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APRIL 2018 LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR MORLOT CONDUCTS STRAVINSKY PERSEPHONE DEBUSSY LA MER THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA LOOKING AHEAD SIBELIUS KULLERVO CONTENTS APR 7:30 PM The Complete Songs of Edvard 06 Grieg: The Norwegian Soul APR 7:00 PM Goldberg Variations with 13 Adam Pearl APR MAY 7:30 PM Curtis Stigers with the Full Earthday Tribute with the 31 Circle Jazz Band 21 Ecco Chamber Ensemble 7:30 APR 7:30 PM Pacific MusicWorks 28 Underground: April in Paris MAY 7:30 PM An Evening with 04 Brooklyn Art Song Society An elegant & intimate venue located in the MAY 7:30 PM heart of downtown Emerald City Music Presents: Bellevue. 12 Carte Blanche with Park-Atapine Duo Featuring weekly MAY APR music performances 7:30 PM Goldberg Variations An Evening with Susan Pascal with Adam Pearl 13 & table seating paired 17 Group and Special Guests 7:00 with wine and beer MAY selections you can 7:30 PM enjoy throughout the Pacific MusicWorks performance. 19 Underground: All About that Bass (Viola Da Gamba) MAY 7:30 PM Curtis Stigers with 31 the Full Circle Jazz Band JUN 7:30 PM More than Quartets 01 with Skyros and Friends www.resonance.events CONTENTS APRIL 2018 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE SYMPHONY 10 / NEWS FEATURES 12 / SEARCHING FOR SIBELIUS 14 / KARINA CANELLAKIS CONCERTS 16 / April 13, 14 & 15 THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA 18 / April 19 & 21 DEBUSSY LA MER 21 / April 20 DEBUSSY UNTUXED 22 / April 26 & 28 STRAVINSKY PERSEPHONE 34 / April 27 [UNTITLED] 2 46 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 22 & 34 / DMITRY POKROVSKY ENSEMBLE 47 / THE LIS(Z)T Photo courtesy of Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble courtesyPhoto of Dmitry Pokrovsky 18 / DANIIL TRIFONOV 16 / THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA Photo courtesy of the Duke Ellington Orchestra Ellington courtesyPhoto of the Duke Photo: Dario Acosta Dario Photo: ON THE COVER: Persephone (p. 22) from the Oregon Symphony’s performance in 2017. Photo by Brud Giles. COVER DESIGN: Helen Hodges 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 April Classical KING FM 98.1 every & May 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 Seattle Symphony Spring Tour ■ APRIL 8pm Enchanting China 8pm Live @ Benaroya Hall: Sarah Vowell & Michael Giacchino 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Spring Tour cont’d 7:30pm 1pm 8pm 8pm 2pm National National Geographic Benaroya Hall Tour The Duke Ellington The Duke Ellington Geographic Live Live — Standing at the Orchestra Orchestra 2:30pm Seattle Water’s Edge 7:30pm Baroque Orchestra National Geographic Live — Standing at the 7:30pm An Evening Water’s Edge with Anne Lamott 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2pm 7:30pm 10:30am 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am The Duke Ellington Debussy La mer Tiny Tots: Magical Tiny Tots: Magical Orchestra Melody Train Ride! Melody Train Ride! 7pm Debussy Untuxed 7:30pm SRJO: Ellington’s Such 8pm Live @ Benaroya Sweet Thunder Hall: Sera Cahoone 8pm Debussy 15 16 17 18 19 20 La mer 21 3pm SYSO: All-Brahms 7:30pm 7:30pm 10pm 8pm 7pm Byron Schenkman Live @ Benaroya Hall: Stravinsky [untitled] 2 Stravinsky & Friends: Vivaldi and Bettye LaVette Persephone Persephone the High Baroque 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 10am ■ MAY 7:30pm 10am Friends Onstage 7:30pm Seattle Arts & 11am Family Concerts: Estate Planning Live @ Benaroya Hall: Rehearsal* Lectures: An Evening Romeo & Juliet Seminar* Angélique Kidjo’s 6pm Volunteer Wine & with Jenny Han & 7:30pm Seattle REMAIN IN LIGHT Wisdom* Nicola Yoon Classic Guitar Society: 7:30pm Jérémy Jouve National Geographic 7:30pm Live @ 8pm Vivaldi & Handel + Pop-up Magazine Benaroya Hall: Alan Arias & Concertos 8pm Vivaldi & Handel Cumming: Legal Arias & Concertos 29 30 1 2 Immigrant 3 4 5 2pm 7:30pm 8pm Alaska Airlines 7:30pm 7pm Mozart Violin Seattle Arts & presents A Special Ensign Symphony & Ten Grands Concerto No. 5 Lectures: Viet Thanh GIVE Concert Supporting Chorus: Glorious Nguyen Youth, Equity & BIG Access to the Arts 6 7 8 (see page 10) 9 10 11 12 11am 7:30pm 7:30pm National 12pm 2pm Prism Project Lullaby Project National Geographic Geographic Live — A Musical Legacy Concert at the Seattle Celebration Concert Live — A Rare Look: Rare Look: North Society Luncheon* Art Museum 2pm North Korea to Cuba Korea to Cuba National Geographic 7:30pm 3pm Live — A Rare Look: 7:30pm Seattle Arts & Prokofiev Romeo & SYSO: 5 Orchestras North Korea to Cuba Lectures: Ariel Levy Juliet & Firebird 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2pm 7:30pm 6:30pm Prokofiev Romeo & Seattle Arts & CWU Music at Juliet Lectures: The Moth Benaroya Hall Mainstage 5pm Music of Remembrance: Gaman: to persevere 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7:30pm ■ JUNE 2pm Sibelius Kullervo Seattle Philharmonic 8pm Orchestra Brahms & Schumann 8pm Sibelius Kullervo 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 LEGEND: Seattle Symphony Events Benaroya Hall Events *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG SSO088-Calendar.indd 1 3/27/18 9:50 AM ■ ON THE BEAT See Who’s Here to Hear TEN GRAND PIANOS. TEN AMAZING PIANISTS. Photo: James Holt James Photo: I was a musician, so attending the Symphony is how I keep up my love of music. I played flute through high school and college. My undergrad is in history and women’s studies and then I got an MBA. Now I do leadership development for Amazon, which means that I help leaders think about the people side and not just the profit side. SATURDAY, MAY 12, AT 7PM I have a natural teaching tendency, and through the twists and turns of my career, I ended up here in Seattle. I’ve been attending concerts for several TEN GRANDS years, but I think my favorite was the GIVING THE GIFT OF MUSIC TO CHILDREN Opening Night concert with Joyce In partnership with: DiDonato a few years ago. – Andrea Event Sponsors: Kathy Fahlman Dewalt and Stephen R. Dewalt Judith A. Fong and Mark Wheeler Supporting Sponsors: Bernstein Family Foundation Bob and Melinda Hord Barbara and Richard Wortley CONNECT WITH US: Contributing Sponsors: Thomas Horsley and Cheri Brennan Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and Jessie and David Woolley-Wilson follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Ins- In-kind Sponsors: tagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase tickets, Media Sponsor: skip the Ticket Office lines and receive exclu- sive offers. Ten Grands is a fundraiser benefiting music education programs throughout Washington State. Thank you for your support! TICKETS: seattlesymphony.org 206.215.4747 | SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG/TENGRANDS TICKETS: 206.215.4747 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 Second Assistant Concertmaster CELLO Ben Hausmann John Turman Scott Wilson Jennifer Bai Efe Baltacıgil Associate Principal Danielle Kuhlmann Mariel Bailey Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello Chengwen Winnie Lai ASSISTANT PERSONNEL Cecilia Poellein Buss Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Stefan Farkas TRUMPET MANAGER Ayako Gamo Assistant Principal David Gordon Keith Higgins Timothy Garland Nathan Chan ENGLISH HORN The Boeing Company Principal Trumpet Leonid Keylin Eric Han Stefan Farkas Alexander White LIBRARY Mae Lin Bruce Bailey Assistant Principal Patricia Takahashi-Blayney Mikhail Shmidt Roberta Hansen Downey CLARINET Christopher Stingle Principal Librarian Clark Story Walter Gray Benjamin Lulich Michael Myers Robert Olivia John Weller Vivian Gu Mr.