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NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2018 TURANGALÎLA-SYMPHONIE MARIN ALSOP AND THE BSO TAKE ON ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S MOST MONUMENTAL SYMPHONIC WORKS MARIN ALSOP AND THE BSO NEW PROGRAM WIN OPUS KLASSIK FOR MAKES FREE TICKETS BERNSTEIN RECORDING AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN 15568-ad in Overture November December 2018_2018 9/19/18 2:09 PM Page 1 YULETIDE AT WINTERTHUR Open for holiday tours • November 17, 2018–January 6, 2019 Don’t miss this spectacular holiday showcase featuring tours of Henry Francis du Pont’s magnificent mansion decorated for Yuletide! Enjoy dining, shopping, musical and theatrical performances, and a full season of festive celebrations. Tickets at 800.448.3883 or visit winterthur.org/yuletide. Included with admission. Members free. Open New Year’s Day. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Presented by r e i n r u o F n e B Winterthur is nestled in Delaware’s beautiful Brandywine Valley on Route 52, just minutes from I-95, Exit 7. 15568-ad in Overture November December 2018_2018 9/19/18 2:09 PM Page 1 NOVEMBER/ CONTENTS DECEMBER 2018 2 From the President 4 In Tempo: News of Note 6 BSO Live: Calendar of Events 7 Orchestra Roster 8 Turangalîla-symphonie Marin Alsop and the BSO take on one of the 20th century’s most monumental symphonic works 10 Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos NOV 9–11 16 Copland Symphony No. 3 YULETIDE AT WINTERTHUR NOV 15 & 18 Off The Cuff: Copland Open for holiday tours • November 17, 2018–January 6, 2019 Symphony No. 3 Don’t miss this spectacular holiday showcase featuring tours of Henry Francis du Pont’s NOV 16 & 17 magnificent mansion decorated for Yuletide! Enjoy dining, shopping, musical and theatrical 20 Violinist Joshua Bell performances, and a full season of festive celebrations. NOV 30 & DEC 2 24 Handel Messiah Tickets at 800.448.3883 or visit winterthur.org/yuletide. DEC 8 & 9 Included with admission. Members free. Open New Year’s Day. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. 30 Cirque Nutcracker DEC 13–16 Presented by 32 Gospel Christmas 8 with CeCe Winans DEC 21 33 Holiday Pops DEC 22 36 Campaign Donor Roll 42 Honor Roll 48 Board of Directors & Staff 4 6 ▼ ON THE COVER r e i Marin Alsop leads the BSO at the n r u o Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall F n e B Be Green: Recycle Your Program! Please return your gently used program to the Overture racks in Winterthur is nestled in Delaware’s beautiful Brandywine Valley on Route 52, just minutes from I-95, Exit 7. the lobby. Want to keep reading at home? Please do! Just remember to recycle it when you’re finished. Connect With Us t NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT - hank you for joining us, and welcome to this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Because of your Tsupport, we are proud to present one of the country’s greatest orchestras right here in Maryland. It was a privilege to highlight our community’s world- class cultural assets during our highly successful tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in August. This is a time for the organization to reflect on past achievements and look ahead to new and exciting endeavors. With the holiday season upon us and the new year in sight, we are eager to share with you some of the many wonderful things happening at the BSO. QUIRIN JOHNNY In January 2019, Music Director Marin Alsop and the Orchestra present the BSO premiere of one of the most remarkable pieces in 20th-century symphonic music: Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie. Because of its technical challenges and broad scope, this work is a rarely performed gem of the repertoire. Audiences have the opportunity to enjoy the full piece as written or in “Off the Cuff” performances that allow for an TURANGALLA in-depth exploration of the music with Marin Alsop. SYMPHONIE In 2018, the BSO was featured on three new CD releases from the Naxos record label: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Handel’s Messiah and a special-edition box set featuring THU, JAN 10 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF the works of Leonard Bernstein conducted by Marin Alsop in honor of the centennial of SUN, JAN 13 | 3 PM STRATHMORE Bernstein’s birth. Included in the box set is the BSO’s recording of Bernstein’s First and OFF THE CUFF Second symphonies, which recently won the prestigious Opus Klassik for Symphonic FRI, JAN 11 | 8:15 PM STRATHMORE Recording of the Year in the 20th/21st-century music category. We are honored to receive SAT, JAN 12 | 7 PM MEYERHOFF this acknowledgement of our work, and this is one of the many ways in which the BSO Marin Alsop conducts more than 100 shows itself to be a leader in the classical music industry. musicians in Messiaen’s rarely-heard masterwork, featuring the eerie Thanks to the support of a very generous friend of the BSO, and in a demonstration keyboard instrument ondes of the importance of increasing exposure to live music performance for young people, Martenot with its otherworldly sci-fi sounds, as well as a dazzling we recently launched our new “Young and Free” ticket program. For the first time this performance by world-renowned season, the BSO is offering free tickets to children ages 7 to 17 to select concerts with the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. purchase of an adult ticket. Through this initiative, it is our hope that we will be able to help foster the growth of a new generation of music listeners and appreciators. The 90-minute Off The Cuff concerts provide more insight into a single work, followed by a In everything that we do at the BSO, it is with a sense of gratitude, knowing that none of question-and-answer session. this would be possible without the support of our community. We would like to thank Presenting Sponsors: Comcast Xfinity, M&T Bank our patrons, donors, partners and sponsors for their continued efforts to ensure that The appearance of pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the BSO is able to bring music and education to people in Baltimore and throughout made possible through the major support of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Guest Artist Fund the State of Maryland. On behalf of our Board of Directors, musicians and staff, thank Media Partners: WYPR, Baltimore Magazine you for your attendance, and we hope you enjoy this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. TICKETS FROM $25 BSOMUSIC.ORG Peter T. 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Gala celebration concert at the Joseph Meyerhoff Following dinner in the Gala tent, attendees were treated to a Symphony Hall. Hersh and Alsop led a program concert of Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Richard Strauss’ featuring Tony and Grammy Award-winning Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks led by Alsop. Hersh then took over OBroadway star Cynthia Erivo and Baltimore-based hip-hop artist for Cynthia Erivo’s set, which featured Broadway favorites like Wordsmith served as the evening’s emcee. “Home” from The Wiz and “The Impossible Dream” from Man Co-chaired this year by Alan and Claire Jensen as well of La Mancha. Alsop returned to the stage to conclude the concert as Howard and Janet Majev, the Gala is the BSO’s largest with a moving rendition of “Stand By Me,” featuring Erivo and fundraising benefit of the year, supporting innovative artistic, students from BSYO, OrchKids and OrchLab. YOUNG AND FREE New program makes free tickets available to children his fall the BSO announced the launch if its new “Young and Free” ticket program. Beginning with performances that took place during the first weekend of October, the T BSO is offering free tickets to children ages 7 to 17 to select Classical and Pops concerts with the purchase of an adult ticket during the 2018–19 season.