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program notes {
Marin Alsop

For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.

Baltimore School
for the Arts Dancers

Appalachian Spring

For information about Baltimore School
for the Arts, please see p. 32.

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Friday, June 10, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Music Center At Strathmore

Saturday, June 11, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Baltimore School for the Arts Dancers
Thursday, June 9 & Saturday, June 11

The Bride: Erica Codd
The Husband Man: Jack Miller
The Revivalist: Dorian Carroll
The Pioneering Woman: Zara Anwar
The Followers: Grace Adams, Natalie
Adams, Alexandra Rojas, Emily Schmitt

Friday, June 10

The Bride: Alyssa McCallum
The Husband Man: Aeron Buchanan
The Revivalist: Aaron Tyler
The Pioneering Woman: Megan Argentieri
The Followers: Grace Adams, Olivia McCall,
Alexandra Rojas, Emily Schmitt

Choreography & Costumes by Martha Graham
Reconstruction by Miki Orihana
Set Design by Isamu Noguchi
Aaron Copland

Appalachian Spring (Ballet for Martha)
BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS DANCERS

INTERMISSION

James Lee, III

Thurgood's Rhapsody
(World Premiere, BSO Commission)

Thomas Adès Polaris

Maurice Ravel Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé
Lever du jour

Pantomime

Danse générale

Supporting Sponsor:

Miki Orihara
Miki Orihara, best
known for her work as
a principal dancer in
the Martha Graham
Dance Company, which she joined in
1987, has performed in the Broadway
production of The King and I, and with
Elisa Monte Dance, PierGroupDance,
Lotuslotus, Twyla Tharp, Martha Clarke,
Anne Bogart and Robert Wilson. She has
taught workshops throughout the world,
and is currently on faculty at the Graham
School and The Hartt School (University
of Hartford).
Ms. Orihara’s musical act,
mishmash＊Miki Orihara, released two
music videos in June, 2014. As a choreographer, Ms. Orihara has presented works
in New York and Amsterdam. In 2014,
she produced the benefit concert “Dancing for JAPAN 2014” as well as a solo
concert “Resonance” at La MaMa in New
York, which toured to Wisconsin, San
Francisco and Amsterdam with Jazz Pianist Senri Oe, and tours to San Francisco,
Mexico and Japan in 2016.
In 2010, Ms. Orihara was awarded the
prestigious Bessie Award for Sustained
Achievement in Dance.

At the performance on Friday June 10, the BSO welcomes delegates
to the League of American Orchestras annual conference.

About the concert:

Appalachian Spring was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress,
Washington, DC.

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring premiered October 30, 1944, Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Non-exclusive right to perform Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes,
Inc., publisher and copyright owner and Martha Graham Resources. Martha Graham Resources, a division
of the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, is responsible for the facilitation of productions of
Graham dances worldwide.
James Lee, III’s Thurgood’s Rhapsody was commissioned for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director
Marin Alsop by Classical Movements, Inc. as part of the Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program. Also made possible
by a grant from New Music USA through a generous contribution from Thomas Brener and Inbal Segev, and
additionally supported by the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the
Randolph S. and Amalie R. Rothschild Endowed Fund for New Music.

Aaron Copland

Born in Brooklyn, New York, November 14,
1900; died in North Tarrytown, New York,
December 2, 1990

“I have been amused that people so often
have come up to me to say, ‘When I listen
to that ballet of yours, I can just feel spring
and see the Appalachians.’ But when I

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