Major Gift To Support NFSO Performance of Madama Butterfly
05/12/2010
Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra (NFSO)
No sooner had the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra (NFSO) concluded its 23rd season than conductor and music director Jeffrey Rink announced a major pledge to underwrite the centerpiece of the upcoming 2010-11 season - a grand performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Rink announced the pledge of a $10,000 gift from the George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation, through Alexander A. Bove, Jr. Trustee. Mr. Bove and Jeffrey Rink have enjoyed a long collaboration in the productions of operas in concert version in Boston's Jordan Hall since 2004. Rink noted that this particular gift will be used to sponsor a major portion of the cost for the orchestra's October 30, 2010 performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly to be heard on the mainstage of the Mattie Kelly Fine and Performing Arts Center in Niceville.
Maestro Rink noted that he was especially pleased to announce this particular gift because it will "make possible the performance of opera in concert version in Northwest Florida which I hope will be a harbinger of many great things to come." Rink was especially noted by music critics during his career in Boston and New England for his operatic works with symphony. Based in Boston, the benefactor of the NFSO's upcoming operatic concert, Alexander Bove, is a widely known and respected trust and estate attorney with more than thirty years experience. For more than twenty years he authored the widely acclaimed legal and financial column, "The Family Money", for the Boston Globe. He has published several books on subjects of estate planning, asset protection planning, taxes, trusts and estates, and is an internationally known lecturer in his fields of expertise.
In addition to the gifts Mr. Bove has awarded through the George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation in 2004 he was instrumental in establishing the Nicholas and Virginia Neville Graduate Assistantship in Orchestral Conducting at Mr. Rink's alma mater, the University of Maryland.
For information about the full season of NFSO concerts for 2010-11 or making a donation to support the symphony, see the NFSO website at www.nfsymphony.org or contact Carla Reinlie, Associate director of the NWFSC Foundation by calling 729-5357.
