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JUNE | JULY 2017 LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR MORLOT C O N D U C T S R AV E L’ S MAGICAL OPERA & MAHLER 5 DAUSGAARD C O N D U C T S MENDELSSOHN & STRAUSS ACCESS FOR ALL CONTENTS LUXURY Nothing if not rare. Luxury lives here. ColdwellBankerBain.com/GlobalLuxury CONTENTS JUNE/JULY 2017 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE ORCHESTRA 8 / SIMPLE GIFTS 10 / NOTES FEATURE 12 / MEMORABLE MOMENTS CONCERTS 15 / June 1 & 3 RAVEL’S MAGICAL OPERA 22 / June 2 MOZART UNTUXED 25 / June 8, 9 & 10 PEKKA KUUSISTO MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO 25 / PEKKA KUUSISTO Photo: Kaapo Kamu Photo: 29 / June 13 BACH & JANÁČEK 31 / June 15 & 17 STRAUSS AN ALPINE SYMPHONY 37 / June 22, 23 & 24 MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 5 42 / June 30 & July 1 A LIVE PRESENTATION OF 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 15 & 37 / ALLYSON McHARDY 31 / GUN-BRIT BARKMIN 43 / July 11 Photo: Florian Kalotay Florian Photo: Photo: Bo Huang Photo: AMOS LEE WITH THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 44 / July 13, 14, 15 & 16 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE™ IN CONCERT WITH THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 54 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 42 / 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 55 / THE LIS(Z)T ON THE COVER: Ludovic Morlot by Brandon Patoc COVER DESIGN: Helen Hodges EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 2017 Seattle Symphony. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without written permission from the Seattle Symphony. All programs and artists are subject to change. encoreartsseattle.com 3 ON THE DIAL: Tune in to June & Classical KING FM 98.1 every July Wednesday at 8pm for a Seattle Symphony spotlight and CALENDAR the first Friday of every month at 9pm for concert broadcasts. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY ■ JUNE 10:30am A Playdate 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am with Brahms A Playdate with 7:30pm Brahms Ravel’s Magical 5pm Volunteer 2pm Seattle Opera Appreciation Event* Philharmonic Orch.: The Rite of Spring 7pm Mozart Untuxed 8pm Ravel’s Magical 1 2 Opera 3 11:30am 7pm 2pm 7:30pm 12pm 8pm Musical Legacy The Merriman Family Donor and Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto Society Luncheon* Young Composers Subscriber Open Mendelssohn Violin Mendelssohn Violin Mendelssohn Violin Workshop Concert Rehearsal* Concerto Concerto Concerto 8pm Club Ludo at the 4 5 6 7 8 Chihuly Boathouse* 9 10 3pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7pm 7:30pm SRJO with SYSO: 4 Orchestras Bach & Janácˇek The Art of Strauss An Alpine Sarah Mahoney & Christian McBride: Concert Alzheimer’s presents Symphony Friends The Art of the Bass Alzheimer’s Talks with Chef Madison 8pm Cowan Strauss An Alpine Symphony 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 7:30pm 10am 7:30pm 8pm 8pm Live @ Benaroya Friends Onstage Mahler Symphony Mahler Symphony Mahler Symphony Hall — TajMo: The Rehearsal* No. 5 No. 5 No. 5 Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band Founders Circle Party* 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 6pm 8pm ■ JULY Seattle Symphony A Live Presentation presents The Music of 2001: A SPACE 8pm of John Williams at ODYSSEY A Live Presentation Woodland Park Zoo of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 7:30pm Ensign Symphony & Chorus presents American Dream: Celebrating Seekers of Freedom 2 3 4 5 2001:6 A SPACE ODYSSEY7 8 7:30pm 7:30pm 8pm 8pm Amos Lee with the HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER Seattle Symphony AND THE AND THE AND THE SORCERER’S SORCERER’S SORCERER’S STONE™ in Concert STONE™ in Concert STONE™ in Concert with the Seattle with the Seattle with the Seattle Symphony Symphony Symphony 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2pm 12:30pm 8pm HARRY POTTER Watjen Concert Stephanie Miller’s AND THE Organ Recital – Free Sexy Liberal SORCERER’S Demonstration Resistance Tour STONE™ in Concert with the Seattle Symphony 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 AMOS LEE26 27 28 29 LEGEND: Seattle Symphony Events Benaroya Hall Events *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information A Live Presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey (June 30 & July 1); Amos Lee with the Seattle Symphony (July 11) 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG SSO107-Calendar.indd 1 5/16/17 12:01 PM ■ ON THE BEAT See Who’s Here to Hear Photo: James Holt James Photo: “I’m too new to classical music to have a favorite composer, but I’m starting to learn what types of classical music I like. I find that I really love Baroque and I love anything that has a cello or oboe or something like that. My introduction puccini to classical music was through Pandora radio stations, looking for music I could listen to while working. MADAME Anything with lyrics makes it harder if I need to write something, so I kept playing around with different stations until I found something I liked. I really liked classical BUTTERFLY guitar music. That was my preference. Then I kept exploring, discovering august -5 19 different things I enjoyed listening too. Now I’ve been to a few concerts at the Symphony, most recently the Elgar Cello Concerto concert this year.” © Philip Newton – Shannon CULTURES CLASH, HEARTS BREAK In Italian with English subtitles. In Puccini’s beloved masterpiece, a Evenings 7:30 PM Sundays 2:00 PM whirlwind affair between a trusting CONNECT WITH US: Japanese maiden and a reckless American Featuring the Seattle Opera Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and naval office, leads to abandonment and Chorus and members of follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, tragedy. Overflowing with lyrical music of Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download unparalleled passion and pathos, the score SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE NOW! the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase includes Butterfly’s poignant arias, the tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive sublime “humming chorus,” and a rapturous MCCAW HALL exclusive offers. love duet for the ages. The beautiful, 206.389.7676 new-to-Seattle production features SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/BUTTERFLY traditional staging and period design. seattlesymphony.org PRODUCTION SPONSORS: TAGNEY JONES FAMILY FUND AT SEATTLE FOUNDATION, TICKETS: 206.215.4747 BARBARA STEPHANUS GIVE: 206.215.4832 encoreartsseattle.com 5 LUDOVIC MORLOT SEATTLE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR French conductor Ludovic will also see the release of several more recordings on the Morlot has been Music Director Orchestra’s label, Seattle Symphony Media. A box set of of the Seattle Symphony music by Dutilleux was recently released to mark the 100th since 2011. Amongst the anniversary of the composer’s birth. many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra has won three Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for Grammy Awards and gave an three years (2012–14). During this time he conducted several exhilarating performance at new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenu°fa Carnegie Hall in 2014. and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by During the 2016–2017 season Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau. Morlot and the Seattle Symphony will continue to Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the invite their audiences to Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal “listen boldly,” presenting College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: Ravel’s L’enfant et les Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of sortilèges, completing their the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his cycle of Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos and several significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral world premieres including compositions by Agata Zubel and Gabriel Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School Prokofiev. All of this will be complemented by the Seattle Symphony’s of Music and lives in Seattle with his wife, Ghizlane, and highly innovative series, Sonic Evolution and [untitled]. This season their two children. SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROSTER LUDOVIC MORLOT Thomas Dausgaard, Principal Guest Conductor Pablo Rus Broseta, Douglas F. King Associate Conductor Harriet Overton Stimson Music Director Joseph Crnko, Associate Conductor for Choral Activities Gerard Schwarz, Rebecca & Jack Benaroya Conductor Laureate FIRST VIOLIN Mara Gearman Judy Washburn Kriewall HORN HARP Open Position Timothy Hale Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Jeffrey Fair Valerie Muzzolini Gordon David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Vincent Comer Charles Simonyi Principal Horn Principal Open Position Penelope Crane PICCOLO Mark Robbins Supported by Eliza and Brian Shelden Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster Wes Dyring Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Associate Principal Cordula Merks Sayaka Kokubo Robert & Clodagh Ash Piccolo Jonathan Karschney KEYBOARD Assistant Concertmaster Rachel Swerdlow Assistant Principal Kimberly Russ, piano +** Simon James Julie Whitton OBOE Jenna Breen Joseph Adam, organ + Second Assistant Concertmaster Mary Lynch John Turman PERSONNEL MANAGER Jennifer Bai CELLO Principal Adam Iascone Mariel Bailey Efe Baltacıgil Supported by anonymous donors Scott Wilson Cecilia Poellein Buss Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello Ben Hausmann TRUMPET ASSISTANT PERSONNEL Ayako Gamo Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Associate Principal David Gordon MANAGER Timothy Garland Assistant Principal Chengwen Winnie Lai The Boeing Company Principal Trumpet Supported by their children in memory of Keith Higgins Leonid Keylin Stefan Farkas Alexander White Helen and Max Gurvich Mae Lin Assistant Principal Nathan Chan LIBRARY Mikhail Shmidt ENGLISH HORN Geoffrey Bergler Eric Han Clark Story Stefan Farkas Patricia Takahashi-Blayney John Weller Bruce Bailey TROMBONE Principal Librarian Roberta Hansen Downey Robert Olivia Jeannie Wells Yablonsky CLARINET Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Walter Gray Associate Librarian Arthur Zadinsky Benjamin Lulich Principal Vivian Gu Jeanne Case Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Smith Principal David Lawrence Ritt SECOND VIOLIN Joy Payton-Stevens Librarian Clarinet Stephen Fissel Elisa Barston David Sabee Laura DeLuca Rachel Swerdlow Principal Assistant Librarian Dr. Robert Wallace Clarinet BASS TROMBONE Michael Miropolsky BASS Eric Jacobs Stephen Fissel John & Carmen Delo Jordan Anderson TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Assistant Principal Second Violin Mr.