Applause!
Symphony Supporters
Applause!
The NBSO expresses its deep appreciation to all who support our concerts, educational programs, and community outreach. Donations of $100 or more received between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025, are listed below.
$100,000+
Dr. Roger Allen
Anonymous, in memory of Robert Freeman
$25,000+
Howard and Fredericka Stevenson
$10,000
Thomas Barry and Nancy Shanik
Baldwin Wealth Partners
Cile and Bill‡ Hicks
Wendy and Ken Joblon
Sally Johnston
Fran and Will Keene
Andy Kotsatos and Heather Parsons
Paul and Denise Lamoureux
Susan and Dexter Mead
Susan Eldredge Mead
John Newton and Janice Weber
Sandria Parsons
Margaret-Ann Rice
Ann and Hans Ziegler
A Friend of the NBSO
$5,000+
Albert Fox Facial Plastic Surgery
Janet and Bill Coquillette
Helen DeGroot
Jim and Carol Dildine
Drs. James T Griffith and Susan J Leclair
Lilian Kemp and David Marks
Michael Malone and Debra Gayle
Drs. Alvin and Andrea Marcovici
Wayne Matelski
Diana Nichols
Pamela and Harry Norweb
Jane and Neil Pappalardo
Servedwell Hospitality
Margot Stone
Geoff and Judy Swett
Richard‡ and Patricia Wecker
Anonymous, in memory of Leia and Joseph
Anonymous
$2,500+
Milton and Marilyn Adams
Joel Alvord and Lisa Schmid Alvord
Douglas Balder and Joan DeCollibus
Michael and Margie Baldwin
Christina Bascom
BayCoast Bank
Jan and Chuck Bichsel
Jack Boesen and Janne Hellgren
Bristol County Savings Bank
Rid Bullerjahn and Milo Fay
Gregory and Kathleen Clear
Sheila Converse
Gail Davidson
Ralph Eustis‡
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Suzanne and George Gebelein
The Gladstone Family Fund
Marjorie and Nick Greville
Hawthorn Medical Associates
Dr. Edward Hoffer and Madeleine Deschamps Hoffer
Maryellen and James S. Hughes
Elizabeth Huidekoper
Nan Johnson and Alan Minard
Martha and Michael Keating
LandVest
Frances Levin
Ken Lipman
Joop and Ria Nagtegaal
Peter Necheles and Marlissa Briggett
Edward Ottensmeyer and Anne Donnellon
Richard Pline and Roseann Radosevich
Karen and Jim Prieur
Margot and Mark Schmid
Shepard Turf Management, Inc.
Southcoast Health
Barry and Meg Steinberg
The Symphony Shop
Whaling City Sound
Anonymous
$1,000+
Hope Lincoln Baker
Bianca and Michael Bator
Mr. and Mrs. Wael Bayazid
Virginia and Myles Boone
Ellen and Tom Bowler
Edward C. and Elizabeth H. Brainard
Joel Brenner and Victoria Pope
Norman and Irene Buck
Dr. Peter Campisano and Joyce Tower
Betty Ann and Jack Cannell
Gregory and Kathleen Clear, in honor of Sally Johnston
Dwight and Loretto Crane
James and Edwina Cronin
Wendy and Ray Cullum
Michael K. Davis
Bob and Sue Daylor
Peter and Patricia Dean
John and Zelinda Douhan
Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips
Breck and Jeanne Eagle
Randall Elgin and Mark Whalen
Michael Esposito and Cynthia Redel
Janet and Bob Feingold
Gerald and Holly Fitzgerald
Rebecca Welch Foley
Drs. Albert and Cynthia Fox
Elsie R. Fraga
Richard and Sharon Grahn
Nancy and Michael Grogan
Philip Guymont and Susan McLaren
Maryann Hayes
Dorothy A. Hebden-Heath
Lindsay Hirt
Jack and Leslie Howard
Gary P. Johnson and Luana Josvold
David and Jen Kaiser
Rusty and Betsy Kellogg
Trudy Kingery
Joe Kluger and Susan Lewis
Diane and Peter Lafond
Dr. Raina and Stephen Lamade
John and Doris Ludes
Holly and Joe McDonough
Frank McGuire and Deb Hanley
Christopher McKown and Abigail Johnson, in memory of John A. Mills, MD
Vincent Mor and Margaret Wool Mor
Faith and Dick Morningstar
James Murray
Connie Holmes Nelson
Deborah Winslow Nutter and Alan Rutan
John and Emily Pinheiro
Karen and Jim Prieur, in honor of Ann and Hans Ziegler
Donald and Genie Rice
Cecilia and Chris Ross
Jamey and Laura Shachoy, in memory of John A. Mills, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shuster
Christopher and Marlene Smith
Charlotte D. Smith
Robert B. Smith
Paul and Karen Snyder
Thomas Stritter and Rachael Kolb
Elaine and Geoff Swaebe
C. Winfield and Winifred B. Swarr
Richard D. Tabors and Mary Ellen Lees
Rhonda and Roy Veugen
Henry and Marion Wainer
Marge Waite and Neal Weiss
Gregory Wallace and Craig Sheppard
John and Mallory Waterman
Kathy Wattles
R. Davis Webb, Jr. and Jennifer W. Webb
Janet Whitla
Robin Worcester
Grace and David Wyss
Drs. Laima and Bertram Zarins
A Supporter of NBSO
Anonymous
$500+
Mark and Patricia Allen
Melissa and Wesley Alwang
Dana Anderson
Lucy Aptekar and Gerry Leader
Michele Baltus and Rick Davis
David and Laurie Barrett
Ani and Larry Bauerlein
Bruce Brown, in memory of Dr. Charles Parsons
Lorraine and Russ Carey
Gloria Clark
Ms. Janice Z. Clark
Mary Dermody and Lawrence Kupferschmidt
Kathy Dinneen
Sarah and William Ducas
James and Nancy Edwards
Helena Evans
Stephen Fletcher and Michael Walden
Marie L. Fontaine, in memory of Doris and Fred Basel
Jim and Margaret Forbush
Karen M. and George Gardner
John and Gretchen Graef
Robert and Cynthia Hamburger
Laurie Hays and Fen Montaigne, in memory of Claire Hays Montaigne
Nicholas and Susan Iwanisziw
Chris and Cynthia Latham
Edith Lauderdale
Quillan Lowney and Sydney Hawes
James Martin
Ed and Anne Motley
Regina M Mullen
Carolyn Osteen
Edward Ottensmeyer and Anne Donnellon, in memory of Ralph Eustis
Penguin Random House LLC
Geraldine Perry-Lopes
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Philla
Susan C. Schenker Family Charitable Giving Fund
Maria Scott
Steve and Judy Silverstein
Chuck Smiler
Ms. Anne Tinker and Mr. John Henderson
Donald and Ellen Watson
Anna Whitcomb and Samuel Knight
Anne Whitney
Anonymous, in memory of Anna L. Tracey and Annabelle Thielman
Anonymous
$250+
Chris and Trish Arnold
Diane Brown-Couture
Buzzards Bay Coalition
Amanda and Gareth Cook
Rodrigo de Souza
Jennifer Dubois
Anne Eisenmenger and Patrick Lester
Patricia and John Furrey
Mr. and Mrs. John Gorczyca
Dr. Kevin Hamilton
Sandra S. Hewitt
Joshua Horowitz
Elizabeth and Jonathan Howland
Ilene and Richard Jacobs
Henry and Andrea Keene
Mark and Nancy Keighley
Roberta and Kevin Kennedy
Mary Ellen Kennedy
Walter Knox
Michael and Susan Kramer
Elizabeth M. Lafleur
Sasha Lauterbach and Peter Sturges, in honor of Sally Johnston
Judith N. Lund
Luzo Auto – John and Victor Pinheiro
Lloyd and Ann Macdonald
Mary Mandeville
Patricia Marshall
Nancy McFadden
Freddy and Alex McFerran
Marlene R. Meyer, in memory of Sr. Dorothy Donovan, O.S.F.
Marlene R. Meyer
Norma M. Olivier
Linda and Lou Othote
Brian and Maura Packham, in honor of Yaniv Dinur
Melanie and John Paras
Sandria Parsons, in memory of John A. Mills, MD
David and Mary Pendergast
Point32Health Foundation
Larry Pratt and Rosalind A. Forber
Kathy Reed
Ryland Roderick
Tina and Paul Schmid
Sue Sebastiao, in memory of Evelyn Sebastiao
Ann Silva
Betty Slade and David Cole
John and Eileen Sorrentino
St. Anne’s Credit Union
Robert and Judith Sterns
Judith and Kristian Stoltenberg
Nicholas and Deborah Sullivan
June and William Swanson
Ken Weber
Mrs. Diana Worley
Anonymous Fund at The Rhode Island Foundation
$100+
Meg and Bob Ackerman
Thomas Anders and Constance Bowe
Albert and Lisa Arthofer
Sarah and Matt Athanas
Janice Ayers, in memory of Leona Berlow Walder
Taylor and Teresa Baldwin
Pamela and Ricardo Bermudez
Mary Jean Blasdale
Nina Blumenthal and Scott Corin
Bettina Borders and Victor Mailey
John and Jennifer Brindisi
Deborah Persons Brooke
Camilla Brooks and Margaret Egan
Carol Brown
Ms. Nancy Fraida Brown
George Charbonneau
LP Chase Real Estate
Chi-Hau and Wanda Chen
James and Shauna Chen
James and Shauna Chen, in memory of Pearl Ming-Chu Chen
Jessica and Melissa Chester-Letendre
Thomas Ciesielka and Christine Hoh
Bob Clancy and Kathi Rogers
Nelson Coluzzi
Anne T Converse
The John A. Conway and Leslie B. Conway Fund
David and Linda Cornell
Chuck Cotter and Marilyn Saint-Aubin
Evelyn Crocker
Teresa V. Cryan
Bob and Vickie Cunningham
Chan Dai Family
Carlton Dasent and Carol Kolek
Andrea and Emmanuel Daskalakis
Judith R. Davis
Colleen Dawicki
Arthur M. DeAscentis
Mary Ann Dillon
Dennis DiTullio
John and Mary Beth Dowd
Judith Downey
Joanna and Jack Dresser
Don and Jane Dufault
Elizabeth S. Eustis
Helga Faulenbach
Kate and David Fentress
Ernest Fisher
Jim and Susan Fitchett
Sandi Ford
Carl Freedman and Beverly Ehrich
Angela and Dennis Fusco
Lavinia Gadsden, in honor of Charles Gadsden
Jody and David Gastfriend
Gordon W. Goodfellow
Charles and Cheryl Gorfinkle
Sissy and Mike Halter
Helena and Ken Hartnett
Emily Hartshorne, in honor of Anne Whitney
Kristen and Scott Henriques
Ted and Judy Herlihy
Luther Damon Howard III
Elizabeth Isherwood-Moore
Anne and David Jarvis
Judith A. Jenkins
Peter and Julie Jenks Zorach
Kathy Johnson
Margaret and Derrick Jones
Barbara and Ron Kaplan
$100+ Continued
John D. Kelleher and Viki A. Fowler
Nora and Claire Kelly
Frances and Brian Kennedy
Beth and Rob Ladd
F Tenny Lantz and Raymond C Lantz, Jr.
Douglas and Elizabeth Leatham
Joyce M. LeBlanc
Martin Lipman and Barbara Pearl
John and Doris Ludes, in memory of John A. Mills, MD
Michael and Beth Luey
Janet N. Marshall
Jeff and Karen Martin, in honor of Fran Levin
Carolee Matsumoto and David Gilbertson
Bryan J. McSweeny
Sherry Michael
William and Beth Miller
Anne Mozzone
Robin Muise
Richard P. Murdock
Michael and Margaret Nash
Mary Noble
Bruce J and Pamela Oliveira
David and Ellen Oliver
Linda Orr
Alanna and Mark Parsons
Susan and Daniel Perry
Susan and Daniel Perry, in honor of Fran Levin
Gilbert Perry and Donna Sachs
Leonard Phillips and Ronni Krasny
Steven and Debra Pickup
The Pierre Family
Dennis and Jane Pucello
Karen Quigley and Russell Hensel
Bill Reed
Paula Rego
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Rizy
Marion Salm
Linda Scharf and Peter Gold
Edward Sefranka and George Tinkham
Joanne Seymour and Brian Ruh
Caroline Shamu and Peter Sorger, in honor of Geoffrey and Laura Shamu
Ian Shields
Janet and Mark Silverman
Louis and Arlene Silverstein
Paula and Michael Sitarz
William Slater
Anne Morton Smith
Mary Anne and Joe Sousa
Mary Anne and Joe Sousa, in memory of Dolores Sousa
Judi and Bob Sterns and Family, in memory of Matthew Frauwirth
Mary and Christopher Strasser
June Strunk
John Temple
Alexander Tetradze
Mary L. Tomlinson
Sarah Bucknell Treco
Nonie Walder
Ellen and Larry Walsh
Sara D. Waters
Russ and Jane Weigel, in honor of Fran Levin
Bailey and Phil Whitbeck
Sylvia White
John and Virginia Wilkens
Nina and Kent Willever
Anonymous, in memory of P.G.
Anonymous
Dr. Roger H. Allen Children’s Education Programs Fund
Allan and Priscilla Ditchfield
Michael Esposito and Cynthia Redel
Dorothy A. Hebden-Heath
Edward Hoffer, MD
Paul and Denise Lamoureux
Sandria Parsons
Janet Whitla
Patricia Plum Wylde
The Marjorie Waite Fund
Ellen Witt and Thomas Clark Fund for Music Education
Albert Fox Facial Plastic Surgery Center
Baldwin Wealth Partners
BayCoast Bank
Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation
Diana Henry Realty
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Hawthorn Medical Associates
LandVest
Minuteman Press
On the Go
Servedwell Hospitality
Shepard Turf Management, Inc.
Southcoast Health
Southeastern MA Festival Chorus
Sylvia Group of Insurance Agencies
The Symphony Music Shop
Tri-county Music Association
Whaling City Sound
Your Theatre, Inc.
Association for the Relief of Aged Women
Barr Foundation
BayCoast Bank
Enable Hope Foundation
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation
Island Foundation, Inc.
The Klarman Family Foundation
Leonard and Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Council
New Bedford Day Nursery Fund
Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation
The Carney Family Charitable Foundation
The Howard Bayne Fund
The Nelson Mead Fund
Special Support
Learning in Concert program support provided by Concerts at the Point for Fall River, Westport, and Tiverton elementary schools, and by Up with Schools Arts for Little Compton and New Bedford private schools. Educational program support is provided in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
SING TO ME
October 12 &13, 2024, 3 PM
Special Additional Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum
On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors D'oeuvres and spirits.
A dazzling vocal journey
Featuring Philip Lima, baritone
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Charles Ives: Songs
The Children's Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band
Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)
Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26
Joaquín Turina: The Toreador's Prayer, Op. 34
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.
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