Overture Magazine: 2016-2017 Season September - October 2016 | Page 3

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Departments
2 ) Letter from the

Executive Board Chair

4 ) In Tempo: News of Note
6 ) BSO Live: Calendar of Events

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12) Orchestra Roster
54) Honor Roll

60) Impromptu: Richard Field,
Principal Viola Emeritus

Program Notes

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Beethoven Weekend ( Nov 18–20)
The St. Lawrence String Quartet will play
two of Beethoven’s string quartets—No. 16,
Op. 135 and No. 14, Op. 131—at
Johns Hopkins’ Shriver Hall.

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13) Beethoven Symphony No. 5
September 23, 24 & 25

20)  Carmina burana

September 29, 30 & October 1

28)  Broadway’s Leading Men
October 6, 7, 8 & 9

32) Shostakovich Symphony No. 10

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October 14, 15 & 16

36) Dvořák Symphony No. 8
October 21, 22 & 23

40) The Nutcracker
November 3 & 6

45) Off the Cuff: The Nutcracker
November 4 & 5

46) Mahler Symphony No. 6
November 10, 11 & 12

48) Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Features
8)  The

Avant Garde Classicist

by Martha Thomas

Beethoven “reconciles what is strange and incompatible.”

10) The

View from the Podium

by Christianna McCausland

Maestra Alsop reflects on the past and future of the BSO.

November 18, 19 & 20

On the Cover

Photo by Adriane White

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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