Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Featuring Sean Botkin, Piano Conducted by Henry Duitman, founding Conductor of NISO

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Christopher Stanichar, HENRY DUITMAN, SEAN BOTKIN, Principal Conductor CONDUCTOR piano WELCOME

Good evening, ROGRAMPROGRAM Welcome to the Spring Concert “Rocky! An P ______All-Rachmaninoff Program.” I am pleased that THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Henry Duitman, founding NISO conductor, Christopher Stanichar, Principal Conductor is back to conduct a piano concerto featuring Henry Duitman, Guest Conductor Sean Botkin, Piano Sean Botkin. I know that you will enjoy the concert this evening! This is the grand finale of the 30th 11 April 2017 anniversary season. We say a big thank you to people who played in the symphony, people who served on the NISO board, and people who were part of the Friends organization over the past 30 years. Your contributions have made NISO successful! RACHMANINOFF Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 Before intermission our principal conductor Christopher Stanichar will introduce our 2017- 2018 season “Symphonic Treasures.” We have RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2, in C Minor, Op. 18 an excellent roster of concerts for next year. I. Moderato This evening there is opportunity to purchase season tickets at a reduced price.WELCOME______Also remember II. Adagio sostenuto – Più animato to buy coffee, truffles,Dear and NISO friends,30th anniversary III. Allegro scherzando Celebrating 30 years: Welcome to the opening concert of our 30th Anniversary season, "Musical CDs to continue your supportGems of." Tonight NISO. we Wehear aremusic telling stories and creating visual images, music considered looking forward to anothersome fantastic of the most well season-known and well-liked program music. This is just the beginning of our celebratory season with outstanding guest artists, reunion of former players and board and further success in the future.members, and welcoming back to the stage the NISO founder, Dr. Henry Duitman conducting Rachmaninoff. Presentation of 2017-2018 NISO Concert Season Tonight I also say farewell as my fourth term on the Board of Directors concludes January 1, Best Regards, 2017; of those twelve years, I have served seven years as board chair. What an amazing experience and outstanding organization to lead! I'm convinced the next 30 years will be filled Rhonda Pennings with strong players, fabulous music, and joy that only the arts can contribute. Thank you to so NISO Board Chairperson many who have helped me, thank you for all the generous financial support, and thank you to the players and conductors for sharing their talents. Intermission Enjoy the Friends' truffles at intermission and look into purchasing the new (don't miss it!) NISO 30th Anniversary CD. NISO 30TH ANNIVERSARY CD Musically yours, Norma Snyder Jones, Board Chairperson NISO is excited to present our very first CD as part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary. The RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 NISO releases 30th Anniversary CD CD is a sampler of performance highlights from I. Non allegro past years. It includes twelve NISO is excited to present our very first CD as part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary. The CD is II.a samplerAndante of performance con highlightsmoto pieces by twelve different from past years. It includes twelve pieces by twelve different composers composers from eleven from eleven different concerts conducted by Henry Duitman, Tim McGarvey, Henry Charles SmitIII.h, JunghoLento Kim, assai and –Christopher Allegro vivace – Lento assai different concerts conducted Stanichar. The compositions include the lovely Pavane by Fauré, the “Triumphal March” from Aida by Verdi, theCome dramatic prima Pines of – Rome Allegro by vivace by Henry Duitman, Tim Respighi, and nine other concert favorites. McGarvey, Henry Charles The CD will debut TONIGHT and will be for sale at all NISO concerts this season. It will also be available in the NISO office; requests for Smith, Jungho Kim, and mail orders can be submitted by e-mail. The CD costs $15.00, with Christopher Stanichar. The proceeds going toward 2016-2017 season expenses. Further information, including a complete listing of the titles and ordering information, is available at compositions include the www.niso.dordt.edu. lovely Pavane by Fauré, the “Triumphal March” from Aida by Verdi, the dramatic Pines of Rome by Respighi, and nine other concert favorites. The CD will be for sale at all NISO concerts this season. It is also available in the NISO office; requests for mail orders can be submitted by e-mail. Please Note: The CD costs $15.00, with proceeds going toward Flash photography and the use of recording 2016-2017 season expenses. devices is prohibited during NISO concerts. Further information, including a complete Please disable all cell phones and pagers. listing of the titles and ordering information, is available at www.niso.dordt.edu. 2017-2018 Season Tickets will be available for purchase at Pre-Season Sale Prices - TONIGHT ONLY! PROGRAM NOTES______PROGRAM NOTES______“[Rachmaninoff’s] music is well constructed and effective, but monotonous in texture, which consists in essence mainly of artificial and gushing tunes accompanied by a variety of figures derived from arpeggios. The enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninoff’s works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favor.” Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition (1954) In an age when futurists yearned for a brave new horizon of endless dissonance, musicians and critics alike found the tuneful, appealing music of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff dated. In fairness, it perhaps was. And this should come as no surprise: he composed the majority of his music when quite young, when names such as Schönberg and Stravinsky were still unknown. After emigrating to America in 1917, Rachmaninoff enjoyed such success as a pianist and conductor that his busy schedule left him little time for composing. Indeed, in the final 25 years of his life, he completed only six new works. Ultimately and with hindsight’s clarity, we may today appreciate Rachmaninoff as one of the great musical figures of the 20th century. Though renowned as a towering giant of the keyboard, he wrote fluently for choir, orchestra, opera, and chamber ensembles. He worked as a recording artist during the earliest days of commercially recorded sound. Even the editors at Grove’s finally got around to changing their minds in 1980, favorably describing Rachmaninoff as “the last great representative of Russian late romanticism.”

Vocalise, Op.34, No.14 In February of 1912, the Armenian poet Marietta Shaginyan began writing letters to Rachmaninoff under the pseudonym “Ré”. The two corresponded for five years and Rachmaninoff asked Ré for recommendations on poetry that might go well with music; she suggested works by the likes of Pushkin, Korinfsky, and Tyutchev. By the end of that year, Rachmaninoff had completed his op. 34, a collection of fourteen “Romances” for voice and piano. Ironically, though the project began with a shared love of poetry, it is the collection’s closing movement, a wordless Vocalise, which has garnered lasting acclaim. Rachmaninoff dedicated this movement to the Ukrainian soprano Antonina Nezhdanova, who performed the work with orchestra in 1916. Since then, the work’s dreamy spiral of mordents floating on a pillow of repeated chords has enchanted musicians and listeners alike. Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise has been arranged and rearranged for countless combinations by countless artists, even appearing as a background melody in the Pet Shop Boys’ 1999 song, “Happiness is an Option.”

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 1. Moderato 2. Adagio sostenuto 3. Allegro scherzando After three years of work and revision, Rachmaninoff’s first symphony was ready for its premiere. Rachmaninoff had called in favors from fellow composers to persuade philanthropist Mitrofan Belyayev to include the work on one of the Russian Symphony concerts in St. Petersburg. The premiere on March 28th, 1897 is remembered in musical infamy: The orchestra was under-rehearsed, the conductor was incompetent and rumored to be drunk, the audience was appalled, the critics were savage...and the young composer himself walked out, heartbroken, before the final movement. Rachmaninoff sank into profound depression. He moped through insignificant work as a piano teacher and conductor for three years until undergoing hypnosis by psychotherapist and amateur violist Nikolai Dahl. At last he was able to resume composing, completing the present concerto (dedicated to Dahl) in 1901. Premiered in its entirety by Rachmaninoff in April, 1901, the concerto was a resounding success. With swirling pianism and soaring lyricism, it remains a favorite of audiences worldwide and has crossed gracefully into vernacular circles: excerpts are heard regularly in figure skating and gymnastics; several of Rachmaninoff’s melodies have found their way into popular songs by artists such as Eric Carmen and Frank Sinatra.

Symphonic Dances, Op.45 1. Non allegro 2. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) 3. Lento assai—Allegro vivace “Last week I finished a new symphonic piece, which I naturally want to give first to you and your orchestra. It is called ‘Fantastic Dances’. I shall now begin the orchestration.” Rachmaninoff, writing to Eugene Ormandy in August, 1940 In 1915 Rachmaninoff began working out ideas for a ballet to be titled “The Scythians.” Celebrated choreographer Mikhail Folkine rejected the material as unpromising for ballet; Rachmaninoff shelved the ideas and the project never materialized. Half a lifetime later and half a world away, Rachmaninoff recast these earlier themes as purely orchestral music, maintaining the moniker “dances” as a nod to the work’s origin. Rachmaninoff cultivated a close relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was in Philadelphia that he gave his American conducting debut. He collaborated with Philadelphia’s new Hungarian-American director, Eugene Ormandy, in a recording of three of his concerti in 1939. His dedication of the present “Symphonic Dances” to Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra is a fitting tribute to a strong bond between composer and band. Ormandy first conducted the work in January, 1941. Heartened by the premiere, Rachmaninoff contacted Mikhail Folkine, who by then was based in New York City. Folkine was impressed by the work but passed away the following year, putting an end to Rachmaninoff’s hopes for collaboration. The work opens with a “Non allegro”, a menacing march with a Tchaikovskian bending of syncopation into ersatz downbeats. The woodwind section is enriched with the Stygian growl of the contrabassoon and the rare appearance of an alto saxophone. The expansive, melancholy lyricism of the movement leads to a curious quotation at the very end:

...a melody from none other than Rachmaninoff’s own first symphony. One can only imagine what the composer must have thought, looking back at disastrous memories of a failed premiere after an entire lifetime of music. As for the second movement, the waltz may have epitomized the belle epoque of genteel society at the turn of the 20th century, yet as the world descendedROGRAM into war, composers beganOTES to present______the waltz with satire and contempt for the arrogance that it represented. Rachmaninoff sweeps us into Pa dark and mystical ballroom,N treating the waltz as an unsettled parody of itself.

The Allegro vivace grabs our attention with exoticism and exuberant tambourines. Yet herein Rachmaninoff has hidden a deeply personal testament: t owards the end, we hear trumpets announce the ancient Latin hymn Dies irae, dies illa (“Day of judgment, day of wrath”):

This is followed by a mark of “Alliluya” in the score and material derived from Blagosloven esi Gospedi (“Blessed art Thou, Lord”), the 9th movement of Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil, op. 37”, an a capella work for choir written in 1915. By now the composer was suffering from lung cancer and melanoma after a lifetime of heavy tobacco use and knew that his life was coming to an end. Juxtaposing these melodies reminds us that death does not have the final victory. Indeed, on the last page of what would be his final work, Rachmaninoff penned the following: “I thank thee, Lord.” Notes by Robert Horton, 2017

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SEAN BOTKIN, pianist, began studying the piano at age five with his mother, making his first orchestral appearance four years later with the Honolulu Symphony. He went on to study privately with Neal O’Doan at the University of Washington and, under his direction, performed with the Seattle Symphony, Spokane Symphony, and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. Sean has garnered prizes in an impressive list of international piano competitions: William Kapell International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Busoni International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Dong-A International Music Competition of Korea, International Music Competition of Japan, and the Washington D.C. International Competition. A graduate of Stanford University, the Juilliard School, and Indiana University at South Bend, Sean has studied with eminent artists Adolph Baller, Martin Canin, and Alexander Toradze. Botkin has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and Russia. Concerto and recital performances include Kazan and St. Petersburg, Russia; Tbilisi and Kutaisi, Georgia; Salzburg Festival, Ravenna Festival, Stresa Festival, Ruhr Klavier Festival, Gilmore Festival, London, Cagliari, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Palermo, Lisbon, Tokyo, Seoul, Bogotá, and San José (Costa Rica). He made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1993 performing Bartók’s Concerto No. 2 with the Juilliard Symphony, conducted by Carl St. Clair. In 2009, he made a CD recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor and performed a series of concerts in Europe sponsored by Alexander Rachmaninoff and the Rachmaninoff Foundation. In 2012, also sponsored by the Rachmaninoff Foundation, he performed Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and in 2013 with the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and guest conductor, Alexander Sladkovsky. In May 2015, Sean performed in Tbilisi, Georgia as part of the Easter to Ascension Festival. Reactions to Sean’s performances typically are expressed with phrases such as “multidimensional talents”, “superb musicianship”, and “beautiful and rare musical experience”. Other recent performances include Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor on the New York Philharmonic Ensembles concert at Merkin Hall and a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. He is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Northern Iowa and Artistic Advisor of the Midwest International Piano Competition.

HENRY DUITMAN joined the faculty of the Department of Music and Dance at Grand Valley State University in the fall of 2008. Before coming to Michigan, he conducted the orchestra and bands at Dordt College as well as the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra. While at Grand Valley, Duitman has taken the GVSU Chamber Orchestra on several tours, including a trip to London in 2013. He has conducted all-state and other honors orchestras, most recently the 2015 Michigan Home School Association Honors Orchestra. In 2015 Duitman was a named as a finalist in the University Conductor division of The American Prize. Duitman has conducted several of GVSU’s Fall Arts Celebration concerts which bring together members of the Grand Rapids Symphony, the GVSU faculty, and top student musicians. He recently conducted this orchestra in two ballets with nationally-known ballet companies: Pulcinella by Stravinsky and Creatures of Prometheus by Beethoven. Duitman has a strong interest in conducting opera and helped form the West Michigan Opera Project, which has the goal of bringing a great opera experience to those hearing their first live opera. He conducted its first production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica, which was met with strong positive response. He recently performed as Assistant Conductor for Opera Grand Rapids’ productions of Bizet’s Carmen and Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice and was principal conductor for its June, 2016 production of Romberg’s The Student Prince. This year Duitman conducted GVSU Opera Theater’s production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Duitman received a bachelor’s degree from The Florida State University and a master’s degree from the University of South Florida. He earned his doctorate from The Ohio State University.

CHRISTOPHER STANICHAR is the Principal Conductor of the Northwest Iowa Symphony, an ensemble of some of the finest musicians in northwest Iowa and southeast South Dakota. Stanichar was appointed to this position in 2011, following a number of guest appearances. Stanichar has continued NISO’s tradition of artistic excellence, innovative programming, and collaborations with guest artists from the region and beyond. Stanichar leads NISO in three concerts per season, in addition to the annual Concert for Children. He has been praised for “his obvious energy, great joy directing, and outright enthusiasm.” (Peter Wagner, Northwest Iowa Review). In addition to his position with Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Stanichar conducts the Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota. Stanichar has conducted professional orchestras in Europe, Russia, Mexico, and the United States, including the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Sochi Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Orquesta Sinfónico Juvenil del Estado de Veracruze (Mexico), and many orchestras in the United States. Stanichar earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Gerard Samuel. In 1996 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study conducting in Slovakia, where he appeared as a guest conductor of many top orchestras in that country. In 1997 he was appointed Conducting Assistant for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he was mentored by maestros Jesús López-Cobos and Erich Kunzel. Stanichar is an active composer; his works have been commissioned and performed throughout the world. His Trisagion was used in the Ric Burns’ PBS documentary, Andy Warhol. More recent projects include a full-length cantata, St. Mark Passion, written as part of a Granskou grant for the 150th anniversary of Augustana College. His Variations on a Theme by Handel for string orchestra is featured in the independent film, Dust of War. TrevCo- Varner Music has published several of his works for English horn. In his free time, Christopher’s interests outside of music include Russian icons, foreign languages, and biking; he is an avid pinball player. The most important thing to Christopher is his family, and his children are active in music. For more information about Christopher and a catalogue of his compositions, please visit christopherstanichar.com.

THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA comprises the finest musicians in the tri-state area. Teaching principals are of a professional caliber and function as first chair players and teachers in sectional rehearsals. The orchestra’s 80 members include adults of all ages as well as gifted music students from area high schools, middle schools and colleges. Five of the middle school and high school students are recipients of scholarships from Friends of the Symphony for the purpose of continuing their private music instruction. NISO presents three concerts each season in addition to the annual Concert for Children, which is given each November for over 1,000 area 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.

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FIRST VIOLIN CELLO FRENCH HORN Daniel Amin, Dordt College Jack Bonnecroy, Orange City Michael Digatono, Sioux Falls Kinza Brue, Dordt College♩ Jaren Brue, Dordt College Sharon McGarvey, Alton♯ + Erika Buiter, Unity Christian HS + Max Foster, Akron-Westfield HS * Tim McGarvey, Alton♯ ** Jennifer Frens, Sioux Center♮ Dane Hibma, Sioux Center♬ * Rebekah McLaughlin, USD Holly Hiemstra, Dordt College * Stephanie March, Sioux City Melanie Witt, Orange City♯ Dasol Kim, Dordt College Jonathan Nyman, Dordt College Kirbee Nykamp, Sioux Center♪ Jessica Setiawan, Dordt College TRUMPET Tim Rylaarsdam, Sioux Center♯ Joseph Slegers, Orange City♪ Spencer Fynaardt, Dordt College + Heather Shih, Boyden-Hull HS Cathie Tien, Orange City♩ * Dan Mangold, Orange City♩ Tara Tilstra, Dordt College Karissa Van Surksum, Dordt College Kylie Van Wyhe, Dordt College STRING BASS p Jill Wigton, Merrill * John Casey, Sioux Falls♩ TROMBONE Trevor Carlson, Sioux Falls♩ Matt Honken, Orange City SECOND VIOLIN Nicholas Grossmann, MOC-FV HS * Vance Shoemaker, Hawarden♯ Matt Augustine, Dordt College + Hannah Hulstein, MOC-FV MS Jason Roseth, Sioux Falls Corinne Efflandt, Dordt College Dalton Petersen, Augustana University Emily Wehde, Sioux Falls Caleb Herman, Dordt College Rebecca Mangold, Orange City FLUTE/PICCOLO TUBA * Lisa Miedema, Sioux Center♮ Shannon Abels, Sioux Falls♩ * Peter Boerema, Sioux Falls♪ Rebecca Nymeyer, Dordt College * Anna Davis, Spencer♩ Katrina Regnerus, Dordt College Ellen Podhajsky, Northwestern College PERCUSSION McKenzie Roselle, Dordt College * Jason Domonkos, Omaha Stan Spaulding, Sioux Center OBOE Sabrina Fox, Alton Janelle Van Der Zwaag, Hospers♪ Ronja Jung, Sioux City Sam Roskamp, Dordt College Ashley Verhoef, Dordt College * Kristi Stanichar, Sioux Falls♩ Cody Tucker, Sioux City Kendra Wieringa, Dordt College CLARINET HARP VIOLA * Susan DeJong, Orange City♩ Anna Blauw, Dordt College + Marissa Beaty, MOC-FV HS Shirley Van Engen, Boyden♪ Maggie Burgsma, Dordt College Kristin Buskohl, Sioux Falls PERSONNEL______PMeaganERSONNEL______DeGraaf, Dordt College BASSOON PIANO Katie Fictorie, Dordt College Lois Estell, Orange City♩ Norma Snyder Jones, Sheldon FIRSTDerek VIOLIN Friend, Dordt College♩ *CELLO Chris Haak, Sioux Falls♩ ALTO SAXOPHONE KaitlynDaniel Frye,Amin, Dordt Dordt College College Jack Bonnecroy, Orange City Pamela De Haan, Alton RachelKinza Louwerse,Brue, Dordt Dordt College College♩ Jaren Brue, Dordt College PO *+ KirstenErika Buiter, Meyer, Unity Omaha Christian HS + Max Foster, Akron-Westfield HS FRENCH HORN ** GaryJennifer Vander Frens, Hart, Sioux Sioux Center Center♮ ♯ Dane Hibma, Sioux Center♬ Michael Digatono, Sioux Falls Holly Hiemstra, Dordt College * Stephanie March, Sioux City Sharon McGarvey, Alton♯ Dasol Kim, Dordt College Jonathan Nyman, Dordt College * Tim McGarvey, Alton♯ Kirbee Nykamp, Sioux Center♪ Jessica Setiawan, Dordt College * Rebekah McLaughlin, Vermillion Tim Rylaarsdam, Sioux Center♯ Joseph Slegers, Orange City♪ Melanie Witt, Orange City♯ + Heather Shih, Boyden-Hull HS Cathie Tien, Orange City♩ Tara Tilstra, Dordt College TRUMPET Kylie Van Wyhe, Dordt College STRING BASS * Richard Bogenrief, Merrill♮ p Jill Wigton, Merrill Trevor Carlson, Sioux Falls♩ Spencer Fynaardt, Dordt College * John Casey, Sioux Falls♩ Dan Mangold, Orange City♩ SECOND VIOLIN Marian Casey, Sioux Falls♩ Matt Augustine, Dordt College Nicholas Grossmann, MOC-FV HS Kathy Broadwell, Port Wing, WI♯ + Hannah Hulstein, MOC-FV MS TROMBONE Corinne Efflandt, Dordt College Dalton Petersen, Augustana University Matt Honken, Orange City Caleb Herman, Dordt College Jason Roseth, Sioux Falls Rebecca Mangold, Orange City FLUTE/PICCOLO * Vance Shoemaker, Hawarden♯ * Lisa Miedema, Sioux Center♮ Shannon Abels, Sioux Falls♩ Emily Wehde, Sioux Falls Rebecca Nymeyer, Dordt College * Anna Davis, Spencer♩ Katrina Regnerus, Dordt College Sue De Haan, Orange City♬ TUBA McKenzie Roselle, Dordt College * Peter Boerema, Sioux Falls♪ Stan Spaulding, Sioux Center OBOE/ENGLISH HORN Janelle Van Der Zwaag, Hospers♪ Lynn Gross, Sioux City PERCUSSION Ashley Verhoef, Dordt College Ronja Jung, Sioux City * Jason Domonkos, Omaha Kendra Wieringa, Dordt College * Kristi Stanichar, Sioux Falls♩ Sabrina Fox, Alton Nathan Kanis, Dordt College VIOLA CLARINET/BASS CLARINET Sam Roskamp, Dordt College + Marissa Beaty, MOC-FV HS Susan DeJong, Orange City♩ Cody Tucker, Sioux City Kristin Buskohl, Sioux Falls * Beverly Gibson, Sioux Falls♩ Marcus Zevenbergen, Dordt College * Fei Chen, Sioux Falls Amanda Long, Orange City Meagan DeGraaf, Dordt College HARP Katie Fictorie, Dordt College BASSOON/CONTRABASSOON Anna Blauw, Dordt College Derek Friend, Dordt College♩ Mindy Braithwaite, Sioux Falls Maggie Burgsma, Dordt College Kaitlyn Frye, Dordt College Lois Estell, Orange City♩ Rachel Louwerse, Dordt College * Chris Haak, Sioux Falls♩ PIANO Gary Vander Hart, Sioux Center♯ John MacInnis, Sioux Center

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ELIZABETH SOLADAY for the use of the Celeste. DORDT COLLEGE for its generous provision of rehearsal and MEDIA SPONSORS Van Den Hul Asset Harold & Emily Vonk Gerald Jansen Todd & Jennifer Van MEDIA SPONSORS performance space, support staff, and office accommodations. ColorColor FX Management KWIT FMDennis 90.3/KOJI & Donna FM Walstra 90.7 Arnold & Carol Koekkoek Bruggen KDCRKDCR FM 88.588.5 Marvin &CONTRIBUTORS Joy Vogel Iowa Information forWalstra their Plumbingsustaining Publications & appreciation Fran of Koets fine music and Ron & LuAnn Van Den Berg KWIT FM 90.3/KOJI FM their continuing support Heating, of the Inc. Northwest IowaJim Symphony & Sally Koldenhoven Orchestra. Herm & Dawn Van Den Hul MAESTRO 90.7 ($1000+) CONCERTMASTERFRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONYJudy Winkel for ushering, ticketHenry sales, & Dee and Kramer Lou & Tina Van Dyke LloydIowa Information & Dianne Bierma ($250 to $499)refreshments W. at Daleour rehearsals.& Karen Den Herder Kroese & Kroese,Yette PC Te Paske The Van Engelenhoven Jim Publications & Marilyn Dean Howard & Marge BeerninkNorma SnyderPRINCIPAL Jones ($100 to $249) Roger & Jerilyn Lueders Agency Martin Dekkenga Curt & Pat Ahrenholz Shirley Matheis Brian & Stephanie SOLOISTMAESTRO ($500 ($1000+) to $999) Golden Crisp Willis & Joanne Alberda Rockne & Joan McCarthy Van Engen BeaverLloyd & Eyecare Dianne Bierma THEFarmers STAFF: Mutual Insurance,Northwest Clarice Bank Alons Lee & Bonnie MeierDr. ChristopherJerry Stanichar & Kim Van Es CenterJim & Marilyn Fresh Group Dean Hull, IAChristopher Stanichar,People’sDoug Bank Conductor & Joan Anderson Dr. Verne & GidgeVan Meyer Den Hul AssetArlin Management & Janene Van Gorp CitizensW. Dale &State Karen Bank Den of SheldonFormosa & Boyden Bradley Food Co. Miedema,Lee & AudreyMusicMatt & Director PlasierBethany Bosma Andy & Joan MiedemaMarvin & Joy VogelPerry & Jo Van Gorp Karen Herder A. DeMol Katie Lynn Timothy Haan McGarvey,Sioux CenterDel Assistant & HealthAnn Broek Con ductor Bradley & Lisa Miedema Marion & Jan Van Soelen BillNorma & Ila Snyder Jean MouwJones Hi-Way Chevrolet-BuickKaren De Mol,Thomas Inc. GeneralJonathan A. SnyderManager & Eileen Buiter Mouw Motor Company, Inc. Stan & Beth Vanden Berg Yette Te Paske Drs. Erik Mary & Barb Hulstein, Hoekstra AdministrativeJerry & Carol AssistantButeyn Henrietta Muilenburg Mike & Nancy Vanden CONCERTMASTER ($250 toCarl $499) & Ellen Klompien John & Marian Casey Neal Chase Lumber Co. Bosch HowardSOLOIST & ($500 Marge to $999)Beernink BOARDJohn R. & OF Betty DIRECTORS: KreykesCarl & EllenCasey’s Klompien General Store, Sioux Northwestern BankDoug & Janet VanderVander Berg Homes/ MartinBeaver EyecareDekkenga Marion &Norma Darlene Snyder MouwJohn Jones, R. & ChairpersonCenterBetty Kreykes - Sheldon No Streaking, Inc.Dale & Eileen Vander Furniture Wilt GoldenCenter Fresh Crisp Group Eric & LoraCarol Rankin ButeynMa – Sanbornrion Garold& Darlene & Donna Mouw Den Herder Don & Joyce OosteninkOrville & ArleneGary Van &’ tJoan Hul Vander Hart FarmersCitizens StateMutual Bank Insurance, of HullKevin, IA Schmidt Daniel FinleyEric – Sioux & LoraBob Center &Rankin Rebecca De Smith Kenneth E. SabersEvan & Nancy BillVermeer & Jo Vander Werf Formosa Sheldon Food & Boyden Co. John & SherylBonnie Slegers MeierKevin – Orange SchmidtBernie City & Kathy De Wit Savings Bank – HaroldPrimghar, & EmilyGlen Vonk & Betty Vermeer KatieKaren Lynn A. DeMol Haan Marvin &Rhonda Audrey Pennings,Van John & Secretary SherylVerlyn &Slegers June- Orang De Wite City Hartley, LakeDennis Park & DonnaDrew Walstra & Jean Vogel HiBill-Way & Ila Chevrolet Jean Mouw-Buick Inc. VuurenLee SchneiderMarvin – Hull Driesen& Audrey Eye Van Center Vuuren Cliff & Joanne WalstraSoodsma PlumbingVogel & FoundationHeating, Inc. Drs.Northwest Erik & Bank Barb Hoekstra Ken & DorothyT.J. Speer Vanden – SiouxKen & Center DorothyGeorge & Vanden Jo Faber Brink Greg & Dawn SteggerdaJudy Winkel Bernie & Marilyn Weidenaar

People’s Bank Brink Bert Van Batavia - BoydenLee & Eleanor Feenstra Jack & Alethea Stubbe Piet & Nelene Westerbeek PRINCIPALLee & Audrey ($100 Plasier to $249) Doug & Janet Vander Berg Greenworld, Inc. Mark & Emily Sybesma West Rock Construction Curt & Pat Ahrenholz Herm Van DenJim Hul & Sally – Sioux Koldenhoven Center John & Loretta Thomas Sioux Center Health Dale & EileenBeth VanderVanden Wilt Berg - HowardSioux Center & Vicki Hall Team Realty Services, Inc. Op. Inc. WillisThomas & A.Joanne Snyder Alberda Orville & Arlene Van’t HulHenry &Brent Dee &Kramer Mary Hulstein John & Loretta ThomasBert & Sandra Van Batavia Brian Van Engen, Treasurer – Sioux Center ClariceDr. Christopher Alons Stanichar Evan & Nancy VermeerKroese &Nanci Kroese, Jahn PC Bert & Sandra VanTodd Batavia & Jennifer Van Bruggen Doug & Joan Anderson Nancy Vermeer,Roger Vice & Jerilyn-Chairperson Lueders - Sioux Center Ron & LuAnn Van Den Berg Matt & Bethany Bosma Shirley Matheis Herm & Dawn Van Den Hul Del & Ann Broek IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRRocknePERSONS: & Joan McCarthy Lou & Tina Van Dyke Jonathan & Eileen Buiter Bernie WeidenaarLee & Bonnie Meier The Van Engelenhoven Agency CREDITS______Jerry & Carol Buteyn Yette Te PaskeDr. Verne & Gidge Meyer Brian & Stephanie Van Engen THANKJohn & Marian YOU CaseyTO: Andy & Joan Miedema Jerry & Kim Van Es DORDTCasey’s General COLLEGE Store, for Sioux its generous Center provision of Bradrehearsalley & andLisa performanceMiedema space, support staff,Arlin and &office Janene accommodations. Van Gorp CONTRIBUTORSGarold & Donna Den for Herder their sustaining appreciationMouw of fine Motor music Company and their, Inc. continuing support ofPerry the Northwest& Jo Van Gorp Iowa Symphony Orchestra.Bob & Rebecca De Smith Henrietta Muilenburg Marion & Jan Van Soelen FRIENDSBernie & Kathy OF THE De Wit SYMPHONY for ushering, ticketNeal sales, Chase and Lumber refreshments Co. at our rehearsals. Stan & Beth Vanden Berg Verlyn & June De Wit Northwestern Bank Mike & Nancy Vanden Bosch No Streaking, Inc. Vander Berg Homes/Furniture THEDriesen STAFF: Eye Center BOARD OF DIRECTORS: George & Jo Faber DonMusical & Joyce Oostenink Gems Gary & Joan Vander Hart ChristopherLee & Eleanor Stanichar, Feenstra Conductor NorthwestDanielKenneth Iowa Finley E. SabersSymphony– Sioux Center Orchestra ConcertsHermBill Van & Jo Den Vander Hul Werf – Sioux Center BradleyGreenworld, Miedema, Inc. Music Director SallySavings JongsmaChristopher Bank - –Sioux Primghar, Stanichar, Center conductorHartley, Lake BrianGlen Van & Engen,Betty Vermeer Treasurer – Sioux Center TimothyHoward &McGarvey, Vicki Hall Assistant Conductor Bonnie Meier,Park Vice-Chairperson – NancyDrew Vermeer, & Jean Vogel Secretary - Sioux Center KarenBrent & De Mary Mol, Hu Generallstein Manager GUEST CONCERT OrangeCliff & JoanneCity - Saturday, Soodsma February 4, 2017 – 7:30pmVogel Foundation MaryNanci Hulstein,Jahn Administrative AssistantWINTERRhondaGreg POPS & Pennings, Dawn - Saturday, Steggerda Chairperson February -25, 2017 – 7:30pmIMMEDIATE Bernie & Marilyn PAST Weidenaar CHAIRPERSONS: Gerald Jansen SPRING Orange JackCONCERT & AletheaCity - Tuesday, Stubbe April 11, 2017 – 7:00PMNorma Piet &Snyder Nelene Jones Westerbeek Arnold & Carol Koekkoek Mark & Emily Sybesma West Rock Construction Op. Inc. Fran Koets LeeTeam Schneider Realty –Services, Hull Inc. Bernie Weidenaar NorthwestT.J. Iowa Speer Symphony– Sioux Center Youth Orchestra ConcertYette Tes Paske Christopher Stanichar, Conductor Bert Van Batavia - Boyden Saturday, December 3, 2016, 3:00pm Saturday, April 8, 2017, 3:00pm

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