APRIL - MAY 2016 I ISSUE 6

SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

TERRI CLARK MEETS THE WSO

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends, Patrons, and Music Lovers,

This year marks my 10th anniversary season with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

We have performed some of my favourite works this season with Mahler’s 2nd and 10th symphonies, and recently Bruckner’s 4th, but there is still so much beautiful music to take in over the next few months.

We set Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony, his most personal statement, with Alain Lefèvre’s interpretation of Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto. Then we will have the ultimate pairing of classical music and animation with Disney FANTASIA: Live in Concert. We close the season with the astounding theatrics of Cirque Mechanics, a feast for the eyes and ears. We will bring an 18-foot, pedal- powered “Gantry Crane” on stage. If you have never seen a Cirque show before, this is the way to see it - with live symphony orchestra!

While you are at the concert hall, I encourage you to talk to a WSO staff member or volunteer about our next season. They will be happy to discuss your subscription package with you and let you know all the benefits of becoming a WSO subscriber – and a member of our extended symphony family.

I would like to thank all of our major sponsors, Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries, the Richardson Foundation, Air Canada, Investors Group and Great-West Life, who help this organization thrive.

Auf Wiedersehen, I hope to see you soon,

Alexander Mickelthwate Music Director

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April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 3 CONDUCTORS

Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director German conductor Alexander Mickelthwate is renowned for his “splendid, richly idiomatic readings” (LA Weekly),“fearless” approach and “first-rate technique” (Los Angeles Times). Critics have noted Alexander’s extraordinary command over the Austro-Germanic repertoire, commenting on the “passion, profundity, emotional intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved” in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 as “miraculous” (Anton Kuerti, 2011).

Following on from his tenure as assistant conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which he completed in 2004, Alexander Mickelthwate was associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for three years, under the direction of Essa-Pekka Salonen. Now in his tenth season as music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander has significantly developed the orchestra’s profile through active community engagement and innovative programming initiatives like the annual New Music Festival and the Indigenous Music Festival. Chosen to perform at the Carnegie Hall Spring For Music Festival in New York, May 2014, due to “creative and innovative programming” (CBC Manitoba Scene), the orchestra was the only Canadian ensemble in the showcase. As well as significantly contributing to the New Music Festival and Indigenous Festival, Alexander led the orchestra’s first out of province tour since 1979 to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, launched the International Conducting masterclasses, the New Music Festival 2012 film project and played a major part in the acoustic overhaul of the Centennial Concert Hall. Photographer: Grajewski Fotograph Inc.

Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor Julian Pellicano’s voracious musical appetite makes him a formidable interpreter of the symphonic repertoire. He is currently resident conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Artist-in-Residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music festival, and music director of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra. Pellicano has built his career by following an unconventional path.The creation, with Dr. Paul Lehrman, of a new performance edition of George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique first brought Pellicano to the public’s attention. From 2009 to 2013 he served as music director of the Longy School of Music Conservatory Orchestra where he established a rigorous and distinctive new orchestral program. Pellicano has conducted the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre (Brazil), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New Britain Symphony, The Kallisti Ensemble, Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and Milwaukee's Present Music. He has worked in masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Peter Eötvös, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, and Carl St. Clair. As a young musician he played drums, percussion, organ, and accordion in rock, blues and jazz groups. An autodidact, he was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory as a percussionist without any formal training. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (Stockholm), and the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the 2008 Presser Music Award and the Philip F.Nelson Award. He premiered Martin Bresnick’s critically acclaimed opera My Friend's Story at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas and conducted at Carnegie Hall with the Yale

Philharmonia Orchestra. Photographer: Nardella Photography Inc.

4 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2015-2016 SEASON

MUSIC DIRECTOR CELLOS TRUMPETS Alexander Mickelthwate Yuri Hooker, Principal Isaac Pulford, Acting Principal Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal Paul Jeffrey RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Alex Adaman Brian Sykora Julian Pellicano The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair Arlene Dahl Carolyn Nagelberg FIRST VIOLINS TROMBONES Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster Emma Quackenbush Steven Dyer, Principal The Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt- Sean Taubner Keith Dyrda Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation BASSES BASS TROMBONE Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Meredith Johnson, Principal Julia McIntyre, Principal Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal Chris Anstey Travis Harrison TUBA **Jeremy Buzash Paul Nagelberg Chris Lee, Principal Mona Coarda Bruce Okrainec TIMPANI Rodica Jeffrey Daniel Perry Hong Tian Jia Mike Kemp, Acting Principal Meredith McCallum FLUTES Jane Pulford PERCUSSION Jan Kocman, Principal Frederick Liessens, Principal Julie Savard Martha Durkin Jun Shao HARP *Karin Andreasen PICCOLO Richard Turner, Principal *Simon MacDonald Martha Durkin Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen SECOND VIOLINS Darryl Strain, Principal OBOES ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Beverly Wang, Principal MANAGER Karen Bauch Robin MacMillan Chris Lee Kristina Bauch ENGLISH HORN **Calvin Cheng PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Robin MacMillan **Teodora Dimova Raymond Chrunyk Elizabeth Dyer **Jonathan Garabedian CLARINETS ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Bokyung Hwang Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Laura MacDougall Takayo Noguchi Michelle Goddard Claudine St-Arnauld *Jane Pulford BASSOONS *On Leave *Susan McCallum *Alex Eastley, Principal **Temporary Position Kathryn Brooks, Acting Principal VIOLAS Please note: Non-titled (tutti) Daniel Scholz, Principal string players are listed HORNS Anne Elise Lavallée, alphabetically and are seated Patricia Evans, Principal Assistant Principal according to a rotational system. Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal Laszlo Baroczi Margaret Carey James Robertson Fred Redekop is the official Piano Richard Bauch The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair Tuner and Technician of the WSO. Greg Hay Caroline Oberheu Merrily Peters Michiko Singh Mike Scholz

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April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 7 fall asleep (the low bassoons) and Symphony No. 4 (Italian) PROGRAM NOTES another clarinet solo introduces the Felix Mendelssohn closing chapter leading all the men to by James Manishen b. Hamburg / February 3, 1809 the slaughter, in blood and thunder style. d. Leipzig / November 4, 1847 Má vlast (My Homeland) Piano Concerto No. 2 Composed: 1831-1833; revised Bedrˇich Smetana 1834-1837 Ludwig van Beethoven b. Bohemia / March 2, 1824 First performance: May 13, 1833 b. Bonn / December 17, 1770 d. Prague / May 12, 1884 (London), conducted by the composer d.Vienna / March 26, 1827 Composed: 1874-1879 Last WSO performance: 2003; Jaime Composed: 1794-1795, revised in 1798 First performance: November 2, 1882 Laredo, conductor (Prague), conducted by Adolf Cˇech First performance: March 29, 1795 Last WSO performance: The Moldau: (Vienna), with the composer as soloist Mendelssohn’s affluent 2006; Michelle Mourre, conductor. Last WSO performance: 2003; Imre Pallo, family life prompted as Sˇárka: First WSO performance conductor; André Laplante, piano much a desire for travel as for music. Though Prague was a So confident was the Numerous letters musical centre during Elector of Bonn in the describe his journeys the eighteenth abilities of the 22-year-old across Europe, and ten trips to Great century, Czech musical Beethoven, in November Britain prompted music, notably his nationalism had to of 1792 he underwrote tours of Scotland that resulted in the wait for Bedrˇich the young composer’s “Scottish”Symphony and the Hebrides Smetana, whose integration of folk- move from Bonn to Vienna, the musical Overture. based musical material into his capital of Europe. Franz Joseph Haydn compositions established his was no less enthused, seeing in Beethoven At age 21 he undertook a major tour of country’s musical identity in the a willing if ultimately temporary pupil. the Continent.But it was Italy that concert hall. Má Vlast (My Country) is a Other teachers, Salieri among them, Mendelssohn especially warmed to, and superb cycle of six tone poems followed, but Beethoven’s Viennese star in 1831 he began a symphony based on inspired by the native lore of quickly rose more as a pianist, whose his impressions of Rome, Naples and Bohemia. Dedicated to the city of passionate intensity and original other points of inspiration to him. Prague, the premiere was the communicative gifts soon had the most occasion for a patriotic rally and like elegant Viennese nobility exhibiting him One thinks about effortless facility while Sibelius’Finlandia, Smetana’s score has at evening soirées for their friends. listening to Mendelssohn, but that was become a symbol of its country’s hardly the case with the composition of national pride, with performances Beethoven’s first Vienna public appearance his “Italian”Symphony. Mendelssohn taking place every year on the took place at a pair of concerts organized struggled with its assembly, and a anniversary of Smetana’s death. in part by Salieri, a large affair for charity commission for a symphony from the involving over 150 participants. Beethoven Philharmonic Society of London spurred Vltava (The Moldau) is the Czech river chose to play a piano concerto in B-flat Mendelssohn to complete all the that flows past Prague to join the Elbe major he had been working on, movements from his sketches. in the north. Smetana’s music traces a completing it just in time for the journey he took along the river in performance, which was a success that did The premiere was a great success and 1870, conveying both the trip and the much to propel Beethoven’s career as further cemented the special friendship sights along the way.Though long both composer and performer. Mendelssohn had with Queen Victoria. thought to be Czech folk-based, the Still, Mendelssohn wasn’t satisfied with main theme comes from a Swedish The B-flat Concerto was written before the work and refused its publication. tune praising the countryside north of the “First”but is known as “No. 2”since it Only after his death was the score Göteborg, where Smetana had spent was published later.Though clearly a published and made widely available, five years after 1856 as conductor of product of the Classical era in its soon becoming one of the most that city’s Philharmonic Society. construction and expression, it is easy to popular orchestral works in the view Beethoven’s singular forces literature and winning the praise of Sˇárka is the most story-based of the permeating No. 2 in the face of what we audiences and critics alike. cycle. Divided into five sections, it know lay ahead.The opening movement begins with the enraged Sárka follows a familiar classical narrative.The The opening movement is an swearing vengeance on the male race second movement’s solo exuberant sonata-allegro with a for infidelity of her lover. A march embellishments remind of Beethoven’s striking contrapuntal development signals the arrival of the knights led massive powers as an improviser.The section.The Andante is a slow march, by Ctirad to punish Sˇárka and her rebellious court maidens. A solo rondo-finale bounds along energetically, perhaps drawn from a religious clarinet depicts the cry of Sárka, to with both a look back to Beethoven’s procession Mendelssohn experienced which Ctirad begins to show classical forbears and the premonition of in Naples.The third movement is a sympathy.The fourth polka section a whole new story in creativity that gentle minuet, leading to a dazzling describes the drunken warriors.They would change music forever. Roman saltarello finale. Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 8 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Beethoven, Mendelssohn and a New Virtuoso

James Feddeck, conductor Louis Schwizgebel, piano “A tremendous find… Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Musicians of this caliber are Schwizgebel is winner of like gold dust” (The Herald). the Geneva International James Feddeck is rapidly Music Competition, silver becoming one of the most medalist at the Leeds interesting and remarkable International Piano conductors of today, Competition, and former impressing orchestras with his innate talent BBC New Generation Artist. and outstanding musicianship on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2015-2016, Schwizgebel debuts with the Utah, Detroit, Munich,Winnipeg, and Of his recent debut with the Hallé, The Queensland symphonies, and returns to Guardian noted that he stepped in “to salvage the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony the concert with style and steel” and is “a and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. In conductor to watch. ”Over the last two solo recital, he performs at Wigmore Hall; seasons Feddeck has made a number of and in duo with Alina Ibragimova. In Asia, significant North American and European he debuts in Hong Kong and returns to debuts, including with the Chicago, San Beijing Concert Hall and Shanghai Francisco, Minnesota, Detroit, Los Angeles Symphony Hall. New conductor Chamber, Ottawa NAC, Atlanta, Houston, collaborations include Robin Ticciati, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Royal Scottish Andris Poga and Mirga GraÏinytò-Tyla. National, Residentie and BBC Symphony Orchestras, the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a Schwizgebel records for Aparté; his collaboration with Béjart Ballet, and the recording of Beethoven’s First and Second Tampere and Helsinki philharmonic Piano Concertos with the London orchestras. Philharmonic Orchestra and Thierry Fischer was deemed a “beautifully nuanced In addition to his conducting, James Feddeck account,” by Gramophone. Schwizgebel is an accomplished organist and has appreciates support from the Migros performed recitals throughout Europe and Culture Percentage, Hans Wilsdorf North America. He studied oboe, piano, Foundation, Mozart Gesellschaft organ and conducting at the Oberlin Dortmund and Animato Foundation. Conservatory of Music and in 2010 was recognized by Oberlin as the first recipient of ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Laurel Ridd, flute; Tony Cyre, percussion; Jim Ewen, bassoon

April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 9

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Art of Time Ensemble: Andrew Burashko, Artistic Director/piano

Steven Page, vocals SOUNDBYTES Andy Maize, vocals Craig Northey, vocals AIR CANADA POPS Glen Phillips, vocals Joe Phillips, bass Rob Piltch, guitar Rick Sacks, percussion Julian Pellicano, conductor

Strawberry Fields Forever Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band With a Little Help from My Friends Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Getting Better Fixing a Hole She’s Leaving Home Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - INTERMISSION - Within You Without You When I’m Sixty-Four Lovely Rita Good Morning Good Morning Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) A Day in the Life Penny Lane Here Comes the Sun All You Need is Love

All songs composed by John Lennon & Paul McCartney except “Within You Without You”composed by George Harrison. Art of Time Ensemble’s participation in tonight’s performance is generously sponsored by Darla and Roger Steers.

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April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 11 AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Andrew Burashko, delivering that thing that has connected with Artistic Director/piano audiences for so long. I enjoy the process of being Andrew Burashko made his artistic, of taking chances and not knowing what debut at the age of might come next.” seventeen with the Toronto Symphony To that end, Steven Page is working on his fifth Orchestra and has since Stratford Festival score, and in conjunction with established himself as one Toronto’s innovative Art of Time Ensemble, he has of Canada's premier collaborated on two releases, This Singer Must Die soloists. Known for his passionate and Sgt. Pepper, as well as several live performances and eclectic repertoire, performances.With his flair for writing literate Burashko has performed with most of the songs with catchy melodies, Steven Page continues Canadian orchestras, collaborating with to release original music including his critically conductors Sir Andrew Davis,Yannick acclaimed album Page One, his Genie-nominated Nezet-Seguin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and track, A Different Sort of Solitude - featured in the Pinchas Zukerman among many others. film French Immersion - and his composition A New Shore - the theme for the 2014 CBC miniseries BEST As a soloist he has performed extensively LAID PLANS. throughout Canada, the United States, and A life-long food and travel enthusiast, Steven Europe, and as a chamber musician, he Page journeyed across North America last year as regularly collaborates with Canada's top host of The Illegal Eater, a television series, which artists and performs in festivals uncovers underground eateries and explores off- throughout Canada and Europe. For the the-grid dining experiences.The show, which airs past 16 years, he has also been involved in on Travel + Escape in Canada and Esquire TV in an important and ongoing collaboration the US, also features a theme song and incidental with modern dancer Peggy Baker. music penned by Steven.

Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Still touring regularly with his six-piece band of Andrew began his studies with Marina multi-instrumentalists, Steven Page is working on Geringas at the Royal Conservatory of new material set for release later this year. Music in Toronto. He went on to study with Lee Kum-Sing in Vancouver, Leon Fleisher Andy Maize, vocals and Marek Jablonski in Toronto, and Bella Andy Maize is a singer-songwriter and Davidovich in New York. co-founded the Canadian roots/rock band Skydiggers.The ‘Diggers have Steven Page, vocals been writing and playing their way Steven Page’s distinctive and across the majestic landscapes of powerful tenor is among the Canada for over a quarter-century. most immediately familiar Skydiggers have 16 records to their voices in popular music name, including their debut Skydiggers (1990), and today.The singer/songwriter more recently Angels (2013). In celebration of their is a founding member of The 25th year, Skydiggers released No.1 Northern (2013), a Barenaked Ladies with covers album of classic Canadian folk and rock songs. whom he toured the globe and sold millions Toronto-born and bred, Maize can also lay claim of albums. On his own, Steven Page to co-founding Maple Music, a record label and continues his artistic evolution with a diverse e-commerce platform for Canadian artists and array of solo projects. “I’d like to think I’m still markets. Maple’s successes are many, and include

12 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 bolstering the careers of Sam Roberts and Kathleen Glen Phillips, vocals Edwards, and distributing Radiohead’s three most Glen Phillips is a songwriter,multi- recent records in Canada. instrumentalist,producer and singer based out of California. He is Maize is no stranger to the Art of Time Ensemble, perhaps best known as the front having collaborated on projects for nearly a decade. man of Toad the Wet Sprocket,a His work with the Ensemble is diverse, and ranges from band he co-founded at the age of 15. performing Abbey Road to writing songs inspired by Signed to Columbia only three years Schubert, from joining the Lonely Hearts Club Band to later,Toad the Wet Sprocket topped charts with tracks singing songs of protest. including All I Want and Walk on the Ocean. Maize was a part of the original Ensemble After releasing five albums in the span of a decade production of Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in with the band,Phillips began a solo career by 2012. recording Albulum (2001) with producer Ethan Johns. Collaborations have included Mutual Admiration Craig Northey, vocals Society (2004) and Works Progress Administration Vancouver's Craig Northey is one of (2009),both with members of Nickel Creek.Other the principle singer-songwriters of projects include Plover and RemoteTreeChildren, the band Odds. Their debut album numerous songwriting collaborations,seven solo Neopolitan (1991) spurred a albums and two solo EPs. decades-long career, which saw their many records released in 20 After a 16-year hiatus since the release of their last countries. Odds went platinum with album,Coil,Toad the Wet Sprocket reunited to record Good Weird Feeling (1995) and gold with Nest (1996), New Constellation (2013).Phillips joined the band on generating popular singles like Someone Who’s Cool, the road opening for Counting Crows,and continues It Falls Apart and Eat My Brain.The Odds have been to perform solo dates in support of Options,a nominated for several JUNOs (including two nods collection of solo b-sides and alternate takes. for Best Songwriter) and acted as Warren Zevon’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is Phillips’ backing band for the Mr.Bad Example tour. first collaboration with Art of Time Ensemble. Northey is a “serial collaborator,”making albums ADDITIONAL MUSICIAN: and writing songs with friends such as Rosanne Allen Harrington, bassoon Cash, Steven Page,The Gin Blossoms,Tom Wilson, Rob Baker (of The Tragically Hip),Wide Mouth Mason and Colin James. His strong relationship to the comedy troupe Kids in The Hall opened the door to composing for film and TV. Amongst Northey’s credits are Brain Candy (1995), Dog Park (1996), Hiccups (2010-2012), Kids In the Hall in Death Comes to Town (2010) and the theme song for Corner Gas (2004-2009). Recently he scored Corner Gas:The Movie (2014) and is currently co-composing the series Young Drunk Punk with his pal, Art of Time composer, Jim McGrath. Odds have released a trilogy of EPs in 2014-2015.

NovemberApril – December – May 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 13 7 Quantum Full Pg

(Quantum to set in document upon submitting) Terri Clark Meets the WSO

Terri Clark, vocals/guitar SPECIAL Julian Pellicano, conductor SOUNDBYTES

The Cowboys Overture John Williams I Just Wanna Be Mad Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller A Little Gasoline Tammy Rogers, Dean Miller No Fear Mary Chapin Carpenter,Terri Clark If I Were You Terri Clark Poor, Poor Pitiful Me Warren Zevon Three Mississippi Angelo Petraglia, Hillary Lindsey,Troy Verges Every Time I Cry Bob Regan, Karen Staley Now That I Found You JD Martin, Paul Begaud,Vanessa Corish

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You’re Easy On the Eyes Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters,Terri Clark Empty Gary Butler,Terri Clark I Wanna Do It All Tim Nichols, Rick Giles, Gilles Godard Smile Terri Clark, Kayn Rochelle Northern Girl Terri Clark, Kristen Hall Girls Lie Too Connie Harrington, Kelley Lovelace,Tim Nichols Better Things to Do Tom Shapiro,Terri Clark, Chris Waters Gypsy Boots Terri Clark, Jon Randall, Leslie Satcher

All orchestral arrangements by Claude Lapalme.

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April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 15 SPECIALS ARTIST BIOS Terri Clark with the WSO

Terri Clark, vocals/guitar Hailing from the only Canadian female artist to be a member Medicine Hat, of the legendary Grand Ole Opry.Terri sells out Alberta, Canada, headline shows across the US and Canada and Terri Clark is an has toured with such superstars as Reba eight-time CCMA McEntire, Brad Paisley,Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Entertainer of the and George Strait.Terri’s album, Some Songs,is Year and has taken available now on iTunes and home the Female www.terriclark.com. Vocalist of the Year award five times.Terri has sold more than four million albums worldwide and has made her mark on radio with 13 Top Ten singles – hits that include Better Things To Do, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Girls Lie Too, and I Just Wanna Be Mad.Terri has the honour of being

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Russian Fireworks: Tchaikovsky 5 and Rachmaninoff 4 CLASSICS

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Alain Lefèvre, piano *Winnipeg Youth Orchestra, Daniel Scholz, director

*Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Allegro vivace Largo – Allegro vivace

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NovemberApril – December – May 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 1719 7 way out of Moscow for the composer Symphony No. 5 PROGRAM NOTES and his family, who had to leave behind Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by James Manishen their home, property and possessions. b. Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840 As a renowned pianist, Rachmaninoff d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 had entertained offers to come to Composed: 1888 Franz Liszt America and on November 1, 1918 he First performance: November 17, 1888 b. Raiding, (Doborján), Austria / sailed from Oslo to New York, never (St. Petersburg), conducted by the composer again returning to his native land. October 22, 1811 Last WSO performance: 2011, Alexander d. Bayreuth / July 31, 1886 Rachmaninoff needed the income Mickelthwate, conductor Composed for piano: circa 1850; from his coast-to-coast American orchestrated circa 1855 Tchaikovsky’s music concert tours (that continued masks an almost ongoing Last WSO performance: 1983; uninterrupted for the next 25 years) to Erich Kunzel, conductor insecurity in how he support his family.This had impact on viewed his creative net Though born in Hungary, his composing time. “I have to worth. In May of 1888, he Franz Liszt’s native concentrate on any one thing I am had gone three years language was French doing to such a degree that it does without writing anything. His spirits were and at age ten he was not seem to allow me to take up low and he feared his creative energy living in Vienna. Still, he anything else,”he told an interviewer. was becoming tapped out. Still, he wrote to his brother Modeste that he had to never forgot his Though it has been speculated that homeland and incorporated national snap out of his mental state and Rachmaninoff produced his Fourth compose something. Amazingly, melodies in his 19 Hungarian Concerto as an alternate performing Rhapsodies plus other Hungarian- Tchaikovsky completed a short score to vehicle to the constant demands for the Fifth Symphony within six weeks of inspired pieces. Liszt felt himself a his performances of the Second and standard-bearer for Hungarian musical that letter. Third Concertos, he said nothing about nationalism, and indeed his work the Fourth’s inspiration. As with the At the premiere in St. Petersburg, the became early examples of the broader others, the Fourth follows a similarly audience respectfully applauded the folk-based movement that soon lay composer but Tchaikovsky felt the ahead for other composers. effusive Romantic path for which the composer made no apologies. “I have work a failure.Things changed at a Liszt took the free-form name of made an intense effort to feel the performance in Hamburg in 1889 “Rhapsody”to encompass the quick musical manner of today, but it will not where the audience, performers, critics contrasts and pliancy one feels in the come to me.” and even Brahms, who attended, were structures. Based on the alternating notably enthusiastic.The Fifth slow “Lassu”and fast “Friss”components The premiere of the Fourth Concerto Symphony never looked back after of the Hungarian Czardasalla, plus other met little success, with reviews that, becoming a much-loved staple of performance devices of rubato, complaining of loose-knit structure the orchestral literature. and new material appearing without accelerando and characteristic harmonic As with the Fourth Symphony, the “sanction of necessity”(Samuel shifts, the music contains atmospheric Tchaikovsky’s resignation to his fate Chotzinoff). Rachmaninoff played the and entertaining displays, whether becomes the prevailing force in the based on authentic material (“gypsy”as work for three years, dropping it from Fifth. But while the Fourth’s story is more Liszt described) or not. his repertoire in 1930 until its earthbound and combative, the Fifth’s extensive and better-received revision message elevates towards the spiritual Liszt transcribed six of his Rhapsodies for of 1941. where man’s journey is governed by orchestra and No. 2 is the most popular. The first movement’s sweeping main forces above earth to better the soul. As Piano Concerto No. 4 theme and rhapsodic development in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth is a journey from Sergei Rachmaninoff section emblazon the work’s darkly struggle to joyous resignation. b. Oneg, Russia / April 1, 1873 Romantic spirit, the piano role grand d. Los Angeles, CA, USA / March 28, 1943 and wide-ranging.The entire The Symphony opens with a Fate Composed: 1926 intermezzo second movement stems theme in unison clarinets, a theme that First performance: March 18, 1927 from its opening theme, an austere recurs in each movement.The second (Philadelphia), conducted by Leopold setting closely resembling the nursery movement’s memorable horn solo has Stokowski with the composer as soloist tune Three Blind Mice and with a written in the manuscript “Oh,how I First WSO performance of original version stormy centerpiece.The finale received love…if you love me.”It could be an the most extensive revisions in 1941 operatic love scene.The third Rachmaninoff saw the and is a dazzling virtuosic display with movement is a waltz, recalling writing on the wall when crunching harmonies and sharp wit Tchaikovsky’s imperial status as a the Russian Revolution set in a complex structure that brings composer of ballet.The finale begins began in March 1917. A back themes from the opening with a lengthy recall of the Fate theme recital tour of Scandinavia movement.Tonight’s performance is but soon turns heroic, marching to the that November gave a of the original version. end with victory hard-won. Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 20 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 167 CHANCES TO what will you choose? WIN OVER $ The or 63,000 MONEYthe MERCEDES IN CASH & PRIZES a 2016 Mercedes-Benz SLK350 or $60,000 Cash Tax Free. IN THE DAILY DRAWS 168 STARTING APRIL 25,2016 Chances to Win 2 Draws for $2,500 Cash 10 Draws for Best Odds $1,000 Cash for Biggest the Prize! 5 Draws for $500 Cash 150 draws for Only 9,000 2 WSO Concert tickets Tickets & 3 Free printed Symphony Sweepstakes Tickets

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Alain Lefèvre, piano Winnipeg Youth Orchestra, One of Canada’s foremost Daniel Scholz, director virtuosos, JUNO Award-winner Founded in 1923, the Winnipeg Youth Orchestras Alain Lefèvre has been are the oldest Youth Orchestra in Canada.The acclaimed by the press as “a aim of the founding fathers was to provide pianist who breaks the mold” young and aspiring musicians with the (International Piano, London) and opportunity to play music in an orchestral “who stands out from the typical trends and setting. artifices offered on the international scene” (Classica). He has revived and championed the WYO offers an innovative and stimulating music of forgotten genius, composer and program to youth musicians between the ages pianist André Mathieu, called the “Canadian of 9 and 21.The WYO are currently organised Mozart,” and was music director, composer, into 3 orchestral groups, the Youth Strings, and pianist for the 2010 motion picture Youth Concert Orchestra and Youth Symphony L’Enfant prodige, a film based on André Orchestra based upon musical ability. A central Mathieu’s life (Cinémaginaire). part of the program is the annual tour and the two annual public concerts each year.WYO has Mr. Lefèvre pursues a sparkling international close ties to the Winnipeg Symphony career, performing in prestigious venues Orchestra, which sees WSO musicians working (Carnegie, Ravinia, Royal Albert Hall,Théatre together with members and WYO students des Champs-Élysées) and with leading attending WSO concerts throughout the year. conductors such as James Conlon, Charles A recent addition to the program is an Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, exchange weekend with the Thunder Bay Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Symphony Youth Orchestra.The result is a He has appeared with the Philadelphia thriving organisation with over 170 members. Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Oper ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Komische Orchestra (Berlin), Orchestre Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe National de France and Moscow Virtuosi, to name but a few.

With over thirty CDs winning numerous prizes, his discography covers a vast repertoire, including John Corigliano’s Piano Concerto, chosen by BBC Music Magazine as the reference version. His recording of works by Rachmaninov and Scriabin with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano was selected as “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone magazine.

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Les Violons du Roy

Les Violons du Roy SOUNDBYTES Mathieu Lussier, conductor SPECIAL Alexandre Tharaud, piano

Overture to Olympie Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)

Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) for Piano & Orchestra, K. 271 (Jeunehomme) Allegro Andantino Rondo: Presto – Menuetto - Presto

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Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Molto allegro Andante Menuetto e Trio: Allegretto Allegro assai

Tuesday, April 19 8:00 p.m.

April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 25 Archbishop. At the new adult age of weave the most intense emotional PROGRAM NOTES 21, he planned to look for spell, rising to a new pitch at the by James Manishen employment in Mannheim and Paris cadenza. during the summer of 1777 and Overture to Olympie wanted to significantly deepen his The remarkable finale, a loose rondo, Joseph Martin Kraus craft with a new work he would kicks off with one of Mozart’s most b. Miltenberg am Main, Germany / perform himself. The Piano Concerto energetic displays. A stately minuet June 20, 1756 No. 9 was to be his calling card. arrives, with a theme and four d. Stockholm, Sweden / December 15, 1792 elaborate variations to change the Composed: 1791 The concerto became known as the mood, texture and tempo.The main Jeunehomme, an ambiguous tempo returns, luxuriantly set with Known as “the Swedish reference to the pianist Victoire arpeggios in the piano over a rich Mozart,”Joseph Martin Jenamy (1749-1812) who inspired orchestral backing leading to an Kraus was a gifted and the work while in Salzburg during exuberant close. unusual composer the winter of 1776-77. She was the whose talent and daughter of the famous ballet Symphony No. 40 theatrical flair caused master Noverre and must have Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Christoph Willibald von Gluck and been a formidable player. It became Composed: 1788 Joseph Haydn to proclaim him an the first of Mozart’s piano concertos original genius. A published author to appear in print, published in Paris In less than two months Mozart during his youth, in the 1770s at the around 1780. produced the towering University of Göttingen, Kraus fell in masterpieces of his orchestral with a literary movement devoted to The Jeunehomme was to Mozart’s output, Symphonies 39, 40 and 41. the Sturm und Drang (storm and piano concertos what the Eroica was Though one cannot simplify the stress) school, a faction inspired by to Beethoven’s symphonies, striking wealth of resource in No. 40, the early Romantic works of Goethe. coincidentally sharing the same key it may be fair to say that in its key of Kraus published stories representative of E-flat major. That is, a G minor and the symphony’s of this movement, later travelling to monumental, groundbreaking impassioned moods and restless Sweden in the hopes of breaking into happening in its musical genre that intensity may very well be in the musical court of Gustav III. He markedly changed what had come response to the tragic conditions eventually did, going on to compose Mozart was living under at the time. before, and generally regarded as and publish within the intellectual the first real masterpiece among and cultural life of the Swedish Mozart was 32 in the summer of Mozart’s 27 piano concertos. capital. 1788, in declining health and with only three years to live. His wife was The concerto opens with a short Kraus’s incidental music for Johan in failing health and they had just orchestral fanfare immediately Henrik Kellgren’s tragedy Olympie lost their six-month-old daughter. answered by the piano – a bold and contains a powerful Sturm und Drang His opera Don Giovanni was not well overture that opens with the jagged unprecedented stroke breaking received in May, not much was on rhythms of French grandeur followed with accepted practice of every Mozart’s plate performance-wise by a violent Allegro, ripe with wild concerto written up to that time. and he was deeply in debt.Those ostinato in the strings and dramatic The piano then steals away, allowing two summer months may be the outbursts at every turn. the orchestra to build the exposition most magical period of musical and then re-entering with a long creation in the history of the art. Piano Concerto No. 9 anticipatory trill. For the first time in (Jeunehomme) the concerto medium, soloist and No. 40 is a work at the crossroads of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart orchestra become equal partners in the Classical and Romantic eras – a b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 genuine dialogue. phenomenal happening that seems d.Vienna / December 5, 1791 to live in both worlds at the same Nowhere is the connection between Composed: January, 1777 time. Here the orderly ways of the opera and concerto more evident Classical period find themselves After years of touring than in the slow movement, marked amalgamated to a new and vivid European capitals with his “andantino,”which at the time power of self –expression, which father and sister, wowing indicated a slower pace than Beethoven was to take up and run audiences as a child andante. Mozart uses a minor key with. All that, coupled with a masterly virtuoso, Mozart returned for the first time in a piano concerto, technical skill produce a truly to his hometown of lending a poignant dignity to its gripping experience in No. 40, no Salzburg in 1773 to compose and expression and even moments of matter how many times you hear it. perform as concertmaster to the Prince- recitative as solo and orchestra

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Les Violons du Roy has carved out a reputation as an important new voice from the podium specializing in Baroque and Classical repertoire as well as the great neglected works of 19th-century France. His first recording at the head of Les Violons du Roy appeared in September 2014, and he received in 2015 the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting from the Canada Council for the Arts.

The chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy Mathieu Lussier is also active as a soloist and takes its name from the renowned string for close to 20 years has been tirelessly and orchestra of the court of the French kings.The passionately introducing audiences to the group, which has a core membership of fifteen modern and baroque bassoon all over North players, was brought together in 1984 by America and Europe. Mathieu Lussier is also a founding conductor Bernard Labadie and composer, with a catalogue of more than 40 specializes in the vast repertoire of music for works heard regularly in North America, chamber orchestra, performed in the stylistic Europe, Asia, and Australia. manner most appropriate to each era. Although the ensemble plays on modern Alexandre Tharaud, piano instruments, its approach to the works of the Alexandre's international career Baroque and Classical periods has been continues to flourish with concerts strongly influenced by current research into in Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, performance practice in the 17th and 18th Switzerland, Benelux (where he centuries; in this repertoire Les Violons du Roy has been invited to be the uses copies of period bows.The orchestra also Eindhoven Muziekgebouw's regularly delves into the repertoire of the 19th Resident-Artist in 2015-2016), Spain (as part of and 20th centuries, as witnessed by its the Great Performers cycle at the Auditorio recordings of works by Piazzolla, Bartók, and Nacional in Madrid), Italy (debuts at Santa Cecilia Britten. in Roma), the UK, Austria and in Asia with tours in China, South Korea and Japan (concerts with New The thirty recordings made by Les Violons du Japan Philharmonic and Kansai Philharmonic). Roy have been acclaimed by critics and earned many distinctions and awards at the national Recent seasons have include a number of and international levels. Of twelve CDs exciting projects including Alexandre's first major released by Dorian, two won JUNO Awards tour to China, his BBC Proms orchestral debut (Apollo e Dafne (Handel) and Requiem (Mozart). (with the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Juanjo Mena), a 'Domaine Privé' at the Cité de la Mathieu Lussier, conductor Musique, book (Piano Intime) and film (Le Temps The accomplished and Dérobé, by Swiss film maker Raphaëlle Aellig- multifaceted Mathieu Lussier is a Régnier) releases; last but not least, Alexandre long-time friend and collaborator has been asked to revise a new edition of of Les Violons du Roy and of its Maurice Ravel's complete solo piano works. founding conductor Bernard Labadie. As associate conductor of Alexandre's eclectic discography includes Bach, the internationally renowned chamber orchestra then Mozart and Haydn with Les Violons du Roy, based in Quebec City, he has led the ensemble in Autograph, Le Boeuf sur Le Toit, Scarlatti, Journal more than 75 concerts throughout Canada, Intime (Chopin) and Bach Concertos with Les Mexico, and the United States. In recent years, he Violons du Roy for ERATO.

28 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 29 28 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 The Women’s Committee of the Disney FANTASIA: Live in Concert

Julian Pellicano, conductor SOUNDBYTES

Symphony No. 5 in C minor Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro con brio Symphony No. 6 Ludwig van Beethoven III. Allegro (Merry Gathering of Country Folk) IV. Allegro (Thunder. Storm) V. Allegretto (Shepherd’s Song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm.) The Nutcracker Suite Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Claire de Lune Claude Debussy The Firebird Suite Igor Stravinsky

- INTERMISSION - Dance of the Hours Amilcare Ponchielli The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Paul Dukas Pomp and Circumstance Sir Edward Elgar Pines of Rome – IV Ottorino Respighi

Saturday, April 30 7:30 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Saturday, 6:45 p.m. Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Laurel Ridd, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Matt McCrady, trumpet; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Brendan Thompson, percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard

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GREAT-WEST LIFE Disney FANTASIA: Live in Concert

Julian Pellicano, conductor KIDS CONCERTS GREAT-WEST LIFE GREAT-WEST

Symphony No. 5 in C minor Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro con brio Nutcracker Suite Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Firebird Suite Igor Stravinsky “Dance of the Hours“ from La Gioconda Amilcare Ponchielli Pomp and Circumstance Sir Edward Elgar The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Paul Dukas

Pre-concert Activities 1:00 p.m. Sunday, May 1 2:00 p.m.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Laurel Ridd, flute; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Matt McCrady, trumpet; Tony Cyre, percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard

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Roman Carnival Overture Hector Berlioz Mechanical Circus I: Charivari Michael Picton Pavane pour une infant defunte Maurice Ravel Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Waltz from Serenade for Strings Antonin Dvorˇák “Summer”from The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi Selections from Carmen Georges Bizet Mechanical Circus II:The Gantry Bike Michael Picton

- INTERMISSION - Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Paul Dukas Prelude from L’Arlésienne Georges Bizet Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt Edvard Grieg Chinese Dance from Nutcracker Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Voices of Spring Johann Strauss II Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 5 George Frideric Handel Mechanical Circus III: Finale Michael Picton

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Official Radio Station of the Air Canada Pops: MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Friday, 7:15 p.m. Westgate Mennonite Collegiate Saturday, 7:15 p.m. Gina Wedel Piano Studio Sunday, 1:15 p.m. Jacqueline Ryz Piano Studio

April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 35 AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS Cirque Mechanics

Cirque Mechanics Cirque Mechanics, although inspired by modern circus, finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American ingenuity.The shows, rooted in realism, display a raw quality, rarely found in modern circus, that makes their message timeless and relevant.The stories are wrapped in circus acrobatics, mechanical wonders and a bit of clowning around.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Cirque Mechanics was founded in 2004 by Boston native Laura MacDougall, flute; Jim Ewen, bassoon, and German Wheel artist, Chris Lashua, after the success Allen Harrington, bassoon; Matt McCrady, of his collaborative project with the Circus Center of San trumpet; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, Francisco, Birdhouse Factory. Cirque Mechanics quickly percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard established itself as a premiere American circus, with its unique approach to performance, inspiring storytelling and innovative mechanical staging. Spectacle Magazine hailed it as “the greatest contribution to the American circus since Cirque du Soleil.”

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Labies Karin Woods E L McLandress Marj Grevstad Jack & Zina Lazarek Family Mr. Edwin Yee Sylvia Mitchell Tariq & Annette Hameed Foundation 14 anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton Margaret Moroz Mr. & Mrs. J.K. Holland Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Vera Moroz Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Prelude Terence and Violeta Moore Bonnie & Richard Olfert Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Patricia Allen & Len Dueck Piston Ring Carole & Cam Osler Ms. Heather Kirkham Trish Allison-Simms Mrs. Marion Korn Mrs. Marina Plett-Lyle Donna & Ian Plant Kaeren Anderson Carolynne Presser Mrs. Mona Koropatnick Ms. Michelle Redekopp Linda Armbruster Tim Preston & Dave Ling Elaine & Patrick Lamonica Jim & Pat Richtik Janice & Brian Bailey Rosemary Prior Edith Landy, in Memory of David Mr. Peter van Dijken & Dr. Lorelie Allan & Rochelle Baker Fred & Carolyn Redekop Landy Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ball J. Reichert Jennifer Lidstone Dr.Willem van Oers & Mrs. Robert Barton Ms. Iris Reimer Rose & Dick Lim Margaretha van Oers Audrey Belyea Levi & Tena Reimer Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Raymond & Shirley Wiest Eric Bergen Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie Jim MacNair in Memory of Mae Herbert & Shirley Wildeman Donald & Edith Besant Bruce Roe & Margo Lane Mr. John Macrae Joan Wright Ms. Joanne Biggs Judge & Mrs. Charles & Naida Dr. Angelos and Pauline 4 anonymous Eric & Clara Bohm Rubin Macrodimitris

38 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 39 Keith & Marnie Bolland Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Juta Rathke Mr. Alfred Cornies Shirley Book Mr. Martin & Mrs. Rose Marie Mrs. Esther Remis Ms. Judy Crawford Brian & Bev Born Horseman Waltraut Riedel-Baun Mr. & Mrs.Ted Cunningham Rob & Wendy Borody Sonia & Harvey Hosfield Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Vera Ripley Ms. Jean Curtis Lorne & Rosada Bride Richard & Karen Howell Brian & Iris Rountree Ms. Linda Daniels Mr. Robert Briercliffe Jacqueline Iwasienko Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler Mr. Roger Dennis Susan Brownstone Brock & Wilfred & Dorothy James Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad & Ms. Beth Derraugh Thomas Brock Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram Pearly Rule Salangad Mrs. Ethel Dil Miss Dorothy Broomhall Margaret Jeffries Kay Schalme Claire Dionne Mr. Chris Brown Ms. Crystal Jochum R. Schroeder Sylvia Dixon Mr. E. Brown Mrs. Shirley Kilburn Shirley Schroeder Anna Doorenbos Mrs. Margaret Brown Mr. & Mrs.W. J. Kinnear Viola J. Schultz Ms. Suzanne Doyle Mr. Ross Brownlee Erwin W. Kitsch Mr. Gunter Schupke Ms. Sheila M. Dumore Jan Burdon Ms. Mary Klassen Charlene Scouten Mr. & Mrs. Peter Eibisch Mr. Charles Burns Alfonz & Susan Koncan Marilyn & Jon Seguire Mr. S. J. Enns Ms. Donna Carruthers Mrs. Alvina Koshy Phil & Nancy Shead Mr. Garry W. Epp Mrs. Patti Cherney Kozub/Halldorson Family Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Vera & Peter Fast Bea and Lawrie Cherniack Elsa Krahn Henry & Connie Shyka Ms. Allison Fenske Mrs. Leona Christiansen D. Kristjanson Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak Dr. Nelma Fetterman Ross M. Cleeve Patricai Kuchma Dr. Don & Lynne Simonson Robert Filiatront Dr. & Mrs. David Connor Robert Kusmack Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Hilda Franz Ms. Marcella Copp Mrs. Helen La Rue Geri & Peter Spencer Donalda Fridfinnson Joyce Cormack Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Ms. Anne Friesen Helle Cosby Mr. R. Leroeye Elsie Stasiuk Mrs. Cathy Gervais Ms. Maxine Cristall Fraser & Joan Linklater Bonnie Hoffer-Steiman & Lionel Ms. Barbara Gessner Mr. Bradley J. Curran Albert & Helen Litz Steiman Mr. Christopher Golden Judy & Werner Danchura Barry & Patricia Lloyd Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Heather Graham Maureen Danzinger Lorron Agencies Ltd. Archie & Shirley Stone Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham F.De Grazia G. & G. Lowry Dr. Ian Robert Sutton Mrs. Inga Granovskaya Marlene & Fred Dickson Mr. Al Mackling Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Irvin & Gilda Greenburg Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Matthew Gossen Advancement Douglas & Leeann Thompson Victoria Gretchen Brenda Donald Trust Robert & Barb Tisdale Ms. Joyce Grose Mrs. Dorothy Easton Harold S. Mawhinney & Edith A.Toews Ms. Marianne Gruber Mr. & Mrs. J.G. Ekins Judy Moon Henry & Elizabeth Toews B. & R. Hall Mrs. M.L. Elliott Ruth May Dr. Helen A.Toews Gertrude Hamilton Empiricus Medical Corporation Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba Louise & Jim Townsend Mr. Ken Hardy John & Martha Enns Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Mrs. C.M.Valentine Mrs. Helen Hayward John J. Enns Ms. Diane McGregor Barry and Gail Veals Kelly Hearson Mrs. Katharine Enns C. & J. McIntyre Hugo & Anny Veldhuis Jean Highmoor Siegfried Enns D. McKay Elizabeth M.Wall Dorothy L. Hodgson Don and Martha Epstein Violet McKenzie Jim & Joan Warbeck Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik Dr. & Mrs.Willie R. Falk Mrs. Geraldine McKinley J.Whyte Don Hutniak Greg & Linda Fearn Jean McLennan Mr. Paul Wiebe Ho V Huynh Helen Feniuk S. McMillan Debbie Wilson Ishbel Isaacs Doug & Joanne Flynn Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier Patrick Wright Bob & Vi Jacob Mrs. Marguerite Fredette Estelle Meyers 18 anonymous Peter & Dora Janzen Jim & Betty Gaynor Walter A. Mildren Pat Jarrett Sonatina Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori Mrs. Jocelyn Millard Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Rodica Jeffrey D. Gooch Carolyn Garlich and Peter Miller Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Susan Allen Bryan Johnson Mrs. Noreen Greenberg Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz Jacqueline Anderson Dr. Karen L. Johnson Irene Groot-Koerkamp & Margaret Morse Heather Baker Mr.Tim Kasprick Greg Edmond Mrs. Joan Ann Morton Mrs. Eva Berard Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Marjorie & Kenneth Grower John & Margaret Mundie Norma Bortoluzzi Dr. Birte Klug Katie & DeLloyd Guth D. Munro Mrs. Diane Brine Ray Knowles Mr. Patrick Hackett Leesa Munroe Barbara Bryant-Anstie Jim Komishon Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Charlotte Murrell Alfred Buelow Rhoda Kravetsky Miss Marilyn Hall David & Hermine Olfert Sheila Burland Janet and Tim Kroeker Irene Hamerton Truus Oliver Ms. Rosemary Butterworth Mrs. Audrey Krushel Teresa A. Hay Miss Jenny Olynyk Mr. Gerald Callow Ms. Betty Laing Larry & Evelyn Hecht Shirley & Graham Padgett Ruth Calvert Elizabeth Lansard Millie Hemmelgarn Ms. Nettie Peters Canon Canada Inc. Wayne & Helen LeBlanc Mrs. Carolyn Henry Mrs. Helene Picton Andrea Charron Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Ella Chenkie Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Max & Eleanor Herst Ms. Beth Proven Ms. Claudia Chernitsky Katrina Limberatos Ms. Shirley Hicks Mrs. Nell Provinciano S.K. Clark Mrs. Joyce Manwaring Mrs. Barbara Coombs 40 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 41 Mr. Allan Mapes Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Bernice Blakeman Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Cornelia Marcil Komlodi Mrs. Lucienne Blouw, in Memory of Mrs. Irene Marriott Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Gijsbert Crielaard Ms. Carol Masse Ms. Helen Hawrysh Ms. Patricia Bozyk Ms. Kimberley McCallum The WSO gratefully Dr. Wolfgang Heidenreich in Sheila & David Brodovsky Ms. Susan McCarthy acknowledges the following Support of Composer Henryk Ms. Carol Budnick Terri L. McKerchar patrons whose foresight helps Gorecki for the 2016-17 WNMF Eileen & Ted Ardythe McMaster to ensure long-term financial Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Shelley Chochinov Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart support for the WSO. Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Hildebrand Ray Cloutier in Memory of Gijsbert M. Mohr Kim Jeremic Crielaard Edwin & Susan Bethune Nancy Morgan Koren & Leonard Kaminski Joan C. Cohen Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Theda Olson Ms. Jose Koes M. & G. Crielaard Stephen Choy & Gina Yoo Mrs. Clarice Owen Konstantinos Kotoulas & Family In Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard, Dorothy Comer and Her Sonjia Pasiechnik Dr. Thomas G Kucera Marlene Crielaard Daughters in Memory of Fern Darell Plummer Ron Lambert Dr. & Mrs. Harold Diamond Royds Ms. Clare Pollock Hideo Mabuchi Monica Dinney in Memory of Gijsbert Mr. Ray Davis Cristian Popescu Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Crielaard Helene Dyck Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean Ken & Geri Porath Doreen Docking Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham Lori Marks Mr. Guy Prokopetz Ms. Enid Durward Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Mr. Frank Martin Mrs. Glennys Propp Ken Dyck Marilynne Keil in Memory of Brent Mazur Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Shaun Dyck in Memory of Gijsbert David H. Skinner The A. K. Menkis Medical Mrs. Avis Raber Crielaard Brent Mazur Corporation Mrs. Charlotte Redekopp Mr. & Ms. John Edwards Ms. Edna Poulter Ron & Sandi Mielitz Ms. Pat Repa Don & Martha Epstein Grant & Janet Saunders Ms. Sheila Miller Ms. Patricia G. Ritchie Kathy Feader James & Claudia Weselake Margaret Moroz Gisela Roger Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Women's Committee of the Matthew Narvey Mrs.V. Rosolowich Winnipeg Symphony Michael Narvey Dr. Leeann Fishback Rory Runnells Orchestra Michael Nesbitt Dorothy Flight John & Shirley Russell Women's Committee of the Mikaela Oldenkamp Mrs. Louise Friesen Leonore Saunders O.M. Winnipeg Symphony Mr. Chris Pearce Mrs. Joyce Fyke William Scheidt Orchestra, in Memory of Lesia Peet Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert Mrs. Edna Schneider Norma Bingeman Kathleen Polischuk & Richard George & Carol Gamby Izzy Shore Women's Committee of the Derksen Francois Gauvin Mrs. Marie Sichler Winnipeg Symphony Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth The Staff of GD5 in Memory of Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Orchestra, in Memory of Tippett-Pope Gijsbert Crielaard Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Vera Gorlick Mrs. Victoria Ramnawaj Mr. Richard Gillanders Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Women's Committee of the Bill Reid B. & R. Hall Muriel Sutherland Winnipeg Symphony Majid & Moti Shojania Teresa A. Hay Ms. Marguerite Szymesko Orchestra, in Memory of Maria Muriel Smith Larry & Evelyn Hecht Ms. Melinda Tallin Michalak Carrie Solmundson Monique Henderson Mary Lou Talmage 2 anonymous Terrell Stephen Katherine Himelblau Gladys Tarala Ms. Marlene Stern Dorothy L. Hodgson Conmoto Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Jon Stewart Mrs. Katherine Hoeppner Ms. Anne Thiessen Sally Sweatman Huynh Van Ho Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh Brenda Taylor Ishbel Isaacs, in Loving Memory of Mrs. Roseline Usiskin Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Gijsbert Crielaard Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Mr. Curt Vossen Ms. Margaret Jeffries Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Miss A. H.Wagstaffe Ms. Meeka Walsh Mr. & Mrs. C Jenkins Alison Baldwin Mr. Gordon Walkty Karin Woods Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Jackie Brignall Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann Marilyn Kapitany Kevin Burns Mr. Glen Angus Webster 2 Anonymous Mrs. Karen Kaplen Timothy & Barbara Burt Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weidman Kevin & Els Kavanagh David Carr Snjolaug Whiteway Ursula & Sandor Kelemen Jill Carr & Alex Snukal Ms. Lorraine Willms Ms. Mary Klassen Ms. Anne Cholakis Mrs. Margaret Wilson Sandra Kneller Lara Ciekiewicz Terrie Woodward Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Dr. & Mrs. David Connor 19 anonymous Cycelia Lazarowich in Memory of Mr. Peter Czaplinski Share the Music is an Gijsbert Crielaard Ravi Dookeran outreach initiative that allows Frances Lemieux Mrs. Ann England economically disadvantaged Ms. Marion Lewis Robert Enright children and their families to Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh attend WSO performances. Dr. Judith Littleford Wendy Gale Dr. Brendan MacDougall Katherine Devine & George Andrich Dr. Sabine Mai Tyler Gompf Ms. Margaret Barbour Stepan Gordienko Elaine & Neil Margolis Ralph & Eileen Baxter C & V Martens

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Mr. Peter Martin Conmoto Ms. Lucy De Sousa Reina & Mark McDowell - in Memory of James & Faye Alward in Memory of Drs. Diana & Dhali Dhaliwal Gijsbert Crielaard Benjamin John West Flynn Judy Doctoroff Jean & Mike McIlrath James & Faye Alward in Honour of In Memory of Diane Dowling Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily Mr. Sheldon Leonard McLeod Margot J. Alward Bob Dueck and Joan Duerksen after-school program that Mrs. Jose Meers Mr. Barry Anderson Mrs. Cynthia Dutton enriches the lives of children Ms. Pat Michalski In Memory of Lois Anderson Linda Edel and young people with the L & D Mitchell Ms. Hollie I. Andrew in Memory of Ben Connie Epp fewest resources and the M. Mohr Flynn Ms. Ursula Erhardt greatest need. Margaret Moroz in Memory of Gijsbert Ms. Hollie I. Andrew Rick & Julie Fast Betty & Ted Ash Crielaard Honourary Chair Denzil Feinberg CFP R.F.P. Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Vera Moroz Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola In Memory of Ben Flynn John Balsillie Bill & Hilda Muir Ms. Judith Flynn Ms. Angelica Banmann Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko Maestoso Peter Flynn Brenda Batzel M. Nancy Lynn O'Brien Burns Foundation Mr.Verland Force Ralph & Eileen Baxter D Ogale RBC Foundation Margo Foxford Jean & John Beaver in Memory of Truus Oliver Richardson Foundation Albert & Luisa Friesen Benjamin Flynn Gisaya Gahungu Sam O. Vivace Marissa Becker Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Mrs. Alice Oswald Aaron Benarroch Diane Gerhard Celebrating the Pat Patterson Boeing Canada Winnipeg Ms. Diane Bewell Marriage of Marlene and Jerry Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Cavalia Inc. Ameet Bharaj Gary Gervais Piston Ring George Weston Limited Helen & Henry Bially in Memory of Ms. Barbara Graham Ms. Clare Pollock Michael Nesbitt Benjamin John West Flynn Mr. Bruce Granove Ms. Rose Popowich The Pollard Family Foundation Cathy Bilyk Bobbi-Lynn Haegeman Rosemary & Walter Prychodko The Thomas Sill Foundation Michael Bingham Alison Hall Pat and Bill Reid Dr. Catalena Birek Con Brio Stephen & Barbara Hamilton Ms. Lyse Remillard Gwen Birse Michael S Gray Fund Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Tannis Richardson Bryan Bjerring in Memory of Harvard Property Management Inc. / Don & Joceline Ringach, Pamela Souchay Gossen Family Foundation Benjamin Flynn Michael S Gray Fund 201 Portage Ltd. Ringach & Chris Jordan Sally Boulding Ms. Rhue Hayden In Memory of Kenneth Hrynchuk David & Elena Roberts In Honour of Noah Weiszner's 65th Lydia Hedrich The Winnipeg Foundation - George Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sagert Birthday Ms. Donna Herold and Tannis Richardson Fund Olive Sayers Paul & Doreen Bromley Katherine Himelblau Sanford & Deborah Riley Doneta & Harry Brotchie Your HR Support Co. Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Tim & Joelle Brown Mr.Walter Silicz Glen Pierce Don & Lorraine Swanson Ms. Coralie Bryant Mrs. Roslyn Silver Debby and Brian Hirsch Mrs. Donna Bryk Ms. Brenda Sklar Vladimir Hlas Allegro Mrs. Dee Buchwald Debbie Smith Cathy Horbas Assiniboine Credit Union Ms. Lorelei Bunkowsky Ms. Deborah Spracklin P.Ilavsky Ms. Judith Flynn Dominador Calpatura Herbert Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin & Jeanette Jackson Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in Amihan P.Camacho Mrs. Joan Swaffer Mrs. Miriam Jaeger Mrs. Audrey Campbell Ms. Ruth Swan Memory of Benjamin John West Bruce & Theresa Johnson Gordon & Ann Campbell Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Flynn Nancy Johnson Mr. Alan Cantor Dr.Teresa Sztaba Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones in Ms. Darlene J. Chimilar Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tapscott Dr. David Lyttle Memory of Ben Flynn Minna Chung Ron & Sandi Mielitz Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund Bette Jayne Taylor Margaret Clarke in Memory Linda Moore in Remembrance of At the Strategic Charitable Giving James & Marlene Taylor of Ben Flynn Anastasia Moore Foundation Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Michael Cobus & Christine Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund, Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac Etta Telford in Memory of Gijsbert Wigglesworth Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Kevin & Els Kavanagh Crielaard Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Anne Thiessen in Memory of Gijsbert Joan C. Cohen Ron Koswin Sanford & Deborah Riley Crielaard Russell & Joan Colnett in Memory of Harry & Shirley Kowalchuk Ms. Charlotte Robbins Mrs. Bonnie E Thiessen in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Peter Krahn Sandra & Harvey Secter Family Gijsbert Crielaard Lily Conway in Memory of Benjamin Bryon Devries & Diane Lau Fund, Jewish Foundation of Ms. Mia Timmermans John West Flynn Chapel Lawn Funeral Home Ms. Melita Tonogai Manitoba Gerald Corr Zandra Lea in Honour of Paul and Fran & Estela Violago Moira Swinton & Bernie Leveille Cathy & Roger Coss Pamela Connolly E. Sylvia Warrington Jan and Jim Tennant Mrs. Diane Coughlin Nancy LeBlond Professor A.M.C.Waterman E.Toews Ms. Barbara Crow Melanie & Craig Leonhardt Betty Wayborn in Memory of Gijsbert Faye Warren Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Barbara Crow Lovie Liewicki Helen Litz Crielaard Winnipeg Regional Health F.De Grazia Ms. Margaret Looney in Memory of Carmel Wayborn in Memory of Gijsbert Authority Melissa Delaronde Ben Flynn Crielaard 3 Anonymous N. Denboer Ms. Leona MacDonald Bruno Zimmer Mr. Roger Dennis in Memory Ms. Lorraine MacIboric 20 anonymous of Mr. Ben Flynn

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Kathleen Malone Karen Romanoff ANNUAL CAMPAIGN Dr. Maureen Kilgour James Manishen Mrs. Jeanne Romanoski Ken Kinsley Manitoba Association of School Sheryl Rosenberg The WSO gratefully Frances R. Kolt Superintendents Jay Ross acknowledges the following Mona Koropatnick Elaine & Neil Margolis Penny Rossman patrons whose generosity Paul Kosowan Maylanne Maybee in Memory of Joan Sabourin helped to support orchestral Ms. Jacki Koven Benjamin John West Flynn Edward Sale in Memory of Benjamin music in our community. Ms. Janet Kuchma Mrs. Mary McCormick John West Flynn Ms. Sylvia L. Barr Elizabeth Lansard Ross Meacham Corazon Saquilayan F. Bell Don Lawrence Ms. Linda Meckling Barbara Scheuneman Monty & Mary-Claire Bell Mr. Norman Leathers Linda Meckling in Memory Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Marjorie Blankstein P. M. Litwin of Alan Blanchette Foundation Helga & Gerhard Bock Meiya Liu Linda Lee-Meiers & Matt Meiers Gaylene Schroeder-Nishimura Frances Booth Roger Lowe Lorna Mendoza Trudy Schroeder Ms. Bev Bosiak Grant MacDougall Rita & Don Menzies Kathleen Schubert Wendy Broadfoot Lydia MacKenzie Mr. Peter Mertins Betty & Sam Searle Greg & Sylvia Brodsky Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Ron and Sandi Mieltiz Ms. Mary Semanowich Dolores P. Brommell Barbara Main Trish Minish Olga & Myron Shatulsky Ms. Carol Budnick Mr. Allan Mapes Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Ms. Selma Shearer Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Aubrey Margolis G.F.(Rick) Morgan Wayne Shimizu Gerald Callow Bob and Betty McCamis Mr. Rick Morgan Roger Simoens Mrs. Audrey Campbell Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Francine Morin Christine Skene and Nick Logan Mr. & Mrs. Carl & Donna Chambers Ms. Diane McGregor Mrs. Norma Morris Muriel Smith Karen Couch Sylvia Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Michael Soriano Dennis & Ruth Crook Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Helena Jane Gahungu Wilma Sotas Jean Cunningham D.E. Morrison Bob and Cindy Newfield Meg Specht Ellen Curtis Ms. Lillian Murphy Mr. Robert Nix Patricia Spencer and Thomas Osborn D. Cymbalist Robert Nix Ms. Claudette Novak George Toles and Melissa Steele Piotr Czaykowski & Anne Worley Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn Lynne Stefanchuk Mr. & Ms. Jim & Virginia Dyck Mr. Irwine Permut William & Linda Oakley in Memory Pat & Wally Stefanchuk Lisa Edel Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf of Ben Flynn Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Scott & Margaret Edmonds Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Peter Obendoerfer Patricia & Fletcher Stewart in Memory Donna Ekerholm Mr. & Mrs. Barry Prentice Thomas Obendoerfer of Benjamin John West Flynn Connie Epp David Punter Mr. Brian O'Leary Szwajcer Family John B. & Katie Epp Barbara M. Robertson Ms. Anna Olson Caroline Taubensee Vera & Peter Fast Olga & Bill Runnalls Margaret Owen Mary and Robert Thomas Rev. Brenda Ferguson Barbara Scheuneman R & J Palmer Ms. Phyllis A. C.Thomson Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon A. Schroeder Theresa Parker Rev. & Mrs.William & Molly Titus in Joan Fleming Dr. Robert Schroth Elizabeth Parry Memory of Benjamin Flynn Miriam Fliegel Ken Schykulski Mr. David Pate Bill & Barb Toews Mrs. Gitta Fricke Mrs. Doreen Shanks Pat Patterson Greg Tramley in Memory of Dave Arnold & Myra Frieman Carl and Margaret Shaykewich Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of Hunt Marian H. Friesen Pam Simmons Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary Neil & Carol Trembath Robert & Monica Friesen Ms. Debbie Spacklin Kuran; in Honour of Beatrice Ms.Terry Trupp Arnold & Christa Froese Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Stanton Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una Kuran Strang/van Ineveld Family George & Carol Gamby Mr. Herbert Stewart Mrs. Jackie Paul Gail Walker in Memory of George & Carol Gamby Juris and Aija Svenne Mr. Julian Pellicano Benjamin Flynn Mrs. A. Lee Gibson Mrs. Joan Swaffer Brenda Peterson Barbara Warrack Mr. Patrick Hackett Ms. Judith Thompson Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf The Waverley Tenant Association George Handyman Ms. Marilyn Thompson Mrs. Edna Poulter in Memory of John & Diane Weselake Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Ms. Andrea Towers Benjamin John West Flynn Steve West Ian & Gerry Hamilton Mrs. Susan Twaddle Ms. Lois Powne S Whitehouse L. Harasym Audrey Walker Thomas & Lorraine Prescott in Don & Florence Whitmore Teresa A. Hay Patricia Walker Memory of Ben Flynn Grace M.Wiebe Daniel Heindl & Eugene Boychuk Mrs. Marilyn Weimer Dr.& Mrs.D.Punter Drs. Lora Cuddy & Mel Wiebe in L.G. Herd Evelyn Wener Catherine Purchase Memory of Benjamin Flynn Terry Heron Ms. Joan Wise John & Violet Rademaker William Wilde Sanford Hildebrand 16 anonymous Dr. Diane Ramsey Ms. Sid Williamson Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Listing as of March 4, 2016 James Ray in Memory of Henry Ray The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Peter Carole Holke Mrs. Marieann Reeves & Geraldine Spencer Fund Stella Hryniuk Barbara Rempel Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Vi Hultin Tannis Richardson Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Erin Risbey V Wowryk Rudy & Gail Isaak David Guspodarchuk & Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Joey-Heather Robertson Ms. Diane Zack Crystal & Günter Jochum Garry and Tamara Roehr 10 anonymous Henry Katz in Memory of Dena

38 OVERTURE I April – May 2016 PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

1948-51 Hon. Mr. Justice J.T. Beaubien 1983-84 Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C. 1951-53 Mr. J. M. Sinclair 1984-86 Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C. 1953-55 Mr. Digby Wheeler 1986-88 Mr. Michel Lagacé 1955-57 Mr.W. D. Hurst 1988-90 Mr.William H. Loewen 1957-58 Dr. Hugh H. Saunderson 1990-92 Mrs. Julia DeFehr 1958-61 Mr. E.W. H. Brown 1992-94 Mr. Gordon Fogg 1961-62 Mr. David Slater 1994-96 Mrs. Helen Hayles 1962-64 The Hon. Mr. Justice Monnin 1996-97 Mr. Anthony Brookes 1964-65 Mr. Norman J. Alexander 1997-98 Mrs. Helen Hayles 1965-67 Mr. R.W. Richards 1998-99 Mr.William Norrie 1967-69 Mr.W. R. Palmer Feb 1999-May 1999 Mr.William Loewen 1969-71 Mr. E. J. Smith Jun 1999-2000 Mr. Bruce MacCormack 1971-73 Dr. M. M. Pierce 2000-Feb 03 Mr. Roger King 1973-74 Mr. H. S. Brock-Smith Mar 2003-Dec 2003 Ms. Patti Sullivan 1974-76 Mr. Allan G. Moffatt Dec 2003-Jan 2005 Mr.Wally Fox-Decent 1976-78 Mr. Julian D.T. Benson Jan 2005-Jul 2006 Ms. Carol Bellringer 1978-79 Mr. John L. Buckworth Jul 2006-Nov 2006 Mr. Harvey Pollock (Interim President) 1979-80 Mr. N. Roger McFallon Dec 2006-Jun 2007 Mr. Brendan MacDougall 1980-81 Mr. John F.Fraser 2007-2012 Ms. Dorothy Dobbie 1981-82 Mr.William W. Draper 2012-present Mr.Timothy E. Burt, CFA 1982-83 Mr. John O. Baatz

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL

Al Alexandruk Helen Hayles Harvey Pollock Mal Anderson Kaaren Hawkins Dr.William Pope Carol Bellringer Sherrill Hershberg John Rademaker Marilyn Billinkoff Ian Kay Kathleen Richardson Doneta Brotchie Roger King Tannis Richardson John and Bonnie Buhler Bill Knight Lenny Richardson James Carr Michel Lagacé Ed Richmond Edmund Dawe, D.M.A. Zina Lazareck Lorne Sharfe Dorothy Dobbie Gail Leach William Shead Greg Doyle Dr. Hermann Lee Graeme Sifton Jamie Dolynchuk Naomi Levine Joanne Sigurdson Julia De Fehr Bill Loewen Muriel Smith Susan Feldman Jackie Lowe Bonnie Staples-Lyon Barbara Filuk Dr. Brendan MacDougall Brenlee Carrington Trepel Wally Fox-Decent Don MacKenzie Dennis Wallace Jack Fraser Bill Marr Evelyn Friesen Ed J. Martens Elba Haid Michael Nozick

April – May 2016 I OVERTURE 39 WSO BOARD & STAFF 2015-2016 SEASON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS Timothy E. Burt, CFA, Gregory Hay Her Honour the Honourable President Micah Heilbrunn Janice C. Filmon C.M., O.M. Terry Sargeant, Robin Hildebrand Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba st 1 Vice President Peter Jessiman The Honourable Greg Selinger, Curt Vossen, Margaret Kellermann Premier of Manitoba 2nd Vice President McCulloch His Worship Brian Bowman, Rob Kowalchuk, CA, Maureen Kilgour Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Treasurer Silvester Komlodi Michael D. Kay, Sotirios Kotoulas Mr.W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, Secretary Dr. Eleanor MacDougall WSO Directors Emeritus Sandra Altner Dr. Michael Nelson Lucienne Blouw Dr. Ian Thomson WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Emily Burt, MBA, CFA Richard Turner Margaret Kellermann McCulloch, President James Cohen Ex-Officio Sylvia Cassie, Past president Arlene Dahl Trudy Schroeder, Executive Winnifred Warkentin,Vice president Marten Duhoux Director Nancy Weedon,Treasurer Alan Freeman Alexander Mickelthwate, Sherratt Moffatt, Secretary Daniel Friedman Music Director

ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Lyn Stienstra,VP Finance & Administration ARTISTIC OPERATIONS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator Jean-Francois Phaneuf,VP Artistic Operations & Oscar Pantaleon Jr., Finance & Administration Assistant Community Engagement James Manishen, Artistic Operations Associate SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES Evan Klassen, Production Manager Ryan Diduck,VP Sales & Audience Services Sheena Sanderson, Stage Manager Desiree La Vallee, Box Office Coordinator Chris Lee, Orchestra Personnel Manager Meg Dolovich, Patron Services Representative Ray Chrunyk, Principal Librarian Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian Patron Services Representatives (p/t): Lawrence Rentz, Stage Supervisor Phil Corrin Chelse McKee Rachel Himelblau Crystal Schwartz Brent Johnson, Education & Community Melissa Houston Stephanie Van Nest Engagement Manager Amy Wolfe, Education & Community Engagement MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT Coordinator Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Development Shannon Darby, Sistema Winnipeg Manager Sarah Duval, Director of Development Carol Cassels, Development Manager Shenna Song, Development Coordinator Sarah Panas, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Matt Brooks, Designer S.Thompson Designs Inc.

CONTACT US: BOX OFFICE: 204-949-3999 [email protected] ADMIN OFFICE: 204-949-3950 [email protected] wso.ca

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