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NOVEMBER 2018 GRAMOPHONE’S ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI PLAYS RACHMANINOV’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 MORLOT CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH, TCHAIKOVSKY & U.S. PREMIERE BY PASCAL DUSAPIN BENAROYA HALL: 20 YEARS LATER Dear Donor, I had not one but two types of cancers. After doing my research and consulting with doctors all over the world, I learned that Fred Hutch was the place to be. A Fred Hutch researcher performed genetic sequencing on my tumor and discovered an unusual mutation that impacts only 6 percent of prostate cancer patients. He suggested a drug that is used to treat a similiar mutation in lung and skin cancer. So far it has worked! My prostate cancer is now undetectable. Donors like you made this possible. You give Fred Hutch the ability to recruit visionary doctors and scientists, and I am alive today thanks to them. I’ve been married for 42 years, and while my wife still worries about me, we live life to its fullest. 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With gratitude, Edmonds GIVE TODAY Your Dollars Help Cure Cancer. fredhutch.org/give EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/24/18 3:16 PM CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2018 4 / CALENDAR 6 / MEET THE MUSICIANS 8 / THE SYMPHONY 10 / NEWS FEATURE 12 / The Story of Benaroya Hall CONCERTS 16 / November 1, 2 & 3 Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 2 20 / November 6 Jordi Savall The Routes of Slavery 27 / November 8 & 10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 30 / November 9 Tchaikovsky Untuxed 31 / November 12 Joseph Adam in Recital 34 / November 13 ALINA IBRAGIMOVA Vienna Boys Choir Photo: Eva Vermandel Photo: Eva 16 36 / November 14 Inon Barnatan in Recital 39 / November 15, 17 & 18 Beethoven Symphony No. 5 43 / November 29 & December 1 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 46 / November 30 Rachmaninov Untuxed VIENNA BOYS CHOIR INON BARNATAN Photo: Lukas Beck Lukas Photo: Photo: Marco Borggreve Marco Photo: 34 36 54 / BENAROYA HALL GUIDE 55 / THE LIS(Z)T ON THE COVER: Khatia Buniatishvili (page 43) by Esther Haase, Sony Classical 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: LOOKING AHEAD: ON THE DIAL: Tune in to Classical ■ S. MARK TAPER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM KING FM 98.1 every Wednesday at 8pm ■ ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL for a Seattle Symphony spotlight and DECEMBER ■ SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM GRAND LOBBY the first Friday of every month at 9pm AT BENAROYA HALL ■ SYMPHONY EVENTS AWAY FROM THE HALL for concert broadcasts. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 11am 1 Family Concerts: The Snowman SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2 & 8pm Jim Brickman: A Joyful Christmas LIVE @ BENAROYA HALL 8pm Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7:30pm 7:30pm 10am 7pm 7pm 10:30am 9:30, 10:30 & The Tenors Winter Rose Holiday Musical Banff Mountain Film Banff Mountain Film Tiny Tots: 11:30am LIVE @ BENAROYA PACIFIC LUTHERAN Salute* Festival Festival The Winds: Tiny Tots: HALL UNIVERSITY SEATTLE SYMPHONY THE MOUNTAINEERS THE MOUNTAINEERS The Nutcracker The Winds: SEATTLE SYMPHONY The Nutcracker 7:30pm SEATTLE SYMPHONY Christmas Traditions 8pm NORTHWEST Holiday Pops 2 & 8pm UNIVERSITY SEATTLE SYMPHONY Holiday Pops SEATTLE SYMPHONY 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2pm 7:30pm 7pm 8pm 1 & 8pm Holiday Pops Celtic Woman: The Friends Open Handel Messiah Handel Messiah SEATTLE SYMPHONY Best of Christmas Rehearsal* SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE SYMPHONY Tour with the Seattle SEATTLE SYMPHONY 7:30pm Symphony Jingle All The Way SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS 2pm 16 7:30pm 17 7:30pm 18 19 7:30pm 20 7:30pm 21 2pm 22 Handel Messiah Joy to the World The Irish Tenors Jingle All The Way Jingle All The Way Annual Holiday SEATTLE SYMPHONY ENSIGN SYMPHONY & BALLARD NW SENIOR SEATTLE MEN’S SEATTLE MEN’S Show CHORUS CENTER CHORUS CHORUS THE COATS 7:30pm The English Beat 7:30pm 7:30pm LIVE @ BENAROYA Annual Holiday Annual Holiday HALL Show Show THE COATS THE COATS 8pm Jingle All The Way 7:30pm SEATTLE MEN’S A Festival of Lessons CHORUS & Carols SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2 & 7pm 23 24 25 26 27 8pm 28 8pm 29 Jingle All The Way Beethoven Beethoven SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 9 SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE SYMPHONY 2pm Annual Holiday Show THE COATS 2pm Beethoven 30 9pm 31 Symphony No. 9 New Year’s Eve SEATTLE SYMPHONY The Doo Wop Project 7pm Baroque String SEATTLE SYMPHONY Extravaganza BYRON SCHENKMAN & FRIENDS *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 Photo: James Holt James Photo: VERDI’S My wife and I are from Canada, we’re both from the Toronto area. REVENGE I’m an orthopedic surgeon and she is a family doctor. Living in Seattle we’ve had the opportunity to expand our STORY exposure to arts and culture. We’ve been coming to the Seattle Symphony almost every week since we moved Il trovatore here in 2013. We both play music, but we had a long hiatus while we focused on our careers. I’m trying to get back into playing the piano. And my wife plays clarinet, so I guess we’re both SWEEPING EMOTIONAL THRILLER JANUARY 12–26 aspiring amateur musicians. In Italian with English subtitles. Heat up your winter with a high-stakes Evenings 7:30 PM classic by the great Giuseppe Verdi (Aida, Sundays 2:00 PM – Navin Rigoletto). During a time of civil war, a mother’s love awakens a dark secret from Featuring the Seattle Opera Chorus and members of Seattle the past as two rival soldiers feud for the Symphony Orchestra. favor of a pure-hearted noblewoman destined for tragedy. Packed with rousing MCCAW HALL CONNECT WITH US: choruses, impressive arias, and familiar 206.389.7676 melodies, the intensely operatic Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and 2018/19 SEASON SPONSOR: masterpiece had audiences shouting “Viva LENORE M. HANAUER follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Verdi!” after its premiere. Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download PRODUCTION SPONSORS: SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/TROVATORE ANN P. WYCKOFF tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive exclusive offers. Photo: Philip Newton TICKETS START AT JUST $25! 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 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. 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 Wes Dyring OBOE Jonathan Karschney KEYBOARD Noah Geller Allison Farkas * Mary Lynch Assistant Principal Joseph Adam Sayaka Kokubo David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Principal Jenna Breen Organ + Daniel Stone Supported by anonymous donors John Turman Open Position, Rachel Swerdlow Danielle Kuhlmann Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster Julie Whitton Ben Hausmann PERSONNEL MANAGER Associate Principal Open Position TRUMPET Scott Wilson CELLO Chengwen Winnie Lai Assistant Concertmaster David Gordon Efe Baltacıgil Stefan Farkas ASSISTANTPERSONNEL MANAGER Simon James Boeing Company Principal Trumpet Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello Keith Higgins Second Assistant Concertmaster ENGLISH HORN Alexander White Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Jennifer Bai Stefan Farkas Assistant Principal LIBRARY Mariel Bailey Assistant Principal Christopher Stingle Robert Olivia Cecilia Poellein Buss Nathan Chan CLARINET Michael Myers Associate Librarian Timothy Garland Eric Han Benjamin Lulich Jeanne Case Leonid Keylin Bruce Bailey TROMBONE Mae Lin Roberta Hansen Downey Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Smith Principal Librarian Clarinet Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Mikhail Shmidt Walter Gray Rachel Swerdlow Principal Clark Story Vivian Gu Emil Khudyev Assistant Librarian John Weller Joy Payton-Stevens Associate Principal David Lawrence Ritt Jeannie Wells Yablonsky David Sabee Laura DeLuca Stephen Fissel TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Arthur Zadinsky Dr. Robert Wallace Clarinet BASS BASS TROMBONE Joseph E. Cook Eric Jacobs SECOND VIOLIN Jordan Anderson Stephen Fissel ARTIST IN ASSOCIATION Elisa Barston Mr.