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SEASON FABIO LUISI | MUSIC DIRECTOR 2122Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship T you h a n Thank you for standing with us! You kept your subscription, visited our concert truck, viewed our digital concerts, participated in our educational activities and encouraged us through your k posts, emails and letters. For a time when many halls were dark, our lights burned bright and your support helped light the way. Now, we are ready to turn the page. CLASSICAL 21 The Dallas Symphony Orchestra gratefully CONTENTS THE SUBSCRIBER acknowledges Texas Instruments for their ADVANTAGE sponsorship of the Classical Series and for Concerts being a leading corporate partner for over 60 years. 3 Classical 20 Pops BETTER SEATS TI and the TI Foundation have played a vital role in the Dallas Symphony’s 25 Family Advance access to the best seats of the season before they go on sale ability to change lives through musical 28 Organ to the public. excellence for decades. The company’s 30 Holidays founders instilled a dedication to corporate 22 34 Specials LOWER PRICING responsibility and philanthropy that has defined generations of giving. Exclusive subscriber discounts on Package Details every concert in your package and any Thank you, Texas Instruments, for your 16 Classical performances you add on to your transformative partnership and continued leadership! 24 Pops subscription. 27 Family 29 Organ INSIDER ACCESS 40 Choose Your Own Enjoy access to exclusive subscriber pre-sales, special offers and events. “Luisi and the orchestra made magic of the SEASON FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING From free ticket exchanges and ticket piece… This was music donations to choosing your own making of a high order” package, we want you to experience dallassymphony.org/subscribe the DSO in a way that works best with – Dallas Morning News 214.849.4376 your busy schedule. 3 COPLAND & BRAHMS Fabio Luisi Conducts Bradley Hunter Welch Organ CONVERSE The Mystic Trumpeter COPLAND Organ Symphony BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 Inspired by the poems of Walt Whitman and the brass fanfares of Tchaikovsky, the American Frederick Converse composed his orchestral fantasy in 1904. Copland’s first major orchestral work, Organ Symphony, intertwines jazzy rhythms and bluesy melodies with flurries in the winds and whimsical brass outbursts. When asked what impact Beethoven had on his first DAVID BUCK ©Sylvia Elzafon GARRICK OHLSSON ©Dario Acosta ISATA KANNEH-MASON ©Robin Clewley symphony, Brahms explained, "You can't have any idea what it's like always to hear such a giant marching behind you." The symphony took Brahms over 20 years to complete and fluctuates between moments of dark LUISI CONDUCTS AUS ITALIEN BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR ELGAR SYMPHONY NO. 1 turbulence and blissful resolution. Fabio Luisi Conducts Carlos Kalmar Conducts Sir Mark Elder Conducts David Buck Flute Garrick Ohlsson Piano Isata Kanneh-Mason Piano THU | Sep 16, 2021 at 7:30pm FABIO LUISI ©Sylvia Elzafon WEBER Overture to Oberon BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg FRI | Sep 17, 2021 at 7:30pm JOAN TOWER Flute Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1 | at 7:30pm SAT Sep 18, 2021 R. STRAUSS Aus Italien (From Italy) ELGAR Symphony No. 1 SUN | Sep 19, 2021 at 3:00pm Nicknamed the “Emperor”, Beethoven’s last piano The stirring overture to Weber’s comic opera concerto is bursting with heroic themes and virtuosic The spirited prelude to Wagner’s comic opera The Oberon opens with solo horn calls and uses high cadenzas, as well as one of the composer’s most Mastersingers of Nuremberg highlights his uncanny A GALA EVENING WITH winds to depict important characters, a practice tender slow movements. While Shostakovich's early ability to build suspense with powerful orchestral tuttis that had a profound influence on Wagner. Similarly, symphonies are soaked in nationalism and conflict- and pregnant pauses. He also inserts “leitmotivs” – ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER Joan Tower uses the low register of the flute to open to-triumph climaxes, his Sixth Symphony has a reoccurring melodies that represent characters in the 2021 DSO GALA CONCERT her 1989 concerto, which features a giant tug-o-war desolate first movement reflecting the anxiety he opera. Mendelssohn's brilliant First Piano Concerto is between flute and chamber orchestra, climaxing in suffered by Stalin’s war mongering, which is resolved packed with cascading scales that will undoubtedly & AFTER-PARTY virtuosic flute arpeggios and scales. Richard Strauss’s by a sinister scherzo and exuberant finale. showcase the exceptional skills of Elton John scholar and Anne-Sophie Mutter Violin grand symphonic fantasy is a musical tour of Italy’s BBC Radio favorite Isata Kanneh-Mason. Elgar wrote his Conducts ancient ruins, bucolic countryside and the glory of heroic First Symphony to impress the famed conductor Fabio Luisi THU | Oct 14, 2021 at 7:30pm its paintings, sculpture and music. Strauss harnesses Hans Richter, who considered it “the greatest symphony FRI | Oct 15, 2021 at 7:30pm RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan the limitless power of the full orchestra and all the of modern times, written by the greatest modern SAT | Oct 16, 2021 at 7:30pm JOHN WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 | DALLAS PREMIERE different instrumental colors to whisk the listener composer, and not only in this country.” SUN | Oct 17, 2021 at 3:00pm through the scenes of his journey. World-renowned star celebrity violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for THU | Oct 28, 2021 at 7:30pm the 2021 Gala. This thrilling concert and glamorous black tie THU | Sep 23, 2021 at 7:30pm FRI | Oct 29, 2021 at 7:30pm event to benefit the DSO's education and outreach program SUN | Sep 26, 2021 at 3:00pm SAT | Oct 30, 2021 at 7:30pm will include the Dallas premiere of a John Williams concerto composed for Ms. Mutter. ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER Photo ©DG Kristian Schuller | Dress by Bastian Achard SAT | Sep 25, 2021 at 8:45pm FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FULL GALA TICKETS, TABLE PURCHASES AND GALA SPONSORSHIPS, CALL TAB BOYLES AT 214.871.4045 OR EMAIL AT [email protected] 4 = FEATURES THE LAY FAMILY CONCERT ORGAN 5 MOZART’S REQUIEM BARTÓK & BEETHOVEN RAVEL + URIOSTE Fabio Luisi Conducts Gemma New Conducts Kevin John Edusei Conducts Kim-Lillian Strebel Soprano Nathan Olson Violin Elena Urioste Violin Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-Soprano DEBUSSY Printemps (Spring) RAVEL Alborada del gracioso Spencer Lang Tenor BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 1 COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Violin Concerto David Leigh Bass BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2 Dallas Symphony Chorus RAVEL Boléro Joshua Habermann Director Experience nature and love through music during this concert. Debussy’s sublime suite uses musical Black composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen impressionism to evoke the gradual blossoming rhapsodic violin concerto features the young Mexican- MOZART Requiem GEMMA NEW ©Roy Cox and eventual birth of nature in springtime. Bartók’s American violinist Elena Urioste, whose lightness of Scored for 23 solo strings and composed during the final ‘lost’ work is an idealization of his true love for tone and tenderness paired with just the right amount bombing raids of the Allies, Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen violinist Stefi Geyer and is filled with infectious of charisma reveals the rhapsodic character of this (Metamorphoses) is a memorial to all those that perished in melodies and jagged rhythms that would showcase concerto. The remainder of this program features the World War II. Left unfinished at his death, Mozart’s Requiem her virtuosic talents. Beethoven composed his great French composer Maurice Ravel in some of remains one of his most personal works. Featured in the Sixth Symphony, a programmatic work that uses the his most colorful orchestral works, including his climax of multi-Academy Award-winning film Amadeus, many colors of the orchestra to tell a pastoral story, hypnotic, ever-expanding Boléro. Mozart’s epic funeral mass has a double-fugue and infectious complete with babbling brooks, bird calls, a melodies that indulge the best of choirs and is reflective of his turbulent storm and a merry gathering. FRI | Jan 7, 2022 at 7:30pm astonishing genius. SAT | Jan 8, 2022 at 7:30pm THU | Nov 18, 2021 at 7:30pm SUN | Jan 9, 2022 at 3:00pm SAT | Nov 20, 2021 at 7:30pm DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS RETURNS! ©Sylvia Elzafon THU | Nov 4, 2021 at 7:30pm ELENA URIOSTE ©Alessandra Tinozzi SAT | Nov 6, 2021 at 7:30pm SUN | Nov 21, 2021 at 3:00pm LUISI & FLEMING EHNES PLAYS ELGAR TRIFONOV PLAYS BRAHMS Fabio Luisi Conducts Fabio Luisi Conducts Fabio Luisi Conducts Renée Fleming Soprano James Ehnes Violin Daniil Trifonov Piano Rod Gilfry Baritone ELGAR Violin Concerto BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 Wendall Harrington Video ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Epitaph for a Man who SCHMIDT Symphony No. 4 R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen Dreamed Brahms’s First Piano Concerto is symphonic in scope KEVIN PUTS The Brightness Of Light | DALLAS PREMIERE SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, “Spring” and unabashedly dramatic and intense; a perfect Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (Metamorphoses) is In 1905, the famed Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler told the vehicle to highlight the virtuosity of GRAMMY® Award- a memorial to all those that perished in World War II. Hereford Times “If you want to know whom I consider winning Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, hailed as “the JAMES EHNES ©B Ealovega Kevin Puts’s tone poem The Brightness of Light is inspired to be the greatest living composer, I say without most astounding pianist of our age.” Music Director by the tender words and images revealed in the letters hesitation, Elgar. I wish Elgar would write something Fabio Luisi frequently champions the works of Austrian of the iconic American writer Georgia O’Keeffe to her for the violin.