DSO Fall 2016 Performance Magazine - Edition 1 by Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Volume XXV • Fall/Winter

PERFORMANCE THE MAGAZINE OF THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2016-2017 SEASON

INSIDE

Introducing The Cube •

Program Notes •

Gershwin and His Children Meet Eric Nowlin

ALL NEW PRODUCTION | 30-COUNTRY WORLD TOUR

See Why Every Seat Is Taken “5,000 years of Chinese Music and Dance in One Night.” — The New York Times

“Brilliant choreography… extravagantly beautiful.” — Broadway World

“The orchestra is phenomenal. They are very, very on top.”

— Roger Tallman, Seven-time Emmy Award–winning composer/producer

A MUST see show Featuring 90 performers and 20 new programs along with breathtaking animated backdrops, exquisite hand-made costumes, and mesmerizing live orchestra music. Shen Yun's performance will take you on a magical journey through 5,000 years of spectacular civilization.

“Really out of this world! You can not describe it in words, it must be experienced!” — Christine Walevska, world-renowned cellist, saw Shen Yun four times

“Five stars! Mind-blowing! Go back and see six times!” — Richard Connema, renowned Broadway critic

“Absolutely the No. 1 show in the world!” — Kenn Wells, former lead dancer of the English National Ballet “Don’t see it once, see it twice!” — Dr. Dan Miller, Radio talk show host

“Don’t see it once, see it twice!” — Dr. Dan Miller, Radio talk show host

Dec 22-27 • Detroit Opera House • ShenYun.com • 844-647-4697

2 0 16 - 2 0 17 S E A S O N

PERFORMANCE The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a leader in the world of classical music, embraces and inspires individuals, families, and communities through unsurpassed musical experiences.

CONTENTS Welcome.............................................4

Orchestra Roster..................................9

Introducing…

Board Leadership...............................10

The Cube

Governing Members...........................11

MEET THE MUSICIAN

8 Eric Nowlin SEASON’S THEME 16 THIS Gershwin and

Principal Viola

His Children Leonard Slatkin

PROGRAM NOTES

Volunteer Council...............................13 Maximize Your Experience..................18 Gabrilowitsch Society.........................38 Volunteer Ushers................................39 Donor Roster.....................................40 DSO Administrative Staff....................50 Upcoming Concerts...........................52

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WELCOME Dear Friends, Welcome to Orchestra Hall and to another landmark season for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra! This season promises worldclass performances with top guest artists working alongside our internationally renowned Music Director and the members of our amazing and talented orchestra. Our Winter Music Festival tradition enters its fourth year with Mozart Festival in January. A theme—Gershwin and His Children—weaves itself through the season, investigating the merging of orchestral music and popular culture that became synonymous with the American composer. Along with several other area organizations and countless individuals, the DSO will participate in Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward, premiering a work by Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Chair Terence Blanchard marking the 50th anniversary of the tumultuous summer of 1967. And of course we are honored to welcome dozens of inimitable soloists and conductors: Louis Langrée, Emanuel Ax, Cho-Liang Lin, Andrey Boreyko, Sharon Isbin, Brandford Marsalis, Ashley Brown, and so many others. We are very focused on Detroit at this time as we consider the role, the reach, and the responsibility of the DSO in our evolving community. We know orchestras can have an impact beyond the confines of the concert hall. We also know that music and the arts contribute to socioeconomic change and social progress. The DSO, as one of Detroit’s anchor cultural institutions, feels a strong obligation to serve our city, our region, and our world in increasingly creative, responsible, and thoughtful ways. We look forward to engaging you in this quest for ideas around ways we can deepen and broaden our impact and provide service to all. The broad topic of the role an orchestra plays in its community continues to anchor discussions on a national level. To that end, we are honored to be the official host orchestra for the League of American Orchestras conference, June 6-8, 2017. Over 1,000 participants from around the globe will experience the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, meet and hear our great orchestra, and explore and gain a deeper understanding of this amazing city of Detroit. Together we will be examining where orchestras are in the space of community and societal change—and where we aspire to be and how we get there. Thank you for being a part of this incredible season! And thank you for supporting your orchestra in your Detroit. We so value your commitment as a member of the oneDSO family.

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Mark Davidoff Board Chairman FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

G R A N D VA L L E Y S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S E N T S T H E 1 4 t h A N N U A L

Fall Arts Celebration 2016 Enriching the Arts and Humanities in West Michigan Grand Valley’s Fall Arts Celebration features distinguished writers, poets, musicians, artists, and scholars of our time. Please join us this fall for inspiring entertainment that is the hallmark of our signature events.

MUSIC

“Emerging Romanticism: the Ying Quartet Performs the Early Viennese Chamber Music of Beethoven” MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 7:30 P.M. COOK-DEWITT CENTER ALLENDALE CAMPUS

ART

“GVSU and SeoulTech Art and Design Faculty Exhibition” EXHIBITION RECEPTION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 5–7 P.M. ART GALLERY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ALLENDALE CAMPUS

DANCE

The Francesca Harper Project and GVSU Dance present “Beethoven’s The Creatures of Prometheus Ballet” MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 7:30 P.M. LOUIS ARMSTRONG THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ALLENDALE CAMPUS

LECTURE

Rebecca Solnit “Seeing the Invisible: Journeys Through the Overlooked, Unheard, Outside, and Insurrectionary” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 7 P.M. 2ND FLOOR, L.V. EBERHARD CENTER ROBERT C. PEW GRAND RAPIDS CAMPUS

EXHIBITION DATES: AUGUST 26–NOVEMBER 4

POETRY

“An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Oliver de la Paz and Kay Ryan” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7 P.M. 2ND FLOOR, L.V. EBERHARD CENTER ROBERT C. PEW GRAND RAPIDS CAMPUS

HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

“Musical Tradition and Timeless Memories: Handel’s Messiah”

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 7:30 P.M. FOUNTAIN STREET CHURCH

24 FOUNTAIN STREET NE GRAND RAPIDS, MI

All events are FREE and open to the public. Want to know more about upcoming Fall Arts Celebration events?

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BEHIND THE BATON Leonard Slatkin

Internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL). He also maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting and is active as a composer, author, and educator. During the 2016-17 season—in addition to his regular duties in Detroit and Lyon—he will return to St. Louis, tour the U.S. and Europe with the ONL, conduct overseas with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Verdi Orchestra in Milan, and San Carlo Theatre Orchestra in Naples, and serve as chairman of the jury and conductor of the 2017 Cliburn Competition. Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have garnered seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations. His recent Naxos recordings include works by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Berlioz (with the ONL) and music by Copland, Rachmaninov, Borzova, McTee, and John Williams (with the DSO). In addition, he has recorded the complete Brahms, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky symphonies with the DSO (available online as digital downloads). A recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, Slatkin also holds the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. He has received Austria’s Decoration of Honor in Silver, the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award, and the 2013 ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for his book, Conducting Business. Slatkin has conducted virtually all of the leading orchestras in the world. As Music Director, he has held posts with the New Orleans, St. Louis, and National symphony orchestras, and he was Chief Conductor of 6

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the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Principal Guest Conductor of London’s Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Minnesota Orchestra. For more information, visit leonardslatkin.com. Jeff Tyzik

Grammy Award winner Jeff Tyzik is one of America’s most innovative and sought-after pops conductors. Tyzik is recognized for his brilliant arrangements, original programming, and engaging rapport with audiences of all ages. Tyzik holds The Dot and Paul Mason Principal Pops Conductor’s Podium at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and also serves as Principal Pops Conductor of the Seattle Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, and The Florida Orchestra. This season, Tyzik will celebrate his 23rd season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In May 2007, the Harmonia Mundi label released his recording of works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the RPO, which stayed in the Top 10 on the Billboard classical chart for over three months. Alex Ross of The New Yorker called it “one of the snappiest Gershwin discs in years.” Committed to performing music of all genres, Tyzik has collaborated with such diverse artists as Megan Hilty, Wynonna Judd, Tony Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Marilyn Horne, Mark O’Connor, Doc Severinsen, John Pizzarelli, and more. He has created numerous original programs that include the greatest music from jazz and classical to Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin, and swing. For more information, visit jefftyzik.com. FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

Prague Prague Philharmonia Philharmonia Emmanuel Emmanuel Villaume, Villaume, conductor conductor SarahSarah Chang, Chang, violinviolin Thursday, Thursday, January January 19 // 7:30 19 // pm 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium Hill Auditorium PROGRAM PROGRAM

Smetana Smetana“Die Moldau” “Die Moldau” from Má from vlast Má vlast Dvořák Dvořák Violin Concerto in a minor, Op. 53 Violin Concerto in a minor, Op. 53 Dvořák Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 PR E S EPR N TE INSG S E N TPO INN G S S OPO R NSOR Sarah Chang Sarah Chang

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Bruckner Bruckner Orchester Orchester LinzLinz Dennis Dennis Russell Russell Davies, Davies, conductor conductor Angélique Angélique Kidjo,Kidjo, vocalist vocalist Martin Martin Achrainer, Achrainer, baritone baritone Thursday, Thursday, February February 2 // 7:30 2 // pm 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium Hill Auditorium PROGRAM PROGRAM

Gershwin Gershwin PorgyPorgy and Bess andSuite Bess Suite (arr. Morton Gould) (arr. Morton Gould) Zemlinsky Zemlinsky Symphony Songs from Africa Symphony Songs from Africa Sings, Op. 20 Sings, Op. 20 Ellington Ellington Black, Brown, and Beige Suite Black, Brown, and Beige Suite Glass Glass Ifé: Three Yorùbá Songs Ifé: Three Yorùbá Songs PR E S EPR N TE INSG S E N TPO INN G S S OPO R NS OSRUPPOSRUPPO TING RSTING PO N S SOPO R N S O R

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Angélique Kidjo Angélique Kidjo

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MEET THE MUSICIAN

ometimes a little sibling rivalry can be a good thing. Eric Nowlin knew he wanted to learn music when his older brother started playing the cello—“and of course I wanted to play bass,” Nowlin recalls, “because it was bigger!” The bass didn’t turn out to be for him, but Eric did stay in the string family—starting

ERIC NOWLIN Principal Viola Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair

on the violin at age 7, adding on the viola four years later, and settling on the viola permanently in college. Formerly Associate Principal Viola for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Nowlin is excited to return to his native U.S. and join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. “I think Detroit is a really interesting city… it doesn’t feel like every other place out there, it has its own unique flavor,” says Nowlin. “It’s very exciting to be part of an arts scene, but also more generally an atmosphere of people taking chances and trying things out.” Nowlin grew up in Missouri and Wisconsin, though he has a few Michigan connections. His wife grew up in Kalamazoo, and he spent his last two years of high school at 8

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the Interlochen Arts Academy before leaving the Midwest for Juilliard, where he received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as a scholarship student of Samuel Rhodes. He has performed solo engagements with the Springfield Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, and the Kumamoto Symphony in Japan, and has served as guest principal viola with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Metropolis Ensemble, and Cleveland’s Citymusic as well as substitute viola with the New York Philharmonic. He is also a member of the New Orford String Quartet, one of Canada’s premier chamber ensembles. A friend of DSO Principal Cello Wei Yu (James C. Gordon Chair) and Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik, Nowlin has admired the DSO from afar for years. He loves the orchestra’s willingness to try new things, from new music to new media. “I have colleagues in other orchestras who are very jealous of Live from Orchestra Hall,” Nowlin says, referring to the DSO’s free webcast series. “It’s forward-looking and indicative of how much enthusiasm and energy there is at the DSO.” After accepting the Principal Viola position and rehearsing with his string colleagues for the first time, Nowlin knew he was in the right place. “I felt a collaborative energy coming from the other string principals. That’s how you make music.” Asked about his interests outside of music, Nowlin laughs. “I used to have hobbies until I had children!” The father of two did reveal that he enjoys (or once enjoyed) reading, hiking, and playing squash. ERIC NOWLIN WILL MAKE HIS DSO SOLO DEBUT ON JANUARY 19 AND 20, 2017, for the first program of the Mozart Festival. He will take on Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E-flat major alongside Concertmaster Yoonshin Song (Katherine Tuck Chair).

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LEONARD SLATKIN, Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK, Principal Pops Conductor FIRST VIOLIN Yoonshin Song Concertmaster Katherine Tuck Chair Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy Associate Concertmaster Alan and Marianne Schwartz and Jean Shapero (Shapero Foundation) Chair Hai-Xin Wu Assistant Concertmaster Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair Jennifer Wey Assistant Concertmaster Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Landers Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou* SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski Acting Principal The Devereaux Family Chair Ron Fischer* Will Haapaniemi* Hae Jeong Heidi Han* David and Valerie McCammon Chairs Sheryl Hwangbo* Hong-Yi Mo* Alexandros Sakarellos* Joseph Striplin* Marian Tanau* Jing Zhang* VIOLA Eric Nowlin Principal Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair James VanValkenburg Assistant Principal Caroline Coade Hang Su Glenn Mellow Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Alexander Mishnaevski Principal Emeritus LEGEND

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TERENCE BLANCHARD Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus

CELLO Wei Yu Principal James C. Gordon Chair Robert Bergman* David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey* Haden McKay* Úna O’Riordan* Paul Wingert* Victor and Gale Girolami Chair Open Assistant Principal Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

BASS Kevin Brown Principal Van Dusen Family Chair Stephen Molina Assistant Principal Linton Bodwin Stephen Edwards Larry Hutchinson Isaac Trapkus ~

E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson

HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher Principal Winifred E. Polk Chair FLUTE David Buck Principal Women’s Association for the DSO Chair Amanda Blaikie Sharon Sparrow Assistant Principal Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair Jeffery Zook PICCOLO Jeffery Zook OBOE Alexander Kinmonth Principal Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair Geoffrey Johnson† Maggie Miller Chair Brian Ventura Assistant Principal Monica Fosnaugh

MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

CLARINET Ralph Skiano Principal Robert B. Semple Chair Jared Davis † PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair Laurence Liberson Assistant Principal Shannon Orme Ford Musician Awardee

BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair BASSOON Robert Williams Principal Victoria King Michael Ke Ma Assistant Principal Marcus Schoon Alexander Davis African-American Orchestra Fellow CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon HORN Karl Pituch Principal Bryan Kennedy Scott Strong Johanna Yarbrough David Everson Assistant Principal Mark Abbott TRUMPET Hunter Eberly Principal Lee and Floy Barthel Chair Kevin Good Stephen Anderson Assistant Principal William Lucas

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins Principal David Binder Randall Hawes BASS TROMBONE Randall Hawes TUBA Dennis Nulty Principal PERCUSSION Joseph Becker Principal Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal Assistant Principal William Cody Knicely Chair James Ritchie TIMPANI Jeremy Epp Principal Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair James Ritchie Assistant Principal LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles Principal Ethan Allen Personnel Managers Heather Hart Rochon Orchestra Personnel Manager Patrick Peterson Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Stage Personnel Dennis Rottell Stage Manager Steven Kemp Department Head Matthew Pons Department Head Michael Sarkissian Department Head

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME MEMBERS

DIRECTORS EMERITI

CHAIRMEN EMERITI

Alfred R. Glancy III Steve Miller Peter D. Cummings James B. Nicholson Stanley Frankel Phillip Wm. Fisher

Robert A. Allesee Floy Barthel Mrs. Mandell L. Berman John A. Boll, Sr. Richard A. Brodie Lois and Avern Cohn Marianne Endicott Sidney Forbes Mrs. Harold Frank Barbara Frankel

Herman Frankel Paul Ganson Mort and Brigitte† Harris Gloria Heppner, Ph.D. Hon. Damon J. Keith Richard P. Kughn Harold Kulish Dr. Melvin A. Lester David R. Nelson Robert E.L. Perkins, DDS

Marilyn Pincus Lloyd E. Reuss Jack A. Robinson † Marjorie S. Saulson Alan E. Schwartz Jean Shapero Jane Sherman David Usher Barbara Van Dusen Arthur A. Weiss, Esq.

Mark A. Davidoff Chairman

Laura Marcero Treasurer

Janice Uhlig Officer-at-Large

Glenda D. Price, Ph.D. Vice Chair

Arthur T. O’Reilly Secretary

James G. Vella Officer-at-Large

Anne Parsons President and CEO

Ralph J. Gerson Officer-at-Large

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pamela Applebaum Chacona W. Baugh Robert H. Bluestein Richard L. DeVore Jeremy Epp* Orchestra Representative James Farber Chairman, Governing Members Samuel Fogleman

Monica Fosnaugh* Orchestra Representative Herman B. Gray, Jr., MD Nicholas Hood III Ronald M. Horwitz Michael J. Keegan Bonnie Larson Matthew B. Lester Arthur C. Liebler

Ginny Lundquist Volunteer Council President Xavier Mosquet Faye Alexander Nelson Stephen Polk Bernard I. Robertson Hon. Gerald E. Rosen Arn Tellem Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder M. Roy Wilson

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ismael Ahmed Rosette Ajluni Devon Akmon Dan Angelucci Janet M. Ankers Suzanne Bluestein Penny B. Blumenstein Liz Boone Gwen Bowlby Joanne Danto Stephen D’Arcy Maureen T. D’Avanzo Karen Davidson Linda Dresner Afa S. Dworkin J. Mikel Ellcessor Jeremy Epp* Orchestra Representative Annmarie Erickson Jennifer Fischer Aaron Frankel Robert Gillette Allan D. Gilmour

Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin Carol Goss Antoinette G. Green Leslie Green Deirdre Greene Groves Laura Hernandez-Romine Michele Hodges Sharad P. Jain Renee Janovsky Joey Jonna David Karp Joel D. Kellman James Lentini Josh Linkner Florine Mark Tonya Matthews David McCammon Lois A. Miller Daniel Millward James C. Mitchell, Jr. Scott Monty Joseph Mullany

Sean M. Neall Tom O’Brien Maury Okun Úna O’Riordan* Orchestra Representative William F. Pickard Fair Radom Gerrit Reepmeyer Rick Robinson Lois L. Shaevsky Tom Shafer Margo Shulman Cathryn Skedel Stephen Strome Mark Tapper Ray Telang Michael R. Tyson Gwen Weiner Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue

OFFICERS

The Board of Directors is responsible for maintaining a culture of high engagement, accountability and strategic thinking. As fiduciaries, Directors oversee all DSO financial activities and assure that resources are aligned with the DSO mission.

Ric Huttenlocher Chairperson

The Board of Trustees is tasked with shepherding the long-term strategy of the DSO to fully implement the organization’s entrepreneurial capabilities while developing and presenting new strategies and objectives.

Samuel Frankel † David Handleman, Sr.† Dr. Arthur L. Johnson † Clyde Wu, M.D.†

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GOVERNING MEMBERS Governing Members is a philanthropic leadership group designed to provide unique, substantive, hands-on opportunities for leadership and access to a diverse group of valued stakeholders. Governing Members are ambassadors for the DSO and advocates for arts and culture in Detroit and throughout Southeast Michigan. This list reflects gifts received from September 1, 2015 through August 31, 2016. For more information about the Governing Members program, please call Morgan Graby at 313.576.5452.

James C. Farber Chairperson

Bonnie Larson Member-at-Large

Arthur T. O’Reilly Immediate Past Chairman

Frederick J. Morsches Member-at-Large

Janet and Norm Ankers Co-Vice Chairs, Gabrilowitsch Society

David Everson* Musician Representative

Jiehan Alonzo Vice Chair, Signature Events Maureen D’Avanzo Vice Chair, Membership Suzanne Dalton Vice Chair, Annual Giving

Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Mrs. Denise Abrash Ms. Dorothy Adair Mr. & Mrs. George Agnello Dr. Roger & Mrs. Rosette Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Daniel & Rose Angelucci Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Ms. Pamela Applebaum Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Aviv Mr. & Mrs. John Axe Mrs. Jean Azar Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Babbish Ms. Sharon Backstrom Ms. Ruth Baidas Nora Lee & Guy Barron Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. Mark Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mary Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Dr. & Mrs. Brian Beck Ms. Margaret Beck Mr. Chuck Becker Mrs. Cecilia Benner

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Mrs. Harriett Berg Mandell & Madeleine Berman Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Drs. John & Janice Bernick Mr. & Mrs. Michael Biber Ms. Kathleen Block Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Bluestein Dr. George & Joyce Blum Penny & Harold Blumenstein Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Mr. Timothy Bogan Mr. & Mrs. John A. Boll, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Bonahoom Rud & Mary Ellen Boucher Don & Marilyn Bowerman Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Robert N. & Claire P. Brown Bowden & Elaine Brown Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald F. Buck Michael & Geraldine Buckles Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Ms. Evelyn Burton Julie Byczynski* & Angus Gray Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Philip & Carol Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Michael & Cathleen Clancy Gloria Clark

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Dr. Thomas Clark & Annette Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Lois & Avern Cohn Mr. Richard Cole Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Cook Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Louis Cotman Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Dorothy M. Craig Julie & Peter Cummings Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Jerry P. & Maureen T. D’Avanzo Barbara A. David Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Lillian & Walter Dean Beck Demery Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Mr. Giuseppe Derdelakos Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Adel & Walter Dissett Diana & Mark Domin Donato Enterprises Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Peggy Dufault Mr. Michael J. Dul Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunn

Johanna Yarbrough* Musician Representative David Karp Vice Chair, Communications David Assemany Vice Chair, Engagement

Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Marianne T. Endicott Donald & Marjory Epstein Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Mr. Drew Esslinger Jim & Margo Farber Ellie Farber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. Anthony C. Fielek Mrs. Kathryn L. Fife Ms. Sharon Finch Mr. & Mrs. David Fischer Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Ms. Mary D. Fisher Mr. Michael J. Fisher Mr. Jay Fishman Mr. David Fleitz Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Madeline & Sidney Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Frank Mr. Samuel Frank Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Dale & Bruce Frankel Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Ms. Carol A. Friend Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Frohardt-Lane Sharyn & Alan Gallatin

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GOVERNING MEMBERS continued Lynn & Bharat Gandhi Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Mr. George Georges Mrs. Byron Gerson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Drs. Lynda & Conrad Giles Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Mrs. Gale Girolami Dr. Kenneth & Roslyne Gitlin Ruth & Al Glancy Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Dr. Robert T. Goldman Goodman Family Charitable Trust Dr. Allen Goodman & Dr. Janet Hankin Paul & Barbara Goodman Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Dr. Herman & Mrs. Shirley Gray Mrs. James A. Green Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Dr. & Mrs. Steven Grekin Mr. Jeffrey Groehn Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Robert & Elizabeth Hamel Randall L. & Nancy Caine Harbour Tina Harmon Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Mr. Morton E. Harris Mr. Lee V. Hart & Mr. Charles L. Dunlap Cheryl A. Harvey Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Ms. Nancy B. Henk Dr. Gloria Heppner Ms. Doreen Hermelin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Herron Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Jeremiah* & Brooke Hess Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley Lauri & Paul Hogle Mr. David B. Holtzman Jack & Anne Hommes Ms. Barbara Honner The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Mr. Ronald Horwitz Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. F. Robert Hozian 12

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Nicki* & Brian Inman Steven & Sarah Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. Sharad P. Jain Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Janovsky Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Mr. John S. Johns Chacona W. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Mr. Paul Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jonna Ellen Kahn Faye & Austin Kanter Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos, Jr. Judy & David Karp Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Katz Dr. Laura Katz & Dr. Jonathan Pasko Mike & Katy Keegan Betsy & Joel Kellman June K. Kendall Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Patrick J. Kerzic & Stephanie Germack Kerzic Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Frederic & Stephanie Keywell Mrs. Frances King Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kingsley Susan & Bill Kishler Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Kleiman Thomas & Linda Klein Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Ms. Margot Kohler Mr. David Kolodziej Mr. James Kors & Ms. Victoria King* Martin & Karen Koss Dr. Harry & Mrs. Katherine Kotsis Robert C. & Margaret A. Kotz Barbara & Michael Kratchman Richard & Sally Krugel Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish Dr. Arnold Kummerow Mr. John Kunz Dr. Myron & Joyce LaBan Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg

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VOLUNTEER COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Ginny Lundquist President

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The Volunteer Council strives to fulfill its mission as an active partner of the DSO in fundraising, as well as audience/membership expansion, youth music education and volunteer service. Because of the repeated financial success of its events, such as the Nutcracker Luncheon & Boutique and Musical Feasts, the Volunteer Council is proudly able to make significant donations to the DSO each year.

Jill Jordan Chief Financial Officer

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STAFF LIAISON Morgan Graby ORCHESTRA REPRESENTATIVES Mark Abbott* Caroline Coade*

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F E AT U R E S T O R Y

INTRODUCING THE

hirteen years ago we the year that push the boundaries introduced the Max M. and of music and offer curated, urban, Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center boundless experiences for our to Woodward Avenue and to the patrons. Building off the success world. The Max has always been our popular series Mix @ The Max intended as a crown jewel of music (contemporary music mixing food, and culture in drink, shopping) Midtown Detroit, and Om @ The a premier Max (group destination for yoga set to live performances music), The Cube that you can’t will serve as a get anywhere gathering place else. We love offering unique our home here programming and maintain the BROOKLYN PARTY BAND RED BARAAT that reflects the goal of being an KICKED OFF THE CUBE’S SEASON rich musical inclusive, cutting-edge, and relevant legacy of this great city—jazz, space on the Detroit cultural map. contemporary classical, hip-hop, With that goal in mind, all of us techno, gospel, world music, plus at the DSO are proud to introduce dance and visual arts. All of this the Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings and more is just a hint of the artistic Cube, a revamped venue within The diversity that will be synonymous Max that will feature homegrown with The Cube. talent and national artists throughout The 2016-2017 Mix @ The Max

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GENEROUS DONORS JULIE AND PETER CUMMINGS

series kicked off on September 12 with Brooklyn-based Red Baraat, who brought the house down with their inimitable blend of South Asian sounds with rock, jazz, and go-go influences. It’s global yet local; it’s daring yet approachable; it’s something you’ve never heard before yet immediately the best thing you’ve heard in a long time. That’s The Cube as we see it and we hope you’ll join us in celebrating throughout the season. All of this is made possible by the incredible support of DSO Chairman Emeritus Peter Cummings and his wife Julie, whom we thank for $10 million of cumulative giving over their lifetimes. We are honored to have Peter and Julie as members of the DSO family, and they have both been visionaries in our constant evaluation of the space that we occupy here in Midtown and how we can best use it to be more relevant, welcoming, and artistically groundbreaking. During my tenure at the DSO, I’ve had the great fortune to collaborate with forward-thinking leaders who challenge the team to consider what’s next? I believe that now is the best possible time to reimagine this unique space and its role in contributing to the cultural fabric of our city. It’s a pleasure and an honor to have this opportunity to present programming that’s not only accessible, but also relevant to communities that we’re already serving as well as the new audiences we intend to attract with consciously curated experiences. dso.org

We’re so lucky to live in a place with a strong cultural pulse. We’re even luckier to be able to contribute to the Detroit heartbeat with not one, but three world-class venues within The Max: the historic Orchestra Hall, The Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings Cube, and Robert A. and Maggie Allesee Hall, home of the Detroit Public Theatre. Detroit will continue to grow and evolve—a streetcar you may have heard about will bring you right to our door, for just one example— and we must go with it, as boldly as we can. The Cube will be for trying something new on a weeknight, for mingling and yoga in an unexpected setting, for telling your friends “you have to check this out.” We hope to see you there. CHRISTOPHER HARRINGTON Managing Director & Curator of @ The Max Managing Director of Paradise Jazz Series

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GERSHWIN and His Children

The Influence of Popular Culture on Classical Music By Leonard Slatkin

ebruary 24, 1924. World War I was over. The stock market had not yet collapsed. Americans were looking for something different. On this day, they got it. The history of Rhapsody GERSHWIN in Blue is well documented. Written quickly and somewhat improvised on the spot, George Gershwin’s contribution to “An Experiment in Modern Music” changed the very nature of how classical music was perceived. Aeolian Hall was the scene of a very long program, featuring no less than 26 separate musical selections. It was Paul Whiteman’s idea to find a way to make jazz, and other vernacular music of the time, part of the collective conscience of the listener. Although the Rhapsody was not well received by the critics, over a period of three years the work was performed by Whiteman 84 times, and its recording had sold more than a million copies. This was not just an isolated, one-off experience. That original concert opened a floodgate of new compositional thought. It was the time of Stravinsky, Ravel, Shostakovich and

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so many others. Each of those composers, and many more, took to the new craze and tried to find ways to incorporate music in popular idioms into their own compositions. Over the course of the 2016-2017 Season, the DSO will feature many of the groundbreaking pieces that took the mainstream of the popular culture and changed the way all of us perceive classical music. We will see how other cultures reacted and incorporated their own brand of local music into the concert hall. There will be premieres that promise to be exciting and bold. And we will learn that Gershwin was not really the first composer to utilize these elements. During the season we will try to understand why the “jazz age” existed and will consider its lasting impact on society today. Long before the term “crossover” came into use in music, composers were taking their audiences on new paths, combining various aesthetics to produce a new genre in music. I have been looking forward to presenting this trip for quite some time and hope that you will join me. It promises to be a journey well worth taking. FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

SPOTLIGHT SUPPORTING THE ARTS

COFFEE EXPESS ROASTING COMPANY

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is proud to spotlight COFFEE EXPRESS ROASTING COMPANY as an outstanding corporate partner in the Metro Detroit community. Coffee Express has roasted specialty coffees for coffee houses and retailers since 1982, and celebrate a world-class ensemble. is generouslyWe partnering with the DSO tothe elevateDSO the quality–of coffee and service for our patrons this season. Tom Isaia, President of Coffee Express Roasting Company, has been a classical subscriber since 2001. As a music lover, Tom values the role the arts play in our community and joined the DSO Business Alliance—a leading ensemble of corporate partners who value the DSO’s impact in the community—in 2014. Just last winter, Tom and the DSO team worked creatively to surprise and delight our patrons during the Brahms Festival with sponsored coffee in the Herman & Sharon Frankel Donor Lounge, and offered unique Brahms-branded whole bean bags for purchase in the gift shop. As we begin the 2016-2017 Season, we look forward to expanding our relationship with Coffee Express Roasting Company and share our gratitude for their commitment to arts and culture in this region.

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EDITOR Ben Breuninger bbreuninger@dso.org 313.576.5196

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PUBLISHER Echo Publications, Inc. Thomas Putters PROGRAM NOTES ANNOTATOR Charles Greenwell COVER ILLUSTRATION Dustin Cook DSO ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center 3711 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48201 Phone: 313.576.5100 Fax: 313.576.5101 DSO Box Office: 313.576.5111 Box Office Fax: 313.576.5109 DSO Group Sales: 313.576.5130 Rental Info: 313.576.5050 Email: info@dso.org Website: dso.org Subscribe to our e-newlsetter via our website to receive updates and special offers. To advertise in Performance, 248.582.9690 To report an emergency during a concert, call 313.576.5199. To make special arrangements to receive emergency phone calls during a concert, ask for the house manager. Activities of the DSO are made possible in part with the support of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.

PRIORITY SERVICE FOR OUR MEMBERS

HERMAN AND SHARON FRANKEL DONOR LOUNGE

Governing Members who make a gift of $3,000 or more annually enjoy complimentary beverages, appetizers and desserts in the Donor Lounge, open 90 minutes prior to each concert through the end of intermission. For more information on becoming a Governing Member, contact Dan Coleman at 313.576.5451 or dcoleman@dso.org. DINE AT THE DSO

Located on the second floor of Orchestra Hall, Paradise Lounge is open prior to most concerts featuring gourmet dinners, decadent desserts, classic cocktails, small production wines and craft beers. Bars are available throughout the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center prior to concerts and during intermission. For your convenience, you may place your beverage orders pre-concert and your drink will be waiting for you at intermission.

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Give friends and loved ones a gift that ignites their soulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the experience of a DSO performance. Gift certificates are available in any denomination and may be used toward the purchase of DSO concert tickets. Visit the DSO Box Office or call 313.576.5111 for more information.

POLICIES PARKING, SECURITY AND LOST & FOUND

Valet parking is available for most concerts for $12, with vehicle drop-off and pick-up on Parsons Street. Donor valet and pick-up (patrons who give $7,500) is available at the stage door behind the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center. Parking is available for $8 in the Orchestra Place Parking Structure located on Parsons Street, with overflow in a nearby DSO lot. Handicap accessible parking is also available. Other parking options include Woodward Gardens on Woodward Avenue near Alexandrine Street and Wayne State University Parking near Whole Foods on John R Street. The DSO offers shuttle bus service to Coffee Concerts from select locations for $15. Please call 313.576.5130 for more information. ACCESSIBILITY

Handicap parking is available in the Orchestra Place Parking Structure for patrons with applicable permits. There are elevators, barrier-free restrooms, and accessible seating in all areas of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center. Security personnel are available at the entrances to help patrons requiring extra assistance in and out of vehicles. Hearing assistance devices are also available. Please see the House Manager or any usher for additional assistance. A SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENT

The DSO is pleased to offer a smoke-free environment at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center. Patrons who wish to smoke must do so outside the building. This policy also applies to electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes and personal dso.org

vaporizers. An outdoor patio is also available on the second level of the Atrium Lobby. HOUSE AND SEATING POLICIES

All patrons must have a ticket to attend concerts at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, including children. The Max opens two hours prior to most DSO concerts. Most Classical Series concerts feature free pre-concert talks or performances in Orchestra Hall for all ticket holders. The DSO makes every attempt to begin concerts on time. In deference to the comfort and listening pleasure of the audience, latecomers will be seated at an appropriate pause in the music at the discretion of the house staff. Patrons who leave the hall before or during a piece will be reseated after the piece is completed. Latecomers may watch the performance on closed circuit television in the Atrium. Please silence cell phones, alarms and other electronic devices. Patrons should speak to the House Manager to make special arrangements to receive emergency phone calls during a performance. EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE

In the event of an emergency, locate the nearest exit sign and listen for announcements on the PA system. Please follow the directions of Orchestra Hall ushers and staff. For safety reasons, everyone should leave in an orderly fashion and please remain calm. Guests with disabilities will be escorted to the nearest exits by an usher. Elevators will not operate during an evacuation. Once you exit the building, proceed as far away from the premises as possible. Thank you for being prepared to respond calmly in the event of an emergency. CONCERT CANCELLATIONS

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

PARTNERING WITH PNC’S GROW UP GREAT INITIATIVE AND THE BLACKWELL INSTITUTE Last spring, the DSO went to students and students went to the DSO. In a unique partnership with Detroit Public Schools Community District’s Blackwell Institute and PNC Bank’s Grow Up Great Initiative, we were able to bring music to preschool children right in their classrooms—and invite them to the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center for a Tiny Tots concert. Over two weeks in April, about 40 Blackwell Institute students were visited by DSO staff and musicians and given an opportunity to get hands-on with some instruments, including violin, viola, guitar, bass, flute, horn, and oboe. We also provided teachers with curriculum ideas to prepare for the DSO visits and keep the music going with interactive learning experiences in the classroom. “Exposure and experiences are both necessary to spark the passion for music that leads to transformational impact on the healthy development of young people,” says Anne Parsons, DSO President and CEO. “When instruments are held and teams are created, responsibility, discipline, and acumen soar!” Visits like these are a true privilege for our community-supported orchestra. We know that music education empowers our children to be more creative, productive, sensitive, and confident. From a modest athome hobby to passionate involvement in an 20

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ensemble, playing music can truly make the world a better place by making us all better people—no matter what age or ZIP Code. As a Detroit cultural anchor, we are proud to be active and responsible ambassadors of music and the arts in communities across the region. It’s not a bonus. It’s part of who we are. And we are so thrilled to partner with PNC’s Grow Up Great initiative, which aims to help children develop a passion for learning that lasts a lifetime. Since PNC began the program in 2004, Grow Up Great has distributed more than $105 million in grants that help young children prepare for school by focusing on readiness in vocabulary development, math, science, financial education, and the arts. Through these grants to nonprofit organizations, the program has impacted approximately 2.3 million children nationwide. Stay tuned for more news about this amazing partnership—we plan to increase the number of preschool classrooms we visit from two to fourteen in the 2016-2017 Season. FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

Leonard Slatkin, Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall HANNU LINTU, conductor ELINA VÄHÄLÄ, violin Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Divertimento from Le Baiser de la fée [The Fairy’s Kiss] (1949 revision) Sinfonia Danses suisses Scherzo Pas de deux

Jaakko Kuusisto Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.28 (b. 1974) Moderato – Lento Molto allegro Elina Vähälä, violin INTERMISSION Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 Allegretto Andante, ma rubato Vivacissimo Finale: Allegro moderato

This Classical Series performance is generously sponsored by

Sunday’s performance will be webcast via our exclusive Live From Orchestra Hall series, presented by Ford Motor Company Fund and made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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profiles HANNU LINTU

hief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra since August 2013, Hannu Lintu previously held the positions of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony and Turku Philharmonic orchestras. Highlights of Lintu’s 2015/16 season include appearances with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre national de Lille, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and the Iceland Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Moscow State Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras. He conducted the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan in autumn 2015— as part of his complete cycle of Sibelius’ symphonies with the New Japan Philharmonic—and toured in Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck in January 2016 with violinist Leila Josefowicz. Recent engagements have included the Philharmonia, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Cleveland and St. Louis Symphony orchestras; the Houston Symphony, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig and the Orchestre national de Lyon; and debuts with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Hallé, and the Detroit Symphony and Minnesota orchestras. In May 2016 Lintu returns to Finnish National Opera to conduct Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, having previously conducted them in Parsifal—directed by Harry Kupfer, Carmen, and Aulis Sallinen’s King Lear. Other recent 22

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operatic projects include Sallinen’s Kullervo at the 2014 Savonlinna Opera Festival and Tannhäuser with Tampere Opera in 2012. Lintu has also worked with Estonian National Opera, recording Tauno Pylkkänen’s Mare and her son.

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Hannu Lintu has made several recordings for Ondine, Naxos, Avie and Hyperion. Lintu has received several accolades for his recordings, including a 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Opera CD plus Gramophone Award nominations for his recordings of Enescu’s Symphony No. 2 with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and the Violin Concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès with Augustin Hadelich and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Hannu Lintu studied cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy, where he later studied conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses with Myung-Whun Chung at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and took first prize at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.

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orn in the United States and raised in Finland, Elina Vähälä made her orchestral debut with Sinfonia Lahti at the age of twelve and was later chosen by Osmo Vänskä as the orchestra’s “young master soloist.” Since then, her career continues to astonish the international stage, winning praise from audiences and musicians alike. Vähälä has appeared with orchestras including Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, and Turku Philharmonic, as well as the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, and Nashville Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with conductors Leonard Slatkin, Carlos Kalmar, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Okko Kamu, Jakub Hrůša, Thierry Fischer, and Leif Sergerstam and has toured throughout Europe and Asia. In 2008, she was chosen to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, which was televised to a worldwide audience. With a repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary, Vähälä has given world premieres of Aulis Sallinen’s Chamber Concerto and C. Curtis-Smith’s Double Concerto, both written for her and pianist-conductor

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Ralf Gothóni. In addition, Vähälä gave the Nordic first performance of John Corigliano’s concerto The Red Violin. Educational activities play an important role in Vähälä’s commitment to music. In 2009, she launched the Violin Academy, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The Academy is a master-class-based educational project for selected, highly talented young Finnish violinists.

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program notes Divertimento from Le Baiser de la fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) — 1949 revision IGOR STRAVINSKY Born: June 17, 1882, Lomonosov, Russia Died: April 6, 1971, New York, NY Scored for 3 flutes (one doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (one doubling on bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 23 minutes)

da Rubinstein, the choreographer and former dancer of the Ballet Russes de Serge Diaghilev, made several efforts to form her own ballet company after separating from the Diaghilev troupe in 1911. As the year 1927 drew to a close, one of these efforts spawned her commission for a new ballet by Igor Stravinsky. In his autobiography, the composer noted that Rubinstein specifically asked for something inspired by the music of Tchaikovsky, since the premiere the following November would coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of his death. Stravinsky searched through Tchaikovsky’s musical legacy of songs and small piano pieces, selecting snippets which he blended with his own creative ideas to create a sparkling score that ingeniously fuses the styles of the two composers. Looking for a scenario as a narrative foundation for its musical structure, he remembered Tchaikovsky’s love of fantastic stories and chose Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale The Ice

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Maiden, whose titular character plants a magic kiss upon an infant who has been orphaned during a snowstorm. When the child has grown, she returns and seduces him away from his fiancée, implanting a second fatal kiss to preserve him for herself. The ballet met with mixed success, but Stravinsky extracted an orchestral Divertimento from the score, comprising large segments from three of the ballet’s four scenes. The initial Sinfonia encapsulates the lonely opening scene of the ballet, where the infant’s mother dies in the snowstorm and the infant is kissed by the Ice Maiden before being rescued by some travelers. This movement leads directly into the Swiss Dances, representing the Village Festival in the ballet’s second scene, where the young man celebrates his engagement to the miller’s daughter in a typical chain of dance divertissements. While paying homage to a standard feature of Tchaikovsky’s full-length ballets, Stravinsky exhibits his biting but brilliant brassy orchestral style in its fullest flower during this segment of the score. The third and fourth movements of the Divertimento are both drawn from the third scene of the ballet, set in a room at the mill. The Scherzo depicts the scurrying bridesmaids making preparations for the wedding, while the concluding Pas de Deux, Variation, and Coda accompany an intimate dance by the lovers and a joyous ensemble with the bridesmaids. Thus the Divertimento ends on a triumphant note, just before the deceitful Ice Maiden returns to snatch the young man away from his fiancée, kissing and preserving him in a frozen state at FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

the happiest moment in his life. The DSO most recently performed the Divertimento in March 2000, with Roberto Abbado conducting. The DSO first performed the work in January 1995, with Neeme Järvi conducting.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28 JAAKKO KUUSISTO Born: January 17, 1974, Helsinki, Finland Scored for solo violin, 2 flutes (one doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 30 minutes)

ne of Finland’s most versatile musicians, conductor, composer, and violinist Jaakko Kuusisto has a wide-ranging career which was launched by a series of successes in international violin competitions in the 1990s. He is one of the most frequently recorded Finnish instrumentalists, and his recordings include central works in the Finnish repertoire by Rautavaara, Sallinen, and Aho. When BIS Records launched a project of the complete works of Sibelius, he had a major role in string chamber music and youthful works for violin and piano. In addition, his discography includes several albums outside the classical genre. Kuusisto performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, and has held the position of Artistic Director at several major festivals. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Oulu Music Festival in Finland and enjoys a long-standing

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relationship with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra—he was Concertmaster from 1999 to 2012, and he continues to take on frequent guest conducting and recording duties. His compositions are numerous, encompassing chamber and vocal music, orchestral works, operas, and music for films. His family opera The Canine Kalevala was a huge success at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and ran for three seasons. His most recent opera, based on the life of Finnish composer Oskar Merikanto, has been performed to great acclaim at the Ilmajoki Festival the last two summers. In addition, the Finnish Minister of Education and Culture has appointed a task group to prepare a proposal to overhaul government funding of theatres, orchestras, and museums which will conclude in October of 2017; the group is chaired by Jaakko Kuusisto. The composer writes the following about the piece: I first planned to compose a violin concerto around 2000. At that time I became acquainted with several Finnish concertos, among them one by Einojuhani Rautavaara, which would form an important part of my repertoire as a soloist. Kalevi Aho’s Third Symphony, for violin and orchestra, helped to kindle my interest in writing a large-scale work for my own use, but other commissions at the time took precedence until some years later my friend and colleague Elina Vähälä suggested I compose a concerto for her. The idea of writing for another violinist seemed to be preferable, and as Elina and I were collaborating on numerous other projects, it was apparent that this was DSO PERFORMANCE MAGA ZINE 25

the right moment to go ahead. The process of writing the work was preceded by an unusually long period of deliberation concerning various structural solutions which the work would require, above all the question of instrumental forces. My original plan included a number of instruments not typical of a symphony orchestra, including electric instruments. This was connected in part to my original conception of the work’s musical language in which there would be strong emphasis on rhythm. In the end, only certain elements of this concept remained—in the last movement—and so the special instruments were unnecessary. My familiarity with the soloist also affected the way the concerto was written: I wanted to emphasize the violin’s best aspects and use a kind of traditional concerto conception. Formally the work proceeds to a large extent like its predecessors in the genre: the first movement is in sonata form, the slow second movement is more solemn, and the finale possesses a kind of unstoppable energy. The solo cadenza, however, represents a break with tradition, as I have located it at the beginning of the work. The solo violin presents and develops the basic thematic material until at the climax it is interrupted by the orchestra. After a brief orchestral interlude we hear the main theme in its true form. Work on the Concerto began in the summer of 2011, and it was completed the following March. It goes without saying that the concerto is dedicated to Elina Vähälä. These performances of Kuusisto’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra will be DSO premieres. 26

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Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 JEAN SIBELIUS Born: December 8, 1865, Hämeenlinna, Finland Died: September 20, 1957, Järvenpää, Finland Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 44 minutes)

innish symphonist Jean Sibelius is known primarily for his cycle of seven rugged symphonies. While he lived well into the 20th century, his compositional output would cease altogether between 1920 and 1925, making him more of a contemporary of Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss than a more “proper” 20th-century composer. His musical style can best be described as late-Romantic nationalism; he was inspired by nature and the sounds of nature as well as Finnish folklore, particularly the great Finnish epic Kalevala. While his First Symphony owes much to Tchaikovsky in terms of its structure and design, his Second Symphony is an altogether different work; the new territory he explored here (particularly in the first movement) would represent a break with convention that would grow wider with each new addition to the genre. The DSO most recently performed Sibelius’ Second Symphony in October 2012, with Douglas Boyd conducting. The DSO first performed the piece in March 1921, with Ossip Gabrilowtisch conducting.

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Great American Songbook Friday, November 4, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall JEFF TYZIK, conductor ASHLEY BROWN, vocalist*

Billy Joel Billy Joel Suite arr. Jeff Tyzik Jule Styne “Just In Time” from Bells Are Ringing* lyrics Betty Comden & Adolph Green arr. Fred Barton

Harold Arlen Let’s Fall in Love!* lyrics Ted Koehler arr. Lee Musiker orch. Lee Musiker & Nolan Livesay

George Gershwin The Man I Love * arr. Don Sebesky, orch. Tom Myron

Richard and Robert Sherman “Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins* arr. Brad Haak orch. Larry Moore arr. and orch. Fred Barton The Disney Medley * INTERMISSION continues on next page This Pops Series performance is generously sponsored by

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Marvin Hamlisch A Marvin Hamlisch Celebration arr. Jeff Tyzik Nobody Does It Better At the Ballet The Entertainer They’re Playing Our Song The Way We Were One What I Did For Love

John Kander & Fred Ebb Ring Them Bells* arr. Everly, Barton, & Rothman Cole Porter “So In Love” from Kiss Me Kate* Herman Hupfeld As Time Goes By * arr. Lee Musiker, orch. Lee Musiker & Nolan Livesay Stephen Schwartz arr. Fred Barton “Defying Gravity” from Wicked * Sammy Fain I’ll Be Seeing You* lyrics Kahal arr. Gershovsky orch. Livesay

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profiles Jeff Tyzik biography, see page 6.

ASHLEY BROWN

shley Brown has performed with virtually all of the top orchestras in North America, including the Boston Pops, the New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at Disney Hall, The Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall Fort Worth Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and the Philly Pops. She has also performed with the BBC orchestra opposite Josh Groban. Ashley Brown’s breakout role as the title character in Mary Poppins on Broadway earned her Outer Critics, Drama League, and Drama Desk nominations for Best Actress. She also starred as Mary Poppins in the show’s 2010 and garnered a Garland Award for Best Performance in a Musical. Brown’s other Broadway credits include Belle in Beauty and The Beast and Disney’s On The Record. Ashley made her solo concert debut at The Kennedy Center as part of Barbara Cook’s Spotlight Series, and she has appeared in New York City at prestigious venues including

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Feinstein’s at the Regency and Birdland. Other projects include a star turn at the La Jolla Playhouse in a production of Limelight, The Sound of Music at the St. Louis MUNY—which garnered her a Kevin Kline award— and her own PBS special called Ashley Brown: Call Me Irresponsible, which received a PBS Telly Award. Brown’s long-awaited album of Broadway and American Songbook standards is now available on Ghostlight/Sony.

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Friday, November 11, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall Louis Langrée, conductor Kelley O’Connor, mezzo soprano Russell Thomas, tenor

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 Adagio - Allegro vivace Adagio Allegro vivace Allegro ma non troppo

INTERMISSION Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (1860 - 1911) Da s Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde [The Drinking Song of Earth’s Misery] De r Einsame in Herbst [The Lonely One in Autumn] Von der Jugend [Of Youth] Von der Schönheit [of Beauty] De r Trunkene im Frühling [The Drunk in Spring] Der Abschied [The Parting] Kelley O’Connor, mezzo soprano Russell Thomas, tenor

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profiles LOUIS LANGRÉE

he French conductor Louis Langrée has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York since 2002 and of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since the 2013-2014 Season. The

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Mostly Mozart Festival celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2016, and recent and future highlights with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra include a performance in New York as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, a tour to Asia, and several world premieres, including three Concertos for Orchestra—by Sebastian Currier, Thierry Escaich, and Zhou Tian. Louis Langrée has conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker (in concert in both Vienna and Salzburg), and London dso.org

Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with many other orchestras around the world including the London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and more. Festival appearances have included Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Whitsun, BBC Proms, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993 to 1998) and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (2001 to 2006) and was Chief Conductor of the Camerata Salzburg (2011 to 2016). Langrée was also Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1998 to 2000) and Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1998 to 2003). He has conducted at La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra-Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. Louis Langrée’s first commercial recording with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra features Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait narrated by Dr Maya Angelou and world premieres by Nico Muhly and David Lang. Langrée’s recordings have received several awards from Gramophone and MIDEM Classical. His extraordinary career was recognized by his home country of France when he was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2014. DSO PERFORMANCE MAGA ZINE 31

KELLEY O’CONNOR

rammy Award-winning mezzosoprano Kelley O’Connor keeps an impressive symphonic calendar: besides appearing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, she will make her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a program of Brahms, Purcell, and Stravinsky in collaboration with Thomas Adès, appear with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker for John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, and give performances with the St. Louis O’CONNOR Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and many others. Operatic highlights include Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Kevin Newbury, Madama Butterfly in a new production by Lillian Groag at the Boston Lyric Opera and at the Cincinnati Opera under the baton of Ramón Tebar, and more. Kelley O’Connor has received unanimous international critical acclaim for her numerous performances as Federico García Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. Miss O’Connor created the role for the world premiere at Tanglewood, under the baton of Robert Spano, and subsequently joined Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for

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his season will include several important operatic role debuts for Russell Thomas, including Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana with the Deutsche Oper, the title role of a new production of Stiffelio with the Oper Frankfurt, and as Don José in Carmen with the Canadian Opera Company. On the concert stage, Thomas will perform in recital at Wigmore Hall and appear with the New York Philharmonic in concerts celebrating the great AfricanAmerican artists that have appeared with that group. A Miami native and alumnus of the prestigious THOMAS Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera, Russell Thomas was also a member of Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, a Roger R. Hinkley artist at the Florida Grand Opera, a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and an apprentice at the Sarasota Opera. He was the first-prize winner of the prestigious Viñas Competition in Barcelona in 2010 and of the Competizione dell’Opera in Dresden in 2008.

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program notes Symphony No. 4 in B Flat major, Op. 60 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Born: December 16/17, 1770, Bonn, Germany Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria Scored for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 32 minutes)

ere Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony the work of any other composer active during the first decade of the nineteenth century, it would establish its author as one of the major musical figures of his day. But unfortunately for Beethoven, this work stands between two of its creator’s most dramatic and popular compositions, the Third and Fifth Symphonies, and is therefore rather in their shadow. Robert Schumann’s metaphoric description of the Fourth Symphony as “a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants” is not entirely fair but more or less indicative of the common thought; the enduring perception of this piece is that it is a less weighty and important achievement among Beethoven’s middleperiod symphonies. It is unfortunate that the towering stature of its neighbors should obscure the virtues of the Fourth Symphony, which Beethoven composed in 1806. It is a finely crafted and beautiful work that follows the formal outline of the Classical-period symphony but fills that outline with music that often sounds quite Romantic in character. Nowhere is this Romantic element more evident than in the

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opening Adagio, a somber fantasy that ventures to say more than we would expect from an introduction to a symphonic first movement. Through forty spellbinding measures it explores dark and mysterious tonal regions, and then suddenly breaks forth with two loud chords and a motif of insistently rising lines into the brilliant light of the Allegro, the main body of the first movement. The ensuing Adagio ranks among the loveliest movements Beethoven ever wrote. Typically, it juxtaposes two principal melodies. The first appears in the violins over a gently rocking accompaniment in the strings; the second is introduced by the clarinet. Beethoven weaves the extensions, variations, and recollections of these ideas into an exquisite dreamlike fantasy. The third movement is a scherzo in all but name, a rollicking piece marked by a lively play of rhythms and accents. The concluding measures offer a surprise from the horns. The finale gives us many of Beethoven’s most characteristic gestures: sudden contrasts, abrupt offbeat accents, contrapuntal echoes of thematic fragments. The movement races along toward its conclusion, pausing only to allow the composer, in high humor, to draw the principal theme out in slow motion before dashing through its final measures. The DSO most recently performed Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony in February 2013 with Leonard Slatkin conducting. The DSO first performed the piece in April 1921 with Ossip Gabrilowitsch conducting.

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Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) GUSTAV MAHLER Born: July 7, 1860, Kalište ˇ, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)

Died: May 18, 1911, Vienna, Austria Scored for 3 flutes (one doubling on piccolo), piccolo, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, 3 bassoons (one doubling on contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, celeste, strings, and mandolin. (Approx. 59 minutes)

he subject of death was very much on Mahler’s mind during the summer of 1907, as he dealt with the sudden loss of his eldest daughter—a victim of scarlet fever—and learned from his doctor that he had a very serious, incurable heart ailment. That same summer, he encountered The Chinese Flute, a newly-published collection of 83 ancient Chinese poems translated and paraphrased by the Dessau-born author and translator Hans Bethge. Mahler was infatuated with the book and selected seven poems to set to music, making further revisions to Bethge’s texts and adding verses of his own. Das Lied von der Erde ultimately became a six-song work based on Mahler’s chosen poems, which were originally written by Li-Tai-Po (first, third, fourth, and fifth songs), TchangTsi (second song), and Mong Kao-Jen and Wang-Wei (whose poems were combined to create the sixth song). The cycle of symphonic songs presents a generally fatalistic view of approaching death, set against

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a gentle, beautiful depiction of the natural world that renews itself and survives the human lifespan. Mahler presents several attitudes toward death in the cycle, the most salient being the debauched “drink tonight, for we die tomorrow” philosophy of the first and fifth songs: “The Drinking Song of Earth’s Misery” and “The Drunkard in Spring,” respectively. These are contrasted with the lonely search for eternal peace of soul at the end of life, so tenderly expressed in the sixth and final song, “The Parting.” The inherent negativism of the first attitude finds its focus in the repeated refrain of the opening drinking song: “Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod,” (“Dark is life, darker still is death”) which slices downward through the forced humor of the music in painful, pinching melodic leaps and scale steps. This is a brutal song, reminiscent of Mahler’s agonized Sixth Symphony. In stark contrast, the second song, “The Lonely One in Autumn,” finds the alto interjecting her voice into thin strands of melody that wander in chamber music fashion through the winds, harp, and strings. The solitude and sense of rejection are expressed in pale harmonies and quasi-oriental melodic lines hinting now and again at the five-tone scale systems common to much Asian music. Asian imagery pervades both text and music in “Of Youth,” the first of the two miniature songs that stand as numerical centerpieces of Das Lied von der Erde. Its tableau of young people, cavorting on a little porcelain pavilion in the middle of a glassy pool, is a scene of total detachment from the reality of the earlier songs. “Of FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

Beauty,” the second miniature song, moves to a rural setting, a meadow where dainty maids picking flowers are suddenly startled by a young horseman who tramples blooms under hooves as he dashes by. Where the meadow scene is set forth gently, the introduction of the equestrian takes on the character of a brusque march, a genre commonly inserted in Mahler’s symphonic works. The fifth song, “The Drunkard in Spring,” reverts to the philosophy of the first. The titular character no longer wishes to drown his sorrows about impending mortality in liquor; he rather more depressingly proposes to waste the joyous promise of spring’s renewed life in a drunken stupor. Das Lied von der Erde presents a series of musical arches: the pessimistic but defiant end-of-life debauchery of the first song pairs and contrasts with the calm, resigned farewell of the sixth; the loneliness of the second finds its partner in the reckless gaiety of the fifth; and the scenes of youth and beauty in the third and fourth make a natural mid-work duo. Another way to interpret the work is as a busy and frantic build-up to the finality of the sixth song—which is approximately 30 minutes long,

the same length of time as its five predecessors combined. Indeed, “Der Abschied” is one of those ineffable summations with which Mahler concluded several of his works. In its quest for eternal peace, it shares some of the spirit of the finale of the “Resurrection” Symphony, and the alto soloist’s long, soaring vocal lines recall the lyricism of the Third Symphony’s purely instrumental finale. But the world-weary spirit of sadness and resignation—parting’s sweet sorrow, as Shakespeare famously put it—hangs heavy over this movement in a very special way. For Mahler, it was doubtless a premonition of his own farewell to the world, which would come three years after the completion of Das Lied von der Erde. Program Note by Carl Cunningham, 2001 The DSO last performed Das Lied von der Erde in February 2009, with conductor James Conlon, mezzosoprano Kristine Jepson, and tenor John Treleaven. The DSO first performed the piece in December 1955, with conductor Paul Paray, soprano Jennie Tourel, and tenor Walter Fredericks.

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COMMUNIT Y & LE ARNING WELCOME BACK to another great season with the DSO here at Orchestra Hall and in your community! Our Community & Learning team has been busy preparing for a season of new offerings, as well as growth in our existing programs. Our William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series audiences continue to grow, with many venues selling out regularly. Our Chamber Recital Series, a free benefit to Neighborhood subscribers, concluded last season with early summer concerts at three stunning venues across Metro Detroit, including a first-ever performance at the Belle Isle Casino! This season’s chamber recitals will continue the tradition of bringing some of Detroit’s finest classical music to some of its most beautiful and iconic locations. DSO Musicians will also be active throughout our community, making more than 150 appearances in schools, senior homes, hospitals, libraries, small concert venues, and other gathering places. As a testament to the orchestra’s commitment to the community, we again launched the season by inviting groups of students with special needs to our first rehearsal in Orchestra Hall and followed that up with our series of four free DSO Community Concerts powered by the DTE Energy Foundation. The Wu Family Academy will continue to bring you the Educational Concert Series, Classroom Edition webcast, Young People’s Family Concerts, and Civic Youth Ensembles that are a staple of so many families’ lives, but will also realize the full extent of its mission of lifelong learning through two new dso.org

weekly offerings in early childhood and adult learning. Families and caretakers with young children will be able to register for group music classes on Saturdays or during the week, and amateur musicians of all ages can now join the Detroit Community Orchestra and become performing members of the oneDSO family! As much as we love bringing the DSO to you in every corner of the region, there is nothing quite like hearing the orchestra in its home. Orchestra Hall is where some of our most meaningful community experiences happen, including Classical Roots, Mozart Festival, and the powerful “Defiant Requiem,” which combines a performance of Verdi’s Requiem with survivor testimonials from the World War II concentration camp Theresienstadt. From the beloved to the unexpected, from the heart-wrenching to the uplifting, in your neighborhood or in our home, it is our mission to bring you unsurpassed musical experiences that bring us together and enrich our lives. Thank you for being a part of that, and I look forward to seeing you this season!

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CELEBRATING YOUR LEGACY SUPPORT The 1887 Society honors individuals who have made a special legacy commitment to support the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Members of the 1887 Society ensure that future music lovers will continue to enjoy unsurpassed musical experiences by including the DSO in their estate plans. If you have arranged a planned gift to support the DSO or would like more information on planned giving, please contact Dan Coleman at 313.576.5451. Ms. Doris L. Adler Dr. & Mrs. William C. Albert Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Applebaum Dr. Augustin & Nancy † Arbulu Ms. Charlotte Arkin† Ms. Sharon Backstrom Sally & Donald Baker Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Stanley A. Beattie Mrs. Mary Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman Mrs. Betty Blair Robert T. Bomier † Gwen & Richard Bowlby William & Julia Bugera Cynthia Cassell, Ph. D. Dr.† & Mrs. Victor J. Cervenak Eleanor A. Christie Ms. Mary Christner Lois & Avern Cohn Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Cook Dorothy M. Craig Mr. & Mrs. John Cruikshank Ms. Mary Rita Cuddohy † Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. John Diebel Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Ms. Bette J. Dyer † Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Eidson Marianne T. Endicott Mrs. Rema Frankel† Ms. Dorothy Fisher Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher † Mr. Emory Ford, Jr.† Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Barbara Frankel & Ron Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Jane French Janet M. Garrett Dr. Byron P. & Marilyn Georgeson Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Victor † & Gale Girolami Ruth & Al Glancy David & Paulette Groen Mr. Harry G. Bowles†

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PLANNED GIVING COUNCIL The DSO’s Planned Giving Council recognizes the region’s leading financial and estate professionals whose current and future clients may involve them in their decision to make a planned gift to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Members play a critical role in shaping the future of the DSO through ongoing feedback, working with their clients, supporting philanthropy and attending annual briefings. LINDA WASSERMAN AVIV, Chair Mrs. Katana H. Abbott Mr. Christopher A. Ballard Ms. Sandra K. Campbell Mr. Henry M. Grix Mr. Mark W. Jannott, CTFA Ms. Jennifer A. Jennings Ms. Dawn Jinsky

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Mr. Curtis J. Mann Mrs. Mary Mansfield Mr. Mark Neithercut Ms. Deborah J. Renshaw, CFP Mr. James P. Spica Mr. John N. Thomson, Esq. Ms. Wendy Zimmer Cox

If you would like to join the DSO’s Planned Giving Council, please call Dan Coleman at 313.576.5451.

THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S VOLUNTEER USHERS Sandy Aasgaard Fran Alberts Dee Allison Karen Arendall William Arendall Susan Baran Catherine Beaumont Clara Belt Barbara Binder Valerie Binder Niels Boesen Dorisel Boggs Kathie Booth Barbara Borden Elaine Bozin Ann Brilliant Nelda Brogan Roy Brogan Alexander Brown Kenneth Brown Ruth Bruce Joseph Buese Janice Calligaris-Sur Stephanie Canty Ed Carey Bethany Carmody Hannah Carmody Kay Carmody Maria Caruso Martha Casey Elaine Chalom Gloria Coles Gregg Coughlin Nancy Courtney Gerry Crowe Neal Dahlen James Demers Kari Deming

Nancy Deming Diane DeVincent Brian Doefer Barbara Drake Kay Dubois Michael Easter Monica Easter Naomi Edwards Bob Emick Mary Ann Emick Joanna Endres Robert Endres Leslie Falvey Pam Faricy Joseph Fasi Michael Fenchel Marvin Fink Rosalind Fink Lester Floyd Carmen Freeman laurie fundukian Frank Gasiorek Cheryl Gastwirth Jeffrey Gebauer Steven Gensterblum John Gibson Toni Gibson Jackie Giering Bruce Gilbert Nora Gilbert Elisa Giuliani David Groen Rosemary Gugino Rebeca Guzman Carla Hall Claudia Hawkins Mary Heppner Fay Herman

Francine Hill Jolyn Hillebrand Cal Hoeksema Norma Hoeksema Diane Holden Jasmine Hollis Robert Holzhauer Jean Hornbacher Regina Hughes William Isenhour Barbara Iseppi Larry Jacobs Linda James Germaine Jarvis Rick Jayroe Sue Jayroe Gregory Johnson Marva Johnson Earline Jones Rita Kaplan Nancy Karpus Kathleen Keener Katherine Klimas Carol Kupinski Mary Lafter Jane Latessa Lorraine Lavoie Edward Lesnau Maureen Lesnau Louise Less Joyce Lyons Rochelle Mailhot Consquela Marbury Christina Marchwica Mark Marchwica Jack Marshall Kisha Martin Henry McCoy

Diane McLeod Marie Meleski Paul Michalsen Nancy Miller Emma Mitchell Peg Mixter Virginia Moore Jim Moylan Nellie Murphy Don Musser Dorothy Musser Mary Myers Joan Nagrant Florkowski Nancy Betty Nelson Courtney Nicholls Marylou Ouellette Ann Pape Maureen Paraventi Bob Patton Alice Paul Cassandra Pettway Fedora Pruitt Brenda Purkiss Betsy Quick Karen Rademacher Elizabeth Reid Peggy Roberts Shirley Ross Jane Rousseau Edna Rubin Mona Ruggers Vincent Ruggers Susan Saroglia Pat Shannon Emanuel Sharpe Martha Shumaker Craig Sieferd

Helen Smiley Chris Smith Kathy Smith Mary Smith Steven Smith April Snively Jeff Spakowski Glenn Stadts Archer Stone Art Stone Jennifer Sutherland Joan Swain Marianne Szymborski Ira Richard Talbott Joan Tilford Dorothy Trent Virnestean Tubbs Sherry Turner Fred Van Every Lee Visci Janice Wargo Jerry Wargo Sanford Waxer Charles Weaver Cobe Weaver Karen Weaver Carolyn Wedepohl Ted Wedepohl Chuck Wendt Miles West John Wheeler Stan Wisniewski Mary Zelenock

For more information about becoming a Volunteer Usher, please visit dso.org or contact Margaret Cassetto at mcassetto@dso.org.

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THE ANNUAL FUND Gifts received between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016 Being a community-supported orchestra means you can play your part through frequent ticket purchases and generous annual donations. Your tax-deductible Annual Fund donation is an investment in the wonderful music at Orchestra Hall, around the neighborhoods and across the community. This honor roll celebrates those generous donors who made a gift of $1,500 or more to the DSO Annual Fund Campaign. If you have questions about this roster, or to make a donation, please contact 313.576.5114 or go to dso.org/donate.

The Gabrilowitsch Society honors individuals who support us most generously at the $10,000 level and above. Janet and Norm Ankers, chairs

Giving of $250,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Penny & Harold Blumenstein Julie & Peter Cummings Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher† Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel

Mr. & Mrs.† Morton E. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

Giving of $100,000 and more Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Family Foundation Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher

Emory M. Ford, Jr.† Endowment The Polk Family Cindy & Leonard Slatkin

Giving of $50,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr.

Mrs. Bonnie Larson Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Lester Ms. Deborah Miesel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Shari & Craig Morgan Bernard & Eleanor Robertson

Giving of $25,000 and more Ms. Sharon Backstrom Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Mrs. Kathryn L. Fife Mr. & Mrs. David Fischer Madeline & Sidney Forbes Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel 40

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Chacona W. Johnson David & Valerie McCammon Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Mr. James G. Vella †

Deceased

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Giving of $10,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Daniel & Rose Angelucci Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Ms. Pamela Applebaum Mr. Chuck Becker Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Bluestein Mr. & Mrs. John A. Boll, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Bonahoom Gwen & Richard Bowlby Lois & Avern Cohn Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Marianne T. Endicott Jim & Margo Farber Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Mr. Michael J. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Dale & Bruce Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. Mrs. Byron Gerson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Mrs. Gale Girolami Dr. Kenneth & Roslyne Gitlin Dr. Allen Goodman & Dr. Janet Hankin

Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Dr. Herman & Mrs. Shirley Gray Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Dr. Gloria Heppner Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley Mr. and Mrs.† Ronald Horwitz Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Mr. Sharad P. Jain Lenard and Connie Johnston Faye & Austin Kanter Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Katz Mike & Katy Keegan Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Dr. Myron & Joyce LaBan Marguerite & David Lentz Dr. Melvin A. Lester Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. and Mrs.† Joseph Lile Stevens McClure Family Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Dr. Robert & Dr. Mary Mobley Cyril Moscow Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters David Robert & Sylvia Jean Nelson

Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson Patricia & Henry Nickol Mrs. Jo Elyn Nyman Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Dr. William F. Pickard Ms. Ruth Rattner Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Martie & Bob Sachs Dr. Mark & Peggy Saffer Marjorie & Saul Saulson Elaine & Michael Serling Mark & Lois Shaevsky William H. Smith John J. Solecki Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. Gary L. Wasserman & Mr. Charlie Kashner Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Williams David & Bernadine Wu Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Zlotoff Two who wish to remain anonymous

Giving of $5,000 and more Mrs. Denise Abrash Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mrs. Jean Azar Drs. John & Janice Bernick Robert N. & Claire P. Brown Michael & Geraldine Buckles Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Jerry P. & Maureen T. D’Avanzo Beck Demery Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Ms. Mary D. Fisher Mr. David Fleitz Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Ms. Carol A. Friend Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Dr. Robert T. Goldman Goodman Family Charitable Trust Mr.† & Mrs. James A. Green Mr. Lee V. Hart & Mr. Charles L. Dunlap Ms. Nancy B. Henk Ms. Doreen Hermelin

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Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Judy & David Karp Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Patrick J. Kerzic & Stephanie Germack Kerzic Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish Mr. Daniel Lewis The Locniskar Group Bob & Terri Lutz Ms. Florine Mark Patricia A.† & Patrick G. McKeever Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David E. Nims Mr. Thomas Norris Mr. & Mrs. Pat Olney Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Partrich Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Penske Mr. Charles Peters Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus Mrs. Helen F. Pippin Dr. Glenda D. Price

Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Barbara Gage Rex Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Dr. Alexander Ruthven Mrs. Lois J. Ryan Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Leonard W. Smith Renate & Richard Soulen Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Mrs. E. Ray Stricker Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Mr. Gary Torgow David Usher Dr. Vainutis Vaitkevicius Mrs. Eva Von Voss S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Mr. Michael Yessian Margaret S. York Erwin & Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation Milton & Lois† Zussman Two who wish to remain anonymous

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Giving of $2,500 and more Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Ms. Dorothy Adair Mr. & Mrs. George Agnello Dr. Roger & Mrs. Rosette Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Aviv Mr. & Mrs. John Axe Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Babbish Ms. Ruth Baidas Nora Lee & Guy Barron Mr. Mark Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mary Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Dr. & Mrs. Brian Beck Ms. Margaret Beck Mrs. Harriett Berg Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Mr. & Mrs. Michael Biber Ms. Kathleen Block Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Mr. Timothy Bogan Rud & Mary Ellen Boucher Don & Marilyn Bowerman Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Bowden & Elaine Brown Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald F. Buck Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Ms. Evelyn Burton Julie Byczynski* & Angus Gray Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Philip & Carol Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Michael & Cathleen Clancy Gloria & Fred† Clark Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Dr. Thomas Clark & Annette Clark

Nina & Richard Cohan Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Cook Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Louis Cotman Dorothy M. Craig Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Fund Barbara A. David Lillian & Walter Dean Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Mr. Giuseppe Derdelakos Adel & Walter Dissett Diana & Mark Domin Donato Enterprises Paul † & Peggy Dufault Mr. Michael J. Dul Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunn Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Donald & Marjory Epstein Mr. Drew Esslinger Ellie Farber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. & Mrs.† Anthony C. Fielek Dr. Thomas Filardo & Dr. Nora Zorich Ms. Sharon Finch Mr. Jay Fishman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Frank Mr. Samuel Frank Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Frohardt-Lane Sharyn & Alan Gallatin Lynn & Bharat Gandhi Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Mr. George Georges Drs. Lynda & Conrad Giles Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Ruth & Al Glancy Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Paul & Barbara Goodman Ms. Jacqueline Graham

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Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Dr. & Mrs. Steven Grekin Mr. Jeffrey Groehn Robert & Elizabeth Hamel Randall L. & Nancy Caine Harbour Tina Harmon Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Cheryl A. Harvey Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Mr. & Mrs. Ross Herron Jeremiah* & Brooke Hess Lauri & Paul Hogle Dr. Deanna† & Mr. David B. Holtzman Jack & Anne Hommes Ms. Barbara Honner The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. F. Robert Hozian Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Nicki* & Brian Inman Steven & Sarah Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Janovsky Mr. John S. Johns Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Mr. Paul Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jonna Ellen Kahn Dr. Laura Katz & Dr. Jonathan Pasko Betsy & Joel Kellman June K. Kendall Frederic & Stephanie Keywell Mrs. Frances King Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kingsley Susan & Bill Kishler Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Kleiman Thomas & Linda Klein Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Ms. Margot Kohler Mr. David Kolodziej Mr. James Kors & Ms. Victoria King* Martin & Karen Koss Dr. Harry & Mrs. Katherine Kotsis Robert C. & Margaret A. Kotz Barbara & Michael Kratchman Richard & Sally Krugel Dr. Arnold Kummerow

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Mr. John Kunz Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dolores & Paul Lavins Mr. Henry P. Lee Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph LeRoy, Jr. Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Mr. & Mrs. John D. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Eric C. Lundquist Daniel & Linda* Lutz Mrs. Sandra MacLeod Cis Maisel Margaret Makulski & James Bannan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Manke, Jr. Mervyn & Elaine Manning Mr. & Mrs. David S. Maquera, Esq. Mr. Anthony Marek Maurice Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Richard Martella Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Ms. Camille McLeod Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Mrs. Thomas Meyer Thomas & Judith Mich Mr. & Mrs. Leonard G. Miller J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Moore Ms. Florence Morris Mr. Frederick Morsches & Mr. Kareem George Drs. Barbara & Stephen Munk Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Joy & Allan Nachman Judith & Edward Narens Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Norling Dennis Nulty* & Gabrielle Poshadlo Katherine & Bruce Nyberg Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek Mr. John J. O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. Dongwhan Oh

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Dr. William Oppat Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Opperer Mr & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly David† & Andrea Page Mr. Randall Pappal Mrs. Margot Parker Mr. & Mrs. Kris Pfaehler Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Dr. Klaudia Plawny-Lebenbom Mr. & Mrs. William Powers Reimer & Rebecca Priester Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. Ronald Puchalski Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rappleye Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mrs. Hope Raymond Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Denise Reske Seth & Laura Romine Norman† & Dulcie Rosenfeld Mr.† & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. R. Desmond Rowan Jane & Curt Russell Dr. & Mrs.† Alexander Ruthven Linda & Leonard Sahn Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Hershel & Dorothy Sandberg Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff David & Carol Schoch Mr. & Mrs. Alan S. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mr. Ken Seawell Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest Mr. Merton J. & Mrs. Beverly Segal Mr. Igal Shaham & Ms. Linda Zlotoff Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz & Mrs. Jean Shapero Cynthia Shaw & Tom Kirvan Ms. Margaret Shulman Dr. Les & Mrs. Ellen Siegel Coco & Robert Siewert Norman Silk & Dale Morgan William & Cherie Sirois

Dr. Cathryn Skedel & Mr. Daniel Skedel Dr. Gregory Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Clinton F. Stimpson III Dr. Mack Stirling Dr. & Mrs. Charles D. Stocking Stephen & Phyllis Strome Dorothy I. Tarpinian Shelley & Joel Tauber Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tierney Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. & Mrs. Michael Torakis Barbara & Stuart Trager Mark & Janice Uhlig Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Van Dusen Mr.† & Mrs. George C. Vincent Mr. & Mrs.† William Waak Dr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Wadle Captain Joseph F. Walsh, USN (Ret.) Mr. Michael A. Walch & Ms. Joyce Keller Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan T. Walton Mr. Patrick Webster Mr. Herman Weinreich Lawrence & Idell Weisberg Ambassador & Mrs. Ronald N. Weiser Arthur & Trudy Weiss Janis & William Wetsman/The Wetsman Foundation Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Mr. John Wolak Mr. Jonathan Wolman & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood Ms. Andrea L. Wulf The Yousif Family Mr. & Mrs. Alan Zekelman Mr. Richard D. Zimmerman Seven who wish to remain anonymous

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CORPORATE PARTNERS

$500,000 and more

JIM NICHOLSON CEO, PVS Chemicals

$200,000 and more

GERARD M. ANDERSON President, Chairman and CEO, DTE Energy Corporation

FAYE NELSON President, DTE Energy Foundation

MARK FIELDS President & CEO, Ford Motor Company

JAMES VELLA President, Ford Motor Company Fund

$100,000 and more

SERGIO MARCHIONNE Chief Executive Officer, FCA

KEITH J. ALLMANN President and CEO, MASCO Corporation

MATTHEW J. SIMONCINI President and CEO, Lear Corporation

$50,000 and more

$20,000 and more

American House Senior Living Communities Amerisure Insurance Greektown Casino KPMG LLP Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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MGM Grand Detroit Casino PNC Bank Rock Ventures, LLC Talmer Bank & Trust Wico Metal Products Wolverine Packing Company

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$10,000 and more

Beaumont Health Creative Benefit Solutions, LLC Denso International America, Inc. Edibles Rex Fifth Third Bank Greenleaf Trust Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Hungry Howie’s Pizza Huron Consulting Group PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Raymond James REDICO Sandler Training Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

$5,000 and more

The Boston Consulting Group Coffee Express Roasting Company Delphi Foundation Ernst and Young Hotel St. Regis Michigan Ear Institute Schaerer Architextural Interiors St. John Providence Suburban Collection Telemus Capital Partners, LLC Varnum LLP Yessian Music $1,000 and more

Arkay-Walker Paint Companay Avis Ford, Inc. Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Darling Bolt Company Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Dickinson Wright LLP Dykema HEM Data Corporation The Harmon Group Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Lakeside Ophthalmology Center Madison Electric Company Michigan First Credit Union Oswald Companies Plante and Moran, PLLC PSLZ, LLP Robert Swaney Consulting, Inc. Sachse Construction Urban Science

SUPPORT FROM FOUNDATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS $500,000 and more

The William M. Davidson Foundation Samuel & Jean Frankel Foundation $250,000 and more

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Hudson-Webber Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation McGregor Fund The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $100,000 and more

The Richard C. Devereaux Foundation Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Ford Foundation Detroit Symphony Orchestra Volunteer Council

$50,000 and more

Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts Herbert & Elsa Ponting Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund $25,000 and more

Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation $10,000 and more

Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation Myron P. Leven Foundation Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Moroun Family Foundation $5,000 and more

Benson & Edith Ford Fund Henry Ford II Fund

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The Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation Meyer & Anna Prentis Family Foundation Sigmund & Sophie Rohlik Foundation Mary Thompson Foundation $1,000 and more

Charles M. Bauervic Foundation Frank & Gertrude Dunlap Foundation Harold & Ruth Garber Family Foundation Clarence & Jack Himmel Fund James & Lynelle Holden Fund Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation Ludwig Foundation Fund Louis & Nellie Sieg Foundation Sills Foundation Don & Dolly Smith Foundation The Village Club Foundation Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Young Woman’s Home Association

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TRANSFORMATIONAL SUPPORT The Detroit Symphony Orchestra would like to especially thank those who have made extraordinary multi-year gifts for general operations, endowment, capital improvements, and named chairs, ensembles or programs since the start of Blueprint 2023, our ten-year plan, in 2013. FOUNDING FAMILIES

CHAMPIONS

LEADERS

Julie & Peter Cummings Fisher Family Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation

Stanley & Judy Frankel Danialle & Peter Karmanos, Jr. James B. & Ann V. Nicholson Clyde & Helen Wu †

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Penny & Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo DTE Energy Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs.† Morton E. Harris John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Mrs. Bonnie Larson Ms. Deborah Miesel Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family PVS Chemicals, Inc. Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Stephen M. Ross Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Herman & Sharon Frankel Ruth & Al Glancy Bud & Nancy Liebler Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation

David & Valerie McCammon Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Dr. William F. Pickard Jack † & Aviva Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz

NOTABLE PROJECT SUPPORT The Detroit Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the following partners for their support of exceptional projects, partnerships, and performances that boldly advance the DSO’s mission to be a leader in the world of classical music. The Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Family Foundation helped the DSO expand our partnership with our neighbors at Wayne State University, providing access to DSO Replay for students, exhibiting works from the WSU Art Collection, and creating the Applebaum Fellowship program. The Arab American National Museum partnered with the DSO to present the 24th annual Concert of Colors, a five-day festival uniting metro Detroit’s diverse communities and ethnic groups by presenting musical acts from around the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Barthel established a maintenance fund, supporting capital improvements which generate long-term savings for the DSO - including essential improvements to the exterior masonry of Orchestra Hall. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made a gift to support the production of a video that chronicles the DSO’s digital journey and celebrates how people across the world experience the DSO. The National Endowment for the Arts funded an educational expansion of DSO Replay - the online archive for past webcast performances - which will include the creation of additional web-only content, artist interviews, behindthe-scenes features, specialized search functions and more.

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New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras brought our composer-in-residence, Gabriela Lena Frank, to Detroit through their Music Alive program as a part of their ongoing support of orchestra efforts to promote and present new music. Mark and Janice Uhlig, Norm and Janet Ankers, and Rick and Cathy Walker of Arkay-Walker Paint Co. supported renovations to the office once occupied by Ossip Gabrilowitsch on the second floor of Orchestra Hall, creating a special dining space for donors and friends.

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TRIBUTE GIFTSâ&#x20AC;&#x201A; Gifts received February 1, 2015 to August 31, 2016 Tribute gifts to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are made to honor accomplishments, celebrate occasions, and pay respect in memory or reflection. These gifts support current season projects, partnerships and performances such as DSO concerts, education programs, free community concerts and family programming. For information about making a tribute gift, please call 313.576.5114 or visit dso.org/donate. In Memory of Pat Auer Ellie Tholen In Honor of John and Linda Axe Walter and Adel Dissett In Memory of Lewis K. Barnes James and Sandra Connor In Honor of Chacona and Harold Baugh Avern and Lois Cohn In Honor of Cecilia Benner Matthew Lebenbom In Memory of Fred Clark Lee and Floy Barthel Richard and Gwen Bowlby Eric and Ginny Lundquist Mark and Denise Neville Foster and Carol Redding In Memory of Albert Clayton Susan Clayton In Memory of Carol Rae Cooper Gerson Cooper In Memory of William R. Dahlin Patricia Dahlin In Honor of Joanne Danto James and Sandy Danto Art Roffey and Gail Danto In Memory of Kenneth Downing Pamela Grucza In Honor of Eugene Driker Stephen Driker In Memory of Marjorie S. Fisher Jon and Mary Aaron Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Joseph Aviv and Linda Wasserman Aviv Ron and Judy Baron Guy and Nora Barron Lee and Floy Barthel Chacona and Harold Baugh Lauren and Sam Bienenstock Harold and Penny Blumenstein Eric Borman Tom and Sarah Borman Foundation Richard and Gayle Burstein Julie Byczynski and Angus Gray Marlies and FranĂ§ois Castaing Clark Hill P.L.C.

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Stephen and Carol Sue Coden Marc Cohen and Patti Kelter Rob and Annie Cohen Avern and Lois Cohn Debbie and Andy Colman Comerica Incorporated David and Ann Conrad Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden David and Stacey Deweese Evelyn Dinu The Dresner Foundation Howard and Jean Dubin Nina Eisenberg Philip and Estelle Elkus Irwin and Judith Elson Robert and Adrienne Feldstein Robin and Marianne Ferriby Stanley and Judy Frankel David Gans and Janet Lekos Mark and Sonia Geoffrey Ralph and Erica Gerson Yousif Ghafari and Mara KalninsGhafari Gloria Gilbert Reva Grace Daniel and Ilana Greenberg Fred and Elaine Greenspan Michael and Andrea Guttilla Denise Haining David Hamburger Scott Hamburger Randy and Kim Hawes Barbara Heller Doreen Hermelin Michael and Marian Ilitch Arkan and Yasmine Jonna Florence Kaufman Scott Kaufman Sherri and Jimmy Ketai Bunny and Michael Kratchman Richard and Sally Krugel Richard Kughn Kathy and Michael Laffer Bonnie Larson Roger and Terran Leemis John and Nancy Levy Eric and Ginny Lundquist Paul and Alise Marks James Manson and Mary Mazzio Dave and Mary McCall Norman and Solange Messelian Sam and Anita Michaels Laurie Michelson Jeffrey and Marsha Miro Bruce and Marsha Moskowitz Sarah Murphy Allan and Joy Nachman David and Sylvia Nelson

Mariam Noland and James Kelly Graham and Sally Orley Robert and Marcie Orley Anne Parsons and Donald Dietz Fair Radom Cobey and Robert Rapaport Ruth Rattner Deborah and Steve Rosenthal Martin and Constance Ross Norman and Harriet Rotter Shelly Rubenfire Eli and Michele Saulson Alan and Sandra Schwartz Bennett Schwartz Jessica Schwartz Richard and Jane Schwartz Ruthie Seltzer Mark and Lois Shaevsky Susie Sillman Cindy and Leonard Slatkin Susu Sosnick Doug Stewart Charles and Ellen Tenner Carol Tomczak Howard and Helen Topcik United Way for Southeastern Michigan Marc and Mary Weiser Arthur and Trudy Weiss Donald and Loretta Wenger Mark Werner Frances White Jean Willens Mary Lou Zieve In Honor of Phillip Wm. Fisher Fred Cohen Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Marc Schwartz In Honor of Ruth Frank Stanley and Susan Schwartz In Honor of Joann Freeman Arthur and Janet Baum In Memory of Dr. Myron Ginsberg Judith Ginsberg In Memory of Brigitte Harris Harold and Penny Blumenstein Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Stanley and Judy Frankel Anne Parsons and Donald Dietz In Memory of Joanne Heritier Virginia Jeffrey Ken Wadland DSO PERFORMANCE MAGA ZINE 47

In Memory of Sgt. Donald Walter Howell Vera Howell In Memory of Judith Dianne Jackson Emerson Jackson In Memory of Carole Jo Milgrom Lasser Deborah Baker In Honor of Dr. Mel Lester Stanley and Judy Frankel In Honor of Erin Little Andrea Morganroth In Memory of Betty Ann Lourie Barbara Miller In Memory of Douglas Lovett Sigfrid and Marjorie Anderson In Honor of Anne Parsons Todd Gordon and Susan Feder In Honor of Patricia Peterson Susan Hoffman In Memory of Fay Ann Resnick Jean Hill Carman Margaret Chaney

Randy and Rochelle Forester Helene Hoffman Barbara Kenzie Michael Resnick and Lyn Bearinger Robert Resnick and Gail Fisher Barbara Rosen Kitty Stoffle Ellie Tholen Ira and Mildred Wells Bruce White and Kathleen ChaneyWhite In Memory of Sheldon Sandweiss Hilda Cooper In Memory of Norinne Selesko David and Sylvia Nelson In Memory of Jan Sleebos Shimon and Doris Edut

Scott and Susan Costello Rolland and Patricia Danford Robert and Victoria Earnest Don and Margaret Giffels Ralph Hashoian Geraldine Irwin Dan and Lisa Jacobs Robert and Virginia Jones Kapnick and Company Inc Annie Lang Phoebe Richards Barbara Smith Stephan Speth In Memory of L. Warren Tucker Sandra Tucker In Memory of Zeyn and Ayten Uzman J. Fernando del Rosario

In Memory of Nate Suida Laura Duda Lisa Zielinski

In Memory of Ann K. Warren Frederick and Martha Fordon Elizabeth Mikos John Petrie Margaret Woodhouse

In Memory of Robert Thibideau Corenna Aldrich Marguerite Allen Amerisure Insurance Robert and Nancy Austin Betty Carden Gasper and Kasey Costantini

In Memory of Martha Wiltshire Phyllis and Robert Clark Eric and Ginny Lundquist Alexander and Evelyn McKeen Ellie Tholen

C O R P O R AT E PA R T N E R S P O T L I G H T

Coffee Express Roasting Company The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is proud to spotlight Coffee Express Roasting Company as an outstanding corporate partner in the Metro Detroit community. Coffee Express has roasted specialty •PLYMOUTH• coffees for coffee houses and retailers since 1982, and is generously partnering with the DSO to elevate the quality of coffee and service for our patrons this season. Tom Isaia, President of Coffee Express Roasting Company, has been a classical subscriber since 2001. As a music lover, Tom values the role the arts play in our community and joined the DSO Business Alliance—a leading ensemble of corporate partners who value the DSO’s impact in the community—in 2014. Just last winter, Tom and the DSO team worked creatively to surprise and delight our patrons during the Brahms Festival with sponsored coffee in the Herman & Sharon Frankel Donor Lounge, and offered unique Brahms-branded whole bean bags for purchase in the gift shop. As we begin the 2016-2017 Season, we look forward to expanding our relationship with Coffee Express Roasting Company and share our gratitude for their commitment to arts and culture in this region. 48

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administrative staff EXECUTIVE OFFICE Anne Parsons President and CEO James B. and Ann V. Nicholson Chair Linda Lutz Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Erik Rรถnmark Vice President and General Manager Joy Crawford Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Elaine Curvin Executive Assistant Caitlin Bush Advancement Relations Associate

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER ARTISTIC PLANNING Jessica Ruiz Manager of Artistic Planning Christopher Harrington Managing Director of Paradise Jazz Series Managing Director & Curator of @ The Max Katherine Curatolo Artistic Coordinator Clare Valenti Popular & Special Programming Coordinator COMMUNITY AND LEARNING Caen Thomason-Redus Director of Community and Learning Leah Celebi Manager of Education Brian Frazee Manager of Community Engagement Nelson Rodriguez Parada General Manager of Training Ensembles Nathaniel Bean Education Coordinator

LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL Marc Geelhoed Director of Digital Initiatives ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Kathryn Ginsburg Orchestra Manager Heather Hart Rochon Orchestra Personnel Manager

Morgan Graby Governing Members and Volunteer Relations Officer Juanda Pack Advancement Benefits Coordinator INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Danielle Manley Director of Advancement for Institutional Giving

Dennis Rottell Stage Manager

Chelsea Kotula Manager of Sponsor Benefits and Relations

Leslie Karr Executive Assistant to the Music Director

Marah Casey Advancement Officer

Patrick Peterson Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager

Jacqueline Garner Advancement Assistant oneDSO CAMPAIGN

ADVANCEMENT & EXTERNAL RELATIONS ADVANCEMENT SERVICES Bree Kneisler Advancement Services and Prospect Research Manager

Julie Byczynski oneDSO Campaign Director

FACILITY OPERATIONS Dan Saunders Director of Facilities Management

Will Broner Advancement Services Coordinator

Larry Ensman Maintenance Supervisor

Richard Kryszko Advancement Services Coordinator

Frederico Augustin Facility Engineer

COMMUNICATIONS

Matt Deneka Maintenance Technician

Matthew Carlson Director of Communications and Media Relations Teresa Alden Digital Communications Manager Ben Breuninger Public Relations Coordinator INDIVIDUAL GIVING Cassie Brenske Director of Advancement for Individual Giving Dan Coleman Governing Members Gift Officer and Assistant Director of Planned Giving

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Martez Duncan Maintenance Technician William Guilbault Maintenance Technician Crystal King Maintenance Technician Daniel Speights Maintenance Technician Greg Schimizzi Chief of Security Melvin Dismukes Security Officer Norris Jackson Security Officer

FALL/WINTER 2016-2017

NEW YEAR’S EVE 2017 Ronald Martin Security Officer Johnnie Scott Security Officer

FINANCE Jeremiah Hess Senior Director of Accounting & Finance Sandra Mazza Senior Accountant

Sharon Gardner Carr Assistant Manager of Tessitura and Ticketing Operations Annick Busch Patron Loyalty Coordinator Steven Fronrath Audience Development Coordinator LaHeidra Marshall Audience Development Associate

Dawn Kronell Senior Accountant

CATERING AND RETAIL SERVICES

Karen McCombs Accounting Specialist

Christina Williams Director of Catering and Retail Services

Lolita Isaac Payroll and Benefits Accountant

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Jody Harper Director of Information Technology Ra’Jon Taylor Help Desk Administrator

Kyle Hanley Executive Chef Nate Richter Bar Manager Stacey Karl Retail Manager EVENTS AND RENTALS

Michelle Koning Web Manager

Holly Clement Senior Manager of Events and Rentals

HUMAN RESOURCES

Connie Campbell Manager of Event Sales and Administration

Denise Ousley Human Resources Director

PATRON DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT Nicki Inman Senior Director of Patron Development and Engagement AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Michael Frisco Director of Audience Development Margaret Cassetto Front of House Manager DeRon Wilson Group Sales Manager

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Ashley Powers Event Sales Representative PATRON SALES AND SERVICE Molly Fidler Manager, Patron Sales & Service Michelle Marshall Assistant Manager, Patron Sales & Service Ashley Handy Lead Ticketing Specialist William Dawkins Lead Ticketing Specialist

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999

THE MUSIC OF PRINCE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Brent Havens, conductor

DECEMBER 31, 2016 BASH AT 10 P.M. CONCERT AT 8 P.M.

Put on your dancing shoes and walk the purple carpet as we pay tribute to the iconic legend known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant dress and perhaps, most importantly his out of this world music. Televised and live-streamed worldwide by Detroit Public Television — don’t miss Detroit’s biggest NYE party! Event and Telecast made possible by the Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation.

For more information about the bash and concert please visit dso.org/NYE or call 313.576.5450 DSO PERFORMANCE MAGA ZINE 51

UPCOMING CONCERTS & EVENTS

WU FAMILY ACADEMY

POPS SERIES

Sun., Nov. 13 at 2 p.m.*

Brent Havens, conductor Brody Dolyniuk, vocalist

HOSTED PARTNERSHIPS

Sat., Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. Sun., Nov. 27 at 3 p.m.

SHOWCASE

DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE DOT By Colman Domingo

Nov. 16 – Dec. 11* in Robert A. and Maggie Allesee Hall. Visit DetroitPublicTheatre.org

MUSIC OF JOURNEY

@THE MAX

STORM LARGE Wed., Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. in The Cube*

CLASSICAL SERIES

TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIRST CONCERTO

WU FAMILY ACADEMY

Thu., Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18 at 10:45 a.m. Sat., Nov. 19 at 8 p.m.

PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

HOSTED PARTNERSHIPS

Thu., Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.*

Mon., Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.*

CLASSICAL SERIES

Jun Märkl, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

WSU MONDAYS AT THE MAX POPS SERIES

POPERA: OPERA’S GREATEST HITS

Robert Bernhardt, conductor Mela Dailey, vocalist Wed., Nov. 23 at 10:45 a.m.

TINY TOTS CONCERTS

WORLD WINTER HOLIDAY Sat., Nov. 26 at 10 a.m.*

CIVIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA Thu., Dec. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in The Cube*

DIANNE REEVES: CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE

STORM LARGE: 7 DEADLY SINS Leonard Slatkin, conductor Storm Large, soprano Fri., Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 3 at 8 p.m.

WU FAMILY ACADEMY

THE NUTCRACKER

Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra with Ballet Americana Sat., Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. & 7 p.m.*

Featuring Guy Louis

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, Dearborn

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS

DSO PRESENTS

Michelle Merrill, conductor Dennis Nulty, tuba Stephen Henderson, narrator

Jacomo Bairos, conductor

TUBBY THE TUBA

BEN FOLDS WITH THE DSO Sun., Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 26 at 11 a.m. 52

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TICKETS & INFO

313 . 5 7 6 . 5111 dso.org

CLASSICAL SERIES

POPS SERIES

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

Matt Catingub, conductor/piano/vocals Anita Hall, vocalist Steve Moretti, drums/vocals

EMANUEL AX PLAYS BEETHOVEN Fri., Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. Sun., Dec. 11 at 3 p.m.

With thanks to the Bonnie Ann and Robert C. Larson Guest Pianist Fund

HOSTED PARTNERSHIPS

WSU MONDAYS AT THE MAX Mon., Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m.*

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED: A CELEBRATION OF THE SIXTIES Fri., Jan. 6 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 8 at 3 p.m.

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

VIRTUOSITY OF CHO-LIANG LIN

DSO PRESENTS

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Cho-Liang Lin, violin

Tue., Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.*

Thu., Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Southfield Fri., Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. in Clinton Twp. Sun., Jan. 15 at 3 p.m. in Beverly Hills

DSO PRESENTS

CLASSICAL SERIES

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND — A CREOLE CHRISTMAS HOME ALONE WITH THE DSO Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor Wed., Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

POPS SERIES

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

VIRTUOSITY OF CHO-LIANG LIN

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Cho-Liang Lin, violin Sat., Jan. 14 at 8 p.m.

Michelle Merrill, conductor Doug LaBrecque, vocalist

MOZART

Fri., Dec. 16 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sun., Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT Daniel Blendulf, conductor Benjamin Beilman, violin

Thu., Jan. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in West Bloomfield Fri., Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. in Plymouth Sat., Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. in Bloomfield Hills Sun., Jan. 8 at 3 p.m. in Grosse Pointe

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FESTIVAL

Jan. 19–Feb. 4 Hear Mozart’s last six symphonies, concerti with DSO musicians, chamber music, scholarly talks & more!

*The DSO does not appear on this performance

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Your Home for the Holidays

Generously sponsored by

With additional support from

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Michelle Merrill, conductor • Doug LaBrecque, vocalist Fri., Dec. 16 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m. • Sat., Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sun., Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

DIANNE REEVES: CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE

HOME ALONE WITH THE DSO

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND:

NEW YEAR’S EVE 2017

Thu., Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.*

A CREOLE CHRISTMAS

Tue., Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.*

Wed., Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

THE MUSIC OF PRINCE

Sat., Dec. 31 at 10 p.m.

dso.org/holiday or 313.576.5111 ORCHESTRA HALL MAX M. & MARJORIE S. FISHER MUSIC CENTER 3711 WOODWARD AVE. IN MIDTOWN DETROIT

*The DSO does not appear on this program

Share Detroit’s favorite, best-selling holiday musical tradition with family and friends and thrill to the spectacle of the season. It’s a sparkling celebration with carols and classics.

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