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CONTENTS Welcome......................................................4 Orchestra Roster.........................................5 Behind the Baton.........................................6 Board Leadership........................................8 Donor Spotlight........................................ 14

10 Going the Distance

Transformational Support........................15

Impacting Lives & Sustaining a World Class Orchestra

Donor Roster............................................. 36 Maximize Your Experience....................... 46

DSO Administrative Staff......................... 48

Community & Learning The DSO in Southwest Detroit

17 Program Notes Read Performance anytime, anywhere at dso.org/performance

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Upcoming Concerts.................................. 50 ON THE COVER: DSO musicians were recently photographed in a variety of Detroit locations to herald the announcement of the 2022-2023 season. Pictured, from top: Cole Randolph, Cello Shannon Orme, Bass Clarinet Michael Ke Ma, Acting Principal Bassoon Johanna Yarbrough, Horn Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal, Assistant Principal Percussion Musician photos by C. Taylor Crothers Music Director Jader Bignamini, photo by Sarah Smarch

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WELCOME

Welcome! With spring in bloom, your Detroit Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up an extraordinary season—the first full year of programs with Jader Bignamini and an entire season with our audiences—with you—here, back where you belong. Music gives us a reason to come together—to hear, to learn, to find solace, to inspire, and to find inspiration. Whether this is your first concert this season, or your tenth, we thank you for choosing to spend your time with the DSO. A concert is a true exchange between performers and audience, and Jader’s connection to both is creating unforgettable musical experiences every week he’s in Detroit. This spring don’t miss Jader’s first-ever performances conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (May 12-15) and new collaborations with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (May 20-22) and violinist Gil Shaham (June 10-12). The closing week also features two works by Wynton Marsalis—Fanfare and Blues Symphony—that Jader is particularly excited to share with you. We conclude the 50th anniversary celebration of the DSO’s Civic Youth Ensembles April 29 to May 1 with an entire weekend of performances by all 14 groups of talented young musicians from across our region, plus special events including open rehearsals and master classes. With over 4,000 alumni, the DSO’s training ensembles are a pivotal opportunity in the lives of our children, inspiring multiple generations in Detroit and far beyond. Visit dso.org/cye50 for more information. The DSO will commemorate 80 years since Orchestra Hall opened as the Paradise Theatre with the April 30 debut of the Paradise Jazz Big Band featuring Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair Terence Blanchard and led by trumpeter and arranger Kris Johnson, former Director of the Civic Jazz Orchestra and a CYE alum himself. The all-star band will be playing music by the jazz giants who graced the stage of the Paradise between 1941 and 1951. Make sure too to swing by The Cube, made possible with support by Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings, which has reopened its doors for the first time in two years, offering a dynamic mix of jazz, pop, spoken word, chamber music, and more. We also invite you to join us on Saturday, June 18, for the return of our annual Heroes Gala, when we honor the remarkable people who impact the vision, values, and success of the DSO. This year, we recognize our dear friends and community philanthropists Linda Dresner and Ed Levy, whose support has guaranteed artistic excellence on the Orchestra Hall stage and in the community, while ensuring sustainability for their beloved DSO for generations to come. Ed and Linda are longtime Classical Series concertgoers, so we are thrilled to share that Jader will be on the podium that evening to conduct what is sure to be a special, one-nightonly program. Wishing you all the best — enjoy the concert!

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Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy

ACTING CONCERTMASTER Katherine Tuck Chair

Hai-Xin Wu

ACTING ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Schwartz and Shapero Family Chair

Jennifer Wey Fang ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair

Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou*

SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski ACTING PRINCIPAL The Devereaux Family Chair

Will Haapaniemi*

David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Hae Jeong Heidi Han*

David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Sheryl Hwangbo Yu* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo~ Alexandros Sakarellos*

Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair

Marian Tanau* Alexander Volkov* Jing Zhang*

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

James VanValkenburg ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Caroline Coade Henry and Patricia Nickol Chair

Glenn Mellow Hang Su Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen

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LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

CELLO Wei Yu PRINCIPAL

Abraham Feder

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer*

Victor and Gale Girolami Cello Chair

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

TUBA Dennis Nulty PRINCIPAL

CLARINET Ralph Skiano

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp

Jack Walters

James Ritchie

PRINCIPAL Robert B. Semple Chair

PVS Chemicals Inc./ Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair

PRINCIPAL Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*

Laurence Liberson Shannon Orme

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker

Una O’Riordan*

E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson

Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal

BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme

James Ritchie

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

Cole Randolph*

BASS Kevin Brown PRINCIPAL Van Dusen Family Chair

Stephen Molina ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Christopher Hamlen Brandon Mason Nicholas Myers

HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher PRINCIPAL Winifred E. Polk Chair

FLUTE Hannah Hammel PRINCIPAL Alan J. and Sue Kaufman and Family Chair

Amanda Blaikie Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair

Sharon Sparrow ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair

Jeffery Zook

PICCOLO Jeffery Zook

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

OBOE Alexander Kinmonth

PRINCIPAL Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair

Sarah Lewis ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Monica Fosnaugh

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair

BASSOON Michael Ke Ma

PRINCIPAL Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL William Cody Knicely Chair

LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles PRINCIPAL

Ethan Allen

ACTING PRINCIPAL

Marcus Schoon^ Jaquain Sloan §

CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon^

PERSONNEL MANAGERS Patrick Peterson

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

STAGE PERSONNEL Dennis Rottell

HORN Karl Pituch

STAGE MANAGER

PRINCIPAL

Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong

Ric and Carola Huttenlocher Chair

David Everson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Mark Abbott

Ryan DeMarco

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Noel Keesee

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Steven Kemp

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Matthew Pons

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Michael Sarkissian

DEPARTMENT HEAD

TRUMPET Hunter Eberly PRINCIPAL Lee and Floy Barthel Chair

Kevin Good Stephen Anderson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

William Lucas TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins PRINCIPAL

David Binder

LEGEND * These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis ^ On sabbatical ~ Extended leave § African American Orchestra Fellow

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B E H I N D T H E B AT O N

MUSIC DIRECTORSHIP ENDOWED BY THE KRESGE FOUNDATION

ader Bignamini was introduced as the 18th music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in January 2020, commencing with the 2020-2021 season. He kicked off his tenure as DSO Music Director with the launch of DSO Digital Concerts in September 2020, conducting works by Copland, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Georges. His infectious passion and artistic excellence set the tone for the season ahead, creating extraordinary music and establishing a close relationship with the orchestra. A jazz aficionado, he has immersed himself in Detroit’s rich jazz culture and the influences of American music. A native of Crema, Italy, Jader studied at the Piacenza Music Conservatory and began his career as a clarinetist with Orchestra Sinfonica La Verdi in Milan, later serving as the group’s resident conductor. Captivated by the symphonies of greats like Mahler and Tchaikovsky, Jader explored their complexity and power, puzzling out the role that each instrument played in creating a larger-than-life sound. When he conducted his first professional concert at the age of 28, it didn’t feel like a departure, but an arrival. In the years since, Jader has conducted some of the world’s most acclaimed orchestras and opera companies in venues across the globe including working with Riccardo Chailly on concerts of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in 2013 and his concert debut at La Scala in 2015 for the opening season of La Verdi Orchestra. Recent highlights include debuts with the Houston, Dallas, and Minnesota symphonies; Osaka Philharmonic and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo; with the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Dutch National Opera (Madama Butterfly); Bayerische Staatsoper (La 6

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Traviata); I Puritani in Montpellier for the Festival of Radio France; Traviata in Tokyo directed by Sofia Coppola; Andrea Chénier at New National Theatre in Tokyo; Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy; Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; return engagements with Oper Frankfurt (La forza del destino) and Santa Fe Opera (La Bohème); Manon Lescaut at the Bolshoi; Traviata, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot at Arena of Verona; Il Trovatore and Aida at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera; Madama Butterfly, I Puritani, and Manon Lescaut at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Simon Boccanegra and La Forza del Destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Ciro in Babilonia at Rossini Opera Festival; and La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Elisir d’amore at La Fenice in Venice. When Jader leads an orchestra in symphonic repertoire, he conducts without a score, preferring to make direct eye contact with the musicians. He conducts from the heart, forging a profound connection with his musicians that shines through both onstage and off. He both embodies and exudes the excellence and enthusiasm that has long distinguished the DSO’s artistry. SPRING 2021-2022

Jeff Tyzik

Terence Blanchard

PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR

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 serves as principal pops conductor of the Oregon Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic — a post he has held for over 20 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. 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. Visit jefftyzik.com for more.

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FRED A. ERB JAZZ CREATIVE DIRECTOR CHAIR

rumpeter, bandleader, composer, and educator Terence Blanchard has served as the DSO’s Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Chair since 2012. Blanchard has performed and recorded with many of jazz’s superstars and currently leads the celebrated E-Collective. He is also wellknown for his decades-long collaboration with filmmaker Spike Lee, scoring more than 15 of Lee’s movies since the early 1990s. 2018’s BlacKkKlansman earned Blanchard his first Academy Award nomination, with a second Academy Award nomination in 2021 for Da 5 Bloods. In and out of the film world, Blanchard has received 14 Grammy nominations and six wins, as well as nominations for Emmy, Golden Globe, Sierra, and Soul Train Music awards. Blanchard’s second opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, recently opened The Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-2022 season, making it the first opera by an African American composer to premiere at the Met. With a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, the opera was commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where it premiered in 2019. The New York Times called it “inspiring,” “subtly powerful,” and “a bold affecting adaptation of Charles Blow’s work.” Blanchard’s first opera, Champion, also premiered to critical acclaim in 2013 in St. Louis and starred Denyce Graves with a libretto from Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Cristofer. Visit terenceblanchard.com for more. DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 7

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME MEMBERS

CHAIRS EMERITI

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OFFICERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors are responsible for maintaining a culture of accountability, resource development, and strategic thinking. As fiduciaries, Directors oversee the artistic and cultural health and strategic direction of the DSO.

Samuel Frankel◊ Stanley Frankel David Handleman, Sr.◊

Dr. Arthur L. Johnson◊ James B. Nicholson Clyde Wu, M.D.◊

Peter D. Cummings Phillip Wm. Fisher Stanley Frankel

Robert S. Miller James B. Nicholson

Floy Barthel Chacona Baugh Penny B. Blumenstein John A. Boll, Sr. Richard A. Brodie Lois Cohn Marianne Endicott Sidney Forbes Barbara Frankel

Herman H. Frankel Dr. Gloria Heppner Ronald Horwitz Harold Kulish Bonnie Larson David McCammon David R. Nelson William F. Pickard, Ph.D. Marilyn Pincus

Lloyd E. Reuss Marjorie S. Saulson Alan E. Schwartz Jane Sherman David Usher Barbara Van Dusen Arthur A. Weiss

Mark A. Davidoff Chair

Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder (Ret.) Secretary

Shirley Stancato Officer at Large

Erik Rönmark President & CEO

Pamela Applebaum Officer at Large

James G. Vella Officer at Large

David T. Provost Vice Chair

Ralph J. Gerson Officer at Large

Faye Alexander Nelson Treasurer

Glenda D. Price, Ph.D. Officer at Large

David Assemany Governing Members Chair Elena Centeio Richard L. DeVore Aaron Frankel Herman B. Gray, M.D., M.B.A. Laura Hernandez-Romine Rev. Nicholas Hood III

Richard Huttenlocher Renato Jamett Trustee Chair Daniel J. Kaufman Michael J. Keegan Arthur C. Liebler Xavier Mosquet Arthur T. O’Reilly Stephen R. Polk

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Bernard I. Robertson Scott Strong Orchestra Representative Nancy Tellem Laura J. Trudeau Dr. M. Roy Wilson David M. Wu, M.D. Johanna Yarbrough Orchestra Representative

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Renato Jamett, Chair Trustees are a diverse group of community leaders who infuse creative thinking and innovation into how the DSO strives to achieve both artistic vitality and organizational sustainability.

Ismael Ahmed Richard Alonzo Hadas Bernard Janice Bernick Elizabeth Boone Gwen Bowlby Marco Bruzzano Margaret Cooney Casey Karen Cullen Joanne Danto Stephen R. D’Arcy Maureen T. D’Avanzo Jasmin DeForrest Afa Sadykhly Dworkin Peter Falzon James C. Farber Linda Forte Maha Freij Carolynn Frankel Maha Freij Christa Funk Robert Gillette Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin Mary Ann Gorlin

Donald Hiruo Michelle Hodges Julie Hollinshead John Jullens David Karp Joel D. Kellman Jennette Smith Kotila Leonard LaRocca William Lentine Linda Dresner Levy Florine Mark Anthony McCree Kristen McLennan Tito Melega Lydia Michael Lois A. Miller H. Keith Mobley Scott Monty Shari Morgan Sandy Morrison Frederick J. Morsches Jennifer Muse, NextGen Chair Nicholas Myers, Musician Representative Sean M. Neall

Eric Nemeth Maury Okun Vivian Pickard Denise Fair Razo Gerrit Reepmeyer Richard Robinson James Rose, Jr. Laurie Rosen Elana Rugh Marc Schwartz Carlo Serraiocco Lois L. Shaevsky Mary Shafer Cathryn M. Skedel, Ph.D. Ralph Skiano, Musician Representative Richard Sonenklar Rob Tanner Yoni Torgow Gwen Weiner Donnell White Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret E. Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue

MAESTRO CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Janet & Norm Ankers, Chairs

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Joanne Danto

Gregory Haynes

Bonnie Larson

Lois Miller

Richard Sonenklar

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GOING THE DISTANCE

Impacting Lives & Sustaining a World Class Orchestra

Sarah Smarch

he Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s new mission statement is built upon two verbs: impact and sustain. The orchestra “impacts lives through the power of unforgettable musical experiences by sustaining a world class orchestra for our city and the global community.” In music, “sustain” is the heart of an instrument’s sound: between its percussive beginning and gradual fading away. The sustain pedal on a piano frees notes to vibrate, allowing every single string of the instrument to harmonize sympathetically with the notes being played. For a music institution, the word denotes something at the same time more essential and complex. The goal of the orchestra is to ring out clearly, and keep ringing out, inspiring, enlightening, and inviting the broadest possible audience — based on an understanding that musical excellence has no value unless it finds an audience to impact. The mission demands not just “musical excellence” but “musical 10

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excellence…for our city and the global community.” The 2022-2023 PVS Classical Series, announced in March along with the PNC Pops Series and Young Peoples Family Concert Series, includes 20 symphonic programs — ten led by Music Director Jader Bignamini. In many ways, the DSO’s emphasis on sustainability and impact permeates the entire repertoire, defined by its deliberate mix of new and old, the world-renowned and the under-represented. “We have combined historic masterpieces such as Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brahms 4, Tchaikovsky 4, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra,” says Jader, “with less performed but valuable works such as Florence Price’s First Symphony and Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp-minor.” Price’s symphony combines elements from the Romantic symphonic tradition with hymn-like melodies and the rhythms of Black music to create a SPRING 2021-2022

distinctly American style, to be played on a program with William Grant Still’s Festive Overture and Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with Daniil Trifonov. “Historically, there are works that have not been given the attention they deserve. We want our audiences to experience these beautiful pieces that rightfully belong in the main season of the greatest symphonic orchestras.” Beautiful pieces like the symphony by Pejačević, a pioneering Croatian female composer at the turn of the 20th century. “Dora had an excellent sense of orchestral color and a gift with rhythm and melody,” says Jader. The symphony—presented on a program with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Grieg’s Piano Concerto featuring Alexander Gavrylyuk—was written in 1916-1917 while the composer volunteered as a nurse during World War I. Pejačević’s letters at the time explain the desire to distance herself from the aristocratic class of her birth: “Faced with misery in the world, the like of which there has never been, their thoughts remain exactly as they were before the

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War…devoid of all higher feelings, far from all big ideas, any kind of humanity, or any social progress.” Dora was undoubtedly drawn to the collective experience music allows for. DSO President and CEO Erik Rönmark describes this experience as “a space for us to pause amid the world’s uncertainties, reflect on who we are, and connect to our shared humanity.” Juxtaposed against the roadpavers of centuries past, the season also features 14 works by living composers, including two world premieres and six DSO-commissioned works. Says Jader, “We are really close to the new generation of composers, and we will continue to support them; they understand the musical language of the future. Sharing new works with our audience is our investment in the future of classical music.” Among the commissions is a new work, Snapshots, by Jessie Montgomery, co-commissioned by the DSO as part of New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices project to support racial and gender equity in classical music. Jader counts Montgomery as one of his favorite contemporary composers, “Jessie is incredibly talented and innovative, and I am so proud to have already conducted two of her pieces. The orchestra has been excited and committed to learning her music, and audiences are enthusiastic to hear it.” Eleven PNC Pops programs were also announced with DSO Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik leading three: Prohibition, a multimedia musical journey through the era with music channeling Rudy Vallée, Josephine Baker, Kurt Weill, and King Oliver; Sci-Fi Spectacular: Star Wars, Star Trek, and Beyond!, with music from iconic sci-fi film DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 11

scores; and Twist & Shout: The Music of the Beatles, a program celebrating The Beatles in America. This spring, The Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings Cube reopened after a two-year hiatus. Since 2016, The Cube has signatured a multidisciplinary aesthetic that aims to reflect the cultural personality and diverse communities of Detroit. The black box theater gives stage to regional, national, and local talent whose artistic skills spread across world music, hip-hop, funk, jazz, poetry, and everything in between–staying true to its intent on being an accessible space. “Curation is a really important aspect because it’s about building a community gathering place where all people in the local community can have great musical experiences in whatever genre,” says Goode Wyche III, DSO’s Manager of Jazz and @ The Max. “What’s really cool is that a lot of times when The Cube has events, there’ll be a classical concert going on. That’s impactful because the classical audience sticks their head in The Cube saying, ‘Hey what’s going on in here,’ and The Cube audience asks the same about Orchestra Hall. It brings people together.” Many components work in tandem to sustain the orchestra itself, among them: commitment and growth. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Michigan in February 2020, orchestra auditions for open positions were held. In total, five auditions for seven open positions will have been facilitated by the close of the 2021-2022 season, as well as an audition cycle for two African American Orchestra Fellows. This winter, Jader awarded DSO tenure to Principal Flute Hannah Hammel, Assistant Principal Oboe Sarah Lewis, Violin Alexander Volkov, and Bass Brandon Mason. “Having an orchestra of tenured musicians bakes in a sense of lifelong commitment to the orchestra and organization: carrying on musical traditions, growing as an ensemble, and working together to create the best possible conditions for music-making,” says Brandon. After a year-long probationary period every new orchestra member plays

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through, the musicians got a green light to grow their roots in Detroit. When you consider that it is not unusual for tenured musicians to spend the remainder of their career with the same organization, the process makes sense: it’s serious business. As Hannah puts it, “Tenure is the final step in feeling confident to call this orchestra and city your forever home;” the new status recognizes each as a critical part of the DSO’s artistic vision and signals the institution’s investment in the future. Asked “Why pursue tenure at the DSO?,” the musicians pointed to the caliber of their colleagues, the great sound they achieve together, and Jader’s leadership. But no less important was the nature of the organization. Alexander values the DSO’s commitment to engaging with audiences across the city, “It is an exciting characteristic,” he says. “I believe that our duty is to give performances that will have audiences returning for more, encouraging their families and friends to join a community that has revolved around art for over 100 years in this corner of the country.” Read more about the impact of our Detroit Neighborhood Initiative on page 16.

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT

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“ It has been such a delight getting to know Ed and Linda, and to share their love of music. Not only are they leaders at the DSO, but they are passionate concertgoers, which is reflected in their engagement and enthusiasm when attending. I cannot think of better people to be involved in the DSO family.” —Eric Nowlin, Principal Viola, Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair

Ed Levy, Jr. and Linda Dresner: A Stylish Heart for Service A hero doesn’t always wear a cape. Cliché, yes. But the fabric that threads the hero aesthetic is a heart for service. In times of supportive need, a hero is willing to take action. This type of leadership contributed to the resurrection of the DSO’s historic home, Orchestra Hall, following a Save Orchestra Hall campaign that cultivated a coalition of DSO musicians, fans, and Detroit residents advocating for the preservation of the music and cultural institution. Supporters demonstrated through a series of marches, sidewalk performances, and donations. Ed Levy, Jr. and his late wife Julie were major supporters of that campaign. Together, they also established endowment support for the chair of the Principal Viola, known as the Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair, currently held by Eric Nowlin. Today, Ed, the CEO of Edw. C. Levy Co., and his second wife, fashion icon Linda Dresner, continue their dedication to the flourishing of the DSO. Linda serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and Ed, whose affinity for classical music developed as a student in Detroit Public Schools, can often be seen giving standing ovations during concerts at Orchestra Hall.

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The DSO is proud to honor the couple at this year’s Heroes Gala on Saturday, June 18 for their unwavering support, cultural impact, and societal influence. Ed and Linda’s generosity continue to amplify and evolve the organization’s artistic, educational, and community programs.

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T R A N S F O R M AT I O N A L S U P P O R T The DSO is grateful to the donors who have made extraordinary endowment investments through the DSO Impact Campaign or multi-year, comprehensive gifts to support general operations, capital improvements, or special programs.

FOUNDING FAMILIES Julie & Peter Cummings The Davidson-Gerson Family and the William Davidson Foundation The Richard C. Devereaux Foundation Erb Family and the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation The Fisher Family and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Penny & Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. FisherMM

Stanley & Judy Frankel and the Samuel & Jean Frankel Foundation Danialle & Peter Karmanos, Jr. Mort & Brigitte Harris Foundation Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. James B. & Ann V. Nicholson and PVS Chemicals, Inc. Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Clyde & Helen Wu◊

VISIONARIES

Alan J. & Sue Kaufman and FamilyMM Shari & Craig MorganMM Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

CHAMPIONS

Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation DTE Energy Foundation Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs. Morton E. Harris◊ John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation

LEADERS

Applebaum Family Philanthropy Charlotte Arkin Estate Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Adel & Walter Dissett Herman & Sharon Frankel Ruth & Al◊ Glancy Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Ronald M. & Carol◊ Horwitz Ric & Carola Huttenlocher MM John C. Leyhan Estate

Mr.◊ & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook MM W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn MM Mary Rita Cuddohy Estate Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff MM Adel & Walter Dissett MM DSO Musicians MM Bette Dyer Estate Marjorie S. Fisher Fund MM Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman

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Mrs. Bonnie Larson The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ms. Deborah Miesel Dr. William F. Pickard The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Stephen M. Ross Family of Dr. Clyde and Helen Wu

Bud & Nancy Liebler Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation David & Valerie McCammon Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Pat & Hank◊ Nickol Jack & Aviva Robinson◊ Martie & Bob Sachs Mr. & Mrs.◊ Alan E. Schwartz Drs. Doris Tong & Teck Soo Paul & Terese Zlotoff

BENEFACTORS

Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Frankel MM Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak MM Victor◊ & Gale Girolami Fund The Glancy Foundation, Inc. Herbert & Dorothy Graebner◊ Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes MM Mr. & Mrs. David Jaffa Renato & Elizabeth Jamett MM Allan & Joy Nachman MM Ann & Norman◊ Katz Morgan & Danny Kaufman MM Dr. Melvin A. Lester◊

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Deceased

Florine Mark Michigan Arts & Culture Council Dr. Glenda D. Price Ruth Rattner Mr. & Mrs.◊ Lloyd E. Reuss Nancy Schlichting & Pamela Theisen Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Jane & Larry Sherman Cindy McTee & Leonard Slatkin Marilyn Snodgrass Estate Mr. James G. Vella MM Eva von Voss and Family MM

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n February 9, the DSO held a free community concert at St. Hedwig Catholic Church in Southwest Detroit. It was an inspired performance by our world class orchestra in an exquisite venue, but that wasn’t the only thing that made the evening special. This event was a hallmark moment for an effort that has been ongoing since the development of the DSO’s Social Progress Initiative in 2017. The initiative affirms a commitment to continuous dialogue and action that leverages the power of music to improve the quality of life for the people of Detroit and beyond. This aspirational vision has since coalesced into specific actions—like the St. Hedwig concert—that comprise the DSO’s Detroit Neighborhood Initiative. The Neighborhood Initiative’s core is a commitment to community partnership-building and listening. This work began in 2020 with community listening sessions in the neighborhoods of Chandler Park and Southwest and has since grown to involve more than 100 organizations. The goal of meeting residents, listening, and learning about each neighborhood’s vibrant culture is to build sustainable relationships and co-create celebratory musical experiences with the people who live, work, and grow in each neighborhood. Each element of the St. Hedwig Musical Experience was responsive to the DSO’s growing understanding of and respect for the incredible community of Southwest 16

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Detroit, an area where more than half of residents identify as Hispanic or Latinx. The evening’s conductor, Nashville Symphony Principal Pops Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez, addressed the audience in both Spanish and English, offering insight into each piece with humor, grace, and wit. The program included sacred and popular favorites by Latin American composers Ernesto Lecuona, Zequinha Abreu, Vinicio Meza, and Ary Barroso, plus works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georges Bizet. Pelea de gallos, a classic piece by Juan S. Garrido, came alive with audience participation and a traditional performance by dancers from Ballet Folklorico Moyocoyani Izel. At the end of the program, the DSO presented local music education partners with some of the first instruments collected from the fall instrument drive that was part of the orchestra’s Detroit Harmony program. The effort brought us one step closer to our goal of putting an instrument in the hand of every K-12 student in the city of Detroit who wants to learn to play. Nearly 300 people attended the St. Hedwig event—more than one-third who saw a DSO concert for the first time. The DSO will continue to bring these musical experiences to communities across Detroit, with the next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative concert slated to take place at Greater Grace Temple in Northwest Detroit on April 30 at 7 p.m. The Detroit Neighborhood Initiative is supported by General Motors and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The city of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship partnered with the DSO for the February 9 event and the performance was sponsored by General Motors. SPRING 2021-2022

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Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

TERENCE BLANCHARD

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

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Music Director Emeritus

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THIBAUDET: RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO IN G Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 3 p.m. at Orchestra Hall JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano WEI YU, cello ERIC NOWLIN, viola Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers (b. 1990) Maurice Ravel Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra (1875 - 1937) I. Allegramente II. Adagio assai III. Presto Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Intermission Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1864 - 1949) I. Introduction II. Theme and variations III. Finale Wei Yu, cello Eric Nowlin, viola

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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PROGRAM NOTES Fate Now Conquers Composed 2020 | Premiered 2020

CARLOS SIMON B. 1986, Atlanta, Georgia

Scored for flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 5 minutes)

arlos Simon is a native of Atlanta, Georgia whose music ranges from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence. With his music being described as “perfectly engaging and propulsive” (The Philadelphia Enquirer), Simon’s latest album, My Ancestor’s Gift, was released on the Navona Records label in April 2018. Described as an “overall driving force” (Review Graveyard) and featured on Apple Music’s “Albums to Watch”, My Ancestor’s Gift incorporates spoken word and historic recordings to craft a multifaceted program of musical works that are inspired as much by the past as they are the present. As a part of the Sundance Institute, Simon was named as a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018, which was held at the historic Skywalker Ranch. His string quartet, Elegy, honoring the lives of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner was recently performed at the Kennedy Center for the Mason Bates JFK Jukebox Series. With support from the US Embassy in Tokyo and US/Japan Foundation, Simon traveled with the Asia/ America New Music Institute (AANMI) on a two-week tour of Japan in 2018 performing concerts in some of the most sacred temples and concert spaces in Japan including Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Simon earned his doctorate degree at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michael Daugherty and Evan

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Chambers. He also earned degrees from Georgia State University and Morehouse College. Additionally, he studied in Baden, Austria at the Hollywood Music Workshop with Conrad Pope and at New York University’s Film Scoring Summer Workshop. Of Fate Now Conquers, Simon wrote the following: “This piece was inspired by a journal entry from Ludwig van Beethoven’s notebook written in 1815: ‘Iliad. The Twenty-Second Book: But Fate now conquers; I am hers; and yet not she shall share In my renown; that life is left to every noble spirit, And that some great deed shall beget that all lives shall inherit.’ Using the beautifully fluid harmonic structure of the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th symphony, I have composed musical gestures that are representative of the unpredictable ways of fate. Jolting stabs, coupled with an agitated groove with every persona. Frenzied arpeggios in the strings that morph into an ambiguous cloud of free-flowing running passages depicts the uncertainty of life that hoovers over us. We know that Beethoven strived to overcome many obstacles in his life and documented his aspirations to prevail, despite his ailments. Whatever the specific reason for including this particularly profound passage from the Iliad, in the end, it seems that Beethoven relinquished to fate. Fate now conquers.” This performance marks the DSO premiere of Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers.

Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra Composed 1929-1931 | Premiered 1932

MAURICE RAVEL B. March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France D. December 28, 1937, Paris, France

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he years-long physical decline of Maurice Ravel was one of the most tragic in the annals of music history. The composer suffered from a brain disease that left him lucid yet helpless, unable to write, speak, or play an instrument: full of ideas, yet no way to communicate them. But in 1929, Ravel was healthy, quite popular (particularly for his ballet Boléro), and financially stable following an American concert tour. In good spirits, he set out to create a long-postponed piano concerto—or two, rather, as the G major and D major (left hand) concertos were composed concurrently. The G major concerto, which he intended to perform himself, would be a showcase of both his pianistic and compositional talents. Some of the material came from works abandoned over the previous decade or so, and other parts were strongly influenced by an American export to Europe: Le Jaz Hot, the frantic swing of New Orleans. Overall, it is a superbly constructed juxtaposition of American jazz, Iberian exoticism, and the modern piano sound of the 1920s. Though he sometimes struggled to blend the traditional with the popular, Ravel considered his piano concerto to be both his best and most characteristic work. But the dreadful illness that would eventually kill him had already set into Ravel as the composition was nearing completion. By 1931, when the piece was finished and ready for its debut, Ravel was no longer able to play the piano. He settled for conducting the premiere, with his friend Marguerite Long as the soloist. The DSO most recently performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major in February 2018, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. The DSO first performed the piece in January 1933, conducted by Victor Kolar and featuring pianist Edward Bredshall.

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Don Quixote, Op. 35 Composed 1897 | Premiered 1898

RICHARD STRAUSS B. June 11, 1864, Munich, Germany D. September 8, 1949, GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany

Scored for solo cello, solo viola, 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (1 doubling on E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 40 minutes)

ichard Strauss is not the only composer to take inspiration from the seriously comic story of Don Quixote, but there can be little question that the “Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character,” as his orchestral treatment of the tale is subtitled, is the most elaborate and richly detailed attempt to portray in music the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes’s romantically deranged hero. Strauss wrote Don Quixote in 1897, which places it in the same period as his other famous tone poems: Till Eulenspiegel, Death and Transfiguration, Don Juan, and Ein Heldenleben. However, Don Quixote is formally quite unlike those works. Indeed, it is unlike any other composition one might think of. In rendering into music the outline and details of a literary subject, it is a tone poem. Its considerable length, variety of themes, and industrious development of them point to a symphonic conception, but the composition is structured not as a symphony. Instead of the usual three or four movements, it is a set of variations on a group of several melodies. It also features a solo part for cello, as in a concerto, and the conspicuous roles for several other instruments—notably viola, violin, and bass clarinet—point to the concerto grosso form, in which several players from the orchestra form a featured ensemble.

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A prologue, marked “Introduction,” presents several themes associated with the major characters in Cervantes’s tale. We meet Don Quixote, filled with dreams of knightly glory, in the opening measures. His theme, an ascending flourish followed by a slow descent (how symbolically appropriate!), appears principally in the solo cello during the course of the work. Dulcinea, the fair lady of Don Quixote’s heart, is represented by a romantic melody for the oboe. Then comes Sancho Panza, the Don’s simple companion, portrayed by the bass clarinet and tuba. These three themes are ingeniously transformed and combined in the variations that follow, which can be heard as a succession of musical tableaux depicting episodes from the story. Briefly to outline the sequence of events: After the Introduction, Don Quixote sets out with Sancho Panza as a knight-errant. Inspired by thoughts of Dulcinea, he charges into battle against fierce giants who are, in fact, windmills. Next, the Don attacks an “army” of sheep, whose bleating is sounded by the orchestral brass. An interlude follows,

during which the knight contemplates the ideals of chivalry and Sancho Panza voices more practical concerns. Following a misadventure in which Don Quixote attacks a band of pilgrims (their chant is heard in the muted brass), he is inspired by a vision of Dulcinea. Sancho Panza tries to mock the lady, provoking the wrath of his master. The most graphic episode of the piece then depicts the Don as he imagines himself flying through the air on a magic horse. An ill-fated boat ride leads to combat with a pair of monks (portrayed by two bassoons), whom the Don imagines to be magicians. Finally, Don Quixote is brought to his senses, and in an epilogue gains a brief moment of lucidity before dying in peace. — Paul Schiavo The DSO most recently performed Strauss’s Don Quixote in October 2009, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring Robert deMaine (cello) and Alexander Mishnaevski (viola). The DSO first performed the piece in January 1932, conducted by Victor Kolar and featuring Georges Miquelle (cello) and Valbert P. Coffey (viola).

PROFILES For Jader Bignamini bio, see page 6

JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET

or more than three decades, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed worldwide, recorded more than 50 albums, and built a reputation as one of today’s finest pianists. Thibaudet has a lifelong passion for education and fostering young musical talent. He is the first-ever Artist-in-Residence at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he makes his home. In 2017, the school announced the JeanYves Thibaudet Scholarships, funded by members of Colburn’s donor community, to provide aid for Music Academy students, whom Thibaudet will select for the 20

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merit-based awards, regardless of their instrument choice. Thibaudet records exclusively for Decca; his extensive catalogue has received two Grammy nominations, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Diapason d’Or, the Choc du Monde de la Musique, the Edison Prize, and Gramophone awards. His most recent album, 2021’s Carte Blanche, features a collection of deeply personal solo piano pieces never before recorded by the pianist. Other highlights from Thibaudet’s catalogue include a 2017 recording of Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop, with whom he previously recorded Gershwin, featuring big band jazz orchestrations of Rhapsody in Blue, the Concerto in F, and the original version of Variations on I Got Rhythm. In 2016, on SPRING 2021-2022

the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie’s birth, Decca released a box set of Satie’s complete solo piano music performed by Thibaudet—one of the foremost champions of the composer’s works. On his Grammy-nominated recording of SaintSaëns, Piano Concerti Nos. 2 & 5, released in 2007, he is joined by Charles Dutoit and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Thibaudet’s Aria – Opera Without Words, which was released the same year, features aria transcriptions, some of which are Thibaudet’s own. His other recordings include the jazz albums Reflections on Duke: Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays the Music of Duke Ellington and Conversations With Bill Evans.

WEI YU

ei Yu was appointed Principal Cello of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2014. He made his subscription debut performing Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and has frequently appeared as soloist with the DSO since. Before joining the DSO, Yu was a member of the New York Philharmonic for seven seasons. Yu is a prizewinner at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String, Holland American Music Society Cello, Music Teacher National Association (MTNA National Collegiate Strings), Canada’s National Music Festival, Calgary’s Kiwanis Festival, and China’s National Cello competitions. A successful instructor, Yu serves on faculty of Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. He has given cello masterclasses at universities and festivals in the United States, Canada, Poland, and China. During the summer, Yu teaches at the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival in Calgary, Canada; Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra, and the Center Stage Strings Summer Institute at the University of Michigan.

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Born in Shanghai, China, Yu began studying the cello at age 4 and made his concerto debut at age 11, performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He received his B.M. from North Park University in Chicago and M.M. from the Juilliard School. His principal teachers include Mei-Juan Liu, John Kadz, Hans Jørgen Jensen, and David Soyer.

ERIC NOWLIN

iolist Eric Nowlin has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Past accomplishments include receiving second prize in the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg Competition, first prize in the Irving Klein International String Competition, first prize in the Hellam Young Artists Competition, grand prize in the Naftzger Young Artists Competition, and being named winner of the Juilliard Viola Concerto Competition. Nowlin was previously the Associate Principal viola in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has served as guest principal viola with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Metropolis Ensemble, and Cleveland’s Citymusic, as well as substitute viola with the New York Philharmonic. Nowlin is Assistant Professor of Viola at Michigan State University and has previously been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, as well as Instructor of Viola at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, as a scholarship student of Samuel Rhodes. Nowlin plays on a 1757 J.B. Guadagnini viola on generous loan from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, as well as a viola from 1910 made by Giovanni Pistucci, and a viola made by Sam Zygmuntowicz in 2019.

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Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

TERENCE BLANCHARD

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Laureate

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SAINT-GEORGES & MOZART 39 Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 8 p.m. at Orchestra Hall XIAN ZHANG, conductor KAREN GOMYO, violin Elizabeth Ogonek In Silence (b. 1989) Karen Gomyo, violin Joseph Boulogne, Violin Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.5 Chevalier de Saint-Georges Allegro Andante moderato Rondeau Karen Gomyo, violin Intermission Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543 (1756 - 1791) I. Adagio - Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Allegro

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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PROGRAM NOTES In Silence Composed 2016-2017 | Premiered 2017

ELIZABETH OGONEK B. 1989, New York, NY

Scored for solo violin, percussion, keyboard, and strings. (Approx. 25 minutes)

lizabeth Ogonek, whose music has been described as “shimmering,” “dramatic,” and “painstakingly crafted” by the Chicago Tribune, is an American composer living and working in New York. Upcoming projects for the 2021-22 season include a new chamber work for the 75th anniversary season of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, and a new orchestral work that has been co-commissioned by the BBC Proms and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Ogonek has worked closely with the London Symphony Orchestra, for whom she has written two orchestral works. Ogonek’s work has been recognized by the ASCAP Foundation, the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Ohio Arts Council, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A former Beinecke and Marshall Scholar, she holds degrees from Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music (BM, 2009), the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music (MM, 2012), and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (DMus, 2017). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at Oberlin Conservatory where she has taught since 2015. In 2015, Ogonek was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as the Mead Composer-in-Residence, a position which she held alongside Samuel Adams until 2018. During her tenure with the CSO, she was commissioned to write three new works, including In Silence (after Biber), a chamber violin concerto featuring violinist Benjamin Beilman, which was premiered under the direction of Elim Chan. This piece draws influence from musical elements found in sonatas

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by Bohemian-Austrian Baroque composer Heinrich Biber, believed to be written around 1676 but left unpublished until 1905. These sonatas are often known as The Mystery Sonatas, inspired by the mysteries surrounding the Rosary devotion in the Catholic Church. These works are strikingly inventive and far beyond their time in harmonies and unorthodox tunings. There are 15 sonatas in total in this set, concluding with a final passacaglia for solo violin serving as the 16th movement. In Silence explores sonorities and experimentation with tuning modeled after Biber’s innovative compositional style and techniques, involving different ways of thinking about resonance, chords, and adjacent pitches. This work for solo violin and eight players embodies Ogonek’s fascination with using existing musical material as “found object” and a point of creative departure to build upon, in this case being the works of Heinrich Biber. Each of Biber’s 15 sonatas and 16th movement are written in a different tuning, a technique that Ogonek utilizes and expands upon. There is an intelligence and compelling concentration present within this piece. Influenced by the silence she experienced as a child through attending multiple services and repeated homilies on weekends when her mother was a church musician, the title In Silence represents the flights of the imagination that came from this silence, with the material existing in this piece serving to transform the flight of imagination. Ogonek would attend numerous church masses each weekend where she would sit “in silence” with the choir, giving her brilliant mind an opportunity to run wild. Of the piece, Lawrence A. Johnson of Chicago Classical Review wrote, “This piece is strikingly individual and uniquely compelling. It manages to be both comfortingly traditional yet edgy and disquieting. In Silence is a violin concerto for our time–soloistic, expressive and often lyrical, yet tense, restless and unsettled in a way that feels very modern.” This performance marks the DSO premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s In Silence. DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 23

PROGRAM NOTES Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 5 JOSEPH BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINTGEORGES B. December 25, 1745, Baillif, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe D. June 10, 1799, Paris, France

Scored for solo violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. (Approx. 22 minutes)

oseph Bologne, Chevalier de SaintGeorges, was a highly accomplished composer and violinist known for his virtuosic solo repertoire, symphonic masterpieces, and leading many renowned orchestras in Paris throughout the mid-18th century. Bologne possessed outstanding talent and excelled at every activity he pursued from a very young age. Although he was incredibly well-accomplished, having commissioned and premiered six symphonies by Joseph Haydn and possessing an extensive list of musical accomplishments, he is seldom mentioned in music history. He was the son of Anne (known as Nanon), an enslaved woman of Senegalese origin, and Georges de Bologne Saint-Georges, a wealthy plantation owner and Nanon’s enslaver. Despite Nanon being the enslaved servant to his wife Elisabeth, Georges de Bologne acknowledged paternity of Joseph and gave him his surname, part of which—“de Saint-Georges”—was named after his plantations in Guadeloupe. Bologne graduated from the Royal Academy in 1766 and was named an officer in the court of King Louis XV shortly after, bestowing him the title of “Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges.” This title came with an abundance of connections, which Bologne used to pursue his musical career and begin playing violin in the Concert des Amateurs in 1769, a renowned orchestra consisting of the finest musicians from Paris and beyond. He eventually became the director of this 24

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ensemble and organized concerts featuring himself as the soloist. Bologne was a sought-after teacher and counted Marie Antoinette among his former students. Bologne’s musical career continued to flourish, and he went on to compose several string quartets, concertos, symphonies, and operas. His name was considered to be the obvious choice to take over as the next director of the Paris Opéra by aristocrats in 1776, but Bologne withdrew his application upon learning about a petition made by several leading ladies in the opera, who claimed that they could not submit to his orders because of his race. The rise of the French Revolution posed moral challenges to Joseph Bologne, since the majority of his life consisted of being a member of the aristocracy. However, Bologne ultimately decided to side with the Revolution and serve as a military leader for a legion of soldiers of color, later known as the “Légion Saint-Georges.” Bologne fought alongside General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the father of renowned Black novelist Alexandre Dumas. He came out of the Revolution as heroic, but was soon denounced and imprisoned due to rising paranoia from the war. The majority of his music was lost during the Revolution, and what had survived was soon forgotten. Fortunately, within the last few decades, the world has begun to once again remember, appreciate, and celebrate his work. Chevalier de Saint-Georges’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 5 was composed in 1775 in four movements. This piece was written for performance with the Concert des Amateurs, a renowned orchestra consisting of the region’s best noble and professional orchestral musicians, and for whom Bologne served as the musical director beginning in 1773. As a virtuosic and accomplished violinist, Bologne premiered all his violin concertos with the Concert des Amateurs featuring himself as the soloist. Between the years of 1773 and 1785, Bologne composed around 12 violin concertos, all incredibly virtuosic in nature and highly underperformed. Many of these works were SPRING 2021-2022

historically forgotten until the late 20th century, when they were republished. The original manuscript of Bologne’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is preserved in the library of the Paris Conservatoire. This performance marks the DSO premiere of Chevalier de Saint-Georges’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major.

Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543 Composed 1788 | Premiered 1788

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART B. January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria D. December 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria

Scored for flute, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 25 minutes)

hen Mozart began writing symphonies at the age of eight, the form was in its infancy and was not at all the exalted musical expression it later became. He was not necessarily an innovator, but over the years his genius turned the once humble form into one of great subtlety, variety, and expressive power, and the symphony rose from an insignificant concert opener to become the focal point of orchestral programs. Music history contains many stories of composers who could not find an audience and who perished virtually penniless, and Mozart is unfortunately included among these. The summer of 1788 was particularly difficult. The composer was earning a small stipend in the employ of Emperor Joseph II, but was seriously in arrears financially, and had to write a heartbreakingly desperate letter to his close friend Michael Puchberg, begging for assistance. Puchberg did what he could, but it was not enough, and for the rest of his tragically short life Mozart would never again know financial stability. Mozart used the summer months to make some practical attempts at earning

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money, such as writing educational works and easy pieces that might be more likely to sell. But in the midst of this depressing time, Mozart achieved one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of music: composing three major symphonies in the space of just six weeks. The speed at which he composed these masterpieces is amazing enough, but just as incredible is the variety between the three, each one with a character and mood distinctly its own. Although it is not performed as often as Nos. 40 and 41, the Symphony No. 39 has become one of Mozart’s best-loved symphonies, receiving high praise from scholars and musicians alike for more than 200 years. Certainly, the symphony breathes a spirit of joy and positive spirits, and the scoring of the symphony is a departure from Mozart’s norm. The key here is E-flat major, which for Mozart implied warmth, solidity, and even solemnity. The dramatic opening gradually gives way to a very lyrical and graceful first movement, whose two main themes are set apart by their contrasting character and their instrumentation: the first featuring the strings, the second highlighting the rich texture of the newly used clarinets. Very often, the third movement in a Classical symphony is the least striking, used sometimes to just make a bridge between the more imposing music of the slow movement and finale—but not here. In some respects, this may be the most interesting of the four movements, as it is a rather boisterous minuet with the trio section containing an endearing, lilting dance tune. The symphony then concludes with a brilliant, lighthearted, and even humorous finale, built on a single theme, as many of Haydn’s finales were. Once again, this is not typical of Mozart’s last movements, which are often full of melodic ideas. The DSO most recently performed Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in January 2017, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The DSO first performed the work in March 1915, conducted by Weston Gales.

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PROFILES XIAN ZHANG

KAREN GOMYO

ian Zhang is currently in her sixth season as Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She also holds the positions of Principal Guest Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor Emeritus of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi following a hugely successful period from 2009-2016 as their Music Director. European engagements this season and the next include Philharmonia Orchestra (Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde), La Verdi in Milan, Spanish National Orchestra, the orchestra of Komische Oper in Berlin, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. In recent seasons, she has conducted the Orchestre National de Lyon at the Paris Philharmonie (Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique), and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as part of La Folle Journée festival in Nantes. Upcoming US engagements include returns to San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minnesota, Montreal, NAC Ottawa, and Toronto symphony orchestras. Zhang will make her debut with The Metropolitan Opera in 2024. She has recently conducted Tosca for Cincinnati Opera. Previous opera engagements have included Nabucco with Welsh National Opera, Otello with Savonlinna Festival, La Traviata for Den Norske Opera (Oslo), La bohème for English National Opera, and La forza del destino with Washington National Opera. Zhang has previously served as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales and was the first female conductor to hold a titled role with a BBC orchestra. In 2002, she won first prize in the Maazel-Vilar Conductor’s Competition. She was appointed New York Philharmonic’s Assistant Conductor in 2002, subsequently becoming their Associate Conductor and the first holder of the Arturo Toscanini Chair.

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iolinist Karen Gomyo has captivated audiences in North America, Europe, and Australasia with her musical integrity, technical assurance, and compelling interpretations. Gomyo has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Vancouver, Indianapolis, and Oregon symphonies, among others. Recent and upcoming appearances in North America include a tour with the Toronto Symphony to Montreal and Ottawa, and re-engagements with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, Milwaukee and New Jersey symphonies. Strongly committed to contemporary works, in May 2018, Gomyo performed the world premiere of Samuel Adams’s Chamber Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen to great critical acclaim. The work was written for her and commissioned by the CSO to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its MusicNow series. In April 2022, she premiered a double concerto written for her and trumpet player Tine Thing Helsmeth by composer Xi Wang with the Dallas Symphony. Gomyo is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, and collaborates with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler. She also performs regularly with the Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen. Born in Tokyo, Gomyo studied in Montreal and in New York at The Juilliard School with famed violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. She plays on the “Aurora, exFoulis” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.

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THE DOO WOP PROJECT Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at Orchestra Hall

ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor Vocalists: DOMINIC NOLFI CHARL BROWN DWAYNE COOPER RUSSELL FISCHER JOHN MICHAEL DIAS Drums: JOE BERGAMINI Music Director/ Piano: BRENT FREDERICK

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PROFILES ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ

nrico Lopez-Yañez is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Nashville Symphony where he leads the Symphony’s pops series and family series. Lopez-Yañez is quickly establishing himself as one of the nation’s leading conductors of popular music and becoming known for his unique style of audience engagement. Since working with the Nashville Symphony, Lopez-Yañez has conducted concerts with a broad spectrum of artists including Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Richard Marx, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Hanson, and more. This season, Lopez-Yañez will collaborate with artists including Itzhak Perlman, Nas, Leslie Odom Jr., Stewart Copeland of The Police, Ben Folds, Kenny G, and Jennifer Nettles. Lopez-Yañez will appear with the Cinncinatti Pops, Dallas Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Pacific Symphony San Diego Symphony, and will make return appearances with the Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, and Sarasota Symphony, among others. As Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, LopezYañez curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences. An enthusiastic proponent of innovating the concert experience, his exciting education, classical, and pops concerts are performed by orchestras across the United States.

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he Doo Wop Project (DWP) begins at the beginning, tracing the inception of group singing developed by inner city African Americans performing tight harmonies on a street corner, to the biggest hits on the radio today. In their epic shows DWP takes audiences on a journey from foundational tunes of groups like The Crests, The Belmonts, and The Flamingos through their influences on the sounds of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and The Four Seasons all the way to DooWopified versions of modern musicians like Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, and Maroon 5. Featuring stars of 28

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Broadway’s smash hits Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical, the Doo Wop Project brings unparalleled authenticity of sound and vocal excellence to recreate—and in some cases entirely reimagine—some of the greatest music in American pop and rock history!

DOMINIC NOLFI

ominic Nolfi has recently performed on Broadway in Chazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale - The Musical, directed by Robert DeNiro and Jerry Zaks. As an Original Cast member of A Bronx Tale — The Musical, Motown: The Musical (Grammy Award-nominated) and Jersey Boys (Grammy Award for Best Cast Album, Tony Award for Best Musical), he can be heard on all three soundtracks. Nolfi also performed in the world premiere productions of A Bronx Tale and Jersey Boys at the Paper Mill Playhouse and the La Jolla Playhouse. Dom was born and raised in San Francisco where he studied youth acting at the acclaimed American Conservatory Theatre. He studied Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory and attended the Boston Conservatory on scholarship where he graduated with a BFA in Theater.

CHARL BROWN

harl Brown was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Smokey Robinson in Motown: The Musical on Broadway and he reprised this role opening London’s West End production in 2016. He is also featured on the Grammy Award-nominated Original Broadway Cast recording. Credits include Jersey Boys Broadway & Las Vegas, Sister Act Broadway, “The Who’s Tommy,” Denver Center, Kennedy Center “Ever After,” Johnny Baseball, Dreamgirls, Ragtime Performance Riverside, Six Degrees of Separation at Long Beach Playhouse, Jesus Christ Superstar at Westwood Theater, A Chorus Line at Starlight Theater, and Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television appearances include Evil, Madam Secretary, and America’s Got SPRING 2021-2022

Talent, Macy’s 85th and 87th Thanksgiving Day Parade, The 63rd Annual Tony Awards, and A Capitol 4th 2013. Brown is a proud graduate of the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts where he currently sits on the advisory board for the inaugural BFA in Musical Theater Class.

DWAYNE COOPER

wayne (The Bass) Cooper is from Florence, SC and currently lives in New York City. He first began singing with a Christian A capella group called, “The Cunningham Singers” where he learned how to sing in tight harmonies. Often referred to as a modern-day Sammy Davis Jr. meets Barry White, he is what the industry calls a “triple threat” and has performed in the Broadway Casts of Motown: The Musical and Hairspray and the NY Revival/Off-Broadway production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and has done several national tours. As a songwriter, he has charted on Billboard’s Top Ten Dance Chart and as a sketch comedy writer, his YouTube videos have been seen by over 1 million people. Cooper’s television and film credits include Law and Order, Difficult People, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and RuPaul’s Drag Race.

RUSSELL FISCHER

ussell Fischer was cast in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys on his 22nd birthday, marking his Broadway debut. Fischer starred in the second national tour of Big: The Musical. His latest NYC credit was in Baby Fat, Act 1: A Rock Opera at LaMama Experimental Theater Club. Regional credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Music Man at Chautauqua Opera, the American premiere of Children of Eden at Papermill Playhouse, and most recently, the Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival premiere of The Collins Boy. Fischer was a featured vocalist on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and in the HBO documentary, The Bronx, USA. He has appeared on the live broadcasts of the 2015 Belmont Stakes, the 2009 Tony Awards, and several spots for TV Land’s 60 Second Sitcoms. dso.org

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JOHN MICHAEL DIAS

ohn Michael Dias recently appeared on Broadway as Neil Sedaka in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning hit Beautiful: The Carol King Musical. He originated the same role for the Beautiful First National Tour. Originally from Tiverton, RI, Dias earned a BFA in musical theatre from Boston Conservatory. Dias gained a nationwide following starring as Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons in the smash hit Jersey Boys, playing the role on Broadway, as well as in the First National Tour, Vegas, and Chicago companies. Concert appearances include Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Neil Sedaka’s Greatest Hits! and Get Happy (a celebration of songs made famous by Judy Garland) With friend and collaborator Jacqueline Carnahan. Dias’s solo album, Write This Way, which features intimate takes on Broadway and pop favorites like “Can’t Take My Eyes off of You” and “New York State of Mind” is available on iTunes.

JOE BERGAMINI

oe Bergamini maintains a diverse career as a drumming performer and educator. Enjoying various styles of playing, he is well-known for his progressive rock drumming in the bands Happy the Man and 4Front. Currently, Bergamini tours internationally as the drummer for The Doo-Wop Project, and he has worked extensively on Broadway. In 2018, he held the drum chair for the Broadway production of Gettin’ the Band Back Together, and has also performed in School of Rock: The Musical; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Hamilton; Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812; Movin’ Out; Jersey Boys; Rock of Ages; In the Heights; SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark; Jesus Christ Superstar (2012 revival); Bring It On; Million Dollar Quartet; Pippin (2013 revival), and The Lion King. He has also appeared on the first national tours of Movin’ Out, Jersey Boys, and Beautiful, and with the Philly Pops and the Detroit, Jacksonville, Seattle, Indianapolis, and Vancouver symphony orchestras.

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LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

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SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS Friday, June 3, 2022 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 3 p.m. at Orchestra Hall DAMON GUPTON, conductor Richard A. Whiting arr. John WIlliams

Hooray for Hollywood

John Williams Suite from Jaws Theme from Jaws Howard Hanson Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, “Romantic” I. Adagio Hans Zimmer Music from Gladiator arr. John Wasson Alan Silvestri End Title from Predator ed. Victor Pesavento Alan Silvestri arr. Calvin Custer

Forrest Gump Suite

Alan Menken arr. Danny Troob

Aladdin Orchestral Suite

Elmer Bernstein ed. Patrick Russ

The Magnificent Seven

Michael Giacchino

“Married Life” from Up

James Horner arr. John Moss Lalo Schifrin arr. Calvin Custer

Intermission

Music from Apollo 13 Theme from Mission Impossible

Klaus Badelt Selections from Pirates of the Caribbean: arr. Ted Ricketts The Curse of the Black Pearl The Medallion Calls Blood Ritual Walk the Plank The Black Pearl John Williams Star Wars Suite for Orchestra Main Title 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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amon Gupton is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. A native of Detroit, he served as American Conducting Fellow of the Houston Symphony and held the post of assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. His conducting appearances include the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Florida Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, NHK Orchestra of Tokyo, Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM, Michigan Youth Arts Festival Honors Orchestra, and Sphinx Symphony as part of the 12th annual Sphinx Competition. He led the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra on two national tours with performances at Carnegie Hall, and has served as conductor of the Van Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. Musical collaborations include work with Marcus Miller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Common, Leslie Odom Jr., Byron Stripling, Tony DeSare, Capathia Jenkins, The Midtown Men, Kenn Hicks, and Jamie Cullum. He has been featured as narrator in many venues including the Cincinnati Pops, Colorado Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Grand Teton Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival, Houston Symphony, Memphis Symphony, and on the the Videmus recording Fare Ye Well. He also narrated a concert version of Beethoven’s Fidelio with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Gupton received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan, where he delivered the commencement address to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance in 2015. He studied conducting with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival and with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C.

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Awards include the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize and The Aspen Conducting Prize. He is the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan School of Music and Alumni Society and is a winner of the Third International Eduardo Mata Conducting Competition. An accomplished actor, Gupton is a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division. He has had roles in television, film, and on stage, most recently starring with Samuel L. Jackson in the Apple TV limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. Other series regular roles include Super Pumped, Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, The Player, The Divide, Prime Suspect, and Deadline as well as guest or recurring appearances on The Comey Rule, Dirty John, Goliath, Bates Motel, The Newsroom, Suits, Empire, Rake starring Greg Kinnear, Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Conviction, The Unusuals, Third Watch, Hack, and Drift. He appeared in Damien Chazelle’s Academy Award-winning films Whiplash and LaLa Land, as well as This is Forty, The Last Airbender, Helen at Risk, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Unfaithful, and The Loretta Claiborne Story. Stage roles include the Broadway production of Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Clybourne Park, the Ovation and LA Drama Critic’s Circle award winning Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by Phylicia Rashad (Mark Taper Forum), Superior Donuts (The Geffen), Christina Anderson’s Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons), Othello (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival), The Story (Public Theater), Meg’s New Friend (The Production Company), Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter (Arena Stage), True History and Real Adventures (The Vineyard Theatre), and Treason (Perry Street Theatre), as well as the title role of Academy Award-winner Eric Simonson’s Carter’s Way at Kansas City Repertory Theater. He received an AUDELCO nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Clybourne Park.

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GIL SHAHAM RETURNS Friday, June 10, 2022 at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 3 p.m. at Orchestra Hall JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor GIL SHAHAM, violin Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)

Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!

Samuel Barber Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 (1910 - 1981) I. Allegro II. Andante III. Presto in moto perpetuo Gil Shaham, violin Intermission Wynton Marsalis Blues Symphony (b. 1961) Born in Hope Swimming in Sorrow Reconstruction Rag Southwestern Shakedown Big City Breaks Danzon y Mambo, Choro y Samba Dialog in Democracy

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PROGRAM NOTES Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! Composed 2022 | Premiered 2022 DSO co-commission

WYNTON MARSALIS B. October 18, 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana

Scored for 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, and percussion. (Approx. 2 minutes)

ynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, and educator, and a leading advocate of American culture. He has recorded more than 70 jazz and classical albums that have garnered him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, Marsalis became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984. In 1997, he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion, and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music. Marsalis’s core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principals of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality dso.org

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of human engagement for individuals, social networks, and cultural institutions throughout the world. Marsalis’s Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! is a fanfare for brass and percussion. This piece was co-commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of New Jersey, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Milwaukee, and Germany’s WDR Symphonieorchester. This performance marks the DSO’s premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 Composed 1939 | Premiered 1941

SAMUEL BARBER B. March 9, 1910, West Chester, PA D. Jan 23, 1981, New York, NY

Scored for solo violin, 2 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion, keyboard, and strings. (Approx. 25 minutes)

amuel Barber began writing his sole violin concerto while traveling in Switzerland in 1939 and completed it in the Pocono Mountains of his native Pennsylvania after leaving Europe with the approach of World War II. The piece was commissioned by industrialist Samuel Simeon Fels with the intention that it would be premiered by Fels’s ward, a young violinist named Iso Briselli. But when Briselli excitedly showed the piece to his teacher Albert Meiff—a close friend of Fels’s—Meiff was unimpressed, and wrote to Fels, imploring him to ask Barber if Meiff could rewrite parts of the concerto. Barber did not budge, but ultimately Briselli backed away from the piece, and it was instead premiered by Albert Spalding. The lengthy four-way correspondence involving Barber, Fels, Briselli, and Meiff is a juicy bit of music-world drama, but the concerto it concerns is ultimately conservative and fastidiously orchestrated, like DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 33

much of Barber’s best work. The first movement is in a standard sonata form, opening with a transparent, long-spun solo violin theme. When this has run its course, the clarinet takes up a puckish second theme, then the violin returns with a rhythmically active theme, marked by numerous bounding-bow passages. The first two themes are rigorously developed before the first theme returns in a major orchestral climax, signaling the recapitulation. A smoothly rising oboe melody at the beginning of the slow movement imparts a pastoral mood, and as this gradually fades away it is joined by a horn theme. Meanwhile, the solo violin dominates the freely designed central section of the movement. The soloist then takes up the oboe theme and the horn theme, bringing the movement to a close. The perpetual-motion finale is not only a tour de force for the solo violin, but for the orchestra as well. It is a fleet, lightfooted movement cast in a rondo form, challenging for all the players onstage. —Carl R. Cunningham The DSO most recently performed Barber’s Violin Concerto in February 2019, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring violinist and current DSO Acting Concertmaster Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy. The DSO first performed the piece in January 1965, conducted by Sixten Ehrling and featuring violinist Jaime Laredo.

Blues Symphony Composed 2009 | Premiered 2009

WYNTON MARSALIS B. October 18, 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana

Scored for 3 flutes (2 doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling on English horn), 3 clarinets (1 doubling on E-flat clarinet, 1 doubling on bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (1 doubling on contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. (Approx. 62 minutes)

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second symphonic work, was many years in the making. Marsalis conceptualized the piece in 2008 and worked with music supervisor Jonathan Kelly for more than a decade on its development, culminating in May 2021 with the release of a recording by The Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Cristian Mǎcelaru. Blues Symphony is a triumphant ode to the power of the blues and the scope of America’s musical heritage. With a blend of influences from ragtime to habanera, the piece takes listeners on a sonic journey through America’s revolutionary era, the early beginnings of jazz in New Orleans, and a big city soundscape that serves as a nod to the Great Migration. Of Blues Symphony, Wynton Marsalis wrote the following: “The Blues Symphony is a sevenmovement work that gives a symphonic identity to the form and feeling of the blues. It utilizes regional and stylistic particulars of the idiom’s language and form to convey the basic point of view of the blues as music: “Life hands you hard times.” When you cry, holler, and shout to release those hard times; when you tease, cajole, and play to diminish them; and when you dance and find a common community through groove, better times will be found. The more profound the pain, the deeper the groove. This piece is intended to further the legacy of Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, James P. Johnson, Leonard Bernstein, John Lewis, Gunther Schuller, and others who were determined to add the innovations of jazz to the vocabulary of the symphonic orchestra. I believe there is an organic and real connection between all Western traditions regardless of instrumentation, and that the symphonic orchestra can and will swing, play the blues, feature melodic improvisation, and execute the more virtuosic aspects of jazz and American vernacular music with absolute authenticity.” This performance marks the DSO premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony.

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GIL SHAHAM

il Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time; his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy Award-winner, also named Musical America’s “Instrumentalist of the Year,” is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals. Highlights of recent years include the acclaimed recording and performances of J.S. Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. In the coming seasons, in addition to championing these solo works, he will join his long-time duo partner, pianist Akira Eguchi, in recitals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He appears regularly with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and San Francisco Symphony, as well as multi-year residencies with the Orchestras of Montreal, Stuttgart, and Singapore. With orchestra, Shaham continues his exploration of “Violin Concertos of the 1930s,” including the

works of Barber, Bartok, Berg, Korngold, Prokofiev, and others. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammy Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Many of these recordings appear on Canary Classics, the label he founded in 2004. His CDs include 1930s Violin Concertos, Virtuoso Violin Works, Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Hebrew Melodies, The Butterfly Lovers, and more. His most recent recording in the series 1930s Violin Concertos Vol. 2, including Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto and Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Shaham was born in ChampaignUrbana, Illinois, in 1971. He moved with his parents to Israel, where he began violin studies with Samuel Bernstein of the Rubin Academy of Music at the age of seven, receiving annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, and the following year, took the first prize in Israel’s Claremont Competition. He then became a scholarship student at Juilliard and studied at Columbia University. Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius, and lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.

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THE ANNUAL FUND

Gifts Received between September 1, 2020 and February 28, 2022

The DSO is a community-supported orchestra, and 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

PARAY SOCIETY - GIVING OF $250,000 & MORE Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Penny & Harold Blumenstein Julie & Peter Cummings Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Emory M. Ford, Jr.◊ Endowment 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

DORATI SOCIETY - GIVING OF $100,000 & MORE Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo James & Patricia Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher

David & Valerie McCammon Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Drs. David & Bernadine Wu

EHRLING SOCIETY - GIVING OF $50,000 & MORE Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Lois & Avern Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Renato & Elizabeth Jamett

Mrs. Bonnie Larson Nicole & Matt Lester Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Patricia & Henry◊ Nickol Nancy Schlichting & Pamela Theisen Donald R. & Esther Simon Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Paul & Terese Zlotoff

JÄRVI SOCIETY — GIVING OF $25,000 & MORE Pamela Applebaum Ms. Sharon Backstrom Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Mrs. Martha Ford Dale & Bruce Frankel Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. Steven Goldsmith Ronald M. & Carol◊ Horwitz Mr.◊ & Mrs. Norman D. Katz Betsy & Joel Kellman 36

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Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Ms. Ruth Rattner Martie & Bob Sachs Mr. & Mrs.◊ Alan E. Schwartz Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. & Mrs. Gary Torgow Anonymous ◊

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GABRILOWITSCH SOCIETY - GIVING OF $10,000 & MORE Mr.◊ & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Drs. Brian & Elizabeth Bachynski Mr. David Barnes W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Drs. John & Janice Bernick John & Marlene Boll Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Brownell Michael & Geraldine Buckles Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Gail Danto & Art Roffey Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Mr. Charles L. Dunlap & Mr. Lee V. Hart Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Mr. Peter Falzon Jim & Margo Farber Sally & Michael Feder Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Mr. Michael J. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. Victor◊ & Gale Girolami

Dr. Kenneth◊ & Roslyne Gitlin Ruth & Al◊ Glancy Dr. Robert T. Goldman Dr. Herman & Mrs. Shirley Mann Gray Mr.◊ & Mrs. James A. Green Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Judy & Kenneth Hale Ms. Nancy B. Henk Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Mr.◊ & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Lenard & Connie Johnston Faye & Austin Kanter Morgan & Danny Kaufman Mr. & Mrs. Kosch Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish Mr. Daniel Lewis Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. & Mrs.◊ Joseph Lile The Locniskar Group Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Ms. Deborah Miesel Dr. Robert & Dr. Mary Mobley Cyril Moscow Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters

David Robert & Sylvia Jean Nelson Eric & Paula Nemeth Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson Gloria & Stanley Nycek George & Jo Elyn Nyman Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Debra & Richard Partrich Dr. Glenda D. Price Maurcine+ & Lloyd Reuss Seth & Laura Romine Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Peggy & Dr. Mark B. Saffer Schwartz Shapero Family Elaine & Michael Serling Lois & Mark Shaevsky William H. Smith Charlie & John Solecki Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Mr. & Mrs. Paul Tobias Mr. James G. Vella Mr.◊ & Mrs. Jonathan T. Walton Gary L. Wasserman & Charles A. Kashner Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Williams Ms. Mary Wilson And four who wish to remain anonymous

GIVING OF $5,000 & MORE Mrs. Denise Abrash Mrs. Jennifer Adderley Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Dr. David S. Balle Ms. Therese Bellaimey Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Timothy J. Bogan Ms. Debra Bonde Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Claire P. & Robert N. Brown Philip & Carol Campbell Mrs. Carolyn Carr Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Ms. Elena Centeio Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Mr. Fred J. Chynchuk Mr. & Mrs. James Ciroli Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Dare Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Adel & Walter Dissett Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Marianne T. Endicott Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Engelhardt Fieldman Family Foundation Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Goodman Family Charitable Trust

Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Dr. Gloria Heppner Ms. Doreen Hermelin Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen Talbert-Hill Mr. Donald & Marcia Hiruo Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Mr. & Mrs. Kent Jidov Carol & Rick Johnston Paul & Marietta Joliat Judy & David Karp Mike & Katy Keegan June K. Kendall◊ Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Barbara & Michael Kratchman Richard & Sally Krugel Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Bill & Kathleen Langhorst Marguerite & David Lentz Allan S. Leonard Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Leverenz Daniel & Linda* Lutz Bob & Terri Lutz Mrs. Sandra MacLeod Mr. & Mrs. Winom J. Mahoney Maurice Marshall Ms. Mary McGough Patricia A.◊ & Patrick G. McKeever Mr. Frederick Morsches & Mr. Kareem George

*Current DSO Musician or Staff

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Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Robert & Paulina Treiger Muzzin Joy & Allan Nachman Dr. William W. O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Ms. Lisa A. Payne Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Mr. David Phipps & Ms. Mary Buzard William H. & Wendy W. Powers Charlene & Michael Prysak Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. Ronald Ross & Ms. Alice Brody Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Marjorie & Saul◊ Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Donald and Janet Schenk Camilo Serna & Masami Hida Mrs. Sharon Shumaker Mr. Norman Silk & Mr. Dale Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Simoncini Dr. Cathryn & Mr. Daniel Skedel Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Barb◊ & Clint Stimpson Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Mrs. E. Ray Stricker Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mrs. Eva von Voss Mr. William Waak Peter & Carol Walters S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Cathy Cromer Wood ◊

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GIVING OF $2,500 & MORE Nina Dodge Abrams Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Dr. & Mrs. Joel Appel Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Mrs. Jean Azar Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Babbish Ms. Ruth Baidas Drs. Richard & Helena Balon James A. Bannan Nora & Guy Barron Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mr. Joseph Bartush Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Martha◊ & G. Peter Blom Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Ms. Kristin Bolitho The Achim & Mary Bonawitz Family Ms. Nadia Boreiko The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Don & Marilyn Bowerman Elaine & Bowden Brown Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Campbell Dr. & Mrs.◊ Thomas E. Carson Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Jack, Evelyn and Richard Cole Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Julius V. Combs Ms. Elizabeth Correa Patricia & William◊ Cosgrove, Sr. Ms. Joy Crawford* & Mr. Richard Aude Robert J. Crutcher Family Trust Dr. Edward & Mrs. Jamie Dabrowski Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Fund Maureen & Jerry◊ D’Avanzo Barbara A. David Lillian & Walter Dean Ms. Joyce Delamarter Diana & Mark Domin Paul◊ & Peggy Dufault Mrs. Connie Dugger Edwin & Rosemarie◊ Dyer Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Randall & Jill* Elder Ms. Laurie Ellias & Mr. James Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Earle E. Endelman Mrs. Marjory Epstein Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Dave & Sandy Eyl Ellie Farber & Mitch Barnett 38

Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch Ms. Joanne Fisher Dorothy A. & Larry L. Fobes Amy & Robert Folberg Dr. & Mrs. Franchi Kit & Dan Frohardt-Lane Mr.◊ & Mrs. Richard M. Gabrys Alan M. Gallatin Lynn & Bharat Gandhi Mr. Max Gates Stephanie Germack Thomas M. Gervasi Mr. & Mrs. James Gietzen Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Ms. Jody Glancy Mr. Lawrence Glowczewski Paul & Barbara C. Goodman Dr. William & Mrs. Antoinette Govier Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. & Mrs. Saul Green Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Sharon Lopo Hadden Cheryl A. Harvey Ms. Barbara Heller James Hoogstra & Clark Heath Mr. F. Robert Hozian Dr. Karen Hrapkiewicz Larry & Connie Hutchinson Ms. Carole Ilitch Dr. Raymond E. Jackson & Dr. Kathleen Murphy Mr. Arthur Johns Mr. John S. Johns Mr. George G. Johnson Paul & Karen Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jones Mr. & Mrs. John Jullens Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff Diane & John Kaplan Bernard & Nina Kent Philanthropic Fund Mrs. Frances King Mr. James Kirby Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Klarman Aileen & Harvey Kleiman Tom & Beverly Klimko Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Mr. & Mrs. Robert Koffron Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff Ms. Susan Konop James Kors & Victoria King Mr. Michael Kuhne Mrs. Maria E. Kuznia Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Laker Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dr. Lawrence O. Larson Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Arlene & John Lewis Ms. Carol Litka Mr. & Mrs. David H. Loebl Mr. John Lovegren & Mr. Daniel

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Isenschmid Cis Maisel Dr. Stephen & Paulette Mancuso Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Manke, Jr. Mervyn & Elaine Manning Ms. Florine Mark Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mark Barbara J. Martin Brian & Becky McCabe Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. Edward McClew Mr. Anthony R. McCree Mr. John McFadden Ms. Kristen McLennan Mr. & Mrs. Brian Meer Dr. Donald & Barbara Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Olga Sutaruk Meyer Bruce & Mary Miller Mr. & Mrs. Randall Miller Steve & Judy Miller J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina Dr. Van C. Momon, Jr. & Dr. Pamela Berry Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Moore Ms. Sandra Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Germano Mularoni Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr. Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Robert Obringer Ellen & Larry Oshkaloff Mrs. Margot Parker Mr. Mark Pasik Ms. Alice Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Mr. David Potter Jill M.* & Michael J. Rafferty Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rapson Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Mr. Tony Raymaker Mr. & Mrs. William A. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Mr. & Mrs. John Rieckhoff Ms. Linda Rodney Michael & Susan Rontal Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Ms. Elana Rugh Jane & Curt Russell Linda & Leonard Sahn Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Shirley Anne & Alan Schlang Sandy & Alan Schwartz Ms. Sandra Seligman Mrs. Rosalind B. Sell Carlo & Nicole Serraiocco Nancy & Sam Shamie Shapero Foundation SPRING 2021-2022

Robert & Patricia Shaw Dr. Les Siegel & Ellen Lesser Siegel William & Cherie Sirois Mr. Michael J. Smith & Mrs. Mary C. Williams Ms. Susan Smith Dr. Gregory Stephens Dr. Shironda Stewart Nancy C. Stocking Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Stollman Dr. & Mrs. Choichi Sugawa David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dr. Neil Talon Mr. Rob Tanner Joel & Shelley Tauber

Sandra & Frank Tenkel Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Dr. Barry Tigay Gregory Tocco & Erin Sears Yoni & Rachel Torgow Barbara & Stuart Trager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Charles & Sally Van Dusen Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Verhelle Dr.◊ & Mrs. Ronald W. Wadle Mr. Michael A. Walch & Ms. Joyce Keller Mr. Patrick Webster David R. Weinberg, Ph.D.

Dr. & Mrs. Gary S. Assarian Mr. & Mrs. David W. Berry Mrs. Marilyn Bishop Ms. Liz Boone Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burstein Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Tom Compton Ms. Sherri Davis Ms. Laurie DeMond-Rosen Gordon & Elaine Didier Mr. Patrick Doig Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Douglas Jodie Elrod Mr. Howard O. Emorey Mrs. Janice Erichsen Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Howard & Francina Graef Anne & Eugene Greenstein Dr. William Higginbotham III MD The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Jean Hudson Ms. Nadine Jakobowski

Mr. William Jordan Carole Keller Mr. & Mrs. Gerd H. Keuffel Ms. Ida King Elissa & Daniel Kline Mrs. Mary Ann LaMonte The Dolores & Paul Lavins Foundation Ms. Christine M. Leonard Mr. Jeffrey Marraccini Mr. Robert L. Martin Ms. Evelyn Micheletti Steve & Brenda Mihalik Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mr. & Mrs. George Nicholson Mrs. Ruth Nix Terry E. Packer Mr. & Mrs. Mark H. Peterson Drs. Renato & Daisy Ramos Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Rask Mrs. Hope Raymond Cheryl & Paul Robertson Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell

Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Pamela Applebaum Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock Drs. Brian & Elizabeth Bachynski W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Gwen & Richard Bowlby Butzel Long Ms. Elena Centeio Deloitte Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Jim & Margo Farber Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Ms. Jody Glancy Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Renato & Elizabeth Jamett Ms. Susan Konop Mrs. Karen Kotulis-Carter Barbara & Michael Kratchman Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Laskaris-Jamett Advisors of Raymond James Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Wenyang Mao Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Patricia A.◊ & Patrick G. McKeever Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller

Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Mr. Jonathan Wolman◊ & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Ms. Eileen Wunderlich Dr. Sandra & Mr. D. Johnny Yee Lucia Zamorano, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Zekelman Milton Y. Zussman And eight who wish to remain anonymous

GIVING OF $1,500 & MORE Mr. and Mrs. James P. Ryan Ms. Joyce E. Scafe Dr. & Mrs. Richard S. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Mr. Steve Secrest Ms. Sandra Shetler Mr. Konstantin Shirokinskiy Mrs. Andreas H. Steglich Mr. & Mrs.◊ John Streit Mr. William Thom Mr. James G. Tibbetts David & Lila Tirsell Dennis & Jennifer Varian Ms. Janet Weir Janis & William Wetsman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wigginton Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder (Ret.) Debra Wood Ms. Denise S. Young And two who wish to remain anonymous

CYE50 GOLD CLUB Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Mr. David Phipps & Ms. Mary Buzard Sue & Bob Pilon Dr. Glenda D. Price Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Martie & Bob Sachs Nancy Schlichting & Pamela Theisen Robert & Patricia Shaw Ms. Claudia Sills Mr. James G. Vella Mr.◊ & Mrs. Jonathan T. Walton Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder (Ret.) Drs. David & Bernadine Wu

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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT GIVING Giving of $500,000 & more

SAMUEL & JEAN FRANKEL FOUNDATION

Giving of $200,000 & more

Giving of $100,000 & more

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Giving of $50,000 & more Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Applebaum Family Philanthropy Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation League of American Orchestras Edward C. and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation MASCO Corporation Michigan Arts & Culture Council Milner Hotels Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Penske Foundation, Inc.

Giving of $20,000 & more Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation Blue Star Catering The Clinton Family Fund DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund Edsel B. Ford II Fund

Henry Ford II Fund Myron P. Leven Foundation MASCO Corporation Schneider-Engstrom Foundation Sun Communities Inc. Wolverine Packing Company

Giving of $10,000 & more Flagstar Foundation Honigman LLP Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation KPMG LLP Laskaris-Jamett Advisors of Raymond James MGM Grand Detroit Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Stone Foundation Of Michigan Burton A. Zipser and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation

Giving of $5,000 & more

Giving of $1,000 & more

Benson & Edith Ford Fund Butzel Long Creative Benefit Solutions Geoinge Foundation Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer and Weiss PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation Schaerer Architextural Interiors Speyer Foundation Warner Norcross + Judd And one who wishes to remain anonymous

The Children’s Foundation EY Frank and Gertrude Dunlap Foundation James and Lynelle Holden Fund Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation Josephine Kleiner Foundation Lakeside Ophthalmology Center Ludwig Foundation Fund Madison Electric Company Michigan First Credit Union Plante and Moran, PLLC Renaissance (MI) Chapter of the Links Save Our Symphony Louis & Nellie Sieg Foundation Samuel L. Westerman Foundation

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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, Chair Mrs. Katana H. Abbott* Mr. Joseph Aviv Mr. Christopher A. Ballard* Ms. Jessica B. Blake, Esq. Ms. Rebecca J. Braun Mr. Timothy Compton Ms. Wendy Zimmer Cox* Mr. Robin D. Ferriby* 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. Jason Tinsley* Mr. William Vanover Mr. William Winkler Mrs. Wendy Zimmer Cox*

*Executive Committee Member

Share the music of the DSO with future generations INCLUDE THE DSO AS A BENEFICIARY IN YOUR WILL Remembering the DSO in your estate plans will support the sustainability and longevity of our orchestra, so that tomorrow’s audience will continue to be inspired through unsurpassed musical experiences. If you value the role of the DSO – in your life and in our community – please consider making a gift through your will, trust, life insurance or other deferred gift.

To learn more please call Alexander Kapordelis at 313.576.5198 or email akapordelis@dso.org

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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 Stanley A. Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman◊ Virginia B. Bertram◊ Mrs. Betty Blair Ms. Rosalee Bleecker Mr. Joseph Boner Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. Harry G. Bowles◊ Mr. Charles Broh◊ Mrs. Ellen Brownfain William & Julia Bugera CM Carnes Cynthia Cassell, Ph. D. Eleanor A. Christie Ms. Mary Christner Mr. Gary Ciampa Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock◊ Mr. Scott Cook, Jr. Mr. & Ms. Thomas Cook Dorothy M. Craig Mr. & Mrs. John Cruikshank Julie & Peter Cummings Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. John Diebel◊ Mr. Stuart Dow Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Eidson Marianne T. Endicott Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Ms. Dorothy Fisher Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher◊ Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Dorothy A. & Larry L. Fobes Samuel & Laura Fogleman Mr. Emory Ford, Jr.◊ Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Barbara Frankel & Ron Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Mrs. Rema Frankel◊ Jane French Mark & Donna Frentrup Alan Gallatin Janet M. Garrett Dr. Byron P. & Marilyn Georgeson Jim & Nancy Gietzen Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore

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Victor◊ & Gale Girolami Ruth & Al◊ Glancy David & Paulette Groen Rosemary Gugino Donna & Eugene Hartwig Ms. Nancy B. Henk Joseph L. Hickey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Hitchman Ronald M. & Carol◊ Horwitz Andy Howell Carol Howell Paul M. Huxley & Cynthia Pasky David & Sheri Jaffa Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Jeffs II Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup Mr. George G. Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Ms. Carol Johnston Ms. Carol Jonson Drs. Anthony & Joyce Kales Faye & Austin Kanter Norb◊ & Carole Keller Dr. Mark & Mrs. Gail Kelley June K. Kendall◊ Dimitri◊ & Suzanne Kosacheff Douglas Koschik Mr.◊ & Mrs. Arthur J. Krolikowski Mary Clippert LaMont Ms. Sandra Lapadot 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 Ms. Elizabeth Maysa 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◊ Mr. David Patria & Ms. Barbara Underwood Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein◊ Helen & Wesley Pelling◊

Dr. William F. Pickard Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus 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 Marjorie & Saul◊ Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Donald and Janet Schenk Ms. Yvonne Schilla Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Patricia Finnegan Sharf Ms. Marla K. Shelton Edna J. Shin Ms. June Siebert Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon◊ Dr. Melissa J. Smiley & Dr. Patricia A. Wren Ms. Marilyn Snodgrass◊ Mrs. Margot Sterren◊ Mr. & Mrs. Walter Stuecken Mr.◊ & Mrs. Alexander C. Suczek David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Mrs. Rose Taksier Ms. Mary Evelyn Durden Teal◊ Alice & Paul Tomboulian Roger & Tina Valade Mrs. Jane Van Dragt◊ 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 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 And five who wish to remain anonymous ◊

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TRIBUTE GIFTS Gifts received January 1, 2022 - February 28, 2022 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 Linton Bodwin Nancy Yee Hart Hollman John Thompson & Irene Lazarchuck

Anne Parsons Dr. Lillian Bauder Mr. Frank E. Salomon

Tom Kozina & Denise Figlewicz Dianne Lattemann

Debby Pearlberg Abby Eisenberg

Virginia Schramm Edward & Roger Maki-Schramm

Mary B. Moll Anonymous

In Memory Martha Blom Sandra Danucci Kathryn Clemans Beaumont Pain Clinic Staff Hon. Avern Cohn W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Ms. Ruth K. Broder Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Julie & Peter Cummings Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Hon. Nancy Edmunds & Mr. William Edmunds Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Mr. Aaron Goldstein Mrs. Judith Goodman Jean Hudson Mr. Walter Kozar Mrs. Bonnie A. Larson Edward C. & Linda Dresner Levy Foundation Josephine Mondrala Mr. & Ms. Donald Price Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Mr. & Mrs. Steve Rotter Mr. Thomas Schehr Marc Schwartz & Emily Camiener Lois & Mark Shaevsky

Mr. and Mrs. Reginald E. Crocker, Sr. Mrs. Carol Lewis Illene Dunn Penny & Harold Blumenstein Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Fisher Family and the TFG Staff Daniel & Linda* Lutz Sandy & Alan Schwartz John Fildew Mr. Alan Ackerman Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fein Mr. & Mrs. Frederick F. Fordon Ariadne Lie Lisa Tallman Helmle Lisa P. Jorgensen Markevich Lawrence Jonas Ms. Carol Litka

Mado Lie Mrs. Patricia Cosgrove Mrs. Loretta Cwiek Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Mr. Charles Dyer Vicki McBrien Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Paul J. Morsches Jr. Sandy & Alan Schwartz Jane Reiman Mrs. Anne Reinman Norman Thorpe Robert Anthony Ms. Sarah Chisholm Mr. & Mrs. David A. Field Ms. Kathryn Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Keough Camilla, Ross, Oliver, Stella & Alastair McGeehin Ms. Eliza Parkinson Mr. Robert Thorpe

John Kapp Darla Bastron Ms. Ellen J. Dellavedova Janet & John Quinn Ernest Laster Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Howell

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Maximize the Arts. Arts and culture matter. The Community Foundation can work with you to maximize your support for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to create a lasting impact.

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WELCOME TO THE MAX OUR HOME ON WOODWARD AVENUE The Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center is one of Detroit’s most notable cultural campuses. The Max includes three main performance spaces: historic Orchestra Hall, the Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings Cube (“The Cube”), and Robert A. and Maggie Allesee Hall. All are accessible from the centrally located William Davidson Atrium. The Jacob Bernard Pincus Music Education Center is home to the DSO’s Wu Family Academy and other music education offerings. The DSO is also proud to offer The Max as a performance and administrative space for several local partners, including Detroit Public Theatre, Detroit Youth Volume, and others.

THE MAX M. & MARJORIE S. FISHER MUSIC CENTER 3711 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48201 Box Office:............................ 313.576.5111 Group Sales:.......................... 313.576.5111 Administrative Offices:........313.576.5100 Facilities Rental Info:............ 313.576.5131 Visit the DSO online at dso.org For general inquiries, please email info@dso.org

Visit dso.org/yourvisit for full information on your concert experience.

Parking The DSO Parking Deck is located at 81 Parsons Street. Self-parking in the garage costs $10 for most concerts; we take both cash and credit cards. Handicapped parking is available on the first and second floors of the garage. Note that handicapped parking spaces go quickly, so we recommend arriving early!

What Should I Wear? You do you! We don’t have a dress code, and you’ll see a variety of outfit styles. Business casual attire is common, but sneakers and jeans are just as welcome as suits and ties.

Food and Drink As of October 2021, the DSO is offering beverage only concessions. Please check dso.org for the latest ahead of your concert. Bars are located on the first and third floors of the William Davidson Atrium and offer canned sodas (pop, if you prefer), beer, wine, and specialty cocktail mixes.

Shop @ The Max As of October 2021, Shop @ The Max is currently closed. Please check dso.org for updates ahead of your visit.

Handicap Access and Hearing Assistance Accessibility matters. Whether you need ramp access for your wheelchair or are looking for sensory-friendly concert options, we are thinking of you. The Max has elevators, barrier-free restrooms, and accessible seating on each level. Security staff are available at all entrances to help patrons requiring extra assistance in and out of vehicles. 46

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The DSO’s Sennheiser MobileConnect hearing assistance system is available for all performances in Orchestra Hall. You can use your own mobile device and headphones by downloading the Sennheiser MobileConnect app, or borrow a device by visiting the Patron Services Center on the second floor of the William Davidson Atrium. This system is made possible by the Michigan Ear Institute.

WiFi Complimentary WiFi is available throughout The Max. Look for the DSOGuest network on your device. And be sure to tag your posts with #IAMDSO!

The Herman and Sharon Frankel Donor Lounge Governing Members can 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 Leslie Groves at 313.576.5451 or lgroves@dso.org.

Gift Certificates Gift certificates are available in any denomination and may be used towards tickets to any DSO performance. Please contact the Box Office for more information.

Rent The Max Elegant and versatile, The Max is an ideal setting for a variety of events and performances: weddings, corporate gatherings, meetings, concerts, and more. Visit dso.org/rent or call 313.576.5131 for more information.

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POLICIES HEALTH & SAFETY

• All guests must provide proof of full vaccination for COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 test upon entry. • Effective March 28, 2022: Masks are optional for all patrons attending events at The Max. The DSO will continue to follow recommendations from public health experts on indoor gatherings and preventing the spread of COVID-19 and may make additional changes or reinstitute mask requirements if necessary. • We have also instituted contactless e-ticketing this season. You will be asked to present the barcode for your e-tickets at the second entry point – after you present your vaccine or test results.

SEATING

Please note that all patrons (of any age) must have a ticket to attend concerts. If the music has already started, an usher will ask you to wait until a break before seating you. The same applies if you leave Orchestra Hall and re-enter. Most performances are broadcast (with sound) on a TV in the William Davidson Atrium as well.

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TICKETS, EXCHANGES, AND CONCERT CANCELLATIONS

PHONES

All sales are final and nonrefundable. Even though we’ll miss you, we understand that plans can change unexpectedly, so the DSO offers flexible exchange and ticket donation options. Please contact the Box Office to exchange tickets. The Box Office can also help with all ticketing questions and concerns. The DSO is a show-must-goon orchestra! In the rare event a concert is cancelled, our website and social media feeds will announce the cancellation, and patrons will be notified of exchange options.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND RECORDING

We love a good selfie (don’t forget to share your experiences using @ DetroitSymphony and #IAMDSO) but remember that photography can be distracting to musicians and audience members. Please be cautious and respectful if you wish to take photos. Note that flash photography, video recording, tripods, and cameras with detachable lenses are strictly prohibited.

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Your neighbors and the musicians appreciate your cooperation in turning your phone to silent and your brightness down while you’re keeping an eye on texts from the babysitter or looking up where a composer was born!

SMOKING

Smoking and vaping are not allowed anywhere in The Max.

By entering event premises, you consent to having your likeness featured in photography, audio, and video captured by the DSO, and release the DSO from any liability connected with these materials. Visit dso.org for more.

To report an emergency during a concert, immediately notify an usher or DSO staff member. If an usher or DSO staff member is not available please contact DSO Security at 313.576.5199

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F EXECUTIVE OFFICE

ADVANCEMENT

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Erik Rönmark President and CEO James B. and Ann V. Nicholson Chair

Alex Kapordelis Senior Director, Campaign

William Shell Director of Information Technology

Jill Elder Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer

Holly Gorecki Director of Advancement Operations

Linda Lutz Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Beth Carlson Stewardship Coordinator

Joy Crawford Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Elaine Curvin Executive Assistant to the Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Anne Parsons President Emeritus

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS ARTISTIC PLANNING Jessica Ruiz Senior Director of Artistic Planning Alexandra Luke Artist Liason Claudia Scalzetti Artistic Coordinator Goode Wyche Manager of Jazz and @ The Max

LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL Marc Geelhoed Executive Producer of Live from Orchestra Hall

Jill Rafferty Senior Director of Advancement

Damaris Doss Major Gift Officer Leslie Groves Major Gift Officer

Michelle Koning Web Manager Aaron Tockstein Database Administrator

COMMUNICATIONS Matt Carlson Senior Director, Communications and Media Relations

Ali Huber Signature Events Manager

Sarah Smarch Director of Content and Storytelling

Jane Koelsch Fulfillment Coordinator

Natalie Berger Video Content Specialist

Amanda Lindstrom Events Coordinator

LaToya Cross Communications and Advancement Content Specialist

Colleen McLellan Institutional Gift Officer Juanda Pack Advancement Benefits Concierge Susan Queen Gift Officer, Corporate Giving

Hannah Engwall Public Relations Manager

COMMUNITY AND LEARNING

Cassidy Schmid Manager of Campaign Operations

Caen Thomason-Redus Senior Director of Community & Learning

Amanda Tew Data and Research Manager

Karisa Antonio Director of Social Innovation

BUILDING OPERATIONS

Damien Crutcher Managing Director of Detroit Harmony

EVENTS AND RENTALS Presley Feezell Manager of Events and Rentals

Debora Kang Director of Education

FACILITY OPERATIONS

Clare Valenti Director of Community Engagement

Kathryn Ginsburg General Manager

Ken Waddington Director of Facilities and Engineering

Kiersten Alcorn Manager of Community Engagement

Patrick Peterson Director of Orchestra Personnel

Demetris Fisher Chief EVS Technician

Dennis Rottell Stage Manager

William Guilbault EVS Technician

Connor Bulka Training Ensembles Recruitment and Communications Coordinator

Ezra Gans Artistic Operations Assistant

Robert Hobson Chief Maintenance Technician

Bronwyn Hagerty Orchestra and Training Programs Librarian

Keith Kennedy Chief Engineer

ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

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Joanna Goldstein Training Ensembles Student Development Coordinator

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FINANCE Jeremiah Hess Senior Director of Accounting and Finance Adela Löw Director of Accounting and Financial Reporting Erik Anundson Accounts Payable Coordinator Sandra Mazza Senior Accountant, Business Operations Ashley Simon Gift Processing Coordinator Michelle Wisler Payroll and Benefits Accountant

CATERING AND RETAIL SERVICES Christina Williams Director of Hospitality and Patron Experience Alison Reed, CVA Manager of Volunteer and Patron Experience Nate Richter Bar Manager

PATRON SALES AND SERVICE Sharon Gardner Carr Assistant Manager of Tessitura and Ticketing Operations

HUMAN RESOURCES

Rollie Edwards Lead Patron Services Representative

Hannah Lozon Senior Director of Talent and Culture

Michelle Marshall Manager of Patron Sales and Services

Mary Lambert Human Resources Generalist

James Sabatella Group and Patron Services Specialist

Shuntia Perry Human Resources Coordinator

MARKETING & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Charles Buchanan Senior Director of Marketing and Audience Development Teresa Alden Director of Growth and Acquisition

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EDITORS Matt Carlson mcarlson@dso.org

Hannah Engwall hengwall@dso.org

Tommy Tatti Manager of Box Office Operations

PUBLISHER Echo Publications, Inc. Tom Putters

SAFETY & SECURITY

Cover design by Jay Holladay

George Krappmann Director of Safety and Security Willie Coleman Security Officer Norris Jackson Security Officer

Jay Holladay Brand Graphic Designer

Tony Morris Security Officer

LaHeidra Marshall Audience Development Specialist

Johnnie Scott Safety and Security Manager

Connor Mehren Digital Marketing Strategist

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Kristin Pagels Content Marketing Strategist

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.

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Hear. Together.

U P CO M I N G CO N CER T S & EVENTS TICKETS & INFO

3 1 3 . 5 76 . 5 1 11 o r d s o . o r g WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

RACHMANIOFF: SYMPHONY NO. 2 Kahchun Wong, conductor Michelle Cann, piano

Thu., Apr. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Beverly Hills Fri., Apr. 29 at 8 p.m. in Monroe Sun., May 1 at 3 p.m. in Beverly Hills FLORENCE PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

PARADISE JAZZ SERIES BIG BAND

PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

SAINT-GEORGES & MOZART 39 Xian Zhang, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin

Thu., May 26 at 7:30 p.m. Fri., May 27 at 10:45 a.m. Sat., May 28 at 8 p.m. ELIZABETH OGONEK In Silence CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 5 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543

FEAT. TERENCE BLANCHARD/ DIRECTED BY KRIS JOHNSON

PNC POPS SERIES

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

Stars of Broadway’s Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical harmonize classics from The Crests, The Flamingos, and The Four Seasons all the way to Jason Mraz and Maroon 5.

Sat., Apr. 30 at 8 p.m.

SAINT-GEORGES AND MOZART

Yue Bao, conductor • Pablo Ferrández, cello

Thu., May 5 at 7:30 p.m. in West Bloomfield Fri., May 6 at 8 p.m. in Plymouth Sat., May 7 at 8 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Sun., May 8 at 3 p.m. Grosse Pointe CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES Symphony No. 2, Op. 2, No. 2 JOSEPH HAYDN Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C Major WILLIAM GRANT STILL Danzas de Panama WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner”

PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

THIBAUDET: RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO IN G Jader Bignamini, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Eric Nowlin, viola • Wei Yu, cello

Fri., May 20 at 10:45 Sat., May 21 at 8 p.m. Sun., May 22 at 3 p.m. CARLOS SIMON Fate Now Conquers MAURICE RAVEL Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS Don Quixote, Op. 35

THE DOO WOP PROJECT Damon Gupton, conductor

Wed., Jun. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

PNC POPS SERIES

SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS Damon Gupton, conductor

Fri., Jun. 3 at 10:45 & 8 p.m. Sat., Jun. 4 at 8 p.m. Sun., Jun 4 at 3 p.m. Enter summer with the best music from film composers—such as John Williams and Hans Zimmer—and some of the top-grossing summer movies of all time, including Aladdin, Gladiator, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

GIL SHAHAM RETURNS Jader Bignamini, conductor Gil Shaham, violin

Fri., Jun. 10 at 8 p.m. Sat., Jun. 11 at 8 p.m. Sun., Jun 12 at 8 p.m. WYNTON MARSALIS Fanfare SAMUEL BARBER Violin Concerto, Op. 14 WYNTON MARSALIS Blues Symphony

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