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MARCH 2017 JAMES EHNES PREMIERES AARON JAY KERNIS CONCERTO MORLOT C O N D U C T S BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES NOS. 5 & 6 DAUSGAARD RETURNS WITH RACHMANINOV CONTENTS CAN’T IS NOT IN YOUR VOCABULARY. Do you have your own personal mission? One that drives you forward? We bet you do. And we do, too. At UW Medicine, we’re making science move faster so that medicine gets smarter. Together — with you — we will shorten the distance from illness to healthier lives. Together, we’ll accelerate the promise of medicine. And this momentum will change the world, for all of us. BECAUSE CAN’T DOESN’T SAVE LIVES. JOIN US AccelerateMed.org EAP full-page template.indd 1 2/7/17 11:33 AM CONTENTS MARCH 2017 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE ORCHESTRA 8 / SIMPLE GIFTS 10 / NOTES FEATURES 12 / CLASSICAL ROOTS By Thomas Dausgaard, Principal Guest Conductor 14/ ADVENTURE AWAITS Music Director Ludovic Morlot on the 2017–2018 Season CONCERTS 17 / March 3, 4 & 5 BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II 23 / March 16, 17 & 18 BEETHOVEN “PASTORAL” SYMPHONY 26 / March 23 & 25 BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5 30 / March 24 BEETHOVEN UNTUXED 31 / March 26 DISTANT WORLDS: MUSIC FROM FINAL FANTASY 38 / THOMAS DAUSGAARD Photo: Thomas Photo: Grøndahl 33 / March 27 KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR 38 / March 30, 31 & April 1 DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS RACHMANINOV 50 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 51 / THE LIS(Z)T 26 / BERTRAND CHAMAYOU 33 / CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Photo: Marco Borggreve – Warner Classics Warner – Borggreve Marco Photo: College, Cambridge Leighton / King’s Kevin Photo: ON THE COVER: James Ehnes (p. 23) by B. 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Live: Beauty and the Live: Beauty and the Live: Beauty and the Symphony No. 5 Bach Bizarre Bizarre Bizarre 4 & 8pm A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY 8pm Beethoven 19 20 21 22 23 24 Symphony No. 5 25 4pm 12:30pm Wajten 7:30pm 9am 7:30pm 12pm ■ APRIL Distant Worlds: Concert Organ Seattle Arts & Friends Open Dausgaard Conducts Dausgaard Conducts 2pm SPO: Elgar’s music from FINAL Recital – Free Lectures presents Rehearsal & Rachmaninov Rachmaninov Enigma Variations FANTASY with the Demonstration Bryan Stevenson Discussion* 7:30 pm EMG presents Seattle Symphony 7:30pm The Baltimore Consort 7:30pm King’s Northwest 8pm Dausgaard College Choir Sinfonietta: Art for Conducts 26 27 28 29 30 Arts’ Sake 31 Rachmaninov 1 2pm National 7:30pm National 7:30pm National 10:30am 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am Geographic Live: Geographic Live: Geographic Live: A Garden Full of A Garden Full of Songs The Mystery of Our The Mystery of Our The Mystery of Our Songs 8pm Human Story Human Story Human Story Rebirth Brass Band 2:30pm EMG presents 7:30pm Live @ 8pm 8pm Live @ Benaroya The Baltimore Consort Rebirth Brass Band 7pm NWAA presents Benaroya Hall: Hall: Max Raabe & An Evening with Neil Tinariwen with Palast Orchester Gaiman 2 3 Dengue Fever 4 5 6 7 8 2pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7pm 8pm Rachmaninov Rebirth Brass Band Christian Wilson Rachmaninov Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Rhapsody on a Untuxed Theme of Paganini Theme of Paganini 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7:30pm Live @ 7:30pm SRJO Benaroya Hall: presents Louis Jóhann Jóhannsson Armstrong: A New featuring American Orleans State of Contemporary Music Mind Ensemble 8pm Morlot 7:30pm Morlot Conducts Bruckner Conducts Bruckner 16 17 18REBIRTH BRASS BAND19 20 21 22 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 10pm [untitled] 3 7:30pm Leif Ove Andsnes & Seattle Arts & Tchaikovsky Piano Pacific MusicWorks Marc-André Hamelin Lectures presents Concerto No. 1 presents Dido & in Recital Helen Oyeyemi Aeneas 8pm Tchaikovsky Piano 23 24 25 26 27 28 Concerto No. 1 29 LEGEND: Seattle Symphony Events Benaroya Hall Events *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information National Geographic Live (March 19–21) by Anand Varma; Rebirth Brass Band (April 7–9) 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG SSO077-Calendar.indd 1 2/16/17 12:44 PM ■ ON THE BEAT YEFIM BRONFMAN See Who’s IN RECITAL Here to Hear APRIL 18 Esteemed Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman returns to Seattle for a powerhouse solo recital, featuring Debussy’s ethereal Suite bergamasque and Stravinsky’s sparkling masterpiece, Petrushka. 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Amongst the anniversary of the composer’s birth. many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra has won three Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for Grammy Awards and gave an three years (2012–14). During this time he conducted several exhilarating performance at new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenu°fa Carnegie Hall in 2014. and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by During the 2016–2017 season Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau. Morlot and the Seattle Symphony will continue to Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the invite their audiences to Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal “listen boldly,” presenting College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: Ravel’s L’enfant et les Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of sortilèges, completing their the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his cycle of Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos and several significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral world premieres including compositions by Agata Zubel and Gabriel Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School Prokofiev. All of this will be complemented by the Seattle Symphony’s of Music and lives in Seattle with his wife, Ghizlane, and highly innovative series, Sonic Evolution and [untitled]. This season their two children. SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROSTER LUDOVIC MORLOT Thomas Dausgaard, Principal Guest Conductor Pablo Rus Broseta, Douglas F. King Associate Conductor Harriet Overton Stimson Music Director Joseph Crnko, Associate Conductor for Choral Activities Gerard Schwarz, Rebecca & Jack Benaroya Conductor Laureate FIRST VIOLIN Mara Gearman Judy Washburn Kriewall HORN HARP Open Position Timothy Hale Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Jeffrey Fair Valerie Muzzolini Gordon David &