NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2016 I ISSUE 2

WAGNER UNMASKED

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTIAL, FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

November and December are months of gratitude, contemplation, celebration, and renewal. In November, we celebrate the freedom of our nation and remember the sacrifices made by many during the wars of the past, and we can all be so thankful for the peaceful nation of opportunity in which we live. Live music performances with the WSO provide time to listen attentively and explore new landscapes created by the music. After one concert, an audience member approached me and said,“I am just so thankful that I am alive and that I heard that music tonight.”Perhaps that is the great gift of the live symphonic experience in our busy distracting lives, it gives us time to reflect and be grateful for the many blessings of our lives.

In this period of thankfulness and family celebration, we encourage you to include time for some fine musical explorations with friends and family members to add to your holiday season and truly make the season bright.We also know that many people make annual charitable gifts at this time of year, and WSO staff members would be very pleased to talk with you about projects and opportunities for annual giving or planning for legacy gifts that can support the work of the WSO in our community. More than 30% of the WSO’s annual budget comes through the generosity of the community.This makes it possible to keep tickets affordable, provide educational programs for youth and young adults, and serve our community with celebratory concerts at various points in the year.

The best way to experience the WSO for the first time, is to attend with friends or family members who enjoy the experience. As you consider holiday gift options, consider the enjoyment it could bring to friends and family members to attend a WSO concert with you. Dinner & Symphony ticket packages are popular gift items, as are flex packages of tickets, or for this year the Winnipeg Culture Pass is available through the WSO box office for $89.

From all of us at the WSO, best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a new year brimming with good health, great music, and wonderful times with friends and family members.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 1

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November – December 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 Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg 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 boundless musical appetite makes him a formidable interpreter of the symphonic repertoire as well as a versatile conductor in a wide range of genres. He is currently the 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 typical classical training. He also holds degrees from 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 has conducted at Carnegie Hall with

the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra. Photographer: Nardella Photography Inc.

4 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016-2017 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 The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair Julian Pellicano Arlene Dahl Carolyn Nagelberg COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE TROMBONES Emma Quackenbush Harry Stafylakis Steven Dyer, Principal Sean Taubner Keith Dyrda FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster BASSES BASS TROMBONE The Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt- Meredith Johnson, Principal Julia McIntyre, Principal Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Travis Harrison TUBA Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Paul Nagelberg Chris Lee, Principal Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Bruce Okrainec TIMPANI Chris Anstey Daniel Perry Mona Coarda Mike Kemp, Principal Supported by Gorden & Audrey Fogg Rodica Jeffrey FLUTES Hong Tian Jia Jan Kocman, Principal Meredith McCallum PERCUSSION Martha Durkin Jane Pulford Frederick Liessens, Principal Sonia Shklarov PICCOLO Julie Savard HARP Jun Shao Martha Durkin Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen SECOND VIOLINS OBOES **Jeremy Buzash, Principal Beverly Wang, Principal *Darryl Strain, Principal Robin MacMillan ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal MANAGER Karen Bauch ENGLISH HORN Chris Lee Kristina Bauch Robin MacMillan, Principal PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN **Teodora Dimova Raymond Chrunyk *Elizabeth Dyer CLARINETS Bokyung Hwang Micah Heilbrunn, Principal ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Susan McCallum Michelle Goddard Laura MacDougall Takayo Noguchi Claudine St-Arnauld BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal *On Leave VIOLAS Kathryn Brooks **Temporary Position Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, HORNS Please note: Non-titled (tutti) Assistant Principal string players are listed Patricia Evans, Principal Laszlo Baroczi alphabetically and are seated Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal Margaret Carey according to a rotational system. Richard Bauch James Robertson Greg Hay The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair Fred Redekop is the official Piano *Merrily Peters Caroline Oberheu Tuner and Technician of the WSO. Mike Scholz Michiko Singh

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Wagner Unmasked: Tristan und Isolde

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Peter Wedd, tenor (Tristan)

Karen Foster, soprano (Isolde) CLASSICS Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano (Brangäne) Nathan Starke, bass (Marke) Peter John Buchan, tenor (Melot) Kris Kornelsen, baritone (Kurwenal) Rob Herriot, host and stage director*

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Tristan und Isolde: An Overview*

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Tristan und Isolde: Act II Scene I Scene II Scene III

Presented with English surtitles.

Friday, November 4 8:00 p.m. Classics A Series Sponsor: Saturday, November 5 8:00 p.m. Official Radio Station of the WSO Classics:

Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 7:15 p.m.

Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile at 7:35 p.m. Judith Otway, vocalist

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 7 Wagner’s musical syntax opened an premiere and King Ludwig were PROGRAM NOTES unprecedented musico-dramatic world. His ecstatic, proclaiming the work a by James Manishen new and bold tonal language with its masterpiece. seemingly endless evaded resolutions Tristan und Isolde produced a turbulent eroticism in its The emotional narrative, in Wagner’s Richard Wagner overwhelming sense of longing, own words: b. Leipzig / May 22, 1813 heightened by the composer’s own “A primitive old love poem,which,far d.Venice / February 13, 1883 voluptuous prose that startled even from having become extinct,is constantly fashioning itself anew,and Composed: 1856-1859 himself as he progressed during its has been adopted by every European First performance: June 10, 1865 creation while carrying on affair with language of the Middle Ages,tells of (Munich), conducted by Hans von Bülow Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.Tristan,the faithful First WSO performance friend Otto Wesendonck, who so generously provided a cottage for Wagner vassal,woos for his king her for whom In 1854 Wagner wrote to to work in at the time.“This Tristan is he dares not avow his own love,Isolde. composer Franz Liszt: turning into something terrifying!” Isolde,powerless than to do otherwise “Never in my life having than obey the wooer,follows him as enjoyed the true In 1856 while Wagner and his wife Minna bride to his lord.Jealous of this happiness of love I shall were living in Wesendonck’s cottage on the infringement of her rights,the erect a memorial to this loveliest of all outskirts of Zurich, the composer was about Goddess of Love takes her revenge. dreams in which,from the first to the last, two-thirds of the way through completion love shall,for once,find utter repletion.I of The Ring of the Nibelung, his epic cycle of As the result of a happy mistake,she have devised in my mind a Tristan und four operas encompassing the beginning allows the couple to taste of the love Isolde,the simplest,yet most full-blooded and the end of the world. Due to his part in potion which,in accordance with the musical conception imaginable,and with the defeated Dresden uprising in 1849, custom of the times,and by way of the ‘black flag’that waves at the end I shall Wagner had been a political exile with a precaution,the mother had prepared cover myself over – to die.” price on his head. He knew that a for the husband who should marry performance in Germany of The Ring would her daughter from political motives, Whether it is prophetic or coincidental, be a fierce challenge, further complicated by and which,by the burning desire the fact that Wagner was penning the his vision of a theatre specifically designed which suddenly inflames them after first notes of Tristan und Isolde during the for the 14-hour cycle.The Bayreuth tasting it,opens their eyes to the truth year of Sigmund Freud’s birth in 1856 Festspielhaus opened with the premiere of and leads to the avowal that for the gave a whole new meaning to the role The Ring in August 1876. future they belong only to each other. of subconscious motivation in music where life and death and the status of In any event and with Wagner’s normally Henceforth,there is no end to the the outer world revolve on the inner chronic shortage of cash for The Ring longings,the demands,the joys and movements of the mind. A “music project, he decided to undertake a “modest” woes of love.The world,power,fame, drama”it was called, for there are no music drama based on the medieval splendor,honor,knighthood,fidelity, romance of Tristan und Isolde.There would mere trappings of opera melodrama or friendship — all are dissipated like an be a small cast, not much stage action and familial consequences among the two empty dream.One thing only remains: no special effects. Modesty wasn’t the word main characters such as with Romeo and longing,longing,insatiable longing, for the finished Tristan of course, but Juliet or Lancelot and Guinevere, forever springing up anew,pining and memorable as those are. Bavarian King Ludwig II provided princely patronage to cover the costs. Completing thirsting.Death,which means passing In Wagner’s telling, the “action,”allied to the score in 1859,Wagner had to wait six away,perishing,never awakening, the most potent musical abstractions, years for the premiere that took place in their only deliverance.... probes the depths of the minds of the Munich in June of 1865. Powerless,the heart sinks back to characters and by association, ours, over languish in longing,in longing the nearly five-hour length of the full Cast in the leads of Tristan und Isolde were without attaining; for each score.The ambiguity in finding answers Ludwig and Malvina Schnorr von attainment only begets new longing, to what Tristan und Isolde asks is a Carolsfield - real life husband and wife.The until in the last stage of weariness the necessary part of experiencing the premiere was delayed a month due to an foreboding of the highest joy of dying, work because of the profoundly affliction of hoarseness from Malvina. of no longer existing,of the last escape individual manner in which the music Ludwig died suddenly after only four affects each listener. performances, the stress of singing the role into that wonderful kingdom from suspected as the cause. By then Wagner which we are furthest off when we are Like Darwin, who published The Origin of was living with Cosima von Bülow, most strenuously striving to enter Species the same year Wagner finished daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Hans therein.Shall we call it death? Or is it Tristan und Isolde, the human condition von Bülow who, though cuckolded, still the hidden wonder-world from out of was put to the test in both realms, as managed to conduct the premiere.The which an ivy and vine,entwined with scientific and musical exploration forever audience was confused but respectful, but each other,grew up upon Tristan’s and changed their respective courses. Wagner’s friends that travelled in for the Isolde’s grave,as the legend tells us?”

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 8 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Wagner Unmasked

Peter Wedd, tenor (Tristan) Melchoir International Singing Competition; The international career of the title role in Turandot with New Rochelle Peter Wedd has taken him to Opera and Arizona Opera; Helmwige in Die sing in Opera Houses like the Walküre with Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Royal Opera House, Covent Rhein; Leonora in Il trovatore with Westfield Garden, Semperoper Dresden, Symphony; Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Bellas Artes in Mexico, English Wagner Society of Washington D.C at the National Opera,Welsh National Opera, Kennedy Center; and joining Lyric Opera of Glyndebourne Festival, Polish National Opera, Chicago for Lohengrin and Strauss’ Die Frau Opera North, Nederlandse Reisopera, ohne Schatten. Longborough Festival, Garsington Opera, and Opera Australia. Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano (Brangäne) With a voice that has been His first repertoire included Alfredo, Don José, called “pure gold,” and dramatic Tamino, Don Ottavio, Laca (Jenufa), Gregor gifts that place her in the first (Makropoulos Case), Florestan or Giasone, rank of singer-actors, American moving in 2013 into the lyric Wagner mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips is repertoire. Lohengrin at the Welsh National closely associated with the Opera got Peter Wedd outstanding reviews, music of Wagner. She has performed most of followed by Siegmund (Die Walküre) with Jan the mezzo roles in The Ring cycle, making an Latham Koenig, Lohengrin at the Polish National Opera and Tristan at the Picketts acclaimed role debut as Brangäne in Tristan Festival and the Longborough Festival, where und Isolde for Dallas Opera, as well as the press wrote:“His Tristan is a triumph, returning to the Metropolitan Opera as ” The Guardian. Schwertleite in Die Walküre, in which she also covered the role of Fricka. She has sung Fricka Peter Wedd recordings include Beethoven’s and Waltraute in Die Walküre and Waltraute in Symophony No.9 with Avie Recordings or Götterdämmerung at Canadian Opera; Erda in Jenufa, Fidelio, Der Fliegende Holländer and Les the Scottish Opera’s Ring, and Wellgunde and Dialogues des Carmelites, all for Chandos. Rossweise in Seattle Opera’s Ring cycles. Ms. Phillips has also been hailed for her Verdi. Karen Foster, soprano (Isolde) Of her performances of Princess Eboli in Soprano Karen Foster has been Don Carlo, Vancouver Sun said “she deserves praised for a voice that “fills the an opera best supporting actress Oscar: palette of emotions with vocally confident and theatrically practiced, conviction and flexibility” she is a singer/actress of power and stature.” (Aftenposten). In the 2015-2016 season, Ms. Foster sang Isolde Nathan Starke, bass (Marke) in Tristan und Isolde and Sieglinde in Die Praised by the Washington Post Walküre with Adelphi Orchestra; Gerhilde in as having a voice of “unearthly Die Walküre with Hong Kong Philharmonic power,” Nathan Stark has (recording to be released by Naxos in 2017); performed on operatic and and Gerhilde with Bayerische Staatsoper, concert stages throughout the which she will reprise in the 2017-2018 United States, China and season. Recent highlights include Isolde in a Europe. In the summer of 2016, Mr. Stark new production with Den Norske Opera returned to Cincinnati Opera as Rocco in (Norwegian Opera); third prize in the Lauritz Fidelio. His engagements in the 2016-2017

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 9 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Wagner Unmasked season include Colline in La bohème (Hawaii many of Winnipeg’s foremost ensembles, Opera Theatre); Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte including the Winnipeg Singers, Camerata (Madison Opera); Father Palmer in Puts’ Silent Nova, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, as Night (Opera San Jose); Verdi’s Requiem (New well as for CBC national broadcast. Haven Symphony Orchestra and Canton Symphony Orchestra); Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis PJ has been a competitor for both the Rose (Pacific Chorale); and Defiant Requiem (Detroit Bowl and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic). Music Festival, has appeared as a soloist in Mr. Stark’s recent engagements include reprising London’s Millennium Centre and Prague’s St the roles of Gravedigger/Montressor in Buried Vitus’s Cathedral, and was the guest soloist Alive and Embedded (Fort Worth Opera); Bottom in at the February 2005 Reykjavik Winter Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hawaii Festival. PJ has been involved in a number Opera Theatre); La bohème (Tulsa Opera); Sulpice of opera productions with Winnipeg’s in La fille du regiment (Mill City Summer Opera); Musical Offering and Little Opera Company. and Old Hebrew in Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra). Rob Herriot, Stage Director/Singer/Actor Canadian stage Kris Kornelsen, baritone (Kurwenal) director/singer/actor Rob Baritone Kris Kornelsen is no Herriot has directed stranger to the music scene in productions of Turandot, The Winnipeg. He has sung as both a Magic Flute,The Mikado,Tosca, soloist and chorister with The Pirates of Penzance, Daughter Winnipeg Singers and Canzona of the Regiment and HMS Pinafore for and has enjoyed guest Edmonton Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, La appearances with The Manitoba Chamber Boheme, Carmen, Rigoletto (Manitoba Opera), Orchestra,The Mennonite Oratorio Choir and La Traviata (Opera Hamilton), Carmen the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir. Kris has (Arizona Opera), Don Pasquale (Opera performed as soloist in performances of Hamilton, Connecticut Opera, Manitoba Handel’s Messiah,Haydn’s Creation, and Bach’s Opera, Utah Opera). Other productions St. John and St. Matthew’s Passions. He is known include Albert Herring, Marriage of Figaro, for his musicianship and ability to actively Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci. Rob also communicate with his audiences. He brings a works extensively with Calgary Opera as a refreshingly bright yet warm vocal quality returning director for their main stage and marked by sensitive phrasing to his Emerging Artist shows. Recent productions performances. Kris is also very active singing include, Pirates of Penzance, Candide and various styles of music, from classical to jazz, Barber of Seville. He has also performed in gospel and pop with the mixed vocal quartet, productions of South Pacific, Music Man and Encore. Annie with Rainbow Stage and productions of Sweeney Todd, A Man of No Importance, Peter John Buchan, tenor (Melot) Addams Family and A Little Night Music with PJ Buchan – a native of Winnipeg – Dry Cold Productions here in Winnipeg. has been involved with choral and vocal music since he joined the ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: men and boys choir at All Saint’s Yufei Liu, violin; Momoko Matsumura, viola; Church in 1979. He has appeared Laurel Ridd, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Mary Chalk, bassoon; as a chorister and soloist with Karine Breton, bassoon

10 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 11 12 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 Denzal Sinclaire Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook SOUNDBYTES

Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist and piano

Julian Pellicano, conductor AIR CANADA POPS

Day In, Day Out Rube Bloom Walkin' My Baby Back Home Fred. E. Ahlert Mona Lisa Ray Evans/Jay Livingston Nature Boy Eden Ahbez Route 66 Bobby Troup Smile Charles Chaplin To The Ends of The Earth Noel & Joe Sherman When I Fall In Love Victor Young L-O-V-E Bert Kaempfert/Milt Gabler

- INTERMISSION - Amazing Grace John Newton, arr. Denzal Sinclaire I'm Getting Ready Michael Kiwanuka Follow You Follow Me T. Banks/P.Collins/M. Rutherford You & The Night & The Music Arthur Schwartz Always On My Mind J. Christopher Jr./W.Thompson/M. James This Is My Lucky Day L. Brown/B. De Sylva/R. Henderson, arr. Sinclaire I've Got The World On A String Harold Arlen

All arrangements by Jeff Tyzik unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, November 11 8:00 p.m. Pops Series Sponsor: Saturday, November 12 8:00 p.m. Sunday, November 13 2:00 p.m. Supporting Sponsor:

Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile. Presenting Media Sponsor: Friday, 7:15 p.m. Regimental Band of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Saturday, 7:15 p.m. TBD Sunday, 1:15 p.m. CMU Jazz Ensemble

NovemberNovember – –December December 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 13 7 AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS Denzal Sinclaire Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook

Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist and piano In addition to his talents as From his early days as a canny interpreter of Nat a pianist, percussionist and ‘King’ Cole’s mentholated crooning, he’s grown actor, Denzal Sinclaire is into one of the most distinctive and individualistic one of Canada’s most singers anywhere. He has graced the stages of popular jazz vocalists and is numerous concert halls and festivals around the ranked among the finest world, and appeared on several TV shows, including jazz singers of his generation. From the Canada's Bravo!TV, Canada AM, Nashville Now, and moment he steps on stage, he seems to Ireland's The Late Late Show. As a former member naturally and effortlessly evoke a profound of UK soul artist Jamie Lidell's band, he has emotional interaction with his audience, appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy touching the listener with his passionate and Kimmel Live!, and Manu Katché's show in France, sincere delivery and the purity of the message One Shot Not. in every song he sings. Sinclaire has recorded three albums for Universal Sinclaire is a multiple nominee of the Juno Music: I Found Love, Denzal Sinclaire, and My One & Award, a recipient of the 2004 National Jazz Only Love. Award for “Best Album,”four-time consecutive recipient of Jazz Report Magazine Award for ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Male Jazz Vocalist, and France’s 2007 Choc Janice Finlay, alto sax; Ken Gold, bari sax; Nenad Jazzman Award. Zjelar, bass; Will Bonness, piano; Quincy Davis, drums

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Finjan Returns!

Finjan: Shayla Fink, accordion, vocals Sasha Boychouk, saxophones, clarinet SPECIAL Myron Schultz, clarinet Victor Schultz, violin Daniel Koulack, guitar, mandolin, banjo Kinzey Posen, bass, vocals Julian Pellicano, conductor

Fiddler on the Roof: Medley Jerry Bock, arr. John Williams Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra Sid Robinovitch Burlesque Arioso Galicienne Tango Tzigane

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S'vivon, sov, sov, sov Trad, arr. Howard Cable Bukovinska Polka Trad, arr. Myron Schultz Abi Gezunt Abraham Ellstein/Molly Picon arr. Finjan Kolamenka Trad, arr. Finjan And the Angels Sing Ziggy Elman/Johnny Mercer Arr. Finjan/Sid Robinovitch Roumanye Aaron Lebedeff, arr. Finjan Ot Ot Trad. Arr. Finjan

Saturday, November 26 8:00 p.m. Supported by:

Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile at 7:15 p.m.

DINNER & SYMPHONY Catered by: 3-course Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m., Saturday Jewish Feast

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 17 SPECIAL ARTIST BIOS Finjan Returns!

Finjan, klezmer band The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick and The Saddest Music in the World.With three Juno nominations and a Prairie Music Week award for Outstanding Classical Album, Finjan has paved the way for similar groups and influenced a new generations of players, including Socalled A.K.A. Josh Dolgin. After commissioning composer Sid Robinovitch to write Suite for Klezmer Band and Canada’s first klezmer group, Finjan, started Orchestra, Finjan premiered the piece with the up in Winnipeg in 1982. At the time, the WSO and since then, has performed it with Klezmer revival was just establishing itself in orchestras throughout North America. It’s with the United States. Finjan made its debut in joy, that Finjan is back to present the work with February of 1983 on CBC national radio and the WSO once again. soon the group was in demand throughout North America. Finjan has recorded five ADDITIONAL MUSICIAN: albums and have appeared in films, including Tony Cyre, drums

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GREAT-WEST LIFE Peter & the Wolf Live

Julian Pellicano, conductor

Gordon Tanner, actor KIDS CONCERTS GREAT-WEST LIFE GREAT-WEST

Peter and the Wolf Sergei Prokofiev

Original Script & Poetry by Simon Armitage,commissioned by Southbank Centre,London Script written by Matthew Sharp Breakthru Films,production Suzie Templeton,director

Pre-concert Activities 1:00 p.m. Sunday, November 27 2:00 p.m.

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GREAT-WEST LIFE KIDS CONCERTS Peter & The Wolf Gordon Tanner, actor Gordon Tanner has earned his living as an actor and writer in Winnipeg for more than 20 years. His introduction to Peter & The Wolf was through the narration of Sterling Holloway on the Walt Disney LP,which he listened to hundreds of times lying on the floor in his parents’ living room. He is thrilled to have the chance to introduce a new generation to Prokofiev's delightful characters.

He has performed with Prairie Theatre Exchange,Theatre Projects Manitoba, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shakespeare In The Ruins, Rainbow Stage,Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, et Le Cercle Molière and is looking forward to touring the province this winter with MTYP's Dib and Dob and the Journey Home.

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The Official Radio Station for the WSO Masterworks Series.

Winnipeg’s only dedicated classical & jazz music station Messiah

Tania Miller, conductor Jennie Such, soprano

Kirsten Schellenberg, alto CLASSICS Justin Odwak, tenor Michael Nyby, baritone Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, co-directors

Messiah George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Part the First

- INTERMISSION - Part the Second

There will be a very brief interval between Parts II and III. Please remain in the hall.

Part the Third

Friday, December 2 8:00 p.m. Official Radio Station Saturday, December 3 8:00 p.m. of the WSO Classics:

Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 7:15 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Friday & Saturday, 7:35 p.m. Sistema Winnipeg

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra wishes to acknowledge the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra for the use of the portative organ in tonight’s performance.

NovemberNovember – –December December 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 25 7 Messiah is an anomaly among Handel traveled to Dublin that PROGRAM NOTES Handel’s two dozen oratorios in that, November and after the by James Manishen apart from Israel in Egypt, its entire disappointments of London, took Messiah text is drawn from the Bible and is his much pleasure in being George Frideric Handel only oratorio based on the New enthusiastically received by the b. Halle, Prussia / February 23, 1685 Testament. Messiah was also the only Irish press. Preparations for the d. London, England / April 14, 1759 oratorio presented in a consecrated premiere went on throughout the Composed: 1741. First performance: space during his lifetime. Not winter of 1742. Choristers were 1742 (Dublin). intended as part of a devotional recruited from Dublin churches and excitement elevated to fever The most service, Handel intended it as a pitch. celebrated middle-class entertainment with oratorio of all pious leanings and just a step The premiere on April 13th 1742 time, Messiah removed from the Italian operatic was a triumph. Handel couldn’t elicits almost style ventures he had been having wait to take it home to London. an involuntary success with as London’s leading response of composer, impresario and producer In London however, it was felt that recognition at the mere mention of of opera. Messiah’s texts would be its name. It is the most loved of all compromised by performances in oratorios and for all their estimable But in 1740, Handel was having theatres propagated by actors of merits, neither the Passions of Bach trouble keeping such ventures questionable morals. Messiah nor Haydn’s Creation rival Messiah’s solvent. English public taste was received a few subsequent popularity, though Mendelssohn’s moving away from continental performances but had to wait Elijah was, in the 19-century, influences towards more localized until more liberal times arrived in considered its equal. entertainments, spurred on by the 1750 when Handel staged a success of the 1728 satirical romp The performance to benefit London’s One feels the urge to want to sing as Beggar’s Opera by Gay and Pepusch. Foundling Hospital, a charity for with no other work of its genre, as Rumors abounded that Handel was abandoned children. imperial melody, invention and finished. vision are presented with the Such good will further ensured matchless proportion of a theatrical Handel withdrew from public life in Messiah’s success, inspiring annual master. And for the gift of Messiah, the early months of 1741 and seldom performances for the Foundling we literally have to thank inches, ventured out. But that summer, he Hospital up until Handel’s death when, as a young man, Handel’s life came across a small book of Biblical in 1759. It was the last work was saved after a metal frock button Handel directed, just eight days deflected a sword point in a duel! texts assembled by Charles Jennens, a wealthy and pretentious type but a before his death and is the only major Baroque work that has an Yet for all the visionary qualities in the great admirer of the composer. Handel’s imagination lit up. unbroken performance tradition music’s progression from dark to light, from the time of its creation to the dramatic strength of Messiah the present day. comes not from telling a story. Rumor has it that Handel confined Handel’s theatrical background was himself to his room, completing inbred when he composed Messiah, Messiah on September 14, 1741 in but his priority was contemplation of just over three weeks, but evidence the sacred rather than the dramatic. shows that the Lord Lieutenant of “I should be sorry if I only entertained Dublin had visited Handel early in them,”Handel told an admirer. 1741 to propose a new work for a “I wished to make them better.” series of Dublin charity concerts.

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 26 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Messiah

Tania Miller, conductor Internationally, Jennie has performed in In 2016-2017,Tania Miller Germany at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the celebrates her fourteenth Handel Festival in Halle, the Seoul Arts Centre in season as Music Director of the Korea and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Victoria Symphony. As the first New York. In 2014, Jennie joined the Artistic Canadian woman ever to be Company at the Stratford Festival where she is Music Director of a major the resident Singing Coach.This season she Canadian symphony orchestra,Tania Miller received a prestigious Guthrie Award from the and the Victoria Symphony marked the company. A member of the Voice Faculty at orchestras’ 75th anniversary in 2015-2016 by Western University, Jennie joined the Don Wright touring Canada with performances in Faculty of Music in 2013. Vancouver, Ottawa, Quebec City and Toronto. Kirsten Schellenberg, alto Tania Miller also pursues an active guest- Mezzo-soprano Kirsten conducting schedule. She has appeared in Schellenberg is considered “one of Canada with (among others) the National Manitoba’s most consistent Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Orchestre singers” and has been described Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Orchestra as “a young Maureen Forester” London, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Calgary (Winnipeg Free Press). She has Philharmonic, the Manitoba Chamber appeared as a soloist with the Winnipeg Orchestra; and the symphony orchestras of Symphony Orchestra and the Manitoba Toronto,Vancouver, Kitchener-Waterloo, Chamber Orchestra on many occasions. Kirsten Thunder Bay,Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon presently sings with Canzona,Winnipeg’s and Edmonton. In the United States, she has Baroque Choir, and is often featured as a soloist conducted the Seattle,Tucson, New West and in major works by Handel and Bach. She has also Elgin Symphony Orchestras and the Naples enjoyed guest appearances with The Winnipeg (FL) Philharmonic, while in Europe she has Singers,The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, the conducted the Berne Symphoniker in Mennonite Festival Chorus, and the Little Opera Switzerland and Poland’s Wroclow Compnay. Kirsten’s day job is teaching music to Philharmonic. students in kindergarten to Grade 4 at École Margaret Underhill in Transcona. She is also in Jennie Such, soprano demand as a choral clinician and guest Jennie enjoys a diverse career conductor for children’s choirs. as a performer, teacher and coach. Her repertoire spans the Justin Odwak, tenor genres of oratorio, opera, and Tenor, Justin Odwak is an active musical theatre. As an oratorio performer, choral conductor and soloist Jennie made her vocal instructor. Justin made his professional debut with the Vancouver solo debut in 2013 with the Chamber Choir and the Vancouver Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Symphony in Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem. A Prairie Christmas Celebration, Subsequently, she has performed across and has appeared as soloist in Messiah with Canada with many organizations including Orchestra London and with the Winnipeg the Victoria Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, both under the baton of Mendelssohn Choir, Symphony Nova Scotia, Tafelmusik’s Ivars Taurins. Justin has also and the National Ballet Orchestra. recently appeared as soloist with the Regina

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 27 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Messiah

Symphony Orchestra, and the Okanagan Peter Anthony Togni for VOICEBOX: Opera in Festival Singers and Orchestra. He has Concert of Toronto. Recent and upcoming performed as soloist with other engagements include Danilo in The Merry organizations such as the Winnipeg Singers, Widow with Edmonton Opera, and Canzona, Camerata Nova, and the Winnipeg performances with the Windsor Symphony Philharmonic Choir. Justin has appeared as (Messiah),Winnipeg Symphony, Kingston soloist with the University of Manitoba Symphony,Thunder Bay Symphony (Carmina singers for Soundstreams at Toronto's Burana), and Niagara Symphony (Gilbert and Koerner Hall along with the Latvian Radio Sullivan Concert). He was also featured with Choir. He has also performed as soloist with the Toronto Operetta Theatre in Der Vetter aus the group for the Rocky Mountain Music Dingsda. Festival at the Banff Centre. Justin has performed with the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Ensemble, appearing at Edmonton's Jubilee Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, Auditorium, and in Winnipeg at the co-directors Centennial Concert Hall, as well as The Mennonite Festival Chorus made its performing at the International Karmiel debut in 1985 under the distinguished Festival in Israel. As a choral conductor, Justin leadership of the late Robert Shaw, together is co-founder and director of the Kolot Choir with the WSO, in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches at the Rady JCC, is the current choir director Requiem. Following that auspicious of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, is the co- beginning, it twice appeared at the director of the Rainbow Harmony Project, International Choral Festival in Toronto with and has conducted vocal and choral the TSO: in 1989 with Beethoven’s Missa workshops in Winnipeg. Currently, he is Solemnis (Robert Shaw) and in 1993 with completing his Bachelor of Music and Britten’s War Requiem (Bramwell Tovey). Bachelor of Education at the Desautels Together with the WSO, the choir has Faculty of Music at the University of performed a great variety of works including Manitoba, under the direction of Mel Braun. those of Mahler, Handel, Bach, Dvorˇák, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Arvo Pärt, and Michael Nyby, baritone Valentin Silvestrov. A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian-American baritone MFC has sung under the distinguished Michael Nyby has performed leadership of WSO music directors Bramwell with the Vancouver Opera, the Tovey, Andrey Boreyko and Alexander Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Mickelthwate, as well as guest conductors Opera, the Caramoor Festival, such as Helmut Rilling, Ivars Taurins and Jane Burnaby Lyric Opera, Opera Atelier,Theatre Glover. Aquarius, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Duluth Festival Opera, and others. MFC is a highly select core of choristers from Winnipeg and surrounding communities, In 2015, Mr. Nyby sang the world-premiere of many of whom are regular members of other Georgia Bottoms, a comic opera set in choirs, including numerous alumni and modern day Alabama, with the Huntsville present students of Canadian Mennonite Symphony.World premieres also include University. Kuszmenko’s oratorio Golden Harvest for the Winnipeg Symphony, and Isis and Osiris by

28 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 Erin Propp & Larry Roy Julian Pellicano Juno-Nominated Guests WSO Conductor

STEINBACH MENNONITE CHURCH Tuesday, December 13 - 7:30 p.m.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, WILLIAM GLESBY CENTRE Wednesday, December 14 - 7:30 p.m.

GLADSTONE & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE Friday, December 16 - 7:30 p.m.

WESTERN MANITOBA CENTENNIAL AUDITORIUM Sunday, December 18 - 3:00 p.m.

SPONSORED BY: FUNDED BY:

A Prairie Christmas Celebration

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Ace Burpee, host Pembina Trails Voices Family of Choirs*: Cantemus, David Sawatzky, director SPECIAL Chorale, Monika Lukomska, director Pembina Trails Voices Boys, Alisa Wiebe, director Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, Christopher Sklepowich, director** Amber Epp, vocalist*** Chris Funk, wonderist**** Odette Heyn-Projects, Odette Heyn, C.M., director+ Todd Martin, vocalist++ The Honourable Rochelle Squires, special guest narrator

Christmas at the Movies arr. Bob Krogstad God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen* arr. David Willcocks Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy* Tchaikovsky, arr. Jeff Funk Amahl and the Night Visitors: Gian Carlo Menotti Introduction, March & Dance How the Grinch Stole Christmas Theodor Seuss Geisel, arr. J. Brubaker “Boh Predvichnay” (God Eternal)** O. Koshetz,W. Bohonos,W. Solomon The Christmas Song*** Mel Tormé, arr. B. Lowden Twas the Night Before Christmas arr. Bill Holcombe

- INTERMISSION - Polonaise from Christmas Eve Rimsky-Korsakov Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus (trad. French carol)* arr. Ron Jeffers The Magic of Chris Funk**** Music from Frozen*** Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez Champagne Polka Johann Strauss Jr. Santa’s Gonna Rock and Roll +, ++ David Itkin Carol of the Bells Leontovich arr. Hayman First Noel* arr. David Willcocks The Best Christmas of All* Jerry Herman

Sunday, December 4 2:00 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Concert Sponsor: Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Sunday, 1:05 p.m. Manitoba Band Association Christmas Tuba Festival

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 31 SPECIALS ARTIST BIOS A Prairie Christmas Celebration

Ace Burpee, host Pembina Trails Voices Family of Choirs Ace Burpee has worked in Minnesingers: Debra Yacheson, conductor; radio for over a decade in Myrna Hagues, pianist almost every capacity, and is PTV Boys TC: Jenna-Lynn Fraser, conductor; well known for the hundreds Leanne Regehr Lee, pianist of charitable events and Choraliers: Andrea Wicha, conductor; Amanda causes that he donates his Hahn-Tomchuk, pianist time to every year. He is currently the host of Chorale: Monika Lukomska, conductor; The Ace Burpee Show on 103.1 Virgin Radio. Kimberly Lapatha, pianist Ace is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II PTV Boys: Alisa Wiebe, conductor; Leanne Diamond Jubilee Medal for his service to our Regehr Lee, pianist community, he is the recipient of a Hero of Cantemus: David Sawatzky, conductor; Leanna Mental Health Award from the Canadian Regehr Lee, pianist Mental Health Association, he has received a PTV Men: Philip Lapatha, conductor; Amanda Volunteer Manitoba Award for Outstanding Hahn-Tomchuk, pianist Community Leadership, was recognized as PTV Singers: David Sawatzky and Philip Lapatha, Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser by the co-conductors; Leanne Regehr Lee, pianist Association of Fundraising Professionals of Manitoba and also named a Manitoba Hero. Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, He is proudly from Cooks Creek, Manitoba. Christopher Sklepowich, director Pembina Trails Voices

Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus was founded in Winnipeg in the fall of 1969, by alumni of the Having sung for audiences for over thirty former St.Vladimir’s College (Minor Seminary) in years, Pembina Trails Voices (PTV) is one of Roblin, Manitoba, Canada.The group’s aim was Manitoba’s premiere children’s and youth to encourage, promote, and preserve their choir organizations. PTV is a collection of Ukrainian heritage as part of the mosaic that eight choirs comprised of choristers from makes up Canada’s rich cultural tapestry. Hoosli’s Kindergarten through Grade 12, and main objectives today are to contribute to the affiliated with Pembina Trails School development of Canadian culture by promoting Division. PTV choirs are consistent winners and preserving Ukrainian cultural traditions; to in local as well as national and international educate the public about the origins of festivals and competitions. PTV tours have Ukrainian performing arts; and to encourage taken choristers from locations throughout and enhance understanding and appreciation of Manitoba to festivals and competitions Ukrainian-Canadian cultural traditions. Over the across Canada, Europe and Latin America. past 47 years, more than 175 men have poured Most recently, PTV Singers undertook a their hearts and souls into Hoosli, and have 10-day concert tour of China in 2015, and is helped pass on the fire and spirit of the Kozaky looking forward to travelling to Cuba in to this day. Hoosli has performed all over North March. The choirs are thrilled to be in America, recorded nine albums, and continually concert today with the WSO as part of the strives to inspire audiences with the majestic Prairie Christmas Celebration! sound of four-part male harmony. Under the

32 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 SPECIALS ARTIST BIOS A Prairie Christmas Celebration direction of Conductor Walter Skakun, Hoosli can do a trick and wow an audience, but it takes proudly shows its dedication to the Ukrainian a Wonderist to truly connect with that audience heritage through its repertoire of liturgical and create an engaging, personal, and hilarious music and folk songs, as well as the patriotic experience time and time again. An improv songs of Ukraine and the Kozaky. master, Chris truly takes advantage of the special and spontaneous moments that make Amber Epp, vocalist every show different from the last. His comedic The shortest distance between timing is spot-on and his rapier wit is as a Mennonite choir and an refreshing as it is side-splitting. open-air jazz patio in Havana is Amber Epp. A childhood of Odette Heyn-Projects singing at the dinner table and Odette Heyn, as Co-Founder exploring the piano (with her and Co-Director of the fingers and her toes) has not surprisingly Professional Program of The culminated in music filled with adventure, School of Contemporary discovery, joy, and a Western Canadian Music Dancers, has choreographed Award for one of her four CDs. A connoisseur works, both nationally and internationally, for of musical genres, Amber transports you with various performances including The Festival of her to wherever she's going. No matter the Canadian Modern Dance, the Olympics language, no matter the country, from Cuba Danscene (Calgary 1988) the Kuan Du Arts to the Yukon, Amber leaves you with a heart Festival in Taipei,The Vancouver Symphony pumping out the rhythms of the world. Orchestra,The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. In “You instantly know you're in great hands 2006, Odette was nominated for the “Woman of from the moment Amber Epp begins the Year” award for Arts and Culture through the singing.The depth and breadth of her skill YWCA. Odette created two full-length works, becomes evident - and suddenly, you are which were hailed with glowing reviews, for the transported to wherever she wants to take WSO’s La Noche de los Mayas and the Rite of you, and you can't help but be entirely Spring. She also choreographed for WSO’s seduced.” – Heather Bishop Adventures in Music and SoundBytes. In 2012, Odette choreographed for the off-Broadway Chris Funk, wonderist production Requiem for a Lost Girl and, in 2013, Were you to just meet him in Mata Hari, in New York City and in December the street and then be asked 2013 for the WSO. Odette performed in WCD’s what you think Chris Funk does Rachel Browne Tribute Tour in January 2013. In for a living, "magician" June 2013, Odette was the recipient of the probably wouldn't be the first Winnipeg Arts Council’s “Investors Group Making thing that comes to mind. Hair a Difference Award – for extraordinary model, maybe. "The guy who gets stuff down contribution to the arts.” She is delighted to be off the high shelves," sure, but not magician. returning to choreograph for this project. And Chris wouldn't call himself that either.

Performing on stage since the age of seven — Todd Martin, vocalist first as a musician and then as a magician — Todd Martin is an artist that and having spent the last 23 years honing his thrives in Winnipeg's uniquely current craft, Chris blends intuition, influence, diverse and rich musical and illusion to truly redefine wonder.That's community. A singer and multi- why he goes by "The Wonderist" — instrumentalist and founding "magician" just doesn't cover it. A magician member of the Dirty Catfish Brass

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Band,Todd has performed at all of the top The Honourable Rochelle Squires, venues and festivals in and around Winnipeg, special guest Narrator including the Winnipeg Folk Festival,TD Rochelle Squires was Winnipeg Jazz Festival, and Dauphin's elected as the MLA for Riel Countryfest. He is a regular performer with in 2016. A journalist, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra,The Ron Squires holds a bachelor of Paley Big Band and Rainbow Stage.Todd has arts in communications recorded with many of Winnipeg's finest from the University of musicians and bands, including three Juno Winnipeg, a master of fine arts from the award winning albums: Let it Lie by The Bros. University of British Columbia and a Landreth, Pilgrimage by Steve Bell and Key journalism diploma from Red River Principles by Nathan. A lifelong student of College. She and her husband Daniel music,Todd enjoys teaching both the French have a combined family of five children horn, and the harmonica.Todd has lived in and one grandson. Winnipeg since 2002 with his wife Patricia Evans, Gus the cat and Farkas the dog.

34 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 Arctic Symphony

Clara Hughes and Andrea Brazeau, co-hosts SPECIAL Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Nunavut Sivuniksavut students

Welcome & Introduction by Canadian Olympian Clara Hughes and Andrea Brazeau of Nunavik, Northern Quebec

Remarks by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada

Remarks by composer Vincent Ho

Arctic Symphony (2010)* Vincent Ho I. Prelude – Lamentations III. Aboard the Amundsen IV. Nightfall V. O Glorious Arcticus - Postlude

*Including Qauma, a traditional Inuit song, and Inuit sivuniksangan by Sylvia Cloutier and former Nunavut Sivuniksavut students, plus arctic environmental recordings provided by Dr. Derek Charke.

- INTERMISSION -

Presentation of 2016 Award Finalists

Presentation of $1M Arctic Inspiration Prize

The $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize honours the extraordinary contribution made by multidisciplinary teams in the gathering of Arctic knowledge and their plans to implement this knowledge to real world applications for the benefit of the Canadian Arctic, Arctic Peoples and therefore Canada as a whole. For more information visit www.arcticinspirationprize.ca

Presented by the Rideau Hall Foundation in collaboration with ArcticNet’s 12th Annual Scientific Conference.

Arctic Symphony image credits: Doug Barber

Thursday, December 8 8:00 p.m. Concert Sponsor:

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 35 thought process led me to the Throughout my trip I was PROGRAM NOTES creation of an emotion-laden song fascinated to see how the by Vince Ho without words (conveyed primarily scientists and elders would meet through the strings). For every to share their valuable Arctic Symphony emotional statement and information, each from Vincent Ho sorrowful cry, the sounds of completely different angles: one b. Ottawa / 1975 First performance: February 2010; cascading harmonies and free- was scientific while the other Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor, floating melodies drift in and out was cultural (or modern versus Nunavut Sivuniksavut Performers, choir like Northern winds. traditional knowledge).Though their experiences and In the summer of While I was on the ship,The relationship with the Arctic came 2008, I was offered Amundsen, I felt like a kid in a from differing perspectives, the the opportunity to candy store for the very first time. one thing they did share was a visit the Arctic region To be on a state-of-art research concern for the region’s plight. as part of an “Artist vessel surrounded by many of the Thus, for the last movement, V. O on Board”program world’s top climate change Glorious Arcticus – Postlude,I through the Circumpolar Flaw Lead scientists was an exciting aimed to bring two worlds Systems Study organization (CFL). I was adventure for me. I wasted no time together in musical form.The taken on board a state-of-the-art exploring every area I could find music combines elements of the research vessel,The CCGS Amundsen, and meeting everyone along the Western world (such as chorales, where I was introduced to the studies way. From the engineering room to major/minor tonality, conducted by many of the world’s the main deck, to the cafeteria to counterpoint, etc.) with those of leading climate change scientists. I was the science labs, I left no place the Northern world (“throat- also taken to many indigenous unexplored. For the third singing”motifs, pentatonic communities to learn about their movement, III.Aboard the harmonies, rhythmic cell culture and how the current state of the Amundsen, I wanted to musically structures, etc.). In many ways, environment has impacted their way of re-create this environment that by this movement captures the life.The goal was to provide me with simulating the sounds that wondrous experience I had in first-hand experience of the Northern surrounded me: the driving the Arctic with representatives of region while gaining a better rhythms of the engines, the the two different worlds as my understanding of climate change (from motoric pounding of the guides. both the scientific and the cultural machinery, the clanging collisions perspective) so it may inspire the of the industrial equipment, etc. creation of a large-scale symphonic work.The result was my Arctic For the fourth movement, IV. Symphony. Nightfall, I wanted recreate the environmental conditions of the For the first movement, I.Prelude – Arctic as I had experienced during Lamentations, I wanted to open with nightfall.The orchestra is used the sense of wonder and enchantment percussively to convey sounds that I felt when I first arrived in the normally associated to nature: Arctic.To convey this, I decided to gusting winds, distant howls, compose a very simple harmonious pattering of water, etc.The opening chorale for the strings (Prelude) so it captures the chaos of a windstorm may invite the listener into the world but this slowly settles into a gentle that I walked into.The next section breeze as night falls over the land. takes a different turn (Lamentations). As everything comes to quieter After learning about some of the things calm and peace has finally arrived, that were occurring to the Northern a melancholy chorale is heard in environment and their ramifications, I the distant (performed by a string thought to myself “if the land could sing quartet) to finish the evening off what would it say or sound like?”This with a musical prayer.

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 36 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 SPECIAL ARTIST BIOS Artic Symphony Nunavut Sivuniksavut Choir Affiliated with Algonquin College and Carleton University, students learn a variety of subjects concentrating on Inuit issues.The 1st year program focuses on the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Inuit History and Contemporary issues surrounding Inuit to name a few.The optional 2nd year program focuses on Circumpolar issues, as Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS) is a college well as Political Science and Research Methods. program, dedicated to providing Inuit youth with unique cultural and academic The eight students performing are: Aislyn Bolt, learning experiences that will allow them Kugluktuk, Avery Keenainak, Pangirtung, Donovan to develop the knowledge, skills and Gordon-Tootoo, Rankin Inlet, Emmeline Ipeelie, positive attitudes needed to contribute Iqaluit, Haail Nowdlak, Iqaluit, Isaiah McKeown- to the building of Nunavut. Philip, Iqaluit, Leetia Kalluk, Arctic Bay, and Olaf Christensen, Grise Fiord. For 30 years, this eight month Ottawa- based college program has been ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: achieving remarkable success in helping Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Inuit youth make the transition from high Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; TBD, trumpet; Tony Cyre, school into the workforce and/or further percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Donna Laube, post-secondary education. piano

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Saturday, 7:15 p.m. Manitoba Conservatory Conservatory Manitoba TBD 7:15p.m. Saturday, 7:15p.m. Friday, Dave Pierce Arr. Trad. onthePianoNobile.Pre-concert performance MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING 8:00 p.m. Herman Jerry 8:00 p.m. JohnRutter arr. Gruber Steven Amundsen December 10 Saturday, December9 Friday, / Gannon Kim Walter Kent/BuckRam Hayman Richard Leontovich arr. John Lennon / Yoko Ono We NeedaLittleChristmas Meredith Willson It’s Beginningto Look ALot Christmas Like O HolyNight I’ll BeHomefor Christmas Herman Jerry isOver) Happy X-mas(War Silent Night Carol oftheBells Leroy Anderson Rejoice Redd Mel Tormé CharlesMoseBrown C. /Rob /Gene Wells The BestChristmasofAll Please Come Homefor Christmas Davis /IanFraser Gary / Luther Henderson arr. The LittleDrummerBoy /Peace onEarth John Williams Edward Pola /George Wyle The ChristmasSong It’s theMost Wonderful Time ofthe Year Sleigh Ride Christmas Merry Christmas, Merry Canadian Brass Christmas A JannArden Christmas - INTERMISSION - of Music&Arts Miles Macdonell Symphony Macdonell Miles Singers, conductor Julian Pellicano, vocalist Jann Arden, Presenting Sponsor: Media Pops Sponsor: Series Henry V. Onorati / Harry Simeone Onorati /Harry Henry V. Kohan/ Grossman /Alan W. Lawrence A. aeZls director Zane Zalis, November –December 2016 Concert Sponsor: Concert I OVERTURE 39

AIR CANADASOUNDBYTES POPS AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS A Jann Arden Christmas Jann Arden, Miles Macdonell Symphony Singers, Renowned Musician | Bestselling Author Zane Zalis, director Jann Arden can bring a hall full Over the years Miles Macdonell Collegiate of people to tears through song, vocal students have shared their talents only to have them, moments with a host of guest artists and memorable later, rolling in the aisles, special events. MMC vocal students have through her off-the-cuff graced the stage with Sarah Brightman, comedy.Whether she’s Michael Burgess,WSO “Queen”Concert, performing her music, hosting an event, or Tom Jackson,Winnipeg Philharmonic telling her deeply personal and affecting stories, Arden’s wisdom and wit shine in Choir, Solitude Chor (Stuttgart, Germany), everything she does. Lord of the Rings Live Symphony Show (WSO), recorded at Abbey Road Studio, Arden catapulted onto the Canadian music and were guest performers for the Queen scene in 1993, with the release of her debut Elizabeth II Gala Golden Jubilee Concert. album, Time For Mercy.To date, she has They have performed internationally in released 13 albums, boasts 19 top-10 singles, Scotland (Orkney), Germany, Austria, USA, and has received eight Juno Awards, including and Mexico. A number of MMC vocal “Female Artist of the Year”and “Songwriter of the Year.”She has also been recognized with students continue to perform with 10 SOCAN Awards, four Western Canadian regional groups or have established Music Awards, a Much Music Video Award, professional careers in musical theatre or three Prairie Music Awards, and an Alberta the recording industry. Zane Zalis is the Recording Industry Association Award. And founder and director of the program. the list goes on: she has been honoured with a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, and inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Of course, never one to settle on a single discipline, Arden was the host of Being Jann on CBC Radio; she has been a judge on television’s Canada Sings, and has appeared on CBC TV’s Rick Mercer Report and in several sitcoms; she is also a returning co-host of CTV’s The Social; on stage, she was part of the cast for the Canadian tour of The Vagina Monologues. Her most recent album of original material is Everything Almost, released in the spring of 2014, which was followed in 2015 by her first seasonal album titled A Jann Arden Christmas.

Arden is the author of four books, including If I Knew, Don’t You Think I’d Tell You?; I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That’s All I Know; and Falling Backwards, the widely praised memoir of her life in rural Canada.

40 OVERTURE I November – December 2016

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, Film with Orchestra Julian Pellicano, conductor AIR CANADA POPS A STEVEN SPIELBERG Film Sunday, December 11 2:00 p.m. Sunday, December 11 8:00 p.m.

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PETER COYOTE MUSICIANS IN HENRY THOMAS as ELLIOTT THE MAKING Pre-concert performance Music by on the Piano Nobile. JOHN WILLIAMS

Written by Sunday, 1:15 p.m. MELISSA MATHISON Suzuki Music Winnipeg Produced by STEVEN SPIELBERG & KATHLEEN KENNEDY Sunday, 7:15 p.m. Desautels Faculty of Directed by Music Prep Studies STEVEN SPIELBERG Flute Students A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

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November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 43 AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, Film with Orchestra

John Williams, composer From the Composer In a career spanning Steven Spielberg’s film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has five decades, John always held a special place in my heart, and I personally Williams has become think it’s his masterpiece. In looking at it today, it’s as one of America’s most fresh and new as when it was made in 1982. Cars may accomplished and change, along with hairstyles and clothes… but the successful composers performances, particularly by the children and by E.T. for film and for the himself, are so honest, timeless and true, that the film concert stage, and he remains one of absolutely qualifies to be ranked as a classic. our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has What’s particularly special about tonight’s concert is that composed the music for more than we’ll hear one of our great symphony orchestras, the one hundred films, including all seven Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, performing the entire Star Wars films, the first three Harry score live, along with the complete picture, sound effects Potter films, Superman, Memoirs of a and dialogue. Geisha, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 40-year artistic partnership with I know I speak for everyone connected with the making director Steven Spielberg has resulted of E.T. in saying that we’re greatly honoured by this in many of Hollywood’s most event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will find acclaimed and successful films, great joy in experiencing this magical film. including Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, and Lincoln. Mr.Williams has composed John Williams themes for four Olympic Games. He served as music director of the Boston PRODUCTION CREDITS Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Film with Orchestra produced by Film He has composed numerous works for Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. the concert stage including two symphonies, and concertos Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson commissioned by many of America’s Production Manager: Rob Stogsdill most prominent orchestras. Mr. Production Coordinator: Rebekah Wood Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Williams has received five Academy Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice Awards and 50 Oscar nominations Technical Director: Matt Yelton (making him the second-most nominated person in the history of the Music Composed by John Williams

Oscars), seven British Academy Awards, Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service twenty-two Grammys, four Golden Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Globes, and five Emmys. In 2003, he Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe highest honor) for his contributions to The score for E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial has been adapted for live concert performance. the Olympic movement. In 2004, he With special thanks to: Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg, received the Kennedy Center Honor, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, David Newman, Chris Herzberger, and in 2009 he received the National Tamara Woolfork, Adrienne Crew, Darice Murphy and Mark Graham. Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government.

44 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 45 WSO SUPPORTERS Marjory Alexander Graham & Family MAJOR GIFTS Ian R.Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Fund Curt & Cathy Vossen The WSO gratefully In Memory of Peter D. Curry Professor A.M.C.Waterman acknowledges the following Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the patrons for their generous Black Tie Winnipeg Foundation support to the orchestra. Mr. Austin Abas George Warren Keates Memorial The WSO gratefully acknowledges Ms. Sandra Altner Fund Art & Leona Defehr the following companies whose Frank & Jeanne Plett Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper generous support helps to ensure Lutz Family Foundation Shibashis Bal musical enrichment within our Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund Mr. Jim Barrett community. The Winnipeg Foundation – John Mr. R.D. Bell and Carolynne McLure Fund Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Podium Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Program for the Enrichment of The Maestro’s Circle recognizes Johnston Group Inc. French in Education Brent Trepel patrons whose significant Doneta & Harry Brotchie Richardson Foundation philanthropy furthers the Resident Artist Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson musical artistry of the WSO. Ms. Emily Burt Qualico Fund Jan & Kevin Coates Honourary Chair David & Leda Slater Memorial Fund, Art & Leona DeFehr Principal Chair Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Alexander Mickelthwate, Frank & Agnes DeFehr Music Director Terracon Development Ltd. Aqueduct Foundation - Inga and Douglas C. Everett, Chairman, Wawanesa Insurance Anna Storgaard Fund Platinum Baton Domo Gasoline Corporation Ltd. Glen & Joan Dyrda Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation Bill & Shirley Loewen* Philipp & Ilse Ens Assistant Principal Chair The Winnipeg Foundation - Leslie Ms. Barbara Filuk* Brandon School Division John Taylor Fund Gold Baton Radhika Desai & Alan Freeman Cambrian Credit Union Timothy & Barbara Burt James Thompson Memorial Fund in Drs. Daya & Chander Gupta ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior Trust of WSO Dr. Marcel A. Desautels Mr. Micah Heilbrunn Design The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Ken Arlene Wilson & Allan MacDonald Robin Hildebrand J.K. May Investments Ltd. and Lorna Thorlakson Fund Dr. Brendan MacDougall Richard & Carol Jones Music for Young Children 1 Anonymous Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Nora Kaufman Michael & Glenna Kay Orchestra Chair Silver Baton Mr. John Kearsey Premier Printing Ltd. James Cohen & Linda Mr. & Mrs. Konstantinos & Royal Bank of Canada McGarva-Cohen Chrysoula Kotoulas Mr. Sotirios Kotoulas Urbanink Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Mr. Rob Kowalchuk Winmar Property Restoration The Legacy Circle exists to Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Mr. & Mrs. Bob & Music Stand recognize the following patrons Dr.Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Deirdre Kozminski whose foresight ensures that the Dueck Aaron Lewis Coghlan's Limited Ted & Wanda Lismer Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. WSO plays on for all Manitobans Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley for generations to come. The WSO Dr. Judith Littleford Price Industries Limited Ron & Sandi Mielitz Gail Loewen in Memory of Galsworthy Holdings Ltd. gratefully acknowledges Legacy Frank & Jeanne Plett Her Mother Sue Lemmerick Number Ten Architectural Group Circle members for their planned Barb & Gerry Price Jackie Lowe & Greg Tallon Red River Cooperative Ltd. future gift to the WSO. Hartley & Heather Richardson Dr. David Lyttle Tannis Richardson* Margaret Kellermann Riser Siana Attwell, PhD Dr. Lea Stogdale McCulloch A. Akman & Son Ltd. Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer Ms.Valerie Mollison Concertmaster's Bow European Art Glass Ltd. Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Murray InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Dr. Michael Nelson & Dr. Selena Friesen Mid West Packaging Limited Kevin & Els Kavanagh Mrs. Marjorie Blankstein Ted & Mary Paetkau Patill/St. James Insurance Michel D. Lagacé Herb & Erna Buller Pierce & Amy Cairns Athina Panopoulos & Gail E. Loewen Gordon Sinclair Ernest & Anastasia Cholakis S. E. Loewen Donna and Bill Parrish C.M. John & Gay Docherty Foundations W. H. Loewen Lesia Peet Marten & Joanne Duhoux The WSO gratefully acknowledges Dr. Brendan MacDougall Dr. Beryl Peters & Dr. Blair Peters the following foundations: Bill & Margaret Fast Harvey I. Pollock Q.C. Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Bert & Lee Friesen Foundation Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund - the Dr. & Mrs. Brian Postl Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell James Gibbs Barb & Gerry Price Winnipeg Foundation Lesia Peet Mrs. Audrey F.Hubbard John & Violet Rademaker The Noreen & Robert Allen Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Peter Jessiman Dr. Diane Ramsey Charitable Trust Trudy Schroeder Christine Skene & Nick Logan Dr. Donald S. Reimer & Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund Muriel Smith Elaine & Neil Margolis Mrs. Anne Reimer Brandon Area Community Jim & Leney Richardson* Edith A.Toews & Dr. Helen A.Toews Brent Mazur Foundation Mrs. Shirley Richardson Robin Wiens and Emilie Ken and Judy Murray The Winnipeg Foundation - Chipman Mr. Rick Riess & Mrs. Jean Carter Wayne & Linda Paquin Lagacé-Wiens Sanford & Deborah Riley Family Foundation Fund Diane Payment and Roxroy West Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation Donn K.Yuen Tamara & Garry Roehr Lawrie & Fran Pollard Olga & Bill Runnalls Nita Eamer Memorial Fund 2 Anonymous Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Terry Sargeant & Margaret Francofonds Inc. Tippett-Pope* Haney

46 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 Trudy Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. F.Buckmaster Serenade Eleanor Riach Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe Gail Carruthers Trish Allison-Simms Hans & Gabriele Schneider Jimmy & Morse Silden Nancy Cipryk Kaeren Anderson Marie Schoffner M.Winnifred Sim Dr. & Mrs. David Connor Linda Armbruster Dr. & Mrs. Alvin and Ethel Pam Simmons* Irene & Robert Corne Doug Arrell & Dick Smith Schroeder Jack & Elaine Sine Ms. Linda Daniels Muriel Smith Mr. Philip Ashdown Dr. L. Sekla Esther and Hy Dashevsky Mrs. B Rae Spear Dick & Minnie Bell Phil & Nancy Shead Mr. Marcel A. Desautels Jim & Jan Tennant Mrs. Jean M. Bradley Ms. Brenda Snider Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Mark & Stephanie Dufresne Sel & Chris Burrows Ms. Deborah Spracklin Martin & Michelle Weinberg Mrs. Elfrieda H. Dupuis Ron Clement Gary & Gwen Steiman Don & Florence Whitmore Beverley & Fred Dyck Ms. Julie Collings Mr. & Mrs. Lorne & Lorna Stevens Klaus & Elsa Wolf Helene Dyck Julie Collings Margaret & Hartley Stinson Klaus and Dorit Wrogemann Mr. & Mrs.W. Easton Pam & Andrew Cooke Paul Swart 2 Anonymous David and Kathleen Estey Martin Reed & Joy Cooper Dr. & Mrs. David Swatek Mr.Wayne Forbes * Founding Members Gary & Fiona Crow Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Arnold & Christa Froese Mr. Bradley J. Curran Dr. & Mrs. John Taylor Penny Gilbert Mr.Tom Dercola Tom & Lori Thomas Dr. & Mrs.W. L. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Dingman Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S.Thompson Bruno Gossen Faye Dixon in Memory of Graham June & Lorne Thompson Ms. Debbie Grenier Friends of the WSO support John & Ada Ducas C. & R.Thomsen Patricia Guy the WSO each season. George B. Elias Dr. J.M.Trainor Gordon E. Hannon Ms. Ursula Erhardt Neil & Carol Trembath Mrs. Audrey Harburn Honourary Chair Margaret E. Faber Ms. Edna Walpole Jack & Elsie Hignell Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster Marcia Fleisher Jack & Bernice Watts Bob & Biddy Hilton Doug & Phyllis Flint Harvey & Sandra Weisman Symphony Robert Jaskiewicz Kevin & Pam Friesen Debbie Wilson Margaret-Lynne & Jim Astwood Koren & Leonard Kaminski Harold & Alice Funk Alfred & Lina Woelke Len & Mary Bateman J. Gartner & L. Kampeas Mrs. Margaret Funk Karin Woods David & Gillian Bird Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. Kennedy Eileen George Joan Wright Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Maureen Kilgour and Richard Larry & Susanne Greer 10 Anonymous Pierce & Amy Cairns Goulet Dr. Don and Jerri Hall John Corp and Mary Elizabeth Dr. Istvan Kinizsi Prelude McKenzie Beth & Raymond Harris Susan & Keith Knox Patricia Allen & Len Dueck Margaret Cuddy Richard & Karen Howell Ray Kohanik & Terri Ashcroft Larissa Ashdown Carrie Ferguson Helmut & Dorothy Huebert T.G. Kucera Janice & Brian Bailey Robert & Linda Gold Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Mr. Don Lawrence Allan & Rochelle Baker Gregg & Mary Hanson David Jacobson Ms. Francoise Lesage & Mr. Ken Barbara & Bruce Ball Marianne Johnson Terry & Shirley James Mills Robert Barton Lawrence Jones Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Audrey Belyea Millie & Wally Kroeker Henry Katz in Memory of Dena Douglas MacEwan Donald & Edith Besant Katarina Kupca Heather Kirkham Dr. & Mrs. John & Natalie Mayba Ms. Joanne Biggs W.K. Labies Mrs. E. Louise McLandress Mrs. Marion B. Korn Eric & Clara Bohm Jack & Zina Lazarek Family Amanda McLeod Mrs. Marion Korn Keith & Marnie Bolland Foundation Margaret Moroz Mona Koropatnick Shirley Book James & Pat Ludwig Drs. Kenneth & Sharon Mould Elaine & Patrick Lamonica Lorne & Rosada Bride Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton Bonnie & Richard Olfert Jennifer Lidstone Susan Brownstone Brock & Terri & Jim McKerchar Carole & Cam Osler Rose & Dick Lim Thomas Brock Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod Donna & Ian Plant Fraser & Joan Linklater Miss Dorothy Broomhall Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Carolynne Presser Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Mr. Chris Brown Terence and Violeta Moore Tim Preston & Dave Ling Mr. John Macrae Mr. E. Brown Jim & Pat Richtik Rosemary Prior Dr. Angelos and Pauline Irene Brown Dr.Willem van Oers & Mrs. Fred & Carolyn Redekop Macrodimitris Jean Brown Margaretha van Oers J. Reichert Ruth May Ms. Carol Budnick Herbert & Shirley Wildeman Ms. Iris Reimer David and Francesca McBean Jan Burdon Raymond & Shirley Wiest Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie Ms. Nola McBurney Mr. Gerald Callow 2 Anonymous Mme. Henriette Ricou Glen Mead Ms. Donna Carruthers Judge & Mrs. Charles & Naida Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell Concerto Laura Chan Rubin D. Munro Judy & Jay Anderson F.E. Sanderson Edgar Oddleifson Mrs. Patti Cherney Gorden Andrus & Adele Kory Barbara Scheuneman Patricia Mary Patterson Bea and Lawrie Cherniack Cheryl & Earl Barish A. Schroeder Cameron Pauls Mrs. Leona Christiansen Zita & Mark Bernstein Family Merrill & Shayna Shulman Ms. Pat Philpott Ross M. Cleeve Foundation Dr. & Mrs. M.R. Steinbart Mr. Rick Pinchin Ms. Marcella Copp Mr. & Mrs. C.R. Betts Mr. Robert Vineberg Irvin & Sandra Plosker Joyce Cormack Dr. & Mrs. Brian and Cathie Diane Weselake Ruth Carol & Leonard Podheiser Helle Cosby Bowerman David C.Wilson Don & Carol Poulin Ms. Maxine Cristall Mr. Jim Bracken Harry & Evelyn Wray Donna & Gordon Price Judy & Werner Danchura Sheila & David Brodovsky 7 Anonymous Levi & Tena Reimer Maureen Danzinger

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 47 Ms. Janice Dietch Mrs. Geraldine McKinley Ms. Donna Beaton Hugh McCabe Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda Jean McLennan Ms. Denise Belanger & Mr. Sidney Ms. Susan McCarthy Donald Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier Shapire Mr. Derek McLean Sally R. Dowler Estelle Meyers Mrs. Eva Berard Ardythe McMaster Herbert & Norma Driver Walter A. Mildren Anna Bird Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart Mrs. M.L. Elliott Carolyn Garlich and Peter Miller Frances Booth Mrs. Jocelyn Millard John & Martha Enns Mrs. Mona Mills Norma Bortoluzzi M. Mohr John J. Enns Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz Marilyn Boyd Maureen Morin Katharine Enns Mrs. Joan Ann Morton Mrs. Diane Brine Mrs. Margaret Parker Siegfried Enns John & Margaret Mundie Alfred Buelow Sonjia Pasiechnik John & Ruth Ens Leesa Munroe Sheila Burland Trudy Patzer Don and Martha Epstein Charlotte Murrell Mr. John Burrows Ken & Geri Porath David & Hermine Olfert Greg & Linda Fearn Canon Canada Inc. Mrs. Glennys Propp Truus Oliver Helen Feniuk Ms. Arline Christopherson Bryan & Diana Purdy Miss Jenny Olynyk Doug & Joanne Flynn S.K. Clark Mrs. Avis Raber Shirley & Graham Padgett Mrs. Marguerite Fredette Mr. & Dr. Brad Cloet Ms. Pat Repa Ms. Nettie Peters George & Carol Gamby Mrs. Barbara Coombs Gisela Roger Ingrid Peters-Fransen Mr. Alfred Cornies Jim & Betty Gaynor Mrs.V. Rosolowich Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori Mrs. Helene Picton Stephen Crane John & Shirley Russell D. Gooch Ms. Clare Pollock Ms. Judy Crawford Kay Schalme Ms. Mavis E. Gray Cristian Popescu Mr. & Mrs.Ted Cunningham William Scheidt Marj Grevstad Juta Rathke Beth Derraugh Mrs. Edna Schneider Irene Groot-Koerkamp & Greg Waltraut Riedel-Baun Marlene & Fred Dickson Izzy Shore Edmond Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Vera Ripley Mrs. Ethel Dil Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Katie & DeLloyd Guth Kevin Rollason & Gail MacAulay Ms. Marian Dore Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Frances E. Rowlin Paul Dueck Mrs. Joyce Smyth Miss Marilyn Hall Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler Ms. Sheila M. Dumore Dr. Bonnie Hallman Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad & Ms. Ms. Georgette Durand Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Ms. Meghan Hansen Pearly Rule Salangad Vera & Peter Fast Lorne Sunley Linda A. Harlos David Schroeder Mr. Paul Ficek Muriel Sutherland Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin R. Schroeder Cal & Lois Finch Gladys Tarala Teresa A. Hay Ms. Janet Schubert Hilda Franz Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Viola J. Schultz Millie Hemmelgarn Ms. Anne Friesen Ms. Anne Thiessen Charlene Scouten Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Mrs. Donna Friesen Ms. Doreen Thorlacius Mr. & Mrs. Ed & Elaine Segstro Ms. Shirley Hicks Mr. Joe Furber Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh Marilyn & Jon Seguire Ms Marilyn Hido Mrs. Cathy Gervais Shelley Turnbull Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Sonia & Harvey Hosfield Mrs. Barbara Gessner Denis Vincent Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Mr. Christopher Golden Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace Dr. Don & Lynne Simonson Jacqueline Iwasienko Heather Graham Mr. Glen Angus Webster Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Wilfred & Dorothy James Mrs. Inga Granovskaya Snjolaug Whiteway Geri & Peter Spencer Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram Victoria Gretchen Miss Christine Wojcikowski Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Father Stan A. Jaworski Mr. Anthony (Tony) Griffin Beverley Zimmerman Elsie Stasiuk Margaret Jeffries Ms. Marianne Gruber 16 Anonymous Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Ms. Marion Guinn Archie & Shirley Stone Mrs. Shirley Kilburn B. & R. Hall Dr. & Mrs. Ian & Karen Sutton Mr. & Mrs.W. J. Kinnear Gertrude Hamilton Juris & Aija Svenne Mrs. Helen Hayward Erwin W. Kitsch Robert & Barb Tisdale Kelly Hearson Ms. Mary Klassen Edith A.Toews Alfonz & Susan Koncan Henry & Elizabeth Toews Jean Highmoor Mrs. Alvina Koshy Dr. Helen A.Toews Dorothy L. Hodgson The WSO gratefully acknowledges Kozub/Halldorson Family Mrs. C.M.Valentine Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik the following patrons whose D. Kristjanson Barry and Gail Veals William J. Hutton foresight helps to ensure Miss Patricia Kuchma Jesse Vorst Island Lakes School long-term financial support Edith Landy, in Memory of David Ms. Louise Waldman Pat Jarrett for the WSO. Thank you! Landy Elizabeth M.Wall Brent & Karen Johnson Edwin & Susan Bethune Helen La Rue Jim & Joan Warbeck Mr.Tim Kasprick Lorrraine and Gerry Cairns Mrs. Ingrid Lee Jack Watts Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Mr. R. Leroeye Mrs. Evelyn Wener Katie Kirkpatrick Stephen Choy & Gina Yoo Albert & Helen Litz Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Ms. Betty Laing Dorothy Comer and Her Daughters Barry & Patricia Lloyd Patrick Wright Elizabeth Lansard in Memory of Fern Royds Lorron Agencies Ltd. Mr. Edwin Yee Wayne & Helen LeBlanc Ray G. Davis Roger Lowe Donn K.Yuen Mr. Gabriel Lemoine Helene Dyck G. & G. Lowry 20 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Mr. Al Mackling Katrina Limberatos Marilynne Keil, in Memory of David Dr Amrit Malik Sonatina John & Carol MacKenzie H. Skinner Matthew Gossen Advancement Maryvonne & Robert Alarie in Joyce Manwaring Grant & Janet Saunders Trust Memory of William Cole Mr. & Mrs. Jeff & Karen L. Mark Jim & Jan Tennant C. & J. McIntyre Jacqueline Anderson Mrs. Irene Marriott James & Claudia Weselake Violet McKenzie Dr. John Badertscher Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba 2 Anonymous

48 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 Ms. Marlene Stern Teresa A. Hay In honour of Kinzel Keys Jon Stewart Larry & Evelyn Hecht Mrs. Joan Swaffer Sally Sweatman Monique Henderson Ms. Ruth Swan Tetrem Capital Management Katherine Himelblau Dr.& Mrs.S.Szirom Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Festival donors help to further Dorothy L. Hodgson Dr.Teresa Sztaba Curt & Cathy Vossen the musical artistry of the Mrs. Katherine Hoeppner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tapscott WSO’s New Music Festival. Ms. Meeka Walsh Huynh Van Ho James & Marlene Taylor Thank you! Karin Woods Ishbel Isaacs, in Loving Memory of Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Mr. & Dr. Jens J.Wrogemann Gijsbert Crielaard Etta Telford in Memory of Gijsbert Alpha Masonry 1 Anonymous Ms. Margaret Jeffries Crielaard Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mr. & Mrs. C Jenkins Jim & Jan Tennant Alison Baldwin Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Anne Thiessen in Memory of Gijsbert Jackie Brignall Marilyn Kapitany Crielaard Kevin Burns Kevin & Els Kavanagh Mrs. Bonnie E Thiessen in Memory of Timothy & Barbara Burt Ursula & Sandor Kelemen Gijsbert Crielaard David Carr Share the Music is a unique Ms. Mary Klassen Ms. Mia Timmermans Jill Carr & Alex Snukal outreach initiative of the WSO Sandra Kneller Ms. Melita Tonogai Dr. & Mrs. David Connor that allows economically Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Fran & Estela Violago Ravi Dookeran disadvantaged children and Cycelia Lazarowich in Memory of E. Sylvia Warrington Mrs. Ann England their families to attend WSO Gijsbert Crielaard Professor A.M.C.Waterman Herbert Enns performances. Thank you for Frances Lemieux Betty Wayborn in Memory of Gijsbert Robert Enright helping to Share the Music! Ms. Marion Lewis Crielaard Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Dr. Judith Littleford Carmel Wayborn in Memory of Wendy Gale Katherine Devine & George Andrich Dr. Brendan MacDougall Gijsbert Crielaard Tyler Gompf Pat & Harvey Anton Dr. Sabine Mai Bruno Zimmer Stepan Gordienko Ms. Margaret Barbour Elaine & Neil Margolis 20 Anonymous Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Ralph & Eileen Baxter C & V Martens Komlodi Bernice Blakeman Mr. Peter Martin Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Mrs. Lucienne Blouw, in Memory of Reina & Mark McDowell - in Memory Ms. Helen Hawrysh Gijsbert Crielaard of Gijsbert Crielaard Dr.Wolfgang Heidenreich in Ms. Patricia Bozyk Jean & Mike McIlrath Support of Composer Henryk Sheila & David Brodovsky Mr. Sheldon Leonard McLeod Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily Gorecki for the 2016-17 WNMF Ms. Carol Budnick Mrs. Jose Meers after-school program that Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ms. Linda Campbell Ms. Pat Michalski enriches the lives of children and Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Hildebrand Eileen & Ted L & D Mitchell young people with the fewest Kim Jeremic Shelley Chochinov M. Mohr resources and the greatest need. Koren & Leonard Kaminski Ray Cloutier in Memory of Gijsbert The WSO gratefully Margaret Moroz in Memory of Ms. Jose Koes Crielaard acknowledges the following Gijsbert Crielaard Konstantinos Kotoulas & Family Joan C. Cohen patrons whose support makes a Vera Moroz Dr.Thomas G Kucera M. & G. Crielaard difference in the everyday lives Bill & Hilda Muir Ron Lambert In Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard, of these children. Thank you! Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko Hideo Mabuchi Marlene Crielaard M. Nancy Lynn O'Brien Honourary Chair Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Dr. & Mrs. Harold Diamond D Ogale Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean Monica Dinney in Memory of Truus Oliver Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Gijsbert Crielaard Sam O. Maestoso Lori Marks Doreen Docking Mrs. Alice Oswald Burns Foundation Mr. Frank Martin Ms. Enid Durward Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike RBC Foundation Brent Mazur Ken Dyck Ms. Clare Pollock Richardson Foundation The A. K. Menkis Medical Shaun Dyck in Memory of Gijsbert Ms. Rose Popowich Corporation Crielaard Vivace Rosemary & Walter Prychodko Ron & Sandi Mielitz Mr. & Ms. John Edwards Ms. Marlene Reguly Boeing Canada Winnipeg Ms. Sheila Miller Don & Martha Epstein Pat and Bill Reid Cavalia Inc. Mrs. Brenda Morlock Kathy Feader Ms. Lyse Remillard The Winnipeg Foundation Margaret Moroz Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Matthew Narvey Tannis Richardson Dr. Leeann Fishback Con Brio Don & Joceline Ringach, Pamela Michael Narvey Dorothy Flight Mikaela Oldenkamp Ringach & Chris Jordan Souchay Gossen Family Foundation Mrs. Louise Friesen Michael S Gray Fund Mr. Chris Pearce David & Elena Roberts Mrs. Joyce Fyke The Winnipeg Foundation - George Lesia Peet Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sagert Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert and Tannis Richardson Fund Kathleen Polischuk & Richard Olive Sayers George & Carol Gamby Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Derksen Your HR Support Co. Francois Gauvin Don & Lorraine Swanson Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Mr.Walter Silicz The Staff of GD5 in Memory of Tippett-Pope Mrs. Roslyn Silver Gijsbert Crielaard Allegro Bill Reid Ms. Brenda Sklar Mr. Richard Gillanders Alpha Masonry Majid & Moti Shojania Debbie Smith Dr. Don & Jerri Hall In memory of Lois Mr. Ron Bell Muriel Smith Ms. Maureen Southam Anderson Timothy & Barbara Burt Carrie Solmundson Ms. Deborah Spracklin B. & R. Hall Ms. Brenlee Carrington Trepel Terrell Stephen Herbert Stewart November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 49 The Winnipeg Foundation - Chief Ms. Nadia Kamienski ANNUAL CAMPAIGN P.M. Litwin Justice Richard J. Scott and Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac Roger Lowe Mary Scott Fund Marilynne Keil The WSO gratefully Grant MacDougall Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in Dr.Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck acknowledges the following Lydia MacKenzie patrons whose generosity helped Memory of Benjamin John West Zandra Lea in Honour of Paul and Ms. Lorraine MacLeod to support orchestral music in Flynn Pamela Connolly Barbara Main our community. Thank you! Mr. Elmer Hildebrand Melanie & Craig Leonhardt Mr. Allan Mapes Ms. Gail E. Loewen Helen Litz Ms. Sylvia L. Barr Aubrey Margolis Dr. David Lyttle Mrs. Anita Malbranck F.Bell Bob and Betty McCamis Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John Manitoba Association of School Marjorie Blankstein Ms. Diane McGregor J. March and His Parents Superintendents Helga & Gerhard Bock Sylvia Mitchell Tom McIlwham Mrs. Maureen McIntosh Frances Booth Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Ms. Linda Meckling Ron & Sandi Mielitz Wendy Broadfoot D.E. Morrison Linda Meckling in Memory of Alan Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Greg & Sylvia Brodsky Ms. Lillian Murphy Blanchette Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund, Dolores P.Brommell Robert Nix Ron and Sandi Mielitz Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Ms. Carol Budnick Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Ms. Marlene Milne Ms. Charlotte Robbins Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Mr. Irwine Permut Jim & Jan Tennant Lori Butler Mr. Rick Morgan Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Faye Warren Ms. Francine Morin Gerald Callow Mr. & Mrs. Barry Prentice John Wells Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Mrs. Audrey Campbell Barbara M. Robertson 2 Anonymous Mr. Robert Nix Mr. & Mrs. Carl & Donna Chambers Olga & Bill Runnalls Conmoto Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn Karen Couch Barbara Scheuneman Dennis & Ruth Crook A. Schroeder ADESA Winnipeg Mr. David Pate Jean Cunningham Dr. Robert Schroth Kathleen & Ken Alder Leena Patel Ellen Curtis Ken Schykulski James & Faye Alward in Honour of Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of D. Cymbalist Mrs. Doreen Shanks Margot J. Alward Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary Piotr Czaykowski & Anne Worley Carl and Margaret Shaykewich Brenda Batzel Kuran; In Honour of Beatrice Mr. & Ms. Jim & Virginia Dyck Ralph & Eileen Baxter Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una Pam Simmons Kuran Lisa Edel Jennifer Beirnes Ms. Debbie Spacklin Mr. Blair Peppler Byrnes Benoit Scott & Margaret Edmonds Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Stanton Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Ms. Diane Bewell Donna Ekerholm Mr. Herbert Stewart Ms. Lois Powne Paul & Doreen Bromley Vera & Peter Fast Mrs. Joan Swaffer Dr.& Mrs.D.Punter Ms. Coralie Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Ms. Judith Thompson James Ray in Memory of Henry Ray Camerata Nova Joan Fleming Ms. Marilyn Thompson Joan Sabourin Mrs. Audrey Campbell Miriam Fliegel Ms. Andrea Towers Ms. Corazon Saquilayan Dave Christie Mrs. Gitta Fricke Mrs. Susan Twaddle Mrs. Claudia Sarbit Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC Arnold & Myra Frieman Audrey Walker Mr.Terry Sargeant Joan C. Cohen Robert & Monica Friesen Patricia Walker Heather Sarna Ms. Barbara Crow George & Carol Gamby Mrs. Marilyn Weimer Nicola Schaefer Dr. & Mrs. Jamit And Courtney Mrs. A. Lee Gibson Evelyn Wener Barbara Scheuneman Dhaliwal Mr. Patrick Hackett Ms. Joan Wise Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Claire Dionne George Handyman 15 Anonymous Foundation Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Bob Dueck and Joan Duerksen Trudy Schroeder Listing as of Oct 1 2015 - Oct 1, 2016 Ian & Gerry Hamilton Mrs. Cynthia Dutton Mrs. Mary Scott L. Harasym Caroline Elder Betty & Sam Searle Ms. Ursula Erhardt Olga & Myron Shatulsky Teresa A. Hay Ms. Catherine Flower Wilma Sotas Daniel Heindl & Eugene Boychuk Ms. Judith Flynn In Memory of Jean Sauder L.G. Herd Peter Flynn Mary and Robert Thomas Terry Heron Hilda Franz Deborah Thorlakson in Celebration Sanford Hildebrand ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior of Mrs.Tannis Richardson's Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Design Birthday Carole Holke Helena Jane Gahungu Greg Tramley in Memory of Dave Stella Hryniuk Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Hunt Vi Hultin Gardon Construction Ltd. Neil & Carol Trembath Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Ms.Terry Trupp Rudy & Gail Isaak Ms. Rhue Hayden Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Robin Hildebrand Ms. Christine Van Cauwenberghe Crystal & Günter Jochum Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Mr. Curt and MacCathy Vossen Ken Kinsley Marilyn Dr. Noah Weiszner Frances R. Kolt Karen Hiscott Diane Weselake Mona Koropatnick Patricia Holbrow In Honour of Doug and Loreen Buss’ Paul Kosowan William J. Hutton Marrage Ms. Jacki Koven Margaret Jeffries Grace M.Wiebe Ms. Janet Kuchma Peter Jessiman Karin Woods Elizabeth Lansard Joseph and Judith Malko Family Wynward Insurance Group Don Lawrence Fund At the Strategic Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky Mr. Norman Leathers Charitable Giving Foundation 6 Anonymous

50 OVERTURE I November – December 2016 PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

1948-51 Hon. Mr. Justice J.T. Beaubien 1984-86 Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C. 1951-53 Mr. J. M. Sinclair 1986-88 Mr. Michel Lagacé 1953-55 Dr. Digby Wheeler 1988-90 Mr.William H. Loewen 1955-57 Mr.W. D. Hurst 1990-92 Mrs. Julia DeFehr 1957-58 Dr. Hugh H. Saunderson 1992-94 Mr. Gordon Fogg 1958-61 Mr. E.W. H. Brown 1994-96 Mrs. Helen Hayles 1961-62 Mr. David Slater 1996-97 Mr. Anthony Brookes 1962-64 The Hon. Mr. Justice Monnin 1997-98 Mrs. Helen Hayles 1964-65 Mr. Norman J. Alexander 1998-99 Mr.William Norrie 1965-67 Mr. R.W. Richards Feb 1999-May 1999 Mr.William Loewen 1967-69 Mr.W. R. Palmer Jun 1999-2000 Mr. Bruce MacCormack 1969-71 Mr. E. J. Smith 2000-Feb 03 Mr. Roger King 1971-73 Dr. M. M. Pierce Mar 2003-Dec 2003 Ms. Patti Sullivan 1973-74 Mr. H. S. Brock-Smith Dec 2003-Jan 2005 Mr.Wally Fox-Decent 1974-76 Mr. Allan G. Moffatt Jan 2005-Jul 2006 Ms. Carol Bellringer 1976-78 Mr. Julian D.T. Benson Jul 2006-Nov 2006 Mr. Harvey I Pollock, QC 1978-79 Mr. John L. Buckworth (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 2012-2016 Mr.Timothy E. Burt, CFA 1982-83 Mr. John O. Baatz 2016-present Mr.Terry Sargeant 1983-84 Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C.

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL

Al Alexandruk Helen Hayles Harvey I Pollock, QC 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 Leney 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

November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 51 WSO BOARD & STAFF 2016-2017 SEASON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS Terry Sargeant, Alan Freeman Her Honour the Honourable President Daniel Friedman Janice C. Filmon C.M., O.M. Curt Vossen, Dr. Selena Friesen Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba Vice President Micah Heilbrunn The Honourable Brian Pallister, Rob Kowalchuk, Robin Hildebrand Premier of Manitoba Treasurer Peter Jessiman His Worship Brian Bowman, Michael Kay, Margaret Kellermann Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Corporate Secretary McCulloch Timothy E. Burt, CFA Maureen Kilgour Mr.W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, Past President Silvester Komlodi WSO Directors Emeritus Ida Albo Sotirios Kotoulas Sandra Altner Dr. Eleanor MacDougall WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Lucienne Blouw Sherratt Moffatt Sherratt Moffatt, President Emily Burt, MBA, CFA Richard Turner Winnifred Warkentin,Vice-President James Cohen Trudy Schroeder, Executive Sylvia Cassie, Past President Arlene Dahl Director Nancy Weedon,Treasurer Marten Duhoux Alexander Mickelthwate, Agnes Bailey, Secretary Steven Dyer Music Director Florence Bell, Asssistant

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, Patron Services Coordinator Chris Lee, Orchestra Personnel Manager Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Ray Chrunyk, Principal Librarian Rachel Himelblau, Patron Services Representative Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian Aaron Lewis, Sales Specialist Patron Services Representatives (p/t): Lawrence Rentz, Stage Supervisor Phil Corrin Melissa Houston Brent Johnson, Education & Community Kristie Enns Laura Gow Engagement Manager Meg Dolovich Crystal Schwartz Amy Wolfe, Education Coordinator Lindsay Woolgar, Education Programs Coordinator (Term) MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT Shannon Darby, Sistema Winnipeg Manager Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Sponsorship Beth Proven,VP 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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