Seattle Symphony January 2018 Encore
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JANUARY 2018 LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS BRAHMS PROKOFIEV FESTIVAL BROADWAY TODAY CONTENTS Photo: Patoc Brandon “This is where I slow down and really meditate. I can come to a concert and feel totally renewed afterwards. Knowing my efforts directly help this organization make me incredibly proud, and bringing a person to the orchestra who has never experienced symphonic music is one of the greatest pleasures I have.” – Terry, proud supporter and Symphony Board member JOIN TERRY BY MAKING YOUR GIFT FOR SYMPHONIC MUSIC TODAY! Concerts like the one you are about to enjoy are only possible through the support of generous music lovers like you. SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG/GIVE | 206.215.4832 CONTENTS JANUARY 2018 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE SYMPHONY 10 / NEWS FEATURES 12 / CELEBRATE ASIA 14 / THE CONDUCTOR’S LIFE, WITH PABLO RUS BROSETA CONCERTS 15 / January 4 & 6 MOZART SYMPHONY NO. 39 18 / January 12–14 BROADWAY TODAY 20 / January 15 NATHAN LAUBE IN RECITAL 23 / January 18 PROKOFIEV CONCERTO FESTIVAL 1 27 / January 19 PROKOFIEV CONCERTO FESTIVAL 2 29 / January 25 & 27 DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS BRAHMS 32 / January 26 BRAHMS UNTUXED 18 / BETSY WOLFE Photo: Justin Patterson Justin Photo: 42 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 43 / THE LIS(Z)T 15 / AUGUSTIN HADELICH 27 / SOPHIE LEE Photo courtesyPhoto of the artist Photo: Paul Glickman Paul Photo: ON THE COVER: Thomas Dausgaard (p. 29) by Brandon Patoc COVER DESIGN: Jadzia Parker EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 2018 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. encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 ON THE DIAL: Tune in to January & Classical KING FM 98.1 every February 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 JANUARY ■ 7:30pm 7pm 8pm Mozart Symphony Garfield High School Mozart Symphony No. 39 Side-by-Side No. 39 1 2 3 4 5 6 8pm 8pm Broadway Today Broadway Today 7 8 BETSY WOLFE 9 10 11 12 13 2pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 8pm Broadway Today Nathan Laube Seattle Arts & Seattle Arts & Prokofiev Concerto Prokofiev Concerto in Recital Lectures: Lectures: Festival 1 Festival 2 2:30pm Seattle Nikki Giovanni Jesmyn Ward Baroque Orchestra: Byron Schenkman’s Favorites 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3pm 7:30pm 9am 7:30pm 7:30pm 7pm 2pm Seattle Seattle Youth STG Presents: Adam Friends Open Howard Jones Solo: Dausgaard Conducts Brahms Untuxed Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Sandler & Friends Rehearsal & Discussion The Songs & The Brahms Orchestra presents Side-by-Side Stories Three Decades, 7pm 7:30pm Five Treasures Roosevelt High School Seattle Arts & Side-by-Side Lectures: Ijeoma Oluo 8pm Dausgaard 21 22 23 24 25 26 Conducts Brahms 27 2pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 8pm ■ FEBRUARY 12pm Rachmaninov 8pm National Geographic National Geographic National Geographic The St. Olaf Choir Symphony No. 3 Rachmaninov Live — View From Live — View From Live — View From in Concert 7:30pm 7:30pm Seattle Arts & Symphony No. 3 Above Above Above Rachmaninov Lectures: Live Taping Symphony No. 3 of “A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment” 8pm Joshua Bell 28 29 30 31 1 in Recital 2 3 7:30pm 7:30pm 12pm 2pm UW Symphony at Morlot Conducts Founders Circle Silver SYSO: 4 Orchestras Benaroya Hall Strauss Luncheon* Winter Concert 8pm 7:30pm Morlot Conducts Masters of Scottish Strauss Arts 8pm Andre Feriante 4 5 6 LA LA LAND7 8 9 10 4pm 7pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 1pm 10:30am Tiny Tots: 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am Tiny Celebrate Asia Catholic High School La La Land in Concert La La Land in Concert Benaroya Hall Tour Goodnight Moon Tots: Goodnight Moon Choir Festival with the Seattle with the Seattle 7:30pm Seattle Repertory Symphony Symphony 7:30pm 8pm Just a Kiss Away! Jazz Orchestra: Brubeck & Seattle Arts & Lisa Fischer & Grand Desmond: Inseparable 7:30pm Lectures: Colson Baton with the Seattle 8pm Just a Kiss Away! Lisa Benjamin Clementine Whitehead Symphony Fischer & Grand Baton with the Seattle Symphony 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2pm Just a Kiss Away! 7:30pm 3:30pm 8pm 11am Lisa Fischer & Grand Jake Shimabukuro Friends Open Vivaldi Gloria Family Concerts: Baton with the Seattle Rehearsal* The Story of Babar Symphony 7pm Byron Schenkman & 8pm Friends — Handel: From Vivaldi Gloria the War of Love 7:30pm Fran Lebowitz 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2pm National 7:30pm 7:30pm 12pm Geographic Live — National Geographic National Geographic Seattle City Hall Between River & Rim: Live — Between River Live — Between River Community Concert Hiking the Grand Canyon & Rim: Hiking the & Rim: Hiking the 7:30pm 2:30pm Grand Canyon Grand Canyon The Wailin’ Jennys Rachel Barton Pine 8pm Carla Bruni 25 26 27 28 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE LEGEND: Seattle Symphony Events Benaroya Hall Events *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information Betsy Wolfe in Broadway Today (January 12–14); La La Land in Concert with the Seattle Symphony (February 13 & 14) 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG by Dale Robinette; National Geographic Live — Between River & Rim: Hiking the Grand Canyon (February 25–27) SSO058-Calendar.indd 1 12/19/17 2:25 PM ■ ON THE BEAT See Who’s Here to Hear MOZART’S COMEDY ABOUT SEX così fan tutte jan 13-27, 2018 Photo: James Holt James Photo: I’ve liked classical music pretty much my entire life. I spent about 50 years in broadcasting in the United States, Australia and Europe. I was also one of a handful of Americans that participated in a thing called the radio pirates of England in the 1960s. We did our broadcasts from a ship in the North Sea. I proved to myself that I can never, ever get seasick. We went through some pretty violent weather — our ship was only 180 feet long, a former liberty ship from World War II. I started out as a disc jockey and wound up as the general manager of Swinging Radio London before we were forced to shut down. – Jack CONNECT WITH US: LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Seattle Opera Revival Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and Love has many faces when two buddies In Italian with English subtitles. follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Evenings 7:30 PM don disguises to test the faithfulness Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download Sunday 2:00 PM the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase of their fiancèes. Will the women fall tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive for their “new” suitors as the opera’s MCCAW HALL exclusive offers. title (“All women do it”) suggests? 206.389.7676 And if they do, who is really to blame? SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/COSI Blending bawdy humor and keen insight, the charming Così features some of PRODUCTION SPONSORS: SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION, seattlesymphony.org the sweetest and most ravishing music ANN P. WYCKOFF, ARTSFUND TICKETS: 206.215.4747 Mozart ever wrote. PHOTO © PHILIP NEWTON GIVE: 206.215.4832 encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 LUDOVIC MORLOT SEATTLE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR French conductor Ludovic at the University of California, Berkeley. The orchestra has Morlot has been Music Director many successful recordings, available on their own label, of the Seattle Symphony Seattle Symphony Media. A box set of music by Dutilleux since 2011. Amongst the was recently released to mark the 100th anniversary of the many highlights of his tenure, composer’s birth. the orchestra has won three Grammy Awards and gave an Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for exhilarating performance at three years (2012–14). During this time he conducted several Carnegie Hall in 2014. new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenu°fa and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both During the 2017–2018 in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by season Morlot and the Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau. Seattle Symphony will continue on their incredible Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the musical journey, focusing Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: particularly on the music College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar of Berlioz, Stravinsky and Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of Bernstein. In addition, they will be presenting some exciting new the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his works by John Luther Adams, David Lang and Andrew Norman and significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral welcoming Alexandra Gardner for a residency. The orchestra will also Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School be performing on tour in California, including a two-day residency of Music. 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 PICCOLO HORN HARP Open Position Timothy Hale Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Jeffrey Fair Valerie Muzzolini Gordon David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Penelope Crane Robert & Clodagh Ash Piccolo Charles Simonyi Principal Horn Principal Open Position Wes Dyring Mark Robbins Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster Sayaka Kokubo OBOE Associate Principal KEYBOARD Cordula Merks Rachel Swerdlow Mary Lynch Jonathan Karschney Joseph Adam, organ + Assistant Concertmaster Julie Whitton Principal Assistant Principal Simon James Supported by anonymous donors Jenna Breen PERSONNEL MANAGER