WEST SIDE STORY: SYMPHONIC DANCES

Welcome

Lawrence Loh | Music Director

About

October 14, 2023 @ 7:30 pm
Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater
421 Montgomery St. Syracuse , NY 13202

Program

LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Overture to Candide

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Concerto for Cello in A minor, Op. 129
I. Nicht zu schnell
II. Langsam
III. Sehr lebhaft
Mr. Elliott, cello

INTERMISSION

ANNA CLYNE
This Midnight Hour

LEONARD BERNSTEIN
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
I. Prologue
II. “Somewhere”
III. Scherzo
IV. Mambo
V. Cha Cha
VI. Meeting Scene
VII. “Cool” Fugue
VIII. Rumble
IX. Finale

Thank you to our concert sponsor!

Thank you to our media sponsor!

Featured Artists

STERLING ELLIOTT | cello

Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. Already in his young career, he has appeared with major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, with noted conductors Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Thomas Wilkins, Jeffrey Kahane, Mei Ann Chen and others.

This season, Elliott debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and New Jersey Symphony. He also performs the world premiere of a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras including the Orlando Philharmonic and music director Eric Jacobsen. He makes his UK recital debut at Wigmore Hall in February.

The 2022-2023 season saw his debuts at the Aspen Music Festival, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Gil Shaham, as well as with the Colorado Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and Ft. Worth Symphony, among others. He appeared in recital under the auspices of the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, Shriver Hall in Baltimore, the Tippett Rise Festival and Capitol Region Classical in Albany, NY.

Fast becoming a favorite on the summer festival circuit, Sterling has appeared at Music@Menlo, Chamberfest in Cleveland and Chamberfest Northwest in Calgary, Music at Angel Fire and the La Jolla Music Society. In Summer 2023, he made his orchestral debut with the San Francisco Symphony; performed chamber music with Nicola Benedetti, Stefan Jackiw and others at the Edinburgh Festival; and made a return appearance at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Sterling Elliott participates in several programs alongside exceptionally talented young artists. In April 2023, he was selected by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for its Bowers Program, a three-year residency. As a Bowers Program artist, he will perform in CMS tours nationally, and play subscription concerts at Alice Tully Hall. In June 2023, the London-based Young Classical Artists Trust named him their YCAT–Music Masters Robey Artist, a two-year program during which YCAT will provide UK booking and management and Sterling will fulfill an ambassadorial role, leading workshops and engaging with young learners in schools across London to inspire and enhance their musical education. In Spring 2022, Sterling participated in Performance Today’s Young Artist Residency, which featured educational events, interviews and a feature on the nationally syndicated radio program.

Sterling has a long history with the Sphinx Organization where he won the 2014 Junior Division Competition, becoming the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the Sphinx Competition. The following year he went on to tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi before being awarded the Organization’s Isaac Stern Award in 2016. This season, Sterling will receive a Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization, awarded to artists who, early in their career, demonstrate artistic excellence, outstanding work ethic, a spirit of determination, and an ongoing commitment to leadership and their communities.

Born into a musical household, Sterling initially wanted to play the violin like his older brother and sister. After a bit of encouragement, he completed The Elliott Family String Quartet, an ensemble that enjoyed personalized arrangements of genres such as bluegrass, gospel, and funk music.

Sterling is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick and Clara Kim, following completion of his Master of Music and undergraduate degrees at Juilliard. He is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.

LAWRENCE LOH | conductor

Described as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville) Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.

After an extensive two ...

After an extensive two year search, Lawrence Loh was recently named Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra beginning in the Spring of 2024. Since 2015, he has served as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly called Symphoria), the successor to the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that might have seemed impossible at the beginning,” (Syracuse.com) The Syracuse Orchestra and Lawrence Loh show that it is possible to create a “new, more sustainable artistic institution from the ground up.”

Appointed Assistant Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 2005, Mr Loh was quickly promoted to Associate and Resident Conductor within the first three years of working with the PSO. Always a favorite among Pittsburgh audiences, Loh returns frequently to his adopted city to conduct the PSO in a variety of concerts. Mr. Loh previously served as Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.

Mr. Loh’s recent guest conducting engagements include the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony (D.C.), Utah Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Symphony and the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral. His summer appearances include the festivals of Grant Park, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Tanglewood with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua, Sun Valley, Shippensburg, Bravo Vail Valley, the Kinhaven Music School and the Performing Arts Institute (PA).

As a self-described “Star Wars geek” and film music enthusiast, Loh has conducted numerous sold-out John Williams and film music tribute concerts. Part of his appeal is his ability to serve as both host and conductor. “It is his enthusiasm for Williams’ music and the films for which it was written that is Loh’s great strength in this program. A fan’s enthusiasm drives his performances in broad strokes and details and fills his speaking to the audience with irresistible appeal. He used no cue cards. One felt he could speak at filibuster length on Williams’ music.” (Pittsburgh Tribune)

Mr Loh has assisted John Williams on multiple occasions and has worked with a wide range of pops artists from Chris Botti and Ann Hampton Callaway to Jason Alexander and Idina Menzel. As one of the most requested conductors for conducting Films in Concert, Loh has led Black Panther, Star Wars (Episodes 4-6), Jaws, Nightmare Before Christmas, Jurassic Park, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and Singin’ in the Rain, among other film productions.

Lawrence Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary. Follow him on instagram @conductorlarryloh or Facebook at @lawrencelohconductor or visit his website, www.lawrenceloh.com

Program Notes

Although we didn’t know it when we scheduled this concert anchored in the art of Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), our choice of timing turns out to be have been auspicious: Bradley Cooper’s new film about Bernstein’s marriage to Felicia Montealegre, Maestro, is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 22.

The program catches Bernstein at a high point in his career. Candide (1956) and West Side Story (1957) opened within less than a year of each other—and they confirmed ...

The program catches Bernstein at a high point in his career. Candide (1956) and West Side Story (1957) opened within less than a year of each other—and they confirmed the 38-year-old Leonard Bernstein as our most protean musician. It’s not simply that he was already a world-famous conductor (he had made his New York Philharmonic debut in his early twenties and was appointed co-principal conductor in 1957) and a startlingly good concert pianist. After all, lots of conductors launched their careers early, and many were also first-rate instrumentalists. Nor was it simply that he wrote music as well. So did many of the other great conductors (including, of course, his idol Gustav Mahler). No, what distinguished Bernstein was the astonishing range of his sympathies, in terms of both genre and mood.

He’d already written symphonic music, popular musicals like On the Town (source of the song “New York, New York”), ballets, and even a blues song, “Big Stuff,” for Billie Holiday. He was equally at home in radiant music evoking innocent love and in rough music bristling with working class grit (his film score for On the Waterfront). What made Candide and West Side Story stand out in particular was the skill with which he managed to combine all those different voices into works that were staggering in their variety, yet simultaneously consistent in their vision—works in which high-toned classical procedures (for instance, the fugue in West Side Story’s “Cool”) rubbed up against vernacular idioms.

Besides their eclecticism, Candide and West Side Story had another quality in common: Both were politically committed. Candide was based on Voltaire’s novel from 1659, a bitterly satiric attack on a wide range of social ills that still plague the world more than 350 years later. West Side Story, based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, was less satiric, more direct—but it was no less bitter in its depiction of racial and ethnic violence, and (more important still) in its searing indictment of the ways in which the powers-that-be use (and even encourage) that animosity for their own ends.

The spirit of their literary sources certainly helped fuel the spirit of the two works. At the same time, though, Bernstein and his collaborators (including writers Lillian Hellman and the young Stephen Sondheim) drew on a rich tradition of eclectic, socially engaged musical theater that, in the mid-20th century, included such works as the Kern/Hammerstein Show Boat, Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle will Rock (a work Bernstein conducted), and especially the Blitzstein version of Weill and Brecht’s Threepenny Opera (a work that Bernstein also conducted and that was still in the middle of its unprecedented five-year off-Broadway run when Candide and West Side Story opened). Add to this the sheer genius of the creators, and both “musicals” took this tradition to new heights—and radically influenced the history of musical theater.

I put the term “musicals” in quotation marks because, in a sense, they reformulated the conventions of the genre. Candide may have opened on Broadway as a musical, but Bernstein titled it a “comic operetta” (a slippery term), and in fact, it has had (like Threepenny) tremendous success in opera houses around the world. The work has been subject to numerous revisions over the years, with changes in its orchestration, in its libretto, and even in what songs are included, who sings them, and what order appear in. It sometimes seems as if no two productions are musically identical. But whatever version you hear, it always begins with the bubbly, Rossini-esque Overture: a “playful” introduction, in the words of conductor Larry Loh. It was the first Bernstein work that Larry ever conducted—indeed, while at Aspen, he cajoled a group of friends to form an orchestra just so he could perform it. His enthusiasm is not hard to understand: The Overture to Candide is so widely beloved, in fact, that it has probably become the most popular 20th-century overture on classical concerts.

West Side Story has been successful in the opera house, too—as well, of course, as in two wildly popular screen versions. In the concert hall, it’s usually represented by the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, which was compiled in 1960. The title is significant. West Side Story is, as the score puts it, “based on a conception of Jerome Robbins.” Robbins, a Balanchine protégé, was, among other things, a dancer and choreographer who shared Bernstein’s range, working in classical ballet, Broadway, and film. He had already collaborated with Bernstein on several works, including the ballets Facsimile and Fancy Free—and dance was always integral to the conception of West Side Story.

That dance element dominates the Symphonic Dances, which, as Larry points out, sidesteps many of the show’s most popular songs. Still, for all the youthful kinetic energy of the score, it ends—as the show ends—soberly. In Romeo and Juliet, of course, both main characters die; in West Side Story, Maria remains after the death of her brother and her lover, offering a possibility of hope for the future. It’s an ambiguous possibility, however—the heartbreaking final measures, perhaps modeled on Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, leave us up in the air.

Anna Clyne (b. 1980) may not have been directly influenced by Bernstein, but she shares some of his musical sensibility. Her brilliantly orchestrated tone poem This Midnight Hour (2015) merges ferocity and rapture in a way that may bring West Side Story to mind; and it certainly reveals the eclectic resistance to stylistic constraints that we hear in both Bernstein scores. Then, too, like the Bernstein works, it has a literary foundation, having been inspired by two poems. One is a three-line snapshot by Juan Ramón Jiménez that describes music, in Robert Bly’s translation, as “a naked woman running mad through the pure night”; the other is the opening of Charles Baudelaire’s troubling “Harmonie du soir” (see Appendix).

The resulting work we might well be called “cinematic”—in several ways. As Larry points out, the macabre opening sets a cinematic mood; and although it’s not entirely soaked with the lush Hollywood sound we get from blockbusters scored by Korngold and John Williams (although there is a bit of that here), it does engage in rapid cutting among different moods. The piece is only 14 minutes or so long, but from the opening, marked “Ferocious with drive” to the final measure marked “Aggressive,” Clyne shifts emotional landscape more than twenty times, interleaving the “Feverish” with the “Regal,” alternating the “Soaring and Passionate” with the “Skittish.” There are some folk inflections, too; and toward the middle, rhythmically driving music collides against what the composer called a “Parisian-esque waltz,” with half the violas playing a quarter-step off from their colleagues to help imitate the sound of an accordion. Clyne hopes that the music will “evoke a visual journey”—and there’s no doubt that it provides an uneasy but thrilling sense of adventure.

The 1850 Cello Concerto by Robert Schumann (1810–1856) is an ideal complement to Bernstein and Clyne, for two reasons. First, Bernstein was a devoted advocate of Schumann’s music, especially of the Cello Concerto, which he performed often and recorded with four different cellists in the course of his career. Second, the work provides a needed contrast to its hyperkinetic companions. Written late in the composer’s life, it’s an inward, slightly melancholy piece, largely without exhibitionist flash (although still extremely difficult to play) until the finale. Indeed, it’s so restrained that while his wife Clara Schumann loved it from the beginning, it took a while for it to catch on more widely. Even as late as the middle of the 20th century, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was sufficiently frustrated with the sound of the orchestration that he had his friend Shostakovich re-orchestrate it for him, although he eventually came around to the original version.

In form (although not in spirit), the Concerto is reminiscent of the Violin Concerto by the Schumanns’ good friend Mendelssohn, which we heard at our first Masterworks this year. It’s in three linked movements, tightly unified in its thematic content; and perhaps taking a cue from Clara’s Piano Concerto (which we presented last year), Robert showcases the orchestra’s principal cellist, who has a major role in the second movement.

Heard on its own, it would be easy to see the Concerto as a reflection of, even submission to, the encroaching syphilis-caused mental illness that clouded his final years. But as I’ve said often, there’s no easy connection between composers’ biographical situations and their music—and by all accounts, this was a relatively happy period in his life. He composed it, astonishingly, within a two-week burst of energy in 1850—and a week later, he was at work on his Symphony No. 3, one of his most life-affirming works. Then, too, in his final days of lucidity, before his suicide attempt and his decision to enter a sanatorium, he found the act of correcting proofs for the piece a source of solace. No surprise: as Clara recognized, it’s a work of tremendous beauty and strength.

And don’t forget: more music by Robert Schumann—his Symphony No. 1 (“Spring”)— will be featured on our first Casual Concert, on Sunday afternoon, November 12, at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Peter J. Rabinowitz

Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@ExperienceSymphoria.org

APPENDIX

Harmonie du soir – by Charles Baudelaire

Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!

Chaque fleur s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir;
Le violon frémit comme un coeur qu’on afflige;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.

Le violon frémit comme un coeur qu’on afflige,
Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir;
Le soleil s’est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.

Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir,
Du passé lumineux recueille tout vestige!
Le soleil s’est noyé dans son sang qui se fige…
Ton souvenir en moi luit comme un ostensoir!

Harmonie du soir
translated by William Aggeler:

The season is at hand when swaying on its stem
Every flower exhales perfume like a censer;
Sounds and perfumes turn in the evening air;
Melancholy waltz and languid vertigo!

Every flower exhales perfume like a censer;
The violin quivers like a tormented heart;
Melancholy waltz and languid vertigo!
The sky is sad and beautiful like an immense altar.

The violin quivers like a tormented heart,
A tender heart, that hates the vast, black void!
The sky is sad and beautiful like an immense altar;
The sun has drowned in his blood which congeals…

A tender heart that hates the vast, black void
Gathers up every shred of the luminous past!
The sun has drowned in his blood which congeals…
Your memory in me glitters like a monstrance!

Leaving a Musical Legacy: Evelyn Brenzel

Music was central to Evelyn Brenzel’s life. A longtime math teacher at HW Smith High School and devoted caretaker for her beloved Doberman Pinschers, Evelyn was a committed member of the Symphoria Family.

Evelyn’s friend shares how much music meant to Evelyn: “When Maestro Loh spoke the words “Beethoven’s Seventh” at the 2020 Symphoria reveal party, Evelyn turned to me with a look of such joy on her face that it still gives me goosebumps. We continued to attend live concerts with her until the very night before the state shut it all down in March.

We were worried about how she would cope, but technology saved the day. After Symphoria’s very moving streamed performance of the Seventh last fall, she emailed me to say ‘I’m in heaven.’”

Not only did Evelyn attend as many performances as possible as an audience member, but she was also a musician. As a college student, Evelyn had the opportunity to sing the Brahms Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra on a live broadcast as the nation mourned the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963. Sadly, Evelyn passed away in December 2020.

We were honored to learn that she generously included Symphoria in her will, making sure that future audiences will have access to the beautiful music she loved so much.
Your legacy gift can keep Symphoria playing beautiful music. If you would like to learn more about how you can create your own musical legacy in Central New York, or if Symphoria is already in your plans, please contact Katie Kaczorowski, Director of Development at 315-434-5279 or KKac@ExperienceSymphoria.org.

The Orchestra

VIOLIN I
Peter Rovit, Concertmaster
Sonya Stith Williams, Associate Concertmaster
Supported by Virginia Parker, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Edgar Tumajyan, Assistant Concertmaster
Supported by David A. A. Ridings
Noemi Miloradovic
Liviu Dobrota
Asher Wulfman
Laura Smith
Yoojin Lee
Bin Gui

VIOLIN II
Amy Christian, Principal
Anita Gustafson, Assistant Principal
Yurie Mitsuhashi
Sara Silva
Linda Carmona
Minjoo Moon
Adam Jeffreys

VIOLA
Heejung Yang, Principal
Supported by an Anonymous Friend
Szu Hua (Mia) Chen, Assistant Principal
Carol Sasson
Arvilla Wendland
William Ford-Smith

CELLO
Heidi Hoffman, Principal
Lindsay Groves, Assistant Principal
Gregory Wood, Assistant Principal
Walden Bass
George Macero
Supported by William & Nancy Byrne

BASS
Spencer Phillips, Principal
Supported by Lou & Kathy Lemos
Michael Fittipaldi, Assistant Principal
Supported by Barbara Davis, in memory of Leslie Davis
Joshua Kerr
Marshall Henry

FLUTE
Xue Su, Principal*
Supported by Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Leanna Ginsburg, Principal^
Kelly Covert

PICCOLO
Kelly Covert

OBOE
Eduardo Sepúlveda, Principal
The Philip R. MacArthur Chair
Patricia Sharpe

CLARINET
Allan Kolsky, Principal
John Friedrichs, Assistant First Chair

BASS CLARINET
John Friedrichs

BASSOON
Rachel Koeth, Principal
Jessica Wooldridge King

CONTRABASSOON
Jessica Wooldridge King

HORN
Jon Garland, Principal
Nancy & David Ridings Chair
Jonathan Dozois
Supported by Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Julie Bridge, Associate Principal
Tyler Ogilvie

TRUMPET
John Raschella, Principal
Robert C. Soderberg Chair
Roy Smith

TROMBONE
Benjamin Dettelback, Principal
David Seder
Gabriel Ramos

TUBA
John Caughman

TIMPANI
Patrick Shrieves
Supported by Mary Ann Tyszko

PERCUSSION
Michael W. Bull, Principal
Supported by Alice & Michael Kendrick
Ernest Muzquiz
Laurance Luttinger

PERSONNEL MANAGER
Arvilla Wendland

LIBRARIAN
Ben Dettelback

*On Leave
^One-Year

Donor List

Symphoria appreciates all the generous gifts received September 1, 2022 through September 26, 2023 from the supporters listed below. Every effort is made to ensure listed accuracy, but if you have a question, please contact Kelly Covert at (315) 434-5645 or kcovert@experiencesymphoria.org.

Onward, Symphoria Donors

Gifts received as part of this major gift campaign. Donors making campaign gifts of $20,000+ receive recognition for underwriting a musician’s chair or sponsoring a concert for 3 years.

Anonymous: Principal Viola Chair
David &...

Onward, Symphoria Donors

Gifts received as part of this major gift campaign. Donors making campaign gifts of $20,000+ receive recognition for underwriting a musician’s chair or sponsoring a concert for 3 years.

Anonymous: Principal Viola Chair
David & Cheryl Abrams: One Masterworks Concert each year
Estates of Evelyn Brenzel & Ann Marie Cronin: Choral Concerts
Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth: Second Horn Chair
William & Nancy Byrne: Fifth Cello Chair
Barbara Davis: Assistant Principal Bass Chair in memory of Leslie Davis
Michael & Alice Kendrick: Principal Percussion Chair
Lou & Kathy Lemos: Principal Bass Chair
Robert & Vicki Lieberman: Concertmaster Chair
Virginia Parker: Associate Concertmaster Chair in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan: Principal Flute Chair in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
David A. A. Ridings: Assistant Concertmaster Chair
Mary Ann Tyszko: Timpani Chair
Donors contributing to the Frederick B. Parker, M.D. Memorial Gala: Conductor’s Podium in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.

Annual Fund Donors

Gifts received annually from individuals to support Symphoria’s mission to engage and inspire all community members throughout Central New York with outstanding orchestral and ensemble performances, and innovative education and outreach initiatives

$25,000+
Estate of Evelyn Brenzel
The Feng Family
Virginia Parker
David A.A. Ridings
Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan

$15,000 – $24,999
Craig & Kathleen Byrum
Alice & Michael Kendrick
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz
Mary Ann Tyszko

$10,000 – $14,999
Anonymous
Barbara Davis
David Halleran
Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith
Kathy & Lou Lemos
James & Marilyn Seago
Margaret Shields
Peter & Cherry Thun

$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
David & Cheryl Abrams
George Bain
James & Joanne Beckman
Estate of Ruth Bradner
Jonathan & Michele Chai
Lewis & Elaine Dubroff
Robert & Vicki Feldman
Harold Husovsky, M.D. &
Susan E. Stred, M.D.
Susan R. Klenk
Charles Lutz
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Edwina Norton
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd

$2,500 – $4,999
Michael Barkun
Donald C. Blair & Nancy L. Dock
Jonathan & Kathy Bowen
David Brittain
Paul G. Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Deborah A. Cunningham &
Michael W. Bull
William & Nancy Byrne
Mark Costaldi
Willson Cummer &
Michelle Breidenbach
Roger & Naomi Demuth
David Driesen & Jeanne Otten
Daniel & Karen Fuleihan
Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon
Daniel & Julia Harris
Bruce Irvine
Robin & Diane Jones
Dr. Young & Kelly Lee
Zahi & Marion Makhuli
Paul & Vivian Mosbo
David Rankert
Irving G. & Ava Raphael
Ron Ferguson & Helen H. Reed
Neil & Sandy Rosenfeld
Sharye Skinner
William & Margaret Thickstun
Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar

$1,000 – $2,499
Neville Sachs & Carol Adamec
Charles & Marie Albee
Thomas & Pamela Antonini
Richard & Lynne Bennett
William & Sandra Bennett
Dr. & Mrs. William P. Berkery
Carolyn Bernstein
Thomas Bersani & Joan Christy
Renate BeVard
Kathleen Bice & C.L. Richards
William & Audrey Boyd
Cecelia Broton
Joseph Byrne
Joseph Cerroni & Linda Tassa
Brian & Judith Chanatry
Amy & Rob Christian
Greg & Lynn Clarke
Linda & Bill Cohen
Bob & Bobbie Constable
Michael & Wendy Cynamon
Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger
Patricia DeAngelis
Patricia Callahan & David Dee
Mantosh & Anita Dewan
Michael Lee & Deborah Donahue
Katheryn Doran
Bill & Betsy Elkins
Jim & Shari Freyer
Chris C. Gagas
Jon Garland
Thomas & Cindy Giffin
Winifred Greenberg
Tim Guhl & Carol Sasson
Barbara Haas
Burt & Sue Harbison
Donald & Donna Henry
Joyce Homan
Steven & Elaine Jacobs
Richard Jaeger
Drs. Harvey & Deborah Kliman
David & Gloria Kreh
Frederick Kucinski & Barbara Omicinski
Charles & Stephanie Ladd
Henry & Nancy Lambright
Robert & Pat Lebel
Charles & Hwasun Loh
Lawrence & Jennifer Loh
John MacAllister & Laurel Moranz
James MacKillop
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
John & Candace Marsellus
Suzanne & Kevin McAuliffe
Jeremy & Michelle McKay
Thomas McKay & Dianne Apter
Tom & Mary Lou Mees
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
David Mirabito
David & Beth Mitchell
Ralph Mosca
Eric & Judy Mower
Ed & Alice Nanno
Dr. Patricia J. Numann
David & Janice Panasci
John & Sheila Parker
Amy M. Parker & Paul S. Stein
David Pida
John W. Przepiora & Carolyn Stark
Mihael & Kimberly Puc
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Paula Rosenbaum & Jacques Lewalle
Martha Sutter & David Ross
Arnold & Libby Rubenstein
Kelly & Steven Scheinman
Margery Rose & Henry Schoeneck
Mr. & Mrs. William Schu
Gracia Sears
Patricia Sharpe
Craig Simmons
Frank Smith
Mark & Beth Steigerwald
Ed & Louise Stevens
Howard & Anita Weinberger
Miriam Weiner
Jeremy Winston & Tina Maxian
Katherine Woodle
David & Emily Wormuth

$500 – $999
Ronald & Susan Berger
Marion & Elizabeth Bickford
William Billingham
Joseph & Mary Browne
Craig & Carol Buckhout
Andrea Calarco
Ronald Capone
Ronald & Nancy Caravan
Carol Watson
Stella Castro
Shiu-Kai Chin
Robert & Marsha Chopko
Sam & Carolyn Clemence
George & Deborah Coble
Richard & Marjorie Cohen
Joan Conine
R. Patrick & Margaret Corbett
Toby Cosgrove
Kelly & Kelly Covert
Barbara Czarnecki
Michael & Elizabeth Daly
Becky Dodd
John & Janet Dwyer
Guy & Nancy Easter
William Eberhardt
Richard & Jill Ertinger
Elizabeth Etoll
John & Patricia Fey
Earleen Foulk
Adam Gagas
Susan Gifford
Rev. & Mrs. Michael & Alisa Grinnals
Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Estelle M. Hahn
Lamont & Joan Hahn
Bryce & Judith Hand
Joan M. Hanlin
Margaret Hermann
Nancy & Samuel Hester
Katarina Oladottir & Martin Hewitt
Steven & Amy Heyman
Michael & Victoria Hoffman
Peter Vanable & Anne Jamison
Carolyn Kanaley
Kiyoshi & Yasuko Kimura
Robin Kinnel
Christopher & Deborah Knight
G. Roberts & Lauralyn Kolb
Ronald & Cynthia Kowalski
Andrea Latchem
Richard Levy
Susan Lison
Janet Little
Michael & Jean Loftus
Linda Loomis
Doug Lyon
Christopher J. Mack & Catherine Diviney
Donald J. & Patricia MacLaughlin
Nels & Deborah Magnuson
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Susan E. Martineau
Lowell McBurney & Carrie Penner
Robert & Susanna McVaugh
George Mehallow
Lois Meyer
Mark & Debbie Miller
Donna Miller
Richard Molitor & Karen Nezelek
Richard & Susan Moran
Roger J. Morton
Pamela & Matthew Murchison
Barbara Nevaldine
Fran & Sally Lou Nichols
Dr. & Mrs. Anis I. Obeid
Drs. Wale & Bimpe Oguntola
Mary Pat Oliker
John & Danielle O’Loughlin
Lleni Pach
Patricia Peach
Marc & Marco Ramos
Donnaline Richman
Jonathan Richman
Carl Rubino & Barbara Gold
David & Anne Schmitz
Edward & Lois Schroeder
Steven & Marilynn Schroeder
Larry & Connie Semel
Judith B. Smith
William Smith & Barbara Ford
H. Paul Steiner
Nan & Carter Strickland
Thomas E. Talbot
Lawrence Tanner & Linda LeMura
Michael & Nancy Teodecki
Norma Tippett
Robert Turner & Elizabeth Jensen
Joseph & Carole Valesky
Stephen & Margaret Webb
Sally Webster
Jenna Weitzel
David & Jayne Wilson
Estate of Robert W. Daly, M.D.
Charles Woods & Gail Azeredo-Woods
Richard & Kelly Ziemba

$100 – $499
Anonymous (5)
Leander Abbott
Ellen M. Agnew
David Allen
Douglas & Elizabeth Anderson
Robert & Jeanne Anderson
Robert & Alice Andrews
Arco Art Violin Shop
Manuel Ares
Peggy Ogden & Tim Atseff
Dave & Marge Babcock
Jo Anne Bakeman
W. Gary & Jean Baker
Dennis & Gail Baldwin
William & Evelyn Baldwin
Kirsten & Jonathan Basch
Walden & Emily Bass
Todd & Sophia Battaglia
Dale & Patricia Beatty
Jean Beers
Barbara Bell
Thomas & Susan Bergemann
Robert Berger
Janine Bernard
Edward & Angela Bernat
Michael Birnkrant
Diana Biro & Eric Rogers
Nicolina Bisson
Marilyn Bittner
Richard & Andrea Blair
Patricia Blochowiak
Susan Boettger
Carl & Alice Borning
Dr. Michael & Melanie Bowser
Bernie & Ona Bregman
Carroll Brown & Ann Young
Ted Brown & Anne Munly
Bryant Buchanan & Sharon Wise
Mary Burgess
Alfred Kelly & Sharon Burke
Frank Byrne & Mary McCune
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Calo
Lawrence & Fran Campbell
Nancy Caple
Catherine L Cardelus
Patricia Carey
Judith A. Carr
Edward & Sarah Castilano
Anthony Catsimatides
Elaine Ceresko
Val & Steve Churchill
Bart & Jean Clapsaddle
Thomas & Joan Clark
John & Christine Clark
Joe & Nancy Clayton
Richard J. Clemons
Kenneth & Lynn Cline
Paul & Linda Cohen
Carol Colvin
Lawrence & Mary Frances Comfort
Sidney Cominsky
Mary Ann Connor
Charles & Barbara Coon
Robert & Lorrie Cooney
James Cosenza
Theodore Cox & Colleen Snow
Diana F. Cramer
Helen Cronk
Raymond Cummings
Arthur & Mary D’Addario
Daniel D’Agostino
Darrin Dayton
Virginia Debenedictis
Bonnie DeBoer
William & Terry Delavan
Margrit Diehl
Mr. & Mrs. Manfried Diflo
David & Dana DiGennaro
James & Donna Dispenza
Alan & Linda Dolmatch
Emily A. Dopkowski
Joseph Downing
Rebecca A Downing
Rebecca Dreher
Corinne Driscoll
Stephen & Michaeline Driscoll
David & Robin Drucker
Elizabeth Dugan
Carol Dumka
Dorothy Dunham
Nan Eaton
Cantor Kari Eglash & Joel Eglash
Barbara Egtvedt
John M. & Margaret Elliott
Richard Ellison & Gillian Epstein
Christopher Erat
Michele & Jack Estabrook
Brant Fagan & Mary Jane Abt-Fagan
Caragh Fahy
Jennifer Fais & Noel Sylvester
Rev. Janet L. Fechner
Mark Feldman & Christine Riley
Paul Ferenchak
Jane Fields
John Fields
Maryann Finn
Mary Ann Finn
Robert & Terry Flower
Michael & Susan Fox
Nancy Freeborough & Swiat Kaczmar
Kenneth & Kathleen Freer
Lanny Freshman
John & Annette Friedrichs
Eileen Gannon
Barbara Genton
Sharon & David Gerber
Christine Geyer
Sandra Gingold
Heidi Gitzen
Edward & Laurel Golash
Irwin & Beth Goldberg
Jacki & Michael Goldberg
William Goodwin
Michael & Wendy Gordon
Charles & Sandra Gowing
Jack & Yana Graver
Bob Graves
Stephen L. & Julia Graziano
Mark Greene & Cynthia Dowd Greene
Edmund C. & Nancy Greml
Jonathan & Elisabeth Groat
Robert & Martha Group
Gary Quirk & Charlotte Haas
Mary Elizabeth Haas
Patricia Hagemann
Patrick Hahn & Susan Drummond
Steve & Theresa Haigney
Dana & Susan Hall
Richard R. Hall
John Hallihan & Ethelwyn Soper
Daniel & Diane Halsey
Ruth Pass Hancock
Baird & Sarah Hansen
Marilyn Hanson
John Harnois
Laurence & Ann Harris
Richard & Ann Harris
Thomas & Melanie Hartzheim
Douglas & Nancy Hatch
Susan & Richard Hawks
Ronald & Irene Hebert
Suzanne Heiligman
Richard & Susan Heimerman
Rev. Kenneth Heuermann
Richard & Janice Hezel
Thomas D. Higgins
Drs. Joseph Himmelsbach & Paula Trief
Thomas Hirasuna & Jean Hunter
Charles & Carol Hladun
Geoffrey Holm
Alyse Holstein
Ruth Hotaling
Mary E. Hough
Jane Hudson
Peter & Mary Huntington
Patricia Infantine
Nicki & Brian Inman
Mike & Mary Kate Intaglietta
Wanda Irish
Richard Isome & Wendy Carl Isome
Janet Jaffe
Todd & Taryn Jirousek
Edward Johnson
Lewis & Julie Johnson
Anthony & Kathy Joseph
John & Gwenn Judge
Paul & Wendy Jutzeler
Philip & Judy Kaplan
Nancy Karapin
Lexi Carlson & Sebastian Karcher
Amy Kemp
David Kennedy
Richard Killmer
George & Gloria Kilpatrick
Mark & Jessica King
Sandy Kinsella
Jeffrey Kirshner & Lorraine Rapp
Barry R. & Kathryn Kogut
Michael & Karen Kolceski
Allan Kolsky & Ellen Somers
Dean R. Kolts
Richard & Roxanne Kopecky
Donna L. Korol
Rick & Barb Crompton
Thomas Krahe
Barbara E. Krenzer & John Stone
Roger Krieger
Lilly Kuwashima
Ursula Kwasnicka
Barbara Kwasnik
Stephen Lackey
Robert & Lauren Lalley
Lisa Lamson
Linda Land
Lawrence Lardy & Edith Pennington
James Leiter
Fred Goldberg & Dorothy Lennon
Marilyn Lerman
Beverly Lewis
Gelene T. Lewis
Terry & Frances Lewis
Robert & Shelly Liedka
Edward & Carol Lipson
Linda LoBello
Carol Louise
Nicholas & Cathy Lozoponi
Patricia Luke-Perless
Guy & Dawn Mackenzie
Ellen MacKnight
Janet Mallan
The Marshall Family
Frederick & Virginia Marty
Karen Mason
Eileen McCaffrey
Margot McCormick
Gerard & Lori McCrohan
Barbara Beckos & Art McDonald
Wallace & Gayenne McDonald
Darlene McFadden
Kevin & Christina McGlynn
Michael & Patricia McGrath
Phyllis McKaig
Diane W. McKenney
Mary McNeal
Eckart & Mary Meisterfeld
David & Marcia Mele
Clifford & Marjorie Mellor
Walter & Lauren Melnikow
Anne Messenger
Daniel Miller
Neena Mitchell
James & Susan Mone
Russel & Carol Morison
Lauren Mossotti-Kline
David & Janet Muir
Lawrence & Michele Mullett
Ernest Muzquiz
Carol Narcavage
Ned & Linda Merrell
Kimberly Neff-Barrett
Martin & Ellen Nodzo
Paul W. Oakley
Tyler & Brenna Ogilvie
Sally O’Herin
Deborah J. Oliver
Jane S. Ondich
Judith Dehn Oplinger
Edward & Judith O’Rourke
Gigi Ortega
Jill Ozinsky
Thomas & Joyce Packard
Richard & Peg Padula
Joan Page
Cathy Palm
Rita Paniagua
Robert Papworth
Robert & Teresa Parke
Tom & Diane Parker
Nanette Pasquarello
Deanna Pavlacka
Brian Pavlovitz
Harvey & Dorothy Pearl
David Peckham
The Hon. David Peebles &
Dr. Sheila Lemke
Steven Pekich
Jean M. Pellegrino
Colleen Pellman
Deborah Pellow
Jackie & Chuck Penfield
Tom & Meredith Perreault
Andrew Perry
Dave Perry & Jan Masur-Perry
Rebecca & Kevin Peterman
Matthew Petty & Amy Moon
Stephen & Marsha Phillips
Barry & Mary Pickard
Richard & Neva Pilgrim
Mary Jean Piraino & Ronald Karnya
Anita Pisano
Joshua W. Podkaminer
Howard & Ann Port
Doreen Powers
Pemala & Suhas V. Pradhan
Mary Purcell
Anna Putintseva
Stephen & Kathryn Pynn
Robert R. Quinn
Daniel D. & Kathryn A. Rabuzzi
Selma J. Radin
Ann Ray
Margaret Reid
Ross & Melanie Relyea
Beth Richards, Gregory Owens,
Gail Morrow, & Claire Affleck
Gerald & Shu Ha Richmond
Don & Loraine Ridall
Dr. & Mrs. William H. Roberts
Keith & Jacalyn Robisch
Sue Rockdashil
Paul & Sue Ellen Romanowski
Philip Rose & Beth Broadway
Phil Eisenman & Gayle Ross
Phillip Rothschild &
Nancy Machles Rothschild
Beverly Roy
Mike Rozmarin & Holly Edwards
Elaine Rubenstein
Richard & Virginia Russo
Robert & Linda Ryan
June Rybak
John & Judy Sabene
Ilonka Salisbury
Toni Salisbury
Joseph & Jean Sanger
Ronald & Janice Saunders
Ernest & Anne Scalzetti
Anthony Scalzo
Richard & Margaret Scheffler
Sandra Rozmarin & Joseph Schlesinger
Judy Schmid
Vito & Janet Sciscioli
Anne Scuderi
Cheryl Patrice Scullion
Thelie & Jon Selzer
Scott Shablak
Suzanne Shapero
Alexandra & Jeff Shaw
Steven & Susan Shaw
Edward & Edith Shillitoe
David Shmoys & Eva Tardos
Alberta L. Shouldice
James W. Shults
Merril Silverstein &
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein
Peter McCarthy &
Jane Slabowski
Robert Slavens
Linda & Richard Smernoff
Marilyn Smith & Walter Putter
Daniel & Nancy Smothergill
John & Katherine Sodja
Rita Soufleris
Rita Southwick
Rosalie G. Spitzer
Terrance & Mary Frances Squires
George & Helene Starr
Karl Crossman & John Steinburg
Stephen Stewart
Franklin & Kathleen Stith
Jonathan & Janet Stoberl
Richard & Kathleen Stoeckel
Conrad Strozik & Janice Farrelly
Douglas Sutherland & Nancy Kramer
David Svendsen
Leonard & Mary Alice Swanson
Harvey Teres
David Thomas & Mary Kuhn
Mary B. Thompson
Nancy Tiedemann
James & Deborah Tifft
Cynthia G. Tracy
Linda Trapkin & Ed Klein
Marguerite Conan & James Traver
George & Ronna Treier
Amy Tucker
Eugene Turner
Dr. David & Mrs. Ruth Tyler
David & Patricia Urban
Patrick VanBeveren
Meghan & TJ Vitale
Ann Marie Voutsinas
James Wagner
Jeanne Walewski
James & Kristen Walker
Daniel & Annette Wallace
JoAnn Wallace
Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman
Laurence & Linda Webster
Leah Weinberg & Paul Barron
Leonard Weiner & Kathryn Kelly
Ruth S. Weinstock
Volker Weiss
George & Joyce Welitschinsky
Glen Wells
Shirley J. Wells
Robert & Susan Westlake
Lynda Wheat
Anne Whyte
Christopher & Renee Wiles
Jesse & Eleanor Williams
Marlene J. Williams
Martin & Jennifer Wong
Gregory & Rita Wood
Mary Jane Woodcock
William & Mary Wormuth
Olwen Wright
Qing Wu & Qinru Qiu
Robin & Sam Young
Joyce Zadzilka
Jack Zasada & Mary Haven
MaryAnn Zeppetello
Brent & Laurie Zerkle
Edmund Zielinski
Michelle Zurn

$1 – $99
Dr. Ira Ames
Peter Ashworth
David & Michelle Auerbach
Mailene Bacha
Philip Ball
Barbara Barnell
Lorraine Barry
Helen Beale
Jacklyn Beck
Karyn & Ken Belanger
Mary Lou Bender
Steven & Laurie Berkowitz
Robert Bezy
Richard & Louise Blafield
Carlton & Barbara Blanchard
Barbara Bloom
Deborah Bogan
James & Siubhan Bongiovanni
Jon & Patricia Booth
Susan Borker
Stephen & Doreen Bosch
Debra Bowers
William & Virginia Brandt
Richard & Barbara Bratt
Jay & Larissa Brenner
Michele Bristol
Rena & David Brower
Jane Brown
Jody Brown & David Fatta
H. Allen & Louise Brown-Smith
William J. Brunken
Charles A. Buckley
Dr. & Mrs. William Buckley
Michael & Karen Burns
Ellen Butler
Nicole Capriotti
Joe & Mary Carello
Antonio & Henriette Carvalho
Diane Case
William & Hilary Casey
Christina Castle
Ronald & Judith Cavanagh
Nicole Charron
Bob & Kim Cherry
Wendy Cobrda
Lou Anne Colaneri
Joseph & Judy Coniski
Pam Constantine
Celita Converse
Joyce Cook
Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub
Peter & Elizabeth Costello
Robert & Barbara Covert
Judith Cowden
Barb Crisafi
Anne Cronlund
Josh Cronlund
Cheryll Currier
Patricia Curtin
John Dahlin & Alice Root
Walter & Therese Dancks
Mary Darminio
Scott Dauenhauer
The Rev. Christine J. Day
Carol Decker
Mary Lynn Dekold
Dr. Patricia DeMatteo
Carla Dias
Norman Hatt & Alice Dickerson Hatt
Dana Dietz
Camille Dillard
Daniel Dingel
Donald Doherty
James Donnelly
Deborah A. Dunn
Siobhan Dunn
Leslie Durant
Jean Edminster
Frederick Eggers
Stephen L. & Christina Feikes
Jane Feld
Daniel & Fran Ferguson
Mark & Susan Field
Laura Filip
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold
Gerard & Vanessa Flynn
Ellen Ford
Jeffrey & Nancy Fortais
Linda Frank
Pam Freeman
Howard & Janelle Freshman
David Freund
Emma Gage
George & Halina Gagne
Ellenrose Galgano
Mary Gardner
Steven & Linda Garner
Gila Gevirtz & Michael Wasserman
Reno & Grace Ghezzi
Gordon & Charlotte Goodison
Brian Gorman
Timothy & Gail Gorman
Jacy Grannis
Cyrus Grant
Professor Gerald R. Greenberg
Christine Hafner
Roberta Hampson
Terri & Kip Hargrave
Mary Hutchins Harris
Janice Harvey
Avery & Elizabeth Head
Elaine Heimers-Cook
Paul Hernandez
Sarah Hickey
John & Lisa Hoeschele
Ellen Holst
Andy Holtsbery
Paul & Kate Houck
David & Jeanmarie Hoye
Jayne A . Humbert
James Hunter
David & Jennifer Huyck
Linda Imboden
Tyler & Karen Jenks
Martin & Elizabeth Jensvold
Sandra Kalbach
Mitchell J. & Rebecca Katz
Katherine Kelly
Barbara Kenney
Hubert & Ellen Kimball
Robert & Leslie Klein
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Mathew Kline
Jerry & Susan Klineberg
Pamela Knapp
Peter & Elizabeth Koon
Steven W. Kulick
Jack & Theresa Kurdzionak
Colleen Lanning
John & Pearl Lavalette
Duc Le
Stephanie Lewis
Yuanlin Li
Alexandra Locke
Marshall R. Loomis
Mary Lou Lorch
Jennifer Lowe
Trish Lowney
Burton Luther
Daniel MacCollum
Norma Mahnken
Mary S. Mahoney
Jeff & Joanne Maloff
Kathleen Maloney
Nektarios Mantalios & Theone Kalkinis
Ember Marquis
Wade & Patricia Martin
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
Pam Mccabe
Kenneth & Abigail McVearry
Lynn Medaj
Charles Merulla & Jeanne Jonientz-Merulla
Polly Messenger
Vincent Messina
Elizabeth Metz
Peter & Jaqueline Michel
Jane Miles
Barry Miller
Elias Miller
James A. Miller
Margaret Miller
Teresa & James Mirakian
Edward Molloy
Thomas & Nancy Monti
Ronald & Terry Moore
Duane Morgan
Richard G. Morris
Deborah Mossotti
Patrice Murphy
Philip D. Nagy
Stephanie Ness
Marty Newshan
Nick Crisafi
Michelle Nicotera
James Nighan
Daniela Nikolavsky
Mehran Nojan
Douglas North
Barbara Nunn
John O’Neill
Jerome O’Callaghan
Andrew & Kathleen Olson
Peter & Cathy Jo O’Neil
John O’Neill
Stephen & Wenda Osborne
Corazon Ouano
Adam Pack & Christine Checkosky
Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde &
Lordes Paiewonsky
Elizabeth Pastel
Marc & Susan Pedrosa
Delores M. Petta
Eric & JoAnne Pettit
Aaron & Colleen Pierce
Reilly Pierce
Daniel & Brandye Pisacano
Joseph Sauve & Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
Ruby Price
Mary Lou Pritchett
Lisa Procanick
Darryl & Mary Ellen Pugh
Erik Quanbeck
Elizabeth Rabozzi
Patricia Ratcliffe
Brandan Ray
James & Carol Recker-Hughes
David & Sarah Reckess
Nancy Rein
Dacheng Ren & Jiejing Qiu
Daniel & Shelley Riley
Richard & Ellen Robb
Mary Roberts Bailey
Mary Robertson
Diane Rogers
Richard Rosenberger
Carl & Rose Rosenzweig
Paul & Pamela Roux
Josette Rowser-Grohol
Louis & Cheryl Sacco
Gloria Sage
Seth & Penny Sanders
Andrew & Ilona Sapoznikov
Margaret Schneider
Richard Schultz & Mary Dunn
Molly Schutrumpf
Lydia Seales-Fuller
Jacob Segal
Michele C. Smith
John & Maria Soldo
Robert Sollish
Michael J. Spencer
Allison Stack
Charles & Cathy Stedman
Stephen Stehman
Linda Stone
Steven Stull & Jeanne Goddard
Gary & Mary Lee Thurston
Suzanne Todero
Michael Trembley
Gitta Trippany
Robert Troy
Rebecca Turnbow
David & Sherry Tyler
Jessica van Son
Laney Vassallo
Kathryn Vernay
Anthony & David Vinci
James & Dawn Vivelo
Mary Jo Vona
Gisela von Dran
Robert & Anita Wagner
Kristine Waldron & Burton Thomas
Timothy Wallis
David Walsh
Elizabeth Watson
Rose M. Weaver
Diane D. Webb
Marcus Webb
James & Amy Wenner
Kathleen & Ralph Wiegandt
Madison Wilder
Donald Wiley
Linda Williams
John Wilson
Kristin Wilson
Mary Anne Wilson
Robert Wilson
Patrick Witmer
Bjorn Woldbeck
Kathryn Woodruff
Russell & Eve Wooldridge
Ann & Kurt Wossner
Huihui Dai
Paul & Amanda Yaworsky
Richard Yost
Deborah Reinhardt Youmans
Marilyn Zaleon
Phyllis & Mark Zames
Carla Zamudio
Carol Zellar

IN HONOR OF EMILY BASS
Linda Loomis
June Rybak

IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROSI V
James Cosenza

IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH CLARK
Greg & Lynn Clarke

IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL D. COHEN
Mary Jean Piraino & Ronald Karnya

IN HONOR OF NATASHA COOPER & TOM MATTERN
Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub

IN HONOR OF KELLY COVERT
Ernest Muzquiz

IN MEMORY OF AINSLEY COX
Janet Jaffe

IN MEMORY OF CALVIN CUSTER
Russel & Carol Morison

IN HONOR OF DR. LESLIE DAVIS
Phyllis & Mark Zames

IN HONOR OF LYNN & PATRICIA DAVIS
Thomas & Nancy Monti

IN MEMORY OF GLORIA GALLANIS DAYTON
Darrin Dayton

IN MEMORY OF TONY DEANGELIS
Rose Weaver

IN HONOR OF SABRINA DEVOS
Kevin & Christina McGlynn

IN MEMORY OF KIT DODD
Pam Constantine
Cheryll Currier
Becky Dodd
Jacy Grannis
Martin & Elizabeth Jensvold
Mary Lou Lorch
Deanna Pavlacka
Doreen Powers
Michael J. Spencer

IN MEMORY OF SHIRLEY DURLING
Thomas & Pamela Antonini
Walden & Emily Bass
Barb Crisafi
Linda Frank
Howard & Janelle Freshman
Burt & Sue Harbison
Sandra Kalbach
Barbara Kenney
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Rick & Barb Crompton
Norma Mahnken
Jane Miles
Ronald & Terry Moore
Nick Crisafi
Marc & Susan Pedrosa
Ann Ray
Beth Richards, Gregory Owens, Gail Morrow, Claire Affleck
Ann & Kurt Wossner

IN MEMORY OF JAMES EVAN III
Patricia DeAngelis

IN MEMORY OF JIM EVANS
Kathleen Bice

IN MEMORY OF DR. ADELINE M. FAGAN
Brant Fagan & Mary Jane Abt-Fagan

IN HONOR OF CARAGH FAHY
Anonymous

IN MEMORY OF LILLIAN FECHNER
Rev. Janet L. Fechner

IN MEMORY OF SAM FELD
Jane Feld

IN MEMORY OF FRANCIS FENG
Ed & Alice Nanno

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH C. FINN
Mary Ann T. Finn

IN MEMORY OF INGRID FORSYTHE
Mark Costaldi

IN HONOR OF JOHN & ANNETTE FREIDRICHS
Scott Shablak

IN HONOR OF JON GARLAND
David Brittain
Jean Edminster

IN HONOR OF JON GARLAND & PAM MURCHISON
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh

IN MEMORY OF BRUCE HANEY
Joan Page

IN MEMORY OF DONALD & CRAIG HANSON
Marilyn Hanson

IN MEMORY OF LORA JONES
Don & Loraine Ridall

IN MEMORY OF PETER KARAPIN
Nancy Karapin

IN MEMORY OF RAE KRAMER
Lanny Freshman

IN HONOR OF MARYWYNN KUWASHIMA
Lilly Kuwashima

IN MEMORY OF MARILYN LERMAN
Winifred Greenberg
Rita Southwick

IN MEMORY OF EDWARD M. LEWIS
Beverly Lewis

IN HONOR OF ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Joshua W. Podkaminer

IN HONOR OF VICKI & ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Gila Gevirtz & Michael Wasserman
Edward Molloy

IN HONOR OF GEORGE MACERO
Charles Merulla &
Jeanne Jonientz-Merulla

IN MEMORY OF PATRICIA MACKILLOP
James MacKillop

IN MEMORY OF LOUIS V. MARUCCI
Nanette Pasquarello

IN HONOR OF JANET MASUR-PERRY
Dave Perry

IN MEMORY OF MARY MCCAFFREY
Eileen McCaffrey

IN MEMORY OF CLAIRE MCCUNE
Frank Byrne & Mary McCune

IN MEMORY OF GEORGE & MADELINE MEHALLOW
George Mehallow

IN HONOR OF FRITZ MESSERE
Elizabeth Dugan

IN MEMORY OF LOUISE METZ
Elizabeth Metz

IN MEMORY OF DR. EDWARD A. MONACO JR.
John & Annette Friedrichs

IN HONOR OF PAM MURCHISON
Jean Edminster
The Marshall Family

IN HONOR OF ERNEST MUZQUIZ
William Billingham

IN MEMORY OF JOHN & CAROL OBERBRUNNER
David & Sherry Tyler

IN HONOR OF SEAN O’LOUGHLIN
Frederick Kucinski & Barbara Omicinski

IN MEMORY OF JAMES H. O’NEILL
John O’Neill

IN HONOR OF NICK PALUMBO
Lawrence & Fran Campbell

IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK B. PARKER, M.D.
Anonymous
George Bain
Dennis & Gail Baldwin
Kirsten & Jonathan Basch
James & Joanne Beckman
William & Sandra Bennett
Dr. & Mrs. William P. Berkery
Thomas Bersani MD & Joan Christy RD
Renate BeVard
Dr. Michael & Melanie Bowser
Paul G. Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Bill & Nancy Byrne
Joseph Byrne
Craig & Kathleen Byrum
Andrea Calarco
Amelia & Rob Christian
R. Patrick & Margaret Corbett
Toby Cosgrove
Kelly & Kelly Covert
Michael & Wendy Cynamon
Mr. & Mrs. Manfried Diflo
Rebecca Downing
Lewis & Elaine Dubroff
William Eberhardt
Bill & Betsy Elkins
Michele & Jack Estabrook
Robert & Vicki Feldman
John & Patricia Fey
Daniel & Karen Fuleihan
Jon Garland
Jacki & Michael Goldberg
Michael & Wendy Gordon
Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Gary Quirk & Charlotte Haas
Thomas & Melanie Hartzheim
Joyce Homan
Nicki & Brian Inman
Mike & Mary Kate Intaglietta
Lewis & Julie Johnson
Robin & Diane Jones
John & Gwenn Judge
George & Gloria Kilpatrick
Allan Kolsky & Ellen Somers
Barbara E. Krenzer & John Stone
Charles & Stephanie Ladd
Linda Land
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Robert & Shelly Liedka
Zahi & Marion Makhuli
Suzanne & Kevin McAuliffe
Lowell McBurney & Carrie Penner
Barbara Beckos & Art McDonald
Tom & Mary Lou Mees
Walter & Lauren Melnikow
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
Pamela & Matthew Murchison
Ned & Linda Merrell
Dr. & Mrs. Anis I. Obeid
Drs. Wale & Bimpe Oguntola
John & Sheila Parker
Virginia Parker
Amy M. Parker & Paul S. Stein
Deborah Pellow
Jackie & Chuck Penfield
Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan
Pemala & Suhas V. Pradhan
Mihael & Kimberly Puc
Mary Purcell
Anna Putintseva
Selma Radin
David Rankert
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Donnaline Richman
David Ross & Martha Sutter
Arnold & Libby Rubenstein
Elaine Rubenstein
Ilonka Salisbury
Kelly & Steven Scheinman
Margery Rose & Henry Schoeneck
Larry & Connie Semel
Sharye Skinner
Mark & Beth Steigerwald
Nan & Carter Strickland
Peter & Cherry Thun
Marcus Webb
Howard & Anita Weinberger
Ruth S. Weinstock
George & Joyce Welitschinsky
Lynda Wheat
Estate of Robert W. Daly, M.D.
Gregory & Rita Wood
David & Emily Wormuth

IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL PELLMAN
Colleen Pellman

IN MEMORY OF CARL PESKO
Thomas Krahe
Michele C. Smith
JoAnn Wallace

IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH PIZZUTO
Joseph Sauve & Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve

IN MEMORY OF JOHN PRITCHETT
Mary Lou Pritchett

IN MEMORY OF ROGER REID
Margaret Reid

IN MEMORY OF TIM RICE
Judith Dehn Oplinger

IN MEMORY OF ERNEST S. ROSE
Patricia Sharpe

IN HONOR OF SANDY ROZMARIN & JOE SCHLESINGER
Mike Rozmarin & Holly Edwards

IN MEMORY OF DR. LORNE RUNGE
Anonymous

IN MEMORY OF HENRY &
EDITH SCHMITZ
David & Anne Schmitz

IN MEMORY OF JOHN V. SCOTT JR.
Daniel & Brandye Pisacano

IN HONOR OF ANNI SCUDERI
Anne Scuderi

IN HONOR OF PATRICIA SHARPE & WALDEN BASS
Terri & Kip Hargrave

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT B. SHIELDS
Margaret Shields

IN MEMORY OF SORIANO UY SO
Ursula Kwasnicka

IN MEMORY OF MARION STANISLAW
Nancy Freeborough & Swiat Kaczmar
Winifred Greenberg
Cheryl Patrice Scullion
Linda & Richard Smernoff

IN HONOR OF SYMPHORIA’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Robert & Vicki Feldman

IN HONOR OF SYMPHORIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
Ruth Pass Hancock

IN HONOR OF KAREN TIETJEN
Christopher Erat

IN MEMORY OF OTTO & ELEANOR TREIER
George & Ronna Treier

IN HONOR OF EDGAR TUMAJYAN
Dr. Young & Kelly Lee

IN MEMORY OF SYLVIA BASKERVILLE TURNER
Eugene Turner

IN HONOR OF MARY ANN TYSZKO
Mark Greene & Cynthia Dowd Greene

IN MEMORY OF KAREN VENDETTI
Stephen & Michaeline Driscoll

IN MEMORY OF DORIS WEBSTER
Sally Webster

IN MEMORY OF BILL WEST
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold

IN MEMORY OF DAVID WHYTE
Anne Whyte

IN HONOR OF SONYA STITH WILLIAMS
Franklin & Kathleen Stith

IN MEMORY OF KAREN WILSON
David & Jayne Wilson

IN MEMORY OF MARY WYSKIDA
Paul & Sue Ellen Romanowski

IN MEMORY OF KATHLEEN ZIELINSKI
Edmund Zielinski

Board of Directors

Mary Ann Tyszko, President
President & CEO, SRCTec (retired)

Anna Putintseva, Secretary
Partner, Bousquet Holstein

Frank Messere, Treasurer
Dean Emeritus, School of Communication, Media and the Arts, SUNY Oswego

Violet Bundi
Attorney, Interfaith Works

Amy Christian
Symphoria Musician (Violin)

Kelly Covert
Symphoria Musician (Flute/Piccolo) & Corporate Giving & Annual Fund Manager

Caragh Fahy
Owner & President, Madison Financial Planning Group

Vicki Feldman
Community volunteer and expert volunteer fundraiser

Kimberly Flomerfelt-Puc
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

Jon Garland
Symphoria Musician (Horn) & Director of Operations

George Kilpatrick
Host, Inspiration for the Nation

Allan Kolsky
Symphoria Musician (clarinet)

Robert Lieberman
Managing Partner, RAV Properties

Shelly Thompson-Liedka
Vice President & Commercial Banking Manager, M&T Bank

Wale Oguntola
Nephrologist, St. Joseph’s Health Hospital & Crouse Hospital

Jackie Penfield
Senior HR Consultant, OneGroup

Peter Rabinowitz
Professor, Hamilton College

Martha Sutter
Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Teaching Professor of Voice, Syracuse University

Marcus Webb
Program Manager, Entrepreneurship at Columbia Technology Ventures

Gregory Wood
Symphoria Musician (Cello)

Symphoria Staff

Pamela Murchison ✉
Executive Director

Jon Garland ✉
Director of Operations

Sabrina DeVos ✉
Orchestra Manager

Nicky Radford ✉
Education & Youth Orchestra Manager

Emily Bass ✉
Box Office Manager

Arvilla Wendland ✉
Personnel Manager

Ben Dettelback ✉
Librarian

Katie Kaczorowski ✉
Director of Development

Lara Mosby ✉
Senior Manager for Advancement and Community Engagement

Kelly Covert ✉
Corporate Giving and Annual Fund Manager

Brian Pope ✉
Data & Patrons Services Associate

Paul McShee ✉
Youth Orchestra Music Director

Jessica Tumajyan
Youth Strings Conductor