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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 4 SEASON FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends, I am so excited to welcome you to the Pioneer Valley Symphony’s 85th season! This year, we continue the PVS’ tradition of celebrating significant anniversaries with ambitious programming. Each concert is anchored by a major work we have long desired to perform, paired with new pieces or underappreciated favorites, all reflecting on our season theme of Home & Hope. For our season opener, Hope in a New Home, we reflects on some of the remarkable circumstances which have brought many artists and musicians to the United States with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, full of the wistful yearnings for the composer’s Hungarian home that no longer existed, to Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto, first performed in New York City in 1909 further cementing his success as a composer and virtuoso performer in the US, and the more recent “Life of an Alien” from Bode Omojola’s Nigerian opera Ìrìn Àjò, speaking to the challenges faced by new immigrants in our own time. We are so happy to again work with Jiayan Sun, who last joined us for a memorable performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto in November 2019. Guest conductor Netta Hadari invites you to rediscover Mabel Daniel’s enchanting Deep Woods alongside the beloved “Pastoral” symphony by Beethoven at Home in Nature. This concert also features the amazing Eric Berlin in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto. He is renowned for his contributions on stage and also at UMass Amherst, where he has prepared generations of trumpeters who are in the field today. In the spring, we are thrilled to bring NYC-based violinist Kinga Augustyn to the region for Roxanna Panufnik’s stunning Abraham: Concerto for Hope which celebrates the connections between the major Abrahamic faiths. This is paired with Hector Berlioz’s gargantuan Symphonie Fantastique, featuring extravagant orchestral colors and exciting virtuosic writing—a treat for the audience and for the orchestra. To close the season, we are honored to present two meditations on the African American experience with Visions of Hope for the future: Margaret Bond’s Credo, which employs a text by W.E.B. DuBois sung by the PVS Chorus with the stunning soprano Brianna J. Robinson and baritone
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 5 Nicholas Lagesse, and William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 2 “Song of a New Race.” In addition to features in three events with our orchestra, the PVS Chorus and Chamber Choir will also offer two independent concerts of CHORAL MUSIC focusing on composers from our shared home of the Pioneer Valley. Led by Dr. Allegra Martin in her second year as director of the PVS Chorus, the fall program includes the world premiere of a new setting of the words of Emily Dickinson from composer (and PVS’ assistant conductor) Anthony Ferreira. For fans of KID-FRIENDLY MUSIC, our annual family Holiday Pops will feature many of our singalong classics, while introducing a new commission from Clifton (Jerry) Noble, Jr. based on Tom Lehrer’s Hanukkah in Santa Monica, and music from Polar Express. The energetic and fun Film Pops concert will return in our outdoor summer season. Plus, this year’s Education Concert is an enchanting new work from Andrés Martín about a mountain lion lost in San Francisco who must find his way home. This concert is performed for the 3rd and 4th graders of Franklin County and is not open to the public, but a video recording will be available in May to stream in your home or classroom, free of charge. Thank you for joining us in our 85th season! Tianhui Ng Proud to be the “Official Chocolatier” for the Pioneer Valley Symphony HandmadeChocolates andSpecialtyCandies um 500 Greenfield Road (Route 5 & 10), Deerfield, Massachusetts 413-772-0443 RichardsonsCandy.com
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 8 SEASON Volume 2 3 1, Number 132 Fr iday, J u ly 7, 2023 Aldi plan gets environmental policy review GREENFIELD By MARY BYRNE Staff Writer GREENFIELD — A handful of residents joined state officials and people associated with the proposed development of Aldi, the discount supermarket chain based in Germany, for an information session on Thursday morning as part of a review process to consider the project’s potential environmental impact. Speaking on behalf of Aldi grocery stores, Andy Platt of Bohler Engineering explained the plan to construct a 19,400-square-foot grocery store on the site of the now-demolished Candlelight Motor Inn at 208 Mohawk Trail. The 6.7-acre property, located west of Interstate 91 behind McDonald’s, has been owned by Benderson Development for 17 or 18 years, and will be leased by Aldi for the store and 97 parking spaces. In addition to the access point off the Mohawk Trail (Route 2), the site has frontage on Robbins Road. Platt said construction will largely occur on the northern part of the prope r t y. According to Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act analyst Nicholas Perry who shared information on MEPA’s environmental review process on Thursday, the Expanded Environmental Notification Form (EENF) was triggered as a result of certain thresholds the project met, including the generation of 2,000 or more new average daily trips on roadways providing access to a single location, and alteration of more than half the acreage of wetlands. The EENF indicates the project will require a vehicular access permit from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. “The MEPA is not a permitting process and does not approve or deny projects,” he clarified. “M E PA review occurs prior to state agency actions to ensure agencies evaluate their environmental impact.” At the end of the process, Perry said Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Grocery store proposal may generate over 2,000 daily trips on area roads By CHRIS LARABEE Staff Writer SOUTH DEERFIELD — Seniors in southern Franklin County will soon have a new option to travel across county lines for medical appointments, shopping and recreation. Thanks to a $16,612 Service Incentive Grant from the Massachusetts Councils on Aging and a partnership between the South County Senior Center, Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) and Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), seniors in Deerfield and Whately will be able to travel to PVTA’s region and Sunderland seniors will be able to travel to F R TA’s service area through their agency ’s on-demand van service, according to Senior Center Director Jennifer Remillard. Broken down, $11,500 of the grant will be used to fund trip fares — covering up to 2,000 one-way rides — and up to $3,612 will be used to pay a van driver for trips not covered by the regional transit authorities. The remaining $1,500 will go toward administrative expenses. “Our goal is to facilitate direct service from point A to point B. With the grant we received, our goal is providing financial support for the fares and to supplement service with our Council on Aging van if the (transit authorities) cannot provide service at the requested date or time,” Remillard said. “For example, those who live in Deerfield or Whately are bound by the FRTA service area and cannot travel without a connecting bus to points in Hampshire or Hampden County.” Senior Center, transit groups will offer on-demand trips across county lines Grant to c over senior van ser vice SOUTH DEERFIELD By SAM DRYSDALE State House News Service BOSTON — Forty years after the state added a 5-cent deposit on some plastic bottles to encourage recycling, climate advocates say it’s “the right moment” to expand the state’s bottle redemption law. Proposals before the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy would increase the bottle deposit from its current 5 cents to 10 cents, and would add more types of beverage containers to the program. A deposit would be added for water bottles, vitamin drinks, nips and bottles for other drinks that w e r e n’t contemplated when the initial law was adopted in 1982. Efforts to update this bill have failed in the Legislature for years, and voters in 2014 shot down a ballot question to tack the 5-cent bottle deposit onto drinks besides beer and soda. Without success in expanding the deposit, advocates told lawmakers at two Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy hearings Wednesday (as House and Senate members continue to hold separate hearings amidst a feud between the committee’s co-chairs) that Massachusetts is falling behind. The state has the lowest rate of people returning empty bottles and Bottle redemption proposal adds higher deposit Above, Emma Barrett, 11, and Alice Perkins, 8, both of Orange, make bubble art by blowing bubbles in a cup till they overflow onto paper at Wheeler Memorial Library’s Bubble Bash on Thursday. 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2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 9 THE Pioneer valley symphony presenTS HOPE IN A NEW HOME FRIDAY, october 13, 2023 | 7:30PM Greenfield High School Auditorium Greenfield, MA Tianhui Ng, Conductor Pre-concert talk by Professor David Schneider Life of an Alien Olabode Festus Omojola from Ìrìn Àjò–Odyssey of an Innocent with the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Sergei Rachmaninoff I Allegro ma non tanto (1873-1943) II Intermezzo. Adagio III Finale. Alla breve Jiayan Sun, Piano INTERMISSION Concerto for Orchestra Béla Bartók (1881-1945) I Introduzione. Andante non troppo–Allegro vivace II Giuoco le coppie [game of pairs]. Allegro scherzando III Elegia. Andante non troppo IV Intermezzo interrotto [interrupted intermezzo]. Allegretto V Finale. Presto Pioneer Valley Symphony Tianhui Ng, Music Director Dr. Allegra Martin, Chorus Director Anthony Ferreira, Assistant Conductor Dr. David Schneider, Resident Musicologist THIS CONCERT IS SPONSORED IN PART BY
VIOLIN I Janet Van Blerkom, concertmaster Diana Peelle John Wcislo Elaine T. Holdsworth Ronald Weiss Mark Mason Dennis Townsend Mari Gottdiener Reiko Sono Kala Sabadosa VIOLIN II Cecilia R. Berger, principal Nancy Ramsey Maureen Carney Marilyn Richards Zoë Ballou Madeleine Atkins Cohen Margie Kierstead Carol Baker Wendy Foxmyn Laurie Israel VIOLA Mandi Jo Hanneke, principal Sonya R. Lawson Roy Rudolph Peter J. Haas Stephanie Railsback Jeff Ramsey Robert McGuigan Pamela Skinner VIOLONCELLO Nancy Rich, principal Jennifer Allen Daniel Brandon Susan Young Nancy Pond Ari Jewell Robin Luberoff Su Auerbach Alisa Beaver Kate Walker BASS Patricia Cahn, principal Lynn Lovell Sue Keller David Glassberg Jeff Knox FLUTE Beckie Markarian Hannah Smeltz PICCOLO Nancy Shinn OBOE Aaron Lakota, principal Jason Tien Katie Sigelman CLARINET Janice Murphy Kathryn Scott Elizabeth Orchulek BASSOON Alex Meade, principal Roger F. Clapp HORN Erin Lylis, principal Jean Jeffries Joshua Vinocour Christine Mortensen Stanley Light TRUMPET Karen Atherton, co-principal Melissa Griffin, co-principal Wendy LaValley TROMBONE Ben Smar, principal Scott Pemrick Joseph Sabol ORCHESTRA
TUBA Zev Barden TIMPANI Daniel Albert, principal PERCUSSION Andrew Armstrong Maxwell Newman Ryan Schneider HARP Sorana Scarlat Amanda Carabase SOPRANO Ananda Bagiackas Nadine Benzaia Judy Case Anna Chinetti Carol Coan Camille Forbes Kirsten Hipsky Virginia Holmes Meiju Hwang Mary Lunt Shirley Pelletier Allison Ritter Lex Salomone Annita Sawyer Nancy Slator section leader ALTO Patricia Appelbaum Aerin Brown Amanda Ferron Heidi Frantz-Dale Claire Hilsinger Judith Holmes Kathleen Holt section leader Michelle Kaskey Kathryn Koegel Jill Lowenstein Cherryl McLaughlin Elizabeth Orchulek Marilyn Paterno Pat Powers Susan Schaeffer Margot Thomas TENOR Mollie Babize Lisa Evans Henry Gibson section leader Kevin Kelly Robert Kidder Jamie Manning Roy Williams BASS Duane Dale Kevin Germain Peter Greenwald Daniel Grubbs section leader Alan Harris David Jackson Craig Machado William Sawyer Life of an “alien”, life of misery. Few may be lucky, many live in penury. Labor in pain but there’s no road to sustenance. Dreams of a better life are held in abeyance. Choices are limited, survival is hard. Jobs are rare, just like water in the desert. Hope of a big dream may never come. Life of an “alien” held in abeyance, hope of a big dream may never come. Life of the innocent held in abeyance. Food and shelter, prime luxury. Prime luxury, no food, no shelter. Crime is a gift ev’ryone gets. We need leaders who really care for the people, who will lead Africa to promised land. TEXT: Life of an Alien CHORUS
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 14 SEASON Praised by the New York Times for his “revelatory” performances, and by the Toronto Star for his “technically flawless, poetically inspired and immensely assured playing,” pianist Jiayan Sun has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Chinese and RTÉ (Ireland) National Symphony Orchestras, the Fort Worth and Toledo Symphony Orchestras, the Toronto and Aspen Concert Orchestras, and he has conducted from the keyboard the Meiningen Court Orchestra. His performances have been broadcast by the BBC, the RTÉ, China Central Television, and classical music radio stations in North America. Under the mentorship of Sir András Schiff, he was invited to give a number of solo recitals in Europe as part of Schiff’s “Building Bridges” project for the 2017–2018 season. Mr. Sun has been awarded prizes at many of the major international piano competitions, including the Leeds, the Dublin, and the Cleveland, in addition to the first prize at the inaugural CCC Toronto International Piano Competition. Playing early keyboard instruments and studying historical performance practice have played a significant role in Mr. Sun’s musical activities, with critically acclaimed appearances with the American Classical Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall. Hailing from Yantai, China, he received Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Yoheved Kaplinsky and Stephen Hough. His other mentors include pianists Malcolm Bilson, Richard Goode, Robert Levin, and harpsichordist Lionel Party. His devotion to the art of composition led him to study with the composer Philip Lasser. As the Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist in Piano at Smith College, he presented Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas in chronological order in the 2018–2019 season. In the current season, he presents the project “Schubertiade” in a series of eight recitals at Smith College, exploring Schubert’s major piano, chamber, and vocal works. For more information, visit jiayansunpianist.com. JIAYAN SUN PIANO, OCTOBER 13
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 18 SEASON American Prize-winning conductor Tianhui Ng has emerged as one of the leading advocates for new music, with a rare understanding of the voice and Romantic expression. He has led more than 60 world premieres, including numerous operas and multimedia works. His unique gifts for communication and intercultural work have borne fruit in several unusual firsts, including the first operas in Yoruba and Chickasaw, alongside award-winning programming, drawing on his deep knowledge of canonic repertoire in dialogue with the issues of our time. Since his appointment as Music Director of White Snake Projects in 2020, Tian has led the world premieres of Death By Life by Leila Adu Gilmore, Jacinthe Greywoode, David Sanford, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Mary D. Watkins, A Survivor’s Odyssey by Mary Prescott, Elena Ruehr’s Cosmic Cowboy, and Jorge Sosa’s Alice in the Pandemic, identified by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant works of American art in the pandemic. In 2022, Tian’s first album with the Lviv National Philharmonic of Ukraine on Nimbus Alliance has been lauded internationally as a major contribution to a previously unknown legacy of symphonic music in Ukraine and Russia. Hailed by the Boston Globe as “unforgettable,” Tian celebrated his appointment as Music Director of the New England Philharmonic with his trademark programming in the 2022-2023 season. Tian’s debuts and new collaborations this season include appearances with GBH Music in Boston, National Public Radio, New England Public Media, Borromeo Quartet, Pro Arte Musical, and the Springfield Symphony. TIANHUI NG Music Director
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 19 Tian has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Savaria Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), Dartington Festival Orchestra (UK), Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Wallonie (Belgium), and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra (USA). A versatile musician, he is equally at home in the realm of choral music, and has conducted ensembles like the Stuttgart Chamber Choir (Germany), Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus (USA), Oregon Bach Festival Chorus (USA), Yale Schola Cantorum (USA), and the Young Person’s Chorus of New York (USA). Tian has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Dashon Burton, Tyler Duncan, Marcus Eiche, Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Ayano Kataoka, Ilya Polataev, Gary Steigerwalt, Astrid Schween, Sara Davis Buechner, Hanna Elisabeth Müller, Nicholas Phan, James Taylor, Gilles Vonsattel, and Soyoung Yoon. Tian holds a B.M. in Music from the University of Birmingham, UK, with a focus on conducting and composition, and he earned an M.M. in Conducting from the Yale School of Music. His conducting teachers and mentors have included Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, Paolo Arrivabeni, John Carewe, Peter Eötvös, Kurt Masur, and Michel Tabachnik. Tian is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras at Mount Holyoke College (MA) and the Music Director of the Pioneer Valley Symphony, New England Philharmonic, the Victory Players, and White Snake Projects. Stay in touch with Tian via Instagram @ngtianhui
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 22 SEASON CELEBRATING 80 YEARS Tickets and subscriptions available now! SpringfieldSymphony.org Valley Classical Concerts World-Class Chamber Music at Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College, Northampton MA, and the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence MA Sunday, October 22, 3:00 pm, Bombyx The Viano String Quartet Schubert, Penderecki, Dvoøák, & Smetana Sunday, November 12, 3:00 pm, Sweeney The Borromeo String Quartet Bach, Eleanor Alberga, Bartók, & Beethoven www.valleyclassicalconcerts.org (413) 586-0458 Special prices for students and families! Please join us for on-stage conversations with the artists 1 hour before each concert. Programs subject to change.
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 23 Dr. Allegra Martin serves as the Interim Director of Music at First Unitarian Worcester, the Music Director of Convivium Musicum, and conducting teacher at Berklee School of Music. Previous positions have included Director of College Choirs and Interim Orchestra Director at the College of the Holy Cross, Director of Music at First Parish Cohasset, Artistic Director of the Cantilena Women’s Chorale, and Chorus Director at Lasell College. Allegra holds degrees from Williams College and Westminster Choir College, and a doctorate from the University of Illinois. At the University of Illinois, she founded and conducted the University Mixed Chorus. Her research specialty is the choral music of Margaret Bonds. She has presented on Margaret Bonds and on the topic of diversity and inclusion in the choral canon at ACDA Northeastern, NCCO, and the Oxford Conducting Institute. Allegra is also an active professional singer, and was one of the founders of Anthology, a women’s vocal quartet that performed in the greater Boston area for six years and commissioned 22 works of new music in that time. She currently sings with the Schola Cantorum of Boston and in the past has sung with such ensembles as Cappella Clausura and the Video Game Orchestra. While at the University of Illinois, she performed Julia Wolfe’s award-winning Anthracite Fields with Bang on a Can and Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans with the Venice Baroque Orchestra. While at Westminster, she sang with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as in opera productions at the U.S. Spoleto Festival. ALLEGRA MARTIN Chorus Director
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 26 SEASON ANTHONY FERREIRA ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Anthony C. Ferreira (ASCAP) is a composer, conductor, educator, and filmmaker. He has written dozens of works for choir, orchestra, concert band, chamber ensembles of uncommon pairings, and four full-length musicals. He has written and produced six albums of varied genres and enjoys an active career writing and producing for local singers and rappers. Anthony has conducted the gamut of ensembles, from chamber and symphonic choirs to chamber and symphonic orchestras. He has been the Assistant Conductor of the PVS since 2021. David E. Schneider has a former life as a professional clarinetist that includes recordings of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto and works written for him by Eric Sawyer, Lew Spratlan, and Daniel Palkowski. A graduate of Harvard College (A.B.) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.), his day job since 1997 has been as a professor of music history, music theory, and chamber music at Amherst College, where he serves as the Georges Lurcy Professor of Music and European Studies and Dean of the Class of 2023. His publications include Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition (University of California Press, 2006) and articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects including Hungarian opera, Anton Webern, W.A. Mozart, and the genre of the concerto. David is proud to be pre-concert lecturer and program note-writer for the PVS since 2013. DAVID SCHNEIDER Resident Musicologist
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 27 features and reviews for the Springfield Republican newspapers since 1988. He holds a BA from Amherst College (1983) and an MA from Smith College (1988), where he studied composition with M. Lewis Spratlan and Donald Wheelock. Photo credit; Jon Crispin. Best wishes to the Pioneer Valley Symphony on your 83rd season! 99 Prouty Street Springfield, MA 01119 [email protected] TEL: 413-796-8150 FAX: 413-214-6952 MEMBER MA & RI BAR [email protected] Department as a collaborative pianist. He has written classical music features and reviews for the Springfield Republican newspapers since 1988. He holds a BA from Amherst College (1983) and an MA from Smith College (1988), where he studied composition with M. Lewis Spratlan and Donald Wheelock. Photo credit; Jon Crispin. Best wishes to the Pioneer Valley Symphony on your 83rd season! 99 Prouty Street Springfield, MA 01119 [email protected] TEL: 413-796-8150 FAX: 413-214-6952 MEMBER MA & RI BAR Department as a collaborative pianist. He has written classical music features and reviews for the Springfield Republican newspapers since 1988. He holds a BA from Amherst College (1983) and an MA from Smith College (1988), where he studied composition with M. Lewis Spratlan and Donald Wheelock. Photo credit; Jon Crispin. Best wishes to the Pioneer Valley Symphony on your 83rd season! 99 Prouty Street Springfield, MA 01119 [email protected] TEL: 413-796-8150 FAX: 413-214-6952 Best wishes to the Pioneer Valley Symphony on your 85th season! MEMBER MA & RI BAR
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 30 SEASON B. Omojola: “Life of an ‘Alien’” from Ìrìn Àjò–Odyssey of an Innocent (2018) Olabode (Bode) Festus Omojola, a native of Nigeria, is the Hammond Douglas Five College Professor of Music based at Mt. Holyoke College. The recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Ford Foundation, he is the author of six books and innumerable articles about music and musicians of West Africa. In addition to his leadership role as a scholar of ethnomusicology and Yoruban music, Omojola is a prolific composer of choral and instrumental works including two operas combining Yoruban and Western musical traditions. Regarding the excerpt from his first opera that opens this evening’s program, he writes: This song is from Bode Omojola’s 2018 opera, Odyssey of an Innocent, which centers on Kayode, a Nigerian immigrant who seeks a better future in the United States. In the opera, Omojola draws attention to the lonely conversations and introspection immigrants engage in as they struggle to cope with difficult situations in a country far away from their original home. As shown in “Life of an ‘Alien,’” the opera also puts into perspective the challenges and obstacles that typify the difficult terrain of immigrant life. Musically speaking, the song employs the rhythmic and harmonic resources of West African highlife, a popular genre with roots in the colonial era. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (1909) I Allegro ma non tanto II Intermezzo. Adagio III Finale. Alla breve Rachmaninoff began his career as a composer in the 1890s with the reputation of being up to date, but, despite his popularity with audiences, came to be regarded as a conservative by critics after World War I. One of the greatest pianists of his day, he was also a leading conductor in his twenties and thirties. After leaving Russia in 1917, however, he focused his energies on touring as a pianist, a choice to some degree forced on him because he had to abandon all his property in Russia, and piano NOTES ON THE PROGRAM Bode Omojola credit: Gazette/Jerrey Roberts
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 31 recitals and concerto appearances were the surest path for him to financial security. The life of a traveling virtuoso made him rich, but left little time for composition—a good eighty-five percent of his music was composed before 1917. While later works, including the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (1934) and Symphonic Dances (1941), are among Rachmaninoff’s best, he never moved beyond the musical style he developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although he lived in Los Angeles in his final years and was asked to write movie music, he never did. Nevertheless, his music was used in a number of films and his style greatly influenced composers of American film music in the 1930s and ‘40s. For millions of Americans, the lyrical style Rachmaninoff developed in pre-revolutionary Russia came to epitomize the expressions of love and passion they witnessed on the silver screen. Rachmaninoff began writing his Piano Concerto No. 3 (affectionately referred to as “Rach 3”) at his wife’s country estate in Russia and finished it in Dresden specifically for his first visit to the United States in late fall and early winter 1909-10. After making his American debut with a recital at Smith College, he premiered the work in New York City in November 1909 with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony. Although much of his first American tour was devoted to solo recitals and performances of his Second Piano Concerto, the high point for Rachmaninoff was preparing for the performance of the Third Piano Concerto with Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic in January 1910. According to Rachmaninoff, Mahler paid attention to the score’s every detail and rehearsed it well beyond its allotted time. Although the tour was a great success, Rachmaninoff complained bitterly about America being all “‘business,’ ‘business’” and not at all to his liking. Despite being offered the position of conductor of the Boston Symphony as well as a number of contracts for performances in the United States the following season, he rejected all such offers. Little did he suspect at the time that in only a few years he would need to flee Russia and that opportunities in the United States would become central to his livelihood. Although commonly regarded as the most difficult piano concerto in the standard repertoire, “Rach 3” begins with a simple tune that contains little hint of the complexities to come. (The musicologist Joseph Yasser, who discussed the work with Rachmaninoff, has argued that this tune bears a strong resemblance to Russian Orthodox chant.) The beginning of the second theme is ushered in with a march-like tattoo, which is the basis of several quick exchanges between the orchestra and soloist. Soon, Rachmaninoff composing Piano Concerto No. 3 (1910)
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 32 SEASON however, Rachmaninoff changes the character of this music, allowing the piano to transform the motive of the tattoo into one of his lushest, most long-breathed “Hollywood-style” tunes. One aspect of the first movement of this concerto that ties it to the Russian tradition is its debt to Tchaikovsky. In the development section of the first movement, Rachmaninoff follows the approach Tchaikovsky used in Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. The section begins with a clear restatement of the simple opening theme, but soon builds to a terrible crisis that comes to a head with a trumpet call—an explosion of sorts that dissipates with contrapuntal lines in the piano accompanied by lamenting sighs in orchestra, as if these descending lines were the only fragments of music to survive the trauma. The solo piano’s cadenza that follows may be heard as something of a rebirth. Rachmaninoff also exits the cadenza in a manner similar to the way Tchaikovsky approaches the same moment in his First Piano Concerto, by bringing in solo woodwinds over filigree in the piano. The moment feels like a glimpse into heaven—an impression that strengthens with the piano’s repetition of the gorgeous second theme. The final return of the opening theme, which signals the beginning of the coda, serves to end the movement almost as it began. The opening of the “Intermezzo” affords one of the few extended periods of rest for the soloist in the concerto. In it, the orchestra introduces the theme, at once mournful and declamatory, that serves as the basis for almost the entire movement. The mood of pathos is relieved only once, following a climactic statement of the theme in the piano and orchestra, with a scherzo-like fast section featuring dazzling repeated notes and passagework in the piano. After the music has returned once again to the main theme, a second, more aggressive fast passage leads without pause into the finale. The finale demands the utmost virtuosity from the soloist, beginning with a theme that seems to take its inspiration from the scherzo-like section of the Intermezzo. The underlying meter of the finale is that of a march, which underpins both the scherzo-like material and another of Rachmaninoff’s “Hollywood-passion” themes. At times the march also comes explicitly to the fore, for example, in the final build up to the brief cadenza, which in turn leads to the coda, the most brilliant section of a work renowned for its bravura. Few pianists have sufficient technique and stamina to play “Rach 3.” Those who do tend to bring down the house.
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 33 THE HAMPSHIRE MUSIC CLUB presents A Musical Potpourri September 25 - Women Composers on the Rise, Yu-Mei Wei October 2 - Setting Words to Music, E. Wayne Abercrombie October 16 - The Craft of Composing, Jay Ducharme October 23 - The World Influence of Latin American Music, Estela Olevsky October 30 - The Oboe Family and Its Reeds, Aaron Lakota/Clifton J. Noble, Jr. The Hampshire Music Club is your gathering place for classical music information in the Pioneer Valley. HMC creates the popular free weekly classical music newsletter, Good News, and sponsors music events throughout the year. Join us by visiting hampmusicclub.org 10:00 am at the Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street
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2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 35 B. Bartók (1881–1945): Concerto for Orchestra (1943) I Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace II Giuoco le coppie [game of pairs]. Allegro scherzando III Elegia. Andante non troppo IV Intermezzo interrotto [interrupted intermezzo]. Allegretto V Finale. Presto Béla Bartók was among the most important composers to break from the traditions of the nineteenth century in the first decades of the twentieth. With the intensity of his dissonances and angularity of his melodies, Bartók’s style diverged from that of his Romantic predecessors. Critics who had spent some two decades complaining about the harshness of Bartók’s music were, however, pleasantly surprised by the accessibility of his Concerto for Orchestra at its premiere by the Boston Symphony in 1944. The inviting tone of the work likely stems in part from the fact that Bartók wrote it during World War II, a time when many composers adopted a more popular stance designed to inspire hope. Bartók’s own circumstances may also have played a role in the optimistic tone of the work, composed as it was a period of respite from what was otherwise a time of great personal struggle. Living in the United States in voluntary exile from his native Hungary during WWII, Bartók’s circumstances gradually deteriorated. After concluding an appointment as a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the end of 1942, Bartók found himself out of work. To make things worse, his relationship with his wife was strained and he was plagued by a mysterious malaise, eventually diagnosed as leukemia, which would lead to his death at age 64 in 1945. By the end of January 1943, he was too weak to perform as a pianist and too out of sorts to compose. This changed shortly after Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, visited Bartók in the hospital in late April or early May 1943 to commission a work for orchestra. The psychological lift of Koussevitzky’s visit intersected with a period of remission from his illness that allowed him to complete what would become Concerto for Orchestra while convalescing at a sanatorium in upstate NY in the late summer and early fall of 1943. Having no access to a piano in the sanatorium, Bartók composed without being able to work out his ideas by playing—a circumstance Bartók with his wife, pianist Ditta Pásztory
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 36 SEASON unique for him in the composition of a major work. Although it consists of five movements instead of the standard four, Concerto for Orchestra is a symphony in all but name. Only the shortest of the movements, the “Intermezzo” inserted between the third movement and the finale, does not conform to a traditional movement type of a symphony. The slow introduction to the first movement (Andante non troppo) belongs to the category of Beethovenian “creation openings”—it gradually progresses from inchoate fragments into a cohesive theme. Here the fragments coalesce into a powerful dance-like theme in the violins, which initiates the main part of the movement (Allegro vivace). While not a quotation of a folk tune, this theme emphasizes intervals typical of Hungarian folk music. In contrast, the second theme, played first by a solo oboe and then repeated by the clarinets, begins with a mesmerizing alternation of just two notes—a characteristic of North African music that Bartók knew from his visit to Algeria in 1913. The contrast in the moods (robust vs. languid) and orchestration (strings vs. woodwinds) of these themes shows Bartók continuing the conventions of the symphony as practiced by Beethoven. His writing for the brass, however, breaks those conventions. A fanfare, first played by a solo trombone shortly before the second theme in the oboe, appears several times in the movement, most forcefully when, played by all the brass, it brings the movement to a close. Giving the brass their own distinctive theme in the first movement points to Bartók’s reason for calling the work a concerto, a genre he defined as the treatment of “single instruments and instrument groups in a ‘concertante’ or soloistic manner.” In the second movement, “Game of Pairs,” Bartók turns even more explicitly to concertante writing. A solo side drum introduces a series of playful duets for each of the woodwinds and muted trumpets with string accompaniment. These duets, orchestrated more fully in their second iterations, form the A and A’ sections of the ABA’ structure of the movement. The middle section (B) is given over to a chorale-like texture in the brass with interjections from the side drum that create cohesion between the otherwise contrasting sections. Bartók referred to the slow third movement, “Elegia,” as a “lugubrious death-song.” Like the second movement, it has an ABA’ structure. The quiet A section expands on the eerie, inchoate gestures from the slow Bartok en route to the US (1940)
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 37 introduction to the first movement—an example of what is frequently referred to as “night music” by writers about Bartók. This section also recalls music Bartók used to represent desolate sadness in the “lake of tears” scene of his opera Bluebeard’s Castle (1911). The B section is no less dark, but instead of painting a scene of nocturnal loneliness, it evokes a keening lament. The violins (and later cellos and woodwinds), which carry these speech-like outcries, are joined by the whole orchestra, as if the entire community shares in the pain of the individual mourners. As its title suggests, Bartók’s fourth movement fits exactly the meaning of an intermezzo as “a short, light movement of an instrumental work connecting two longer movements.” Following a four-note pronouncement in the strings, the movement consists of two main themes: the first, played initially by the oboe, carries the lilting rhythms of Transylvanian folk music; the second, first given to the violas and then to the violins, is a slightly modified version of the sentimental song “Hungary, You are Beautiful,” popular in Hungary in the 1920s and ‘30s. Bartók interrupts the second large statement of the folk-like tune with a march episode that begins with a descending scale in the solo clarinet, a parody of the invasion theme from Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. The vulgar Bronx cheer that explodes in the brass following the parody makes clear Bartók’s low opinion of Shostakovich’s Symphony, which was all the rage in the United States at the time. Koussevitzky’s praise of Concerto for Orchestra as “the most significant orchestral work of the last 20 to 25 years” was all the sweeter for Bartók since Koussevitzky was a champion of Shostakovich’s music. The Concerto’s finale gives all the sections of the orchestra solo turns: the strings get their most virtuosic challenge in the sections of churning perpetual motion inspired by Romanian folk fiddling, and virtually every member of the woodwind and brass sections gets a solo turn in the highly contrapuntal middle section of the movement. As in the first movement, united brass bring the movement to what Bartók referred to as a “lifeaffirming” conclusion. © 2023 David E. Schneider. All rights reserved. David E. Schneider is the Georges Lurcy Professor of Music and European Studies at Amherst College. NOTES ON THE PROGRAM are made possible by this season’s Scholar Sponsors Julia Bady and D.A. Sullivan & Sons.
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2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 39 (413) 772-0105 COHNANDCOMPANY.COM TIME TO SCORE YOUR NEXT HOME? HIT THE RIGHT KEY. COHN AND COMPANY CONDUCTING MOVEMENTS SINCE 1948. THE HAMPSHIRE MUSIC CLUB Your Classical Music Meeting Place THE CLUB We are a music appreciation club that promotes classical music throughout the Pioneer Valley. We are a membership organisation with officers and directors elected by the members. Annual dues: $15. MUSICAL POTPOURRI Five weekly programs on topics related to music. Recent examples: “Two Grands, Four Hands,” “That Tantalizing Tango,” “Choral Music of Randall Thompson”. Wednesday mornings at 10:00 in early fall. GOOD NEWS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC A FREE e-mailed newsletter listing classical music events in the Pioneer Valley. Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. For further information, call the club president, Pat Kapitzky, at 413-575- JUDY or e-mail Peter Jones at [email protected].
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2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 41 OUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS We offer our deepest thanks to the individuals, businesses, agencies, and foundations who support the Pioneer Valley Symphony through financial gifts. Your trust, support, and encouragement inspire us and make the music possible. The following represents gifts made to the PVS or to other charitable causes via PVS benefit events in the 2022-2023 fiscal year. Conductor’s circle Platinum Baton | $10,000 + Bronze Baton | $1,000-$2,499 Gold Baton | $5,000-$9,999 Silver Baton | $2,500-$4,999 Alex Meade Bikeworks, LLC Roger Anderson Anonymous in honor of Tianhui Ng and Janna Walters-Gidseg Julia Bady, pianist Big Y Dartmouth Class of 1968 George Drake and Roberta Lombardi Debbie Felton and Jim Miller Greenfield Cultural Council GSB Investments and Insurance Peter Haas Mandi Jo and David Hanneke Ken and Bonnie Hargreaves Elaine and Robert Holdsworth Kathleen Holt William Hurd Jean and William Jeffries in memory of Elizabeth Bowdan Robert Joyal William Kelliher Alex Meade and Clarissa Spawn Marilyn Pryor John Thomas and Dennis Coffey* Janet Van Blerkom Ronald and Janet Weiss Gary Wendlandt Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation Mass Cultural Council, a state agency U.S. Small Business Association Greenfield Cooperative Bank Anonymous Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lathrop Communities Mark Mason and John Shea^ in memory of Naomi Franklin Thomson Financial Management as Sage View Advisory * marks members of the Continuo Society—donors with recurring monthly gifts ^ marks members of the Da Capo Society—donors who have included the PVS in their legacy plans To learn more about giving societies and other ways to support the PVS, visit pvsoc.org/donate or contact us at 413.773.3664 or [email protected].
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 42 SEASON Craig Machado in honor of Wayne Abercrombie Richard Mayer and Joan Spalding Robert McGuigan and Julia Bady Grant Moss Carl Nelke and Janet Gerry Oberlin Alumni Alethea O’Donnell and Scott Tulay Diana and Paul Peelle Gretchen and Joel Plotkin Nancy and David Pond Renfrew Real Estate Marilyn Reynolds in memory of Cathy Bowers Ryan & Casey Liquors Shelburne Falls Cork, LLC Vanessa M. Smith and Elizabeth L. Lehman in honor of Alisa Beaver Ilene Stahl and Benjamin Miner Stamell Stringed Instruments Jane and Peter Stein JoAnne Stultz Kathleen Swaim Tuesday Morning Music Club West Branch Capital Whately Cultural Council Music Lovers Music Director | $500-$999 Andy’s & The Oak Shoppe Ashfield Cultural Council Suzanne Auerbach and Matt Kaplowitz Basses for Rent by Lynn Lovell Paul Benjamin Cecilia and Joseph Berger in honor of Zoë Ballou and Carmen Torres-Nans Bernardston Cultural Council Susan Bowman Elizabeth Brown and Stanley Morris Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas Judith and Joe Case Colrain Cultural Council Curtiss, Carey, Gates & Goodridge Edith Fabos Andrew Ferguson and Nang Edwards Frank Labelle’s Sales & Service Gill Cultural Council Gilmore & Farrell Insurance Lisa Kent and David Glassberg* Donald Graham and Barbara Loh David Halloran Judy and Alfred Hudson^ Laurie Israel and Elaine Sidney Robert Kidder Attorney Stanley Light Evelyn Locke concertmaster | $250-$499 Mary and George Lunt William and Carol MacKnight Beckie Markarian* in honor of Janna Walter-Gidseg New Salem Cultural Council Northfield Cultural Council Alexandra Ottaway Davin and Jennifer Peelle in memory of Priscilla and Jerol Mann Stu and Betsy Reese Family Foundation Myra and David Ross* in memory of Elizabeth Bowdan and Marten Cornelissen Shelburne Cultural Council Nancy Shinn in memory of Tom Shinn Jr. Pamela Skinner and Wayne Glaser Yeshvant and Jean Talati Dennis Townsend Anonymous in honor of TL Lafleur Carlin Barton in honor of Robert McGuigan Channing and Marie Bete Patricia Cahn* Maureen Carney* in memory of John J and Madelyn Carney Cohn & Company Davis Financial Group LLC Barbara Davis and George Howard* Florence Bank Paul Friedmann in honor of Efrem Marder Richard Gaberman Marvin and Carol Kelley in honor of Kara Peterman Catherine and Edward Lamoureux Robin Luberoff and Neal Pruchansky in memory of Peggy Freedman
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 43 First chair | $125-$249 Shirley Keech and Mary King Susan Lauscher in honor of Myra Ross Deborah Leopold and David Sacks in memory of Mark Mason’s mother Carol and Peter Letson Mark and Polly Lindhult in memory of Julius Gy. Fabos Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt Robyn Newhouse Amy Patt and Keith Czerwiec Brenda and Scott Peterman Dale and Lorna Peterson Larry Picard Wallis and Cornelia Reid Zach Ruhl Elizabeth and Robert Schmitt Martin Shell Nancy Shumate Nancy Slator and Daniel Grubbs Ben Smar in honor of The dedicated members, staff, audiences, and supporters of the PVS Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Orchestra Dr. Robert and Mrs. DiAnn Speth State Street Style Surner Heating The Optician UMassFive College Federal Credit Union Martha and Ihor Voyevidka John and Bridget Wcislo Western Mass. Horn Society Patricia Auchard and Joseph Sabella Ben and Mary Jane Barnard in honor of Nancy and Jeff Ramsey Hugh Barrett Paula Barry Berkshire Facial Surgery Blackmer Insurance Agency Bruce and Rita Bleiman Janet Bowdan Buckland Cultural Council Karen Burkinshaw and Laurel Quirk Charlemont Hawley Cultural Council Robert Cherdack Roger and Joanne Clapp Peter and Giovanna Contuzzi Robert Corry Nina DaDalt-Korza and Edward Korza Devine Overhead Doors Gordon Dodge Downtown Sounds Richard Engelman Euphoria Float Spa Steve Ferrarone Kristen Fossum* Andrea and Zachary Fox Goff Media Bruce Goldstein Mari Gottdiener Jeffrey Gurski Deborah Haas-Wilson Eugene and Mary Hanneke* Spencer and Lorma Hopton Joyce Huber thank you to the more than 200 musicians, volunteers, directors, and staff for all you do to “build community through music” at the pvs and beyond.
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 44 SEASON To support a vibrant and more interconnected arts and creativity sector consider a gift to the Community Foundation’s ValleyCreates program. Connecting the arts and creative communities across Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. For more info, visit communityfoundation.org or call 413-732-2858 Since 1991, we’ve connected generous people with the needs of our region. From strengthening local nonprofits to helping area students reach their educational goals, we partner, plan, and collaborate to make sure that local philanthropy has a real impact. ValleyCreates The Community Foundation aims to create an even more vibrant arts and creativity sector that is interconnected and collaborative, actively engages in the full and diverse community with programs and artic expression opportunities, and that is recognized as a force for economic vitality and civic engagement across the region. Nigel Greaves, Director of Development at [email protected] Marie Del Carmen Rodriguez, Development Officer at [email protected]
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PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 46 SEASON Friend | Up to $124 Jordan Abbott Linda Abbott Noreen Acconcio Rev. Stanley Aksamit Pamela Albertson Barbara Allan Jion Allen Jennifer Allen Bridget Ambers Patricia Appelbaum Joan and Winthrop Arms Alyssa Arnell Glenn and Heidi Arnold George Arwady Gwendolyn Ashley in honor of Judy Case Lori Austin Lana Babij Mollie Babize and Mary Quigley Gary Bacchiocchi Ananda Bagiackas Carol Baker Jacki Barden Amanada Barnhart and Susan Murphy in honor of Richard Barnhart Steven and Megan Bathory-Peeler Alisa S. Beaver in memory of Estelle Beaver Ana Ben Geraldine Berenson in memory of Julius Fabos Timothy Berry Catherine Berry Marilyn S. Billings Masako Bogin* Joyce Bosworth Angie Bourdeau Bernice Bowler Sarah Boy and Charles Thompson Daniel Brandon Maria Brandriff Theodore Brown Barbara and James Cappello Eileen Carney in memory of John and Madelyn Carney Liz Carney Craig Carr Thomas Casartello Janet Chayes Deborah Chrzanowski Kendall Clark Betsey Clifford Carol Coan and David Nixon Ian Coddington Karen Cole* Susan Cole Elizabeth Contant David-Michael Cook Yvonne Crevier Eileen Crosby and Zoë Ballou Colleen Currie* Rebecca Curzon Christopher Daly Martin Daye and Linda Woodall Betsy and Viktor Decyk in honor of our relatives in Ukraine Catherine Dodds Patricia Donahue Leitch Helen Drake Maria Duncan Maurita Eaton Theresa Eckert Marcia and Russell Edes Thomas Eisenman Gerald Elias in honor of Myra Ross Susan Ellis Emily Dickinson Museum Helen Engeseth Lisa Evans Patricia Farrington and Jim Ellis in memory of Julius Fabos Federal Street Books Stein Feick Laurie and Jeffrey Ferreira Lucia Foley Wendy Foxmyn Jill Franks and David Neelon Heidi Frantz-Dale and Duane Dale Dina Friedman and Shel Horowitz Friends of Leverett Library in honor of the library pass program Ashala Gabriel David Gang and Roberta Hillenberg-Gang Denise Gendron Cynthia Gensheimer in honor of Myra Ross
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 47 Henry Gibson Eric Gidseg in honor of Janna Walters-Gidseg Dan and Cheryl Gillman Timothy Golden Alan Goldsmith Susan Grant Rosen Claire Griffin Lucy and E Lary Grossman in memory of Moira Brady Barbara Guardione Margo Halton Christine Hannon in honor of Pamela Skinner Maia Hansen* Roger Harris Marsha Hertel Paul and Jane Hetzel Mary Hocken Herbert and Janet Hodos Judith Holmes Julie Holt Linda Howell Mathilde Hunting Andy Jaffe Dorothy Janke Paul Jellinek Caroline Jennings Christine Johnson Suzette and Thomas Jones Julie Jones Sue and Cary Jubinville Barbara Kautz Keene Community Music Center Pauline Keener Elizabeth Keitel Sue Keller* in memory of Morris Youngdahl Cheryl and Micah Kieffer Shersten Killip Rebecca King Nancy Klatt in honor of Nancy Ramsey and Jeff Ramsey Alice Klingener Susan Knightly in honor of Tianhui Ng Maria Kohulka Green Jennifer Kramer Ed Kubosiak Bo and Karen Kukil Alexander Kuzma Denise Lafountain John LaFrance in honor of Efrem Marder Maureen and Paul Lahti Paul Lambert Janet Laprade Diane Lawler Christine Lee Leo’s Table Monica Jakuc Leverett Danielle Lochhead Louise Lopman Erica Lorentz Lynn Lovell in honor of Judy Hudson Daniel Lynch Gary MacCallum Ronald Maggio Dorothy Maloney Barbara Marder Elissa Marder Eve Marder Gabrial Marder Yuri Marder Ursa Marder Jane and Ken Markarian in honor of Beckie Markarian Audrey Markarian in honor of Beckie Markarian Mary and Herb Marsh David Martel Paul Martin Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Andrea McDermott Cherryl McLaughlin Maria Merrill in honor of Cecilia Berger Jone Messmer Sarah Metcalf Norman and Suzanne Metz Arthur Meyer Meyers Brothers Kalicka, PC Sophie Michaux Lisa Middents David Miller Bonnie Miller in memory of Robert Miller FrienD | CONTINUED
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 48 SEASON Daniel Ross Steven Ross Eric Roth and Anne Werry Helve Saarela Patrick Sabbs Emily Samuels David Sanborn Sattva Center for Archery Training Annita and William Sawyer Susan Schaeffer Stephanie Schamess William and Ilana Schmidt David Schneider* Susan Schwarz Kathryn and Russell Scott Russell Seelig Connie Shea Thomas and Elaine Shea Deborah Sherr and William Feinstein David and Esther Short Mickey Shrair Michael and Elizabeth Shuipis Shutesbury Cultural Council Elan Sicroff Jeffrey Siegel in honor of our dear friend Mark Mason and in memory of Naomi Franklin Serghei Sleptov Linda and Harlan Smith Anna Smith and Jim Mead Anthony Speranza in memory of Karen Speranza Susan Sprung Adrian Stair Henrietta Startup Homer Stavely* Gerald Steinberg Maryellen Sullivan Kevin and Margaret Sweeney John Tassinari The Bement School Cynthia Thibeau Kathleen Thibeault in honor of Maureen T. Carney Margot Thomas Thomson Financial Management in memory of Julius Fabos Mary Jean and Jeffrey Thurlow David and Ivana Toone Calin Trenkov-Wermuth Joseph Misterka Tanisha Mitra Mary Moriarty Athena Morris Patrice Moskow George Mowry Ladimer Nagurney Cynthia Nazzaro Nancy Nelkin in memory of Cathy Vollinger Dominik Niceva Andrew Noble in honor of Ben Smar John Nuhibian Jane O’Connor Lori O’Neil Paula Olson Julie Orvis Marta Ostapiuk Robert K Ostberg Lynne Page in memory of Roland Ratté Richard Page Louis Paparazzo John Paresky Marilyn Paterno Adam Peck Susan Peck Shirley Pelletier Kara Peterman and Scott Rutherford* Lawrence D. Picard Emily and John Pietras Barbara Pilarcik in honor of Elaine T Holdsworth Rutherford Platt Jacqueline Pleet Natalie Pollock Kimball Prentiss Kyle Pruett Patricia Ramsey Jennifer Rao Tom Redmond Gail Reiner Mark Rentschler Rachael Rheaume Richard and Lynn Rice Nancy Rich Marilyn Richards and Jon Steinberg Lucy and John Robinson Timothy Rooke Paul Ross
2023 / 2024 HOME & HOPE 49 Jessica Tuttle Susan Urban Kate Ussailis Peter Van Pelt Tanya Voyevidka Cheryl Wadsworth in honor of Janet Van Blerkom Janna Walters-Gidseg in honor of Beckie Markarian Judith Wermuth-Atkinson James Whetstone Whitelaw and Margaret Wilson in honor of Orca Giarrusso Emily Whitted Ali and Jeannette Wicks-Lim in honor of Lee Wicks Roy and Janet Williams Martha Wilson Susan Wilson Amy Wilson-Stayton Patricia Wisch in memory of Julius Fabos Richard Wizansky John and Ann Wood Emily Young Jeanne Young Lotus Yu Marya Zilberberg IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS Alex Meade Bikeworks Amanda Leigh Artistry Amy Patt Baba Yaga Pots / Sofiya Shreyer Bernardino’s Boston Bruins Boston Red Sox Bridgeside Grille Carol Coan Centered Vessel Pottery / Maxine Oland Charles Thompson Coldbear Studio / Kristi Woodworth Colbert David Ross Diana Peelle and the estate of Priscilla and Jerold Mann Enchanted Forest Coffee Enjoy Falcetti Pianos Federal St Books Floodwater Brewing Company Greenfield Vinyl Gretchen & Joel Plotkin Hetty Startup HT Woodshop / Heather Tauck In Stile Moderno Joe pottery / Joe Shepard JoiaBeauty: A Personal Care Apothecary Judy Atkins and David Cohen La Boa Brava Jewelry / Hannah Staiger Linden Lane Herbals Lucky Bird Thrift, Greenfield Lynn Lovell Mandi Jo Hanneke Muldovite Dreams Peter Camyre Pinch: Curated Crafted Goods Sawmill River Arts Collective Share Coffee Roasters Shelburne Falls Cork, LLC Silver Lane Studio Jewelry / Meegan Schreiber Stamell Strings Stoneleigh Burnham School The Fly Shop, South Deerfield The Flying Squirrel The Lady Killigrew Cafe The Waters Fine, Easthampton Tree House Brewing Company Tyson Peelle Wendy Foxmyn Whitney Hill Antiques Will Sawyer FrienD | CONTINUED
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY 85 th 50 SEASON IN MEMORIAM The PVS community is mourning the recent loss of Karen Cole. Karen died peacefully at home this fall after a courageous struggle with cancer. As PVS' Head Usher, we remember her joyful, calm demeanor and her kind support. As a friend, we remember her wicked sense of humor and generosity. Karen will be deeply missed by her family and by all of us.