2023/24 Season Brochure

MORTON H. MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER

A Note from Music Director Fabio Luisi

I am delighted to begin my fourth season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It is a season with an incredible range of voices, styles, perspectives and projects.

Each year it is a joy to welcome guest artists to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Some of the top artists working today — Emanuel Ax, Rudolf Buchbinder, Maxim Vengerov, Jan Lisiecki, Matthias Goerne and Kelley O’Connor — will return to Dallas, and we will welcome celebrated artists who are making their DSO debuts including Isabel Leonard, Anthony McGill and Jeremy Denk. It is always special to see our principal players in the solo position, and this season Alexander Kerr, Nathan Olson and David Buck will all perform concertos with the orchestra.

When I began my tenure, I wanted to turn a spotlight on American composers, some forgotten artists and some neglected works by composers we know. This year we will present music by Gershwin and Styne alongside pieces from William Dawson and James P. Johnson, a frequent collaborator of Bessie Smith. The sounds of bluegrass will be heard along with jazz influences. The legacy of Benny Goodman is present in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, paired with an overture by William Schuman, the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in music and legendary educator.

This season we will present five world premiere works. Jessie Montgomery will join us for a new orchestral work in October. Celebrated cellist Inbal Segev will join the DSO for the debut of Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Polevá’s cello concerto in November. The DSO will premiere a double concerto for violin and trumpet by Dallas-based composer Xi Wang. The final Texas Instruments Classical Series concert will feature a new work by Andrea Basevi based on poems by Emily Dickinson and featuring the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus.

Throughout my career, I have admired the work of Austrian composer Franz Schmidt. His monumental achievement, the oratorio The Book with Seven Seals, is an astounding and thrilling work for solo singers, chorus, organ and orchestra. I am thrilled to be able to present this piece during the year of Schmidt’s 150th anniversary.

In May 2021, the Dallas Symphony invited musicians of The Metropolitan Opera orchestra to Dallas to perform Mahler’s First Symphony. It was an unforgettable event and a ray of hope in very dark times. This season, we return to Mahler, the first time I will conduct one of his symphonies with the DSO alone. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is a favorite of mine and a favorite of audiences.

The highlight of this season and into next is Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. The scope and scale of this project is incredible, even when presented without staging. Though his preludes and interludes for the operas stand as core repertoire for symphony orchestras, it is only when you marry the voices and the drama of the story to the music that you understand Wagner’s total work. We will welcome renowned singers to our stage to present this event as the first time an American symphony orchestra has done the complete Ring Cycle. It will be something special to me, and I know for our audiences as well.

But this, like any other season, needs the most important element of all — our audience. We look forward to welcoming you to the Meyerson to enjoy these performances throughout the 2023/24 season.

Sincerely,

Fabio Luisi MUSIC DIRECTOR

Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship

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Classical

“With unfailingly clear and expressive direction from Luisi, the orchestra served up every twist and turn, every nuance, with assurance.”

— DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Copland and Liszt

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Anthony McGill Clarinet

Carl Tanner Tenor

Dallas Symphony Chorus

WILLIAM SCHUMAN American Festival Overture

COPLAND Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

LISZT A Faust Symphony

Copland’s Concerto swings in the hands of New York Philharmonic’s brilliant Principal Clarinet, Anthony McGill, while the DSO and DSO Chorus, led by Fabio Luisi, enthrall with a quintessential Romantic subject: the battle for the soul of Faust. You’ll recognize the protagonists by their music — heroic, lyrical, infernal — and be moved by the tenor solo and all-male “mystical chorus” exalting woman-eternal.

THU, SEP 28, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, OCT 1, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3

Peter Oundjian Conducts

Eric Owens Narrator

Janice Chandler-Eteme Soprano

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

BARBER Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 36

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK JFK: The Last Speech | DSO CO-COMMISSION, DSO PREMIERE

RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

The Symphony No. 3 is unmistakably Rachmaninoff — with soaring melodies, shattering climaxes, and the dark rumblings of his signature Dies irae from the Mass for the Dead. But once the clouds have lifted, the Symphony ends in jubilant, life-affirming exclamations. Also on the program, Barber’s celebratory organ toccata (watch for some fancy footwork on the Lay Family Concert Organ) and a new work that honors JFK upon the 60th anniversary of his passing. Inspired by President Kennedy’s speech eulogizing poet Robert Frost at Amherst College in 1963, the DSO will be one of the first orchestras to perform this work following its world premiere this summer.

FRI, OCT 6, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, OCT 7, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, OCT 8, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Anthony McGill

©Todd Rosenberg

Janice Chandler-Eteme

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Rudolf Buchbinder Piano

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Snapshots | DSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE

ANTHEIL A Jazz Symphony (1925)

DAVID CHESKY American Bluegrass

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 83

In a tongue-in-cheek quip, Brahms described his Second Piano Concerto as “a tiny, tiny pianoforte concerto, with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo.”

Approaching the dimensions of a symphony, full of nobility and brilliance, the monstrously difficult work will be performed by the world-renowned Austrian pianist, Rudolf Buchbinder.

The rest of this program highlights uniquely American artistry and composition, beginning with the world premiere of a new orchestral work by Leonard Bernstein Award-winning composer, violinist and educator, Jessie Montgomery. Then, traditional American musical genres are blended with classical orchestral stylings in Antheil’s bold and complex A Jazz Symphony and Chesky’s ode to Americana and folk, American Bluegrass.

THU, OCT 12, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, OCT 14, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, OCT 15, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Jessie Montgomery

Rudolf Buchbinder

©Marco Borggreve

Vengerov Plays Brahms

Mark Wigglesworth Conducts

Maxim Vengerov Violin

BRAHMS Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov, “the greatest living string player in the world today” (Classic FM ), returns to dazzle Dallas with the technical fireworks of Brahms’s Violin Concerto that has inspired the admiration and awe of audiences for well over a century. Sibelius’s First Symphony, painting with darker shades of the musical palette and evoking the atmosphere of his beloved Finland, rounds out this concert.

FRI, NOV 3, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, NOV 4, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, NOV 5, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Strauss Don Juan

Kirill Karabits Conducts

Inbal Segev Cello

STRAUSS Don Juan, Op. 20

VICTORIA VITA POLEVÁ Concerto for Cello and Orchestra | WORLD PREMIERE, DSO COMMISSION

ANNA KORSUN Terricone

STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59

At just 24 years old, Strauss is at the top of his game in a counter-intuitive portrait of the notorious lover Don Juan — not the libertine, but a world-weary hero searching for the perfect woman. The music is intense, though not without passages of sensuous love music. The score demands extraordinary virtuosity from the orchestra, especially the horns with their brilliant signature horn calls. Led by the incomparable conductor, Kirill Karabits, this program also features works by fellow Ukrainian artists, including a world premiere by the award-winning Victoria Vita Polevá and a contemporary piece by Anna Korsun that recently premiered in 2023.

THU, NOV 9, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, NOV 11, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, NOV 12, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Tchaikovsky Pathétique

Yutaka Sado Conducts

Alessandro Taverna Piano

YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA Triptyque

BRITTEN Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 13

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”

Is Tchaikovsky’s searing final work — shrouded in mystery — his farewell to the world? You will decide. The music begins in the bassoon’s lowest register — dark and melancholy, with tumult and anguish to follow, but also a waltz with an offbeat rhythm. The tone of this expressive program is established right from the start, with the pairing of Akutagawa’s evocative Triptyque and Britten’s rarely performed but powerful Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra.

THU, NOV 16, 2023 AT 7:30PM

FRI, NOV 17, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, NOV 18, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, NOV 19, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Inbal Segev ©Bri Elledge

Maxim Vengerov ©Davide Cerati

Yutaka Sado ©Takashi Iijima

Stravinsky The Firebird

Gustavo Gimeno Conducts

Alexander Kerr Violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Selections from The Nutcracker MOZART Concerto No. 5 in A Major for Violin and Orchestra, K. 219, “Turkish” STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1945 Revision)

Stravinsky’s Firebird has it all: a prince, 13 princesses, the Firebird’s magic feather, and an evil ogre and his hellish minions! You’ll feel the music’s vibrant colors and rich harmonies, glittering and pulsing with fantastic effects, leading to the gossamer Lullaby and a shimmering Finale proclaiming a happilyever-after. Concertmaster Alexander Kerr solos in Mozart’s sparkling Concerto No. 5, complete with a Turkish march.

FRI, NOV 24, 2023 AT 7:30PM SAT, NOV 25, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, NOV 26, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Elgar Cello Concerto

Marie Jacquot Conducts

Maximilian Hornung Cello

SCHMIDT Intermezzo from Notre Dame

ELGAR Concerto in E minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 85

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60

A concert of differing moods from composers writing nearly a century apart. Elgar’s introspective Concerto reflects with intensity his despair about the world after the Great War that destroyed millions of lives. You’ll hear echoes of Bach, a sublime Adagio, and a finale conveying profound emotions. Beethoven, feeling nearly rambunctious in his sun infused Fourth Symphony, sends you home on an uplifting note.

THU, JAN 4, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, JAN 5, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, JAN 6, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, JAN 7, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Dmitry Matvienko Conducts

David Buck Flute

LYADOV The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

NIELSEN Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100

Prokofiev’s most popular Symphony, composed before the end of World War II, found the composer — hounded by Stalin’s Central Committee of the Communist Party — watching his back. Fiery harmonies reveal 20th century sensibilities, where big climaxes alternate with haunting melodies, brass and percussion explosions with exquisite lyricism, tragedy with triumph, sweeping you towards the gripping conclusion. DSO Principal Flute David Buck solos in Nielsen’s Concerto, showcasing not just the flute, but also in dialogue with “fellow instruments.”

THU, JAN 11, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, JAN 12, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Gustavo Gimeno

©Marco Borggreve

David Buck Marie Jacquot

Mozart and Beethoven

Tabita Berglund Conducts

Alessio Bax Piano

MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute

MOZART Concerto No. 21 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 467

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

This concert features two iconic composers and their masterful works that showcase how they subverted the styles of the time and pushed the genre forward. Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute is the delightful prelude to his lyrical and joyous Piano Concerto No. 21. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, one of the most famous and popular symphonies in the history of classical music, brings the concert to a dynamic close.

THU, JAN 18, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, JAN 19, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, JAN 20, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Sibelius Violin Concerto

Donald Runnicles Conducts

Alexi Kenney Violin

SIBELIUS En saga (A Legend), Op. 9

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82

Sibelius’s stylistic strengths are on full display in a program opened by his adventurous tone poem En saga and technically challenging Violin Concerto. Of his late-Romantic work, Sibelius wrote: “I begin already dimly to see the mountain that I shall certainly ascend. God opens his door for a moment and his orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.” Inspired by a silver-ribbon-like flight of sixteen swans, the spellbinding finale ends with six crashing chords, each separated from the next by a stunning silence. At this concert, Donald Runnicles returns to lead your celestial orchestra — the DSO.

THU, FEB 1, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, FEB 2, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, FEB 3, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FEATURES THE LAY FAMILY CONCERT ORGAN

Donald Runnicles ©Simon Pauly

Tabita Berglund ©Nikolaj Lund

Alessio Bax ©Marco Borggreve

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Karen Gomyo Violin

Tine Thing Helseth Trumpet

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

MAHLER Blumine movement from Symphony

No. 1 in D Major

XI WANG Year 2020 Concerto for Trumpet, Violin and Orchestra | DSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, “Organ”

Showing off the power and majesty of “the king of instruments,” Bradley Hunter Welch is at the Lay Family Concert Organ when the DSO, led by Fabio Luisi, performs Saint-Saëns’s grand Romantic “Organ Symphony.” The composer told the commissioning body that it “will be terrifying, I warn you.” But do not be afraid; you’ll be safely guided to the blazing C Major chord that sets the last movement in motion. Also featured on this program is a piece written by local SMU professor and composer Xi Wang. The unusual instrument pairing of the trumpet and violin in Year 2020 reflects the work’s inspiration from the tumultuous and unprecedented world created in the wake of the global pandemic.

The Book with Seven Seals

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Paul Appleby Tenor (St. John the Divine)

Franz-Josef Selig Bass (The Voice of the Lord)

Meghan Kasanders Soprano

Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-Soprano

Matthew Pearce Tenor

Hadleigh Adams Bass

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

Dallas Symphony Chorus

SCHMIDT Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book with Seven Seals)

Fabio Luisi leads the late-Romantic composer’s magnum opus, a towering oratorio that tackles no less a subject than the Bible’s Book of Revelation — the Apocalypse — a prophetic vision of the final violent destruction of the world. The DSO, soloists, massive chorus, and organ solos on the Lay Family Concert Organ depict the breaking of the seals, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the seven trumpets summoning souls to the Last Judgment, and, finally, the message of salvation and an ecstatic “Hallelujah.” Monumental, riveting, unforgettable! With English supertitles.

FRI, MAR 1, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAR 2, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAR 3, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Chopin and Shostakovich

Krzysztof Urbański Conducts

Jan Lisiecki Piano

CHOPIN Concerto No. 1 in E minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 11

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

After Stalin died, Shostakovich, having suffered under the repressive Soviet regime, unleashed his fury against the dictator in his Tenth Symphony — a titanic struggle pounded out in a code of savage pitches equivalent to his initials D-S-C-H (in German musical notation) — crushing the tyrant in the triumphant finale. Raising the curtain is Chopin’s rhapsodic Concerto No. 1, full of poetry and passion.

THU, MAR 7, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, MAR 8, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAR 10, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Fabio Luisi

Jan Lisiecki

©Christoph Köstlin

NOTE : The DSO will record this weekend’s performances for a future album release.

Tine Thing Helseth ©Anna Julia Granberg BLUNDERBUSS

Mahler Symphony No. 5

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Jeremy Denk Piano

ANNA CLYNE Piano Concerto | DSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE

MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

For intense emotions and radiant beauty, nothing can surpass Mahler’s Fifth. A movement marked “tempestuously. With great vehemence” stands alongside the achingly beautiful Adagietto — a gift to his beloved wife Alma — scored for strings and harp alone, a kind of “resting place” before the grand drama of the finale. The legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan called the Symphony “a transformative experience.” Coupled with the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s visceral and arresting Piano Concerto, this concert will have the emotional depth and range of the DSO on full display.

THU, MAR 28, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, MAR 29, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAR 30, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Brahms Requiem

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Golda Schultz Soprano

Matthias Goerne Baritone

Dallas Symphony Chorus

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45

Fabio Luisi leads all musical forces (including former DSO artist-in-residence Matthias Goerne) in Brahms’s inspiring work. Gone are the rafter-shaking Last Judgment and punishment for sinners; instead, this Requiem’s centerpiece is the gentle “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” comforting the bereaved and giving them the hope for eternal life. A balm for the soul. With English supertitles.

THU, APR 4, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, APR 5, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, APR 6, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Jeremy Denk

©Josh Goleman

Golda Schultz ©Dario Acosta

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Simone Young Conducts

Nathan Olson Violin

ARVO PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten BRITTEN Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 15

STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30

Millions of movie fans the world over have heard the grand fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra at the beginning of Kubrick’s epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. But if you’ve never heard it live, you’re in for a thrill — a multitude of brasses, the full orchestra, and the Lay Family Concert Organ, all hailing a primeval sunrise. To open the concert, Co-Concertmaster Nathan Olson solos in Britten’s fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto.

THU, APR 11, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, APR 12, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, APR 13, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, APR 14, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Nathan Olson

Simone Young ©Sandrah Steh

RING CYCLE

The DSO Presents the Complete Wagner Ring Cycle in Concert

The Ring of the Nibelung — the crowning glory of Romantic opera — is not to be missed! DSO audiences are among the lucky few who will ever get to experience it live with the full power of more than 100 orchestra musicians and singers on stage.

As a DSO subscriber, you receive advanced access to the first two concerts in the cycle.

Das Rheingold * and Die Walküre will be performed in the spring of 2024. 2023/24 subscribers will also receive priority access to the full cycle being performed in order in the fall of 2024. Don’t delay locking your seats in for this monumental event!

Performing opera-in-concert is part of my artistic plans at the DSO. Opera is an important part of the repertoire, and in addition, by presenting opera, we learn to listen closer and develop even further as an ensemble. We have performed both Salome and Eugene Onegin here in Dallas.

Wagner’s Ring is a leap forward from those works in scale and complexity, but it is a project that will be beautiful and important for the orchestra and for the audiences.”

— FABIO LUISI,

DIRECTOR

MUSIC

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Fabio Luisi Mark Delavan Štefan Margita Deniz Uzun Ellie Dehn ©Catherine Pisaroni Kyle Albertson Tamara Mumford © Rebecca Fay

Tómas Tómasson

Liang Li Andrew Harris

Annie Rosen

DAS RHEINGOLD ARTISTS

Valentina Farcas

Michael Laurenz

Jamez McCorkle ©Vincent Master

Alberto Triola

THIS PROJECT IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY: Mercedes T. Bass, Joanne Bober, Diane and Hal Brierley, Susan and Mark Geyer, Joe Hubach and Colleen O’Connor, Jo Jagoda, Holly and Tom Mayer, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, The Morton H. Meyerson Family Foundation, Sarah Titus and Jean Ann Titus, and Kern and Marnie Wildenthal

Renée Tatum

Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Mark Delavan WOTAN (bass-baritone)

Štefan Margita LOGE (tenor)

Deniz Uzun FRICKA (mezzo-soprano)

Ellie Dehn FREIA (soprano)

Jamez McCorkle FROH (tenor)

Kyle Albertson DONNER (baritone)

Tamara Mumford ERDA (contralto)

Tómas Tómasson ALBERICH (baritone)

Michael Laurenz MIME (tenor)

Liang Li FASOLT (bass)

Andrew Harris FAFNER (bass)

Valentina Farcas WOGLINDE (soprano)

Annie Rosen WELLGUNDE (mezzo-soprano)

Renée Tatum FLOSSHILDE (mezzo-soprano)

Alberto Triola Stage Director

Tonight, the “Prologue” of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung sets the mighty saga in motion and prepares you for what is to come: the conflict between love and power, and, ultimately, redemption through love. You’ll be plunged into the depths of the Rhine and hear the seductive siren song of the Rhine maidens; shudder at the curse placed on the possessor of all-power-giving ring of gold; fear for the folly of the gods as they traverse the rainbow bridge to enter their Valhalla palace — not knowing the doom that awaits them. With English supertitles.

WED, MAY 1, 2024

SAT, MAY 4, 2024

Ring Cycle: Die Walküre

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Sara Jakubiak SIEGLINDE (soprano)

Christopher Ventris SIEGMUND (tenor)

Stephen Milling HUNDING (bass)

Mark Delavan WOTAN (bass-baritone)

Deniz Uzun FRICKA (mezzo-soprano)

Lise Lindstrom BRÜNNHILDE (soprano)

Marcy Stonikas GERHILDE (soprano)

Miriam Clark ORTLINDE (soprano)

Deniz Uzun WALTRAUTE (mezzo-soprano)

Jennifer Johnson Cano SCHWERTLEITE (mezzo-soprano)

Kim-Lillian Strebel HELMWIGE (soprano)

Sun-Ly Pierce SIEGRUNE (mezzo-soprano)

Renée Tatum GRIMGERDE (mezzo-soprano)

Melody Wilson ROSSWEISSE (mezzo-soprano)

Alberto Triola Stage Director

With Die Walküre, Wagner leaves the realm of the gods and traces the story of the king of the gods Wotan’s mortal children and the warrior-maid Brünnhilde. The most well-loved opera of the tetralogy, it encompasses some of its most beautiful music: impassioned expressions of love, Wotan’s farewell to his beloved child Brünnhilde, the Magic Fire Music, and, of course, The Ride of the Valkyries, the rousing battle cry sung by eight Valkyrie sisters (memorably on the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now). With English supertitles.

THU, MAY 2, 2024

SUN, MAY 5, 2024

Fabio Luisi

Miriam Clark

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Stephen Milling

Kim-Lillian Strebel

Mark Delavan

Sun-Ly Pierce

Deniz Uzun

Lise Lindstrom

Melody Wilson

Marcy Stonikas

Christopher Ventris

©Rosie Hardy

©Jiyang Chen ©Franziska Schrödinger

Alberto Triola Renée Tatum

Sara Jakubiak

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Daniele Rustioni Conducts

Behzod Abduraimov Piano

RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

CASELLA Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 12

Rachmaninoff, wizard of the piano, meets Paganini, wizard of the violin. The result: the notoriously difficult Rhapsody — 24 variations on the 24th of Paganini’s Caprices — encompassing everything from knuckle-busting runs to the terrifying Day of Wrath medieval chant and the swoon-worthy 18th variation. Followed by Casella’s thrillingly assertive second symphony, this program will take its audience on a powerful musical journey.

THU, MAY 16, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, MAY 17, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAY 18, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAY 19, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

Vasily Petrenko Conducts

Denis Kozhukhin Piano

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

ANDREA BASEVI New Work | DSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE

PROKOFIEV Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 16

WALTON Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor

Riveting. Virtuosic. Diabolical. Daredevil. Terrifying. Words that describe both Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto and Walton’s first symphony. The critic Harold Schonberg laid out the requirements for playing Prokofiev’s landmark work: “Steel fingers, steel biceps, steel triceps — a tonal steel trust.” (“...feats of prestidigitation from Denis Kozhukhin... ferocious energy... the octave leaps cast off as dizzyingly as any high-wire act” [BachTrack]). Meanwhile, Walton’s work premiered to critical acclaim for its commanding artistry and unflinching use of the power of the orchestra. Hang on to your seats for this one!

THU, MAY 23, 2024 AT 7:30PM

FRI, MAY 24, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAY 26, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Daniele Rustioni

©David Cerati

Denis Kozhukhin

Thursday Classical Packages

SERIES A (16 Concerts)

SEP 28 Copland and Liszt

OCT 12 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

NOV 9 Strauss Don Juan

NOV 16 Tchaikovsky Pathétique

JAN 4 Elgar Cello Concerto

JAN 11 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

JAN 18 Mozart and Beethoven

FEB 1 Sibelius Violin Concerto

FEB 22 Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

MAR 7 Chopin and Shostakovich

MAR 28 Mahler Symphony No. 5

APR 4 Brahms Requiem

APR 11 Also Sprach Zarathustra

MAY 1* Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold

MAY 16 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

MAY 23 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

SERIES B1 (8 Concerts)

OCT 12 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

NOV 16 Tchaikovsky Pathétique

JAN 11 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

FEB 1 Sibelius Violin Concerto

MAR 7 Chopin and Shostakovich

APR 4 Brahms Requiem

MAY 1* Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold

MAY 23 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

Round out your subscription with these additional season highlights

RACHMANINOFF SYMPHONY NO. 3

FRI, OCT 6, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, OCT 7, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, OCT 8, 2023 AT 3:00PM

VENGEROV PLAYS BRAHMS

FRI, NOV 3, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, NOV 4, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, NOV 5, 2023 AT 3:00PM

THE BOOK WITH SEVEN SEALS

FRI, MAR 1, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAR 2, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAR 3, 2024 AT 3:00PM

SERIES B2 (8 Concerts)

SEP 28 Copland and Liszt

NOV 9 Strauss Don Juan

JAN 4 Elgar Cello Concerto

JAN 18 Mozart and Beethoven

FEB 22 Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

MAR 28 Mahler Symphony No. 5

APR 11 Also Sprach Zarathustra

MAY 16 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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NOV 3 Vengerov Plays Brahms

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NOV 24 Stravinsky The Firebird

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JAN 12 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

JAN 19 Mozart and Beethoven

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FEB 23 Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

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NOV 3 Vengerov Plays Brahms

NOV 24 Stravinsky The Firebird

JAN 12 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

FEB 2 Sibelius Violin Concerto

FEB 23 Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

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APR 5 Brahms Requiem

MAY 17 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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APR 12 Also Sprach Zarathustra

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OCT 7 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3

OCT 14 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

NOV 4 Vengerov Plays Brahms

NOV 11 Strauss Don Juan

NOV 18 Tchaikovsky Pathétique

NOV 25 Stravinsky The Firebird

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APR 6 Brahms Requiem

APR 13 Also Sprach Zarathustra

MAY 4 Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold

MAY 18

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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OCT 14 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

NOV 11 Strauss Don Juan

NOV 25 Stravinsky The Firebird

JAN 20 Mozart and Beethoven

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OCT 1 Copland and Liszt

OCT 8 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3

OCT 15 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

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NOV 12 Strauss Don Juan

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SEPT 30

JOIN US FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENING

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Isabel Leonard Mezzo-Soprano

Emanuel Ax Piano

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

BIZET Selections from Carmen

CHOPIN Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise No. 58 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 22

RAVEL La Valse

Chairs

Kim & Greg Hext

Honorary Chairs

Diane & Hal Brierley

Co-Chairs

Keith Braley, Marena Gault, Maisie Heiken & Venise Stuart

This evening features Music Director Fabio Luisi and the DSO with guests Emanuel Ax, piano, Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano and our own Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus. Enjoy Leonard’s stunning portrayal of Carmen, Ax’s unsurpassed virtuosity of Chopin and the whirlwind of sound in Ravel’s La Valse.

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Pops

Jeff Tyzik PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR Dot and Paul Mason Principal Pops Conductor Podium

“…and the orchestra was there for it, wrapping up with a cacophony of joyful noise for a guaranteed and much-deserved standing ovation.”

— TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW

PRESENTED BY POPS SERIES

Prohibition

The Music of Moulin Rouge, Boardwalk Empire and More!

Jeff Tyzik Conducts

Imagine time-traveling through the dark cabarets and speakeasies of New York, Paris, Berlin, London and Atlantic City, reliving the 1920s in all its decadence — prohibition, gangsters, ingénues and intrigue. Prohibition takes you on a journey through the era, from Rudy Vallée to Josephine Baker, from Kurt Weill to King Oliver, featuring the top hits of the decade authentically arranged for orchestra by GRAMMY® Award-winner Jeff Tyzik, accompanied by vintage imagery and video from the period.

FRI, SEP 8, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, SEP 9, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, SEP 10, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Great American Songbook Selections

Fabio Luisi Conducts

Karen Slack Soprano

Issachah Savage Tenor

GERSHWIN Overture to Girl Crazy

VARIOUS Great American Songbook Selections

STYNE Overture to Gypsy

DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony, Movement II

JOHNSON Drums — A Symphonic Poem

Music Director Fabio Luisi makes his first appearance on the Pops Series presented by Capital One. The evening opens with classic Gershwin, followed by selections from the Great American Songbook. These important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards began in the early 20th century and continue to be written to this day. Closing the program are pieces by Jule Styne, William L. Dawson, the great arranger of spirituals, and the foot tapping Drums by James P. Johnson.

FRI, SEP 22, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, SEP 23, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, SEP 24, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Karen Slack Issachah Savage ©Christopher Descano

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Relive the magic of your favorite wizard in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert. The thrilling tale is accompanied by the music of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Harry soars across the big screen. From the moment Harry uses the Marauder’s Map to when the Patronus Charm bursts from his wand, you’ll be transported back into the world you love.

FRI, OCT 27, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, OCT 28, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, OCT 29, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Christmas Pops

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus*

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

The beloved holiday tradition continues with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra performing transcendent anthems, classical holiday favorites and sing-along carols. Your favorite holiday vocalists join the DSO and our choruses to bring a bit of Christmas magic to the Meyerson. Sprinkle in an appearance by you-know-who, a bit of snow and the joyous music of the DSO and there is nothing quite like it.

FRI, DEC 1, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, DEC 2, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, DEC 3, 2023 AT 3:00PM* & 7:30PM

*The Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus only performs at the matinee performances of Christmas Pops. NOTE: Additional performances of DSO Christmas Pops listed in Special Concerts

WIZARDING WORLD and all related trademarks, characters, names, and indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s23)

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Rajaton Sings Queen

Steven Reineke Conducts Rajaton Vocal Ensemble

Revisit your favorite Queen songs with Finnish sensation, Rajaton. The six-person singing group, accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will sing Queen’s greatest hits including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “I Want It All,” “Somebody to Love,” “We Are The Champions” and many more.

FRI, JAN 26, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, JAN 27, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, JAN 28, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Rajaton ©Laura Malmivaara

Uptown Nights It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing!

Jeff Tyzik Conducts

Byron Stripling Trumpet, Vocals

Carmen Bradford Vocals

Leo Manzari Tap Dancer

Inspired by Harlem’s famed musical hot spots like The Cotton Club and The Savoy, this swingin’ night of musical sensations focuses on Harlem’s heyday when Duke Ellington’s orchestra was the house band, and Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Ethel Waters showcased the classics of the Great American Songbook.

FRI, FEB 16, 2024 AT 7:30PM SAT, FEB 17, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, FEB 18, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Sarah Hicks Conducts

Danny Elfman Special Guest

Sandy Cameron Violin

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Featuring Music from Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice In Wonderland, Frankenweenie, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and more...

Explore the collaborative relationship between music and storytelling and the process and importance that this has in filmmaking. Composer Danny Elfman and visionary Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton have created a unique concert experience, lending music and visuals to celebrate the 25-year partnership of two of Hollywood’s top creators. This live concert features Danny Elfman live along with famous Tim Burton film scores being brought to life on stage by orchestra, enhanced by visuals on the big screen of original sketches, drawings and storyboards.

FRI, MAR 15, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAR 16, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAR 17, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Byron Stripling

©John Abbott

Danny Elfman and Sandy Cameron

Leo Manzari

Carmen Bradford

Troupe Vertigo

Enrico Lopez-Yañez Conducts

Fusing together elements of cirque acrobatics, classical dance and contemporary theater, Troupe Vertigo brings audiences on a spellbinding journey through the world of artistic movement. Experience the grandeur and prestige of Troupe Vertigo, whose “dizzying acts defy gravity and leave its lucky audiences in awe” (Los Angeles Times) return to the Meyerson for encore performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

FRI, APR 19, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, APR 20, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, APR 21, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Country Hits: Songs from Nashville

Jeff Tyzik Conducts

Emily West Vocals

Rick Brantley Vocals

Join the DSO for a honky-tonking, heart-aching celebration of everything America loves about country music past and present. Featuring the classic country hits you know and love from legendary stars Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash to the biggest stars of today like Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves.

FRI, MAY 10, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SAT, MAY 11, 2024 AT 7:30PM

SUN, MAY 12, 2024 AT 3:00PM

Emily West Rick Brantley

Enrico Lopez-Yañez

© Dokk Savage Photography

Pops Friday, Saturday or Sunday Packages

POPS (9 Concerts)

SEP 8 – 10

SEP 22 – 24

Prohibition

Great American Songbook Selections

OCT 27 – 29 Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert

DEC 1 – 3

JAN 26 – 28

FEB 16 – 18

MAR 15 – 17

APR 19 – 21

MAY 10 – 12

Christmas Pops

Rajaton Sings Queen

Uptown Nights

Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Troupe Vertigo

Country Hits: Songs from Nashville

SUPER POPS (9 Concerts + 5 Classical Concerts)

SEP 8 – 10

SEP 22 – 24

OCT 6 – 8

OCT 27 – 29

NOV 16 – 19

DEC 1 – 3

Prohibition

Great American Songbook Selections

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3*

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert

Tchaikovsky Pathétique*

Christmas Pops

JAN 4 – 7 Elgar Cello Concerto*

JAN 26 – 28

FEB 16 – 18

MAR 1 – 3

MAR 15 – 17

APR 19 – 21

MAY 10 – 12

MAY 16 – 19

Rajaton Sings Queen

Uptown Nights

The Book with Seven Seals*

Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Troupe Vertigo

Country Hits: Songs from Nashville

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini *

Special Concerts

“…it was the assembled musicians’ artistry and heart that made the performance a success, and an occasion warmly embraced by the Meyerson audience.”

— TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW

Christmas Pops

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus*

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

The beloved holiday tradition continues with the Dallas Symphony Chorus performing transcendent anthems, classical holiday favorites and sing-along carols. Our favorite holiday vocalists join the DSO and our chorus to bring a bit of Christmas magic to the Meyerson. Sprinkle in an appearance by Santa, a bit of snow and the joyous music of the DSO and there is nothing quite like it.

FRI, DEC 1, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, DEC 2, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, DEC 3, 2023 AT 3:00PM* & 7:30PM

THU, DEC 7, 2023 AT 7:30PM

FRI, DEC 8, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, DEC 9, 2023 AT 3:00PM* & 7:30PM

SUN, DEC 10, 2023 AT 3:00PM*

*NOTE: The Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus only performs at the matinee performances of Christmas Pops.

Family Christmas Pops

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

Bradley Hunter Welch Organ

A special one-hour long family-friendly performance of our popular Christmas Pops concert featuring the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus. Come early and enjoy a variety of pre-concert activities for the kids!

SAT, DEC 2, 2023 AT 11:00AM

SAT, DEC 9, 2023 AT 11:00AM

Holidays with the King’s Singers

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Representing the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages, The King’s Singers are known for their sheer musicality, impressive versatility and ability to entertain. Drawing on the group’s rich heritage, their holiday programs cover everything from contemporary choral gems and folk songs to well-loved carols. Join us for an evening like no other this holiday season.

MON, DEC 11, 2023 AT 7:30PM

The Polar Express™ in Concert

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Dallas Symphony Chorus

This holiday season... Believe! The DSO will bring the Academy Award®-nominated holiday classic, The Polar Express™ in Concert, to the Meyerson for the first time. Experience the musical magic of Christmas Eve through Alan Silvestri’s unforgettable score, be immersed as The Polar Express adventures up and down mountains, slip-slides over ice fields, and teeters across mile-high bridges, while the DSO performs live with the film. You’ll see wonders. And you’ll believe. All aboooooard!

FRI, DEC 15, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, DEC 16, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, DEC 17, 2023 AT 3:00PM

THE POLAR EXPRESS and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s23)

New Year’s Eve with the DSO

Maurice Cohn Conducts

Before the ball drops, kick off your New Year’s celebrations with a spectacular evening of music with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Join us as we say goodbye to 2023 and welcome the New Year in style.

SUN, DEC 31, 2023 AT 7:30PM

Organ Recitals

On the Magnificent Lay Family Organ

“In the right hands — and feet — the impact [of the Lay Family Concert Organ] is nothing if not impressive,” says the Dallas Morning News. Join us for two impressive organ recitals. The first features Thomas Ospital, Titulaire of the grand organ at St. Eustache Church in Paris, who has quickly earned a place amongst the world’s finest concert organists. The second features Bradley Hunter Welch, DSO’s Resident Organist Lay Family Chair, hailed as “a world-class virtuoso” and “an expert at defining darks, lights, shadows and colors.”

Thomas Ospital

WED, NOV 1, 2023 AT 7:30PM

Bradley Hunter Welch SUN,

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus

At the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus

Ellie Lin Artistic Director of DSCC

The DSCC is proud to present its second season with the DSO. The chorus is made up of auditioned singers in 4th through 12th grade from around the greater Dallas area. Please join us as we celebrate in song!

SUN, NOV 5, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, APR 14, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Orchestra.

Ellie Lin Bradley Hunter Welch

Amadeus Live in Concert

Lawrence Loh Conducts

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Experience the multi-Academy Award®-winning 1984 motion picture, Amadeus, on the big screen while Mozart’s most celebrated works are performed live in-sync by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Winner of eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Milos Forman’s sumptuous Amadeus is an aural and visual treat for all the senses.

FRI, SEP 1, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, SEP 2, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SUN, SEP 3, 2023 AT 3:00PM

Amadeus LIVE is a production of Avex Classics International

Lila Downs in Concert

With the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Enrico Lopez-Yañez Conducts

GRAMMY® Award-winning artist, Lila Downs, one of the most influential artists in Latin America, joins the DSO for charismatic performances that showcase her unique voice. Her own compositions combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz standards, hip-hop, cumbia and popular American music. Frequently, her lyrics focus on justice, immigration and issues unique to women.

FRI, SEP 15, 2023 AT 7:30PM SAT, SEP 16, 2023 AT 7:30PM

Día de los Muertos

Maurice Cohn Conducts

Join us for a vibrant Day of the Dead concert, celebrating our lost loved ones with a colorful affirmation of life. The DSO’s annual tradition features traditional Latin American music and culture, dazzling guest artists, colorful festivities, decorated ofrendas and fun-filled events for the whole family.

TUE, OCT 31, 2023 AT 7:30PM

Lila Downs

Ben Folds in Concert

With the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Ben Folds joins the DSO for two nights! Widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation, the Emmy-nominated artist has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums and numerous collaborations. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.

FRI, OCT 20, 2023 AT 7:30PM

SAT, OCT 21, 2023 AT 7:30PM

An Evening With Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer With Rakesh Chaurasia

The DSO is excited to welcome Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer with Rakesh Chaurasia to the stage. NPR stated they are “simply the best at what they do... They are world-class masters of the banjo, the bass fiddle and the tabla [who] conquered mere technical prowess long ago.” There’s a bit of the sorcerer in Fleck (banjo), Hussain (tabla), Meyer (double bass), and their special guest Chaurasia (bansuri-Indian flute). These incredible musicians move from bluegrass to Western classical to Indian classical to jazz, transmuting genres into something uniquely their own — it is music that transcends description, ineffable, indefinable, and very beautiful.

MON, NOV 6, 2023 AT 7:30PM

NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Ben Folds

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer

Amos Lee in Concert With the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Lipke Conducts

One of the shining stars of modern folk, Amos Lee creates the rare kind of music that’s emotionally raw yet touched with a certain magical quality. On his eighth album Dreamland, the Philadelphia-born singer/ songwriter intimately documents his real-world struggles (alienation, anxiety, loneliness, despair), an outpouring born from deliberate and often painful self-examination. In his much anticipated first collaboration with the Dallas Symphony, the singer/songwriter brings his beautifully intimate songs to the Meyerson stage.

FRI, MAR 22, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Turtle Creek Chorale “Sing for Our Lives”

Maurice Cohn Conducts

Turtle Creek Chorale

Sean Baugh Artistic Director and Conductor

The Turtle Creek Chorale will join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a special one-night-only concert featuring music in a variety of styles and genres. This performance will present new works by composers including Alberto Cordero Garcia and Joseph Martin. Jake Runestad, Mark Sirett, The Goo-Goo Dolls, Sara Bareilles and other will be featured in contemporary choral, pop and Broadway works as well.

TUE, SEP 19, 2023 AT 7:30PM

Amos Lee

Turtle Creek Chorale

Vienna Boys Choir

There’s something eternal and powerful about the Vienna Boys Choir’s pure and pristine sound. The evening will feature a diverse and challenging array of vocal music spanning many centuries and the angelic voices of one of the most famous choirs in the world will entrance you. Don’t miss the beauty and precision of the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir as they take the stage of the Meyerson for one night only!

THU, NOV 2, 2023 AT 7:30PM

NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Vienna Boys Choir

©Lukas Beck

Vienna Boys Choir

©Lukas Beck

Vienna Boys Choir ©Lukas Beck

An Evening With Sphinx Virtuosi

The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization — the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming and impassioned community engagement. Frequently selling out venues, the ensemble has garnered effusive accolades, including from The New York Times, which has described the group as “...top-notch... more essential at this moment than ever... a vibrant, assured performance...”

SAT, MAR 9, 2024 AT 7:30PM

NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Sphinx Virtuosi

©Scott Jackson

Sphinx Virtuosi

©Scott Jackson

Daniil Trifonov Piano Recital

Daniil Trifonov Piano

RAMEAU Suite in A minor, RCT 5

MOZART Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332

MENDELSSOHN Serious Variations

BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier”

With “colorful, dazzling and imaginative playing,” virtuoso Daniil Trifonov ranks as “one of the most awesome pianists of our time” (The New York Times). His DSO recital offers works by Rameau, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven. Do not miss this unique opportunity to see one of the most important pianists working today in a rare Dallas recital.

MON, MAR 18, 2024 AT 7:30PM

NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Ludmilla

ZIEGLER and ROSEN Ludmilla

Jörgen van Rijen Chamber Orchestra Director & Trombone

Eva Buchmann Stage Director

Marc Pantus Baritone

Merlijn Runia Mezzo-Soprano

Jan Willem Baljet Baritone

In an intimate performance the DSO brings Ludmilla, an opera by Erich Ziegler (score) and Willy Rosen (libretto), to Dallas. The opera was originally performed for the Schutzstaffel in 1944 by the Gruppe Bühne (cabaret artists imprisoned at Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands) — two months later, all forms of entertainment were banned. This moving production weaves together the comedy created for the SS’s entertainment with memories drawn from prisoners at Westerbork that were ultimately murdered in Auschwitz.

THU, MAR 21, 2024 AT 7:30PM

Daniil Trifonov

©Dario Acosta

Marc Pantus

Merlijn Runia

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