Celebrating
Diane Wittry’s 20th Anniversary Season
Tribute & Benefit Dinner
October 1, 2015
Allentown, PA — The Board of Directors of The Allentown Symphony Association invites you to celebrate Diane Wittry and her 20 years of outstanding artistic leadership as Music Director and Conductor of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Come honor your Maestra as we celebrate one of very few female Music Directors and Conductors in the industry. Long-standing ASO musicians will also be celebrated at this event.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
5:30 pm Reception in the Hall – Painted Violin Auction
6:15 pm On-Stage Tribute
7:00 pm Dinner – Rodale Community Room (Catering by Karen Hunter)
Business or Cocktail Attire
Tribute Reception $50
Tribute Reception & Dinner $150
There will be plenty of feasting going on as we hold a Tribute on stage at Symphony Hall with video and slides commemorating the past twenty years as we make history in our community and with honoring long-standing musicians. Proclamations will be mentioned from Senator Pat Browne’s Office, State Representatives Peter Schweyer and Michael Schlossberg at the Tribute and by Mayor Pawlowski at the Dinner. Live Music will fill the air by some of our musicians both at the Tribute and during the dinner portion in the Rodale Room. A painted violin auction is a highlight of the evening as we feature local artists who have taken gently used violins and have come up with their own creation. The instruments are beautifully displayed in the store-front windows of the Hall until the day of the tribute as they will be auctioned off at the event. Local artists featured are: Chris P. Jones, Ron De Long, Ann A. Lalik, Michelle Neifert, Erin Anderson, Rosemary Geseck, Ann Schlegel, Corianne Thompson, Kim Hogan, Virginia Abbott, Andi Grunberg, Ana M. Hamilton, Sharon Schenkel, Jane Heft, Kevin Jamison, Linda La Due and Laura L. Elmore. (See attachment for more details).
Twenty years of Board Presidents from 1995 to 2015 include:
(in chronological order – each serving two years)
Barbara McGovern, L. Charles Marcon
Malcolm Gross Jo-Ann Kelly
Suzanne H. Mason Kristine Burfeind
William Edmundson David Osborn
John Berseth
Philip Jackson (current –2015-2017)
Internationally acclaimed conductor, DIANE WITTRY, maintains a dual career as an esteemed music director and guest conductor throughout the world. She is celebrating twenty years as a music director/conductor with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra this season. What was once known as a community orchestra, Diane Wittry has taken the ASO to new heights over the years and it is the only professional orchestra in the Lehigh Valley.
Wittry specializes in conducting American music abroad, and is known in the United States for her innovative and creative programming. Diane Wittry is the Music Director and Conductor of the Allentown Symphony, PA, and the Ridgewood Symphony, NJ. She also serves as the Artistic Director (USA) for the International Cultural Exchange Program for Classical Musicians through the Sarajevo Philharmonic (Bosnia) and the Bosnian‐ Herzegovinian American Academy for Arts and Sciences, as well as being the Artistic Director for Pizazz Music, an ensemble that specializes in bringing classical music to people in new and different ways. In the United States, Diane Wittry has led performances by the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, San Diego, Houston, New Jersey, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Society of New York, among others. She has also conducted at the music festivals of Ojai (CA), Penn’s Woods (PA), and I‐Park (CT). Her international engagements include concerts with the Sarajevo Philharmonic in Bosnia, the Zabrze Philharmonic in Poland, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Russia’s Maikop and Sochi symphony orchestras, Slovakia’s State Orchestra‐Kosice, Italy’s Sinfoni aDell’Arte di Firenze, Canada’s Niagara Symphony, and Japan’s Osaka Symphony Orchestra.
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Lucy Bloise, VP Marketing
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