THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS

presents

Monday, January 28, 20088 p.m.

SOFIA FESTIVAL

ORCHESTRA with

Terrence Wilson, Piano

A Note to Our Patrons

Because we appreciate your presence at this concert and are proud of the good manners of our patrons, we trust that you will observe the following rules and policies of The Four Arts:

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P R O G R A M

Monday, January 28, 2008 • 8 p.m.

SOFIA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAMartin Panteleev, Music Director and Conductor

Terrence Wilson, Piano

*Program subject to change.

Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 SERGEI PROKOFIEV Introduction (1891-1953) Dance of the Knights The Fight Finale

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra EDVARD GRIEGin A minor, Op. 16 (1843 – 1907) Allegro molto moderato Adagio Allegro moderato molto e marcato

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 4 PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY in F minor, Op. 36 (1840-1893) Andante sostenuto – moderato con anima Andantino in modo di canzona Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato – Allegro Finale: Allegro con fuoco

WÜRTH IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE U.S. DEBUT TOUR OF THE SOFIA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Tour Management: ARTS MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC., 37 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010

SOFIA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAMartin Panteleev, Music Director and Conductor

Violin IDimitar Yordanov Danchev,

ConcertmasterZefira Rumenova Valova,

ConcertmasterBoyka Pavlova Tabakova-Rizova

Maria Georgieva DanchevaLiliya Georgieva Koeva-Vladimirova

Marta Radkova Bobcheva-KalapchievaDoroteya Rumenova Dimitrova-Zhivkova

Julia Angelova PopovaNina Mihaylova Brankovanova

Gergana Ivova PetrovaPavel Penchev Penev

Violin IIIvan Kirilov Iliev

Hary Hary EshkenazyMladen Georgiev StoyanovLiliana Mihaylova Pekova

Kremena Nikolova MilenkovaNadezhda Emanuilova Manolova

Sofiya Vasileva NeychevaZhana Kostova Klochkova

ViolaAlbena Aleksandrova Hristova

Marta Isak PantaleevaMiroslav Simeonov MilanovRadoslav Mitkov Yordanov

Boyan Nikolaev KolevTeodora Ivanova Vacheva

CelloPetar Ivanov KarakashevLiliana Ivanova Wassileva

Petar Emilov KushlevViktor Nikolaev Traykov

Tanya Petrova StoimenovaPavlina Vasileva Raycheva

Double BassBorislav Simeonov Simeonov

Georgi Stefanov ShokovKristian Kosev Kosev

Robert Hristov KumbilievFlute

Iva Lubomirova LubomirovaAdriana Orlinova Dyakova

OboeValtchan Marinov Valtchanov

Petya Valeva ZhelevaClarinet

Panteley Yordanov PanteleevMihail Dimitrov Zhivkov

BassoonVladimir Petrov VladimirovIvan Svetlozarov Gerasimov

HornHristo Georgiev Tsachev

Krasimir Dimitrov AleksandrovDimitar Aleksandrov Kirilov

Ivan Tochkov CholakovTrumpet

Pencho Dimitrov PenchevDimitar Petkov Chamov

Svetoslav Zhivkov VasilevTrombone

Yosif Venelinov VelichkovMiroslav Vasilev StoyanovKaloyan Rumenov Gorchev

TubaNikolay Ivanov Temniskov

PercussionStoyan Vasilev Pavlov

Vladimir Slaveykov ShopovNikola Radoslavov Petrov

AdministrationPlamen Yordanov Tsvetkovski, Managing Director

Vanya Yordanova Angareva, Orchestra ManagerMartina Nikolaeva Angareva, Tour Assistant

SOFIA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAThe Sofia Festival Orchestra was founded in 1986, and its debut that

year under the baton of Emil Tchakarov, with the participation of the great Bulgarian pianist Alexis Weissenberg, marked an auspicious beginning. The orchestra, comprised of Bulgaria’s leading musicians and former principals of Europe’s best-known ensembles, has been a leading artistic force in Sofia for almost 20 years. Its original goals to enrich the capitol’s musical life and to popularize the achievement of Bulgarian musicians at home and abroad have more than been met.

The Sofia Festival Orchestra has joined forces on many occasions with the Sofia National Opera Chorus, the Svetoslav Obretenov Bulgarian A Cappella Choir, and other ensembles. Guest soloists who have appeared with the orchestra include such luminaries as Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Natalia Gutman, Ivo Pogorelich, and others.

The orchestra has performed extensively in Bulgaria and has toured several European countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, (Avelino Festival) France, Russia and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival). In October, 2007, the orchestra, under the baton of Martin Panteleev, and with pianist Derek Han, returned to the Netherlands performing in several cities including Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) and makes its U.S. debut tour in January/February, 2008.

The Sofia Festival Orchestra has made several recordings for Sony Classical, Hungaroton, and Erresse, under the batons of Emil Tchakarov, Julian Kovachev and Nayden Todorov.

MARTIN PANTELEEVConductor

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a family of musicians, Martin Panteleev started violin lessons at the age of four. He studied at the National School of Music and later at the Bulgarian State Academy of Music. At a young age his talents as a violinist were recognized; he won several prizes and toured as Assistant Concertmaster of Bulgaria’s Youth Orchestra, performing in concerts throughout Europe.

Still in his early twenties, Martin Panteleev began conducting and composing; in 1999 he became Assistant Conductor of the Philharmonia of the Nations (envisioned by Leonard Bernstein and founded by Justus Frantz)

and toured the United States, China, Russia, and Germany. That same year Frantz conducted the premiere of Panteleev’s Symphony No. 1 as well as subsequent performances in Berlin, Frankfurt, and at the Schleswig Holstein Festival. Panteleev was nominated for the Davidoff Prix for this composition. His symphonic poem “Two” was premiered and recorded in 2000 at the Festival of the Nations in Bad Wörishofen, Germany. Another premiere of his Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra took place in Beijing in October, 2001, where it was performed by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra.

Martin Panteleev’s career as a conductor and solo violinist has included recent performances with Camerata Salzburg, and in Bucharest; he conducted the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 at the Festival of the Nations in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, and recorded his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 with the Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian composers.

In 2002 Martin Panteleev founded the chamber music festival “Kammermusik Tage” in Barth, Germany, the country in which he currently resides. He has been Guest Conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra since 2006

TERRENCE WILSON

Pianist

Pianist Terrence Wilson has established a reputation as one of today’s most gifted instrumentalists.

He has appeared with many prestigious ensembles, including the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco and St. Louis, as well as with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia. Among the conductors with whom he has worked are Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Jarvi, Yoel Levi, Andrew Litton, Jesus Lopez-Cobos Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Gunther Herbig.

Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland and the Malaysian Philharmonic at the Dewan Philharmonik Petronas and in 2005 toured Spain with the Baltimore Symphony with Yuri Temirkanov conducting.

In the 06-07 season, Mr. Wilson gave the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s new concerto, Deus ex Machina, with the Charlotte Symphony

followed by performances with the Nashville Symphony. Other engagements included recitals in Winston-Salem, Cincinnati, Kennesaw, GA. and Washington, DC as well as performances with the Atlanta Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, Des Moines Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and Memphis Symphony. In the 07-08 season, Mr. Wilson performs the new Daugherty Concerto in return appearances with the Syracuse, Rochester and New Jersey Symphonies. He also returns to the Cincinnati Symphony performing the Khachaturian Concerto with Hans Graf conducting. In January/February of 2008 he tours the southeastern U. S. with the Sofia Festival Orchestra. Other appearances include a return to the Rhode Island Philharmonic and performances with the New Mexico Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, and the Orlando Philharmonic.

Terrence Wilson is also active as a recitalist, having made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and at the Louvre in Paris. In the United States, he has given recitals at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An active chamber musician, Mr. Wilson performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Terrence Wilson has also appeared at the Mann Music Center and at the Blossom Festival, Tanglewood, and Wolf Trap in recitals and performances of concerti and chamber music.

Terrence Wilson has received numerous awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s Performance Today, WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the BRAVO Network, the Arts & Entertainment Network, and public television

Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

PROGRAM NOTESSERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891 – 1953)Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64

Sergei Prokofiev was born in 1891 in the Ukraine, the son of a prosperous estate manager. An only child, he was encouraged by his mother to develop his musical abilities and at the age of five, tried his hand at composition. In 1904 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory and continued his studies as a pianist and as a composer.

Prokofiev began to make his mark as a composer very early in his career and after the Revolution of 1917 was given permission to travel abroad, initially to America. His stay in the U.S. was successful at first, but by 1920 Prokofiev began to find life more difficult. He moved to Paris and lived there for sixteen years, returning time to time back to Russia.

In 1936 Prokofiev decided to repatriate to his native country, taking up residence in Moscow in time for the first official onslaught on music that displeased the Soviet authorities, notably the attack on Shostakovich’s opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Twelve years later the name of Prokofiev was openly joined with that of Shostakovich in an even more explicit condemnation of formalism, with particular reference to his own opera War and Peace. He died in 1953 on the same day as Stalin and thus never enjoyed the subsequent relaxation in official policy to the arts.

The idea of a ballet on the subject of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was suggested to him during a visit to Russia in 1934 by Sergey Radlov, who had staged the first Russian performance of The Love for Three Oranges in Leningrad in 1926. Radlov was artistic director of the Leningrad State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, which in late 1934 became the Kirov Theatre, after the assassination of Sergey Kirov, party secretary in the Leningrad area and later a member of the Politburo. The murder of Kirov in 1934 brought the beginning of the Great Purge and there were swift changes in the Leningrad Theatre that led to the rejection of Prokofiev’s proposed ballet, which was then taken up by the Bolshoi in Moscow.

Prokofiev completed the piano score in a relatively short time during the summer months of 1935. By October he had started work on the orchestration, but when he played the music through in Moscow to the dancers they pronounced it undanceable. More sensibly they insisted that the happy ending that Prokofiev and Radlov had proposed should be replaced by the original Shakespearian ending, the death of the lovers, an episode that Prokofiev had at first considered impossible in a ballet.

The music from Romeo and Juliet was given a concert performance in Russia before the ballet could be staged there. The first production was in December

1938 in Brno, the capital of Moravia. Thirteen months later it was danced at the Kirov, with Ulanova as Juliet and Sergeyev as Romeo. The choreography was by Lavrovsky, who annoyed Prokofiev by making changes in the score without previous consultation, a procedure very different from that of the reputedly dictatorial Diaghilev, who had always discussed matters with his composers and choreographers. The Kirov took the production to Moscow, where, in 1946, it became part of the Bolshoi repertoire. The music provides themes associated with the principal characters and with their actions, with love and with conflict. The connection of music and narrative is easily apparent from the titles of the episodes of a ballet that is very much in the Russian tradition of full-length dramatic works, in which the story is important.

EDVARD GRIEG (1843 – 1907)Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Up until the time of Grieg, art music in Scandinavia remained under the Germanic influence; composers did their studies in Weimar or Leipzig and returned home to continue in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann or Wagner and Liszt. Grieg’s early attempts at composition followed in this vein, and only when he returned from the Leipzig Conservatory to Oslo, Norway, did he become aware of the need for a national art. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century Norway was agitating for independence from Sweden, and to this cause Grieg devoted himself, in the process giving his music a uniquely personal stamp.

Grieg was one of those artists who, early on, have a lucky hit which they never quite duplicate. He was twenty-five when he wrote his only piano concerto, and it remained his masterpiece.

In his letters, Grieg relates how he visited the famous Liszt in his monastery home in Rome, to whom he showed his newly composed concerto. Grieg had believed it impossible to read the concerto on sight, much less from the manuscript, but this Liszt accomplished splendidly, and the difficult first-movement cadenza the best of all. Liszt gave the young composer much praise for the work, and told him to “Keep it up, and don’t be intimidated!” The Concerto premiered in Copenhagen in April, 1869.

The first movement is in sonata form. After a dramatic roll on kettledrum and fiery descending octaves on the piano, the main melody is given out by the woodwinds; its subdued emotional coloring evokes the Norwegian

landscape. An animated bridge passage leads to a contrasting theme, a lyric and tranquil idea passed from cellos to the piano. The Development is brief but intense, with harmonies that in Grieg’s day were quite novel. The Recapitulation climaxes with an impressive cadenza, which ornaments the main theme. The movement concludes with a Coda in faster tempo.

The middle movement is in A B A form; it glows with the lyric charm of a Grieg song.

A brief transition leads into the animated finale. This opens with a vigorous rhythmic theme of folk-dance character; its middle section provides effective contrast with its dreamlike melody, introduced by the solo flute. The Coda serves as a typically Romantic apotheosis, with its majestic transformation of the songful second theme.

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840 – 1893)Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Tchaikovksy composed his Fourth Symphony between May 1877 and January 1878. This period in the composer’s life was a particularly poignant, paradoxical, and turbulent time. It was poignant in that Tchaikovsky would enter into an extraordinary relationship with the wealthy widow Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, which would prove to be most beneficial to him. The two entered into a 14-year relationship maintained entirely by correspondence – they never met each other. Furthermore, Mme. Von Meck became Tchaikovsky’s patron and benefactor, and it was her to whom Tchaikovsky would dedicate his Fourth Symphony.

The paradoxical aspect of Tchaikovsky’s life at this time stems from the fact that, despite self-awareness of his homosexual orientation, he allowed himself to be connived into a marriage with a beautiful young woman named Antonina Milyukova, who had recently graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he taught. For reasons not totally clear, within a week of their first meeting Tchaikovsky proposed and the couple wed in the summer of 1877; this despite the fact that he made it quite clear to the young woman that there could be no physical relationship between them.

By this point, Tchaikovsky had fully sketched all four movement of the Fourth Symphony but by the fall of 1877, he was feeling the strains of the marriage and made a pathetic, unsuccessful attempt at suicide. A specialist advised him to sever ties with his wife, and his brother made the arrangements for a

separation. As John Warrack put it in his biography of Tchaikovsky, “His ill luck in falling in with her, at a time when he had grown desperate to be married for the sake of being married, was part of what he regarded as fate.” Fate, as Tchaikovsky took pains to explain, is the subject of the Fourth Symphony.

Both the Fourth Symphony and Evgeny Onegin, despite this background, were brought to completion more or less on schedule; the former on January 7, 1878, at Clarens, Tchaikovsky’s favorite Swiss retreat, and the latter about three weeks later. The symphony was premiered on February 22, 1878, and it was not a success. The composer Sergei Taneyev, who had been another of Tchaikovsky’s pupils and was to be a close associate to the end of his life, suggested the Fourth had failed because it had obviously been written as “program music.” To Taneyev’s charge that this “degraded a noble form,” Tchaikovsky replied that the work did indeed have a program, and that he would never want to write a symphonic work consisting of meaningless harmonies and modulations and rhythmical schemes expressing nothing. “Of course my symphony is program music, but I could not put the program into words. . . . Isn’t a program precisely what one would expect from a symphony, the most lyrical of musical forms? Should it not express everything that words cannot – things that rise in the heart and cry out for expression? In my innocence I thought the idea behind my symphony was so plain that everyone would grasp it, or at any rate its chief outlines, without the need of a written program. . . . I don’t express any new thought, and haven’t even tried to. The idea . . . is basically a reflection of Beethoven’s Fifth – not the musical content, of course, but the central plan. Must I tell you that the Fifth not only has a program, but such an obvious one that everybody agrees about it? The same ought to apply to my symphony; if you haven’t grasped the program there, all it proves is that I am no Beethoven - and I won’t dispute that!”

Despite having advised Taneyev that he “could not put the program into words,” Tchaikovsky did just that in a letter to Mme von Meck. He had written to her about the work during the period of its composition, always referring to it as “our symphony,” and eventually he provided her with a detailed scenario. While this was never intended for the public, it has become a sort of “official program note,” the definitive explication by the composer himself:

I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima. The introduction is the kernel, the quintessence, the chief thought of the whole work. The main idea, first in the trumpets and then in the horns, is Fate, the inexorable power that hampers our search for happiness. The main theme of the Allegro describes feelings of depression and hopelessness.

Would it not be better to forsake reality and lose oneself in dreams? A sweet and tender dream enfolds me, a serene and radiant presence leads me on, until all that was dark and joyless is forgotten. But no, these are but dreams. Fate returns to waken us, and we see that life is an alternation of grim reality and fugitive dreams of happiness.

II. Andantino in modo di canzona. The second movement shows another aspect of sadness. Here is the melancholy feeling that comes over us when we sit weary and alone at the end of the day. The book we pick up slips from our fingers, and a procession of memories passes in review. We remember happy times of youth as well as moments of sorrow. We regret what is past, but have neither the courage nor the will to begin a new life. There is a bittersweet comfort in losing oneself in the past…

III. Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato): Allegro. There is no specific feeling or exact expression in the third movement. Here are only the capricious arabesques and indeterminate shapes that come into one’s mind with a little wine. The mood is neither sad nor gay. If one gives free rein to one’s imagination one may envision a drunken peasant singing a street song, or hear a military band passing in the distance. These are disconnected images…they have no connection with reality.

IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco. If you find no joy in yourself, look about you. Go to the people: see how they can enjoy life and give themselves up to festivity. But hardly have we had a moment to enjoy this when Fate, relentless and untiring, makes his presence known. [Before actually reintroducing the Fate motif that opened the symphony, Tchaikovsky makes us aware of the well-known Russian folk song “In the Field There Stood a Birch Tree,” putting it through several changes of mood. The others take no notice in their revelry. There still is happiness, simple and naïve; rejoice in the happiness of others.

Both the Fourth Symphony and the opera Eugene Onegin, which was composed contemporaneously with the Symphony, bear unmistakable marks of the events in Tchaikovsky’s private life at the time of their composition.

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PATRONMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Atkinson Mrs. E. William Aylward Mrs. Merrill L. Bank Mr. and Mrs. John T. Beaudouin Mrs. Edward Benenson Mrs. George P. Bissell, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walker Blair Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Bowen Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw Mrs. William H. Brinckerhoff Mr. and Mrs. Felix Callari Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Cherry Mrs. Howard Cobb Mr. and Mrs. George Cohon Mrs. John T. Connor Dr. and Mrs. L. Rodger Currie Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mrs. Edith B. Eglin Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ehrlich Ms. Leslie A. Fitzgerald Fallon Mr. and Mrs. Philip Finn Mr. and Mrs. Alec Flamm

Mrs. Samuel M. Fleming Lord and Lady Foley Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Foley Mr. and Mrs. John R. Franco Mr. and Mrs. James R. Freney Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Friedman Ms. Dinah F. Fulton Mrs. L. Damon Gadd Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo R. Garcia Mr. and Mrs. James B. Gaynor Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Georgescu Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gershwind Mr. and Mrs. Norman Goldblum Mr. and Mrs. James M. Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gootrad Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grabosky Mr. and Mrs. George H. Grimm Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Guild Mr. and Mrs. William M. Guttman Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hallac Mr. and Mrs. Clay Hamner Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Harrington Mr. Paul B. Henry Mr. and Mrs. Louis O. Hilton Margaret Mellon Hitchcock Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Holton Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hopkins II Mr. and Mrs. James H. Howe III Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hudson Mrs. Page Hufty Mrs. George W. Huguely III Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Johnson Mrs. Harrison R. Johnston, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kemp, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Kenan III Dr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Knapp Mr. and Mrs. Matthew R. Kornreich Mrs. Brendan D. Leahey Ms. Susan C. Lee Hon. and Mrs. Robert J.D. Lloyd-George Mr. and Mrs. Robert Malesardi Mr. and Mrs. Hamish Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McCall Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. McKenna, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Miller Mrs. William D. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mnuchin Mr. and Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer, III

Dr. and Mrs. John T. Murray Mr. and Mrs. John F. Niblack The Rev. Dr. Barbara H. Nielsen Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Nolte, Jr. Mrs. Patricia Norris Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. O’Brien Mrs. Carey O’Donnell Mrs. Deborah Landon O’Kain Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Picotte Mr. and Mrs. James Pizzagalli Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Ribakoff Mr. and Mrs. Harland A. Riker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Rogers Mr. Leslie Rose Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith Mrs. Louise Hitchcock Stephaich Mr. and Mrs. John Krey Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Burton S. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Stetson II Mr. and Mrs. Howard Story Mr. and Mrs. Stuart B. Strong Mr. and Mrs. David H. Taylor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dom Telesco Mr. Robert L. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van der Grift Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Vitale Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Warren Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Waterman Mr. and Mrs. H. Mitchell Watson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wells Mrs. Richard Shipley Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Young Mr. and Mrs. John A. Zenko

DONORMrs. John H. Alban, Jr. Mrs. Fred B. Albenberg Mr. David Albenda Mrs. James G. Alfring Ms. Shirley Ann Alvarez-Prado Mr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Anderson Mrs. Varya V. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Michael F. Andrews Mr. Andrew J. Armstrong Mrs. Grace Arnold Mr. and Mrs. William B. Astrop Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Avis, Jr.

Mrs. Catherine Baker Mr. and Mrs. P. Robert Bale Mr. and Mrs. James MacAllan Ballentine, Jr. Mrs. Elyse Barkin Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barnes, Jr. Mrs. Arnold M. Baskin Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Bates Mr. and Mrs. Keith Beaty Mr. Frank S. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Benitz Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. William P. Benton Ms. Judy Bergman Dr. and Mrs. Irwin R. Berman Mr. and Mrs. George W. Beverly, Jr. Mr. Thomas Patrick Boland Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Boniface Ms. Susan Borchardt Mrs. Charles Lee Brown Mrs. Maurice L. Brown Mrs. Clelia C. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Calman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Campobello Mrs. Donald Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carney Mrs. A. Mabis Chase Dr. and Mrs. Philip N. Chiotellis Mr. Ray W. Clarke Mrs. Rosemary A. Clemens-Garren Mr. and Mrs. C. Payson Coleman, Jr. Mrs. Emilio G. Collado Colonial Dames of America Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coniglio Mrs. Maureen Gately Conte Mrs. Hewitt A. Conway Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cornacchia Mr. and Mrs. Harold Corrigan Mr. and Mrs. Loyd F. Crawley Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Cronin Mrs. John Cutting Mr. Kevin A. Daigh Mr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Daniels Mrs. Robert Dee Mr. and Mrs. James H. Dempsey, Jr. Ms. W. Diana Deresz Mr. and Mrs. Jon Derrevere Mr. and Mrs. Irwin F. Deutsch Mr. Wayne Diller Mr. and Mrs. Wayne F. Dimm

Mr. and Mrs. W. Anthony Dowell Mrs. Allen C. DuBois Mrs. John C. Duggan Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. William E. Elmore, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Leroy Engel Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fay Dr. and Mrs. David R. Feldman Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fine Mr. and Mrs. Murray C. Fine Mr. Frank S. Fitzgerald Dr. and Mrs. Malachi J. Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Flinn, Jr. Mr. Bob Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Kim E. Fonseca Mrs. Donald R. Ford Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Foster, II Mr. and Mrs. Charles James Frankel III Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fusz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Galt Miss Missy Geisler Mrs. John Gibbons Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gibbons Ms. Susan Gilbertson Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Gillespie Mrs. F. Warrington Gillet, Jr. Ms. Doris Gilman Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gimbel Mr. and Mrs. Peter James Gough Mr. and Mrs. George J. Grabner Mr. and Mrs. Clark E. Graebner Mr. Peter U. Graefe Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Granoff Ms. Ruth Green Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Greenberg Mrs. Ralph H. Griffin, Jr. Ms. Susan M. Gubelmann Ms. Judith A. Guido Mrs. W. Gibson Harris Mrs. Lawrence Hastings Ms. Debra Hazelwood Ms. Julie Heberlein Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hepburn Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Julian Hipwood Ms. Arnold J. Hoffman Mr. Benjamin Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. James C. Houser, Jr. Mr. Duane P. Howell

Mr. and Mrs. R. Douglas Hulse Ms. Sherry Jacobs Mr. Douglas C. James Dr. William P. James Mrs. Robert D. Johns Dr. and Mrs. R. Philip Johnsen Mrs. Ray C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Ernest S. Johnston Mrs. Gus W. Jones Dr. and Mrs. Oliver L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Jones, Jr. Ms. Kathryn G. Jordan Mrs. Robert C. Jordan Mrs. Jeanne Kaskey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emerson Kaufmann Ms. Marcia Chellis Kay Mrs. Phillip E. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. E. Hewlett Kent Mrs. Thomas M. Keresey Mr. and Mrs. John M. Kindred Mrs. Victor H. King Mrs. Donald B. Kipp Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Kleid Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett B. Kling Mrs. James William Koontz II Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Kops Mr. and Mrs. Jules Kornblau Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver La Gorce, II Mrs. J. Carvel Lange Dr. Lila Lasky Mr. Richard E. Lavine Mr. and Mrs. John N. Ledbetter III Mr. and Mrs. George B. Leder Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee Ms. Shirley J. Lemberger Mrs. Gavin Letts Mr. and Mrs. W. Edwin Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liebowitz Mr. Gordon G. Long Dr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Lorber Mr. and Mrs. Per Arne Lorentzen Ms. Elena Luca Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Randolph Lyon Mr. Norman E. Mack Mrs. K. E. Madsen Mrs. Edward John Martin Mr. and Mrs. Gerry L. Martin Dr. and Mrs. Mas G. Massoumi Mrs. Vera O. Mazza

Mr. and Mrs. Grant McCargo Mr. and Mrs. John F. McClatchey Mrs. Michael P. McDonough Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McKechneay Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. McKenna, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh A. McMakin Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Meek, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mellon Ms. Nancy Mendel Ms. Donna M. Miller Mr. Richard S. Milstein Mrs. Edward S. Moore, III Mr. and Mrs. Zachary P. Morfogen Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Y. Morgan III Mr. and Mrs. John H. Morris, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Hubbard Morrish Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Morrison Mrs. Granville A. Morse Mrs. Delos George Morton Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moynihan Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mulhern Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Fay Neville Mrs. Kenneth Newberger Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Nolen Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. O’Donnell Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Olson Mrs. Kenneth O’Neil Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Osler Ms. Lou Helen O’Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Papas Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pearlman Mrs. Robert Lenus Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Pfeifler Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Pickering Ms. Gloria V. Pinto Mrs. Arthur Poisson Mrs. Don W. Polzin Mrs. Charles S. Potter Mrs. Robin H. Prince Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Pryor Mr. Frank Quigley Mrs. Eugene Quinn Mr. and Mrs. John Raese Ms. Aline Stevens Raisler Mrs. Nancy S. Reynolds Mrs. Wiley R. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. C. Brooks Ricca, Jr. Mrs. Karl Riemer

Mary Oliver Ritter Mr. Randall Brewster Roe Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. James S. Rosebush Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Rosenberg Dr. Saul D. Rotter Dr. Jordan S. Ruboy Mrs. Dorothy S. Rudkin Ms. Carole Ruhlman Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia Foy Rupp Mrs. John Rybovich, Jr. Mr. Philip S. Savage, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Scaff Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Schmeelk Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Schuman Mr. and Mrs. W. Tunstall Searcy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Searle Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sexton Mrs. Caroline C. Seymour Dr. and Mrs. Daniel O. Sokoloff Mrs. Hope Gimbel Solinger Mr. Moses Sternlieb Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Steward Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Stewart Mr. Dyson Stockman Mrs. Jean Williams Storch Mr. Harry Acton Striebel Mrs. James J. Strnad Mrs. Edgar A. Swindle Ms. Elaine V. Tack Mr. Bert Tamarkin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tepper Mr. and Mrs. John Toner Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Turner Mrs. Jefferson Van der Wolk Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Van Poznak Mr. and Mrs. Clother Vaughn III Mr. Gerald T. Vento Mr. and Mrs. David Vietor Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Vinmont, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Vogel Mr. and Mrs. John K. Volk Mr. William L. Walde Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Alex L. Wallau, II Mr. Ronald E. Warnecke Mrs. George Washburn Ms. Anita Watkins

Mr. and Mrs. James McCartney Wearn Mr. and Mrs. Donald I. Webb Mr. and Mrs. E. Baxter Webb Mr. and Mrs. J. William Weeks Mr. and Mrs. Martin Weisner Mr. and Mrs. Morgan D. Wheelock Mr. and Mrs. Rollin H. White III Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Whitman III Mrs. Myron A. Wick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilbur

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas Williamson Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wirths III Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Witsell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic D. Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Randolph Wyckoff III Mr. Jeffery N. Young Mr. and Mrs. Philip Woodward Young Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Young

The list covers contributions made between July 1, 2007 through January 13, 2008

The gifts and categories listed above describe Annual Giving: unrestricted donations to this season’s operating budget. Other contributions – planned gifts, special purpose gifts

and capital campaign donations – are accounted for and acknowledged separately.

THIS WEEK AT THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS:Art Exhibition:

“The Baroque World of Fernando Botero”Admission: $5; Members and children under 15 admitted free.

Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Sponsored by Cypress Capital Group

Art Exhibition: “The Art of the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians from

the Collection of Ethnohistorian, Patsy West”Located in the Mary Alice Fortin Children’s Art GalleryOpen Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and

Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Closed Sundays. Admission is free.

January 29, 2008Esther B. O’Keeffe Speaker Series:

Alexander McCall Smith - 2:30 p.m.Space permitting, non-member tickets go on sale for $25

ten minutes before the event.

January 30, 2008Campus on the Lake: Juliette de Marcellus

“Classical Music” Workshop Begins - 11 a.m.$120; Check payable to Juliette de Marcellus

Call (561) 805-8562 for reservations.

Concert: Vienna Boys Choir - 8 p.m.Tickets: $35-$40. Call (561) 655-7226 for tickets.

January 31, 2008Campus on the Lake: Ariane Csonka Comstock

“Opera II” Workshop Begins - 12 p.m.$120; Check payable to Monarch MediaCall (561) 805-8562 for reservations.

Campus on the Lake: Paul R. Reillo “New Conservationists Toolkit” - 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $20; No charge for members.Call (561) 805-8562 for reservations.

February 1, 2008Friday Film Series: “The Illusionist” - 2:30, 5:15 and 8 p.m.

Tickets: $3; Members admitted free.

February 2, 2008Campus on the Lake: Paige Rense, editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest

“What Constitutes Good Design” - 11 a.m.Tickets: $20; Call (561) 805-8562 for reservations.

February 3, 2008Concert: Mendelssohn String Quartet with Pianist, Jonathan Biss - 3 p.m.

Tickets: $10. Call (561) 655-7226.

2007-2008 CIRCLE OF CORPORATE SPONSORS The Society of the Four Arts wishes to thank the following

Corporate Sponsors for their generous leadership:

CORPORATE LEADERCypress Capital Group

UBSTiffany & Co.

Wally Findlay GalleriesLa Prairie

CORPORATE BENEFACTORLehman Brothers

CORPORATE PATRONValentino

The Haverford Trust CompanyNational City – Private Client Group

CORPORATE FRIENDUS Bank – Private Client Group

Sotheby’sGunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.

Mildred Hoit

MEDIA SPONSORSThe Palm Beach Daily News

The Palm Beach PostWXEL

APPEARING NEXT AT THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS

THE VIENNA BOYS CHOIR

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 8 p.m.

Tickets now available for $35 or $40 at the gallery reception desk or by calling (561) 655-7226.