{"id":393050,"date":"2025-11-20T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:53:24","slug":"dallas-symphony-league-raises-funds-at-elegant-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393050\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Symphony League raises funds at elegant gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 6, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League<\/strong><\/a> made beautiful music at the Meyerson Symphony Center with its annual Savor the Symphony<\/strong> fundraising event. This year’s theme was a candlelight tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein, the songwriting team behind such Golden Age musicals as Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Sound of Music, and The King and I.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the elegant dinner and concert benefit the Dallas Symphony Association and its education and community outreach programs: DSO on the Go, Community Concerts and Performances, Cecil and Ida Green Youth Concerts, Symphony Yes!, DSO Kids, and the Kim Noltemy Young Musicians and Young Strings Program.<\/p>\n

Two Young Strings alumni, Carlos Vargas<\/strong> (cello) and Alex Villalobos<\/strong> (viola), serenaded guests as they arrived for the al fresco cocktail hour in the Meyerson’s McIntyre Park.<\/p>\n

\"DSOL Natalie Boerder, Kaleta Blaffer-Johnson, Meredith Connally, Jennifer Cifuentes, Nathalie Barrera, Hayden Hrncir.Photo by Rob Wythe\/Wythe Portrait Studio<\/p>\n

While the guests, dressed to the nines despite it being merely a Thursday, mingled in the gorgeously temperate weather, preparations carried on inside for the lobby’s gasp-worthy reveal.<\/p>\n

More than 3,000 flameless candles cascaded down the Meyerson’s main staircase and landing, bathing the Italian travertine marble and limestone in a soft glow.<\/p>\n

Event co-chairs Reagan Pace<\/strong>, Sheridan Reeder<\/strong>, and Sunie Solomon<\/strong> and DSOL president Claire Catrino<\/strong> welcomed guests to the intimate gathering, for which Laurie Sands Harrison<\/strong> and her daughters Caroline Harrison Loehr<\/strong>, Francis Brito Harrison<\/strong>, Bailey Harrison<\/strong>, and Hassie Harrison<\/strong> served as honorary co-chairs. The Compass School of Texas was the evening’s presenting sponsor.<\/p>\n

\"DSOL A quartet played Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes during dinner. Photo by Rob Wythe\/Wythe Portrait Studio <\/p>\n

A selection of Adair Family Wines complemented the multi-course dinner, during which Motoi Takeda<\/strong> (violin), Nora Scheller<\/strong> (violin), Sarah Sung<\/strong> (viola), and Theodore Harvey<\/strong> (cello) played a selection of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved hits.<\/p>\n

A spirited live auction closed out the evening, with guests bidding on diamond hoops from Bachendorf’s, a stay at the St. Regis in Aspen, a private dinner for 10 with Knife Italian Steak chef John Tesar, an Argentinian dove hunt, a case of luxury wines, and a Fender guitar autographed by the Oak Ridge Boys and more country legends.<\/p>\n

DSOL’s next big fundraising event will be the the 40th Presentation Ball<\/strong><\/a> on February 21, 2026 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center; 42 local young women<\/a> will make their debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On November 6, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League made beautiful music at the Meyerson Symphony Center with its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,186769,21200,1596,186768,186767,15045,61155,152182,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,152184],"class_list":{"0":"post-393050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-candlelight-concert","10":"tag-concert","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-symphony-orchestra-league","13":"tag-dsol","14":"tag-fundraisers","15":"tag-galas","16":"tag-meyerson","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-young-strings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584015042061994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}