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2022-2023 SEASON
PRESIDENT ’S M ESSAGE
November 2, 2022
“Music is the art-form above all others that
can express the spiritual within us.”
The Israel Philharmonic is a favorite of Friends of Philharmonic
audiences. When they last appeared here on November 9, 2015, they
performed Ioseb Bardanashvili’s beautiful, dramatic symphonic poem
“A Journey to the End of the Millennium” composed in 2004. That evening had special significance for all of us
in that it was the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht and Zubin Mehta conducted. It was under Mehta’s guidance
that the Friends of the Philharmonic was formed, and he conducted our very first performance in 1974 with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mehta was Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic from 1977-2019 then tonight’s
conductor – the young Lahav Shani – took over in 2020.
Tonight, Israel Philharmonic performs another defining work - Paul Ben-Haim’s First Symphony commissioned
in 1940 for the fledgling Palestine Symphony Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic) and formed from Jewish
musicians dismissed from European orchestras leading up to World War II. The virtuoso violinist Bronislaw
Huberman recruited and formed the orchestra in 1936.
We hope you enjoy the concert,
Dean Kauffman, President
Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic
Cover Photo: The Vieuxtemps Guarneri was built around 1741 by renowned Italian instrument maker Giuseppe
Guarneri. The violin is named for Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps who owned it during the 19th century. The
instrument has also been used by Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. In 2012 it was sold
to a private collector at an undisclosed price, but reportedly for more than $16 million, representing at that time
the largest sum every paid for a violin. The purchaser subsequently provided lifetime use of the instrument to
American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers who performs on our series with San Diego Symphony, January 8, 2023.
Palm Springs Friends of the Philharmonic
PROUDLY PRESENT
The Israel Philharmonic
Lahav Shani, Music Director
The Music Director’s position is endowed
by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Sponsored by Barbara Fremont
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 7:30 pm
PROGRAM
PAUL BEN-HAIM Symphony No. 1 (32 minutes)
(1897-1984) Allegro energico
Molto calmo e cantabile
Presto con fuoco
— INTERMISSION —
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D Major “Titan” (59 minutes)
(1860-1911)
Langsam schleppend
Kräftig bewegt
Feierlich und gemessen
Stürmisch bewegt
Israel Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic for their
generous underwriting of the ensemble’s United States touring program.
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Please remain seated until the performers leave the stage at intermission and at the end of the program. Also, please
do not applaud between movements of any musical composition. Friends of Philharmonic audiences are known for the
warm and courteous welcome extended to visiting performers. Please help maintain this fine reputation. THANK YOU.
Photography and recording of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please remember to silence your cell phone.
Program Notes
Symphony No. 1 figure in the lower strings that will return in various
PAUL BEN-HAIM forms throughout the movement. Strings announce
Born July 5, 1897, Munich a second subject, brooding and dark, and this
Died January 14, 1984, Tel-Aviv sonata-form movement develops vigorously. There
is something pointillistic, almost mechanistic, about
Paul Frankenburger studied violin and piano as a
the sound Ben-Haim generates across the span of
boy in his native Munich, then moved on to study
this movement, which drives to a dramatic climax and
composition with Friedrich Klose, who had been
powerful close.
a pupil of Bruckner. In his twenties, he served as
an assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans As its name suggests, the Molto calmo e cantabile
Knappertsbusch at the Bavarian State Opera but takes us into a different world entirely. It opens with
gave up his career as a conductor to concentrate on a long, unharmonized melody for strings, and in
composing. By the early 1930s the young man was the final part of this melody Ben-Haim quotes from
all too aware of growing anti-Semitism in Austria, and a song of the ancient Persian Jews, “I Shall Lift My
when the Nazis came to power in 1933, he emigrated Eyes to the Mountains.” Gradually the rest of the
to Palestine. There he settled in Tel Aviv and changed orchestra enters, and this movement features a
his last name to Ben-Haim. He served as president number of prominent solos for winds as it builds to
of the Israel Composers League in 1948, and from a soaring climax. A serene flute melody helps lead
1949 until 1954 he taught at the Jerusalem Academy the way to the quiet conclusion. This movement has
of Music. Ben-Haim was a prolific composer (he become popular on its own, and it is sometimes
wrote about 250 works), and in his music he aimed performed separately under the title Psalm.
for a fusion of the great European classical music
tradition with the music of the Eastern Mediterranean The concluding Presto con fuoco (“fast, with fire”)
and Jewish peoples. Ben-Haim described his artistic returns to the mood of the opening movement,
identity succinctly: “I am of the West by birth and though here that atmosphere is projected through a
education, but I stem from the East and live in the series of wild dances, including tarantella and hora.
East. I regard this as a great blessing indeed and it Racing violas create a sense of a perpetual-motion
makes me feel grateful. The problem of synthesis of movement, and that feeling of breathless rush will
East and West occupies musicians all over the world. continue throughout. Grieving and violent interludes
If we–thanks to our living in a country that forms a intrude into this animated dancing before Ben-Haim’s
bridge between East and West–can provide a modest First Symphony pounds its way to an exciting close.
contribution to such a synthesis in music, we shall be
very happy.” Sadly, on a return visit to Munich in 1972,
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Ben-Haim was struck by a car and seriously injured.
GUSTAV MAHLER
Paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, he continued
Born July 7, 1860, Kalischt, Bohemia
to compose until his death in 1984. Died May 18, 1911, Vienna
Ben-Haim’s First Symphony comes from a dark Mahler’s First Symphony is one of the most
moment in human history–he began it in August impressive first symphonies ever written, and it gave
1939, just as World War II was about to begin, and its young creator a great deal of trouble. He began
completed it at the end of June 1940, just as France it late in 1884, when he was only 24, and completed
fell to the Nazis–so perhaps it is no surprise that this a first version in March 1888. But when it was first
music is dramatic and often very dark. It is in three performed–to a mystified audience in Budapest on
sharply contrasted movements. The opening Allegro November 20, 1889–it had a form far different from
energico bursts to life with a powerful rhythmic the one we know today. Mahler would not even
call it a symphony. For that first performance he Mahler marks the second movement Kraftig bewegt
called it Symphonic Poem, and it was in two huge (“Moving powerfully”); his original subtitle for this
parts that seemed to tell a story: the opening three- movement was “Under Full Sail.” This movement is
movement section was called “Days of Youth,” while a scherzo in ABA form, and Mahler bases it on the
the concluding two movements made up what Mahler ländler, the rustic Austrian waltz. Winds and then
called the “Human Comedy.” But as Mahler revised violins stamp out the opening ländler, full of hard
the symphony for later performances, he began to let edges and stomping accents, and this drives to a
slip quite different hints about the “meaning” of this powerful cadence. Out of the silence, the sound of
music. At one point he called it the “Titan,” borrowing a solo horn rivets our attention–and nicely changes
the title of Jean Paul Richter’s novel about a wild the mood. The central section is another ländler, but
young hero who feels lost in this world. Some further this one sings beautifully, its flowing melodies made
sense of its content comes from the fact that the all the more sensual by graceful slides from the
symphony borrows several themes from Mahler’s violins. The movement concludes with a return of the
just-completed Songs of a Wayfarer, which are about opening material.
his recovery from an ill-fated love affair. But finally,
Mahler, who had a love-hate relation with verbal The third movement opens what, in Mahler’s original
explanations of his music (denouncing them one scheme, was the second part of the symphony.
moment, releasing new ones the next), abandoned Deliberately grotesque, this music was inspired by a
any mention of a program. When he finally published woodcut picturing the funeral of a hunter, whose body
this symphony in 1899, he had cut it to only four is borne through the woods by forest animals–deer,
movements, greatly expanded the orchestration, and foxes, rabbits, shrews, birds–who celebrate his death
suppressed all mention of the “Titan” or of any other with mock pageantry. Over the timpani’s quiet tread
extra-musical associations. Now it was simply his (once again, the interval of a fourth), solo double
Symphony No. 1. bass plays a lugubrious little tune that is treated as
a round; the ear soon recognizes this as a minor-key
And what a first symphony it is! The stunning variation of the children’s song Frère Jacques. The
beginning–Mahler asks that it be “like a nature- first episode lurches along sleazily over an “oom-pah”
sound”–is intended to evoke a quiet summer morning, rhythm; Mahler indicates that he wants this played
and he captures that hazy, shimmering stillness “with parody,” and the music echoes the klezmer
with a near-silent A six octaves deep. The effect is street bands of Eastern Europe. But a further episode
magical, as if we are suddenly inside some vast, brings soft relief: muted violins offer another quotation
softly humming machine. Soon we hear twittering from the Wayfarer songs, this time a theme that had
birds and morning fanfares from distant military set the words “By the wayside stands a linden tree,
barracks. The call of the cuckoo is outlined by the and there at last I’ve found some peace.” In the song
interval of a falling fourth, and that figure will recur cycle, these words marked the disappointed lover’s
throughout the symphony, giving shape to many of its escape from his pain and his return to life. The march
themes. Cellos announce the true first theme, which returns, and the timpani taps this movement to its
begins with the drop of a fourth–when Mahler earlier nearly silent close.
used this same theme in his Wayfarer cycle, it set the
disappointed lover’s embarking on his lonely journey: Then the finale explodes. It is worth quoting Mahler
“I went this morning through the fields, dew still hung on this violent music: “the fourth movement then
upon the grass.” A noble chorus of horns, ringing out springs suddenly, like lightning from a dark cloud.
from a forest full of busy cuckoos, forms the second It is simply the cry of a deeply wounded heart,
subject, and the brief development–by turns lyric preceded by the ghastly brooding oppressiveness
and dramatic–leads to a mighty restatement of the of the funeral march.” Mahler’s original title for this
Wayfarer theme and an exciting close. movement was “From Inferno to Paradise,” and while
one should not lean too heavily on a program the
composer ultimately disavowed, Mahler himself did
choose these words and this description does reflect it about youth and the “human comedy”? Is it
the progress of the finale, which moves from the autobiographical, the tale of his own recovery from
seething tumult of its beginning to the triumph of the an unhappy love affair? Late in his brief life, Mahler
close. Longest by far of the movements, the finale is even suggested another reading. When he conducted
based on two main themes: a fierce, striving figure his First Symphony with the New York Philharmonic
in the winds near the beginning and a gorgeous, in 1909, Mahler wrote to his disciple Bruno Walter
long-lined melody for violins shortly afterwards. The that he was “quite satisfied with this youthful sketch,”
development pitches between extremes of mood as telling him that when he conducted the symphony, “A
it drives to what seems a climax but is in fact a false burning, and painful sensation is crystallized. What a
conclusion. The music seems lost, directionless, and world this is that casts up such reflections of sounds
now Mahler makes a wonderful decision when back and figures! Things like the Funeral March and the
comes the dreamy, slow music from the symphony’s bursting of the storm which follows it seem to me a
very beginning. Slowly this gathers energy, and what flaming indictment of the Creator.”
had been gentle at the beginning now returns in
glory, shouted out by seven horns as the symphony Finally, we have to throw up our hands in the face
smashes home triumphantly in D major, racing to the of so much contradictory information. Perhaps it is
two whipcracks that bring it to a thrilling conclusion. best just to settle back and listen to Mahler’s First
Symphony for itself–and the mighty symphonic
What are we to make of Mahler’s many conflicting journey that it is.
signals as to what this symphony is “about”? Is Program notes by Eric Bromberger
Lahav Shani
Music Director
Lahav Shani, Music Director of
the Israel Philharmonic, started
his conducting career when he
won first prize at the 2013 Gustav
Mahler International Conducting
Competition in Bamberg. In 2018
he became Chief Conductor
of the Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra, being the youngest
Chief Conductor in the orchestra’s
history. From the 2017-18 season
until 2020, he was Principal Guest
Conductor of the Vienna Symphony
Orchestra. His performances as
guest conductor include concerts Credit by Marco Borggreve
with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, London
Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal
Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresden
Stockholm Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, and
Staatskapelle, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He
Berlin Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich,
also works regularly with the Berlin Staatskapelle,
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Boston Symphony,
both at the Berlin Staatsoper and for symphonic
Berlin Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra,
concerts. In October 2013 he was invited to open Ehwald and piano with Prof. Fabio Bidini, both at
the season of the Israel Philharmonic. An immediate the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. Whilst a
re-invitation followed for the next two seasons. student he was mentored by Daniel Barenboim. As
His close relationship with the Israel Philharmonic a pianist, Lahav Shani made his solo recital debut
started in 2007, when he performed Tchaikovsky’s at the Boulez Saal in Berlin in July 2018. He has
Piano Concerto under the baton of Zubin Mehta, play-directed piano concerti with many orchestras
and continued in 2010, when Maestro Mehta invited including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Staatskapelle
him to join the Israel Philharmonic on its Far East Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
tour as pianist, assistant conductor, and double bass and the Israel Philharmonic. Lahav Shani also has
player. Lahav Shani was born in 1989 in Tel Aviv and considerable experience performing chamber music
started his piano studies aged six with Hannah Shalgi, and recitals. He is a regular performer at the Verbier
continuing with Prof. Arie Vardi at the Buchmann- Festival and has also appeared at the Aix-en-Provence
Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. He then went on to Easter and Jerusalem Chamber Music Festivals.
complete his studies in conducting with Prof. Christian
Credit by Oded Antman
The Israel Philharmonic
The Israel Philharmonic was founded in 1936 by world’s greatest conductors and soloists, as well
Bronislaw Huberman and its inaugural concert, on 26 as young talents from Israel and abroad. As part of
December 1936, was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. KeyNote, the Israel Philharmonic’s music education
The Israel Philharmonic plays in subscription series and outreach program, Israel Philharmonic musicians
in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, in special concerts perform in numerous schools and concerts for school
and in various concert series throughout Israel. The pupils at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv.
Israel Philharmonic regularly tours the world’s cultural In 1969 Maestro Zubin Mehta was appointed Music
centers and prestigious festivals. Israel’s creative Advisor to the Israel Philharmonic and in 1977 he
artists are promoted by many Israel Philharmonic became its Music Director. Maestro Mehta retired
premieres of works by Israeli composers. The Israel in October 2019 and following his retirement, the
Philharmonic has contributed to the absorption Israel Philharmonic has named him Music Director
of new immigrants and includes in its ranks new Emeritus. Lahav Shani became Music Director in the
immigrant musicians. The orchestra has hosted the 2020-21 season.
The Israel Philharmonic
Music Director: Lahav Shani
The Music Director’s position is endowed by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Music Director Emeritus: Zubin Mehta
Artist in Residence: Sir András Schiff
Orchestra Members / 2022-23 Season
FIRST VIOLINS SECOND VIOLINS Jonathan Gertner BASSES
Ilya Konovalov, Yevgenia Pikovsky* Marc and Lydia Brendan Kane*
Concertmaster• Lauer Chair
Ari Thor Vilhjálmsson* Naomi Shaham*
Dumitru Pocitari, Yeshaayahu Ginzburg
Amnon Valk*** Nir Comforty***
Concertmaster• Vladislav Krasnov Asst. Principal
Daniel Aizenshtadt
Blanche and Jacob Sofia Lebed
Alina Boyarkina Uri Arbel
Silbershatz Chair
The Colton Klara Nosovitsky Acting Asst. Principal
David Radzynski,
Scholarship Matan Noussimovitch Brad Annis
Concertmaster•
Hadar Cohen John Porter Chair The Weintraub
The Zvi Haftel Chair
Rachelli and Leon Evgenia Oren Syncopators Chair
donated by Mira and
Stephen Ross Koffler Chair Anonymous Noam Massarik
Alexander Dobrinsky Gili Radian-Sade Arielle and Shlomo
Saida Bar-Lev,
Renée Galimir Hurtig Markel Chair
Acting Assistant Shmuel Glaser
Concertmaster Chair Nimrod Kling
Lev Iomdin
Esther and Chanoch Blythe Marie Teh Alexander Osipenko
Derzavich Chair Yuki Ishizaka Engstroem David Segal
Nitzan Canetty Enosh Kofler
CELLOS Antonino Tertuliano
Renée and Bob Drake Tomoko Malkin
Chair Omry Weinberger
Asaf Maoz Haran Meltzer*
Perla and Carlos
Sharon Cohen Françoise and David The Annenberg
Jinich Chair
Rivka Saker and Uzi Winton Chair Foundation Chair
Zucker Chair Marianna Povolotzky Lia Chen Perlov* HARP
Anna Doulov Eva and Ezra Marcos Eugene Lifschitz***
Chair Julia Rovinsky*
Adelina Grodsky Dmitri Golderman Ted and Hedy Orden
Genadi Gurevich Maria Rosenblatt Ruth Ziegler z"l Chair z"l Chair
Jeffrey and Suzanne
Eleonora Lutsky Iris Jortner
Zamet Chair FLUTES
Anonymous Iakov Kashin
Avital Steiner Tuneh Guy Eshed*
Sivann Maayani Linor Katz
Michael and Felicia Olga Stern Rochelle and David A.
Smadar and David
Crystal Endowed Chair Ella Vaulin Slatkin Cohen Chair Hirsch Endowed Chair
Shai Nakash Enrique Maltz Noa Berkovitch
VIOLAS Boaz Meirovitch
Anna Reider Mirtha and Fred
Miriam Hartman* Chaoul Chair Adam, Tamara and
Gilad Rivkin Ruth and Reuben Sharonna Karni Cohen
Elyakum Salzman Kirill Mihanovsky
Schrift Chair Graham Family Chair Chair
Marina Schwartz Dmitri Ratush* Lior Eitan
Felix Nemirovsky
Yelena Tishin Marilyn and Sigi z"l Lazarus Trust Chair Michael and Angela
Drorit Valk Ziering Family Chair Sorkin Chair
Gal Nyska
Ori Wissner Levy Amir Van Der Hal*** Rina Mayer Chair PICCOLO
Noam Yaffe Lotem Beider Ben Ori Ron
Aharon Lior Eitan
The Colton The Colton
Scholarship Erik Bochberger Scholarship
Polina Yehudin The Colton Yifat Weltman
Sir Harry and Lady Scholarship
Judith Soloman Chair
OBOES Yoel Abadi PIANO Personnel Manager:
Dudu Carmel* Gloria Goldstein Chair Rafael Skorka Michal Bach / Inspector:
Marilyn and Sigi z"l Itamar Leshem Hadar Cohen / Assembly
Ziering Family Endowed SAXOPHONE Chm’n: Nir Erez
Michal Mossek
Chair Tova and Sami Sagol Finance Manager: Alex
Idit Shner
Lior Michel Virot* Chair Ziv / Marketing Manager:
Yael Yardeni-Sela / Chief
Nick Deutsch* Hagai Shalom PRINCIPAL Accountant: Anat Eldar /
Janice Atkins Chair LIBRARIAN
Dmitri Malkin Treasurer: Racheli Timor
Angela and Richard Tal Rockman / KeyNote Director: Irit
Camber Chair TRUMPETS Rub / Mgr. Subscription
Tamar Narkiss-Melzer Yigal Meltzer* LIBRARIANS Dept.: Nira Oryan / Team
Mario A. Adler Chair Bianca and Stuart Akkad Izre'el Mgr.: Bagrat Chen, Zvi
Roden Chair Netanel / IT Mgr.: Shlomi
Batya Frenklakh Timor / Asst. Sec. Gen.:
ENGLISH HORN Ram Oren**
Iris Abramovici Tevet /
Dmitri Malkin Eran Reemy OPERATIONAL Asst. Marketing Mgr.: Liz
Hannah and Randy STAGE MANAGER Fisher / Asst. Personnel
CLARINETS Polansky Chair Amit Cohen Manager: Yael Glazer,
Ron Selka* Vako Saatashvili Katya Dashkov / Payroll
Yuval Shapiro TECHNICAL Manager: Orly Zabib /
Yevgeny Yehudin*
Michelle Nasser Chair ASSISTANTS Payroll Accountant: Liat
Rashelly Davis Ohayon / Accountant:
Charlotte and Maurice Noam Polonsky
TROMBONES Osnat Laks /
Lawson Chair Denis Rubin Bookkeeper: Orly Golan
Jonathan Hadas Nir Erez* • Canada / Program Editor: Orly Tal
Denise Esfandi Chair Tal Ben Rei*** Concertmaster Chair / Asst. Program Editor:
Nir Marom Edward Lee Chair Noga Chelouche, Oded
* Principal
Natanel Bikov Shnei Dor / Archives
** Associate Principal Mgr.: Avivit Hochstadter /
PICCOLO Micha Davis
CLARINETS
*** Assistant Principal Public Relations: Shalom
Guest-Player Tel Aviv
Ron Selka BASS TROMBONE
Sabbatical/
Yevgeny Yehudin Micha Davis FOR OPUS 3
Leave of Absence
Nir Marom ARTISTS
TUBA Board of Directors: Robert Berretta,
BASS CLARINET Aharon Fogel (Chm’n), Managing Director
Itai Agmon*
Ephraim Abramson,
Jonathan Hadas Anath Levin, Rivka Benjamin Maimin,
TIMPANI Chief Operating Officer
Saker, Michael
BASSOONS Dan Moshayev* Zellermayer Grace Hertz, Manager,
Daniel Mazaki* Marsha and Alan Lee IPO Management: Yoel Artists & Attractions
Chair Abadi (Chm’n), Michal Jemma Lehner,
Uzi Shalev***
Ziv Stein*** Mossek, Yuval Shapiro Managerial Assistant
Gad Lederman
Murray S. z"l and Secretary General: Avi
Beile and Johanan FOR THE ISRAEL
Natalie Katz Chair Shoshani
Gilad Chair PHILHARMONIC
Roxan Jurkevich Audit Committee:
Carol Patterson TOUR
Shlomo Handel (Chm’n),
PERCUSSION Itzhak Ganot, Ronit Leonard Stein,
CONTRABASSOON Consulting Producer
Omri Blau* Bachar, Hadar Cohen
Carol Patterson (observer), Noam Tania Leong,
Roxan Jurkevich Associate Producer
Massarik (observer)
HORNS Alexander Nemirovsky
Musicians’ Council: John Pendleton,
Bradley Colen Linda and Michael Company Manager
Vladislav Krasnov
Gemeinhardt* Jesselson Chair (Chm’n), Yoel Abadi, John C. Gilliland III,
Dalit Segal* Ayal Rafiah Sharon Cohen, Guy Advance Company
Acting Principal Ziv Stein Eshed, Jonathan Manager
Irith Rappaport and David Mark Tarantino Gertner, Asaf Maoz,
Carol Patella, Assistant
Glen Perry Chair Boaz Meirovitch, Michal
Company Manager
Mossek, Yuval Shapiro
Michael Slatkin*** Don Irving, Stage
Manager
PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC
F O U ND ED 1 9 7 3
Dr. Mimi Rudolph, Founder – Mrs. Nancy Adler Thornton, Founding Benefactor
OF F I C E R S
Dean Kauffman, President
Lucinda Schissler, Vice-President – Artist Selection
Joseph H. Stein, Vice-President – Subscriptions
Kenneth A. Turner, Treasurer/Immediate Past President
Bernice E. Greene, Recording Secretary
Gary Schahet, Parliamentarian
D I R E C T OR S
Lois Nehring Darr Dean Kauffman Gloria Scoby
John Fox Dr. David B. Ko Douglas G. Stewart
Barbara Fremont Carol S. Lewis Joseph H. Stein
Norman Gorin Susan Palm Paul M. Symons
Bernice E. Greene Larry Pitts Kenneth A. Turner
Roberta Holland Gary Schahet JoAnn G. Wellner
Lucinda Schissler
Marnie Duke Mitze, Executive Director
Michael Flannigan, Ticketing and Administrative Coordinator
DI RE CTOR S E M ER I T US
Jeane Hilb, Anne Holland, Robert Rose, Lynn Zimmer
I N M E M OR I A M
The Board of Directors pays tribute to the following board directors who
have recently passed, but whose wisdom, passion and commitment to classical music
will continue to inspire and guide us in the decades to come.
Robert Armstrong, Henry Freund, Marshall Gelfand, Barbara Pitts, Gloria Rosen, John ShevlinT H E B OA R D OF DIRECTORS OF
T H E PA L M S P R IN GS FRIENDS OF PHILHARM ONIC
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Loreen Jacobson & William & Jane Melzer Mrs. John C. Shevlin
Bertel Lewis Tom & Marnie Mitze $500 – $1,499
Evelyn & David Simon
Michael Jaworski Poul S. & Birgit E. Moller Dinesh & Raj Agrawal
Sheila Sloan
Mrs. George E. Jones Constance & John Nyhan Debbie Allen
Donald Stein
Professor & Mrs. Ken Ms. Caryl Olins Judith L. Appelbaum
Jill Steinberg
Jowitt Cydney Osterman Noyes & Elizabeth Avery
Robert & Carlyn Stonehill
Dean Kauffman Jacqueline & Barry Janet Ball
Frederick Swann
Nora Kaufman Panter, M.D. Nora & Guy Barron
Kory & Betty Teoman
Ruth & Malvin Kaufman Georganne Papac Cash & Betty Baxter
Kyle Thorpe
Dr. David Ko & Dr. Sara Beth & Larry Peerce Jonathan R. Beard &
Rosemarie Vacano
Azar Vicki M. Rauscher Grace Nordhoff
Helen Varon
Marcia Koslov Gail Richards Roger G. Bensinger &
Marsha & David Veit Robin Groth
Bud Krause Robert Richards Jean Baur Viereck
Linda Lechlitner Rella & Monty Rifkin *In Memoriam
Youth Education
The Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic is proud to sponsor a robust youth education program. In addition
to summer music camp and college music scholarships for local Coachella Valley youth, the Philharmonic
provides financial support to the arts education program at the McCallum Theatre and other area music
organizations, and free student tickets to our concerts. During the Covid shutdown, the Philharmonic created
a special music emergency grant fund that awarded over $60,000 to local schools for the purchase of musical
instruments.
The Philharmonic also facilitates an instrument donation program, focused primarily on wind and string
instruments, for local schools.
JA M ES WO R KMA N MID D L E S C H OOL M USIC STUDENTSHarriet K. Bernstein Dick Kahn & Sue Ann & Robert Stevens Dr. Robert & Maxine
Richard & MaryJeanne Freeman Anne Swindells Greenstein
Burke Sherwin Kaplan & Patricia Jane Townsend & *Alan George & Libby Henrich
Bianca & Jim Cameron Sullivan Gross Deon Hilger & Jerry
Anne Camil Harriet R. Karmin Faye K. Triggs Delaney
Elizabeth M. Campbell Retha Ellen Keenan Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Trostler Murray & Barbara Hirsch
Joe Cantrell G.P. Paul Kowal Vicki & Michael Turoff Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Hofer
Bruce Cervone & Drs. Howard Lee & Jean Julie Tybout Suzan & Steven Hyman
Kathleen Delaney Lew Craig & Junior Vickers Sherry Kaplan
Paul R. Christen Lisa & Erik Lindauer David & Mary Ann Walsh Susan Karsen
Joanne & Bill Chunowitz Harriet Litt James & Lucy Wang Fran Kaufman
J. Patrick Cooney & Karl Ruth & Bill Mainzer David & Marlyne Weiner Sheila W. Keeshin
Buchberg Madeleine Maniar Stuart & Marysia Weiss Sheldon & Barbara Kent
Marion & Eric Cowle Signe Bergman & Jerry Lita & *Jerrold Widran Maxine & Joe
Joel T. Cutler Marshak Kirshenbaum
Jane Woolley
Christopher Davidson Judith & Jonathan Martin & Judy Krasnov
in memory of James Marshall SUPPORTER Dr. & Mrs. Walter F.
Watterson Nicky & Lester Mayber $250 – $499 Krengel Jr.
Mrs. Dorothy Deming Pamela & Eugene Steven R. Acree, PhD Richard & Dena Krown
Svanhild Dolin McGuire David Lee
Melvon Ankeny
Joan Don Allan McMurray & Judy Mr. & Mrs. Julian Levy
Kaffka Gerald & Sharon Appel
Kevin Doran Rhona Bader Tom & Judy Lewis
Melinda Douglas James T. & Marianne D.
Millican Michael & Lee Bard Rick & Roseve Mainzer
Martha Drake Dr. & Mrs. Michael Baskin Marliyn Malkin
Les Modie
Sheila Dulin Darryl K. Beach Dr. Robert B. & Suzanne
Colonel & Mrs. Dave
Joy Dunlevie & Ted Mueh Jim & Martha Blackburn J. Martin
Humphrey Joseph & Shirley McEvoy
Judy & Mike Musiker Eleanor & Bruce Blank
James Eisenberg & Jane Jon & Marjorie McGihon
Woldenberg Dr. David Norgard & Steven & Carol Bloch
Joseph Oppold III Barbara & Ronald Borden Mr. Thomas Miller
Phyllis Mintz Eisenberg Jeanie Mills
Eva Cebulski Olivier Robert Bracken
Larry Fechter & Tom Martha & Mark Moench
Stansbury Rob & Jason Ollander- Sigrun Braverman, Ph.D.
Krane Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Bryman Fran Muir
Carol & Arthur Freeman
Dr. Marsha & William Bonnie Carmell Susan & Doug Myrland
Ariela Gallen Pachter
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Corne Susan Nathan
Linda Gazecki Dean & Marilyn Park
Jill & Robert DeMaster, Gary L. Nudell & Craig
Christine & Michael Laurie & Mark Parkin Heywood
Gennet Ph. D.
John & Gayle Perl Sally Cherry Dempsey Jack & Sharin Orr
Joe Giarrusso & Charlie
Paglia Norma Person David Dotlich & Doug Harold & Miriam Paley
Tom & Alix Goodman Rita & Robert Philip Elwood Elizabeth Parese
Joyce Gorney Nancy Rapoport & Mal Janice Dunn W. Stuver Parry
Rudner Jane Effress & Harvey David Peck & Dennis
Arline Greenblatt
Susan & Arthur Rebell Lambert Duca
Helen & Alan Greene
Susan & John Rothschild Robert Elmore & Paul Zak Lynn & Jim Philpot
Diane & Cynthia Gunn
Dr. Joseph & Dixie Jeffrey & Suzanne Feder Diane Rader
Rod & Diane Hassett Schulman Dr. Wilma Finmark Michael Romberg & Meir
Robert & Peggy Henley Judith Schurr Klapper
MaryEllen Herman & Phil Walter Foery
Anneruth Serman Gail Baum & Larry Fox Rabbi Yaacov & Mrs. Nina
Markel Rone
Richard & Nurit Sheehan Arva & Robert Frank
Nancy & Michael Herman Ellen & William Sachs
Mike & Lynn Shields Barbara Gleissner
Burton & Libby Hoffman Robert G. Sanderson
Nancy & Stan Sibell Carol Glickman
Robert & Lorna Houck James Slagter & Mariana
J. Robert Sillonis & Philip & Carol Goldsmith
John Hoyda Michael D. Welter Scarcella
Al Jones Phil & Judy Goldstein Trudy Schwartz
Danforth M. Smith
Andrew & Andrea Donald C. Graham Sanford Seplow & Susan
Nora & Jay S. Spak
Josephson Bridget Gray Walpert
Elaine & Claude
Steinberger
*In MemoriamChrista Siegel Judy Bobrow & Jon Mrs. Gaye Goerz Marsha Reed Nall
Dr. Paul & Sybil Desenberg Susan B. Goldberg Gisela & Nelson Reid
Silverstein Andy Brancuccio & Thorey & Barry Goldstein Paul Reid & Tom Hartnett
Linda & Jesse Singh *Ken Sandacata Carol Goldwasser Robert Rogers
Kevin L. Smith & Beverly Janet Hartzler Braslow, Dr. & Mrs. Edward E. Molly Ross
J. Zimmer MD Gordon Dr. Joan Rubane
Barbara Spencer Ann Broadwell Lianne Gulka Dario Sacramone & John
Marie Staudhammer Dr. Rich Cansdale Larry D. Harper Pariseau
Diane D. Stauffer Mary Carlson Richard & Ilene Harris Dr. & Mrs. Andrew
Eileen & Marv Stern Richard & Renee Carman Doris B. Heckerman Sanderson
Dr. Tom & Sherry Stevens Penny Carpenter John F. & Judith C. Hon Dennis Schroeder
Jay Tedder Chan & Eunhee Chung Maralyn Howard Louise E. Schulz
Barbara W. Thormann Joseph Cifarelli Penny Hudnut & Stephen Judith Schwartz
Leslie & Dr. Barry Usow Joan & Frank Cohee Schoenfeld Steven Shaer
André van Niekerk & Bram Conley Nora Jackson Peggy Sheren
Steven Rogers Corinne & Roger Coplan Lily Kanter Ronald & Kim Marie
Judy Wallis Dr. Gerald & Marianne Jim Karpiak Singer
Mary & Jim Wilson Corey Jack Keller James Stedman
Marvin & Robbie Winick Frances & Gregg Corwin Karen Klein Peter Steele & Daniel
Judith B. Zacher, M.D. Rev. Donald R. Craig Dr. & Mrs. George H. Wirth
Eileen & Lawrence Zoll Edwina Davis Koenig Ron & Natalie Tambor
Franck-Alsid de Allison Kozak Jim & Linda Tjaden
CONTRIBUTOR Chambeau, PhD Pauline Trimarco
Dr. Robert & Kay Levine
$100 – $249 John Martin Deely Edith Leyasmeyer Mark & Janet van
Janet Abrams Anneke Delen Bonny & Drew Link Hartesvelt
Carole & Robert Adelstein Ingrid DeMarta & Judy Robert & Carol Lowitz Adrian Van Wingerden &
Irwin Alexander & Miles Osborne Jose G. Perez
Ken Maxwell
Senn Karen Engman Paula & Daniel Voorhees
Bruce McCombs
Helen Astleford Carol Faxon Arlene & Bill Wadsworth
Nick McCully
Dr. Danuta Batorska Robert Feferman & Susan & John Walker
Steven Bing Mark McGowan & Didona
Helen Risom Belluschi Marcinkevicius Steven L. Washington
Zeev & Shoshanna Jeanette & Saul Fein Robert Wenbourne
Michael H. Motherway
Berger Donald Feinberg Sandra Wetrich & Max
Bob & Fran Moyer
Drs. Rainer & Carolyn Izu William Fisher Ph. D. Davis
Bergmann Andrew Nelson
Frances & John John White
Bruce M. Hatrak & M. Fleckenstein Rick & Virginia Newton
John Whitfield
Andrew Berisford Sidney & Jacqueline Ella Ohana
Charlene Williamson
Melinda & Harvey Freedman Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Olsen
Gwen Herron & *Everett
Bernstein Jacob Frick & William Michael Pagliaro Wilson
Shelley Ann Birenbaum Pape Raymond Price & Esmé Ellen Yuracko
Al Bloch & Fefe Passer Adrienne Garland Ryan
Maxine Ziebarth
Donna & Judah Patricia Gershick Bob & Susan Pristave
Blumenthal Sally Gessford Melinda Raphael *In Memoriam
Renee Glickman Goodman
Special thanks to this season’s
concert sponsors for their additional support:
Norman Forrester Norman Gorin Gloria & Michael Scoby
& William Griffin Bernice E. Greene Jane & Larry Sherman
Barbara Fremont Roberta Holland Douglas G. Stewart
Helene Galen & Jamie Kabler Phyllis & Gary Schahet JoAnn G. WellnerTickets on sale now! www.PSPhil.org
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Subscriptions available from $550 to $365, plus donation
Programs and artists subject to change
San Diego Symphony
Domingo Hindoyan, Conductor
Sun., Jan. 8, 5 pm – With Anne Akiko Meyers, Violin
Sponsored by Roberta Holland, Gloria & Michael Scoby,
Douglas G. Stewart
Pacific Symphony
Carl St.Clair, Conductor
Mon., Feb. 6, 7:30 pm – With Yefim Bronfman, Piano
Sponsored by Larry & Jane Sherman
Filharmonie Brno
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Tue., Feb. 14, 7:30 pm
Sponsored by Norman Forrester & William Griffin
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Mon., March 6, 7:30 pm – With Avi Avital, Mandolin
Sponsored by Bernice E. Greene, Norman Gorin, JoAnn G. Wellner
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Dalia Stasevska, Conductor
Sun., April 2, 5 pm – With Randall Goosby, Violin
Sponsored by Phyllis & Gary Schahet, Helene Galen & Jamie Kabler
All concerts take place at
McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA
www.PSPhil.org
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