2018 Spring Edition

DSOL NEWS

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra League is proud to announce that Diane and Hal Brierley will serve as the Honorary Chairs for the Sec-ond Annual Savor the Symphony to be held on Thursday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m. The Ritz-Carlton.

Savor the Symphony is an elegant evening with a three-course wine-paired dinner, silent and live auc-tions, and a private performance featuring the Dallas Symphony Or-chestra’s Principal Pops Conductor and Grammy Award Winner, Jeff Tyzik, along with guest perform-ers, Soprano Camille Zamora and dancers from Tango Caliente. Kim Hext is the event chair. The Brierleys are longtime sup-porters of the DSO and the Dallas community. They have been do-nors and subscribers to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1986 and Diane has been a member of the DSOL since 1992. “Diane and Hal Brierley are true art enthusiasts,” said event chair Kim Hext. “Their long time sup-port of the Dallas Symphony Or-chestra as well as the arts commu-nity in Dallas is to be applauded.” Diane Brierley is an active and dedicated community volunteer, with a deep passion for the arts, education and wildlife conserva-tion. She serves on the Executive Committees of Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation of Greater Dallas Chapter, Dallas Opera, Dallas Zoological Society, and is a Life Trustee of the Dallas Theater Center. Diane has

SECOND ANNUAL SAVOR THE SYMPHONY, THURSDAY, MAY 3, AT THE RITZ-CARLTONbeen the recipient of numerous awards, including TACA’s Silver Cup Award for the Arts with Dr. Kern Wildenthal in 2004; Dallas Historical Society’s award for phi-lanthropy; and the Dallas Chapter of National Society of Fund Rais-ers’ Outstanding Philanthropist. Hal Brierley is Chairman of Brierley+Partners, Inc., a leading specialist in the design and man-agement of customer loyalty pro-grams, and is Chairman and CEO of e-Rewards, Inc. Hal is a Lifetime member of the Board of Gov-ernors for the Dallas Symphony Association. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the Baylor Health Care Sys-tem Foundation, the Dallas Opera, KERA-TV, , TACA, and a member of World Presidents Organization. Hal has been the recipient of nu-merous awards, including TACA’s Silver Cup Award for the Arts with Tincy Miller in 2009. Event Chair Kim Hext has been a long time member of the DSOL and serves on the Board of Direc-tors for TACA and Hope Supply Co.

This fall she will be chairing Zoo To Do for the Dallas Zoological Society and last spring served as co-chair for the American Heart Association Cotes du Coeur Gala. Together, she and husband Greg Hext serve on the Parent Leader-ship Council for SMU. Sponsorships for the event are

Honorary Chairs Diane and Hal Brierley

$25,000, $15,000, $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500. Underwriting tickets with Patron benefits are $500 and $350. A limited number of $250 Individual tickets will be available. Additional donations “in honor/memory of” may be made in any amount and will be listed in the Savor the Symphony program. Tickets can be purchased online at www.dallassymphonyleague.com.

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Dear League Members,

One of my main goals this year was to provide different experiences for our members…from new events in interesting and unique environments, to being able to enjoy many different DSO musicians. This year started off with high energy felt all around...from fundraising to fellowshipping!

Our Clef Note Tea on February 13th featured DSO Principal Flautist, David Buck and his wife, Jung-Wan Kang, Flautist. This dynamic couple kept our attendees in awe of their talents! How often do we get to enjoy a flute duet from a husband

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and wife team?! This event was chaired by Sharon Ballew and Susan Fisk, and their creative vision made everyone extremely glad they attended.

Another unique opportunity awaits you….please join us for A Noteworthy Night, April 11th. We will have a trio of DSO French horns players providing a concert for us in a lovely private home. Guests will be able to stroll through art and history collections in this beautiful Dallas estate! The Honorary Chair is Doris Jacobs and this event is chaired by Elizabeth Rois-Mendez.

On April 3rd a wine tasting was held at Jimmy’s Food Store kicking off DSOL’s Savor the Symphony. Jimmy’s Food Store in Old East Dallas was the host for the League’s Wine & Cheese Tasting and Collection Party. The admission cost to the party was a bottle of wine to be used at a Cork Pull for the Second Annual Savor the Symphony gala which will be held on Thursday, May 3, at The Ritz-Carlton.

Savor the Symphony is an elegant evening with a three-course wine-paired dinner, silent and live auctions, and will be a VERY SPECIAL and UNIQUE EVENT with a private performance featuring the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Pops Conductor and Grammy Award Winner, Jeff Tyzik, along with guest performers, Soprano Camille Zamora, a Bandomeon player and dancers from Tango Caliente. You will NOT want to miss this event!! Diane and Hal Brierley are the Honorary Chairs for Savor the Symphony. Kim Hext is the event chair.

The Enchanted Forest Luncheon on May 10th, chaired by Susan Sculllin and Vicki Petersen, promises to be exceptionally fun and creative! This will be the perfect celebration of a fabulous DSOL year!

Stay tuned for a follow up to finalize the year, but for now please continue to support our fundraising efforts so that we can finish strong and be able to donate the needed funds to the DSO!

I am extremely honored to represent the DSOL as President and would like thank all of our League members for their support!

MariMari EppersonDSOL President 2017 - 2018

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SPRING EVENTSSpring

News and NotesGet well wishes to: Sandye Mailandt, Mary Lee Cox, Brooky Sanders Tubb and Nancy Bierman. Condolences to Susan Geyer and Katherine Smethie on the loss of their sister-in-law, Brenda McGee Stephens. Please send news to Corresponding Secretary Jan Daulton, 214- 902-0831, jklcdmom3@aol.com.

A Noteworthy NightA Noteworthy Night will be held on Wednesday, April 11th, at the home of Nancy and Randy Best,9762 Audubon Place, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

The Honorary Chair is Doris Jacobs, one of Dallas’ leading Realtors for more than 30 years. She is senior executive vice president and founding partner of Allie Beth Allman & Associates. Doris is a long-time member and supporter of the DSOL.

The featured performers are DSO horn players Yousef Assi, Kevin Haseltine and Alexander Kienle. Joe Assi is third horn of the Dallas Symphony, and Principal Horn of the Breckenridge Music Festival. A sought-after guest performer, Mr. Assi has been guest Principal Horn with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, guest Associate

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Principal with the Dallas Symphony and has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony and many others. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Curtis Institute and worked on a master’s degree in music at Juilliard. Joe and his wife Rachel live in Dallas with their new son Owen and their jealous dog Schroeder.

Kevin Haseltine, from Houston, joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as fourth horn player in 2015. He received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in 2014. Haseltine was also a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, giving him the opportunity to frequently perform with the Chicago Symphony. His brass quintet, made up of other Civic members, was awarded the bronze medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in May of 2014. Before coming to Dallas, Haseltine was a Fellow at the New World Symphony and has performed with include the Boston Symphony,

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St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Alexander Kienle is the Assistant Principal/Utility horn of the Dallas Symphony. His musical adventures started at age five, when he would incessantly bang on the toy bells at Montessori school, age six with piano lessons, and at age eleven he picked up the French horn because the band director already had more than enough trumpets. Mr. Kienle has performed with ensembles around the world, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Kienle is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

Event Chair Elizabeth Rois-Mendez invites you to enjoy cuisine, libations and music from around the world while strolling through exquisite art and historical collections!

Tickets can be purchased online at www.dallassymphonyleague.com.

Do You Believe in Faeries?

Please join the merriment at the Enchanted Forest Luncheon,

on May 10th at Brook Hollow Golf Club, from 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Celebrate the end of our DSOL year and

welcome the new board.This event is Co-Chaired by Susan Scullin

and Vicki Petersen.

Tickets are $75 and can be purchased online at www.dallassymphonyleague.com,

or checks can be mailed to Susan Scullin, 5040 Bridge Creek Drive, Plano, Texas 75093.

Please make your reservations by May 2. Guests are welcome

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Jaap Van Zweden Farewell CelebrationDonate to the “In Honor Of” Maestro Jaap Van Zweden Farewell for $5,000, $2,500, $1,500, $500, $250, $100. Donations at the higher levels will receive invitations to special events or special recognition.

It’s DSO music director Jaap van Zweden’s last season with The DSO because he is headed off to Manhattan to take charge of the New York Philharmonic. The closing weeks of the season will provide a series of grand finale concerts for van Zweden, beginning with a performance of Duruflé’s Requiem with the Dallas Symphony Chorus (on a concert also featuring Louis Lortie in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20) on April 26-28. After van Zweden conducts an alternate-site “Remix” concert across the street at Dallas City Performance Hall on May 10 and 11, he will return to the Meyerson for a complete concert version of Wagner’s Die Walküre on May 18-20, with soprano Heidi Melton, mezzo-soprano DeYoung, tenor Simon O’Neill, and baritone Matthias Goerne. Van Zweden’s final announced performance as music director will take place May 24-26 when he conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with co-concertmaster Alexander Kerr as soloist. Mezzo-soprano DeYoung and baritone Goerne will return as soloists for this concert, joined by soprano Lise Lindstrom, tenor Stuart Skelton, and the Dallas Symphony Chorus.

Works that van Zweden will conduct in Dallas as well in New York during the season include the 4

Glass Concerto for Two Pianos and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony; besides the complete performance of of Wagner’s Die Walküre in Dallas, he will conduct Act I of that opera in New York.

Your donation can be made online at www.dallassymphonyleague.com, under Noteworthy Night tab.

DSOL Board MeetingThe Tuesday, May 1 Board Meeting will be held at the home of Heather Cooper, 3714 Potomac Avenue. Jolie Humphrey is Third VP Arrangements. Hostesses for the day are Nancy Connor and Kathy Cothrum. The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. for coffee, meeting at 10:20 a.m. RSVP to: Julie Noel, jbndsol@gmail.com.

Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition On Saturday, April 28, 2018, eight young musicians will compete for cash prizes and the chance to perform a concerto with the Dallas Symphony in the Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition. Please join us for this exciting event. Judges this year are renowned cellist Lynn Harrell, former DSO Concertmaster Emanuel Borok, Associate Principal Viola Barbara Sudweeks and concert pianist Anastasia Markina. Admission to the concert is free. RSVP by April 27 to Amanda Hyde, Individual Giving Coordinator, at A.Hyde@dalsym.com or 214.871.4080 to attend the concert. Susan Fisk is the DSOL chair of the Lynn Harrell Competition. If you wish to volunteer to help, please contact Susan, Fisk4@aol.com.

SPRING EVENTS

Youth Concerts CARNEGIE HALL’S THE ORCHESTRA ROCKS Carnegie Hall’s innovative Link Up curriculum delivers an exhilarating, interactive concert experience. Students will learn how composers and musicians use rhythm to propel musical works.

Wednesday, May 2 ......................................................10:00 and 11:30Thursday, May 3...........................................................10:00 and 11:30

We are actively seeking volunteers to help seat the school groups at the Cecil and Ida M. Green Youth Concerts, which are performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. These concerts are part of the educational outreach done by the symphony. Over 30,000 students and teachers from the Dallas/Fort Worth area attend the DSO’s Youth Concerts each year! There is time between the first seating and the second seating to make new friends of the other volunteers and have a little snack. Also, volunteers are encouraged to stay and enjoy the music during the last performance after the students have been seated. There are two concerts on each date, one at 10:00 a.m. and a second one at 11:30 a.m. Each concert lasts about an hour. If you are interested in volunteering at one or more of the concerts, please email the DSOL Youth Concert Chair, Anne Ligon, at annesligon@aol.com.

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1. Debutante Kennedy Bradley Boscamp with her Honor Guard escort, Shy Anderson. DSOL Debutantes at the Meyerson Symphony Center. 2. The 2018 Debutantes and Honor Guard at the DSOL Presentation Ball. 3. Kathryn Voreis, DSOL President Mari Epperson, Pam and Mark Okada and Jill Goldberg at “A Major Chat”. 4. Young Strings performers at “A Major Chat”. 5. Musician’s Luncheon Co-Chair Ann Kadesky, DSOL President Mari Epperson and Co-Chair Sally Pearson. 6. Gregory Raden, DSO Principal Clarinet, Kim Noltemy, DSO President & CEO, James Leffler, DSO Director of Development. 7. Violinist Angela Fuller Heyde and Cellist Jeffrey Hood performed at the January “A Major Chat” at the home of Pam and Mark Okada.

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2018 DSOL Events

Wednesday, April 11A Noteworthy Night

Wednesday, April 28Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition

Wednesday, May 2 and Thursday, May 3rd Cecil and Ida Green Youth Concerts, Meyerson

Thursday, May 3rd Savor the Symphony, Ritz-Carlton

Thursday, May 10th “Enchanted Forest Luncheon”, Brook Hollow Golf Club

Dallas Symphony OrchestraMorton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

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Dallas, TX 75201-2497