Steve Hackman's Tchaikovsky X Drake Program Book

March 4, 2023 Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

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STEVE HACKMAN Conductor & Creator JECOREY ARTHUR Rapper

MARIO JOSE Vocalist

INDIA CARNEY Vocalist

BRAYLON LACY Bassist

MALIA CIVETZ Vocalist

TARON LOCKETT Drummer

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 (1888) DRAKE Various Works (2010-2020) Movement I Started From the Bottom Back to Back Headlines Over My Dead Body Over Worst Behavior God’s Plan 5 AM in Toronto Piano Cadenza Program continued on following page

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Interlude I Controlla Hold On, We’re Going Home Movement II Marvin’s Room Energy All Me HYFR Interlude II In My Feelings One Dance Take Care Movement IV Nice For What Find Your Love Jumpman 5

Steve Hackman Conductor & Creator A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and visionary producer, Steve Hackman is a daring voice leading the charge among a new generation of classical musicians intent on redefining the genre.

Equally adept in classical and popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny — he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist.

He uses those wide- ranging abilities to create innovative fusions that blur the lines between high and pop art. The result is evocative works that are both derivative yet wholly original. He synthesizes Brahms and Radiohead, Bartók and Björk, and Beethoven and Coldplay into epic orchestral tone poems; re-imagines Stravinsky and Shostakovich into original orchestral-electronic concept albums; and samples Verdi and Debussy and interpolates them into hip-hop tracks. His performances of these pieces have surprised and thrilled diverse sellout audiences across the country, including with the orchestras of San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Phoenix, Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Charlotte, Southwest Florida, Alabama, Colorado Music Festival, and the Boston Pops.

In Fall of 2021 Hackman composed the 60-minute ballet AT WORK in partnership with Jacob Jonas the Company, premiering the piece in consecutive weekends at Century City Park and the Water Gardens in Los Angeles. It was the culmination of a busy two years of composing: he composed five original scores for the global film initiative films.dance, teaming up with Hilary Hahn, Dave Koz, Voces 8, and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra in the process; his music was featured on the American Express campaign Stand For Small, alongside the voice of Lin-Manuel Miranda; and during the summer of 2021 he completed recording of a solo piano album.

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Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work. He has collaborated frequently with Doja Cat, performing with her at the 2021 VMA’s in Brooklyn, following orchestrating and arranging strings for her performances at the Billboard Music Awards and iHeart Radio Music Awards. In December 2019, Hackman collaborated with Kanye West, the Sunday Service Choir and Access Opera in their production of the opera Mary. Hackman contributed as composer, conductor, and orchestrator. The opera had public performances at Art Basel in Miami and Lincoln Center in New York City.

Hackman serves as the conductor and curator of the BSO Fusion with the Baltimore Symphony, presenting multiple concerts per year of his fusion productions. He is Creative Director and Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony’s Uncharted Series, one of the most successful millennial-focused concert experiences in the country.

Hackman has been instrumental in the development of this concert series since 2010. A recent highlight featured the blockbuster premiere of his newest fusion work The Resurrection Mixtape, a combination of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and the music of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. In September 2019 Hackman recorded a seventy-piece orchestra of LA’s finest studio musicians at Eastwood Soundstage on the Warner Brothers lot for his original music project STEREO HIDEOUT. The results will be heard on the upcoming Stereo Hideout album The Revival.

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In early 2019, Hackman debuted IGOR DAMN STRAVINSKY, an orchestral/hip-hop synthesis of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN. Earlier that year, Hackman premiered his choral re-imagination of Bob Dylan, a fifteen-song anthology entitled The Times They Are A-Changin’ with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. The piece was commissioned by six American choirs, with its orchestral premiere with the Nashville Symphony in January 2020.

In 2001 Hackman was the only outside student to be accepted to Otto-Werner Mueller’s conducting studio at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. He received an advanced diploma in conducting at Curtis, where he also studied counterpoint, composition and improvisation under his mentor Dr. Ford Lallerstedt. He subsequently studied conducting with David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.

He received further training in orchestration from the Broadway orchestrator and composer William Brohn. His undergraduate degree is in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Gustavo Romero.

Hackman is active on social media under the handle @stevehackmanmusic.

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Jecorey Arthur Rapper Jecorey “1200” Arthur is an award-winning teacher, musician, and activist from Louisville, Kentucky. He is currently a music professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, an artist roster member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), and an endorsed artist with Salyers Percussion. Arthur has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Big Ears Festival, Forecastle Festival, and Jungfrau Erzählfestival; performed as a soloist with the Stereo Hideout Brooklyn Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus, and Oregon Symphony Orchestras; performed as the first hip hop artist with the Louisville Orchestra including world premieres of folk opera The Way Forth and rap opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, where he starred as his hometown hero; and composed music for theatre, film, television, radio, podcast, and studio albums. In 2021, Arthur was inaugurated as the youngest city councilman in the history of Louisville.

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India Carney Vocalist India Carney is a multi-talented solo artist with a wide-range of experience in the performing arts industry. While traveling throughout the country and abroad, India writes and performs original music, as well as collaborates with bands and other artists to produce live shows and recordings that introduce a mix of Classical, Pop, R&B and A Cappella music, and Theater. India is a versatile American singer, songwriter, arranger and actress. In addition to building a YouTube presence as the featured artist teaming up with music producers, India is best known for her passionate solo performances as an Artist on NBC’s Emmy awardwinning, The Voice -Season 8. India has performed with celebrity icons such as David Foster, Lady Gaga, Herbie Hancock, Meghan Trainor, Christina Aguilera, Jason Derulo, Mark Ronson.

India is a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and multiaward YoungArts Silver Winner in Voice & Theater. She currently serves as a junior Board member of the Presidential Scholars Foundation and the Harlem Arts Festival in New York City. Despite India’s active performance schedule, her passion for music inspires her to help develop the next generation of talented singers. Since 2012, India has been instructing Los Angeles area students of varying ages on healthy vocal techniques through private lessons, in groups, and conducting masterclasses. In 2015, India began serving on committees for music organizations as an adjudicator at vocal competitions across the country. India was awarded the Music Impact Award by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, The Maidie Norman Award by the UCLA Black Alumni Association and True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award from UCLA. India earned her B.A. in Music -Voice Performance along with the minor in Music Industry from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

She is an alumna of Manhattan School of Music (Precollege) and LaGuardia Arts High School (the “Fame” School) in New York City.

India is committed to supporting the Arts and is moving forward with creating the India Carney Voice Scholarship Fund at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. India is honored to take part in Steven Hackman’s, “Tchaikovsky v. Drake”!

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Malia Civetz Vocalist Malia Civetz has performed as a vocal soloist on countless occasions across the United States and around Europe in Steve Hackman’s symphonic mashups. She began working with Steve Hackman in January 2015 performing in Beethoven v. Coldplay and continues to lend her voice to that piece and a growing list of symphonic fusions including Stravinsky’s Firebird Remix-Response, Tchaikovsky v.

Drake, Skull and Bones, The Times They Are-A-Changin’, Bartok v.

Bjork, and From Beethoven to Beyoncé.

Malia, a Los Angeles-based recording artist and songwriter, signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music after graduating from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music’s Popular Music Program. Post-college, she linked up with powerhouse songwriters, Ross Golan and JKash, signing to their newly created joint label. She initially made waves with her independent single ‘Champagne Clouds’ debuted by Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM morning show ‘On Air With Ryan Seacrest’. The song quickly earned 20 million-plus streams and made Taylor Swift’s ‘Favorite Songs’ playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify.

She moved on to sign a record deal with Warner Records making her major label debut in 2020 with her first EP, The Flip, featuring hit radio single ‘Broke Boy.’ Malia unveiled her second EP, Heels In Hand, featuring ‘Partied Out’ and fan-favorite ‘Sugar Daddy.’ Her work has amassed love from numerous publications and has landed spots in major film, tv, and commercial productions. Surpassing 85 million total streams as an artist, Malia continues to also write for a variety of artists across numerous genres.

Her musical accomplishments span well over a decade with early highlights that include performing as a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ at New York’s Apollo Theater at age 13, having the privilege to sing for President Obama at age 16 and performing in Barry Manilow’s show at the Paris Las Vegas at 17.

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Mario Jose Vocalist A San Francisco Bay Area native, Mario Jose is a seasoned singer-songwriter, powerhouse vocalist, and true entertainer.

Mario attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and was a part of the award-winning a cappella group Pitch Slapped. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a solo artist.

Mario has had the privilege to share the stage and studio with music icons including Pentatonix (opening for them on tour), Prince, Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor (New Orleans Jazz Fest 2017), John Legend (NBC’s Duets), Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey (of Earth, Wind & Fire), John Elefante (of Kansas), Jim Peterick (of Survivor), Bill Champlin (of Chicago), Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Ben E. King, Post Modern Jukebox and many more.

Mario is currently co-headling on the Heart, Hope & Love Tour across the US with Travis Atreo and The Filharmonic - tickets are available on mariojosemusic.com.

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Braylon Lacy Bassist Braylon Lacy can whirl warm tones on the upright and electric bass.

His tone is so richly embedded with his family’s musical and gospel roots as well as jazz inspirations. Braylon has wowed the globe with an array of artist in all genres artist such as: Wynton Marsalis, Prince, Erykah Badu, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Israel Houghton, Kirk Whalum, Oleta Adams, N’Dambi and the late Wayman Tisdale.

Braylon began playing in the church and has been playing professionally for fifteen years. His formal training began with Dean Hill and continued in his high school years at BTWHSPVA Dallas’ Arts Magnet High School. Braylon further studied music atWeatherford College and the University of North Texas.

Braylon has been featured on numerous recordings including the Grammy award winning Hero by Kirk Franklin and Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun. Featured in Bass Player magazine, Braylon has several endorsements including: Aguliar Amplification, DR Strings and Fender guitars.

Braylon maintains a busy schedule of recording, teaching and touring nationally as well internationally.

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TaRon Lockett Drummer Dallas native TaRon Lockett is a 2x Grammy Nominated drummer/ producer has worked with Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Ceelo Green, Prince, Liv Warfield, Willie Nelson, Sheila E, and DJ DNice and currently tours with Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles.

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LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO MARCH 30 | 7:30 PM Hear five-time GRAMMY® Award-winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo, designated by Nelson Mandela as “South Africa’s cultural ambassadors to the world,” as they bring their uplifting vocal harmonies and signature dance moves to the Meyerson for one night only.

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THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2022/23 SEASON

Fabio Luisi

Music Director Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship

Gemma New

Principal Guest Conductor Dolores G. & Lawrence S. Barzune, M.D. Chair

Jeff Tyzik

Principal Pops Conductor Dot & Paul Mason Podium

Maurice Cohn

Assistant Conductor Marena & Roger Gault Chair

Angélica Negrón

Composer-in-Residence

Vacant

Chorus Director Jean D. Wilson Chair

VIOLIN I

Alexander Kerr Concertmaster Michael L. Rosenberg Chair Nathan Olson Co-Concertmaster Fanchon & Howard Hallam Chair Gary Levinson ° Senior Principal Associate Concertmaster Enika Schulze Chair Emmanuelle Boisvert Associate Concertmaster Robert E. & Jean Ann Titus Family Chair Eunice Keem Associate Concertmaster Marcella Poppen Chair Diane Kitzman Principal Filip Fenrych W. Paul Radman, DDS Chair Maria Schleuning Norma & Don Stone Chair Lucas Aleman Jenna Barghouti

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Mary Reynolds Andrew Schast Motoi Takeda Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Daphne Volle Bruce Wittrig Susan & Woodrow Gandy Chair Giyeon Yoon Kaori Yoshida *

VIOLIN II

Angela Fuller Heyde Principal Barbara K. & Seymour R. Thum Chair Alexandra Adkins Associate Principal Sho-mei Pelletier Associate Principal Bing Wang Bruce Patti * Rita Sue & Alan Gold Chair Mariana Cottier-Bucco Debra & Steve Leven Chair Lilit Danielyan * Hyorim Han Shu Lee Nora Scheller * Aleksandr Snytkin * Lydia Umlauf

VIOLA

Meredith Kufchak Principal Hortense & Lawrence S. Pollock Chair Matthew Sinno Associate Principal Sarah Kienle Acting Associate Principal Pamela Askew Thomas Demer Valerie Dimond Dr. James E. Skibo Chair Christine Hwang Keith Verges Chair Xiaohan Sun Maisie Heiken Chair David Sywak

*Performs in both Violin I and Violin II sections

CELLO

Christopher Adkins Principal Fannie & Stephen S. Kahn Chair Theodore Harvey Associate Principal Holly & Tom Mayer Chair Jolyon Pegis Associate Principal Joe Hubach Chair Jeffrey Hood Greg & Kim Hext Chair Jennifer Yunyoung Choi Kari Kettering Donna & Herbert Weitzman Chair, in honor of Juanita & Henry S. Miller, Jr. Minji Kim Zexun (Jason) Shen Nan Zhang

BASS

Nicolas Tsolainos Principal Anonymously Endowed Chair Thomas Lederer Co-Principal Roger Fratena Associate Principal Paula Holmes Fleming Brian Perry Clifford Spohr Principal Emeritus

FLUTE

David Buck Principal Joy & Ronald Mankoff Chair Hayley Grainger Associate Principal Barbara Rabin Chair Kara Kirkendoll Welch Caroline Rose Hunt Chair James Romeo Piccolo

OBOE

Erin Hannigan Principal Nancy P. & John G. Penson Chair

° On Leave

Willa Henigman Associate Principal Brent Ross David Matthews + English Horn Karen & Jim Wiley Chair

CLARINET

Gregory Raden Principal Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas May, Jr. Chair Paul Garner ° Associate Principal + E-Flat Robert E. & Ruth Glaze Chair Stephen Ahearn Second Clarinet + Acting Associate Principal + E-flat Courtney & Andrew Nall Chair Stephanie Key Andrew Sandwick ° Bass Clarinet + Utility

BASSOON

Ted Soluri Principal Irene H. Wadel & Robert I. Atha, Jr. Chair Scott Walzel Associate Principal Barbara & Robert P. Sypult Chair Tom Fleming Peter Grenier + Contrabassoon

HORN

David Heyde ° Associate Principal + Acting Principal Linda VanSickle Chair Alexander Kienle Assistant Principal + Utility Haley Hoops Becky & Brad Todd Chair Yousef Assi Kevin Haseltine ° Vacant Principal Howard E. Rachofsky Chair

TRUMPET

Stuart Stephenson Principal Diane & Hal Brierley Chair L. Russell Campbell Associate Principal Yon Y. Jorden Chair Kevin Finamore Assistant Principal Elmer Churampi

TROMBONE

Barry Hearn Principal Cece & Ford Lacy Chair Christopher Oliver Associate Principal Brian Hecht Utility Trombone Darren McHenry Bass Trombone

TUBA

Matthew Good Principal Dot & Paul Mason Chair

TIMPANI

Brian Jones Principal Dr. Eugene & Charlotte Bonelli Chair Robert O’Brien Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

George Nickson Principal Margie & William H. Seay Chair Daniel Florio Associate Principal Robert O’Brien

HARP

Emily Levin Principal Elsa von Seggern Chair

ORGAN

Bradley Hunter Welch Resident Organist Lay Family Chair

KEYBOARD

Jeanne R. Johnson Chair Gabriel Sanchez Classical Anastasia Markina Classical

LIBRARY

Karen Schnackenberg Principal Jessie D. & E. B. Godsey Chair Mark Wilson Associate Principal Robert Greer Assistant Melanie Gilmore Choral

PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

Nishi Badhwar Olga & Yuri Anshelevich Manager of Orchestra Personnel Scott Walzel Consultant for Community Development & Outreach Nicole Mendyka Assistant Personnel Manager Christopher Oliver Auditions Coordinator

STAGE

Shannon Gonzalez Stage Manager Alan Bell Assistant Stage Manager Kenneth Winston Lighting Board Operator Kevin Ealy Bill White

IN REMEMBRANCE

Ryan Anthony (1969-2020) Principal Trumpet Emeritus Dwight Shambley (1949-2020) Bass + Young Strings Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus Ronald Snider (1947-2020) Assistant Principal Percussion As of 2/28/23

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