WMPA would like to express its warmest gratitude to our growing family of Friends who have have demonstrated a commitment to the performing arts and improving our community. The following reflects gifts received from September 1, 2021 through March 19, 2023. Friends levels honor American composers whose works feature in our concerts.
$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.
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Galena-Yorktown Foundation |
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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.
William & Janet James
Gary & Phoebe Mallard Gordon & Sheila Soper Warren C. Zwicky |
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- 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 Joan TowerA doyenne of American orchestral composers, Tower, 78, is known to many for her six "Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman,” a pendant to Aaron Copland’s ubiquitous musical prelude. However, these are relatively small works in a catalogue that has moved from early serialism to music that is impressionistic, colorful, and direct, like “Sequoia” (1981). Another signature piece, "Made in America" (2006), was performed in all 50 states before taking a Grammy award for Best Classical Composition in 2008. In music, she told an interviewer in 2015, “the gender issue is nonexistent. … Now, outside the music, there’s all sorts of problems!”
Margaret M. Ballard
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- 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 CopelandAaron 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.
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Angela Stover Anderson Dr. Boyd Burris George & Marguerite Chadwick Michael & Liz Davis Martha Ellison Sarah Iredell Margarita Garriga Jocelyn E. Hodges Ulysses S. James Maurice McCreary Dennis Murphy Pediatric Associates of Alexandria Carole A. Pyle Gunja Quigg Mr. David C. Schwark & Mrs. Suzanne C. Schwark |
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- 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).
Moya Atkinson I appreciate the many years I played cello with the Philharmonic. Special thanks to Maestro James! May WMPA continue to provide great pleasure, not only to the audience but to the musicians and volunteers who support WMPA's ongoing success.
Mary Ann Berry In memory of Dave Berry Samuel & Patricia Boglio Stephen Carroll Rachel Colombana Kay & David Green Dr. Irene Trowell-Harris Saruhan & Kavita Hatipoglu Kevin & Eileen Kirby Michael & Anne Kuprenas In honor of Mr. James' tremendous contributions to youth and adult music performances opportunities Jennifer Lavallee John Reiser Lynn Ries |
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- 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.
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Sue Bairstow Grazina Blekaitis Gary Bravy Adrienne G. Cannon Charles Carron William Chadwick Carol Coose Marcia Crockett Bruce Davies Toward the continuation of Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Kristin & Clarence Dillon Shannon M. Dubicki Alan Edelstein Sallie Forman Inés Garcia Gay Gardner Carol Goodloe June Hajjar Margaret Harrison In memory of Joan Liebman Jane Hughes & William Jokela David Jourdan In memory of Kathleen Jourdan David Labovitz Amy Medearis Thomas Nichols & Virginia Keeley Brittany Pemberton Deidre Pistochini John Rees In honor of Maestro James Jennifer Roy Ralph & Nancy Schuetz Cheryl Stickley Dr. Robert Tomaro Sending heartiest congratulations to Maestro James on the upcoming completion of his remarkable tenure with WMPA! Phillip & Eileen Thompson |
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- 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. Anonymous
Halina Banas-Jones John & Jouette Bassler Beau Soir Ensemble Wendy Benchley Vladislav Beresovsky Thomas Boudreau Rebecca Brown Carter Bryan, II Betty Bullock Kathleen Burns Robert Clark Richard Darilek Douglas Davidson John Sutherland Earle In honor of Ul James, with appreciation for all he has done to share great music during this difficult time Florence Fasanelli Robert Feldman In honor of my Brown U. classmate and stellar trombonist, Jim James David Fields Melissa Franger Meira Fried Marc Aurel Fritz Bowman Gaskins Financial Group Geoffrey Gee Julia Gershunskaya Larry & Catherine Goldschmidt Deborah Haines Ann Houpt Carol Anne Kelly Daena Kluegel Elizabeth Kluegel In honor of Ken Kluegel, music lover & supporter Meg Knemeyer Joan Leonard John & Vivian Lieb Barbara R. Lowrey Rosita Mang John Matzner Carol McGinnis Marlene McHugh Jasmine Milone James Moody Lisa Motley Mary Nayak Annejanette Pickens Vassilios Pipis Victoria Prescott Ron & Beverly Raphael Dan & Nancy Ries David & Lynn Riggs Dana Greene & Richard Roesel Nancy Sage William K. Schultz Gabriela & Dennis Scott Henry J. Sgrecci Dick & Mary Shea Angela Simmons In honor of Amy Medearis John Simpson Joan Singer Lee Smith Bruce & Pam Tinker Edward P. Walker & Brenda L. Kurlansik Patricia Washington Gayle & Joe White Jamie White In honor of Ul James' service to the community Sheri & Raymond Wolfe Sharon Bingham Wolfolk |
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- Recognition in our season brochure, printed programs, and here on our website
- A tin of cool, noiseless peppermints. Pick yours up at Will Call!