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Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho n y Hall
she was awarded the Oscar Hammerstein
Scholarship as a playwright-lyricist. Didi
Balle is also a published writer and journalist and worked as an editor for The New
York Times for 13 years.
Jered
McLenigan
Off the Cuff:
Shostakovich: Notes for Stalin
Saturday, November 15, 2014 — 7p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Jered McLenigan, Actor
Richard Poe, Actor
Tony Tsendeas, Actor
Shostakovich: Notes for Stalin
A Symphonic Play
Written and Directed by
Didi Balle
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, opus 47
Moderato
Allegretto
Largo
Allegro non troppo
The concert will end at approximately 8:30 p.m.
World Premiere, The Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, March 1, 2013
Marin Alsop
M i chael S tad ler
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.
Didi Balle
In the spring of 2013,
Marin Alsop and the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra (BSO) announced the appointment of Didi Balle as
the organization’s first-ever playwright-inresidence. Tchaikovsky: Mad But For Music
(April 2015) will mark the fifth successful
Symphonic Play™ collaboration and world
premiere with Alsop and the BSO. Other
commissioned works with Alsop include:
CSI: Mozart; A Composer Fit for a King:
16 O v ertur e |
www. bsomusic .org
Wagner & Ludwig II; Analyze This:
Mahler & Freud and CSI: Beethoven.
Symphonic Plays commissioned and
premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra:
Shostakovich: Notes For Stalin and The
Secret Life of Isaac Newton.
Didi Balle’s work as a writer and director
includes commissions, broadcasts and stage
productions of her work from Symphonic
Plays, radio musicals, musical theater, song
cycles and opera. She’s created a new genre
called Symphonic Plays borne out of a
friendship and dynamic collaboration with
Marin Alsop.
Founding director of Symphonic Stage
Shows, Balle received her MFA from
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where
Jered McLenigan is
a Philadelphia-based
performer reprising the
role of Shostakovich, which he performed
with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He has
worked with companies such as the Walnut
Street Theatre, Wilma Theater, Lantern
Theater, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions,
InterAct Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company and the Fulton Theatre, among others. He appeared off Broadway in Inis Nua
Theatre's critically-acclaimed production
of Dublin by Lamplight at 59E59, which
was part of the First Irish Theatre Festival
(Outstanding Ensemble). Jered received a
Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play for his role in It’s a
Wonderful Life, a Live Radio Play (Prince
Music Theater) and was recently nominated for the same award for his turn as Marc
Antony in Julius Caesar (Lantern Theater).
He will next appear as Guildenstern in the
Wilma Theater's upcoming productions of
Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead.
Jered McLenigan is making
his BSO debut
Richard Poe
Richard Poe recently
played Everett Dirksen, among others,
in All The Way on
Broadway. It was named Best New Play at
the 2014 Tony Awards. Richard received
the 2013 Barrymore Award for Best Actor
for his performance in The Outgoing Tide
at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. On
Broadway, he’s been part of the original
companies of M. Butterfly (1988 Tony
Award, Best Play), The Pajama Game with
Harry Connick Jr. (2006 Tony Award,
Best Musical Revival) and Journey’s End