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Oct. 8 Tristan und Isolde Oct. 22 Don Giovanni Dec. 11 L’Amour de Loin Jan. 7 Nabucco Jan. 21 Roméo et Juliette Feb. 25 Rusalka Mar. 11 La Traviata Apr. 2 Idomeneo Apr. 22 Eugene Onegin May 13 Der Rosenkavalier

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PROGRAMOverture to Maskarade Carl Nielsen

Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 Antonin Dvorák Allegro ma non troppo; Adagio ma non troppo Finale. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo

Kevin Lawrence, violinMusic underwritten by Richard and Diane Trubia

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin Richard Wagner

Transformation Music from Act I of Parsifal Richard Wagner

“Danse Indienne” from Mlada Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

“Cossack Dance” from Mazeppa Peter Ilyich TchaikovskyMusic underwritten by Jane Birnbach

Intermezzo from Suor Angelica Giacomo Puccini

“Dance of the Seven Veils” from Salome Richard Strauss

Concert Sponsored by The Davis Community

Saturday March 18, 2017, 7:30 p.m.Wilson Center, Cape Fear Community College

Kevin Lawrence, violinSteven Errante, conductor

Ushers are Wilson Center volunteers.

The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra logo was created by Wilmington artist Claude Howell in 1973.

Tonight’s performance utilizes the Ruth Funk Orchestra Shell named in Ruth’s memory by a gift from the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall.

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Carl Nielsen 1865 – 1931

Overture to Maskarade (1906)

Maskarade is a comic opera based on a play by Ludvig Holberg. The story is one of love and mistaken identity that unfolds with a series of glittering masked balls as its backdrop. In the overture, Nielsen draws the listener immediately into the opera’s atmosphere of high spirits and romantic intrigues. Punchy melodies sparkle with wit and humor, clothed in brilliant, inventive orchestration. The opera itself is seldom heard outside of Denmark, but its overture is performed frequently as one of the composer’s most widely circulated works in Europe and North America.

Antonin Dvorák 1841 – 1904

Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 (1879)

The Bohemian people regarded music as a fundamental part of life. So, in keeping with the tradition of his culture, young Dvorák learned to play the violin, and soon composed and played dance tunes and folk melodies in the village band. A local teacher recognized the young boy’s innate talent, taught the boy viola, piano, and organ, but soon recommended that the 16-year-old enter the Organ School in Prague. The young musician struggled against hunger and extreme poverty, but ultimately earned a position in the orchestra of the National Opera. Music had become his life (along with an addiction to trains). He composed a prolific number of works, eventually attracting the attention of famed Brahms and fellow Czech, Smetana.

After receiving recognition for his Slavonic Dances, the 38-year-old Dvorák’s career was launched, and next came the 1879 Violin Concerto. This work was initially looked down upon by critics because of its failure to observe standard German tradition and form. Rather, the Concerto was of a folksy, exotic style which pleased its large audiences.

The First Movement begins with a four bar, fanfare-like orchestral introduction before the solo violin enters with its main theme, which features dashing, daring leaps in an unusual improvisatory, rhapsodic flavor. What follows is a sedate, lyrical second theme. Throughout the movement, a gypsy fiddling tradition and the feeling of the uncontainable Hungarian spirit play roles in this Slavic work. The customary recapitulation of opening material is eliminated, and is replaced by a brief cadenza and interlude that lead directly into the Second Movement.

Its opening section is in a serene major key, while a contrasting middle section features a stormy minor key. Throughout, the soloist plays florid passages that act as embellishments to melody played by the orchestra. The beautifully soaring lyricism of this movement makes it a special favorite, and thus it is often played as an independent piece.

The Third Movement is filled with Bohemian-flavored dance and song characteristics. The main theme is a furiant, a Czech dance of rapid nature, which is reprised in brilliant instrumentation near the end. The dance is played by cellos and oboes imitating bagpipes. Shortly before the end of the movement is a wistful dumka melody, exhibiting a gentle contrast to the furiant.

Richard Wagner1813 – 1883

Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin (1848)

Transformation Music from Act I of Parsifal (1879)

Lohengrin is a chivalric melodrama that plays spiritual purity against evil. The barnstorming Prelude to Act III is vividly colorful, and prepares the way for the curtain to rise on a wedding scene.

Parsifal is Wagner’s last opera, and its three acts are witness to a stage-consecrating festival drama based on a medieval legend and poem. The Transformation Music accompanies the Knights of the Holy Grail as they enter the Hall of the Grail. The musical themes are mostly solemn (Lutherans may recognize Wagner’s use of the “Dresden Amen”), but at one point a wrenchingly sorrowful theme rises out of the orchestra, representing the knight Amfortas, who was entrusted to guard the relics but succumbed to temptation.

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844 – 1908

“Danse Indienne” from Mlada (1890)

Mlada is an opera-ballet in four acts that recounts a fantasy tale about the ancient pagan Slavs of the Baltic seacoast. Three national dances are featured in Act II amidst a midsummer festival of dancing and frolicking. The “Danse Indienne” allowed Rimsky-Korsakov to indulge his genius for composing what the Russians thought of as “Oriental” melodies - complex, sinuous, and played by combinations of woodwinds with underpinnings of a snare drum. During the dance, the spirit of the deceased Mlada appears.

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840 – 1893

“Cossack Dance” from Mazeppa (1883)

Based on a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, the story concerns itself with a young woman whose powerful love draws her into a catastrophic, downward spiral. The “Cossack Dance” (Hopak) is a national Ukrainian dance usually performed by athletic males. It features acrobatic jumps and spins, and often has battlefield “fights” depicted in pantomime form.

Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924

Intermezzo from Suor Angelica (1918)

Puccini followed in the tradition of Rossini and Verdi but also was aware of the developments by his contemporaries Debussy, Stravinsky, and even Schoenberg. Suor Angelica is the middle opera in the series of three one-act operas Puccini called Il Trittico. Sister Angelica is from a wealthy family that has committed her to a convent because of bearing a child out

of wedlock, and she has just learned that the son she has been imagining for seven years actually died of a fever two years ago. She has a vision that she will join him in heaven, and during the Intermezzo she is seen preparing a fatal mixture of herbs that she intends to drink.

Richard Strauss1864 – 1949

“Dance of the Seven Veils” from Salome (1905)

The setting is the court of King Herod in the Middle East around 30 A.D. Herod, in the mood for some entertainment on his birthday, asks his beautiful young stepdaughter Salome to dance in return for anything she wants. Her desire is for the head of John the Baptist delivered on a plate. The fulfillment of this is even too much for Herod, and as the final curtain comes down he orders Salome to be slain by the palace guards.

The dance’s origin is from Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play Salome, who transformed the Biblical image of Salome into an incarnation of female lust. The opera (with its “Dance of the Seven Veils”) received rave reviews around Europe, but was immediately cancelled after its New York 1907 debut; it was considered “moral stench.”

Notes written and researched by Joan Olsson

The Wilmington Symphony’s next concert in the Wilson Center:

Masterworks SeriesSeason Finale

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 7:30 p.m.Justin Hoke, Guitar

Sponsored by Wilmington HealthBedřich Smetana, Vltava, from The Moldau

Leo Brouwer, Concerto Elegiaco for Guitar and Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich, Suite from the film score for The Gadfly

Tickets at 362-7999 or www.wilmingtonsymphony.org

Steven Errante, conductor

Junior StringsJane Tierney, director

Spring MatineeSunday, March 19th | 4 p.m. Kenan Auditorium

For more information on youth education programs visit www.wilmingtonsymphony.org

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CONDUCTOR ∞ Steven Errante

VIOLIN I * Beverly Andrews, ConcertmasterConcertmaster Chair Permanently Endowed in Memory of Nancy H. McAllister Diana Daniel Matthew Evans Lisa Gattuso Cynthia Graham Brooke Mahanes Alexei Mejouev Christine Meyer Katherine Meyer Leonard Ottoni Jane Radack Kyle VanArsdalenAssistant Concertmaster Chair Endowed in Memory of Miriam Warshauer

Violin I- 2 nd Stand, Outside Chair Endowed by the Robert W. Austin Family

VIOLIN II Hannah Compton Christa Faison Jessica Landes Shirley Lebo Ian Livingston Edith Marsh Roberta Mouheb Grijda Spiri Laura Thomas * Jane Tierney

VIOLA Derrick Foskey Sarah Gardner Marscia Martinez-Mendoza * Bernard McWilliams Neda Pourdeyhimi Jorge Richter Brent Trubia Eulalia VonFossonAssistant Principal Viola Chair Endowed in Memory of Katherine Hoyt

CELLO Rad Bunting John Illingworth * Kathy Meyer Tanner Myers Robert Nosow Mike Pope Sarah Stoloff Anthony Williams Greg Zack Kimberly Zimmerman

BASS Stuart McLemore Samuel McMillan * Karl Marzolf Kevin Moll

FLUTES Deborah Phillips Amanda Taylor *∞ Mary Jo White

OBOES David Free + Jennifer Muehrcke * Rebecka Rose Amy Sandlin

CLARINETS * Coleman Burgess Brittany Hamlin Pamela Merritt Tom Smicklas

BASSOONS Chris Akins BoDee Hancock Larry Thee

HORN * Kim Adams Crystal Britton Andrew Gore David Lewis, II

TRUMPET * Casey Black Carlton Howard * Jake Yates

TROMBONE Katie Cox David Goodwin Mike Lopez

TUBA Max Wang

TIMPANI *∞ John Rack

PERCUSSION Melanie Aman Dacey Bell Robert Parker Erven Alexander TomlinPercussion Section Chair Endowed in Memory of Clyde and Milton Rutledge

HARP Winifred Garrett

CELESTE Brent Trubia

* Principal+ Associate Principal- Assistant Principal Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra member∞ UNCW Faculty

CONDUCTOR'S CIRCLE: Special thanks to the Wilson Center staff and volunteer ushers; UNCW Dept. of Music; Keith and Kathie Green, photography, Beverly Andrews, Jane Tierney, Bernard McWilliams and Kathy Meyer, rehearsal preparation.

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2016-2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORSExecutive CommitteeKaren Smith, President

Marva Robinson, Vice-PresidentMary Hummel, Treasurer

Gaile Zack, SecretaryMarian Hills, Immediate Past President

Bob Austin, Member-at-largeTim Ford, Member-at-large

Robert Roer, Member-at-largeRobin Robinson, Member-at-large

John Stike, Member-at-large

DirectorsBunnie Bachman

Jane BirnbachSally Brauer

Lesa BroadheadS. Clayton Callaway, Jr.

Rick Catlin

Carol EllisSteven Errante, conductor

James FaisonPeggy Higgins

Rosemary KlineRalph Mercorella

Kathy MeyerJoy Murrell

Joanne NewtonFletcher NorrisAlice Razzano

William RemeleCarl Samet

Richard TrubiaRandy Trull

Lorraine WestermarkOwen WexlerDena WhalenRonnie Wise

Ronna Zimmer

STAFFArtistic

Steven Errante, Wilmington Symphony and Youth Orchestra Conductor

Shirley Lebo, Orchestra Manager/ Music Librarian

Bob Norem, Youth Orchestra Manager/Music Librarian

Jane Tierney, Junior Strings Director

BusinessReed M. Wallace, Executive Director

Joelle Thomas, BookkeeperNicole Thompson, Marketing and

Development Assistant

Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Conductors

Mr. William F. Adcock, Jr., 1971-1982Dr. Joe Hickman, 1982-1986

Dr. Steven Errante, 1986-

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tonight’s soloist

Praised for his “vibrant intensity” (The Times, London), and musicianship described as “supremely convincing in its vitality” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), violinist Kevin Lawrence has consistently elicited superlative reviews for performances throughout the United States and

Europe. Abroad he has performed in London, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Rome, Prague, Bucharest, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam, where the Dutch press described him as “simply miraculous.” (Het Vaderland ).

Mr. Lawrence has premiered sonatas and chamber works by contemporary American composers. His release of the complete violin works of the American composer Arthur Foote on the New World label was “highly recommended” as “beautifully played” by the Washington Post. Portions of the recordings were featured in the Ken Burns’ PBS series “Not for Ourselves Alone.”

Kevin received his musical education at The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. While at Juilliard he also studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and continued his chamber music study with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School in Westport, New York.

Appointed to the Meadowmount faculty in 1980, he continued to teach there each summer until 1994 when he became the Dean of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Subsequently he served as Killington’s Artistic Director from 1997 through 2004 and also founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Lawrence’s work as an educator extends to master classes he has presented throughout the United States, and in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Canada, Israel, Venezuela, China, Thailand and Korea. The University of North Carolina School of the Arts—where he has been a faculty member since 1990 and is now Chair of the String Department—has also recognized him with its Excellence in Teaching Award.

20th Annual Wilmington SymphonyGolf Tournament

Country Club of LandfallNicklaus Course – Ocean/Marsh

Monday, June 5, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

To enter or sponsor, visit “Special Events” at www.wilmingtonsymphony.org or call 791-9262 today!

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VIRTUOSO ($5,000–9,999)AnonymousBarry and Janet BurkholderBill and Mary Jo Cameron

PACESETTER ($3,000-4,999)Anonymous

BENEFACTOR ($1,000–2,999)AnonymousBob AustinMarcelle L. AustinGail BerryRick and Janice CatlinSandra de Holl Hilda DillDr. Carol EllisBetty and Val FischerRonald and Marilyn Gunther *Alex and Nora HargroveMarian HillsJoseph and Eleanor JamesAnn LongleyLori and Buzz McManusClint and Kathy MeyerFletcher and Janis NorrisFrances ParkerCarmine RotundaEmily SloanDoug and Karen SmithDr. John R. StikeRichard and Diane TrubiaMelinda Johansson and Reed Wallace*Hans and Lorraine WestermarkIgor and Samantha WestraMat and Pat WhitePeter and Gaile ZackRonna and Herbert Zimmer

GRAND PATRON ($500–999)Beverly AndrewsAnonymousCathy BarlowRalph and Pamela BradleyGeoff and Lesa BroadheadLawrence S. CraigeWilliam and Jean CredleNicholas and Lori Anne DavisMary HawesAndy and Hathia HayesWilliam and Trudy HolubPaul and Liz HosierIan and Margaret HunterSteven KleinJustine LerchRobert and Harriett LowethJoseph and Matilda MarcheseDorothy MarshallRandall P. White and Victoria D. MatthewsMark and Anna MaynardRussell and Judith NollRobert and Marjorie Roer

Robert and Lucy ShermanCory SmithLeon and Deborah SochaEugene and Marian SpagnoliLeonard Stein Janice StrattonRaiford Trask, Jr.Randolph TrullRonnie Dale WiseGreg and Cassie Zack

PATRON ($250–499)Wilbur AilingJames and Nancy AndreJohn and Elaine AndrewsAnonymousAnonymousAnn BadtBoyd and Rebecca BaldwinEric BeachamGeorge BeattyBill and Pat Bell Richard and Carolyn von BibersteinJane BirnbachBill BlairFrank BlockMartha Blomberg BeeryCharles and Lynn BoneyGeorge and Cynthia BoylanPhyllis BrennanPhillip and Judith BrockelmanH. Coleman Burgess, IIIGeorge and Cathy Burwell Jerome Hurwitz and Lois ButlerCleve and Jenny CallisonPam CarrollDavid and Vicki CarusoAaron CassadyAnn CaudleTerry and Elizabeth Coffey Scott and Diana CorbettEdward DorseyConnie Drain-GreeneHank and Lisa EstepJeanne EtheridgeMary FarmerRobert and Nancy Scott FinanTom and Carolyn FinleyTim and Pat FordMary Anne FrostWalter and Jill GajewskiHerb Gant Dean GattoneJames GlasenappFrances GoodmanRobert and Deborah GradyHolly GrangeJohn and Mimi GrimshawJames and Mary HagenJuanita HarperDavid and Jean HiottGinny HoldernessCarlton and Lee Howard

David and Mary HummelJack and Jane Hutchins

In honor of Jane RadackRichard and Carole JohnsonJoseph KittingerRosemary KlineJoe and June KnoxGustav Grosch and Jane KuleszaMary and Jim LaBorde

In honor of Gail Berry Jonathon Hines and Domonique LauneyMichael and Heidi LeePhyllis LeimerGeoffrey and Nancy LoseeWilliam and Carole MalloyJoey and Debra MarlowePaul and Brenda McCombieWilliam and Frances McMillanCharles McShane Family Stephanie MooreSarah MorseSam and Joy Murrell Paul NicholasenWalter and Beth PancoeJames and Mary PatersonGregory and Susan PleasantsJean PooleEd and Lou PowersByron PriceJoanne PurnellLinda PyleJane RadackMichael and Debbie RallisMary RamshornAlice RazzanoWilliam Remele, Jr.Charles and Joanne RieszMarva RobinsonMichael RogusMichael RyanCarl and Leslie SametMary SauerGregory and Marilynn SchimizziJohn R. SloanDixey SmithRobert and Deborah SmithMr. and Mrs. Wardsworth A. SodersGerrie StorchHarry and Bettie StovallJohn TablerJohn and Judy ThomasBertha ToddRaiford Trask, IIIJohn and Janet TufanoBrad Wear*Acquenetta Wheeler-HinesJoyce WhitakerMelanie WilliamsEdith Werther Owen WexlerAleta YoungDouglas YoungDavid and Michelle Zumbro

(Reflects contributions received (March 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017)On behalf of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and its Board of Directors we would like to thank these individuals for their generous investment in the work of one of Wilmington’s great cultural organizations. Please notify our Symphony Office about any corrections that need to be made in future listings. BOLDED names are also Masterworks Series Season Subscribers. We are grateful to those donors marked with an asterisk (*) for taking extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

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SUSTAINING MEMBERS ($100–249)Mary AinsleyJanice and Reuben Allen, Jr. Alan AndersonAnonymousJames and Sandy AppleDon and Ann ArabianAdelee AratoMichael ArcaroAndy AtkinsonJoe and Carolyn AugustineEdward and Margaret BarclayDoris BarberDavid BarnesMichael and Gayle BeaudoinColleen BeaulieuGeorge BeckJayme BednarczykKathryn BiddleDonna BillerSteve BlantonPheniee BowenRoger BraceRoberta BrackenConnette BradleyMelissa BrinkleyEstelle BrissetteCathy BryandSteve BucciWilliam BuckleySpencer CarneyBetty CarterMichelle Clark Lynn ClewisStanley and Jane ClowAnne CoffeeMollie CombsChris CoudrietTodd CoxPaul CozzaJonathan and Laura CraneDavid CrisafulliKenneth and Sandra CrumrineRebecca CulbertsonGordon DalgleishWilma DanielsJames and Patricia Alice DavisJune DavisonElizabeth DematteoBarbara DixonThomas and Eldridge DodsonJanet Dorman-NorrisRegina DoyleDwayne and Allison GrahamRobert and Beverly EdensGeorge and Angie EdwardsRichard FergusonShane and Kimberly FolanRob FrazierMary Anne FrostDevon and Sarah GedneyJames GibsonM Douglas GillJames GlasenappRobert and Deborah GradyEdward and Lee GrahamW E and Katherine GrayBryan GraysonRobert and Roslyn HancockGordon Hankins

William HartRobert HenihanAgatha HenriksenSherron HerdtnerRichard HighCarl HoffmanErin HoffmanLinda HollandsworthGeorge and Mary HoltBob and Sue HouserLottie HowardWilliam HowardJohn Hudson, Jr.David and Therese HueholtPatricia HughesMatthew and Cheryl HunterJane Hyman MoranJohn IllingworthClare JacobAnnie JohnstonCathy JonesJerry and Elizabeth JonesCathy JonesArthur KareffJoan KilbyBill KingGeorge KnightColleen KolbMegan KopkaJulie KozlowWalter KusekVirginia KuslerEdna LancasterJennifer LancasterHarold and Minnie LarsonAnthony and Ann LeeSamuel and Amanda LeeTom and Carolyn LeonardJames and Margaret LeutzeCharles LittleTheresa LittleJohn and Lou Ann LivermanMarilyn LongeneckerRachel MannRobert and Christine McArtorAlice McCarleyHowell McGuire, Jr.Gracie McLartyWilliam and Francis McMillanHillary McNeirElizabeth MeineIgor and Luda MejouevEugene MerrittBrenda MitwolAlma MooreLettyann MudarReid and Linda MurchisonJewell NeeleySusan NettlemanJoanne NewtonKenneth NewtonJohn NollMichael NorrisTrey OdomDan OwenWalter and Beth PancoeJohn and Ann ParkerJohn B. ParkerWilliam PaschallFred Pasour

Shannon PateDonna PattersonDana and Helen PeckworthSteve PetersonStuart and Cristine PointWalter and Carolyn PrenticeBrian PrevatteJoanna PuritzGisela ReidGail RitterChip and Robin RobinsonR. Joe and Jean RogersJesse RosenBill SaffoTed SampsonWalter and Mary SchumacherWendy SedlacekBruce and Cindy ShellC. Justin SmithMichael SmithJerome and Deborah SmithDon and Meg SmithThomas and Katherine SolomitaRobin SpinksJohn and Jennifer SpruillBarbara St PeterGeorge StephanouJohn and Melinda StewartJason SwinnyKevin TannerJulie TatumWilliam and Brenda TaylorSandra TaylorAnna Joelle ThomasDavid and Phyllis ThompsonNilah TolerNancy TrubyDena TurcotteVicki TurnerWilliam and Emily VasserHeda WaldrepJoan Gale WardEdith WardAlbert and Natalie WeilEd WelchDavid and Jean WerlingCalvin and Cynthia WhiteHarry and Barbara WilliamsDonald and Julie WilseyPhilip Stine and Veda WilsonJessica WilsonDavid WyattWendy YandowKaren ZackRob and Michele Zapple

DONOR (to $99)Janice AndersonPamela AndreAnonymousPamela BankJulia BibbsShameena BroachEdwanda BrownMichael BrownJames and Amy BullardYvonne Burgess-ReedThomas and Patricia ButlerWilliam and Judith CallowayMatt Carvin

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*We are grateful to those donors marked with an asterisk (*) for taking extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

Thomas and Sadie ChapmanJesse DavisGloria DegnanFrancine DeShieldsRobert DolemanMargey DonohueEleanor EisenmanBarbara FaisonBonnie FanelliRob FeamsterNorma FreemanMargey GarrabrantJoan GilsonAnthony GiordanoJames and Sadie GrahamDavid and Roberta HelmsEsther HerringWayne and Barbara HolmesRussell JacksonKelly and Julia JewellRebecca JonesGidget KarloffMarie KilloranMary KirkpatrickRichard John LiccioneWilliam and Mary LockhartKelly Lucklaus

Shirley MacKayCarolyn Nelson*Gloria MonroeStephanie MooreAndrew MullinsSara MurchisonMort and Judith NeblettHeather Padgett Robert and Charlotte RosenbergJanice SandlinJennie ShepardWalter and Angela SkinnerRuth SmithEllen SolomonHelen SolomonJudith SpeidelMilton StevensonMary StoberTanya SuarezJames and Florentina TitoMark and Leslie TylerMickie UnderhillErik and Sarah Van RensWilliam and Emily VassarBetty VermillionLisa-Joy WaltersPeter and Pam Watkins

Ashley WeningerJeanne WhiteSusan WiechmanJames E. WilliamsJessica WilsonAleta Young

MEMORIAL GIFTS(Received since September 30, 2016)In memory of Lucius Robert George The George Family

In memory of Ralph Moore Ruth and Alex Efird Tom and Carolyn Leonard Lee Makepeace Peggy Payne BD and Jean Sessoms Henry and Gorda Singletary

In memory of Louise S. Wallace Tiffany Edleblute Phyllis Leimer Chuck and Joanne Riesz Doug and Karen Smith Herbert and Ronna Zimmer

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MAESTRO’S CIRCLE ($10,000 and up)

COMPOSER’S CIRCLE ($5,000 to $9,999)Dan Cameron Family FoundationThe Landfall FoundationReeds Jewelers River Bluffs

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($3,000 to $4,999)Arts Council of Wilmington &

New Hanover CountyBrightmore of Wilmington/

Carolina Bay Cambridge Village of Wilmington The Davis Community Southeastern Nephrology

Associates, PLLC Wilmington Gastroenterology

Associates, P.A.Wilmington Health

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000 to $2,999)Apple Annie’s Bake Shop Audi Cape Fear Live Oak Banking Company Paramounte Engineering, IncRuth Camp Campbell FoundationSunbrella Fabrics (Glen Raven Mills)Wilmington International AirportWilmington Woman's Club, Inc. PRINCIPAL PLAYERS’ CIRCLE ($500 to $999)Alliance for a Regional Concert HallH. Coleman Burgess, III DDS Dance Arts Conservatory First Bank Margaret B. Hunter, CPA, PA. LT International Trading Co.Kusek Financial GroupDavid E. Tepper, CPA PLLC

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Dr. David FoglemanClancy & Theys Construction

CompanyCorning Credit UnionCrown Box CompanyThe Farlow Group, Inc.Greater Wilmington Business JournalMurrell Voice Piano Studio North Carolina Music Teachers

Association Cape Fear ChapterPlanet FitnessSaffo Construction, Inc.Amina Shade InsuranceSouth Beach Grill SouthState BankStrick’s LP GasTri-County Pest ControlThe Talbert Family Foundation

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIESCoca-Cola FoundationCorning Inc. FoundationDuke Energy FoundationExxonMobil FoundationGE Foundation Matching GiftsIBM FoundationUBS Financial Services, Inc.

In addition to gifts from individuals, it is the generosity of these businesses, foundations and organizations that help us produce our Masterworks Series, Symphony Pops!, Family Matinees, and an array of youth education programs.

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