Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season September-October 2015 | Page 7

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On October 4, 1935,

Prokofiev played his new ballet score Romeo and Juliet for the staff of
Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. But in Prokofiev’s treatment, the lovers did not die! His excuse: “The dead cannot
dance.” The composer was assured Shakespeare’s ending could work as a ballet and he altered his scenario.
On October 16–18, the BSO will present a unique staged synthesis combining it with Shakespeare’s play.

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Bernstein’s
“Kaddish”
now available
from Naxos

Soulful
Symphony

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SOULFUL SYMPHONY
RETURNS TO THE BSO
The Soulful Symphony, founded in 2000 by Darin Atwater, returns to the BSO
Thanksgiving weekend with its 15th Anniversary Concert. The program will include
music of Nina Simone and Ledisi, excerpts from Atwater’s Song in a Strange Land,
and three movements from Audacity of Hope, Atwater’s tribute to President Obama’s
book of the same name. Mr. Atwater records exclusively for Mack Avenue Records
and released his debut album Stone Tablet with the label this past summer.

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GIFT BY ASSOCIATION

Sandra Feldman
with Paul Meecham

Each year, the Baltimore Symphony
Associates (BSA) raises money for
the BSO through such activities as the
annual Decorators’ Show House and the
lobby gift shop. In addition, the members
hold “Parties of Note,” gatherings in
private homes with guest musicians. This
past season the BSA introduced “Music
Adventures,” lectures by BSO players.
A check for $50,000 presented by
BSA President Sandra Feldman to Paul
Meecham, BSO president and CEO,
completed the BSA’s annual $100,000
donation to the BSO, money that is designated for BSO education programs.

Bernstein's Symphony No. 3,
“Kaddish,” the first release in the
BSO’s recordings of the Bernstein
symphonies under the baton of Marin
Alsop, is now available on the Naxos
label exclusively through the BSO.
The “Kaddish” symphony features