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The Baltimore
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2014–2015 Season
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The Baltimore
SyMphony ORchestra
Marin Alsop
Music Director
Barbara M. Bozzuto
Chair
Paul Meecham
President & CEO
Martha Thomas
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{ from the president
Welcome
Here at the BSO, we’re all abuzz about our Centennial Season. The lineup of local and
international talent is, well, mind-blowing. Pardon the colloquialism, but honestly, that is the
best way I know to describe it.
While the festivities begin with the launch of our new season in September, the signal
performance will be on February 11, 2016, the actual 100th anniversary of our founding.
Marin Alsop will be conducting a special program
Here at the BSO,
featuring the celebrated violinist Joshua Bell, Ravel’s
we’re all abuzz
Boléro and much, much more. It will be a unique
one-night only event, surely not to be missed.
about our
During the Centennial Season, we’ll celebrate a
Centennial Season.
canon of classical music from Beethoven to Brahms,
and we will also pack a few surprises into the
repertoire. Look for 10 short Centennial Celebration commissions by a mix of American male
and female composers; in October, a creative rendition of Prokofiev’s sumptuous ballet music
for Romeo and Juliet, interspersed with actors performing lines from Shakespeare’s original play;
and a new semi-staging of George Gershwin’s seminal American opera, Porgy and Bess, with
guest director Kwame Kwei-Armah in April.
More immediately this summer, join us for a wonderful program of
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in July, with our own talented Jonathan Carney
leading from the front as soloist.
And, finally, in March, our music director, Marin Alsop, visited Harvard
University to accept the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, which honors
a nationally recognized music educator. In accepting this prestigious award,
Marin joins an impressive group of recipients, including Robert Mann,
founder of the Juilliard String Quartet; the a cappella group Sweet
Honey in the Rock; and one of her own mentors and the Director
of the Peabody Institute Graduate Conducting program,
Gustav Meier. Congratulations, Marin!
If you haven’t yet subscribed for the centennial
season, don’t delay! We look forward to seeing you
at the BSO.
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