New PhilharmonicKirk Muspratt, Music Director and Conductor

42nd Season 2018–2019

Show Boat and

Show TunesKirk Muspratt, Music Director and Conductor

Nancy Menk, Director, Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus

Brooklyn Snow, sopranoKate Tombaugh, mezzo soprano

Matthew Greenblatt, tenorBill McMurray, bass-baritone

Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus

Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, 3 and 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, 3 p.m.

Belushi Performance Hall

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PROGRAMShow Tunes

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz HartJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered — Kate Tombaugh and ChorusMy Funny Valentine — Kate Tombaugh

Mimi — ChorusWith a Song in My Heart — Brooklyn Snow, Bill McMurray, and Chorus

Where or When — Kate TombaughThis Can’t Be Love — Chorus

Little Girl Blue — Kate TombaughMy Romance — Brooklyn Snow

I Married an Angel — Matthew Greenblatt

INTERMISSION

Young People’s Competition WinnersSaturday, Sept. 29 at 3 p.m.

Joshua Carl Polido, piano; Gabriela Radovic, violinSaturday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Aleksandra Radovic, violinSunday, Sept. 30 at 3 p.m.

Sofia Eva Radovic, viola

Show BoatJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein

Show Boat overture — OrchestraCotton Blossom — Chorus

Where’s the Mate for Me? — Matthew GreenblattMake Believe — Brooklyn Snow and Matthew Greenblatt

Ol’ Man River — Bill McMurrayCan’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man — Kate Tombaugh

Life Upon the Wicked Stage — ChorusYou Are Love — Brooklyn Snow and Matthew Greenblatt

The Sports of Gay Chicago — ChorusWhy Do I Love You? — Brooklyn Snow and Matthew Greenblatt

Bill — Kate TombaughOl’ Man River finale — Bill McMurray and Chorus

Immediately following the performance Maestro Kirk Muspratt, as well as members of the orchestra, cordially invite you to participate in

“Cookies with Kirk” in our lobby, sponsored by Brookdale Glen Ellyn.

PROGRAM NOTESRodgers & HartRichard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart’s death in 1943.

Rodgers and Hart were introduced in 1919—while both attended Columbia University—when asked to write an amateur club show. After writing together for several years, they produced their first successful Broadway musical, The Garrick Gaieties, in 1925, which introduced one of their first hits, “Manhattan,” and led to a series of successful musicals and films. They quickly became among the most popular songwriters in America, and from 1925 to 1931 had 15 scores featured on Broadway. In the early 1930s they moved to Hollywood, where they created several popular songs for film, such as “Isn’t It Romantic?” and “Lover,” before returning to Broadway in 1935 with Billy Rose’s Jumbo.

Many of their stage musicals from the late 1930s were made into films, such as On Your Toes (1936) and Babes in Arms (1937), though rarely with their scores intact.

Pal Joey (1940), termed their “masterpiece,” has a book by The New Yorker writer John O’Hara. O’Hara adapted his own short stories for the show, which featured a title character who is a heel. So unflinching was the portrait that critic Brooks Atkinson famously asked in his review “Although it is expertly done, how can you draw sweet water from a foul well?” When the show was revived in 1952, audiences had learned to accept darker material (thanks in large part to Rodgers’ work with Oscar Hammerstein II). The new production had a considerably longer run than the original and was now considered a classic by critics. Atkinson, reviewing the revival, wrote that “it renews confidence in the professionalism of the theatre.”

Time Magazine devoted a cover story to Rodgers and Hart (Sept. 26, 1938). They wrote that their success “rests on a commercial instinct that most of their rivals have apparently ignored. As Rodgers and Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon.”

Hart’s lyrics—facile, vernacular, dazzling, sometimes playful, sometimes melancholic—raised the standard for Broadway songwriting. His ability to write cleverly, and to come up with unexpected, polysyllabic rhymes, was something of a trademark, but he also had the even rarer ability to write with utmost simplicity and deep emotion. Rodgers, as a creator of melodies, ranks with Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin.

Their shows belong to the era when musicals were revue-like and librettos were not much more than excuses for comic turns and music cues. Still, just as their songs were a cut above, so did the team try to raise the standard of the musical form in general. Thus, A Connecticut Yankee (1927) was based on Mark Twain’s novel, and The Boys from Syracuse (1938) on William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. They had always considered the integration of story and music a crucial factor in a successful show. They used dance significantly in their work, using the ballets of George Balanchine.

Because of the strong success of Sunny and consistent good results with Kern’s other shows, Florenz Ziegfeld was willing to gamble on his next project in 1927. Kern had been impressed by Edna Ferber’s novel Show Boat and wished to present a musical stage version. He persuaded Hammerstein to adapt it and Ziegfeld to produce it. The story, dealing with racism, marital strife and alcoholism, was unheard of in the escapist world of musical comedy. Despite his doubts, Ziegfeld spared no expense in staging the piece to give it its full epic grandeur. According to the theater historian John Kenrick: “After the opening night audience filed out of the Ziegfeld Theatre in near silence, Ziegfeld thought his worst fears had been confirmed. He was pleasantly surprised when the next morning brought ecstatic reviews and long lines at the box office. In fact, Show Boat proved to be the most lasting accomplishment of Ziegfeld’s career—the only one of his shows that is regularly performed today.” The show ran for 572 performances on Broadway and was also a success in London. Although Ferber’s novel was filmed unsuccessfully as a part-talkie in 1929 (using some songs from the Kern score), the musical itself was filmed twice, in 1936, and, with Technicolor, in 1951. In 1989, a stage version of the musical was presented on television for the first time, in a production from the Paper Mill Playhouse telecast by PBS on Great Performances.

While most Kern musicals have largely been forgotten, except for their songs, Show Boat remains well-remembered and frequently seen. It is a staple of stock productions and has been revived numerous times on Broadway and in London. A 1946 revival integrated choreography into the show, in the manner of a Rodgers and Hammerstein production, as did the 1994 Harold Prince–Susan Stroman revival, which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, winning five, including best revival. It was the first musical to enter a major opera company’s repertory (New York City Opera, 1954).

Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, this lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk, stagehands, and dockworkers on the Mississippi, in Chicago, and on Broadway (and their life-long friends). The primary plot follows Magnolia, the naive daughter of the show boat captain, as she marries a gambler and moves with him to Chicago. His gambling continues as his debts compound, and soon he deserts her and their young daughter. A subplot concerns the potential arrest of Magnolia’s selfless best friend on charges of miscegenation when it’s discovered that she is mulatto, and her subsequent downward spiral into despair. The passing of time reunites Magnolia and her now-grown daughter with her family on the show boat as well as with her husband, who eventually returns offering a hopeful second chance at familial fulfillment.

~Program notes courtesy of Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra

Comparisons between Rodgers and Hart and the successor team of Rodgers and Hammerstein are inevitable. Hammerstein’s lyrics project warmth, sincere optimism, and occasional corniness. Hart’s lyrics showed greater sophistication in subject matter, more use of overt verbal cleverness, and more of a “New York” or “Broadway” sensibility. The archetypal Rodgers and Hart song, “Manhattan,” rhymes “The great big city’s a wondrous toy/Just made for a girl and boy” in the first stanza, then reprises with “The city’s clamor can never spoil/The dreams of a boy and goil” in the last. Many of the songs (“Falling in Love with Love,” “Little Girl Blue,” “My Funny Valentine”) are wistful or sad, and emotional ambivalence seems to be perceptible in the background of even the sunnier songs. For example, “You Took Advantage of Me” appears to be an evocation of amorous joy, but the very title suggests some doubt as to whether the relationship is mutual or exploitative.

Their songs have long been favorites of cabaret singers, jazz artists and popular singers alike including Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Janis Joplin and Maurice Chevalier.

Kern & HammersteinShow BoatOscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer and (usually uncredited) theatrer director of musicals for almost 40 years. He co-wrote 850 songs, and won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans and Richard A. Whiting; but is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, which include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

A native New Yorker, Jerome Kern (1885–1945) created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theater tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. Although dozens of Kern’s musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived. Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes.

Hammerstein and Kern met in 1925. As a young man, Kern had been an easy companion with great charm and humor, but he became less outgoing in his middle years, sometimes difficult to work with. He rarely collaborated with any one lyricist for long. With Hammerstein, however, he remained on close terms for the rest of his life. Their first show, Sunny, ran for 517 performances on Broadway, and the following year ran for 363 performances in the West End.

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to Chicago Opera Theater for two productions, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Stefan Weisman’s chamber opera The Scarlet Ibis.

As a concert soloist, McMurray has found success in oratorios such as The Messiah, which he recorded on CD (2014) and Elijah. He was also featured as the baritone soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and the Faure Requiem. He performed a set of Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs with The Chicago Civic Orchestra in 2015, was a soloist with the Waukegan Symphony and the baritone soloist in a concert version of Porgy and Bess with Northwest Indiana Symphony. Additionally, he has been a first place winner in the National Association Teachers of Singing competition, received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan National Council Auditions and, in 2008, was one of eight singers selected to the Winners Circle of The Classical Music Vocal Competition, held in Chicago.

McMurray was also a featured soloist at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, with the combined choirs of St. John Cantius Church and St. Joseph College. Other engagements include Jake in Skylight Opera Theater’s Porgy and Bess, the role of Dr. Dulcamara in l’elisir d’amore with Summer Garden Opera in Virginia, solo performances at the Ravinia Festival, Skokie Valley Symphony and Chicago Arts Orchestra. McMurray also sings regularly with the Grammy award winning Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus where he has been a featured soloist.

Soprano Brooklyn Snow is an emerging international artist who already in her young career has gained performance credits in the United States, Hong Kong and The Netherlands. With the Palm Beach Opera she has performed

in the family performances of The Pirates of Penzance, and Le nozze di Figaro, and she has covered Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, the Page in Rigoletto, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and study-covered Gilda in Rigoletto, and both Cunegonde in Candide and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

Snow debuted with Opera Saratoga as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro and performed the role of the Fairy in Philip Glass’ opera-ballet for children The Witches of Venice. She joined the Caramoor Festival as a Bel Canto Apprentice Artist, performing Arditi’s coloratura showpiece Il bacio as part of the Festival’s Canzonetta sull’aria concert.

Among her additional credits as an emerging artist, Snow has had young artist residencies with Salzburg’s historic Mozarteum Akademie, the Castleton Festival and SongFest. She has placed as a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Midwest Region) and a top honors prizewinner in the Mozarteum’s concluding Preisträgerkonzert. Further concert performances include her solo appearances with the Indiana Opera Chorus and the University of Oregon Chamber Choir.

Snow recently earned her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as a scholarship recipient from the National Society of Arts and Letters. As a member of the IU Opera Theater, she performs for the opera outreach

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Tenor Matthew Greenblatt hails from Port Washington, NY. He recently returned to Palm Beach Opera as a second year apprentice artist, study-covering the roles of Candide in Candide, and Spoletta in Tosca. Additionally, in the 2017–18 season,

Greenblatt was selected as a finalist in the New York International Vocal Competition, and semi-finalist in the Opera Index Competition.

This past summer, he toured throughout the Yucatán Peninsula with the OperaMaya Orchestra, performing the Dukes aria, ‘Questa o quella’ and Nemorino in scenes from L’elisir d’amore. Greenblatt also received an award to attend the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute, where he performed the roles of Nemorino, Remendado and Don Basilio in the WSVI Opera Scenes Concert. In June, he was an apprentice artist at the inaugural season of the Teatro Nuovo Summer Festival under the baton of Maestro Will Crutchfield. Returning to Chicago in January of 2019, Greenblatt makes his debut as Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus with the New Philharmonic Opera.

Greenblatt earned his Masters of Music from Mannes, The New School for Music, where he studied with Arthur Levy. He has focused heavily on Italian art song and bel canto repertoire.

With more than 30 operatic roles to his credit, baritone Bill McMurray has been described as, “a baritone with warm, rich tones and superb stage presence” by the Durham Herald Sun. Such roles include Figaro in Il baribiere

di Sivigila, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Escamillo in Carmen. Walter Marini of the New Buffalo Times is quoted as saying his performance of Marcello in Puccini’s La Boheme is “a powerful actor who brings great elegance to the role. His singing is as fine as anything being heard in major opera houses today.” McMurray sang the lead role of Prospero in Lee Hoiby’s The Tempest with Longleaf Opera in NC, while the composer himself was in attendance and received outstanding reviews for his performance. He has sung with noted companies like Florida Grand Opera, Opera North, Knoxville Opera, The Opera Company of NC, Mobile Opera, Opera Carolina, Central City Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and Opera on the James. McMurray has also performed several times with the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s “Opera in the Neighborhoods” outreach operas. In 2013, he sang the lead role in the Chicago premiere of Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion with the New Millennium Orchestra.

Recent engagements include his first Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata with Harbor Country Opera in Three Oaks, MI, debuts with the New Philharmonic Orchestra in Glen Ellyn, and the bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Elmhurst Orchestra and Choral Society. In 2018, he sang the role of Mr. Greatorex with Chicago Opera Theater in the world premiere opera Elizabeth Cree, then returned to Summer Garden Opera in Virginia to reprise the role of Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. For the 2018–19 season, he returns

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America Award for Adventurous Programming. The Chamber Singers were invited to perform for the American Choral Directors Association Central Division Conference in Fort Wayne, IN, in March 2012. Both the Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir and the South Bend Chamber Singers regularly commission, perform and record new works.

Menk has been a conducting participant in the National Conductor’s Symposium with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Oregon Bach Festival. She is editor of the Saint Mary’s College Choral Series, a distinctive series of select music for women’s voices published by earthsongs of Corvallis, OR. She contributed a chapter for the new book, “Working with Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success,” published by GIA. Menk serves regularly as a guest conductor and choral adjudicator throughout the United States. She has conducted All-State Choirs in Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Maryland and Pennsylvania. In August 2011, she served as guest conductor for the Hong Kong Youth Music Camp Chorus. She has conducted six Carnegie Hall concerts, including the Carnegie Hall premiere of American composer Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. She returned to NYC in November 2014 to conduct a concert of music by American composer Gwyneth Walker at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. In October 2016, she became the first woman to program and lead a subscription concert of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, conducting works by C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Igor Stravinsky. On March 17, 2019, she will return to Carnegie Hall to conduct a program of sacred music for women’s voices and orchestra.

She holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Kirk Muspratt (Music Director and Conductor) recently received the 2018 Conductor of the Year award from the Illinois Council of Orchestras. He was also named “Chicagoan of the Year” in classical music by John von Rhein and

the staff of the Chicago Tribune. In honoring Muspratt, von Rhein said, “Ask the delighted adults and kids who this year flocked to his concerts in west suburban Glen Ellyn with the New Philharmonic Orchestra … They will tell you he made concert going an interactive experience that was both enlightening and—are you ready?—fun.”

Recognized as one of the outstanding figures in the new generation of conductors, Muspratt has garnered international critical acclaim as a “born opera conductor” (Rheinische Post), “a knowledgeable musician who delivers superbly controlled, gorgeously shaped readings” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), and “friend to local music” (Midwest Beat Magazine). The Los Angeles Times declared, “Watch him!”

In July 2004, Muspratt was named both music director of New Philharmonic and artistic director/music director of DuPage Opera Theatre. In his last 14 years, productions featured Otello, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Hansel and Gretel, La Boheme, Faust, Otello, Tosca, The Beggars Opera, Elixir of Love, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan Tutte, The Mikado, La Traviata and Die Fledermaus.

In 2017 and 2009, New Philharmonic was awarded Professional Orchestra of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras.

program Reimagining Opera for Kids (ROK). Snow received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, receiving several scholarships and an Award in Excellence in Undergraduate Voice.

Mezzo-soprano Kate Tombaugh has been praised as “utterly convincing dramatically, and musically superlative” (Seen and Heard International). Her recent engagements include debuts with Stockton Opera as

Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, Evansville Philharmonic, the New Philharmonic ensembles, Winter Opera St. Louis, as well as Fanny Price in the American premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park with Indianapolis Opera.

Some of Tombaugh’s career highlights include performing her Carnegie Hall debut upon winning the Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition, winning the Harold Haugh Light Opera Vocal Competition, placing second in the Nicholas Z. Loren Vocal Competition hosted by the Holland Chorale, and being awarded the Grace Keagy Award in the annual Lotte Lenya Competition

She holds a master’s degree in voice from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and dual undergraduate degrees in English literature and vocal performance from Illinois Wesleyan University. Originally a farm girl from Streator, IL, Tombaugh is currently based in southwestern Kentucky where her husband, composer Steven Weimer, is on the music faculty at Murray State University.

Tombaugh is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit arts organization, Poco a Poco, hosting a week-long summer music festival for high school-aged vocalists in Streator. She has tremendous enthusiasm for outreach, education and mentorship within the arts, and she nurtures these interests by teaching within a private studio and visiting performing arts high schools and colleges as a guest lecturer and master class technician.

Nancy Menk (Director, Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus) holds the Mary Lou and Judd Leighton Chair in Music at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, where she is professor of Music, director of Choral Activities, and chair of the Music Department.

She also teaches graduate conducting at the University of Notre Dame. At Saint Mary’s College, Menk conducts the Women’s Choir and the Collegiate Choir, teaches conducting, and prepares the Madrigal Singers for the annual Christmas Madrigal Dinners. Under her direction, the Women’s Choir has performed on tour throughout the United States and it regularly commissions, performs and records new works for women’s voices for their CD series on the ProOrgano label. They have performed by invitation for divisional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, most recently for the 2016 Central Division Conference in Chicago. They were named second place winners of The American Prize in Choral Performance for 2012.

She is founder and conductor of the South Bend Chamber Singers, an ensemble of 32 select singers from the Michiana area. They have been finalists for the prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, given annually by Chorus America, and winners of the ASCAP/Chorus

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Having always enjoyed working with young people, he has conducted the Pennsylvania Regional Orchestra and the Pennsylvania All- State Orchestra and most recently the IMEA District 9 orchestra. Muspratt has conducted the Boston University Tanglewood Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival. Muspratt has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them grants from the Canada Council and the Presser Foundation. In 1983 and again in 1984, he was winner of the Strauss Conducting Prize while a conducting student at the Vienna Conservatory. During his tenure in Utah, he received the first Utah Up ’n Comers Award ever given to a classical musician. This honor was awarded to Muspratt for his work and involvement in the Utah Arts Community. In 1987, he was named winner of the prestigious Exxon/ Affiliate Artists Award.

He began his studies as a pianist in New York with Harold Zabrack and continued his studies at Temple University with Adele Marcus and Alexander Fiorillo. After completing graduate studies, Muspratt was accepted into the conducting program at the Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria.

Muspratt is a native of Crows Nest Pass, Alberta, Canada. He became an American citizen in the summer of 2010.

Last season, he was honored to become a Paul Harris Fellow, an award named for the Rotary International Founder, Paul Harris. For the past two seasons, Muspratt has conducted at the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.

Benjamin Nadel is a classically trained conductor, pianist and violinist. Based in Chicago, he is the associate conductor and orchestra librarian for the New Philharmonic and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. He is also an adjunct

faculty member at North Central College, where he conducts the Chamber Strings Ensemble. Nadel served as assistant conductor and chorus master at the Midwest Institute of Opera from 2011 to 2015. He was also assistant conductor at Northwestern University’s summer opera program from 2016 to 2017.

Nadel began his conducting studies with Dr. Glenn Block at Illinois State University while completing his undergraduate degree. He then went on to receive his MA in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Iowa with Dr. William LaRue Jones. Early on in his studies, Nadel fell in love with operatic conducting because to him, it is one of the most moving and all-encompassing art forms. This passion for opera led him to the Cincinnati Conservatory’s summer opera program in Spoleto, Italy, where he studied with Maestro Mark Gibson. It was after this that he became assistant conductor at the Midwest Institute of Opera, where he had the privilege to work closely with Maestro Joshua Greene of the Metropolitan Opera. Nadel is devoted to understanding the native languages of operatic scores in order to best interpret them musically, so he spent two summers in Italian language immersion, and has a firm command of German as well.

As an orchestral conductor, Nadel has worked with several youth groups and high school ensembles, including New Trier and Stevenson High School, as well as the Northwest Indiana Youth Symphony. He also regularly conducts on the summer concerts at New Philharmonic and the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.

In his first months at New Philharmonic, Muspratt instituted a Side-by-Side program for local high school students. Five years ago, Muspratt initiated a popular Solo Competition for Children that results in a child performing at every New Philharmonic concert. In order to involve the community to the maximum, Muspratt has created “Just Ask Kirk™” cards for audience members’ questions and a “Kirkature™” cartoon to help advocate the credo: “Classical music is for everyone.”

Muspratt begins his 18th acclaimed season as music director of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra (NISO). At NISO, he instituted several highly commended programs that included an orchestral fellowship program with Valparaiso University. In 2006, with NISO, he initiated the South Shore Summer Music Festival.

From 1991 through 1996, Muspratt served as resident conductor to Lorin Maazel at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, he was appointed as associate conductor to Joseph Silverstein at the Utah Symphony Orchestra (1990–1992). From 1987 through 1990, Muspratt served as assistant conductor to Leonard Slatkin at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as well as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. He was music director of the Alberta Ballet from 1997 through 1999. At the New York Philharmonic, Muspratt has served as a cover conductor.

In addition to his work in Pittsburgh, Utah and St. Louis, Muspratt has guest conducted the orchestras of Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Korean Broadcast Symphony, Detroit, Rochester, National Arts Center, Vancouver, Knoxville, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Victoria, Thunder Bay, New Orleans, Stamford, Binghamton, Lafayette, South Bend, Puchon, Annapolis, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Baltimore Chamber Symphony. Summer debuts have included the Tanglewood, Chautauqua and

Sewanee Music Festivals and the Banff Center for Performing Arts.

In Europe, Muspratt was assistant conductor in the opera houses of Monchengladbach/Krefeld, Germany, from 1985 to 1987. His American opera-conducting debut came with the Utah Opera in 1991. He returned there to premiere Mascagni’s L‘Amico Fritz. Maestro Muspratt has conducted Die Fledermaus for the Calgary Opera, Faust and Merry Widow for the Utah Opera, Of Mice and Men and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Arizona Opera, all to stunning critical acclaim. In addition, he debuted at the Ash Lawn-Highland Summer Opera Festival in Virginia. He returned to Arizona Opera to conduct their production of Dialogues of the Carmelites, to the Utah Opera for their new production of Faust and Amahl and the Night Visitors at Opera Illinois.

In 1983 and 1984, Muspratt was invited to be a scholarship student at the Chautauqua Institute and in1986 was selected as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. A year later, he was invited into the Conducting Program at the Tanglewood Festival. In 1988, he was chosen to be one of three conducting fellows for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute at the Hollywood Bowl.

As a teacher, Muspratt has taught at the Conductors’ Institute of the University of South Carolina, the Conductors’ Guild National Workshops, Association of Canadian Orchestras National Conference in Toronto, the Conductors’ Studio at Illinois State University and at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. During the summer, he has often taught a graduate conducting class at VanderCook College of Music and for the last three summers has been teaching at the Northwestern University Summer Opera Seminar. Muspratt recently completed six-year tenure on the board of directors of the Conductors’ Guild.

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Kirk Muspratt, Music Director and Conductor Chair sponsored by Jeanette N. and Renee Giragos, in memory of Dr. Henry G. Giragos

1st Violin Michele Lekas, Concertmaster

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Gretchen Sherrell Debra Ponko Kristen Wiersum Miki Santibanez Brian Ostrega Sam Battista Eric Pidluski

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The over 100-voice Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus is comprised of gifted vocalists from the Chicagoland area who share their talents with the Symphony on a volunteer basis. Established in 1987, the Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus has performed with the Symphony in everything from Requiems to Reggae. This talented group is the choral component of the Symphony Society, providing added texture and versatility to the Symphony’s performance repertoire. The Chorus performs regularly for the Halloween and Holiday Pops Concerts, and joins the Orchestra for major works on the Maestro Series. Recent repertoire includes Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms; Requiems by Fauré, Duruflé and Verdi; Holst’s The Planets; Orff’s Carmina Burana; and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Bizet’s Carmen with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. The Chorus occasionally presents its own concerts of Choral Masterworks.

Nancy Menk, Director

Soprano ICrystal Chandler Shirley ComerJill CookeRhonda Crouch Anjali DziarskiMelissa GoodwinKathryn HansonMary HenrichKathi R. JonesLinda KennedyDonna KrummKaren LounsburyCindy McCrawCourtney PalaszLinda PancheriBrenda PollalisLynn SlegelLinnetta TaylorJaimee Young

Soprano IICaroline Ausema Joy BrownSally DuboisGayle FagaDiana KovachJanet LeathermanKathy MadgiakDiana MurrayKathy PacholskiPhyllis PalmquistJennifer RauseiSheree RichardsonSandra RinkenbergerLovetta TindalMarisa ValdezPam WendellDana Zurbriggen

Alto IElizabeth BessetteMary Kay Burke Melissa BurgessSuzanne GruonerJan HosnaMaureen HuizengaTracie MartinBeth MorenoRebecca OrangeGeraldine RaineyJoan SpornyPat UrbanKathleen WahlmanJane WalkerBeth Zagrocki

Alto IIMaris BeswickDeborah BleekeLauren Erickson Mary FoxRoberta GadomskiPrudence Leslie Patrice MartinKate McMahonKaren O’Brien-BynumMichele Parsley Nancy ScaggsJoann WleklinskiSheila Wood

Tenor IPaul HuizengaJim KregerRichard LynchThomas OlsenMike Spurlock

Tenor IIWilliam Coble James GazdickCharles GierseRichard HagelbergBarry HalgrimsonDean LeensvaartDoug Wiseman

Bass IDoug AmberJoshua Barnes Bruce FosterBill BeboutScott EnloeRoy HamiltonBrett Lundgren Kirk McQuistonRich PacholskiEd PalmisanoTheodore RosdilDaniel Straka Mark Webster

Bass IIRon JongsmaClement LessnerEd LindquistWilliam RadellDavid SchoonKen VanderLugtBill Westerhof

AccompanistPatricia Lee

Chorus Manager/NISO Office LiaisonMary Henrich

LibrarianKathy and Rich Pacholski

Secretary/TreasurerJan Hosna

E-mail List ManagerMelissa Goodwin

Wardrobe ManagersSally Dubois andDoug Wiseman

Facebook ManagerJoan Sporny

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With a staff of 25 private music instructors, nine ensembles, and four degree and certificate programs, COD is the first choice of serious musicians from the western suburbs and beyond.

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The Friends of the MAC is a family of people who have decided that a world-class performing and visual arts center should reside in their community. Ticket sales only provide 42 percent of our $3 million operating budget. It is through the support of College of DuPage and through the generous gifts from patrons and local businesses that we can keep art in our gallery and on our stages.

Your gift to the MAC • Brings nationally and internationally renowned artists to our community •SupportsourSchoolStageprogramthatannuallyoffers affordableartsexperiencestothousandsofschoolchildren • Provides students and community members the opportunity to interact with artists • Enhances the quality of life in our community

Without the generous support of the Friends of the MAC we would not be the cultural hub of DuPage County. We gratefully thank our friends and we invite others to join them.

Forcompletedetails,visittheMACTicketOfficeorcallthe MAC at (630) 942-2263 or the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2466.

Arts Center and MAC-tastic Treat Seats EndowmentsDonors may choose to direct gifts to the Arts Center Endowment or the newly established MAC-tastic Treat Seats — Tickets for Kids & Families Endowment. Donations made to these MAC Endowments, our “savings accounts,” go into principal secured, invested accounts that will provide ongoing support for arts programs and arts accessibility for years to come.

The McAninch Arts Center and the College of DuPage Foundation can also provide you with information on Planned Giving opportunities.

For more information, please contact the MAC at (630) 942-2263, the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2466 or visit foundation.cod.edu.

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McAninch Arts Center acknowledges and gives grateful thanks to those donors who have contributed in support of the MAC mission and vision. This list of donors reflects contributions made from December 1, 2016 through August 31, 2018. While we carefully prepared this list we recognize that errors may have occurred. Please accept our apology if you are not properly represented on this list and contact the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2462 so we may correct our records.

FRIENDS OF THE MAC

Leadership Circle ($5,000 and up)Anonymous (2)DuPage FoundationFollett Higher Education GroupDr. and Mrs. Helge FrankG. Carl Ball Family FoundationMr. Deven GoldenIllinois Arts CouncilMr. and Mrs. Richard Lamb and the Susan and Richard Lamb Charitable Fund of The DuPage FoundationLegat Architects, Inc.David and Carolyn MayDr. and Mrs. Harold D. McAninchMargaret and Michael McCoyNational Endowment for the ArtsAlan Peterson, in memory of Carolyn LevickasMs. Suzanne RoseNancy and John RutledgeSmith Financial Advisors, Inc.Ms. Connie R. SprovieriDr. Arin J. Stone and Mr. David LipschultzSullivan Taylor, Gumina & Palmer, PCBjarne R. UllsvikMs. Kathleen Yosko

Encore Circle ($2,500–$4,999)Anonymous (1)Lowell and Barbara AndersonRobert and Lynne Anderson and the Robert and Lynne Anderson Charitable Fund of US Charitable Gift TrustArts MidwestJoseph and Betsy BallekBuffalo Theatre Ensemble

Mrs. Clark G. CarpenterAnita DicksonJames and Marie Drasal and the Drasal Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift FundKen and Joan FrankGeorge and Roberta Gilbert and the Gilbert Family Charitable FundKaren and Gene KuhnMs. Diana L. MartinezDr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Morrissey and the Morrissey Family Fund of The DuPage FoundationKirk MusprattDrs. Donald E. and Mary Ellen NewsomOak Trace Retirement CommunityMeri PhillipsKelly and Roland RaffelCharles SchlauJerry and Susan SchurmeierMs. Geraldine SmrcinaMarilyn SmrcinaDr. Donald G. Westlake

Director’s Circle ($1,000–$2,499)Anonymous (4)Mr. and Mrs. Richard AlbrightMary Ellen and Jack BarryMilton and Heide BentleyProf. and Mrs. Charles E. BooneRonald and Hope BucherCabernet & CompanyCommunity Foundation of Will CountyJohn and Pamela DalbyDaniel Edelman and Fran KravitzEnertherm Corporation

Finances by Design Inc.Ken and Debbie FulksMr. and Mrs. Craig GiblinJeanette N. and Renee Giragos, in memory of Dr. Henry G. GiragosMary J. GowerMr. and Mrs. Linsley GrayMr. and Mrs. Robert G. HartmanDon and Jackie HegebarthJorge and Beatriz IorgulescuJeffrey Jens and Ann BoisclairMrs. Patricia JohansenDr. Jean V. KartjeCharlene Kornoski-Du VallMr. and Mrs. Louis W. KosibaGil and Lola LehmanDr. Barbara LemmeMarilyn H. Wolff FoundationJohn and Lynette McCortneyMrs. Melissa Meisch-MercadoModruson & Associates, LLCJane E. MooreBill and Nancy MooreJudith May O’DellBob and Joan OlachJane OldfieldMrs. Dorothy I. O’ReillyHelen PachayParkers’ Restaurant and BarMr. and Mrs. Mark A. PetersonPinot’s PaletteMr. and Mrs. William PodgorskiDr. and Mrs. Hans P. PohlmannJeffrey and Debora PonkoRichard and Elizabeth QuaintanceGinny and Don RathsThe Rev. Dr. Curtis and Leanne RolfeJudy Ronaldson

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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rzym and the Eugene W. Rzym Giving Fund of Fidelity CharitableMs. Theresa M. SakDoris and David SchertzMr. Phil SprovieriMs. Dawn Sullivan AhernTerrence J. Taylor and Maureen Sullivan TaylorTheodore M. UtchenDr. and Mrs. E. Jay Van Cura and The E. Jay Van Cura MD Charitable Fund of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramJames and Patricia VaryMr. and Mrs. Scott E. VeselyMr. and Mrs. Michael R. WebbBonnie M. WheatonScott and Kristen WiersumMrs. Marilyn H. Wolff

Ambassador Circle ($500–$999)Anonymous (2)Apple Matching Gifts ProgramMs. Eunice BeckerC.B. Conlin Landscapes, IncConnie Canaday Howard and Rex HowardMr. and Mrs. Paul J. CliftonDon and Anna Mae DaviaGeorge W. and Ann DervisBarbara and George DiGuidoEdwin A. and Gerry DulikECOLAB Inc.George and Kathryn FairbairnMarilyn FredericksGinni and ChrisJohn A. HerndonMr. William N. HerrmannMr. and Mrs. Phillip H. Holm and the Holm Family Charitable Fund of Vanguard CharitableJohn and Gabrielle JaquindeJennifer JulienMs. Durema F. Kohl

Mr. John L. Ladle, Jr.The Lagunitas Brewing CompanyEileen B. Landau, Fidelity Charitable Trust, in Memory of Eliot A. Landau and Cateria A. PrydeMr. Larry C. LarsonIda LeeR and G LeonaviciusMr. and Mrs. James F. LongMr. and Mrs. Tipton H. McCawley, Jr.Mr. Donald E. McGowan and Ms. Mary L. PrazakEllen and Daniel McGowanDr. and Mrs. John MessittJ. C. MorganByrd and Alice ParmeleeJack and Marilyn PearsonMs. Melanie PetersDr. Patricia PimentalGary and Mary RashA. F. and Cecile RobinsonDr. Ann E. RondeauNancy L. RubyKen Schubert In Memory of Bea SchubertSkeet and Laura SkeetAngela SmithRichard and Janice StickaMs. Eileen StrongMs. Marie L. TenzingerMs. Kathy A. WesselMr. and Mrs. Raymond WielgosWight & CompanyMark Wight and Eszter BorvendegMs. Alice M. WilburJo Anne Zipperer

Performer ($250–$499)Anonymous (11)Young AhnAmelia BarrettRichard and Grace BauerPatricia and Bruce Beck

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald N. BenMr. and Mrs. Martin P. BenderWilliam and Janet BermannMr. and Mrs. Ralph BertolaciniMs. Claudia BorowskiMs. Mary BrennanBroadway in ChicagoMr. and Mrs. William BulgerPaula and John CebulaMr. Robert B. ChasteenMs. Cynthia CliftonMs. Linda ClouseCatherine ConwayDiane CooperDempsey-MuskerRobert and Carol DrakeEakins PropertiesRobert EakinsJoseph and Frances EraciWilliam and Sally Newton FairbankMarcela FanningMr. Douglas FitzgeraldDavid and Helen FraserGail FromerUrs Geiser and Mary HobeinGranite City Food & BreweryDr. Eugene G. Hallongren and Mrs. Dianne J. HallongrenMr. Richard HamiltonMrs. Jane D. HartopMs. Carmen A. Heredia-LopezMs. Jennifer HerethLance HerningMark and Darlene HolleMr. Glenn HopkinsBruce and Judy HoskinsJim and Sharon HuckKarl and Lee Ann KarnatzMr. and Mrs. William S. KensholMs. Carole KerrVirginia and Charles KlingspornMr. Robert C. MarksMs. Mary K. MassengillWilliam and Margaret MatteJeffrey MayMs. Kathleen McCullough

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMarty and Marian McGowanMr. and Mrs. Francis MiesMr. Thomas PattersonJim and Lorraine PaulissenMr. Jean M. PierreAnna Marie PollMs. René M. RichardsMs. Amy RothMs. Laura SamperJaney SartherMs. Lisa Savegnago and Mr. Ronald A. JohnsonAlfred and Lorraine SchullerKendra ScottCapt. and Mrs. Henry SheldonEllen and Grier StephensonStudent Foundation ISMTACarol and John SturzAnthony and Mona TaylorTwo Brothers Brewing CompanyULTA BeautyJudy WebsterKathy and Rich Wilders

Friend ($50–$249)Anonymous (18)Dr. Barbara S. AbromitisMs. Nina AdamsSue AdamsMichael AikinsNancy AlluredMrs. John AndersenMs. Iligene AndersonMr. Ron AndersonArt Institute of ChicagoMr. and Mrs. Jay J. AugustineAurora Civic Center AuthorityRenato and Mary BacciAlyce BarnicleMichael and Gail BaruchMr. Robert BeckerBiff Behr and Lynne RichmanKen and Annabel BergmanDaniel and Yolanda BindertBlue Man GroupMr. and Ms. John Borge

Mr. and Mrs. J. BorusMr. and Mrs. Joseph H. BorylaMr. Franklin E. BowesJayne BoyleMs. Sharon BrauerMr. and Mrs. George BruceBuca di Beppo Italian RestaurantMs. Linda M. BuehrerVerda and Paul BufkinDr. John and Suzanne BuntrockMildred and Harold BurrowEd and Kay BurtonPatrick and Joanne CallahanJoseph and Marybeth CampionMs. Amie L. CantarellaMs. Virginia CantuMs. Ruth CarlsonRuth and Ken CarlsonMs. Anne CarrollMr. Joseph CassidyCaterpillar FoundationGreg and Janet ChejfecMs. Lisa CherryMr. Michael ChurchRobert and Barbara CieskoMr. Allen R. CiteraMr. Alan L. ClarkMs. Theresa L. ClarkMr. and Mrs. Ray F. CliffMr. and Mrs. Dwight J. ClossTerry and Mary Collins and FamilyMr. and Mrs. James M. ConnollyPeggy ConnollyMs. Erica CoppolinoMr. and Mrs. Bill P. CurryMr. Steven D. CurtisJeanne E. DavikMs. Marjorie E. DavisJudy DeckerMr. and Mrs. Michael J. DelaneyJanet DerberJoy and Ron DetmerDevon Seafood and SteakMs. Ethel M. DeVoy

Ms. Jean A. DeYoung and Mr. Frank BurkeMarilyn and Gene DicolaMr. Gary R. DobsonWilliam DonnellyMr. and Mrs. Earl E. DowlingMs. Jane DoyleWilliam and Kathleen DrennanMr. and Mrs. Gerald DroszczDrury Lane TheatreEvalee DumasJenny DunbarDuPage Children’s MuseumJoanne EastEataly ChicagoEdie BoutiqueDr. Jenna EisenbergElements MassageExelon CorporationMr. and Mrs. James V. EyreRobert and Linda FairbairnGeraldine FeketeMr. Joseph P. FerreriMary FitzgeraldElinor FlaniganSusan FoodyEric and Marilyn ForsMarcia and Lorne FrankMs. Judith D. FrazierDr. and Mrs. Richard M. FriedJanet R. GahalaMs. Denise GallagherMr. and Ms. Paul KatsPamela and Jerome GiermannMr. and Mrs. Glenn GlinkeMr. and Mrs. Andrew W. GlowatyMr. Mark GodishMs. Donna GoetzMr. Eugene GoldsmithDr. Gloria GolecMs. Jean GorisMs. Karen Goyak and the Goyak Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift FundJack and Robin GrahamMs. Kathleen F. GrohMs. Linda Grothendick

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMs. Wanda GustasAnne HackerMr. Stephen HallenbeckMs. Robin L. HallettGeorgia HamiltonMs. Sue HammersmithHand & Stone Massage and Facial SpaDiana and Gary HarperRebekah and Rodney HarrisDr. Susan Harris-MitchellDavid and Karen HaugenMr. and Mrs. Brad A. HausermanDr. Steven L. HavensMr. and Mrs. Edward HegartyMr. and Mrs. Hashem HelmiMr. and Mrs. James HeltMs. Ann B. HendersonAleene L. Henninger-BoydenMs. Judith HigginsMs. Elaine M. HillSandra HillHilton Lisle/NapervilleRon HiltonAllan Hins and Marilyn WilgockiPaul and Jessica HollerStephen and Michelle HujarMichael and Patricia HuthStephanie IglehartWalt and Vicki IlczynMr. and Mrs. Kevin R. IlliaMs. Pam ImbeauMs. Susan InnesMr. and Mrs. James V. JaltuchDave JatczakMs. Veatrice J. JehangirMary JensenEdward and Susan JeszkaMr. and Mrs. Tomas JohanssonMr. and Mrs. Donald V. JohnsonBernard JokielMr. and Mrs. Charles JonahMr. and Mrs. Steven L. JungDee KaempenMr. and Mrs. Raymond KasparMr. David KassMr. and Mrs. Rick Kehoe

Ms. Diana M. KeichMr. and Mrs. Thomas KeiserMr. Lee R. KesselmanMs. Deborah KimminauMs. Elaine KolmanUlrike KonchanMarcia A. KoppenhoeferJohn and Catherine KosMr. Michael F. KozlowskiMs. Sonia B. KozlowskiKimberly KrauseMr. Brian KraussMs. Barbara J. KuligMr. and Mrs. Martin S. KutteschMr. Karl LangnerLaser QuestMr. and Mrs. Chung LeeMichael LembkeMr. and Mrs. Matthew LemmeMs. Virginia LennonMr. Anthony LettsElaine Libovicz and the Elaine Libovicz Donor Advised Fund —Edward JonesDrs. David and Joanna LivengoodMr. and Mrs. Robert LoizziMs. Theresa M. LongLouise and John MaggittMr. and Mrs. Edward MakauskasMr. and Mrs. Atis MakstenieksEdward J. MallyMadeleine and Ralph MarbachMs. Brandee MartinRichard and Mary Ellen MatthiesDiane MaurerGordon and Marjorie Maxson Ms. Susan McCoyJames and Kimberley McDonnellLucia and Jim McGinnMs. Jennifer A. McIntoshMr. and Mrs. Michael McPherrinDiane Meiborg and Roger ZacekMichael and Sandra MeyersKaren Micaka and Tom DekantMr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Micek

Ms. Mary C. MichnaMr. and Mrs. Craig MillerJerry and Brigitte MillerMs. Judith MillerRalph and Nancy MillerMs. Sarah MinorColleen and Dale MoirDan and Marilyn MontgomeryMrs. Marilyn MooreMs. Sheri MorrisonThe Morton ArboretumMr. and Mrs. David W. MortonBud and Pat MotzMs. Linda MotzJoan MuellerMr. and Mrs. John MurphyMrs. Audrey NadelBarbara NagengastKatherine NorrisBetty and John NorthMr. John L. NortonMs. Yolanda NunezOcean’s Reach Condominium AssociationMr. and Mrs. Donald OlenecJean and Joanne OliphantMs. Gwen O’LoughlinMs. Eileen C. O’MalleyShirley OrloppMs. Patricia OvermyerKaren Webb OwenMadeleine PachayAlice E. PackardMs. Bonnie PaganisMr. John R. PalterMr. and Mrs. Maynard L. Parker, Jr.Mr. C. Alan ParksJames and Christine PattersonMs. Samantha PattersonDr. and Mrs. Edmund PellettiereRobert PendleburyMr. Jim PetersonMr. Nick PetrosRohan and Merlyn PhillipsMr. and Mrs. Wayne A. PiccinMs. Helen Pierce

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Mr. and Mrs. Edward PillarMr. Rob V. PlankJohn J. and Mary A. PlunkettRoger and Sarah PoeppelMr. and Mrs. Charles PolitoMrs. Patricia PolonusPorchlight Music TheatreRoger and Vivian PschererAlicia and Marshall PufundtMs. Kathryn PurdyMrs. Stephanie QualioMr. Herbert RaffelJohn and Mandy RakowMr. David J. RashMs. Diane G. RathMs. Tracey J. ReidDonald and Mary RerickaSusanne RiedellMs. Elizabeth RobertsonBruce RodmanPatricia RoseDuane and Elaine RossMs. Patricia M. RotondiMr. Ray Royce, Sr.Dr. Barbara RundellThe Honorable and Mrs. Richard D. RussoBill and Sharron SailorWilliam SaltmarshJeffrey P. SandMs. Kathleen SandersMs. Barbara ScalzittiMrs. William G. ScanlanMs. Lenore SchachtSharol and William SchwassKen and Trish ScottDr. Thomas R. ScottMs. Elizabeth Shaffer-McCarthyMr. Joseph L. SheehanRoger and Ann ShipleyMs. Patricia SkupienMs. Julie SmagaczMr. and Mrs. James H. SmithMr. Neal SmithMs. Shirley A. SochorJean SpitzerDr. Christopher Stack

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. StithCarol StoffelConrad and Janet StollMs. Billie S. StraussMelissa StriedlNorma and Bill StronerMr. and Mrs. Kennan R. SullivanGrace and Len SwansonMs. Sharon SymonsMs. Helen B. SzymanskiMs. Carol F. SzynalVirginia and Jerry ThompsonPaul ThompsonJanet ThornberyMr. and Mrs. Charles ThurstonMr. and Mrs. Theodore TiltonMr. and Mrs. James N. TitusTom and Teri TraceyMr. Daniel TrasattMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. TurekMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. VahcicMs. Harriet VakosEugenio and Carmen ValdesVillage Links of Glen EllynMarilee ViolaMs. Jacqueline VlamingMr. and Mrs. Michael VolkMs. Helen VopenkaLucy and George VorickMrs. Judith B. WagnerMr. Roy WahnertPenelope WainwrightMs. Jeanne WalshMr. and Mrs. Vincent Walsh-RockDr. Larry F. WardWarren’s Ale HouseMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. WdowiarzMs. Susan WeberPatricia and Richard WeichleMr. Brian WeickDon and Lisa WeissMr. and Mrs. John WheatleyRobert and Jeanne WhislerLyn and Debbie WhistonDr. Prudence A. WidlakKen and Viviane Wilcutts

Ms. Sandra WildermuthMr. Chuck WingeMr. Chris WinstonMs. Eileen WinterMr. and Mrs. Harvey WischnowskiMr. Justin WitteMs. Rebecca WolvertonMr. and Mrs. Robert WulffenJohn YoungHelene S. ZarconeLori and Gary ZemanMs. Michelle ZiebellMargot C. and Arthur Zwierlein

Corporate and Community SponsorsAdelle’s Fine American FareArts MidwestBrookdale Glen EllynCabernet & CompanyThe ClubhouseCollege of DuPage FoundationDuPage FoundationFollettGlen PrairieHilton Hotels-Lisle/NapervilleHoulihan’sI Have a BeanIllinois Arts Council AgencyJCS Fund of The DuPage FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsNothing Bundt CakesParkers’ Restaurant and BarReserve 22Smith Financial Advisors Inc.Sullivan Taylor, Gumina & Palmer, P.C.Travanse Living of WheatonWeber Grill90.9FM WDCB98.7 WFMT

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MAC Administrative StaffDirector of the McAninch Arts Center ....................................................................................... Diana MartinezMarketing and Donor Relations Coordinator ................................................................................Roland RaffelBusiness Manager ...................................................................................................................Ellen McGowanCleve Carney Art Gallery Curator ................................................................................................... Justin WitteEducation and Community Engagement Coordinator ..................................................................Janey SartherDirector of Development for Cultural Arts ................................................................................... Janie OldfieldAdministrative Assistant ............................................................................................................ Mandy RakowAssistant to the Business Manager ........................................................................................... Molly JunokasClerical Assistant ......................................................................................... Michael Carroso, Karen Robinson

MAC Box Office and Front of House StaffBox Office Manager ........................................................................................................................Julie ElgesAssistant Box Office Manager ............................................................................................... Jennifer BerosekAssistant Box Office Supervisor.............................................................................................. James Holbrook Box Office Assistants ................................ Julie Good, Rachel Krusec, Mary Ellen Schaefer, Gretchen WoodleyPatron Service Manager ................................................................................................................Tom MurrayFront of House Manager ................................................................................................................ Rob NardiniFront of House Assistant ........................................................................................................... Chris Corrigan

MAC Resident Professional EnsembleBuffalo Theatre Ensemble, Artistic Director .................................................................Connie Canaday HowardBuffalo Theatre Ensemble, Associate Artistic Director ................................................................ Amelia BarrettBuffalo Theatre Ensemble, Business Manager .............................................................................. Bryan BurkeNew Philharmonic, Conductor and Music Director ...................................................................... Kirk MusprattNew Philharmonic Manager ........................................................................................................ Paula Cebula

MAC Design and Technical StaffTechnical Production Coordinator ......................................................................................................Jon GanttTechnical Director ................................................................................................................. Michael W. MoonCostume and Make-up Design Coordinator .........................................................................Kimberly G. MorrisProduction Manager...................................................................................................................... Joe HopperAssistant Production Managers ................................................... Ben Johnson, Elias Morales, Sabrina ZeidlerSound and Lighting Specialist ..............................................................................................Thomas PlummerStage Hands ........................................................................................................Bobby Bryan, Caitlyn Woods

HOUSE NOTES• Mailing List: If this is your first visit to the McAninch

Arts Center, please stop by our Box Office to add your name to our mailing list or register your email at www.AtTheMAC.org.

• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theater and are prohibited by our contracts with the artists.

• Smoking is not permitted in the theater or on campus.• For your comfort and security, all backpacks and

large bags must be checked.• Electronic pagers and patrons’ seat locations should

be given to the House Manager, who will notify you in the event of a call. Patrons wearing wristwatch alarms or carrying cellular phones are respectfully requested to turn them off while in the theater.

• Emergency phone number at College of DuPage Police Department for after-hour calls is (630) 942-2000.

• Latecomers seated at discretion of the House Manager.

• Groups of 10 or more may contact the Box Office at (630) 942-4000 or meisch-mercadom@cod.edu to arrange for group discounts.

• If you notice a spill in the theater, please notify an usher.• McAninch Arts Center volunteers are people

who assist the house staff in areas of ticket taking, ushering and general management during performances. To get involved, call (630) 942-4000.

• For Americans With Disabilities Act accommodations, call (630) 942-2141 (voice) or (630) 858-9692 (TDD).

• Infrared Assistive Listening Devices: For audience members who desire audio amplification of performances, headsets with individual volume controls are now available. You may check out the headsets at the Ticket Office with a credit card or driver’s license. Underwritten by a generous gift from The Knowles Foundation.