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DECEMBER 2018 GRAMOPHONE’S ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR HOLIDAY POPS GATHER AT CELTIC WOMAN BENAROYA HALL HANDEL MESSIAH FESTIVAL OF FOR THE HOLIDAYS LESSONS & CAROLS BEETHOVEN 9 NEW YEAR'S EVE SSO048 LN gatefold template.indd 1 11/21/18 12:59 PM SSO048 LN gatefold template.indd 2 11/21/18 12:59 PM SSO048 LN gatefold-adjacent FP ad.indd 1 11/16/18 10:03 AM Dear Donor, When I felt the lump on my neck, I’d been married just a year. My doctor suspected that it was cancer. I was lucky— he’d just been to a lecture about cutting- edge work being done at Fred Hutch. He told me to get in right away. He even texted the oncologist to let him know I was coming. My oncologist was a gifted doctor, Fred Hutch researcher, and a great human being who would talk with me for as long as I needed. He told me I had stage 4 cancer and that it was too advanced for surgery. The news was as hard on my husband as it was on me. He’d lost his first wife to cancer, and now it looked like he would lose me too. Fortunately for us, researchers at Fred Hutch were working on a new approach to treatment, where they sift through hundreds or even thousands of genes to find the weak spots in cancer cells. They then target those genes with drugs. So I enrolled in a Fred Hutch clinical trial. Thirty days after I started the experimental drug combination, the cancer was gone. It was amazing! When we heard the news, my husband cried, and so did I. We had been given a second chance. Thank you for giving to Fred Hutch. I’m alive today because of you. With gratitude, Monroe GIVE TODAY Your Dollars Help Cure Cancer. fredhutch.org/give EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/31/18 1:04 PM Dear Donor, When I felt the lump on my neck, I’d been married just a year. My doctor CONTENTS suspected that it was cancer. I was lucky— DECEMBER 2018 he’d just been to a lecture about cutting- edge work being done at Fred Hutch. He told 6 / CALENDAR me to get in right away. He even texted the 8 / MEET THE MUSICIANS oncologist to let him know I was coming. 10 / THE SYMPHONY My oncologist was a gifted doctor, Fred Hutch 12 / NEWS researcher, and a great human being who would FEATURES talk with me for as long as I needed. He told me I had stage 4 cancer and that it was too advanced for 14 / Seth Parker Woods Is In surgery. The news was as hard on my husband as it 16 / Remembering Gwen was on me. He’d lost his first wife to cancer, and now it looked like he would lose me too. CONCERTS 18 / December 7, 8 & 9 Fortunately for us, researchers at Fred Hutch were Holiday Pops working on a new approach to treatment, where they sift 22 / December 11 through hundreds or even thousands of genes to find the Celtic Woman The Best of weak spots in cancer cells. They then target those genes with Christmas with the Seattle drugs. So I enrolled in a Fred Hutch clinical trial. Symphony 24 / December 14, 15 & 16 Thirty days after I started the experimental drug combination, Handel Messiah the cancer was gone. It was amazing! When we heard the 31 / December 22 news, my husband cried, and so did I. We had been A Festival of Lessons & Carols given a second chance. 35 / December 28, 29 & 30 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Thank you for giving to Fred Hutch. DAVÓNE TINES 40 / December 31 I’m alive today because of you. 35 New Year’s Eve The Doo Wop With gratitude, Project 49 / BENAROYA HALL GUIDE 50 / THE LIS(Z)T Monroe NORTHWEST BOYCHOIR THE DOO WOP PROJECT Photo: Photo: VanHouten Ben 31 40 ON THE COVER: Capathia Jenkins and Tony DeSare at Holiday Pops by Carlin Ma GIVE TODAY COVER DESIGN: Kate Hourihan EDITOR: Heidi Staub Your Dollars Help Cure Cancer. © 2018 Seattle Symphony. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without written permission fredhutch.org/give from the Seattle Symphony. 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Photo: James Holt James Photo: Visit eraliving.com to learn more about our 8 I love the cello and couldn’t unique and innovative communities across imagine playing any other Seattle, Renton, and the Eastside. instrument. I really love its rich tone and the variety of different sounds you can make. You can play so many styles on the cello: classical, pop and rock. I think playing the cello really opened my world to a lot of different genres of music besides just classical music. My goal in life is to play cello for as long as possible, so I definitely want to bring it to college. I hope to do a double major in cello and chemistry. I spend a lot of time studying and practicing, but I’m also a hip-hop dancer with the dance team at Garfield High School. – Carmalita Mix ingredients. Season to taste. Serve over 17 days. CONNECT WITH US: Vancouver stays from $99 CAD* Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and JANUARY 18 to FEBRUARY 3, 2019 follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download PREMIER PARTNER FESTIVAL PARTNER PRODUCED BY the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive exclusive offers. ™ Trademark of Tourism Vancouver, The Metro Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau. * Prices in Canadian dollars. Rates are per night, per room, based on double occupancy and are subject to change and availability. encoremediagroup.com/programs 7 LUDOVIC MORLOT SEATTLE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR French conductor Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for three years Morlot has been Music (2012–14). During this time he conducted several new Director of the Seattle productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenu°fa and Pelléas Symphony since 2011. et Mélisande as well as concert performances in both Brussels During the 2018–2019 and at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival. season they will continue in their incredible Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the Pierre musical journey, focusing Monteux School (U.S.) with Charles Bruck and Michael Jinbo. particularly on the music He continued his education in London at the Royal Academy of Debussy, and works by of Music and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient composers he influenced of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was or that influenced him. elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in Among others, newly recognition of his significant contribution to music. He is commissioned works this Chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the University of season are Caroline Shaw’s Washington School of Music. Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: Piano Concerto and the U.S. premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s At Swim-Two-Birds. The orchestra has many successful recordings on their label which have won three Grammy Awards.