APRIL 2017 MORLOT CONDUCTS BRUCKNER LEIF OVE ANDSNES & MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN DUO RECITAL TALL-TAKACS’ MUSICAL LEGACY Encore Magazine: Seattle Symphony Runs: April 7-29 CONTENTS NO NEED TO HOLD THE APPLAUSE The vision and commitment of United Way’s Million Dollar Roundtable is music to our ears. This group is leading the way, building a foundation for our community where people have homes, students graduate and families are financial stable. These generous donors have committed to gifts of $1 million or more over a period of five years or less. So, no need to wait to clap. Cheering them on means cheering our community on. Ginger Ackerley Theresa E. Gillespie and Satya and Rao Remala Foundation Anonymous (1) John W. Stanton John and Nancy Rudolf Bacon Family Foundation Anne E. 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SIZE: 2/3 VERTICAL Untitled-1 1 3/1/17 11:09 AM CONTENTS APRIL 2017 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE ORCHESTRA 8 / SIMPLE GIFTS 10 / NOTES FEATURE 11 / YOUR SYMPHONY, YOUR LEGACY Stories from the Musical Legacy Society CONCERTS 13 / April 7, 8 & 9 REBIRTH BRASS BAND 15 / April 10 CHRISTIAN WILSON 17 / April 13 & 15 RACHMANINOV RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI 22 / April 14 RACHMANINOV UNTUXED 23 / April 20 & 22 MORLOT CONDUCTS BRUCKNER 26 / APRIL 24 LEIF OVE ANDSNES & MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN IN RECITAL 13 / REBIRTH BRASS BAND 30 / April 27 & 29 Photo courtesy of Rebirth Brass Band courtesy Brass Photo of Rebirth TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 35 / April 28 [UNTITLED] 3 46 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 47 / THE LIS(Z)T 26 / LEIF OVE ANDSNES 26 / MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Photo: Fran Kaufman Fran Photo: ON THE COVER: Ludovic Morlot by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco COVER DESIGN: Jessica Forsythe EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 2017 Seattle Symphony. All rights reserved. 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Encore Media Group connects businesses and brands to the best of arts & culture in Seattle and the Bay Area. We’re proud to have published programs with the Seattle Symphony for 35 years. From fashion and finance to dining and diamonds, smart business owners know Encore is the best way to get their brand in the spotlight. To learn what Encore can do for your business, visit encoremediagroup.com. 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 Wesley Anderson 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