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SEPTEMBER 2018 LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR CELEBRATING LUDOVIC MORLOT’S FAREWELL SEASON OPENING NIGHT WITH LUDOVIC MORLOT & JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET MORLOT CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN, DEBUSSY, DALBAVIE, JANÁČEK & RAVEL CONTENTS FOUNDERS CIRCLE A BOLD EXPRESSION OF SUPPORT Join a community of supporters who share your commitment to the orchestra and you’ll enjoy premium behind-the-scenes experiences and exclusive access to the Norcliffe Founders Room for wine, coffee and tea during concert intermission. JOIN US TODAY! SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG/GIVE | 206.215.4733 | [email protected] CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2018 4 / CALENDAR 6 / MEET THE MUSICIANS 8 / THE SYMPHONY 10 / NEWS FEATURES 12 / Welcome New Musicians 14 / Berlioz Requiem Released CONCERTS 15 / September 12 & 13 Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy® with the Seattle Symphony 18 / September 15 Opening Night with Ludovic Morlot & Jean-Yves Thibaudet 21 / September 20, 22 & 23 Beethoven Violin Concerto 25 / September 27, 28 & 29 Morlot Conducts Ravel 28 / October 2 & 3 JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET Photo: Andrew Eccles Andrew Photo: Leslie Odom, Jr. with the 18 Seattle Symphony 38 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 39 / THE LIS(Z)T LESLIE ODOM, JR. AUGUSTIN HADELICH Photo: Nathan Johnson Nathan Photo: 28 21 Yang Photo: Suxiao ON THE COVER: Ludovic Morlot by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco COVER DESIGN: Jessica Forsythe EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 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 from the Seattle Symphony. All programs and artists are subject to change. encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 PERFORMANCE SPACE: ON THE DIAL: Tune in to Classical LOOKING AHEAD: ■ S. MARK TAPER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM KING FM 98.1 every Wednesday at 8pm ■ ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL for a Seattle Symphony spotlight and the first Friday of every month at 9pm OCTOBER ■ SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM GRAND LOBBY for concert broadcasts. AT BENAROYA HALL ■ SYMPHONY EVENTS AWAY FROM THE HALL SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 7:30PM 1 7:30PM 2 7:30PM 3 7:30PM 4 10:30AM 5 9:30, 10:30 & 6 Doris Kearns Leslie Odom, Jr. Leslie Odom, Jr. Seattle Metropolitan Tiny Tots: 11:30AM Goodwin with the Seattle with the Seattle Chamber Orchestra The Strings: Twinkle Tiny Tots: SEATTLE ARTS & Symphony Symphony SEATTLE Twinkle Little Star The Strings: Twinkle LECTURES SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE SYMPHONY METROPOLITAN SEATTLE SYMPHONY Twinkle Little Star CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SEATTLE SYMPHONY 8PM 7:30PM Emerging Artist: 7:30PM A Night at Alice Walker Kandace Springs the Village Vanguard SEATTLE ARTS & SEATTLE REPERTORY LECTURES LIVE @ BENAROYA HALL JAZZ ORCHESTRA 8PM Totally ‘80s 8PM SEATTLE SYMPHONY Totally ‘80s SEATTLE SYMPHONY 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2PM 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM 3PM Totally ‘80s Van Jones Beethoven Jill Lepore Enescu, Bartók & SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE ARTS & Piano Concerto No. 1 SEATTLE ARTS & Prokofiev LECTURES SEATTLE SYMPHONY LECTURES ROMANIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER CONCERTS 10PM & ARTS [untitled] 1 SEATTLE SYMPHONY 8PM Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 SEATTLE SYMPHONY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2PM 7PM 7PM 2PM Beethoven Piano Community Beethoven “A Mysterious Concerto No. 1 Concert at Untuxed Indefinable Poetry”: Chopin’s Piano SEATTLE SYMPHONY Des Moines Beach SEATTLE SYMPHONY Concerto No. 1 Park Auditorium 7PM SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC SEATTLE SYMPHONY 7:30PM Boccherini & Phoebe Robinson 7:30PM Scarlatti: 7:30PM SEATTLE ARTS & Seattle Baroque Italians Abroad LECTURES Orchestra: Byron BYRON SCHENKMAN & Beethoven & Schenkman’s FRIENDS Tchaikovsky Favorites SEATTLE SYMPHONY EARLY MUSIC SEATTLE 7:30PM Doonesbury in the 8PM Time of Trump Beethoven & Tchaikovsky LIVE @ BENAROYA HALL SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2PM 21 7:30PM 22 7:30PM 23 7:30PM 24 7:30PM 25 8PM 26 1PM 27 Community Rejoice! Seu Jorge Presents National Parks at Barbara Emerging MONC Washington Concert at The Lord is King The Life Aquatic: Benaroya Hall Kingsolver Artist: Joep Beving District Auditions METROPOLITAN OPERA Sullivan Center SEATTLE ENSIGN A Tribute to David NORTHWEST SEATTLE ARTS & LIVE @ BENAROYA NATIONAL COUNCIL SEATTLE SYMPHONY Bowie SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LECTURES HALL SEATTLE SYMPHONY 11AM 7PM 8PM Family Concerts: An Evening with Handel Music for The Planets Carol Burnett the Royal Fireworks SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE SYMPHONY ELITE ENTERTAINMENT 8PM Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2PM 28 7:30PM 29 7:30PM 30 9AM 31 Social by Nature Emerging Artist: Social by Nature Friends Open NATIONAL Lucia Micarelli NATIONAL Rehearsal & GEOGRAPHIC LIVE LIVE @ BENAROYA GEOGRAPHIC LIVE Discussion* HALL SEATTLE SYMPHONY 8PM 7:30PM Circuit Rider 7:30PM Dvořák & Schubert EARSHOT JAZZ Social by Nature SEATTLE SYMPHONY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information seattlesymphony.org TICKETS: 206.215.4747 GIVE: 206.215.4832 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG ■ ON THE BEAT See Who’s Here to Hear Learn more at anacortes.org Photo: James Holt James Photo: This is our first time hearing the symphony. I play the double bass and my friend Chelsea plays the violin. I want to go to Juilliard. But not for double bass. I want to go as a dancer. I’ve been studying modern dance for about seven years. – Brielle (right), pictured with Chelsea (left) CONNECT WITH US: Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive exclusive offers. encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 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 Symphony since 2011. Pelléas et Mélisande as well as concert performances in During the 2018–2019 both Brussels and at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival. season they will continue in their incredible Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the musical journey, focusing Pierre Monteux School (U.S.) with Charles Bruck and particularly on the music Michael Jinbo. He continued his education in London at of Debussy, and works by the Royal Academy of Music and then at the Royal College composers he influenced of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting or that influenced him. Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Among others, newly Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his significant commissioned works this contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral Conducting season are Caroline Shaw’s Studies at the University of Washington School of Music in Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: Piano Concerto and the U.S. Seattle. premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s At Swim-Two-Birds. The orchestra has many successful recordings on their label which have won three Grammy Awards. SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROSTER LUDOVIC MORLOT Thomas Dausgaard, Music Director Designate 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 Penelope Crane OBOE Jenna Breen PERSONNEL MANAGER Noah Geller Wes Dyring Mary Lynch John Turman Scott Wilson Allison Farkas * Danielle Khulmann David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Principal Sayaka Kokubo ASSISTANT PERSONNEL Open Position, Daniel Stone Ben Hausmann TRUMPET MANAGER Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster Associate Principal Rachel Swerdlow David Gordon Keith Higgins Open Position Julie Whitton Chengwen Winnie Lai Boeing Company Principal Trumpet Assistant Concertmaster Stefan Farkas LIBRARY CELLO Alexander White Simon James Robert Olivia Efe Baltacıgil ENGLISH HORN Assistant Principal Second Assistant Concertmaster Associate Librarian Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello Stefan Farkas Christopher Stingle Jennifer Bai Michael Myers Jeanne Case Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Mariel Bailey CLARINET Librarian Cecilia Poellein Buss Assistant Principal TROMBONE Benjamin Lulich Rachel Swerdlow Timothy Garland Nathan Chan Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Leonid Keylin Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Smith Principal Assistant Librarian Eric Han Principal Mae Lin Bruce Bailey Clarinet Mikhail Shmidt Roberta Hansen Downey Emil Khudyev David Lawrence Ritt TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Stephen Fissel Clark Story Walter Gray Associate Principal Joseph E. Cook John Weller Vivian Gu Laura DeLuca BASS TROMBONE ARTIST IN ASSOCIATION Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Joy Payton-Stevens Eric Jacobs Arthur Zadinsky David Sabee Stephen Fissel Dale Chihuly E-FLAT CLARINET SECOND VIOLIN BASS TUBA 2018-2019 SEASON Laura DeLuca Elisa Barston Jordan Anderson John DiCesare COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE Principal Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Heath Principal BASS CLARINET Principal Derek Bermel Supported by Jean E. McTavish String Bass Eric Jacobs HONORARY MEMBER Michael Miropolsky Joseph Kaufman TIMPANI John & Carmen Delo Assistant Principal BASSOON James Benoit Cyril M. Harris † Assistant Principal Second Violin Jonathan Burnstein Seth Krimsky Principal Kathleen Boyer Brendan Fitzgerald * Principal Matthew Decker + Resident Gennady Filimonov Jennifer Godfrey Paul Rafanelli Assistant Principal † In Memoriam Evan Anderson Travis Gore Mike Gamburg ** On Leave Natasha Bazhanov Jonathan Green Dana Jackson * PERCUSSION Brittany Boulding * Temporary Musician for 2018–2019 Michael A. Werner Stephen Bryant FLUTE CONTRABASSOON season