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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a leader in the world of classical music, embraces and inspires individuals, families, and communities through unsurpassed musical experiences.

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

Jader 10 Sightlines: Bignamini puts his Vision into Motion

Maximize Your Experience....................... 50 Upcoming Concerts.................................. 54

ON THE COVER:

Program Notes

A new look for Performance magazine to usher in Jader Bignamini’s first full season as Music Director.

Jader is pictured with guest artists Branford Marsalis (Nov. 12-14) and Hilary Hahn (Dec. 2-4).

Photo of Jader Bignamini

by Justin Milhouse.

Read Performance anytime, anywhere at dso.org/performance

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Donor Roster............................................. 40 DSO Administrative Staff......................... 52

16 Community & Learning 17

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

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WELCOME SARAH SMARCH

Dear Friends, Can you remember?

The last time you came to The Max, had your ticket scanned, and found your seat? The last time you watched as the lights went down, listened to the orchestra tune, and were filled with anticipation for that first note? As the DSO plays those initial measures of the concert, embrace the moment and reflect on how much you have missed this—how much we have all missed this: being in our world-renowned Orchestra Hall, sharing the experience with others, and taking part in live performances. It’s a feeling that can’t be replicated and has been missing for more than a year. And it’s back.

Attending a concert isn’t a passive experience—it’s an engaging and participatory event. Here is where you hear and feel and experience and cherish what makes live music so special, and where you give that energy back to the performers on stage. While our virtual Digital Concerts last season allowed us to stay connected with audiences, our world class musicians would be the first to say that it hasn’t been the same; a central component has been missing: you.

You join us at a momentous time in DSO history—the first full season with our magnificent Music Director Jader Bignamini. But you aren’t thinking about history right now. You are anticipating the experience, listening, and soaking it all in. Living in the moment. To be here now—to hear together—is something you’ll never forget.

Welcome back—it’s great to have you here.

Anne Parsons President & CEO

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DETROIT DETROIT SYMPHONY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA AA COMMUNITY-SUP COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED PORTED ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

DETROIT DETROIT SYMPHONY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA AA COMMUNITY-SUP COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED PORTED ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

JADER BIGNAMINI, Music Director

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 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 Chair

Hae Jeong Heidi Han*

David and Valerie McCammon Chair

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

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

TERENCE BLANCHARD

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

CELLO Wei Yu

PRINCIPAL James C. Gordon Chair

Abraham Feder

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh

TUBA Dennis Nulty

CLARINET Ralph Skiano

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

PRINCIPAL Robert B. Semple Chair

Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer*

Jack Walters

David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*

Laurence Liberson

Victor and Gale Girolami Chair

Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Chair

Úna O’Riordan*

Mary Ann and Robert Gorlin Chair

Cole Randolph*

African American Orchestra Fellow

BASS Kevin Brown

PRINCIPAL Van Dusen Family Chair

Stephen Molina

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Linton Bodwin~ Christopher Hamlen Brandon Mason Nicholas Myers

HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher PRINCIPAL Winifred E. Polk Chair

FLUTE Hannah Hammel PRINCIPAL

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

PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Shannon Orme

E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme

Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL William Cody Knicely Chair

James Ritchie

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp

PRINCIPAL Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair

James Ritchie

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles PRINCIPAL

Marcus Schoon Jaquain Sloan

PERSONNEL MANAGERS Patrick Peterson

ACTING PRINCIPAL

African American Orchestra Fellow

CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Mark Abbott

Ryan DeMarco

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Noel Keesee

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Steven Kemp

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Matthew Pons

TRUMPET Hunter Eberly

DEPARTMENT HEAD

PRINCIPAL Lee and Floy Barthel Chair

Kevin Good Stephen Anderson

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins PRINCIPAL

MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

STAGE MANAGER

PRINCIPAL

Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong David Everson

David Binder

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Hannah Wetherholt

STAGE PERSONNEL Dennis Rottell

HORN Karl Pituch

Sarah Lewis

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal~

Ethan Allen

William Lucas

Monica Fosnaugh Open

PRINCIPAL Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair

BASSOON Michael Ke Ma

OBOE Alexander Kinmonth

PRINCIPAL Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair

PRINCIPAL

Michael Sarkissian

DEPARTMENT HEAD

LEGEND * These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis ~ Extended leave

Maggie Miller Chair

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

MUSIC DIRECTORSHIP ENDOWED

BY THE KRESGE FOUNDATION

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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.

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Jeff Tyzik

Terence Blanchard

PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR

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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. AND BARBARA M. ERB JAZZ CREATIVE DIRECTOR CHAIR

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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.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME MEMBERS

CHAIRS EMERITI

DIRECTORS EMERITI

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.

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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 & Avern Cohn Marianne Endicott Sidney Forbes Ruth Frank 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

Arthur T. O’Reilly Officer at Large

Anne Parsons President & CEO

Ralph J. Gerson Officer at Large

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

David T. Provost Treasurer

Faye Alexander Nelson Officer at Large

Pamela Applebaum David Assemany Governing Members Chair Elena Centeio Richard L. DeVore Samuel Fogleman Aaron Frankel Herman B. Gray, M.D., M.B.A. Rev. Nicholas Hood III

Richard Huttenlocher Renato Jamett Trustee Chair Daniel J. Kaufman Michael J. Keegan Arthur C. Liebler Xavier Mosquet Stephen R. Polk Jay Ritchie Orchestra Representative

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Bernard I. Robertson Camilo Serna Shirley Stancato Nancy Tellem James G. Vella 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 Carolynn Frankel Christa Funk Robert Gillette Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin Mary Ann Gorlin Laura Hernandez-Romine Donald Hiruo

Michelle Hodges Julie Hollinshead John Jullens David Karp Joel D. Kellman Jennette Smith Kotila William Lentine Linda Dresner Levy Florine Mark Anthony McCree Kristen McLennan Lydia Michael Lois A. Miller Daniel Millward 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 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. Richard Sonenklar Scott Strong, Musician Representative Rob Tanner Yoni Torgow Laura J. Trudeau Gwen Weiner Donnell White Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret E. Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue

MAESTRO CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Janet & Norm Ankers, Chairs

Cecilia Benner

Joanne Danto

Gregory Haynes

Bonnie Larson

Lois Miller

Richard Sonenklar

GOVERNING MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Assemany, Chair Suzanne Dalton Maureen T. D’Avanzo

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SIGHTLINES: Jader Bignamini puts his Vision into Motion Sarah Smarch

PHOTO BY JUSTIN MILHOUSE

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“ The music director is really in charge of defining the orchestra’s sound. I think Jader’s dynamism plays into what we want to do and what we can do in this hall.” —Assistant Principal Timpani and Percussion Jay Ritchie

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s the Detroit Symphony Orchestra returns to in-person concerts this season, DSO Music Director Jader Bignamini is establishing his vision at the helm of the orchestra.

The orchestra is ready to take this journey.

“Jader has clear, specific ideas about where he wants to take us artistically— and he is wasting no time in leading us in that direction,” says cellist Úna O’Riordan. “He is not afraid to take risks and try new things to achieve his goals, and those are some of the essential qualities of a great leader.

The orchestra has a lot of faith in Jader’s artistic vision.”

Jader makes a point of conducting performances from memory without a score on the podium. He stresses interaction and eye contact with the orchestra, enhancing his connection with the musicians, and the orchestra’s connection with the music.

To help the musicians connect with Jader’s visual cues and eye contact, the DSO is, for the first time in decades, staging its musicians on risers this season.

“The contact between the musicians during concerts has to be like breathing,” says Jader. “Being raised, there will be no barriers between the woodwinds, the percussion, and the strings and they will be able to play in a much more natural way.”

Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly is excited about the change. “Visual cues are huge from a conductor,” he says.

“With Jader doing everything by memory he is very connected to the orchestra, whether it is small glances or large gestures, he is always communicating with us. For those of us in the back of the orchestra, these improved sight lines will help us catch those cues, build our understanding of what his expectations are, and build a strong musical connection.”

For all that, the risers will take some getting used to. “This is a little bit of a

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leap of faith for us, as most members of the orchestra have not used risers here in Orchestra Hall,” says Úna.

The risers were meticulously crafted

by West End Studios in Delray, Detroit.

The build was important, as was the wood that was used—maple—to ensure that the sound reflects off the risers in the same way that it does from Orchestra Hall’s stage. Prior to construction, the DSO’s Stage Crew built a to-scale model of the hall’s stage and the many different-size risers to help visualize the various layouts for different types of programming. (For example, a Mozart symphony versus a Mahler symphony— Mahler calls for a much larger orchestra.)

The orchestra’s Artistic Advisory Committee was consulted, and the pieces were moved around the model, arranged and rearranged by the many hands who wanted to get a feel for this new way of playing.

Orchestra Hall is known for its impeccable acoustics, so ensuring the musicians’ sounds can make the best use of their beloved space was also a consideration for Jader when implementing the change.

There is no “try before you buy,” Úna says, since the risers must be custom-built. “It will be interesting to experience the change in balance between the various sections of the orchestra—the brass and woodwinds (now on risers) will be much higher, above the strings. It should make it easier for the orchestra to achieve greater dynamic control and play together.”

So how will this seating change affect the audience’s concert-going experience?

“With this new setup of the orchestra, I am sure the audience will have the feeling of being even closer to our musicians wherever they are seated in the hall,” Jader says. “They will be able to see all our players and hear them very brightly. Plus, the sound will be perfectly balanced. We have a great orchestra hall, and I believe this is the best way to bring out its acoustics to the fullest.”

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Orchestra Hall’s new risers under construction at West End Studios in Delray, Detroit.

Photo by Sarah Smarch While Jader’s decision is focused on live performance, audiences at home will welcome the improved camera angles in the DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall webcasts, which will make it easier to see the percussion, horns, and other musicians that sit toward the back of the stage.

Jader is also taking a deep dive into fresh programming this season.

Together with orchestra Vice President and General Manager Erik Rönmark, Jader is working to balance time-tested works that speak to the resilience of the human spirit in challenging times, while amplifying the voices of people of color and women composers and highlighting new music.

“Contemporary music is so important for a symphony orchestra,” says Jader.

“Music and art are like people’s thinking, which continues to develop and change.

Music anticipates our way of thinking and that’s why we must support contemporary music—it’s our future.

And remember that all music was contemporary music at one time.”

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The orchestra is not just preparing for a metaphorical journey with Jader as its new leader, but a literal one as well. For the first time in almost five years, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will go on tour, playing four concerts in Florida—in Miami, West Palm Beach, Gainesville, and Sarasota—this January.

“A great orchestra has the task of performing and spreading great music,” Jader says, explaining why the DSO is going on tour. “When you are on tour, you experience strong emotions all together, and the pride of being part of an orchestra like the DSO will charge our musicians. All together, we will be able to create musical moments of the highest level that will make us all grow musically and as people.

“I know that Detroit is so proud to have an orchestra of this level, and we will be extremely happy to bring Detroit to the world. The tour program will show the high technical level of the orchestra.

It will be a time of growth and pride for all of us.” n

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Join the DSO with family and friends at these holiday concerts PNC POPS

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Stuart Chafetz, conductor Michael Preacely, vocalist

Fri., Dec. 17 at 10:45 & 8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 19 at 3 p.m Share Detroit’s favorite holiday musical tradition with family and friends and thrill to the spectacle of the season. Stuart Chafetz returns to lead a sparkling celebration with carols and classics that sells out year after year – and yes, Virginia, there will be a Santa Claus!

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DIANNE REEVES: CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE Fri., Dec. 3 at 8 p.m.

Dianne Reeves is one of the preeminent jazz vocalists in the world today. She rings in the holiday season with music from her celebrated album, Christmas Time Is Here. Renowned for her breathtaking virtuosity and improvisational prowess, Reeves will warm your heart with holiday cheer.

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HOME ALONE IN CONCERT Scott Terrell, conductor

Wed., Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Enjoy one of the most beloved holiday films of all time projected on a giant screen in stunning high definition, accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra! Relive John Hughes’s charming and hilarious story about family, with John Williams’s captivating score and the young Macaulay Culkin, who captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.

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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 multi-year, comprehensive gifts to support general operations, endowment, capital improvements, named chairs, ensembles, or programs.

These generous commitments establish a solid foundation for the future of the DSO.

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

Penny & Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher

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

VISIONARIES

Shari & Craig Morgan Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

CHAMPIONS

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation DTE Energy Foundation The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs. Morton E. Harris◊

John S. & James L. Kinght Foundation The Kresge Foundation 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

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 Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher John C. Leyhan Estate

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. Robert A. Allesee W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn Mary Rita Cuddohy Estate Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff DSO Musicians Bette Dyer Estate Marjorie S. Fisher Fund Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Victor◊ & Gale Girolami Fund Herbert & Dorothy Graebner◊ Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes

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Mr. & Mrs. David Jaffa Renato & Elizabeth Jamett Ann & Norman◊ Katz Dr. Melvin A. Lester◊ Florine Mark Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs Dr. Glenda D. Price Ruth Rattner Mr. & Mrs.◊ Lloyd E. Reuss Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Jane & Larry Sherman Cindy McTee & Leonard Slatkin Marilyn Snodgrass Estate Mr. James G. Vella ◊

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COMMUNITY & LEARNING

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY

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n 2017, the DSO launched its Social Progress Initiative, affirming 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. Building on the foundations of the past, we recently expanded this vision into the Detroit Strategy—one pillar of which is the Detroit Neighborhood Initiative.

The core of Neighborhood Initiative work in 2021 has been community partnership-building and listening. “We began by reaching out to organizations in the neighborhoods of Chandler Park and Southwest and asking them if they would partner with us and introduce us to their residents in community listening sessions. We have now met 63 community organizations,” says Karisa Antonio, DSO

Director of Social Innovation. 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.

After twelve listening sessions, the DSO planned four neighborhood-driven Musical Experiences for summer 2021, including the first annual Chandler Park Community Arts and Music Festival on Detroit’s east side in collaboration with 27 community partners.

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“ Listening is something that a lot of people talk about, but we wanted to engage in listening that was about coming to an understanding of the people we were hearing, and an understanding of not just how much we are doing, but how well we are doing it and if anyone is actually better off.”

— Karisa Antonio, DSO Director of Social Innovation students from the Civic Youth Ensembles Dresner Allegro Ensemble had performed before a live audience. With the encouragement of their CYE director Leslie DeShazor—beaming with pride—they took to the stage and performed for an attentive audience as eager to hear as they were to play.

The festival also featured performances blending classical and urban music, spoken word poetry, and West African music and dance.

Ceramics artists from the Pewabic Pottery street team demonstrated baking pottery, and community members tried violins with Sphinx, danced with Crescendo Detroit, and completed a musical scavenger hunt with the DSO. Of the 400 Detroiters in attendance at the event, more than half had never attended a performance by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra before.

Sustainability is a critical foundation of the Detroit Neighborhood Initiative, so next summer will see the expansion to one additional neighborhood, allowing for continual engagement with residents met this year. Join us next summer to hear DSO musicians, celebrate community artists, meet local organizations, and get connected with musical resources for everyone in the family. Read more at dso.org/stories.

The Detroit Neighborhood Initiative is supported by General Motors and The Stone Foundation of Michigan.

PwC provided support for the July 10 Chandler Park event.

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Friday, December 10, 2021 at 10:45 a.m.

Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 3 p.m. at Orchestra Hall THOMAS WILKINS, conductor VADIM GLUZMAN, violin

Adolphus Hailstork Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” (b. 1941)

William Levi Dawson Negro Folk Symphony

(1899 - 1990) I. The Bond of Africa II. Hope in the Night III. O, Le’ Me Shine, Shine Like a Morning Star!

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

(1770 - 1827) in D major, Op. 61 I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Larghetto III. Rondo: Allegro

Vadim Gluzman, violin

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 Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK B. April 17, 1941, Rochester, New York

Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings.

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dolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music, under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, orchestra, and opera. His pieces have been conducted by major orchestras and leading conductors including James de Priest, Paul Freeman, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maezel, Jo Ann Falletta, David Lockington, and Thomas Wilkins.

Hailstork has received the Alli Award for lifetime achievement from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and the Charles O. and Elisabeth C. Burgess Award for Faculty Research and Creativity from Old Dominion University’s College of Arts and Letters.

In 2011, Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” was published and subsequently recorded by the Virginia Symphony—appropriately enough, since Hailstork has served as professor of music and Composer-inResidence at both Virginia’s Norfolk State and Old Dominion Universities, and in 1992 was named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Hailstork’s Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” was performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine

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Band as the second piece of the prelude during the inauguration of United States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in January 2021.

This performance marks the DSO premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on “Amazing Grace.”

Negro Folk Symphony Composed 1934 | Premiered November 1934 | Revised 1952

WILLIAM LEVI DAWSON B. September 23, 1899, Anniston, Alabama D. May 2, 1990, Montgomery, Alabama

Scored for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 29 minutes)

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nyone who has sung in a chorus— amateur or professional, has surely relished the arrangements of spirituals

by William Levi Dawson: idiomatic settings that make full use of the resources of the human voice. Indeed, much of his career was devoted to building up the choir of the Tuskegee Institute, where he founded the music school.

Through its tours, the Tuskegee choir won a wide audience, and Dawson’s choral arrangements have remained in print over the decades.

Dawson began work on the Negro Folk Symphony while in Chicago. While on tour with the Tuskegee choir in New York, he showed the manuscript to the conductor, Leopold Stokowski, who made suggestions for its expansion. In this form, comprising three movements, it was first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934. The critic for the New York World-Telegram was at the premiere, and he praised the symphony’s “imagination, warmth, drama … [and] sumptuous orchestration.” In its overall shape, and especially in its orchestration, the symphony falls into the lateRomantic tradition. After a trip to West FALL/WINTER 2021-2022

Africa in 1952, however, the composer revised it to embody authentic African rhythmic patterns, and it was in this form that Stokowski recorded it, and that is inevitably played today.

The symphony can be appreciated purely as a musical work, without knowledge of the melodies or feelings that form its background. There are strong programmatic elements in the piece, however, as the composer’s own remarks, written for the world premiere, make clear: “This Symphony is based entirely upon Negro folk music. The themes are taken from what are popularly known as Negro spirituals, and the practiced ear will recognize the recurrence of characteristic themes throughout the composition. In this composition the composer has employed three themes taken from typical melodies over which he has brooded since childhood, having learned them at his mother’s knee.”

Though many of the melodies Dawson used were those of his people, the method of symphonic development and the techniques of orchestration are those “used by the composers of the (European) Romantic nationalist school,” he said. It is not surprising, then, to hear echoes of the style of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky. Starting from the same point as Glinka did with Russian folk material, Dawson came up with a quite different result.

The last movement has two principal themes, which are taken from African American melodies. The first, with which the movement begins, and which returns in triumph at the end, is the spiritual “O Le’ Me Shine.” The second, sprightlier still, is “Hallelujah, Lord, I Been Down Into the Sea.” “Throughout the symphony,” writes Eileen Southern in The Music of Black Americans, “Dawson handles his musical materials in such a manner as to achieve a programmatic effect—suggesting such scenes as the shout, toiling in the fields, a burial, and the day of freedom.”

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The DSO first performed the piece in March 1980, conducted by Everett Lee.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61 Composed 1806 | Premiered December 1806

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN B. December 1770, Bonn, Germany D. March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria

Scored for solo violin, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. (Approx.

42 minutes)

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udwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto contains one of the most remarkable beginnings of any concerto to date: five quiet strokes on the timpani, overlapped by a woodwind melody with a steady stride. All the succeeding themes seem to belong to the same well-bred clan, except a noisy one in the minor key which breaks out intermittently in the orchestra, but never upsets the calm of the soloist.

The progress of the first movement is orderly, with the solo violin distinguishing itself from the orchestra chiefly by range—the notes above the staff belong mainly to the soloist—and by speed. Even as the solo violin spins its filigree, the underlying harmonies remain slow-moving, often giving the effect, to borrow a phrase from the British writer Scott Goddard, of “a fountain caught intermittently by the wind.”

So trimly built is the first movement that one hears it through, hardly realizing that nearly half the concerto’s length has already passed. What follows—a slow movement linked without pause to the finale—set a precedent for later composers. Mendelssohn was one of the next to join the middle and last movements in his Violin Concerto, and Schumann did so in his concertos for piano and for violin.

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PROGRAM NOTES asymmetrical set of double variations; the first theme, introduced by the orchestral strings, carrying more weight than the second one, first sounded by the solo violin. Otherwise, the soloist’s role is almost entirely decorative, the plain theme being sounded by various orchestral instruments against an ornate version above. The key is restful— G major, set between two movements in D major—and Beethoven never loses sight of the tonic chord. All the more startling, then, is the sudden jolt back to the key of the finale, the violin mitigating the shock only slightly with its cadenza.

The final rondo is so regular that Beethoven indicated its repetitions with signs in his manuscript, leaving the copyist to write them out in full. The mood here is rustic and pastoral, and the humor, very delicate. It is a matter for smiles, not belly laughs, for example, when the solo violin introduces the rondo theme in a preternaturally low register,

then reassumes its natural voice for the repeat.

Just as subtle is the link with the first episode, the solo violin springing up out of the orchestra, half-hidden at first.

A turn to G minor in another solo section darkens the mood only slightly, and the key is soon gently steered to B-flat, the relative major. One hopes for an understated cadenza here, for the section following it is magical—the oboe proposing an excursion into a remote A-flat, but the solo violin navigating back to the home key, marking the arrival with four slow notes that hint at the slow movement without making the connection baldly explicit.

The DSO last performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in September 2016, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring violinist Hilary Hahn. The DSO first performed the piece in November 1923, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch and featuring violinist Ilya Schkolnik.

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UMS January Highlights Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth

A new work by Kyle Abraham and Jlin | A.I.M Fri-Sat Jan 7-8 // 8:00 pm // Power Center In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, choreographer Kyle Abraham and EDM artist Jlin reimagine Mozart’s Requiem from an explicitly Black perspective.

Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and EXIGENCE Sun Jan 30 // 4:00 pm // Hill Auditorium

Top Black and Latinx professional musicians from around the country come together for The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and EXIGENCE concert tour celebrating BIPOC composers and artistry.

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PROFILES THOMAS WILKINS

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homas Wilkins is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Advisor, Education and Community Engagement, Principal Guest Conductor of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and holds Indiana University’s Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral Conducting, established by the late Barbara and David Jacobs as a part of the university’s “Matching the Promise Campaign.” He completed his long and successful tenure as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra at the close of the 2020–2021 season. Other past positions have included resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and The Florida Orchestra, and associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony. He also has served on the music faculties of North Park University in Chicago, the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Devoted to promoting a lifelong enthusiasm for music, Wilkins brings energy and commitment to audiences of all ages. He is hailed as a master at communicating and connecting with audiences. Following his highly successful first season with the Boston Symphony Orchesta, The Boston Globe named him among the “Best People and Ideas of 2011.” In 2014, Wilkins received the prestigious “Outstanding Artist” award at the Nebraska Governor’s Arts Awards for his significant contribution to music in the state. In 2018, he received the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society conferred by Boston’s Longy School of Music. In 2019, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra bestowed Wilkins with their annual Dreamer Award.

During his conducting career, he has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic,

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the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Additionally, he has guest conducted the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, the symphonies of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, San Diego, and Utah, and the Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonics, as well as at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.

A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Thomas Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He and his wife Sheri-Lee are the proud parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.

VADIM GLUZMAN

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niversally recognized among today’s top performing artists, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is acclaimed for his appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Tugan Sokhiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, and other leading conductors.

Gluzman has introduced the public to new works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Moritz Eggert, Elena Firsova, Lera Auerbach and Peřteris Vasks, and is planning premiere performances of concertos by Erkki-Sven Tüür and Joshua Roman.

Accolades for Gluzman’s striking catalogue of recordings for the BIS Records label include the Diapason d’Or of the Year, Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice, Classica magazine’s Choc de Classica award, and Disc of the Month

by The Strad, BBC Music Magazine, and ClassicFM. Distinguished Artist in Residence at The Peabody Conservatory, Gluzman performs on the extraordinary 1690 “ex-Leopold Auer” Stradivari, on loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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DSO PRESENTS

HOME ALONE IN CONCERT WITH THE DSO Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. at Orchestra Hall SCOTT TERRELL, conductor TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Presents A JOHN HUGHES Production A CHRIS COLUMBUS Film

HOME ALONE MACAULAY CULKIN JOE PESCI DANIEL STERN JOHN HEARD and CATHERINE O’HARA Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Film Editor RAJA GOSNELL Production Designer JOHN MUTO Director of Photography JULIO MACAT Executive Producers MARK LEVINSON & SCOTT ROSENFELT and TARQUIN GOTCH Written and Produced by JOHN HUGHES Directed by CHRIS COLUMBUS Soundtrack Album Available on CBS Records

Color by DELUXE® Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Home Alone with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

Film screening of Home Alone courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. © 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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PROFILES SCOTT TERRELL

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merican conductor Scott Terrell has built a major conducting career through imaginative programs, an engaging presence, and a determined passion for artistic excellence, teaching, and viability.

An ardent champion of new music and diversity of repertoire, he is a visionary leader with a keen intellect for bringing context to the concert hall. Terrell was named to the Virginia Martin Howard Chair of Orchestral Studies at Louisiana State University School of Music in November 2020. With this appointment, Terrell leads and shapes LSU’s storied orchestras and instructs graduate conducting students.

In great demand as a guest conductor, Terrell’s 2021–2022 engagements nclude the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Toronto, Detroit, Rockford, and Baltimore, and the Mostly Modern Festival. Recent engagements include Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Columbia, San Diego Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and return engagements with Arizona Opera and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Terrell debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra in an allGershwin program in 2017 and has been on the cover conductor staff of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012, leading their pre-concert lectures.

Terrell has led many prestigious international organizations including the St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra Opera Colorado, Opera Hong Kong, Colorado Symphony, Arizona Opera, Hamilton Philharmonic, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Milwaukee Symphony, Spoleto Festival, Naples Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony,

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Richmond Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, and El Paso Opera. He has been a regular guest conductor and teacher at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2001, leading various concert programs as well mentoring and teaching conducting students.

Having a strong affinity for vocal and operatic repertoire, Terrell has led a wealth of projects of such nature.

Collaborations with Kentucky Opera have included Stephen Paulus’s oratorio, To Be Certain of the Dawn, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar.

Operatic engagements include Opera Hong Kong gala concerts of Bernstein, and Arizona Opera’s production of The Magic Flute. He conducted Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires at Fort Worth Opera, Aspen Music Festival, and Arizona Opera as well as Aspen’s concert productions of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Missy Mazzoli’s groundbreaking work, Proving Up. Terrell was Music Director of the Lexington Philharmonic for a transformative decade (2009–2019) in the organization’s history. He reinvigorated and raised the artistic level of the ensemble, diversified programming, expanded collaborations, and increased community support. He created and endowed both a Composerin-Residence and an Artist-in-Residence chair. Composers commissioned have included Daniel Thomas-Davis, Daniel Kellogg, Adam Schoenberg, Avner Dorman, and Chris Brubeck. The orchestra was awarded numerous Copland Awards, highlighting his ongoing commitment to contemporary American composers such as Missy Mazzoli, Jennifer Higdon, Gabriela Lena Franck, Joan Tower, Christopher Rouse, John Adams, Michael Gandolfi, Philip Glass, Mason Bates, Roberto Sierra, Christopher Theofanidis, Osvaldo Golijov, and Chris Brubeck. The orchestra was also broadcast on National Public Radio’s Performance Today for the first time in

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PROFILES its history during his tenure.

Previously, Terrell served as resident conductor and director of education for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and prior to that was assistant conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. A native of Michigan, Terrell is a graduate of Western Michigan University, and the University of Minnesota in orchestral conducting. In 2000, Terrell was chosen as a fellowship conductor for the inaugural season of the

American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival under Music Director, David Zinman. He has participated in master classes with such distinguished conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and David Robertson. At Aspen, he was awarded the prestigious Conducting Prize from David Zinman, an award recognizing exemplary musicianship and promise.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Home Alone in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill Production Manager: Sophie Greaves Production Assistant: Elise Peate Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Technical Director: Mike Runice Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Twentieth Century Fox, Chris Columbus, David Newman, John Kulback, Julian Levin, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

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WYNTON MARSALIS RETURNS TO ORCHESTRA HALL IN MARCH PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA Fri., Mar. 4 at 8 p.m.

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CLASSICAL ROOTS Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis William Eddins, conductor Wynton Marsalis, composer (Sat. Only)

Fri. Mar. 4 at 10:45 a.m.* Sat. Mar. 5 at 8 p.m.

Classical Roots honors and celebrates African American composers, musicians, educators, and cultural and civic leaders.

This 44th celebration features Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis alongside the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who take the stage to perform Marsalis’s own Swing Symphony.

Buy tickets at dso.org or call 313.576.5111

For information on the Classical Roots Celebration, contact Ali Huber at ahuber@dso.org or 313.576.5449

* Please note: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis does not appear in the Friday Coffee Concert performance.

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Friday, December 17, 2021 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 3 p.m. in Orchestra Hall STUART CHAFETZ, conductor • MICHAEL PREACELY, vocalist* Dmytrovich Mykola Leontovich Carol of the Bells & Peter Wilhousky arr. Richard Hayman

Victor Herbert “March of the Toys” from Babes in Toyland trans. F. Campbell Watson

Sammy Cahn Let It Snow* arr. Michael Zavoski

Robert Wells & Mel Torme The Christmas Song* arr. Daryl McKenzie

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite No. 1 from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a March Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Russian Dance

arr. Bruce Healey Three Chanukah Songs

Albert Hague & Dr. Seuss You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch* arr./orch. Johnie Dean

J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie Santa Claus is Coming to Town* arr. Daryl McKenzie

Intermission

arr. David Hamilton Angels We Have Heard On High

George Frideric Handel “The Trumpet Shall Sound” from Messiah, HWV 56*

arr. Daryl McKenzie O Little Town of Bethlehem*

John Henry Hopkins, Jr. We Three Kings arr. and orch. Matt Riley Hai-Xin Wu, violin

Buddy Greene & Mark Lowry Mary, Did You Know* arr. Jack Schrader & Don Hart Walter Kent & Kim Gannon I’ll Be Home For Christmas* arr. Fred Barton

Adolphe-Charles Adam & Tom Kubis Oh Holy Night orch. Paul Murtha arr. & orch. Johnie Dean Children Go Where I Send Thee*

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PROFILES STUART CHAFETZ

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tuart Chafetz is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Columbus Symphony and the newly appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the Chautauqua and Marin Symphonies. Chafetz is celebrated for his dynamic and engaging podium presence and is increasingly in demand with orchestras across the continent. This season, Chafetz will be on the podium in Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Naples, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Winnipeg. He enjoys a special relationship with the Phoenix Symphony where he leads multiple programs annually.

He has had the privilege of working with renowned artists including Chris Botti, 2 Cellos, Hanson, Rick Springfield, Michael Bolton, Kool & The Gang, Jefferson Starship, America, Little River Band, Brian McKnight, Roberta Flack, George Benson, Richard Chamberlain, The Chieftains, Jennifer Holliday, John Denver, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hampson, Wynonna Judd, Jim Nabors, Randy Newman, Jon Kimura Parker, and Bernadette Peters.

He previously held posts as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. As principal timpanist of the Honolulu Symphony for twenty years, Chafetz also conducted annual performances of The Nutcracker with Ballet Hawaii and principals from the American Ballet Theatre. It was during that time that Chafetz led numerous concerts with the Maui Symphony and Maui Pops Orchestra. He has led numerous spring ballet productions at the world-renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

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genres from classical repertoire to pop, contemporary, and Broadway. He has received critical acclaim for many of his performances, including Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, Scarpia in Tosca, Ford in Falstaff, Marcello in La bohème, the High Priest in Samson and Delilah, and Porgy and Jake in Porgy and Bess. Preacely has performed with many major and regional opera houses and orchestras in the United States and abroad. Recently, Preacely completed a European tour of Porgy and Bess where he received great reviews for his performance of both Porgy and Jake. He also toured Russia in a concert series with New York based Opera Noire, debuted with Opera Memphis in the role of Marullo with a Rigoletto Cover, and Opéra de Montréal in the role of Jake. Preacely has performed with Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company Philadelphia, Opera Memphis, Kentucky Opera, Cleveland Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and Bohème Opera of New Jersey.

Preacely’s success on the concert stage has blossomed with some of the nation’s leading orchestras, including the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the HamiltonFairfield Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Pops, the Cincinnati Pops, the Greater Trenton Choral Society, and the American Spiritual Ensemble.

Preacely has received numerous accolades. He was invited under scholarship to participate in the International Vocal Arts Institute with Joan Dornemann and the VOIC Experience with Sherrill Milnes and Friends. He was the First Place Graduate Winner in the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition at the University of Kentucky and the recipient of awards in various competitions such as the National Opera Association Vocal Competition Artist Division, the Fritz and Jensen Vocal Competition, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

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NEW FACES The DSO welcomes three new full-time musicians In fall 2021, the DSO held auditions for the first time in nearly two years, resulting in the hiring of three new full-time musicians. See below for more on cellist Cole Randolph and violinists Elizabeth Furuta and Daniel Kim. “Orchestra auditions are highly competitive and to earn a position with an orchestra as great as the DSO shows that you are at the peak of the field and have demonstrated tremendous artistry and dedication to your craft,” said DSO Music Director Jader Bignamini. “All three of our winners played with great insight and beauty, and I look forward to working with them!”

ELIZABETH FURUTA Elizabeth Furuta won the violin section audition held October 4-5, along with Daniel Kim, out of 106 candidates. Elizabeth began playing violin at the age of four, inspired by seeing the Tokyo String Quartet on Sesame Street. She currently plays with the Cincinnati Symphony and was previously second associate concertmaster of the Omaha Symphony.

Elizabeth holds bachelor and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her primary teachers included William Preucil and David Updegraff. She will join the DSO full-time in fall 2022.

DANIEL KIM Daniel Kim won the violin section audition held October 4-5, along with Elizabeth Furuta, out of 106 candidates. Daniel is currently a secondyear master’s student at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where he serves as associate instructor and studies with Alexander Kerr, concertmaster of the

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Dallas Symphony. He has performed in masterclasses for Ida Kavafian, Kyoko Takezawa, Glenn Dicterow, and Frank Huang and has appeared on NPR’s From the Top and WFMT-Chicago. Daniel will join the DSO full-time in fall 2022.

COLE RANDOLPH Cole Randolph was the only finalist out of 103 candidates at the cello section audition held November 8-9. You may recognize Cole already: he has performed with the DSO as one of its two African American Orchestra Fellows since fall 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in mathematics, music performance, and economics. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Cole began playing the cello at the age of five and has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The White House. He studied cello under Uri Vardi and has performed in masterclasses for various artists including Alban Gerhardt, Clive Greensmith, and Timothy Eddy. Cole took up his new full-time role with the DSO in December 2021.

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Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

TITLE SPONSOR:

THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL FEATURING MICHAEL CAVANAUGH Friday, January 7 at 10:45 a.m.

Saturday, January 8 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, January 9 at 3 p.m. at Orchestra Hall ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor MICHAEL CAVANAUGH, piano & lead vocals JOHNNY FEDEVICH, drums JOHN SCARPULLA, saxophone JAMIE HOSMER, keyboards WILLIAM VENDITTI, bass DENNIS DELGAUDIO, guitar

Program to be annouced from stage

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PROFILES ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ

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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.

Also an active composer and arranger, Lopez-Yañez has been commissioned to write for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the Houston Symphony, and has had his works performed by orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Ft. Worth Symphony, Utah Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, and Florida Orchestra.

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, Kellie Pickler, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Megan Hilty, Hanson, and more. Additionally, he leads many of the films in concert on the symphony’s Movie Series including Beauty and the Beast, Coco, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Home Alone, among others. LopezYañez also conducts the annual Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th fireworks show, which was first televised on CMT in 2019, reaching millions of viewers across the nation.

In the upcoming season, Lopez-Yañez will collaborate with artists including Nas, Leslie Odom Jr., Stewart Copeland of The Police, Ben Folds, Jennifer Nettles, Boz Scaggs, and more. LopezYañez will appear with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, National Symphony, Pacific Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and will make return appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester

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Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, and Toledo Symphony. Previously, LopezYañez has appeared with orchestras throughout North America including the Aguascalientes Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, and Utah Symphony, among others.

As Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, Lopez-Yañez curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences.

An enthusiastic proponent of innovating the education concert experience, his exciting concerts “breathe new, exuberant life into classical programming for kids and families” (Nashville Parent Magazine). Symphonica’s productions have been described as “incredibly special — and something that needs to become the new norm in educational programing” (Lima Symphony).

As a producer, composer, and arranger, Lopez-Yañez’s work can be heard on numerous albums including the UNESCO benefit album Action Moves People United and children’s music albums including The Spaceship that Fell in My Backyard. Lopez-Yañez has won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Hollywood Music and Media Awards, Family Choice Awards, a Global Media Award, and a Parents’ Choice Award.

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH

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ichael Cavanaugh is the new voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook and a charismatic performer and musician made famous for his piano playing and lead vocals in the Broadway musical Movin’ Out. Handpicked by Billy Joel to star in Movin’ Out, Cavanaugh evokes a style rivaling the Piano Man. He appeared in the show for three years with over 1,200 performances and received multiple accolades.

Cavanaugh began playing at age seven, when his parents bought their first

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piano. Encouraged by family and friends, and inspired by his hero Billy Joel, Cavanaugh formed his first band at age 10 and began playing local functions, fine-tuning the craft that would become his chosen career. His first full-time gig as a musician was an extended engagement in Orlando, Florida, at a piano bar called Blazing Pianos. In January of 1999, Cavanaugh received an offer that would unknowingly change his life: an opportunity to play Las Vegas at the famed New York, New York Hotel and Casino. It was there that Billy Joel spotted Cavanaugh and joined him on stage one fateful night of February 2001.

It only took two songs before Billy was convinced that he had found his new Piano Man: Michael Cavanaugh.

Cavanaugh closed shop at New York, New York and moved to New York City to work alongside Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp to shape the Broadway Musical that would be called Movin’ Out. In the lead role, he received both Tony and Grammy nominations.

With the close of Movin’ Out at the end of 2005, Cavanaugh began touring in his own right, creating a show that reinterprets the modern pop/rock songbook. Cavanaugh soon became one of the hottest artists in the private events market, and he continues to perform worldwide for company and charity events as well as sporting events including many PGA Tour events, the Super Bowl, and the Indianapolis 500.

His interpretation of the modern rock/

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pop songbook led to Billboard calling him “The New Voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook,” and he was recognized by Reuters as Entertainer of the Year for the private events market.

It wasn’t long before symphony orchestras discovered Cavanaugh’s talents and audience appeal. He accepted his first orchestral booking, “Michael Cavanaugh — The Songs of Billy Joel and More,” which debuted in April 2008 with the Indianapolis Symphony and continues to tour today. In October 2008, he signed with Warner Music Group’s Alternative Distribution Alliance to distribute his first CD, In Color. In June 2010, Cavanaugh debuted his second symphony show in the Generations of Rock series titled “Michael Cavanaugh: The Songs of Elton John and More” and then debuted his third symphony show, “Singers and Songwriters: the Music of Paul Simon, Neil Diamond and James Taylor,” in 2012.

In 2015, he debuted his fourth symphony show: “Rockin’ Christmas with the Pops.”

He continues to tour all four symphony productions along with performing with his band in performing arts centers and other public venues.

“The Way I Hear It”, his second commercial album, was released in April 2017, and it debuted at #17 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

In 2020, Michael Cavanaugh reached the Pollstar LIVE75 chart, marking him among the top 75 active touring acts in the country.

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This January, join the DSO and Music Director Jader Bignamini for their historic first tour together. The weeklong tour will take place January 15-20, 2022, with stops in Miami, West Palm Beach, Gainesville, and Sarasota.

Acclaimed American cellist Joshua Roman joins the tour for performances of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Additional repertoire to be performed includes Jessie Montgomery’s Banner, Bedřich Smetana’s The Moldau, Florence Price’s Third Symphony, Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony, and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel).

Jan 12 — Orchestra Hall DETROIT Jan 15 — Kravis Center WEST PALM BEACH Jan 16 — New World Center MIAMI Jan 17 — Kravis Center WEST PALM BEACH Jan 18 — Phillips Center GAINESVILLE Jan 20 — Van Wezel SARASOTA For more on how you can join us in Florida, including tour Super Patron Packages, visit dso.org/florida.

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS: Penny & Harold Blumenstein Burns & Wilcox Ltd. The Clinton Family Fund Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden The William Davidson Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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PNC Bank PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Arn & Nancy Tellem Martie & Bob Sachs

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DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUNITY-SUP PORTE D ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

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JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

JADER BIGNAMINI, Music Director

Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

TERENCE BLANCHARD

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION The 2022 Florida Tour Send-Off Concert Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at Orchestra Hall JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor JOSHUA ROMAN, cello

Gioachino Rossini Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell) (1792 - 1868)

Antonín Dvořák Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor,

(1841 - 1904) Op. 104 I. Allegro II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Finale: Allegro moderato

Joshua Roman, cello Intermission

Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

(1839 - 1881) Introduction: Promenade

Orch. Maurice Ravel I. Gnomus

(1875 - 1937) II. Il vecchio castello III. Tulleries IV. Bydlo V. Ballet of Little Chicks in their Shells VI. Two Polish Jews VII. Limoges VIII. Catacombae - Cum mortius in lingua mortua IX. Baba-Yaga - The Hut on Hen’s Legs X. The Great Gate of Kiev Please note: this concert was previously announced as taking place on January 13.

Wednesday’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 Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell) Composed 1829 | Premiered 1829

GIOACHINO ROSSINI B. February 29, 1792, Pesaro, Italy D. November 13, 1868, Paris, France

Scored for flute, piccolo, 2 oboes (1 doubling on English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion, and strings. (Approx.

12 minutes)

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he last of Rossini’s operas, Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an apex of the composer’s great talent. Clocking in at four acts performed over six hours, the opera beautifully combines Italian lyricism, French ballet, and large-scale choral and instrumental ensembles. The titular character was a master bowman who shot an apple off his son’s head to earn freedom from arrest; Tell’s legacy beyond this dramatic trick also includes leading the Swiss revolution of the 14th century.

The celebrated overture opens with the depiction of a beautiful Swiss landscape at dawn, painted by a serene cello passage. The pastoral calm is interrupted by a powerful Alpine storm comprising rain from the woodwinds and wind from the strings—but this subsides, and tranquility returns as the English horn marks the Swiss herdsman’s call to his livestock.

Finally, the portion we all know and love begins: trumpet fanfare in a galloping, raucous rhythm announces the ride of William Tell and the Swiss Army; or, if you prefer, the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

The DSO most recently performed Rossini’s Overture to Guillaume Tell at Ford House in July 2021, conducted by Stephen Mulligan. The DSO first performed the work in March 1919, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

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Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104 Composed 1894-95 | Premiered 1896

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK B. September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) D. May 1, 1904, Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)

Scored for solo cello, 2 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. (Approx. 40 minutes)

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hile Antonín Dvořák’s cello concerto was written in the late 19th century, it employs a rather classical approach to the concerto form—especially when compared to the fantasy-like concertos written by Franz Liszt and other more “progressive” composers. The piece was immediately successful, and it remains one of the finest, best-known, and mostperformed compositions for the instrument.

The first movement begins with the clarinets presenting a simple tune that is then expanded by the strings and later the whole orchestra. The second group is initiated by a lyrical horn melody with string accompaniment, and this orchestral section closes with considerable fanfare. At this point the patient soloist finally emerges with the opening theme.

After some modulating passages with quite a few virtuosic flashes, the solo cello takes up the lyrical theme of the second group. Dvořák omits the customary solo cadenza, choosing instead to weave virtuosic passages for the cello into the larger orchestral texture.

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also provides stark contrasts between loud bombastic orchestral onslaughts and reserved, small-group interactions, even allowing the soloist brief cadenza-like flourishes. Those familiar with Dvořák’s songs might recognize the melody from “Leave Me Alone,” which is played by the cello beginning toward the middle of the piece.

With a menacing repeated low note, the third movement slowly builds up the opening melody in a short orchestral climax, which then subsides to let the cello enter with the main theme. While not a strict rondo, this opening theme will return at various places throughout the movement and in very different characters—from a stately, reserved presentation to a huge orchestral outpouring. As in the first movement, a number of technical passages featuring the soloist replace the traditional cadenza. While based on a bohemian theme, there are a few passages in this last movement that even reflect Dvořák’s budding interest in African American musical idioms.

The DSO most recently performed Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in July 2019 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center, conducted by Ken-David Masur and featuring cellist Edgar Moreau. The DSO first performed the piece in February 1916 featuring conductor-soloist Beatrice Harrison.

Pictures at an Exhibition Composed 1874 | Ravel Version Orchestrated 1922

MODEST MUSSORGSKY B. March 21, 1839, Karevo, Russia D. March 28, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Scored for 3 flutes (2 doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling on English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba (doubling on tenor tuba), timpani, percussion, 2 harps, celeste, alto saxophone, euphonium, and strings. (Approx. 28 minutes)

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odest Mussorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano in 1874 as a tribute to his recently deceased friend, the artist Viktor Hartmann. Rendered in the composer’s characteristically idiosyncratic style, the colorful musical depictions of Hartmann’s artwork prompted Mikhail Tushmalov to orchestrate individual movements from the work in 1886. Over the next century and a quarter, many orchestrators and arrangers would follow Tushmalov’s example. Pictures at an Exhibition has been orchestrated approximately 30 different times, notwithstanding various non-orchestral renditions that range from Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s progressive rock version to an arrangement for accordion trio.

But the most famous of these is Maurice Ravel’s 1922 version, which has its roots in a commission from the wealthy conductor Serge Koussevitsky.

Ravel, a master orchestrator, uses a huge ensemble in his version and gives the entire work a jolt of Impressionist color.

Notably, he tweaks the “Promenade” theme — which comes and goes as the listener “walks” from artwork to artwork — and removes it altogether at various points. Koussevitsky’s commission also gave him sole conducting rights for several years, which contributed to the orchestration craze.

The “Promenade” theme is set in constantly shifting meters and conjures images of the bulky, often disheveled Mussorgsky shambling between the ten artworks. Changes in tonality, tempo, and orchestration reflect the viewer’s changing moods from painting to painting, and the music tends to reflect the contents and themes of each work as well.

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PROGRAM NOTES I. Gnomus — the drawing that inspired this movement was intended to be used on a Christmas decoration and described in an exhibition catalog as depicting “a kind of nutcracker, a gnome into whose mouth you put a nut to crack.” The music is full of strange harmonies and melodic jumps that depict the erratic behavior of a pint-sized fantasy creature.

II. Il vecchio castello (The old castle) — Hartmann sketched two castles while traveling in France. One of the most celebrated aspects of Ravel’s orchestration is his use of the alto saxophone to give out the melody, which reminds one of a folksy bard.

III. Tuileries — a sketch of Paris’s Tuileries Garden, which stretches more than half a mile in front of the Louvre. The music suggests the playing and squealing of children and the nannies attempting to corral them.

IV. Bydlo — the word bydlo is Polish for “cattle” and is sometimes used to refer to a cart pulled by oxen. Mussorgsky’s original piano version begins fortissimo, but several orchestrators — including Ravel — choose to begin and end the movement softly to create the illusion that the cart is approaching and then driving away.

V. Ballet of Little Chicks in their Shells — Hartmann’s sketch here is actually a design for an opera, Trilby, which includes a scene in which young students at a theater school scamper about in canary costumes.

VI. Two Polish Jews (a.k.a. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle) — a drawing of two Jewish men, one rich and one poor.

The music suggests Jewish melodies and a bouncing conversation between the two subjects, marked most notably by a whiny trumpet representing the poor man.

VII. Limoges — named for the French city of Limoges, especially its market hall.

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are humorous slice-of-life portraits. In the one Mussorgsky set to music we can hear the fracas of two women fighting with each other.

VIII. Catacombae — Cum mortius in lingua mortua — a trip to the Parisian catacombs, where skulls are stacked high in passageways under the city streets.

Mussorgsky wrote Cum mortius in lingua mortua (With the dead a dead language) in the manuscript, signaling a macabre rendition of the “Promenade” theme.

IX. Baba-Yaga — The Hut on Hen’s Legs — the Hartmann sketch is of a clock representing the home of the child-eating Russian witch Baba-Yaga, which is a squat hut atop long chicken legs. The creepy music swirls about violently.

X. The Great Gate of Kiev — Hartmann’s sketch was actually an entry into a public contest to design a triumphal gate honoring the Russian emperor Alexander II. The music is heroic and characteristically Russian, aided by Ravel’s choice to inflect dark woodwind tones into a section inspired by Orthodox chants.

The DSO most recently performed Ravel’s orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in November 2019, arranged and conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The DSO first performed Ravel’s version in December 1927, conducted by Victor Kolar.

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PROFILES Jader Bignamini biography, see page 6.

JOSHUA ROMAN

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oshua Roman is a cellist, accomplished composer, and curator whose performances embrace musical styles from Bach to Radiohead. Before setting off on his unique path as a soloist, Roman was the Seattle Symphony’s principal cellist, a job he began at just 22 years of age and left only two years later. He has since become renowned for his genre-bending repertoire and wide-ranging collaborations. Roman was named a TED Senior Fellow in 2015. His live performance of the complete Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach on TED’s Facebook page garnered 1.8 million live viewers, with millions more for his Main Stage TED Talks/Performances, including an improvisational performance with Tony Award-winner and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Bill T. Jones and East African vocalist Somi.

A Gramophone review of his 2017 recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Cello Concerto (written for Roman) proclaimed that “Roman’s outstanding performance of the cello concerto is the disc’s highlight... Roman’s extraordinary performance combines the expressive control of Casals with the creative individuality and virtuoso flair of Hendrix himself.” Recent highlights include performing standard and new concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (on the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series), and the Colorado, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, and San Francisco Symphonies. In addition to orchestral appearances, Roman has collaborated with the JACK, St. Lawrence, and Verona Quartets and brings the same fresh approach to chamber music projects as

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well as his own series, Town Music at Town Hall Seattle.

Roman’s adventurous spirit has led to collaborations with artists outside the music community, including creating “On Grace” with Tony-nominated actor Anna Deavere Smith. His compositions are inspired by sources such as the poetry of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith, as well as the musicians he writes for, which have included the JACK Quartet, violinist Vadim Gluzman, and conductor David Danzmayr. Roman’s outreach endeavors have taken him to Uganda with his violin-playing siblings, where they played chamber music in schools, HIV/AIDS centers, and displacement camps.

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Celebrating DSO Cello Jeremy Crosmer, recipient of the Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service

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n June 2021, we celebrated the selection of DSO Cello Jeremy Crosmer as one of just five orchestra musicians from across the U.S. to receive a Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service from the League of American Orchestras.

Crosmer received this award for his work on the DSO’s partnership with the Creative Expressions Program at Kadima, an Oakland County nonprofit that provides comprehensive residential, therapeutic, social, and enrichment services to adults with mental health needs.

Supported by Ford Motor Company Fund, the awards recognize professional musicians’ deeply impactful work outside the concert hall, much of it virtual this year due to the pandemic.

Crosmer was recognized along with four other musicians from across the country at the 2021 League Conference Online, June 7-17, 2021.

The 2021 awardees worked with both adults and children in a rich variety of community settings, using music as a therapeutic tool for adults with severe and persistent mental health challenges; providing pop-up concerts during food bank distributions; bringing orchestra musicians to a regional hospital and the many constituents it serves; organizing front-porch private violin lessons and schoolyard group classes during the pandemic to breach the digital divide; and bringing the joy of music to toddlers and their families.

Crosmer is a leader in community engagement for the DSO, building

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meaningful partner relationships on a foundation of respect and trust. While engaging in the musical aspects of Kadima’s Creative Expressions Program, Crosmer also connects with participants on a personal level, taking interest in their unique interests and desires.

“Jeremy deserves this award not only for his dedication to this program, but also for embodying what we strive to do with all our community partners—listening and

working together to create programming that is relevant to our community,” said DSO Manager of Community Engagement Clare Valenti.

Of the partnership, Crosmer said, “I am blessed to be able to serve the mental health community. We foster a positive atmosphere by accessing participants at their level in the comfort of their facility or homes, and we also elevate them through collaboration and showcasing at our concert hall and online.”

Visit dso.org/stories to learn more about Jeremy’s work with Kadima and read other DSO blog posts.

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THE ANNUAL FUND

Gifts Received between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021

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 Fund Campaign. If you have questions about this roster or would like to make a donation, please contact 313.576.5114 or go to dso.org/donate.

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

Mrs. Bonnie Larson Nicole & Matt Lester Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller 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 Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Mrs. Martha Ford Dale & Bruce Frankel Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Norman◊ D. Katz Betsy & Joel Kellman Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Ms. Ruth Rattner

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Martie & Bob Sachs Mr. & Mrs.◊ Alan E. Schwartz Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. & Mrs. Gary Torgow Wolverine Packing Company And one who wishes to remain 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 Gail Danto & Art Roffey Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Mr. Charles L. Dunlap & Mr. Lee V. Hart 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 Ronald M. & Carol◊ Horwitz Renato & Elizabeth Jamett 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 Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson Patricia & Henry◊ Nickol Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek George & Jo Elyn Nyman Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Debra & Richard Partrich Dr. Glenda D. Price Maurcine◊ & Lloyd Reuss 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 Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman William H. Smith Charlie & John Solecki Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III 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* Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Mr. & Mrs. Beznos Timothy J. Bogan Claire P. & Robert N. Brown Philip & Carol Campbell Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Ms. Elena Centeio Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Mr. Fred J. Chynchuk Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Dare Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Marianne T. Endicott Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Goodman Family Charitable Trust

Dr. Gloria Heppner Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen Talbert-Hill Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Mr. & Mrs. Kent Jidov Paul & Marietta Joliat June K. Kendall◊ Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Barbara & Michael Kratchman Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Marguerite & David Lentz Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Leverenz Bob & Terri Lutz Mrs. Sandra MacLeod Maurice Marshall Patricia A.◊ & Patrick G. McKeever Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Robert & Paulina Treiger Muzzin Joy & Allan Nachman

*Current DSO Musician or Staff

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Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nemeth Dr. William W. O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson William H. & Wendy W. Powers Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. Ronald Ross & Ms. Alice Brody Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Marjorie & Saul Saulson Camilo Serna & Masami Hida Mrs. Sharon Shumaker Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Simoncini Dr. Cathryn & Mr. Daniel Skedel Barb◊ & Clint Stimpson Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Mr. & Mrs. Paul Tobias Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mrs. Eva Von Voss Mr. William Waak Peter & Carol Walters S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman ◊

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GIVING OF $2,500 & MORE Howard Abrams◊ & Nina Dodge Abrams Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Dr. & Mrs. Joel Appel Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Ms. Joy Crawford* & Mr. Richard Aude Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Mrs. Jean Azar Ms. Ruth Baidas Drs. Richard & Helena Balon Nora & Guy Barron Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mr. Joseph Bartush Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Ms. Therese Bellaimey Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Martha & G. Peter Blom Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Ms. Kristin Bolitho Ms. Nadia Boreiko The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Don & Marilyn Bowerman Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Elaine & Bowden Brown Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Campbell Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs.◊ Thomas E. Carson Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. & Mrs. James Ciroli 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. Mrs. Barbara Cunningham 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 Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Adel & Walter Dissett Diana & Mark Domin Paul◊ & Peggy Dufault Mrs. Connie Dugger 42

Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey 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 Fieldman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Fielek◊ Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch Ron Fischer◊ & Kyoko Kashiwagi 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 Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Ms. Jody Glancy Barbara Martin Mr. Lawrence Glowczewski Paul & Barbara C. Goodman Dr. William & Mrs. Antoinette Govier Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Mr. & Mrs. Saul Green Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Cheryl A. Harvey Ms. Barbara Heller Mr. Donald & Marcia Hiruo James Hoogstra & Clark Heath Mr. F. Robert Hozian Dr. Karen Hrapkiewicz Larry & Connie Hutchinson Mr. John S. Johns Mr. Arthur Johns Mr. George G. Johnson Carol & Rick Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jones Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff Diane & John Kaplan Judy & David Karp Mike & Katy Keegan Betsy & Joel Kellman Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Mrs. Frances King Mr. James Kirby Aileen & Harvey Kleiman Tom & Beverly Klimko Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Mr. & Mrs. Robert Koffron Ms. Susan Konop

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James Kors & Victoria King* Richard & Sally Krugel Mr. Michael Kuhne Mrs. Maria E. Kuznia Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dr. Lawrence O. Larson Allan S. Leonard Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Arlene & John Lewis Ms. Carol Litka Mr. John Lovegren & Mr. Daniel Isenschmid Daniel & Linda* Lutz Cis Maisel Margaret Makulski & James Bannan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Manke, Jr. Mervyn & Elaine Manning Ms. Florine Mark Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mark Brian & Becky McCabe Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. Edward McClew Mr. Anthony R. McCree Mr. John McFadden Ms. Mary McGough Ms. Kristen McLennan Mr. & Mrs. Brian Meer Dr. & Mrs.◊ Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Bruce & Mary Miller Steve & Judy Miller Mr. & Mrs. Randall Miller J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina 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. Ellen & Larry Oshkaloff Mrs. Margot Parker Ms. Lisa A. Payne Ms. Alice Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Dave Phipps Mr. David Potter Jill M.* & Michael J. Rafferty Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rapson Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mr. Tony Raymaker Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Barbara Gage Rex Mr. & Mrs. John Rieckhoff FALL/WINTER 2021-2022

Ms. Linda Rodney Seth & Laura Romine Michael & Susan Rontal Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Rosenbaum Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Jane & Curt Russell Linda & Leonard Sahn Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Mr. & Mrs. Donald and Janet Schenk Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff Shirley Anne & Alan Schlang Dr. Richard S. Schwartz Sandy & Alan Schwartz Ms. Sandra Seligman Mrs. Rosalind B. Sell Carlo & Nicole Serraiocco Shapero Foundation Mrs. Patricia Shaw

Dr. Les Siegel and Ellen Lesser Siegel Mr. Norman Silk & Mr. Dale Morgan William & Cherie Sirois Mr. Michael J. Smith & Mrs. Mary C. Williams Shirley R. Stancato Dr. Gregory Stephens Dr. Shironda Stewart Nancy C. Stocking Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Stollman Mrs. E. Ray Stricker Dr. & Mrs. Choichi Sugawa David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dr. Neil Talon Mr. Rob Tanner Joel & Shelley Tauber Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Dr. Barry Tigay Yoni & Rachel Torgow

Mrs. Marilyn Bishop Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Carpenter Ms. Sherri Davis Gordon & Elaine Didier Mr. Patrick Doig Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Douglas Mr. Howard O. Emorey Mrs. Janice Erichsen Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Howard & Francina Graef Anne & Eugene Greenstein The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Mr.◊ & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Carole Keller Mr. & Mrs. Gerd H. Keuffel

Ms. Ida King Mr. Daniel Kline The Dolores & Paul Lavins Foundation Ms. Christine M. Leonard Mr. Robert L. Martin Dr. Van C. Momon, Jr. & Dr. Pamela Berry Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mrs. Ruth Nix Mr. & Mrs. Mark H. Peterson Drs. Renato & Daisy Ramos Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Rask Mrs. Hope Raymond Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Dr. & Mrs. Richard S. Schwartz

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

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

Barbara & Stuart Trager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Charles & Sally Van Dusen Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Verhelle Mr. Michael A. Walch & Ms. Joyce Keller Mr. Patrick Webster Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Mr. Jonathan Wolman◊ & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood Ms. June Wu Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Ms. Eileen Wunderlich Dr. Sandra & Mr. D. Johnny Yee Mr. & Mrs. Alan Zekelman Milton Y. Zussman And seven who wish to remain anonymous

GIVING OF $1,500 & MORE Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Mr. Steve Secrest Mrs. Andreas H. Steglich 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 one who wishes to remain anonymous

CYE50 GOLD CLUB Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Mr. Dave Phipps Sue & Bob Pilon Dr. Glenda D. Price Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Martie & Bob Sachs Nancy Schlichting & Pamela Theisen Mrs. 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 Detroit Pistons League of American Orchestras Edward C. and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Milner Hotels Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

Giving of $20,000 & more American House Senior Living Residence Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation Blue Star Catering The Clinton Family Fund DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund

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

Giving of $10,000 & more Flagstar Foundation 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

Aptiv Foundation Benson & Edith Ford Fund Butzel Long Geoinge Foundation Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer and Weiss PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation Schaerer Architextural Interiors Speyer Foundation Warner Norcross + Judd

The Children’s Foundation Coffee Express Roasting Company 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 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 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 Janet M. Garrett Dr. Byron P. & Marilyn Georgeson Jim & Nancy Gietzen Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Victor◊ & Gale Girolami Ruth & Al◊ Glancy

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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

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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◊ 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 September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021 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 David Ammer Christine Ammer

Donald Dietz Todd Gordon & Susan Feder

Sarah Lewis Joe & Lori Pray

Erik Rönmark Ms. Cassie Brenske

Milton & Anne Aptekar Mr. Ken Aptekar

John Dreifus Mr. Milton Feldberg

Shannon Lohr Ms. Lauren O’Neill

Sanda Lowery-Sachs Mr. & Mrs. Al Lowery

Ken Aptekar Ms. Lucy Aptekar

Abe Feder Paula Kahn Ms. Barbara Kirshbaum

Stephen MacLean Mr. & Mrs. Michael Feder

Leonard Slatkin & Leslie Karr Ms. Julia Sun

Sean H. Maloney Mr. Sean Maloney & Mrs. Laura Peppler-Maloney

Robert Slick Mrs. Giffin Robertson

Epifania Aranas Miss Audrey Aranas Jader Bignamini & Yuval Sharon Mrs. Ann Katz Lois Marie Brooks Ms. Pama Tavernier Leslie Burnett Ms. Brandy McCracken Barbara Buzzelli Ms. Beth S. Carlson Beth Carlson David & Barbara Buzzelli Michelle Chapman Mrs. Cherub Beard Cyrus Chestnut & Band Mr. Edward Sutter Caroline Coade Mr. Peter Mandell & Mrs. Sarah Coade Mandell

Lauren & Phillip Wm. Fisher Ms. Jennifer Granger David F. & Ellen J. Sherman Family Stanley Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Roger Burrows James S. Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Timothy LeVigne Diana & Ted Golden Anonymous Chris Harrington Ms. Chelsea S. Kotula Malika Harris Mrs. Malika Harris Gisela Hayes Ms. Vanessa Hayes Dr. Gloria Heppner Mr. & Mrs. Doug Allan

Brandon Mason Mr. & Ms. Chris Vanderberry Melissa McBrian & Ray Landes Ms. Victoria McBrien Peter McCaffrey Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Citron Elizabeth Jane McGill Ms. Mary McGill Nick Meyers Mrs. Mary Myers James B. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. Allen Phillips The Parent Family Ms. Doris Malacarne

Hudson-Webber Foundation Mr. Michael Shaw

Anne Parsons Baltimore Community Foundation

Brian & Yukari Jones David & Marilyn Cummins

Anne Parsons Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Driker

The Jung Family Ms. Jasmine Walker

William Phelps Ms. Nisa Dillingham

David Keys Ms. Sarah Keys

Dane Philipsen Mr. Michael Philipsen

Conrad & Zosia Kudelko Ms. Tina Kudelko

Rip & Gail Rapson Ms. Sharon Zimmerman

Jerry Burman Mrs. Mary Jane Cassaday Katherine Capp Mr. Benjamin Capp Mr. Stephen Capp La Lawton Connie Mancini Mr. Russell Montgomerie Ms. Lynn C. Sirich

Gloria Clark Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Ms. Marlene Bihlmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bowlby Mr. & Mrs. Walter Dissett Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Partrich

J. Addison & Marion M. Bartush Mr. Joseph Bartush

Dorothy Carson Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Gay & Joseph Pappin Amelia Whitehead

Herbert Couf Karen Couf-Cohen

James Bazakis Dr. Andrew Bazakis

Tom Cartmell Leslie Chumbley

Ralph Brody Timothy Gilson Ms. Kristie Kolakowski

Steve Cauzillo Craig Erikson

Suzanne Dalton Ms. Raluca I. Metea Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Dr. Art Roffey & Ms. Gail Danto Sandy & Jim Danto Linda Powers Drieka DeGraff Ms. Jane Strauss

Marie Slotnik Mrs. Judith Schultheiss Juleen Sparks Mrs. Adrienne Sparks Sharon Sparrow Courtney A. Hardy Chuck Steelman Sami Abboud David & Xina Stewart Alice Buchalter Marian Tanau Maureen Baca Mark Valenti Julie Heidt Dave Wagner Mr. & Mrs. John P. Connolly Gary L. Wasserman & Charles A. Kashner Mr. & Mrs. Irwin L. Elson Barbara & Michael Kratchman John & Barbara White Katharina Campbell David Wu Dr. Marc Dunn Johanna Yarbrough Mr. Everett Yarbrough

In Memory

Rheba Adolph Ms. Amy Gilbert Marcia Applebaum Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Joan Balogh Ms. Joan Hoelaars Mrs. Fern Katz Ms. Lynn Popa

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Jerry D’Avanzo Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Bloomfield Chase Homeowners Association Mr. & Mrs. Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Gerald M. Cooper Ms. Jill B. Craig Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D’Avanzo Ms. Maureen Doherty Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff

Debbie & John Erb Mr. & Mrs. Randall Hawes Bobbie & Ed Heineman Mr. George Helms Mrs. & Mr. Cynthia D. Johnson Jennifer & Gregory Kish Ms. Michelle Lindow Mr. & Mrs. David N. McCammon The Lisa & Brian Meer Foundation Mr. John Santeiu Jr. Ms. Charlotte Terry Roberta & Sheldon Toll Ms. Nicole Villarreal Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Bloch Brazeal W. & Maurice L. Dennard Mr. Wayne Brown & Mrs. Brenda Kee

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Rosemarie Dyer Mr. Edwin Dyer Ms. Becky Hetchler Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Juile Flashner Mr. & Mrs. Howard B. Levine Paul Ganson Ms. Judith Brien Richard Gause Ms. Connie Carey Ms. Joan Frank Dr. & Mrs. John A. Jennings Ms. Nicola McAleer Mr. & Mrs. Louis Phillips Dorothy Gerson Mr. Richard Ceresko Mrs. Julie Hollinshead Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lutz Jeanne Gierak Mr. Brian Carney & Ms. Judith Herndon Ms. Maryann DiMartino Linda Giorgio Mr. & Mrs. William Reynolds Dr. Myron Ginsberg Ms. Lorraine Ford Kenneth Gitlin Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Brode Harold & Cindy Daitch Frieda Bailey Greene & Walter R. Greene, Jr. Mr. Walter Greene III & Mrs. Colleen Dolan-Greene Linda Gross Mr. Richard Thornton John Guinn Peggy Castine Munoz Gutierrez Ms. Lorraine Gutierrez Alice Berberian Haidostian Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Ms. Gloria Baykian Anita & Greg Boyajian Detroit Armenian Women’s Club Ara & Diane Ekizian Ms. Sandra Jamian Dr. & Mrs. Harry Kezelian Mrs. Esther Lyons Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mardirosian Lisa & Brian Meer Foundation Sandra & Alice Nigoghosoian Dr. & Mrs. Ted Schwartzenfeld Ms. Kaitlin Sheehan Martin & Diana Shoushanian Mr. & Mr. Jeremy Stolberg Mort Harris Applebaum Family Philanthropy Mr. Morton E. Harris Ms. Marilyn Vender Bruce Hern Mrs. Jacquelyn Hess Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lundgren Gregory Kalin Ms. Cheryl Francis Ms. Christina Gibson Mr. Nick Grove Mr. Jay Mages Ms. Kimberly McGarry Sloane Potter Ms. Amena Tayyab Phyllis Katz Mr. Ronald M. Horwitz

Robert D. Kirlay Mr. Thomas Kiraly Hamayu no Konami Dr. Mieko Yoshihama Susan Clippert LaMont Anna & Paul Harmon Joyce Leopold Mr. Henry Y. Leopold Mel Lester Mr. & Mrs. James Parker Frederica Levinson Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Driker Norma Lynch Ms. June K. Kendall Mary Ella Walton May Ms. Pamela Micallef Jerrie McDonnell Arba-Donnell Charitable Foundation Fund Elizabeth Jane McGill Ms. Lynn Carmichael Mr. David McGill Ms. Elizabeth McGill Mr. & Mrs. Patrick O’Hara Ms. Janet Welch Rozanne McGraw Ms. Christine Boesen Ms. Janet Duco Ms. Josephine Duco Mr. John McElwee Virginia C McMillan Mr. & Mrs. Francis McMillan Anita Miller Ms. Judith Kirkeby Florence Miller Ms. Jolyn Hillebrand Ms. Florence Miller Mr. Charles Wehde Gene Mondry Mr. Mitchell Mondry Mr. Henry Myers Mrs. Paula Myers Judy Naturkas Mrs. Vickie Goethals Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steffy Helen Delores Nichilo Susan Konop Charles Novacek Ms. Sandra Novacek James M. O’Connell Mr. Dwight Angell Tom Cloos Mr. David Corbett Ms. Karen Erickson Robert & Ellen Franz Ms. Brigitte Hayhurst Ms. Barbara Clark Kuzina Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Lewis Paul & Nancy McNaughton Mr. Eugene McNerney Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Yox Mark Pacheco Mr. James Haslett Pat Packer Mr. & Ms. Tom Kalush Patricia & Gary Trapani Patrick D. Packer Mrs. & Mr. Carol Waldecker

Skeets William Kelly Mr. Sean M. Kelly

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Jane Parsons W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Blumenstein Family Foundation Ms. Beth S. Carlson Detroit Symphony Orchestra Members Fund Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Mrs. Marianne Endicott Todd Gordon & Susan Feder Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Stanley & Judith Frankel Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Ms. Mary Lambert Liebler Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Mellow Mr. Stephen R. Molina Joy & Allan Nachman Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. Robert R. Swaney Mrs. Nancy Tellem George Port Ms. Sandra Burditt Ms. Ann Cassidy Ms. Frances Jueds Mr. & Mrs. John R. Nicholson Mr. Fernando Szew Alice Richards Pryor Dr. George Pryor Thomas James Przybylski Ms. Nora Brennan-Cuphone Mr. & Ms. Neil Edelson Ms. Laura Gallagher Ms. Ann Kennedy Ms. Colleen Norek Jan & John Phillips MJ Rosenthal Alto Reed Ms. Lorraine Alcott Karen Appling Mr. Greg Ashforth Ms. Paula Bellovary Mr. Gary Breton Ms. Kira Carstensen Mr. Robert Cohen Mr. John Cuprisin Jess Delaney Ms. Barbara Detwiler Ms. Kathy DiCenzo Mr. Ross Dubois Ms. Cindy Cummings Fauser Ms. Lila Feinberg Mr. Kevin Gallahan Garfield Miotke Giving Fund Mr. Timothy Heiss Mr. Bob Hereford Mr. & Ms. Justin Hillian Mr. Alfred Hooker Ms. Suzette Jones Ms. Ewa Kedzierska Mr. Thomas F Klimek Mr. Daniel LaLonde Ms. Charlene Larson Ms. Debbie McGee Ms. Teresa McGinnis Mr. Rod Moseanko Mrs. Nancy Neumann Natalie & Bill Newman Family Ms. Sheila Orzechowski Ms. Susan Oueilette Ms. Sharon Poston Mr. Douglas Priestap Mr. Phil Purdy Ms. Bridget Roman Mr. John Ryan Ms. Rose Scaglia Mr. James Seidman Ms. Tina Sellers Ms. MaryLet Sklodowski Ms. Diane Smith Ms. Joyce Stanley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stevens Mr. Paul Kareem Tayyar Ms. Dianne Teesdale Ms. Mary Watt Ms. Shelly Weiner

Mr. Brad Wenzel Ms. Charlene Whicker Ms. Jill Williams Mr. Ford Wong Bob Reid & Rosemary Waring Reid Ms. Julie Reddick Anni Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Mike Cesarz Peter Roddy Theresa Roddy Stanley & Jane Romatowski Dr. Nancy Valentini Dr. Steven S. Rosen Marcy Rosen Inge Schaerer Ms. Cathryn Sutherland Donald Schings Ms. Judy Schings John Robert Smith Mrs. Grace Brockett Mr. Chris Hickok Mr. Tim Hill Ms. Roberta Isaeff Mr. Chris King Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Lorts Ms. Chris Miles Ms. Janet Mitchell Ms. Patricia Morita Ms. Brigitte Murray Mrs. Debra Navin Geogre & Jo Elyn Nyman Premier Safety SAGE Publications, Inc. Mr. Marti Smith Mrs. Nancy C. Smith Ms. Mary Ellen Terao Zach Smith Ms. Barbara Snitz Joan Carol Stern Mr. Bradley Stern Roberta Stulberg Mrs. Margaret Bornstein Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burstein Elizabeth Fields Edie Goldman Andrew Gutman Wendy Handler Dr. & Mrs. David Schwartz Thomas Tang Ichen Huang Terry Teopas Patricia Babich Ms. Beverly Yocum Leon & Theresa Tew Holly Gorecki Frank Tinetti Mr. Ray Green Zeyn & Ayten Uzman Mr. James Akif Uzman Kathie vonSchwarz Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Spann James Waring Mrs. Marion Lusardi Frances West-Porchia Ms. Debra Usher Dr. Clyde & Helen Wu Dr. Barbara Yoshida Marion Wyatt Ms. Patricia Ali Tina Yee Ms. Lisa Schwartz

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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.

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

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

Parking

Shop @ The Max

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!

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

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.

While drinks may be taken to your concert seat, the DSO’s mask policy will be enforced when you are not actively drinking.

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Handicap Access and Hearing Assistance Accessibility matters. Whether you need ramp access for your wheelchair or are looking for sensoryfriendly 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.

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.

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POLICIES HEALTH & SAFETY 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 Information:................313.576.5131 Visit the DSO online at dso.org For general inquiries, please email info@dso.org

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.

TICKETS, EXCHANGES, AND CONCERT CANCELLATIONS All sales are final and non-

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

refundable. 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-go-on 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.

PHONES 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 anywhere in 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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• All guests must provide proof of full vaccination for COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 test upon entry.

• Guests must wear a mask, worn properly over the nose and mouth, unless they are actively eating or drinking.

Masks must be worn regardless of vaccination status.

• We have also instituted contactless e-ticketing this season to add another layer of safety. 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.

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and vaping are not allowed

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.

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F EXECUTIVE OFFICE Anne Parsons President and CEO James B. and Ann V. Nicholson Chair Jill Elder Vice President and Chief Development Officer Linda Lutz Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Erik Rönmark Vice President and General Manager Joy Crawford Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Elaine Curvin Executive Assistant to the Vice President and CDO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS ARTISTIC PLANNING Christopher Harrington Senior Director & Curator, @ The Max/Managing Director, DSO Paradise Jazz Series

Bronwyn Hagerty Orchestra and Training Programs Librarian Hannah Wetherholt Manager of Orchestra Personnel

ADVANCEMENT Jill Rafferty Senior Director of Advancement Holly Gorecki Director of Advancement Operations Alex Kapordelis Campaign Director

Hannah Engwall Public Relations Manager

Juanda Pack Advancement Benefits Concierge

COMMUNITY AND LEARNING

Susan Queen Gift Officer, Corporate Giving Amanda Tew Data and Research Manager

EVENTS AND RENTALS Presley Feezell Manager of Events and Rentals

Marc Geelhoed Executive Producer of Live from Orchestra Hall

FACILITY OPERATIONS

Ezra Gans Artistic Operations Assistant

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Matt Carlson Senior Director, Communications & Media Relations

Amanda Lindstrom Events Coordinator

LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL

Dennis Rottell Stage Manager

COMMUNICATIONS

Natalie Berger Video Content Specialist

Jody Harper Senior Director of Building Operations

Patrick Peterson Director of Orchestra Personnel

Aaron Tockstein Database Administrator

Leslie Groves Major Gift Officer

BUILDING OPERATIONS

Kathryn Ginsburg Senior Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager

Ra’Jon Taylor Systems Administrator

Sarah Smarch Director of Content and Storytelling

Dasha Gilmore Artistic Coordinator

ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Michelle Koning Web Manager

Beth Carlson Stewardship Coordinator

Jessica Ruiz Director of Artistic Planning

Goode Wyche CUBE Coordinator

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Ken Waddington Director of Facilities and Engineering Demetris Fisher Environmental Services Lead Robert Hobson Maintenance Lead Keith Kennedy Chief Engineer William Guilbault EVS Technician

Caen Thomason-Redus Senior Director of Community & Learning Karisa Antonio Director of Social Innovation Damien Crutcher Managing Director of Detroit Harmony Debora Kang Director of Education Clare Valenti Director of Community Engagement Kiersten Alcorn Manager of Community Engagement Connor Bulka Training Ensembles Recruitment & Communications Coordinator Angelina Cicchella Training Ensembles Operations Coordinator Joanna Goldstein Training Ensembles Student Development Coordinator

Lawrence Johnson EVS Technician

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FINANCE Jeremiah Hess Senior Director of Accounting & Finance Erik Anundson Accounts Payable Coordinator Taylor Benjamin Gift Processing Coordinator Sandra Mazza Senior Accountant, Business Operations Michelle Wisler Payroll and Benefits Accountant

HUMAN RESOURCES Lisa Bradley Senior Director of Talent and Culture Mary Lambert Human Resources Generalist Shuntia Perry Human Resources Coordinator

MARKETING & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Teresa Alden Director of Digital Marketing Sharon Gardner Carr Assistant Manager of Tessitura and Ticketing Operations

HOSPITALITY AND PATRON EXPERIENCE Christina Williams Director of Hospitality and Patron Experience Alison Reed, CVA Manager of Volunteer & Patron Experience Nate Richter Bar Manager

PATRON SALES AND SERVICE Michelle Marshall Manager, Patron Sales & Service

SAFETY & SECURITY George Krappmann Director of Safety and Security Norris Jackson Security Officer Edward John Security Manager Tony Morris Security Officer Johnnie Scott Security Officer Antonio Thomas Security Officer

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EDITORS Matt Carlson mcarlson@dso.org

Hannah Engwall hengwall@dso.org

PUBLISHER Echo Publications, Inc. Tom Putters Cover design by Jay Holladay To advertise in Performance, please call 248.582.9690, email info@echopublications.com or visit echopublications.com

Jay Holladay Digital Content Specialist LaHeidra Marshall Audience Development Specialist Connor Mehren Marketing Coordinator

Read Performance anytime, anywhere at dso.org/performance

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

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PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

DIANNE REEVES: CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE Dianne Reeves, vocalist Friday, December 3 at 8 p.m.* PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

DAWSON & BEETHOVEN Thomas Wilkins, conductor Vadim Gluzman, violin Friday, December 10 at 10:45 a.m.

Saturday, December 11 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 12 at 3 p.m.

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” WILLIAM DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto YOUNG PEOPLE’S FAMILY CONCERTS

WINTER WONDERLAND

Thomas Wilkins, conductor Saturday, December 11 at 11 a.m.

DSO PRESENTS

HOME ALONE IN CONCERT

Scott Terrell, conductor Wednesday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m.

PNC POPS SERIES

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Stuart Chafetz, conductor Michael Preacely, vocalist Friday, December 17 at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 18 at 3 and 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 19 at 3 p.m.

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HAYDN’S “FAREWELL” SYMPHONY Dmitry Sinkovsky, conductor, violin & countertenor Thursday, January 6 at 7:30 p.m. in W. Bloomfield Friday, January 7 at 8 p.m. in Plymouth Saturday, January 8 at 8 p.m. in Bloomfield Hills Sunday, January 9 at 3 p.m. in Grosse Pointe ANTONIO VIVALDI Violin Concerto, RV 177 ARCANGELO CORELLI Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 11 TOMASO ALBINONI “Pianta bella” GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “But who may abide the day of His coming” from Messiah JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 45 “Farewell” PNC POPS SERIES

THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL Michael Cavanaugh, vocals & piano Enrico Lopez-Yañez, conductor Friday, January 7 at 10:45 a.m.

Saturday, January 8 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, January 9 at 3 p.m.

PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Jader Bignamini, conductor Joshua Roman, cello Thursday, January 13 at 7:30 p.m.

GIOACHINO ROSSINI Overture to William Tell ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto MODEST MUSSORGSKY/ORCH. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD

MOZART’S “PRAGUE” SYMPHONY

Dmitry Sinkovsky, conductor & violin Thursday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Southfield Friday, January 28 at 8 p.m. in Monroe Sunday, January 30 at 3 p.m. in Beverly Hills ALL-MOZART PROGRAM Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Violin Concerto No. 3 Symphony No. 38 “Prague”

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Hear. Together.

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PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

Eun Sun Kim, conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, guitar Thu., Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 5 at 8 p.m.

TEXU KIM Dub-Sanjo JOAQUÍN RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Jader Bignamini, conductor Randall Goosby, violin Thu., Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Feb.25 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 26 at 3 p.m.

GUSTAV MAHLER “Blumine” Movement from Symphony No. 1 in D major WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan”

RACHMANINOFF & RODRIGO

PNC POPS SERIES

TROUPE VERTIGO: CIRQUE CARNAVAL Jeff Tyzik, conductor Troupe Vertigo, acrobats Fri., Feb 11 at 10:45 & 8 p.m.

Sat., Feb 12 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Feb 13 at 3 p.m.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S FAMILY CONCERT SERIES

TROUPE VERTIGO

MAHLER’S “TITAN”

PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA Fri., Mar. 4 at 8 p.m.* Former DSO Erb Jazz chair Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra make their highly-anticipated return to the Orchestra Hall stage to perform original compositions, arrangements, and music by beloved jazz giants!

Jeff Tyzik, conductor Sat., Feb. 12 at 11 a.m.

DECANTED

PVS CLASSICAL SERIES

Thursday, November 11 at 6 p.m.

BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 7 Jader Bignamini, conductor Hunter Eberly, trumpet Fri., Feb. 18 at 10:45 a.m.

Sat., Feb. 19 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 20 at 3 p.m.

SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op. 63 ALEXANDER ARUTIUNIAN Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

An evening of fine wine and food pairings, curated by Music Director Jader Bignamini, plus a musical performance by members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Proceeds will support the DSO’s continuing commitment to providing greater access to music and music education programs across our region.

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* The DSO does not appear on this program Live from Orchestra Hall webcast

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The Whitney Restaurant | Ghostbar | Gardens

Welcome Back

The Whitney is so proud to continue our long-lasting relationship with DSO concert-goers. Celebrating the art & beauty of Detroit is a core value for the Whitney and we are so pleased to be a part of your memorable experience.

We want to celebrate your return to the Detroit performing arts scene by encouraging you to make another memory with us! Show us your ticket or this program any Sunday within 30 days of your event & enjoy $10 off per person on our 4-course dinner menu or our elegant Mansion tea service.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Whitney on a Sunday soon!

But for now… Enjoy the concert!

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