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With Thanks

Purcell Welcome in concert singers - photo Jeanine Hill 2024

For assistance and partnership during the 2026 season, the Festival Directors gratefully acknowledge:

• For hosting our concerts, St. Mark Presbyterian Church (The Rev. D. Mark Davis, Kathy Roberts, Sue-Ann Wichman); Sherman Library & Gardens (Scott LaFleur, Lisa Wagner, Harper Larson); and St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church (Father Shane Scott-Hamblen, Maile Jansen). 
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For grants in support of our 46th season, the Colburn Foundation; the Jane Deming Fund at Orange County Community Foundation; and the City of Newport Beach.
• For harpsichord supply and tuning services, Curtis Berak; for organ supply, Tesserae Baroque; for timpani supply, Bach Collegium San Diego.
• For music librarian services, Andrew Waid.
• For artists & staff accommodations, 
Philip & Natalia Benguhe, Susan Brown & Frank Bean, Kelly Carioti, Virginia Cassara & Tim Hunter, Susan Feldman, Andrew Hinek & Keith Wetmore, Susan & Wolfhard Homma, Terrell & Deborah Koken, Jane & Bob Parker, Nina Jo Smith, Mary Anne Turley-Emett, Melissa Rodgers Woodrow & James Woodrow, and Catherine & Robert Waters.
• For event facilitation, members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Omicron Pi Chapter (CSU Fullerton), Philip Benguhe, Kyoko Bethke, Virginia Cassara, Wolfhard Homma, Wade Hostler, Mario & Nancy Liegghio, John McHugh & Vanessa Pfeiffer, Dr. Terri Munroe, Ruth & Wayne Norman, Janet Rappaport, Dr. Vina R. Spiehler, David Thorpe & Jessica Weir, John Tynan, Catherine Waters, and Lynne Hayward Worley.
• For stage management and equipment, Pacific Symphony’s production department (Will Hunter, senior director).
• For amplification at Sherman Library & Gardens, Paul Levin.
• For catering the June 28 subscribers’ dinner, Suzanne’s Catering of Huntington Beach; for the donation of wine for Festival receptions, the Norman Family; for a nonprofit discount on wines for Festival receptions, Total Wine, Tustin; for coffee and teas at Sherman Gardens, Starbucks, Corona del Mar; for preparation of rehearsal meals, Dr. Terri Munroe, Ruth Norman, Dr. Vina R. Spiehler, and Lynne Hayward Worley. 
• For editorial support, Patricia Bril; for publicity, Patricia Albers, Carolyn Behrendt, Philip Benguhe, Virginia Cassara, Wolfhard Homma, Debby Koken, John McHugh, Dr. Vina R. Spiehler, Catherine Waters; for website maintenance, Stephen Hammer; and for advertising liaison, Virginia Cassara, Dr. Terri Munroe and Lynne Hayward Worley. 
• For publicizing our student programs, Newport Beach Public Library, NMUSD, Philharmonic Society Orange County, CSU Fullerton School of Music and Vanguard University, among others. 
• The Festival’s Advertisers, whose advertisements appear in the printed Festival Program distributed at all concerts, and our Festival Supporters, without whose generous financial assistance our annual Festival would not survive.

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