HOMETOWN SEND-OFF CONCERT Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor AKIKO SUWANAI, violin
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usic is a universal language that inspires collaboration, and orchestras are symbolic of how common goals are achieved by working together. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is honored to bring the positive message of Michigan as a premier global destination for creative and business achievement. We hope that this tour stimulates ongoing exchange and cooperation between the great city of Detroit and all the communities where we perform. We thank our tour sponsors for their engagement and support of this vision, and we are so grateful to you — our hometown fans — for supporting the orchestra as we prepare to depart on this historic trip. Orchestra Hall is our home, and no matter how far we roam, we will always look forward to performing right here on this stage. Anne Parsons, President and CEO Mark Davidoff, Chairman
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t brings me great pleasure to bring the wonderful musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to China and Japan. The DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall webcast series has engaged a global online audience for six years, and we are now eager to play live for many people who have become fans by watching us on their screens. We are proud of our reputation as a bold and forward-thinking orchestra, and we aim to be friendly and engaged with our audiences while maintaining the utmost artistic excellence. It is an honor to perform for you in our wonderful home city. Thank you for supporting the orchestra and wishing us well on this journey.
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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 A ssociate Concertmaster Alan and Marianne Schwartz and Jean Shapero (Shapero Foundation) Chair Hai-Xin Wu A ssistant Concertmaster Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair Jennifer Wey A ssistant Concertmaster Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Landers Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou* Sunmi Chang† Velda Kelly † Cristina Muresan† Sayaka Takeuchi† SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski Acting Principal The Devereaux Family Chair Ron Fischer* Will Haapaniemi* David and Valerie McCammon Chair Hae Jeong Heidi Han* David and Valerie McCammon Chair Sheryl Hwangbo* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo* Alexandros Sakarellos* Joseph Striplin* Marian Tanau* Jing Zhang* John Bian† Cristina Buciu† Hyorim Han† Molly Hughes† Vivek Jayaraman† Kyoko Kashiwagi† VIOLA Eric Nowlin Principal Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair James VanValkenburg A ssistant Principal Caroline Coade Hang Su Glenn Mellow Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman
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TERENCE BLANCHARD Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair
Han Zheng Alexander Mishnaevski Principal Emeritus John Madison† Romona Merritt † CELLO Wei Yu Principal James C. Gordon Chair Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer* David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey* Haden McKay* Úna O’Riordan* Paul Wingert* Victor and Gale Girolami Chair Open A ssistant Principal Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair Sarah Cleveland † Andrew McIntosh† BASS Kevin Brown Principal Van Dusen Family Chair Stephen Molina A ssistant Principal Linton Bodwin Stephen Edwards Larry Hutchinson Nick Cathcart † Jessica Grabbe† Brandon Mason† David Molina† Robert Stiles† HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher Principal Winifred E. Polk Chair Rachel Miller † FLUTE Sharon Sparrow Acting Principal Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair Amanda Blaikie Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair Jeffery Zook David Buck ~ Principal Women’s Association for the DSO Chair Roma Duncan† PICCOLO Jeffery Zook Roma Duncan†
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NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus
MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador
OBOE Alexander Kinmonth Principal Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair Geoffrey Johnson† Maggie Miller Chair Brian Ventura A ssistant Principal Monica Fosnaugh
TRUMPET Hunter Eberly Principal Lee and Floy Barthel Chair Kevin Good Stephen Anderson A ssistant Principal William Lucas Ryan Darke† Justin Emerich †
ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh Shari and Craig Morgan Chair
TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins Principal David Binder Randall Hawes
CLARINET Ralph Skiano Principal Robert B. Semple Chair Jared Davis † PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair Laurence Liberson A ssistant Principal Shannon Orme Ford Musician Awardee E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair BASSOON Robert Williams Principal Victoria King Michael Ke Ma A ssistant Principal Marcus Schoon Alexander Davis African-American Orchestra Fellow CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon SAXOPHONE Marcus Schoon Erik Rönmark † HORN Karl Pituch Principal Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong Bryan Kennedy David Everson Assistant Principal Mark Abbott
BASS TROMBONE Randall Hawes TUBA Dennis Nulty Principal PERCUSSION Joseph Becker Principal Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal A ssistant Principal William Cody Knicely Chair James Ritchie Keith Claeys† TIMPANI Jeremy Epp Principal Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair James Ritchie A ssistant Principal KEYBOARD Rob Conway † Keun-A Lee† LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles Principal Ethan Allen Personnel Managers Heather Hart Rochon Orchestra Personnel M anager Patrick Peterson A ssociate Orchestra Personnel M anager Stage Personnel Dennis Rottell Stage M anager Steven Kemp Department Head Matthew Pons Department Head Michael Sarkissian Department Head
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Kawanami Memorial Hall Seitoku University CHIBA, JAPAN
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Toyota City Concert Hall TOYOTA, AICHI, JAPAN
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The Symphony Hall OSAKA, JAPAN
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Bunkyo Civic Hall TOKYO, JAPAN
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Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall International Music Festival Nippon TOKYO, JAPAN
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Harmony Hall Fukui FUKUI, JAPAN
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Suzhou Poly Grand Theatre SUZHOU, CHINA
8 Qintai Concert Hall WUHAN, CHINA
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Shi Guangnan Grand Theatre CHONGQING, CHINA Shanghai Oriental Art Center SHANGHAI, CHINA
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9 Changsha Concert Hall CHANGSHA, CHINA
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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.
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Samuel Frankel † David Handleman, Sr.† Dr. Arthur L. Johnson † Clyde Wu, M.D.†
CHAIRMEN EMERITI
Alfred R. Glancy III Steve Miller Peter D. Cummings James B. Nicholson Stanley Frankel Phillip Wm. Fisher
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Mark A. Davidoff Chairman
Faye A. Nelson Treasurer
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Dr. Glenda D. Price Vice Chair
Arthur T. O’Reilly Secretary
Janice Uhlig Officer-at-large
Anne Parsons President & CEO
Chacona W. Baugh Officer-at-large
Pamela Applebaum Robert H. Bluestein Jeremy Epp* Orchestra Representative James Farber Chairman, Governing Members Samuel Fogleman Monica Fosnaugh* Orchestra Representative
Herman B. Gray, Jr., MD Nicholas Hood III Michael J. Keegan Bonnie Larson Matthew B. Lester Arthur C. Liebler Ginny Lundquist Volunteer Council President Xavier Mosquet
Stephen Polk Bernard I. Robertson Hon. Gerald E. Rosen Nancy M. Schlichting Arn Tellem Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder M. Roy Wilson
Ismael Ahmed Rosette Ajluni Richard Alonzo 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 Richard L. DeVore Linda Dresner Afa S. Dworkin J. Mikel Ellcessor Annmarie Erickson Jennifer Fischer Aaron Frankel Robert Gillette Jody Glancy
Malik Goodwin Antoinette G. Green Leslie Green 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 William F. Pickard Gerrit Reepmeyer James Ritchie* Orchestra Representative Rick Robinson Lois L. Shaevsky Tom Shafer Margo Shulman Cathryn Skedel Ralph Skiano* Orchestra Representative Shirley R. Stancato Stephen Strome Mark Tapper Laura Trudeau Michael R. Tyson Gwen Weiner Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue
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James C. Farber Chairperson
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Jan Bernick Member-at-Large
Janet and Norm Ankers Co-Vice Chairs, Gabrilowitsch Society David Assemany Vice Chair, Engagement Diana Golden Vice Chair, Membership
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Mrs. Harriett Berg Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Drs. John & Janice Bernick Mr. & Mrs. Michael Biber Ms. Kathleen Block Martha & G. Peter Blom 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 The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Rud & Mary Ellen Boucher Don & Marilyn Bowerman Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Claire & Robert N. Brown Mrs. Milena 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 Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Ronald & Lynda Charfoos
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Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Michael & Cathleen Clancy Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Lois & Avern Cohn Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Louis Cotman Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Julie & Peter Cummings Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Dare 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. Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Paul† & Peggy Dufault
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GOVERNING MEMBERS continued Dale & Bruce Frankel Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Ms. Carol A. Friend Kit & Dan Frohardt-Lane Sharyn & Alan Gallatin Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Mr. George Georges Byron† & Dorothy 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 Mr.† & Mrs. James A. Green Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Dr. & Mrs. Steven Grekin Mr. Jeffrey Groehn Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Robert & Elizabeth Hamel Randall L. & Nancy Caine Harbour Tina Harmon Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Mr. & Mrs. Morton E. Harris Mr. Lee V. Hart & Mr. Charles L. Dunlap Cheryl A. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Randall Hawes 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 Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen Talbert-Hill Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley Lauri & Paul Hogle
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Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Jack & Anne Hommes Ms. Barbara Honner The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Ronald M. & Carol† Horwitz Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. F. Robert Hozian 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 Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Mr. Paul Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jonna Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff 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 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 & Katherine Kotsis Robert C. & Margaret A. Kotz Barbara & Michael Kratchman Richard & Sally Krugel
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish Dr. Arnold Kummerow Marilyn & John Kunz Dr. Myron & Joyce LaBan Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Mrs. Bonnie Larson Dr. Lawrence O. Larson Dolores & Paul Lavins Mr. Henry P. Lee Marguerite & David Lentz Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph LeRoy, Jr. Dr. Melvin A. Lester Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Lester Barbara & Carl Levin Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Mr. Daniel Lewis Arlene & John Lewis Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. & Mrs.† Joseph Lile Ms. Carol Litka The Locniskar Group Mr. & Mrs. Eric C. Lundquist Daniel & Linda* Lutz Bob & Terri 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 Ms. Florine Mark Maurice Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Richard Martella David & Valerie McCammon Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Stevens McClure Family Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Patricia A.† & Patrick G. McKeever Ms. Camille McLeod Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Olga Sutaruk Meyer Thomas & Judith Mich Ms. Deborah Miesel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Leonard G. Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Dr. Robert & Dr. Mary Mobley J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Moore Shari & Craig Morgan Ms. A. Anne Moroun Ms. Florence Morris Mr. Frederick Morsches & Mr. Kareem George Cyril Moscow Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Drs. Barbara & Stephen Munk Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Joy & Allan Nachman Judith & Edward Narens Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters David Robert & Sylvia Jean Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nemeth Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson Patricia & Henry Nickol Mr. & Mrs. David E. Nims Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Norling Mr. Thomas Norris Ms. Gabrielle Poshadlo & Mr. Dennis Nulty* Katherine & Bruce Nyberg Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek Mrs. Jo Elyn Nyman Mr. John J. O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. Dongwhan Oh Mr. & Mrs. Pat Olney Dr. William Oppat Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Mr. Randall Pappal Mrs. Margot Parker Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Debra & Richard Partrich Ms. Lisa Payne Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Penske Mr. Charles Peters Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Kris Pfaehler Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Dave Phipps Dr. William F. Pickard Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus JULY 9, 2017
Dr. Klaudia PlawnyLebenbom The Polk Family William H. & Wendy W. Powers Dr. Glenda D. Price Reimer & Rebecca Priester Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. Ronald Puchalski Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rappleye Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Ms. Ruth Rattner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mrs. Hope Raymond Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Denise Reske Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Barbara Gage Rex Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Seth & Laura Romine Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Mr. R. Desmond Rowan Jane & Curt Russell Dr. Alexander Ruthven Martie & Bob Sachs Dr. Mark & Peggy Saffer Linda & Leonard Sahn Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury
Hershel & Dorothy Sandberg Marjorie & Saul Saulson Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff Ms. Nancy Schlichting David & Carol Schoch Catherine & Dennis B. Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Sandy & Alan Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mr. Merton J. Segal Elaine & Michael Serling Mark & Lois Shaevsky Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman Ms. Margaret Shulman Dr. Les & Ellen Lesser Siegel Coco & Robert Siewert Mr. Norman Silk & Mr. Dale Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon William & Cherie Sirois Dr. Cathryn & Mr. Daniel Skedel Cindy & Leonard Slatkin William H. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Leonard W. Smith John J. Solecki Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Renate & Richard Soulen Dr. Gregory Stephens
Barb & Clint Stimpson Nancy C. Stocking Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Mrs. E. Ray Stricker Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Stephen & Phyllis Strome David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dorothy I. Tarpinian Shelley & Joel Tauber Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Carol & Larry Tibbitts Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tierney Dr. Barry Tigay & Mrs. Clara Saban Alice & Paul Tomboulian Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. & Mrs. Michael Torakis Mr. & Mrs. Gary Torgow Barbara & Stuart Trager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Mark & Janice Uhlig David Usher Dr. Vainutis Vaitkevicius Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen Charles & Sally Van Dusen Mr. James G. Vella Mr.† & Mrs. George C. Vincent Mrs. Eva Von Voss Mr. 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. Gary L. Wasserman & Mr. Charlie Kashner Mr. Patrick Webster S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Mr. Herman Weinreich Lawrence & Idell Weisberg Ambassador & Mrs. Ronald N. Weiser Arthur & Trudy Weiss Janis & William Wetsman/ The Wetsman Foundation Ms. Anne Wilczak Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Williams Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Ms. Mary Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Mr. Jonathan Wolman & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood The Clyde & Helen Wu Family David & Bernadine Wu Ms. June Wu Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Mr. Michael Yessian Margaret S. York The Yousif Family Erwin & Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation Mr. Richard D. Zimmerman Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Zlotoff Milton & Lois† Zussman
VOLUNTEER COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Ginny Lundquist President
Beverly Williams VP for Membership
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
E. Jane Talia VP for Neighborhood/ Residency Ambassador
VOLUNTEER COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Beattie Gwen Bowlby Drew Esslinger Kim Minasian Hawes Sandie Knollenberg Magda Moss Jackie Piceu
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Dolores Reese Ann Marie Rowley Charlotte Worthen El eanor (Coco) Siewert Parliamentarian Susan Svoboda
*Current DSO Musician or Staff
Diane Ekizian Recording Secretary Esther Lyons VP for Administrative/ Office Services Ellie Tholen VP for Communications/ Public Relations ORCHESTRA REPRESENTATIVES Mark Abbott* Caroline Coade*
Carol Marti VP for Special Events Marlene Bihlmeyer VP for Youth Music Education
Learn more about the Volunteer Council and their contributions to the DSO at dso.org/volunteercouncil
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra thanks the leadership of its Asia Tour Steering Committee: Mark A. Davidoff
Chairman, Board of Directors, DSO and Michigan Managing Partner, Deloitte
Arthur C. Liebler
Chairman of the Asia Tour Steering Committee, DSO Board of Directors; Owner, The Whitney
Consul General Mitsuhiro Wada
Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit
Consul General Hong Lei
Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago
Mizuki Eguchi
Public Relations Officer, Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit
Min Zhang
Consul for Cultural Affairs, Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago
Milan Stevanovich
Vice President Global Strategy, Detroit Chinese Business Association
Jerry Xu
President, Detroit Chinese Learning Foundation
Takashi Omitsu
Corporate Executive Advisor, IMRA
James G. Vella
President, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
James Forger
Dean of the College of Music, Michigan State University
Brian Connors
Executive Director, Michigan-China Innovation Center
Shirley Young
President, Shirley Young Associates, LLC, and Senior Advisor to General Motors Asia Pacific
John Bracey
Executive Director, State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Ralph J. Gerson
Executive Committee, William Davidson Foundation, and member of the DSO Board of Directors 10
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Leonard Slatkin, Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation Jeff Tyzik, Principal Pops Conductor Neeme Järvi, Music Director Emeritus
ASIA TOUR 2017 HOMETOWN SEND-OFF CONCERT Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor AKIKO SUWANAI, violin Cindy McTee Double Play (b. 1953) I. The Unquestioned Answer II. Tempus Fugit Erich Wolfgang Korngold Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1897 - 1957) in D Major, Op. 35 Moderato nobile Romance Finale: Allegro assai vivace Akiko Suwanai, violin INTERMISSION Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3 (1900 - 1990) I. Molto Moderato, with simple expression II. Allegro molto III. Andantino quasi allegretto IV. Molto deliberato - Allegro risoluto Akiko Suwanai’s performance is presented in collaboration with the International Music Festival NIPPON in Japan, of which Ms. Suwanai is the Artistic Director. The Festival is kindly supported by Toyota Industries Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, and Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd.
Today’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 LEONARD SLATKIN
AKIKO SUWANAI
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. Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have garnered seven Grammy awards SLATKIN 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 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.
Universally acclaimed for her performances of key works for the violin, Akiko Suwanai is also celebrated for the breadth of her repertoire, ranging from Bach to contemporary works. Suwanai gave the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’ Violin Concerto No. 7, written for her, at the Lucerne Festival under Pierre Boulez in 2007, and since then has performed this signature work on numerous occasions across the globe, including at the BBC Proms and most recently with Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. She also gave the Japan premiere of James MacMillan’s SUWANAI Violin Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2012. Her extensive discography with Universal Music has garnered much critical acclaim and her most recent release is a recital disc of works by Frank, Strauss, and Takemitsu with pianist Enrico Pace. The 2016-2017 Season includes a return to the NHK Symphony Orchestra (with Paavo Järvi), Hong Kong Philharmonic (with Lawrence Foster), and Hamburger Symphoniker (with Jeffrey Tate). She will also tour Japan with Bamberger Symphoniker (with Herbert Blomstedt) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (with Esa-Pekka Salonen). Suwanai performs on the Stradivarius “Dolphin” violin from 1714, previously owned by Jascha Heifetz, kindly loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.
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program notes Double Play CINDY MCTEE B. February 20, 1953, Tacoma, Washington Scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 15 minutes)
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ouble Play was commissioned by the DSO as a component of the Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers, granted annually to a living woman composer in the spirit of recognizing and supporting the creation of new orchestral works by women. Cindy McTee won the Award in 2009, and Double Play was given its world premiere by the DSO in June 2010. The piece consists of two continuous movements, each of which can be performed separately. “I have always been particularly attracted to the idea that disparate musical elements—tonal and atonal, placid and frenetic—can not only coexist but also illuminate and complement one another,” McTee writes. “I can think of no composer more capable of achieving these kinds of meaningful juxtapositions than Charles Ives. As in Ives’ Unanswered Question, my Unquestioned Answer (the first movement) presents planes of highly contrasting materials: sustained, consonant sonorities in the strings intersect to create dissonances; melodies for the principal players soar atop; and discordant passages in the brass and winds become ever more disruptive.” The second movement is titled Tempus Fugit, Latin for “time flees” and commonly translated as “time flies.” It begins with “the sounds of several pendulum clocks ticking at different speeds,” as McTee writes, and buzzes along in fragmented,
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quick-moving melodies that echo our hurried 21st century. The DSO has previously performed Cindy McTee’s Double Play once—the aforementioned world premiere in June 2010, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35 ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD B. May 29, 1897, Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) D. November 29, 1957, Hollywood, California Scored for solo violin, piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, timpani, percussion, harp, celeste, and strings. (Approx. 24 minutes)
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n 1934, the Warner Brothers film conglomerate engaged Erich Korngold, the renowned composer now practically synonymous with Hollywood film scores, to transform Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for use in a new movie based on the play. But at the time Korngold was not yet well-known for his work in Tinseltown; his claim to fame was the hit opera Die Tote Stadt. And in those days it was rare for a soundtrack album to be commercially released, so Korngold and other film composers often found ways to extend the life of their big screen music by incorporating it into pieces suitable for the concert hall. Such is the case with Korngold’s Violin Concerto, which borrows melodies not only from A Midsummer Night’s Dream but other films the composer worked on around the same time, including Another Dawn DSO ASIA TOUR 2017 13
program notes (1937), Juarez (1939), and more. The first movement features two themes, both somewhat poignant and wistful. As opposed to a conventional sonata form in which two themes are expected to contrast in style and tone, Korngold’s freer form (which eschews the typical development section in favor of a cadenza) emphasizes the themes’ similarities: their lyrical, bittersweet character, expressed through gentle dissonances, expansively supple phrases, and the violin’s delicate upper register. The second movement is based on themes from Anthony Adverse (1936), the film score for which Korngold received his first Academy Award, but the music was radically altered somewhere between the film and the concert hall. Square rhythms and a solid harmonic foundation were replaced by a free, meandering fantasy through which the violinist drifts on arabesques, leaving behind any sense of metered pulse. In contrast to the pervasive lyricism of the first two movements, the finale is a maddash scramble as orchestra and soloist trade virtuosic passages. The movement rarely takes itself seriously: in the final measures the orchestra grinds to a halt on a grating, minor second dissonance before finishing with a resounding, “all’s well” D major hit. The DSO most recently performed Korngold’s Violin Concerto in February 2014, conducted by Hans Graf and featuring violinist Benjamin Schmid. The DSO first performed the piece in March 1954, conducted by C. Valter Poole and featuring violinist Jascha Heifetz.
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Symphony No. 3 AARON COPLAND B. November 14, 1900, Brooklyn, New York D. December 2, 1990, North Tarrytown, New York Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling on English horn), E-flat clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, celeste, piano, and strings. (Approx. 38 minutes)
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n his autobiography Aaron Copland calls the Symphony No. 3, premiered in 1946, “a wartime piece—or, more accurately, an end-of-war piece—intended to reflect the euphoric spirit of the country at the time.” Though this characterization is accurate, the narrative path traced in the symphony suggests that euphoria is achieved only after private reflection and collective struggle. The first movement is notable for its tight, integrated construction and unusual form. It cycles twice through three closely related themes, following a large-scale pitch scheme that grows naturally out of the melodic intervals in the opening. The movement builds to a fiery peroration that leads to an extended coda, in which the strings play an elongated statement of the opening hymn against a new bass line. The second movement opens with a bold ascending gesture in the French horn characterized by a Lydian (or raised) fourth. The motto reappears two more times; each time it is given expanded instrumentation and is stretched in time to sound even bigger. The third movement is in a loose ternary form. At its opening the strings play an elegiac transformation of the
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third theme from the first movement. The following section contains a graceful dance, introduced by the flute, and dissolves back into the veiled texture and melodies from the opening, leaving the orchestra in a state of uncertainty. The movement proceeds without a pause to the finale, which opens by quoting one of Copland’s most well-known pieces, “Fanfare for the Common Man,” first quietly in the winds, and then forcefully in the brass. Copland wrote the “Fanfare” in 1943 at the request of Eugene Goossens, director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Goossens had solicited several composers for brief fanfares in support of soldiers, and Copland decided on his unique title after concluding that the common man was “doing all the dirty
work in the war,” and was therefore his most deserving dedicatee. He probably drew the phrase “common man” from a 1942 speech by Vice President Henry Wallace, which challenged Americans to look beyond merely defeating Nazism as a goal of the War, and pursue broader social ideals. Perhaps the integration of the fanfare suggests that the end of the symphony creates “victory without conquest”—that is, it translates into musical terms Wallace’s ideal of moving beyond military victory to an era of social cooperation. —David Heetderks The DSO most recently performed Copland’s Symphony No. 3 in October 2015, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The DSO first performed the work in January 1957, conducted by Paul Paray.
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