Performance Magazine: Spring 2019 — Edition 4

VOLUME XXVII • SPRING 2019

PERFORMANCE THE MAGAZINE OF THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

INSIDE Program Notes Summer of a Century

Awaiting a world-class concert hall in the summer of 1919

A Terence Blanchard Joint

Our Erb Jazz Chair’s enduring connection with filmmaker Spike Lee

Meet the Musician Jeffery Zook

Jiamin Wang, violin, at the park with her French bulldog Jerry

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

CONTENTS Welcome......................................................4 Orchestra Roster.........................................5 Behind the Baton.........................................6

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Summer of the Century 1919 and the advent of Orchestra Hall

Board Leadership........................................8 Transformational Support........................10 Donor Roster............................................. 38

12 Meet the Musician Terence 16 ABlanchard Joint Jeffery Zook

Our Erb Jazz Chair’s connection to Spike Lee

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Community and Learning

21 PROGRAM NOTES

Maximize Your Experience....................... 48 DSO Administrative Staff......................... 50 Upcoming Concerts.................................. 52 ON THE COVER: Jiamin Wang, violin, and her French bulldog Jerry at Daisy Knight Dog Park in Troy

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WELCOME DONALD DIETZ

Dear Friends,

As we wind down another outstanding season by your Detroit Symphony Orchestra, we look forward to future highlights and indelible milestones this summer and beyond. We have rich history to celebrate with the centennial of Orchestra Hall, which opened its doors in October 1919. We hope you enjoy the first in a series of stories we’ll be sharing throughout the upcoming year focusing on our one-of-a-kind acoustic gem.

But first, we welcome back Leonard Slatkin on June 7-9 to close our Classical Series.

Also joining us is the exciting and versatile Makoto Ozone, DSO guest pianist in Japan during our 2017 Asia Tour. We are excited to introduce him to audiences here at home for the first time as he performs Rachmaninoff in Orchestra Hall and makes a special appearance with his jazz trio in the Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings Cube.

Closing out our Paradise Jazz series is yet another outstanding show: “The Movie Music of Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard” showcases our Erb Jazz Chair performing selections from his scores to films directed by his longtime artistic partner.

The DSO takes to the outdoors with our 27th annual “Salute to America” concerts at Greenfield Village in partnership with The Henry Ford. We’ll also be back for a tenth year at the Eleanor and Edsel Ford House in Grosse Pointe, and you won’t want to miss “The Music of Queen” at Meadow Brook.

To close our summer season, we are excited to be returning to Interlochen for the first time since 2006. In addition to the DSO’s concert on July 27, our musicians will lead master classes and play in side-by-side rehearsals with students during this week-long residency.

Please let us know if you can join us!

We hope by now you’ve secured your tickets for our Heroes Gala on June 22, featuring a performance by our DSO and original Hamilton star Leslie Odom, Jr. That evening, we will honor philanthropist and DSO Director Emeritus Mort Harris, who recently celebrated his 99th birthday with DSO flutists Sharon Sparrow and Amanda Blaikie in a private concert!

Mort’s milestone of entering his 100th year helps us officially launch Orchestra Hall’s centennial, allowing us to recognize two extraordinary legacies in one special evening.

Next season, the Orchestra Hall celebration will be filled with incredible performances— and more—as we honor the fascinating history of this remarkable place and look ahead to the future role the DSO and its revered home will play in the vibrancy of our city.

The story of Orchestra Hall is not just a DSO story. It’s a story of the Paradise Theatre, which brought the best jazz and blues artists to its stage from 1941 to 1951. It’s a story of Detroit and its ongoing promise of renewal, beginning in the 1970s when a group of concerned citizens came together to save Orchestra Hall from the wrecking ball.

And, perhaps most of all, it’s your story. So, we invite you to celebrate with us as we begin the next chapter of this world-class orchestra, in this premier concert hall, in our resurgent city.

Thanks for all you do, to help make all that we do, matter to more people every year.

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Mark Davidoff Chairman SPRING 2019

LEONARD SLATKIN, Music Director Laureate Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN Yoonshin Song Concertmaster Katherine Tuck Chair Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy A ssociate Concertmaster Schwartz Shapero Family Chair Hai-Xin Wu A ssistant Concertmaster Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair Jennifer Wey Fang A ssistant Concertmaster Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Landers Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou* SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski Acting Principal Will Haapaniemi* David and Valerie McCammon Chair Hae Jeong Heidi Han* David and Valerie McCammon Chair Sheryl Hwangbo* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo* Alexandros Sakarellos* Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair Joseph Striplin* Marian Tanau* Jing Zhang* Open, Principal The Devereaux Family Chair VIOLA Eric Nowlin, Principal Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair James VanValkenburg A ssistant Principal Caroline Coade Glenn Mellow Hang Su Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen CELLO Wei Yu, Principal James C. Gordon Chair

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NEEME JÄRVI

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

Music Director Emeritus

Abraham Feder A ssistant Principal Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer* David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey* Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Chair Haden McKay* Úna O’Riordan*^ Mary Ann and Robert Gorlin Chair Paul Wingert* Victor and Gale Girolami Chair BASS Kevin Brown, Principal Van Dusen Family Chair Stephen Molina A ssistant Principal Linton Bodwin Stephen Edwards Christopher Hamlen Nicholas Myers HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher Principal Winifred E. Polk Chair FLUTE Sharon Sparrow Acting Principal Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair Amanda Blaikie Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair Jeffery Zook Open, Principal Women’s Association for the DSO Chair Adam Sadberry African-American Orchestra Fellow

CLARINET Ralph Skiano Principal Robert B. Semple Chair Jack Walters PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair Laurence Liberson A ssistant Principal Shannon Orme

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins, Principal David Binder Randall Hawes

E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker, Principal Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal A ssistant Principal William Cody Knicely Chair James Ritchie

BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair BASSOON Robert Williams, Principal Victoria King Michael Ke Ma A ssistant Principal Marcus Schoon CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon HORN Karl Pituch, Principal Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong Bryan Kennedy David Everson Assistant Principal Mark Abbott TRUMPET Hunter Eberly, Principal Lee and Floy Barthel Chair Kevin Good Stephen Anderson A ssistant Principal William Lucas Michael Gause African-American Orchestra Fellow

PICCOLO Jeffery Zook OBOE Alexander Kinmonth Principal Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair Sarah Lewis Maggie Miller Chair Brian Ventura A ssistant Principal Monica Fosnaugh ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

BASS TROMBONE Randall Hawes TUBA Dennis Nulty, Principal

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp, Principal Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair James Ritchie A ssistant Principal LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles, Principal Ethan Allen PERSONNEL MANAGERS Heather Hart Rochon Director of Orchestra Personnel Patrick Peterson Manager of Orchestra Personnel STAGE PERSONNEL Dennis Rottell, Stage Manager Ryan DeMarco Department Head Noel Keesee Department Head Steven Kemp Department Head Matthew Pons Department Head Michael Sarkissian Department Head

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

Leonard Slatkin

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nternationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and Directeur Musical Honoraire of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL). He maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting throughout the world and is active as a composer, author, and educator.

Highlights of the 2018-19 Season include a tour of Germany with the ONL; a three-week American Festival with the DSO; the Kastalsky Requiem project commemorating the World War I Centennial; Penderecki’s 85th birthday celebration in Warsaw; five weeks in Asia leading orchestras in Guangzhou, Beijing, Osaka, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; and the Manhattan School of Music’s 100th anniversary gala concert at Carnegie Hall. He will also conduct the Moscow Philharmonic, Balearic Islands Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Louisville Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, RTÉ National Symphony in Ireland, and Monte Carlo Symphony.

Slatkin has received six Grammy awards and 33 nominations. His recent Naxos recordings include works by 6

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Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Berlioz (with the ONL) and music by Copland, Rachmaninov, Borzova, McTee, and John Williams (with the DSO). In addition, he has recorded the complete Brahms, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky symphonies with the DSO (available online as digital downloads).

A recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, Slatkin also holds the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. He has received Austria’s Decoration of Honor in Silver, the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award, and the 2013 ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for his debut book, Conducting Business. His second book, Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry, was published by Amadeus Press in 2017.

Slatkin has conducted virtually all the leading orchestras in the world. As Music Director, he has held posts in New Orleans; St. Louis; Washington, DC; London (with the BBCSO); Detroit; and Lyon, France. He has also served as Principal Guest Conductor in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Cleveland. For more information, visit leonardslatkin.com.

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Jeff Tyzik

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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 also serves as principal pops conductor of the Oregon Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic — a post he has held for 23 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. In May 2007, the Harmonia Mundi label released his recording of works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the RPO, which stayed in the Top 10 on the Billboard classical chart for over

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three months. Alex Ross of the New Yorker called it “one of the snappiest Gershwin discs in years.”

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. For more information, visit jefftyzik.com.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME MEMBERS

CHAIRMEN EMERITI

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OFFICERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors is responsible for maintaining a culture of high engagement, accountability and strategic thinking. As fiduciaries, Directors oversee all DSO financial activities and assure that resources are aligned with the DSO mission.

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Samuel Frankel ◊ David Handleman, Sr.◊ Dr. Arthur L. Johnson ◊

James B. Nicholson Clyde Wu, M.D.◊

Alfred R. Glancy III ◊ Robert S. Miller Peter D. Cummings

James B. Nicholson Stanley Frankel Phillip Wm. Fisher

Robert A. Allesee Floy Barthel Mrs. Mandell L. Berman◊ John A. Boll, Sr. Richard A. Brodie Lois and Avern Cohn Marianne Endicott Sidney Forbes Mrs. Harold Frank Barbara Frankel Herman Frankel

Paul Ganson Mort and Brigitte◊ Harris Gloria Heppner, Ph.D. Ronald M. Horwitz Hon. Damon J. Keith Richard P. Kughn Harold Kulish Dr. Melvin A. Lester David R. Nelson Robert E.L. Perkins, D.D.S.◊ Marilyn Pincus

Lloyd E. Reuss Jack A. Robinson◊ Marjorie S. Saulson Alan E. Schwartz Jean Shapero◊ Jane Sherman David Usher Barbara Van Dusen Arthur A. Weiss, Esq.

Mark A. Davidoff, Chairman

Faye Alexander Nelson, Treasurer

Ralph J. Gerson, Officer at Large

Glenda D. Price, Ph.D., Vice Chair

Arthur T. O’Reilly, Secretary

Janice Uhlig, Officer at Large

Anne Parsons, President & CEO

Nancy Schlichting, Officer at Large

Pamela Applebaum Janice Bernick, Governing Members Chair Marco Bruzzano Jeremy Epp, Orchestra Representative Samuel Fogleman Herman B. Gray, M.D.

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Nicholas Hood III Daniel J. Kaufman Michael J. Keegan Bonnie Larson Arthur C. Liebler Xavier Mosquet Stephen Polk Bernard I. Robertson

◊ Deceased

Sharon Sparrow, Orchestra Representative Shirley Stancato Arn Tellem Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder M. Roy Wilson David M. Wu, M.D.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Richard Huttenlocher, Chair The Board of Trustees is tasked with shepherding the long-term strategy of the DSO to fully implement the organization’s entrepreneurial capabilities while developing and presenting new strategies and objectives.

Ismael Ahmed Rosette Ajluni Richard Alonzo Robert Bluestein Suzanne Bluestein Penny B. Blumenstein Elizabeth Boone Gwen Bowlby Margaret Cooney Casey Karen Cullen Joanne Danto Stephen R. D’Arcy Maureen T. D’Avanzo Richard L. DeVore Afa Sadykhly Dworkin Annmarie Erickson James Farber Jennifer Fischer Aaron Frankel

Carolynn Frankel Christa Hoen-Funk Alan M. Gallatin Robert Gillette Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin Mary Ann Gorlin Laura Grannemann Antoinette G. Green Leslie Green Laura Hernandez-Romine Donald Hiruo Michele Hodges Julie Hollinshead Renato Jamett Joseph Jonna John Jullens David Karp Joel D. Kellman

Jennette Smith Kotila James P. Lentini, D.M.A. Linda Dresner Levy Joshua Linkner Florine Mark Tonya Matthews, Ph.D. David N. McCammon Lydia Michael, NextGen Chair Lois A. Miller Daniel Millward Scott Monty Shari Morgan Frederick J. Morsches Sean M. Neall Eric Nemeth Maury Okun Shannon Orme, Orchestra Representative

Vivian Pickard William F. Pickard, Ph.D. Gerrit Reepmeyer Richard Robinson James Rose, Jr. Marc Schwartz Lois L. Shaevsky Thomas Shafer Margaret Shulman Cathryn M. Skedel, Ph.D. Ralph Skiano, Orchestra Representative Mark Tapper Laura J. Trudeau Gwen Weiner Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret E. Winters Ellen Hill Zeringue

GABRILOWITSCH SOCIETY OFFICERS Janet and Norm Ankers, chairs Cecilia Benner Greg Haynes Bonnie Larson Lois Miller Ric Sonenklar

GOVERNING MEMBERS OFFICERS Janice Bernick Chairwoman

James C. Farber Immediate Past Chair

Jiehan Alonzo Vice Chair, Signature Events

Suzanne Dalton Vice Chair, Annual Giving

Maureen D’Avanzo Member-at-Large

Janet and Norm Ankers Co-Vice Chairs, Gabrilowitsch Society

Samantha Svoboda Vice Chair, Communications

Bonnie Larson Member-at-Large

Cathleen Clancy Vice Chair, Engagement

David Assemany Member-at-Large

David Everson* Orchestra Representative

Diana Golden Vice Chair, Membership

David Karp Member-at-Large

Kenneth Thompkins Orchestra Representative

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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

In building our long-term strategic plan, Blueprint 2023, our Orchestra community concluded that a truly sustainable DSO would require a shared commitment to growing our permanent endowment. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra 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. A strong endowment does more than secure the financial future for the DSO. It will also help us to achieve artistic excellence – attracting and retaining the best musicians, guaranteeing our education and youth programs for the future, and serving our city as one of its greatest cultural assets. The result will be heard in the continued warmth and clarity of our orchestra, in strong ticket sales and growing donor support, and in more people with increased access to and participation in music. To learn more about this critical effort, please contact Jill Elder, Vice President and Chief Development Officer, at jelder@dso.org.

SPOTLIGHT: RIC SONENKLAR AND GREG HAYNES

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ic Sonenklar has been attending DSO concerts for at least 45 years and has enjoyed classical music since he was a boy. His husband Greg Haynes, who grew up listening to country and gospel, didn’t know much about the symphony world when he met Ric and started joining him for DSO performances. But that was nearly 30 years ago, and by now he’s a seasoned fan.

“We attended every one of the programs at the American Panorama festival,” says Ric, who explains that both he and Greg enjoy American and 20th century composers. The couple also support Michigan Opera Theatre, where Ric serves on the Board of Directors, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and other local arts institutions.

Last fall, Ric and Greg happily hosted like-minded DSO supporters to their home in Bloomfield Hills for Overture to a Season. Now, they are joining the musicians of the DSO in our collective quest to raise no less than $1 million in investments to the DSO Musicians Fund for Artistic Excellence. The fund, established by a groundbreaking $100,000 cumulative gift with participation from each DSO musician, is truly an inspiration.

“The fact that the musicians took it upon themselves to do that, and to issue that challenge for more support… it shows that they’re invested in the orchestra and its future,” says Greg. “I’m not sure there’s any other group of musicians that have done this type of thing.”

To learn more about joining us in this historic partnership with the musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, please contact Alexander Kapordelis, Campaign Director, at akapordelis@dso.org.

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

CHAMPIONS Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Penny & Harold Blumenstein 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 Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs.◊ Morton E. Harris

John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation Mrs. Bonnie Larson Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ms. Deborah Miesel Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Stephen M. Ross Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen

LEADERS Applebaum Family Foundation Charlotte Arkin Estate Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Herman & Sharon Frankel Ruth & Al Glancy Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin John C. Leyhan Estate Bud & Nancy Liebler

Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation David & Valerie McCammon Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Dr. William F. Pickard Jack◊ & Aviva Robinson Martie & Bob Sachs Mr. & Mrs.◊ Alan E. Schwartz Drs. Doris Tong & Teck Soo Paul and Terese Zlotoff

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

Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Ann & Norman Katz Dr. Melvin A. Lester Florine Mark Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Pat & Hank Nickol Ruth Rattner Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Donald & Gloria Schultz Estate Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Jane and Larry Sherman Cindy McTee & Leonard Slatkin Marilyn Snodgrass Estate DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 11

MEET THE MUSICIAN

JEFFERY ZOOK Piccolo Flute

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f you have siblings, you probably remember “borrowing” each other’s toys as kids. Jeff Zook managed to turn his youthful banditry into a rewarding musical career.

“I was the youngest of four children, and everyone played an instrument or two,” Zook remembers. “My sister was a very gifted flutist and I used to steal her flute and teach myself to play it.” Zook’s father heard the results and immediately knew he had to get his son lessons—leading to a formal flute education at Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Zook made his DSO solo debut as a high school senior in 1982 and joined the orchestra full-time ten years later in the piccolo chair and flute section.

“I consider myself a flutist that also plays the piccolo,” Zook says. “There’s no greater feeling than ‘leading the pack’ when the piccolo is soaring above the entire orchestra. But there are also several weeks of the season with no piccolo parts, and I’m often able to use those weeks to perform as a flutist in recitals or as a guest with other orchestras.”

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Zook’s playing and personality are well known to local music fans, as he regularly performs outside of Orchestra Hall too—sometimes from the Cambridge Conservatory, the purpose-built recital hall appended to his home in Pleasant Ridge. And his partner David Assemany is a fixture in the Herman and Sharon Frankel Donor Lounge and at all manner of DSO social events, making the couple a powerhouse musical pair. “David loves coming to the symphony, he’s really an ambassador for the symphony,” says Zook. Laughing, he adds: “and I just play the music.”

Sometimes that music is pure joy, as in Prokofiev’s violin and piano concertos.

“Those pieces have some of the most sensitive and exhilarating piccolo parts in the repertoire,” Zook explains. Others, it’s much hairier. “The scherzo of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 has a piccolo solo containing 21 notes in one and a half seconds,” Zook continues. “You sit SPRING 2019

tacet for 20-some minutes, and then you play the 21 most difficult notes in the repertoire. You just go! It’s every piccoloist’s nightmare. I used to freak out for weeks when that was on the schedule.” Perhaps it’s no surprise that Zook cites the Grateful Dead’s wandering, improvisational “Space” as his favorite piece of non-classical music.

Zook also keeps busy as a teacher; he is on the faculty at Oakland University and highly sought after as a private instructor. “I feel like I’m put here on this planet to teach,” he says.

“I had great teachers—Clem Barone, William Bennet, Trevor Wye—I feel like I have a lot to give.” One of his favorite student success stories involves Roma Duncan, who is currently a member of the Minnesota Orchestra. “During the 2017 Asia Tour I had a hand injury and couldn’t play the piccolo, so I moved over to play Assistant Principal Flute,” he remembers. “And the piccolo substitute the DSO hired was Roma Duncan. I coached her here in Detroit, she’s a former student, and we were playing as colleagues on tour. That was so cool.”

And while the specter of retirement slowly looms, Zook feels like a kid again in the orchestra’s present moment. “The orchestra today is the best orchestra I’ve experienced since I joined,” he says. “It’s filled with a contagious enthusiasm. The momentum it currently has…well, the right things are in place, and it’s just going to keep going forward.” dso.org

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SUMMER OF A CENTURY AWA I T ING A WORL D - CL A S S C ONCER T H A L L IN T HE SUMMER OF 1919

BY BEN BREUNINGER

A Detroit Free Press article from April 26, 1919, includes a drawing of the original proposal for Orchestra Hall, which differs somewhat from the hall as it was built.

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his time 100 years ago, an excitsure? After all, the project began as an ing project was about to get ultimatum. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the underway: the construction of a Russian pianist and conductor who concert hall to serve as the home of a began his tenure as DSO music director blooming local orchestra. We now know in 1918, would sign a new contract to that Orchestra Hall is among the most remain in Detroit under one condition: acoustically exceptional in the world; we the symphony must build him a hall know that its architect, C. Howard Crane, worthy of the world-class orchestra he is one of the great masters of his was leading. Not just that, but it generation; we know of the hall’s must be ready to use in time for rollercoaster history, with opening concert of the 1919incredible highs and holes-in1920 season. the-ceiling lows. Orchestra Hall “So much enthusiasm has would become the Paradise been shown in the new auditoTheatre, a top venue for jazz and rium…in keeping with the blues, from 1941-1951. It would prominence to which the conArchitect C. provide the backdrop for the structive work of Ossip Howard Crane mayor’s State of the City address.

Gabrilowitsch, the conductor, It would be saved from the wrecking ball has brought the Detroit Symphony by steadfast activism from musicians Orchestra,” published the Detroit Free and countless community members.

Press on April 26, 1919. On June 1, the But no one knew any of that in 1919. paper ran an advertisement for 14 pairs The DSO and its backers certainly hoped of concerts to take place at Orchestra that the hall would be a suitable—and Hall that fall, and on June 9 construction even beautiful—home for the then-itinbegan at Woodward and Parsons. The erant orchestra, but who could say for foundation was laid in less than a week,

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra photographed on the brand new Orchestra Hall stage in November 1919. Ossip Gabrilowitsch stands on the podium. dso.org

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and the entire building was finished in four months and 23 days.

In her memoir My Husband Gabrilowitsch, Ossip’s wife Clara Clemens recalled the church that had to be demolished in order to make space for the new hall. With similar wry humor to that of her father Mark Twain’s, Clara wrote, “Urgently it was impressed upon the architect that the hall must be finished by a certain date—so urgently in fact that the church standing on the acquired property began to crumble under the hands of the demolishers while a bride and groom were attempting to face the marriage ceremony: ‘I do take thee to be my lawful—,’ hammer-hammer-hammer, ‘—wife, for better, for—,’ chog-chogchog…Look out! The roof is falling in!

‘—and in health, ‘til death us do—’ You better move a little, they are going to blast a wall.”

As the current season wanes, and the

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, DSO Music Director from 1918 to 1936, at the piano with his wife Clara Clemens (daughter of Mark Twain) 16

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Orchestra Hall centennial celebrations draw near, imagine being a DSO patron during the summer of 1919. A magnificent hall, with promises of a stage “equipped with every modern device” and “absolutely perfect” acoustics, was springing to life with almost alarming speed. A bona-fide Russian maestro— fresh off a tenure with the Boston Symphony and friends with Sergei Rachmaninoff—was coming back for a second season to lead the local band in a midwestern city bursting with industry. Ford Model Ts, assembled at a plant just a few miles north on Woodward Avenue, would now zip down that same street to ferry music fans to the brandnew venue.

The moment finally arrived on the evening of Thursday, October 23, 1919.

This fall, the DSO’s first Classical Series program (October 4-6) is a re-creation of Orchestra Hall’s grand opening concert a century ago—a program that definitely helps us visualize what that 1919 performance must have been like!

At the conclusion of the original concert, Gabrilowitsch led the DSO in a rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner as an encore. “Mr. Gabrilowitsch’s choice of the national anthem to dedicate a hall, wholly expressive of American enterprise, to be used by an all-American orchestra in this city, which continually has shown itself at the fore in true American spirit, was most befitting the occasion,” wrote critic Charlotte M. Tarsney. We wonder what she might write of the DSO, and its great hall, SPRING 2019

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Our Erb Jazz Chair’s enduring connection with filmmaker Spike Lee

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usic and movie fans know about the longstanding partnership between film director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams— with so many iconic projects between them, sometimes it’s unclear if Williams is Spielberg’s right-hand-man or if it’s actually the other way around. But less widely recognized is the symbiosis between another film-and-music pair: director Spike Lee and composer Terence Blanchard, who also serves as the DSO’s Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Chair.

Fortunately, both men have received some overdue attention in the early months of 2019, as Lee won his first Academy Award (Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman) and Blanchard received his first Academy Award nomination (Best Original Score for the same film) at the 2019 Oscars. But the Lee-Blanchard collaboration goes back decades, beginning with the 1990 film Mo’ Better Blues, when Lee overheard Blanchard playing piano during a break. The piano tune became a trumpet tune, then a fully-orchestrated

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piece for the film’s score. And when Lee synthesized his next film, Jungle Fever, he hired Blanchard to work on the score alongside Stevie Wonder. The pair have collaborated on nearly two dozen films since, including Malcolm X, Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, Inside Man, and When the Levees Broke.

Paradise Jazz Series fans have always loved Blanchard, who often drops in to host concerts and occasionally performs onstage. But this season’s finale— featuring Blanchard’s band, vocalists Quiana Lynell and Ledisi, and the DSO in a rare Paradise Jazz Series appearance—is a special celebration of his music for Lee’s films outside of the jazz circuit.

What makes the partnership between Lee and Blanchard so successful? And how do they work together to create films that have great scores, and scores that make films great? As Blanchard told IndieWire in 2018, “Spike is the type of guy who shoots certain scenes hearing music. One of the things we always talk about is, ‘What haven’t we done yet?

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What sounds haven’t we used yet?’

The interesting thing about Spike is that he has a lot of trust in his composer.”

Since the beginning, Blanchard has always been among the first people to see Lee’s scripts. That’s because Lee wants the music to be as central to the film as any character or setting—not a finishing touch, but a core component of the film as a work of art. “In the pantheon of artists, I put musicians in front of everybody,” Lee told IndieWire.

“That’s one of the reasons my end credits are longer, because I want to list every musician. If you play on this joint, your name is going to be in the end credits.” With a birds-eye view of a film’s story and themes, Blanchard is free to write music that truly lives in the worlds Lee creates.

In BlacKkKlansman, for instance, the most memorable music involves a wailing, agitated guitar melody inspired

by Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969. “You know, back then, anytime you heard the national anthem, it was always very pristine,” Blanchard told NPR earlier this year. “So to hear it done

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with a distorted electric guitar—it was just radical. I just felt like he was screaming to everybody...and when I think about Spike’s films, the overall gist of what he’s dealing with his humanity.

And I thought there wouldn’t be anything more appropriate than have that sound be part of the film.”

A Spike Lee Joint wouldn’t be a Spike Lee Joint without poignant, sometimes surreal imagery—think of the jerky, nightmarish dolly shot of Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) realizing a hostage has been killed in Inside Man, or Dolomedes (Samuel L. Jackson) delivering a singsong speech as riot police dash across the background in Chi-Raq. So working with a composer like Blanchard, who embodies both calm musical mastery and proud adventurousness, is a natural move.

“I’ve been writing for orchestra for a long time,” Blanchard recently told Vanity Fair. “I mean, look, when we did Malcolm X it was 70 pieces.

Spike’s always trying to get that sound.

He wants his films to be compared with the greatest of all time. So he’s fought for that.”

Featuring the Terence Blanchard Quintet with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and vocalists Quiana Lynell and Ledisi (conducted by Damon Gupton)

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lways artistically adventurous, the DSO has committed itself to exploring the bridges between music and visual art in recent seasons. Consider Art @ The Max, now in its fourth iteration, which exhibits works by Detroitarea artists throughout the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center to elevate local creativity and spark conversation about Hae Jeong Heidi Han, violin, performing at Wasserman expression, all thanks to the Projects in March (Esther Shalev-Gerz’s “Selections from support of the Applebaum The Gold Room” is visible in the background).

Family Foundation. And get your largely insulated from anti-Semitism ticket to the next performance in during his lifetime, but after his death in the DSO’s new Sight & Sound chamber 1847 things turned sour,” Haapaniemi recital series, which merges the work of explains. “Wagner wrote that because the orchestra with the celebrated Mendelssohn was Jewish, his music was Wasserman Projects, one of Detroit’s derivative and superficial. The Third leading contemporary art spaces.

Reich went further, tearing down his Sight & Sound features DSO musistatue that stood in front of the Leipzig cians in small, intimate concerts at the Gewandhaus.” Shostakovich, meanwhile, gallery in Eastern market—musical perwrote his cynical and chaotic String formances that are thematically tied to the visual art on display. At the inaugural Quartet No. 3 before going to bed in the staircase of his apartment building to Sight & Sound concert in March, a DSO spare his wife and children the trauma string quartet played works by of seeing the KGB drag him away in the Mendelssohn and Shostakovich a few middle of the night. yards from Esther Shalev-Gerz’s The next Sight & Sound performance, “Selections from The Gold Room,” which which takes place on May 21, is decidjuxtaposes museum artifacts and peredly more lighthearted. Anchored sonal objects brought overseas by around Detroit artist Scott Hocking’s refugees, all veiled by floating gold assemblages built from discarded squares. sewer pipes, DSO musicians will per “What a wonderful idea and evening,” form music by contemporary composers said patron Beverly Kent. “Fantastic Andy Akiho, Osvaldo Golijov, and Paul strings, fabulous artists.” All told, about Moravec. The recital is a celebration of 80 art and music lovers attended the humor, creative ingenuity, and the disunique event, which also welcomed tinctive Eastern Market landscape, Shalev-Gerz herself. DSO violinist Will which teems with eye-catching art by Haapaniemi spoke about the musical Hocking and other artists. selections, which comment on crisis in Learn more about Sight & Sound and many of the same ways that ShalevGerz’s art does. “Felix Mendelssohn was other DSO recitals at dso.org/chamber.

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CLASSICAL SERIES NAGANO CONDUCTS BRUCKNER

Friday, May 24, 2019 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall KENT NAGANO, conductor BEATRICE RANA, piano

Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

(1891 - 1953) I. Andante - Allegro II. Andantino III. Allegro ma non troppo Beatrice Rana, piano Intermission

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D minor

(1824 - 1896) (1889 revised version)

ed. Nowak I. Mässig bewegt II. Adagio (etwas bewegt) quasi Andante III. Scherzo: Ziemlich schnell IV. Finale: Allegro

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Program Notes P R O G R A M AT- A - G L A N C E PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3

“ For me as a performer, it remains the ‘perfect’ concerto – so well-crafted musically and pianistically. It gives the soloist everything: bravura, lyricism, a wide color and emotional palette, and most importantly… joy in playing the piano!”

—Pianist Barbara Nissman

“ [Bruckner] can never be adequately described in words, let alone expressed completely. This music is the direct outflow and revelation of an uncommonly rich and complex intellectual life…[he is] a composer of absolute instrumental music.”

—Bruckner biographer Rudolf Louis

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 Composed 1911-1921 | Premiered December 1921 SERGEI PROKOFIEV B. April 23, 1891, Sontsivka, Ukraine D. March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia

Scored for solo piano, 2 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion, and strings.

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ne would hardly guess that a work as fluent and approachable as Sergei Prokofiev’s third piano concerto would have caused the composer any trouble, but the piece took a decade to reach its final form. While still a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev had the idea of composing a virtuoso piano concerto; making little headway, he scrapped it, saving only a passage of parallel ascending chords that ultimately found their home at the end of the first movement. The theme of the second movement came along in 1913,

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two themes for the first movement arose in 1916 and 1917, and finally the work was complete in 1921 when Prokofiev wrote in bits from a discarded string quartet.

The variations in the second movement demonstrate Prokofiev at his best.

Wry humor, sentimentality, and demanding piano passages all blend and balance. The theme is almost hummable, but just rhythmically wayward and melodically unpredictable enough to remain interesting.

The outer movements—especially the first—more obviously exploit the motor rhythms associated with Prokofiev, though they have more to show than manual dexterity. Prokofiev is particularly clever in maintaining the balance between lyricism and brilliance, alternating the two like a skilled juggler.

The DSO most recently performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in December 2014, conducted by Andrey Boreyko and featuring pianist Behzod Abduraimov. The DSO first performed the piece in December 1953, conducted

by Paul Paray and featuring pianist Gary Graffman.

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Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1889 revised version) Composed 1872-73; Revised 1876-77, 1889 | Premiered 1877

ANTON BRUCKNER B. September 4, 1824, Ansfelden, Austria D. October 11, 1896, Vienna, Austria

Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, and strings. (Approx.

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nton Bruckner is one of the most singular and important symphony composers in the last half of the 19th century, but during his lifetime his work was rarely understood. A Bruckner symphony is a truly unique thing, characterized by unusual concepts of orchestral color and radical harmonies; partially because Bruckner trained as an organist, he was never shy about incorporating striking contrasts and huge blocks of sound. Many scholars posit that he amalgamates the styles of two different composers from opposite different ends of the 19th century: Beethoven and Wagner.

The present symphony, Bruckner’s third, is commonly known as the “Wagner Symphony,” since Bruckner and Wagner met to discuss the work in Bayreuth, and Bruckner directly quoted passages from several Wagner operas.

But the symphony’s 1877 premiere was a disaster, causing Bruckner to revise the music dramatically and remove the Wagnerian passages.

Of all the Bruckner symphonies, the third is the one plagued by the most editorial problems, and musicologist Deryck Cooke has made a list of no less than nine alternative scores. One of

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Bruckner’s former pupils, the conductor Franz Schalk, made some revisions to the score in secret, hoping that Bruckner would not notice them. Many critics later criticized Schalk for making alterations to the original versions of several of Bruckner’s symphonies without his approval, while others credit him for popularizing the works which might otherwise have remained unknown.

Whatever the case, the third symphony can be regarded as Bruckner’s artistic breakthrough in which his real and complete expression comes through for the first time.

The DSO has previously performed Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 once, in January 1974, conducted by Aldo Ceccato.

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Profiles KENT NAGANO Kent Nagano is a renowned conductor who currently serves as music director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM), general music director of the Staatsoper Hamburg, chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, and principal guest conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Nagano has conducted most of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and many others. A milestone of his work with OSM is the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall, La Maison Symphonique, in September 2011. Other highlights with the orchestra include the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, concert versions of several Wagner operas, and concert series featuring the works of Dutilleux and Boulez. Nagano has led OSM on tours of Canada, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and the United States, most recently in spring 2016.

Nagano became the first music director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003. His work in other opera houses has included Shostakovich’s The Nose (Staatsoper Berlin), Rimsky Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (Châtelet, Paris), Hindemith’s Cardillac (Opéra national de Paris), and other highlights; he has proudly conducted the world premieres of Saariaho’s L’amour de loin, Bernstein’s A White House Cantata, Peter Eötvös’s 24

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Three Sisters, and John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño.

Born in California, Nagano maintains close connections with his home state and was music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1978-2008.

His early professional years were spent in Boston, working in the opera house and as assistant conductor to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He played a key role in the world premiere of Messiaen’s opera Saint François d’Assise at the request of the composer, who became a mentor and bequeathed his piano to Nagano. In May 2018, Nagano was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from San Francisco State University.  These performances mark

Kent Nagano’s DSO debut

BEATRICE RANA At only 26 years old, Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is making waves on the international classical music scene. She performs regularly at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals, including Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Ferrara Musica, Verbier Festival, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, and Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center.

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in 2015 she was named a BBC New Generation Artist, and in 2016 she was awarded a fellowship from the BorlettiBuitoni Trust. She has collaborated with many eminent conductors and symphony orchestras, including Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Yannick NézetSéguin, Fabio Luisi, Jun Märkl, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Tonkünstler Orchester, and others.

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most recent recording features Bach’s Goldberg Variations, released in 2017 on Warner Classics. Her discography also includes music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Ravel, Bartók, Chopin, and Scriabin.

Rana began her piano studies at age four and made her orchestral debut at age nine. She studied at the Nino Rota Conservatory with Benedetto Lupo and Marco della Sciucca and at the Hochschule fur Musik with Are Vardi.  Beatrice Rana has previously

appeared with the DSO once, in January 2015, performing Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (cond. Jun Märkl)

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CLASSICAL SERIES BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO.4

Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 31, 2019 at 10:45 a.m.

Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall SIMONE YOUNG, conductor KARL PITUCH, horn JOHANNA YARBROUGH, horn Anton Webern Passacaglia, Op. 1 (1883 - 1945)

Franz Joseph Haydn Concerto for Two Horns in E-flat major

(1732 - 1809) Karl Pituch, horn Johanna Yarbrough, horn Intermission

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

(1833 - 1897) I. Allegro non troppo II. Andante moderato III. Allegro giocoso IV. Allegro energico e passionato

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Program Notes Profiles P R O G R A M AT- A - G L A N C E Passing the Passacaglia The passacaglia is a 500-year old musical form that originated in Spain and is still used frequently by composers today. The passacaglia is often serious, in slow triple time, and host to variations over a ground bass.

This program begins with Viennese composer Anton Webern’s first published work, an intriguing 20th century take on the passacaglia hinting at modern atonality…

Passacaglia, Op. 1 Composed 1908 | Premiered 1908

ANTON WEBERN B. December 2, 1883, Vienna, Austria D. September 15, 1945, Mittersill, Austria

Scored for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. (Approx. 11 minutes)

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lthough Anton Webern composed several works during the very early years of the 20th century, his Passacaglia for large orchestra was the first one he allowed to be published. It was composed in 1908, the same year he completed his compositional studies with Arnold Schoenberg.

As a musical form, the passacaglia has had a long and varied history that has been traced back to the early 17th century in Spain. Webern’s Passacaglia takes its cue from Bach’s great C minor Passacaglia for Organ and other similar works, especially by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries in Germany and

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…and ends with the famous passacaglia that concludes Brahms’ final symphony, one of the melancholiest passages in western music.

England. Essentially, the passacaglia is a set of variations built upon a skeletal theme stated as a low-lying melody line.

As the theme is repeated over and over, other musical lines are laid over it and the melody becomes a series of links in a chain of variations that are woven into the fabric of an elaborate and powerful musical structure.

Like his colleagues Schoenberg and Alban Berg in the so-called Second Viennese School of composers, Webern composed the Passacaglia at a heady time when his musical style was delicately balanced between a tonal and an atonal style. The piece is written with a definite tonality or key center in mind, but it is heavily decorated with chromatic tones that color the key center with the whole spectrum of tonal possibilities. While the large orchestra Webern employs echoes the opulent orchestral style of the post-Romantic composers, this early Passacaglia already shows the terse musical style that Webern distilled into the brief, highly compressed works as he matured.

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conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. The DSO first performed the piece in April 1976, conducted by Max Rudolf.

Concerto for Two Horns in E-flat Major Composition and premiere dates unknown

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDEN B. March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria D. May 31, 1809, Vienna, Austria

Scored for 2 solo horns, 2 oboes, and strings.

(Approx. 20 minutes)

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ecause Franz Joseph Haydn’s brother Michael was also a composer, and because the inscription “Sig. Haydn” appears on many manuscripts in the late 18th century, scholars have scratched their heads for years over which Haydn brother should be credited with various works. One of these is the present Concerto for Two Horns. We know for sure that Franz Joseph wrote one double horn concerto in E-flat, but we also know for sure that its manuscript has been lost. A second double horn concerto in E-flat—this one—survived, but questions linger about whether it truly belongs to Franz Joseph.

Some even attribute it to Antonio Rosetti and accuse him of scribbling “Haydn” on the score in order to make it more appealing to potential publishers.

Nevertheless, it is an exciting and virtuosic work for both soloists, and a meaningful relic of a period when horn music was very popular. The orchestral horn has its roots in hunting horns, which were originally used to signal calls during an actual hunt; later, kings and noblemen would ask their horn players to reprise the calls at dinnertime to recreate the spirit of the day

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indoors. Eventually the horn found its way onto the concert stage and underwent significant technical upgrades—the twisted, elegant horns of today’s orchestra are marvels compared to their bare-bones ancestors of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The concerto’s first movement begins with a hunting call motive and unfolds conversationally, with the orchestra— especially the violins—bouncing energetic passages off the soloists and vice versa. The second movement consists of two themes that are separated by lush and introspective episodes. The third movement, a typical rondo, is dance-like and punctuated by hunting-style melodies from the horns; the music becomes more elaborate as it approaches a flashy 13-measure coda.

These performances of Haydn’s Concerto for Two Horns will be DSO premieres.

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Composed 1884-85 | Premiered October 1885

JOHANNES BRAHMS B. May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany D. April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria

Scored for 2 flutes (1 doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, and strings. (Approx. 40 minutes)

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ohannes Brahms packs a lot of musical discourse into the four movements of his final symphony. Celebrated for its careful complexity and somber tone, the fourth is the symphony most similar to Brahms himself: logical, serious, and fundamentally musical.

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The first movement is concise, unfolding with a series of two-note units full of Brahmsian nostalgia (the composer revered the classical style of Mozart and Haydn). The second movement looks even further back in time, however, all the way to the Renaissance—the music of which was enjoying a renaissance of its own during Brahms’ lifetime. The composer’s love of these historic sounds is on display in the themes laid out by the cellos and horns, and the lyricism of the entire movement is exquisite.

Brahms’ lighthearted side appears in the third movement, the composer’s first true symphonic scherzo. The lively, lusty Allegro giocoso bounces along with quick rhythms and playful jangling on the triangle—a break from the symphony’s overall sobriety. But the final movement returns to the nostalgic ideas postulated in the first two, tackling the archaic chaconne form of the Baroque era. Brahms has no problem stuffing (and even overstuffing) the sparse chaconne framework with elaborate themes, however; he gradually weaves in 34 variations that build one of the most sublime movements in German music. Some stretches are proud and majestic, others wispy or crystalline. They steadily build in intensity and lead to a monumental finale underlined by the minor-key final cadence.

The DSO most recently performed Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 on the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series in June 2018, conducted by Christoph König. The DSO first performed the piece in January 1922, conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

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Profiles SIMONE YOUNG Simone Young is an Australian conductor known for her keen musicianship on the opera and concert stages, and she is widely recognized as Strauss and Wagner specialist. She served as artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera and music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra from 2005 to 2015; recently, she stepped in on short notice at the New York Philharmonic to conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.

Young has appeared with virtually every Australian orchestra and many prestigious orchestras around the world, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra, and others. She has led opera performances with the Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Opéra National de Paris, and Metropolitan Opera.

Young can be heard on several recordings, mostly on Oehms Classics.

Highlights include Mathis der Mahler and Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Hamburg State Opera, the complete Brahms and Bruckner symphonies with

the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, La Juive with Wiener Staatsoper (on DVD), and Palestrina with Bayerische Staatsoper.

Young has received numerous awards and honors, including honorary doctorates at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. She is a Member of the Order of Australia, a Chevalier of Arts in France, and recipient of the Goethe Medal. She currently serves as a professor at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg.  These performances mark Simone

Young’s DSO debut

KARL PITUCH Principal Horn Karl Pituch was named Principal Horn of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2000.

Before joining the DSO, Pituch was Associate Principal Horn with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Principal Horn with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.

Pituch can be heard on many recordings with the Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Honolulu symphony

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Johanna Yarbrough joined the DSO horn section in 2012. She recently graduated from the Colburn Conservatory of Music with a professional studies certificate, where her principal teachers were David Krehbiel and Andrew Bain. She studied with Charles Snead at the University of Alabama, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2012.

She also studied with Frøydis Ree Wekre while attending the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo, Norway. She holds the first prize of the 2009 University Division of the International Horn Competition of America.

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Pituch was the grand prize winner at the 1989 American Solo Horn Competition. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras in Japan, Hawaii, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and Michigan. He has been a frequent guest artist at numerous horn conferences and serves as a board member and judge at the International Horn Competition of America. Pituch earned his degree from the University of Toledo, where he studied with Mary Kihslinger. He is also a student of Froydis Wekre and Dale Clevenger.

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Profiles DAMON GUPTON Damon Gupton is an acclaimed conductor and Detroit native. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Music and studied conducting with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival, as well as Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, DC. Gupton is a regular host of the DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall: Classroom Edition webcast series and has held fellowship and artistic leadership positions with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Monte Carlo Philharmonic,

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NHK Orchestra, and Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM. Also an accomplished actor, Gupton graduated from the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. He appeared in the Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Clybourne Park, for which he received an Audelco Awards nomination. His TV appearances include Black Lightning, Dirty John, Criminal Minds, Bates Motel, The Player, Suits, The Newsroom, and more; his film credits include Whiplash, La La Land, This is 40, and Unfaithful.

TERENCE BLANCHARD Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and educator Terence Blanchard has served as the DSO’s Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb. Jazz Creative Chair since 2012.

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recorded with many of jazz’s superstars and currently leads the celebrated E-Collective. He is also well-known 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; 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.

A New Orleans native, Blanchard was childhood friends with Wynton Marsalis and studied jazz at Rutgers University.

He was invited to play with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra in 1982 and later joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He debuted his first solo recording in 1991 and has released more than a dozen acclaimed albums since; he has appeared as a collaborator or sideman on a dozen more. His latest, with the E-Collective, is Live, released on Blue Note in April 2018.

Blanchard has held artistic leadership positions at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Monterey Jazz Festival, Berklee College of Music, and the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami.

QUIANA LYNELL Quiana Lynell is a Texas-born musician who mixes her classical training, gospel upbringing, and jazz expertise to create a sound wholly her own. In addition to performing as a vocalist, she is an 34

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accomplished arranger, songwriter, and bandleader. She currently teaches music at a primary school and runs the clinic series “Made in America: Lyrically Speaking,” in which she delves into jazz, blues, and traditional American music from a vocalist’s perspective.

Lynell studied music at Louisiana State University and is a protégé of Terence Blanchard. She has shared the stage with Herlin Riley, Roderick Paulin, Don Vappie, Mitchell Player, the Baton Rouge Symphony, and countless others.

She has also performed at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Lynell’s debut solo recording A Little Love was released on Concord Jazz on April 5, 2019.

LEDISI Ledisi is a 12-time Grammynominated singer and accomplished actress. She has headlined two national sold-out tours and appeared alongside Richie Sambora, Dave Matthews, Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks, Jill Scott, Maxwell, and many more. A favorite of Barack and Michelle Obama, she has performed at the White House eight times; she has also performed on hit TV shows like Good Morning America and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Her most recent recording, Let Love Rule, was released on Verve in 2017 and earned three Grammy nominations.

As an actress, Ledisi has appeared in Selma, Leave It on the Floor, and Leatherheads. Her music has also been featured in For Colored Girls and Meet the Browns.

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Upcoming shows in The Cube

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DETROIT-CHICAGO LATIN JAZZ EXPERIENCE Fri., May 24, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Come experience an evening of fiery Latin Jazz performed by Aguanko, the Wesley Reynoso AfroLatin Ensemble, and special guest CALJE: The Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble.

MAKOTO OZONE TRIO Wed., Jun. 5, 2019 at 7 p.m.

Japanese pianist Makoto Ozone is a unique force in both jazz and classical music, blending sound worlds and a host of influences into his performances. Ozone will be joined by drummer Clarence Penn and bassist Yasushi Nakamura.

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THE ANNUAL FUND

Gifts received between September 1, 2017 and March 31, 2019 Being a community-supported orchestra means 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 to make a donation, please contact 313.576.5114 or go to dso.org/donate.

Paray Society — Giving of $250,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Penny & Harold Blumenstein Julie & Peter Cummings 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 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo James & Patricia Anderson Applebaum Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Emory M. Ford, Jr.◊ Endowment

Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Martie & Bob Sachs Cindy & Leonard◊ Slatkin Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden

Ehrling Society — Giving of $50,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Madeline & Sidney Forbes Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Mrs. Bonnie Larson Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Lester

David & Valerie McCammon Ms. Deborah Miesel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller The Clyde & Helen Wu Family Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Paul & Terese Zlotoff

Järvi Society — Giving of $25,000 and more Ms. Sharon Backstrom W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Mrs. Cecilia Benner Mrs. Kathryn L. Fife Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Ronald M. & Carol◊ Horwitz Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Bud & Nancy Liebler 38

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Dr. William F. Pickard Maurcine & Lloyd Reuss Nancy Schlichting Mr. & Mrs.◊ Alan E. Schwartz Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Mr. James G. Vella And one who wishes to remain anonymous

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Gabrilowitsch Society — Giving of $10,000 and more Janet and Norm Ankers, chairs

Giving of $10,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Pamela Applebaum Drs. John & Janice Bernick Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Bluestein John & Marlene Boll Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Brownell Michael & Geraldine Buckles Michael & Cathleen Clancy Lois & Avern Cohn Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Mr. Peter Falzon Jim & Margo Farber Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Mr. Michael J. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Dale & Bruce Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. Byron◊ & Dorothy Gerson Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Mrs. Gale Girolami Dr. Kenneth & Roslyne Gitlin Dr. Robert T. Goldman Allen C. Goodman & Janet R. Hankin

Dr. Herman & Mrs. Shirley Gray Judy & Kenneth Hale Charlene Handleman Ms. Nancy B. Henk Dr. Gloria Heppner Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley Jack◊ & Anne Hommes Renato & Elizabeth Jamett William & Story John Lenard & Connie Johnston Faye & Austin Kanter Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Katz Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Kaufman Mike & Katy Keegan Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Marguerite & David Lentz Dr. Melvin A. Lester Mr. & Mrs.◊ Joseph Lile The Locniskar Group Stevens McClure Family Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Dr. Robert & Dr. Mary Mobley Cyril Moscow Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr.

Mrs. Denise Abrash Ms. Dorothy Adair Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mrs. Jean Azar Dr. David Balle Mr. & Mrs. David Barnes Mike & Pat Biber Rud+ & Mary Ellen Boucher Claire P. & Robert N. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Marco Bruzzano Philip & Carol Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mr. James Schwyn & Mrs. Françoise Colpron Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Adel & Walter Dissett Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Marianne T. Endicott Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Ms. Carol A. Friend Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Goodman Family Charitable Trust

Mr.+ & Mrs. James A. Green Mr. Jeffrey Groehn Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Mr. Lee V. Hart & Mr. Charles L. Dunlap Ms. Doreen Hermelin Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen TalbertHill Mr. Donald & Marcia Hiruo Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Julius & Cynthia Huebner Foundation Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Igleheart Ms. Carole Ilitch Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup Mr. George G. Johnson Judy & David Karp Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Samantha Svoboda & Bill Kishler Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kulish John & Marilyn Kunz Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrien-Landes Mr. Daniel Lewis Bob & Terri Lutz Patricia A.+ & Patrick G. McKeever John & Marcia Miller

David Robert & Sylvia Jean Nelson Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson Patricia & Henry Nickol Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Mr. Charles Peters Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Dr. Glenda D. Price Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Ms. Ruth Rattner Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Peggy & Dr. Mark B. Saffer Elaine & Michael Serling Lois & Mark Shaevsky Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman William H. Smith John J. Solecki Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Mr. Gary Torgow Mr. William Waak Mr. Gary L. Wasserman & Mr. Charlie Kashner Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Williams Ms. Mary Wilson Drs. David & Bernadine Wu And two who wish to remain anonymous

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Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Joy & Allan Nachman Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nemeth Mr. & Mrs. David E. Nims William & Carol O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Debra & Richard Partrich Ms. Lisa A. Payne Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Penske Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Barbara Gage Rex Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Mr. R. Desmond Rowan Marjorie & Saul Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Mrs. Sharon Shumaker Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Alice & Paul Tomboulian Ms. Marie Vanerian Mrs. Eva Von Voss S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Ms. June Wu Erwin & Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation Milton Y. Zussman And one who wishes to remain anonymous DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 39

Giving of $2,500 and more Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Mr. & Mrs. George Agnello Dr. Roger & Mrs. Rosette Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Aviv Mr. & Mrs. John Axe Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Babbish Ms. Ruth Baidas Nora & Guy Barron Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Dr. & Mrs. Brian J. Beck Ms. Margaret Beck Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Martha & G. Peter Blom Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth Mr. Timothy Bogan Ms. Nadia Boreiko The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Don & Marilyn Bowerman Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald F. Buck Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Dr. Lynne F. Carter & Mr. Terrance Carter Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Mr. Fred J. Chynchuk Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Julius V. Combs Ms. Elizabeth Correa Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Louis Cotman Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Fund Maureen & Jerry D’Avanzo Barbara A. David 40

Lillian & Walter Dean Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Diana & Mark Domin Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Douglas Paul ◊ & Peggy Dufault Mr. Roger Dye and Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Randall & Jill* Elder Ms. Laurie Ellis & Mr. James Murphy Donald & Marjory Epstein Mr. Drew Esslinger & Mr. Chris Syzmanski Dave & Sandy Eyl Ellie Farber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. & Mrs.◊ Anthony C. Fielek Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch Ron Fischer◊ and Kyoko Kashiwagi Mark & Loree Frank Kit & Dan Frohardt-Lane Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Stephanie Germack Ms. Jody Glancy Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Paul & Barbara Goodman Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Randall L. & Nancy Caine Harbour Tina Harmon Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Cheryl A. Harvey Randall* & Kim Minasian Hawes Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Jeremiah* & Brooke Hess James Hoogstra & Clark Heath Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. F. Robert Hozian Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Marshall L. Hutchinson Ms. Elizabeth Ingraham Nicki* & Brian Inman Sarah & Steven Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Janovsky Mr. John S. Johns Paul & Marietta Joliat Mr. & Mrs. John Jullens Grace Kachaturof Diane & John Kaplan Betsy & Joel Kellman June K. Kendall Frederic & Stephanie Keywell Mrs. Frances King Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kingsley Mr. James Kirby

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Thomas & Linda Klein Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Mr. & Mrs. Robert Koffron Ms. Margot Kohler Mr. David Kolodziej Ms. Susan Konop Mr. James Kors & Ms. Victoria King* Dr. Harry & Katherine Kotsis Robert C. & Margaret A. Kotz George M. Krappmann* & Lynda Burbary-Krappmann Barbara & Michael Kratchman Richard & Sally Krugel Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dr. Lawrence O. Larson The Dolores & Paul Lavins Foundation Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph LeRoy, Jr. Barbara & Carl Levin Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Arlene & John Lewis Ms. Carol Litka Daniel & Linda* Lutz Mrs. Sandra MacLeod Cis Maisel Margaret Makulski & James Bannan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Manke, Jr. Mervyn & Elaine Manning Mr. Anthony Marek Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mark Maurice Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Richard Martella Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. Anthony R. McCree Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Mr. John McFadden Ms. Mary McGough Ms. Camille McLeod Brian & Lisa Meer Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Meier Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson Olga Sutaruk Meyer Bruce & Mary Miller J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Moore Lawrence Morawski Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mr. Frederick Morsches & Mr. Kareem George Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Edward & Judith Narens Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Katherine & Bruce Nyberg Dr. & Mrs. Dongwhan Oh SPRING 2019

Lila & Randall Pappal Mrs. Margot Parker Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Noel & Patricia Peterson Kris & Ruth Pfaehler Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Mr. Dave Phipps Dr. Klaudia Plawny-Lebenbom William H. & Wendy W. Powers Reimer & Rebecca Priester Charlene & Michael Prysak Mr. & Mrs. Nicolas I. Quintana Dr. & Mrs. Morton Raban Jill M.* & Michael J. Rafferty Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rappleye Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Drs. Yaddanapudi Ravindranath & Kanta Bhambhani Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Denise Reske Ms. Linda Rodney Seth & Laura Romine Michael & Susan Rontal Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. Ronald Ross & Ms. Alice Brody Jane & Curt Russell Mr. & Mrs. James Ryan Linda & Leonard Sahn Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury

Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer Dr. Sandy Koltonow & Dr. Mary Schlaff David & Carol Schoch Catherine & Dennis B. Schultz Sandy & Alan Schwartz Nancy & Sam Shamie Shapero Foundation Ms. Margo Shulman Zon Shumway Dr. Les & Ellen Lesser Siegel Mr. Norman Silk & Mr. Dale Morgan William & Cherie Sirois Dr. Cathryn & Mr. Daniel Skedel Mr. Michael J. Smith & Mrs. Mary C. Williams Dr. Gregory Stephens Barb & Clint Stimpson Nancy C. Stocking Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Stollman Mrs. E. Ray Stricker Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Ms. Laurie Szczesny David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dr. Neil Talon Ms. Dorothy Tarpinian Joel & Shelley Tauber Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. & Mrs. Douglas J. Thompson Mr. Norman Thorpe

Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Carol & Larry Tibbitts Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tierney Dr. Barry Tigay Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tobias Barbara & Stuart Trager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Mark & Janice Uhlig Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Charles & Sally Van Dusen Dr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Wadle Captain Joseph F. Walsh, USN (Ret.) Mr. Michael A. Walch & Ms. Joyce Keller Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan T. Walton Mr. Patrick Webster Mr. Herman Weinreich Lawrence & Idell Weisberg Janis & William Wetsman/The Wetsman Foundation Ms. Anne Wilczak Beverly & Barry Williams Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Mr. Mark Wojtas Mr. Jonathan Wolman & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Margaret S. York Mr. & Mrs. Alan Zekelman And five who wish to remain anonymous

Giving of $1,500 and more Mr. Terence E. Adderley Joshua & Judith Adler Dr. & Mrs. Gary S. Assarian Dr. & Dr. Brian Bachynski Mrs. Mary Beattie ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Bromberg Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burstein Mr. & Mrs. Brian Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. James Ciroli Mr. Don Claphman Ms. Beatrice D’Ambrosio Dr. Edward Mrs. Jamie Dabrowski Mrs. Kathryne Dahl Ms. Joyce Delamarter Gordon & Elaine Didier Mr. Howard O. Emorey Mrs. Janice Erichsen Mr. William Fetterman Mr. George Georges Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Ruth & Al◊ Glancy Ms. Sandra Seligman Anne & Eugene Greenstein Leslie Groves* Mr. Donald Guertin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harding Ms. Barbara Heiler

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Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hillegonds Ms. Nadine Jakobowski Mr. Arthur Johns Carol & Rick Johnston Dr. Jean Kegler Ms. Ida King Aileen & Harvey Kleiman Tom & Beverly Klimko Mr. & Mrs. Victor Kochajda/Teal Electric Co. Ms. Sylvia Kojima Miss Kathryn Korns Mr. & Mrs. Kosch Mr. Michael Kuhne Mr. Lawrence Larson Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. William Lynch Ms. June G Mackeil Mr. Robert L. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mazzeo Ms. Florence Morris Mr. & Mrs. Germano Mularoni Mrs. Ruth Nix Mrs. Janet Pounds Mr. Ronald Puchalski Drs. Renato & Daisy Ramos Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rappleye Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rapson Mrs. Hope Raymond Mr. & Mrs. John Rieckhoff

*Current DSO Musician or Staff

Mr. Paul Robertson & Mrs. Cheryl Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Rose Mr. James Rose Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Nancy J. Salden Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Janet Schenk Dr. Richard Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Mr. Steve Secrest Robert A. Sedler Cynthia Shaw & Tom Kirvan Mr. Lawrence Shoffner Ms. Claudia Sills Mr. Mark Sims & Ms. Elaine Fieldman Dr. & Mrs. Choichi Sugawa Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tholen David & Lila Tirsell Dennis and Jennifer Varian Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Verhelle Peter & Carol Walters Mr. Barry Webster Ms. Beverly Weidendorf Ms. Janet Weir Rudolf E. Wilhelm Fund And four who wish to remain anonymous

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CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION GIVING Giving of $500,000 & more SAMUEL & JEAN FRANKEL FOUNDATION

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Giving of $50,000 & more Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation League of American Orchestras Edward C. & Linda Dresner Levy Foundation Lear Corporation Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation Wico Metal Products Matilda R. Wilson Fund

Giving of $20,000 & more American House Senior Living Communities Beaumont Health Chemical Bank Clinton Family Fund DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Flagstar Foundation Greektown Casino-Hotel

Henry Ford II Fund Macy’s MGM Grand Detroit National Endowment for the Arts Rock Ventures, LLC Varnum LLP Wolverine Packing Company

Giving of $10,000 & more

Giving of $1,000 & more

Amerisure Insurance Denso International America, Inc. Edibles Rex Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss KPMG LLP Myron P. Leven Foundation Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Milner Hotels Foundation Raymond James Stone Foundation of Michigan Suburban Collection Wells Fargo Advisors

Canon Solutions America Coffee Express Roasting Company Darling Bolt Company Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Dickinson Wright LLP Frank & Gertrude Dunlap Foundation EY HEM Data Corporation Clarence & Jack Himmel Fund James & Lynelle Holden Fund Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation Josephine Kleiner Foundation Lakeside Opthamology Center Ludwig Foundation Fund Madison Electric Company Michigan First Credit Union Plante & Moran, PLLC PSLZ, LLP Meyer & Anna Prentis Family Foundation Redford Lock Security Solutions The Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation Save Our Symphony Schwartz Family Foundation Louis & Nellie Sieg Foundation Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Wheeler Family Foundation, Inc. Young Woman’s Home Association And one who wishes to remain anonymous

Giving of $5,000 & more The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. Aptiv Foundation The Boston Consulting Group Creative Benefit Solutions, LLC Benson & Edith Ford Fund Grant Thornton LLP Les Stanford Cadillac Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation Michigan Ear Institute Resendes Design Group, LLC Rocket Fiber Sigmund & Sophie Rohlik Foundation Schaerer Architextural Interiors Mary Thompson Foundation Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

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

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.

As a member, you will be invited to our annual 1887 Society Tea, recognized in Performance magazine, and receive a host of other benefits.

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 Mary Beattie ◊ Stanley A. Beattie Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman◊ Mrs. Betty Blair Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mrs. Ellen Brownfain William & Julia Bugera Cynthia Cassell, Ph. D. Dr.◊ & Mrs. Victor J. Cervenak Eleanor A. Christie Ms. Mary Christner Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock◊ Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Dorothy M. Craig Mr. & Mrs. John Cruikshank Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. John Diebel Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Eidson Marianne T. Endicott Mrs. Rema Frankel◊ Patricia Finnegan Sharf Ms. Dorothy Fisher Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher◊ Samuel & Laura Fogleman Mr. Emory Ford, Jr.◊ Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Barbara Frankel & Ron Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Jane French Mark and Donna Frentrup Janet M. Garrett Dr. Byron P. & Marilyn Georgeson Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Victor◊ & Gale Girolami Ruth & Al Glancy◊ David & Paulette Groen Mr. Harry G. Bowles ◊ Donna & Eugene Hartwig Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein

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Ms. Nancy B. Henk Joseph L. Hickey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Hitchman Andy Howell Carol Howell Paul M. Huxley & Cynthia Pasky David & Sheri Jaffa Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Jeffs II Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Ms. Carol Johnston Carol M. 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 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 Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein Helen & Wesley Pelling◊ Dr. William F. Pickard ◊

Deceased

Mrs. Bernard E. Pincus Ms. Christina Pitts Mrs. Robert Plummer Mr. & Mrs. P. T. Ponta Mrs. Mary Carol Prokop ◊ Ms. Linda Rankin & Mr. Daniel Graschuck Mr. & Mrs. Douglas J. Rasmussen Deborah J. Remer Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Barbara Gage Rex Ms. Marianne Reye Lori-Ann Rickard Katherine D. Rines Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Ms. Barbara Robins Jack◊ & Aviva Robinson Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Dr. Margaret Ryan Marjorie & Saul Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Janet Schenk Ms. Yvonne Schilla Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest◊ Ms. Marla K. Shelton Edna J. Shin Ms. June Siebert Dr. Melissa J. Smiley & Dr. Patricia A. Wren Ms. Marilyn Snodgrass ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Walter Stuecken Mr.◊ & Mrs. Alexander C. Suczek David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. David Patria & Ms. Barbara Underwood Roger & Tina Valade 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 S. 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 Five who wish to remain anonymous DSO PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE 45

CLASSICAL 2019-2020 SEASON • 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ORCHESTRA HALL

YOUR DSO JOINED BY THE WORLD’S BEST ARTISTS

Joshua Bell CLASSICAL SERIES GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY

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Alisa Weilerstein

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TRIBUTE GIFTS Gifts received February 1, 2019 to March 31, 2019 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 of Alex Kinmonth Grant Anderson In Memory of Alfred Glancy III Anne Parsons and Donald Dietz Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer and Weiss Marcia Applebaum George and Mary Ann Zinn Pamela Applebaum Ralph and Erica Gerson Suzanne Mueller Richard Platt In Memory of Aunt Katherine Susan Wainwright In Honor of Dr. Bonnie Witkin Stuart Steven and Allison Kaplan

In Memory of Carolyn Barnett Goldstein Barbara Borden In Honor of Charles Schulman, DO David Schulman

In Honor of James B. Nicholson Judy and Stanley Frankel Charlene Handleman David and Sylvia Nelson Malke and Gary Torgow Trudy and Arthur Weiss

In Honor of Dr. Glenda Price Anne Doyle

In Memory of Lowell Everson Donna Corcel

In Memory of Jack Manko Barbara J. Asmus Betty Jean Lovegrove Brian Binder Caryl Litzenberger David and Darcia Bingle Douglas and Karen Inglis Ralph and Deborah Castelli Sally Langlois Sheila Connolly Sunni Langlois Tony Milano

In Honor of Nancy Dunn Kaylyn Wingo In Memory of Nicolas Kondak Shiela R. Batch In Honor of Robert Harris Susan Mazer-Smith

DID YOU KNOW? You can experience the DSO online, on TV, and on the radio!

The Live from Orchestra Hall webcast series presents live Classical Series concerts for free at dso.org/live and on the DSO Facebook page. Tune in online next time you can’t make it to Orchestra Hall!

Plus, Michigan Comcast subscribers can watch select Classical Series concerts live on Xfinity Channel 900. And WRCJ-FM broadcasts select Friday morning Coffee Concerts on the radio!

Visit dso.org/broadcasts for more information.

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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.

Parking

Self-parking is available for $10 at the Orchestra Place Parking Structure (81 Parsons Street), with designated handicap spaces available on the ground level. Valet parking is available for $14 at most concerts. Complimentary donor valet is offered to donors who give $7,500 annually, with drop-off and pick-up located at the stage door behind The Max. The DSO offers shuttle bus service to Coffee Concerts from select locations for $15. Please call 313.576.5130 for more information.

What Should I Wear?

The DSO has no dress code. Patrons can expect to see a variety of outfit styles, and all visitors are encouraged to wear what makes them most comfortable. While business professional and business casual attire are common, jeans and sneakers are as appropriate as suits and ties.

Food and Drink

Food and beverages are available for purchase at most performances, either from stations throughout the William Davidson Atrium or at the Paradise Lounge. A full-service restaurant offering gourmet meals prepared by Executive Chef Chris Skillingstad, the Paradise Lounge is located on the second floor of The Max and open prior to most Orchestra Hall concerts. For more information, or to make a reservation, please call 313.576.5488 or email paradiselounge@dso.org.

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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

seats at all performances except Friday morning Coffee Concerts, and drink orders may be placed before or during a performance to be picked up at intermission. Food is not allowed in Orchestra Hall.

Please note that outside food and beverages are prohibited.

Shop @ The Max

The Shop @ The Max retail store is located on the first floor of The Max, just outside of the William Davidson Atrium in the hallway opposite the main staircase. Shop @ The Max is open before, during, and after most performances.

Handicap Access and Hearing Assistance

The Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center is fully handicap-accessible, and the DSO aims to accommodate all patrons regardless of abilities or needs. There are elevators, barrier-free restrooms, and accessible seating in all areas of The Max. Security personnel 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. Patrons may visit the Patron Services Center on the second floor to check out a mobile device and earbuds, or to seek assistance in downloading the Sennheiser MobileConnect app on their own device. The system is made possible by the Michigan Ear Institute.

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POLICIES SEATING The DSO makes every attempt to begin The Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center 3711 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48201 Box Office:................................................313.576.5111 Group Sales:............................................ 313.576.5130 Administrative Offices:.......................... 313.576.5100 Facilities Rental Information:...............313.576.5050 Visit the DSO online at dso.org For general inquiries, please email info@dso.org

Priority Service for Our Members

We are proud to offer priority assistance to all DSO Subscribers, as well as donors who give $1,000 annually. Visit the Patron Services Center on the second floor of The Max for help with tickets, exchanges, donations, or any other DSO needs.

The Herman and Sharon Frankel Donor Lounge

Governing Members who give $3,000 annually can enjoy complimentary beverages, appetizers, and desserts in the Donor Lounge, open 90 minutes prior to each concert through the end of intermission. For more information on becoming a Governing Member, contact Leslie Groves at 313.576.5451 or lgroves@dso.org.

Gift Certificates

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

Rent The Max

Elegant and versatile, The Max is an ideal setting for a variety of events and performances: weddings, corporate gatherings, meetings, concerts, and more. Visit dso.org/rent or call 313.576.5065 for more information.

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concerts on time. In deference to the comfort and listening pleasure of the audience, latecomers will be seated at an appropriate pause in the music at the discretion of the house staff. Patrons who leave the hall before or during a piece will be reseated after the piece is completed. Latecomers may watch the performance on closed circuit television in the William Davidson Atrium.

TICKETS, EXCHANGES, AND CONCERT CANCELLATIONS All patrons, regardless of age,

must have a ticket to attend DSO performances. All sales are final and non-refundable. In lieu of refunds, the DSO offers a flexible exchange and ticket donation policy.

Tickets of equal or lesser value may be exchanged up to the day before the performance without fees. Patrons must pay the per-ticket difference if exchanging into a more expensive performance. Please contact the Box Office to exchange or donate tickets.

The DSO rarely cancels concerts. In the event of inclement weather or other emergencies, please visit dso.org, contact the Box Office, or check the DSO’s social media pages for updates and information. Patrons will be notified of exchange options. The DSO is unable to offer refunds for cancelled concerts.

CHILDREN Educational Concert Series, Young

People’s Family Concerts, and Tiny Tots performances are specially designed for children and families.

While the DSO does not enforce a universal age limit, please review program details to determine whether a performance is appropriate for children. All patrons must have a paid ticket regardless of age. Any person causing a disturbance to surrounding audience members will be asked to leave the performance area by an usher.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND RECORDING Photography

can be distracting to musicians and audience members, so 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.

MOBILE DEVICES Use of smartphones and other

electronic devices can be distracting to musicians and audience members. You may be asked by an usher to store your device.

SMOKING Smoking, including the use of e-cigarettes

and personal vaporizers, is prohibited throughout The Max. Patrons who wish to smoke must do so outside the building. Smoking is permitted on the second-floor outdoor patio near the Patron Services Center.

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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 Rรถnmark Vice President and General Manager Joy Crawford Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Elaine Curvin Executive Assistant to the Vice President and CDO

Patrick Peterson Manager of Orchestra Personnel Dennis Rottell Stage Manager

Caen Thomason-Redus Senior Director of Community & Learning

ADVANCEMENT

Kiersten Alcorn Community Engagement Coordinator

Jill Rafferty Senior Director of Advancement Alex Kapordelis Campaign Director Jenni Clark Fundraising Events Specialist Joey Edmonds Campaign Research Specialist Stephanie Glazier Stewardship Coordinator Holly Gorecki Manager of Advancement Services Leslie Groves Major Gift Officer

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS ARTISTIC PLANNING

COMMUNITY & LEARNING

Chelsea Kotula Gift Officer, Institutional Giving

Mickayla Chapman Training Ensembles Recruitment and Operations Coordinator Debora Kang Manager of Education Programs Garrett Lefkowitz Training Programs Operations Coordinator Nelson Rodriguez Parada General Manager of Training Ensembles Clare Valenti Manager of Community Engagement

FINANCE

Juanda Pack Advancements Benefits Concierge

Jeremiah Hess Senior Director of Accounting & Finance

Susan Queen Gift Officer, Corporate Giving

Dawn Kronell Senior Accountant

Jessica Ruiz Director of Artistic Planning

Amanda Tew Data and Research Specialist

Amanda Lindstrom Gift Processing Coordinator

Alison Aquilina Cube Coordinator

Matthew Way Advancement Relations and Strategic Initiatives Manager

Sandra Mazza Senior Accountant

Christopher Harrington Managing Director of Paradise Jazz Series/Managing Director & Curator of @ The Max

Catherine Miller Artistic Coordinator Yaniv Segal Acting Assistant Conductor

LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL Marc Geelhoed Director of Digital Initiatives

ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Kathryn Ginsburg Orchestra Manager Heather Hart Rochon Director of Orchestra Personnel

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COMMUNICATIONS Matthew Carlson Director of Communications and Media Relations Teresa Alden Digital Communications Manager Ben Breuninger Public Relations Manager Emily Carter Sharpe Communications Coordinator Sarah Smarch Communications Specialist

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Michelle Wisler Payroll and Benefits Accountant

HUMAN RESOURCES Denise Ousley Human Resources Director Shuntia Perry Human Resources Coordinator

PATRON DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT Nicki Inman Senior Director of Patron Development & Engagement

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AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

SAFETY & SECURITY

Michael Frisco Director of Audience Development

George Krappmann Director of Safety & Security

Annick Busch Patron Loyalty Coordinator Lori Cairo Front of House Manager Sharon Gardner Carr Assistant Manager of Tessitura and Ticketing Operations Rebecca Godwin Marketing Coordinator LaHeidra Marshall Audience Development Coordinator James Sabatella Group Sales Manager

CATERING AND RETAIL SERVICES Christina Williams Director of Catering and Retail Services

Greg Schimizzi Chief of Security Norris Jackson Security Officer Edward John Assistant Chief of Security Ronald Martin Security Officer Johnnie Scott Security Officer

TECHNOLOGY & INFRASTRUCTURE Jody Harper Senior Director of Technology and Infrastructure

FACILITY OPERATIONS

PERFORMANCE Volume XXVII • Spring 2019

EDITOR Ben Breuninger bbreuninger@dso.org 313.576.5196

Dan Saunders Director of Facilities Management

PUBLISHER Echo Publications, Inc. Tom Putters

Nate Richter Bar Manager

Frederico Augustin Facility Engineer

Rita Sayegh Retail Manager

Clarence Burnett Maintenance Supervisor

PROGRAM NOTES ANNOTATOR Charles Greenwell

EVENTS AND RENTALS

Matt Deneka Maintenance Technician

Catherine Deep Manager of Events and Rentals Ashley Powers Event Sales Representative Stephanie McClung Coordinator of Event Sales & Administration

PATRON SALES & SERVICE Michelle Marshall Manager, Patron Sales & Service Tommy Tatti Assistant Manager of Patron Sales & Service Sara Wabrowetz Lead Ticketing Specialist

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Martez Duncan Maintenance Technician William Guilbault Maintenance Technician

(Unless otherwise noted)

To advertise in Performance, please call 248.582.9690, email info@echopublications.com or visit echopublications.com

Crystal King Maintenance Technician Daniel Speights Maintenance Technician

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Read Performance anytime, anywhere at dso.org/performance

Michelle Koning Web Manager RaJon Taylor Application Administrator 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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UPCOMING CONCERTS & EVENTS TICKETS & INFO

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PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

THE SPRING QUARTET Fri., May 3 at 8 p.m.*

Esperanza Spalding, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, and Leo Genovese TINY TOTS CONCERT SERIES

EARTH DAY IS EVERY DAY Featuring Joe Reilly and Friends Sat., May 4 at 10 a.m. in The Cube*

YOUNG PEOPLE’S FAMILY CONCERT SERIES

“MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU…” Daniel Brier, conductor Sat., May 4 at 11 a.m.

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 8

Kensho Watanabe, conductor William Hagen, violin

@ THE MAX

UNCORKED: BORDEAUX AND THE BEATLES Thu., May 16 at 7 p.m. in The Cube*

Classic wines, classic songs!

WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

MOZART’S “GREAT G MINOR”

Daniel Blendulf, conductor Ralph Skiano, clarinet Robert Williams, bassoon Thu., May 16 at 7:30 p.m. in West Bloomfield Fri., May 17 at 8 p.m. in Plymouth Sat., May 18 at 8 p.m. in Bloomfield Hills Sun., May 19 at 3 p.m. in Grosse Pointe

PNC POPS SERIES

REVOLUTION: THE BEATLES SYMPHONIC EXPERIENCE Jeff Tyzik, conductor

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

Sat., May 18 at 8 p.m.

Sun., May 19 at 3 p.m.

Thu., May 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Southfield Fri., May 10 at 8 p.m. in Clinton Twp. Sun., May 12 at 3 p.m. in Beverly Hills

@ THE MAX

@ THE MAX

Thu., May 23 at 6 p.m.*

BALKAN BRASS BASH Tue., May 14 in The Cube*

MYSTERIUM III: FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT Presented by DSO NextGen

6:30 p.m. – Balkan dance class 7:00 p.m. - Džambo Aguševi Orchestra

CLASSICAL SERIES

WU FAMILY ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL CONCERT SERIES

Kent Nagano, conductor Beatrice Rana, piano

LOOK. LISTEN. CONNECT. in collaboration with the DIA Enrico Lopez-Yañez, conductor

Wed., May 15 at 10:30 a.m. & 11:45 a.m.

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NAGANO CONDUCTS BRUCKNER Fri., May 24 at 8 p.m.

Sat., May 25 at 8 p.m.

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3 Live from Orchestra Hall

SPRING 2019

CLASSICAL SERIES

PNC POPS SERIES

Simone Young, conductor Karl Pituch, horn Johanna Yarbrough, horn

Robert Bernhardt, conductor

BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 4

Thu., May 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri., May 31 at 10:45 a.m.

Sat., Jun. 1 at 8 p.m.

WEBERN Passacaglia HAYDN Concerto for Two Horns BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

THE MOVIE MUSIC OF SPIKE LEE & TERENCE BLANCHARD Sun., Jun. 2 at 4 p.m.

Featuring the Terence Blanchard Quintet, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ledisi, and Quiana Lynell (cond. Damon Gupton)

Wed., Jun. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

PNC POPS SERIES

THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF OZ Andrés Franco, conductor Scott Coulter, vocalist & host Kelli Rabke, vocalist Blaine Krauss, vocalist John Boswell, piano & vocalist

Fri., Jun. 14 at 10:45 a.m. & 8 p.m.

Sat., Jun. 15 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Jun. 16 at 3 p.m.

DSO PRESENTS

HEROES GALA AN EVENING WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR. Fri., Jun. 22 at 7 p.m.

@ THE MAX

MAKOTO OZONE TRIO Wed., Jun. 5 at 7 p.m. in The Cube*

CLASSICAL SERIES

RACHMANINOFF’S PAGANINI VARIATIONS Leonard Slatkin, conductor Makoto Ozone, piano Fri., Jun. 7 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Jun. 8 at 8 p.m.

Sun., Jun. 9 at 3 p.m.

JULIET PALMER Oil and Water RA CHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

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BRASS TRANSIT: THE MUSIC OF CHICAGO

An evening to honor the remarkable men and women who impact the vision, values, and success of the DSO. SUMMER

27TH ANNUAL SALUTE TO AMERICA

At historic Greenfield Village Wed., Jul. 3 at 8:30 p.m.

Thu., Jul. 4 at 8:30 p.m.

Fri., Jul. 5 at 8:30 p.m.

Sat., Jul. 6 at 8:30 p.m.

SUMMER

DSO AT FORD HOUSE Fri., Jul. 12 at 8 p.m.

Sat., Jul. 13 at 8 p.m.

*The DSO does not appear in this program

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