BREVARD MUSIC CENTER
WELCOME FROM THE BOARD On behalf of the BMC Board of Trustees, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our stellar 80th anniversary season. I write you as the brand new chairman of that board, but I attended my first performance here more than fifty years ago. My own time on BMC’s board was preceded by my mother Dicksie Cribb’s 45 years of service as a trustee. This is the kind of continuity one so frequently sees at “Brevard”, even as we have recently welcomed aboard eight distinguished trustees who are already strengthening our work to keep BMC moving smartly forward. One of the best exemplars of BMC’s special blend of tradition and progress is the dynamic partnership between Artistic Director Keith Lockhart and President Mark Weinstein. Maestro Lockhart’s association with BMC began many years ago as a student here, and impresario Weinstein is just now entering his third season as our CEO — after heralded tenures as executive director of the New York City Opera, the Pittsburgh Opera, and the Washington National Opera. Already this collaboration between one of the world’s great conductors and a world-class arts administrator has produced the major upgrade of the acoustics that you will experience this season in historic Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium (WPA). Keith had counseled our board that, as good as the musical experience has been for audiences, it could be even better: “If only you could hear in the back row what I am hearing on stage as I conduct!” Immediately on his arrival Mark initiated a planning process that brought the entire BMC family together for ‘A Campaign Among Friends’ to, among other important undertakings, execute an ambitious acoustical fix for WPA. Last season audiences were treated to a stage extension that brings the music into their very midst, and this year you will experience a new shell that projects that amazing sound to the furthest reaches of the amphitheater. What a way to celebrate our 80th! And yet these signal performances under the WPA roof are just part of the story. As we trustees continually remind ourselves, “It’s all about the kids and the music.” So the twenty-seven musical events enjoyed by our season ticket holders at WPA are but a part of some eighty performances by our students and faculty over the ten weeks of our season. Each of our performance venues is an opportunity for the magical transfer of artistry from the best faculty it is possible to assemble to the best students it is possible to recruit — from the present custodians of the treasure of classical music to the new custodians who follow. To observe this transformation is literally thrilling. As great as the performances are in and of themselves, they are further enriched, even ennobled, by our witness to the encounter between a new generation of highly talented musicians and the great masterworks of the classical tradition. It is so wonderful that you can be with us to see this unfold. I want to express the gratitude of our entire board to my predecessor, Dr. Falls Harris, for his leadership as our Chairman. Among many achievements he led a national search that culminated with the recruitment of Mark Weinstein as BMC president. Thank you Falls, from the bottom of our hearts. Since last season we have lost former BMC CEO Henry Janiec after a long and distinguished life dedicated to music. But we have also welcomed back onto our board another former CEO, John Candler, who led us from one height to another during his long tenure. So our world changes, in which the finest of our musical traditions find new artists and new audiences through the alchemy we call “Brevard.”
2016 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. Chairman, Board of Trustees Doug Bailey Belleair, FL
Falls Harris Greenville, SC
Doug Ombres Tequesta, FL
M. Beattie Wood Atlanta, GA
William White, Jr. Charlotte, NC
Bruce Berryhill Cashiers, NC
Sue Henderson Winston-Salem, NC
Helen Peery Charlotte, NC
Kurt Zimmerli Spartanburg, SC
Thomas C. Bolton Asheville, NC
Phillip Jerome Pisgah Forest, NC
John S. Candler Brevard, NC
Elaine Knight The Villages, FL Ex officio
Penny Roubion Pisgah Forest, NC Ex officio
Trustee Emeriti Doug Booth Charlotte, NC
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Martha Coursey Atlanta, GA T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. Spartanburg, SC Robert H. Dowdeswell Flat Rock, NC Jerusha Fadial Charlotte, NC Bill Hackney Marietta, GA
Wilbur Boswell III Hendersonville, NC
Life Trustees Karl Straus Asheville, NC
Robby Russell Arden, NC
Dicksie Cribb Spartanburg, SC
Katie Loeb-Schwab Marco Island, FL
Arthur Schreiber Brevard, NC
Mary Helen Dalton Atlanta, GA
Donna Lohr Landrum, SC
Linda Thompson Pisgah Forest, NC
Robert Dalton, Jr. Charlotte, NC
Arthur Schreiber, Treasurer
Ruby Morgan Greenville, SC
Joella Utley Spartanburg, SC
Frederick Dent Spartanburg, SC
Linda Thompson, Secretary
Russell Newton Brevard, NC
Mark Weinstein Brevard, NC Ex officio
Mitchell Watson West Palm Beach, FL
Mark Weinstein, President Ex officio
Officers T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Chair Joella Utley, Vice Chair