2014 / 2015 Concert Season

Nico Muhly and Pekka Kuusisto performing at The Phillips Collection on January 5, 2014 PHOTO: JOSHUA NAVARRO

“More concerts should end this way—and start this way, and

continue this way. If only more musicians were able to pull it off.”

–Anne Midgette, The Washington Post

Welcome Spotlight: Isabelle Faust

German violinist Isabelle Faust founded a string quartet when she was 11 years old, sparking a lifelong devotion to chamber music. She has been performing with previous Sunday Concerts pianist Alexander Melnikov for over 10 years. Director of Sunday Concerts Caroline Mousset asks her questions about her life in music.

Q: Together with Alexander Melnikov, you have designed a charming program for your performance at the Phillips on April 12. It includes works by Dvořák, Enescu, Tchaikovsky, and the magnificent Franck Sonata. How did you conceive your program?

A: This is a program composed of pieces we have always wanted to play but have never been able to fit in other programs. Finally we decided to offer a Romantic program with all those works we have had on our wish list for a long time. The Franck Sonata

we haven’t played for some years. It’s one of those magnificent works that is played over and over, and we needed to get a fresh look at it by not playing it for a while. Now we are back with this piece and enjoy it enormously. We will also be recording it soon on historic instruments—a highly rewarding and exciting thing to do! Q: In addition to your successful solo careers, you and Alexander have enjoyed performing as a duo for over a decade. How did you begin as a duo, and how have you evolved performing together?

A: We met at one of those numerous chamber music festivals and immediately decided to do music together. We soon established a steady recital duo and started to record sonatas and trios together. We have a very similar way of feeling music and working on music of different periods, and both play a lot on historic instruments and with early music groups. We have been developing our musical thoughts and decisions together. It’s been a very important collaboration for our entire musical path, not only as chamber musicians but also as soloists.

Q: What do you enjoy doing outside of the concert hall?

A: I most of all enjoy spending time at home as I am on the road so much throughout the year. I love watching movies, reading, and cooking. I also enjoy trekking in the mountains and going to the seaside—as long as one still finds a little spot to get away from civilization!

With every concert experience there is a mounting sense of anticipation as we begin to craft our grand 75th anniversary of Music at the Phillips, which we will be celebrating in 2015/2016. I wish to acknowledge, with my warmest thanks, the generosity of the Phillips Chamber Society and every individual who supports music at our institution. In the last few seasons we have seen our museum evolve into an international landmark venue for chamber music thanks to your support and to the dedication of our talented staff. For all of us who work at the Phillips, it is both an exciting and challenging time, and we draw great strength from your continued support.

It gives me great pleasure to present the 2014/2015 season of Music at the Phillips. During the last season we welcomed 40 artists for their US or Washington, DC, debuts and gave the premieres of 14 new works by both established and promising young composers. Throughout the coming season we will introduce over 50 artists to Washington audiences and anticipate 4,000 people to attend our concerts— an extraordinary success story for a venue of our size and a striking endorsement of the music we present. Our commitment to upholding the Phillips’s traditions is at the heart of everything we do, as is our determination to construct a season that guarantees great performances and innovative, imaginative programs. I look forward to sharing many concert experiences with you this season.

Dorothy KosinskiDirector, The Phillips Collection

PHOTO: FELIX BROEDE

Music Staff

Caroline Mousset

Director of Sunday Concerts

Jeremy NeyMusic Specialist & Concerts Manager

Roberto AlcarazMusic Operations Assistant

Ed KellyRecording Engineer

Caroline MoussetDirector of Sunday Concerts

Sunday Concerts

Performances begin promptly at 4 pm. Tickets are $30, $15 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended; reserve online until 12 hours before each concert. Visit www.phillipscollection.org/music to reserve tickets, view up-to-date concert details, and listen to podcasts of past performances. Select concerts are broadcast on Classical WETA 90.9 FM on Monday evenings at 9 pm.

The Phillips Camerata begins the 2014/2015 season of Sunday Concerts with a program celebrating Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music, on view at the Phillips this fall. During the Neo-Impressionist period, artists gathered in Brussels at Les XX exhibitions for performances featuring the music of Chausson, Duparc, D’Indy, Franck, and Fauré. These salon concerts spurred stimulating discussions of art. The Phillips Camerata performs works by Fauré and Franck, stylistically contrasted by the String Quartet by Germaine Taillefaire, the sole woman composer of Les Six. With Camerata members Olivia Hajioff, Steven Honigberg, Karen Johnson, Irina Nuzova, and Marc Ramirez.

Best known as one half of the Assad Brothers duo, classical guitarist Odair Assad has carved out a solo career of equal renown. In his Washington, DC, debut Assad performs works dedicated to him by composers Leo Brouwer and Egberto Gismonti, and a piece entitled Old Friend by American composer/guitarist Kevin Callahan, commissioned by Assad. He also performs diverse music of Latin America, with works by Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Agustín Barrios, and Anibal Augusto Sardinha.

Deeply invested in establishing new repertoire for reed ensemble, the Akropolis Reed Quintet frequently commissions new music and creates rich arrangements of diverse classical pieces spanning four centuries. Winner of the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, they perform works by Debussy, Handel, and Poulenc alongside new compositions by American composers Robbie McCarthy, Garrett Schumann, and Dutch composer Ton ter Doest.

PHOTO: PEPE GOMEZ

PHOTO: LAUREN LANDRY

PHOTO: FADI KHEIR

Odair Assad, guitar

October 19

Akropolis Reed Quintet

October 12

The Phillips Camerata

October 5

Winner of the 2014 International Queen Elisabeth Competition, Korean-born soprano Sumi Hwang has launched her opera career with engagements at Germany’s Theater Bonn and Theater Regensburg. Hwang is also the recipient of first place at the 2014 Emmerich Smola Förderpreis in Landau, Germany. For her US debut at the Phillips, Hwang performs vocal works by Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Berg. She is joined by pianist Jonas Vitaud.

Making his US debut as an ambassador of the FUSION partnership between the French Embassy in Washington, DC, SAFRAN, and Radio France-France Musique, the Phillips presents French pianist Adam Laloum. Laloum shot to fame when he won the 2009 Clara Haskil Competition, and has since earned many plaudits for his lithe and sensitive pianism. He performs Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13, and Schubert’s haunting final Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960.

A regular performer at the BBC proms, Leon McCawley has recently performed a series of recitals with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A pianist praised for his clarity, sonority, and depth of musical thought, McCawley performs works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and two works from Liszt's Années de pèlerinage. In partnership with Levine Music, McCawley gives a public master class with select students prior to his Phillips performance.

PHOTO: CAROLE BELLAICHE PHOTO: SHEILA ROCK

Eighteen-year-old South Korean pianist Jun Hwi Cho is winner of the Seventh New York International Piano Competition, where he performed works by Beethoven, Schubert, Scriabin, and Messiaen before sealing victory in the final round with a stunning performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. Program to be announced.

Jun Hwi Cho, piano

November 30

Leon McCawley, piano

November 16

Sumi Hwang, soprano

November 2

Adam Laloum, piano

October 26

Praised for her recent CD, Oscillations, which juxtaposes works by Beethoven and Stravinsky, two composers rarely mentioned in the same breath, Israeli pianist Einav Yarden has established herself as an idiomatic performer with fresh perspectives on the piano literature. She performs Bach’s English Suite No. 2, the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales by Ravel, and one of the only three piano sonatas by Schubert published in the composer’s lifetime, the Sonata in G Major, D. 894.

Making their Washington, DC, debut, the Los Angeles-based Calidore Quartet has performed alongside renowned artists like Joshua Bell and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. A young and artistically well-rounded ensemble, they perform Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4, and the String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 by Beethoven. Complementing these benchmarks of the canon is Entr’acte, a string quartet inspired by Haydn and written by American composer

Caroline Shaw, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her revelatory Partita for 8 Voices.

Prize-winner of the 2013 Washington International Competition, American soprano Abigail Mitchell has recently completed her training at the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music in London on full scholarship. She has appeared both nationally and internationally in operas by Mozart, Offenbach, and Donizetti. Mitchell performs songs by Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Richard Strauss. She is joined by pianist Casey Robards.

PHOTO: JEFF FASANO

PHOTO: GEORG THUM PHOTO: CITI STUDIO LONDON

PHOTO: MICHAEL WILSON

American composer/pianist Timo Andres draws as much praise for the sparkling ingenuity of his compositions as he does his musicality at the keyboard. Said by NPR to weave together the “DNA of Mozart, Charles Ives, and Brian Eno,” Andres is a musician who skirts the boundaries of time and style. He performs the Impromptus Op. 142, No. 1, No. 2 and Op. 90, No. 1 by Schubert, alongside four études by Philip Glass. Andres also performs his composition At the River, a solo piano fantasy inspired by Charles Ives’s setting of the American hymn Shall We Gather at the River?

Timo Andres, piano

January 11

Abigail Mitchell, soprano

January 4

Calidore Quartet

December 14

Einav Yarden, piano

December 7

A distinguished interpreter of the music of Bach, Chopin, Rameau, and Ravel, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud is well-known for his adventurous programming. An active recording artist and recitalist, he presents Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin, Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331, and Schubert’s 16 German Dances, D. 783. Tharaud concludes with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110, a masterwork that sheds the vestiges of classical form.

Decorated in 2014 with the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in his native Hungary, violinist Kristóf Baráti has garnered international acclaim for his skilled and intelligent readings of Bach’s entire solo violin oeuvre. Baráti makes his Washington, DC, debut at the Phillips presenting two solo sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe, Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor, and the Sonata for Solo Violin by Bartók, composed in 1944 for Yehudi Menuhin.

The Raphael Trio celebrates a landmark 40th anniversary of performing together with a stimulating program that contrasts two trio works by Schubert with Austrian composer Rainer Bischof's new arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg’s Kristallnachtfuge, an unfinished fugue that Schoenberg composed on the final day of Kristallnacht in 1938. The work will be given its US premiere at the Phillips.

PHOTO: MARCO BORGGREVE

PHOTO: PILVAX STUDIO

Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov,violin and piano

February 8

A supreme musical partnership that has forged celebrated solo careers, violinist Isabelle Faust and returning pianist Alexander Melnikov share a unique musical kinship that shines through in their playing. They have most notably brought their authoritative interpretations to the complete violin and piano works of Beethoven. In their first appearance as a duo at The Phillips Collection, Faust and Melnikov perform works by Franck, Dvořák, Enescu, and Tchaikovsky.

PHOTO: MARCO BORGGREVE

PHOTO: CHRISTIAN STEINER

Raphael Trio

February 1

Alexandre Tharaud, piano

January 25

Kristóf Baráti, violin

January 18

An unparalleled force in new music today, the JACK Quartet is a robust ensemble that can turn their hands to any repertoire. They have distinguished themselves as the international gold standard in quartet playing. Building upon a close collaboration with California-based composer Roger Reynolds, the JACK Quartet performs the first stage of Reynolds’s FLIGHT, a major new multimedia project.

Douglas Detrick's AnyWhen Ensemble

February 22

Still in his 20s, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Douglas Detrick formed his chamber-jazz quintet the AnyWhen Ensemble to perform his genre-defying music. Awarded a 2011 New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America, the Ensemble has recorded three albums and performed throughout the West Coast and in New York. They make their Washington, DC, debut performing Detrick’s 10 movement work, The Bright and Rushing World.

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, pianist Wu Qian, and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich met as young students at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK. A love of chamber music united the three, and since 2007 they have embarked on a career that has seen them perform at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London. They perform trio works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Dvořák.

PHOTO: HENRICK OLUND

PHOTO: ERIC VITALE

The fiercely individual Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova astonished the classical music world with her radical interpretations of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, recorded when she was just 23. A musician who sheds new vitality on everything she plays, Ibragimova released a highly praised recording in 2014 of Prokofiev’s Five Melodies, Op. 35bis, and the two Violin Sonatas with previous Sunday Concerts performer pianist Steven Osborne. She presents stunning accounts of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin No. 1 and No. 2 in her Washington, DC, debut.PHOTO: SUSSIE AHLBURG

Alina Ibragimova, violin

March 8

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio

March 1

JACK Quartet

February 15

Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was honored in 2014 with a portrait series of four concerts at London’s iconic Wigmore Hall. His captivating lyricism has been heard in recitals across the world and he is a regular chamber performer with the likes of the Takács Quartet, Janine Jansen, and Martha Argerich. Goerner performs a skillfully balanced program featuring Bach’s Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, Beethoven’s mighty Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier, and Mendelssohn’s Fantasy in F-sharp minor.

The exceptional Spanish virtuoso clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester makes his Washington, DC, debut with returning Sunday Concerts performer pianist Michael Brown. They present the Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano by Debussy, and sonatas by Brahms, Poulenc, and Leonard Bernstein. Franch-Ballester and Brown conclude their program with Benny’s Suite, a collaboration between the musicians that pays tribute to Benny Goodman, the great iconoclast of 20th-century clarinet.

Jose Franch-Ballester and Michael Brown, clarinet and piano

March 22

French cellist Marc Coppey distinguished himself at age 18 by winning the much-respected Leipzig International Bach Competition. For his Washington, DC, debut Coppey is joined by pianist Ran Dank in a program featuring the Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 by Beethoven, Sonata for cello and piano by Debussy, and Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87. Rounding off the program is Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major, transcribed for cello.

PHOTO: JEAN-BAPTISTE MILLOT

PHOTOS: LISA-MARIE MAZZUCCO & JEANETTE BECKMAN

PHOTOS: ADRIEN HIPPOLYTE & LISA-MARIE MAZZUCCO

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Choral Arts Society of Washington, Artistic Director Scott Tucker brings the Choral Arts Chamber Chorus to The Phillips Collection. A group dedicated to exploring the music of cultures and countries beyond the Western canon, their Phillips debut features works by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, Veljo Tormis of Estonia, and 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem.

PHOTO: RUSSELL HIRSHORN

April 12

Marc Coppey and Ran Dank,cello and piano

March 29

Nelson Goerner, piano

March 15

Choral Arts Chamber Chorus

Named after the illustrious Orford String Quartet who toured the world for 40 years, the New Orford String Quartet carries the same artistic excellence and integrity into today’s concert circuit. The quartet performs Haydn's String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, and the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 by Beethoven. Counterbalancing these cornerstones of the literature is the String Quartet No. 2, Journal, by Canadian composer Tim Brady.

An imaginative and electrifying performer, Chinese pianist Zhang Zuo has recently been chosen to join BBC’s flagship Young Artist Program in the UK for the next two seasons. She made her BBC Proms debut in August 2014. In her Washington, DC, debut at the Phillips, Zuo performs Bach’s Partita No. 5 in G Major, Schumann’s characterful Carnival Scenes from Vienna, and Ravel’s fiendish spurning of the Belle Époque: La Valse.

A period instrument quartet known for their exploration of rare and forgotten scores, the Cambini-Paris Quartet presents the music of Hyacinthe Jadin and Félicien David, two 19th-century French composers who remain virtually unknown outside of France. They also perform Mozart’s String Quartet K. 465, The Dissonances, which illustrates the stylistic kinship between the music of these unjustly forgotten French composers and the great master of quartet form.

PHOTO: ALAIN LEFORT

PHOTO: JIYANG CHEN

PHOTO: FRANCK JUERY

An active performer and music curator, Korean-American violinist Kristin Lee recently commissioned and gave the premieres of five new violin duos for diverse instruments by composers Andy Akiho, Jakub Ciupiński, Shobana Raghavan, Patrick Castillo, and Vivian Fung. Lee serves as concertmaster of the Metropolis Ensemble, and in her debut at the Phillips she performs works by Webern, Ravel, and Beethoven, as well as Copland’s Two Pieces for violin and piano. Lee is joined by pianist Michael Mizrahi.

PHOTO: ARTHUR MOELLER

Kristin Lee, violin

May 10

Cambini-Paris Quartet

May 3

Zhang Zuo, piano

April 26

New Orford String Quartet

April 19

Nicolas Altstaedt and José Gallardo,cello and piano

May 17

German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is a versatile musician whose penetrating insights into new music led him to give the German premiere of Nico Muhly’s Cello Concerto in February 2014. He has also performed the music of Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, and Matthias Pintscher. Altstaedt and Argentinian pianist José Gallardo perform Heinz Holliger’s Romancendres, a multilayered work in homage to the last turbulent years of Robert Schumann’s life. Full program to be announced.

Alexander Schimpf, piano

May 24

Alexander Schimpf rose to prominence in 2011 when he became the fi rst German pianist to win the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Well known for his intelligent programming and ability to fi nd uniting strands between contrasting repertoire, Schimpf makes his Washington, DC, debut performing the Piano Pieces, Op. 76 by Brahms, Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, White Mass, and the apotheosis of the 18th-century piano sonata, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in B-fl at Major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier.

The Phillips Camerata

May 31

The Phillips Camerata concludes the 2014/2015 season performing works infused with the artistic synergies between mathematics and art, from the counterpoint of J. S. Bach, to the evolution of 12-tone serialism that began with Arnold Schoenberg. The repertoire is inspired by the exhibitions Man Ray―Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms/Mathematical Models, on view at the Phillips in the spring of 2015. Full program to be announced.

PHOTO: BALAZS BOROCZ

PHOTO: PEPE GOMEZ

PHOTOS: MARCO BORGGREVE & LEE CHAN YOUNG

In a special collaboration with the PostClassical Ensemble’s Iberian Mystics: The Confl uence of Faiths Festival, March 10–12, 2015, The Phillips Collection presents Spanish pianist Pedro Carboné in a thought-provoking program, Spain, Flamenco, and the Piano, with narration from author Antonio Muñoz Molina. Carboné performs works by Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz, and Óscar Esplá.

Thursday, March 12, 6 pm

Iberian Mystics:The Confl uence of Faiths

El Greco, The Repentant St. Peter (c. 1600–c. 1614). Oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Acquired 1922.

Leading European

"Most people today no longer possess beliefs, love, and ideals. The spiritual dimension has been lost. My intention is to provide food for the soul, and this is what I preach in my works."

―Pēteris Vasks

Composer Pēteris Vasks grew up in post-war Soviet Latvia. He was oppressed for his Baptist beliefs, yet nevertheless acquired widespread recognition for his unique music, becoming one of the most noteworthy composers in Latvia in the second half of the 20th-century. Influenced by the likes of Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, and George Crumb, Vasks learned to implement many musical techniques of the time, including minimalism, aleatoric music, and 12–tone serialism but has never settled on one exclusive idea in his career.

His compositions often incorporate folk elements from Latvian music through the ages, and he places them within a dynamic and often challenging relationship with our contemporary world. As a composer Vasks is inspired by religion, politics, nature, and the environment. His deep connection to Latvia's history is imbued within his rich, sonorous music, and he has been acknowledged as a unique voice in new music today.

Vasks has chosen the RIX Piano Quartet and violist Ilze Klava to present a program of his chamber music.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Latvia in Washington, DC.

Hans Abrahamsen is one of the most idiomatic composers to emerge in Denmark in recent years. For a period he was a member of the Group for Alternative Music, which sought to free new music from the restrictive and inhibiting environment of the traditional concert hall.

The radical simplicity of his early work led to his being identified with the New Simplicity movement as he reacted to the complexities of the European musical avant-garde. Much of his work is structured by serial elements within which Abrahamsen allows various creative freedoms to flourish.

As his style has developed, his compositions have exhibited an almost romantic character and have grown more personal, original, and distinctive. His music has been described as imaginative, lyrical, lucid, clean, intelligent, spiritual, and magical. Among many honors, he has received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris and the Wilhelm Hansen Prize.

Abrahamsen has selected the JACK Quartet, champions of his music, to present a complete cycle of his string quartets.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, DC.

Composers

PHOTO: TINE HARDEN

In 2009, European embassies in Washington, DC, and The Phillips Collection joined forces to create an unprecedented concert series, Leading European Composers. Presenting some of the greatest living composers of our time, this series is unique in that the composers introduce their works with performers they select. The series is cosponsored by The George Washington University, who joined the partnership in 2013, enriching the series with educational

programing including master classes, lectures, and panel discussions with each composer.

PHOTO: SANTA SAVISKO-JEKABSONE

Denmark: Hans Abrahamsen

Latvia: Pēteris Vasks

Thursday, February 12, 6:30 pm

Artists and programs are subject to change.

Sunday, November 23, 4 pm

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Rebekah Heller performing in front of The Repentant St. Peter (c. 1820–c. 1824) by Francisco Jose de Goya on April 6, 2014. PHOTO: JOSHUA NAVARRO

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Music Annual Fund

$2,500 and aboveIn honor of Caroline Mousset by the Anne and Ronald Abramson Family FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationAnonymous

$1,000–$2,499Warren Zwicky

$999 and belowEdward and Lois AdelsonJustin Dempsey

Music Endowment Fund

Mary BlakeIn memory of Sylvia C. Winkelman by Ann and Donald BrownIn memory of Esther Silver Burstein and Louise Bernheimer Ehrman by the Silver-Burstein FoundationThomas CarothersIn honor of Elisabeth Wisner Chisholm by the Chisholm FoundationThe Clark-Winchcole FoundationIn memory of its founder, Dallas Morse Coors by the Dallas Morse Coors FoundationThe Cosmos Club FoundationHelen and Charles CrowderJames and Donna DevallIn memory of Tamara Dmitrieff by her friendsThe Max and Victoria Dreyfus FoundationFlorence FasanelliMr. and Mrs. Carl M. FreemanThe Friday Morning Music Club and FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationJoseph and Alma GildenhornIn memory of Elmira Bier by Virginia GloverIn honor of John D. Graubert by his wifeGilbert Greenway

AS OF AUGUST 2014

Richard A. HermanLynne and Joseph HorningPaul HumeJames JohnstonDavid Lloyd KreegerIn memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Andrew Pollard by Rebecca Pollard LoganGeneviève Guérin MasonIn memory of Harry McClureWilliam and Inna MetlerAlice and Arthur NagleThe Edward John Noble FoundationGerson Nordlinger, Jr.

To honor our nation's great composers by F. Warren O‘ReillyIn memory of Nancy Hanks by Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. RockefellerIn honor of Joyce B. Cowin by Patricia Bennett SagonIn memory of H. Theodore ShoreIn memory of Colonel C. Haskell Small and Ruth B. Small by their familyIn memory of Alice T. Strong by the Hattie M. Strong Foundation

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