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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019 BSO PLAYERS PERFORM AT ORCHKIDS ENDS 2018 BALTIMORE RAVENS GAME ON A HIGH NOTE Over 65 and Want to Stay at Home for as Long as Possible? Community For Life Is For You! Community for Life at Keswick will assist older adults who wish to remain living in their homes, doing the things they love for as long as possible. What Membership Includes… • Home Assessment • Transportation Support • Handyman & Home Maintenance Service • Groceries and Medication Access • Wise & Well Center for Healthy Living • Health and Wellness Concierge Membership • Personal Balance/Falls Risk Screening For more information, please contact: Stephanie Pessin, PT, BA, BSPT, MPT Community for Life Concierge [email protected] Office: 410.246.7187 | Cell: 443.890.0289 JANUARY/ CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2019 2 From the President 4 In Tempo: News of Note 6 BSO Live: Calendar of Events 7 Orchestra Roster 8 Leon Fleisher Performs Mozart JAN 4–6 11 Turangalîla-symphonie JAN 10 & 13 Off The Cuff: Turangalîla-symphonie JAN 11 & 12 16 Sibelius Violin Concerto JAN 19 & 20 20 Rodgers and Hammerstein JAN 24–27 22 Respighi Pines of Rome JAN 31, FEB 1 & 2 25 Mozart Symphony No. 40 FEB 8–10 28 Ravel Bolero FEB 16 & 17 31 Elgar Cello Concerto FEB 21 & 24 5 Off The Cuff: Elgar Cello Concerto FEB 22 & 23 34 Campaign Donor Roll 41 Honor Roll 49 Board of Directors & Staff 4 6 ▼ ON THE COVER BSO horn players Austin Larson, Lisa Bergman and Gabrielle Finck Be Green: Recycle Your Program! Please return your gently used program to the Overture racks in the lobby. Want to keep reading at home? Please do! Just remember to recycle it when you’re finished. Connect With Us t JAN–FEB 2019 / OVERTURE 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT - elcome to this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With a spirit of gratitude for the Wsteadfast support of our community, we thank you for joining us for this concert. As the largest arts organization in the State of Maryland, all of us at the BSO appreciate and value the importance of engaging with the community we serve. In recent months, we’ve been fortunate to have a number of opportunities to take our music outside the Meyerhoff and Strathmore into new venues, performance spaces and even the homes of television viewers across the nation. QUIRIN JOHNNY Our BSO OrchKids program celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2018 and garnered a significant amount of attention along the way. After landing on the front page of The New York Times Arts section, OrchKids appeared in outlets including The Irish Times, The Times of London and ZDF German television, bolstering the program’s truly international reputation. OrchKids was also featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and a segment on the nationally-televised CBS Evening News, which is seen by millions of viewers across the U.S. We look forward to many more successes for OrchKids in its next decade and beyond. In November, members of the BSO performed our national anthem at M&T Bank Stadium before a Baltimore Ravens game. Led by our outstanding Associate Conductor THU, APR 11, 8 PM STRATHMORE Nicholas Hersh, members of the BSO brass and percussion sections performed a special FRI, APR 12, 8 PM MEYERHOFF arrangement of the music created right here in Maryland. One week later, students from SAT, APR 13, 8 PM MEYERHOFF the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras were invited to the White House to perform SUN, APR 14, 3 PM MEYERHOFF during the annual Holiday Open House. These are both once-in-a-lifetime events for MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR any musicians, and we are proud to represent our city and our country in these endeavors. MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CHOIR, ERIC CONWAY, DIRECTOR Of course, none of what we do here at the BSO would be possible without the support Back by popular demand, Marin of people like you. We rely on our strong network of donors, sponsors, ticket-buyers Alsop leads the BSO and the and partners in order to be able to bring music to the people of Maryland and beyond. Morgan State University Choir in a semi-staged production of Porgy Your generosity makes programs like BSYO and OrchKids possible. With your vital and Bess. Featuring such well- support, we will sustain artistic excellence and strengthen our business model to ensure known hits as “Summertime” and “It our community, and our audiences in Baltimore, Bethesda and the State of Maryland, Ain’t Necessarily So,” Gershwin’s jazzy are home to a world-class orchestra for many years to come. folk opera endures as an American classic since its 1935 premiere. On behalf of our Board of Directors, musicians and staff, thank you for your attendance, THE GERSHWINS® Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy and we hope you enjoy this concert by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Heyward, and Ira Gershwin TICKETS FROM $25 BSOMUSIC.ORG Peter T. Kjome President and CEO 410.783.8000 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Behind every music performance is a strategy for success Every great music program has a well-designed plan to succeed. At RBC Wealth Management, we take the same approach to helping you meet your financial needs and goals. The Dyer Kroneberger Group Brian Kroneberger, CFP® 225 Schilling Circle, Suite 250 | Hunt Valley, MD 21031 Phone: (410) 316-5454 | Fax: (410) 316-5399 www.dkhgroup.com The Dyer Kroneberger Group Non-deposit investment products offered through RBC Wealth Management are not FDIC insured, are not a deposit or other obligation of, or guaranteed by, a bank, and are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of the principal amount invested. © 2018 RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA inTEMPONEWS OF NOTE GAME DAY BSO percussion and brass players perform at Baltimore Ravens game n Sunday, November 25, after the Thanksgiving 20-yard line as the visiting team’s kicker was practicing field holiday, members of the Baltimore Symphony goals—over our heads. Then we witnessed the pyrotechnic- brass and percussion sections performed the infused entrance of the Ravens from the best seats in the stadium. national anthem at the Baltimore Ravens game at And, for a true rush of adrenaline, try seeing yourself perform in M&T Bank Stadium. Led by Associate Conductor real time on a jumbotron with a stadium’s mega-amplification ONicholas Hersh, the ensemble performed an arrangement of the system echoing around you! But the feeling of a thousands-strong anthem written by Sean O’Loughlin. ‘O!’ and swelling cheers with the final crescendo was more than “Though the performance itself was brief by orchestral enough to leave us all on cloud nine.” standards, it was certainly one of the more pulse-pounding The experience was made even better by a Ravens win over musical experiences I’ve had,” said Hersh. “We set up at the the Oakland Raiders! The game ended with a score of 34 to 17. WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS BSYO musicians perform in the nation’s capital 17 students from the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras program had the opportunity to perform at the White House for the annual Holiday Open House on Friday, November 30. All members of the Youth Orchestra and the Concert Orchestra, the young musicians performed in small ensembles while visitors toured the decorated holiday displays. A private event hosted by the Executive Office of the President, the invitation came after Concert Orchestra Conductor Mary Poling sent in an application and recordings of the group. Students were able to tour the White House following their performance. 4 MUSIC BOX The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Children’s concert series re-launches at Strathmore with first music director Gustav Strube at the Lyric Opera House, circa 1920. he BSO’s Music Box concert series, for children ages 6 months to 3 years, is re-launching in Montgomery County this winter. Starting in February, Music TEMPO T Box concerts will be presented at the AMP by Strathmore in partnership with Strathmore education and in collaboration with Levine Music. The half-hour concerts hosted by Maria Broom feature small ensembles of BSO musicians performing classical and children’s songs to develop musicality, creativity, coordination and literacy. “We are so excited to bring the BSO Music Box concerts back to Montgomery County this season,” said BSO Director of Education and Community Engagement Carole DAY OF GIVING Wysocki. “The Music Box series is such a wonderful way for parents to share the joy BSO launches new of music with their very young children. Everyone will go away fundraising initiative humming and smiling!” on February 11 Music Box concerts at Strath- more begin on February 16 with he Baltimore Symphony “All Aboard,” a program that Orchestra performed for the very explores the excitement of traveling T first time on February 11, 1916. to new places. “The occasion was one that will remain long in the memory of all who were For the full schedule of Music Box performances, present,” The Baltimore Sun reported at please visit BSOmusic.org. the time. “This concert marked a turning point in the musical life of Baltimore.” To commemorate this historic date, on February 11, 2019, the BSO community in Maryland and around the globe celebrates the impact of philanthropy IN THE NEWS in supporting high-quality music OrchKids ends 2018 on a high note performance and music education. Over the last 100 years, the shared ollowing a New York Times article in May that landed on the front page of the Arts vision of BSO donors has helped the section, the BSO OrchKids have achieved several high-profile stories in regional, organization grow from the Lyric stage F national and international news outlets.