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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. He could do so, and it would certainly be composer Franz Schmidt, whose tragic Fourth Symphony, husband and accomplished photographer Alfred Stieglitz. something effective.” Five years later Elgar delivered composed in 1933, was a quasi-Requiem for the The impassioned multi-media journey paints a Kreisler a concerto by turns grand, brooding and heroic. premature death of his daughter. Powerfully moving, magnificent musical portrait of life in the American American composer Adolphus Hailstork’s Epitaph for this symphony is a true masterpiece. Southwest and features star soprano Renée Fleming. a Man Who Dreamed is a solemn orchestral homage to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired by the pastoral THU | Jan 20, 2022 at 7:30pm poetry of Adolf Böttger, Schumann’s First Symphony FRI | Jan 21, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Nov 5, 2021 at 7:30pm brims with spirited melodies and fanfares to depict SAT | Jan 22, 2022 at 7:30pm SUN | Nov 7, 2021 at 3:00pm “Spring’s Awakening” SUN | Jan 23, 2022 at 3:00pm

RENÉE FLEMING ©TimothyWhite DANIIL TRIFONOV THU | Jan 13, 2022 at 7:30pm 6 FRI | Jan 14, 2022 at 7:30pm 7 WELCOME BACK MAESTRO LITTON TCHAIKOVSKY PATHÉTIQUE Andrew Litton Conducts Fabio Luisi Conducts Stephen Hough Piano Daishin Kashimoto Violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 W. G. STILL Poem RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 BRUCH Violin Concerto in G minor TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” Former DSO Music Director Andrew Litton and pianist Stephen Hough, who recorded the entire series of the African-American composer and Guggenheim fellow Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos with the DSO, reunite William Grant Still’s Poem is an impassioned musical at the Meyerson this season. Maestro Litton (DSO Music depiction of a dark and desolate world that gradually Director 1994-2006) conducts Rachmaninoff's Second DAISHIN KASHIMOTO © Daisuke Akita regains its spiritual compass, ending in a triumphant Symphony, a romantic orchestral juggernaut containing brass fanfare that signifies salvation. From its somber suspenseful melodic lyricism, a vibrant-scherzo, tear-jerking opening, that immediately allows the violin to soar, slow movement and a festive finale of epic proportion. to its hearty dance tune finale, Bruch’s G minor violin We open the performance of All-Russian repertoire with concerto is a crowd pleaser that will showcase the talents pianist Stephen Hough, who “can power through man-eating of Japanese violinist and concertmaster of the Berlin Liszt and Tchaikovsky concerti with the best of them, Philharmonic Orchestra Daishin Kashimoto. Premiered but for Hough, God is mostly in the details – the beautifully a mere four days before Tchaikovsky’s untimely death, articulated inner voices, the crystalline clarity of lyrical his final symphony was named “Pathétique” for the passages, the precision of the pedal … he radiates a passion, emotion and suffering expressed, suggesting higher sense of purpose.” - Vanity Fair Tchaikovsky’s struggle with society’s intolerance for homosexuality. Yet there are tender moments and brilliant musicality, including a singing waltz that is THU | Feb 3, 2022 at 7:30pm unmistakably Tchaikovsky! FRI | Feb 4, 2022 at 7:30pm ANDREW LITTON ©Steve J. Sherman STEPHEN HOUGH ©Sim Canetty-Clarke SAT | Feb 5, 2022 at 7:30pm THU | Feb 17, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Feb 18, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Feb 19, 2022 at 7:30pm

FABIO LUISI ©Sylvia Elzafon 8 9 SHOSTAKOVICH & R. STRAUSS Marc Albrecht Conducts Daniel Müller-Schott Cello

UNSUK CHIN Frontispiece | DALLAS PREMIERE SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY’S EUGENE ONEGIN R. STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica OPERA-IN-CONCERT Unsuk Chin’s 2019 orchestral time-capsule is "seven Fabio Luisi Conducts minutes of soundscapes, juxtaposed violently, then resting Etienne Dupuis Baritone (Eugene Onegin) peacefully, with pedal points, blurrings and harmonic Nicole Car Soprano (Tatyana) advances...” (Das Orchester). Inspired by the works of Pavol Breslik Tenor (Lensky) Prokofiev, Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto opens with Brindley Sherratt Bass (Prince Gremin) a jocular march, riddled with solo cello and horn passages, Deniz Uzun Mezzo-Soprano (Olga) leading to outbursts from the woodwinds, carrying Keith Jameson Tenor (Triquet) Georgian folk tunes throughout the latter movements. Richard Strauss’s autobiographical Symphonia Domestica ADDITIONAL SOLOISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED depicts his family life, complete with orchestral lullabies, Dallas Symphony Chorus shrieks, clock chimes and the usual lively chaos of home. Joshua Habermann Director

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin THU | Mar 17, 2022 at 7:30pm OPERA-IN-CONCERT – SUNG IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES SAT | Mar 19, 2022 at 7:30pm Partake in Fabio Luisi’s mastery of opera and a stellar DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT ©Uwe Arens SUN | Mar 20, 2022 at 3:00pm cast of handpicked soloists in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, a Russian lyric opera filled with celebratory tunes, an infectious waltz, passion-soaked arias, plush ALL-MOZART CONCERT orchestration and even a dramatic pistol duel. Based on the poetry of Pushkin, the story is about two friends Bernard Labadie Conducts who fall into a jealous argument at a dance over the Benedetto Lupo Piano young and beautiful Tatyana, ultimately challenging each other to a duel. Onegin is victorious, but runs into MOZART Chaconne from Idomeneo Tatyana years later and discovers that she has married MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 Prince Gremin. Onegin writes Tatyana a love letter and MOZART Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” demands a meeting, at which Tatyana acknowledges Widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the reciprocal love but ultimately chooses to honor her ETIENNE DUPUIS ©Julien Faugere NICOLE CAR ©Yan Bleney Mozart, Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie leads an promise to Gremin. She flees the stage in tears and All-Mozart program, starting with the final coronation Onegin is left alone. dance (Chaconne) from the composer's breakthrough opera Idomeneo. Italian pianist and winner of the Eighth FRI | Apr 1, 2022 at 7:00pm* Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Benedetto SUN | Apr 3, 2022 at 3:00pm Lupo performs Mozart’s intimate A Major Piano Concerto, TUE | Apr 5, 2022 at 7:00pm* engaging the listener with a sunny disposition of poignancy and serenity. Mozart’s monumental “Jupiter” *Early start time for both performances (7:00pm). symphony – aptly named for the king of the gods – is NOTE: Performed with one intermission his largest and is at once exuberant and introspective, charming and complicated.

THU | Mar 24, 2022 at 7:30pm BENEDETTO LUPO FRI | Mar 25, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Mar 26, 2022 at 7:30pm 10 11 FABIO LUISI ©Sylvia Elzafon KIRILL GERSTEIN ©Marco Borggrevea LEONIDAS KAVAKOS ©Marco Borggrevea

BERLIOZ SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE DVOŘÁK’S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY KAVAKOS, KERR AND KUFCHAK Fabio Luisi Conducts Jun Märkl Conducts Leonidas Kavakos Conducts Karen Gomyo Violin Kirill Gerstein Piano Alexander Kerr Violin Tine Thing Helseth Trumpet Meredith Kufchak Viola MENDELSSOHN Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt EINEM Capriccio (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage) Overture MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 XI WANG Concerto for Violin, Trumpet and Orchestra | WORLD PREMIERE SCHUMANN Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6 BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From The New World” At only 23 years old, Mozart composed his warm and witty Sinfonia Chinese composer, conductor and pianist Xi Wang has won Mendelssohn’s inspirational overture, based on two Concertante, a clever combination of symphony and concerto, just about every major award for composition, combining Asian poems by Goethe, brilliantly depicts the immobility of a to display the exceptional skills of the string players in the Mannheim and Western instruments and techniques with theatrical and becalmed sea to the redemptive vitality of a rising wind Orchestra. Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony, an extremely powerful choreographic elements to captivate audiences worldwide. and the promise of homecoming. Schumann’s dramatic and moving work, depicts the suffering and loss that Russia Be the first to hear her new concerto with Norwegian trumpet piano concerto, composed at the urging of his wife and experienced after World War II. “Now we are rejoicing in our sensation Tine Thing Helseth and Japanese violinist Karen Gomyo. virtuoso pianist Clara, explores the breadth and depth of great victory, but each of us has wounds which cannot be healed. Berlioz describes his orchestral tour-de-force, penned when he love through a beautiful interaction of piano and orchestra. One man’s loved ones have perished; another has lost his health was only 27, as a portrait of the life of an artist and his unrequited Dvořák’s famed and final symphony is a musical testament - this must not be forgotten…The first movement is of an agitated love, conjuring up hallucinatory visions of longing, obsession to the “New World” he found in New York City - it brims character, at times lyrical, at times austere; the second movement and the depth of despair all in glorious orchestral sounds. with brass fanfares, Bohemian and Czech dance rhythms, is brighter and more songful; the finale, rapid and in a major key, and utilizes folk tunes like Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as is close in character to my Fifth Symphony, save for reminiscences melodic motivators. of the austere passages in the first movement.” - Sergei Prokofiev. FRI | Apr 8, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Apr 9, 2022 at 7:30pm SUN | Apr 10, 2022 at 3:00pm THU | Apr 14, 2022 at 7:30pm THU | Apr 28, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Apr 15, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Apr 30, 2022 at 7:30pm 12 SAT | Apr 16, 2022 at 7:30pm SUN | May 1, 2022 at 3:00pm 13 RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 Gemma New Conducts Alexander Gavrylyuk Piano LUISI CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN 9 AARON JAY KERNIS Musica Celestis RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 Fabio Luisi Conducts PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet: Suite Angel Blue Soprano Taylor Raven Mezzo-Soprano American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Jay Issachah Savage Tenor Kernis’s note in the score of Musica Celestis (Music of the Solomon Howard Bass-Baritone Heavens) states that the ethereal work “is inspired by the Dallas Symphony Chorus medieval conception of that phrase, which refers to the singing of the angels in heaven in praise of God without Joshua Habermann Director end…” Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous Second Piano Concerto BRUCE ADOLPHE Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt! uses harmonic tension and contrasting dynamics to unite (This Kiss to the Whole World!) | DALLAS PREMIERE the solo piano passages with the orchestra’s grand themes. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Prokofiev’sRomeo and Juliet uses robust orchestration and complex rhythms that challenged even the best of Bolshoi Bruce Adolphe is a composer, educator, performer dancers, yet has all the grandeur, passion and tragedy to do and author whose “original compositions convey a the Shakespearean classic justice. compelling voice, high craft, authenticity, communicative immediacy and substance” (Gramophone). Arguably, one of the most quoted pieces of music ever. Beethoven’s ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK ©Marco Borggrevea THU | May 19, 2022 at 7:30pm ANGEL BLUE ©Sonya Garza SOLOMON HOWARD © Jon Adjahoe final symphony was revolutionary in its use of a full FRI | May 20, 2022 at 7:30pm chorus and vocal soloists in the finale. At the point SUN | May 22, 2022 at 3:00pm of its conception, Beethoven was completely deaf and experiencing major frustration, loneliness and depression, The DSO presented American all expressed in the way the first movement moves Composer Jessie Montgomery's MUSSORGSKY’S PICTURES from silence to sound. The riveting scherzo has Starburst in the 19/20 Season. astounding fugal passages that some feel reflects We are pleased to perform the Gemma New Conducts Beethoven’s daily struggle to communicate with the World Premiere of her new work WORLD JESSIE MONTGOMERY New Orchestral Work | PREMIERE outside world. The finale uses Schiller’s An die Freude in May 2022. RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole (Ode to Joy) and expresses the humanistic idea that all people of this earth should love one another. GRAINGER Pastoral, from In a Nutshell As a whole, the work is an epic summation of all of MUSSORGSKY (ARR. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition Beethoven’s genius! Be the first to hear a new orchestral work by Jessie Montgomery, Leonard Bernstein Award-winning THU | May 12, 2022 at 7:30pm composer, violinist and educator. Ravel’s colorful Rapsodie FRI | May 13, 2022 at 7:30pm Espagnole is a magnificent musical homage to Spain and SAT | May 14, 2022 at 7:30pm all its beautiful sights and sounds. To end this enchanting SUN | May 15, 2022 at 3:00pm program Principal Guest Conductor Gemma New takes you on a musical gallery tour in Mussorgsky’s most famous composition to view ten pictures on exhibit, from the eerie Parisian “Catacombs” to the tumultuous pealing bells of “The Great Gates of Kiev.”

FRI | May 27, 2022 at 7:30pm DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS & JOSHUA HABERMAN ©Sylvia Elzafon FABIO LUISI JESSIE MONTGOMERY ©Jiyang Chen SAT | May 28, 2022 at 7:30pm SUN | May 29, 2022 at 3:00pm 14 15 Classical | Thursday Packages Classical | Friday Packages

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SEP 23 Luisi Conducts Aus Italien, Page 5 OCT 15 Beethoven's Emperor, Page 5 NOV 18 Bartók & Beethoven, Page 7 JAN 14 Ehnes Plays Elgar, Page 7 ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA OCT 14 Beethoven's Emperor, Page 5 FLOOR OCT 29 Elgar Symphony No. 1, Page 5 FLOOR JAN 20 Trifonov Plays Brahms, Page 7 FEB 4 Welcome back Maestro Litton, Page 8

OCT 28 Elgar Symphony No. 1, Page 5 NOV 5 Luisi & Fleming, Page 6 FEB 17 Tchaikovsky Pathétique, Page 9 FEB 18 Tchaikovsky Pathétique, Page 9

NOV 4 Mozart's Requiem, Page 6 JAN 7 Ravel + Urioste, Page 7 MAR 24 All-Mozart Concert, Page 10 MAR 25 All-Mozart Concert, Page 10

NOV 18 Bartók & Beethoven, Page 7 JAN 14 Ehnes Plays Elgar, Page 7 APR 28 Kavakos, Kerr and Kufchak, Page 13 APR 8 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Page 12

JAN 13 Ehnes Plays Elgar, Page 7 JAN 21 Trifonov Plays Brahms, Page 7 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, MAY 12 Luisi Conducts Beethoven 9, Page 14 MAY 20 Page 15 JAN 20 Trifonov Plays Brahms, Page 7 FEB 4 Welcome back Maestro Litton, Page 8

DRESS CIRCLE DRESS CIRCLE FEB 3 Welcome back Maestro Litton, Page 8 SERIES B2 (8 Concerts) FEB 18 Tchaikovsky Pathétique, Page 9 SERIES B2 (8 Concerts)

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MAR 17 Shostakovich & R. Strauss, Page 10 OCT 28 Elgar Symphony No. 1, Page 5 APR 1 Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Page 11 OCT 29 Elgar Symphony No. 1, Page 5

MAR 24 All-Mozart Concert, Page 10 NOV 4 Mozart's Requiem, Page 6 SERIES A (16) SERIES B1 & B2 (8) APR 8 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Page 12 JAN 7 Ravel + Urioste, Page 7 SERIES A (16) SERIES B1 & B2 (8)

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In recognition of Capital One’s for the future workforce. Graduates of extraordinary support for community Young Strings have gone on to some of programming and the visionary the nation’s top conservatories, while leadership of Sanjiv Yajnik, Chairman of others have embarked on careers in the Dallas Symphony Association Board arts administration, engineering and of Governors and President of Financial finance, bringing the fundamental skills Services at Capital One, the Dallas strategies of musical learning with them. Symphony proudly introduces the Pops Series Presented by Capital One. The DSO’s partnership with Capital One was furthered by Yajnik’s involvement. “We are thankful for the work of Sanjiv and With a strong passion for music and ISABEL MARIE SÁNCHEZ CHRIS BOTTI U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY MEN'S & WOMEN'S GLEE CLUBS his colleagues at Capital One,” said Kim a core belief in its ability to change Noltemy, Ross Perot President & CEO of lives, Yajnik, the President of Financial THE MUSIC OF SELENA CHRIS BOTTI IN CONCERT PATRIOTIC POPS the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. “Their Services at Capital One, joined the DSA WITH THE VETERAN’S DAY CELEBRATION® steadfast support of our strategic plan Executive Board in 2015 and was Isabel Marie Sanchez Vocalist DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jeff Tyzik Conducts Jeff Tyzik Conducts and engagement with the community elected Chairman of the Board of Chris Botti and Band United States Naval Academy is planting the seeds for audiences and Governors in 2017. Yajnik’s leadership The DSO celebrates the life and enduring legacy Men’s & Women’s Glee Clubs of trailblazing artist Selena Quintanilla. Sensational GRAMMY® Award winner, American trumpeter, Members of the United States Naval Academy patrons of the future as well as enriching recruited Kim Noltemy to the Dallas Chris Botti returns to the Meyerson! Throughout his vocalist Isabel Marie Sánchez performs iconic hits like Pipes & Drum Band and changing lives today.” Symphony in January 2018 and Fabio “Dreaming of You,” “Como la Flor,” “Bidi Bidi Bom more than three-decade career, Botti has toured, Luisi as Music Director in June 2018, but Bom,” “No Me Queda Más,” and “I Could Fall in Love,” recorded, or performed with a who’s who list of Join conductor Jeff Tyzik for this uplifting tribute live with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Join us for top orchestras and artists in the industry including honoring our nation’s men and women in uniform. Capital One’s broad support of the DSO one of his most memorable highlights comes through the Capital One Impact an unforgettable and emotional tribute to “The Queen Sting, Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma and Lady Gaga. His Lift your sprits with this rousing celebration of was when he guest conducted the of Tejano Music.” silky-smooth sound and musical imagination have our great nation, as Patriotic Pops salutes our veterans “High drama! Initiative, a commitment to support inaugural C-Suite performance and firmly established him as both the world’s top selling with your favorite songs and anthems. The US Naval growth in underserved communities jazz instrumentalist and the largest selling American Academy shares their internationally acclaimed benefit event in December 2019. | at 7:30pm FRI Sep 10, 2021 instrumental artist. A magical event not to be Glee clubs and their Pipes and Drum Band with Dallas. Vocal thrills!” and advance socioeconomic mobility by | at 7:30pm SAT Sep 11, 2021 missed – Chris Botti is a highlight of the season! Hooyah! Recent appearances include The Kennedy closing gaps in equity and opportunity. “The partnership of Capital One and the SUN | Sep 12, 2021 at 3:00pm – Dallas Morning News Center Honors (CBS), the National Pentagon Memorial For more than six years, Capital One vision of Sanjiv are a shining example of (9/11) Dedication plus performances at Carnegie FRI | Oct 8, 2021 at 7:30pm Hall and Washington’s Kennedy Center. has partnered with the DSO to invest in the true collaboration of business and SAT | Oct 9, 2021 at 7:30pm critical programs including the Young the arts,” said Noltemy. “We are thankful SUN | Oct 10, 2021 at 3:00pm Strings and Young Musicians programs, for their years of support, and we hope FRI | Nov 12, 2021 at 7:30pm SAT | Nov 13, 2021 at 7:30pm providing students with in-depth financial it inspires more corporations to share in SUN | Nov 14, 2021 at 3:00pm literacy training, networking and other the success of the DSO.” job readiness skills to get them ready

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©Sylvia Elzafon RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY JOYCE YANG ©KT Kim ©2021 & TM LucasFilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved ©Disney

DALLAS SYMPHONY REVOLUTION: AN EVENING WITH BERNSTEIN’S WEST SIDE STORY STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI PAUL SIMON SONGBOOK CHRISTMAS POPS THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY & GERSHWIN’S PIANO CONCERTO LIVE IN CONCERT Jeff Tyzik Conducts A SYMPHONIC EXPERIENCE Lawrence Loh Conducts Renée Elise Goldsberry Vocalist Thomas Wilkins Conducts Constantine Kitsopoulos Conducts The DSO will delight audiences in a symphonic Ava Pine Soprano Jeff Tyzik Conducts Joyce Yang Piano tribute to Simon’s work in Simon and Garfunkel You won’t want to miss your shot to hear Renée In the spectacular climactic sixth episode of the Bradley Hunter Welch Organ as well as the classic solo albums Graceland and Let’s come together as The Beatles are brought Elise Goldsberry, the original "Angelica Schuyler" FLORENCE PRICE Dances In The Canebrakes Star Wars saga, Darth Vader readies the second Death Reginald Smith, Jr. Bass-Baritone Rhythm of the Saints. Sing along to your favorites to life in Revolution, the symphonic tribute to the from Broadway's megahit Hamilton, when she brings Star to unleash the final blow to the Rebel Alliance. GERSHWIN Piano Concerto In F such as “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “The Sounds of Dallas Symphony Chorus Fab Four, featuring the DSO and top vocalists her engaging stage presence and amazing voice to Watch the complete film unfold as the DSO performs ULYSSES KAY Overture To Theatre Set Silence,” “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” and so Joshua Habermann Director performing arrangements transcribed from a program of Broadway, pop and soul to Dallas. This John Williams’s legendary score live. ALL EVENING AND MATINEE PERFORMANCES BERNSTEIN West Side Story: Symphonic Dances much more. the original master recordings at Abbey Road. Tony Award-winner will blow us away with selections Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas BERNSTEIN “America”, from West Side Story Accompanied by hundreds of rare and unseen from Broadway hits in addition to Hamilton, including Cynthia Nott & Terrie Preskitt-Brown Directors FRI | May 6, 2022 at 7:30pm photos from the historic archives of The Beatles’ Rent and The Lion King, plus songs by Aretha Bernstein’s most beloved score comes to life with the ONLY MATINEE PERFORMANCE SAT | May 7, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Jun 17, 2022 at 7:30pm official fan magazine — The Beatles Book Monthly — Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Dylan and more. DSO. The timeless story of love in the face of racial SUN | May 8, 2022 at 3:00pm SAT | Jun 18, 2022 at 7:30pm The beloved tradition continues with the along with rare video and animation, Revolution intolerance, based on Romeo and Juliet, is as relevant SUN | Jun 19, 2022 at 3:00pm Dallas Symphony Chorus performing transcendent takes you on a sensational multimedia journey of today as it was when it debuted on Broadway in 1957. FRI | Mar 11, 2022 at 7:30pm anthems, classical holiday favorites and sing-along The Beatles, including top hits like “Ticket to Ride,” Dazzling, award-winning pianist Joyce Yang, who feels SAT | Mar 12, 2022 at 7:30pm carols. Ava Pine and Reginald Smith, Jr. return as “Penny Lane,” “All You Need is Love,” “Get Back,” that Gershwin’s Piano Concerto is full of optimism, hope SUN | Mar 13, 2022 at 3:00pm radiant Holiday vocalists. Sprinkle in an appearance “Hey, Jude” and much more! and magic, will fill the Meyerson with just that for this of Santa, a bit of snow, a little Christmas magic NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. concert event. and there is nothing quite like it! FRI | Jan 28, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Jan 29, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Apr 22, 2022 at 7:30pm FRI | Dec 3, 2021 at 7:30pm SUN | Jan 30, 2022 at 3:00pm SAT | Apr 23, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Dec 4, 2021 at 7:30pm SUN | Apr 24, 2022 at 3:00pm SUN | Dec 5, 2021 at 3:00pm All music under license from Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC and Harrisongs LTD. All photos under license from The Beatles Book Photo Library. The show is not endorsed by or connected to Apple Corps or The Beatles.

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POPS (9 Pops Concerts) Pops Seating Map SEP 10 - 12 The Music of Selena, Page 21 T OCT 8 - 10 Chris Botti in Concert, Page 21 T TT

NOV 12 - 14 Patriotic Pops, Page 21

T DEC 3 - 5 Dallas Symphony Christmas Pops, Page 22 For the young and young-at-heart JAN 28 - 30 Revolution: The Music of the Beatles, Page 22 POPS (9) alike, our beloved DSO Family An Evening with Renée Elise Goldsberry, MAR 11 - 13 Loge $1,536 Concerts are only one hour in Page 22 A $1,131 length and designed to spark the APR 22 - 24 Bernstein & Gershwin, Page 23 B $888 imagination and introduce MAY 6 - 8 Star Wars VI: The Return of the Jedi, Page 23 C $717 the thrill of live music to your JUN 17 - 19 Paul Simon Songbook, Page 23 D $474 family. * CLASSICAL $285 SUPER POPS (9 Pops + 5 Classical Concerts) CONCERT E

T SEP 10 - 12 The Music of Selena, Page 21

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OCT 8 - 10 Chris Botti in Concert, Page 21 Classical Seating Map SUPER POPS (14) OCT 14 - 17* Beethoven's Emperor, Page 5 STAGE Loge $1,807 LOGE ORCHESTRA TERRATERRACCEE NOV 12 - 14 Patriotic Pops, Page 21 A $1,345 DEC 3 - 5 Dallas Symphony Christmas Pops, Page 22 B $1,079 ORCHESTRA JAN 7 - 9* Ravel + Urioste, Page 7 FLOOR C $869 D $575 JAN 28 - 30 Revolution: The Music of the Beatles, Page 22 E $379 An Evening with Renée Elise Goldsberry, MAR 11 - 13 Page 22

APR 8 - 10* Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Page 12 “a wonderful variety of APR 22 - 24 Bernstein & Gershwin, Page 23 coloristic effects from

MAY 6 - 8 Star Wars VI: The Return of the Jedi, Page 23 DRESS CIRCLE the orchestra” MAY 12 - 15* Luisi Conducts Beethoven 9, Page 14 GRAND TIER – Theater Jones JUN 17 - 19 Paul Simon Songbook, Page 23

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OCT 2 Philharmonia Fantastique, Page 26

DEC 4 DSO Family Christmas Pops, Page 26 Presto Mambo: The Music of Latin JUN 4 America with Platypus Theatre, Page 27

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ES PHILHARMONIA FANTASTIQUE DSO FAMILY CHRISTMAS POPS PRESTO MAMBO MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO Lawrence Loh Conducts THE MUSIC OF LATIN AMERICA THE ORCHESTRA Bradley Hunter Welch Organ PLATYPUS THEATRE Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas MASON BATES Philharmonia Fantastique | DALLAS PREMIERE Cynthia Nott & Terrie Preskitt-Brown Directors A concert about the music of the Americas takes an unexpected turn when Max – an energetic but impulsive young boy – makes his way onto the ALUMNI PRIZEWINNER SOLOISTS OF THE SPHINX ORGANIZATION Dallas Symphony Chorus Joshua Habermann Director stage to “help” the orchestra. Soon Max is on a whirlwind adventure that Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra is an animated film that takes him from the concert hall to the vibrant lands of Latin American culture flies through the instruments of the orchestra to explore the age-old connection A special one-hour long family friendly performance of our popular where – with the help of his new friend, Mambo the dog, the orchestra and ESS E of creativity and technology. Guided by a magical Sprite, we see violin strings Christmas Pops concert featuring the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas. the audience – Max learns the magic of Latin rhythms and how to “dance” Come early and enjoy a variety of pre-concert activities for the kids! with the music. Audiences rise to their feet, dancing to the rhythms of Latin America vibrate, brass valves slice air and drum heads resonate. Imaginatively blending E traditional and modern animation styles, it is a kinetic and cutting edge guide in Platypus Theatre’s most interactive show to date. to the orchestra. By the film’s end, the orchestra must overcome its tribal FAMILY (3) SAT | Dec 4, 2021 at 11:00am differences to demonstrate “unity from diversity” in a spectacular finale. SAT | Jun 4, 2022 at 11:00am Loge $140 A $110 SAT | Oct 2, 2021 at 11:00am B $100 C $80 D $60 E $55

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Chelsea Chen’s dynamic playing has taken her to the far corners of the world. Her solo concerts SUNDAY AFTERNOON ORGAN PACKAGE offer a unique mix of traditional organ repertoire along with piano/orchestral transcriptions and OCT 3 Chelsea Chen Organ Recital, Page 29 contemporary music. The Los Angeles Times has praised her “rare musicality” and “lovely lyrical FEB 20 Duruflé Requiem , Page 29 grandeur,” and a compositional style that is “charming” and “irresistible.” MAR 27 Cherry Rhodes Organ Recital, Page 29

Located inside the Meyerson’s Eugene SUN | Oct 3, 2021 at 3:00pm IMPORTANT NOTE: The start time for Sunday concerts has McDermott Concert Hall, the Herman CHELSEA CHEN ©Lisa-Marie Mazzucco changed from 2:30pm to 3:00pm. W. & Amelia H. Lay Family Concert DURUFLÉ REQUIEM Organ is one of the largest mechanical Organ Seating Map (tracker) action organs ever built for Bradley Hunter Welch Organ Dallas Symphony Chorus SE E ES EE a symphony hall. The organ, designed Joshua Habermann Director & Conductor and built by C.B. Fisk, Inc. of Gloucester, DURUFLÉ Requiem for Soloists, Chorus Massachusetts, features 4,535 pipes ES & Organ ranging in size from 32 feet long down Maurice Duruflé was an outstanding French organist, to the size of a pencil. There are seven teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, and composer. His divisions played on four manuals beautiful Requiem, thematically based on Gregorian (keyboards) and pedal: La Resonance, chants, is his most famous piece combining the beauty of voice and organ in a mysterious combination. Great, Positive, Swell, Pedal, Solo and Pedal Solo. Each manual has 61 notes; SUN | Feb 20, 2022 at 3:00pm BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH ©Sylvia Elzafon the pedal board has 32. ESS E CHERRY RHODES ORGAN RECITAL E Cherry Rhodes Organ

At age seventeen, Rhodes made her debut with the ORGAN (3) Philadelphia Orchestra and later performed many times under the baton of Eugene Ormandy as well Loge N/A “in the right hands — and feet — the impact as numerous guest conductors. Rhodes is the first A N/A American to win an international organ competition N/A [of the Lay Family Concert Organ] is nothing if not impressive.” (Munich, Germany). During her brillant career, B Rhodes has toured extensively throughout the major C N/A music capitals of America and Eruope with recitals in – Dallas Morning News cathedral, churches and concert halls. D $60 E $60 CHERRY RHODES SUN | Mar 27, 2022 at 3:00pm dallassymphony.org/subscribe

28 = FEATURES THE LAY FAMILY CONCERT ORGAN 214.849.4376 29 HOLIDAY DALLAS SYMPHONY CHRISTMAS POPS There’s nothing quite like the holidays Lawrence Loh Conducts Ava Pine Soprano with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Reginald Smith, Jr. Bass-Baritone This local tradition features our beloved Bradley Hunter Welch Organ Christmas Pops and Family Christmas Dallas Symphony Chorus Pops interspersed with some of the best Joshua Habermann Director Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas talent in the world. This year look for the Cynthia Nott & Terrie Preskitt-Brown Directors Cantus Vocal Ensemble, Count Basie’s ONLY MATINEE PERFORMANCES Legendary Orchestra and the brasstastic The beloved tradition continues with the Dallas sounds of our Big Brassy Christmas & Symphony Chorus performing transcendent anthems, classical holiday favorites and sing-along carols. Organ Extravaganza. We sprinkle in a Our favorite Holiday vocalists, Ava Pine and Reginald bit of Christmas magic with Santa, pre- Smith, Jr., join the DSO and the Dallas Symphony Chorus to bring a bit of Christmas magic to the Meyerson. concert activities and gorgeous holiday Sprinkle in a Santa appearance, a bit of snow, the joyous decorations to create your best holiday sounds of the DSO and there is nothing quick like it! selfie! Then you can waltz into 2022 with our New Year’s Eve celebration. FRI | Dec 3, 2021 at 7:30pm ©Sylvia Elzafon SAT | Dec 4, 2021 at 3:00pm & 7:30pm SUN | Dec 5, 2021 at 3:00pm THU | Dec 9, 2021 at 7:30pm FRI | Dec 10, 2021 at 7:30pm SAT | Dec 11, 2021 at 11:00am, 3:00pm & 7:30pm SUN | Dec 12, 2021 at 3:00pm IMPORTANT NOTE: The start time for Sunday concerts has changed from 2:30pm to 3:00pm.

FAMILY CHRISTMAS POPS Lawrence Loh Conducts Bradley Hunter Welch Organ Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas Cynthia Nott & Terrie Preskitt-Brown Directors Dallas Symphony Chorus Joshua Habermann Director

A special one-hour long family friendly performance “…with glowing tone, this was playing sensitively scaled and shaped, of our popular Christmas Pops concert featuring the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas. Come early and with the subtlest touches of magic at just the right moments” enjoy a variety of pre-concert activities for the kids!

– Dallas Morning News SAT | Dec 4, 2021 at 11:00am NOTE: This is a part of the Family Package ©Sylvia Elzafon

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CHRISTMAS WITH CANTUS BIG BRASSY CHRISTMAS A VERY SWINGIN' BASIE CHRISTMAS NEW YEAR’S EVE THE LEGENDARY COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA™ WITH THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Cantus Vocal Ensemble & ORGAN EXTRAVAGANZA Lawrence Loh Conducts Count Basie Orchestra Gemma New Conducts In a “powerfully poetic Christmas program,” the all-male Bradley Hunter Welch Organ Scotty Barnhart Director vocal ensemble presents familiar holiday carols alongside The Dallas Symphony’s tribute to the Viennese tradition narrated passages from The Little Matchstick Girl, Deck the halls with the DSO brass and percussion sections In the history of Jazz music, Count Basie is the only returns to the Meyerson. Toast the New Year with lively Christmas or The Good Fairy and The Nutcracker. and the magnificent Lay Family Concert Organ. This Dallas bandleader who has the distinction of having his orchestra waltzes from the Strauss dynasty, honoring the most Symphony tradition returns to make your holidays merry still performing sold out concerts all over the world, with prestigious of New Year’s musical traditions. Then, stay and bright with an extra helping of Christmas cheer! members personally chosen by him, for over 30 years after afterward to ring in the New Year at the exclusive MON | DEC 6, 2021 AT 7:30PM his passing. From your favorite hits to selections from their Meyerson ‘Til Midnight after-party! NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. critically acclaimed album, A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! TUE | Dec 14, 2021 at 7:30pm this concert will definitely add a little zing to your FRI | Dec 31, 2021 at 7:30pm holiday season.

TUE | Dec 21, 2021 at 7:30pm

NOTE: This concert does not feature the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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COCO LIVE IN CONCERT Jayce Ogren Conducts

Bring toda la familia to the beloved Oscar®-winning film,Coco ! The animated favorite is reimagined with the DSO performing Michael Giacchino’s beautiful score live with multiple classical guitarists on stage, while the film is projected on the big screen at the Meyerson. You won’t want to miss this heartwarming film, which follows aspiring young musician Miguel as he encounters “…this was a performance in unexpected adventures in the Land of the Dead.

which you sensed everyone FRI | Sep 3, 2021 at 7:30pm SAT | Sep 4, 2021 at 7:30pm onstage keenly attuned SUN | Sep 5, 2021 at 3:00pm to one another, listening fastidiously, responding appropriately.”

– Dallas Morning News

Each year, the DSO strives to bring you new ways to experience the Meyerson and the DSO! From family favorite films played on the big screen with the score played live by the DSO, to the latest in new works IMPORTANT NOTE: The start time for Sunday concerts has changed from 2:30pm to 3:00pm. and holiday-themed concerts, to some of the most famous names in entertainment and music, these special events have something for everyone who loves music. Bring a friend, bring the whole family and join us for one-of-a-kind concert experiences throughout the season.

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FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JUNE 19-21 | 2020 Full Orchestra and Choir Conducted by JAYCE OGREN

directed by LEE UNKRICH co-directed by ADRIAN MOLINA concert produced by DARLA K. ANDERSON, p.g.a. executive producer JOHN LASSETER screenplay by ADRIAN MOLINA MATTHEW ALDRICH original story by LEE UNKRICH JASON KATZ MATTHEW ADRICH ADRIAN MOLINA original score by MICHAEL GIACCHINO original songs by KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ & ROBERT LOPEZ and GERMAINE FRANCO & ADRIAN MOLINA

PRESENTATION LICENSED BY DISNEY CONCERTS

© DISNEY/PIXAR DENYCE GRAVES ERICH BERGEN BEN FOLDS

TRIBUTE TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG ERICH BERGEN’S BEN FOLDS IN CONCERT Denyce Graves Mezzo-Soprano HOLLYWOOD SONGBOOK WITH THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jeffrey Biegel Piano Erich Bergen Vocalist Enrico Lopez-Yañez Conducts Lidiya Yankovskaya Conducts Enrico Lopez-Yañez Conducts Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH New Work: Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg | DALLAS PREMIERE Erich Bergen, from Madam Secretary, Jersey Boys influencers of our generation. He’s created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums Concert featuring the world premiere of a new work by and Waitress, will join the DSO for one-night-only with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums and numerous distinguished American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich paying to take you on a musical tour of Hollywood. His collaborative records. His last album was a blend of pop homage to and remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the performance is filled with songs you know and love songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared first anniversary of her passing in September 2020. This new and hilarious stories from his screen-and-stage to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover composition - featuring Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano) career. Featuring music by Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, charts. For over a decade he’s performed with some of the and Jeffrey Biegel (pianist and project coordinator), with the Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and many more. world’s greatest symphony orchestras and currently serves DSO – is co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony with generous support of the Norma and Don Stone New WED | Oct 20, 2021 at 7:30pm Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and we’re thrilled to have Music Fund, and the Billy Rose Foundation and the American him for three nights this season! Composers Forum.

FRI | Oct 22, 2021 at 7:30pm THU | Oct 7, 2021 at 7:30pm SAT | Oct 23, 2021 at 7:30pm SUN | Oct 24, 2021 at 3:00pm

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36 37 DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CONCERT Verdigris Ensemble

Join us for a vibrant Day of the Dead concert and celebration featuring traditional Latin American music and culture, dazzling guests artists, colorful festivities and fun-filled events for the whole family. TOY STORY ´ SUN | Oct 31, 2021 at 3:00pm LIVE IN CONCERT Sarah Hicks Conducts

The Dallas Symphony hosts Disney Concert’s newest live-to-picture concert event featuring the timeless classic film,Toy Story, accompanied by Randy Newman’s beloved score. Bring your children and grandchildren to follow along as pull-string cowboy, Woody, and astronaut action figure, Buzz Lightyear, grow from enemies battling for the attention of their owner Andy to comrades who join forces.

FRI | Jun 24, 2022 at 7:30pm SAT | Jun 25, 2022 at 7:30pm SUN | Jun 26, 2022 at 3:00pm

RENÉE FLEMING: “MUSIC AND MIND” LECTURE Renée Fleming Soprano and Speaker

Internationally renowned soprano and arts health advocate, Renée Fleming, presents a unique event for the 2021 Women in Classical Music Symposium, involving conversations with practitioners and scientists active in the fields of music, neuroscience and healthcare.

The 2021 Women in Classical Music Symposium is Presented by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

MON | Nov 8, 2021 at 7:30pm

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