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DEER HORN RANCH GEARY COUNTY

Thank you for joining us as we observe the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail and the history, culture, and landscape of the American West and the Great Plains.

KANSAS GOVERNOR SAM BROWNBACK

The American Cowboy was born in the dust of the old Chisholm Trail.

Jim Hoy WELCOME

Welcome to Deer Horn Ranch and the Twelfth Annual Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event. Through captivating sights, sounds, and experiences, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail. Explore the prairie as it appeared in 1867, when nutrient- rich grasslands fueled a cattle migration that transformed the sleepy, fledgling town of Abilene to a cowtown where drovers clashed with a growing number of settlers attracted by the Homestead Act. Like the Leithoff family that first settled the Deer Horn Ranch, my ancestors, who hailed from Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden, were among the first farmers and ranchers to settle in Geary County in the 1860s and 1870s. I am grateful to landowners John and Mary McDonald for hosting us in this place that holds so many memories for me. We are pleased to once again feature the Kansas City Symphony, which will be performing songs from the Old West with special guest artist Michael Martin Murphey. The founder of the Murphey Western Institute and lifelong advocate for western culture and grasslands conservation will draw from his love for the Flint Hills and the Old Chisholm Trail in his performance. FENCE SUNSET Today’s presentations and performances, designed to inform, Don Wolfe entertain, and enlighten you, are made possible by the generosity of donors and volunteers whose commitment brings to life our mission to heighten appreciation and knowledge of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie. Thank you for joining us for today’s event and for our programs

and activities throughout the year. Virginia Moxley chair, board of directors symphony in the flint hills, inc.

1 MAJOR PRESENTING SPONSOR

As 2017 Major Presenting Sponsor, BNSF is honored to join Symphony in the Flint Hills, Inc., in commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail. In the cattle trail days, BNSF moved Texas longhorns from Kansas to markets across the country. Today, we move Kansas goods to the world. We are proud to partner with Symphony in the Flint Hills, Inc., to celebrate the tallgrass prairie and the cowboy spirit.

SOJOURNER’S HOME ON THE RANGE (DETAIL) Chiyoko Myose

2 3 SYMPHONY IN THE FLINT HILLS, INC.

OUR MISSION Heighten appreciation and knowledge of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie

Symphony in the Flint Hills, Inc., works to build awareness for the tallgrass prairie, an ecosystem that once covered 170 million acres of North America. Through year-round programming, we celebrate the history, ecology, and culture of the Kansas Flint Hills. Each June 7,000 kindred spirits gather for our signature event, which includes heritage and culture presentations and a world-class symphonic concert in an inspirational prairie setting. In the past year, we have expanded our education programming. Articles from past Field Journals are now available to anyone at any time in a searchable online database. As part of our year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail, we partnered with Flint Hills Design in North Newton, to produce a traveling exhibit entitled The Chisholm Trail: Driving the American West. As it travels to cultural institutions throughout Kansas and beyond for years to come, the exhibit will share both the story of the Texas cattle trails and our mission with thousands of visitors. We are proud to participate in the creation of the documentary Prairie Suite: Symphony in the Flint Hills, which debuted in August 2016. You can BISON Matt Regier learn more about our programs at symphonyintheflinthills.org. Our work is possible with the support of our donors, volunteers, and friends. Thank you for your commitment to Symphony in the Flint Hills.

4 5 DEER HORN RANCH

We are honored to be the stewards of Deer Horn Ranch and to share the beauty and history of our piece of the Kansas Flint Hills. JOHN & MARY MCDONALD, LANDOWNERS

While Joseph McCoy was laying plans for stockyards at the end of the Chisholm Trail, Lebrecht and Henrietta Leithoff were blazing a different trail toward economic success in the cattle industry. In the early 1860s, the young couple was living in Kothen, district capital of Anhalt, Germany, known for both its fertile farmland and its rich classical music heritage. After five years of marriage, they immigrated to the United States in 1868, living in Providence, Rhode Island, for a short time before moving to Geary County in 1870. In eastern Geary County, the Leithoffs joined a thriving community of German natives. In 1865, five years before their arrival, more than 10 percent of the county’s population were natives of Germany. Just east, in adjacent Wabaunsee County, 70 percent of the population was German-born. In the span of a few short years, the resourceful immigrants from Kothen leveraged $500 and a job at a local furniture store into a successful farming CATTLE-FENCE Don Wolfe and ranching operation. By 1875, two years before becoming naturalized citizens, they had amassed property valued at $4,000, including “700 acres of good land, provided with plenty of wood, water, barns, sheds, windmill, yards, and pastures; twenty head of good horses, one hundred head of cattle well graded, and one hundred head of hogs.” In the words of the local newspaper, “Mr. Leithoff [was] another illustration of what industry, perseverance and good management will do on a Kansas farm.” German industry was on full display in the ranch’s stately buildings. The vernacular traditions of their homeland are particularly evident in their first home, built in 1873, just three years after their arrival in

6 7 Geary County. Although their second home, a $2,000 stone building family purchased it from the Leithoffs and declared it “one of the finest constructed in 1890, featured common American Victorian elements cattle farms in this part of the state.” Hale Powers seemed to relish his role like bay windows and spindled porches, its symmetrical façade and as a cattleman. In 1922, when children were getting their first big-screen banked siting, or nestling into a hill, was decidedly German. dose of cowboy culture, Powers put the ranch on public display, inviting Despite an economic downturn and an 1894 lightning fire that damaged area boys to spend the morning riding and watching local bronco busters, their home, the Leithoffs continued to invest in their Geary County “saddle the mustangs and show the boys how it is done in Eastern Geary.” property. When Lebrecht Leithoff added a “new Ideal wind mill steel tower, Census records indicate that Hale and Lula Powers were living in tank, pipes, etc., to his farm equipments,” the local paper quipped that Junction City in 1930, by which time son Pierce Powers (1906–1986) had “Leithoff is another one of those farmers who isn’t going to the poor house.” joined Hale in the livestock trade; other accounts suggest that Hale moved Although the Leithoffs leased their ranch and moved to town in 1899, to Los Angeles in 1928. Regardless, Hale and Lula’s marriage did not Lebrecht remained active for a few more years, shipping cattle to Kansas survive the Great Depression. By 1940 Lula was living in Junction City, City, commissioning the construction of a large pond, and dabbling in and Hale was remarried and living in San Bernardino. Although the ranch winemaking. In 1900, two decades after Kansas adopted prohibition, went into foreclosure in 1932, Hale and Lula’s son Pierce Powers was still Leithoff surprised a gathering at Fort Riley with “a case of his best vintage.” living there with his wife Margaret and their young family in 1940. By the time Lebrecht Leithoff sold the ranch to his son Charles in 1904, Although the Deer Horn Ranch has passed through many hands since he had left an enduring legacy in eastern Geary County. However, it was a the mid-twentieth century, its owners’ dedication to the tallgrass prairie and legacy Charles was unable or unwilling to steward. Within a year Charles ranching traditions kept its legacy alive. Among the better-known owners had auctioned off the remainder of the stock, sold the property to Pomeroy was Winton Winter, an Ottawa, Kansas-based attorney, judge, oilman, Powers for less than $15 per acre, and moved his family to town. In 1909, politician, and serial entrepreneur whose vast business empire included two two years after his father’s death, Charles moved his family to Nebraska. ranching operations. During his tenure of operation, which stretched from Pomeroy Powers (1852–1915) bought the Deer Horn Ranch from Charles 1965 until he sold the property to Joe Edward Cooper in 1978, Winter worked Leithoff in 1905, apparently for his son Hale Powers (1875–1946). In 1915, to promote Simmental cattle, a Swiss breed that gained popularity in the the year Hale Powers formally inherited the property from his father, he was United States in the late 1960s. Pratt, Kansas-based cattleman John Dauner, maintaining 1,710 acres of ranchland with 272 head of cattle, sold $1,200 who purchased the property from the Larry Cory family in 1993, took steps in dairy products, and grew one hundred acres of winter wheat, fifty acres of toward preserving the ranch’s rich heritage by placing the ranch buildings and corn, twenty acres of oats, and twenty acres of rye. Although some accounts surrounding grassland on the National Register of Historic Places. suggest that Hale and his wife Lula Pierce Powers lived at the ranch, census John and Mary McDonald, who purchased the ranch in 2015, are records indicate that they were living in Junction City in 1920. continuing the tradition today. Their business, Rawhide Portable Corral, Business was good in the early 1920s, when the local paper reported that Inc., has been manufacturing portable cattle pens and livestock equipment the ranch had nearly tripled in value in the two decades since the Powers in their hometown of Abilene, Kansas, for sixteen years.

8 9 PRAIRIE ART

Juror Henry Adams has selected fifty-two paintings for the Prairie Art Exhibit and Auction. This year’s winning piece is Clive Fullager’s Sundial, which, in Adams’ words, “nicely captures the scale and mystery of the Flint Hills.” “Most of my paintings are done in the ‘Golden Hour’–the time when the sun is setting,” says the artist, “The effects of light on the land at that time are magical and very brief.” Visit the artists, bid on their work, and purchase a limited-edition commemorative print of the winning painting in the Prairie Art Tent.

SUNDIAL Clive Fullager

2017 ARTISTS

Patricia Adams Lisa Grossman Marilee Means

Cris Chapin Dana Hassett Gary Ozias 2017 SYMPHONY IN THE FLINT HILLS Randy Clark Richard Hayek Susan Rose FIELD JOURNAL, VOLUME IX Alan Collins Cher Heller Olson Deb Schroer

David Cooper Kathy Hisel Hi Stockwell This year, we’re tackling the theme of the Chisholm Trail in a Louis Copt Linda Kinder Cristine Sundquist way only Symphony in the Flint Hills can. Historians, folklorists, Elizabeth Corbett Cathy Kline Cathie Thompson journalists, and conservationists explore the worlds that collided in Michael Duane Cally Krallman Anita Toby the years following the Civil War when the largest migration of cattle

Jo Flager Diane L. Lawrence Gary F. Walden in recorded history gave way to the westward march of settlers. In Mike Flora Mike Livingston Chun Wang carefully researched and written articles, these authors examine the Clive Fullugar David Lytle Julie Wiegand birth of cowboy culture, the dawn of the cattle industry, and the reason Sue Godwin Judith Mackey Chris Willey that the Flint Hills hold a special place in the hearts of those who still Hugh Greer Gweneth McClain value wide-open spaces.

10 11 SYMPHONY IN THE FLINT HILLS, INC. Twelfth Annual Signature Event CHISHOLM TRAIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Bruce Breckenridge, Leawood Tom Nelson, Kansas City Jeff Davidson, Eureka Larry Patton, El Dorado HIGH NOON Joy Davis, Junction City Bill Riley, Manhattan Site Opens Beth Harshfield, Wichita Mike Stout, Wichita Kathy Kelly, Kansas City George Terbovich, Kansas City AFTERNOON Kelly Lockton, Mission Hills Melanie Thompson, Lake Quivira Beverage & Food Tents Debbie Miller, Council Grove Marty White, Council Grove Flint Hills Store Virginia Moxley, Chair, Council Grove Musical Instrument Petting Zoo Music in the Beverage Tent Horse-Drawn Covered Wagon Rides ADVISORY COUNCIL Prairie Walks & Interpretation Suzan Barnes, Cottonwood Falls Kathy Miller, Leawood Prairie Art Silent Auction Tom Beal, Prairie Village Henry Newell, Kansas City Presentations, Prairie Pavilions (page 15) Mike Beam, Topeka Charles Reagan, Manhattan Roving Music Roger Blessing, Lenexa Patty Reece, Alma/Mission Hills

Ann Garvey, Wichita Scott Ritchie, Wichita CONCERT Bill Haw, Mission Hills Wayne Rouse, Manhattan 6:45 Cathy Hoy, Emporia Michael Stubbs, Eskridge 20-minute intermission Prairie Art Silent Auction closes at end of intermission Jim Hoy, Emporia Bruce Waugh, Leawood Curtis Krizek, Mission Hills Ken Wold, Elmdale AFTER CONCERT Beverage & Food Tents STAFF 9:30–Dance, Hot Club of Cowtown, Beverage Tent Christy Davis, Executive Director, Cottonwood Falls Cowboy Poetry, Stories & Music, Story Circle Gwen Shirkey, Director of Engagement, Clements Flint Hills Store Louise Carlin, Merchandise & Art Manager, Council Grove Stargazing, Prairie Pavilions Sandy Dorsey, Education & Volunteer Coordinator, Cottonwood Falls Rita Spinden, Bookkeeper, Cottonwood Falls Kelly Tastove, Development Officer, Bazaar Stay for after-concert activities. Enjoy night skies on the prairie.

12 13 THE CHISHOLM TRAIL PRAIRIE PAVILIONS

SUNFLOWER TENT—LIFE ON THE TRAIL 1:30 JACK BAILEY Troy Nordman, Butler Community College 2:00 LONGHORNS Josh Hoy, Flying W Ranch 2:30 JAMES R. MEAD Schuyler Jones 3:00 COWBOY LIFE ON THE TRAIL Jim Hoy, Emeritus Professor of English, Emporia State University 3:30 FUELING THE DRIVE Tom Eddy, Emeritus Professor of Biology, Emporia State University 4:30 CHISHOLM TRAIL & ITS HISTORY Jim Gray, Ellsworth Dennis Katzenmeier, Chisholm Trail Association Gary & Margaret Kraisinger, Chisholm Trail Association 5:00 TRAIL FOOD Jane Marshall, Manhattan Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, Chapman Center for Rural Studies

BLUE WILD INDIGO TENT—DON’T FENCE ME IN 1:30 RANCHING–THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES Todd Leahy, New Mexico Wildlife Federation

JESSE’S HANDS INSTALLATION (DETAIL) 2:00 MINORITY DROVERS Gesine Janzen Special Guest Presenter 2:30 WOMEN ALONG THE CHISHOLM TRAIL Farrell Hoy Jenab, Kansas Studies Institute 3:00 LIFE & TIMES OF JOSEPH MCCOY Jim Sherow, Kansas State University 3:30 MINORITY DROVERS Special Guest Presenter 4:00 RANCHING–THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES Todd Leahy, New Mexico Wildlife Federation 4:30 WOMEN ALONG THE CHISHOLM TRAIL Farrell Hoy Jenab, Kansas Studies Institute 5:00 THE RAILROAD’S CONNECTION TO THE TRAIL Jay Price, Wichita State University

14 15 BUTTERFLY MILKWEED TENT—LEGACY OF THE TRAIL STARGAZING—PRAIRIE SKIES 1:30 CHISHOLM TRAIL IN POP CULTURE 1:30 – 5:30 EXPLORING THE STARS, PLANETS, & MOON Shan Jabara & Gretchen Mitchell, Tallgrass Film Association Kansas Astronomical Observers & Salina Astronomy Club 2:00 CHISHOLM TRAIL SPRAWL 1:30 LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE Brian Obermeyer, The Nature Conservancy’s Flint Hills Initiative Paul Ramirez, Kansas Astronomical Observers 2:30 GERMANY’S FASCINATION WITH THE 2:30 TONIGHT’S CONSTELLATION TOUR AMERICAN COWBOY Dorothy Hanna, Salina Astronomy Club Jeremiah Ariaz, Louisiana State University 3:30 SPACE ROCKS 3:00 OLD ABILENE TOWN Jerelyn Ramirez, Kansas Astronomical Observers Michael Hook, Dickinson County Historical Society 4:30 2017 GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE 3:30 DRIVING THE AMERICAN WEST (EXHIBIT) Jeffrey Kasoff, Salina Astronomy Club Nathan Bartel & Anthony Esau, Flint Hills Design 4:00 PRESIDENT EISEHNOWER & ABILENE AFTER THE CONCERT—VIEW THE SKY THROUGH TELESCOPES Tim Rives, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum 4:30 THE COWBOY HAT Jack Kellogg, Hatman Jack’s 5:00 THE BEEF INDUSTRY Tracy Brunner, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

PURPLE CONEFLOWER TENT—EAST OF THE LINE: THE FLINT HILLS 1:30 HARVEY HOUSES Robert Harris, Florence 2:00 HISTORY OF THE DEER HORN RANCH John & Mary McDonald, Deer Horn Ranch 2:30 PLANTS ALONG THE TRAIL: TODAY & YESTERDAY Jim Mason, Great Plains Nature Center 3:00 KONZA PRAIRIE John Briggs, Konza Prairie 3:30 HOME ON THE RANGE (FILM) Ken Spurgeon, Lone Chimney Films 4:00 WOODFEST Ken Wold, Camp Wood YMCA Susan Mayo, WoodFest 4:30 PLANTS ALONG THE TRAIL: TODAY & YESTERDAY Jim Mason, Great Plains Nature Center 5:00 HOME ON THE RANGE (FILM) SEASONAL SHIFTS-EAGLES NEST Ken Spurgeon, Lone Chimney Films Chris Edmonds

16 17 Symphony in the Flint Hills PROGRAM NOTES THE CHISHOLM TRAIL MUSICAL PROGRAM An Outdoor Overture (1938) AARON COPLAND This piece was commissioned by New York’s High School of Music and Art to Featuring KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY launch its “American Music for American Youth” campaign. Copland was asked Conducted by to consider “a single movement composition... between five and ten minutes... JASON SEBER, Assistant Conductor, David T. Beals III Chair an overture or rhapsody... optimistic in tone,” with “a definite appeal to adolescent youth of this country.” The open-air quality speaks to the Flint Hills. Guest Artist: MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Master of Ceremonies: DAVE KENDALL Suite of Old American Dances (1949) ROBERT BENNETT American Sign Language Interpreter: KIM BATES Bennett’s inspiration for this classical American suite was a performance by the Goldman Band at Carnegie Hall. The original title was “Electric Park,” named after the amusement park in Kansas City, and each movement was based on a An Outdoor Overture COPLAND twentieth-century dance. Bennett was born in Kansas City, where his father Suite of Old American Dances BENNETT played violin in the Symphony. After directing the 70th Infantry Band at Camp I. “Cake Walk” Funston, Kansas, Bennett moved to New York, where he orchestrated over 300 III. “Western One-Step” scores for stage and film. V. “Rag” “Cowboy Overture” / “Backward, Turn Backward” Variations Along the Old Chisholm Trail (2017) HOWARD HUDIBURG CANSLER/BRINNINSTOOL/MURPHEY Commissioned by Michael Martin Murphey for the 2017 Symphony in the Flint “Cowboy Logic” COOK/RAINS/MURPHEY Hills concert, this piece transports the listener to the Old West and into the Variations Along the Old Chisholm Trail HUDIBURG heart, soul, and mind of a cowboy on a cattle drive along the mighty Chisholm Trail and across the expanse of grass and plain, rolling hills, hidden valleys, and I. “A Glorious Day on the Trail” winding rivers. The work is based on the experiences, both devastating and VI. “An Unsettling Encounter” glorious, of two teenage cowboys, as they risk their lives riding in open range IX. “Drivin’ ‘Em into Caldwell” country from Texas to Kansas. Hudiburg is a Professor Emeritus at Texas State X. “Farewell–Goin’ Home to the Family–Alone” University where he was Director of Orchestral Studies. “The Old Chisholm Trail” TRADITIONAL/MURPHEY “Buckaroo Holiday” from Rodeo COPLAND “Buckaroo Holiday” from Rodeo (1942) AARON COPLAND Choreographed by American ballerina Agnes de Mille, this playful and bold INTERMISSION western ballet deals with a problem that confronted many Pioneer women: how to find a suitable man while staying true to yourself–played out in the “The American Dream” from Night Visions BECKEL experiences of a tomboyish Cowgirl. “The Saturday afternoon rodeo,” said de “Rawhide” theme from Rawhide TIOMKIN/PALMER/RUSS Mille, “is a tradition...done for an audience of...fellow workers, women-folk “Dartmoor, 1912” from War Horse WILLIAMS and…nearest neighbors who can make the eighty or so mile run-over.” Often a “Storm on the Prairie” / “Ghost Riders in the Sky” Ranch House dance followed. HOFFNER/JONES/MURPHEY “Wildfire” CANSLER/MURPHEY “The American Dream” from Night Visions (1992) JAMES BECKEL A graduate of Indiana University School of Music, Beckel has been the “Suite” from Wyatt Earp HOWARD principal trombonist with the Indianapolis Symphony since 1969. Night “Happy Trails” EVANS/MURPHEY Visions was commissioned by Price Waterhouse as a tribute to CEO Charles “Home on the Range” TRADITIONAL/MURPHEY O’Drobinak. The piece includes four movements, each dedicated to a particular Keith Burditt, harmonica performance after concert dream. This movement, the last of the four, reflects the great freedoms and opportunities that America affords.

18 19 PROGRAM NOTES GUEST ARTIST

“Rawhide” from Rawhide (1958) DIMITRI TIOMKIN MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY– As a singer, songwriter, Tiomkin’s iconic Western theme from the TV series of the same name (1959–62), Rawhide evokes the energy and excitement of a nineteenth-century and producer, Michael Martin Murphey has contributed some of the cattle drive. Originally sung by Frankie Laine, the lyrics by long-time Tiomkin most beloved songs of his generation, recording more than thirty-five collaborator Ned Washington describe riding the range in the Wild West with picturesque references to “dogies” (motherless calves) and “vittles” (the folk albums in a four-decade career. spelling for prepared food). The song remains among the most-recognized Murphey remains a passionate and outspoken advocate of the western themes. (Patrick Russ.) American West, chronicling the lifestyle in both his music and “Dartmoor, 1912” from War Horse (2011) JOHN WILLIAMS personal life. He celebrates the men and women who love dirt, grass, Directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie War Horse tells the story of an animal that touched many lives before and during World War I. Composer John and water–those who love the land responsibly and ensure its health Williams says, “Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Frederick Delius,...and others all contributed to a rich literature that I’ve loved and admired for a long for generations to come. time. In a very real sense, “Dartmoor, 1912” was written as an homage to these Murphey’s desire to protect the American West led him to create great men.” The music is expansive and reminiscent of the wide-open rolling landscape of the Flint Hills. the Murphey Western Institute, whose goal is to protect the life-

sustaining mountain, prairie, and plains landscapes that continue to “Suite” from Wyatt Earp (1994) JAMES NEWTON Wyatt Earp is a fictionalized biographical film about the legendary Earp’s life as inspire his music. a wagon driver, bison hunter, and lawman in the American West. Grammy- award-winning composer James Newton Howard was trained in the arts of Murphey has commissioned a new arrangement of the ever-popular both orchestral and electronic music. He has scored over sixty feature films. Old Chisholm Trail folk song. Murphey, along with the Kansas City The material for this work has been called “consistently strong...distinct and memorable: of modern Western genre.” Symphony, will premiere this piece during tonight’s musical program.

“Home on the Range” (1930) GUION/MURPHEY This classic western tune started as a poem entitled “My Western Home,” published by Smith County pioneer Dr. Brewster M. Higley in 1876. It was Dr. Higley’s friend Dan Kelly who first set the poem to music. “Home on the Range” soared to nationwide popularity in the early 1930s after Texan composer David W. Guion published a new arrangement. It became the favorite song of many Americans, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in 1947 it became the Kansas State Song. For the first time, the Kansas City Symphony will perform an arrangement by special guest artist Michael Martin Murphey.

20 21 CONDUCTOR KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY

JASON SEBER – We are pleased to welcome Jason Seber in his Founded in 1982, the Kansas City Symphony is a major force Symphony in the Flint Hills debut. Seber is celebrating his first in the cultural life of the community. Praised for performances of season as the David T. Beals III Assistant Conductor of the Kansas uncompromising standard, the orchestra is the largest in the region,

City Symphony where he leads the Classics Uncorked, Pops, Family, with eighty full-time musicians, and enjoys a national reputation under and Screenland at the Symphony and Education series, as well as a the artistic leadership of Music Director Michael Stern. Presenting multitude of other programs. more than one-hundred concerts annually in a forty-two-week season, Prior to his Kansas City Symphony appointment, Seber served as the Symphony also performs for the Kansas City Ballet and Lyric education and outreach conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. He Opera of Kansas City. Every season comprises an impressive variety of also had an eleven-year tenure as Louisville Youth Orchestra music programs that collectively reach more than 200,000 people, including director during which membership grew from 200 to more than 350 the Symphony’s annual Bank of America Celebration at the Station members in nine orchestras and ensembles. concert held each Memorial Day weekend. For more information or

Previously, Seber served as assistant conductor for the Cleveland tickets, visit kcsymphony.org or call (816) 471-0400.

Pops Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra. He also Sound that embraces you, music that inspires you. has guest conducted the Charleston (S.C.), Colorado, Houston,

Indianapolis, Mansfield (Ohio), National and Windsor symphonies, MASTER OF CEREMONIES – DAVE KENDALL as well as the Cleveland Pops and the Denver Young Artists A documentary filmmaker and former host of Sunflower Journeys Orchestra. He earned his master’s in orchestral conducting from the on public television, Dave Kendall grew up on a family farm along Cleveland Institute of Music and his bachelor’s degrees in music and Clark’s Creek not far south of this year’s concert venue. His family’s roots in this area date back to 1857. He now serves as managing music education from Baldwin Wallace University. producer of Prairie Hollow Productions.

SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER – KIM BATES Kim Bates has been the Interpreter Coordinator at KU since 2001. She holds both state– and national-level interpreting credentials.

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Michael Stern, Music Director Jason Seber, Assistant Conductor, David T. Beals III Chair

FIRST VIOLINS Marvin Gruenbaum ENGLISH HORN Philip Clark, Associate Principal Noah Geller, Concertmaster Philip Kramp ∆ Kenneth Lawrence Brian Rood Miller Nichols Chair Jenifer Richison Justine Lamb-Budge, Matthew Rombaum CLARINETS TROMBONES Associate Concertmaster Raymond Santos, Principal Roger Oyster, Principal Sunho Kim, Assistant Concertmaster CELLOS John Klinghammer ∆ , Porter Wyatt Henderson, Gregory Sandomirsky, Mark Gibbs, Principal Acting Associate Principal Associate Principal Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Robert A. Kipp Chair Gabriel Campos Zamora‡, Adam Rainey Anne-Marie Brown Susie Yang, Associate Principal Associate Principal Betty Chen^ Richard Hill Chair Junghwan Lee ∆ ^ BASS TROMBONE Anthony DeMarco Alexander East, Assistant Principal Adam Rainey Susan Goldenberg * Maria Crosby E-FLAT CLARINET Tomoko Iguchi John Eadie John Klinghammer ∆ TUBA Dorris Dai Janssen Lawrence Figg Gabriel Campos Zamora‡ Steven Seward, Principal Chiafei Lin Rung Lee * Philip Marten^ Meredith McCook BASS CLARINET TIMPANI Vladimir Rykov Allen Probus Junghwan Lee ∆ ^ Timothy Jepson, Principal Alex Shum * DOUBLE BASSES BASSOONS PERCUSSION SECOND VIOLINS Jeffrey Kail, Principal Ann Bilderback, Principal Christopher McLaurin, Principal Tamamo Someya Gibbs, Principal Evan Halloin, Associate Principal Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Chair Joseph Petrasek, Associate Principal Stirling Trent, Associate Principal Brandon Mason Thomas DeWitt, Associate Principal Kristin Velicer, Assistant Principal Caleb Quillen^ Marita Abner HARP Nancy Beckmann Richard Ryan Deborah Wells Clark, Principal Kathy Haid Berry Keith Wymer ∆ CONTRABASSOON Stephanie Cathcart Thomas DeWitt LIBRARIANS Minhye Helena Choi FLUTES Elena Lence Talley, Principal Mary Garcia Grant Michael Gordon, Principal HORNS Fabrice Curtis Kevin Hao Shannon Finney, Associate Principal Alberto Suarez, Principal Kazato Inouye Diane Schick Landon and Sarah Rowland Chair Rena Ishii David Sullivan, Associate Principal Justin White, Francesca Manheim PICCOLO Elizabeth Gray Personnel Manager Diane Schick David Gamble Matt Henderson, VIOLAS Stephen Multer, Assistant Personnel Manager Christine Grossman, Principal OBOES Associate Principal Emeritus David Tebow, Jessica Nance, Acting Associate Principal Kristina Fulton, Principal Stage Manager Youming Chen ‡, Associate Principal Shirley Bush Helzberg Chair TRUMPETS Julian Kaplan, Principal Mark Watson, Duke Lee, Acting Assistant Principal Adam De Sorgo ∆, Asst. Stage Manager Kent Brauninger Associate Principal James B. and Annabel Nutter Chair Sean Brumble Kenneth Lawrence * Non-Rotating Musician ^ New Member ‡ On Leave of Absence ∆ One-Year Member

24 25 WITH APPRECIATION

2017 MAJOR PRESENTING SPONSOR BNSF Railway

MAJOR FOUNDING SPONSOR Trusler Foundation

POLYCULTURE Matt Regier

26 27 BISON SPONSORS MEADOWLARK SPONSORS Flint Hills Design BNIM Fred & Mary Koch Foundation Capitol Federal Richard & Sarah Porter Emporia Community Foundation Farmers & Drovers Bank ANTELOPE SPONSORS Flint Hills Design Bluestem Cattle Company Flint Hills Music Harvest Productions Highland Ranch Co. Pioneer Group, Inc. Holm Automotive Center Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism RED FOX SPONSOR KC Auction & Appraisal Co. Anne & J.B. Hodgdon LMI Aerospace Mashed O Ranch RED-TAILED HAWK SPONSORS Rawhide Portable Corral, Inc. Federal Home Loan Bank Topeka Bill & Erma Riley Geary County CVB Sun Graphics, LLC Lawrence Paper Company Samuel George Terbovich Fund Lockton Companies Walton Process Technologies, Inc. Lost Trail Soda Weary Family Foundation Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation Westar Energy Manhattan CVB

28 29 PATRONS

American AgCredit Dick & Margaret Carter Larry & Jodie Anderson Fran Christian Dr. William & Jane Anderson Bill & Marnie Clawson Julie Bachman Stephen & Barbara Cloud Charles Bacon Daryl & Cindy Craft Paul & Kathy Bastasch Vic & Joy Davis Melinda & Tom Beal Suzanne & Walt Dotson Mike Beam & Shari Bennett Sherry Downey Jim & Marsha Beck Ron & Dawn Dutton Larry & Sheryl Becker Steve & Chris Edmonds Paul & Linda Beckman Steve & Barbara Elliott Warren Benson Bruce Elliston Dan & Beth Bird E.B. Elliston Molly Black Emporia CVB Roger & Jeanne Blessing Steve English

Senator Barbara John R. & Sara Evans & Dr. René Bollier & Family John C. Bottenberg Connie Fairbanks & Carol Duffy McDowell Jana & David Fallin Bruce & Tina Breckenridge Linda & Harry Fegley Pete B. & Julie Browne Jack Focht Mike Bryant & Gloria Farha Flentje MOONLIT Anna Patricia Keller Carol Busch & Bruce Levine Claudia Fox Congressman John Ann Garvey & Catherine Campbell Phil & Toni Gelpi Mark & Dalyn Cantrell Geotech, Inc. Tony Caputo Gary & Linda Gilbert & LewJene Schneider

30 31 PATRONS PATRONS

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34 35 VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEERS

TWELVE YEARS OF SERVICE Rod Falley Sara Monaghen FIVE YEARS Brent Gordy Sean Monaghen Maureen Adams Jim Holzmark Sue Seaman Debra Anderson Teresa Hansen Ivan Moore Claire Beck Chris Carlin Sue Kidd Cheryl Simonis Steve Ingersoll Charles M Musick Joe Buchanan David Clark Jacob Lickteig John Spinden Phill Jeanneret Evelyn Musick Deb Butz Linda Divine Alice Lickteig Pam Willcott Jeffrey Kasoff Melody Neilan Emily Coffin Terry Dykstra Brad Loveless Kenneth Wold Richard Kramer Scott Neilan Josh Coffin Tom Eddy Michael Luce Mollie Wold Donna Patterson Silvia Peralez Kathleen Connors Dorothy Hanna Naomi Peterson Floyd Patterson Carroll Roth Virginia Eisenbarth Barbara Holzmark Tom Sack Beverly Potty Jane Roth Teri Farha Robert Potty Debbie Sack Tracey Graham ELEVEN YEARS TEN YEARS Michael Driggs Arlyn Schuler Sally Sharp Janet Hicks Warner Brockson Paul Challender Don Eccles Kathy Stover Gary Slimmer Dale Kirkham Kim Burke Anne Clark Janet Glynn Johanna Telke Susan Stover Anna Lanier Chelsea Carlin Michael Clay Julie Headrick Claudia True Melissa Tastove Dottie Lickteig Gail Chamberlain Eleanor Dawson Donna Jeanneret Jennifer Williams Donald Walker Ray Liggett Rebekah Foote Richard Dawson Deborah Keating Jean Wilson Pat Monaghen Fred Gassert Dottie Evans Norma Mosier SEVEN YEARS Peter Muraski Dalinda Hamilton Gary Gooszen Richard Mosier Bob Blasing SIX YEARS Barbara Newell Frank Hawk Marilyn Gooszen Barbara F Nelson Derie Briman Joyce Abbott Kelley Nordberg Ginny Hawk Paula Haas Kathy Newham Steve Briman Paul Adam Ed Parra Bill Heins Dan Hanney Joyce Reich Lynda Costello Angela Anderson Susan Hetrick Linda Hanney Janis Riegle Jan Crawford Kristina Blanck FOUR YEARS Peg Jenkins Irma Hayden Clay Catherine Shepherd Kitty Demars Carol Blocksome Kathy Blackford Robbie Kramer Dan Hejtmanek Barbara Slimmer David Diebold Steve Blosser Lynne Bourne Barb Lowery Julie Hejtmanek Darla Smith Ted Farha Cali Burke Ardis Bryan Ann Luce Amy Lill Marilyn Sommers Debby Fieser Sharon Clute John Clemmer Kathy Merchant Richard Meredith Vanda Stephens John Fox Nancy Dosien Kate Conyers Phil Osborn George Milton Lonnie Stieben Sharon Fox Joan Hardy Bill Copeland Jerelyn Ramirez Madelyn Gail Milton Mike Stringer Dan Gates Brownie Hayek Sheri Copeland Carrie Riggs Alex Pantos Sue Stringer Edie Gates Selma Keller Cheryl Dragoo Dan Riggs Marlene Pantos Debbie Givens Betty Plank Jakob Drentlaw Michelle Rundell Rachel Pantos EIGHT YEARS Rob Givens Marty Reed Gary Gegen Wayne Smith Paul Ramirez Nancy Benefiel Gina Grier Lenoir Rowland Mary Martha Good Teresa Snyder Nancy Riegle Rita Brethowr Kent Hastings Joyce Schmid Evan Hartley Thomas Snyder Terry Sinclair Rita Buchanan Karen Hiller Roxie Sneath Eric Johnson Gilbert Stefan Sharon Bush Mike Holder Roger Wells Debbie Junghans-Johns Kevin Tastove NINE YEARS Kitra Cooper Jan Kennedy Connie Whitcomb David Kehler Phil Taunton Susan Adam Bob Dameron Sarah Kessinger Matthew Whitcomb Don Kelton Jeff Whithorn Bert Clark Debra Dameron Carolyn Lickteig Elva Kelton Victor Wong Jan Cohick Jane Falley David Lickteig Nancy Kirkham

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George Kreidler Luvyna Mantle BJ Murray Tina Alstrom Emily Jahnke Deb Schmidt Karen Lundblade Georgia Masten Diane O’Neill Ruth Angelina Seth Jennings Tim Schmidt Susan Mayo Joanne Murphy Elizabeth Ortiz Amy Barber Ann Jessup Pam Schroeder Denise Middleton Kelly Murphy Dolcey Pankaskie Shawn Barry Janet Johnson Phil Schroeder Gene Plank Steph Neu Jason Pankaskie Jake Bellucci Douglas Johnson Yelonda Sigears Anna Ross Dale Rein David Papish David Carlson Grace Jones Brandi Smith Dorothy Rowe Paul Rieck Laura Papish Kristie Carr Heather Jones Linda Smith Patty Tastove Larry Rowe Abby Phelps Melissa Cartner Jamaica Jones Lionel Smith Elaine Webb Toni Schneider Russell Plaschka Jan Condon Kevin Kight Sharon Smith Dick Wentzel Cheri Shaver Stephanie Plaschka Sandra Contreras Erika Krueger Brent Sneath Brad Tastove Jim Reagan Lara Cotte Ally Koppes Drew Snitker THREE YEARS Tim Tastove James Regier Laurie Cuppy Elena Leal Stephanie Spacek Jannice Barland Linda Troutfetter Rowena Regier Philip Cuppy Clara Ann Lovvorn Pamela Standerwick Robert Barland Kelly Turcotte Charlene Riffel Barb Depew Tristen Luthi Tiffany Standerwick Judy Banz Carol Wright Beth Rizza Chuck Depew Karyn Mader Leni Swails Connie Blackford Dennis Wright Kate Ryan Taylor Driscoll Courtney Masterson Mark Swails Duane Blythe Diann Schroeder Patrick Dobson Jon McBride Haider Tarar Bob Brady TWO YEARS Jon Schroeder Bob Ehler Priscilla McPheeters Lisa Tarry Grant Brady Ron Alvarez Jane Shehi Diane Erie Robbie Meyer Mark Tarry Joyce Brady Gaylen Banz Joan Siemer Andrea Etzel James Mickley Gary Teneyck Jo Lynne Brothers Troy Brasher Nancy Smith Anita Felzke Julie Morris Judy Thomas Elizabeth Burger Brittany Charboneau Vivian Steavenson Harvey Felzke Stephanie Murray Niomi Thompson Gregory Burger Kathy Clark Lynn Summers Jack Finley Rhonda Mundy Kim Thorup Liz Collins Julie Coleman Josh Tastove Diana Fitch Diane Nielsen Carol Tilley Anne Dorcey Michael Donnelly Jim Thorup Carol Foiles Niels Nielsen Emily Torres Denise Dorcey Deanna Duncan Abigail Triemer Ralph Foiles Carla Null Nicolette Unruh Brock Hazelton Ann Foos Dawn Vice Brett Frye Becca Paquette Theresa Van Ackeren Bev Heim Robert Foos Tim Vice Constance Gehring Jacob Paquette Benna Wasson Rich Heim Larry Hall Tiffany Villa Joe Giddings Kelly Perry Beth Weibert Keisha Hendricks Alice Hatch Julia Walker Joy Gipple Karen Peterson Nick Weibert Donna Hottman Caitlin Hicks Pamela Walker Mike Gipple Connie Phelps Vicki Welsh Evelyn Huggins Andrea Indermuehle Gary Watkins Grace Greene Jeffrey Phillips Jim Wheaton Nasir Islam Alain Jones Ida Wilson Steven Greene Colton Potts Jean Wiest David Johns Amy Jones Lavonne Wilson Katie Goerl Grant Price Emma Wilson Daniel Lassman Patrick Leonard Michelle Wilson Heather Hagedorn Coleman Rhudy Tiffany Wilson Sienna Leon Benjamin Lichti Steve Wilson Debbie Hanna Jennifer Rhudy Mallory Wright Patricia Lock Susan Long Daniel Worley Karen Hastings Ryan Riedel Lea Wylie Lisa Loewen Jeffrey McPheeters Lori Hawk Craig Rodgers Dawn Ysidro Steven Loewen Carroll Middleton ONE YEAR Karina Headrick Kya Rodgers Jim Logue Laurie Miesse Kim Adam Alvaro Herrera Paula Rodgers Allie Lousch Jerri Miller Caroline Alcorn Gaelee Hill Ryan Schaub Debbie Lyons-Blythe Gregory Monty Kristen Allen Marlana Hodgkinson Rhonda Schmid

38 39 SPECIAL THANKS SPECIAL THANKS

CONCERT HOSTS SITE SERVICES

2017 John & Mary McDonald SITE COORDINATOR Bill Hartnett, Harvest Productions 2016 Edward P. Bass SITE ARCHITECT Tom Nelson, BNIM 2015 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

2014 Gottsch Cattle Company SITE ENGINEER Steve Brosemer, GeoTech, Inc. 2013 Fort Riley

2012 Johnny Arnold | Ron Street SITE SUPPORT John Wilson 2011 Schultz Family | Thierer Family | Meseke Family SITE SAFETY/SECURITY Parking: Garry Berges, Geary County CERT 2010 Edward P. Bass Don Smith, Butler County CERT 2009 Randy & Judy Mills | Troy & Sara Dawson | Frank & Mary Harper Flint Hills Outriders: Braxton Burgett, Jason Gustafson, Jason Klumpe, Josh Patry, Cindy 2008 John & Marty White | John & Linda Cosgrove Peterson, Randy Peterson, Sammy Jo Peterson, Steve Standerwick, Emma Stout, Jared 2007 Joe & Izora Schwarting Whitcomb Chain Ranch 2006 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

FOOD & BEVERAGE Coco Bolos Cox Brothers Tallgrass Brewing Company Walnut River Brewing Company Walnut Valley Packing William Cole Vineyards

MUSIC Dance Band: Hot Club of Cowtown Harmonica : Keith Burdett Roving Music: Tallgrass Express String Band

FLORIST Pendleton’s Country Market

CHISHOLM TRAIL PACK COVERED WAGON RIDES Country Boys Carriage The Chisholm Trail: Driving the American West, a traveling exhibit that is a Classic Reproduction Wagon Works joint project of Symphony in the Flint Hills and Flint Hills Design. Anthony Esau

40 41 MENU – MAIN FOOD TENT

SANDWICHES

Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sandwich $9 Hickory Smoked Beef Brisket Sandwich $9 Pulled Pork Sandwich $9

SIDES

Coleslaw $4 SITE

ENTRANCE Homestyle Potato Salad $4 Smokehouse Beans $4

DRINKS

Lemonade, Soda, Tea, Water $4 Beer & Wine $7

42 43 HOME ON THE RANGE

WRITTEN BY: Brewster Higley | MUSIC BY: Daniel Kelley

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light from the glittering stars Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed If their glory exceeds that of ours

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free The breezes so balmy and light That I would not exchange my home on the range For all of the cities so bright

Oh, I love those wild flow’rs in this dear land of ours TRAIL NORTH The curlew, I love to hear scream Dale Hartley And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks That graze on the mountaintops green

Refrain Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

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