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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 September 1, 2024 through
September 19, 2025. Donor levels honor American composers whose works feature in our concerts.
* Local Business Partner
** Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic musician
^ The Ulysses James Legacy Fund
September 19, 2025. 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.
Anonymous In honor of pianist and piano instructor Stella Terrill Stover
Ries Family |
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- 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 a flip-top of peppermints.
Pick yours up at Will Call! - Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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
Galena Yorktown Foundation Gordon & Sheila Soper Warren Zwicky |
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- 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 a flip-top of peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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.
John Kean^
Gary & Phoebe Mallard Donna J. Reuss |
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- A pair of engraved sommelier wine glasses and a flip-top of peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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.
Samuel & Patricia Boglio
Helenmarie Anderson Corcoran Inés Garcia Karl Hovey** Ulysses James Joseph Keum** Robb McDonald** and Brittany Pemberton** Pediatric Associates of Alexandria* In honor of WMPA Youth Orchestras Deidre Pistochini In honor of Sandra Hall Carole A. Pyle David and Suzanne Schwark Nancy West |
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- An eco-friendly umbrella and a flip-top of peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call
- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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 Gary Bravy Bruce Davies** Thomas Helsinki In honor of Robert W. Miller Joan Leonard Mick and Brooks McCorcle^ William McDaniel Dennis Murphy** Mary Reed Lynn Ries Ralph & Nancy Schuetz Phillip & Eileen Thompson Amy Vilela Patricia Williamson |
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- Two eco-friendly tote bags & a flip-top of peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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.
Reinaldo Luis Andujar
Grazina Blekaitis Charles Carron Richard & Kathleen Fonda Sallie Forman Julie Geshunskaya Kay & David Green In honor of Caroline Mousset Phyllis Gron David Jourdan In memory of his wife, Kathy Kevin** & Eileen Monnin-Kirby David Labovitz Jennifer Ngai Lavallee Amy Medearis** Kristen Race Mark Whitmire |
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- A flip-top of peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!
- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
$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. Anonymous (x3)
Anonymous In honor of Ann Houpt Annemarie Anderson** Kacey Baker In honor of the WMPA Musicians Richard Baker Susan Bardenhagen Kacy Barker David Bates** Stephanie Bisson Bernadette Borja Thomas Boudreau Susan Brook Richard Brook Carter Bryan, II Lorrie Brown Hillary Burchuk Kathleen Burns Adrienne G. Cannon Marie Carr Margie Chadwick Kristin Dillon Shannon M. Dubicki John Sutherland Earle In honor of Ulysses James Maravene Edelstein Christopher Epinger** In honor of Frank Joseph Epinger Randall Eyles** Kathleen Farrell In honor of the dedication of all young musicians Rita Frank Melissa Franger Gay Gardner Eliot Girsang Robert Goler^** Carol Goodloe Roger Gram Julia Greenway Gregg Grisa June Hajjar Gregory Hammond Robert Hay, Jr. Gary & Christel Hignett Josh Heit Anthony Iannaccone In honor of Ulysses James Charles & Gail Irish Noel Kaupinen Carol Anne Kelly The Kisthardt Shinkle Family In honor of WMYO Linda Kosich Cathy & Will Kunz John & Vivian Lieb Kathleen Litchfield Barbara R. Lowrey John Matzner** Carol & Robert McGinnis Robert Mikulak James Moody^ H. Paul Moon Lisa Motley Lynn Mueller** George & Jean Parks Joanne Parker-Braxton Barbara Polhemus Kristen Race Gail Richmond In honor of Ulysses James Bill Rojas Nancy Sage Lee & Deena Smith In honor of Caroline Mousset Sherri Stephan Gregory Stolp Jane Thell** In honor and memory of Shirley McNeely Stu & Ruth Tucker Amy Vilela Patricia Washington Gayle & Joe White Jamie White In honor of Ulysses James Sheri & Raymond Wolfe Jeanette Wong Katherine Wood Jacqueline Zins |
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- Recognition in our program book and here on our website
