Program Book Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Celebrate 2023 with the Dallas Symphony

As we ring in 2023, the DSO can help you with some of your new year’s resolutions.

for your dancing feet. Join us for Kings of Soul celebrating the music of legends such as Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Otis Redding and The Temptations (March 10-12), and Decades: Back to the 80s, where hits from Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Queen and more will get your blood pumping. (April 14-16).

TRAVEL

While you could hit the airports and put your feet on fresh ground, you could also make a trip to the Meyerson and let the DSO transport you to new places. Composer Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis will take you on a tour of the discotheques of Mexico City, while Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 will harken the Nordic shores of Finland.

BURN SOME CALORIES

Everyone knows that dancing is terrific cardio, and the DSO has at least two programs perfect

SPEND

MORE TIME WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Music is a social bonding experience. We perform on stage for our audiences and our community, and we welcome you and music lovers of all ages to join us. Bring your youngest fans to our sensory-friendly family concert, The Unicorn’s Birthday, on June 3. Have some classical music skeptics in your life? Invite them to enjoy Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (February 2-5) and enjoy the sounds of the countryside that inspired the composer.

LEARN AN INSTRUMENT

While we can’t oversee your practice, we can inspire you with some of the top performers from around the world. Violinist Randall Goosby will make his DSO debut with the pyrotechnics of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (January 27-29). Pianist Paul Lewis will perform one of the most famous piano concertos –Grieg’s A minor – with the DSO (January 12-13). Joining a choir? Enjoy the incredible sounds of the Dallas Symphony Chorus in Mendelssohn’s “Lobesang” (March 2-5) and Carmina Burana (May 11-14).

EXPERIENCE JAZZ AT THE MEYERSON

The DSO will welcome jazz artist and composer Terence Blanchard to the Meyerson for two special evenings. Assistant Conductor Maurice Cohn will lead the DSO in selections from Blanchard’s groundbreaking Fire Shut Up In My Bones, a work he called “opera in jazz” and the first opera by a Black composer commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera (February 8). The next night, Blanchard returns to his roots with a jazz performance with his band the E-Collective and Turtle Island String Quartet (February 9).

STRESS LESS

A night out doesn’t need to be challenging. Come to the Meyerson and dine in our Opus Restaurant pre-show. Walk into the hall for a concert you’ll never forget, and cap off the evening with a drink at one of the bars across the street. Make an evening with the DSO, and stop the worrying!

FRESH SCENT

Did you know that Music Director Fabio Luisi is a celebrated perfumer? His hand-crafted scents are available at the DSO’s store. Come by and see which notes match your mood.

And things that only the DSO can provide:

CONTACT ALIEN LIFE

It’s true! The DSO will screen E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in concert with the full orchestra performing the score live (May 19-21). Celebrate the joy of the Steven Spielberg classic while John Williams’s iconic music fills the hall.

HEAR A LEGENDARY VIOLINIST

Pinchas Zukerman is one of the most important violinists of our time. In 2023, he will play/conduct a concert on the Meyerson stage including the Beethoven Violin Concerto and Elgar’s popular Enigma Variations (January 1922). In addition, Zukerman, DSO musicians and SMU faculty will come together for an evening of chamber music at the Meadows School of the Arts (January 26). Want more ideas for the new year? Visit dallassymphony.org and chart your musical course for the year!

BE PART OF HISTORY

Join the DSO for one of two world premiere performances in 2023. American composer Katherine Balch will visit Dallas for the performances of her Cello Concerto written for cellist Zlatomir Fung (April 20-22). DSO Composerin-Residence Angélica Negrón will present Arquitecta, a work for orchestra and written for Colombian singer Lido Pimienta (May 4-7).

What's New at the DSO

Welcome Terry Loftis

The DSO appointed Terry D. Loftis to the new position of Chief Advancement and Revenue Officer, and he began this position in December. In this role, he will lead fundraising, volunteer cultivation, corporate philanthropic support, marketing and social media functions for the organization. He will be a key leader in realizing the strategic objectives of the organization and creating a new, sustainable model among orchestras. We are thrilled to welcome Terry to the DSO!

Christmas Broadcasts

We were delighted to share two new television programs with you all this holiday season. Locally, WFAA aired our Christmas Pops on Christmas Eve, and globally, Bloomberg Media broadcasted A Holly Jolly Celebration which featured the DSO’s C-Suite Christmas. We were happy to share this holiday spirit with audiences around the world and close to home.

Terence Blanchard with the DSO Award-winning composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard will join the DSO for two performances this February. The DSO will be the first orchestra to perform selections from Blanchard’s opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones on February 8, 2023. We will also present an exciting evening of jazz with Blanchard’s band, the E-Collective and GRAMMY® Award-winning Turtle Island String Quartet on February 9, 2023. We are looking forward to welcoming this important musician and composer back to Dallas and to the Meyerson stage.

Best of DFW

This November, the Meyerson Symphony Center won the gold award for DFW’s best concert venue from the Dallas Morning News. It is exciting to know that our city recognizes our beautiful and beautiful-sounding home.

In gratitude, these performances are dedicated to:

Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation Weekend of Concerts

Thursday Norma and Don Stone

JAMES CONLON Conducts

ALEXANDER KERR Violin

Concertmaster

Michael L. Rosenberg Chair

SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture, Op. 96 (Approximate duration 6 minutes)

KORNGOLD Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35 (Approximate duration 25 minutes)

I. Moderato nobile

II. Romance

III. Allegro assai vivace

ALEXANDER KERR VIOLIN

INTERMISSION

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 (Approximate duration 45 minutes)

I. Moderato – Allegro non troppo

II. Allegretto

III. Largo

IV. Allegro non troppo

James Conlon Conductor

DSO Debut

JAMES CONLON, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic, and choral repertoire. Since his 1974 debut with the New York Philharmonic, he has conducted virtually every major American and European symphony orchestra. Through worldwide touring, an extensive discography and videography, numerous writings, television appearances and guest speaking engagements, Mr. Conlon is one of classical music’s most recognized figures.

Mr. Conlon is Music Director of LA Opera, where since 2006 he has led more performances than any other conductor in the company’s history— to date, more than 400 performances of over 60 different operas. This season he conducts Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Wagner’s Tannhäuser; Verdi’s Aida, and a ballet adaptation of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. He is also Artistic Advisor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has been Principal Conductor of the Paris Opera; General Music Director of the City of Cologne, Germany, where he was Music Director of both the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Cologne Opera; Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Nazionale Della RAI in Torino, Italy. He has served as Music Director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony; and is now Music Director Laureate of the Cincinnati May Festival, where he was Music Director for 37 years. As a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, he has led more than 270 performances since his 1976 debut.

In an effort to call attention to lesser-known works of composers silenced by the Nazi regime, Mr. Conlon has devoted himself to extensive programming of this music throughout Europe and North America. For his efforts, he was awarded the Roger E. Joseph Prize at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (2013); a Crystal Globe Award from the Anti-Defamation League (2007); and the Zemlinsky Prize (1999). His work on behalf of suppressed composers led to the creation of The OREL Foundation and the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at the Colburn School.

Mr. Conlon is an enthusiastic advocate of public scholarship and cultural institutions as forums for the exchange of ideas and inquiry into the role music plays in our shared humanity and civic life. At LA Opera, his immensely popular pre-performance talks draw upon musicology, literary studies, history, and social sciences to contemplate the enduring power and relevance of opera, and classical music in general. His appearances throughout the country as a speaker on a variety of cultural and educational topics are widely praised.

Mr. Conlon’s extensive discography can be found on the Bridge, Capriccio, Decca, EMI, Erato and Sony Classical labels; and his recordings of LA Opera productions including Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles released on PentaTone and Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny on EuroArts have received four GRAMMY® awards. Mr. Conlon was named Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic, and Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. In 2002, he received France’s highest honor, the Legion d’Honneur from then-President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac.

Alexander Kerr Concertmaster

Michael L. Rosenberg Chair

ALEXANDER KERR’S expressive and charismatic style has made him one of the most accomplished and versatile violinists on the international music scene today. In 1996 at the age of 26, Mr. Kerr was appointed to the prestigious position of Concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After nine successful years at that post, he left in June 2006 to assume the endowed Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Music as Professor of Violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In addition to his teaching responsibilities in Bloomington, he maintains a busy concert schedule appearing with orchestras and in recital and chamber music performances throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. In 2008, he began his tenure as Principal Guest Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and in September 2011, he assumed his role as Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Regarded by the press as a masterful virtuoso with an elegant, oldworld sound, Mr. Kerr has appeared as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, working with such renowned conductors as Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Chailly, Fabio Luisi, Peter Oundjian, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano, Alan Gilbert, Jaap van Zweden, Michael Tilson Thomas and David Zinman. An active chamber musician, Mr. Kerr has collaborated with Martha Argerich, Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Edgar Meyer, Truls Mørk, Menahem Pressler, Vadim Repin, Alisa Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian and Maxim Vengerov in performances at festivals in Aspen, Santa Fe, Caramoor, La Jolla, Stavanger, and throughout Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands.

Mr. Kerr’s CD releases include the Dvořák Piano Quintet with Sarah Chang and Leif Ove Andsnes on the EMI label, music by Dutch composer Julius Röntgen on the NM Classics label, and the Shostakovich Romance on a series of discs including “Violin Adagios” and “Evening Adagios” released by Decca. A live DVD and CD recording of Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben with Mr. Kerr, the RCO and Maestro Mariss Jansons was released in 2005 on the RCO’s own label: RCOLive!

Raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Kerr began his studies at age seven with members of the National Symphony Orchestra. He went on to study with Sally Thomas at the Juilliard School, and with Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Institute of Music where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1992.

Program Notes

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Program Notes by René Spencer

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) Festive Overture, Op. 96

FIRST PERFORMANCE: November 6, 1954 – Moscow; Alexander Melik-Pashayev, conductor

LAST DSO PERFORMANCE: December 31, 2016; Andrew Grams, conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich spent most of his career falling in and out of political favor with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet functionaries who did his bidding. One year the culture cops would be in raptures over his music, lavishing accolades, awards, and even, on one occasion, a country home on the composer; the next year, they would berate him for “decadent formalism” and other perceived crimes against Socialist Realism and deprive him of the opportunity to perform, publish, or record.

As if that weren’t punishment enough, Shostakovich had reason to fear for his life. He kept a packed suitcase by the door and often slept in the outer foyer to reduce the risk to his family in the event of a late-night raid. He wasn’t being paranoid. Countless friends and colleagues had disappeared in the dead of night to be executed or detained in penal camps, all for seemingly minor, even unintentional infractions.

Program Notes

But by 1954, when Shostakovich wrote his Festive Overture, his main nemesis was dead, and he could relax somewhat. (Stalin died on March 5, 1953, the same day as Shostakovich’s fellow composer and countryman Sergei Prokofiev, also branded a decadent formalist.) Several commentators have suggested that the jubilant mood of the overture reflects Shostakovich’s joy over the dictator’s death, but this remains speculation.

What we do know comes courtesy of Shostakovich’s friend Lev Lebedinsky, who was visiting the composer at his home one autumn day in 1954, when Vassili Nebolsin, a conductor from the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, showed up at his door with an urgent commission: The company needed a new work to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution—for a concert that would take place in three (!) days.

Shostakovich rose to the challenge. Working swiftly and cheerfully, he managed to meet his impossible deadline. Before an hour had elapsed, he was handing over pages of the score to Nebolsin’s couriers, who conveyed them, ink barely dry, to the Bolshoi copyists entrusted with preparing the orchestral parts for performance.

“The speed with which he wrote was truly astounding,” Lebedinsky recounted. “Moreover, when he wrote light music he was able to talk, make jokes, and compose simultaneously, like the legendary Mozart. He laughed and chuckled, and in the meanwhile work was under way and the music was being written down.”

“ Shostakovich rose to the challenge. Working swiftly and cheerfully, he managed to meet his impossible deadline ”

Program Notes

Shostakovich conducted a professional orchestra only once in his life, in 1962, at a concert devoted to his own music that was organized by the conductor and virtuosic cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, a good friend. To open the program, Shostakovich selected his Festive Overture. Five years after his death, the piece became internationally famous as the signature theme of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

A Closer Listen

Lebedinsky, who attended the dress rehearsals, described the Festive Overture as “this brilliant, effervescent work, with its vivacious energy spilling over like uncorked champagne.” Shostakovich, for his part, used more prosaic language: “just a short work, festive or celebratory in spirit.”

The six-minute piece begins with a brass fanfare, which the composer borrowed from a song that he had originally written to mark his daughter Galina’s ninth birthday. (Eight years after his death, the birthday composition was appended to his Children’s Notebook, Op. 69, although he never considered it part of that cycle himself.) The clarinets announce a frisky motif, which is taken up by the other winds. The horns respond with a secondary theme—stately and ceremonial enough to provide contrast but not so serious as to seem ponderous. Throughout Shostakovich supplies electrifying rhythms, unexpected harmonies, pizzicato strings, and blindingly fast melodic runs. After the reprise of the fanfare motif, a propulsive coda brings the Festive Overture to an incendiary close.

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (b. 1959) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35

FIRST PERFORMANCE: February 14, 1947 – St. Louis; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Vladimir Golschmann, conductor

LAST DSO PERFORMANCE: March 21, 2013 – Hannover, Germany; Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin

The son of a prominent Viennese music critic, Erich Wolfgang Korngold ranks among the greatest child prodigies in music history. His first ballet was professionally staged when he was only 13. By the time his opera Die tote Stadt received simultaneous premieres in Hamburg and Cologne, the 23-yearold was one of the most famous composers in Europe. But then disaster struck. His latest opera could not even be performed in Vienna because of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. As Korngold drily observed, “We thought of ourselves as Viennese; Hitler made us Jewish.”

Over the next seven years, the Nazis would murder an estimated six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, approximately two thirds of the European Jewish population. Given the brutal realities of the Holocaust, it’s no exaggeration to say that Korngold’s side job as a film composer likely saved his life. To make extra money, he had been collaborating with the director and impresario Max Reinhardt, another Viennese Jew. Reinhardt had hired Korngold to adapt the score of Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both stage and film versions. In 1938, after accepting a fortuitously timed commission to write the music for The Adventures of Robin Hood, Korngold moved to Hollywood for good; five years later, he became a U.S. citizen.

Program Notes

All told, he composed 18 original scores for feature films. Several were nominated for Academy Awards, and two won. Korngold chose to devote his final years to concert music, but he never regarded his film scores as inferior. “Never have I differentiated between my music for the films and that for the operas and concert pieces,” he maintained. “Just as I do for the operatic stage, I try to give the motion pictures dramatically melodious music, sonic development, and variation of the themes.”

From Triumph to Flop to Triumph

Korngold composed most of the material for his first and only violin concerto between 1937 and 1939, revising the work substantially in 1945, the year of its completion. He began the sketches with Bronislaw Huberman in mind for the solo part, but as the aging virtuoso’s technical skills began to deteriorate, Korngold consulted other violinists, including the one he eventually chose, his neighbor, Jascha Heifetz.

Beyond agreeing to debut it, Heifetz helped Korngold perfect the score, ensuring that the violin writing struck the right balance between lyricism and virtuosity. Korngold compared these two aspects of his concerto to the opera singer Enrico Caruso, known for his romantic intensity, and the legendary violin virtuoso and composer Niccolò Paganini, the epitome of the supernaturally endowed showman.

“In spite of the demand for virtuosity in the finale,” Korngold wrote, “the work with its many melodic and lyric episodes was contemplated more for a Caruso than for a Paganini. It is needless to say how delighted I am to have my concerto performed by Caruso and Paganini in one person: Jascha Heifetz.”

Korngold dedicated the concerto to Alma Mahler-Werfel, the widow of his early supporter and mentor Gustav Mahler.

On February 15, 1947, Vladimir Golschmann led the virtuoso Jascha Heifetz and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the wildly successful premiere of Korngold’s Violin Concerto. The audience waxed ecstatic, giving the musicians what was, according to some accounts, the longest standing ovation ever recorded for any concerto performed by that orchestra. Korngold described his joy in a diary entry: “The reception of the Violin Concerto in St. Louis was triumphal..., a success just as in my best times in Vienna. One reviewer even predicted that my concerto would remain in the repertoire for as long as Mendelssohn’s. I do not need more than that!”

Unfortunately, the concerts in New York City didn’t go as well. Despite or possibly because of its popular appeal, the critics dismissed the concerto. Olin Downes of The New York Times called it a “Hollywood Concerto,” complaining that “the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas.” Irving Kolodin, at the now-defunct New York Sun, quipped that the concerto was “more corn than gold,” a classic diss that will outlast all memory of Kolodin himself.

But musicians often have more sense than critics, and Heifetz remained loyal to the Violin Concerto. In 1953 he made a classic recording of the concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For decades he was virtually alone in performing Korngold’s Violin Concerto, but eventually other violinists fell under its spell.

A Closer Listen

Korngold’s choice of D Major for the home key is somewhat obvious, given the genre. D Major brings out the violin’s singing tone because the four strings of the instrument are tuned to G, D, A and E, and the open strings resonate brilliantly with the D string, producing a special radiance.

Program Notes

The solo violin opens the Moderato nobile with a piercingly sweet, ultra-hummable melody that the orchestra lovingly echoes. As in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Korngold’s concerto begins with the soloist’s voice, minus the typical orchestral introduction. The development section generates a mischievous riff that functions as a secondary theme. The mood is pensive and yearning, veering between rhapsodic and frenetic. Most of the music consists of material from his film scores for Another Dawn (1937) and Juarez (1939). Although the Moderato nobile is intensely lyrical, it gives the soloist ample space for bravura passagework and other technical challenges.

The central movement, marked Romance: Andante, is a shimmering, spellbound idyll. Xylophone, vibraphone, harp, and celesta radiate mystery and—as promised by the title—romance. After a brief introduction, the solo violin enters in the upper register, ardent and aching. The slow, plangent melody is mainly derived from the Academy Award–winning score for Anthony Adverse (1936)—specifically, the romantic theme representing the hero’s passionate but doomed love affair with an opera singer who bears his child but dumps him for Napoleon.

Recycled from the score for The Prince and the Pauper (1937), the delirious finale (Allegro assai vivace) is structured in theme-and-variations form, but thanks to Korngold’s bold instrumentation and scoring, the insistent, jiglike theme never grows monotonous. The Netflix hit Stranger Things used a

“ Xylophone, vibraphone, harp, and celesta radiate mystery and—as promised by the title—romance ”

Program Notes

representative snippet of this movement in a Season Four episode featuring the precocious homeschooled computer hacker Suzi and her many ungovernable siblings, who collude in an unlikely victory over their clueless dad and assorted evil forces.

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975)

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

FIRST PERFORMANCE: November 21, 1937 – Leningrad; Yevgeny Mravinsky, composer

LAST DSO PERFORMANCE: April 8, 2017; Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

In 1925, when Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 1 in F minor, he was only 18 years old. The talented St. Petersburg native had started piano lessons as a child with his conservatorytrained mother, advancing so rapidly that he was accepted to the Petrograd Conservatory at age 13. His First Symphony, submitted as a graduation thesis, quickly became an international sensation. Soon after its Leningrad debut, on May 12, 1926, the new symphony made the rounds of the major orchestras.

Rising from the Muddle

After a promising launch, Shostakovich’s career took a sudden nosedive. In 1936, around the time that the composer was preparing to debut his groundbreaking Fourth Symphony, Joseph Stalin attended a Moscow performance of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk District—nearly two years after its successful premiere in Leningrad—and denounced it in an anonymous broadside titled “Muddle Instead of Music.” Condemned for its dissonant bourgeois degeneracy and other violations of Communist dogma, the opera disappeared from the repertoire for about 40 years.

Program Notes

By the mid-1930s, Socialist Realism was not only Russia’s dominant musical style; it was the only safe musical style. Composers who dared to explore avant-garde Western forms soon learned to expect the wrath of Stalin and his cultural watchdogs. Many Russian artists, composers, and patrons were executed, sent to gulags, or simply made to vanish. Concert music was expected to honor the proletariat and impart an unequivocally patriotic message. State-approved compositions typically incorporated folk songs and ended in a major key.

After getting slapped with the Lady Macbeth review, Shostakovich was justifiably terrified. For several months, convinced that further punishment was nigh, he slept in the stairwell outside his apartment to spare his family the trauma of witnessing his arrest. He withdrew his Fourth Symphony from performance. Over the next couple of years, he kept his head down, occupying himself with an arrangement of a Strauss operetta, some film scores, and various duties associated with his new position as conservatory professor. He would not share the Fourth with the public until 1961.

A Censor-Appeasing Proletariat Pleaser

Despite the Lady Macbeth misstep, Shostakovich was able to restore his good standing with his Soviet overseers, thanks in no small part to the proletariat-pleasing, censor-appeasing Fifth Symphony, which caused a sensation at its 1937 premiere. He even agreed to describe the D minor Symphony as “a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism.” By this point, Shostakovich understood exactly how to tiptoe around the government censors, although he sometimes felt compelled, whether out of bravery or sheer perverseness, to poke at them instead.

He began the Fifth Symphony on April 18, 1937, and finished it a mere three months later, on July 20. Evgeny Mravinsky led the

Leningrad Philharmonic in the world premiere on November 21, 1937. The applause afterwards lasted longer than 30 minutes, causing Shostakovich’s friends to fret that it might provoke a backlash from the Soviet authorities. The composer was safe, though, at least for the time being.

Although audiences loved the Fifth, early reviews were uneven. Pravda slammed it, calling it “a farrago of chaotic, nonsensical sounds.” On the other hand, the state critics pronounced it “a work of such philosophical depth and emotional force [as] could only be created here in the USSR.”

Shostakovich described the Fifth as a response to human suffering: “I wanted to convey in the Symphony how, through a series of tragic conflicts of great turmoil, optimism asserts itself as a world view.”

A Closer Listen

In his program notes, Shostakovich described the Moderato as a “lengthy spiritual battle, crowned with victory,” which may explain the martial, menacing main theme. In this long and remarkably varied movement, Shostakovich juxtaposes a stark string motif with a more diffuse, melancholy secondary theme, derived from a Slavic folk song; this combination gives way to a violent, pell-mell march. A lustrous duet between solo flute and horn leads to a haunting, celesta-kissed coda, which resurrects the first theme.

“ A lustrous duet between solo flute and horn leads to a haunting, celestakissed coda, which resurrects the first theme. ”

Program Notes

The Allegretto functions as a brief scherzo, in contrast to the more serious surrounding movements. Crackling with a broad, often grotesque humor, the second movement displays a panoply of instrumental colors. A queasy waltz, pizzicato string counterpoint, and stuttering bassoons contribute to the circuslike atmosphere.

The Largo, the heart of the symphony, seemed to affect the audience at the premiere most deeply. Recognizing it as a Requiem, suffused with the liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church, many listeners wept openly—never mind that public crying was a punishable offense under Stalin. Shostakovich achieved the radiant, enveloping sound by dividing the violins into three sections instead of the usual two, with the violas and cellos split into two sections. This setup allows for richer textural interest as well as complex counterpoint. Toward the end of the movement, a celesta and a pair of harps cast an especially entrancing spell. The brass instruments are entirely absent, perhaps because they dominate the finale.

The concluding Allegro non troppo brings back the martial idea explored in the opening Moderato, but now more joyously, with an almost ferocious dedication to fun. Toward the end, just before the rousing, timpani-pounding climax, Shostakovich quotes from one of his own unpublished songs, a setting of lines from Alexander Pushkin’s Rebirth: “And the waverings pass away/From my tormented soul/As a new and brighter day/Brings visions of pure gold.”

In Solomon Volkov’s controversial and highly contested Testimony, which purported to be Shostakovich’s memoir but was found to contain several inauthentic or fabricated quotations, Volkov ascribes to the composer the following description of his Fifth Symphony:

“Awaiting execution is a theme that has tormented me all my life. Many pages of my music are devoted to it.... I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, ‘our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ What kind of apotheosis is that? You have to be a complete oaf not to hear that.”

This statement would seem to contradict Shostakovich’s note from 1937 (which, to be fair, was written by a man whose life was at stake): “The theme of my symphony is the making of a man. I saw man with all his experiences as the center of the composition.... In the finale the tragically tense impulses of the earlier movements are resolved in optimism and the joy of living.”

Musical Glossary

ADAGIO – At a slow tempo

ALLEGRO – A fast and lively tempo

ANDANTE – Moderately slow time

ARPEGGIO – A musical chord played one note at a time in quick succession

ARRANGEMENT – An adaptation of an original piece of music, many times for a unique configuration of players

CADENCE – The end of a phrase

CODA – (Italian: tail) The ending of a piece of music

CONCERTMASTER –The leader of the string section; he or she sits to the conductor’s left, closest to the audience; you will see this person enter the stage to tune the orchestra at the beginning of the performance

CONCERTO – A musical composition for one or more solo instruments and an orchestra

CRESCENDO – A build in the volume or dynamic of the music

CHROMATIC – Using notes not part of the home key or scale; a chromatic scale is made up of all half steps (using all the black and white keys on the piano)

DECRESCENDO – Gradually playing music softer

FORTE – To play strongly and loudly

KEY – The main group of pitches, or notes, that form the harmonic foundation of a piece of

music; for example, A Major or C minor

LARGO – To play in slow time and a dignified style

LEITMOTIF – A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation

MINUET – An elegant dance in triple time; often the third movement of a work

MOVEMENT – Distinct sections of a larger work; these often have contrasting moods and are indicated with different tempo markings

OPUS – A musical composition numbered as one of a composer’s works (usually in order of publication); noted at “Op.” in a composition’s name

ORCHESTRATION – The art of writing for the orchestra and deciding what instruments should play which parts of the music

OSTINATO – A part that repeats the same rhythm or melodic element

OVERTURE – An orchestral composition forming the beginning of an opera or ballet

PHRASE – A small section of a composition comprising a musical thought; comparable to a sentence in language

PIANO – To play softly

PIZZICATO – (Italian: plucked) A direction to performers on string instruments to pluck the strings

POLYPHONIC – Two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody

PRESTO – A very fast tempo

PRINCIPAL – The leader of each instrumental group, such as Principal Oboe, is generally responsible for leading the group and playing orchestral solos

RHYTHM – The arrangement of notes according to their relative length and relative emphasis (beat)

RONDO – A musical form that involves the use of a recurrent theme between a series of varied episodes; the final movement of a Classical concerto or symphony is often in rondo form

SCHERZO – A light-hearted movement found from the early 17th century in various forms but used by Beethoven as an alternative to the minuet in symphonies, sonatas and other instrumental works

SYNCOPATION – In rhythm, the shifting of the expected accent

TEMPO – The speed of the music

THEME – A short musical passage that states an idea

TONE POEM – A piece of descriptive orchestral music, many times in one movement

TUTTI – A section where “all” play together as one

VIVACE – Spirited, bright, rapid, equaling or exceeding allegro

2022/23 SEASON

Fabio Luisi

Music Director

Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn

Music Directorship

Gemma New

Principal Guest Conductor Dolores G. & Lawrence S. Barzune, M.D. Chair

Jeff Tyzik

Principal Pops Conductor Dot & Paul Mason Podium

Maurice Cohn

Assistant Conductor Marena & Roger Gault Chair

Angélica Negrón

Composer-in-Residence

Vacant

Chorus Director Jean D. Wilson Chair

VIOLIN I

Alexander Kerr

Concertmaster

Michael L. Rosenberg Chair Nathan Olson

Co-Concertmaster Fanchon & Howard Hallam Chair

Gary Levinson °

Senior Principal Associate Concertmaster

Enika Schulze Chair Emmanuelle Boisvert

Associate Concertmaster Robert E. & Jean Ann Titus Family Chair

Eunice Keem

Associate Concertmaster Marcella Poppen Chair

Diane Kitzman

Principal Filip Fenrych W. Paul Radman, DDS Chair Maria Schleuning Norma & Don Stone Chair

Lucas Aleman

Jenna Barghouti Mary Reynolds Andrew Schast Motoi Takeda Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Daphne Volle Bruce Wittrig Giyeon Yoon Kaori Yoshida *

VIOLIN II

Angela Fuller Heyde Principal Barbara K. & Seymour R. Thum Chair

Alexandra Adkins Associate Principal Sho-mei Pelletier Associate Principal Bing Wang Bruce Patti * Rita Sue & Alan Gold Chair Mariana Cottier-Bucco Debra & Steve Leven Chair Lilit Danielyan * Hyorim Han Shu Lee Nora Scheller * Aleksandr Snytkin * Lydia Umlauf

VIOLA

Meredith Kufchak Principal Hortense & Lawrence S. Pollock Chair Matthew Sinno Associate Principal Sarah Kienle

Acting Associate Principal Pamela Askew Thomas Demer Valerie Dimond Dr. James E. Skibo Chair

Christine Hwang Keith Verges Chair Xiaohan Sun Maisie Heiken Chair David Sywak

*Performs in both Violin I and Violin II sections

CELLO

Christopher Adkins

Principal Fannie & Stephen S. Kahn Chair Theodore Harvey Associate Principal Holly & Tom Mayer Chair

Jolyon Pegis

Associate Principal Joe Hubach Chair Jeffrey Hood Greg & Kim Hext Chair Jennifer Yunyoung Choi

Kari Kettering

Donna & Herbert Weitzman Chair, in honor of Juanita & Henry S. Miller, Jr. Minji Kim Zexun (Jason) Shen Nan Zhang

BASS

Nicolas Tsolainos

Principal Anonymously Endowed Chair Thomas Lederer Co-Principal Roger Fratena Associate Principal Paula Holmes Fleming Brian Perry Clifford Spohr Principal Emeritus

FLUTE David Buck Principal Joy & Ronald Mankoff Chair Hayley Grainger Associate Principal Barbara Rabin Chair Kara Kirkendoll Welch Caroline Rose Hunt Chair James Romeo Piccolo

OBOE Erin Hannigan Principal Nancy P. & John G. Penson Chair

° Leave of Absence

Willa Henigman

Associate Principal Brent Ross David Matthews + English Horn Karen & Jim Wiley Chair

CLARINET

Gregory Raden

Principal Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas May, Jr. Chair Paul Garner ° Associate Principal + E-Flat Robert E. & Ruth Glaze Chair Stephen Ahearn Second Clarinet + Acting Associate Principal + E-flat Courtney & Andrew Nall Chair Stephanie Key Andrew Sandwick ° Bass Clarinet + Utility

BASSOON

Ted Soluri Principal Irene H. Wadel & Robert I. Atha, Jr. Chair Scott Walzel

Associate Principal Barbara & Robert P. Sypult Chair Tom Fleming Peter Grenier + Contrabassoon

HORN

David Heyde

Associate Principal + Acting Principal Linda VanSickle Chair Alexander Kienle Assistant Principal + Utility Haley Hoops Becky & Brad Todd Chair Yousef Assi Kevin Haseltine

Vacant Principal Howard E. Rachofsky Chair

TRUMPET

Stuart Stephenson

Principal Diane & Hal Brierley Chair L. Russell Campbell Associate Principal Yon Y. Jorden Chair Kevin Finamore Assistant Principal Elmer Churampi

TROMBONE

Barry Hearn Principal Cece & Ford Lacy Chair Christopher Oliver Associate Principal Brian Hecht Utility Trombone Darren McHenry Bass Trombone

TUBA Matthew Good Principal Dot & Paul Mason Chair

TIMPANI

Brian Jones Principal Dr. Eugene & Charlotte Bonelli Chair Robert O’Brien Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

George Nickson Principal Margie & William H. Seay Chair Daniel Florio Associate Principal Robert O’Brien

HARP Emily Levin Principal Elsa von Seggern Chair

ORGAN Bradley Hunter Welch Resident Organist Lay Family Chair

KEYBOARD

Jeanne R. Johnson Chair

Gabriel Sanchez Classical Anastasia Markina Classical

LIBRARY

Karen Schnackenberg Principal Jessie D. & E. B. Godsey Chair

Mark Wilson Associate Principal Robert Greer Assistant Melanie Gilmore Choral

PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Nishi Badhwar Olga & Yuri Anshelevich Manager of Orchestra Personnel

Scott Walzel Consultant for Community Development & Outreach Nicole Mendyka Assistant Personnel Manager Christopher Oliver Auditions Coordinator

STAGE

Shannon Gonzalez Stage Manager

Alan Bell Assistant Stage Manager Kenneth Winston Lighting Board Operator Kevin Ealy Bill White

IN REMEMBRANCE

Ryan Anthony (1969-2020) Principal Trumpet Emeritus Dwight Shambley (1949-2020) Bass + Young Strings Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus Ronald Snider (1947-2020) Assistant Principal Percussion

DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION AND DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Cece Smith, Chair

Sanjiv Yajnik, Immediate Past Chair

Kim Noltemy, Ross Perot President & CEO

Nancy A. Nasher, Vice Chair

Quincy Roberts, Vice Chair

Yon Y. Jorden, Treasurer

James E. Wiley, Jr., Secretary

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Nick Adamson

Dee Baker Amos

Jorge Baldor

Gregg Ballew

Nancy Bierman James Bildner Joanne Bober Keith Braley Vanessa Cain Amy Carenza Andrew Clugston Key Coker Grace Cook

Roberta Corbett Barbara Daseke Greg Davis Kyle Davis John Dayton Steve Do Zenetta Drew Cindy Feld Marion Flores

Bonnie Floyd, M.D. Patti Flowers

Gerardo Garcia

Marena Gault

Marc Gineris

Alan J. Gold Randall G. Goss Kizuwanda Grant Sheila Grant Doug Haloftis Davis Hamlin Maisie Heiken Kim Hext

Laree Hulshoff Adriana Hutson T.D. Jakes Léandré Johns Julie Johnson Robert Kaplan Kristi Kennedy Caroline Kohl Jim LaFontaine Khalil Lalani Mark LaRoe

Lea Anne Laughlin Craig Lentzsch

Michael Lindsey Tim McDonald

Lucy Billingsley

Harold M. Brierley

John R. Cohn

Ronald J. Gafford

Roger C. Gault Joseph F. Hubach

Joleen Julis Holly Mayer

Linda McFarland

William McIntyre

Stanley A. Rabin Brian Ratner

Sarah L. Titus Geoffroy van Raemdonck Donna Arp Weitzman

Andrew Nall

Doug Nelson

Marc Nivet

David Pahl Cherryl Peterman Betty Regard Jeffrey Rich Theodora Ross Ginger Sager Byron Sanders Myrna Schlegel Enika Schulze James C. Scott

Robert E. Segert

Arthur F. Selander Jessica Shepherd Enisha Shropshire

Linda VanSickle Smith

Gloria McCall Snead Paul Stafford Melissa Ruman Stewart Donald J. Stone Venise Stuart

DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Coley Clark, President

Joseph F. Hubach, Vice President

Yon Y. Jorden, Vice President

Brian Ratner, Vice President

Cherryl Peterman, Treasurer

EMERITUS DIRECTORS

P. Mike McCullough

Jeffrey M. Robinson, Secretary

Harold M. Brierley

John Dayton

Maisie Heiken

Linda McFarland

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS

BY VIRTUE OF OFFICE

Yon Y. Jorden

Kim Noltemy

Cece Smith

Barbara Sypult

Charmaine Tang

Francisco de la Torre Galindo T. Peter Townsend Taylor Vaught Wei Ling Wang Martha Wells Kern Wildenthal Susie Wilson Karina Woolley

GOVERNORS

BY VIRTUE OF POSITION

Cynthia Beaird Susan Fleming Erin Hannigan George Nickson

EX-OFFICIO LIAISON

Jo Trizila Jennifer Weaver

LIFE GOVERNORS

Dolores Barzune Harold M. Brierley Howard Hallam Morton H. Meyerson Sam Self W. Bradford Todd

COUNCIL OF PAST CHAIRS

Dolores Barzune Harold M. Brierley Robert W. Decherd Ronald J. Gafford Howard Hallam Linda W. Hart

Joseph F. Hubach

James W. Keyes

A.A. Meitz

Blaine L. Nelson

William L. Schilling Myrna Schlegel Donald J. Stone W. Bradford Todd Sanjiv Yajnik

Andrew Nall

Marc Nivet

Richard Schulze

Robert E. Segert

Melissa Ruman Stewart

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS

William L. Green, Assistant Treasurer

David Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary

DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION AND VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE LEADERSHIP

Cynthia Beaird President

Nancy Labadie President-Elect

Claire Catrino Vice President Fundraising

Carrie Denson Vice President Services Therese Rourk Vice President Arrangements

Christine Drossos Vice President Arrangements

Justine Sweeney Vice President Public Relations

Lucinda Buford Vice President Membership

Julie Jodie Vice President Membership

Kaythrn Voreis Vice President Education and Outreach

Kate McCoy

Recording Secretary

Jennifer Olson

Corresponding Secretary

Laurie Lippincott Treasurer

René Edwards Assistant Treasurer

Lizzy Weeks Bumpas Historian

Venise Stuart Parliamentarian

René Edwards

Finance Committee Chair

Sharon Lee Fashion Notes Co-Chair

Kira Nasrat Fashion Notes Co-Chair

Courtney Plumlee

Junior Symphony Ball Co-Chair

Karen Cox

Presentation Ball Chair

Caroline Downing Savor the Symphony Co-Chair

Laura Downing Savor the Symphony Co-Chair

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OFFICERS

Susan Fleming President

Eileen Roseblum Chairman

Martin Tobey Treasurer

Gabrielle Rosenstock Secretary

Sally Drayer Gala Vice President Eileen Roseblum Gala Vice President

Patti Craig Luncheon Program Vice President

Judy Tobey Luncheon Program Vice President

Nicole LeBlanc Evening Program Vice President

Lori McCommons Evening Program Vice President

Carolyn Barta

Membership Vice President Blackie Blaquiere Membership Vice President Rebecca Bailey Director

Lucinda Carter Director

Robin Green Director Nicole LaBlanc Director

Sue McAdams Director Lacy Naylor Director

Pam Pendleton Director Dolores Rogers Director Linda Smith Director

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Lauren Hein President

Kathleen Sams Vice President

Jesse Bultongez Treasurer

Morgan Williams Secretary Kyle Morrison Parliamentarian Nick Adamson Advisory Chair Garrison Efird Corporate Relations Chair Jordan Jardine Events Co-Chair Herb Ford Events Co-Chair Marley Mitchell Marketing Chair Stef Curtis Membership Chair Ty Bishop Director Matt Copeland Director Buxton Layton Director

DeShan Mayfield Director Chelsea Sanchez Director Alex Sarntee Director Deepak Sobti Director Daphne Hiatt Sylvia Director Justin Webb Director David Wyche Director

The Dallas Symphony is honored to recognize the individuals and foundations whose extraordinary annual support contributes significantly to its artistic programs and community engagement initiatives.

MAESTRO SOCIETY

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Randy and Nancy Best ^ Diane and Hal Brierley *§º^ Fanchon and Howard Hallam *§º^ Linda W. Hart and Milledge A. Hart III §^ Maisie L. Heiken ^ The Marcella Fund ^

The Eugene McDermott Foundation ^ Shirley and Bill McIntyre ^ Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger *§^ Margot Perot *§º^

Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation ^ Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Smith *^

^ Honoring Founding Members of the Maestro Society in support of Music Director Fabio Luisi

$50,000–99,999

Anonymous (2) Dolores G. and Lawrence S. Barzune, M.D. *§ Henry and Lucy Billingsley Joanne L. Bober Marena and Roger Gault The Cecil and Ida Green Foundation Winnie and Davis Hamlin *§º Joseph F. Hubach and Colleen O’Connor Mrs. Lamar Hunt § Yon Yoon Jorden

The Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Dallas Symphony Orchestra Foundation * Cece and Ford Lacy *§ Joy and Ronald Mankoff * C. Thomas May, Jr. and Eleanor S. May * The Meadows Foundation * Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. The Pollock Foundation * Stanley A. Rabin *

Cindy and Howard Rachofsky *§º Jennifer and Peter Roberts Ruth Robinson *

Jeffrey Robinson and Stefanie Schneidler Anita and Merlyn D. Sampels *§ Myrna and Bob Schlegel *§ Enika and Richard Schulze * Elsa von Seggern Foundation * Norma and Don Stone *§º Barbara C. and Robert P. Sypult *§ Mrs. Robert E. Titus * Ms. Sarah Titus

Martha McCarty Wells Karen and Jim Wiley *§ Jerry and Susie Wilson Mrs. Charles J. Wyly, Jr. *

STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

PLATINUM STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $25,000-49,999

Sara and Justin Bailey Adenilda and Kevin Bryant James F. Carey

John and Barbara Cohn § Don and Barbara Daseke John W. Dayton * Peggy Dear *

The Decherd Foundation Durham Family Foundation * Cindy and Charlie Feld * Ben Fischer and Laree Hulshoff Ron and Rebecca Gafford Susan and Mark Geyer

Kathryn H. Gilman in memory of Alfred G. Gilman *§

Jean M. and Marc A. Gineris Doug Haloftis and Fernando Gonzalez

Tim Headington §

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. Robert S. Kaplan

Mr. and Mrs. Atlee Kohl/ Kohl Foundation *§ Holly and Tom Mayer Courtney and Andrew Nall Kim Noltemy

GOLD STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $12,500-24,999

Anonymous

Nicholas Adamson Steve and Cindy Aughinbaugh Pamela Barrett Sherry S. Bartholow * Dolores G. and Lawrence S. Barzune, M.D. *§ Frances Blatt * Patricia and Paul Bonavia Brett and Allison Brodnax Carole Ann and Dick Brown Mrs. Thomas R. Corbett * Mr. and Mrs. William A. Custard § Denise and Steve Do Laura and Walter Elcock Bonnie Floyd, M.D. Angela Fontana and Andre Szuwalski Susan and Woodrow Gandy Rita Sue and Alan Gold * Kathleen A. Messina and Gary W. Goodwin Elisabeth W. Grant Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Grant

Lucy and Richard Gussoni * Michael and Marsha Halloran Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hewes Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Hext Mr. and Mrs. Laurence E. Hirsch Nancy Ann and Ray L. Hunt § Jane and Pat Jenevein *§ Beverly and Ken Jinkerson Joan and Jack Kickham * Debra and Steve Leven Sue L. Maclay * Linda and John McFarland Joyce and Harvey Mitchell *§ Nesha and George Morey William and Linda Nelson David and Michele Pahl Paulos Foundation * Mary Catherine and Trevor K. Person

Charles H. Phipps Mrs. Lev Prichard Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation *§

Stephen B. L. Penrose

Betty S. Regard

Jeff Rich and Jan Miller

Adrienne and Tom Rosen

Arthur F. Selander

Joanna and Peter Townsend * Fred Tuomi and Erin Hannigan

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Weitzman Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Woolley §

Marilyn Roark

Quincy Roberts

Bridget Silverthorne Russell § Stephen and Marcy Sands

Diana and Sam Self Peggy and Carl Sewell § Nancy Shutt *

Katherine and Steven Smethie Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Stuart Barbara C. and Robert P. Sypult *§

Becky and Brad Todd *

Ms. Merle K. Turner and Mr. Bill Condon Mark and Ellen Ulrich

Timothy R. Wallace

David and Harianne Wallenstein Dr. and Mrs. Howard J. Weiner * Adele Wildenthal

Marnie and Kern Wildenthal * James C. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wright Sanjiv and Mohua Yajnik

SILVER STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $7,500-12,499

Anonymous (2)

Susie and John Adams * Anne and David Allred

Dr. and Mrs. James M. Atkins * Mrs. Richard D. Bass * Mr. and Mrs. Spence Beal James Bildner

Mr. Mark R. Blaquiere and Ms. CatheyAnn Fears Kalita and Ed Blessing § Linda Brookshire Susan Brown and William McCoy Mary Christian Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Clugston Mary McDermott Cook *

Mr. and Mrs. William Cornog Mrs. Patricia M. Craig Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Doffing Marion T. Flores §

Dr. and Mrs. James Forman Katherine Freiberger and Lawrence Althouse Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gibbs * Mr. David Gibson and Mrs. Chikako Terada

Rosann and Richard Gutman * Susan and T. Hardie Mrs. Deborah Heaton Elissa Sabel and Stan Hirschman Sue and Phil John Hon. Julie Johnson and Dr. Susan Moster Mr. and Mrs. Rod Cain Jones * Kristi and Michael Kennedy Drs. Susan and Gregory Kozielec Drs. John and Deirdre LaNoue Kathleen and Frank Lauinger * Dr. and Mrs. Michael Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Lorch Morgan and Chad MacDonald Nancy Cain Marcus and Sanford R. Robertson § Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation * Richard and Bobbi Massman Navias Family Foundation * Kathy and Greg Nelson Dr. Aharon and Shula Netzer Krunali Patel and Umesh Iyer

BRONZE STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $5,000-7,499

Anonymous (2)

Suzanne Azoulay

Julie and Craig Beale § Jill C. Bee and Loren Glasser Joyce and Selly Belofsky § Mr. and Mrs. John K. Blake Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Boerder Mr. Bill Bond

Denise and Greg Boydston Mel and Candi Brekhus

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Buford Mrs. Alicia Burkman Jo Ann B. Caruth Kay and Elliot Cattarulla

Mr. and Mrs. Harris W. Clark Bonnie E. Cobb Gary and Alice Coder Donna and Dan Coletti Sandra Cook Mr. Matthew Copeland Carol Crowe

Hannah Cutshall Clifton and Sherry Daniel *§ Sandra L. Carlson DeBusk * Robert Miller Dickson and Carolyn Bacon Dickson * Mary and Bob Dilworth § Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Dix

In Memory of Bob and Ginnie Payne §

Nancy and Wilfred Roberts Deedie Rose

Theodora Ross

Marion Rothstein * Ginger Sager

William L. Schilling *§º Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Segert

Sandy and Mark Singer * Gloria and Juan Ernesto Snead Nancy and John Solana * Anthony and Itske Stern Charlotte Test Sandra Tucker Jutta and Arie Van Selm Marcia Joy Varel * Joe and Ellen Walker Sharon and Bob Walker Don E. Welsh

Mr. and Mrs. Ward W. Wueste Aaron Bertram Zeman and Dane Ruccio

Dede Duson

Jason and Lucy Edling Marion P. Exall Billie Williamson and Mack Forrester * Stephen Geoffray and Cindy Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Gibbs Jessie D. and E. B. Godsey Family Wade and Margaret Goodrich

Dr. and Mrs. William L. Green * (Col. Rt.) Bill and. Mrs Barbara Gross Tim Hanley

BRONZE STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $5,000-7,499

Rob and Robin Haseltine

John A. Henry III

Kathy and Richard Holt Gerald L. and Frankie L. Horn * Ms. Nina C. Hutton

Christopher and Allison Ireland Kathleen Irvin and Dennis Walo Jo Jagoda *§

Amy Jones

Kim Jordan * Mr. and Mrs. Steven Keirstead Dr. Karen K. King

John and Gina Knight Nancy and Mark Knudsen Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph C. Koch III *

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Koniecki Dr. and Mrs. John R. Krause

Charles and Diana Lace Paula S. Lambert

Liza and Will Lee * Craig and Joy Lentzsch Frank and Dianne Maio March Family Foundation

Mrs. Clovis A. Mathews

Patricia and David May Erika and Mike McFadden Victoria and Hunter McGrath Anne McNamara

Libby Meyers § Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Morgan * Ron and Jane Morrill Dhruv Narayanan

Jeannie and David Nethery Mr. and Mrs. David Nurenberg * Danna L. Orr

Lucilo Peña and Lee Cobb Dr. and Mrs. Melvin R. Platt * Michelle and Al Rabalais W. Paul Radman, DDS and Jane Vandecar * Dr. Karen L. Rainville

Patrick and Joy Ramsier Katherine and Eric Reeves Mrs. Janet K. Richter Hon. and Mrs. Wm. F. Sanderson, Jr. Jane Sandlin

STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $3,000-4,999

Anonymous (17) Kelsey and Matt Acosta Mr. Dustin Anthamatten Matamba and Regina Austin

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Baldwin Jr.

Lisa and Gregg Ballew Pete and Julie Bell

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Best * Nancy Bierman

Georgia Sue Black * Elaine Bohlin

Dr. Arthur P. Bollon and Dr. Rhonda R. Porterfield * Mr. Robert E. Boyer Tab Boyles

Linda and Gilbert Brown

Lori H. Burk §

Nan-Elizabeth Byorum * Vanessa and David Cain Amy Carenza and Nathan Offerdahl

Mr. Arturo Carrillo Lucinda and Lyne Carter Ted Casey and Angela Wommack

Dr. Angie Cayton

Richard A. Chesney Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Chiu Laura and Lawrence Ciavola Mr. Frank Cinatl III Robert and Donna Clancy Bev Coben *§ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Cohan

Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Scimo

Linda and Richard Shaffer Mr. and Mrs. William T. Solomon

Jo and Andre Staffelbach Jim and Elaine Stedman Dr. Marvin and Kathy Stone Mrs. Rosalie E. Stone Dr. Laurie Sutor Seymour R. Thum * Inge and Sam Vastola * Charles and Barbara Vaughan Ann Penson Vreeland, Ph.D. § Larry and Marilyn Waisanen Ralph O. Weber Barbara and John Zrno

Mr. Joseph Colangelo

Richard H. Collins * Mr. Jeremy Comstock Dr. Martin and Michelle Conroy Lynn and Bruce Cope Hannah Cope Jess Corrigan and Lisa Hartman

Thomas and Catherine Crandell Stan and Kelly Crow

Christopher Crume Cullen and Judy Cullers

Dr. Diana P. Cunningham Dallas Symphony Players Association Gretchen and Doug Davies Lourdes and Tom Delimitros

STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $3,000-4,999

Dr. James Dixson

Mr. and Mrs. Loften B. Dunlap Dr. and Mrs. Arlet R. Dunsworth Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Eiseman, Jr. Andrew F. Ellis and Marie Corley

Julie and Robert England Dr. Phyllis Engles * Mr. Steven Engwall Pat and Al Enlow Paddy and Barry Epstein * Dr. Chip and Evey Fagadau

Mr. and Mrs. Tad Fallows Anne and Alan Feld * Dr. Singyi Feng Kevin and Michelle Finamore Paul Firey in memory of Mary Lou Firey John L. Fish

Dr. and Mrs. Louis Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Hollye C. Fisk Curt and Susie FitzGerald Roy and Laura Fleischmann * Susan G. Fleming, Ph.D. Mary Shelton Florence Estate Antony Francis Dr. Rhoda Frenkel

Catherine Fritz

Mr. and Mrs. Graham A. Gardner Kathleen and Robert Gibson Lee Gibson in memory of Annie-Laurie Cooper Jason and Charlene Gladden W. John Glancy Mrs. Caitlin T. Glass and Mr. Anthony Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Gleiser Lilli Gober/GFT Ms. Haia Goldenberg Stephen and Bette Goldmann

Mr. Jacob Goodstein and Mrs. Reanna Wilborn

Dr. and Mrs. J. Kirkland Grant * Craig A. and Pamela H. Green Robin Green and Sandy Esserman

Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Greene Dr. C. Fish Greenfield and Thom Maciula

Ralph E. and Beverly Gretzinger Barbara Gunnin * Brian Hackfeld and Joey Miertschin

Paul Hale and Oscar Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hallam § Keith Hallock

Hon. Deborah Hankinson Mr. Luke Hardin Allison and Steve Harding Steve and Alicia Harris

Olivia and Charles Hasty Mr. Philip Henderson William L. Herrera James W. Hickey Lista and Rick Hightower Hines Heritage Foundation Revoc. Trust Ed Howard

Carroll W. and Linda K. Hughes Sharon and Robert Hulsey Sandra and Rick Illes Mark E. Jacobs Jean Jaffre Mary M. Jalonick Jordan and John Jardine Emily Jefferson * Jann Scarlett Jerner Dr. and Mrs. Rohan Jeyarajah Dr. and Mrs. Juan M. Jimenez Mrs. N. Page Johnson * Dr. and Mrs. R. Ellwood Jones

Dr. Ronald C. Jones M.D. *

Toby and Will Jordan Cynthia Karm Miss Nancy Kelley Kay and John Kelly Mr. Kyle F. Kerr * Ms. Jerrie J. Kertz Ellen Lindsey Key Mr. Matti Kiik Scott and Elizabeth Kimple Michael and Barbara Kimps Janie and Holman King

Dr. and Mrs. Jerold Lancourt Michael and Kathleen LaValle Bucky Layton

George and Natalie Lee Dr. and Mrs. Moonhee Lee Ronna and Larry LeMaster Jane Saginaw Lerer and Stephen Lerer Marsha Lev Ann and Nate Levine

Dr. S. David and Mrs. Jennifer Lloyd Philip and Janeva Longacre Julie and Michael Lowenberg * Mrs. Jole Luehrs

Lloyd Lumpkins Ms. MaryAnn Lyons Nancy Wiener Marcus Ms. Tory Marpe David and Sara Martineau Gwyn and Wilson Mason * C. Thomas May, Jr. and Eleanor S. May * Sue Thompson McAdams

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. McCall, Jr. Sherry McCray

Dr. James and Becky McCulley * Kari and Tim McDonald

* 25 or more consecutive years of Stradivarius Patron support

§ Stradivarius Patrons who are also Loge Box Seat Option holders

Charter Member

STRADIVARIUS PATRONS

ANNUAL FUND $3,000-4,999

Barbara and Rai Mehta

Mr. and Mrs. Al Meitz * Carole and Michael Mendelson Judy and Tom Mercer Drs. Janet and Sonya Merrill Linda Wightman Meyer Don and Debbie Michel

Harriet Miers

Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Miller Dr. Linus Miller

Toni Miller and Jan Nealey

In memory of Marie A. Moore

Carroll S. Moriarty

Kyle and Taylor Morrison Sally and James Nation § David and Jean Neisius

Charlene and Tom Norris

Mr. and Mrs. James Timothy Norwood Mr. and Mrs. Van Oliver Ms. Hester Parker Jeff and Annette Patterson Hank and Becky Pearson § Mrs. Mary Dean Perry * Dr. Sidney Perutz Stanley M. Peskind

Anthony Peterson

The Rev. Patricia Phillips Mr. Mark D. Pitts

Lucy Polter *§ Patsy and Bud Porter * Arlene and Bill Press Dr. James T. Pyron § Carolyn Raiser and Andy Streitfeld

Dr. and Mrs. Claudio Ramaciotti Kara and Todd Ranta

Mr. Dick Rawlings

Ken and Mary Kay Reimer Helen and Frank Risch * Nicole Roberts

John H. Rodgers *

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogoff Taras and Diana Lynn Romanchuk Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Rosen Helen and Duke Rosenberg *§ Dr. Randall and Barbara Rosenblatt Eileen and Harvey Rosenblum Eric and Joyous Rothell Deirdre and Bob Ruckman Mr. Wayne Ruhter Raymond and Nina Russo Debbie and Gavin Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sanchez Drs. Jean and Herb Schaake * Sophia G. Schmidt John and Page Schreck

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Schuepbach

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Scott John L. Shaw

Dana and James Shay Nancy Shelton and Caryl M. Keys

Joslyn and Greg Shirey Carole and Norm Silverman LKS Fund/Lisa K. Simmons Mrs. George Slover * Carol Leone and Regan Smith Martha M. Smither * Kim Snipes and Wayne Meyer Danny Snyder Karen and Martin Sosland Cindy and Stuart Spechler * William and Jacqueline Stavi-Raines

Mr. David Stecker Phillip W. and Ann Bridges Steely Miss Janie Stephens

Richard and Alice Stevenson

Hilda H. Stinchcomb

Mr. Samuel Stinchcomb Gayle Stoffel *

Catherine Stone Dee Swope

Dr. Paul B. Taylor Mr. Jack Terrillion

H.F. and Cindy Tibbals

Dr. Martin and Judy Tobey Jim and Deborah Turner Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tutterrow Dr. and Mrs. Albert Vaiser § Michael van Enter Karen Warner

Dr. Richard and Tina Wasserman

Dennis Waters and Lyn Tharp Carol and Jon Weinstein

Carl Weisbrod

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Weston Jane Wetzel *§ Jeanette and George Wharton *§

Mr. Paul Wharton and Ms. Silvia Tapia

Dr. and Mrs. Martin G. White *§

In Memory of David Whiting Sarah and Bryce Whitling

Katherine and Randall Wiele Jill and Malcolm Winspear Mrs. Barbara Wiggins * Douglas and Donna Wolfe Terry and Judy Wolfe Linda and Michael Wolfson James Woodall

Susan Yarad Z. and Shirley Zsohar

For more information about becoming a Stradivarius Patron, please contact Tanner Garrett, Manager of Individual Giving, at 214.871.4080 or t.garrett@dalsym.com.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra gratefully recognizes the corporations and foundations whose annual investment in the DSO’s artistic, educational and community engagement initiatives enriches the North Texas community.

$100,000

AND ABOVE

Hillcrest Foundation

The Jeanne R. Johnson Foundation

The Eugene McDermott Foundation O’Donnell Foundation

Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation

$50,000-99,999

Anonymous BDO USA, LLP

David M. Crowley Foundation The Dallas Morning News

Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee Gittings Portraiture Holland & Knight Foundation PNC Bank

Posey Family Foundation

The Brian J. Ratner Foundation

The Rea Charitable Trust Sammons Enterprises Harold Simmons Foundation

$25,000-49,999

Anonymous

AT&T*

Bank of America*

Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Chadwick-Loher Foundation

CIBC

The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation

Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District

First Horizon

The Men and Women of Hunt Consolidated, Inc.

Kohl Foundation

Ray H. Marr Foundation

The Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation / Neiman Marcus Stemmons Foundation*

Summerlee Foundation TACA*

Texas Capital Bank

The VanSickle Family Foundation Wiley Property, Ltd.

$15,000-24,999

Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Frost Bank Haynes and Boone, LLP

Central Market / H-E-B Tournament of Champions JPMorgan Chase* Locke Lord LLP

Pulse Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C.

The Rosewood Foundation / The Rosewood Corporation*

Simmons Bank Sturgis Charitable Trust

Texas Women’s Foundation West Monroe Partners Winstead PC Zerbina, Imports, LLC

$10,000-14,999

b1BANK Ben E. Keith Company* Capital Title Cariloop

The DSO is supported, in part, by funds from the Office of Arts and Culture, City of Dallas.

Communities Foundation of Texas

Crow Holdings

Feldman Family Foundation

Jones Day

Fannie and Stephen Kahn

Charitable Foundation

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

La Stella Cucina Verace

Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Northern Trust*

Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation Susser Bank

UT Southwestern Medical Center / Southwestern Medical Foundation Veritex Community Bank

$5,000-9,999

ActivePure Alto

Azimont Group Bell Nunnally Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Diodes Inc.

Louise W. Kahn Endowment Fund of The Dallas Foundation W. P. & Bulah Luse Foundation

Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC

Metroplex Civic and Business Association

Musume

Platt Cheema Richmond PLLC

Roberts Group

Steinway Hall - Dallas

Ussery Printing Company

World Affairs Council of Dallas / Fort Worth

* Giving for 20 or more consecutive years

For more information about partnership opportunities and benefits, please contact Sarah Whitling, Director of Institutional and Board Engagement, at 214.871.4062 or s.whitling@dalsym.com.

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

ENDOWMENT GIFTS

ORCHESTRA ENDOWMENTS

Gina Bachauer Fund for Young Artists

Lucile and Clarence Dragert Guest Artist Fund

Rita Sue and Alan Gold Fund for the Lynn Harrell Young Artist Competition

Cecil and Ida Green Guest Artist Fund

The Linda and Mitch Hart Domestic Touring Fund

The Linda and Mitch Hart International Touring Fund

The Linda and Mitch Hart Musicians Retirement Fund

Horchow Family Endowed Fund

Jeanne R. Johnson Fund for Artistic Excellence

Fannie and Stephen S. Kahn Orchestra Travel Fund

The Herman W. and Amelia H. Lay Family Concert Organ Soloists Fund

Eugene McDermott Orchestra Fund

Eugene McDermott Touring Fund

Meyerson Family Artistic Excellence Fund

Nancy P. and John G. Penson Dallas Symphony Orchestra Recording Fund

Pollock Family Fund for Music Library Contents

Robinson Family Fund

Anita and Merlyn D. Sampels Guest Artist Fund

The Charlie and Sadie Seay Endowment Fund for Artistic Excellence

Norma and Don Stone New Music Fund

Martha Wells Women in Music Fund

EXTRAORDINARY NAMED FUNDS

Constantin Foundation Fund

Gail B. and Dan W. Cook III Fund

Corbett Fund for Artistic Excellence

Leo F. and Clara R. Corrigan Foundation Fund for General Support

Alta Ewalt Evans Fund

Robert E. and Ruth Glaze Fund

Fanchon and Howard Hallam Fund

Winborne and Davis Hamlin Family Fund

Linda and Mitch Hart

Young Adult Education Fund

William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Young Strings

Carol and Jeff Heller Guest Artist Fund

The Philip R. Jonsson Endowed Fund for Young Strings

Ben E. Keith Foundation Fund

Cece Smith Lacy and John Ford Lacy Fund

Linda and Stanley Marcus Fund

Juanita and Henry S. Miller, Jr. Fund for General Support

The Pollock Foundation Endowment for Audience Development

Frank K. Ribelin Young Strings Endowment

George A. and Nancy P. Shutt Endowment Fund

Barbara and Robert P. Sypult Family Artistic Fund

Barbara and Robert P. Sypult International Guest Artist and Guest Conductor’s Fund

Desmond A. Wilcox and Brents Davis Orchestra Fund Hazel Young Fund

SPECIAL NAMED FUNDS

African-American Festival Concert Fund

Frances and J.D. Blatt Family Fund for Violinists

Sherwood E. Blount, Jr. Family Fund

Lawrence R. and Joy Lipshy Burk Memorial Fund

Chautauqua Music Student Scholarship Fund

Dallas Symphony Chorus Fund

Jeanne and Sanford Fagadau Family Fund for Education

Emme Sue and Jerome J. Frank Fund for HeartStrings

Gertrude Munger Garrett and Melvin Miller Garrett Memorial Fund for Artistic Excellence

Jessie D. and E. B. Godsey Family Fund

Gould Family Fund in memory of Jim Gould and Katherine Warren Gould Elissa Sabel and Stan Hirschman Guest Artist Fund

Hispanic Festival Concert Fund

Holland & Knight Foundation Fund

Mrs. Lee Hudson Fund for General Support

Luther King Capital Management Fund

Adah Yale Marr Memorial Fund for the Classics

Music and Merit Program Fund

The Hitoshi Nikaidoh Memorial Fund for Education

The S.C. Ratliff, Nannie V. Ratliff, W.C. Ratliff and Lucille N. Ratliff Endowment Fund

Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation

Gertrude Simon HeartStrings Fund

Dr. James E. Skibo Fund

Itske and Anthony Stern Fund

Richard and Alice Stevenson Education Fund

Annette G. Strauss Fund for Artistic Excellence

Brenda J. Stubel Chorus Endowment

Becky and Brad Todd Fund

Worsham, Forsythe & Wooldridge, L.L.P. Fund

CONCERT ENDOWMENTS

Texas Instruments Classical Series

Max, Celia and Jerry Abramson Family Concert

American Airlines

AT&T

Bank of America

Dallas Symphony Orchestra League

ExxonMobil

D. Gordon Rupe Foundation Opening Concert

Sydney J. Steiner and David L. Florence

Arkady Fomin

Annual Endowed Concerts in memory of Irene H. and Ernest G. Wadel

Pops Series Presented by Capital One Mary Martin

The Meadows Foundation

Liener Temerlin

Cecil and Ida Green Youth Concerts Series

Cecil and Ida Green Foundation

The Meadows Foundation

The Morton H. Meyerson Family Foundation

BUILDING RECOGNITION

Bank of America

Renaissance Foyer

The Richard D. Bass Foundation Percussion Warm-up Room and Choral Music Library

Diane and Hal Brierley Artists’ Dressing Rooms

Diane and Hal Brierley B-flat Rotary Trumpets

Diane and Hal Brierley

The Brierley Suite

Capital One East Loge

Mary C. Crowley Dress Circle Balcony East

Dallas Bankers Association

Isaac Stern Loge Foyer

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Guild

Furnishings of Music Director’s Suite and Musician’s Lounge

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Guild in Memory of Stephen F. Black Harpsichord

Dallas Symphony Orchestra League, Junior Group and Innovators

Musician’s Lounge

Anne and Robert Dickson

Wagner Tubas (Wagnertuben)

Hila and Nat Ekelman Telephone Alcove

ENSERCH Corporation

Grand Tier Balcony East

Ginny and John Eulich

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, foundations and companies for their extraordinary capital contributions in support of the DSO. 39 As of 12/31/22

Margaret and Robert Folsom Administrative

Reception Area

Emme Sue and Jerome J. Frank Celesta

Emme Sue and Jerome J. Frank

Restaurant Tree

Ida and Cecil Green Grand Stairway

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Greenberg Hamburg Steinway and Bosendorfer

Paul Guerrero

Dress Circle Stairway West

The Richard Gussoni Family Symphony Suites

The Haggar Foundation Concertmaster’s Dressing Room

Howard Hallam Choral Rehearsal Room

Hallam Family/Ben E. Keith Foundation Lobby Bars

Ebby Halliday and Maurice Acers Development Office

JoAnne and John Hamann Bosendorfer Grand Piano

Nancy Hamon Light Sculptures

Linda and Mitch Hart Hart Symphony Suites and Reception Atrium

Linda and Mitch Hart Linda and Mitch Hart Lobby

The Thomas O. Hicks Family Dress Circle Balcony West

Hoblitzelle Foundation Symphony Suites

The Horchow Family Horchow Hall

ICH Companies

Executive Director’s Office

Jeanne R. Johnson Choral Rehearsal Room

Margaret and Erik Jonsson

Grand Choral Terrace

JPMorgan Chase West Loge

Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Music Library / Archives Room

Clarice and Richard Kearley Heralding Trumpets

Dorothy and David Kennington Symphony Suites

Eunha Kim

Steinway & Sons Model D Grand Piano

Jerry and Connie Klemow Symphony Suites

KPMG LLP

Finance Office

Louis W. Kreditor Patron Service Center Extension

The Kresge Foundation Symphony Suites

Cece and Ford Lacy Guest Services Center

Amelia Lay Hodges

The Herman W. and Amelia H. Lay Family Concert Organ

Maxus Energy Corporation Box Office

The Eugene McDermott Family Eugene McDermott Concert Hall

The Meadows Foundation Concert Hall, Administrative Offices and Elevators

Juanita and Henry S. Miller, Jr. Board Room

The Harvey and Joyce Mitchell Family Foundation Broadcast Control Facility

Margot W. and Ben H. Mitchell Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas C Rotary Trumpets and Electric Piano

Alexander H. Moore

Dress Circle Stairway East

On loan from Miss Laurel Ornish

George Gershwin by Andy Warhol

Oryx Energy Corporation Dress Circle

The Elizabeth H. Penn Family East Pavilion

Nancy and John G. Penson Green Room

The Ross Perot Family Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Carol and George Poston Grand Tier Balcony West

Carol and George Poston Grand Tier Stairway West

Wendy Reves

Emery Reves Arch of Peace

The Rosewood Corporation Observation Rooms

Anita and Merlyn D. Sampels Anita Sampels Suite

Myrna and Bob Schlegel Schlegel Administrative Suites

Mary Liz and George R. Schrader Water Fountains

Margie and William H. Seay Boutique

Ruth C. and Charles S. Sharp Marquee

Barbara and Bob Sypult Volunteer Offices

Verizon Grand Tier Stairway East

On loan from Gwen Weiner Les Ondines by Henri Lauren Philip H. Weinkrantz Music Stands

In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Peter N. Wiggins, Jr. Dress Circle Box

Many opportunities are available to establish new funds and name building components. For more information, please contact Toni Miller, CAP®, Director of Individual Giving, at 214.871.4078 or t.miller@dalsym.com.

The Dallas Symphony thanks the following donors who committed generous gifts in support of a $7.5 million fundraising Initiative to build the future of the DSO. Funds raised support the DSO’s ongoing pursuit of innovation and artistic excellence in music; and serves to name the Young Musicians program in honor of the DSO’s Ross Perot President & CEO, Kim Noltemy, who founded the program.

KIM NOLTEMY YOUNG MUSICIANS PROGRAM

LEADERSHIP GIFTS

Diane and Hal Brierley

Fanchon and Howard Hallam

The Jeanne R. Johnson Foundation Holly and Tom Mayer

The Eugene McDermott Foundation

Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger O’Donnell Foundation

Margot Perot

Stan Rabin in Loving Memory of Barbara Rabin Martha McCarty Wells

PATRON GIFTS

Henry and Lucy Billingsley Capital One Cece and Ford Lacy Robinson Family Norma and Don Stone

SUPPORTING GIFTS

Susan Garner Fleming

Ron and Rebecca Gafford

Marena and Roger Gault

Linda and Mitch Hart

Yon Yoon Jorden

Fabio Luisi and Yulia Levin

The Brian J. Ratner Foundation

Jeff Rich and Jan Miller

Diana and Sam Self

Barbara and Bob Sypult

Becky and Brad Todd Karen and Jim Wiley

The Dallas Symphony thanks the following patrons who have recently committed generous gifts to the DSO. Made in addition to ongoing annual support, these investments are part of a transformational effort to ensure a sustainable future for the Dallas Symphony.

DSO –

EXCITE, INSPIRE, ENGAGE CAMPAIGN

$10,000,000 AND ABOVE

Mrs. Eugene McDermott and The Eugene McDermott Foundation Margot and Ross* Perot

$2,500,000-$9,999,999

Anonymous

Diane and Hal Brierley Linda and Mitch Hart Maisie Heiken

Cece and Ford Lacy

The Marcella Fund Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family

$1,000,000-$2,499,999

Anonymous (3)

Capital One Fanchon and Howard Hallam

Estate of Jeanne R. Johnson

The Jeanne R. Johnson Foundation O’Donnell Foundation

Pollock Family Foundation Barbara* and Stan Rabin Robinson Family Elsa von Seggern Foundation Linda VanSickle Smith Norma and Don Stone

In Memory of Irene H. and Ernest G. Wadel, Louis J. and Rose G. Hamel, and Beulah G. and Burnet Wadel

$250,000-$999,999

Estate of Arlene and James Booth Marena and Roger Gault Rita Sue and Alan Gold Gould Family Fund in memory of Jim Gould and Katherine Warren Gould

The Caroline Rose Hunt Family Katherine Glaze Lyle Joy and Ronald Mankoff Shirley and William S. McIntyre Foundation

Estate of Dr. William M. and Bettie Osborne Cindy and Howard Rachofsky Audrey and Albert Ratner, Michael and Deborah Ratner Salzberg and Brian J. Ratner Enika Schulze

John R. Sewell

Dr. James E. Skibo Fund Jean Ann Titus Sarah Titus Martha McCarty Wells Kern and Marnie Wildenthal Adele and Hobson* Wildenthal Karen and Jim Wiley

$100,000-$249,999

Anonymous

Estate of Rosalie C. and James R. Alexander Joanne L. Bober

Mrs. Thomas R. Corbett Ron and Rebecca Gafford Jessie D. and E.B. Godsey Family Kim and Greg Hext Yon Y. Jorden Debra and Steve Leven Holly and Tom Mayer Kim Noltemy

Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation Myrna and Bob Schlegel Mrs. George A. Shutt Mr. and Mrs. William T. Solomon Estate of Brenda J. Stubel

Symphony of Toys in Memory of Arkady Fomin Barbara and Bob Sypult Texas Instruments Foundation Becky and Brad Todd Donna and Herb Weitzman

OTHER GENEROUS GIFTS

Anonymous

Nicholas Adamson

Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Altabef

Lisa and Gregg Ballew

Jennifer and Coley Clark

John and Barbara Cohn

Barbara and Steve Durham

Ebby Halliday, REALTORS

David and Melinda Emmons

Ben Fischer and Laree Hulshoff

W. Gary and Donna Fowler

Estate of Robert and Ruth Glaze

Samuel S. Holland

Kathy and Richard Holt

Estate of Louise K. Kane

KPMG LLP

Selena Loh LaCroix

Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. LaRoe

Craig and Joy Lentzsch

Catherine Z. and George T. Manning

Estate of Dorothy O. Matetich

Scott and Jennifer McDaniel

Linda B. and John S. McFarland

Estate of Kathryn Amsler Priddy in Memory of Nancy and Jack Penson

Nancy and John Solana

Estate of William A. Solemene

Barbara and Sheldon Stein

Estate of Freda Gail Stern

Melissa Ruman Stewart and Paul Stewart

Estate of Anne-Marie Genevieve Thames

*deceased

For more information, please contact Toni Miller, CAP®, Director of Individual Giving, at 214.871.4078 or t.miller@dalsym.com.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Kim Noltemy

Ross Perot President & CEO

Nishi Badhwar

Olga & Yuri Anshelevich Manager of Orchestra Personnel

Nicole Mendyka

Assistant Personnel Manager

Quin Phillips

Executive Assistant to President & CEO

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION + SOCIAL IMPACT

Glyne A. Griffith II, DBA, CDP, CSR

Vice President of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion + Social Impact

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS + EDUCATION

Katie McGuinness

Wildenthal Families Vice

President of Artistic Operations

Ashley Alarcon

Young Musicians Manager

Tom Brekhus

Senior Production + Pops Concerts Manager

Jen Guzmán

Thomas & Roberta Corbett

Director of Education

Sarah Hatler

Education Manager

Stephanie Izaguirre

Young Musicians Coordinator

Carolyn Jabr

Young Strings Manager

Emma Jensen

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus Site Coordinator

Todd Joiner Senior Manager of Artistic Administration

Nathan Lutz

Director of Operations + Education Programs

Michael Lysinger Chorus Administrator

Paula Olsen

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus Artistic Manager

Micah Ringham

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus Operations Manager

Ben Spagnuolo

Artistic Operations Coordinator

Roberto Zambrano

Artistic Director to the Young Musicians Program

COMMUNICATIONS + MEDIA

Denise McGovern

Vice President of Communications + Media

Sidney Hopkins Communications + Media Manager

Analiese White Communications + Media Coordinator

DEVELOPMENT

Terry D. Loftis

Chief Advancement + Revenue Officer

Tab Boyles

Director of Event Planning

Jon Ediger

Corporate Relations Coordinator

Tanner Garrett

Manager of Individual Giving

Lilian E. Godsey

Manager of Donor Stewardship

Kim Koenig

Events Coordinator

Whitney MacDonald

Major Gifts Officer

Toni Miller, CAP®

Director of Individual Giving Alex Small

Manager of Events + Board Engagement

Alisa Stone

Development Operations Coordinator

Alma Delia Vega, CAPM®

Director of Development Operations + Analytics

Sarah Whitling

Director of Institutional + Board Engagement

VOLUNTEER SERVICES

Maliska Haba

Manager of Volunteer Services

FINANCE

Drew Cameron

Chief Financial Officer

Cecilia Rauschuber

Accounts Payable Coordinator

Julie Ribeca

Accounting Administrator

Deanie Sewell

Controller

Danesha Voss Senior Staff Accountant

Heather Yeager

Senior Manager Budgeting + Financial Analysis

COMMUNITY RELATIONS, FACILITIES + HUMAN RESOURCES

Debi Peña

Chief Administrative Officer

Carl Baines

Desktop + Systems Administrator

Celia Barshop

Director of Meyerson Sales + Operations

Velyncia Caldwell

Senior Lighting Technician

Jaz Clayborne

Security Supervisor

Cameron Conyer

Audio Video Specialist

Amanda Cook

Payroll + Human Resources Manager

Suré Eloff

Human Resources + Community Liaison

Avery Gauthier

Audio Technician

Kimberly Koniecki

Senior Manager of Meyerson Sales + Operations

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David Lane

Director of IT

Lamar Livingston

Director of Technical Operations

Shawn Mahan Lead House Manager

Emily McCall Supply + Facilities Coordinator

Kyra McGuirk Recruiting + HR Specialist

Marissa Mediati Event Operations Manager

Grant Ostergard

Lighting/Audio Technician

Andrew Polansky

Lighting Technician

Judith Washington Data Quality Associate

Roger Willis Assistant House Manager

Adrian Zeigler

Security Manager

MARKETING + GUEST SERVICES

Terry D. Loftis

Chief Advancement + Revenue Officer

Kim Burgan

Vice President of Sales + Marketing

Liz Akop

Group Sales Representative

Kathryn Barrett Shop Manager + Buyer

Jenna Buckley Marketing Associate

Eric Burleson Concert Associate

Elisa Campos

Ticketing Operations Manager

Mallory Coulter Director of Digital Marketing

Carla Ewing Guest Services Manager

Corri Greene Graphic Designer

Leigh Hopkins Senior Manager of Digital Marketing

Eric Landrum

Senior Manager of Partner + Experiential Marketing

Alex Moffitt

Guest Services Coordinator

Vanessa Nates Marketing Associate

Danielle Reeves

Lead Graphic Designer

Sabrina Siggers

Group Sales Representative

Paul Torres

Guest Services Manager

Jena Tunnell

Director of Ticketing + Guest Services

Adam Wallman

Manager of Marketing Research + Analytics

Stephanie Watson Guest Services Coordinator