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TABLE OF CONTENTS DVOŘÁK CELLO CONCERTO X February 21 & 22, 2020 HOLLYWOOD HITS XVII February 28, 2020 ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2020. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. San Antonio Symphony I EDUCATION Dear Friends, As someone who is deeply passionate about symphonic music and the profound ways that it can impact us, I often get chills looking over our upcoming programming and thinking about how it might sound coming from our world-class San Antonio Symphony. I imagine how the audience will react and marvel at how those from different walks of life can experience something wonderful—together—and yet with the music also speaking to each one individually. I know that, as a patron, you experience our Symphony in ways that can be exhilarating and at times deeply moving. Music is an art form that knows few boundaries and can express even those things that can’t be said. For most, these encounters are something that we hunger for and would love to share with those we care about, including our children and grandchildren. I humbly invite you to join me in forging a renewed sense of pride in our San Antonio Symphony, not only for our subscription concert offerings, but for the vast array of education programs that we bring to the community. As our Education Director, I can tell you firsthand that these tailored initiatives have the power to open children’s eyes to a whole world they may had never dreamed of, to possibilities previously unseen and unheard, to opportunities unreachable anywhere else within their grasp. The majority of the 35,000-40,000 students that attend our award- winning Young People’s Concerts each year are experiencing the Symphony—and often symphonic music—for the very first time. Our mission with this and our other education programs: to establish lifelong learning for all ages and segments of our diverse community by promoting the enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of symphonic music. I implore you to help support our efforts to grow and refine these programs with the goal to better serve the children of our community—including perhaps your own children and grandchildren. To find out how you can do more to support our education mission, please contact my colleague Annette Paulin at (210) 554-1054 or [email protected]. I am sincerely grateful for your patronage and in advance for your consideration. Respectfully and musically yours, Jeremy Brimhall, Director of Education High School Residency Program 3 years—7 campuses and over 1000 high school music students Supporting students’ musical pursuits Forging meaningful interactions with Symphony musicians Symphony at San Antonio Public Libraries Reaching children and people of all ages Musician presentations in all 29 library branches II San Antonio Symphony San Antonio Symphony III Sebastian Lang-Lessing Music Director Noam Aviel Associate Conductor Christopher Wilkins Music Director Emeritus VIOLIN I BASS HORN Eric Gratz Thomas Huckaby Jeff Garza Elizabeth H. Coates Principal Principal Concertmaster Chair David Milburn Peter Rubins Sarah Silver Manzke Assistant Principal Andrew Warfield Associate Concertmaster Nicholas Browne Associate Principal/ Christine Wang James Chudnow Third Horn Assistant Concertmaster Zlatan Redzic Joan Christenson Steve Zeserman TRUMPET Beth Girko John Carroll Philip Johnson FLUTE Principal Bassam Nashawati Mark Teplitsky Lauren Eberhart Anastasia Parker Principal Daniel Taubenheim Laura Scalzo Jean Robinson Associate Principal/ Renia Shterenberg Julie Luker Third Trumpet Associate Principal Andrew Small TROMBONE Craig Sorgi PICCOLO Steve Peterson VIOLIN II Julie Luker Principal James Seymour Mary Ellen Goree OBOE Principal Assistant Principal Paul Lueders Derek Mitchell Karen Stiles Ewing Halsell Foundation Assistant Principal Patrick Montgomery Principal Chair Assistant Principal Cleo Aufderhaar Sydney Hancock Angela Caporale Assistant Principal/ BASS TROMBONE Antonio Cevallos Second Oboe Derek Mitchell Beth Johnson Jennifer Berg Judy Levine-Holley TUBA Eric Siu ENGLISH HORN Lee Hipp Stephanie Teply Westney Jennifer Berg Principal Aimee Toomes Lopez Sarah Knapp Kidd English Horn Chair TIMPANI Amy Venticinque Peter Flamm VIOLA CLARINET Principal Allyson Dawkins Ilya Shterenberg Riely Francis Col. and Mrs. Ran Watson Denke-Griffin Fund for the Assistant Principal Principal Chair Symphony Principal Chair Stephanie Key PERCUSSION Yang Guo Riely Francis Alice Viola Winters Eidson E-FLAT CLARINET Principal Assistant Principal Chair Stephanie Key David Reinecke Marisa Bushman Associate Principal Assistant Principal Amy Pikler E♭ Clarinet Bill Patterson Daniel Wang Haojian Wang BASS CLARINET HARP Lin Wang Rodney Wollam Rachel Ferris Emily Watkins Freudigman Principal BASSOON Assistant Principal Sharon Kuster LIBRARIAN CELLO Principal Greg Vaught Kenneth Freudigman Brian Petkovich Principal Mary Rohe Principal Chair Assistant Principal Allison Bates David Mollenauer Ron Noble Associate Librarian Assistant Principal CONTRABASSOON MUSICIAN EMERITUS Barbara George Ron Noble Mark Ackerman Holgen Gjoni Oboe Morgen Johnson Harvey Biskin Qizhen Liu Timpani Ryan Murphy On Leave Temporary Acting Voluntarily rotates between violin sections IV San Antonio Symphony SEBASTIAN LANG-LESSING Music Director erman conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing has been Music Director of the San Antonio GSymphony since 2010. The season 2019–20 starts with returns to the Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen, a recording of Mozart piano concerti in Odense with Anne-Marie McDermott. He will also return to the Korean National Opera for a new production of “The tales of Hoffmann.” 2018–19 season marked Lang-Lessing debuts with the Orchestre symphonique de Quebec and Odense Symfoniorkester, and returns to the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, and an immediate re-invitation with the Korean National Opera conducting Guillaume Tell. Lang-Lessing was Chief Conductor of the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy and Artistic Director of the Nancy Opera, which, under his direction, was promoted to Opera National de Lorraine. From 2004 until 2011, Mr. Lang-Lessing was Music Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, which grew to become one of the leading orchestras in the Pacific Rim. With this orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing built a comprehensive, award-winning discography, especially of Classical and Romantic repertoire. He appears regularly as guest conductor with leading French orchestras including the symphony orchestras of Bordeaux and Toulouse, as well as with leading orchestras in North America such as the Vancouver, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee Symphonies, and European orchestras including regular appearances with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Gran Canaria, Malaga, and Palermo. Lang-Lessing, who received the Ferenc Fricsay Award when he was twenty-four years old, began his career at the Hamburg State Opera. Based on Sebastian’s work as assistant conductor to Gerd Albrecht in Hamburg, legendary stage director and opera manager Gotz Friedrich engaged him as Resident Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Today, Sebastian Lang-Lessing regularly appears with the leading opera companies of the world, including those in Paris, Hamburg, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. His operatic repertoire is exceptionally wide, with seventy-five works ranging from Baroque to contemporary opera. Maestro Lang-Lessing led the Philharmonia Orchestra in the 2013 recording performance for Renee Fleming’s Guilty Pleasures album (Decca). Other notable recordings have included the complete symphonies of Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Schumann with the Tasmanian Symphony, and the sensational re-discovery of the works of Joseph-Guy Ropartz with the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Late 2017 saw the release of the DVD of his critically acclaimed production of Der Rosenkavalier from the NCPA in Beijing, and of a Christmas CD with Pavel Sporcl and the Royal Liverpool Orchestra. Lang-Lessing has been at the forefront of educational programming for classical music with a younger audience, an area in which he has shown great passion and commitment with orchestras throughout the world. VI San Antonio Symphony NOAM AVIEL Associate Conductor oam Aviel is the Associate Conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, leading the Young NPeople’s Concerts, Pops Series, Community and Outreach concerts, and acting as the cover conductor for the Classics Series. She also conducts the Symphony in the annual, fully-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, in collaboration with Ballet San Antonio. This past season, she proudly made her conducting debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Reykjavík. An opera enthusiast, Aviel served as the Assistant Conductor at OPERA San Antonio. With them, she has assisted in productions of La traviata, La bohème, Macbeth, Carmen, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Las Fundaciones de Béjar by Joseph Julian Gonzalez. She was also Music Director and Conductor of the opera A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley as part of the Illinois Festival Opera, and conducted