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MAJOR COMMITMENT FROM HECHT-LEVI FOUNDATION
ENDOWS THE BSO’S PRINCIPAL TIMPANI POSITION
On September 23, over 40 BSO friends
and Wyman and Levi family members
gathered to celebrate the dedication of
the Orchestra’s Principal Timpani Chair.
The Levi Family Chair is the Orchestra’s
first new endowed chair in over 13 years.
Prior to the Principal Timpani chair, the
most recently endowed position was that
of the Associate Concertmaster in 2005.
At the dedication, BSO Board Member
and Hecht-Levi Foundation President
Sandra Levi Gerstung was presented
with a framed pair of signed timpani
mallets in recognition and appreciation
Levi and Wyman families celebrate the dedication of the Levi Family Principal Timpani Chair
of the Levi Family’s very generous
commitment and their many decades
of support for the Orchestra. It was the
perfect way to kick off the Orchestra’s
2018-19 season!
Pictured: Sandra Levi Gerstung, James Wyman
and Marin Alsop
ORCHKIDS: ORCHESTRATING HOPE AND CHANGE
The Brown family and OrchKids Students
GOAL
JOIN THE
BROWN
CHALLENGE!
Our very own OrchKids program was
featured in the latest issue of O
Magazine. In just ten years, the program
has grown from 30 students to 1,300.
Maestra Alsop hopes that this number
will be 10,000 one day, and with the
support of the Campaign, we know
we can get there. In efforts to create
social change through music, OrchKids
students receive musical training,
mentorship and healthy meals. The
magazine gave Maestra Alsop the well-
deserved title of a “local hero” and an
“instrument of change.” She has created
a program proving music can change
lives as well as entire communities.
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Congressman Elijah Cummings also
released an article in AFRO magazine
this past summer calling the OrchKids
program an “orchestra of hope for
Baltimore’s future.” The Congressman
expressed how proud he was of the
program and its mission to give inner-
city students a voice. He is a strong
believer in music and the arts, as they
“feed our children’s souls, stimulate
their minds and help them become
forces for good in our community.” He
urged his readers and constituents to
donate to the Brown Challenge and be
a part of something that will lift up the
lives of our children. We are so thankful
to have the support and encouragement
of one of our congressmen.
In early 2016, the Eddie
C. and C. Sylvia Brown
Family Foundation
generously awarded
the BSO a five-year,
$500,000 challenge
grant in support of
the BSO’s OrchKids
program. The terms of
the grant require the
BSO to raise $100,000
annually through
December 2020 from
the African-American
community; with the
goal to raise $1,000,000
in total at the end of
the pledge period.
Join the challenge at
orchkids.org/support!
$500,000
61.3 %
$306,590