DSO Performance magazine

VOLUME XXVI • FALL 2017

PERFORMANCE THE MAGAZINE OF THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2017-2018 SEASON

INSIDE Program Notes Changing Composition The Elaine Lebenbom Award Leonard Slatkin Reflecting on ten years Five New Faces New DSO Musicians Meet the Musician Kenneth Thompkins

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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

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Leading Tones

12 Meet the Musician Kenneth Thompkins

Composition 16 Changing The Elaine Lebenbom Award

18 Young Composer 21 PROGRAM NOTES Joshua Cerdenia

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Welcome......................................................4 Orchestra Roster.........................................5 Behind the Baton.........................................6 Board Leadership........................................8 Governing Members....................................9 Ambassador Corps....................................11 Gabrilowitsch Society.............................. 40 Donor Roster............................................. 40 Maximize Your Experience....................... 48 DSO Administrative Staff......................... 50 Upcoming Concerts.................................. 52 On the cover: David Binder, trombone Photo by Hart Hollman Read Performance anytime, anywhere at dso.org/performance DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 3

WELCOME Since launching our ten-year plan in 2013-14, we have made a concerted effort to imagine and build a bright future for your DSO and for Detroit. And it has been a truly collaborative family endeavor as we worked together to realize our potential, learn from our innovations, and celebrate our strengths, all the while investing in the critical role we can and must play in our community.

In the last five years, we have attracted more than 30 outstanding new musicians from around the world — plus dozens of talented staff — who have joined us here in Detroit. We have also built new relationships with schools, hospitals, and senior centers, seeking to embrace entire neighborhoods in order to increase access to music. At the same time, we have consistently grown our donor and patron base.

In October, we were thrilled to announce significant new support of the DSO from four foundations. The William Davidson Foundation led this effort with a $15 million gift that includes funding for the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series for five more years and a $5 million challenge grant to the DSO’s permanent endowment. In gratitude for this incredible generosity, we announced that the Atrium at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center will from now on be named the William Davidson Atrium.

The William Davidson Foundation’s challenge inspired three foundations to make gifts to the DSO’s endowment: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, and the Dresner Foundation came forward with a combined $3.5 million. In each case, these gifts complemented a focus area of our mission and were additive to ongoing annual support.

The DSO thanks its entire community of funders that have come together to support the orchestra — over one hundred individuals and organizations making exceptional gifts since the ten-year plan was launched. We are inspired by their partnership and belief in our commitment to improve the quality of life for all, on and off the stage and in the digital space.

When we were on tour in Asia this past July, several DSO musicians and staff climbed Mt. Fuji in Japan to see the sun rise. As we enter the second half of our tenyear plan, we are mindful that we are climbing our own mountain. There is more to be done to secure the DSO’s future, and we invite everyone to join in our journey.

Continued support ensures the endowment match from the William Davidson Foundation and empowers us to fulfill our mission in extraordinary ways. Please let us know if you have an interest in helping to secure a sustainable long-term future for our musicians and the great work they do.

We thank you for your continued patronage and look forward to seeing you this winter at The Max, in the William Davidson Atrium, in the neighborhoods, and throughout the community!

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Mark Davidoff Chairman FALL 2017

DONALD DIETZ

Dear Friends,

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 Sujin Lim Acting Principal The Devereaux Family Chair Adam Stepniewski Assistant Principal Ron Fischer* Will Haapaniemi* David and Valerie McCammon Chair Hae Jeong Heidi Han* David and Valerie McCammon Chair 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

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

CELLO Wei Yu Principal James C. Gordon Chair Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer* David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey* Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Chair Haden McKay* Úna O’Riordan* Paul Wingert* Victor and Gale Girolami Chair Open Assistant Principal Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair BASS Kevin Brown Principal Van Dusen Family Chair Stephen Molina Assistant Principal Linton Bodwin Stephen Edwards Christopher Hamlen HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher Principal Winifred E. Polk Chair 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 PICCOLO Jeffery Zook OBOE Alexander Kinmonth Principal Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair Sarah Lewis Maggie Miller Chair Brian Ventura Assistant Principal Monica Fosnaugh

NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus

MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh Shari and Craig Morgan Chair CLARINET Andrea Levine † Acting Principal Jack Walters PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair Laurence Liberson Assistant Principal Shannon Orme Ralph Skiano~ Principal Robert B. Semple Chair E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson 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 Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong Bryan Kennedy 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 Director of Orchestra Personnel Patrick Peterson Manager of Orchestra Personnel STAGE PERSONNEL Dennis Rottell Stage Manager Steven Kemp Department Head Matthew Pons Department Head Michael Sarkissian Department Head LEGEND

* These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis † substitute musician ~ extended leave

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BEHIND THE BATON

Leonard Slatkin

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n 2017-18, internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin celebrates his tenth and final season as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) before transitioning to the new role of Music Director Laureate, and his first season in the new role of Directeur Musical Honoraire with the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL). He also welcomes the publication of his second book, Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry, and serves as jury chairman of the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors. His guest-conducting schedule includes engagements with the St. Louis Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Recent career highlights include a three-week tour of Asia with the DSO; tours of the U.S. and Europe with the ONL; a winter Mozart Festival in Detroit; and engagements with the St. Louis Symphony, WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, Verdi Orchestra in Milan, and San Carlo Theatre Orchestra in Naples.

Moreover, he served as chairman of the jury and conductor of the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

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Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have garnered seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations. His recent Naxos recordings include works by SaintSaëns, 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 debut book, Conducting Business.

Slatkin has conducted virtually all the leading orchestras in the world. As Music Director, he has held posts in New Orleans; St. Louis; Washington, DC; London (with the BBCSO); and Lyon, France. He has also served as Principal Guest Conductor in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Cleveland.

For more information, visit leonardslatkin.com.

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Jeff Tyzik

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rammy 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. In addition to his role as Principal Pops Conductor of the DSO, 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, Oregon Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic — a post he has held for 23 seasons.

Frequently invited as a guest conductor, Tyzik has appeared with the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, Milwaukee Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National 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

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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, Chris Botti, Matthew Morrison, Wynonna Judd, Tony Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Dawn Upshaw, Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The Chieftains, Mark O’Connor, Doc Severinsen, and John Pizzarelli. He has created numerous original programs that include the greatest music from jazz and classical to Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin, and swing. Tyzik holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music. For more information, visit jefftyzik.com.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME MEMBERS

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

DIRECTORS EMERITI

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. Ronald M. Horwitz Hon. Damon J. Keith Richard P. Kughn Harold Kulish Dr. Melvin A. Lester David R. Nelson Robert E.L. Perkins, D.D.S.† 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

Faye Alexander Nelson, Treasurer

Ralph J. Gerson, Officer at Large

Glenda D. Price, Ph.D., 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, Governing Members Chair Samuel Fogleman Herman B. Gray, M.D.

Nicholas Hood, III Michael J. Keegan Bonnie Larson Matthew B. Lester Arthur C. Liebler Xavier Mosquet Stephen Polk Bernard I. Robertson

Hon. Gerald E. Rosen Nancy M. Schlichting Sharron Sparrow, Orchestra Representative Arn Tellem Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder M. Roy Wilson

Ismael Ahmed Rosette Ajluni Richard Alonzo Daniel Angelucci Janet M. Ankers Suzanne Bluestein Penny B. Blumenstein Elizabeth Boone Gwen Bowlby Joanne Danto Stephen R. D’Arcy Maureen T. D’Avanzo Karen Davidson Richard L. DeVore Afa Sadykhly Dworkin Annmarie Erickson Jennifer Fischer Aaron Frankel Robert Gillette Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin

Antoinette G. Green Leslie Green Laura Hernandez-Romine Michele Hodges Renee Janovsky Joseph Jonna David Karp Joel D. Kellman James P. Lentini, D.M.A. Linda Dresner Levy Joshua Linkner Florine Mark Tonya Matthews, Ph.D. David N. McCammon Lois A. Miller Daniel Millward Scott Monty Joseph Mullany Sean M. Neall Tom O’Brien Maury Okun

Shannon Orme, Orchestra Representative William F. Pickard, Ph.D. Gerrit Reepmeyer James Ritchie, Orchestra Representative Richard Robinson Lois L. Shaevsky Thomas Shafer Margaret Shulman Cathryn M. Skedel, Ph.D. Shirley R. Stancato Stephen Strome Mark Tapper Laura J. Trudeau Gwen Weiner Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret E. Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue

OFFICERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Richard Huttenlocher Chair

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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CHAIRMEN EMERITI

† Deceased

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

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GOVERNING MEMBERS Governing Members comprise 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, 2017. For more information about the Governing Members program, please call 313.576.5114.

James C. Farber Chairman

Arthur T. O’Reilly Immediate Past Chairman

Jiehan Alonzo Vice Chair, Signature Events

Suzanne Dalton Vice Chair, Annual Giving

Bonnie Larson Member-at-Large

Janet and Norm Ankers Co-Vice Chairs, Gabrilowitsch Society

Samantha Svoboda Vice Chair, Communications

Frederick J. Morsches Member-at-Large

David Assemany Vice Chair, Engagement

Jan Bernick Member-at-Large

David Everson* Musician Representative

Diana Golden Vice Chair, Membership

David Karp Member-at-Large

Johanna Yarbrough* Musician Representative

Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Mrs. Denise Abrash Ms. Dorothy Adair Mr. & Mrs. George Agnello Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. James A. Anderson Daniel & Rose Angelucci Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Applebaum Family Foundation Pamela Applebaum Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock 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 W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mary Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Dr. & Mrs. Brian J. Beck Ms. Margaret Beck Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mrs. Harriett Berg Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation

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Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Drs. John & Janice Bernick Mr. & Mrs. Michael Biber 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 Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Philip & Carol Campbell Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Michael & Cathleen Clancy Mr. Don Clapham Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Lois & Avern Cohn Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo

*Current DSO Musician or Staff

Mrs. Françoise Colpron & Mr. James Schwyn 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 Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation 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 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Delsener 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 Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Paul † & Peggy Dufault Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunn Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Mrs. George D. Dzialak Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Randall & Jill* Elder Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen

Marianne T. Endicott Donald & Marjory Epstein Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Mr. Drew Esslinger & Mr. Omar Alrashed Dave & Sandy Eyl Mr. Peter Falzon Jim & Margo Farber Ellie Farber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. & Mrs.† Anthony C. Fielek Mrs. Kathryn L. Fife Dr. Thomas Filardo & Dr. Nora Zorich Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch 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. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Madeline & Sidney Forbes Emory M. Ford, Jr. † Endowment Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Frank Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak 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 Stephanie Germack

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GOVERNING MEMBERS continued 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 Mary & Preston Happel 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 Randall* & Kim Minasian 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 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Jack & Anne Hommes Ms. Barbara Honner The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III James Hoogstra & Clark Heath Ronald M. & Carol† Horwitz Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner 10

Mr. F. Robert Hozian Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Nicki* & Brian Inman Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Janovsky Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Mr. John S. Johns Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Ms. Sydney Johnstone Mr. Paul Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jonna Mr. John Jullens Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff Ellen Kahn Faye & Austin Kanter Diane & John Kaplan 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 Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Frederic & Stephanie Keywell Mrs. Frances King Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kingsley Samantha Svoboda & 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 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

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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 Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Mr. Daniel Lewis Arlene & John Lewis Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. & Mrs.† Joseph Lile Ms. Carol Litka The Locniskar Group 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. Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Mr. John McFadden Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Patricia A.† & Patrick G. McKeever Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Olga Sutaruk Meyer Thomas & Judith Mich Ms. Deborah Miesel John & Marcia Miller 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 Edward & Judith 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. 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 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 Noel & Patricia Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Kris Pfaehler Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Dave Phipps Dr. William F. Pickard Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus Dr. Klaudia Plawny-Lebenbom The Polk Family William H. & Wendy W. Powers Dr. Glenda D. Price Reimer & Rebecca Priester Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rappleye Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Ms. Ruth Rattner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani 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* Michael & Susan Rontal FALL 2017

Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Mr.† & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. R. Desmond Rowan Jane & Curt Russell Dr. & Mrs.† Alexander G. Ruthven II Martie & Bob Sachs Dr. Mark & Peggy Saffer Linda & Leonard Sahn Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Dr. & Mrs. Hershel 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 Nancy & Sam Shamie Mr. Scott Shapero Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman Ms. Margaret Shulman

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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 Leonard W. Smith William H. Smith John J. Solecki Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Renate & Richard Soulen Dr. Gregory Stephens Barb & Clint Stimpson Nancy C. Stocking Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Stollman Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Anne 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

*Current DSO Musician or Staff

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. 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 Barbara & David Whittaker 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 Drs. 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

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MEE T THE MUSICIAN

KENNETH THOMPKINS Principal Trombone

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enneth Thompkins can’t remember a time in his life without music. A native of Severna Park, Maryland, he played violin, then trumpet, then trombone beginning in third grade. “But it was more than just school,” he recalls.

“The Baltimore Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, and National Symphony, of course, but also the military bands,

regional groups, and smaller ensembles. There’s a rich history of musicians there.”

Thompkins earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Music degree from Temple University before earning positions with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, and New World Symphony. He was an early recipient of the DSO’s African-American Orchestra Fellowship, and he frequently serves as a mentor to new generations of Fellows.

“For me, as a Fellow, it set the bar very high. It’s remarkable to be a participant in the orchestra and to play so many concerts. And now, years later, it’s a great experience to see these young musicians go out and start careers.”

Thompkins’ own career with the DSO began in 1997, when he was appointed Principal Trombone by Music Director Emeritus Neeme Järvi.

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Looking ahead to the 2017-18 Season, Thompkins sees a lot to be excited about. “I love to play the big, large-orchestra pieces and I’m a huge Mahler fan,” he says. “So it’s a great season: Shostakovich 10, Mahler 9 of course, plus Wagner’s Ring Without Words and the Strauss & Wagner program in the spring.” If it’s brass-heavy, odds are Thompkins is a fan.

But he maintains a busy schedule outside of Orchestra Hall as well—he recently wrapped up a masterclass tour of universities in the Midwest, and he will serve as Artist in Residence at Susquehanna University during the 2017-18 academic year. He is also an active recitalist and chamber musician.

Perhaps most exciting is a new recording, titled Sonatas, Songs, and Spirituals, which will be his solo album debut.

“It’s mostly new music, or music that’s newly transcribed,” he says, noting that a highlight in the latter category is a version of William Grant Still’s “Songs of Separation.” And as the title suggests, the album includes spirituals arranged for trombone and string quartet by Thompkins’ friend and colleague Kris Johnson, a Detroit native who currently leads the jazz program at the University of Utah. “The church is where I first fell in love with music,” Thompkins says, “and I really enjoy sharing this music with different audiences.”

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n October of 2010, Orchestra Hall went huddling with the late Bill Davidson to silent. For six months Detroit was talk about ways the orchestra could without its orchestral voice. But during impact audiences in their own that time, I met with board, management, communities across the Detroit region. and orchestra members about what We understood that many were not able would happen when we started up again. to come all the way to Midtown Detroit In these meetings, we collaborated on and would be thrilled to have the DSO in new ideas and implemented them almost their neighborhood. Now we play in immediately when work resumed. These seven venues, with a series of four innovations are among my favorite concerts in each place, all supported by memories with the DSO precisely the William Davidson Foundation. That because we worked together to means about 3,500 additional accomplish them, realizing that much subscriptions sold and several more had to change to regain the trust of our weeks of classical concerts for the audience. Three initiatives stood out. We orchestra, in addition to those performed knew that we had to expand the at Orchestra Hall. orchestra’s base and increase Lastly, we started streaming our attendance in Orchestra Hall, one of the concerts for free online. Some did worry jewels in the crown of the musical world. that this was a flawed idea because it First, I took a page out of my Lyon would dilute the audience coming to the playbook and proposed a radical hall. But, as has been seen in the pop discount for students. For $25, any music industry, visibility creates a desire student—of any age, at any school—can to hear the artists in person. Indeed, purchase a Soundcard. Members need people started coming to DSO concerts only indicate that they’ve enrolled in the after becoming familiar with our Soundcard program to get tickets to just musicians on the webcasts and wanting about any DSO concert. The fee coversPrevious Signature:to experience a performance in person. the whole season, not just one Over the years, we’ve refined our performance. A few months ago, I was in approach to these webcasts, introducing Washington, DC and had dinner with unobtrusive remote-controlled robotic several friends, including Alan cameras, gorgeous sound, and hi-def Greenspan. When I explained the idea he resolution. said, “Of course it makes sense. You are It was truly amazing to watch the DSO putting more people in the seats, and rebound by embracing industry-leading with each card sold, you receive twentyinnovations. I am very proud to have five more dollars than you would have New Signature:played a part in this journey. had in the first place.” You have no idea what it feels like to be vindicated by the head of the Federal Reserve.

Early in my tenure, I remember

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LEADING TONES: REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC, MUSICIANS, AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

By Leonard Slatkin • Available now at Shop @ The Max! Leading Tones casts an inquisitive eye upon many facets of the contemporary music industry. Although this anecdotal, episodically structured book occasionally touches on Slatkin’s life as a musician and conductor, its principal preoccupation is with the business as a whole. From the rigors and peculiarities of the audition process to the often-strained state of labor relations, Slatkin presents his perceptions of a world at once tumultuous and static. A chapter considering the professional media’s criticism from a performer’s point of view and another exploring the relationship between artistic vision and fiscal responsibility round out Slatkin’s timely analysis of our modern musical reality.

“ Having worked with Leonard Slatkin regularly for over twenty years, I have seen firsthand his dedication to the well-being of the orchestras he works with, his care for the music, his love of storytelling, his no-nonsense directness, and his belief in the universality of music’s message. … This book is entirely in his voice, an honest account of his experiences and conclusions from a lifetime invested in the arts and in leadership.”

— HILARY HAHN, GRAMMYWINNING VIOLINIST

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“ Leonard Slatkin has written a book that both informs and entertains. He shares many genuine musical insights, provocative thoughts about the music business, and wonderful stories amassed from his life in music. His conversational style of writing makes it extremely readable, but more importantly he made me think and made me reexamine some of my own beliefs and musical ideas.

This book is a treasure for all music lovers.”

— HENRY FOGEL, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS

“ The masterful Leonard Slatkin is as fine a writer as he is a musician. He gives us a peek into the intimate side of his profession with fascinating stories and heartfelt descriptions about the musicians and music he treasures. Anyone who loves classical music will love this book.”

— JOHN CORIGLIANO, PULITZER PRIZEWINNING COMPOSER

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CHANGING COMPOSITION The Elaine Lebenbom Award

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ather together the season of new orchestral works by women. brochures of major American Recipients compose a new work for the orchestras, and you’ll notice a DSO to be premiered during the classipattern. Scanning the list of cal season, plus a $10,000 cash award featured composers will turn and a one-month residency at the up familiar first names (Ludwig, Sergei, Ucross Foundation, an artist’s retreat in Wolfgang) and perhaps some unexnorthern Wyoming. McTee won the pected ones (Mason, Astor, Toru), but Award in 2008. what’s missing is most

The Award was estabstriking: where are the lished in 2006 in honor of THE women?

Michigan composer, “It’s probably true teacher, poet, artist, and that of all the classical lecturer Elaine Lebenbom. music genres, orchesBorn in Detroit, Lebenbom tral music is the one studied music at Central MEMORIAL AWARD most identified with High School and the FOR FEMALE COMPOSERS men,” says composer University of Michigan, Cindy McTee. And in fact, earning her bachelor’s it isn’t just probably true, degree in 1955. But despite it is: data collected by the her talent as a composer, Baltimore Symphony making a career was diffiOrchestra [1] reveals that cult: she faced overt during the 2015-16 sexism and discrimination Season, top American in the musical field, often orchestras performed having pieces rejected or more than 1,500 pieces by rescinded upon orchestras just over 504 composers. learning she was a Just 16 of those 504—or woman. She never stopped 3%—were women. writing, though, and But McTee is one of returned to the University nine women composers of Michigan to earn a maswho has won a competition ELAINE LEBENBOM ter’s degree. In 1997 the aimed at addressing the DSO commissioned a new genre’s gender problem: the Elaine work from Lebenbom, called Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Kaleidoscope Turning, and the Award was Composers, presented annually by the created after her death in 2002. Since Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The then, the DSO has proudly presented Lebenbom is the only annual symphony two posthumous Elaine Lebenbom preorchestra sponsored award granted mieres: Reflections on a Rainbow in 2004 annually to a living female composer, of and Gamatria in 2007. any age or nationality, in the spirit of “She cared so much, she was such a recognizing and supporting the creation champion of women composers,” says

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PREVIOUS ELAINE LEBENBOM AWARD WINNERS

STACY GARROP

MARGARET BROUWER

CINDY McTEE

DU YUN

MISSY MAZZOLI

WANG JIE

SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER

BRITTA BYSTRÖM

Du Yun, who won the Award in 2009 and a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. “She felt the need for this kind of inclusiveness…‘we want more people to do awesome work, and that includes women.’” McTee agrees: “I feel a huge sense of gratitude to her, and to all those women and men who have fought against gender discrimination in the arts, thus making it possible for me to move forward in my career much more freely.”

Sarah Kirkland Snider, who won the Award in 2013, notes how significant a Lebenbom win can be for a composer’s profile: “Without a doubt it’s made a major impact on my life and career,” she says. Her piece, Something for the Dark, was reprised by the DSO in summer 2017 at a concert during the League of American Orchestras National Conference, and additional performances are in the works in Ohio and North Carolina.

The DSO presents the world premiere of a new work by the eighth annual Lebenbom Award Winner, Britta Byström, in January 2018. Titled Many, dso.org

Yet One, the piece is characterized by several distinct musical pictures that openly resist meeting one another—until the final section, when they begin to merge. It’s a fitting symbol: orchestral music has plenty of experience with tensions, separations, and silos, but we can all hope for a harmonious tomorrow.

Byström certainly does, and she fulfills the Award by embodying the boldness that characterized its namesake: “The Award is a new, unexpected way to influence the orchestra repertoire of the future,” she says, “and I’ve done my very best to write music in the same spirit.”

And the ninth Lebenbom Award winner was selected just recently: New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer, a master of interdisciplinary expression. The perspective she will offer in her DSO commission will no doubt make an exceptional addition to the Lebenbom lineage.

O’Bannon, Ricky. “What Data Tells Us about the 2015-16 Orchestra Season” bsomusic.org, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 3 Dec. 2015 [1]

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NEW MUSIC, NEW VOICES Throughout the 2017-18 Season, the DSO is proud to present six world premieres by young composers, conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin. These new voices, representing the next generation of composers, are former students of some of Maestro Slatkin’s closest musical colleagues and collaborators.

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iving into Joshua Cerdenia’s oeuvre might send you looking for footnotes. The young composer, who is extremely well-read, has a habit of composing music full of literary, theological, and cultural references, from Japanese haiku to the Nicene Creed and beyond.

“Honestly, it’s hard for these texts or these paintings or what have you not to find their way into my music,” he says.

“Music for me is the best way to process the things that I read or the ideas that I encounter.” And, after pausing to think about it: “In fact, I think every single piece I’ve written in the past three years or so has been based on something.”

That’s certainly the case for Feuertrunken, his new work for the DSO, inspired by and borrowing from the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy. But the signature Cerdenia nod to the classics isn’t the only reference. “I knew this piece would be on a program before Mahler’s Ninth Symphony,” the composer says, somewhat slyly, “so I wanted to acknowledge that and put in a little Mahler bit. The beginning of the piece borrows from Mahler’s First Symphony.”

Cerdenia, who recently graduated from The Juilliard School, has always taken a macroscopic, multidisciplinary approach to composing, and he

attributes it to getting something of a late start: “I’ve been involved in music for a long time, but I did composing mostly as a hobby. It was a long time before I showed that work to anyone.”

That meant there was time for reading Christopher Hitchens, starting rock bands with friends, and getting involved in musical theater in college. And even after deciding to pursue composing as a career, it’s about more than just the music: “I spend a lot of time thinking about [Juilliard president] Joseph Polisi’s concept of ‘Artist as Citizen.’ I can write music, okay, but how does that translate to being a member of society more broadly?”

One of Cerdenia’s teachers at Juilliard was Christopher Rouse, who follows a similar path. “He knows every piece of music ever written,” Cerdenia says, laughing. “And he cares about being a good citizen of the musical world. He’s open to everything.”

Rouse is a good friend of Music Director Leonard Slatkin, a fact that makes Cerdenia feel both proud and humbled to premiere a new work with the DSO. “But Leonard Slatkin is kind of my hero for doing this project in the first place,” he says. “It’s a really bold idea and not something that just anybody would do.”

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Hear the world premiere of Joshua Cerdenia’s Feuertrunken December 9-10 FALL 2017

YOUR DSO MUSICIANS This season, the DSO is pleased to welcome five new full-time musicians. Read on to get to know them!

SUJIN LIM

Acting Principal Second Violin, The Devereaux Family Chair

What piece are you most excited to perform in the 2017-18 Season?

I’m most excited about playing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in December.

Mahler is one of my favorite composers and performing all his symphonies is on my bucket list. When I first played the Ninth in college, I cried on the stage…I can’t forget that feeling, and we are going to play it! I can’t wait.

JEREMY CROSMER Cello

What memorable experiences do you recall from this summer’s Asia Tour?

One of my favorite memories from the tour was climbing Mt. Fuji on a rigorous overnight trip with some of my most adventurous colleagues. As a musician, my performances on stage are enhanced by my ability to connect and converse on a personal level—the Asia Tour was the perfect way to bond with my new DSO family, both musically and personally.

Learn more about all 81 DSO musicians at dso.org/orchestra.

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CHRISTOPHER HAMLEN Bass

What’s it been like moving to Detroit?

I previously lived in Grand Rapids for five years, and I would say the biggest difference is moving from a small city to a large one. I’ve only scratched the surface of what Detroit has to offer, but what I’ve seen so far has been great!

SARAH LEWIS

Oboe, Maggie Miller Chair

How has your experience with the DSO been so far?

It’s been wonderful!

Since I’m originally from Michigan, the DSO has always felt like my “hometown orchestra.” I previously played with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and although I enjoyed the metropolitan lifestyle, it’s nice to finally have a big backyard! I’m also glad to be back in the land of Bigby, Target, and Trader Joe’s.

JACK WALTERS

Clarinet, PVS Chemicals Inc./ Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair

Now that you’re getting settled, what are you looking forward to in the coming months?

I’m most looking forward to the French Festival in February. I’ve studied many of the pieces for auditions, but I’ve never had the opportunity to play them in concert. Ravel and Debussy are two of my all-time favorite composers, so to play them back to back is very exciting.

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COMMUNIT Y & LE ARNING WHAT’S A FOOLPROOF WAY TO GET A CLASSROOM OF THIRD-GRADERS EXCITED? A pizza party might do the trick, but this fall we found something even better: violins.

Thirty-two students at Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music & Art, a DPSCD school on Detroit’s east side, comprise the inaugural class of the Dresner Foundation Allegro Ensemble. This tui-

tion-free training group, based at Duke Ellington, also includes instruments at no charge. And there was nothing quite like the morning the students received their violins.

“It makes such beautiful sounds!” says Nyla Robinson. Most of her fellow third-graders are too focused on thumbing the strings and comparing instruments to pipe up as well. Leslie DeShazor, a DSO violin instructor who serves as one of the Ensemble’s teachers, calls everyone to attention: “Remember the song we learned last week?” And the class sings in unison, plucking each string as they go: “Each and every ant, digging in the dirt, all the way to Greece”—E, A, D, G. 20

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The inaugural class at Duke Ellington receives five days of string classes every week: three taught by DeShazor and assistant instructor Ashley Nelson, and the remaining two covered by the school’s full-time music teacher Sean Patton. “Music develops the entire student, including the cognitive domain, motor skills, and the affective domain,” Patton says. “It introduces higher order thinking skills they may not get in other subjects. It’s great that the opportunity for younger children to be exposed to instruments is here in school.”

Students in the Allegro Ensemble will also receive full financial aid to the complete range of DSO Civic Youth Ensembles, meaning they can continue to pursue a passion for music after the school year ends.

And the violins are theirs to keep.

“Not only are the students playing in the classroom, but the program opens more opportunities to experience music in the city,” says Patton. “They learn that they can hear music like this performed close by…they hear it in the movies, but it’s important to demonstrate that they don’t have to go to some faraway land to experience it.”

The Allegro Ensemble is made possible by a generous grant from the Dresner Foundation. “This is an incredible opportunity for a significant number of Detroit youth to begin their musical journey,” says Virginia Romano, Managing Director of the Dresner Foundation. “The Dresner Foundation is pleased to support the creation of this new ensemble.” And we will all be pleased to hear the music these excited young students create.

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

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

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

NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus

MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

CLASSICAL SERIES DON JUAN Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall November is Community Support Month.

Learn more and make a gift now at dso.org/donate.

FABIEN GABEL, conductor BERTRAND CHAMAYOU, piano

Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20 (1864 - 1949)

Richard Strauss Burleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra (1864 - 1949) Bertrand Chamayou, piano Intermission

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

(1833 - 1897) I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino) IV. Allegro con spirito

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 FABIEN GABEL Recognized internationally as one of the stars of the new generation, Fabien Gabel is a regular guest of major orchestras in Europe, North GABEL America, and Asia. He has served as music director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra since September 2013, and was recently appointed music director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes (French Youth Orchestra).

Gabel has conducted leading orchestras around the world, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg, the DSO Berlin, Staatskappelle Dresden, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma, and the Seoul Philharmonic, among others. His rapidly-expanding U.S. presence has seen him leading the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra and more.

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as a guest conductor. He made his professional conducting debut in 2003 with the Orchestre National de France.

Born to a musical family in Paris, Gabel began studying trumpet at the age of six, honing his skills at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which awarded him a First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Musik Hochschule of Karlsruhe. In 2002 he pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009.

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU A striking and imaginative performer, Bertrand Chamayou has appeared at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal Munich, and London’s Wigmore Hall. He has appeared at major festivals including the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Beethovenfest CHAMAYOU Bonn, and Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

Chamayou is a regular chamber music performer, with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit, and Sol Gabetta. In 2017-18 he will open the season at London’s International Piano Series and perform in recitals at Wigmore Hall, Kissinger Sommer, FALL 2017

Lakeside Arts Center Nottingham, Salzburg’s Easter Festival, and the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center.

Chamayou has made a number of highly successful recordings, including a Naïve album of music by César Franck, which was awarded several accolades including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice.

In 2011, he celebrated Liszt’s 200th anniversary with a recording of the

complete Années de Pèlerinage—also for Naïve—which he performed in several venues throughout the world. The only artist to win France’s prestigious Victoires de la Musique on four occasions, he has an exclusive recording contract with Warner/Erato and was awarded the 2016 ECHO Klassik for his recording of Ravel’s complete works for solo piano.

Program Notes Don Juan, Op. 20 RICHARD STRAUSS B. June 11, 1864, Munich, Germany D. September 8, 1949, GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany

Scored for 3 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 18 minutes)

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he ostensible source for Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan is a poem by Nikolaus Lenau, posthumously published in 1851. Here, the poet delves beneath the surface to portray a man driven by his passions, satisfying them briefly, only to thirst for more. The Don reveals himself in one of the passages Strauss sets at the beginning of his score: Yes, passion is always wholly new; It cannot be carried from this woman to that one, It can only die here, to spring up again there, And if it knows itself, it knows nothing of repentance.

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Strauss completed the work in the summer of 1888, and brought it with him the next year when he came to Weimar, where, on conductor, pianist, and composer Hans von Bülow’s recommendation, he was appointed assistant conductor at the opera, beginning in October 1889. The Intendant and the first conductor were both impressed by Strauss’s read-through of Don Juan at the piano, and urged him to include it on one of his concerts.

The music moves in one breathless sweep, without a superfluous note, characterized by a theme with an irresistible upward thrust. Two “feminine” themes follow; the first merely touched on in passing, the second, sung by the solo violin, savored at greater length.

The middle section begins with a symphonic development interrupted by a love scene, in which the oboe intones the Don’s serenade, and the forward motion of the piece is suddenly stalled. How to continue after such an interlude? By introducing a second, even lustier, theme for the Don, its opening octave leap derived from the love song just finished. The wanderings continue in a passage that is generally described as a DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 23

Program Notes carnival scene, but whose only parallel in Lenau is a masked ball. Memories of the Don’s conquests flit through his mind, but he is unrepentant, and in the recapitulation we meet him again, his ego more inflated than ever.

In Lenau, the Don meets his doom in a duel—in which, tired of his pursuits, he throws away his sword and is killed unresisting. We hear the sword-stroke as a dissonant trumpet note cuts through the sustained tones of winds and strings, and the music ebbs.

The DSO most recently performed Strauss’ Don Juan in January 2015, conducted by Robert Treviño. The DSO first performed the piece in November 1920, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

Burleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS B. June 11, 1864, Munich, Germany D. September 8, 1949, GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany

Scored for solo piano, 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx.

19 minutes)

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ichard Strauss is now most famous for the works he composed in the final two decades of the 19th century, all of which are remarkable for their warmth of feeling and striking balance of Wagnerian fullness with Mozartian grace. In 1885 Strauss moved to Meiningen to accept an offer to work as conductor, pianist, and composer Hans von Bülow’s assistant, and a year later he composed the Burleske as a gift for von Bülow. Unfortunately, the notoriously acerbic von Bülow rejected the new work instantly, saying “It is unplayable! Do you really think I am going to sit

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down for a month to study so refractory a work?” Hurt, Strauss tried to run through the Burleske with the Meiningen orchestra, but the rehearsal was a disaster, eliciting harsh criticism from many of the players. At that point the composer declared the work “utter nonsense” and shelved it for four years.

Nevertheless, the piece can be characterized as the culmination of Strauss’ early period influenced by Brahms, and hints of a mature composer are already there.

Somehow, the Scottish-born pianist and composer Eugen d’Albert learned of the work’s existence, and gave its premiere performance at a music festival in Eisenach in June of 1890. The performance went well, and a grateful Strauss (re)dedicated the Burleske to d’Albert, but still remained unsure of its worth until late in his long life, at which time he regained his fondness for it.

The Burleske is a vigorous, colorful, and attractive work full of characteristic Strauss wit. One of the composer’s musical signatures is a penchant for unusual introductory passages, and here, amazingly, the principal theme is played by the timpani! This simple three-note theme is then taken up by the orchestra, after which the piano, in a complex dialogue with the larger ensemble, develops the theme in an astonishing display of contrapuntal devices—including a lovely waltz duet for the piano and solo cello. Finally, the soloist launches into a cadenza, featuring a thundering series of octaves, after which the three-note theme comes back as the piano and orchestra toss it back and forth. Then, one by one, Strauss peels away the instruments. Following a bass-to-treble arpeggio, the piano plays a single soft note, and the Burleske ends as it begins: on the majestic timpani.

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The DSO most recently performed Strauss’ Burleske in September 1998, conducted by Neeme Järvi and featuring pianist Emanuel Ax. The DSO first performed the work in April 1922, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch and featuring pianist William Bachaus.

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 JOHANNES BRAHMS B. May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany D. April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria

Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 39 minutes)

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n 1876, Johannes Brahms won a 21-year struggle to complete his First Symphony. The wait was worth it, though — not just because the First is a remarkable work, but because getting it over with seemed to free the composer’s creative spirit. Suddenly, Brahms began the most productive period of his career, writing three more symphonies, three concertos, two major overtures, and numerous keyboard, vocal, choral, and chamber music masterworks over the next decade.

While this D major symphony is obviously the work of the very same Brahms, its relaxed, genial character is sometimes as different from its predecessor, the frowning C minor symphony, as day is from night. It was composed in the sunny rural environment of Pörtschach, a remote lakeside village in the Carinthian Alps of Southern Austria.

Biographer Karl Geiringer has recorded a characteristic quote on the symphony

by Brahms’ close friend, the surgeon

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and amateur pianist Theodor Billroth: “It is all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows. How beautiful it must be at Pörtschach!”

Billroth’s comment is especially applicable to the easy, rocking themes that dominate the exposition of the first movement and to the gentle Austrian minuet that makes up the third movement. Though the first movement builds up a typical Brahmsian storm in its central development section and its lengthy coda, the themes set forth at the beginning of the movement are mostly lyrical and untroubled. But even here, Brahms’ stylistic fingerprints are clear in a motivic imitation that shadows the opening horn theme, as well as in the long, spun-out character of a subsidiary violin theme that soon follows. In his contrapuntal wizardry, Brahms combines the two themes when they return at the beginning of the recapitulation.

The plaintive slow movement opens with one of Brahms’ heartfelt cello themes. Gorgeous touches of his unique orchestration abound in this movement, along with elusive harmonic colors. And the third movement is the gentlest of minuets, interspersed with two trios.

Each of its sections becomes a variant of what came before and contrast is achieved by sudden changes in the pulse. The extroverted finale makes an oblique reference to the symphony’s two opening themes, then builds climax upon climax in a gigantic movement that concludes in a brassy display.

—Carl R. Cunningham The DSO most recently performed Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 during the February 2016 Brahms Festival, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The DSO first performed the work in April 1920, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

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

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

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

NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus

MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

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THE MUSIC OF QUEEN Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall November is Community Support Month.

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BRENT HAVENS, conductor BRODY DOLYNIUK, vocals

Program to be announced from the stage

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Profiles BRENT HAVENS Berklee-trained arranger/conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films, and virtually every kind of television.

His TV work HAVENS includes movies for networks such as ABC, CBS, and ABC Family Channel Network, commercials, sports music for ESPN, and even cartoons. Havens also collaborated with the Doobie Brothers and the Milwaukee Symphony, arranging and conducting the combined group for Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary Birthday Party Finale attended by over 150,000 fans.

Havens is Arranger/Guest Conductor for 14 symphonic rock programs: the Music of Led Zeppelin, the Music of the Doors, the Music of Pink Floyd, the Music of the Eagles, the Music of Queen, the Music of Michael Jackson, the Music of The Who, The Music of Whitney Houston, the Music of The Rolling Stones, the Music of U2, the Music of Journey, The Music of Elton John, and most recently The Music of David Bowie and The Music of Prince. Havens also premiered a full orchestral show for Lou Gramm, the voice of Foreigner, with Lou singing out front.

BRODY DOLYNIUK Brody Dolyniuk remembers mimicking voices even as a child, listening to old records and tapes. He is a gifted, self-taught musician, capable of playing several instruments, with a particular knack for capturing the voices and dso.org

mannerisms of classic characters from music, TV, and movies.

His first professional gigs were at piano bars in several U.S. cities, where he learned to charm audiences and expand his musical repertoire. With a longing to perform the music of the many rock bands that inspired him, Brody assembled Yellow Brick Road, unquestionably Las Vegas’ most successful classic rock band. Since 1997, Yellow Brick Road has reshaped the casino entertainment scene by bringing a rock concert atmosphere to showrooms previously reserved for Top-40-style lounge acts. Along the way, Brody has made numerous radio and TV appearances and earned a spot in the finals of two national singing competitions, and even self-produced several large rock production-style shows utilizing multi-media, lasers, comedy, and special effects.

DOLYNIUK Brody has lent his vocal talents by singing several tracks on the hit video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Konami’s Rock Revolution. In addition to Queen, Brody provides lead vocals for The Music of Journey, The Music of The Who, The Music of The Rolling Stones, The Music of U2, and The Music of David Bowie. He is also developing his own production, called Symphonic Rockshow.

Now residing in Southern California, Brody continues to tour, as well as perform as a producer and session musician.

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

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

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

NEEME JÄRVI Music Director Emeritus

MICHELLE MERRILL Associate Conductor, Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

CLASSICAL SERIES RUSSIAN PORTRAITS Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, December 1, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall November is Community Support Month.

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MARK WIGGLESWORTH, conductor KAREN GOMYO, violin

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

(1840 - 1893) in D major, Op. 35 I. Allegro moderato II. Canzonetta: Andante III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo Karen Gomyo, violin Intermission

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

(1906 - 1975) I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Allegretto IV. Andante - Allegro

This Classical Series performance is generously sponsored by

Saturday’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 MARK WIGGLESWORTH

KAREN GOMYO

Olivier Awardwinning conductor Mark Wigglesworth is one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, as much at home in the WIGGLESWORTH opera house as the concert hall. Through a broad repertoire ranging from Mozart to Boulez, he has forged enduring relationships with many orchestras and opera houses throughout the world.

Wigglesworth has enjoyed a long relationship with English National Opera, and operatic engagements elsewhere including London’s Royal Opera House and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. On the concert platform, he has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and many others.

His recordings include a critically acclaimed complete cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Mahler’s Sixth and Tenth symphonies with the Melbourne Symphony, a disc of English music with the Sydney Symphony, Britten’s Peter Grimes with Glyndebourne, and the Brahms Piano Concertos with Stephen Hough. He has written articles for The Guardian and The Independent, made a six-part TV series for the BBC entitled Everything to Play For, and held positions as Associate Conductor of the BBC Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony, Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and most recently Music Director of English National Opera. From 2018 he will be the Principal Guest Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Tokyo and growing up in Montréal and New York, violinist Karen Gomyo recently made Berlin her home. A commandGOMYO ing and intense performer, she has appeared with top orchestras around the world. During the 2017-18 Season she will tour with the New Zealand Symphony.

Strongly committed to contemporary works, Gomyo performed the North American premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Concerto No. 2 Mar’eh with the composer conducting the National Symphony Orchestra, as well as Peteris Vasks’ Vox Amoris with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds. Her chamber music collaborators have included the late Heinrich Schiff, Christian Poltéra, Alisa Weilerstein, Leif Ove Andsnes, Olli Mustonen, Kathryn Stott, Christian Ihle Hadland, Antoine Tamestit, Isabelle Van Keulen, and Lawrence Power.

Gomyo is also deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, and performs with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler and his partners Hector del Curto, Claudio Ragazzi, and Pedro Giraudo.

NHK Japan recently produced a documentary film produced by NHK Japan about Antonio Stradivarius titled The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin, in which Gomyo is featured as host, narrator, and violinist. She plays on the “Aurora, ex-Foulis” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.

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Program Notes Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35 PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY B. May 7, 1840, Votkinsk, Russia D. November 6, 1893, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 34 minutes)

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chaikovsky composed his lone violin concerto in the spring of 1878 immediately after completing his shattering Fourth Symphony. The latter work reflected the harrowing emotional crisis brought on by the composer’s ill-considered marriage to a young conservatory student the year before. Their union was brief and disastrous; within weeks, Tchaikovsky suffered an almost complete nervous collapse and attempted suicide. He saved himself by fleeing to Switzerland, but emerged shaken and convinced that he was destined to a life of torment. The Fourth Symphony was, by the composer’s own account, a musical expression of this belief.

And yet, the Violin Concerto reveals no sense of the anguish and struggle that characterize the symphony. Indeed, Tchaikovsky’s spirits seem to have been fully restored; he wrote from Switzerland to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck, of his work on the concerto: “From the day I began to write it [a] favorable mood has not left me. In such a spiritual state composition loses all aspect of work — it is a continuous delight.”

Tchaikovsky’s “favorable mood” is apparent throughout the concerto’s first movement. Following a brief orchestral preamble, the featured instrument presents the movement’s principal themes.

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Considering Tchaikovsky’s famous talent as a melodist, it goes almost without saying that these are attractive and richly expressive ideas. Their development calls for some formidable technical feats on the part of the soloist; the exceptionally musical cadenza is Tchaikovsky’s own.

Tchaikovsky’s brother, Modest, was dissatisfied with the original slow movement and persuaded the composer to discard it. Tchaikovsky replaced it with the present Canzonetta, reportedly composed in a single day. It is introduced by a pensive phrase in the woodwinds, which is then taken up by the solo violin and spun into a long melody suggesting a romantic, melancholy dreaming. A skillfully composed transition passage leads without pause to the finale.

The DSO most recently performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto during the February 2015 Tchaikovsky Festival, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring violinist Julian Rachlin. The DSO first performed the piece in January 1917, conducted by Weston Gales and featuring violinist David Hochstein.

Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH B. September 25, 1906, Saint Petersburg, Russia D. August 9, 1975, Moscow, Russia

Scored for 2 flutes (both doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling on English horn), 3 clarinets (1 doubling on E-flat clarinet), 3 bassoons (1 doubling on contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. (Approx. 46 minutes)

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t has been over 40 years since Dmitri Shostakovich died, and to this day he remains a controversial figure—not for his music, but for the complicated and ominous presence of the Soviet government in his life and work. The composer was forced to wear two masks: the public one, which gave the impression of being a loyal citizen of the Soviet Union; and the private one, which concealed an elaborate set of games he played with the authorities to survive, and which allowed his genius to fill many of his works with veiled musical messages.

But when Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Shostakovich could breathe somewhat more easily—a looser atmosphere permeated the bureaucracy, and the composer began to feel comfortable

writing music that was unabashedly complex, challenging, and true to his personal ideals. He still needed to form a relationship with the regime, however, and the post-Stalin powers often proved brittle and testy. The December 1953 premiere of the Tenth Symphony received immediate and enthusiastic public acclaim, but the official verdict on the work had to wait until the following spring after an intensive three-day seminar in Moscow. Scholar Boris Schwarz says the debate “…seemed to transcend the significance of the work and centered on a vital principle: the right of an artist to express himself, individually rather than collectively, subjectively rather than objectively, without bureaucratic interference or tutelage.” But in

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the end the Kremlin joined the public in vindicating Shostakovich, naming him “People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R.,” the highest honor the government could confer.

The symphony begins with an extraordinarily long, Mahler-like movement, which contains roughly half of the music in the work, and which seems to paint the picture of a bleak, barren, and ruined landscape, perhaps psychological, perhaps real. It is one of Shostakovich’s greatest and most chilling creations, maintaining continuous tension based on a haunting and almost funereal bass line. In total and almost frightening contrast, there follows a brutal, hell-fire scherzo, only four minutes long, but full of a searing intensity which is almost unbearable to listen to, and which is, in the words of Robert Markow, “…the musical equivalent of a tornado ride through hell.”

The third movement, which may be considered the emotional and philosophical core of the symphony, is another Mahler-like utterance, a dark and mysterious nocturne which bears some autobiographical content. For the first time there appears a motif, D-E -C-B, which is a musical code for the composer’s name written in German. Alongside this is another theme, E-A-E-D-A, which, again in code, spells out the first name of an Azerbaijani pianist and composer named Elmira Nazirova, who studied with Shostakovich in 1947, and who provided him with a romantic but chaste inspiration for many years, including an extended correspondence during the time the Tenth Symphony was being written. The finale begins with one of the longest slow introductions in any symphony, but whose ominous, foreboding mood is suddenly lifted by the appearance of a sprightly theme. As the 32

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movement comes to an end, the timpani hammers out the four-note Shostakovich motif, and the work sweeps to a powerful and hair-raising conclusion.

In short, the Tenth Symphony is a devastating portrait of what life was like under Stalin’s heel, not just for the composer but also for millions of his fellow countrymen. In the words of writer Ray Blokker, “Here is the heart of Shostakovich. In this work he opens his soul to the world, revealing its tragedy and profundity, but also its resilience and strength.”

The DSO most recently performed Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in April 2014, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The DSO first performed the work in March 1969, conducted by Antal Doráti.

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Mary Ann Emick Joanna Endres Robert Endres Steve Fairman 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 Veronique Gottlieb Arlene Gray 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 Charles Impastato Julie Ireland 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 Patrick Kercher Katherine Klimas Frank Krupansky Paula Krupansky Carol Kupinski Mary Lafter Jane Latessa Mark 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 Debra Mott Jim Moylan Nellie Murphy Don Musser Dorothy Musser Mary Myers Joan Nagrant Florkowski Nancy Betty Nelson Courtney Nicholls Ann O’Neill Sam Osborn Sharyn Osborn Marylou Ouellette Ann Pape Maureen Paraventi Bob Patton Alice Paul Cassandra Pettway Janice Pinson Fedora Pruitt Brenda Purkiss Betsy Quick Catherine Rabahy David Rabahy

Karen Rademacher Elizabeth Reid Peggy Roberts Shirley Ross Jane Rousseau Cheryl Rozier Edna Rubin Mona Ruggers Vincent Ruggers Susan Saroglia Pat Shannon Emanuel Sharpe Martha Shumaker Craig Sieferd Sandra Skinner Rachel SkipperHorton 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 Gene Whitney Marge Wishaw Stan Wisniewski Connie Woods Mary Zelenock

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CELEBRATING YOUR LEGACY SUPPORT BARBARA VAN DUSEN, Honorary Chair

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 call 313.576.5114.

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. Sharon Backstrom Sally & Donald Baker Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mary Beattie Stanley A. Beattie Mr.† & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman Mrs. Betty Blair 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† Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Dorothy M. Craig Mr. & Mrs. John Cruikshank Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. John Diebel Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Eidson Marianne T. Endicott Mrs. Rema Frankel† Patricia Finnegan Sharf Ms. Dorothy Fisher Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher† Samuel & Laura Fogleman 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† Donna & Eugene Hartwig Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Ms. Nancy B. Henk Joseph L. Hickey 34

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Hitchman Andy Howell Carol Howell Paul M. Huxley & Cynthia Pasky David & Sheri Jaffa Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Jeffs II Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Ms. Carol Johnston Carol M. Jonson Drs. Anthony & Joyce Kales Faye & Austin Kanter Norb† & Carole Keller Dr. Mark & Mrs. Gail Kelley June K. Kendall Bette E. Kettelhut† Dimitri† & Suzanne Kosacheff Douglas Koschik Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Krolikowski Mary Clippert LaMont Mrs. Bonnie Larson Ann C. Lawson Allan S. Leonard Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Dr. Melvin A. Lester Mr. & Mrs.† Joseph Lile Harold Lundquist† & Elizabeth Brockhaus Lundquist Mr. & Mrs. Eric C. Lundquist Roberta Maki Eileen & Ralph Mandarino Judy Howe Masserang Mr. Glenn Maxwell Mary Joy McMachen, Ph.D. Judith Mich† Rhoda A. Milgrim Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller John & Marcia Miller Jerald A. & Marilyn H. Mitchell Mr.† & Mrs. L. William Moll Shari & Craig Morgan Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters Beverley Anne Pack David† & Andrea Page Mr. Dale J. Pangonis Ms. Mary W. Parker Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Helen & Wesley Pelling† Dr. William F. Pickard Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus

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Ms. Christina Pitts Mrs. Robert Plummer Mr. & Mrs. P. T. Ponta Mrs. Mary Carol Prokop† Ms. Linda Rankin & Mr. Daniel Graschuck Mr. & Mrs. Douglas J. Rasmussen Deborah J. Remer Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Barbara Gage Rex Ms. Marianne Reye Lori-Ann Rickard Katherine D. Rines Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Ms. Barbara Robins Jack† & Aviva Robinson Mr.† & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Dr. Margaret Ryan Marjorie & Saul Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Janet Schenk Ms. Yvonne Schilla Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest† Ms. Marla K. Shelton Edna J. Shin Ms. June Siebert Dr. Melissa J. Smiley & Dr. Patricia A. Wren Ms. Marilyn Snodgrass† Mr. & Mrs. Walter Stuecken Mr.† & Mrs. Alexander C. Suczek David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. David Patria & Ms. Barbara Underwood Roger & Tina Valade Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen Charles & Sally Van Dusen Mr. & Mrs. Melvin VanderBrug Mr.† & Mrs. George C. Vincent Christine & Keith C. Weber Mr. Herman Weinreich John† & Joanne Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Wilhelm Mr. Robert E. Wilkins† Mrs. Michel Williams Ms. Nancy S. Williams† Mr. Robert S. Williams & Ms. Treva Womble Ms. Barbara Wojtas Elizabeth B. Work Dr. & Mrs. Clyde Wu† Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Milton & Lois† Zussman Five who wish to remain anonymous FALL 2017

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 briefings twice per year. For more information or to join the PG Council, please call 313.576.5114.

LINDA WASSERMAN AVIV, Chair

Mrs. Katana H. Abbott Mr. Christopher A. Ballard Ms. Jessica B. Blake, Esq. Ms. Rebecca J. Braun Mrs. Jill Governale Mr. Henry Grix Mrs. Julie R. Hollinshead, CFA Mr. Mark W. Jannott, CTFA Ms. Jennifer A. Jennings Ms. Dawn Jinsky

Mrs. Shirley Kaigler Mr. Robert E. Kass Mr. Christopher L. Kelly Mr. Bernard S. Kent Ms. Yuh Suhn Kim Mr. Henry P. Lee Ms. Marguerite Munson Lentz J. Thomas MacFarlane Mr. Christopher M. Mann Mr. Curtis J. Mann

Mrs. Mary Mansfield Mr. Mark Neithercut Mrs. Alice R. Pfahlert Mr. Steven C. Pierce Ms. Deborah J. Renshaw, CFP Mr. James P. Spica Mr. David M. Thoms Mr. John N. Thomson, Esq. Mr. William Winkler Mrs. Wendy Zimmer Cox

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THE ANNUAL FUND

Gifts received between September 1, 2016 and August 31, 2017 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 the DSO 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 Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Morton E. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos, Jr. Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

Giving of $100,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo 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. James A. Anderson Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock† Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Mrs. Bonnie Larson

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Lester Ms. Deborah Miesel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Shari & Craig Morgan Bernard & Eleanor Robertson The Clyde & Helen Wu Family

Giving of $25,000 and more Ms. Sharon Backstrom W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Mrs. Kathryn L. Fife Madeline & Sidney Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Katz 36

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Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff David & Valerie McCammon Ms. Ruth Rattner Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Ms. Nancy Schlichting Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Mr. James G. Vella †

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Giving of $10,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Daniel & Rose Angelucci Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Pamela Applebaum Drs. John & Janice Bernick Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Bluestein Mr. & Mrs. John A. Boll, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Bonahoom Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mrs. Milena Brown Michael & Geraldine Buckles Michael & Cathleen Clancy Lois & Avern Cohn Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Eugene & Elaine C. Driker 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. Byron† & Dorothy Gerson Mrs. Gale Girolami

Dr. Kenneth & Roslyne Gitlin Dr. Robert T. Goldman 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 Ronald M. & Carol† Horwitz Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Lenard & Connie Johnston Faye & Austin Kanter Mike & Katy Keegan Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Marguerite & David Lentz Dr. Melvin A. Lester Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. & Mrs.† Joseph Lile 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 Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek Mrs. Jo Elyn Nyman Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Dr. William F. Pickard Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Martie & Bob Sachs Dr. Mark & Peggy Saffer Marjorie & Saul Saulson Elaine & Michael Serling Mark & Lois Shaevsky Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman 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 Ms. Mary Wilson Drs. David & Bernadine Wu Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Zlotoff Three who wish to remain anonymous

Giving of $5,000 and more Mrs. Denise Abrash Ms. Dorothy Adair Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mrs. Jean Azar Mr. & Mrs. Michael Biber Claire & Robert N. Brown Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Dare Adel & Walter Dissett Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Mr. Peter Falzon Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Ms. Mary D. Fisher Ms. Carol A. Friend Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Goodman Family Charitable Trust Mr.† & Mrs. James A. Green Mr. Lee V. Hart & Mr. Charles L. Dunlap Ms. Nancy B. Henk Ms. Doreen Hermelin Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks

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Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen Talbert-Hill Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Jack & Anne Hommes Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Judy & David Karp Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Samantha Svoboda & Bill Kishler Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Mr. Daniel Lewis The Locniskar Group Bob & Terri Lutz Patricia A.† & Patrick G. McKeever Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David E. Nims Mr. Thomas Norris Mr. John J. O’Brien Debra & Richard Partrich Ms. Lisa Payne Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Penske Mr. Charles Peters

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Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus Dr. Glenda D. Price Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Barbara Gage Rex Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Dr. & Mrs.† Alexander G. Ruthven II Leonard W. Smith Renate & Richard Soulen Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Anne Stricker Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. Gary Torgow David Usher Dr. Vainutis Vaitkevicius Mrs. Eva Von Voss Mr. William Waak S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Ms. June Wu Mr. Michael Yessian Margaret S. York Erwin & Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation Milton & Lois† Zussman One who wishes to remian anonymous DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 37

Giving of $2,500 and more Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Mr. & Mrs. George Agnello 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* Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock 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 J. Beck Ms. Margaret Beck Mrs. Harriett Berg Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Martha & G. Peter Blom Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Mr. Timothy Bogan The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Rud & Mary Ellen Boucher Don & Marilyn Bowerman Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald F. Buck Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Philip & Carol Campbell Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Mr. Don Clapham Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Mrs. Françoise Colpron & Mr. James Schwyn Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Louis Cotman Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Jerry P. & Maureen T. D’Avanzo Barbara A. David Lillian & Walter Dean Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Delsener Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Mr. Giuseppe Derdelakos Diana & Mark Domin Donato Enterprises 38

Paul + & Peggy Dufault Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunn Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Mrs. George D. Dzialak Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Randall & Jill* Elder Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Donald & Marjory Epstein Mr. Drew Esslinger & Mr. Omar Alrashed Dave & Sandy Eyl Ellie Farber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. & Mrs.+ Anthony C. Fielek Dr. Thomas Filardo & Dr. Nora Zorich Mr. Jay Fishman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Frank Kit & Dan Frohardt-Lane Sharyn & Alan Gallatin Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Mr. George Georges Stephanie Germack Drs. Lynda & Conrad Giles Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Ruth & Al Glancy Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Paul & Barbara Goodman Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Dr. & Mrs. Steven Grekin Mr. Jeffrey Groehn Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Robert & Elizabeth Hamel Mary & Preston Happel Randall L. & Nancy Caine Harbour Tina Harmon Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Cheryl A. Harvey Randall* & Kim Minasian Hawes Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Mr. & Mrs. Ross Herron Jeremiah* & Brooke Hess Ms. Barbara Honner The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III James Hoogstra & Clark Heath Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. F. Robert Hozian Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Nicki* & Brian Inman Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Janovsky Mr. John S. Johns Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Ms. Sydney Johnstone Mr. Paul Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jonna Mr. John Jullens Ellen Kahn

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Diane & John Kaplan Dr. Laura Katz & Dr. Jonathan Pasko Betsy & Joel Kellman June K. Kendall Frederic & Stephanie Keywell Mrs. Frances King Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kingsley 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 Dr. Arnold Kummerow Marilyn & John Kunz Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dr. Lawrence O. Larson Dolores & Paul Lavins Mr. Henry P. Lee Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph LeRoy, Jr. Barbara & Carl Levin Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Arlene & John Lewis Ms. Carol Litka 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 Ms. Florine Mark Maurice Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Richard Martella Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Mr. John McFadden Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Olga Sutaruk Meyer Thomas & Judith Mich John & Marcia Miller Mr. & Mrs. Leonard G. Miller J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina 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 Edward & Judith Narens FALL 2017

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nemeth Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Ms. Gabrielle Poshadlo & Mr. Dennis Nulty* Katherine & Bruce Nyberg Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Dr. & Mrs. Dongwhan Oh Dr. William Oppat Mr. Randall Pappal Mrs. Margot Parker Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Noel & Patricia Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Kris Pfaehler Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Dave Phipps Dr. Klaudia Plawny-Lebenbom William H. & Wendy W. Powers Reimer & Rebecca Priester Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rappleye Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Denise Reske Seth & Laura Romine Michael & Susan Rontal Mr.+ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. R. Desmond Rowan Jane & Curt Russell

Linda & Leonard Sahn Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff David & Carol Schoch Catherine & Dennis B. Schultz Sandy & Alan Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mr. Merton J. Segal Nancy & Sam Shamie Mr. Scott Shapero Ms. Margaret Shulman Dr. Les & Ellen Lesser Siegel Coco & Robert Siewert Mr. Norman Silk & Mr. Dale Morgan William & Cherie Sirois Dr. Cathryn & Mr. Daniel Skedel Dr. Gregory Stephens Barb & Clint Stimpson Nancy C. Stocking Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Stollman Stephen & Phyllis Strome David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dorothy I. Tarpinian Shelley & Joel Tauber Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Carol & Larry Tibbitts

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tierney Dr. Barry Tigay & Mrs. Clara Saban Mr. & Mrs. Michael Torakis Barbara & Stuart Trager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Mark & Janice Uhlig Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Charles & Sally Van Dusen Mr.+ & Mrs. George C. Vincent 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 Barbara & David Whittaker Ms. Anne Wilczak Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Mr. Jonathan Wolman & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood Ms. Andrea L. Wulf The Yousif Family Mr. Richard D. Zimmerman Four who wish to remain anonymous

Giving of $1,500 and more Joshua & Judith Adler Dr. & Mrs. Gary S. Assarian Dr. & Dr. Brian Bachynski Ms. Mary C. Bartush Jones Ms. Jane Bolender Mr. & Mrs. J. Bora Ms. Nadia Boreiko Mr. & Mrs. Gerald C. Borsand Dr. & Mrs. David L. Bouwman Ms. Christine Britts Bowden & Elaine Brown Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burstein Mr. Samuel Bushala Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Carpenter David & Michelle Carroll Mr. Fred J. Chynchuk Mrs. Elizabeth & Mr. C. Howard Crane Mrs. Barbara Cushing Dr. & Mrs. Adnan S. Dajani Mr. & Mrs. James H. Danto Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Darold Gordon & Elaine Didier Mr. Patrick Doig Mr. & Mrs. Henry Eckfeld Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Mr. Howard O. Emorey Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Mr. Gilbert Glassberg & Ms. Sandra Seligman

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Dr. Linda Golumbia, Ph.D Mr. Donald Guertin Fran & Howard Heicklen Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hillegonds Ms. Elizabeth Ingraham Ms. Nadine Jakobowski Mr. Arthur Johns Robert & Sandra Johnson Carol & Richard Johnston Dr. Jean Kegler Ms. Ida King Mr. James Kirby Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Klimko Mr. & Mrs. Victor Kochajda/Teal Electric Co. Mr. & Mrs. Kosch Mr. & Mrs. William Kroger, Jr. Mr. Michael Kuhne Dr. Myron & Joyce LaBan Mr. Charles E. Letts Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Manning Dr. Arlene M. Marcy, M.D. Ms. Camille McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Brian Meer Bruce & Mary Miller Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Germano Mularoni

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Mrs. Ruth Nix Ms. Deborah Parker Dr.+ & Mrs. Terry Podolsky Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rapson Mr. Paul Robertson & Ms. Cheryl Mauro Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Rose Norman+ & Dulcie Rosenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Nancy J. Salden Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schlack Mr. & Mrs. William C. Shenefelt Mr. Lawrence Shoffner Zon Shumway Mr. Ariel Simon Mr. Mark Sims & Ms. Elaine Fieldman Ralph & Peggy Skiano Mr. Michael J. Smith & Mrs. Mary C. Williams Dr. & Mrs. Choichi Sugawa Ms. Joyce Sutherland Mr. Jim Van Eizenga William & Sandra Vanover Peter & Carol Walters Mr. Barry Webster Ms. Beverly Weidendorf Ms. Janet Weir Frank & Ruth Zinn One who wishes to remain anonymous DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 39

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

SERGIO MARCHIONNE Chief Executive Officer, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.

SHANE KARR President, FCA Foundation

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JAMES VELLA President, Ford Motor Company Fund

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RICHARD L. DeVORE Regional President, PNC Bank, Detroit and Southeast Michigan

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MATTHEW J. SIMONCINI President and CEO, Lear Corporation

American House Senior Living Communities Beaumont Health Chemical Bank Greektown Casino Hotel Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP KPMG LLP

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KEITH J. ALLMANN President and CEO, MASCO Corporation

Macy’s Michigan Ear Institute MGM Grand Detroit Rock Ventures, LLC Varnum LLP Wico Metal Products Wolverine Packing Company

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$10,000 and more Amerisure Insurance Creative Benefit Solutions, LLC Denso International America, Inc. Edibles Rex Fifth Third Bank Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss Raymond James Sandler Training Suburban Collection UBS Financial Services Inc. Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

$5,000 and more American International Group The Boston Consulting Group Coffee Express Roasting Company Delphi Foundation Dickinson Wright LLP EY Grant Thornton LLP Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Schaerer Architextural Interiors Yessian Music $1,000 and more Arkay-Walker Paint Company Darling Bolt Company Delta Dental Plan of Michigan

HEM Data Corporation The Harmon Group Hotel St. Regis Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Lakeside Ophthalmology Center Madison Electric Company Michigan First Credit Union Morgan Stanley Oswald Companies Plante & Moran, PLLC Planterra PSLZ, LLP RBC Robert Swaney Consulting, Inc. Save Our Symphony

SUPPORT FROM FOUNDATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS Giving of $500,000 and more The William M. Davidson Foundation Samuel & Jean Frankel Foundation Giving of $250,000 and more Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Dresner Foundation Hudson-Webber Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation McGregor Fund The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs Matilda R. Wilson Fund Giving of $25,000 and more Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund Henry Ford II Fund

Giving of $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

Giving of $10,000 and more Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation Myron P. Leven Foundation Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Moroun Family Foundation Sage Foundation

Giving of $50,000 and more Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation

Giving of $5,000 and more Benson & Edith Ford Fund The Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation

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Meyer & Anna Prentis Family Foundation Sigmund & Sophie Rohlik Foundation Mary Thompson Foundation Giving of $1,000 and more Charles M. Bauervic Foundation Frank and Gertrude Dunlap Foundation Clarence and Jack Himmel Fund James and Lynelle Holden Fund Josephine Kleiner Foundation Ludwig Foundation Fund Aline Underhill Orten Foundation The Loraine and Melinese Reuter Foundation Leslie and Regene Schmier Foundation Louis and Nellie Sieg Foundation Sills Foundation Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Wheeler Family Foundation, Inc. Young Woman’s Home Association One who wishes to remain anonymous

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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 Julie & Peter Cummings The Davidson-Gerson Family and the William Davidson Foundation The Richard C. Devereaux Foundation The Fisher Family and theMax M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Stanley & Judy Frankel Danialle & Peter Karmanos, Jr. James B. & Ann V. Nicholson Clyde & Helen Wu†

CHAMPIONS Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Penny & Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden DTE Energy Foundation The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs.† Morton E. Harris John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The Kresge Foundation Mrs. Bonnie Larson Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ms. Deborah Miesel Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family PVS Chemicals, Inc. Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Stephen M. Ross Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

LEADERS 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 Paul & Terese Zlotoff

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.

In partnership with Children’s Hospital of Michigan, the DSO continues to ensure the healing power of music impacts many young patients and their families. By working to comprehensively incorporate music and offer opportunities for respite from the often-emotional experience of being in the hospital, DSO musicians perform throughout the year in lobby ensemble concerts and patient playroom visits.

Inspired by DSO donors Harold Kulish and George Nyman, young musicians who may not otherwise have access to an instrument will soon have one of their very own thanks to our ongoing efforts to collect and distribute used equipment in Detroit. And thanks to the generosity of the Moroun Family Foundation, the Wu Family Academy has received 24 brand new instruments which will be used by students for years to come.

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Bluetooth devices to hear and experience the beautiful music of our orchestra.

With the support of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the DSO has created DSO Classroom, a new online hub for students, teachers, and schools at dso.org/classroom. Features include music curriculum guides for educators as well as on-demand video access to DSO educational concerts, artist interviews, and behind-the-scenes content.

The Stone Foundation and DSO Trustee Gwen Weiner are bringing classical music to unusual spaces in Detroit through the newly launched Rush Hour Recital Series. These unique performances make the DSO more approachable than ever before, highlighting our musicians in intimate chamber ensembles.

The DSO was proud to host the 2017 League of American Orchestras conference in Detroit with the generous partnership of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ford Motor Company Fund, and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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TRIBUTE GIFTS Gifts received April 1, 2017 to August 31, 2017 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 Honor of Gail Amendt Paul Amendt In Memory of Enrique & Rafaela Barroso Ricardo Barroso

In Honor of Dan King & Janice Park P. J. Ryan & Joan Rubin Barry & Ellen Finestone In Memory of Julie Lathrop Donald & Barbara Straith

In Honor of Harold & Penny Blumenstein Arthur & Beverly Liss

In Memory of Sandy McMurray Robert McMurray

In Honor of Chung-Ho & Kathryn Chang Jeffrey & Susan Klein

In Honor of Eugene Miller Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz Robert & Martha Sachs

In Memory of RoseAnn Comstock Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz Dan Coleman

In Memory of Evelynne Dewey Richard Winslow

In Memory of Christ Nichols Michael & Michael Enders Leila Freijy Janis Hubbard Richard & Richard Johnson Rod Leslie Lois Nichols James & Sally Scapa George & Zagone

In Memory of Philip Dikeman Richard & Gwen Bowlby

In Honor of Fernando Palazuelo Nanette Rose

In Memory of Mario Disanto Doug Mann

In Memory of Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Caitlin Bush Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz

In Honor of Joanne Danto James & Sandy Danto

In Honor of Barbara Dorchen Marcia Freedman In Memory of Lawrence Ensman Lee & Floy Barthel In Honor of Phillip & Lauren Fisher Pamela Applebaum & Gaal Karp In Honor of Laurie Goldman George & Shelly Denes

In Memory of Dr. Cereta Perry Connie Supan In Memory of Sue Pompian Betty Uhazie In Memory of Meyer Shapiro & Felix Resnick Harvey Shapiro

In Memory of Joseph Gorner Patricia Gorner Schwartz

In Memory of Goldie Rose Jill Fine Sylvia Marabate

In Memory of Oliver Green Judith Eck

In Honor of Mary A. Schieve Cecelia Schieve

In Honor of James & Nancy Grosfeld Arthur & Beverly Liss

In Memory of Marianne Shapero Schwartz Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz

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In Memory of Jean S. Shapero Graham & Sally Orley In Honor of Jim Sherman Doug & Karol Ross In Honor of Jeff Smith Ashely Smith In Memory of Anne Spivak Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz In Honor of Janice Uhlig Willis Towers Watson In Memory of Keith Vernon Richard & Gwen Bowlby In Memory of Frances E. Watson Mary Ann Oderman In Memory of Nancy S. Williams Sharon Backstrom In Memory of Hugh Yee Nandalal & Arleta Bagchi Randa Strelchuk Derek Tsoi Hilda Tsoi Lana Tsoi Michael & Lucy Tsoi Theodore & Amy Tsoi Edie Walker Frank Yee Ivan & Candace Yee Kevin & Louise Yee Terry Feng Eugene Yuhas Kuniko Ganguly Mark Harbeck Charles & Patricia Klement Matthew Levin Anne Lipford A. Kyle & Kristin La Mack Ross Partrich

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OFFERINGS

EDITOR Ben Breuninger bbreuninger@dso.org 313.576.5196

Subscribers and donors who make a gift of $1,000 or more annually receive priority assistance. Just visit the Patron Services Center on the second floor of the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center Atrium for help with tickets, exchanges, donations, or any other DSO needs.

PUBLISHER Echo Publications, Inc. Thomas Putters PROGRAM NOTES ANNOTATOR Charles Greenwell (Unless otherwise noted) 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 Rental Info: 313.576.5050 Email: info@dso.org Website: dso.org

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 and features gourmet dinners, decadent desserts, classic cocktails, small production wines, and craft beers. Bars are available throughout the Max M. & 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.

For group ticket sales (groups of 10 or more), please contact James Sabatella, Group Sales Manager, at 313.576.5130 or jsabatella@dso.org.

Subscribe to our e-newsletter via our website to receive updates and special offers.

To advertise in Performance, please call 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.

RENT THE MAX The elegance and versatility of the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center creates an ideal setting for a variety of events and performances, including weddings, corporate gatherings, meetings, concerts, and more.

MAX M. & MARJORIE S. FISHER MUSIC CENTER Home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Call 313.576.5065 for more information.

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MA XIMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE GIFT CERTIFICATES

Give friends and loved ones a gift that ignites their soul — 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 (available to patrons who give $7,500 annually) is available at the stage door behind the Max M. & 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. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center. Security personnel are available at all 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. & 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 dso.org

as e-cigarettes and personal 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. &Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, including children. The Max opens two hours prior to most DSO concerts. Most Classical Series concerts feature free preconcert 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

In the case of inclement weather or other emergencies, please visit dso.org or the DSO’s Facebook page, call the Box Office at 313.576.5111, or tune in to WJR 760 AM or WWJ 950 AM. Patrons will be notified of exchange options. The DSO is unable to offer refunds.

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Dennis Rottell Stage Manager

Anne Parsons President and CEO James B. and Ann V. Nicholson Chair

Leslie Karr Executive Assistant to the Music Director

Jill Elder Vice President and Chief Development Officer 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 to the Vice President and CDO Caitlin Bush Advancement Relations Associate

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS ARTISTIC PLANNING Jessica Ruiz Director of Artistic Planning Christopher Harrington Managing Director of Paradise Jazz Series/Managing Director & Curator of @ The Max Katherine Curatolo Artistic Coordinator

LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL Marc Geelhoed Director of Digital Initiatives

ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Kathryn Ginsburg Orchestra Manager

Patrick Peterson Manager of Orchestra Personnel

ADVANCEMENT INDIVIDUAL GIVING Sarah Hamel Advancement Events Designer Juanda Pack Advancement Benefits Concierge

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Chelsea Kotula Advancement Officer Marah Casey Advancement Officer

STEWARDSHIP Bree Kneisler Associate Director of Campaign and Stewardship

COMMUNITY & LEARNING Caen Thomason-Redus Senior Director of Community & Learning Nelson Rodriguez Parada General Manager of Training Ensembles Debora Kang Manager of Education Programs Clare Valenti Manager of Community Engagement Nathaniel Bean Assistant Manager of Recruitment & Operations Christina Biddle Community Engagement Coordinator

FACILITY OPERATIONS Dan Saunders Director of Facilities Management Clarence Burnett Maintenance Supervisor Frederico Augustin Facility Engineer

Jacqueline Garner Stewardship Manager

Matt Deneka Maintenance Technician

Will Broner Advancement Services Coordinator

Martez Duncan Maintenance Technician

Richard Kryszko Advancement Services Coordinator

William Guilbault Maintenance Technician

COMMUNICATIONS

Crystal King Maintenance Technician

Matthew Carlson Director of Communications and Media Relations Teresa Alden Digital Communications Manager Ben Breuninger Public Relations Coordinator

Heather Hart Rochon Director of Orchestra Personnel

Daniel Speights Maintenance Technician Greg Schimizzi Chief of Security Edward John Assistant Chief of Security Melvin Dismukes Security Officer Norris Jackson Security Officer Ronald Martin Security Officer Johnnie Scott Security Officer

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Karen McCombs Accounting Specialist

CATERING AND RETAIL SERVICES

HUMAN RESOURCES

Christina Williams Director of Catering and Retail Services

Denise Ousley Human Resources Director

Chris Skillingstad Executive Chef

Michelle Koning Web Manager

PATRON DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT

Catherine Deep Manager of Events and Rentals Ashley Powers Event Sales Representative Stephanie McClung Coordinator of Event Sales & Administration

PATRON SALES AND SERVICE Molly Fidler Manager, Patron Sales & Service

Steven Fronrath Audience Development Manager

Michelle Marshall Assistant Manager, Patron Sales & Service

James Sabatella Group Sales Manager

Tommy Tatti Lead Ticketing Specialist

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DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 47

UPCOMING CONCERTS & EVENTS

CLASSICAL SERIES

DSO PRESENTS

Fabien Gabel, conductor Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor

DON JUAN

HOME ALONE IN CONCERT Wed., Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 19 at 3 p.m.

PNC POPS SERIES

R. STRAUSS Don Juan R. STRAUSS Burleske BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Jeff Tyzik, conductor Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Fri., Dec. 15 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

PNC POPS SERIES

MUSIC OF QUEEN Sat., Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 26 at 3 p.m.

Share Detroit’s favorite holiday musical tradition that sells out year after year! It’s a sparkling celebration with carols, classics, and Santa!

CLASSICAL SERIES

DSO PRESENTS

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin

Wed., Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m.*

Brent Havens, conductor Brody Dolyniuk, vocalist

RUSSIAN PORTRAITS

UNDER THE STREETLAMP: HIP TO THE HOLIDAYS

Thu., Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.

Under the Streetlamp returns to get “Hip to the Holidays” with your favorite holiday tunes and songs from the American Radio Songbook.

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 OTHER PRESENTERS

*The DSO does not appear on this performance

ANDREA BOCELLI WITH THE DSO Sun., Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Little Caesars Arena

CLASSICAL SERIES

MAHLER’S NINTH

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Sat., Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 10 at 3 p.m.

JO S HUA CERDENIA Feuertrunken (World Premiere) MAHLER Symphony No. 9

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THE MUSIC OF MICHAEL JACKSON Brent Havens, conductor James Delisco, vocalist Sun., Dec. 31 at 10 p.m.

Join the DSO for Detroit’s hottest New Year’s party, featuring the music of Michael Jackson! Countdown the end of 2017 while reliving each era of Michael Jackson’s celebrated career.

Live from Orchestra Hall

FALL 2017

TICKETS & INFO

313 . 576 . 5111 dso.org

CLASSICAL SERIES

CLASSICAL SERIES

James Gaffigan, conductor Stephen Hough, piano

Nikolaj Znaider, conductor Saleem Ashkar, piano

RING WITHOUT WORDS

MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO N0. 20

Sat., Jan. 6 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Jan. 7 at 3 p.m.

Fri., Jan. 26 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 27 at 8 p.m.

BRITTA BYSTRÖM Many, Yet One (World Premiere) LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 WAGNER Ring Without Words

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor ELGAR Symphony No. 2

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

MOZART & BEETHOVEN Leonard Slatkin, conductor Harmony Zhu, piano

Thu., Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Southfield Fri., Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. in Clinton Township Sun., Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. in Beverly Hills

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

BEETHOVEN & TCHAIKOVSKY

Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor Joshua Roman, cello Thu., Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in W. Bloomfield Fri., Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. in Plymouth Sat., Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. in Bloomfield Hills Sun., Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. in Grosse Pointe

PNC POPS SERIES

THE NASHVILLE SONGBOOK Jim Gray, conductor Mandy Barnett, vocalist

Fri., Jan. 19 at 10:45 a.m.

Sat., Jan. 20 at 8 p.m.

Nashville entertainer Mandy Barnett revisits the greatest country and pop standards to come out of Music City — hits from Patsy Cline to Elvis Presley! dso.org

PNC POPS SERIES

POSITIVELY POPS: A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR FIEDLER Robert Bernhardt, conductor Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, violin Sun., Jan. 28 at 3 p.m.

Arthur Fiedler and the tradition of American pops — favorites from Sousa to sizzling showpieces, classic film scores to the best of Broadway, and more!

PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

JASON MORAN PLAYS MONK! Fri., Feb. 9 at 8 p.m.

The New York Times declares the unique multimedia program a “stunning project — connecting with Monk beyond the surface of his music.”

FRENCH FESTIVAL

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Thu., Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 9 at 10:45 a.m.

RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess RAVEL Piano Concerto in G RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 49

ENGAGED IN THE ARTS.

COMMITTED TO CULTURE.

IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan proudly supports the DSO as part of our mission to assist programs creating a lasting, positive impact on our communities’ health.

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ESTONIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Neeme Järvi, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano Saturday, February 3 // 8 pm Hill Auditorium Former Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Neeme Järvi returns to Southeast Michigan with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.

Now 80, Järvi leads the ensemble in its UMS debut with a program steeped in the music of Estonian composers.

PROGRAM Eller Brahms Tubin

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