The Music of The Nutcracker with the DSO

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUNITY-SUP PORTED ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUNITY-SUP PORTED ORCHESTRA

SPECIAL EVENT

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

JADER BIGNAMINI, Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

TERENCE BLANCHARD

NA’ZIR MCFADDEN

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Principal Pops Conductor

Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Assistant Conductor, Phillip & Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

FIRST VIOLIN Robyn Bollinger

CONCERTMASTER Katherine Tuck Chair

Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Schwartz and Shapero Family Chair

Hai-Xin Wu

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair

Jennifer Wey Fang ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* William and Story John Chair

Alexandros Sakarellos* Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair

Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou*

SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski ACTING PRINCIPAL The Devereaux Family Chair

Will Haapaniemi* David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Hae Jeong Heidi Han*

David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Elizabeth Furuta* Sheryl Hwangbo Yu* Daniel Kim* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo* Marian Tanau* Alexander Volkov* Jing Zhang*

VIOLA Eric Nowlin PRINCIPAL Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair

James VanValkenburg

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Janet and Norm Ankers Chair

Caroline Coade Henry and Patricia Nickol Chair

Glenn Mellow Hang Su Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen Harper Randolph §

CELLO Wei Yu PRINCIPAL

Abraham Feder

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

CLARINET Ralph Skiano

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp

Jack Walters

James Ritchie

PRINCIPAL Robert B. Semple Chair

PVS Chemicals Inc./ Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair

Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer*

Shannon Orme

David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*

E-FLAT CLARINET OPEN

Una O’Riordan*

BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme

Victor and Gale Girolami Cello Chair

Joanne Deanto and Arnold Weingarden Chair Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Chair

Cole Randolph*

PRINCIPAL Van Dusen Family Chair

Stephen Molina

LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles

PRINCIPAL Byron and Dorothy Gerson Chair

Cornelia Sommer Marcus Schoon

HARP OPEN

PRINCIPAL David and Christine Provost Chair

Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong

FLUTE Hannah Hammel Maser

David Everson

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair

PRINCIPAL

Ethan Allen

LEGACY CHAIRS Principal Flute

Women’s Association for the DSO

Principal Cello

James C. Gordon

HORN OPEN

PRINCIPAL Winifred E. Polk Chair

Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL William Cody Knicely Chair

BASSOON Conrad Cornelison

CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon

Sharon Sparrow^

PRINCIPAL Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair

James Ritchie Luciano Valdes§

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Amanda Blaikie

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker

Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair

Christopher Hamlen* Peter Hatch* Vincent Luciano* Brandon Mason*

PRINCIPAL Alan J. and Sue Kaufman and Family Chair

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Ric and Carola Huttenlocher Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Mark Abbott

TRUMPET Hunter Eberly PRINCIPAL Lee and Floy Barthel Chair

Personnel Managers Patrick Peterson

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Benjamin Tisherman

MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Nolan Cardenas

AUDITIONS AND OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Stage Personnel Dennis Rottell STAGE MANAGER

Zach Deater

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Issac Eide

Jeffery Zook

Austin Williams William Lucas

PICCOLO Jeffery Zook

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins

Matthew Pons

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

PRINCIPAL Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

OBOE Alexander Kinmonth

David Binder Adam Rainey

Sarah Lewis

BASS TROMBONE Adam Rainey

PRINCIPAL Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Monica Fosnaugh

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh

THE NUTCRACKER WITH THE DSO

Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal

Mary Lee Gwizdala Chair

BASS Kevin Brown

PRINCIPAL Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair

THE MUSIC OF

TUBA Dennis Nulty PRINCIPAL

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Kurt Henry

DEPARTMENT HEAD DEPARTMENT HEAD

Jason Tschantre

DEPARTMENT HEAD

LEGEND * These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis ^ On sabbatical § A frican American Orchestra Fellow

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Orchestra Hall DAMON GUPTON, conductor JAMES ROSE, JR., narrator

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUN ITY-SUP PORTED ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUN ITY-SUP PORTED ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

SPECIAL EVENT

THE MUSIC OF THE NUTCRACKER WITH THE DSO Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Orchestra Hall

DAMON GUPTON, conductor JAMES ROSE JR., narrator Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music of The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1840 - 1893) Overture

Act I 1. The Decoration of the Christmas Tree 2. March 4. Arrival of Drosselmeyer 5. Grossvater (Grandfather’s) Dance 6. Scena 7. Scena (Battle) 8. Scena Act II 11. Scena a. Chocolate (Spanish) b. Coffee (Arab Dance) c. Tea (Chinese Dance) d. Trepak (Russian Dance) e. Dance of the Mirlitons (Reed Flutes) 14b. Tarentella 14c. Sugar Plum Fairy and Coda 15. Final Waltz and Apotheosis

DAMON GUPTON

JAMES ROSE JR.

Conductor amon Gupton is the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. A native of Detroit, he previously served as American Conducting Fellow of the Houston Symphony and Assistant Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, and has conducted leading orchestras including the Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, and Toledo Symphony. Other musical collaborations include work with Marcus Miller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Common, Leslie Odom Jr., Byron Stripling, Tony DeSare, The Midtown Men, Kenn Hicks, and Jamie Cullum.

Gupton received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Awards include the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize, Aspen Conducting Prize, and the inaugural Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan School of Music and Alumni Society.

An accomplished actor, Gupton has held roles in television, film, and on stage, including series regular roles on Big Door Prize, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson, Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, and Deadline. He has appeared in films including Whiplash, La La Land, This is 40, The Last Airbender, and The Loretta Claiborne Story.

Stage roles include the Broadway production of Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Awardwinning Clybourne Park, the Ovation and LA Drama Critic’s Circle award-winning Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Superior Donuts, and Christina Anderson’s Inked Baby, among others.

Narrator and DSO Board of Trustees member ames Rose Jr. serves as the Global Managing Director of Client Services for all Deloitte member service firms to the Ford Motor Company. He is responsible for delivering the firm’s multidisciplinary solutions, including business innovation and IT consulting, digital transformation, privacy and enterprise risk management, tax, and financial advisory services to Ford Motor Company worldwide.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Rose worked as an advanced engineering director for Tata Technologies, held executive management roles in consulting and software services at Carlisle and Company, served as Vice President Blue Titan Software and Vice President and Corporate Officer at OEConnection and worked for IBM, his seminal experience, where Rose held many positions, culminating as the Director and Business Unit Executive of Global Automotive Software and Services.

A multi-disciplinary individual, Rose holds a BA degree in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, completed post-graduate studies at The Julliard School of Music, and is a graduate of the IBM Executive Education Program with a concentration in Marketing from Warwick University and the Harvard University Executive Negotiation Clinic. Recently, Rose was awarded the “Deloitte Innovator of the Year Award” for exceptional strategic client service.

Rose currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Community Board of Beaumont Hospital. He was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of Olivet College.

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