Friends of the DSO

Thank you for supporting the DSO! Please enjoy a pair of complimentary tickets to each of the following concerts. Tickets can be redeemed by using the promo code found on the back of your digital membership card.

For questions or concerns, please contact Claire Fredrick, Individual Giving Coordinator at 214.871.4515 or c.fredrick@dalsym.com.

Alsop Conducts Brahms | Nov 7-9, 2025

Celebrated conductor Marin Alsop leads the DSO in the tale of the notorious libertine, Don Juan. Beginning with Don’s theme — the rising thunder of horns — to sensuous love music of exquisite beauty; to the eerie, shuddering gestures of the iconic lover’s demise, Don Juan requires a virtuoso orchestra, especially horns. The graphic music scandalized the audience at the premiere but established young Strauss’ genius. Kathryn Bostic, award-winning composer of film, TV and Broadway music — whose accolades include being the first female African American score composer to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — pays homage to Gladys Bentley, blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony | Apr 16-19, 2026

Not only will you bask in the sunshine of Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony (he dubbed it “blue sky in A Major”), but you’ll also hear two concertos and two soloists! First, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto — intense, charged with emotion and considered by many the greatest ever composed for the instrument — quotes a beautiful Czech folk song in the instrument’s most ethereal range; and our Principal Viola Meredith Kufchak gives the world premiere of a concerto by Jonathan Leshnoff, a GRAMMY®-nominated composer ranked among the most-performed living composers by American orchestras. It’s all under the exciting leadership of Ana María Patiño-Osorio, second-prize winner at the Malko Competition for conductors, in her DSO debut.

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