Friday Evening, December 19, 2014, at 8:00

in association with the Bard Center

presents

The Long Christmas DinnerLeon Botstein, Conductor

The Long Christmas DinnerOne-act play by Thornton Wilder

Intermission

The Long Christmas DinnerOne-act opera by Paul HindemithLibretto by Thornton Wilder

Director: Jonathan RosenbergScenic Designer: Zane PihlstromCostume Designer: Olivera GajicLighting Designer: Peter West

Producer: Thurmond Smithgall

Video and audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

This evening’s event will run approximately two hours including one 20-minute intermission.

This project is made possible with the support of The Lanie & Ethel Foundation and TheWilder Family.

Alice Tully Hall Please make certain your cellular phone,pager, or watch alarm is switched off.

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Leon Botstein

Hannah Mitchell

Libby MatthewsRyan-James Hatanaka

Arielle GoldmanLars Berge

Claire Moodey Michael Salinas

Scott MurphreeCatherine MartinKathryn GuthrieGlenn Seven Allen

Camille ZamoraJosh QuinnJarrett OttSara Murphy

Leon Botstein photo by Ric Kallaher; Arielle Goldman, Ryan-James Hatanaka, and Libby Matthews photosby Deborah Lopez; Hannah Mitchell photo by Michael Medeiros; Claire Moodey photo by CommontigerPhotography; Michael Salinas photo by Evan Smith; Kathryn Guthrie photo by Claire McAdams; CatherineMartin photo by Kristen Hoebermann; Jarrett Ott photo by Steve Riskind; Josh Quinn photo by KateLemmon Photography; Camille Zamora photo by Liron Amsellem.

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The CastsCast of the play (in order of appearance)

Lucia/Lucia 2...............................................................................................Hannah MitchellRoderick/Samuel .................................................................................................Lars BergeMother Bayard/Cousin Ermengarde/Nurse ...................................................Claire MoodeyCousin Brandon/Roderick 2...............................................................Ryan-James HatanakaCharles.........................................................................................................Michael SalinasGenevieve ...................................................................................................Arielle GoldmanLeonora Banning.........................................................................................Libby Matthews

Cast of the opera (in order of appearance)

Lucia/Lucia II .................................................................................Camille Zamora, sopranoMother Bayard/Ermengarde...................................................Sara Murphy, mezzo-sopranoRoderick/Sam........................................................................................Jarrett Ott, baritoneBrandon.......................................................................................Josh Quinn, bass-baritoneCharles..........................................................................................Glenn Seven Allen, tenorGenevieve........................................................................Catherine Martin, mezzo-sopranoLeonora.........................................................................................Kathryn Guthrie, sopranoRoderick II .........................................................................................Scott Murphree, tenorwith the American Symphony Orchestra; Leon Botstein, conductor

Setting90 years in the dining room of the Bayard house

Meet the Artists

Leon Botstein (Conductor)Twenty-third year as music director andprincipal conductor of American SymphonyOrchestra. Co-artistic director of BardSummerScape and Bard Music Festival.President of Bard College since 1975.Conductor laureate of Jerusalem SymphonyOrchestra (music director 2003–11). Upcom -ing: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra andRussian National Orchestra. Recently:Taipei Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,and Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas (Venezuelaand Japan). Recordings: Royal PhilharmonicOrchestra (upcoming), London Symphony,London Philharmonic, NDR-Hamburg, Jeru -salem Symphony Orchestra, and American

Symphony Orchestra. Awards: AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters; CentennialAward (Harvard); Cross of Honor, FirstClass (Austria); Caroline P. and Charles W.Ireland Prize (University of Alabama); JulioKilenyi Medal of Honor (Bruckner Society);Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevationof Music in Society; and Academic Lea -dership Award (Carnegie Foundation).

Glenn Seven Allen (Charles, opera)Recent: Roméo et Juliette (IntermountainOpera), A Little Night Music (Indiana Rep),H.M.S. Pinafore (Opera Saratoga), and DerVampyr (ASO, Carnegie Hall debut).Highlights: La fille du Régiment (CTConcert Opera), Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (AmericanOpera Center), The Turn of the Screw(Opera Moderne), The Long Walk and

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Opera in Eden project (American LyricTheatre), The Chocolate Soldier (BardSummerScape), and A View from theBridge. Concert: Avery Fisher Hall, theKennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Houston’sWortham Center, Wharton Center/LansingSymphony, Detroit’s Music Hall, New YorkHistorical Society, Joe’s Pub, the BrooklynMuseum, the Morgan Library, and theQueens Symphony. Recordings: The Lightin the Piazza (Nonesuch), A Fine andPrivate Place (Jay Records), and PoeticLicense (GPR).

Lars Berge (Roderick/Samuel, play)Norway: Invasion! and Cardamom Town.The Juilliard School: Middleton, BuriedChild, Smash, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.

Arielle Goldman (Genevieve, play)Recent: Becket (Gene Frankel Theatre),The Seagull (NYU), The Romeo and JulietProject (Chautauqua), In The Next Room orThe Vibrator Play (NYU), and To Life,L’Chaim! (writer, director, and performer).Ms. Goldman is very excited to be a part ofsuch an amazing evening of theater here inAlice Tully Hall!

Kathryn Guthrie (Leonora, opera)City Opera: Prima Donna, VOX 2012, andAlice in Wonderland. American Lyric Theater:The Turing Project and Arrangement.Upcoming: The Tempest (ShakespeareConcerts). Recordings: The Fair Opheliaand Orpheus with his Lute (Navona).Awards: Astral Artists’ 2012 NationalAuditions, Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil, Glimmerglass Opera’s YoungAmerican Artists Program, and RaviniaFestival’s Steans Institute Program forSingers. Ms. Guthrie is an Astral artist.

Ryan-James Hatanaka (CousinBrandon/Roderick 2, play)University of Toronto, National TheatreSchool of Canada, and NYU’s Tisch Graduate

Acting Program (M.F.A.). NYU: Summerand Smoke, The Seagull, Taming of theShrew, and Richard III. Highlights: KingLear (Shakespeare in the Park), Edith(Berkshire Theatre Festival), The CompleteWorks of Shakespeare: Abridged, and ASword in the Stone (Theatre NewBrunswick East Coast tour). Television: Mr.D (CBC) and Eye Candy (MTV). He teachesacting, singing, and choreography tochildren at Childsplay NY. Mr. Hatanakawould like to thank director JonathanRosenberg for this opportunity and isexcited to be sharing the stage with a fewof his NYU classmates once again.

Catherine Martin (Genevieve, opera)Recent: Aida and Das Rheingold (HoustonGrand Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos (Glimmer -glass); The Lion, the Unicorn and Me (Wash -ington National Opera); Der Rosenkavalier(National Symphony Orchestra); MirjamsSiegesgesang (San Antonio Symphony);and Bastianello and Lucrezia (UrbanArias).Upcoming: Dead Man Walking (DaytonOpera), Die Walküre (Houston Grand Opera),Rigoletto (Opera Santa Barbara), Aïda (OperaColorado), Dresden Staatskapelle, andWashington National Opera. Highlights:Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, MariaStuarda, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia,and Ariadne auf Naxos (Houston GrandOpera Studio). Awards: National OperaAssociation, Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil Auditions, Richard F. Gold CareerGrant, and Eleanor McCollum Competition.

Libby Matthews (Leonora Banning,play)NYU: The Seagull, Richard III, Blithe Spirit,Footfalls, The Eggs, As You Like It,Summer and Smoke, and Mean Time.Regional: God’s Ear, RoboPop!, and A Curefor Pain (Washington Ensemble Theatre).Film: Pacific Aggression, What Light, andNight Stand. She is a recipient of the SylviaDeutscher Kushner Memorial Scholarship

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and recent graduate of NYU’s GraduateActing Program at Tisch, class of 2014.

Hannah Mitchell (Lucia/Lucia 2, play)Studied theater and performance at BardCollege. Recent: Everything by my Side(Crossing the Line), Love in the Wars (BardSummerScape), 3sis.MOV (DowntownArt), and The Last Days of Folly (MadisonSquare Park Conservancy).

Claire Moodey (Mother Bayard/Cousin Ermengarde/Nurse, play)Bard College: Pains of Youth. LincolnCenter: Out of Doors Festival (Bread andPuppet Theater). Highlights: devised per-formance with TRAGEDY, The ServiceRoad, a (micro) history of world economicsdanced, The Escape Artist, Ghetto Horsd’Oeuvres, Spectral Findings, and Go Out ifYour Friends Are and Have Fun. Playwright,director, and co-author of devised piecesthat have been supported, presented, orproduced by BAX, Bushwick Open Studios,the Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, under-groundzero festival, Coil, Puppets andPoets, Voice & Vision, Food for Thought atDanspace Project, the New York InternationalFringe Festival, the New Orleans FringeFestival, and the Dream Up Festival. She isa fellow of the Target Margin TheaterInstitute for Collaborative Theater Making.

Scott Murphree (Roderick II, opera)Recent: Violet Fire (National Theater,Belgrade; BAM), Die Zauberflöte (Opera -Delaware, Utah Opera), Don Giovanni(Opera Delaware), Bach Cantatas (OrpheusChamber Orchestra), Die Schöpfung (SacredMusic in a Sacred Space), and Messiah(Oratorio Society of NY, Carnegie Hall;Princeton Pro Musica; National Chorale).Featured soloist: Saul (Sacred Music in aSacred Space, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola).Concert: Eos Orchestra, Newberry Consort,Friends and Enemies of New Music, Mirror

Vision Ensemble, Symphony of SoutheastTexas, Broadway Bach Ensemble, HolyTrinity Bach Foundation, Bachworks. AliceTully Hall, 92nd Street Y, and Town Hall withNed Rorem. World premieres: Mary Shelley(Society for Ethical Culture), Cymbeline, andBilly and Zelda (OperaDelaware).

Sara Murphy (Mother Bayard/Ermengarde, opera)Upcoming: Messiah and Verdi’s Requiem(Oratorio Society of NY) and CincinnatiMay Festival (recital). Recent: Mahler’sSymphony No. 8, Beethoven’s SymphonyNo. 9, and Tchaikovsky’s Ode to Joy(Cincinnati’s May Festival with the CincinnatiSymphony Orchestra); Verdi’s Requiem(Bard College); Dream of Gerontius (BerkshireChoral Festival); Phaedra, Dover Beach,Aida (Ravinia Festival with the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra); and winner, 2013Oratorio Society of NY Solo Vocal Com -petition. Highlights: Die Walküre, Il trova-tore, Aida, Mozart’s Requiem and SolemnVespers, Bach’s Magnificat, Szymanowski'sStabat Mater, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis,Duruflé’s Requiem, the RachmaninoffVespers, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle,and Dvorák's Stabat Mater.

Jarrett Ott (Roderick/Sam, opera)Curtis Institute of Music Opera Theatre: LaCenerentola, Dialogues des Carmélites,Rinaldo, Dido and Aeneas, Elegy for YoungLovers, Faust, The Cunning Little Vixen,and Les mamelles de Tiresias. ChautauquaInstitution: Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisird’amore, The Crucible, and Gianni Schicchi.Opera Philadelphia: Cold Mountain. Concert:Marlboro Music, NY Choral Society, BucksCounty Choral Society, and Philadelphia’sLyric Fest. Competitions: George LondonFoundation (finalist), McCammon VoiceCompetition (semi-finalist), and GerdaLissner Foundation Competition (thirdprize). He advanced to the Regional

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Metropolitan Opera National CouncilAuditions in Washington, D.C., after win-ning the Philadelphia district.

Josh Quinn (Brandon, opera)Currently a graduate diploma candidate atNew England Conservatory. Highlights:The Merry Widow (Janiec Opera); TheConsul, La clemenza di Tito, Die Fledermaus,Die Zauberflöte, L’incoronazione di Poppea(New England Conservatory); and Dialoguesof the Carmelites and 27 (Opera Theatre ofSt. Louis). Concert: Carmina Burana (NorwayPond Festival Singers) and Ein deutschesRequiem (New Haven Symphony). Upcom -ing: Dialogues of the Carmelites and Cosìfan tutte (New England Conservatory).Competitions: Mildred Miller InternationalVoice Competition (third place), New EnglandRegion of the Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil Auditions (regional finalist), GeorgeLondon Foundation Competition (honorablemention), and Opera Index Competition(honorable mention).

Michael Salinas (Charles, play)New York: Outside Sitka, (Samuel FrenchOff Off Broadway Short Play Festival), WetGlitter (IRT), and Three Sisters (GowanusArt). Play development: The BrooklynGenerator and Irish Repertory Theatre.Chicago’s Steep Theatre: ensemble member,Festen, In Arabia We’d All be Kings, Luther,and Pornography. Chicago and regional:Victory Gardens, Lookingglass, Silk RoadRising, the Goodman, Steppenwolf, SouthernRep, and Denver Center. Film: FreshmanOrientation. Television: Blue Bloods. He isquite grateful for this experience.

Camille Zamora (Lucia/Lucia II, opera)Recent: Scott Gendel’s “At Last” (worldpremiere recording with Yo-Yo Ma), TwinSpirits: Robert and Clara Schumann (withSting and Joshua Bell at Lincoln Center),Die Verschworenen (American SymphonyOrchestra), La Voix Humaine (Auckland

Opera, Bay Chamber Festival, PhoeniciaInternational Festival), Idomeneo (BostonLyric Opera), Don Giovanni (AnchorageOpera), Così fan tutte (GlimmerglassOpera, Virginia Opera), and L’incoronazionedi Poppea (Houston Grand Opera). Highlights:Dialogues des Carmélites, The Turn of theScrew, Le nozze di Figaro, and AnnaBolena. A champion of zarzuela, she hasbeen cited as a leading interpreter of clas-sical Spanish vocal repertoire.

American Symphony OrchestraFounded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski.Series: Vanguard Series (Carnegie Hall);Classics Declassified (Peter Norton Sym -phony Space); and subscription series,SummerScape Festival, and Bard MusicFestival (Richard B. Fisher Center for thePerforming Arts at Bard College). Severaltours of Asia and Europe. Countless benefitsfor organizations including the JerusalemFoundation and PBS. Past soloists: Yo-YoMa, Deborah Voigt, Sarah Chang, andmany more. Recordings: several on theTelarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, andVanguard labels; many performances avail-able for digital download.

Jonathan Rosenberg (Director)Highlights: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis),Dance Theater Workshop, Berkshire TheaterFestival, A Contemporary Theater (Seattle),the German Theater Abroad and NewWork Now festivals (The Public Theater),Institut International de la Marionnette(Charleville-Mezieres), Bedlam Theatre(Edinburgh), and Wits Theatre (Johannes -burg). Recent: Master Harold and theboys, Williams in Transit—short plays byTennessee Williams, 1940–1970, Fen, MyChildren! My Africa! (Juilliard); Moby Dick—Rehearsed, Eccentricities of a Night ingale(Bard College); and A Winter’s Tale, ThePhilanderer (NYU’s Graduate ActingProgram). Upcoming: Project/Project (NYU’sGraduate Acting Program). Awards: NEA

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and Fox Foundation. He is artist-in-residencein the theater and performance program atBard College.

Zane Pihlstrom (Scenic Designer)International: Uncle Vanya (Uppsala stad-steater, Sweden); The King Stag (ShanghaiTheater Academy); You, We, Us, All(Hamburg, Antwerp); and Our Class (NationalTheater of Lithuania). Work with directorYana Ross: scenery and costumes forEurydice (Finish National Theater, Helsinki),scenery and costumes for Macbeth(Volksbühne Am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz,Berlin), costumes for Bambiland (NationalTheater of Lithuania, Oskaras KorsunovasTheater), and scenery and costumes forSleeping Beauty (Seoul Performing ArtsFestival, South Korea). New York City workwith Beth Morrison Projects: sceneryand/or costumes for Sumeida’s Song(HERE); Song of the Uproar and Binibon (TheKitchen); and Kocho (Galapagos). Residentdesigner for Company XIV dance companysince 2008, collaborating with visual directorand choreographer Austin McCormick, withwhom he won the 2012 Opera AmericaDirector/Designer Competition.

Olivera Gajic (Costume Designer)Highlights: Jedermann (Salzburg Festival);God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre); Americans,The Greeks (Juilliard, drama); A MidsummerNight’s Dream and Le Comte Ory (Juilliard,opera); Terrible Things (P.S.122); RedFly/Blue Bottle (HERE); This Was the End(The Chocolate Factory); Chekhov Lizardbrain,Twelfth Night (Pig Iron); Ivanov, Uncle

Vanja, Platonov, and Seagull (Lake Lucille);The Necklace, New Island Arhipelago, andThe Peripherals (The Talking Band);Wonderland (The Flying Machine); MissJulie (Rattlestick); and One Million Butterflies(Primary Stages). Designs extensively forBerkshire Theatre Festival, Trinity RepertoryCompany, and The Juilliard School. Regional:Arden Theatre Company, Long WharfTheatre, Two River, Riverside Theatre,Playmakers Repertory Company, CaliforniaShakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare SantaCruz, Theatre Works, and American Stage.Awards: NEA/TCG Career DevelopmentProgram for Designers, IT Award (Out -standing Costume Design), TDF/IreneSharaff Young Master Award, BarrymoreAward (Outstanding Costume Design), andBessie Award (Outstanding Visual Design).

Peter West (Lighting Designer)Recent: Torch Song Trilogy and Belleville(Studio Theater); The Mystery of Irma Vep(Red Bull Theater); The Importance of BeingEarnest (Shakespeare Theatre); Zero CostHouse (Pig Iron Theater); It is a Pleasure toPresent… (Fordham); “Master Harold” andthe Boys, Middletown, and Iphigenia andOther Daughters (Juilliard); and Hamlet (CalShakes, Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Highlights:The Public Theater, Shake speare Theatre,Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage,Huntington, Barbican, UK, Spoleto, Rattle -stick, New York Theatre Workshop, Man -hattan School of Music, American OperaProjects, Cleveland Playhouse, Juilliard,and Playmakers Rep. He is a longtimeassociate of Red Bull Theater Company.

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American Symphony OrchestraLeon Botstein, Conductor

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, ChairThurmond Smithgall, Vice Chair

Miriam R. BergerMichael DorfRachel KalnickiJack KligerShirley A. Mueller, Esq.

Debra R. PemsteinEileen RhulenFelicitas S. Thorne

HONORARY MEMBERSJoel I. Berson, Esq.L. Stan Stokowski

ASO Board of Trustees

Lynne Meloccaro, Executive DirectorOliver Inteeworn, General ManagerBrian J. Heck, Director of MarketingNicole M. de Jesús, Director of DevelopmentSebastian Danila, Library ManagerMarielle Métivier, Operations ManagerCarley Gooley, Marketing AssistantMarc Cerri, Orchestra LibrarianAnn Yarbrough Guttman, Orchestra PersonnelManager

Ben Oatmen, Production AssistantLeszek M. Wojcik, Recording EngineerEmily Cuk, Stage Manager

James Bagwell, Principal Guest ConductorZachary Schwartzman, Assistant ConductorRichard Wilson, Composer-In-ResidenceJames Bagwell, Artistic Consultant

ASO Administration

The play The Long Christmas Dinner is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

The opera The Long Christmas Dinner is presented by arrangement with European American MusicDistribution Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, publisher and copy-right owner.

The producers wish to thank the TDF Costume Collection for its assistance in this production.

VIOLINErica Kiesewetter,Concertmaster

Richard RoodSuzanne GilmanYukie HandaElizabeth NielsenAshley Horne

VIOLAMarka Gustavsson,Principal

Sally ShumwayJohn DexterDebra Shufelt-Dine

CELLOEugene Moye, PrincipalRoberta CooperAnnabelle HoffmanMaureen Hynes

BASSJohn Beal, PrincipalJordan FrazierJack Wenger

FLUTELaura Conwesser,Principal

Rie Schmidt

OBOEAlexandra Knoll,Principal

CLARINETLaura Flax, PrincipalLino Gomez, BassClarinet

BASSOONThomas Sefcovic,Principal

Maureen StrengeGilbert Dejean,Contrabassoon

HORNZohar Schondorf,Principal

TRUMPETCarl Albach, PrincipalJohn Dent

TROMBONERichard Clark, PrincipalChristopher Olness

TUBAKyle Turner, Principal

PERCUSSIONKory Grossman, Principal

HARPSICHORDChristopher Oldfather,Principal

PERSONNEL MANAGER

Ann Yarbrough Guttman

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Zachary Schwartzman

ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN

Marc Cerri

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MAESTRO’S CIRCLE Michael DorfJeanne Donovan FisherThe Frank & LydiaBergen Foundation

Rachel and ShalomKalnicki

The Lanie & EthelFoundation

National Endowmentfor the Arts (NEA)

New York CityDepartment ofCultural Affairs (DCA)

New York State Councilon the Arts (NYSCA)

Open SocietyFoundations

Dimitri B. and RaniaPapadimitriou

Thurmond SmithgallFelicitas S. ThorneThe Winston Foundation

STOKOWSKI CIRCLE AnonymousThe Ann & GordonGetty Foundation

Mary F. and Sam MillerThe Thomas P. andCynthia D. SculcoFoundation

The Spektor FamilyFoundation

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E.Wilson

BENEFACTORSAnonymousThe Amphion FoundationCatharine Wilder GuilesMrs. James P. WarburgTappan WilderThe Wilder Family

PATRONSAnonymous (2)Joel I. and Ann BersonThe David & SylviaTeitelbaum Fund, Inc.

Karen FinkbeinerPeter L. Kennard

Michael and AnneMarie Kishbauch

Gara LaMarche andLisa J. Mueller

Ross LipmanDr. Pamela F. Mazur andDr. Michael J. Miller

Mark Ptashne and Lucy Gordon

SUSTAINERSAnonymous (2)The Bialkin FamilyFoundation

Thomas and Carolyn P.Cassilly

Ellen Chesler andMatthew J. Mallow

Veronica FrankensteinGary M. GiardinaIrwin and Maya B.Hoffman

Erica Kiesewetter Patricia Kiley andEdward Faber

Jack Kliger and Amy Griggs

Jay L. Kriegel andKathryn McAuliffe, inhonor of Leon Botstein

Arthur S. LeonardWilliam McCracken andCynthia Leghorn

Susan and GrahamMcDonald

Marcia H. MoorJoanne and RichardMrstik

Shirley A. MuellerTatsuji NambaJames and Andrea NelkinDavid E. Schwab II andRuth Schwartz Schwab

Janet Zimmerman SegalJoseph and Jean SullivanTart-Wald Foundation

CONTRIBUTORSAnonymousGary ArthurDr. Miriam Roskin BergerBette R. Collom andAnthony Menninger

Nicole M. de Jesús andBrian P. Walker

Max and Eliane HahnAshley HorneSteve LeventisPeter A. Q. LockerAlan MallachJeanne MalterStephen J. Mc AteerCharles McCracken, inmemory of Jane Taylor

Sally McCrackenJames H. and Louise V.North

Peter Lars Sandbergand Nancy Whitaker

Martha and DavidSchwartz

Alan StenzlerRobert F. WeisWilliam C. Zifchak

SUPPORTERSAnonymous (9)American Express GiftMatching Program

Madelyn P. AshmanJohn and Joanne BaerBank of AmericaReina BarcanCarol Kitzes BaronRuth BaronMary Ellin BarrettDr. Robert BasnerDavid C. Beek andGayle Christian

Simone BeldaYvette and MauriceBendahan

Adria BenjaminDaniel and GiselaBerkson

Stephen M. BrownMarjorie BurnsMoshe BursteinIsabelle A. CazeauxRichard C. CellerRoger ChatfieldPaul CobuzziAlice and Theodore CohnLaura ConwesserPaul EhrlichRichard Farris

Lynda FergusonMartha FerryLaura FlaxJeffrey F. FriedmanChristopher H. GibbsTodd Gordon and Susan Feder

Michael and Ilene GottsGreenwich House, Inc.Nathan GrossJohn L. HaggertyLaura HarrisEric S. HoltzHudson Guild, Inc. Sara HunsickerGeorge H. HutzlerIBM CorporationJewish Communal FundJosé JiménezRonald S. KahnRobert and Susan KalishThe Kanter RiopelleFamily

Robert and CharlotteKelly

David KernahanIrving and RhodaKleiman

Caral G. and Robert A.Klein

Adnah G. and Grace W.Kostenbauder

Peter KrollKurt Rausch LLCDr. Nancy Leonard andDr. Lawrence Kramer

Steve LeventisLinda LopezElizabeth MateoCarolyn McColleyAlan B. McDougallSally and Bruce McMillenClifford S. MillerJudith MonsonMartin L. and LucyMiller Murray

Kenneth NassauMichael NasserMaury NewburgerKaren OlahClarence W. Olmstead,Jr. and Kathleen F.Heenan

Ticket sales cover only a small percentage of the expenses for our full-size orchestral concerts.The American Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees, staff, and artists gratefully acknowledgethe following individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies who help us tofulfill Leopold Stokowski’s avowed intention of making orchestral music accessible and afford-able for everyone. While space permits us only to list gifts made at the Friends level and above,we value the generosity of all donors.

This project is made possible with the support of The Lanie & Ethel Foundation and The Wilder Family.

American Symphony Orchestra Patrons

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Roger and Lorelle PhillipsDavid R. Pozorski andAnna M. Romanski

Anthony RichterBonita RochePhyllis and LeonardRosen

Jack RosenthalMichael T. RyanHenry SaltzmanSari Scheer and Samuel Kopel

Gerald and GloriaScorse

Georgi ShimanovskyBruce Smith and Paul Castellano

Gertrude SteinbergHazel C. and BernardStrauss

Helen StudleyJon P. TilleyElisabeth F. TurnauerDonald W. WhippleLarry A. WehrMichael P. A. WinnKurt WissbrunRichard J. WoodLeonard and EllenZablow

Alfred ZollerMyra and MatthewZuckerbraun

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Barton DominusRobert DurstLee EvansExxonMobil FoundationDonald W. Fowle Helen GarciaBarbara GatesJune O. GoldbergGoldman, Sachs & Co. Robert GottliebMr. and Mrs. SidneyGreenberg

John HallDonald HargreavesAndrée HayumRobert Herbert

Gerald and LindaHerskowitz

Diana F. HobsonChristopher HollingerCyma HorowitzDrs. Russell andBarbara Holstein

Theresa JohnsonPeter KeilKaori KitaoPete KlostermanFrederick R. KochSeymour and HarrietKoenig

Mr. and Mrs. RobertLaPorte

Patricia LucaWalter LeviJudd LevyJosé A. LopezSarah LuhbyDr. Karen ManchesterRichard and MaryanneMendelsohn

Mark G. MiksicAlex MitchellChristine MunsonMichael NassarJane and CharlesPrussack

Bruce RaynorWayne H. ReaganMartin RichmanCatherine Roach

John W. RoaneDr. and Mrs. ArnoldRosen

Rochelle RubinsteinNick SaywardNina C. and EmilScheller

Harriet SchonDr. and Mrs. Herbert C.Schulberg

Sharon SchweidelThe Honorable MichaelD. Stallman

Susan StempleskiPaul StumpfAndre SverdloveLorne and AvronTaichman

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Gretchen ViedermanJames Wagner andBarry Hoggard

Renata and BurtWeinstein

Victor WheelerAnn and Doug WilliamDagmar and WayneYaddow

List current as ofDecember 4, 2014

National Endowment for the ArtsMs. Jane Chu, Chairman

New York State Council on the Artswith the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature

The City of New YorkThe Honorable Bill De Blasio, Mayor

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnershipwith the New York City Council

Music plays a special part in the lives of many New York residents. The American SymphonyOrchestra gratefully acknowledges the support of the following government agencies thathave made a difference in the culture of New York: