UMS Concert Program, January 20, 2017 - On Behalf of Nature, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

138TH SEASON // UNIVERSIT Y OF MICHIGAN | ANN ARBOR

2016-17
WINTER
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part to play.
Uncommon
and engaging
experiences.
A sense of
connection
between audience
and artist.
Moments of clarity,
inspiration, and
reflection. The
performing arts
provide us with
these elemental
experiences,
offering a shortcut
to our creative
selves.

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Helping create free educational events and
community-building activities. Providing
opportunities for all to experience the
transformative power of the arts.
ENGAGED LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS

Integrating performing arts into the
student experience. Creating meaningful
connections between the arts and life.
Encouraging creative thinking, collaboration,
and experimentation.
BOLD ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

Commissioning work that reflects our
commitment to tradition and innovation.
Solidifying and elevating our position as
a recognized national and international
artistic leader. Unique and bold
programming.
As a Leader and Best among arts presenters,
UMS wants anyone and everyone, students
and community alike, to experience the
transformative power of the performing arts.
We seek generous partners who want to
help us achieve our goal.

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Be
Present
WINTER 2017

UMS unleashes the power of the
performing arts in order to engage,
educate, transform, and connect
individuals with uncommon
experiences. The Winter 2017
season is full of exceptional,
world-class, and truly inspiring
performances.
Welcome to the UMS experience.
We’re glad you’re present. Enjoy
the performance.

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When you attend a UMS performance,
you’re part of a larger equation:

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$100 million annually
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Thank You, Ken…
Welcome to this UMS performance! We are delighted that you are joining us
in our 138th season, a season that is bittersweet for the UMS staff and family;
UMS President Ken Fischer will retire at the end of June, following 30 years
of leadership and service to UMS, the University of Michigan, and to our
community.
Ken has fostered a culture of openness, honesty, and out-of-the-box thinking
at UMS — a supportive professional environment that can be measured in
part by the 21-year average tenure of the UMS management team.
Beyond Ken’s lasting contributions to UMS, which include an organizational
commitment to Education and an increased focus on commissioning new
work, Ken has had an impact that isn’t always apparent outside of the
hosting weekend tours to prospective University students interested in
the arts; tirelessly serving on boards of directors within the arts industry
regionally, nationally, and internationally; and generously offering his time

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organization. His dedication to mentorship and service is vast, and includes

and knowledge in connecting others.
He has achieved some of the highest recognitions in our field, including the
2016 Chamber Music America Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award,
the 2011 Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fan Taylor Distinguished
Service Award, and UMS’s recognition as a 2014 National Medal of Arts
recipient. From the Vienna Philharmonic concerts led by Leonard Bernstein
in 1988, to the first Royal Shakespeare Company residency in 2001, through
the remounting of Einstein on the Beach in 2012, Ken has held true to his
lifelong motto: “Everybody In, Nobody Out.”
Ken, we wish you all of the best in the final few months of your tenure.
Thank you for all that you’ve done for our community!
The UMS Family

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Thanks to thousands of generous individuals, families
and businesses, the Community Foundation for Southeast
Michigan is a permanent source of community capital,
dedicated to creating lasting positive benefit in
our region. Through grantmaking, education and
leadership on community issues, we help improve the
quality of life for all residents of Southeast Michigan.
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Table of
Contents
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WINTER 2017
SEASON CALENDAR

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EDUCATION

13
HISTORY

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LEADERSHIP DONORS

CORPORATE CHAMPIONS

23
FOUNDATION, GOVERNMENT,
& UNIVERSIT Y SUPPORT

25
PEOPLE

33
GENEROUS DONORS

44
AD INDEX

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Druid

Bruckner Orchester Linz
with Angélique Kidjo

Sarah Chang

Batsheva Dance Company

Snarky Puppy

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January

1/7-8 Batsheva Dance Company

March

1/12-14 Igor and Moreno
Idiot-Syncrasy
1/15 NT Live: Harold Pinter’s
No Man’s Land

1/19 Prague Philharmonia with
Sarah Chang, violin
Andrew Von Oeyen, piano

1/20 Meredith Monk &
Vocal Ensemble
On Behalf of Nature

1/21-22 Takács Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet
Cycle, Concerts 3 & 4
1/22 NT Live: The Audience

1/29
Inon Barnatan, piano
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

February

2/2 Bruckner Orchester Linz
with Angélique Kidjo

2/3 Estonian Philharmonic
Chamber Choir

2/5 M-Prize Winner:
Calidore String Quartet

2/10 Budapest Festival Orchestra
with Richard Goode, piano

2/18 Ping Chong + Company
Beyond Sacred: Voices of
Muslim Identity

2/19 Jelly and George
Aaron Diehl and
Cécile McLorin Salvant

3/4 Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis
3/9-11 Druid
The Beauty Queen of
Leenane

3/11 Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis

3/16 Snarky Puppy

3/17-18 Kidd Pivot and
Electric Company Theatre
Betroffenheit

3/18 Steve Reich @ 80
Music for 18 Musicians

3/24 Mitsuko Uchida, piano

3/25-26 Takács Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet
Cycle, Concerts 5 & 6

3/29 DakhaBrakha

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Winter 2017 Season

3/30-4/1 Complicite
The Encounter

April

4/1 Michael Fabiano, tenor
Martin Katz, piano

4/12 A Far Cry with
Roomful of Teeth

4/15 Sanam Marvi

4/21 King Sunny Adé

4/22 Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer &
Chris Thile

4/25 Handel’s Ariodante:
Opera in Concert

May

5/21 NT Live: Ibsen’s
Hedda Gabler

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Education &
Community
Engagement
Educational experiences
for everyone.

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Berliner Philharmoniker principal flutist Emmanuel Pahud leads a master
class at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance; photo: Peter Smith/UMS.

At UMS, our mission goes beyond performance. We want you to create,
to explore, and to experience extraordinary new things. That is why we
offer a fascinating lineup of artist Q&As, conversations, workshops,
and interactive experiences, each designed to bring you closer to
performance and creation, and to expand your comfort zone. If you
want to experience something new, different, highly engaging, and
eye-opening, we invite you to participate in events inside and outside
of the theater.

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EDUCATION

Pre-Concert Lecture Series:
Exploring Beethoven’s String Quartets
Saturday, January 21 // 7 pm
Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St.
Fourth Floor
Saturday, March 25 // 7 pm
Michigan League
Koessler Room
911 N. University Ave.
Third Floor

Join Beethoven scholar and U-M
professor of musicology Steven Whiting
for a series of lectures in conjunction
with the Takács String Quartet’s
complete Beethoven cycle.
In collaboration with the U-M School of
Music, Theatre & Dance.

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EDUCATION

You Can Dance
Ever wonder what it’s
like to be a dancer? Join
dancers from each company
on the UMS season for
beginner movement
workshops exploring each
of the company's movement
styles. No dance training
or experience necessary,
and all levels, ages 13 and
up, are welcome. Free, but
first come, first served until
studio reaches capacity.
Sign-up begins at the Y
45 minutes prior to the
start of class.
Educational events are free
and open to the public unless
otherwise noted.

Batsheva Dance Company
Saturday, January 7 // 12 noon–1:30 pm
Ann Arbor Y
400 W. Washington St.
Igor and Moreno
Saturday, January 14 // 2-3:30 pm
Ann Arbor Y
400 W. Washington St.
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
Saturday, January 21 // 2-3:30 pm
Ann Arbor Y
400 W. Washington St.
Kidd Pivot
Saturday, March 18 // 2-3:30 pm
Ann Arbor Y
400 W. Washington St.
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Tradition
Builds the Future

WINTER 2017

In our 138th season, we continue to showcase traditional performances
alongside contemporary artists for an offering that is unlike anything
available in the Midwest. UMS grew from a group of local members of the
University and townspeople in the 1870s who gathered together for the
study of Handel’s Messiah. Led by Professor Henry Simmons Frieze and
conducted by Professor Calvin Cady, the group assumed the name The
Choral Union. Many Choral Union members were also affiliated with the
University, and the University Musical Society was established soon after
in December 1880.
Since that first season, UMS has expanded greatly and now presents the
very best from a wide spectrum of the performing arts: internationally
renowned recitalists and orchestras, dance and chamber ensembles, jazz
and global music performers, and contemporary stagework and classical
theater. Through educational programming, the commissioning of new
works, youth programs, artist residencies, and collaborative projects,
we continue to strengthen our reputation for artistic distinction and
innovation.

Hill Auditorium opening-night audience: May 14, 1913
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Leadership
Donors
We recognize the donors who have made multi-year campaign commitments of
$100,000 or more during the last year.
BERTRAM ASKWITH (1911-2015)
PAT TI ASKWITH KENNER
“The arts made a significant difference in my father’s life
and in my life, too. My father wanted every U-M student
to have the opportunity to experience the impact of the
performing arts at UMS. This is why I am continuing to offer
every first- and second-year student one free ticket —
Bert’s Ticket — to introduce them to a cultural experience at
Michigan and keep my father’s passion for the arts alive.”
MAURICE AND LINDA BINKOW
“Our love of opera and the human voice, rivaled only by our
affection for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, began
nearly 70 years ago as teenagers in New York City. That’s why
we are so pleased to create an endowment that will bring song
recitals to UMS audiences for generations to come.”

STEVE AND ROS FORREST
“As students, we benefited from low-cost student tickets,
fostering a lifelong love of the performing arts. Our donation
will help to ensure that affordable tickets will be available to
today's students.”

ILENE FORSY TH AND KARL HAUSER
“An endowment is a gift which keeps on giving forever, so
it is rewarding to know — while we are yet living — that our
gift will still be giving when we’re not here.”

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MAXINE AND STUART FRANKEL
“We are delighted to partner with UMS for the sixth
year of Renegade. Supporting Renegade programming
allows UMS to provide experiences for the curious,
adventurous, and experimental audience member —
allowing us to challenge our existing beliefs and push
our own boundaries.”

EUGENE AND EMILY GRANT
“We are proud to support UMS and the many programs
they offer University students. It is great to know that
students will have access to the greatest performing
artists from around the world. The arts are an important
part of a Michigan education.”

DAVID LEICHTMAN AND LAURA MCGINN
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“UMS is an inspiration — from the Big House of the Arts
to the master classes taught to University students.
This organization contributes significantly to the
culture of Ann Arbor and to the University we love. We
are pleased to support its mission.”

STUART AND LINDA NELSON
“Our connection to the University of Michigan is
through our grandson’s incredible experience as a
student. We are dazzled by the array of cultural events
available to everyone on campus and beyond. At the
heart of this phenomenon is UMS, where Ken Fischer’s
legacy will continue its magic long after his retirement.
We feel privileged to participate in the UMS Endowment
Fund in his honor.”
MAX WICHA AND SHEILA CROWLEY
“We are delighted and proud to support UMS and the rich,
diverse programs they offer each season. The arts play a
vital role in enhancing the quality of life in our community,
while bringing beauty and meaning to everyday life. UMS
is a gem we treasure and will continue to do so, for many
years to come.”

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Corporate
Champions
We thank the following businesses for their commitments of $5,000 or more for the
2016–17 season.
ALICIA M. TORRES
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Altarum Institute
“The arts stimulate the mind and inspire creativity. Hence, we
at Altarum are thrilled to support UMS and provide inspiring and
enjoyable cultural opportunities for our team and our community.
Altarum Institute serves the public good by solving complex systems
problems to improve human health through objective research,
technology, analysis, and consulting leadership skills.”

SCOT T DAWSON
Vice President of Engineering, Arbor Networks
“Ann Arbor is a thriving hub for both the arts and technology.
With the arts playing such a critical role fostering innovation and
creativity, we are delighted to support UMS this season.”

TIMOTHY G. MARSHALL
President and CEO, Bank of Ann Arbor
“We take seriously our role as a community bank. While there have
been sizable cuts in arts funding over the years by both the private
and public sectors, Bank of Ann Arbor is delighted to continue to
sponsor UMS year after year. We are firm believers that the arts are
vital to the vibrancy of our cities, both culturally and economically.”

ALMAZ LESSANEWORK
Owner, Blue Nile Restaurant
“At the Blue Nile, we believe in giving back to the community that
sustains our business. We are proud to support an organization that
provides such an important service to Ann Arbor.”

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“As a company with a long-standing commitment to diversity
and our community, Comerica is proud to continue its support
of UMS. We salute UMS on its efforts to enrich our community
by showcasing the talents of performing artists from around
the world. Congratulations to the leader and best in the
performing arts.”

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LARRY BRYANT
Ann Arbor Region President, Comerica Bank

CHRIS CONLIN
President, Conlin Travel, Inc.
“Conlin Travel has been a proud supporter of UMS for over
50 years. I will never forget attending one of my first UMS
concerts in 1975, listening to Vladimir Horowitz perform Chopin,
Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and others. UMS makes Ann Arbor
the most vibrant cultural community in Michigan today.”

FAYE ALEXANDER NELSON
President, DTE Energy Foundation
WINTER 2017

“The DTE Energy Foundation is pleased to support exemplary
organizations like UMS that inspire the soul, instruct the mind,
and enrich the community.”

NANCY AND RANDALL FABER
Founders, Faber Piano Institute
“We are proud to support UMS in its tradition of program
excellence and outreach that enriches our thoughts, our
families, and our community.”

JAMES G. VELLA
President, Ford Motor Company Fund
“Experiencing the world through music and the arts makes
us better as individuals while bringing us together as a
community. We are proud to support UMS and the important
role it plays in enriching our lives.”
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DAVID N. PARSIGIAN
Ann Arbor Office Managing Partner, Honigman Miller
Schwartz and Cohn LLP
“In our firm’s tradition of supporting major cultural institutions,
Honigman has been a long-time supporter of UMS. Our Ann Arbor
office is proud to carry on that tradition on behalf of all of our
attorneys, especially those who work and live in the Ann Arbor area.
We all view the exceptional cultural experiences that UMS provides
as key to the success of our community and our firm.”
JOHN AND JACKIE FARAH
Owners, Imagine Fitness & Yoga
“My wife Jackie and I share a deep devotion to our hometown of
Ann Arbor and all the opportunities it presents. UMS is a huge part of
this community. The programming that UMS offers is internationally
recognized and Ann Arbor would not be the same without it. Imagine
Fitness & Yoga is honored to support such a great organization and
community.”

MOHAMAD ISSA
Director, Issa Foundation
“The Issa Foundation is sponsored by the Issa family, which has
been established in Ann Arbor for the last 30 years, and is involved
in local property management as well as area public schools.
The Issa Foundation is devoted to the sharing and acceptance
of culture in an effort to change stereotypes and promote peace.
UMS has done an outstanding job bringing diverse and talented
performers to Ann Arbor.”
ROBIN WEBER POLLAK
President, Journeys International
“Journeys International and UMS have a lot in common: we both
provide opportunities for powerful and impactful experiences.
Founded and based in Ann Arbor, Journeys has been crafting lifechanging international travel adventures for nearly four decades.
We are thrilled to support UMS and its programs that change people
through the performing arts.”

JAMES HOFFMAN
Michigan Market President, KeyBank
“KeyBank remains a committed supporter of the performing arts
in Ann Arbor and we commend UMS for bringing another season
of great performances to the community. Thank you, UMS, for
continuing the tradition.”

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MICHAEL CONLIN
Director of Business Development, Level X Talent
“Level X Talent enjoys supporting UMS and its ongoing success
bringing world-class artistic talent to the community. Please
join us in congratulating UMS. As with the arts, consistently
finding and attracting exceptional talent in Advanced
Technology can be difficult. Level X Talent partners with our
clients to meet that challenge.”

DENNIS SERRAS
Owner, Mainstreet Ventures, Inc.
“As restaurant and catering service owners, we consider
ourselves fortunate that our business provides so many
opportunities for supporting UMS and its continuing success
in bringing internationally acclaimed talent to the Ann Arbor
community.”

KEITH ALLMAN
President and Chief Executive Officer, Masco
WINTER 2017

“Masco is proud to support UMS and salutes its commitment to
providing excellent and diverse programs that spark a lifelong
passion for creativity. Thank you, UMS, for allowing all of us to
experience the transformative power of the performing arts!”

THOMAS B. MCMULLEN
President and CEO, McMullen Properties
“A Michigan-Ohio State football ticket is still the best ticket in
all of sport. However, a UMS ticket always provides the best in
educational and artistic entertainment.”

STEVE ARWOOD
CEO, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
“We are proud to support UMS, an outstanding organization
bringing world-class artists to Michigan. By partnering with
UMS to bring the Berlin Philharmonic to our state, we are
showing once again the wide variety of offerings Michigan has
that enhance our quality of life and help to make our state an
amazing place to live, work, and do business.”

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STEPHEN G. PALMS
Principal, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
“Miller Canfield proudly supports UMS for enhancing our quality of
life by bringing the unfiltered immediacy of live performing arts to
our community.”

TODD CLARK
Regional President, Old National Bank
“At Old National Bank, we’re committed to community partnership.
That’s why, last year alone, we funded over $5 million in grants and
sponsorships and our associates donated almost 100,000 volunteer
hours. It’s also the reason we’re pleased to once again support UMS
as a corporate sponsor for the 2016–17 season.”

RICHARD L. DEVORE
Detroit and Southeast Michigan Regional President,
PNC Bank
“PNC Bank is proud to support the efforts of UMS and the Ann Arbor
community.”

TODD KEPHART
Managing Partner, Retirement Income Solutions
“With strong roots in the community for more than 30 years, our
team of investment advisors is proud to support UMS. We salute
Ken Fischer on his marvelous stewardship and applaud his team’s
ongoing commitment to presenting authentic, world-renowned
artists to the Ann Arbor community.”

SAVA LELCAJ
Chief Executive Officer, Savco: Hospitality
“One of Ann Arbor’s greatest assets is UMS, which brings amazing,
best-in-class performances to our city season after season. Savco
Hospitality is honored to support UMS and its mission of engaging,
educating, transforming, and connecting the arts to our community.”

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“UMS is an important cultural asset for our community. The Sesi
Lincoln Volvo Mazda team is delighted to sponsor such a fine
organization.”

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JOE SESI
President, Sesi Lincoln Volvo Mazda

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JOHN FITZPATRICK
President, StoryPoint
“At StoryPoint we strive to inspire and enable seniors to shine
every day. Our mission to create the absolute best experiences
does not end within our buildings; we aim to enrich the
communities we serve. Music is a language that every person
— young and old — understands and enjoys. We are proud
to support UMS, who inspires our community through artistic
expression and talented performers.”
JOHN W. STOUT
President, Stout Systems
WINTER 2017

“Supporting UMS is really a labor of love — love of music and
the performing arts and love of arts advocacy and education.
Everyone at Stout Systems knows we cannot truly be
successful without helping to make our community a better
place. It is an honor to be part of the UMS family.”

TOM THOMPSON
Owner, Tom Thompson Flowers
“Judy and I are enthusiastic participants in the UMS family.
We appreciate how our lives have been elevated by this
relationship.”

OSAMU “SIMON” NAGATA
President, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North
America, Inc.
“Toyota Technical Center is proud to support UMS, an
organization with a long and rich history of serving diverse
audiences through a wide variety of arts programming.”

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TIFFANY FORD
President and CEO, University of Michigan Credit Union
“The University of Michigan Credit Union is excited to launch
‘Arts Adventures’ with UMS and UMMA! With this endowment, we
promote the celebration of the arts through amazing experiences
and exceptional learning opportunities for the entire community.”

MARK SCHLISSEL
President, University of Michigan
“The University of Michigan is proud to support UMS as a natural
extension of our academic enterprise. UMS’s outstanding
performances and educational programs add tremendous value for
our students, faculty, alumni, and regional community.”

MARSCHALL RUNGE
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of
Michigan, and CEO, University of Michigan Health System
"We are proud to partner with UMS for its 2016–17 season. Music
improves the quality of life for all of us, and, increasingly, is
recognized as an important ingredient for better health.”

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31st Performance of the 138th Annual Season
International Theater Series

This evening’s presenting sponsor is the
Renegade Ventures Fund, established by
Maxine and Stuart Frankel.
This evening’s supporting sponsor is the
Ilene H. Forsyth Theater Endowment Fund.
This evening’s performance is funded in part
by the Building Audiences for Sustainability
initiative of The Wallace Foundation.
Media partnership is provided by Ann Arbor’s
107one and Metro Times.
Special thanks to Grace Lehman and the Ann
Arbor Y, Chrisstina Hamilton and the U-M
Penny Stamps Speaker Series, and Clare Croft
for their participation in events surrounding
this evening’s performance.
Special thanks to Tiffany Ng, assistant
professor of carillon and university carillonist,
for coordinating the pre-concert music on the
Charles Baird Carillon.
On Behalf of Nature appears by arrangement
with Rena Shagan Associates, Inc.
In consideration of the artists and the
audience, please refrain from the use of
electronic devices during the performance.
The photography, sound recording, or
videotaping of this performance is prohibited.

PROGRAM
On Behalf of Nature
This evening’s performance is approximately 75 minutes in duration and will be
performed without intermission.

PERFORMERS
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
Voices / Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk,
Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin
Winds / Bohdan Hilash
Percussion / John Hollenbeck
Keyboards, Violin, French horn / Allison Sniffin

C R E AT I V E T E A M
Music and Direction / Meredith Monk
Lighting Design / Elaine Buckholtz
Sound Design / Jody Elff
Costumes and Scenography / Yoshio Yabara
Score Preparation and Music Director / Allison Sniffin
Production Manager / Philip Sandström
Technical Director / Johnny Chanthavong
Video Editing / Meredith Monk and Michael Grenadier
Production Coordinator and Company Manager / Peter Sciscioli

Following this evening’s performance, please feel free to remain in your seats and
join us for a post-performance discussion with Ms. Monk.
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A R T I S T S TAT E M E N T: M E R E D I T H M O N K
As I began working on On Behalf of
Nature, I asked myself the question:
“how would one create an ecological
art work that didn’t make more waste
in the world?” Live performances
leave no traces except, hopefully, in
the minds of audience members. This
ephemeral aspect is both poignant
and exhilarating. Sometimes though,
the desire for novelty and surface
excitement leads to buying a lot of
new things, spending a great deal of
money for an experience that lasts
only a few hours. I wondered how one
could make an alternative to that.
I started thinking about the French
anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss
and his notion of “bricolage”: the
process of assembling or making
something from what is already at
hand. In pre-industrial societies,
one object could function in
many different ways by an act of
imagination. We now speak of this
process as re-purposing. Yoshio
Yabara, the costume designer for On
Behalf of Nature, implemented this
concept by creating new garments
with unique shapes for each
performer, fashioned from his or her
old clothing. Each costume inherently
included aspects of that performer’s
personal history contained in the
original garments. This idea of
spiraling around to the past to make
something completely new is also a
way of appreciating what is here in
the present and working with what we
have. The same principle extends to
other elements in On Behalf of Nature.

One of the early inspirations for On
Behalf of Nature was an essay by the
poet Gary Snyder, entitled “Writers
and the War Against Nature.” In it
he writes about the role of an artist
being that of a “spokesperson for
non-human entities communicating
to the human realm through dance
or song.” This act of compassion,
of “speaking on behalf of nature,”
embodies and gives voice to those
forces that often go unrecognized. On
Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our
intimate connection to nature, its inner
structures, the fragility of its ecology,
and our interdependence.

Photo (next spread): Meredith Monk; photographer: Julieta Cervantes.
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ARTISTS
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer,
director/choreographer, and creator of
new opera, music-theater works, films,
and installations. Recognized as one of
the most unique and influential artists
of our time, she is a pioneer in what is
now called “extended vocal technique”
and “interdisciplinary performance.” Ms.
Monk creates works that thrive at the
intersection of music and movement,
image and object, light and sound,
discovering and weaving together new
modes of perception. Her groundbreaking
exploration of the voice as an instrument,
as an eloquent language in and of itself,
expands the boundaries of musical
composition, creating landscapes of
sound that unearth feelings, energies, and
memories for which there are no words.
Over the last 50 years, she has been hailed
as “a magician of the voice” and “one of
America’s coolest composers.” Celebrated
internationally, her work has been
presented by BAM, Lincoln Center Festival,
Houston Grand Opera, London’s Barbican
Centre, and at major venues around the
world. Among her many accolades, she was
recently named an Officer of the Order of
Arts and Letters by the Republic of France
and the 2012 “Composer of the Year” by
Musical America. In conjunction with her
50th season of creating and performing,
she was appointed the 2014–15 Richard
and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at
Carnegie Hall. In September 2015, Ms.
Monk received the National Medal of Arts
from President Obama.
In 1968 Ms. Monk founded The House, a
company dedicated to an interdisciplinary
approach to performance. In 1978 she
founded Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
to expand her musical textures and forms.
As a pioneer in site-specific performance,

she has created such works as Juice: A
Theatre Cantata In 3 Installments (1969)
and Ascension Variations (2009) for the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and
American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island
(1994). Ms. Monk’s award-winning films,
including Ellis Island (1981) and her first
feature, Book of Days (1988), have been
seen throughout the world. Her music can
also be heard in films by such directors
as Jean-Luc Godard, David Byrne, and the
Coen Brothers.
Since graduating Sarah Lawrence
College in 1964, Ms. Monk has received
numerous honors including the
prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Award,
two Guggenheim Fellowships, three
“Obies” (including an award for Sustained
Achievement), and two “Bessie” awards
for Sustained Creative Achievement. More
recently Ms. Monk was named one of
National Public Radio’s “50 Great Voices,”
and received a 2012 Doris Duke Artist
Award, a 2011 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage
Award for the Arts, and an inaugural USA
Prudential Fellow award in 2006.
Among the many highlights of Ms. Monk’s
performances from the last 20 years is her
Vocal Offering for His Holiness the Dalai
Lama as part of the World Festival of Sacred
Music in Los Angeles in October 1999.
Several marathon performances of her work
have taken place in New York at the World
Financial Center (1991), Lincoln Center Music
Festival (2000), Carnegie’s Zankel Hall (2005
and 2015), Symphony Space (2008), and the
Whitney Museum (2009). In February 2012,
Ms. Monk was honored with a remix and
interpretations CD, MONK MIX, featuring 25
artists from the jazz, pop, DJ, and new music
worlds. In March 2012, she premiered Realm
Variations for six voices and small ensemble,
commissioned by the San Francisco
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Symphony, and performed in John Cage’s
Song Books as part of the Symphony’s
American Mavericks Festival. She is the
subject of two new books of interviews,
Conversations with Meredith Monk, by arts
critic and Performing Arts Journal editor
Bonnie Marranca, and Une voix mystique, by
French author Jean-Louis Tallon. A recording
of On Behalf of Nature was released in
November 2016 on ECM Records.
Sidney Chen (vocals) is a founding member
of The M6, a vocal sextet dedicated to
Meredith Monk’s music. On Behalf of
Nature is his first production as a member
of Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, after
performing in Monk’s Realm Variations with
the San Francisco Symphony. Previously,
Mr. Chen sang in the Meredith Monk
Young Artists Concert at Carnegie’s Zankel
Hall in 2006, and in Songs of Ascension
at BAM in 2009. He has also performed
Monk’s music for solo voice at Oakland’s
Garden of Memory. More recently, Mr.
Chen performed in the 45th anniversary
celebration of Terry Riley’s In C organized
by the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall,
a staged production of David Lang’s the
little match girl passion by San Francisco
Lyric Opera which toured to Denmark, and
in Berio’s Sinfonia for eight soloists and
orchestra with the San Francisco new
music ensemble Volti. He has recorded
with The M6 and Meredith Monk & Vocal
Ensemble on Songs of Ascension.
Ellen Fisher (vocals) is an interdisciplinary
artist whose work combines dance
with visual components. She began
performing with Meredith Monk/The
House in the 1970s, in such works as The
Plateau Series and Recent Ruins, and
more recently has appeared in mercy,
impermanence, and Songs of Ascension.
Ms. Fisher’s performance work is informed
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by ethnographic research in trance dance
and rituals of South Asia, particularly
Sri Lanka. Since 1981, she has toured
solo work throughout Europe and the
US, also directing large ensemble work
reinterpreting myths and legends. Her film
work, including documentaries, has been
included in festivals throughout the world.
She has received funding through the NEA,
Art Matters Inc., Jerome Foundation, NYFA,
and the Asian Cultural Council, winning a
2004 Humanities Fellowship and a 2005
Travel Grant. Ms. Fisher continues to teach
and collaborate with artists on community
intergenerational and intercultural projects,
both domestically and internationally, and
recently served as a Fulbright Scholar in
Sri Lanka.
Katie Geissinger (vocals) has performed
with Meredith Monk worldwide in concert
and theater pieces such as ATLAS, mercy,
the Grammy-nominated impermanence,
Songs of Ascension, On Behalf of Nature,
and The Politics of Quiet, which received a
Bessie award. Career highlights include the
premiere of Bang on a Can’s Obie-winning
The Carbon Copy Building (Canteloupe),
appearing in Philip Glass and Robert
Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach (Elektra
Nonesuch), and performances as a soloist
in Bach’s Magnificat, Honegger’s Le Roi
David, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar
at Carnegie Hall. Other credits include
Jonathan Miller’s staging of Bach’s St.
Matthew Passion at BAM, John Tavener’s
The Veil of the Temple at Lincoln Center, and
Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread, with
music by David Lang, at the Park Avenue
Armory. Her Broadway credits include Baz
Luhrmann’s production of La Bohème and
Coram Boy. Recent performances include
Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer in collaboration
with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and The
Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Bohdan Hilash (winds) is a clarinetist
and multi-instrumentalist who joined
the Vocal Ensemble in 2002. As part of
his diverse career he has performed on
four continents throughout the world as
a performer of orchestral and chamber
music, opera, contemporary music, jazz,
musical theater, and as a soloist. Mr. Hilash
has appeared as a chamber and orchestral
musician and as a soloist at many of the
world’s pre-eminent concert venues
and music festivals including those of
Bayreuth, Spoleto, Tokyo, Evian, Lincoln
Center, Rome, and Aspen. As an orchestral
musician, Mr. Hilash has performed with
some of the world’s leading orchestras
including the London Symphony Orchestra
and the New York Philharmonic with
conductors including Leonard Bernstein,
Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Alan Gilbert,
and Leonard Slatkin. He is particularly
active in the field of contemporary
music and has worked with many of its
leading practitioners including Speculum
Musicae, Bang on a Can, and the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has
performed with jazz artists such as Dizzy
Gillespie, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Lee
Konitz, and Kenny Wheeler. In the theater
Mr. Hilash has worked as a featured
performer in collaboration with several
leading theater companies, playwrights,
and directors of the New York stage
including Arthur Miller and Lee Breuer. Mr.
Hilash’s recordings may be heard on the
ECM, Chandos, RCA Victor, CRI, Mode, CBC,
Finlandia, RCA, New World, CCNC, TBM,
Capstone, and RP labels.

impermanence, and Songs of Ascension.
He received degrees in percussion (BM)
and jazz composition (MM) from the
Eastman School of Music and moved
to New York City in the early 1990s.
Since then, he has gained widespread
recognition as the driving force behind
the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet and
the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large
Ensemble, groups with roots in jazz, world
music, and contemporary composition.
He has earned four Grammy nominations:
for his Large Ensemble’s releases A
Blessing (Omnitone, 2005) and eternal
interlude (Sunnyside Records, 2009); for
his composition Falling Men commissioned
by the Orchestre National de Jazz and
funded by the Chamber Music America
French-American Jazz Exchange (2010);
and for his arrangement of Jimmy Webb’s
The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress commissioned
by the hr-BigBand of Frankfurt, Germany
(2013). His most notable awards include
a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2010
ASCAP Jazz Vanguard Award, and a 2012
Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.
His recent works include commissions
by Bang on a Can and the People’s
Commissioning Fund; Ethos Percussion
Group funded by the Jerome Foundation;
Youngstown State University; Melbourne
Jazz Festival; Scotland’s Edinburgh Jazz
Festival; University of Rochester, New York;
and Ensemble Cairn of France. He was a
professor of jazz drums and improvisation
at the Jazz Institute Berlin from 2005–16
and in 2015 joined the faculty of McGill
University’s Schulich School of Music.

Genre-crossing composer and
percussionist John Hollenbeck
(percussion), renowned in both the jazz
and new music worlds, has been working
with Meredith Monk since 1998 and has
appeared in Magic Frequencies, mercy,

Bruce Rameker (vocals) began performing
with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble in
2008. He has appeared as both a baritone
and a countertenor on the stages of
Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Town Hall,
the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the
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Edinburgh and Spoleto Festivals in a diverse
repertoire that includes ancient music,
operetta, oratorio, tango, and new music. A
frequent collaborator with many composers,
he has premiered new vocal works of Ben
Yarmolinsky, John Kennedy, Richard Pearson
Thomas, Anna Dembska, William George,
Holly Herndon, Roberto Scarcella Perino,
and Luna Pearl Woolf. Mr. Rameker has sung
with the Skylight Opera Theatre, Chicago
Opera Theater, New York City Opera,
Anchorage Opera, San Francisco Ballet,
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Waverly
Consort, Voices of Ascension, Musica Sacra,
and New York Ensemble for Early Music.
Recordings include A Seeker’s Faith, One
Body by John Kennedy, Just Another Hour
with Trillium Ensemble, ¡Iberia! with Waverly
Consort, Klaas de Vries’ opera A King, Riding,
and Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension.
Born in Wisconsin, he is a graduate of
the Curtis Institute of Music and the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Allison Sniffin (vocals and instruments), a
multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer,
has been a member of Meredith Monk &
Vocal Ensemble since 1996, performing in
The Politics of Quiet, A Celebration Service,
Magic Frequencies, mercy, Turtle Dreams,
Book of Days, impermanence, and Songs
of Ascension. She has collaborated with
Meredith Monk in the orchestration of
Monk’s Possible Sky, Night, WEAVE, Realm
Variations, and Backlight; edited an album
of her piano music; and prepared numerous
a capella and instrumental works for
publication. Ms. Snifffin has received grants
from Meet the Composer and Concert
Artists Guild for her compositions and has
recently composed commissioned pieces
for Melodia Women’s Choir and Union
Theological Seminary. She is organist and
pianist at Middle Collegiate Church and
Temple Shaaray Tefila in NYC.
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Elaine Buckholtz (lighting designer)
is a multimedia artist living in Boston,
Massachusetts. Her work combines the
mediums of moving light, video, and
sculpture. She has shown work at the
Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco,
ROCA, Nyack New York, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, Pierogi Leipzig, The
San Francisco Arts Commission, New
Langton Arts, and The Wexner Center
for the Arts. She attended The California
College of the Arts on a Jacob K. Javits
Fellowship from 2002–04 and received
her MFA from Stanford University in 2006.
She currently teaches at Mass Art in the
Studio for Interrelated Media program as
an associate professor. She has worked
as a lighting and visual designer in the
Bay area for 20 years and has also worked
with Merce Cunningham and Meredith
Monk recreating their visual environments
internationally.
Jody Elff (sound designer) is an audio
engineer and sound artist living and
working in New York City. His live audio
production and recording credits include
work with Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson, Bang
on a Can, Tan Dun, and many others. He is
the resident sound designer for the National
Theater of the United States of America,
and has also composed and performed
music for film and dance. He has mixed
and mastered albums for Osvaldo Golijov,
including the soundtrack for the Francis
Ford Coppola film Tetro. He designed and
engineered the sonic landscape for the
Theater of the New Ear, a stage presentation
written by Charlie Kaufman, featuring Meryl
Streep. He recorded, mixed, and mastered
the album Off The Map by the Silk Road
Ensemble, which received a 2011 Grammy
nomination in the “Best Album – Classical
Crossover” category. His fine art sound
installations have been shown in various

galleries and museums internationally,
including a commissioned sound piece
permanently installed in a public parking
facility in Lyon, France.
Philip Sandström (lighting realization/
production manager) is a New York-based
visual artist and producer, specializing
in theatrical producing/operations,
theater consulting, event planning, and
entertainment design since 1980. An
award-winning designer with Designing
with Light, Mr. Sandström has created
lights and visuals for hundreds of theater,
dance, and performance events including
Bill Irwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Mark Morris
Dance Group, David Parsons, David Van
Tieghem, David Gordon, David Lindsay
Abaire, John Jasperse, Sandra Bernhard,
Eric Bogosian, Tanya Barfield, Urban
Bush Women, American Ballet Theatre,
the Joffrey Ballet, The Flying Karamazov
Brothers, and Valeria Vasilevski. His
consulting company SOLUTIONS provides
in-depth analysis and project management
for theater design and construction,
planning, and operations.

productions in Europe, the US, and Asia,
including the Civil Wars, Robert Wilson’s
King Lear, Oedipus Rex, Madamme de Sade
by Tadashi Suzuki, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze
di Figaro produced and conducted by Daniel
Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter Den
Linden Berlin, Bin ich Schoen?, Nackt, and
Bliss by Doris Doerrie. For more information
please visit www.yoshioyabara.com.

Yoshio Yabara (costume designer/
scenographer) received a BA in linguistics
in his native Japan, and studied stage
design at the German state art universities
in Stuttgart and West Berlin. He began his
professional career as a costume designer
for the Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum,
directed by Volker Schlöndorf. His first work
for stage was in the 1970s and early 1980s
at the Schaubühne, West Berlin, where
he first met Ms. Monk and collaborated
on her opera Vessel. Their subsequent
collaborations include ATLAS, the feature
film Book of Days, impermanence, and Songs
of Ascension. Mr. Yabara has also worked
as a costume designer, stage designer,
or art director for many theatrical and film
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T H E H O U S E F O U N D AT I O N F O R T H E A R T S , I N C .
www.meredithmonk.org
Incorporated in 1971, The House Foundation for the Arts provides production
and management services for Meredith Monk, Meredith Monk & Vocal
Ensemble, and The House Company.
Executive Director / Daniel Arnow
Projects Director / Peter Sciscioli
Production Manager / Zoe Mackler
General Manager / Cora Walters
Press Representative / Chris Schimpf / Sacks & Co.
Exclusive US Tour Representation / Rena Shagan Associates, Inc.
M E R E D I T H M O N K / T H E H O U S E F O U N D AT I O N F O R T H E A R T S
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Meredith Monk, Artistic Director
Sebastiaan Bremer, President
Frederieke Sanders Taylor, Chair
Haruno Arai, Secretary
Bobbie Foshay
Margery Perlmutter
Lauren Pistoia
Alex Voss
Micki Wesson, President Emeritus
Sali Ann Kriegsman, Trustee Emeritus
Barbara G. Sahlman, Trustee Emeritus

All music compositions © Meredith Monk 2012 (ASCAP).
Meredith Monk would like to acknowledge and thank the performers and designers for their invaluable
contributions in the development of On Behalf of Nature.
On Behalf of Nature premiered at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance on January 18, 2013.
Developmental support through residencies for On Behalf of Nature was generously provided by: UCLA CAP,
Centre Culturel Andre Malraux (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France), Le Théâtre De Lorient, Centre Dramatique
National (Lorient, France), Park Avenue Armory, Duke University, and Roulette Intermedium.
Commissioning funds for the development of On Behalf of Nature were provided by: The Brooklyn Academy
of Music for the 2014 Next Wave Festival; ASCAP/American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers;
The National Endowment for the Arts; New Music USA; and New York State Council on the Arts.
Additional support provided by: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership
with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Individual support for the creation of On Behalf of Nature has been provided by: The James E. Robison
Foundation, Haruno Arai, Jonathan Caplan, Sara Coffey, Sage Cowles, Anthony Creamier, Molly Davies,
Beth Rudin DeWoody, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Olivia Georgia, Goodale Family Foundation,
Augusta H. Gross and Leslie B. Samuels, Jim Hodges, Ippei Iwashiro, Ada and Alex Katz, Abby Karp,
Frances Kazan, Sali Ann Kriegsman, Toby Devan Lewis, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Frederic and Barbara Newman,
Jonathan Nye, Mark Palermo, Donald Pels, Kira Perov and Bill Viola, Elizabeth Peyton, Barbara Sahlman,
Sue and Steve Simring, Robert Evans and Gail P. Sinai, Catherine Skove, Ellynne C. Skove,
Frederieke Sanders Taylor, and Micki Wesson.
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UMS ARCHIVES
This evening’s performance marks Meredith Monk’s fifth appearance under
UMS auspices, following her UMS debut in October 1996 in performances
of The Politics of Quiet at the Power Center. She returned in February 2000
for a performance of Magic Frequencies: A Science Fiction Chamber Opera
at the Power Center. Ms. Monk most recently appeared at UMS as part of
the San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks Festival in March 2012
in a performance of John Cage’s Song Books at Hill Auditorium, and in a
performance of her work Realm Variations at Rackham Auditorium with the
Vocal Ensemble and members of the San Francisco Symphony.
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M AY W E A L S O R E C O M M E N D . . .
3/18

Steve Reich at 80: Music for 18 Musicians with Eighth Blackbird and
Third Coast Percussion
3/30–4/1 Complicite/Simon McBurney: The Encounter
4/12
A Far Cry with Roomful of Teeth
Tickets available at www.ums.org.

O N T H E E D U C AT I O N H O R I Z O N . . .
1/21

Sensory-Friendly Open Rehearsal: Takács Quartet
(Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington Street, 12:00 noon)

1/21

You Can Dance: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
(Ann Arbor Y, 400 W. Washington Street, 2–3:30 pm)

1/21

Pre-Concert Lecture Series: Exploring Beethoven’s String Quartets
(Rackham Amphitheatre, Fourth Floor, 915 E. Washington Street,
7:00 pm)

2/16

Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Ping Chong
(Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty Street, 5:10 pm)

3/18

You Can Dance: Kidd Pivot
(Ann Arbor Y, 400 W. Washington Street, 2–3:30 pm)

Educational events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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Renegade Ventures Fund,
established by Maxine and
Stuart Frankel
—
Ilene H. Forsyth Theater
Endowment Fund
—
The Wallace Foundation
Supporters of this evening’s performance of On Behalf of Nature.

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The UMS Board of Directors is a group of elected volunteers devoted to the
performing arts and to our community. Their hard work ensures that UMS is
able to offer outstanding performances year after year.
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The UMS Senate is composed of former members of the Board of Directors who
dedicate time and energy to UMS and our community. Their ongoing commitment
and gracious support of UMS are greatly appreciated.
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enthusiasts across the country committed to supporting, promoting, and advocating
for UMS with a focus on ensuring that the performing arts are an integral part of the
student experience.
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A. Douglas Rothwell
Chair

UMS Students
Students in our volunteer internship and work-study program gain valuable
experience in all areas of arts management while contributing greatly to UMS’s
continued success.
Maryam Ahmed
Jocelyn Aptowitz
Genan Bakri
Madisen Bathish
Tal Benatar
Zoey Bond*
Sophia Brichta
Linda M. Burns
Grace Bydalek
Liesl Collazo
Claire Crause*
Kathryn DeBartolomeis
Marko Divie
Damaris Doss
Jewel Drigo

Teagan Faran*
Isabel Frye
Taylor Fulton
Daniel Guo
Dayton Hare
Trevor Hoffman
Olivia Johnson
Sarah Kavallar
Ayantu Kebede
Meredith Kelly
Caitlyn Koester
Bridget Kojima
Jakob Lenhardt
Ania Lukasinski
Shenell McCrary*

Sean Meyers
Gunnar Moll
Westley Montgomery
Natalie Nye
Emma Puglia
Rennia Rodney
Jacob Rogers
Lindsey Sharpe
Heather Shen
Joey Velez
Diane Yang
Hyelin Yang
*21st Century Artist Interns

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As part of the UMS Mellon Initiative on Arts/Academic Integration, this group
advises UMS staff on opportunities to integrate our programming more deeply
and systematically into the academic life of the University of Michigan.
Clare Croft
Philip J. Deloria
Angela Dillard
Gillian Eaton
Linda Gregerson
Marjorie Horton

Joel Howell
Daniel Klionsky
Lawrence La FountainStokes
Tim McKay
Melody Racine

BE PRESENT

UMS Faculty Insight Group

Katie Richards-Schuster
Sidonie Smith
Emily Wilcox

UMS Ambassadors
UMS Ambassadors advance the goals of UMS, champion the UMS mission
through community engagement, provide and secure financial support, and
assist in countless other ways.
William Shell
Chair
Zita Gillis
Vice Chair

Wendy K. Zellers
Treasurer
Louise Taylor
Past Chair
Karen Bantel
Astrid Beck
Corry Berkooz
Connie Rizzolo Brown
Melissa Bruzzano
Richard Chang
Mike Dergis
Jon Desenberg
Susan DiStefano
Annemarie Kilburn Dolan

Daria Massimilla
Patti McCloud
Beth McNally
Terry Meerkov
Judy Moskus
Barbara Mulay
Magda Munteanu
Jayne Nyman
Marjorie Oliver
Betty Palms
Julie Picknell
Anne Preston
Katie Przygocki
Jeff Reece
Kathy Rich
Nan Richter
Arlene P. Shy
Susan Snyder
Elena Snyder
Pam Tabbaa
Janet Torno
Kirsten Williams

WINTER 2017

Arlene Barnes
Secretary

Sharon Peterson Dort
Gloria J. Edwards
Susan Franke
Joan Grissing
Stephanie Hale
Allison Jordan
Joan Kadis
Carol Kaplan
Nancy Karp
Barbara Kay
Kendra Kerr
Freddi Kilburn
Ye Na Kim
Susan Krueger
Russell Larson
Michael Lee
Linda Fink Levy
Gloria K. Lewis
Laura Machida
Katie Malicke
Rita Malone
Valerie Roedenbeck
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The UMS Staff works hard to inspire individuals and enrich communities by
connecting audiences and artists in uncommon and engaging experiences.
A D M I N I S T R AT I O N &
FINANCE
Kenneth C. Fischer
President
John B. Kennard, Jr.
Director of Administration
Lynette McLaughlin
Executive Assistant
Jenny Graf Carvo
Tessitura Systems
Administrator
Patricia Hayes
Financial Manager
John Peckham
Information Systems
Manager

Marnie Reid
Director of Development
Esther Barrett
Development Coordinator
Susan Bozell Craig
Associate Director of
Development, Corporate
Partnerships & Major Gifts
Rachelle Lesko
Annual Fund Manager

James P. Leija
Director of Education &
Community Engagement
Adam DesJardins
Education & Community
Engagement Assistant
Shannon Fitzsimons Moen
Campus Engagement
Specialist
Teresa C. Park
Education Coordinator
MARKETING &
C O M M U N I C AT I O N S
Sara Billmann
Director of Marketing &
Communications
Jesse Meria
Video Production Specialist
Anna Prushinskaya
Senior Manager of
Digital Media
Mallory Shea
Marketing & Media
Relations Coordinator

Lisa Michiko Murray
Associate Director of
Development, Foundation &
Government Relations

PROGRAMMING &
PRODUCTION

Cindy Straub
Manager of Volunteers &
Special Events

Jeffrey Beyersdorf
Production Director

Suzanne Upton
Development
Communications Manager
Mary A. Walker
Campaign Director and
Associate Director of
Development, Major Gifts

Michael J. Kondziolka
Director of Programming

Alex Gay
Production Coordinator
Anne Grove
Artist Services Manager

P AT R O N S E R V I C E S
Christina Bellows
Associate Director of
Patron Services
Katherine McBride
Group Sales & Promotions
Coordinator
Scott Joy
Ticket Services/
Front-of-House Assistant
Anné Renforth
Ticket Services Coordinator
Anna Simmons
Assistant Ticket Services
Manager
Willie Sullivan
Front-of-House
Coordinator
Bruce Oshaben, Juli
Pinsak, Brian Roddy
Head Ushers

WINTER 2017

DEVELOPMENT

E D U C AT I O N &
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT

BE PRESENT

UMS Staff

Betsy Mark
Will Call Volunteer
UMS CHORAL UNION
Scott Hanoian
Music Director & Conductor
Shohei Kobayashi
Assistant Conductor
Kathleen Operhall
Chorus Manager
Nancy Heaton
Chorus Librarian
Jean Schneider
Accompanist
Scott VanOrnum
Accompanist

Mark Jacobson
Senior Programming
Manager
Mary Roeder
Programming Manager

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Generous
Donors
Campaign Gifts and Multi-Year Pledges
To help ensure the future of UMS, the following donors have made pledges
which are payable over a period of up to five years. We are grateful to these
donors for their commitments.
$ 75,000–$ 9 9,9 9 9

Carl Cohen
Ilene H. Forsyth
Maxine and Stuart Frankel
Foundation
Eugene and Emily Grant
Family Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
Candis J. and Helmut F. Stern
University of Michigan Credit
Union
The Wallace Foundation

Maurice and Linda Binkow
David and Phyllis Herzig
Nancy and James Stanley

$10 0,00 0 – $ 4 99, 999

Anonymous
Bert Askwith and Patti
Askwith Kenner
Emily W. Bandera
Community Foundation for
Southeast Michigan
Dennis Dahlmann
William Davidson Foundation
Sharon and Dallas Dort
Stephen and Rosamund
Forrest
Susan and Richard Gutow
Wallis Cherniack Klein
David Leichtman and Laura A.
McGinn
Linda and Stuart Nelson
Norma and Dick Sarns
Ellie Serras
Ron and Eileen Weiser
Max Wicha and Sheila
Crowley
Ann and Clayton Wilhite

$ 50,000–$ 74,9 9 9

Essel and Menakka Bailey
Daniel and Barbara Balbach
Penny and Ken Fischer
Beverley and Gerson Geltner
Mohamad Issa/Issa
Foundation
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and
Stone, P.L.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L.
Morelock
Agnes Moy-Sarns and David
Sarns and the Sarns Family
Gil Omenn and Martha
Darling
Tim and Sally Petersen
Phil and Kathy Power
Sharon and Doug Rothwell
Linda Samuelson and Joel
Howell
Jane and Edward Schulak
Dennis and Ellie Serras
Glenn E. Watkins
Marina and Bob Whitman
Gerald B. Zelenock
$ 25,000–$ 49,9 9 9

Carol Amster
Cheryl Cassidy
Junia Doan
John R. Edman and Betty B.
Edman
Barbara Fleischman
Barbara Garavaglia
Charles H. Gershenson Trust
Anne and Paul Glendon

Norman and Debbie Herbert
Carl and Charlene Herstein
Jerry and Dale Kolins
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and
Janet Netz
Martin Family Foundation
Dan and Sarah Nicoli
Lois Stegeman
Stout Systems
John W. and Gail Ferguson
Stout
Karen and David Stutz
Dody Viola
$ 1 5,0 0 0 –$24,999

Michael and Suzan Alexander
Linda and Ronald Benson
Valerie and David Canter
Sara and Michael Frank
Wendy and Ted Lawrence
M. Haskell and Jan Barney
Newman
Virginia and Gordon Nordby
Eleanor Pollack

WINTER 2017

$5 00,00 0 O R M O R E

$ 5,0 0 0 –$14,999

Barbara Anderson and John
Romani
John and Lillian Back
Karen Bantel and Steve
Geiringer
Suzanne A. and Frederick J.
Beutler
Chris Conlin
Tim and Robin Damschroder
Michele Derr
Ann Martin and Russ Larson
Steve and Betty Palms
Marnie Reid
Eric and Ines Storhok
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The success of UMS is secured in part by income from UMS endowment
funds. You may contribute to an existing endowment fund or establish
a named endowment with a minimum gift of $25,000. We extend our
deepest appreciation to the many donors who have established and/or
contributed to the following funds:
H. Gardner and Bonnie Ackley
Endowment Fund
Herbert S. and Carol Amster
Endowment Fund
Catherine S. Arcure Endowment Fund
Carl and Isabelle Brauer Endowment Fund
Dahlmann Sigma Nu Endowment UMS Fund
Hal and Ann Davis Endowment Fund
Dallas and Sharon Dort Endowment Fund
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Endowment Fund
John R. and Betty B. Edman
Endowment Fund

Oscar Feldman Endowment Fund
Ken Fischer Legacy Endowment Fund
Barbara Fleischman Theater
Endowment Fund
Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Student
Ticket Endowment Fund
Ilene H. Forsyth Endowment Funds for
Choral Union, Chamber Arts, and Theater
James Garavaglia Theater Endowment Fund
Anne and Paul Glendon Endowment Fund
Susan and Richard Gutow Renegade
Ventures Endowment Fund
George N. and Katharine C. Hall
Endowment Fund
Karl V. Hauser and Ilene H. Forsyth
Endowment Fund

David and Phyllis Herzig Endowment Fund
JazzNet Endowment Fund
William R. Kinney Endowment Fund
Wallis Cherniack Klein Endowment for
Student Experiences
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Kolins Shakespearean
Endowment Fund
Frances Mauney Lohr Choral Union
Endowment Fund
Natalie Matovinović Endowment Fund
Medical Community Endowment Fund
Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Endowment Fund
NEA Matching Fund
Ottmar Eberbach Funds
Palmer Endowment Fund
Mary R. Romig-deYoung
Music Appreciation Fund

WINTER 2017

Epstein Endowment Fund

BE PRESENT

Endowed Funds

Prudence and Amnon Rosenthal K-12
Education Endowment Fund
Charles A. Sink Endowment Fund
Herbert E. and Doris Sloan Endowment Fund
James and Nancy Stanley Endowment Fund
Susan B. Ullrich Endowment Fund
U-M Credit Union Arts Adventures
Endowed Fund at UMS
UMS Endowment Fund
The Wallace Endowment Fund
The Zelenock Family Endowment Fund

Norman and Debbie Herbert
Endowment Fund

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Special guest:
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Special guests:
Anton Nel
UMS Choral Union Women

Saturday, January 14
8:00 p.m.
Michigan Theater

Saturday, March 18
8:00 p.m.
Michigan Theater

VIVA L’ITALIA

Sunday, May 7
4:00 p.m.
Hill Auditorium
Rossini Semiramide Overture
Verdi Opera Choruses from Aida,
La Traviata, Nabucco, and Il Trovatore
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
Respighi Pines of Rome

Arie Lipsky, Music Director & Conductor

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We are grateful to the following donors for including UMS in their estate
plans. These gifts will provide financial support to UMS for generations
to come.
Marilyn G. Jeffs
Thomas C. and Constance M. Kinnear
Diane Kirkpatrick
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Kolins
Frank Legacki and Alicia Torres
Leo and Kathy Legatski
Richard LeSueur
Robert and Pearson Macek
Susan McClanahan
Griff and Pat McDonald
Joanna McNamara
M. Haskell and Jan Barney Newman
Len Niehoff
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick O’Dell
David Parsigian
Irena Politano
Eleanor Pollack
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Powers
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Radock
Marnie Reid
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ricketts
Prue and Ami Rosenthal
Ellie Serras
Irma J. Sklenar
Richard W. Solt
Hildreth Spencer
Eric and Ines Storhok
Louise Taylor
Roy and JoAn Wetzel
Ann and Clayton Wilhite
Max Wicha and Sheila Crowley
Marion Wirick
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Zollar

WINTER 2017

Anonymous
Bernard and Raquel Agranoff
Mike Allemang
Carol and Herb Amster
Neil P. Anderson
Dr. and Mrs. David G. Anderson
Catherine S. Arcure
Barbara K. and Laurence R. Baker
Rodney and Joan Bentz
Kathy Benton and Robert Brown
Linda and Maurice Binkow
Elizabeth S. Bishop
Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
Mr. and Mrs. Pal E. Borondy
Barbara Everitt Bryant
Lou and Janet Callaway
Pat and George Chatas
Mr. and Mrs. John Alden Clark
Carl Cohen
Alan and Bette Cotzin
Mary C. Crichton
Dallas and Sharon Dort
Penny and Ken Fischer
Susan Ruth Fisher
Meredith L. and Neal Foster
Thomas and Barbara Gelehrter
Beverley and Gerson Geltner
Dr. Sid Gilman and Dr. Carol Barbour
Anne and Paul Glendon
Thea and Elliot Glicksman
Debbie and Norman Herbert
David and Phyllis Herzig
Rita and Peter Heydon
John and Martha Hicks
Gideon and Carol Hoffer

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Planned Gifts/Bequests

How to Make a Gift
UMS excites the imagination, sparks creativity, sharpens collaboration,
inspires new ways of thinking, and connects us in ways that only the
arts can. Your gift of any size will enable UMS to deliver world-class
performances and create outstanding educational opportunities for our
community.
Please send gift to: UMS Development

881 N. University Ave

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011
For more information, please call 734.764.8489 or visit ums.org/support.
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The following list includes donors who made gifts to UMS over the past year
between December 1, 2015 and November 30, 2016. Due to space restraints,
we can only list in the UMS program book those who donated $250 or more.
Donors of $1–$249 will be included in the online list at ums.org.
PRODUCERS
($500,000 OR MORE)

Eugene and Emily Grant Family
Foundation
University of Michigan

DIRECTORS
($100,000–$499,999)

SOLOISTS
($50,000–$99,999)

Anonymous
Anonymous #
Community Foundation for
Southeast Michigan
Dance/USA
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
DTE Energy Foundation
Stephen and Rosamund Forrest
Patti Askwith Kenner
in memory of her father
Bert Askwith (1911-2015)

MAESTROS
($20,000–$49,999)

Anonymous
Anonymous #
Emily W. Bandera, M.D.
Noreen and Kenneth Buckfire
Barbara Fleischman #
in honor of Ken Fischer
Barbara Garavaglia #
in memory of Jim Garavaglia
KeyBank
Masco Corporation Foundation
Michigan Council for Arts and
Cultural Affairs
Michigan Economic Development
Corporation
National Endowment for the Arts
PNC Foundation
Norma and Dick Sarns #

VIRTUOSOS
($10,000–$19,999)

Jerry and Gloria Abrams
Altarum Institute
Ann Arbor Area Community
Foundation
Essel and Menakka Bailey #
Barbara and Daniel Balbach #
Bank of Ann Arbor
Bendit Foundation
Maurice and Linda Binkow
Carl Cohen
Dennis A. Dahlmann and
Patricia M. Garcia
Jim and Patsy Donahey
Penny and Ken Fischer
Anne and Paul Glendon
Susan and Richard Gutow #
David and Phyllis Herzig
Joel Howell and Linda Samuelson
Frank Legacki and Alicia Torres
David Leichtman and Laura McGinn
McKinley Associates, Inc.
Thomas and Deborah McMullen
Ann R. Meredith
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Morelock
THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION
(of R. & P. Heydon)
New England Foundation
for the Arts
Sarah and Dan Nicoli
Old National Bank
Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling
Tim and Sally Petersen #
Eleanor Pollack #
James A. Read
Retirement Income Solutions
Sharon and Doug Rothwell
Agnes Moy-Sarns and David Sarns
Jane and Edward Schulak
Dennis and Ellie Serras
Gary and Diane Stahle
Stout Systems
John W. and Gail Ferguson Stout
Robert O. and Darragh H. Weisman
in honor of Allison Silber,
Class of 2017
Marina and Robert Whitman
Ann and Clayton Wilhite
Fred and Judy Wilpon
Gerald (Jay) and
Christine B. Zelenock #

# indicates that a donation was made to support a UMS Endowment Fund

CONCERTMASTERS
($5,000–$9,999)

Michael Allemang and Janis Bobrin
Carol Amster #
Ann Arbor Automotive
Anonymous
Andrew and Lisa Bernstein
Blue Nile Restaurant
Gary Boren
Carl and Isabelle Brauer Fund
Edward and Mary Cady
Valerie and David Canter
Cheryl Cassidy
Comerica Bank
Conlin Travel and Chris Conlin
Connable Associates
Faber Piano Institute
Nancy and Randall Faber
John and Jackie Farah
David and Jo-Anna Featherman
George W. Ford
includes gift in memory of
Steffi Reiss
The children of Marian P. and
David M. Gates in their memory
Charles H. Gershenson Trust,
Maurice S. Binkow, Trustee
Katherine and Tom Goldberg
John R. Griffith
Lynn and Martin Halbfinger
Norman and Debbie Herbert #
Carl and Charlene Herstein
Honigman Miller Schwartz and
Cohn LLC
Imagine Fitness & Yoga
The Japan Foundation
David and Sally Kennedy
Jerry and Dale Kolins #
Samuel and Marilyn Krimm
Ted and Wendy Lawrence
Level X Talent
Richard and Carolyn Lineback
Mainstreet Ventures
Mardi Gras Fund
Martin Family Foundation #
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone,
P.L.C.
M. Haskell and Jan Barney Newman
Virginia Nordby
Rob and Quincy Northrup
Bertram and Elaine Pitt
Philip and Kathy Power
Rosenberg Family Fund
in honor of Maury and
Linda Binkow
Prue and Ami Rosenthal
Savco Hospitality
Lois Stegeman
StoryPoint

WINTER 2017

Anonymous
William Davidson Foundation #
in honor of Oscar Feldman
Ford Motor Company Fund and
Community Services
Ilene H. Forsyth #
Maxine and Stuart Frankel
Foundation
Karl V. Hauser #
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Linda and Stuart Nelson #
in honor of Ken Fischer
University of Michigan Credit
Union #
University of Michigan Health
System
The Wallace Foundation

Sesi Lincoln
Nancy and James Stanley #
Toyota
Bruce G. Tuchman
Ron and Eileen Weiser
Max Wicha and Sheila Crowley

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UMS Support

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David and Karen Stutz
The Summer Fund of the Charlevoix
County Community Foundation
Louise Taylor
Jim Toy
in honor of U-M Regent
Laurence B. Deitch
The University of Michigan Third
Century Initiative
Dody Viola
Stanford and Sandra Warshawsky

LEADERS
($2,500–$4,999)

Jim and Barbara Adams
Michael and Suzan Alexander
Anonymous
Arts Midwest Touring Fund
John and Lillian Back
Karen Bantel and Steve Geiringer
Dr. Carol Barbour and Dr. Sid Gilman
Bradford and Lydia Bates
Rachel Bendit and Mark Bernstein
Ronald and Linda Benson
Suzanne A. and Frederick J. Beutler #
DJ and Dieter Boehm
in honor of Ken Fischer and
Sara Billmann
Charles and Linda Borgsdorf
Bill Brinkerhoff and Kathy Sample
Carolyn M. Carty and Thomas H. Haug
Anne and Howard Cooper
Julia Donovan Darlow and
John Corbett O'Meara
Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
Sharon and Dallas Dort
John Dryden and Diana Raimi
Charles and Julia Eisendrath #
Joan and Emil Engel
Betsy Foxman and Michael Boehnke
Sara and Michael Frank
Thomas and Barbara Gelehrter
Bill and Ruth Gilkey
Clifford and Alice Hart
Timothy and Jo Wiese Johnson
James and Patricia Kennedy
Diane Kirkpatrick
Philip Klintworth
Jean and Arnold Kluge
Leo and Kathy Legatski
Carolyn and Paul Lichter
Jean E. Long
Tim and Lisa Lynch
Ernest and Adele McCarus
Doug and Cate McClure
Paul Morel and Linda Woodworth
William Nolting and Donna Parmelee
Steve and Betty Palms
Elizabeth and David Parsigian
Susan Pollans and Alan Levy
Rick and Mary Price
James and Bonnie Reece
John W. Reed
Anthony L. Reffells
Nathaniel and Melody Rowe
Herbert and Ernestine Ruben
Craig and Jan Ruff
Frankie and Scott Simonds
Susan M. Smith and Robert H. Gray
Linh and Dug Song
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Sue Song
Cheryl Soper
Steve Sullivan and Erin McKean
Judy and Lewis Tann
Shaomeng Wang and Ju-Yun Li
Elise Weisbach

PATRONS
($1,000–$2,499)

Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman
Katherine Aldrich
Richard and Mona Alonzo
Christiane Anderson
Neil P. Anderson
Ann Arbor Distilling Company
Anonymous
Dr. and Mrs. Rudi Ansbacher
Harlene and Henry Appelman
Dr. Frank Ascione
Bob and Martha Ause
Elizabeth R. Axelson and
Donald H. Regan
Jonathan Ayers and Teresa Gallagher
Laurence R. and Barbara K. Baker
Lisa and Jim Baker
Rosalyn, Joshua and Beth Barclay
in memory of Mel L. Barclay, M.D.
John and Ginny Bareham
David and Monika Barera
Norman E. Barnett #
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bartlett
Anne Beaubien and Phil Berry
Cecilia Benner
in memory of David Lebenbom
Kathy Benton and Robert Brown
Rosemary R. Berardi and
Carolyn R. Zaleon
Marc Bernstein and Jennifer Lewis
Sara Billmann and Jeffrey Kuras
Joan Binkow
John Blankley and Maureen Foley
Margaret and Howard Bond
Rebecca S. Bonnell
Laurence and Grace Boxer
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Bozell
Nancy M. Briggs
in memory of Dale E. Briggs
Steve and Rebecca Brown
Robert and Jeannine Buchanan
Tom and Lori Buiteweg
Lawrence and Valerie Bullen
in honor of Ken Fischer
Charles and Joan Burleigh
Barbara and Al Cain
Lou and Janet Callaway
Sally Camper and Bob Lyons
Thomas and Marilou Capo
Jean and Ken Casey
Anne Chase
Patricia Chatas
Cheryl and Brian Clarkson
Deborah Keller-Cohen and
Evan Cohen
Ellen and Hubert Cohen
Roger and Midge Cone
Connie and Jim Cook
Christopher Dahl and Ruth Rowse
in honor of Ken Fischer
Timothy and Robin Damschroder
Charles and Kathleen Davenport #

Michele Derr
in memory of Ellwood Derr
Dennis and Monique Deschaine
Sally and Larry DiCarlo
Molly Dobson
includes gift in honor of Ken Fischer
Steve and Judy Dobson
in honor of Ken Fischer
Jill and Doug Dunn
Peter and Grace Duren
Dworkin Foundation
Rosalie Edwards/
Vibrant Ann Arbor Fund
Johanna Epstein and Steven Katz
Elly and Harvey Falit
Dede and Oscar Feldman
Food Art
Dan and Jill Francis
Judy and Paul Freedman
Leon and Marcia Friedman
Bill and Boc Fulton
Luis and April Gago
Beverley and Gerson Geltner
Zita and Wayne Gillis
Heather and Seth Gladstein
Cozette Grabb
Leslie and Mary Ellen Guinn
Kenneth and Margaret Guire #
Roopa and Hitinder Gurm
Elizabeth and Robert Hamel
Jeff Hannah and Nur Akcasu
Randall L. and Nancy Caine Harbour #
Larry Hastie
Daniel and Jane Hayes #
David W. Heleniak
Sivana Heller
Paul and Nancy Hillegonds #
Diane S. Hoff
Robert M. and Joan F. Howe
Jean Jacobson
Hudson Webber Foundation
Eileen and Saul Hymans
Wallie and Janet Jeffries
Liz Johnson
Mary K. Joscelyn
Richard and Sylvia Kaufman
James A. Kelly and Mariam C. Noland
Janet Kemink and Rodney Smith, MD
Connie and Tom Kinnear
Carolyn and Jim Knake
Michael J. Kondziolka and
Mathias-Philippe Badin
Barbara and Michael Kratchman
Gary and Barbara Krenz
includes gift in honor of Ken Fischer
Donald and Jeanne Kunz
John K. Lawrence and
Jeanine A. DeLay#
Richard LeSueur
Evie and Allen Lichter
E. Daniel and Kay Long #
Fran Lyman
John and Cheryl MacKrell
Edwin and Cathy Marcus
Betsy Yvonne Mark
W. Harry Marsden
Ann W. Martin and Russ Larson
Howard L. Mason
Mary M. Matthews
Jerry A. and Deborah Orr May #

Judith Abrams
Tena Achen
Jan and Sassa Akervall
Roger Albin and Nili Tannenbaum
James and Catherine Allen
Christine W. Alvey
David Ammer and Nell Duke
David G. and Joan M. Anderson #
Dave and Katie Andrea

# indicates that a donation was made to support a UMS Endowment Fund

in memory of Wendy Comstock
Larry and Martha Gray
John and Renee Greden
Dr. Patricia P. Green
Raymond Grew
Nicki Griffith
Werner H. Grilk
Arthur Gulick
Julie and Hanley Gurwin
Talbot and Jan Hack
Don Haefner and Cynthia Stewart
Helen C. Hall
Steven and Sheila Hamp
William and Kathleen Hanson
Alan Harnik and Professor Gillian
Feeley-Harnik
David Harris
Mark and Lorna Hildebrandt
Timothy Hofer and Valerie Kivelson
Kay Holsinger and Douglas C. Wood
Jim and Colleen Hume
Ann D. Hungerman
Harold L. Ingram
Richard and Suzette Isackson
isciences, L.L.C.
Gretchen and John Jackson
Elizabeth Jahn
Joachim Janecke
in memory of Christa Janecke
Feng Jiang and Lydia Qiu
Mark and Linda Johnson #
Mattias Jonsson and
Johanna Eriksson
Mark and Madolyn Kaminski
Don and Sue Kaul
Barbara Kay
David and Gretchen Kennard
Robert and Gloria Kerry
Rhea K. Kish
Dana and Paul Kissner
Jane Fryman Laird
James Leija and Aric Knuth
Joan and Melvyn Levitsky
Marty and Marilyn Lindenauer
in honor of Ken Fischer
Daniel Little and Bernadette Lintz
Rod and Robin Little
William and Lois Lovejoy
Joan Lowenstein and
Jonathan Trobe #
Louise and David Lutton
Brigitte Maassen
William and Jutta Malm
Melvin and Jean Manis
Susan E. Martin
Judythe and Roger Maugh
Olivia Maynard and Olof Karlstrom
Martha Mayo and Irwin Goldstein
Susan McClanahan and
Bill Zimmerman
James H. McIntosh and
Elaine K. Gazda
Bill and Ginny McKeachie
Frances McSparran
Bernice and Herman Merte
Mary Lee Meyer
James M. Miller and
Rebecca H. Lehto
Gene and Lois Miller #
Lester and Jeanne Monts

WINTER 2017

BENEFACTORS
($500–$999)

Ann Arbor Public Schools
Anonymous
Anonymous
in honor of Jean Campbell
Sandy and Charlie Aquino
Penny and Arthur Ashe
Ralph and Barbara Babb #
John and Christie Bacon
Mary and Al Bailey
Reg and Pat Baker
Nancy Barbas and Jonathan Sugar
Astrid B. Beck
Lawrence S. Berlin and
Jean L. McPhail
Jack Billi and Sheryl Hirsch
William and Ilene Birge
Ron and Mimi Bogdasarian
R.M. Bradley and C.M. Mistretta
Brian Bradley and
Rosalie Tocco-Bradley
Joel Bregman and Elaine Pomeranz
Charles Bright and Susan Crowell
David and Sharon Brooks
Melvin Brown
Pamela Brown
Susan and Oliver Cameron
Brent and Valerie Carey
Jack and Susan Carlson
A. Craig Cattell
Tsun and Siu Ying Chang
Samuel and Roberta Chappell
John and Camilla Chiapuris
Reginald and Beverly Ciokajlo
Judy and Malcolm Cohen
Jon Cohn and Daniela Wittmann
Barbara Comai
David and Barbara Copi
Arnold and Susan Coran
Paul Courant and Marta Manildi
Katherine and Clifford Cox
Mac and Nita Cox
Clifford and Laura Craig #
John and Mary Curtis
Roderick and Mary Ann Daane
Connie D'Amato
David L. DeBruyn
David Deromedi
Andrzej and Cynthia Dlugosz
Gary Dolce and Karen Yamada
Alan S. Eiser
Bruce N. and Cheryl W. Elliott
Margaret and John Faulkner
Carol Finerman
Susan R. Fisher
Esther Floyd
Tiffany and Damon Ford
David Fox and Paula Bockenstedt
Susan L. Froelich and
Richard E. Ingram
Sandra Gast and Greg Kolecki
Chris Genteel and Dara Moses
Julia and Mark Gerstein
in honor of Evan Gerstein's
graduation
David and Maureen Ginsburg #
Steve Glauberman and
Margaret Schankler
Google Inc.
L.A. Peter Gosling, Linda Y.C. Lim
and Mya L. Gosling

BE PRESENT

W. Joseph McCune and
Georgiana M. Sanders
Griff and Pat McDonald
Margaret McKinley and Dan Ketelaar
Michael and Terrie McLauchlan #
Scott and Julie Merz
Bert and Kathy Moberg
Elizabeth and John Moje
Cyril Moscow
Mullick Foundation
John and Ann Nicklas
Susan and Mark Orringer #
Judith A. Pavitt
Pfizer Foundation
Marianne Udow-Phillips and
Bill Phillips
Juliet S. Pierson
Stephen and Bettina Pollock
Ray and Ginny Reilly
Malverne Reinhart
Guy and Kathy Rich
Richard and Susan Rogel
Huda Karaman Rosen
Jeri Rosenberg and Vic Strecher
Keith and Sue Rottman
John J. H. Schwarz
Erik and Carol Serr
Janet Shatusky
Carl Simon and Bobbi Low
Nancy and Brooks Sitterley
Michael Sivak and Enid Wasserman
Ren and Susan Snyder
Tamar Springer and Steve Stancroff
Michael B. Staebler and
Jennifer R. Poteat
Ted St. Antoine
Virginia E. Stein
Eric and Ines Storhok
Dalia and Stan Strasius
Charlotte B. Sundelson
in honor of Kenneth Fischer
Ted and Eileen Thacker
Keturah Thunder-Haab
Louise Townley
Jeff and Lisa Tulin-Silver
Susan B. Ullrich #
Robert and Cynthia VanRenterghem
Jack and Marilyn van der Velde
Bob and Liina Wallin
Harvey and Robin Wax
Max and Mary Wisgerhof
Jack and Carolyn Wallace
Joyce Watson and Marty Warshaw
Karl and Karen Weick
Edward and Colleen Weiss
Lauren and Gareth Williams
Charles Witke and Aileen Gatten
The Worsham Family Foundation

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Kara and Lewis Morgenstern
Lisa and Steve Morris
Drs. Louis Nagel and
Julie Jaffee Nagel
Margaret Nance
Erika Nelson and David Wagener
Thomas and Barbara Nelson
Marc Neuberger and Jane Forman
Marylen S. Oberman
Elizabeth Ong
Zoe and Joe Pearson
Wesen and William Peterson
Diana and Bill Pratt
Wallace and Barbara Prince
Quest Productions
Cynthia and Cass Radecki
Harold K. Raisler Foundation, Inc.
Jessica C. Roberts, PhD #
Doug and Nancy Roosa
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Richard and Edie Rosenfeld
Nancy W. Rugani #
Ashish and Norma Sarkar
Maya Savarino
Ann and Tom Schriber
John Scudder and Regan Knapp
Elvera Shappirio
Bruce M. Siegan
Eleanor Singer
Barbara Furin Sloat
Cynthia Sorensen
Becki Spangler and Peyton Bland
Gretta Spier and Jonathan Rubin
Allan and Marcia Stillwagon
Jannifer Stromberg
Eva Taylor
Stephanie Teasley and Thomas Finholt
Doris H. Terwilliger
John G. Topliss
Joyce Urba and David Kinsella
Douglas and Andrea Van Houweling
Erica Ward and Ralph Gerson
Arthur and Renata Wasserman
Richard and Madelon Weber #
Deborah Webster and George Miller
Edward and Colleen Weiss
Carol and John Welsch
Lyndon Welch
in memory of Angela Welch
Steven Werns
Kathy White #
James Boyd White and Mary F. White
Iris and Fred Whitehouse
Brian Willen and Monica Hakimi
Thomas K. Wilson
Dr. Robert Winfield #
Beth and I. W. Winsten
Lawrence and Mary Wise
Kenneth Wisinski and
Linda Dintenfass
Drs. Margo and Douglas Woll
Frances A. Wright #
Mary Jean and John Yablonky
Thomas and Karen Zelnik

ASSOCIATES
($250–$499)

Dr. Diane M. Agresta
Gordon and Carol Allardyce
Helen and David Aminoff
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Barbara A. Anderson
John Anderson and Lyn McHie
Catherine M. Andrea
Ralph and Elaine Anthony
Lisa and Scott Armstrong
Michael Atzmon
Robert and Mary Baird
Barbara M Barclay
Frank and Lindsay Tyas Bateman
Gary Beckman and Karla Taylor
Christina Bellows and Joe Alberts
Emile Bendit
Merete B. Bengtsson
Christy and Barney Bentgen
Joan Bentz
Lynda W. Berg
Barbara and Sheldon Berry
Inderpal and Martha Bhatia
Mary E. Black
Bobbie and Donald Blitz
Mr. Mark D. Bomia
Morton B. and Raya Brown
Jonathan and Trudy Bulkley
Alan Burg and Kenneth Hillenburg
Jim and Cyndi Burnstein
Tony and Jane Burton
Jenny and Jim Carpenter
Barbara Mattison Carr
Margaret W. (Peggy) Carroll
MJ Cartwright and Tom Benedetti
Jenny Graf Carvo
Angela Cesere and Rob Thomas
J. Wehrley and Patricia Chapman
Joan and Mark Chesler
Mark Clague and Laura Jackson
Elke Monika Clark
Donald and Astrid Cleveland #
Hilary U. Cohen
Wayne and Melinda Colquitt
Anne and Edward Comeau
Gordon and Marjorie Comfort
Dr. Lisa D. Cook
Jane Wilson Coon and A. Rees Midgley
Mrs. Katharine Cosovich
Margaret Cottrill and Jon Wolfson
Susan Bozell Craig
Marylee Dalton and Lynn Drickamer
Art and Lyn Powrie Davidge
in memory of Gwen and
Emerson Powrie
Ed and Ellie Davidson
Linda Davis and Bob Richter
in honor of Ken Fischer
HE Dean
Brian and Margaret Delaney
Elena and Nicholas Delbanco
Richard I. DeVries
Robert Donia
Robert J. Donnellan
Ed and Mary Durfee
Don and Kathy Duquette
Swati Dutta
Gavin Eadie and Barbara Murphy
James F. Eder
Gloria J. Edwards
Morgan and Sally Edwards
Charles and Julie Ellis
Ruth Edwards
Beverly and Michael Fauman
Phil and Phyllis Fellin

Kay Felt
Jeff Fessler and Sue Cutler
Herschel and Adrienne Fink
C. Peter and Beverly A. Fischer
Martha Fischer and William Lutes
in honor of Kenneth C. Fischer
Norman and Jeanne Fischer
Catherine L. Fischer
Carol and Mitch Fleischer
Jessica Fogel and Lawrence Weiner
Scott and Janet Fogler
Christopher Friese
Philip and Renée Woodten Frost
Joseph E. Fugere and
Marianne C. Mussett
in honor of Kenneth C. Fischer
Carol Gagliardi and David Flesher
Stephen Gallagher
Enid Galler
Janet and Charles Garvin
Heather Gates
in memory of David Gates
Michael Gatti and Lisa Murray
Prof. Beth Genne and
Prof. Allan Gibbard
Renate Gerulaitis #
Francie Gibbons
J. Martin and Tara Gillespie
Thea Glicksman
Drs. Vijay and Sara Goburdhun
Barbara and Fred Goldberg
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Janet Goss #
Michael L. Gowing
Christopher and Elaine Graham
Jerry M. and Mary K. Gray
Elliott Greenberg and Gayle Harte
Richard and Linda Greene
Michael Hammer and Matthew Dolan
Tom Hammond
Drs. Erik and Dina Hanby
Susan R. Harris
Michael and Nikki Hathaway
Neil and Annmarie Hawkins
J. Lawrence Henkel and
Jacqueline Stearns
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hensinger
Therese and Alfred Hero
Kathryn Goodson and John Hieftje
Gideon and Carol Hoffer
Carol and Dieter Hohnke #
Paul Hossler and Charlene Bignall
James S. House and
Wendy Fisher House #
Elizabeth Jahn
Hank and Karen Jallos
Lawrence and Ruth Jones #
Janet and Jerry Joseph
Don and Nancy Kaegi
Carol and Mark Kaplan
Steven Kautz
John Kennard and Debbi Carmody
Nancy Keppelman and
Michael E. Smerza
Bonnie and Robert Kidd
Dan and Freddi Kilburn
Laurence King and Robyn Frey-King
Web and Betty Kirksey
Michael Koen
Rosalie and Ron Koenig
Ann Marie Kotre

# indicates that a donation was made to support a UMS Endowment Fund

Cynthia Straub
John F. Strobel and
Christine M. Tracy
Elizabeth Stumbo and
Stephan Taylor
Roger Stutesman
Nancy Bielby Sudia
Rich and Diane Sullivan
Ed and Natalie Surovell
Brian and Lee Talbot
Sandy Talbott and Mark Lindley
May Ling Tang
Michael and Ellen Taylor
William Tennant
Denise Thal and David Scobey
Nigel and Jane Thompson
Tom and Judy Thompson
Patricia J. Tompkins
in memory of Terril O. Tompkins
Janet and Randall Torno
includes gift in memory of
Wendy Comstock
Barbara Torzewski
Fawwaz Ulaby and
Jean Cunningham
Beaumont Vance
Karla and Hugo Vandersypen
Mary C. Vandewiele
James and Barbara Varani
Elizabeth A. and David C. Walker
Charles R. and
Barbara Hertz Wallgren
Jo Ann Ward
Karen Watanabe and Richard Cheng
MaryLinda and Larry Webster
Bruce and Loraine Webster
Richard and Lucinda Weiermiller
Jack and Carol Weigel
Neal and Susan Weinberg
Charles Werney
Mary Ann Whipple #
Mac and Rosanne Whitehouse
Steve and Peg Wilcox
Thomas Wilczak and
Steven Quinkert
in honor of Garrett Kucharski,
Marie and Helen Rucinski
Shelly F. Williams
Pat and John Wilson
Stuart and Nancy Winston #
Steven and Helen Woghin
Charlotte A. Wolfe
Gladys Young
Barabra Zacharakis
Gail and David Zuk
Thomas and Erin Zurbuchen

WINTER 2017

Karen Park and John Beranek
Brian and Julie Picknell
Robert and Mary Ann Pierce
Mark and Margaret Pieroni
Donald and Evonne Plantinga
Joyce Plummer
Tom Porter
Anne Preston #
Karen and Berislav Primorac
Jeff and Katie Reece
Judith Roberts
Kathryn Robine and Kevin Kerber
Ernest Robles
Jonathan and Anala Rodgers
Stephen Rosenblum and
Rosalyn Sarver
Jean Rowan
Rosemarie Haag Rowney
Carol Rugg and
Richard Montmorency
Mary Ann Rumler
Irv and Trudy Salmeen
Michael and Kimm Sarosi
The Saturno Family
in honor of Ken Fischer
Albert J. and Jane L. Sayed
Judith Scanlon
Helga and Jochen Schacht
Betina Schlossberg
David Schmidt and Jane Myers
David Schoem
Suzanne Selig
Harriet Selin #
James and Linda Selwa #
Theodore T. Serafin
in honor of Ken Fischer
Matthew Shapiro and Susan Garetz
Cliff and Ingrid Sheldon
Bill and Chris Shell
Patrick and Carol Sherry
Howard and Aliza Shevrin
Jean and Thomas Shope
Nina Silbergleit
Edward and Kathy Silver
Sandy and Dick Simon
Robert and Elaine Sims
Jürgen Skoppek
Art Smith and Connie Barron Smith
Carl and Jari Smith #
David and Renate Smith
Gregory Smith MD
Robert W. Smith
Sidonie Smith and Greg Grieco
Linda Spector and Peter Jacobson
Doris and Larry Sperling
in memory of David Klein
Jim Spevak
Jeff Spindler
Paul and Judy Spradlin
Leslie Stainton and Steven Whiting
Daniel and Susan Stepek
James L. Stoddard

BE PRESENT

Mary L. Kramer #
Syma and Phil Kroll
Bert and Geraldine Kruse
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
David Lampe and Susan Rosegrant
Lucy and Kenneth Langa
Linda M. Langer
Jean A. Lawton and James H. Ellis
John and Theresa Lee
Sue Leong
John Lesko and
Suzanne Schluederberg
Barbara Levine
Adam and Sonia Lewenberg
Gloria Kitto Lewis
Jacqueline Lewis
Michael and Debra Lisull
Len and Betty Lofstrom
John Lofy and Laura Rubin
Shuyu Long
Barbara and Michael Lott
Christopher Lovasz
Jimena Loveluck and
Timothy Veeser
Marilyn and Frode Maaseidvaag
Martin and Jane Maehr
Geraldine and Sheldon Markel
Ken and Lynn Marko
Charles McCaghy
Margaret and Harris McClamroch
Cynthia McClung
Peggy McCracken and
Doug Anderson
Daniel and Carol McDonnell
Joanna McNamara
Margaret McQuillan-Key
Marilyn Meeker
Gerlinda S. Melchiori
Warren and Hilda Merchant
Carmen and Jack Miller
Gene and Lois Miller
John and Sally Mitani
Candy and Andy Mitchell
Melinda Morris
Brian and Jacqueline Morton
Trevor Mudge and
Janet Van Valkenburg
Barbara Mulay
Thomas and Hedi Mulford
Kathleen and Gayl Ness
Ben and Jo Ann Nielsen
in honor of Maxine Frankel
Richard and Susan Nisbett
Laura Nitzberg
Christer and Outi Nordman
Arthur S. Nusbaum
Kathleen I. Operhall
Elisa Ostafin and Hossein Keshtkar
Liz and Mohammad Othman
Marie Panchuk
Karen Pancost
William and Hedda Panzer

*Due to space restraints, gifts of
$1-$249 will be recognized in the
online donor list at ums.org.

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20th ANNUAL SPHINX COMPETITION
for young Black and Latino String Players

February 8 - 12, 2017
Detroit MI

The Sphinx Competition invites top performing Black
and Latino string musicians to compete for cash
prizes, solo performing opportunities, and many other
resources. The top prizes are $50,000 for the Senior
Division and $10,000 for the Junior Division. Semifinalists look forward to masterclasses led by our
highly acclaimed panel of jury members, scholarship
opportunities to the top summer music festivals and
conservatories, and access to our large network of
alumni at SphinxConnect.

SPHINX HONORS CONCERT
February 10, 2017 at 12:00PM
For ticket information contact
Xavier@SphinxMusic.org

SPHINX FINALS CONCERT
February 12, 2017 at 2:00PM
Reserve your ticket at DSO.org

www.SphinxMusic.org

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Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
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Community Foundation of Southeastern
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10 The Gilmore Keyboard Festival
12 The Graduate
24 Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund
10 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
32 IATSE Local 395
30 Iris Dry Cleaners
28 Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss PC
28 Knight's
28 Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
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30 Michigan Radio
38 Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
34 Red Hawk
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34 Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge
44 Sphinx Competition
32 Retirement Income Solutions
24 U-M Arts & Culture
8 Varnum
IBC WEMU
38 WGTE
32 WKAR

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2016-17

2014 National Medal of Arts Recipient

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