Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season September-October 2015 | Page 4

overture The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015–2016 Season 410.783.8000 | 1.877.BSO.1444 BSOmusic.org THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Marin Alsop Music Director Barbara M. Bozzuto Chair Paul Meecham President & CEO Martha Thomas Publications Editor Janet E. Bedell Program Annotator BALTIMORE MAGAZINE DESIGN AND PRINT DIVISION Director Ken Iglehart [email protected] 443.873.3916 Art Director Vicki Dodson Senior Graphic Artist Michael Tranquillo Contributing Writers Laura Farmer Christianna McCausland Martha Thomas { from the president WELCOME Welcome to the BSO’s 2015 –2016 season! What we have in store for you over the coming months is unprecedented—in tradition, innovation and star power. Our Centennial Season is indeed a time for celebration, of what the BSO has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1916, and of what is in store for the future. In partnership with the Towson radio station WTMD, we are pleased to announce an innovative series, Pulse, that brings together BSO musicians and some of today’s best indie bands to the Meyerhoff. Supported by a generous grant from The Wallace Foundation, the first Pulse concert on September 24 pairs BSO musicians performing the music of Philip Glass with American folk-rock group Dawes. Pulse is the first initiative in our multi-year strategy to attract PULSE BRINGS new and younger audiences to the BSO. Future TOGETHER BSO in the season include the Baltimore MUSICIANS AND SOME collaborations band Wye Oak, Dr. Dog and The Lone Bellow. OF TODAY’S BEST This season we also welcome Markus Stenz, our INDIE BANDS TO new Principal Guest Conductor. Maestro Stenz, THE MEYERHOFF who, like Marin Alsop, studied with Leonard Bernstein as a Tanglewood conducting fellow in the late 1980s, and with whom I also worked at the London Sinfonietta in the mid-90s, brings to Baltimore a distinguished symphonic and operatic background. In early October he will conduct a program of Mozart — including scenes from Don Giovanni with an impressive cast — followed by two more weeks with the BSO next spring. If you are currently sitting at the Music Center at Strathmore, you will notice that the publication in your hands is new. Overture magazine, long the program book for the Meyerhoff, is now our Strathmore publication as well. We hope you will enjoy the coverage uniquely dedicated to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s people and performances. Plenty has changed at the BSO in the last 100 years. Stay with us as the season unfolds and you will see just how much! Advertising Account Representatives Lynn Talbert [email protected] 443.974.6892 Baltimore magazine Design and Print Division 1000 Lancaster Street, Suite 400 Baltimore, MD 21202 410. 873. 3900 Paul Meecham President and CEO, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND 89.7 WTMD PRESENT A NEW CONCERT EXPERIENCE Experience Pulse. Expand your musical horizons with Pulse, a new concert series that brings together the classical world and the indie rock scene on one stage! 5