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Welcome to the 70th anniversary season of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra! For seventy years you have been our partners.The journey started in 1948 when Walter Kaufmann launched the first regular season of the WSO at the Winnipeg Auditorium.The years that followed were filled with one high note after another.Two tours to Carnegie Hall, international guests including Pierre Monteux, John Barbirolli, Leon Fleisher and Jacqueline du Pré, the move to the Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall, and the launch of the Winnipeg New Music Festival. This season, we celebrate with nods to the past and a steady gaze to the future.The season opens with the preeminent violinist of our day, Itzhak Perlman, and closes with a visit from WSO conductor laureate Bramwell Tovey and Brandon-born James Ehnes, who TH ANNIVERSARY will join the Vancouver Symphony on Tour to Winnipeg. 70 We launch a new Movie Series with Harry Potter and The SPECIAL EVENTS Philosopher’s Stone and The Wizard of Oz, and we will get in June 28, 2017 the Christmas spirit with The Tenors in a great new show. 70th Anniversary Community Celebration It is a season of exciting music that could only happen Sep 16, 2017 in a city that embraces its orchestra.Without you, Itzhak Perlman,The Asper Family we could not perform.Without you, we could not Opening Night Gala Performance create.Thank you for your energy.Thank you for Oct 13, 2017 your support.Thank you for your love of great Happy 70th WSO! - See Page 6 music! See you at the Concert Hall. Oct 27 - Nov 4, 2017 Angels & Demons: WSO Autumn Festival Apr 26, 2018 WSO 70th Anniversary Spring Gala May 23, 2018 Bramwell Returns! with James Ehnes and the Alexander Mickelthwate Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Music Director wso.ca/seventy Photographer: Grajewski Fotograph 2 2017 I 2018 Season 204-949-3999 I wso.ca/1718season 3 Photographer: Lisa-Marie-Mazzucco THE ASPER FAMILY OPENING NIGHT: Itzhak Perlman Sep 16 I 7:30 pm Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys May 23, 2018 I 8:00 pm The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra comes to superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician.The Winnipeg Symphony the Centennial Concert Hall with two men who Orchestra is excited to welcome this legendary violinist for The Asper Family Bramwell Tovey, conductor need no introduction to Winnipeg audiences. Itzhak Perlman, violin Opening Night Gala Performance on September 16, 2017. James Ehnes, violin Brandon-born James Ehnes, renowned for his Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor beautiful tone and exceptional control, performs Tovey: The Inventor: Time Tracks the romantic Brahms Violin Concerto.WSO Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major Celebrate Opening Night with a Gala Evening including Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major conductor laureate Bramwell Tovey opens the Elgar: Enigma Variations concert with one of his own compositions and VIP reception, premium seating, and an intimate dinner wso.ca/perlman closes with the great crowd-pleaser, Elgar’s with Itzhak Perlman on the Piano Nobile.Tickets $1,000. Enigma Variations. Call 204-949-3973 to reserve your gala ticket. wso.ca/vso SUBSCRIBER PREFERRED PRICES SUBSCRIBER PREFERRED PRICES $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $140 $120 $100 $80 $60 *200 seats reserved throughout the hall for Soundcheck members. *200 seats reserved throughout the hall for Soundcheck members. Available on first come-first serve basis. Available on first come-first serve basis. 4 2017 I 2018 Season 204-949-3999 I wso.ca/1718season 5 SERIES A Classics Bruckner 9 Happy 70th WSO! Seven Deadly Sins Schumann Mar 9/10 Oct 13/14 Nov 3/4 and Beethoven Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Feb 9/10 Gwen Hoebig and Karl Stobbe, violins Victor Feldbrill, special guest conductor* Sarah Jo Kirsch, soprano Yegor Dyachkov, cello Vocal quartet: José Luis Gomez, conductor J. S. Bach: Concerto in D minor for Two Violins Peter John Buchan, tenor Katherine Chi, piano Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3* Scott Reimer, tenor Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C major Kris Kornelsen, baritone Schumann: Manfred Overture Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D major Derek Morphy, bass Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 Canadian Mennonite University Chorus, in C minor Janet Brenneman, director Schumann: Symphony No.3 CELEBRATION Victor Feldbrill, in E-flat major (Rhenish) Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins conductor of the WSO from Liszt: Dante Symphony 1958-1968, returns to open the 70th season of the WSO alongside Maestro Mickelthwate. Feldbrill TRANSFORMATIONS To close the Autumn GENIUS Guest conductor José Luis Gomez, a graduate of the transformed the WSO into the Festival, two tales of morality told through markedly El Sistema program in Venezuela, guides us through the work of two professional orchestra we know today. different voices. Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Seven musical giants. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 introduced a more For this special performance he has Deadly Sins crackles with superbly controlled frenzy. personal style as the composer started to push the piano to its MAJESTIC Bruckner, woefully unsure of himself, worried that his chosen Beethoven’s dramatic Leonore It is a satire of the petty bourgeois morals wherein expressive limits. He didn’t bother completing the piano part for the music was insufficient in the eyes of God. He needn’t have worried for Overture No.3. the seven deadly sins transform into virtues in Weill’s premiere, simply playing the work from memory. his towering symphonies envelop the soul in tapestries of sound.The unmistakable cabaret style. colour, harmony, and rhythm stretch the limits of Romanticism. Brahms swore to carry on Beethoven’s As the new conductor of the Düsseldorf orchestra, Schumann wanted to symphonic legacy, yet had such self- Franz Liszt, a mystical dreamer, envisioned a “music of impress the proud Rhineland folk. His lovely Rhenish symphony was the The epic majesty of Bruckner is set against the detail and precision of a doubt it took twenty-one years to the future”that fused poetry and music. In the Dante result: a journey from imposing brass to bucolic waltzes to magnificent Bach concerto featuring the WSO’s own Gwen Hoebig and Karl Stobbe write his angst-ridden first symphony. Symphony he takes us through Hell to Paradise via cathedral impressions.The concert opens with Schumann’s take on – a perfect setting to hear two of our city’s most talented musicians. Purgatory and then to the Magnificat, the ultimate Manfred, the original Byronic hero. His Second went much faster, wso.ca/bruckner-and-bach completed in a single summer, and it "Vision" of Paradise with a choir of angels singing a reflects the beauty of nature, flowers, hymn to the Virgin. wso.ca/schumann-and-beethoven and sunshine. wso.ca/seven-deadly-sins wso.ca/happy-70th Luca Buratto VIRTUOSIC The steely brilliance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 comes alive with Honens Competition-winner Messiah Plays Prokofiev Luca Buratto. Prokofiev wrote four of his five piano concertos Apr 6/7 for his own hefty virtuosity.The Second left one critic “frozen Dec 15/16 HALLELUJAH! An oratorio of triumph and joy. It was born with fright, hair standing on end.” out of Handel’s struggle to stay at the forefront of 18th century Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor Julian Pellicano, conductor England’s taste for opera. Running short on money, he had no Luca Buratto, piano Rachmaninoff, another stunning pianist, kept his foot firmly in TBD : sopranos the Romantic 19th century, filling his music with sweeping Daniel Peasgood, countertenor choice but to go the oratorio route, where Handel found Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor melodies, lush orchestration, and ever-present emotion. Peter John Buchan, tenor enduring success. Messiah is a masterpiece with drama to spare Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2 in E minor Kris Kornelsen, baritone in every page of its score. It feels as fresh today as it did when first wso.ca/russian-passion Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra premiered in Dublin in 1742.This performance features the debut Chorus, John Wiens, director of the new WSO Chorus and an all-Manitoban cast of soloists. Handel: Messiah wso.ca/messiah Classics Series A Concert Times > FRI @ 8:00 pm / SAT @ 8:00 pm6 Adults / 6 Concerts SUBSCRIBE TODAY $558 $468 $378 $288 $18 6 See Page 18 6 2017 I 2018 Season 204-949-3999 I wso.ca/1718season 7 SERIES B Classics Beethoven, Chopin Strauss, Ravel A Night in Spain Fauré & Poulenc th Feb 23/24 Celebrating the 200 Anniversary and a Sorrowful Song and More of St. Boniface Cathedral Oct 27/28 Dec 1/2 Yaron Traub, conductor Gaëlle Solal, guitar Mar 23, 24, 25 Daniel Raiskin, conductor Jun Märkl, conductor St. Boniface Cathedral Natasha Paremski, piano Paul Jeffrey, trumpet Albéniz: Suite española Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Nathalie Paulin, soprano José Evangelista: Symphonie Minute Yuri Klaz, conductor (March 25) Dvorˇák: The Water Goblin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus: Overture John Estacio: Trumpet Concerto Turina: Danzas fantásticas Matthew Pauls, baritone Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration Falla: El sombrero de tres picos Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 Ravel: La valse (Three-Cornered Hat): Suites 1&2 Malcolm Forsyth: Three Métis songs (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) from Saskatchewan Poulenc: Gloria Fauré: Requiem ECSTASY AND DESPAIR… adversaries at IDEALS Richard Strauss couldn’t resist a story. In Death the heart of the Autumn Festival. It starts with and Transfiguration, a dying man, presumably Strauss IBERIAN DREAMS Guest conductor Yaron Traub, Music MÉLODIE The exquisite Pie Jesu from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem Beethoven’s colourful interpretation of the Prometheus himself, recalls the artistic ideals he didn’t achieve and as the Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, directs a tour of Spain with guaranteed the composer immortality.