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GIFTS OF $50,000 AND UP

The Living Composer Circle

Living Composer’s Lifespan: Still Kicking. Music is alive. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the works of our present day. New works give us the perspective to appreciate that all music was once new, surprising, and even shocking. By performing and championing the works of our musical present, we are better able to appreciate the masterpieces of the past.

GIFTS OF $20,000 TO $49,999

The Josef Haydn Circle

Haydn’s Lifespan: 77 years. Haydn was the most prolific composer of symphonic and chamber music during the Classical Era. He invented the String Quartet and perfected the form in his mature works. “Papa” Haydn, as he was known, lived to the ripe age of 77 and is considered to be the father of chamber music as we know it.

• Anonymous

• Cape Flattery Foundation

• Darcie Furlan

• Susan Monahan & Mark Brucks

• Washington State Arts Commission

GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $19,999

The Clara Schumann Circle

Clara Schumann’s Lifespan: 76 years. A virtuoso pianist, patient mentor to both her husband Robert and her dear friend Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann was also a composer of exquisite refinement, nowhere more so than in her chamber music.

• Blue Mountain Community Foundation

• Michael Dean Martin Charitable Fund

• Paul G Allen Family Foundation

• Wildhorse Foundation

GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $9,999

The Johannes Brahms Circle

Brahms’ Lifespan: 63 years. Brahms was perhaps the most influential composer of symphonic and chamber music in the nineteenth century after Beethoven. The variety, breadth, and beauty of his chamber music, as well as his contributions as a teacher, make him a towering figure on the musical landscape.

• Banner Bank

• City of Walla Walla

• John Jamison & Kathy Wildermuth

• David Meeker

• Walla Walla County

GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $4,999

The Ludwig van Beethoven Circle

Beethoven’s Lifespan: 56 years. Beethoven cast a long shadow across the nineteenth century and beyond. His late string quartets remain revolutionary works to this day. Despite his deafness, Beethoven did more to change the course of music than any other composer.

• Brad Anderson & Kay Mead

• Iain & Stephanida Christie

• Columbia REA

• Edward Jones

• Michael Haight & Cathy Lee-Haight

• JL Stubblefield Trust

• Albert Marshall

• Dick & Julie Swenson

GIFTS OF $1,000 TO $2,499

The Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Circle

Tchaikovsky Lifespan: 53 years. Tchaikovsky was a melodist of endless invention. Though we know him by the cannon fire of his “1812 Overture,” Tchaikovsky truly reveals himself through his music for the great indoors, his chamber music.

• Kris & Tim Barry

• Elizabeth Carr, in memory of Rosalie Chantiny, chamber music mentor

• Jim & JoAnn Clapp

• Clara & Art Bald Trust

• Karl Eckhardt & Pamela Mittelstadt

• Cecile & Rick Ervin

• Marilyn & Robert Franklin

• Mike & Sue Gillespie

• Rowena Hammill & Douglas Davis

• Edward & Karleen Heintzberger

• James Johnson

• Mary Garner Esary Trust

• John Sampen & Marilyn Shrude

• Douglas & Malinda Saturno

• Margo & Tom Scribner

GIFTS OF $500 TO $999

The Felix Mendelssohn Circle

Mendelssohn’s Lifespan: 38 years. Mendelssohn’s contributions include rediscovering the music of Bach and pioneering new forms, such as “Songs Without Words.” Mendelssohn both protected the legacy of the past and looked to the future.

• Patricia Anderson

• Anonymous

• Anitra Breit

• Jack Copperman & Martine Purcell

• Anne Haley & Jim Shepherd

• Rebekka Christie Sharma

GIFTS OF $300 TO $499

The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Circle

Mozart’s Lifespan: 35 years. His every work a pearl, every musical gesture a poem, Mozart is perfection.

• Lenore Barkan & Ron Urban

• Jenna Bicknell & Jamey Lamar

• Patricia Cleavenger

• Fred & Genie Crowe

• Gene Dixon &Tim Theriac

• David Glenn & Laura Curtis

• Kathi & Ted Lucia

• Karen Miller

• Mark & Marlene Schuck

• Deb & Dick Simon

• Lee Simon, in memory of Daryl Smith

• Dale & La Dessa Smelcer

• Walla Walla Steak Company

GIFTS OF $100 TO $299

The Franz Schubert Circle

Schubert’s lifespan: 31 years. A prolific composer of songs, Schubert took chamber music to lyrical heights.

• Richard Alan

• Diane & Robert Alexander

• Earl & Sandi Blackaby, in memory of our parents

• Becky Burad

• Ann & Dick Counsell

• Joyce & Ted Cox

• Brian Dohe

• Larry & Rosalind Duthie

• Elaine Eaker

• Leila El-Wakil, in honor of Tim Christie & Maria Sampen

• Bill & Jan Eyestone

• MaryJo & Robert Fontenot, in memory of Barbara Van Yserloo

• MaryJo & Robert Fontenot, in memory of Dick & Ruth Thomassen

• Deborah & Steven Frol

• Jamie Guerin & Ingrid Heintzberger-Vu

• Judith & Ron Jamison

• Andy & Gail Jennings

• Linnea & Robert Keatts

• Becky & Sam Kirtley

• Lisbeth Locke

• Mary & Michael Luce

• Timothy Machonkin & Amy Blau

• Janet & Robert Miller

• Jennifer Miller      

• Joyce Muzzall

• Brenda Ramirez

• Sherrie & Steve Rapp

• Greg Nelson & Molly Reid

• Dr. & Mrs. Franklin Ordelheide

• David Reinholz

• Jan & Phil Rolfe

• Kathleen Ruggeri

• Anne Marie & Don Schwerin

• Rand & Lynn Sealey

• Larissa Shepard, in memory of dear son Stephen Erik, departed 30 years

• Robynne Snow, in memory of Charlotte Snow

• Jon Stratton

• Stephen & Suzanne Towery

• Jonathan & Patty Travis

• Bob & Jill Zagelow

• Kathryn Zahl

GIFTS OF UP TO $99

The Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Circle

Pergolesi’s Lifespan: 26 years. Though short-lived, Pergolesi was a prolific composer of operatic, sacred, and chamber music. His “Stabat Mater” has been performed annually on Good Friday in Naples, Italy, for almost 300 years.

• Doug & Karen Bayne

• Chelanne Brown, in memory of Sigrid Grinius

• Pamela Causey

• Margaret Eubanks

• Milissa Gierman & Ronald Tokar

• Sharon & Tim Kaufman-Osborn

• McMenemy-Chabre Family

• Stacia Peterson, in memory of Dorothy Peterson

• David Schober & Rosa Shin

• Jenny & John Stratton

How we acknowledge the generosity of our beloved audience:

• All entries are alphabetical by last name within each circle.

• Where couples share a last name, entries are alphabetical by first name.

• Where couples have different last names, entries are alphabetical by last name within the entry.