New PhilharmonicKirk Muspratt, Music Director and Conductor

43rd Season 2019–2020

Ode to JoyKirk Muspratt, Music Director and Conductor

Dr. Nancy Menk, Director, Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus

Katherine Weber, sopranoKate Tombaugh, mezzo soprano

James Judd, tenorSam Handley, bass-baritone

Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, 3 p.m.

Belushi Performance Hall

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PROGRAMEgmont Overture, op. 84 .............................................................................Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770–1827)Benjamin Nadel, Associate Conductor

Side-by-side with Metea Valley High School, Sunday, Sept. 29 Dr. Mark Liu, Director

Young People’s Competition WinnerSaturday, Sept. 28, Emily Ruvoli, flute

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 9, op. 125, in D minor (Choral) .............................................Ludwig van Beethoven

I. Allegro manontroppo e un poco MaestosoII. Molto vivaceIII. Adagio molto e cantabileIV. Presto

Kathrine Weber, sopranoKate Tombaugh, mezzo sopranoJames Judd, tenorSam Handley, bass-baritone

Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus — Dr. Nancy Menk, Conductor

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 NOTESIn 1809, the Vienna Burgtheater asked Ludwig van Beethoven to write incidental music for a revival production of Egmont, a tragedy written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1787. The first performance of the play with Beethoven’s overture and incidental music was given on June 15, 1810, and Goethe himself voiced his approval.

The action of the play takes place in the mid-16th century and concerns the battle between Flemish Count of Egmont and the Spanish Duke of Alba. Count Egmont, an advocate for justice and liberty in the face of oppression and therefore a hero, is arrested and sentenced to death. His mistress, Clärchen, is unable to help, so she commits suicide. The idea of fate permeates the overture, which outlines the action of the play.

Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony in 1822, and he completed it in February 1824. He used material from sketches he made as early as 1809, perhaps while he was working on music for Egmont, and had wanted to make a setting of Schiller’s An die Freude, since boyhood.

Musical times were changing, and the Classical Era was being overshadowed by what we call the Romantic Era. Franz Schubert wrote his Unfinished Symphony in 1822, and the 11-year-old Franz Liszt made his debut in Vienna in 1822. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, like his Fifth, has a prominent part for the piccolo. It has important parts for the trombones and exposed passages for the contrabassoon and percussion instruments (bass drum, cymbals and triangle). Other than that, the orchestration is standard (double woodwinds, strings and timpani), but Beethoven’s idea of using a large chorus and four soloists to sing a setting of non-liturgical text, essentially marrying the genres of the symphony and the secular oratorio, was something that hadn’t been done before.

Beethoven dedicated the piece, his Opus 125, to King Frederick William III of Prussia (a king known for promoting religious tolerance and easing censorship), and the work had its premiere on May 7, 1824, at the Kärntnerthor Theater in Vienna. The program also included Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture and three movements of the Missa Solemnis, a practical choice since the choir and soloists were in the house. The program was conducted by Michael Umlauf.

D minor is a key often used in the western tradition to represent death (Mozart’s Requiem is in D minor), intensity (Mozart’s Quartet K. 421 and Haydn’s Quinten Quartet are in D minor), supernatural (Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata is in D minor), or grandeur (Bach’s Chaconne and his Art of Fugue are both in D minor). Beethoven wrote very little in the key of D minor: only the Tempest Piano Sonata (Opus 31, No. 2) and the 37-measure-long seventh section of the music for Egmont titled “Clärchen’s Tod bezeichnend,” the musical illustration of Clärchen’s suicide.

Maynard Solomon thinks of the Ninth Symphony, which begins in D minor and ends in D major, as the triumph of joy over sorrow, and he considers the last movement the journey from chaotic creation to the tranquility of Elysium, but the piece is far more complicated than that.

The first movement, marked Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso, begins with a D minor key signature, but presents an open fifth in the key of A minor (the dominant key of D minor), and it takes more than 30 measures to become established in D minor. The middle section of the movement is in G minor, where it stays until the recapitulation. The first movement ends in D minor, and the second movement, the Scherzo, begins in D minor. There is a brief jaunt into E minor, and a trio in the sunny key of D major, and, true to form (literally) the Scherzo returns to D minor.

Text of the fourth movementThe text is largely taken from Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” with a few additional introductory words written specifically by Beethoven. The text, without repeats, is shown below, with a translation into English. The score includes many repeats.

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,und freudenvollere.

Freude!Freude!

Freude, schöner GötterfunkenTochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!Deine Zauber binden wiederWas die Mode streng geteilt;Alle Menschen werden Brüder,Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Wem der große Wurf gelungen,Eines Freundes Freund zu sein;Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,Mische seinen Jubel ein!Ja, wer auch nur eine SeeleSein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehleWeinend sich aus diesem Bund!

Freude trinken alle WesenAn den Brüsten der Natur;Alle Guten, alle BösenFolgen ihrer Rosenspur.Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegenDurch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan,Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Oh friends, not these sounds!Let us instead strike up more pleasingand more joyful ones!

Joy!Joy!

Joy, beautiful spark of divinity,Daughter from Elysium,We enter, burning with fervour,heavenly being, your sanctuary!Your magic brings togetherwhat custom has sternly divided.All men shall become brothers,wherever your gentle wings hover.

Whoever has been lucky enoughto become a friend to a friend,Whoever has found a beloved wife,let him join our songs of praise!Yes, and anyone who can call one soulhis own on this earth!Any who cannot, let them slink awayfrom this gathering in tears!

Every creature drinks in joyat nature’s breast;Good and Evil alikefollow her trail of roses.She gives us kisses and wine,a true friend, even in death;Even the worm was given desire,and the cherub stands before God.

Gladly, just as His suns hurtlethrough the glorious universe,So you, brothers, should run your course,joyfully, like a conquering hero.

The last movement has a D minor key signature, but it begins with the pitch of B flat (the tonic key of the third movement) in the upper woodwinds and the lower brass. The cellos give a recitative (that later will be presented with words), and then Beethoven quotes musical material from the preceding three movements. When the baritone soloist enters and, singing the material presented earlier by the cellos, he suggests (in Beethoven’s words) to his friends (the chorus and the audience) that it would be better to sing something more pleasant and joyful. Beethoven adapted Schiller’s poem to suit his needs, and he chose a small number of sections from the larger poem, as composer often do. Schiller’s line, “Bettler warden Fürstenbrüder” (Beggars will become princes’ brothers), doesn’t trip well off the tongue, particularly the collective tongues of a large chorus, so Beethoven replaced it with the line “Alle Menschen warden Brüder” (All people will be brothers).

Key changes, tempo changes and changes of meter abound. Many sections end with a fermata (a held note of a length determined by the conductor), and many are followed by surprise changes of key, often accompanied by drastic changes in dynamic level. One of the most striking sections comes after the chorus ends its first D major declamation that famously begins “Freude schöner Götterfunken” and ends on a surprise F major chord without a fifth at “Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.”

After the air clears, Beethoven changes the meter from four quarter notes per measure to six eighth notes per measure, increases the tempo and changes the key to B flat major, thus transforming the F major chord that preceded it into a surprise dominant chord. We then hear the very low contrabassoon, two bassoons and a bass drum quietly spit out a series of regularly spaced low B flats that are separated by regularly spaced rests. They are joined by a motley crew of very high piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets that double two horns, a triangle and a pair of cymbals. Eventually a trumpet enters, echoed quietly by the strings.

When the solo tenor enters, he sings “Froh wie seine Sonnen fliegen/Durch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan…” (as gloriously as God’s suns fly/across the glorious landscape of the heavens plan…), and after 43 measures of pianissimo comes a 40 measure crescendo to forte, followed by a 20 measure crescendo to fortissimo. During the crescendo, Beethoven manages to modulate the music back into D major, just in time for the chorus to enter.

The next after-fermata change in texture sets up a fugue that has two subjects. Half the chorus sings “Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Kiesen Kuss der ganzen Welt,” while the other half sings the first strophe of the poem, “Freude schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!” After the fugue, the chorus becomes homophonic and homo-rhythmic. Beethoven changes the meter, and four soloists enter singing the same text, but they don’t sing the same words at the same time. It sounds mildly chaotic, and it is difficult to make out the text. The wise chorus (to represent the collective wisdom of the masses, perhaps) sets the soloists straight by singing in unison. The text at play here is “Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt” (Your magic once again unites that which fashion has sternly separated). When the soloists enter again, they do so with individual cadential flourishes in the distant key of B major. They share the same text and Beethoven shows, perhaps, that in a better world artists can express their individuality, be understood and still be part of the greater whole of humanity.

For the triumphant ending, Beethoven returns to D major and has the chorus totally unified. There’s a quick coda that offers a release from all that drama that preceded it, and the piece ends in a stepwise flourish of utter joy.

Program note by Elaine Fine

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PROGRAM NOTESPROGRAM NOTES

Described by Opera News as “a confident singing actress with a magnetic stage presence” who “sang the most demanding of arias with seemingly little effort,” soprano Katherine Weber made company debuts in the 2017–18 season

as Violetta in La Traviata with DuPage Opera, the Boulder Symphony, and under the baton of George Manahan at the Aspen Festival. Her engagements for the 2018–19 season include the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Chicago Opera Theater, and a return to DuPage Opera as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus.

In the 2016–17 season, Weber joined Virginia Opera to cover Nedda in Pagliacci, and performed with the Northwestern University Symphony in concert for the regional premiere of the contemporary piece “A Shout Across Time,” where she was lauded by Splash Magazine for adding “both richness and body to the piece.” She was also featured as a soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the Mozart Reqiuem with the Winona Oratorio Chorus and Orchestra. Other recent performances include two seasons with Opera for the Young, in Madison, Wisconsin, where she toured as the title role in Rusalka, and as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. In addition, she joined the Florentine Opera in concert performances as a featured soloist, and bowed as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah at her alma mater, Viterbo University.

Weber spent two summers as a young artist with Central City Opera, where she first performed the role of Violetta in the family performance of La Traviata, covered Kitty Hart in Dead Man Walking, and sang La Paysanne in Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse.

A decorated award winner, Weber has been a regional finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions twice (2017, 2015), in addition to winning multiple encouragement awards. She has also been the recipient of the Award of Excellence and the Lew Cady Memorial Award, both from Central City Opera, the Bain Fellowship from Indiana University, and was a two time winner from the Schubert Club Competition. Weber graduated from the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she studied with Costanza Cuccaro. For her performance of Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, the Herald Times said she “soared” and “danced nimbly.” Other performances at Indiana include Catherine in A View from the Bridge and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica. Originally from Holmen, WI, Weber is a proud graduate of Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI. While completing her Bachelor of Music in Voice, she continued to be active as a dancer, in which she has more than 12 years’ experience in jazz, ballet, pointe and tap. Weber is based in Chicago, and currently studies with Vinson Cole. When she isn’t performing or practicing, she can be found cooking with her family, working out, laying on the shores of Lake Michigan reading a good book, or playing with her favorite nephew.

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Seid umschlungen, Millionen!Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!Brüder, über’m SternenzeltMuß ein lieber Vater wohnen.

Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?Such’ ihn über’m Sternenzelt!Über Sternen muß er wohnen.

Be embraced, you millions!This kiss is for the whole world!Brothers, above the canopy of starsmust dwell a loving father.

Do you bow down before Him, you millions?Do you sense your Creator, O world?Seek Him above the canopy of stars!He must dwell beyond the stars.

Towards the end of the movement, the choir sings the last four lines of the main theme, concluding with “Alle Menschen” before the soloists sing for one last time the song of joy at a slower tempo. The chorus repeats parts of “Seid umschlungen, Millionen!”, then quietly sings, “Tochter aus Elysium”, and finally, “Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Götterfunken!”.

Note of text translation courtesy of Wikipedia

PROGRAM PROFILES

Sam Handley (bass-baritone) has been praised for “his rich, burnished” voice and the “genuine emotional depth of his characterizations.” As a member of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, he performed more than

a dozen roles, including Quince in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tom in Un ballo in maschera. After appearing in Il trittico at the Castleton Festival, he returned to sing Colline in La bohème with Lorin Maazel. Charles Ward of The Houston Chronicle has described his “vivid and polished singing” as “. . .leaving the audience panting.” On the symphonic stage, his deep repertoire encircles masterworks of Handel, Haydn, Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Mozart, in whose Requiem Handley has been described as “striking in the tuba mirum.”

Highlights of the 2017/18 Season included Verdi’s Requiem (Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra and Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra), The Mikado (Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra), Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem (UW-Milwaukee orchestra and chorus), and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Symphony New Hampshire). On the operatic stage, Handley joined Dallas Opera for Der Ring des Polykartes. Additionally, he returned both to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Fellow Travelers and to Beijing, China, to sing Konrad Nachtigall in The National Centre for Performing Arts’ production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Highlights of the 2016/17 Season included a continuation of The Essential Ring as Alberich in Jonathan McPhee’s new distillation of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with both the Lexington Symphony and Symphony New

Hampshire in collaboration with the Boston Wagner Society. With Lyric Opera of Chicago and Second City, Handley covered the role of Wotan/Morgan in Longer! Louder! Wagner! and returned to his alma mater’s home of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, as the bass soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. Handley sang Pish-Tush in The Mikado with DuPage Opera, Mozart’s Requiem with Sarasota Orchestra, and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Der Rosenkavalier.

In the 2015/16 season, Handley performed the role of Konrad Nachtigall in Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg with the San Francisco Opera and Alberich in The Essential Ring with the Lexington Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire. He sang the Sprecher in Opera Colorado’s production of Die Zauberflöte, and on the concert stage performed as soloist in a concert performance of Roger Waters’ opera Ça Ira with the Nashville Symphony, both in the 2014/15 season. With the Atlanta Opera, he sang Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He recently made his European debut (as well as his role debut) as Escamillo in a new production of Carmen with Theater Aachen. He returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Hans Folz. Handley made his Asian debut in Beijing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Lorin Maazel. He made his Severance Hall and Carnegie Hall debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra in performances of Salome with Franz Welser-Möst. Recent concert engagements included a return to the Santa Fe Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and added the Requiems of Verdi and Brahms plus Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his repertoire.

Additional career highlights include Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Ryan Opera Center, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with the Merola Opera Program, the title role in Don

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.

James Judd is a tenor hailing from Unadilla, NY. He has performed a variety of works as a tenor soloist, including Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, Händel’s Messiah, Honegger’s Le Roi David, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Some of Mr. Judd’s operatic

roles include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, the title role in La clemenza di Tito, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus, Asgar in the United States Premiere of Arshin mal alan, Claude in the World Premiere of The Fall of Stag Lee, and most recently Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

Judd has participated as a Young Artist at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, Opera Saratoga, and Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. Judd holds a Master of Arts in Vocal Performance from The University of Iowa, as well as Bachelors of Music in both Education and Vocal Performance from SUNY Fredonia, where he is currently employed as a Professor of Voice.

PROFILES PROFILES

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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 19th 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 in 1986 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. In 2019, he taught graduate conducting master classes at Illinois State University and judged the concerto competition at Northwestern University. Muspratt recently

Pasquale on tour with the Santa Fe Opera, Mr. Emerson in Nelson’s A Room with a View (DVD by Newport Classics), Sancho in Telemann’s Don Quichotte and Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea with Houston’s Mercury Baroque (KUHF records), Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caspar in Weber’s Der Freischütz, Jaggers in Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire, The King in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, Dikoy in Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, and Dr. Miracle in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann.

A fervent proponent of contemporary composers, Handley has delivered several world premieres, including Wlad Marhulet’s The Property with Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited, plus the music of Scott Gendel and Dan Black with the Madison Contemporary Orchestra. He has been a guest artist with the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, and the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia with James Conlon. Among his several recordings, Argento’s Casanova’s Homecoming is available through Newport Classics and the DVD of his collaboration with Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem is available from Acorn Media.

Born in Memphis, TN, Handley now lives in Chicago and enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, especially while camping, hiking, sailing, cooking and fine dining!

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 (now New Philharmonic Opera). In his last fifteen 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.

PROFILES PROFILES

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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.

Dr. 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, Dr. 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 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. Dr. 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 returned 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.

completed six-year tenure on the board of directors of the Conductors’ Guild.

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.

In 2016, he was honored to become a Paul Harris Fellow, an award named for the Rotary International Founder, Paul Harris. For the past three seasons, Muspratt has conducted at the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.

Benjamin Nadel (Associate Conductor and Principal Librarian) 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 the orchestra director at North Central College. Benjamin 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. He 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, Metea Valley, Glenbard West, and Stevenson High School,

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Recorder Consort, two Steel Drum Bands, and Spring Musical Pit Orchestra. Around 300 of these students participate in the school’s very active Tri-M Music Honor Society, which is a national program sponsored by NAfME that recognizes academically excelled and musically driven high school students. MVHS music students have made their performance marks at the following venues: Grand Opening Concert at MVHS, Illinois Music Education Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Great Hall at University of Illinois, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Wentz Hall at North Central College, Northwestern University, Northern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Wisconsin, Augustana College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Colburn

School of Music (Los Angeles, CA), Aurora University, Notre Dame, Elmhurst College, Penn State University, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH), Disney World (Orlando, FL), Outback Bowl in Tampa Bay, New York City, Memphis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, California, and Italy.

The Metea Valley High School Music FacultyDon Devany, Department ChairPaulette Boddy, Choral FacultyNathan Bramstedt, Choral FacultyNicole DiGrazia, AccompanistJosh Kaminsky, Wind and Percussion FacultyScott Oliver, Wind and Percussion FacultyGlen Schneider, Wind and Percussion FacultyMark Liu, Orchestra FacultyMarc Hornig, Orchestra FacultyRobin Sackschewsky, Orchestra Faculty

Dr. Mark Liu began teaching in 2002 as a member of the Indian Prairie School District music staff. During his tenure in the district, the Indian Prairie Educational Foundation has numerously recognized him as a Most Influential

Educator. Additionally, he has been recognized as Outstanding Educator by Boston College (2009), Illinois Institute of Technology (2007), Western Illinois University (2008), and MIT (2017). Dr. Liu received the Music Inspiration Award from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (2018) and the Distinguished Secondary Teacher Award from Northwestern University (2018). Dr. Liu received Bachelor of Arts in Music education from Wheaton College (2001), Master of Music with orchestral conducting emphasis from Northwestern University (2006), Master of Arts in educational leadership from Aurora University (2008), and Doctor of Musical Arts in music education from Boston University (2016). His research on student motivation and basic psychological needs was published in the 2018 issue of Journal of Research in Music Education.

Dr. Liu was the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition winner, and he performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the conservatory’s symphony orchestra in 2001. His conducting mentors include Dan Sommerville (Wheaton College), Victor Yampolsky (Northwestern University), Donald Schleicher (University of Illinois), and Ho Chung Yeh (former assistant conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Prior to his current position as the orchestra director at Metea Valley High School, Dr. Liu has served as the symphony orchestra director at Chicago Merit School of Music, Maine East High School, and Waubonsie Valley High School. He is also currently the music director of Youth

Symphony of DuPage, which has collaborated with noted artists such as Mr. Robert Chen (Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and world-renowned violin soloist, Rachel Barton Pine. He has presented at ILMEA state conferences on string pedagogy and rehearsal methods, and served frequently as an honors festival conductor. He is a member of NAfME (National Association for Music Education), ASTA (American String Teachers Association), and the Conductors Guild. He has served as the ILMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) District IX Orchestra chair, and is currently serving as the ILMEA Orchestra Division president.

Metea Valley High School, located in Aurora, IL, enrolls 3,000 students and offers a wide array of curricular and co-curricular musical experiences. Since the opening of the school in 2009, the music program has built a strong sense of tradition and musical excellence. The music department has been recognized as a GRAMMY Signature School Finalist every year since 2011 and acknowledged by the National Association of Music Merchants as one of the Best Communities for Music Education in America every year since 2012. Metea Valley High School was named a GRAMMY Signature Gold School in 2016, one of just three in the country to receive the honor. Over 900 students are enrolled in one or more of seven curricular bands, seven curricular orchestras, seven curricular choirs, Introduction to Music Theory, and AP Music Theory. Co-Curricular groups at the school include United Voices (world music choir for any student at Metea Valley), Off the Record Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Musical Theater Experience workshops, three Madrigal Singers, two Mustang Strings (alternative string ensemble), Cello Choir, Metea Valley Symphony Orchestra, Splash of Color (a multiethnic music string ensemble), Marching Band, Pep Band, four Jazz Ensembles, two Jazz Combos, Percussion Ensembles, Chamber Ensembles,

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Dr. Mark Liu, Director

ViolinJackson CoyleSahaja DanthurthyNoor DaraisehShreya DudejaBrian HaSebastian HernandezKarthik IyerLalitha JaligamaHariharan KannanAbigail KauppilaElise KimKarina MakIsabella PalmJennifer RoeMaika WilliamsonZhengwu Zhang

ViolaNikhil Basu James CruzKavishka FernandoVivian KokHayley StachniakNikhil Venkat

CelloPaige Baffes Benjamin ChenMatthew Chen Ana KimSidharth Rao

BassDaniel DraytonSean LuEnzo Nigro

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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 ViolinBernardo Arias, Concertmaster

Chair sponsored by Sue and Dick Lamb

Kristen WiersumDebra PonkoSam BattistaStephane Collopy Miki SantibanezEmily NashMaria ArruaJames SandersLinda VeleckisPascal InnocentiCaroline Slack

2nd ViolinMara Gallagher, Principal

Chair sponsored by Dr. Donald E. Newsom, in memory of Dr. Mary Ellen Newsom

Kristen LeJeuneChikako MiyataNina SaitoBill KronenbergGina YoungGrace YangMelissa StreidlIsabelle RozendaalSamantha May

ViolaRyan Rump, Principal

Chair sponsored by Karen L. Dickelman

Sarah TompkinsBruno SilvaJennifer SilkDavid BeytasSeth PaeKjell SleipnessKaren Dickelman

CelloClaire Langenberg, Principal

Chair sponsored by John Rutledge

Anne MonsonChair sponsored by John Rutledge

Wei Liu DentonChair sponsored by John Rutledge

Richard Yeo Patricia WhiteAndrew SnowMark LiuJulieanne Tehan

BassJohn Tuck, Principal

Chair sponsored by Margaret and Michael McCoy

Julian RomaneNicholas AdamsPhillip SernaStephen Reichelt

Flute Carolyn May, Principal

Chair sponsored by Kathleen Yosko

Maria Schwartz Irene Claude

Oboe Ricardo Castenada, Principal

Chair sponsored by Sue and Dick Lamb

Andrew Lietza

Clarinet Mary Payne, PrincipalLacy Garbar

Bassoon Matthew Hogan, PrincipalLynette PralleGerik Fon

Horn Phil Stanley, Principal

Chair sponsored by Dr. Donald G. Westlake

Mary Jo NeherMelanie KjellsenMatthew Bronstein

Chair sponsored by Lowell and Barbara Anderson

Trumpet Amy Nelson, Principal

Chair sponsored by Margaret and Michael McCoy

James Hahn

TromboneReed Capshaw, PrincipalCherai McCauley Darren Castellanos

TimpaniJames Bond-Harris

PercussionAndrew Cierney, Principal

Chair sponsored by Jim and Tally Knippen

Kent BarnhartPaul Ross

Orchestra ManagerPaula Cebula

Associate Conductor, LibrarianBenjamin Nadel

Chair sponsored by Jerry and Susan Schurmeier

Personnel ManagerKaren Dickelman

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Dr. Nancy Menk, Director

Soprano IShirley ComerErin ConlinJill CookeAnjali DziarskiMelissa GoodwinKathryn HansonMary HenrichKathi R. JonesLinda KennedyDonna KrummKaren Lounsbury+Cindy McCraw*Diane NeedlesKathleen OrgelCourtney PalaszLinda PancheriBrenda PollalisLynn SlegelLinnetta TaylorJaimee Young

Soprano IIJoy BrownSally DuboisGayle FagaDiana Kovach*Janet LeathermanKrystal LeviKathy MadgiakDiana MurrayKathy PacholskiPhyllis PalmquistJennifer RauseiMaggie ReisterSheree RichardsonSandra RinkenbergerLisa SmithLovetta TindalAbbey TorenMarisa ValdezPam WendellDana Zurbriggen

Alto IElizabeth BessetteMelissa Burgess+Christina DoughertySuzanne GruonerJan HosnaMaureen HuizengaKathy JohnsonPrudence LeslieTracie MartinBeth MorenoRebecca OrangeGeraldine Rainey*Joan SpornyPat UrbanKathleen WahlmanJane WalkerBeth Zagrocki

Alto IIStacey AugleCatherine BaxterMaris BeswickDeborah BleekeMary FoxRoberta GadomskiPatrice Martin*Kate McMahonKaren O’BrienNancy ScaggsJoann Wleklinski

Tenor IPaul HuizengaJim KregerRichard Lynch*David NeedlesThomas Olsen+Mike Spurlock

Tenor IIJames GazdickCharles GierseRichard HagelbergBarry HalgrimsonDean LeensvaartDoug Wiseman

Bass IDoug AmberBruce FosterBill Bebout+Scott Enloe*Roy HamiltonKirk McQuistonRich PacholskiEd PalmisanoTheodore RosdilMark Webster

Bass IITim DuncanRon JongsmaClement LessnerEd LindquistWilliam RadellGlen RichardsonDavid Schoon*Ken VanderLugtBill WesterhofChristopher Woods

AccompanistPatricia Lee

Chorus Manager/Office LiaisonMary Henrich

LibrarianKathy Pacholski

Secretary/TreasurerJan Hosna

E-Mail List ManagerMelissa Goodwin

Wardrobe ManagersSally Dubois andDoug Wiseman

Facebook ManagerJoan Sporny

+ Section Leader* Section Managerage

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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 • Supports our SchoolStage program that annually offers affordable arts experiences to thousands of school children • 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.

For complete details, visit the MAC Ticket Office or call the 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 Dec. 1, 2017 through July 31, 2019. 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 (3)Mr. and Mrs. Franz AltschulerLowell and Barbara AndersonBall Horticultural CompanyAnna BallBank of America Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. DowlingDuPage FoundationFollett Higher Education GroupG. Carl Ball Family FoundationMr. Deven GoldenHinsdale Public LibraryJCS Fund of DuPage FoundationMs. Sarah Koten and the Sarah J. Koten Charitable FundKaren and Gene KuhnL.L.BeanMr. and Mrs. Richard Lamb and the Susan and Richard Lamb Charitable Fund of The DuPage FoundationLegat Architects, Inc.Representative Deanne M. MazzochiDr. and Mrs. Harold D. McAninchMargaret and Michael McCoyKirk MusprattJudith May O’DellDorothy O’ReillyAlan Peterson, in memory of Carolyn LevickasMr. and Mrs. William PodgorskiKelly and Roland RaffelNancy and John RutledgeSullivan Taylor, Gumina & Palmer, PCTerrence J. Taylor and Maureen Sullivan TaylorBjarne R. Ullsvik

James and Patricia VaryDr. Donald G. WestlakeWight & CompanyMark Wight and Eszter BorvendegMs. Kathleen C. Yosko

Encore Circle ($2,500–$4,999)Anonymous (2)Robert and Lynne Anderson and the Robert and Lynne Anderson Charitable Fund of US Charitable Gift TrustJoseph and Betsy BallekBrookdale Glen Ellyn Senior Living CommunityMr. and Mrs. Brian W. CaputoMrs. Clark G. CarpenterAnita DicksonJames and Marie Drasal and Drasal Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift FundEcolab Inc.Ken and Joan FrankKen and Debbie FulksJim and Sharon HuckMr. and Mrs. James H. Knippen, IIMs. Diana L. MartinezDavid and Carolyn MayJane E. MooreDrs. Donald E. and Mary Ellen NewsomThe Rev. Dr. Curtis and Leanne RolfeCharles SchlauJerry and Susan SchurmeierSmith Financial Advisors, Inc.Mark and Nancy SmithGeraldine SmrcinaMarilyn Smrcina

Theodore M. UtchenDirector’s Circle ($1,000–$2,999)Anonymous (2)Ms. Eunice BeckerMilton and Heide BentleyProf. and Mrs. Charles E. BooneBuffalo Theatre EnsembleCabernet & CompanyJohn and Pamela DalbyEnertherm CorporationJoseph and Frances EraciJohn and Joann FaulhaberFinances by Design Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Craig GiblinGeorge and Roberta Gilbert and the Gilbert Family Charitable FundJeanette N. and Renee Giragos, in memory of Dr. Henry G. GiragosGinni and ChrisMr. and Mrs. Robert G. HartmanMr. Glenn HopkinsJorge and Beatriz IorgulescuJeffrey Jens and Ann BoisclairMrs. Patricia Johansen and the Johansen Family Fund of the DuPage Community FoundationCharlene Kornoski-Du VallMr. Larry C. LarsonGil and Lola LehmanDr. Barbara LemmeMs. Alixe LischettMarilyn H. Wolff FoundationMarilyn and Tipton McCawley, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert MillerLTC and Mrs. James MilobowskiModruson & Associates, LLCBill and Nancy Moore

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Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Morrissey and the Morrissey Family Fund of The DuPage FoundationBob and Joan OlachJane OldfieldHelen PachayMadeleine PachayPinot’s PaletteJeffrey and Debora PonkoRichard and Elizabeth QuaintanceGary and Mary RashMr. William C. RaymondA. F. and Cecile RobinsonJudy RonaldsonMr. and Mrs. Eugene Rzym and the Eugene W. Rzym Giving Fund of Fidelity CharitableKristin and Peter ShulmanMr. Phil SprovieriMs. Dawn Sullivan AhernTravanse Living at WheatonMr. and Mrs. Michael R. WebbBonnie M. WheatonScott and Kristen WiersumJo Anne Zipperer

Ambassador Circle ($500–$999)Anonymous (2)Anonymous Friend of the DuPage ChoraleYoung AhnAmelia BarrettMary Ellen and Jack BarryPatricia and Bruce BeckMr. and Mrs. Marco BenassiMr. and Mrs. Martin P. BenderMs. Janace BergmannWilliam and Janet BermannMr. and Mrs. Ralph BertolaciniMs. Kathleen BinnigRonald and Hope BucherEd and Kay BurtonPaula and John Cebula

Community Foundation of Will CountyRobert and Carol Drake, Jr.Edwin A. and Gerry DulikDaniel Edelman and Fran KravitzMs. Carol G. EncisoJennifer JulienDavid and Helen FraserMarilyn FredericksJack and Robin GrahamMr. and Mrs. Linsley GrayDon and Jackie HegebarthMr. William N. HerrmannMark and Darlene HolleJohn and Gabrielle JaquindeKarl and Lee Ann KarnatzDr. Jean V. KartjeIda LeeMr. and Mrs. James F. LongJohn and Lynette McCortneyMs. Kathleen McCulloughEllen and Daniel McGowanDr. and Mrs. John MessittMr. Charles J. MisovyeJohn Mulherin and Sara BonkowskiKaren Webb OwenJim and Lorraine PaulissenMr. and Mrs. Mark A. PetersonMeri PhillipsDr. Patricia PimentalDr. and Mrs. Hans P. PohlmannGinny and Don RathsMs. Theresa M. SakDoris and David SchertzSkeet and Laura SkeetAngela SmithRichard and Janice StickaTwo Brothers Brewing CompanyDr. and Mrs. E. Jay Van Cura and The E. Jay Van Cura MD Charitable Fund of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramWhole FoodsMr. and Mrs. Gerald Zielinski

Performer ($250–$499)Anonymous (4)Renato and Mary BacciMr. and Mrs. Ronald N. BenMrs. Beth BondeMs. Claudia BorowskiConnie Canaday Howard and Rex HowardMs. Nancy CarlsonMr. Joseph CassidyMr. Robert B. ChasteenMr. and Mrs. Bruce P. ChristensenDiane CooperStephen and Sunday CumminsMr. and Mrs. Bill P. CurryDon and Anna Mae DaviaDempsey-MuskerGeorge W. and Ann DervisMarilyn and Gene DicolaWilliam DonnellyJames EyreGeorge and Kathryn FairbairnMarcela FanningMr. and Mrs. Douglas FitzgeraldMarcia and Lorne FrankMr. Michael W. GoettschGranite City Food & BreweryDr. Eugene G. Hallongren and Mrs. Dianne J. HallongrenHand & Stone Massage and Facial SpaRebekah and Rodney HarrisMs. Carmen A. Heredia-LopezJohn A. HerndonMr. and Mrs. Clifford HillAllan Hins and Marilyn WilgockiMr. and Mrs. Peter D. HorneStephanie IglehartMs. Mary JensenMr. and Mrs. Tomas JohanssonMr. John KenwoodVirginia and Charles KlingspornMs. Durema F. KohlUlrike Konchan

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMr. Michael KozlowskiMr. John L. Ladle, Jr.The Lagunitas Brewing CompanyR and G LeonaviciusLinda D. LiederMr. Robert MarksJeffrey MayMs. Susan MazanekMr. Donald E. McGowan and Ms. Mary L. PrazakMarty and Marian McGowanMrs. Melissa Meisch-MercadoMr. and Mrs. Craig MillerJ. C. MorganMs. Carol NewtonNorthern IL Commercial Association of RealtorsByrd and Alice ParmeleeMr. Thomas PattersonJack and Marilyn PearsonMr. and Mrs. Wayne A. PiccinMs. René M. RichardsMs. Amy RothNancy L. RubyMs. Lisa Savegnago and Mr. Ronald A. JohnsonMs. Lenore SchachtDenson ShopsMs. Eileen StrongGrace and Len SwansonVirginia and Jerry ThompsonJanet ThornberyMr. and Mrs. Scott E. VeselyMs. Judy VogtMr. and Mrs. Edward WarmowskiMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. WdowiarzDon and Lisa WeissMs. Kathy WesselKathy and Rich Wilders

Friend ($50–$249)Anonymous (22)Nina AdamsSue AdamsMichael Aikins

Peggy AldworthNancy AlluredMrs. John AndersenMr. Ron AndersonAndrew’s GardenApple Matching Gifts ProgramMs. Emma B. Arellano-CabusaoArt Institute of ChicagoMr. and Mrs. Jay J. AugustineAurora Civic Center AuthorityAlyce BarnicleBarone’s Family RestaurantMr. and Mrs. Daniel S. BarszczMichael and Gail BaruchRichard and Grace BauerBetty and Bob BeckerMr. and Mrs. Sherif BehnaBiff Behr and Lynne RichmanMs. Mary BergKen and Annabel BergmanMr. and Ms. John BorgeMr. and Mrs. James BorusMr. and Mrs. James BovesMr. Franklin E. BowesRichard BowesMs. Jayne BoyleMr. George BrannonMs. Sharon BrauerBroadway in ChicagoMr. and Mrs. George BruceBuca di Beppo Italian RestaurantVerda and Paul BufkinMr. William BuhrMr. and Mrs. William BulgerDr. John and Suzanne BuntrockMildred and Harold BurrowJoseph and Marybeth CampionMs. Amie L. CantarellaMs. Virginia CantuMrs. Ruth CarlsonRuth and Ken CarlsonJim CarstenCaterpillar FoundationMs. Natalie CepynskyGreg and Janet ChejfecMr. Gary P. Chomuk

Mr. and Mrs. Larry ChristensenMr. Michael ChurchMr. Allen R. CiteraMr. Alan L. ClarkMs. Theresa L. ClarkMr. and Mrs. William CleaverMr. and Mrs. Ray F. CliffMr. and Mrs. James ConnollyPeggy ConnollyMs. Erica CoppolinoCreme de la Creme BoutiqueMr. Steven D. CurtisMrs. Margaret DadyJeanne E. DavikMs. Judy DeckerMr. and Mrs. Michael J. DelaneyJoy and Ron DetmerDevon Seafood and SteakMr. Gary R. DobsonMs. Jane DoyleWilliam and Kathleen DrennanDrury Lane TheatreMs. Deborah L. DudekEvalee DumasJenny DunbarJoanne EastMr. and Mrs. Michael EdwardsElements MassageMrs. Julie A. ElgesRobert and Linda FairbairnThomas and Carol FateGeraldine FeketeMr. Joseph P. FerreriElinor FlaniganSusan FoodyEric and Marilyn ForsFrank Gironda Salon & SpasMs. Judith D. FrazierDr. and Mrs. Richard M. FriedGail FromerJanet R. GahalaMr. and Ms. Paul KatsMary Jane GarrettUrs Geiser and Mary HobeinPamela and Jerome GiermannGlen Ellyn Park District

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMr. and Mrs. Glenn GlinkeMr. Mark GodishP. GondekMr. and Mrs. Jonathan Good and the Jon and Ruth Good Foundation—Fidelity Charitable FundMs. Kristina GuastaferriMs. Wanda GustasAnne HackerMr. Stephen HallenbeckMs. Robin L. HallettGeorgia HamiltonDiana and Gary HarperDr. Susan Harris-MitchellMrs. Jane D. HartopDavid and Karen HaugenMr. and Mrs. Brad A. HausermanMs. Nancy HeadenMr. and Mrs. James HeltMs. Ann B. HendersonAleene L. Henninger-BoydenLance HerningMr. Robert HessMs. Judith HigginsRon HiltonBruce and Judy HoskinsMr. Lawrence J. HowardStephen and Michelle HujarMs. Donna IalongoWalt and Vicki IlczynMr. and Mrs. Kevin R. IlliaInn at Water’s EdgeMs. Susan InnesDave JatczakMs. Marilyn L. JelinekMs. Jean M. JeskeEdward and Susan JeszkaMr. and Mrs. Donald V. JohnsonMr. and Mrs. Glenn C. JohnsonBernard and Antoinette JokielFred and Carole JonesMr. David P. JordanDr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jourdan, D.D.S.Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Jung

Dee KaempenMr. and Mrs. Raymond KasparMr. David KassKendra ScottMr. and Mrs. William KensholNick Knickrehm and Beverly LoganMr. and Mrs. R. P. KolakMs. Elaine L. KolmanMarcia A. KoppenhoeferJohn P. and Catherine M. KosMr. Brian KraussMs. Kathryn S. LaheyEileen B. Landau, Fidelity Charitable Trust, in Memory of Eliot A. Landau and Cateria A. PrydeMr. Karl LangnerGregory and Kristine LarsenLaser QuestMs. Bette Lawrence-WaterMs. Bridget LearyMrs. Ruth LeBeauMr. and Mrs. Chung LeeMr. and Mrs. Paul F. LeFort and the LeFort-Martin Family Donor-Advised Fund of The DuPage FoundationMichael LembkeMs. Virginia LennonMr. Anthony LettsMr. and Mrs. Robert T. LindseyMr. and Mrs. Mike LulloMr. and Mrs. Edward MakauskasMr. and Mrs. Atis MakstenieksEdward J. MallyMadeleine and Ralph MarbachMs. Brandee MartinJohn MategranoDiane MaurerMr. and Mrs. John P. MaxsonMrs. Dorothy McCormackJames and Kimberley McDonnellLucia and Jim McGinnMs. Jennifer A. McIntoshKaren Micaka and Tom Dekant

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. MicekMs. Mary C. MichnaMr. and Mrs. Francis MiesJerry and Brigitte MillerRalph and Nancy MillerBonnie MizeColleen and Dale MoirMr. and Mrs. Michael MoonMs. Kimberly G. MorrisThe Morton ArboretumMr. and Mrs. David W. MortonMrs. Linda B. MotzJoan MuellerMr. and Mrs. John MurphyMs. Barbara NagengastMr. and Mrs. Timothy NordahlKatherine NorrisBetty and John NorthMr. John L. NortonJean and Joanne OliphantGwen O’LoughlinShirley OrloppMs. Jo Marie M. OstrowskiMs. Patricia OvermyerAlice E. PackardSarah PackardMr. William PalmquistMr. and Mrs. Maynard L. Parker, Jr.Mr. Nick PetrosRohan and Merlyn PhillipsMs. Helen PierceRoger and Sarah PoeppelMr. and Mrs. Charles PolitoPorchlight Music TheatreMary Lou PorterMs. Denise PriceMs. Marilyn PrideRoger and Vivian PschererAlicia and Marshall PufundtTom and Karen PulverMs. Kathryn PurdyMr. and Mrs. Aleksandar RadovicMr. Herbert RaffelJohn and Mandy RakowMs. Diane G. RathRealty Club of Chicago

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MaryEllen ReedyMs. Tracey J. ReidMr. and Mrs. James F. RendelMr. John RidgewayGail RobinsonPatricia RoseMarlene and Bob RosecransMs. Dani RozekThe Honorable and Mrs. Richard D. RussoBill and Sharron SailorLaura SamperJaney SartherMs. Barbara ScalzittiMrs. William G. ScanlanRichard and Patricia SchwarzeSharol and William SchwassMr. and Mrs. A. C. SchwethelmKen and Trish ScottMs. Elizabeth Shaffer-McCarthyMr. Neal SmithMr. Jim SotirakosJean SpitzerEllen and Grier StephensonMr. and Mrs. A. G. StithCarol StoffelMs. Billie S. StraussMelissa StriedlDr. and Mrs. William (Norma) StronerMs. Susan SturmMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. SuhrburMr. and Mrs. Kennan R. SullivanMs. Helen B. SzymanskiAnthony and Mona TaylorPaul ThompsonMr. and Mrs. Charles ThurstonMr. and Mrs. James N. TitusMs. Justine ToschTom and Teri TraceyMs. Tiffany TricroceMs. Cynthia TrowbridgeMr. Steve TsaiMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. TurekMr. and Ms. Anthony J. VahcicMs. Harriet Vakos

Eugenio and Carmen ValdesVillage Links of Glen EllynMarilee ViolaMark and Ruthe VitaleMs. Jacqueline VlamingMr. and Mrs. Michael VolkLucy and George VorickKay WahlgrenPenelope WainwrightDr. and Mrs. Edward Walsh, D.D.S.Mr. and Ms. Alan S. WalterMr. Tim WardWaterleafMs. Susan WeberJudy WebsterMr. and Mrs. Dennis WeeksPatricia and Richard WeichleMr. Brian WeickRobert and Marlene WeilerAnne and Jim WengerdMr. and Mrs. John WheatleyWheaton Chamber of CommerceRobert and Jeanne WhislerLyn and Debbie WhistonW. H. WhowellJoan and Raymond WielgosMs. Alice M. WilburMs. Sandra WildermuthLee WilliamsMr. Chuck WingeMs. Eileen WinterMr. and Mrs. Harvey WischnowskiMrs. Iris S. WitkowskyMs. Rebecca WolvertonMr. and Mrs. Robert WulffenJohn YoungDiane Meiborg and Roger ZacekMs. Michelle ZiebellMargot C. and Arthur Zwierlein

Corporate and Community SponsorsA Toda MadreAdelle’s Fine American FareArts MidwestBank of AmericaBall Horticultural Company Brookdale Glen EllynCabernet & CompanyThe ClubhouseCollege of DuPage FoundationDoubleTree by Hilton Lisle NapervilleDuPage Convention and Visitors BureauDuPage FoundationFollettGlen PrairieHoulihan’sI Have a BeanIllinois Arts Council AgencyL.L.BeanNational 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 WFMTWhole FoodsWight and Company

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MAC Administrative StaffDirector of the McAninch Arts Center .................................................................................................. Diana MartinezMarketing and Donor Relations Coordinator ...........................................................................................Roland RaffelBusiness Manager ..............................................................................................................................Ellen McGowan Assistant Business Manager ................................................................................................................ Kari SchoettleCleve Carney Art Gallery Curator .............................................................................................................. Justin WitteGallery Assistant .................................................................................................................................... Heidi Holmes Project Coordinator, Frida Kahlo 2020 .................................................................................................. Molly JunokasEducation and Community Engagement Coordinator ............................................................................. Janey SartherDirector of Development for Cultural Arts ...............................................................................................Janie OldfieldGraphic Design and Group Sales Coordinator .......................................................................................Kat Kazmierski Administrative Assistant ........................................................................................................................Mandy RakowStudent Clerical Assistants ...............................................Samantha Hernandez, Danielle Pawlowski, Karen Robinson

MAC Box Office and Front of House StaffBox Office Manager ...................................................................................................................................Julie ElgesAssistant Box Office Manager .......................................................................................................... Natalie WawczakPatron Service Manager ........................................................................................................................... Tom MurrayFront of House Manager ............................................................................................................................Rob NardiniFront of House Assistant .......................................................................................................................Chris Corrigan

MAC Resident Professional EnsemblesBuffalo 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, Associate Conductor and Librarian ....................................................................... Benjamin NadelNew Philharmonic Manager ................................................................................................................... Paula Cebula

MAC Design and Technical StaffTechnical Production Coordinator .................................................................................................................Jon GanttTechnical Director ............................................................................................................................ Michael W. MoonCostume and Make-up Design Coordinator .................................................................................... Kimberly G. MorrisAssistant Costume Coordinator and Stitcher ................................................................................... Gretchen Woodley Production Manager................................................................................................................................. Joe HopperAssistant Production Managers ...............................................................Ben Johnson, Elias Morales, Sabrina ZeidlerStage 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 Kat Kazmierski at (630) 942-3026 or kazmierskik@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) 942-3705.

• 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.