DSOL NEWS

2018 Spring Edition

SECOND ANNUAL SAVOR THE SYMPHONY, THURSDAY, MAY 3, AT THE RITZ-CARLTON The Symphony Orchestra been the recipient of numerous League is proud to announce that awards, including TACA’s Silver Diane and Hal Brierley will serve Cup Award for the Arts with Dr. as the Honorary Chairs for the Sec- Kern Wildenthal in 2004; Dallas ond Annual Savor the Symphony Historical Society’s award for phi- to be held on Thursday, May 3, at lanthropy; and the Dallas Chapter 6:30 p.m. The Ritz-Carlton. of National Society of Fund Rais- ers’ Outstanding Philanthropist. Savor the Symphony is an elegant evening with a three-course wine- Hal Brierley is Chairman of paired dinner, silent and live auc- Brierley+Partners, Inc., a leading tions, and a private performance specialist in the design and man- featuring the Dallas Symphony Or- agement of customer loyalty pro- chestra’s Principal Pops Conductor grams, and is Chairman and CEO and Grammy Award Winner, Jeff of e-Rewards, Inc. Hal is a Lifetime Tyzik, along with guest perform- member of the Board of Gov- ers, Soprano Camille Zamora and ernors for the Dallas Symphony dancers from Tango Caliente. Kim Association. He is also a member Photo by Holt Haynsworth Hext is the event chair. of the Board of Directors of the Honorary Chairs Diane and Hal Brierley Dallas Center for the Performing The Brierleys are longtime sup- Arts, the Baylor Health Care Sys- $25,000, $15,000, $10,000, $5,000 porters of the DSO and the Dallas tem Foundation, the Dallas Opera, and $2,500. Underwriting tickets community. They have been do- KERA-TV, , TACA, and a member with Patron benefits are $500 and nors and subscribers to the Dallas of World Presidents Organization. $350. A limited number of $250 Symphony Orchestra since 1986 Hal has been the recipient of nu- Individual tickets will be available. and Diane has been a member of merous awards, including TACA’s Additional donations “in honor/ the DSOL since 1992. Silver Cup Award for the Arts with memory of” may be made in any amount and will be listed in the Tincy Miller in 2009. “Diane and Hal Brierley are true Savor the Symphony program. art enthusiasts,” said event chair Event Chair Kim Hext has been a Tickets can be purchased online at Kim Hext. “Their long time sup- long time member of the DSOL www.dallassymphonyleague.com. port of the Dallas Symphony Or- and serves on the Board of Direc- chestra as well as the arts commu- tors for TACA and Hope Supply nity in Dallas is to be applauded.” Co.

Diane Brierley is an active and This fall she will be chairing Zoo dedicated community volunteer, To Do for the Dallas Zoological with a deep passion for the arts, Society and last spring served as education and wildlife conserva- co-chair for the American Heart tion. She serves on the Executive Association Cotes du Coeur Gala. Committees of Alzheimer’s Asso- Together, she and husband Greg ciation of Greater Dallas Chapter, Hext serve on the Parent Leader- Dallas Opera, Dallas Zoological ship Council for SMU. Society, and is a Life Trustee of the Dallas Theater Center. Diane has Sponsorships for the event are Savor Chair Kim Hext. The President’s Message Dear League Members,

One of my main goals this year was to provide different experiences for our members…from new events in interesting and unique environments, to being able to enjoy many different DSO musicians. This year started off with high energy felt all around...from fundraising to fellowshipping!

Our Clef Note Tea on February 13th featured DSO Principal Flautist, David Buck and his wife, Jung-Wan Kang, Flautist. This dynamic couple kept our attendees in awe of their talents! How often do we get to enjoy a flute duet from a husband and wife team?! This event was chaired by Sharon Ballew and Susan Fisk, and their creative vision made everyone extremely glad they attended.

Another unique opportunity awaits you….please join us for A Noteworthy Night, April 11th. We will have a trio of DSO French horns players providing a concert for us in a lovely private home. Guests will be able to stroll through art and history collections in this beautiful Dallas estate! The Honorary Chair is Doris Jacobs and this event is chaired by Elizabeth Rois-Mendez.

On April 3rd a wine tasting was held at Jimmy’s Food Store kicking off DSOL’s Savor the Symphony. Jimmy’s Food Store in Old East Dallas was the host for the League’s Wine & Cheese Tasting and Collection Party. The admission cost to the party was a bottle of wine to be used at a Cork Pull for the Second Annual Savor the Symphony gala which will be held on Thursday, May 3, at The Ritz-Carlton.

Savor the Symphony is an elegant evening with a three-course wine-paired dinner, silent and live auctions, and will be a VERY SPECIAL and UNIQUE EVENT with a private performance featuring the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Pops Conductor and Grammy Award Winner, Jeff Tyzik, along with guest performers, Soprano Camille Zamora, a Bandomeon player and dancers from Tango Caliente. You will NOT want to miss this event!! Diane and Hal Brierley are the Honorary Chairs for Savor the Symphony. Kim Hext is the event chair.

The Enchanted Forest Luncheon on May 10th, chaired by Susan Sculllin and Vicki Petersen, promises to be exceptionally fun and creative! This will be the perfect celebration of a fabulous DSOL year!

Stay tuned for a follow up to finalize the year, but for now please continue to support our fundraising efforts so that we can finish strong and be able to donate the needed funds to the DSO!

I am extremely honored to represent the DSOL as President and would like thank all of our League members for their support!

Mari Mari Epperson DSOL President 2017 - 2018

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2 Spring SPRING EVENTS News and Notes Principal with the Dallas St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Get well wishes to: Sandye Symphony and has performed with and Tanglewood Music Center Mailandt, Mary Lee Cox, the Orchestra, the Orchestra. Brooky Sanders Tubb and Nancy Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Bierman. Condolences to Susan Kansas City Symphony and many A native of Portland, Oregon, Geyer and Katherine Smethie others. He holds a bachelor’s Alexander Kienle is the Assistant on the loss of their sister-in-law, degree in music from the Curtis Principal/Utility horn of the Dallas Brenda McGee Stephens. Please Institute and worked on a master’s Symphony. His musical adventures send news to Corresponding degree in music at Juilliard. Joe started at age five, when he Secretary Jan Daulton, 214- 902- and his wife Rachel live in Dallas would incessantly bang on the 0831, [email protected]. with their new son Owen and their toy bells at Montessori school, jealous dog Schroeder. age six with piano lessons, and A Noteworthy Night at age eleven he picked up the A Noteworthy Night will be held Kevin Haseltine, from Houston, French horn because the band on Wednesday, April 11th, at the joined the Dallas Symphony director already had more than home of Nancy and Randy Best, Orchestra as fourth horn player in enough trumpets. Mr. Kienle 9762 Audubon Place, from 6:30 - 2015. He received his bachelor’s has performed with ensembles 8:30 p.m. degree from Northwestern around the world, including the University’s Bienen School of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Honorary Chair is Doris Music in 2014. Haseltine was also Verbier Festival Orchestra, New Jacobs, one of Dallas’ leading a member of the Civic Orchestra World Symphony, and the St. Paul Realtors for more than 30 years. of Chicago, giving him the Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Kienle is a She is senior executive vice opportunity to frequently perform graduate of The . president and founding partner of with the Chicago Symphony. Allie Beth Allman & Associates. His brass quintet, made up Event Chair Elizabeth Rois- Doris is a long-time member and of other Civic members, was Mendez invites you to enjoy supporter of the DSOL. awarded the bronze medal at the cuisine, libations and music from Fischoff National Chamber Music around the world while strolling The featured performers are DSO Competition in May of 2014. through exquisite art and historical horn players Yousef Assi, Kevin Before coming to Dallas, Haseltine collections! Haseltine and Alexander Kienle. was a Fellow at the New World Joe Assi is third horn of the Dallas Symphony and has performed with Tickets can be purchased online at Symphony, and Principal Horn of include the Boston Symphony, www.dallassymphonyleague.com. the Breckenridge Music Festival. A sought-after guest performer, Do You Believe in Faeries? Mr. Assi has been guest Principal Horn with the Los Angeles Please join the merriment Philharmonic, guest Associate at the Enchanted Forest Luncheon, on May 10th at Brook Hollow Golf Club, from 11:30 DSOL Newsletter a.m. -1:30 p.m. Celebrate the end of our DSOL year and welcome the new board. The DSOL newsletter is printed This event is Co-Chaired by Susan Scullin 3 times per year by the DSOL. and Vicki Petersen. The next deadline is: September Tickets are $75 and can be purchased online 2, 2018. Please send articles and at www.dallassymphonyleague.com, photographs to or checks can be mailed to Susan Scullin, 5040 Bridge Creek Drive, Plano, Texas 75093. Sandy Secor, Editor; Please make your reservations by May 2. [email protected] Guests are welcome

3 Spring SPRING EVENTS Jaap Van Zweden Glass Concerto for Two Pianos Lynn Harrell Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony; Competition Farewell Celebration besides the complete performance Donate to the “In Honor Of” On Saturday, April 28, 2018, eight of of Wagner’s Die Walküre in Maestro Jaap Van Zweden young musicians will compete Dallas, he will conduct Act I of that Farewell for $5,000, $2,500, for cash prizes and the chance to opera in . $1,500, $500, $250, $100. perform a concerto with the Dallas Donations at the higher levels Symphony in the Lynn Harrell Your donation can be made online will receive invitations to special Concerto Competition. Please join at www.dallassymphonyleague. events or special recognition. us for this exciting event. com, under Noteworthy Night tab. Judges this year are renowned It’s DSO music director Jaap cellist Lynn Harrell, former DSO van Zweden’s last season with DSOL Board Meeting Concertmaster Emanuel Borok, The Tuesday, May 1 Board The DSO because he is headed Associate Principal Viola Barbara Meeting will be held at the off to to take charge Sudweeks and concert pianist of the . home of Heather Cooper, 3714 Anastasia Markina. Admission to The closing weeks of the season Potomac Avenue. Jolie Humphrey the concert is free. RSVP by April will provide a series of grand is Third VP Arrangements. 27 to Amanda Hyde, Individual finale concerts for van Zweden, Hostesses for the day are Nancy Giving Coordinator, at A.Hyde@ beginning with a performance of Connor and Kathy Cothrum. dalsym.com or 214.871.4080 to Duruflé’s Requiem with the Dallas The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. attend the concert. Susan Fisk Symphony Chorus (on a concert for coffee, meeting at 10:20 a.m. is the DSOL chair of the Lynn Harrell Competition. If you wish to also featuring Louis Lortie in RSVP to: Julie Noel, jbndsol@ volunteer to help, please contact Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20) gmail.com. on April 26-28. After van Zweden Susan, [email protected]. conducts an alternate-site “Remix” concert across the street at Dallas City Performance Hall on May Youth Concerts 10 and 11, he will return to the ’S THE ORCHESTRA ROCKS Meyerson for a complete concert Carnegie Hall’s innovative Link Up curriculum delivers an exhilarating, version of Wagner’s Die Walküre interactive concert experience. Students will learn how composers and on May 18-20, with soprano Heidi musicians use rhythm to propel musical works. Melton, mezzo-soprano DeYoung, tenor Simon O’Neill, and baritone Wednesday, May 2 ...... 10:00 and 11:30 Matthias Goerne. Van Zweden’s Thursday, May 3...... 10:00 and 11:30 final announced performance as music director will take place We are actively seeking volunteers to help seat the school groups at May 24-26 when he conducts the Cecil and Ida M. Green Youth Concerts, which are performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. These concerts are part of the the world premiere of Jonathan educational outreach done by the symphony. Over 30,000 students Leshnoff’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and teachers from the Dallas/Fort Worth area attend the DSO’s Youth with co-concertmaster Alexander Concerts each year! There is time between the first seating and the Kerr as soloist. Mezzo-soprano second seating to make new friends of the other volunteers and have DeYoung and baritone Goerne will a little snack. Also, volunteers are encouraged to stay and enjoy return as soloists for this concert, the music during the last performance after the students have been joined by soprano Lise Lindstrom, seated. There are two concerts on each date, one at 10:00 a.m. and a tenor Stuart Skelton, and the second one at 11:30 a.m. Each concert lasts about an hour. Dallas Symphony Chorus. If you are interested in volunteering at one or more of the concerts, Works that van Zweden will please email the DSOL Youth Concert Chair, Anne Ligon, at conduct in Dallas as well in New [email protected]. York during the season include the 4 Spring PEOPLE TO SEE 1 2

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1. Debutante Kennedy Bradley Boscamp with her Honor Guard escort, Shy Anderson. DSOL Debutantes at the Meyerson Symphony Center. 2. The 2018 Debutantes and Honor Guard at the DSOL Presentation Ball. 3. Kathryn Voreis, DSOL President Mari Epperson, Pam and Mark Okada and Jill Goldberg at “A Major Chat”. 4. Young Strings performers at “A Major Chat”. 5. Musician’s Luncheon Co-Chair Ann Kadesky, DSOL President Mari Epperson and Co-Chair Sally Pearson. 6. Gregory Raden, DSO Principal Clarinet, Kim Noltemy, DSO President & CEO, James Leffler, DSO Director of Development. 7. Violinist Angela Fuller Heyde and Cellist Jeffrey Hood performed at the January “A Major Chat” at the home of Pam and Mark Okada. 5 2018 DSOL Events

Wednesday, April 11 A Noteworthy Night

Wednesday, April 28 Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition

Wednesday, May 2 and Thursday, May 3rd Cecil and Ida Green Youth Concerts, Meyerson

Thursday, May 3rd Savor the Symphony, Ritz-Carlton

Thursday, May 10th

“Enchanted Forest Luncheon”, Brook Hollow Golf Club

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