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Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 12.
Didi Balle
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
Off the Cuff—CSI: Mozart
Saturday, March 1, 2014— 7p.m.
Presenting Sponsor:
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Didi Balle, Playwright and Stage Director
Dr. William J. Dawson, Special Guest
Sasha Olinick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tony Tsendeas, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Richard Pilcher, Leopold Mozart and Anton Salieri
Hyla Matthews, Nannerl Mozart and Constanze Mozart
Steven Barta, Clarinet
Fei Xie, Bassoon
Lura Johnson, Piano
Maggie Viegas, Production Stage Manager
CSI: Mozart
Music. Mystery. Medicine.
Program includes selections from the following works:
Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Overture to Cosi Fan Tutte
Mozart
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major, K. 16
Mozart Overture to Bastein and Bastienne
Mozart
Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Serenade, K. 525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart
Mozart Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201
Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332
LURA JOHNSON
Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
STEVEN BARTA
Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191
FEI XIE
Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Support for Didi Balle’s position as
Playwright-in-Residence is generously provided
by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
M i chael Stad ler
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
B a l t i mo r e S y m p h o n y O r c h e s t r a
In the spring of
2013, Marin Alsop
and the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra
announced the appointment of Didi
Balle as the organization’s first ever
playwright-in-residence.
“CSI: Mozart,” the latest Symphonic
Play™ written and directed by Balle,
marks the fourth successful creative
collaboration and world premiere with
Alsop and the BSO. Other commissioned
Symphonic Plays with Maestra Alsop and
the BSO include:
“A Composer Fit for a King: Wagner
& Ludwig II” (2013): A Wagnerian blend
of music and theatre dramatizing the
real-life backstage story behind the making
of The Ring Cycle.
“Analyze This: Mahler & Freud”
(2010): A musical and psychological
investigation into the mind of Gustav
Mahler through the lens of a psychoanalytical session requested by Mahler with
Freud in Holland 1910.
“CSI: Beethoven” (2008): A Symphonic
Play solving the dual mysteries of the great