Jane OrbanJames Villani
Associates $500 - $999Robert and Kathleen MarshMarianne and Phil GesottiDiane and Michael Murtha in memory of Sue Eisenberg Diane and Michael Murtha in memory of Dwight Fortna, Father of Diane Murtha
Sustainers $300 - $499Gail SanderPat and Bob Scherago
Supporters $100 - $299Aldo and Karla AnzzolinThe Bain FamilyDale and Ramin BaseriJames and Vicki ColeRobert CromerAustin HarrisJesse JohnsonJanice KremerDr. and Mrs. Christopher LeetRichard and Joan LunsfordMicron Ed and Susan PowellJohn and Shirley RiceBarbara Ondo and John StarsiakRev. C. Milton Rodgers IIIRobert and Kathleen SeefeldtJohn and Audrey ShortRichard and Wenda TraversJoan M. Van Doren in memory of Sue Eisenberg
Friends $25 - $99Hazel BoyerConnie and Stuart GilmanKay and Duane LarrieuDan and Glenna OhlmsDr. and Mrs. Gernot PomrenkeConstance Tyler
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MasterPiece, LLCDIRECT MAIL SERVICES
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8707 Quarry Road • Manassas, VA 20110703-369-5454 • 703-631-9033 • 800-854-8669Fax: 703-369-0492 • Email: [email protected]
Newsletters • Booklets • Magazines • BrochuresPocket Folders • Calendars • More
Services500 to 500,000 • Electronic Prepress
Single (One) to Full ColorTypesetting & Design • Full Bindery Capabilities
Pick-up & Delivery
Excellent ServiceCompetitive Prices - Convenient
Local Commercial Printing
thAnk yOuThe Manassas Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the following for their contributions, time and efforts. Because of their support, we
continue to bring quality symphonic music to you, our audience members, each season.
ABS Graphics and Advertising, Inc.Hylton Performing Arts Center staff
MasterPiece, LLCManassas City Schools
Payne PublishingPiedmont Music Club
Prince William County SchoolsPrince William County Arts Council
Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria CampusOur Advertisers – please patronize them and thank them for their supportOur Contributors & Sponsors – please thank them when you meet them
Our Board Members and their familiesOur Orchestra Members and their families
GRAPHICS & ADVERTISING, INC.
703.361.7415www.absgraphics.net
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Supporting the Manassas Symphony’s 2015-2016 Concert Season
Marketing Collateral | Brochures | Posters | Displays| InvitationsAnnouncements | Business Forms | Newsletters | Direct Mail
Print Advertising | Corporate Identity | Branding
OFFERING HIGH QUALITY PRINTING AT DOWN-TO-EARTH PRICES
Brochures $200/1000*
Postcards $100/1000*Business Cards
$50/1000
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Whether your passion is painting, sculpting, music, or dance…NOVA has a class for you.
and online
Experience the Arts at Northern Virginia Community College
8719 Plantation LaneManassas, VA 20110
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Adults & Children
Preventative Care
Implants
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Comprehensive Care
Nitrous Oxide
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F a m i l y & C o s m e t i c D e n t i s t r y
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Dr. Jerald Kriger, PodiatristFOOT & ANKLE CARE8605 Sudley RoadManassas, VA 20110703-330-4450Fax 703-330-4855
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Prince William Neuroscience CenterBoard Certified Neurologists
Yvette C. Sandoval, M.D.Child and Adult Neurology
Hoda Hachincho, M.D.Adolescent and Adult Neurology
MANASSAS OFFICE8650 Sudley Rd
Suite 300Manassas, VA 20110
HAYMARKET OFFICE15195 Heathcote Blvd.
Suite 330Haymarket, VA 20169
703-369-0600Fax 703-369-7487
We are here for all your neurological services.
Artist, lu harris“Fine Art with Flair”
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PASTEL & MIXED MEDIA CLASSES
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"When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." ~ Walt Disney
For additional information:
LLI - Manassas , P.O. Box 162Manassas, Virginia 20108
571-606-0247
The LifelongLearning Institute
Manassas (LLI)
Come and Join Us...for educational and social opportunities in a fun and friendly environment (with nohomework!) for adults 50 years of age orolder. Topics include: Health & Fitness,
Religion, Cooking, Arts & Literature,History, Science, and even
“Are you smarter than your cellphone?”We also offer trips and support to schoolswith the STEM program, plus much more!The NOVA Manassas Campus hosts LLI.
Classes are held in the Manassas,Gainesville, and Haymarket areas.
Business & Corporate Civil Litigation Employment Estate Planning
Government Contracts Intellectual Property
Land Use, Zoning & Development Municipal Law Real Estate
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The Micron Foundation strives to build a strong community and promote robust education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
With more than 1,800 team members in Manassas, we value what the Manassas Symphony Orchestra brings to our community and are proud to support their work.
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Proud to Support the Manassas Symphony Orchestra at Hylton Performing Arts Center
Join us on the Plaza as we kick-off the
holiday season with a dazzling fireworks
show and family fun activities!
• Holiday Performances by Manassas
Symphony Orchestra members
• Fireworks Show
• Visit with Santa and Mrs Claus
• Horse and Carriage Rides and More!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 5-8 PM
FIREWORKSSPECTACULAR& FAMILY FUN
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