February/March 2025
Tony Bennett: The Official Musical Celebration
Feb. 7 & 8
Mar. 14-16
Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage Feb. 8
Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert Mar. 1 & 2
Panther in Concert Mar. 8
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Mercedes T. Bass Chairman of the Board of Directors
Dear Friends,
I am so pleased you are joining us for today’s performance. Please accept my sincere gratitude for your loyal patronage to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. A new year brings new opportunities, and with your help, we pledge to continue to fulfill our mission of bringing music and education programs to more than 150,000 individuals annually.
On Saturday, April 5, pianist Garrick Ohlsson will join the FWSO, conducted by FWSO Music Director Robert Spano, for a one-night-only Gala Concert at Bass Performance Hall. Following the concert will be a black-tie fundraising dinner in support of FWSO’s education programs, Adventures in Music, at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel. If you have not already purchased concert tickets or completed a dinner sponsorship, I urge you to participate. This will be an evening you do not want to miss!
I personally want to thank all of you for the astonishing generosity you have bestowed upon this organization. Your loyal support reflects a huge commitment to an orchestra that is thriving and playing at a heightened level of greatness. I am grateful to each and every one of you for your steadfast patronage, and I look forward to experiencing many more concerts of world-class music with you as we join together in our love of the FWSO.
This season, more than ever, I urge you to attend as many performances as possible and to bring your friends and family. There are many wonderful concerts ahead in the 20242025 season, so please take time to mark your calendar now. Your presence and applause are most meaningful to our musicians, who make our lives better through their music.
Mercedes T. Bass Chairman of the Board of Directors
Keith Cerny, Ph.D. President and CEO
Dear Patron,
As we enter the New Year, we have an exciting set of concerts in store for our patrons. In February, Evan Roider conducts an exciting Tony Bennett tribute concert, and Associate Conductor Michelle Di Russo conducts Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage on our Family Seriesdesigned to introduce young people and their families to the joy of symphonic music.
Our Pops and Specials Series are especially busy at this time. In March, as part of our expanded movies with orchestra programming, our popular Music Director Laureate Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert. We will also present Marvel Studios’ Black Panther in Concert, with an Oscar-winning score conducted by Anthony Parnther and talking drum performed by Massamba Diop. You won’t want to miss either movie!
On our Symphonic Series, later in March, Music Director Robert Spano conducts Mahler’s powerful Symphony No. 9. As Mahler neared the end of his life and career, he infused this work with extraordinary passion and poignancy. Be prepared for a spellbinding performance!
At the FWSO, we are proud of the extraordinary range of types of music and concerts we produce, and grateful for the support of our donors and patrons. We look forward to seeing you in person!
Yours sincerely,
Keith Cerny, Ph.D. President & CEO
Robert Spano, conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher, is known worldwide for the intensity of his artistry and distinctive communicative abilities, creating a sense of inclusion and warmth among musicians and audiences that is unique among American orchestras. Spano has been Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra since August 2022 and will continue there through the 2030-2031 season; this follows his tenure as Principal Guest Conductor with FWSO, which began in 2019. He is the tenth Music Director in the orchestra’s history, which was founded in 1912. In February 2024, Spano was appointed Music Director of the Washington National Opera, beginning in the 2025–2026 season, for a three-year term; he is currently the WNO’s Music Director Designate. An avid mentor to rising artists, he is responsible for nurturing the careers of numerous celebrated composers, conductors, and performers. As Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2011, he oversees the programming of more than 300 events and educational programs for 630 students and young performers; he also directs the Aspen Conducting Academy, which offers participants unparalleled training and valuable podium experience. After twenty seasons as Music Director with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, he now serves as
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Music Director Laureate. He was appointed Principal Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School in 2024, and will transition to Principal Guest Conductor in 2025-2026 following the appointment of their new Music Director.
During the 2024–2025 season — Spano’s third as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony — he leads six weeks of symphonic programming, conducting works including Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman in concert, and a world premiere by Jake Heggie, in addition to shaping the artistic direction of the orchestra and driving its continued growth. In the Fall of 2024, Spano leads his first performances as WNO’s Music Director Designate, including a new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio. Additional highlights of the 2024–2025 season include a twoweek residency with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and his first appearances as Principal Conductor with the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
Spano made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2019, leading the US premiere of Marnie by American composer Nico Muhly. Recent concert highlights have included several world-premiere performances, including The Sacrifice of Isaac by Jonathan Leshnoff with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Steven Mackey’s Aluminum Flowers and James Ra’s Te Deum with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra; Of Earth and Sky: Tales From the Motherland by Brian Raphael Nabors with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Rhode Island Philharmonic; and Voy a Dormir by Bryce Dessner at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor.
With a discography of critically acclaimed recordings, Robert Spano has garnered four Grammy™ Awards and eight nominations with the Atlanta Symphony. Maestro Spano is a recipient of the Georgia Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities and is one of two classical musicians inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
German conductor Kevin John Edusei is sought-after the world over. He is praised repeatedly for the drama and tension in his music-making and the sense of architecture, warmth and insight that he brings to his performances. He is deeply committed to the creative elements of performance, presenting classical music in new formats, cultivating audiences and conducting an eclectic range of repertoire.
Highlights of Edusei’s 2024/25 season include debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Musikverein with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. His return engagements include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in his final season as Principal Guest Conductor. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Edusei’s carefully
curated programmes across the 2024/25 season include premieres of works by Hannah Kendall, Thomas Larcher, Samy Moussa, Brian Nabors, Derrick Skye and Gabriella Smith.
In Autumn 2022, Edusei made his debut at the Royal Opera House conducting Puccini’s La bohème, which was streamed across cinemas world-wide, and in 2023/24 he returned for a production of Madama Butterfly. Previously he has enjoyed great success with productions at the Semperoper Dresden, English National Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Volksoper Wien and Komische Oper Berlin. During his tenure at the Bern Opera House, he led highly acclaimed new productions including Peter Grimes, Ariadne auf Naxos, Salome, Bluebeard’s Castle, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Kátya Kábanová and a cycle of the MozartDa-Ponte operas.
Born in Bielefeld, Germany, Edusei studied sound engineering, classical percussion and orchestral conducting at the University of the Arts Berlin and the Royal Conservatory The Hague with Jac van Steen and Ed Spanjaard. In 2004 he was awarded a conducting fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival by David Zinman, in 2007 he was a prize-winner at the Lucerne Festival conducting competition under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez and in 2008 he won the first prize of the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in Athens. Edusei is an alumnus of the Deutsche Bank Akademie Musiktheater heute and the Dirigentenforum of the German Music Council. He resides with his family in Munich.
A graceful yet powerful force on the podium, Argentinian-Italian conductor Michelle Di Russo is known for her compelling interpretations, passionate musicality, and championing of contemporary music. Recently appointed Associate Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, she will begin her tenure in the 24/25 season, working closely with Robert Spano. Di Russo is a recipient of the 2024 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award and a conducting fellow at the Verbier Festival. She is a former Dudamel Fellow with LA Philharmonic, a mentee of the Taki Alsop Fellowship, and a conducting fellow of Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project Inclusion program and The Dallas Opera Hart Institute.
This season’s highlights include guest conducting debuts with Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Toledo Ballet, and Fort 6 | 2024/2025 SEASON
Worth Symphony Orchestra. She will also be returning to conduct the Delaware Symphony and cover conduct for the New York Philharmonic. Di Russo has been selected to lead a premiere of one of the Roche Young Commissions at Lucerne Festival Academy as part of a two-year project.
Di Russo has guest conducted LA Phil, San Diego Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Portland Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, and worked as cover conductor for the National Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, LA Phil, and NY Phil.
During the pandemic, Di Russo co-created Girls Who Conduct, an organization dedicated to bridging the gap between women and men in the conducting field and encouraging younger generations of women and non-binary conductors to overcome any obstacles presented due to their gender.
Di Russo holds a Doctoral Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Arizona State University and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Kentucky. She completed her degree in Orchestral Conducting and Music Production of Audiovisual Media from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, where she was awarded an Ad-Hoc Diploma for the highest grade in Orchestral Conducting.
Robert Spano, Music Director, Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Chair
Kevin John Edusei, Principal Guest Conductor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Music Director Laureate
Michelle Di Russo, Associate Conductor, Rae and Ed Schollmaier Foundation Chair John Giordano, Conductor Emeritus
VIOLIN I
Michael Shih, Concertmaster
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Swang Lin, Associate Concertmaster
Ann Koonsman Chair
Eugene Cherkasov, Assistant Concertmaster
Mollie & Garland Lasater Chair
Jennifer Y. Betz
Ordabek Duissen
Qiong Hulsey
Ivo Ivanov
Nikayla Kim
Izumi Lund
Ke Mai
Kimberly Torgul
Albert Yamamoto
VIOLIN II
Adriana Voirin DeCosta, Principal
Steven Li, Associate Principal
Janine Geisel, Assistant Principal
Symphony League of Fort Worth Chair
Molly Baer
Matt Milewski
Gabriela Peña-Kim
Kathryn Perry
Tatyana Smith
Rosalyn Story
Andrea Tullis
Camilla Wojciechowska
VIOLA
DJ Cheek, Principal
Anna Kolotylina, Associate Principal
HeeSun Yang, Assistant Principal
Joni Baczewski
Sorin Guttman
Aleksandra Holowka
Dmitry Kustanovich
Daniel Sigale
CELLO
Allan Steele, Principal
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Vacant Position, Associate Principal
Keira Fullerton, Assistant Principal
BNSF Railway Foundation Chair
John Belk
Deborah Brooks
Shelley Jessup
Jenny Kwak
BASS
William Clay, Principal
Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Bass Chair
Paul Unger, Assistant Principal
Jeffery Hall
Sean P. O’Hara
Julie Vinsant
The seating positions of all string section musicians listed alphabetically change on a regular basis.
FLUTE
Jake Fridkis, Principal
Shirley F. Garvey Chair
Gabriel Fridkis, Assistant Principal
Vaynu Kadiyali
PICCOLO
Vaynu Kadiyali
OBOE
Jennifer Corning Lucio, Principal
Nancy L. & William P. Hallman, Jr., Chair
Tamer Edlebi, Assistant Principal
Tim Daniels
ENGLISH HORN
Tim Daniels
CLARINET
Stanislav Chernyshev, Principal
Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Chair*
Ivan Petruzziello, Assistant Principal
Phillip Solomon°
E-FLAT CLARINET
Ivan Petruzziello
BASS CLARINET
Phillip Solomon°
BASSOON
Joshua Elmore, Principal
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Nik Hooks°, Assistant Principal
Nicole Haywood Vera Tenorio°
Cara Owens, on leave
CONTRABASSOON
Nicole Haywood°
HORN
Gerald Wood, Principal
Elizabeth H. Ledyard Chair
Alton F. Adkins, Associate Principal
Drs. Jeff and Rosemary Detweiler Chair
Kelly Cornell, Associate Principal
Aaron Pino
TRUMPET
Kyle Sherman, Principal
Cody McClarty, Assistant Principal
Dorothy Rhea Chair
Oscar Garcia
TROMBONE
Joseph Dubas, Principal
Mr. & Mrs. John Kleinheinz Chair
John Michael Hayes, Assistant Principal
Dennis Bubert
BASS TROMBONE
Dennis Bubert
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
TUBA
Edward Jones, Principal
TIMPANI
Seth McConnell, Principal
Madilyn Bass Chair
Nicholas Sakakeeny, Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Keith Williams, Principal
Shirley F. Garvey Chair
Nicholas Sakakeeny, Assistant Principal
Adele Hart Chair
Deborah Mashburn
Brad Wagner
HARP
Vacant Position
Bayard H. Friedman Chair
KEYBOARD
Shields-Collins “Buddy” Bray, Principal
Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn & Van Cliburn Chair
STAGE MANAGER
Tim Vinson
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER
Megan Brook
ORCHESTRA LIBRARIANS
Christopher Hawn
David Sterrett
*In Memory of Manny Rosenthal °2024/2025 Season Only
The Concertmaster performs on the 1710 Davis Stradivarius violin.
The Associate Concertmaster performs on the 1685 Eugenie Stradivarius violin.
Friday, February 07, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 08, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Evan Roider, conductor
Gina Milo, vocalist
Edward Miskie, vocalist
Jeff Williams, vocalist
Jeremy Beck, piano
RODGERS & HART
arr. Evans & Olmstead
KERN
arr. Evans & Olmstead
GERSHWIN & GERSHWIN
arr. Evans & Olmstead
CORY & CROSS
arr. Olmstead
DISTEL
arr. Chilowicz
PORTER
arr. Evans & Olmstead
HOWARD
arr. Costa & Chilowicz
PORTER
arr. Calandrelli & Olmstead
PORTER
arr. Evans & Olmstead
ELLINGTON & MILLS
arr. Evans & Olmstead
The Lady is a Tramp
I Won’t Dance
They All Laughed
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
The Good Life
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Fly Me to the Moon
Night and Day
I Get a Kick Out of You
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) INTERMISSION
VARIOUS
arr. Scott & Olmstead
ADLER & ROSS
arr. Bunch & Olmstead
PORTER
arr. Evans & Chilowicz
COLEMAN & LEIGH
arr. Calandrelli & Olmstead
WRIGHT & FORREST
arr. Calandrelli & Olmstead
PORTER
arr. Evans & Olmstead
GERSHWIN & GERSHWIN
arr. Burns & Olmstead
LEGRAND & BERGMAN
arr. Calandrelli & Olmstead
ARLEN & HARBURG
arr. Holman & Olmstead
KANDER & EBB
arr. Costa & Chilowicz
Rags to Riches
Just One of Those Things
The Best is Yet to Come
Stranger in Paradise
Love for Sale
I Got Rhythm
How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
Over the Rainbow
New York, New York
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause. Program and artists are subject to change.
Evan Roider, conductor
Conductor, Music Director and Pianist Evan Roider maintains an active schedule performing across the United States and abroad. At home on the symphonic stage and in the orchestra pit, he is becoming known as a conductor of great versatility.
2024-2025 brings appearances with Detroit Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, Tucson Symphony, the No Name Pops, and Long Beach Symphony. Previous engagements include Charlotte Symphony, Pacific Symphony (w/The Manhattan Transfer), Sarasota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony (w/Pink Martini), Toledo Symphony, Greensboro Symphony (w/Michael Feinstein) and the No Name Pops. He has assisted on Pops programming at the National Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony.
Currently, Evan serves as Music Director/Conductor for the National Tour of Wicked, having conducted the show for 1000+ performances. Previously, he toured with Les Misérables and Cats, performing in venues such as the Kennedy Center, National Arts Centre, and Hollywood Pantages. He was Assistant Conductor for Candide at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (w/John Lithgow), and in 2019, was awarded the Best Music Director award from Broadway World CT for his work on Evita (ACT of Connecticut). At Barrington Stage, he was the Associate Music Director for the critically acclaimed production of The Pirates of Penzance, a production the New York Times called, “exhilarating”.
As a pianist, Evan is a strong advocate of new music, having worked with composers John Corigliano, Jake Heggie, William Bolcom, Gwyneth Walker, and Ben Moore. He has performed at SongFest, Liederfest, the Indiana University Summer Music Festival, the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, and the New Orleans International Piano Competition Institute. In 2014, he made his debut in China, performing with Cardiff Singer of the World Yang Gang, and in 2015, spearheaded a residency featuring Jake Heggie and Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking).
Evan is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where he earned a Masters in Orchestral Conducting, having received a BM in Piano from the Hartt School in Connecticut.
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Gina Milo made her Broadway debut in Les Miserables and went on to tour the country with the national production. Other national tours include Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret and the 30th Anniversary production of Annie. Her extensive regional theater credits include a Jeff Award-nominated performance as the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot at Drury Lane, as well as Kira in Xanadu and Betty in White Christmas; Blanche in Bonnie and Clyde at Pioneer Theatre; Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage and North Carolina Theatre; Nicola in Kinky Boots at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera; Barbara in Shear Madness at Florida Studio Theatre; Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ulla in The Producers and Mother in A Christmas Story at the Engeman Theatre; Shelby in Spitfire Grill at the Vanguard Theatre; Sibella in Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Tanya in Mamma Mia! and Mary in Jersey Boys at Saugatuck Center for the Arts... just to name a few. Gina's vocal talents can be heard on several cast albums, including Broadway's Carols for a Cure, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Annie, and Singing You Home. Of all her many roles, her favorite one is offstage, being wife to Ken Mertz and mother to her beautiful daughter, Olivia.
For the last 19 years, Edward has spent his life in NYC writing, producing, and performing. These ventures have taken him all over the US and the world. He is the creator and Executive Producer of his upcoming TV musical series based on his book “Cancer, Musical Theatre, & Other Chronic Illnesses” as featured on INSIDER and ABC, FOX, Pix11 NYC, The Daily Mail, Everyday Health, and more! This year is his 12-year cancer survivorship anniversary.
Edward is also the creator of BariToned Does Broadway's Leading Ladies, and the recipient of the 2011 AEA Roger Sturtevant Award.
You can catch him in Bite Size Halloween on Hulu on Season 1, Episode 4 “Devil Vac”.
Jeff Williams, vocalist
Jeff Williams has appeared on Broadway in New York, New York, The Music Man (2000 Revival), The Pirate Queen, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and A Christmas Carol. TV and Film work includes appearances on The Good Fight, When They See Us, FBI: Most Wanted, Orange Is the New Black, Tales of the City, Difficult People, Bull, Kimmy Schmidt, The Sopranos, The Producers and the upcoming film There She Goes. Jeff has worked at theaters across the country in plays and musicals such as Hamlet, Art, The Crucible, M Butterfly, Red, Good People, The Sisters Rosensweig, Terra Nova, Outside Mullingar, Rags, Mamma Mia, Company and many others.
Jeremy Beck is a keyboardist, vocalist, composer and producer based in NYC who has toured/recorded with Bonnie Raitt, The Bacon Brothers, Tommy James and The Shondells, Missy Elliot, Kool & The Gang, Huey Lewis, Katie McLain, The James Hunter Six, Richie Blackmore, Tommy Dorsey Band, Mary Wilson, The Lennon Sisters, LARD Dog and the Band of Shy (China), 100 Years of Broadway and 50 Years of Rock-N-Roll. He has composed and produced music for Makers Mark, NBC, ABC, ESPN and the Hallmark Channel. Broadway and Orchestra credits include Hamiliton Staff, Let’s Groove Tonight-Motown and the Philly Sound and MD/Pianist for A Charlie Brown Christmas - LIVE with the Oregon Symphony. Jeremy is the founder of the funk/rock band, Jeremy Beck & The Heavy Duty Horns.
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Saturday, February 08, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Bass Performance Hall Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Michelle Di Russo, conductor Classical Kids LIVE!
Paul Pement, Director & Producer
Susan Hammond, Series Creator
Elic Bramlett as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andrew Redlawsk as Karl Thomas Mozart
1. Magic Flute, Overture
2. Clarinet Quintet, Mvt 2
3. Sonata in C Major, Mvt 1
4. Magic Flute, Drei Knäbchen
5. Symphony No. 1, Mvt 1
6. Allegro in B flat
7. Marriage of Figaro, Overture
8. Flute Quartet in D, Mvt 2
9. Magic Flute, “Der Vogelfanger“
10. Magic Flute, “O ew’ge Nacht”
11. Magic Flute, “Wie stark”
12. Magic Flute, Allegro
13. Magic Flute, “Was klinget”
14. Minuet in G for Piano, K1
15. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mvt 1
16. Ave Verum Corpus
17. Don Giovanni, Act 1 Finale Minuet
18. Variations on “Ah, Vous Dirai-je”
19. Magic Flute, “March of Priests”
20. Magic Flute, “Der Hölle Rache”
21. Magic Flute, March
22. Sonata in A major, Mvt 1
23. Magic Flute, Finale
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause. Program and artists are subject to change.
The theatrical concert version of Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage is an adaptation of the bestselling and award-winning Classical Kids recordings, Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage and Mozart’s Magic Fantasy, produced by Susan Hammond. Classical Kids® is a trademark licensed exclusively to Pement Enterprises and produced by Classical Kids Music Education, NFP.
Paul Pement, director & producer
Paul serves as Executive & Artistic Director of Classical Kids Music Education, a non-profit arts organization focused on introducing children (and their parents) to the lives and musical masterpieces of the great classical composers. A BFA in theatre from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and professional experience as an actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer and stage manager have enabled Paul to achieve success with Classical Kids LIVE! programming - the “gold-star” leader in the field for creating theatrical family concerts presented by professional symphony orchestras throughout North America and abroad. Production titles include Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage, Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery, Tchaikovsky Discovers America, Gershwin’s Magic Key, and the newest in the series, SaintGeorges’ Sword & Bow
Elic Bramlett, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Elic joined Classical Kids during the 2005-06 season and has toured the US, Canada and Malaysia playing Mozart and Gershwin. A native of Phoenix, AZ, he now makes his home in Chicago. Stage credits include South Pacific at Drury Lane Oakbrook, The Music Man at Marriott Lincolnshire, Stage Kiss and The Boys are Coming Home at The Goodman; Western Civilization at Noble Fool; Teapot Scandals, Elegies, Sweeney Todd, Macabaret, Hereafter, and Three Sisters at Porchlight; The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Charlotte’s Web, and Cinderella at Drury Lane; The Bomb-itty of Errors at The Royal George; and Saturday Night at Pegasus Players. In Forever Plaid, Elic has played the roles of Jinx, Frankie, and Sparky at several regional theaters including Chicago’s original Royal George production. Elic also makes his living as a TV/Film actor, voice over talent, and as a director, producer, and teacher in the Chicagoland area. He would like to dedicate this performance to his loving and supportive wife and family.
Andrew Redlawsk has been performing with Classical Kids Live! since 2007, and it has been one of the great joys of his life to be a part of such an incredible company for so many years. Originally from Iowa, Andrew has lived and performed all over America. He currently lives in Washington DC, where he just finished his master’s degree at George Washington University. Over the course of his career, Andrew has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the country, from the big musical theatre houses of Chicago to the Kennedy Center in DC. But after more than a decade in the performing industry, Andrew is shifting gears to focus on his other passions: travel, adventure, advocacy, and writing. In July, he launched a travel blog called The Adventure Dudes (www.theadventuredudes.com) with the goal of sharing stories and travel tips to help bring the world a little closer together. Thank you so much for being here today to support live theatre and classical music. We can’t do any of this without you. Enjoy the show!
Susan has created a whole new generation of classical music fans through her innovative and award-winning Classical Kids recordings. She is the executive producer of a 16-title series of children’s classical music recordings known collectively as Classical Kids, selling to date nearly 5 million CDs, DVDs and books worldwide, and earning over 100 prestigious awards and honors. Each story entails its own adventure featuring a unique combination of music, history, and theatricality to engage the imaginations of children. Susan holds the philosophy that, “Where the heart goes, the mind will follow.” An accomplished concert pianist and music teacher, Hammond searched for recordings about classical music to share with her young daughters. One day, she sat reading to her girls with a classical music radio station on in the background and noticed how they responded to the literature in a different way when enhanced by music. The rest, as they say, is history. Susan is the recipient of Billboard Magazine’s International Achievement Award and is a member of the Order of Canada for her contribution to the arts.
Douglas was a writer, musician, and educator with a lifelong interest in bringing classical music to wider audiences. He was the writer of five Classical Kids audio productions: Mozart’s Magic Fantasy, Tchaikovsky Discovers America, Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery, Hallelujah Handel!, and Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage. He was also associate producer on Daydreams and Lullabies and served as the principal writer/music editor for the Classical Kids Live! theatrical symphony concert series.
Classical Kids Music Education, NFP was formed for charitable and educational purposes to build pathways for progression in music so that all young people, whatever their background or abilities, have access to the rich and diverse range of influence classical music offers. Reduced funding to the arts has diminished the ability of many symphony orchestras to provide high-quality educational and family programs like the one you are seeing today. It is imperative that more organizations can reach students and families through excellent music education programs in a time when affordable and worthy programming is lacking. Classical Kids Music Education, NFP was created to “bridge the gap” by securing funding for high-caliber projects and, together with individual donor support, help to bring music education into the 21st century by creating more opportunities for young people to be exposed to their interest and develop their talents to the fullest. Please visit www.ckme.org to learn more about how you can help.
Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bass Performance Hall Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Starring
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Billy Dee Williams
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
Co-Starring
David Prowse
Kenny Baker
Peter Mayhew
Frank Oz
Directed by Richard Marquand
Produced by Howard Kazanjian
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas
Story by George Lucas
Executive Producer
George Lucas
Music by John Williams
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause.
© 1983 & TM Lucasfilm Ltd.
Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox Film Corp, Lucasfilm Ltd., and Warner/Chappell Music © All rights reserved.
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Emmy award-winning and Grammy-nominated conductor, is a master of color, drawing idiomatic interpretations from a diverse and wide range of repertoire in concerts across the globe.
Celebrating 35 years of professional conducting, and with a deep commitment to passing his experience on to the next generation of musicians, he has been appointed Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, a position that will start in the 2025-2026 school year. Currently, he is on faculty at Baylor University, where he is the Mary Franks Thompson Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Director of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra through the 2024-2025 school year. He has also established The Conducting Institute to teach the fundamentals of conducting to students ages high school and up, of all levels, through intensive summer and winter programs, workshops, courses, and seminars.
Harth-Bedoya has amassed considerable experience at the helm of orchestras, including tenures as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, where he now holds the title of Music Director Laureate. Previously he also has held Music Director positions with the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand and the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra in Peru, and the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. He also held the Director of Orchestral Studies position at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Harth-Bedoya’s impressive discography includes albums on Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Gramophone, Decca, FWSOLive, LAWO, Naxos, and MSR Classics. The 2018 release Mussorgsky/Gorchakov: Pictures at an Exhibition/Prokofiev: Cinderella (FWSOLive) received accolades from critics. On MSR Classics label he recorded an album of orchestral music by Jimmy López Bellido performed by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Born and raised in Peru, Harth-Bedoya received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, both under the guidance of Otto-Werner Mueller. He also recieved an Honorary Doctor in Music degree from Texas Christian University.
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Will Rogers Auditorium
Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Anthony Parnther, conductor
Massamba Diop, talking drum
Starring
Chadwick Boseman
Michael B. Jordan
Lupita Nyong’o
Danai Gurira
Martin Freeman
Daniel Kaluuya
Letitia Wright
Winston Duke with Angela Bassett with Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis
Music By Ludwig Göransson
Executive Producers
Louis D’Esposito
Victoria Alonso
Nate Moore
Jeffrey Chernov
Stan Lee
Produced By Kevin Feige, p.g.a.
Written By Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
Directed By Ryan Coogler
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause.
Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with Marvel Studios. © All rights reserved.
Anthony Parnther, conductor
American conductor Anthony Parnther is in his fifth season as Music Director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. As conductor of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, whose members hail from orchestras nationwide, it was Parnther who led its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, showcasing the world premiere of I Can by five-time Grammy-winner Jon Batiste.
A master of multiple genres, Parnther has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Jessye Norman, and Frederica von Stade to Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Avenged Sevenfold, Wu-Tang Clan, Metro Boomin and Rihanna. Season highlights include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Chineke! Orchestra, with which he made his BBC Proms debut in London.
Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. As well as leading LA Opera’s world premiere of Tamarkali’s oratorio We Hold These Truths and Long Beach Opera’s revival of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Central Park Five, Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Davis, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, Perry, Price, Taylor, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass. For his extensive championing of works by Black, Latino and women composers, Parnther was profiled in 2015 as a “Local Hero” by Los Angeles’s PBS SoCal/KCET.
As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series, working in close collaboration with some of the most decorated media composers on the scoring stages of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, Glasgow, and London. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Nope, Creed III, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Tenet, American Dad!, Oppenheimer, Turning Red, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, and League of Legends. 20 | 2024/2025 SEASON
Massamba Diop, talking drum
Massamba Diop is one the most renowned masters of the tama, a talking drum from Senegal, West Africa, known for its abilities to replicate the sounds of human speech. Before the advent of telephones and radio, it was the tama that was called upon to announce important events and send messages from village to village. Recognizing the central role talking drums play in many African cultures, Ludwig Gorensson decided to put it, and Massamba, front-and-center of his Grammy- and Oscar-winning score for Marvel's Black Panther.
But by the time of Black Panther, Massamba was already a seasoned figure on the world music scene. He first came into the limelight as lead percussionist and founding member of Daande Lenol (The Voice of the People), the band of Senegalese super-star Baaba Maal. Over the past 40 years the group has toured the world, working with many notable musicians and releasing dozens of albums, including "Firin' in Fouta", which was nominated for a Grammy in 1996. Massamba has also performed and recorded with the likes of James Brown, Mumford & Sons, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Harry Belafonte, and Angelique Kidjo. He appeared on Peter Gabriel's landmark release "Passion", which won a Grammy in 1990, and has made several appearances with Playing for Change's "songs around the world". He has been part of many major international diplomatic events like the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo, the 2012 Olympics in London, and joined Stevie Wonder and a star-studded cast in 2009 to perform "Happy Birthday" for Nelson Mandela to close out Mandela Day at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Massamba is also a Remo Percussion, Inc. endorsed artist, and in 2016 helped them design and launch the "Tamani Talking Drum", the first mass-produced tama available to the public.
In 1993, Massamba and American percussionist Tony Vacca co-founded the Senegal-America project, a grass-roots cultural exchange program which has sponsored various educational, health care, and artistic initiatives in Senegal, and has provided an important venue for African musicians in the States. Massamba and Tony tour the Northeast each year with a variety of performances, school programs, and workshops, from their Northampton, MA base. Massamba has several other regular collaborators including Surabhi Ensemble in Chicago, Walo Walo in Portland, Oregon, and Total Rhythm in San Francisco. He currently calls Columbus, Ohio home.
Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM Bass Performance Hall Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, conductor
MAHLER
Symphony No. 9
I. Andante comodo
II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
III. Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
IV. Adagio
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SYMPHONY No. 9
I. Andante comodo (Andante with motion)
II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers.
Etwas täppisch und sehr derb (In the tempo of a leisurely Ländler. A bit clumsy and very rough)
III. Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig (Very defiant)
IV. Adagio
DURATION: About 90 minutes
PREMIERED: Vienna, 1912
SYMPHONY: An elaborate orchestral composition typically broken into contrasting movements, at least one of which is in sonata form.
“Over the years I have forgotten how to do anything else (other than work).”
— Gustav Mahler (Born 1860, Bohemia, or present day Czech Republic; died 1911)
There is a widespread superstition in classical music about the dreaded curse of the ninth. The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, noting that the great composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert had both perished after completing their ninth symphonies, took pains to avoid their fates. Upon completing his Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth), his ninth symphony in all but name, he refused to title it a “symphony” to edge his way around the curse.
When he did begin penning his ninth symphony in 1908, death was already near to his thoughts. The year before, his daughter, Maria Anna, had died from scarlet fever. Mahler himself, often described as a bitter but disciplined man, had learned that his own heart was beating irregularly and that it would likely cease beating altogether if he didn’t take on a more leisurely lifestyle than his frequent orchestral conducting tours and strenuous dedication to rehearsal and composition had previously allowed.
With all of this baggage in mind, it’s easy to understand why so many critics hear Mahler’s Ninth, which he finished composing in 1911 but did not live to hear premiered, as a poignant farewell to life. Music historians have waxed poetic about the “irregular heartbeat” and tremors in the first movement, the fierce lust for life in the middle movements, and the long, slow final exhalation of the finale. But Mahler felt in good health when he wrote the work and actually had begun working on his tenth symphony by the time he passed, fully believing that he had escaped the curse. Even as he contracted endocarditis and convalesced, he continued composing energetically and was still planning an upcoming orchestral tour.
The ninth, then, in all its tenderness and ferocity, might be better understood as a salute to death but a commitment to life rather than a long farewell.
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The symphony, a mammoth work far longer than typical symphonies, is in four movements. The first lasts nearly a full half hour. It opens with an irregular pulsing in the cellos and harp and horn, atop which Mahler layers a fluttering harmony and a melody of aching compassion as his first theme. The movement is in a massively expanded sonata form, but without studying a musical score, it’s difficult to hear the formal scaffolding. Rather than concise melodies, the music’s thematic sections are more like a collection of material grouped by mood. The second theme begins as a fanfare in the horns and is more jubilant and militant — these elements blend and transform and return throughout the movement.
The second movement is a ländler, a traditional German country dance in which partners leap and stamp in an exaggerated style; all in good fun. Mahler’s take on the dance in this symphony — he used ländler movements in earlier symphonies as well — begins simply enough, with a rising scale and a little trilling tune in the clarinets. But soon, it begins to morph and grow. There is a much faster, more energetic contrasting theme that seems manic in comparison alternates, and these theme groups alternate and blur throughout this movement.
Next comes a fierce rondo, written as a double fugue. To explain, the fugue is a particularly strict musical form where a tune begins in one voice (or instrumental group) and then repeats in several others, each voice adding a successively complex layer of harmony as the initial voices continue. A double fugue means there are two “subjects” developing simultaneously. They are intensely difficult to write well. Mahler’s music here is a tightly interlocking series of episodes built from only small snippets of melody. All is turbulence and ferocity for much of this movement, aside from a respite in the middle that is contrastingly calm. A solo trumpet introduces a new tune in this reprieve, one that becomes critical to the symphony’s close.
The finale is slow but more uplifting than somber. It quotes from a famous hymn (“Abide with Me”), material from the ninth symphony, and even some of the composer’s earlier orchestral works, contributing to the assessment that this symphony might have been a conclusion of sorts. The trumpet theme of the third movement is especially poignant here. The finale transforms slowly over the course of nearly half an hour, moving from stillness and resignation to great moments of climactic passion and back. It ends with a long, slow fade into silence, dying away peacefully at the close.
There is typically an extended silence before any applause at the conclusion of this symphony so as not to break the mood. 24 | 2024/2025
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Principal Trombone
Bass Trombone
Timpani
Principal Percussion
Assistant Principal Percussion
Harp
Keyboard
Great Performance Fund
Pops Performance Fund
Adventures in Music
* Denotes deceased
Symphonic Insight
Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass* Chair
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Rae and Ed Schollmaier Foundation Chair
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Ann Koonsman* Chair
Mollie & Garland Lasater Chair
Symphony League of Fort Worth Chair
Marie A. Moore* Chair
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
BNSF Railway Foundation Chair
Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Bass Chair
Shirley F. Garvey* Chair
Nancy L. & William P. Hallman, Jr. Chair
Rosalyn G. Rosenthal* Chair
In Memory of Manny Rosenthal
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Elizabeth H. Ledyard* Chair
Drs. Jeff and Rosemary Detweiler Chair
Dorothy Rhea* Chair
Mr. & Mrs. John Kleinheinz Chair
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Madilyn Bass Chair
Shirley F. Garvey* Chair
Adele Hart* Chair
Bayard H. Friedman * Chair
Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn & Van
Cliburn* Chair
Rosalyn G. Rosenthal* Chair
In Memory of Manny Rosenthal
The Burnett Foundation
The Ryan Foundation
Teresa & Luther King
Annette & Jerry* Blaschke
Dr. Lloyd W. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Cardona*
Barbara Clarkin
Mr. Carroll W. Collins*
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Cooke
Juana-Rosa & Dr. Ron Daniell*
Estate of Anna Belle P. Thomas
Miss Dorothy Rhea*
Electra M. Carlin*
Estate of Ernest Allen, Jr.
F. Warren O’Reilly*
Hugh L. Watson*
Estate of Kathy B. Higgins
Estate of Linda Reimers Mixson
Lois Hoynck Jaggers*
Michael Boyd Milligan*
Mildred G. Walters*
Estate of Peggy L. Rayzor
Sylvia E. Wolens*
Whitfield J. Collins*
Tom Gay
Gwen M. Genius
George & Jeanne Jaggers Charitable Trust
Mrs. Charlotte M. Gore
Gail Aronoff Granek
Helene Bare & W. Glenn Embry Charitable Trust
Qurumbli Foundation
Hank and Shawn Henning
Mr. Eric F. Hyden*
* Denotes deceased
Kathleen E. Connors Trust
Mr. & Mrs.* Ronald Koonsman
Lewis F. Kornfeld, Jr. Memorial Fund at the NTXCF
Mollie & Garland M. Lasater, Jr.
Elizabeth H. Ledyard*
Carol V. Lukert*
Marguerite Bridges Charitable Trust
Patty Cartwright Mays
Shannon McGovern
Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Murph
Linda Todd Murphy
Estate of Virginia & James O’Donnell
Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation
Peggy Meade-Cohen Crut Charitable Trust
Mr.* and Mrs. John V. Roach II
The Roach Foundation
Jude* & Terry Ryan
Jeff & Judy Schmeltekopf
Mr. & Mrs. Grady Shropshire
Kathleen & Richard Stevens
Mr. Gerald E. Thiel
The Walsh Foundation
Peter G. Warren
John* & Frances Wasilchak Charitable Fund at the NTCF
John Wells & Shay McCulloch-Wells
Lynn Wilson
A City Club Social Membership provides access to dining in our restaurants and member event privileges including Wine Tastings, Holiday Brunches and many other Club events. You will have the ability to reserve private rooms for business and social functions.
A City Club Social Membership provides access to dining in our restaurants and member event privileges including Wine Tastings, Holiday Brunches and many other Club events. You will have the ability to reserve private rooms for business and social functions.
FWSO Season Ticket Holders receive a discounted enrollment fee
FWSO Season Ticket Holders receive a discounted enrollment fee
For more information, contact Matt Burrell, City Club Membership Director at 817.878.4000 or mburrell@cityclubfw.com.
For more information, contact Matt Burrell, City Club Membership Director at 817.878.4000 or mburrell@cityclubfw.com.
The elegance continues at Omni Fort Worth Hotel.
The elegance continues at Omni Fort Worth Hotel.
Take in the sweeping downtown views from our inviting, western-inspired accommodations, and enjoy clever cocktails, prime aged steaks, and live music at our on-site restaurants.
Take in the sweeping downtown views from our inviting, western-inspired accommodations, and enjoy clever cocktails, prime aged steaks, and live music at our on-site restaurants.
MARCH 28 & 29
You found success on your health journey, and that brings out our very best. So let’s set new goals and keep winning together.
From colon cancer surgery to pulmonology & lung surgery, it’s easy to find care ranked among the best in the nation at BSWHealth.com/FortWorth.
When it’s time for a loved one to cease treatment of an advancing illness and simply live their best life, True Hearts and Hands Hospice is the choice for hospice/palliative services throughout the DFW Metroplex and outlying communities. Our multi-disciplinary team of professionals comes to you wherever you call home.
Our hospice services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans or Private Insurance. Coverage can include:
Medications » Pain and symptom management for qualify of life
Medical Care
» Under direction of a MD, care provided by licensed staff: Nurse, Social Worker, Chaplain and Nurse Aides
Equipment » Beds, Oxygen, Wheelchair, Bathroom aids, etc.
Supplies » I.e., diapers, bed pads, wound care
Music Therapy
Social Work
» Beneficial for patients with dementia and depression
» Walks families through legal processes: assigning Powers of Attorney, Insurance and eligibility, Coordinating assisted living and memory care facilities,
» Funeral planning
» Counseling for patients and family members
Sensitively navigating patients and their loved ones through the final stages of life’s journey; providing a robust suite of quality care and services delivered with compassionate hearts and professional hands.
We’re heading west, where the horizon’s wide and the opportunities even wider. The University of Texas at Arlington is proud to introduce UTA West, our new Fort Worth campus near the edge of Parker County in Walsh Ranch. Here, future Mavericks will find a path to possibilities as endless as the open sky.
More care when and where you need it most.
At Texas Health, we’re proud to say more North Texans choose us than any other health care system. From heart and vascular care to coughs and colds, we’re dedicated to giving you more ways to access your health care than ever before. With our ever-expanding hospital and urgent care locations to our video visits and at-home care options, we’re dedicated to making your health care more convenient so you can spend less time on figuring out your health care and more time on what matters most. That’s how Texas Health cares more.
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