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WINNIPEG NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 January – February 2015 | Issue 4 Are you ready? wnmf.ca THE WSO PROUDLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS, MEDIA & FUNDERS: 7YV\KS`JVU[PU\PUNV\YMHTPS` SLNHJ`VMZ\WWVY[PUN[OLHY[Z JVTT\UP[`[OH[LUNHNLZ H\KPLUJLZ[VKH`HUKPUZWPYLZ -$0(65,&+$5'621[OLHY[PZ[ZVM[VTVYYV^ )281'$7,21 WNMF2015 Sponsors, Funders and Acknowledgements THE WSO PROUDLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS, MEDIA & FUNDERS: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PARTNER NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS 0,&+$(/ 1(6%,77 POPS SERIES CONCERTS FOR KIDS SERIES MASTERWORKS A SERIES WSO IN BRANDON POWER SMART HOLIDAY TOUR INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS CANADA DAY AT THE FORKS SOUNDCHECK MEDIA SPONSOR MATCHING DONATION PIANO RAFFLE CAR RAFFLE PROGRAM CAMPAIGN CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY FUNDERS WNMF2015 | OVERTURE 01 IG_CR_Ad_WSO_0713_5.5x8.5_E_4C 7/16/13 9:50 PM Page 1 Because we care about our communities We know there’s more to life than dollars and cents. There’s passion, endurance, commitment and community. As part of the community, Investors Group is proud to share in this and all of life’s special moments. In Support Of Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra www.investorsgroup.com ™Trademark owned by IGM Financial Inc. and licensed to its subsidiary corporations. ® Imagine Canada’s logo, “Imagine Canada”, Imagine’s logo and “Imagine” are all trademarks used by Imagine Canada, and are used with permission. WNMF2015 Alexander Mickelthwate Welcome Message ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE Music Director, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Welcome! The Winnipeg New Music Festival is a music which is largely outside the classical very special part of our city. It shines an tradition. He inspired his acolytes to create international light on Winnipeg by bringing completely new sound worlds that have not world-renowned artists together for a week been heard before. of new musical collaborations. 2015 is ultimately a trendsetting year. We go In fact, the 2015 festival reflects the where other festivals have not gone before eclecticism of our time. We are constantly and draw connections between the many browsing through an extreme range of flavours of music today. In short, it is a ideas, images and topics on the internet, cultural feast of new and a festival we won’t on social media, or even on the evening soon forget. Are you ready? news. The festival traverses these cultural I hope so because we’re about to start! extremes, which are often standing right next to each other. It features the Arditti Quartet, the most polished contemporary string quartet in the world, standing next to Sarah Neufeld from Arcade Fire who is next to John Zorn, one of New York’s most spirited independent composer /creators. This next to the lush, cinematic music of Giya Kancheli which is the polar opposite of Georg Friedrich Haas. Haas’ music functions almost more vertically than horizontally, with a new harmonic language full of a sophisticated beauty. Our own Andrew Balfour has created a powerful new work called Take the Indian, a meditation on the experiences of survivors of the residential school system. One connection that runs throughout WNMF 2015 is James Tenney, a sort of godfather for many composers and linked to Georg Alexander Mickelthwate, Friedrich Haas and John Luther Adams. Festival Co-curator & Music Director of Tenney created a new way of looking at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra WNMF2015 | OVERTURE 03 WNMF2015 Matthew Patton Welcome Message MATTHEW PATTON Co-Curator, Winnipeg New Music Festival As the New Music Festival begins, one thing New music can be a strange animal and as that stuck with me was the following. with any art, it is important to sort through Over ten years ago, music critic Kyle Gann its own historical baggage. But I think it’s wrote something about the state of new a good idea to keep these and other truths music. Here it is: still to be discovered in mind as we begin an invigorating week of new music, art, and “There is nothing wrong with simplicity. discussion. And most importantly of all, let It is easier to write complicated music than there be the simple act of listening... simple music; Beethoven’s sketchbooks show how hard he struggled to achieve simplicity. It occasionally happens that profound music is difficult to understand, “There is nothing but it does not follow from this that music that is difficult to understand is therefore wrong with simplicity.” profound. Most difficult-to-understand — Kyle Gann, Music Downtown music is simply unclear. The value of music is not proportional to the quantity or intricacy of its technical apparatus. Like many great composers throughout the ages, Mozart believed in an ‘artless art’ in which the effort of composing is hidden beneath an effortless surface; this is as it should be. The audience wants to be delighted, inspired, and not reassured that the composer is highly educated and worked hard. There is nothing wrong with occasionally writing an ostentatiously technical piece for the delectation of one’s colleagues, but to do nothing but that is to pretend that composers have no obligation to society, and by extension that neither do doctors, politicians, generals, or any other profession. A piece of music is not good just because it is popular, nor is it bad just because it is popular.” Matthew Patton, Co-curator of the Winnipeg New Music Festival 04 2014–2015 Season Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra MUSIC DIRECTOR CELLOS TROMBONES Alexander Mickelthwate Yuri Hooker, Principal Steven Dyer, Principal RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal John Helmer Alex Adaman Julian Pellicano BASS TROMBONE Margaret Askeland Julia McIntyre, Principal FIRST VIOLINS Arlene Dahl Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster Carolyn Nagelberg TUBA The Sophie-Carmen Emma Quackenbush Chris Lee, Principal Eckhardt-Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed BASSES TIMPANI by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Meredith Johnson, Principal *Brendan Thompson, Foundation Andrew Goodlett, Acting Principal Assistant Principal Karl Stobbe, PERCUSSION Travis Harrison Associate Concertmaster Frederick Liessens, Principal Mary Lawton, Paul Nagelberg Assistant Concertmaster Bruce Okrainec HARP Karin Andreasen Daniel Perry Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by Chris Anstey FLUTES W.H. & S.E. Loewen Mona Coarda Jan Kocman, Principal Hong Tian Jia Martha Durkin ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Janet Liang MANAGER Simon MacDonald PICCOLO Chris Lee Meredith McCallum Martha Durkin PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Julie Savard OBOES Raymond Chrunyk Jun Shao Beverly Wang, Principal ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Robin MacMillan SECOND VIOLINS Laura MacDougall Darryl Strain, Principal ENGLISH HORN Elation Pauls, Robin MacMillan Assistant Principal Karen Bauch CLARINETS *Temporary Position Kristina Bauch Micah Heilbrunn, Principal †Dual Section Position Elizabeth Dyer Michelle Goddard Rodica Jeffrey BASSOONS Please note: Non-titled Susan McCallum Alex Eastley, Principal (tutti) string players are Takayo Noguchi Kathryn Brooks listed alphabetically and Claudine St-Arnauld are seated accordingly † Jane Pulford HORNS to a rotational system. Patricia Evans, Principal VIOLAS Ken MacDonald, Fred Redekop is the official Daniel Scholz, Principal Associate Principal Piano Tuner and Technician of Anne Elise Lavallée, James Robertson the WSO. Assistant Principal The Hilda Schelberger Laszlo Baroczi Memorial Chair Richard Bauch Caroline Oberheu Greg Hay Michiko Singh Suzanne McKegney Merrily Peters TRUMPETS Mike Scholz Brian Sykora, Principal Paul Jeffrey Isaac Pulford The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair WNMF2015 | OVERTURE 05 WE TAKE PEOPLE PLACES. BUT IT’S MUSIC THAT TRULY MOVES THEM. OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. B6SRQVHUB:62B$'B[SRB&B(1LQGG 30 Client : Air Canada Nº dossier : 1101586 Format du PAP : 100 % Description : Trim : 5.75" x 8.75" ÉPREUVE Publication : Gala Program WSO Nº annonce : Type : 5" x 8" STUDIO # 1 Date parution : October Bleed : 6" x 9" Infographiste : NM Visible : N/A DATE: OCTOBER 7, 2014 2:03 PM Nom du fichier : 1101586_Sponser_WSO_AD_5.75x8.75po_4C_EN Sortie laser @ 100 % COULEURS: C M Y K DIE 000 000 000 WNMF2015 Saturday January 31 Centennial Concert Hall 8pm ARDITTI MEETS THE WSO Rihm, Haas, Neufeld & Norman “Not everything can WNMF 2015 opens with a bang, oscillating between stasis and ecstasy. The Arditti be put into words. Quartet, leaders of the musical avant-garde That is why it has for the last 40 years, amaze in Wolfgang been made into music.” Rihm’s hedonistic Dithyrambe for string quartet and orchestra. Andrew Norman’s — Wolfgang Rihm cathartic Unstuck will bring the stage alive with symphonic fireworks. George Friedrich Haas’s Traum in des Sommers Nacht will warp and stretch time as it breaks down sonic space, while Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire grounds it all with Breathing Black Ground (arr. Owen Pallet). Arditti Quartet PROGRAM Panel 6:45pm Andrew Norman (US) Unstuck HOW DO YOU JUDGE A Canadian Premiere PIECE OF NEW MUSIC IN THE 21ST CENTURY? Wolfgang Rihm (DE) PRE-CONCERT Andrew Norman, Dithyrambe for string quartet and orchestra Georg Friedrich Haas, Canadian Premiere Yuri Hooker, Meredith Johnson Intermission Moderator: Alexander Mickelthwate Sarah Neufeld (CA) (arr. Owen Pallett (CA)) Breathing Black Ground Performance 7:15pm Brandon University Georg Friedrich Haas (AT) New Music Ensemble, Traum in des Sommers Nacht Megumi Masaki, director Canadian Premiere Post-Concert Q+A Andrew Norman, ARTISTS Georg Friedrich Haas, Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Matthew Patton Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, violin, POST-CONCERT Ashot Sarkissjan, violin, Ralf Ehlers, viola, Lucas Fels, cello) Gwen Hoebig, solo violin Gwen Hoebig Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Sarah Neufeld Concert Sponsor WNMF2015 | OVERTURE 07 WNMF2015 Program Notes ANDREW NORMAN seems to be a representation of a nervous Unstuck state of mind – a German critic called it “motoric madness” – that is suddenly calmed, “I have never been more stuck than I was or sublimated, at the end. in the winter of 2008. My writing came to a grinding halt in January and for a long time this piece languished on my desk, a SARAH NEUFELD (arr. Owen Pallett) mess of musical fragments that refused to Breathing Black Ground cohere.