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WMPA would like to express its warmest gratitude to our growing family of donors demonstrating a commitment to the performing arts and improving our community. The following reflects gifts received from May 31, 2023 through
May 1, 2024. Donor levels honor American composers whose works feature in our concerts.
* Local Business Partner
** Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic musician
^ The Ulysses James Legacy Fund
May 1, 2024. Donor levels honor American composers whose works feature in our concerts.
* Local Business Partner
** Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic musician
^ The Ulysses James Legacy Fund
$10,000+ Samuel BarberSamuel Osmond Barber II (1910-81) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. His Adagio for Strings (1936) has earned a permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music twice: for his opera Vanessa (1955-57) and for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1962). Also widely performed is his Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947), a setting for soprano and orchestra of a prose text by James Agee. At the time of Barber's death, nearly all of his compositions had been recorded.
Gordon & Sheila Soper
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- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- Invitation to a dinner hosted by the Music Director and Executive and Artistic Planning Director
- An open invitation to sit among the Philharmonic musicians during a concert rehearsal
- A pair of engraved sommelier wine glasses, an eco-friendly umbrella, and cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
$5,000-$9,999 Florence PriceFlorence Price, 1887-1953. A 1906 graduate of the New England Conservatory, Price was the first African American woman to have her music played by a major orchestra — the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which performed her first symphony after she took first place in the Wanamaker Foundation Awards. She incorporated American folk tunes and material from the African American religious tradition in her native South in expressive, accomplished works.
Margaret M. Ballard
Gary & Phoebe Mallard Ries Family Ries Family |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- An open invitation to sit among the Philharmonic musicians during a concert rehearsal
- A pair of engraved sommelier wine glasses, an eco-friendly umbrella, and cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
$2,500-$4,999 Jennifer HigdonJennifer Higdon is one of America's most acclaimed and most frequently performed living composers. She is a major figure in contemporary Classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto, a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto and a 2020 Grammy for her Harp Concerto. In 2018 Higdon received the Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University which is given to living composers of exceptional achievement who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Most recently, the recording of Higdon's Percussion Concerto was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is today's most performed contemporary orchestral work, with more than 600 performances worldwide. Her works have been recorded on more than 70 CDs. Higdon's first opera, Cold Mountain, won the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere and its recording was nominated for 2 Grammy awards.
Helenmarie Anderson Corcoran
Edward Farren Donna J. Reuss Nancy West In honor of John C. West and Alan B. Prosise, Jr. Warren Zwicky |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- A pair of engraved sommelier wine glasses and cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
$1,000-$2,499 Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, and went on to study piano and composition and studying in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. Some of Copland’s most prominent pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer. An Oscar-winning writer of film scores as well, Copland died on December 2, 1990.
Angela Stover Anderson
Samuel & Patricia Boglio Rachel Colombana Bruce Davies** June Hajjar^ Jocelyn E. Hodges Karl Hovey, DMA** In honor of Ul James Jane Hughes** & William Jokela Ulysses S. James** John Kean^ Jennifer Ngai Lavallee William McDaniel Robb McDonald and Brittany Pemberton Pediatric Associates of Alexandria* In honor of WMPA Youth Orchestras Deidre Pistochini Carole A. Pyle^ Margaret Ann Roddy Mr. David C. Schwark & Mrs. Suzanne C. Schwark Phillip & Eileen Thompson |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- An eco-friendly umbrella and cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call
$500-$999 William Grant StillWilliam Grant Still, (born May 11, 1895, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 3, 1978, Los Angeles, California), American composer and conductor and the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. Though a prolific composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works, he was best known for his Afro-American Symphony (1931).
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Anna Binneweg** Thomas Boudreau Gary Bravy Cedar Knoll* Rachel Colombana Michael & Liz Davis^ Sallie Forman Inés Garcia Kay & David Green June Hajjar^ Joseph Keum** Kirby Family Cathy and Will Kunz David Labovitz Dennis Murphy** Julie Pangelinan** Ralph & Nancy Schuetz |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website.
- Two eco-friendly tote bags & a two tins of cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
$250-$499 Libbey LarsenShe has created a catalogue of over 500 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over 15 operas. Grammy award-winning and widely recorded, including over 50 CDs of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.
Barre3 - 14th Street*
John & Jouette Bassler Grazina Blekaitis Margie Chadwick Sallie Forman Julie Geshunskaya Phyllis Gron Saruhan & Kavita Hatipoglu David Labovitz Amy Medearis** Nancy Sage Stephen Salyer Cheryl Stickley** |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- An eco-friendly tote bag & a tin of cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
$100-$249 Rebecca ClarkeRebecca Clarke achieved what she called “my one little whiff of success”
in 1919 when her Viola Sonata tied for first place in a competition sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Clarke lived much of her life in the US, although she was born and educated in Great Britain. Striking for its passion and power, her music spans a range of 20th-century styles including Impressionism, post-Romantic, and neo-Classical. Although she wrote nearly 100 works (including songs, choral works, chamber pieces and music for solo piano), only 20 pieces were published in her lifetime, and by the time of her death in 1979, at age 93, all of these were long out of print. Reinaldo Luis Andujar
Susan Bairstow Sanja Basaric Suzana Basaric-Ilić In honor of Slavica Ilić** Vanja Basaric David Bell Stephanie Bisson The Bodeens Carter Bryan, II Hillary Burchuk** Carol Burke Jessica Burmester^ Carolyn Carmack William & Peggy Chadwick^ Joseph H. Coleman, Jr. Marcia Crockett In honor of Ulysses James Richard Darilek Kristin Dillon Kevin & Sharon Dooley^ Shannon M. Dubicki^ John Sutherland Earle In honor of Ulysses James Rebecca Edelstein** Christopher Epinger** In honor of Frank Joseph Epinger Richard & Kathleen Fonda Gay Gardner^ Carol Goodloe Kay & David Green Julia Greenway Stanley Gryskiewicz Margaret Harrison Gary & Christel Hignett^ Ann Houpt Anthony Iannaccone In honor of Ulysses James David Jourdan In memory of Kathleen jourdan Ken & Barbara Kauke Carol Anne Kelly John Kilduff Elizabeth Kluegel In memory of Daena Kluegel Crystal Lee** Barbara R. Lowrey Donna MacPherson Margaret Martinez John Matzner** Carol & Robert McGinnis Marlene McHugh Michelle Mellgren Laura Miller Lisa Motley Thomas Nichols & Virginia Keeley Ruth O'Connell^ Sean O'Keefe George H. Parks Mark Pistochini Gail Richmond Melissa Roy Elsy Salas In honor of Caroline Mousset Krishna Sarma^ William K. Schultz Greg & Chelsey Simpson Joan & Irwin Singer Lee Smith Heidi Sturniolo** Robert Sutter Virginia Thackery In honor of Chris Thackery** Jane Thell** Stu & Ruth Tucker Edward P. Walker & Brenda L. Kurlansik Melinda Ward** Gayle & Joe White^ Sheri & Raymond Wolfe Walter Wynn III** |
- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- A tin of cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!