2018.19 SEASON September 7 – December 2 BAT OUT OF HELL JUN 12–23, 2019 A crazy wild child of a rock’n’roll musical. Here comes a musical with an electric edge! Experience Jim Steinman’s smash-hit that celebrates the beloved songs of one of Meat Loaf’s most iconic and successful album, BAT OUT OF HELL. This new musical heats up the streets (and the stage) as young, rebellious leader Strat falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the most powerful man in post-apocalyptic Obsidian. With an award-winning creative team from the worlds of Theatre, Opera, Music and film, this is a can’t-miss production. BAT OUT OF HELL JUN 12–23, 2019 A crazy wild child of a rock’n’roll musical. Here comes a musical with an electric edge! Experience Jim Steinman’s smash-hit that celebrates the beloved songs of one of Meat Loaf’s most iconic and successful album, BAT OUT OF HELL. This new musical heats up the streets (and the stage) as young, rebellious leader Strat falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the most powerful man in post-apocalyptic Obsidian. With an award-winning creative team from the worlds of Theatre, Opera, Music and film, this is a can’t- miss production. DOLLY PARTON’S DOLLY PARTON’ ORDWAY A NEW WAY SAVE UP TO 20% WITH A 2018–2019 BROADWAY SEASON PACKAGE! ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION RESERVED. ALL RIGHTS TM & © NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS, INC. JUL 23–AUG 112019 BY HUGH SYME. BY The Musical AN ORDWAY ORIGINAL DEC 5–302018 APR 2–72019 ADD TO YOUR PREMIER PACKAGE TICKETS Love ONLY Can Tell $25! A Million Stories Love Can Tell NOV 17–18, 2018 A MillionFEB 19–242019 Stories ANTHONY RAPP JUN 12–232019 SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE ADAM PASCAL OCT 272018 10% DISCOUNT 651.224.4222 TTY651.282.3100 Accessibility services are scheduled for select performances and available upon request. For more information visit Ordway.org/access Generous support for Spamalot Broadway Series 42nd Street is provided Elf sponsored by sponsored by sponsored by by Marcia L. Morris (detail) Coll. Minnesota Museum of American Art Minnesota Museum of American (detail) Coll. Mother Spirit Mother Spirit art courtesy of: Ta-coumba Aiken, Aiken, of:art courtesy Ta-coumba (Re)Opening Dec. 2, 2018 st. paul | mmaa.org | FREE GRAND OPENING EVENTS MEDIA SPONSORS SPONSORED BY THE SPCO | 2018.19 SEASON FEIN TABLE OF CONTENTS STRINGED INSTRUMENTS CONCERTS IN THIS ISSUE SEP 7–9, 2018 SPCO Musicians + 12 Opening Weekend: 07 Administration Jeremy Denk Plays Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto SPCO Artistic Partners + 08 Composer-in-Residence Dealers, Repairers and SEP 13–15, 2018 Makers of Violins, Violas, 14 Thomas Zehetmair Conducts Cellos and Bows Beethoven and Haydn SPCO Governance 10 Andrew Fein SEP 20–30, 2018 The Spectrum of GREAT INSTRUMENTS 17 Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 38 Your Support On-Line & On Grand Avenue OCT 12–13, 2018 Institutional Investors + Haydn’s Oxford Symphony www.FineViolins.com 19 43 Acknowledgments 1850 Grand Ave. / St. Paul, MN 55105 651.228.0783 / 800.347.9172 OCT 19–21, 2018 Honor + Memorial Beethoven, Mozart and Strauss 22 44 Gifts, In-kind Donations, Estate Gifts, Music Alive NOV 2–4, 2018 Composer-in-Residence and 24 Bach’s Saint John Passion Liquid Music Contributors NOV 9–18, 2018 28 Mozart’s Haffner Symphony NOV 23–25, 2018 30 Adams’ Shaker Loops with For details on our entire Pekka Kuusisto concert season, Sep. 2018–Jun. 2019, NOV 29–DEC 2, 2018 visit thespco.org/calendar 33 Handel’s Water Music with Richard Egarr Saint John Passion Bach’s Bach’s | PG. 26 Joélle Harvey, soprano PG. 26 Joélle Harvey, PG. 26 TICKETS THESPCO.ORG 651.291.1144 5 SHADOWS, TEARS, AND LIGHT Oct 6 & 7, 2018 WHAT SWEETER MUSIC Dec 1, 2 & 9, 2018 MY SOUL’S REPOSE Jeffrey Stirling, Music Director Mar 9 & 10, 2019 A FALL FESTIVAL TIMOTHY TAKACH’S OF MUSIC! HELIOS May 18 & 19, 2019 Subscriptions and single tickets “A Day in the Country” at singersmca.org 651.917.1948 Featuring pianist Michael Kim playing d’Indy’s “Symphony on a French Mountain Air” plus orchestral music of Copland and Dvořák SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 1PM • LANDMARK CENTER, SAINT PAUL “Celebrating Prize-winningBernstein@100!” mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski sings songs by Mahler with music from West Side Story and “heavenly” ballet music by Hindemith SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 3PM • KING OF KINGS LUTHERAN CHURCH, WOODBURY FREE ADMISSION VISIT SPCSMUSIC.ORG FOR DETAILS! Meet Dr. Jaime Davis. Born in the Bahamas, she now calls Minneapolis her home. She's a graduate of the Mayo Medical School, the caretaker of beloved rescue dogs, an avid art collector, a certied scuba diver, a former Miss Northern Bahamas body building champion, and a huge fan of her new Spectacle Shoppe glasses. See Dierent Uptown, New Brighton, Burnsville Center and Grand Avenue 6 THE SPCO 2018.19 SEASON SHARE YOUR CONCERT EXPERIENCE: @THESPCO #SPCOLIVE ADMINISTRATION 2018.19 SPCO MUSICIANS PRESIDENT’S OFFICE FINANCE For a complete listing of orchestra personnel performing on each program, including biographical Jon Limbacher Beth Toso information and photos, please visit thespco.org/roster. Managing Director Chief Financial Officer and President Prasanthi Alfveby VIOLIN Amy Thirsten Senior Accountant/Analyst Executive Assistant Kristen Hager Controller ARTISTIC Mark Niehaus ADMINISTRATION Accounting Manager Kyu-Young Kim Artistic Director HUMAN Paul Finkelstein RESOURCES Artistic Planning Manager Jen Muenchow Steven Copes Ruggero Kyu-Young Kim Daria T. Adams Nina Tso-Ning Fan Eleanor GrandPre Director of Human CONCERTMASTER Allifranchini PRINCIPAL VIOLIN Education Manager Resources John M. and Elizabeth W. ASSOCIATE Bruce H. Coppock Chair Musser Chair CONCERTMASTER Erin Jude John H. and Elizabeth B. Director of Education and MARKETING AND Myers Chair Community Engagement PUBLIC RELATIONS VIOLA Kate Nordstrum Lindsey Thoreson Hansen Executive Producer Director of Marketing of Special Projects and Communications Ricardo Bennett-Guzman ORCHESTRAL Audience Development OPERATIONS Manager Jason Piehl Olivia Gault Orchestra Manager Communications Coordinator Emily Curran Eunice Kim Maureen Nelson Nicholas Tavani* Maiya Papach Hyobi Sim Production Assistant Joe Grigar PRINCIPAL Alice Preves Viola Chair Database and Digital Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Cassandra Flowers Marketing Coordinator Hairrison Chair Concert and Events Manager Gretchen Hazelton Creative Manager CELLO BASS Natalie Hokanson Director of Operations Ronnell Wheeler Marketing Assistant Jon Kjarum Technical Director Chris Woznicki Marketing Manager Kelly MacLennan Director of Orchestra Personnel DIGITAL MEDIA Ann Piotrowski Matt Thueson Event Supervisor Executive Producer of Digital Media Julie Albers Joshua Sarah Lewis Zachary Cohen Melissa McCarthy Patrick Pelham PRINCIPAL Koestenbaum John and Karen PRINCIPAL Steinberg Media Production Larsen Chair Bill and Hella Mears Hueg ASSOCIATE Orchestra Librarian Assistant Chair PRINCIPAL Ruth and John Huss Chair DEVELOPMENT TICKET OFFICE FLUTE OBOE CLARINET Katie Berg Courtney Stirn Director of Development Ticket Office Manager Becky Cline Katharine Anderson Associate Director Alex Engert of Development Jo Gilbertson Megan Foust Eric Gonzalez Patron Development Emily Gunyou Halaas Coordinator Rosie Hughes Jonathan Posthuma Georgina Chinchilla Jon Savin Gonzalez Ticket Office Associates Julia Bogorad-Kogan Alicia McQuerrey Barbara Bishop Sang Yoon Kim Grants and Institutional PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL Support Manager Philip H. and Katherine SPCO Nason Chair Morgan Graby ADMINISTRATIVE Major Gifts Officer OFFICES BASSOON HORN TRUMPET Rosie Hughes Third Floor Development Assistant The Historic Hamm Building 408 Saint Peter Street Katelin Richter Davis Saint Paul, MN 55102 Assistant Director 651.292.3248 of Development for T. 651.292.3281 Individual Giving F. [email protected] Erin VanBurkleo thespco.org Individual Giving and Events Specialist Carole Mason Smith James Ferree Matthew Wilson Lynn Erickson PRINCIPAL SPCO PROGRAM BOOK OPEN POSITIONS * GUEST MUSICIAN FOR 2018.19 SEASON a creative agency PRINCIPAL OBOE for the arts Sewell Family Chair In addition to those listed above, we extend our deepest thanks to the PRINCIPAL BASSOON HRK Family for endowing a position in the orchestra. FOR ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES: PRINCIPAL TIMPANI Hulings Chair [email protected] • artsink.org ALL SOLO PERFORMANCES BY SPCO MUSICIANS ARE ENDOWED BY THE REDLEAF FAMILY CHAIR 612.791.3629 Proud to partner with the SPCO! TICKETS THESPCO.ORG 651.291.1144 7 ARTISTIC PARTNERS 2018.19 SEASON JONATHAN COHEN JEREMY DENK MARTIN FRÖST conductor, harpsichord, cello piano conductor, clarinet Jonathan Cohen is one of Britain's finest Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost Clarinetist, conductor and Sony Classical young musicians. He has forged a remark- pianists. Winner of a MacArthur "Genius" recording artist Martin Fröst is known able career as a conductor, cellist and key- Fellowship, the Avery Fisher Prize and for pushing musical boundaries and has boardist. Well-known for his passion and Musical America’s Instrumentalist of been described by The New York Times commitment to chamber music, Cohen is the Year award, Denk was also recently as having "a virtuosity and a musician- equally at home in such diverse activities elected to the American Academy of Arts ship unsurpassed by any clarinetist- as baroque opera and the classical sym- and Sciences. Denk returns frequently to perhaps any instrumentalist-in my phonic repertoire. He is Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall and has recently performed memory." In 2017.18 he returned to the Arcangelo, Music Director of Les Violons with the Chicago Symphony, New York Los Angeles Philharmonic and Swedish du Roy, Associate Conductor of Les Arts Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestra, made his Florissants, Artistic Director of Tetbury San Francisco Symphony and Cleveland debut with the Orchestre symphonique Festival and Artistic Partner of the SPCO. Orchestra, as well as on tour with de Montréal, and appeared with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Flemish The 18.19 season brings debuts with New Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony York Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchester, Denk’s upcoming releases from Nonesuch Orchestra and Residentie Orkest.