Program Notes: Fanfares and Celebrations

PROGRAM GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351 I. Overture II. Bourrée IV. La Réjouissance PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a Introduction: La Fée des lilas Adagio: Pas d'action Pas de caractère: Le chat botté et la chatte blanche Panorama RUTH REINHARDT

Wednesday, December 20 | 7:30PM

FANFARES AND CELEBRATIONS A Jacobs Masterworks Special Concert

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INTERMISSION WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Allegro Romance: Andante Menuetto: Allegretto Rondo: Allegro JOHANN, JR. STRAUSS Pizzicato Polka JOHANN, JR. STRAUSS Overture to Die Fledermaus JOSEF "PEPI" HELLMESBERGER

San Diego Symphony Orchestra conductor Ruth Reinhardt This concert is made possible, in part, through the generosity of Sam B. Ersan.

Performance at the Jacobs Music Center's Copley Symphony Hall

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Danse diabolique JOHANN, JR. STRAUSS Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 324

The approximate running time for this program, including intermission, is one hour and forty minutes.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS RUTH REINHARDT earned her master’s degree in conducting from The Juilliard School where she studied with Alan Gilbert. She is currently Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony (DSO), where she recently gave her criticallyacclaimed subscription debut stepping in to replace Stanislaw Skrowaczewski on short notice in a concert selected by the Dallas Morning News as one of the year's highlights. With the DSO Ms. Reinhardt conducts a wide variety of the orchestra's extensive concerts and programs, including its contemporary alternative ReMix series, regular subscriptions for "DSO on the Go" programs performed in neighboring cities and communities, as well as concerts during DSO's innovative Soluna Festival.

In July, Ruth Reinhardt was named additionally a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow for the 2017-18 season.

Ms. Reinhardt has recently guest conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and the Orchester Musikkollegium

among others, Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson Thomas, David Zinman, Paavo and Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop and James Ross.

Post-university, she studied with Alan Gilbert at The Juilliard School, where she received her master's degree in conducting.

Prior to her appointment in Dallas, Ms. Reinhardt was a conducting fellow at the Seattle Symphony (2015-16), Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center (2015) and an associate conducting fellow of Marin Alsop's Taki Concordia program (2015-17). During her time at Juilliard, she led the Juilliard Orchestra as well as concerts with New York City's ÆON Ensemble, with whom she has led a collaboration with the Koronos Quartet.

A precocious talent, Ruth Reinhardt had already by age 17 composed and conducted a children’s opera, performed by the children and youths of her native city. While studying in Zurich she also conducted the premieres of two chamber operas for children: Die Kleine Meerjungfrau (The Little Mermaid) by Swiss composer Michal Muggli, and Wassilissa by German composer Dennis Bäsecke. n

Winterthur in a concert televised throughout Switzerland. In summer 2017 she made debuts with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Opera productions she has conducted include Dvořák's Rusalka and Weber's Der Freischütz for the North Czech Opera Company and Strauss' Die Fledermaus at the Leipzig University of the Arts.

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SAM B. ERSAN

Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Ms. Reinhardt began studying violin at an early age and sang in the children's chorus of Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken's opera company. She attended Zurich's University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) to study violin with Rudolf Koelman, and began conducting studies with Constantin Trinks, with additional training under Johannes Schlaefli and Ulrich Windfuhr. During

SAM B. ERSAN has been a classical music lover since 1956. He has been supporting the San Diego Symphony and chamber music in San Diego for the past 12 years.

her studies she participated in conducting master classes with,

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