2015 Summer Edition

Hats, Horses and Mint Juleps at the DSOL Wells Fargo Dallas Symphony Derby

programs which include DSO on the GO, Community Concerts and Performances, Cecil and Ida Green Youth Concerts, Symphony Yes!, DSO Kids and the Young Strings.

The Wells Fargo Dallas Symphony Derby brought the atmosphere of the famous Kentucky Derby to Dal-las, complete with hats, horses and mint juleps. It was held on April 19 at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie. This marks the 11th year the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League has partnered with title sponsor Wells Fargo and the 18th year it has part-nered with presenting sponsor Lone Star Park for an exciting event.

Lee Bailey and Doris Jacobs served as Honorary Chairs. Court-ney Nall and Susan Walker were the Derby Co-Chairs and Dixie

Starring the DSOL atParties of Note

The Dallas Symphony Orches-tra League held a Party of Note with Maestro Jaap van Zwe-den and concertmaster Alex-ander Kerr on April 20 at Bob’s Steak and Chop House at the Omni Dallas Hotel. The reception and dinner was limited to 50 people, making it an intimate evening for the guests. DSO President and CEO Jonathan Martin was in attendance and did a brief Q & A with Van Zweden.

The Maestro shared with the guests how pieces are selected for the concert season and de-tails about the upcoming Solu-na Festival, a 3-week perform-ing and visual arts feast of local and international artists. The Q & A was followed by a musi-cal performance with two short pieces played by Concertmas-ter Kerr.

DSOL NEWS

Congratulations to Dixie Marshall,DSOL President 2014 - 2015 and the 2014 - 2015 DSOL League for raising $893,037.50 for the Dallas Symphony Outreach and Education

DSOL League Raises $893,037.50 in 2014 -2015

Marshall was the DSOL President. Proceeds from the Wells Fargo Symphony Derby benefit the Dal-las Symphony’s education and out-reach programs. Left: Buddy and Melissa Lewis, DSOL President.

New Memories in Park Cit-ies July 4th CelebrationThe Park Cities July 4th celebra-tion and parade was a time to make memories and start new traditions. Celebrating the birthday of the country was a perfect match for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League’s Debutantes who are cel-ebrating their 30th anniversary year in support of the DSO. “We wanted to have a float in this big neighbor-hood parade to celebrate our 30th year of the Ball and to bring aware-ness of our support for the Dallas Symphony to the community,” said Nancy Labadie Presentation Ball Chair.

Above: 2015 Debutante Olivia Lewis with Ball Chair Nancy Labadie ad DSOL President Melissa Lewis.

photo Danny Campbell

Photo by Deborah Brown

On behalf of the board of the DSOL, I would like to welcome you to a new year filled with music, education, fun events and friendship. However, before we move on, I want to con-gratulate the 2014-2015 board, under the lead-ership of Dixie Marshall on an outstanding year of fund raising. Their success would not have been possible without the hard work, dedica-tion and financial support of our wonderful members – you all deserve a standing ovation!

Next, I want to brag on the 2015-2016 Executive board! I am so fortunate to be working with such talented leaders.

President-Elect - Sandy Secor 1st VP (Fund raising) - Mari Epperson 2nd VP (Service) - Carole Ann Brown 3rd VP (Arrangements) - Dixey Arterburn4th VP (Public Relations) - Beverly Smirnis 5th VP (Membership) - Venise Stuart 5th VP- Elect ,Membership-Elect) - Carla Leffert, 6th VP (Education and Outreach) – Angela Fontana Recording Secretary - Amanda Waring Corresponding Secretary - Susan Scullin Treasurer - Kathy Noonan Treasurer-Elect - Mary Jo Lincicome Historian - Nina Sanders Parliamentarian - Dixie Marshall Finance Committee Chair - Kim Brannon

We are still in the process of filling some of the committee positions, so if you are interested in a particular job, please let me know. Otherwise, you might just be getting a call from me or one of the members of the Executive board inviting you to volunteer your time and talents! As we work this year to fulfill our mission of supporting the many Education and Outreach programs of the Dallas, I hope each of you will consider partici-pating in one (or all) of the fund raising, service and educational projects of-fered by the DSOL. There will be much more info to come regarding our fund raisers and educational opportunities. Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your League President for 2015-2016 and as always, thank you for your sup-port of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League!

Melissa Lewis, DSOL President 2015 - 2016

New Member Orientation and Luncheon, FridaySeptember 18 New Members will be invited to join the DSOL Executive Board for an orientation champagne reception and luncheon on Fri-day, September 18 at the Mey-erson Symphony Center. Invita-tions will be mailed for this event.

New members will be given a tour of the Meyerson Sympho-ny Centar after the luncheon. Chair of this event is Sarah Hardin. Please contact Sarah if you have questions, mashdallas@msn.com

Photo by Sandy Secor

Photo by James French

The President’s Message DSOL Encore Luncheon The DSOL Encore Luncheon was held at the Crescent Club on May 13. 2-14 -2015 President Dixie Marshall welcomed Melissa Lew-is, the 2015 - 2016 President and her board. Carole Ann Brown was Chair of this event. Musi-cal entertainment was provided by Aakash Patel. He is a gradu-ate of the Young Strings program.

Below: Carole Ann Brown, Dixie Mar-shall

DSOL NewsletterThe DSOL newsletter is printed 4 times per year by the DSOL.

The deadlines are: October 14, 2015 January 14, 2016; Please send articles

and photographs to Sandy Secor, Editor; genesisv1@earthlink.net

Photo by James French

Photo by Deborah Brown

Photo by Deborah Brown

Debutantes for the 30th Annual Presentation Ball Announced The Dallas Symphony Orchestra League introduced the 2015-16 Debutantes during Announce-ment Weekend festivities May 29 – May 31. The weekend marked the official start of a series of events culminating with the 30th Presentation Ball, which will be held February 20, 2016. The Weekend included an announce-ment party at Neiman Marcus on Friday, May 29, and a reception and fashion show on Saturday, May 30, also at Neiman Marcus. Designer Patti Flowers hosted a reception on Sunday, May 31 at her studio. The Presentation Ball Chair is Nancy Labadie and DSOL President is Melissa Lew-is. The 2016 debutantes are: Lau-ren Beal, Tasha Beal, Sarah Blazejewski, Ashley Clark, Ci-ara Cooley, Katherine Cullins, Loring Dalton, Mary Catherine Davis, Audrey Dike, Lind-sey Elliott, Gail Ewing, Elena Frattaroli, Lizzy Gates, Ash-ton Gillespie, Linda Gilmore, Lily Guevel, Margaret Hamm, Mary Margaret Hancock, Caro-lina Henry, Alexandra Henry, McKenzie Hicks, Allison Horn, Maddie Lee, Eleanor Light, Tai Massimilian, Caroline McDan-iel, Margaret Mulcahy, Madison Mulligan, Elizabeth Perry, Pey-ton Porter, Lowrie Reniger, Me-gan Rooney, Payton Scott, Lau-ra Scully, Callie Stone, Darby Strickland, Abby Tisdale, Kayla Vrij, Meredith Weaver, Allison Weil, Mary Wheat, Morgan Win-spear, and Allison Zashin.

Top left: The 2016 Debutantes; Middle: Tincy Miller, Buddy and DSOL Predent Melissa Lewis; Bottom: Cythis Beaird, AB Aston, Presentation Ball Chair Nancy Labadie and Allison Broadnax.

2015 DSOL EventsTuesday, September 8

DSOL Board Meeting

Tuesday, September 15New Member Orientation and Luncheon

Saturday, September 26DSO AT&T Opening Night Gala

Saturday, September 26Jewel Ball, Austin

Thursday, October 1Texas Instruments Classical Series Opening, Meyerson

October TBADSOL General Meeting and Clef Notes Tea

Location TBA

Dallas Symphony OrchestraMorton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Schelgel Administrative Suites2301 Flora Street

Dallas, TX 75201-2497

News and Notes Condolences to Dixie Marshall on the loss of her father. Send news and notes to Susan Scullin, susanscullin214@aol.com or (972) 523-9300.