Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season March-April 2016 | Page 3

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Departments
2 ) Letter from the President & CEO
4 ) In Tempo: News Of Note

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6 ) BSO Live: Calendar of Events
12) Orchestra Roster
38 ) Honor Roll

44 ) Impromptu: Lisa Steltenpohl,
Principal Viola

Music makers
Joan Tower’s piece is one of the BSO’s
Centennial Celebration Commissions.

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Program Notes
13) Brahms’ German Requiem
March 4, 5 & 6

18) All-Beethoven

March 11, 12 & 13

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23) Yuri Temirkanov Returns

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March 17, 18 & 19

26) Broadway Divas

March 31, April 1, 2 & 3

28) Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
April 8, 9, 10

32) Mahler’s Symphony No. 5
April 14 & 15

35) Variations on a Rococo Theme
April 29, 30 & May 1

Features
8)  Bowing

Down to Porgy

by Martha Thomas

Director Kwame Kwei-Armah holds the American classic
in high esteem.

10) Cracking

the Concert Hall

by Christianna McCausland

New works by women composers counter inequality
in the orchestral world.

On the Cover

Women conductors and composers are paving
the way in a historically male-dominated
orchestral world.

Be Green: Recycle Your Program!
Please return your gently used program to the Overture racks
in the lobby. Want to keep reading at home? Please do!
Just remember to recycle it when you’re through.

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