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CEO Bonnie VanVoorhees Marketing & Communications Assistant Symphony Chat Josie Fife January 2020 Financial Manager David Rupp The Power of Music Librarian/SBYO Manager There is still time to experience the magic of orchestral music as the Saginaw Bay Donald Belcher Symphony Orchestra (SBSO) continues its 2019-2020 season, Soul of the Symphony. SBYO Administrator The remaining season will include our February concert Vivid Colors, Dance & Ruth Ann Robinson Beauty, featuring the music of Haydn, Torke, Copland, and Sibelius. For this performance we will be incorporating a special visual aspect to the concert, uniting SBYO Musical Director visual and performance art. In a joint venture between the SBSO and Studio 23 of Bay Rod Bieber City, we are excited to introduce Studio 23 artist and Curator Valerie Allen, who will Production/Librarian Intern be creating a beautiful painted piece inspired by the music of Haydn and Torke during the first half of the concert. Ms. Allen's painting will then be displayed in the Emma VanVoorhees Temple Theatre's Leopard Lounge during the AfterGlow, where a silent auction will be held on the piece. SBSO BOARD On March 28th, we are excited to welcome back Kevin Cole to the Temple Theatre to President perform in our 4th concert of the season, Cole Meets Gershwin. Mr. Cole is a Bay City Felicia Rose-Barry native, SVSU Visitig Artist and a world-famous George Gershwin expert, who will be Vice-President performing Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, as well as compositions from Verdi and Russian composer Shostakovich. Deborah Huntley Secretary We conclude the season with our May 9 concert, Symphonie Fantastique, featuring Cynthia Chadwick the work of Hector Berlioz, , and the brilliant Khachaturian violin concerto performed by the SBSO's own concertmaster, Eliot Heaton. Treasurer

Claudia Zacharek, MD It has been said that music connects us and helps to bring change, and through the Board Members philanthropic work of many well-known musicians and relief concerts this has been Al Blinke proven to be true. In our community there are individuals who suffer from Paul Chaffee homelessness and hunger. As your SBSO we have to help make change. In conjunction with our February 8 concert, Vivid Colors, Dance & Beauty, the SBSO is Donald Carlyon partnering with Hidden Harvest and participating in “The Orchestras Feeding Ken Cichewicz America” program, inspired by the true story of Los Angeles Times columnist and his Michael Elliott relationship with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a Julliard-trained violinist who developed schizophrenia and later became homeless. The Food and Fund Drive will Andrea Fischer be held from February 3rd-8th. Floyd Kloc John Markey When you donate five non-perishable food items, or donate $5, you will be given a Linda P. McGee Saginaw Art Patrons Card and a silver ticket. The Art Card with give you $5 off future concert ticket purchases and the silver ticket with provide you with access to an Lou Ognisanti exclusive meet and greet at the Saginaw Art Museum on February 10 from 6-8 PM Sam Tilmon with Studio 23 Artist Valerie Allen, our guest painter for our February concert. Honorary Members Donations can be dropped off at the Temple Theatre Box Office during normal business hours. Dr. Donald J. Bachand

Dr. Jean Goodnow Join us in the fight against hunger and help us feed Saginaw. Help us fill the box! Emeriti Dr. David Conrad Patricia Shaheen James Van Tiflin When Painting and Classical MAESTRO'S NOTE Music Unite

Our upcoming February concert has four great pieces that I can’t wait to share with you. Music brings and binds people After a quick, and seldom performed Haydn overture we present two pieces together. It makes us move, it by two great American composers. Michael Torke, a contemporary American composer, wrote a series of pieces in the 1980s and early 1990s labeled “Color inspires emotion, it ranscends Music”. These works have titles like “” and “Bright Blue place and time, it brings us Music”. “” is a neoclassical movement from that series that is predominantly in the key of F minor and is based on a single repetitive closer to our spiritual side, it motive that is developed over the course of the 15-minute work. connects us and it helps us

Aaron Copland is known as the “Dean of American Music” and his style has bring about change. become synonymous with American music (Who can eat beef without hearing “Hoedown” with Robert Mitchum’s classic phrase: “Beef. It’s What’s Join us for our February 8 For Dinner”?). “Appalachian Spring” was commissioned (in 1944) by choreographer and dancer Martha Graham and was awarded the 1945 concert Vivid Colors, Dance, . Originally written for 13 instruments, after its & Beauty, when we feature success, he arranged the work for full orchestra. That is the version that we will perform for you. Valerie Allen who is the Studio 23 Curator and also an We conclude the concert with a truly unique symphony. The Finnish composer Sibelius wrote seven symphonies and although the second Artist. She will paint as the symphony has become his most popular, I believe the fifth has such unique music of Haydn and Tork ideas and themes that make it one of his best works. This symphony was move her. commissioned by the Finnish government to celebrate his own 50th birthday. This is a work that is not performed as often as it should. You really do not want to miss it! The featured piece will be

See you at the concert! auctioned off in a silent FKF auction at our Chocolate Fondue AfterGlow sponsored Vivid Colors, Dance & Beauty by Horizons held in the A bright classical overture by Haydn is followed by American Leopard Lounge. composer Michael Torke’s Ash. Described as being like a recalcitrant Beethoven overture, it is full of vibrant colors and was choreographed as a ballet soon after its composition.

Copland’s ballet Appalachian Spring is an iconic piece of Americana. It has achieved enduring popularity as an orchestral suite.

While Sibelius was composing his fifth symphony, he wrote, it is as if God Almighty had thrown down pieces of a mosaic for heaven’s floor and asked me to find out what was the original pattern. THANK YOU FEATURED CONCERT SPONSORS We are grateful for our featured concert sponsors

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To reserve your special Date Night Package call the Temple Box Office 989.754.7469 Saginaw Bay Youth Orchestra's Winter Concert TAKE A STAND MEMBER MARY H. ROBERTS Winter Concert GOLD STAND Classical music has enriched my life since childhood. My mother Sunday, March 1 and father loved classical music and I fondly remember listening to 3:00 PM records on the Victrola. They Temple Theatre encouraged me to study piano and $7 I began playing at age six. Later, I developed a life long passion for collecting classical recordings. available at the door

Music gives me more pleasure than anything else. Music is exhilarating and it stimulates my Explore the wonders of symphonic music with the Saginaw Bay imagination. Music is therapeutic. Youth Orchestra as they present their second concert of the Season on Sunday, March 1 at 3:00 PM in the historic Temple Theatre. The I have attended live performances Saginaw Bay Youth Orchestra is the Great Lakes Bay Region’s only in Saginaw since the Community community youth orchestra serving the Region and the Thumb. The Concert days. Several years ago, a program is a key educational outreach arm of the Saginaw Bay previous SBSO Music Director Symphony Orchestra and shares its mission to create magical and began giving lectures about memorable experiences through the power of symphonic music to composers and their works. That audiences of all ages in our region. Tickets are $7 and available at the was the catalyst that transformed door of the Temple Theatre. me from a concert goer to an SBSO supporter. Music Under the Stars It is my deep desire to help keep Enjoy live music by a special consort of musicians from the Saginaw Bay this wonderful orchestra, led by Symphony Orchestra set to unique immersive effects in the planetarium’s Maestro Fakouri, playing music Dome360 Theatre. This one-of-a-kind experience features vibraphones, that has inspired people for over marimbas and percussion led by John Dorsey, Principal Percussionist for eighty years right here in Saginaw. the Symphony. Selections like “Postludes” by Elliot Cole, “Akadinda Trio” by Emmanuel Sejourne and “Rain Tree” by Toru Takemitsu are visually For these reasons I Take-A- Stand choreographed to dynamic visual effects from spacescapes to surrealistic for the Orchestra. environments. This exclusive event takes place one night only with a Mary H. Roberts performance at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 per seat with children under 10 admitted free. Seating is almost sold out so reserve your spots now. Concert tickets available by calling Delta College Planetarium 989-667-2260. Take the next step Become a SBSO Supporter Donate at https://www.saginawbayorchestra.com/donate/