FEBRUARY - MARCH 2016 I ISSUE 5

BEYOND THE SCORE® ELGAR: ENIGMA VARIATIONS

CARMINA BURANA GOLDEN HARVEST WORLD PREMIERE

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

As we make our way through the musical season, I am always struck by the huge diversity in programs the WSO provides for the community.

In this upcoming series of concerts we move through Strauss’ glorious Four Last Songs with soprano Joni Henson, to the full symphonic splendour of Bruckner’s Symphony No.4 in E-flat major (Romantic).This is a concert to satisfy the hearts of the most dedicated lovers of symphonic music, or for those that have an interest in the ultimate symphonic experience where the full orchestra is put through the most demanding of technical and expressive repertoire. As audience members, we can immerse ourselves in the rich glory of the music.You cannot help but be deeply moved by experiencing this music live.

Then we move to a wonderful exploration of great music developed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score® series.This year’s presentation features Edward Elgar’s much loved Enigma Variations.The work is based on musical sketches of fourteen people in the composer’s life, and the wonderful material and research provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra provides exceptional clarity and insight that adds immensely to the experience of the music.

We continue our partnership with the Philharmonic Choir in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, and then we explore the musical genius of Rufus Wainwright.This is a marvellous opportunity to experience the great musical talent and extraordinary song writing that Rufus Wainwright brings to our stage.We move then to a world premiere of Larysa Kuzmenko’s Golden Harvest, an oratorio honouring the 125th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada.We welcome Andriana Chuchman, Manitoba’s globe-trotting opera star, back to her home orchestra, and also feature the ever popular Carmina Burana.

We end this portion of the season with a delightful concert for children. It is indeed a journey of musical discovery to move through the year with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

During this year’s New Music Festival, I read a comment somewhere (I cannot remember the location or source) that “art decorates space, and music decorates time.”While I don’t think that “decorate”is quite the right word, I love the idea that through music, we are able to add colour, dimension, passion, and joy to the seconds, minutes, and hours of our lives.The WSO is pleased to provide these exceptional musical moments to add beauty to your life.

Enjoy your WSO enhanced time.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 3 CONDUCTORS

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

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

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

Philharmonia Orchestra. Photographer: Nardella Photography Inc.

4 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2015-2016 SEASON

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

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 5 The Official Radio Station for the WSO Masterworks Series.

Winnipeg’s only dedicated classical & jazz music station Bruckner & Strauss: Nature, Love & Longing CLASSICS Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Joni Henson, soprano

Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Frühling (Spring): Allegretto September: Andante Beim Schlafengehn (Going to Sleep): Andante Im Abendrot (In Twilight): Andante

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Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, (Romantic) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Bewegt, nicht zu schnell Andante quasi Allegretto Scherzo: Bewegt – Trio: Gemächlich Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

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Pre-concert chat on the Piano Nobile begins at 7:15 p.m.

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 7 perchance be death?”Soon after, Strauss blanketed additions, deletions, PROGRAM NOTES read a collection of poems by Hermann orchestrations and responses before by James Manishen Hesse and decided to make a five-song the work was premiered. Began setting for soprano and orchestra January 2, 1874, just two days after Four Last Songs concluding with the Eichendorff poem finishing his Third Symphony, the Richard Strauss which he had set in May 1948. Vienna Philharmonic read through b. Munich, Germany / June 11, 1864 Completing the entire set by September the score a year later and deemed d. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, less one Hesse song that was never only the first movement fit for Germany / September 8, 1949 finished, Four Last Songs became Strauss’ public performance, the rest Composed: 1948 final work. “idiotic.”Deeply hurt yet busy First performance: May 22, 1950 enough with his teaching and organ The Four Last Songs metaphorically reflect (London) conducted by Wilhelm performing commitments, Bruckner on death, looking back and ahead, Furtwängler with Kirsten Flagstad waited until 1878 to persevere with worldly and wise rather than angry or the Fourth, completing it over a as soloist fearful. As Wagner famously did, the Last WSO performance: 1992; two-year period to largely the form orchestra is integral to the narratives, the that it is today. Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor; horn in particular (Strauss’father Franz Elizabeth Knighton Printy, soprano had been a professional horn player) and When conductor Hans Richter the beauty of the soprano voice was The bombing of accepted the Fourth for clearly uppermost in Strauss’thoughts. Dresden and the loss performance, Bruckner at 57 years of With universal rather than autobiographical of many friends age still hadn’t had a major success messages and without any suggestion of weighed heavily on as a composer, so he followed the religious consolation, Strauss offers a Richard Strauss during rehearsals for the premiere with glowing valedictory in a musical the war, even though nervousness and hope for a landscape he had loved throughout his he was shielded from its ravages at triumph. At the end of the rehearsal entire composing life. his villa in the Bavarian Alps where he the sheepish composer pressed a had been living since 1935. Fearing Symphony No. 4 coin into Richter’s hand and told the Denazification hearings that Anton Bruckner him to buy a beer “to my health.” began in October 1945, Strauss and b. Ansfelden / September 4, 1824 his wife Pauline decided to move to The premiere on February 20, 1881 d.Vienna / October 11, 1896 Switzerland where they remained for was an immediate success. Bruckner Composed: 1874; revised in 1878-1881 the next four years. Officially was called to the stage after every and 1887-1888 exonerated in June 1948, the movement and the Scherzo had to increasingly frail composer stayed in First performance: February 20, 1881 be encored. For the first time in 25 Switzerland for medical treatment (Vienna) conducted by Hans Richter years in Vienna, Bruckner was and returned to Bavaria in May 1949. Last WSO performance: 2001: Stanislaw receiving his due. Richter wore the His Four Last Songs date from this Skrowaczewski, conductor coin on his watch chain for the rest period that also included his Oboe The music of Anton of his life as a memento of the Concerto and Duet Concertino for rehearsal – “of a day when I wept,” clarinet, bassoon and strings. Bruckner is unique, and inexorably he said. bonded to both its The aging Strauss occupied his time The Fourth Symphony is among in Switzerland reading Goethe, creator and his own Creator. Descended from generations of Bruckner’s most fervently argued studying his score of Wagner’s works, in both spirit and Tristan und Isolde and reflecting on Catholic peasants, Bruckner lived in a construction. As always in his music, his long life as a guardian of German seemingly religious ecstasy, sparing one senses the “cathedral in sound” Romantic musical tradition and himself as he could from the necessities as popularly ascribed.Time, space, never apologized that he always had of everyday life with a guileless humility the long controlled climaxes, one foot in the previous century as a and in constant fear that God might repetitions and occasional yet consistent traditionalist opposed to condemn him for not using his time and modernism, though with enough talent to his fullest capacity.Wagner endearing stammering produce a decorous irony to underscore his adored the simplicity of this matchless bonding of grandeur of own time. extraordinary man, and Bruckner expression to simplicity of outline. returned the favour with Wagner Those who take Bruckner on his Strauss had read Eichendorff’s poem becoming his musical mentor. own terms receive a special hour of Im Abendrot in 1946, in which an a purity of discourse achieved by aging couple reflects on the lifetime It took Bruckner 14 years to create the few others in the history of music. they’ve spent together, viewing the Fourth Symphony. Endless revisions, setting sun and asking “Could this trials, tribulations and insecurities

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 8 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Bruckner & Strauss: Nature, Love & Longing

Joni Henson, soprano Philharmonic and Opera Galas for the Soprano Joni Henson is one of Colorado and Fairfax Symphonies. Most Canada’s most thrilling recently, she was heard as Marguerite in performers on both the opera Berlioz’s La Damnation De Faust with the and concert stage. Past Calgary Philharmonic and looks forward to seasons have included Fricka Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the in Das Rheingold for Pacific Winnipeg Symphony. She has recorded for Opera Victoria, Britten’s War Requiem with the the Canadian Art Song Project, with her Victoria Symphony, Senta in Der Fliegende group Casa Diva and is featured on the Holländer for Calgary Opera, Elisabetta in Don Millenium Gala CD from CBC. Carlos for Vancouver Opera and as Tosca for Pacific Opera Victoria. Concert credits include EXTRA MUSICIANS: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Momoko Matsumura, violin; Patrick Horn, National Arts Centre Orchestra,Vancouver viola; Laurel Ridd, flute; Laura MacDougall, Symphony,Winnipeg Symphony and the flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Detroit Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 Atkinson, clarinet; E-Chen Hsu, clarinet; Jim with Orchestre Metropolitain, Mahler’s Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harington, bassoon; Symphony No. 2 with the Calgary Donna Laube, celeste

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Beyond the Score® Enigma Variations Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gerard McBurney, creative director, Beyond the Score® Martha Gilmer, executive producer, Beyond the Score®

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor SOUNDBYTES Rob Herriot, actor Tom Soares, actor Donna Fletcher, actor Madeline Hildebrand, piano James Manishen, narrator Jennifer Parr, production stage director

Beyond the Score® Presentation

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Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma” Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Variation I (C.A.E.) – Variation II (H.D. D.-P) – Variation III (R.B.T.) – Variation IV (W.M.B.) – Variation V (R.P.A.) – Variation VI (Ysobel) – Variation VII (Troyte) – Variation VIII (W.N.) – Variation IX (Nimrod) – Variation X (Dorabella): Intermezzo – Variation XI (G.R.S.) – Variation XII (B.G.N.) – Variation XIII (***): Romanza – Variation XIV (E.D.U.): Finale

Saturday, March 5 7:30 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Saturday, 6:45 p.m. Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 11 SOUNDBYTES ARTIST BIOS Beyond the Score® - Elgar: Enigma Variations

Rob Herriot, actor Donna Fletcher, actor Canadian stage Donna Fletcher is an director/singer/actor Rob accomplished director, actor, Herriot has directed singer, and concert performer productions of The Magic with a wide range of national Flute,The Mikado,Tosca, experience in theatre, musical Pirates of Penzance, Daughter theatre, and symphonic work. of the Regiment and HMS Pinafore for Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received Edmonton Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, her early training in Winnipeg and earned a La Boheme, Carmen, Rigoletto (Manitoba Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance Opera), La Traviata (Opera Hamilton), from the University of Manitoba, a diploma Carmen (Arizona Opera), Don Pasquale in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for (Opera Hamilton, Connecticut Opera, the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Manitoba Opera, Utah Opera). Other Performance from The University of Toronto. productions include Albert Herring, She has performed with the Winnipeg Marriage of Figaro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Schicci. Rob also works extensively with Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and was Calgary Opera as a returning director for featured on the CBC Radio’s Saturday their main stage and Emerging Artist Afternoon at the Opera. Donna’s most recent shows. Recent productions include Pirates credits include the Mother Superior in of Penzance, Candide and Barber of Seville. Rainbow Stage’s Sister Act and Desiree He has also performed in productions of Armfeldt in Dry Cold Production’s upcoming South Pacific, Music Man and Annie with May, 2016 production of the Sondheim Rainbow Stage and productions of classic A Little Night Music. She is a Sessional Sweeney Todd, A Man of No Importance and Voice and Musical Theatre Instructor at the Addams Family with Dry Cold Productions University Of Manitoba Marcel Desautels here in Winnipeg. Faculty of Music and the University of Winnipeg Theatre Department. Tom Soares, actor This is the second time Tom Madeline Hildebrand, piano has worked as an actor with Madeline’s passion for piano the WSO. He appeared as music recently culminated in the eccentric Mozart in a Master of Piano Performance celebration of Mozart's from UBC under the tutelage 250th birthday and is of distinguished Canadian delighted to be back.Tom has his MFA in pianist, Jane Coop. Previously Acting from York University and is a voice she earned a performance degree with and speech specialist and instructor at the Judy Kehler Siebert at University of University of Winnipeg's Department of Manitoba, where she received the Theatre and Film. He has acted in theatre Millennium Scholarship.The opportunities and film and some credits include: Quo afforded her have been many and Vadis (That Way Productions), Annie exhilarating, including the prestigious Doris (Rainbow Stage), Little Women, Urinetown McLellan first prize for solo performance (Dry Cold Productions), Much Ado About with the WSO in 2012. Madeline has been Nothing (RMTC), as well as Measure for awarded scholarships to study with such Measure and Troilus and Cressida (Tom-Tom luminaries as André Laplante, John Perry Theatre).

12 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 ARTIST BIOS and Gilbert Kalish through Orford, Banff, Since 2011, Jennifer has been the resident Icicle Creek and Kneisel Hall, Maine. Besides Production Stage Director for the Chicago performances at home and on the west Symphony’s Beyond the Score® coast, highlights have included the 2013 E- productions in Canada including gré national competition, premiers at Beethoven 5 and Dvorˇák From the New Manitoba’s Cluster festival, collaborations World with the Montreal Symphony, with Randolph Peters, a House Concert Tchaikovsky à l’heure de multimédia and Il Series across the prairies, the Eastern Était une Fois Elgar with l’Orchestre European Cultural Festival in Romania, and Symphonique de Québec, and The Rite of accompanying Canada’s National Youth Spring,The Miraculous Mandarin and Choir. Tchaikovsky 4 with the Toronto Symphony.

James Manishen, narrator Jennifer most recently directed an James Manishen is a acclaimed all-female production of longstanding figure in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at Toronto’s Red Manitoba's music Sandcastle Theatre and the Canadian community. He joined the concert premiere of Brian Current & Anton WSO as a clarinetist in 1966 Piatigorsky’s opera Airline Icarus for Maniac and holds a Master of Music Star. degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He was the classical EXTRA MUSICIANS: music columnist for the Winnipeg Free Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Press and CBC broadcaster; hosting his Allen Harrington, bassoon; Tony Cyre, own national radio show and appearing on percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion many other music shows as host, writer, and commentator. As a writer, he has been published in every major Canadian music journal plus international journals Gramophone, Stereo Review and others. As an adjudicator, he has judged the Canadian Music Competitions, the JUNO awards and many others.

Jennifer Parr, production stage director Jennifer is delighted to be returning to work with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as Production Stage Director for The Elgar Variations - Beyond the Score®, having previously directed four other BTS shows with the WSO: Beethoven 5, Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Dvorˇák From the New World.

NovemberFebruary – December– March 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 13 7 WE TAKE PEOPLE PLACES. BUT IT’S MUSIC THAT TRULY MOVES THEM. Official airline of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. The Best of Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright, singer-songwriter

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor SOUNDBYTES AIR CANADA POPS

Candide: Overture Leonard Bernstein April Fools Art Teacher This Love Affair Beauty Mark Maker Makes Vibrate A Woman’s Face Lyrics by Shakespeare Matinée Idol Who Are You New York

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All songs by Rufus Wainwright unless otherwise noted.

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MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Friday, 7:15 p.m. Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts Cello Ensemble Saturday, 7:15 p.m. St. Germain Music Studio Sunday, 1:15 p.m. Manitoba Chapter of Canadian Music Competition: Provincial Competitors

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 15 AIR CANADA POPS ARTIST BIOS The Best of Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, one of five-movement song cycle that sets the great male vocalists, Shakespeare’s “Sonnets” to orchestra and voice. songwriters and Last Fall saw the Deutsche Grammophon release composers of his of a double CD/vinyl recording of Prima Donna generation, has released with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche seven studio albums, Grammophon will also be releasing an album three DVDs, and three of Shakespeare Sonnets set to Rufus’ music in live albums. He has collaborated with artists Spring 2016 in celebration of the 400th ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Mark Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach.

His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London,Toronto and BAM in New York. In 2010,Wainwright was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony to compose and interpret “Five Shakespeare Sonnets,” a

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Carmina Burana

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Andriana Chuchman, soprano 1, 2 Adam Sperry, tenor 2 Michael Nyby, baritone 1, 2 CLASSICS Mennonite Festival Chorus 1, 2, Janet Brenneman & Rudy Schellenberg, co-directors Canadian Mennonite University Chorus 2 Winnipeg Boys’ Choir 2, Carolyn Boyes, director

Golden Harvest 1 Larysa Kuzmenko (b. 1956) Words by Talia Zajac Part I: Journey Part II: Struggle Part III: Settlement

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Carmina Burana 2 Carl Orff (1895-1982)

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (“Fortune, Empress of the World”) I. Primo Vere (“Spring-time”) II. In Taberna (“In the Tavern”) III. Cour d’Amours (“Court of Love”) Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

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NovemberFebruary – December– March 2016 2011 I I OVERTUREOVERTURE 1719 7 inform Ukrainians about the true church and its morals in favour PROGRAM NOTES conditions of life in the Prairies were of the lustiness of everyday life by James Manishen hampered by the fact that encouraging were found.Written by a band emigration was prohibited by law in the of presumed ecclesiastics, the Golden Harvest Austro-Hungarian Empire. poems depicted a vivid if likely Larysa Kuzmenko literary view of medieval life set b.Toronto / January 23, 1956 Once in Canada, Ukrainian pioneers in an amorphous language with Composed: 2015 faced hardships ranging from disease some primitive notation World premiere and starvation on their homesteads to indicating that some were sung. xenophobia.This xenophobia Under the title of Carmina The oratorio culminated in the internment of over Burana (“Songs of Beuren”), the Golden 8,000 Ukrainians from 1914 to 1920 in poems were published in 1847 Harvest forced labour camps, and the by Johann Andreas Schmeller. (“Zoloty registration of over 80,000 others (the Zhnyva”/ “La majority of whom were Ukrainians) as When Orff discovered the lyrics moisson “enemy aliens”who had to carry identity in the 1930s he immediately Talia Zajac & Larysa Kuzmenko dorée”) papers with them and report to the saw its theatrical potential, chronicles the journey of one family, police on a regular basis. Despite this originally figuring on a symbolic of all Ukrainian pioneers, who discrimination, thousands of Ukrainians spectacle for the stage but with made the difficult decision to leave still volunteered to serve in Canada’s costumes sets and scenery behind all that was familiar and dear to armed forces during the First World War, stripped away. Philosophically, them in order to build a better life in including Filip Konowal, who was Orff wanted to fuse the intellect Canada. Between 1891 and 1914, awarded the Victoria Cross for his with the primal creative spirit of approximately 200,000 Ukrainians made bravery. the poems, establishing a the similar decision to flee poverty, tension in the story to be felt military conscription, and cultural and The oratorio chronicles these hardships through structural simplicity, religious discrimination in the Austro- and achievements in three archetypal primitive rhythmic energy and Hungarian Empire, which then occupied moments, which reflect the universal immediately impactful melody. western Ukraine. experience of all immigrants coming to Orff’s idea was to draw listeners Canada: their journey, their struggle, and to their instinctual awareness of Following the completion of the finally their settlement in their new land. “oneness with the universe.”The Canadian Pacific Railroad, Sir Clifford The piece culminates in a celebration of experience was to be viscerally Sifton, the minister responsible for the “Golden Harvest”Ukrainians brought felt, without any traces of immigration under the government of to Canada: a harvest of precious wheat Romantic symphonic argument Sir Wilfred Laurier, looked to Ukraine for and uncountable cultural wealth. or rich orchestral timbre. peasant farmers to open the Prairies. European shipping companies who - Talia Zajac Whether a Medieval play on brought over Ukrainian immigrants morals, a set of risqué songs, a received payment from the Canadian Carmina Burana philosophical statement or a government. As a result, these Carl Orff blending of all of these, Carmina companies tried to get as many b. Munich, Germany / July 10, 1895 Burana is immensely entertaining. immigrants as possible onto Canadian- d. Munich / March 29, 1982 As the poems had no known bound ships.They presented an Composed: 1935-1936 associating music, Orff’s settings idealized version of life in Canada First performance: December 8, 1937 of the 24 he chose are all through leaflets, newspaper (Frankfurt), conducted by Bertil original. advertisements, and a network of Wetzelberger agents going from village to village, The work has a prologue and an Last WSO performance: 2013; Alexander epilogue that flank three large often disguised as peddlers. Since Mickelthwate, conductor Ukrainian has no word for “homestead,” sections.While these sections advertisements for immigrants The texts of Orff’s wildly proclaim the libidinous songs of translated this word loosely as “farm,” energetic and enormously lusty life, the prologue and and many settlers came to Canada popular Carmina Burana epilogue (containing the same thinking that they would have a ready- came from the discovery music) warn against indulgent built home on arrival. in 1803 of a 13th-century living, the chorus standing as codex among the the bond to eternal morality at Having spent all of their money on the holdings of the abbey of Benediktbeuren, the outset and the close. As the voyage, they arrived in shock on the in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. wheel of fate turns (“Fortuna Prairies to find that they had to build a Some 200 secular poems satirizing the Imperatrix Mundi”), so too can it shelter in the wilderness. Efforts to grind sensual pleasure to dust.

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français. 20 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 November – December 2011 I OVERTURE 7 CLASSICS ARTIST BIOS Carmina Burana

Larysa Kuzmanko, composer Talia Zajac would like to dedicate these Larysa Kuzmenko is a Toronto- performances to the memory of her based composer, pianist, and grandparents: Ludmilla and Evhen Makaryk, JUNO nominee. Her works have and Volodymyr and Melania Zajac. been published by Boosey and Hawkes, commissioned, Andriana Chuchman, soprano performed, broadcast and This season, soprano Andriana recorded by many outstanding musicians all Chuchman makes her debuts over the world. Some prominent ensemble and at the Los Angeles Opera as soloists who have performed her works Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and include: the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Opera as Magnolia directed by Peter Oundjian and Jukka-Pekka in Show Boat, and returns to Saraste; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di directed by Bramwell Tovey; Thunder Bay Figaro. She also sings Handel's Messiah with Symphony Orchestra, directed by Jeffrey the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Orff's Moule; the Gryphon Trio; the Composer’s Carmina Burana and the world premiere of Orchestra, directed by Gary Kulesha; pianists Larysa Kuzmenko's Golden Harvest with the Anton Kuerti and Christina Petrowska-Quilico; Winnipeg Symphony, and appears in recital cellist Shauna Rolston and the New Hampshire in Toronto. Philharmonic, directed by Mark Latham. Her works demonstrate a strong affinity towards In concert, Ms. Chuchman has appeared with the mainstream of classical music. She imbues the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in her music with a strong melodic sense, and a performances of the Brahms Requiem, the firm rooting in traditional, albeit extended Rhode Island Philharmonic in Orff's Carmina tonal processes. She is currently on staff at the Burana, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where in Mahler's Symphony No. 4, the Ravinia she teaches piano and composition. Festival as a guest on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, and with the Talia Zajac, librettist International Music Foundation of Chicago in Talia Zajac is currently performances of Handel’s Messiah. completing her PhD in medieval history at the University of In her native Canada, Ms. Chuchman recently Toronto. Her poetry has made her debut at the Canadian Opera appeared in a number of Company as Olympia in Les Contes Canadian magazines, including d’Hoffmann. She has also appeared at the Audeamus, Contemporary Verse 2,The Toronto Edmonton Opera as Yum-Yum and Marie in Quarterly, the Hart House Review, Misunderstandings La Fille du Regiment, and at the Manitoba Magazine, Carousel, and NoD Magazine. In 2010 Opera as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Concert her story Dinner at the Sandstone Hotel was performances have included engagements featured in an anthology of works by young with the Toronto Symphony, Prince George writers, Writing Without Direction: Ten and a Half Symphony, and the Winnipeg Symphony Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under Thirty Orchestra. (Clark-Nova Books). Driven by constant curiosity and a sense of wonder, writing has been her life-long passion.

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Adam Sperry, tenor Opera in Concert of Toronto. Adam Sperry is currently in Recent and upcoming engagements his fourth year of vocal include Carmina Burana for the Victoria performance at the Symphony, Danilo in The Merry Widow with Desautels Faculty of Music. Edmonton Opera, and performances with Adam grew up immersed in the Windsor Symphony (La Boheme and the Manitoban choral Messiah), Kingston Symphony,Thunder Bay culture and has developed a passion for Symphony (Carmina Burana), and Niagara opera, oratorio and art song during his Symphony (Gilbert and Sullivan Concert). He time at both the Canadian Mennonite was also featured with the Toronto University and The University of Manitoba. Operetta Theatre in Der Vetter aus Dingsda His performance highlights include and in Opera Atelier’s Der Freischütz. singing as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra last year in their 2014 Mennonite Festival Chorus, Holiday Express Tour throughout Southern Rudy Schellenberg, Janet Manitoba, performing Handel’s Messiah Brenneman, Co-directors and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with The Mennonite Festival Chorus (MFC) made Canzona, and performing in the University its debut in 1985 under the distinguished of Manitoba School Tour of The Brothers leadership of the late Robert Shaw, together Grimm. He is also looking forward to his with the WSO, in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches fourth year performance recital this Requiem. Following that auspicious coming April. Adam is incredibly grateful beginning, it twice appeared at the for his experiences thus far, and is excited International Choral Festival in Toronto with to perform with the WSO, again. the TSO: in 1989 with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Robert Shaw) and in 1993 with Michael Nyby, baritone Britten’s War Requiem (Bramwell Tovey). A native of Hamilton, Together with the WSO, the choir has Ontario, Canadian-American performed a great variety of works baritone Michael Nyby has including those of Mahler, Handel, Bach, performed with the Dvorˇák, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Arvo Pärt, Vancouver Opera, the Santa and Valentin Silvestrov. Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, the Caramoor Festival, Burnaby Lyric MFC has sung under the distinguished Opera, Opera Atelier,Theatre Aquarius, leadership of WSO music directors Bramwell Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Duluth Festival Tovey, Andrey Boreyko and Alexander Opera, and others. Mickelthwate, as well as guest conductors such as Helmut Rilling, Ivars Taurins and Recently, Mr. Nyby sang the world- Jane Glover. premiere of Georgia Bottoms, a comic opera set in modern day Alabama, with MFC is a highly select core of choristers the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama. from Winnipeg and surrounding World premieres in his future include communities, many of whom are regular Kuszmenko’s oratorio Golden Harvest for members of other choirs, including the Winnipeg Symphony and Isis and Osiris numerous alumni and present students of by Peter Anthony Togni for VOICEBOX: the Canadian Mennonite University.

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Canadian Mennonite University the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the RWB, Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg, Janet Canzona,The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, and Brenneman, Co-directors Camerata Nova. Music Director Carolyn Boyes The Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) conducts the Treble and Chamber Choruses and Chorus combine’s two of CMU’s premiere Spencer Duncanson conducts the changed voices ensembles, the CMU Women’s Chorus (Janet of the Senior Chorus.The choir is open by audition Brenneman, conductor) and the CMU Men’s to boys and young men from 8-18. Please join us Chorus (Rudy Schellenberg, conductor).These for our spring concert “The People Sing”—an auditioned choirs are comprised of students evening of traditional songs from many lands and from a variety of academic programs at CMU contemporary music written on the theme of and perform regularly in worship and in concert human rights—on 15 April 2016 at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. See our website at across Manitoba. Known for their innovative winnipegboyschoir.ca for more information. programming, energy, and enthusiasm, these choirs perform demanding repertoire that EXTRA MUSICIANS: represents their commitment to exploring a Momoko Matsumura, violin; Linda Umbrico, viola; global context in close relation to the music of Laura MacDougall, flute; Sarah Jeffrey, oboe; their Christian heritage and faith.Together, the Ross Edwards, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; CMU Women and Men’s choirs host the annual Allen Harrington, bassoon; Gabe Radford, horn; CMU Choral Connections and can be heard Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; regularly on Golden West Broadcasting Brendan Thompson, percussion; Donna Laube, throughout southern Manitoba. Past keyboard; Earl Stafford, keyboard performances with the WSO include the the world premiere of T. Patrick Carrabre’s Creation Stories, Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata Seid Nuchtern und Wachet, Christos Hatzis’ Sepulcher of Life, Glen Buhr’s Symphony No. 3, John Tavener’s Requiem, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem, and Giya Kancheli’s Styx.

Winnipeg Boys’ Choir, Carolyn Boyes, director

The Winnipeg Boys’ Choir (WBC) is an auditioned group dedicated to high-quality music making and vocal training in a convivial atmosphere. Founded in 1925, the choir has for decades delighted audiences with music in many genres and languages. In recent years,WBC ensembles have been invited to perform with many of our city’s finest arts organizations, including the WSO,

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Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra

Julian Pellicano, conductor Matthew Fletcher, narrator KIDS CONCERTS GREAT-WEST LIFE GREAT-WEST

Boléro Maurice Ravel Symphony No. 5: Movement I Ludwig van Beethoven Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland On Sprengisandur Sigvaldi Kaldalóns Maxi s Song Hallfrídur Ólafsdóttir

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Matthew Fletcher, narrator Select credits: As an active actor and musician, WSO: E.T.A. Hoffmann Beethoven's Fifth: Beyond The Matthew is rooted in vocal Score®.Theatre: JD Heathers (WST), Earthworm technique, theatrical James And The Giant Peach (MTYP), Marius conceptualization and musical Pontmercy Les Misérables (Rainbow), U/S exploration. Pursuing a career in Enjolras/Cast Les Misérables (Drayton), Robbie Fay performance from age seven, he A Man of No Importance (Dry Cold), Moritz Stiefel strives to explore the classics and Spring Awakening (Griffin, Chicago Premiere). develop/broaden modern perceptions of Film/TV:T.R.Tilden The Pinkertons (Buffalo theatre and music. A proud graduate of Gal/Rosetta), Master Class Participant Triple Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Sensation (CBC). He thanks friends and family for Music in Vocal and Opera Performance and a their continued support. Certificate of Musical Theatre. EXTRA MUSICIAN: Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe

28 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 The Women’s Committee of the

Brunch on Sunday April 17, 2016 Delta Hotel 350 St. Mary Avenue. Time 10:30 a.m. Tickets $65 (partial tax receipt) Entertainment I Silent Auction I Door prize

Tickets Available at the Music Stand at WSO concerts or from Shirley Loewen 204 269 1912 ([email protected]) WMC McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the WSO

The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg is proud to announce the 2016 semi-finalists in the WMC McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Coded entry MP3s were adjudicated online by six professional musicians, and the following 12 semi-finalists (in alphabetical order) were chosen to audition:

Natalie Dawe, cello Jason Klippenstein, baritone Daniel Tselyakov, piano Everett Hopfner, piano Gregory Lewis, violin Paul Williamson, piano Zander Howard-Scott, cello Anne-Marie MacIntosh, soprano Caitlin Wood, soprano Jaena Kim, flute Jesse Plessis, piano Tony Zhou, piano

The competition is open to advanced Manitoba musicians pursuing performance careers in all disciplines including voice. It offers a unique rehearsal and performance opportunity with the WSO for emerging classical musicians, as well as a substantial financial award.

Semi-final auditions take place on Saturday March 26, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Admission: $10 at the door (no admission during an audition).

Final Competition Concert with the WSO and the Award Ceremony will take place Friday, April 22, 2016, 7:30 pm at Jubilee Place Auditorium. The three finalists will appear in performance with the WSO, and will be ranked by another set of adjudicators. A thrilling finish to a great competition!

Tickets are $30 from McNally Robinson Booksellers, WSO box office, or at the door. Students (with ID cards) $5, at the door only. For further information: 204-944-9431 www.womensmusicalclubofwpg.ca

30 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 WSO SUPPORTERS In Memory of Peter D. Curry MAJOR GIFTS Black Tie DeFehr Foundation Mr. Austin Abas The WSO gratefully Nita Eamer Memorial Fund Ms. Sandra Altner acknowledges the following Francofonds Inc. Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper patrons for their generous Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Shibashis Bal Fund support to the orchestra. Mr. Jim Barrett The WSO gratefully acknowledges Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the Timothy & Barbara Burt Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer the following companies whose Winnipeg Foundation Art & Leona Defehr Mrs. Lucienne Blouw generous support helps to ensure George Warren Keates Memorial W. H. Loewen Doneta & Harry Brotchie musical enrichment within our Fund Mr. John T. McGoey Ms. Patricia Chaychuk community. 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Mildren Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Ho V Huynh Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori Mrs. Jocelyn Millard Patrick Wright Ishbel Isaacs Mrs. Noreen Greenberg Peter Miller & Carolyn Garlich Mr. Edwin Yee Bob & Vi Jacob Marj Grevstad Carolyn Garlich and Peter Miller Donn K.Yuen Peter & Dora Janzen Irene Groot-Koerkamp & Greg Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz 23 Anonymous Pat Jarrett Edmond Margaret Morse Sonatina Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Rodica Jeffrey Marjorie & Kenneth Grower Mrs. Joan Ann Morton Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Susan Allen Bryan Johnson Katie & DeLloyd Guth John & Margaret Mundie Dr. Karen L. Johnson Mr. Patrick Hackett D. Munro Jacqueline Anderson Heather Baker Mr.Tim Kasprick Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Leesa Munroe Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Miss Marilyn Hall Charlotte Murrell Mrs. Eva Berard Norma Bortoluzzi Dr. Birte Klug Irene Hamerton David & Hermine Olfert Ray Knowles Teresa A. Hay Truus Oliver Mrs. Diane Brine Barbara Bryant-Anstie Jim Komishon Jane Hayakawa Miss Jenny Olynyk Alfred Buelow Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Larry & Evelyn Hecht Ms. Nettie Peters Sheila Burland Rhoda Kravetsky Millie Hemmelgarn Mrs. Helene Picton Ms. Rosemary Butterworth Janet and Tim Kroeker Mrs. Carolyn Henry Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Mr. Gerald Callow Mrs. Audrey Krushel Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ms. Beth Proven Ruth Calvert Ms. Betty Laing Max & Eleanor Herst Mrs. Nell Provinciano Andrea Charron Elizabeth Lansard Ms. Shirley Hicks Juta Rathke Ella Chenkie Wayne & Helen LeBlanc February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 35 Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle Tyler Gompf Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Stefan Gordienko Katrina Limberatos Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Mrs. Joyce Manwaring Komlodi Mr. Allan Mapes The WSO gratefully Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Share the Music is an Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Cornelia Marcil acknowledges the following Ms. Helen Hawrysh outreach initiative that allows Mrs. Irene Marriott patrons whose foresight helps Marilyn & Helios Hernandez economically disadvantaged children and their families to Ms. Carol Masse to ensure long-term financial Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Hildebrand attend WSO performances. Ms. Kimberley McCallum support for the WSO. Kim Jeremic Peter Jessiman Ms. Susan McCarthy Katherine Devine & George Andrich Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Ellen & Harry Johnson Terri L. McKerchar Ms. Margaret Barbour Stephen Choy & Gina Yoo Koren & Leonard Kaminski Ardythe McMaster Ralph & Eileen Baxter Mr. Ray Davis Ms. Jose Koes Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart Bernice Blakeman Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda Konstantinos & Chrysoula M. Mohr Mrs. Lucienne Blouw, in Memory of Donald Kotoulas Nancy Morgan Gijsbert Crielaard Helene Dyck Sotirios Kotoulas Theda Olson Ms. Patricia Bozyk Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham Kozub/Halldorson Family Mrs. Clarice Owen Sheila & David Brodovsky Eugene Boychuk & Daniel Heindl Dr. Thomas G Kucera Shirley & Graham Padgett Ms. Carol Budnick Sonjia Pasiechnik Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ron Lambert Marilynne Keil in Memory of Eileen & Ted Darell Plummer Ms. Veronica L. Larmour David H. Skinner Shelley Chochinov Ms. Clare Pollock Hideo Mabuchi Brent Mazur Ray Cloutier in Memory of Gijsbert Cristian Popescu Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Ms. Edna Poulter Crielaard Ken & Geri Porath Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean Grant & Janet Saunders Joan C. Cohen Mr. Guy Prokopetz Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Mr. & Mrs. James & Claudia M. & G. Crielaard Mrs. Glennys Propp Lori Marks Weselake Dr. & Mrs. Harold Diamond Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Mr. Frank Martin James & Claudia Weselake Doreen Docking Mrs. Avis Raber Brent Mazur Women's Committee of the Ms. Enid Durward Mrs. Charlotte Redekopp Allison McPhee Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Shaun Dyck In memory of Gijsbert Ms. Pat Repa The A. K. Menkis Medical Women's Committee of the Crielaard Ms. Patricia G. Ritchie Corporation Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Mr. & Ms. John Edwards Gisela Roger Ron & Sandi Mielitz , in Memory of Vera Gorlick Don & Martha Epstein Mrs.V. Rosolowich Ms. Sheila Miller Women's Committee of the Kathy Feader Rory Runnells Ingrid & Lothar Moehlmann Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon John & Shirley Russell Margaret Moroz in Memory of Norma Bingeman Matthew Narvey Dr. Leeann Fishback Leonore Saunders O.M. Women's Committee of the Michael Narvey Dorothy Flight Kay Schalme Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Michael Nesbitt Mrs. Louise Friesen William Scheidt in Memory of Maria Michalak Mikaela Oldenkamp Mrs. Joyce Fyke Mrs. Edna Schneider 2 Anonymous Mr. Chris Pearce Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert Izzy Shore Lesia Peet George & Carol Gamby Mrs. Marie Sichler Conmoto Margaret & Peter Peters Francois Gauvin Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Cheryl Janzen & Randolph Peters The Staff of GD5 in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Kathleen Polischuk & Richard Gijsbert Crielaard Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Derksen Mr. Richard Gillanders Muriel Sutherland Greystone Managed Investments Inc. Alpha Masonry Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Ms. Marguerite Szymesko B. & R. Hall Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Tippett-Pope Ms. Melinda Tallin Teresa A. Hay Mrs. Alison Baldwin Mrs. Victoria Ramnawaj Mary Lou Talmage Larry & Evelyn Hecht Mr. R.D. Bell Bill & Pat Reid Gladys Tarala Monique Henderson David & Gillian Bird Majid & Moti Shojania Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Katherine Himelblau Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar Pam Simmons Ms. Anne Thiessen Dorothy L. Hodgson Jackie Brignall Muriel Smith Mrs. Roseline Usiskin Mrs. Katherine Hoeppner Kevin Burns Carrie Solmundson Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Huynh Van Ho Sel & Chris Burrows Terrell Stephen Denis Vincent Ms. Marlene Stern Ms. Margaret Jeffries Miss A. H.Wagstaffe Timothy & Barbara Burt David Carr Jon Stewart Mr. & Mrs. C Jenkins Mr. Gordon Walkty Margaret & Hartley Stinson Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace Jill Carr & Alex Snukal Ms. Anne Cholakis Sally Sweatman Marilyn Kapitany E. Sylvia Warrington Brenda Taylor Mrs. Karen Kaplen Mr. Glen Angus Webster Lara Ciekiewicz Kathy & David Connor Fenella & Ray Temmerman Kevin & Els Kavanagh Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weidman Tetrem Capital Management Ursula & Sandor Kelemen Snjolaug Whiteway Mr. Peter Czaplinski M. Donald in Honour of Mr. T. Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Ms. Mary Klassen Ms. Lorraine Willms Mr. Curt Vossen Sandra Kneller Mrs. Margaret Wilson Wong & Family Ravi Dookeran Ms. Meeka Walsh Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Terrie Woodward Snjolaug Whiteway Frances Lemieux 18 Anonymous Mrs. Ann England Robert Enright Karin Woods Ms. Marion Lewis Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann Dr. Judith Littleford Wendy Gale 3 Anonymous Dr. Brendan MacDougall

36 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 Dr. Sabine Mai Conmoto Mrs. Cynthia Dutton Elaine & Neil Margolis James & Faye Alward in Honour of Linda Edel C & V Martens Margot J. Alward Judge Judith Elliott Mr. Peter Martin James & Faye Alward in Memory of Connie Epp Reina and Mark McDowell - in Memory Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily Benjamin John West Flynn Kathleen & David Estey of Gijsbert Crielaard after-school program that Mr. Barry Anderson Ms. Fruma Farago Jean & Mike McIlrath enriches the lives of children In Memory of Lois Anderson Rick & Julie Fast Mr. Sheldon Leonard McLeod and young people with the Ms. Hollie I. Andrew Denzil Feinberg CFP R.F.P. Mrs. Jose Meers fewest resources and the Ms. Hollie I. Andrew in Memory of Ben In Memory of Ben Flynn Flynn Ms. Judith Flynn Ms. Pat Michalski greatest need. Betty & Ted Ash Mr. Peter Flynn L & D Mitchell Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Mr. Verland Force M. Mohr Honourary Chair John Balsillie Margo Foxford Margaret Moroz in Memory of Gijsbert Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Ms. Angelica Banmann Albert & Luisa Friesen Crielaard Brenda Batzel Gisaya Gahungu Maestoso Vera Moroz Ralph & Eileen Baxter Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Bill & Hilda Muir Burns Foundation Jean & John Beaver in Memory of Diane Gerhard Celebrating the Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko RBC Foundation Benjamin Flynn Marriage of Marlene and Jerry M. Nancy Lynn O'Brien Richardson Foundation Marissa Becker Gary Gervais D Ogale Aaron Benarroch Dr. Lisa Gould Truus Oliver Vivace Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC Ms. Barbara Graham Sam O. Boeing Canada Winnipeg Ms. Diane Bewell Mr. Bruce Granove Mrs. Alice Oswald Cavalia Inc. Ameet Bharaj Bobbi-Lynn Haegeman Pat Patterson George Weston Limited Helen & Henry Bially in Memory of Alison Hall Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Michael Nesbitt Benjamin John West Flynn Stephen & Barbara Hamilton Piston Ring The Pollard Family Foundation Cathy Bilyk Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Ms. Clare Pollock The Thomas Sill Foundation Michael Bingham Harvard Property Management Inc. / Ms. Rose Popowich Dr. Catalena Birek 201 Portage Ltd. Rosemary & Walter Prychodko Con Brio Gwen Birse Ms. Rhue Hayden Bryan Bjerring In Memory of Lydia Hedrich Pat and Bill Reid Michael S Gray Fund Benjamin Flynn Ms. Donna Herold Ms. Lyse Remillard Souchay Gossen Family Foundation Sally Boulding Katherine Himelblau Tannis Richardson In Memory of Kenneth Hrynchuk Paul & Doreen Bromley Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Glen Pierce Don & Joceline Ringach, Pamela The Winnipeg Foundation - George Doneta & Harry Brotchie Debby and Brian Hirsch Ringach & Chris Jordan and Tannis Richardson Fund Tim & Joelle Brown Vladimir Hlas David & Elena Roberts Sanford & Deborah Riley Ms. Coralie Bryant Cathy Horbas Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sagert Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Mrs. Donna Bryk William J. Hutton Olive Sayers Don & Lorraine Swanson Mrs. Dee Buchwald P. Ilavsky Your HR Support Co. Ms. Lorelei Bunkowsky Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin & Jeanette Jackson Mr. Walter Silicz Allegro Dominador Calpatura Mrs. Miriam Jaeger Mrs. Roslyn Silver Assiniboine Credit Union Amihan P. Camacho James & Margaret Jeffries Ms. Brenda Sklar Ms. Judith Flynn Mrs. Audrey Campbell Bruce & Theresa Johnson Debbie Smith Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in Gordon & Ann Campbell Nancy Johnson Ms. Deborah Spracklin Memory of Benjamin John Mr. Alan Cantor Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones in Herbert Stewart West Flynn Ms. Darlene J. Chimilar Memory of Ben Flynn Mrs. Joan Swaffer Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Minna Chung Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund Ms. Ruth Swan Dr. David Lyttle Margaret Clarke in Memory of Ben at the Strategic Charitable Giving Flynn Foundation Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Ron & Sandi Mielitz Michael Cobus & Christine Ms. Nadia Kamienski Dr. Teresa Sztaba Linda Moore in Remembrance Wigglesworth Kevin & Els Kavanagh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tapscott of Anastasia Moore Bette Jayne Taylor Joan C. Cohen Ron Koswin Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund, Russell & Joan Colnett in Memory of Harry & Shirley Kowalchuk James & Marlene Taylor Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Benjamin John West Flynn Peter Krahn Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Lily Conway in Memory of Benjamin Bryon Devries & Diane Lau Mrs. Bonnie E Thiessen in Memory of Sanford & Deborah Riley John West Flynn Chapel Lawn Funeral Home Gijsbert Crielaard Ms. Charlotte Robbins Gerald Corr Zandra Lea in Honour of Paul and Ms. Mia Timmermans Sandra & Harvey Secter Family Cathy & Roger Coss Pamela Connolly Ms. Melita Tonogai Fund, Jewish Foundation Mrs. Diane Coughlin Nancy LeBlond Fran & Estela Violago of Manitoba Barbara Crow Melanie & Craig Leonhardt E. Sylvia Warrington Moira Swinton & Bernie Leveille Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Barbara Crow Lovie Liewicki Professor A.M.C. Waterman Jan and Jim Tennant F. De Grazia Helen Litz Bruno Zimmer E.Toews Melissa Delaronde Ms. Margaret Looney in Memory of 20 Anonymous Faye Warren N. Denboer Ben Flynn Winnipeg Regional Health Mr. Roger Dennis in Memory of Mr. Ms. Leona MacDonald Ben Flynn Ms. Lorraine MacIboric Authority Ms. Lucy De Sousa Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John J. 3 Anonymous Drs. Diana & Dhali Dhaliwal March and His Parents Judy Doctoroff Kathleen Malone In Memory of Diane Dowling James Manishen Bob Dueck and Joan Duerksen Manitoba Association of School

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 37 Superintendents Mrs. Jeanne Romanoski ANNUAL CAMPAIGN Crystal & Günter Jochum Elaine & Neil Margolis Sheryl Rosenberg J. H. Kaminsky Maylanne Maybee in Memory of Jay Ross The WSO gratefully Henry Katz in Memory of Dena Benjamin John West Flynn Penny Rossman acknowledges the following Dr. Maureen Kilgour Mrs. Mary McCormick Joan Sabourin patrons whose generosity Ken Kinsley Ross Meacham Edward Sale in Memory of Benjamin helped to support orchestral Frances R. Kolt Ms. Linda Meckling John West Flynn music in our community. Mona Koropatnick Linda Meckling In Memory of Corazon Saquilayan Ms. Sylvia L. Barr Paul Kosowan Alan Blanchette Nicola Schaefer Dianne J. Beaven Ms. Jacki Koven Linda Lee-Meiers & Matt Meiers Barbara Scheuneman F. Bell Ms. Janet Kuchma Lorna Mendoza Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Monty & Mary-Claire Bell Elizabeth Lansard Rita & Don Menzies Foundation Marjorie Blankstein Don Lawrence Mr. Peter Mertins Gaylene Schroeder-Nishimura Mr. Norman Leathers Trish Minish Trudy Schroeder Helga & Gerhard Bock Frances Booth P. M. Litwin Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Kathleen Schubert Meiya Liu G.F. (Rick) Morgan Betty & Sam Searle Ms. Bev Bosiak Wendy Broadfoot Roger Lowe Mr. Rick Morgan Marilyn & Jon Seguire Grant MacDougall Francine Morin Ms. Mary Semanowich Greg & Sylvia Brodsky Lydia MacKenzie Margaret Moroz, in Memory of Ben Olga & Myron Shatulsky Dolores P. Brommell Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Moroz Ms. Selma Shearer Ms. Carol Budnick Barbara Main Mrs. Norma Morris Wayne Shimizu Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Mr. Allan Mapes Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Roger Simoens Gerald Callow Aubrey Margolis Helena Jane Gahungu Christine Skene and Nick Logan Mrs. Audrey Campbell Ms. Nola McBurney Bob and Cindy Newfield Muriel Smith Mr. & Mrs. Carl & Donna Chambers Bob and Betty McCamis Mr. Robert Nix Michael Soriano Karen Couch Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Nostalgia Broadcasting Cooperative Wilma Sotas Dennis & Ruth Crook Ms. Claudette Novak Meg Specht Jean Cunningham Ms. Diane McGregor Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn Patricia Spencer and Thomas Osborn Ellen Curtis Sylvia Mitchell William & Linda Oakley in Memory of George Toles and Melissa Steele D. Cymbalist Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Ben Flynn Lynne Stefanchuk Piotr Czaykowski & Anne Worley D.E. Morrison Peter Obendoerfer Wally & Pat Stefanchuk Lena Donald Ms. Lillian Murphy Thomas Obendoerfer Pat & Wally Stefanchuk Mr. & Ms. Jim & Virginia Dyck Robert Nix Mr. Brian O'Leary Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Lisa Edel Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Ms. Anna Olson Patricia & Fletcher Stewart in Memory Scott & Margaret Edmonds Mr. Irwine Permut Margaret Owen of Benjamin John West Flynn Donna Ekerholm Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf R & J Palmer Szwajcer Family Connie Epp Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Theresa Parker Dr. Laura E. Targownik John B. & Katie Epp Mr. & Mrs. Barry Prentice Elizabeth Parry Caroline Taubensee Vera & Peter Fast David Punter Mr. David Pate Mary and Robert Thomas Rev. Brenda Ferguson Barbara M. Robertson Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of Ms. Phyllis A. C. Thomson Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Olga & Bill Runnalls Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary Rev. & Mrs. William & Molly Titus in Joan Fleming Barbara Scheuneman Kuran; In Honour of Beatrice Memory of Benjamin Flynn Miriam Fliegel A. Schroeder Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una Kuran Bill & Barb Toews Mrs. Gitta Fricke Dr. Robert Schroth Mrs. Jackie Paul Greg Tramley in memory of Dave Arnold & Myra Frieman Ken Schykulski Mr. Julian Pellicano Hunt Marian H. Friesen Mrs. Doreen Shanks Brenda Peterson Neil & Carol Trembath Robert & Monica Friesen Carl and Margaret Shaykewich Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Ms. Terry Trupp Arnold & Christa Froese Pam Simmons Mrs. Edna Poulter in Memory of Strang/van Ineveld Family George & Carol Gamby Ms. Debbie Spacklin Benjamin John West Flynn Gail Walker in Memory of Benjamin Mrs. A. Lee Gibson Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Stanton Ms. Lois Powne Flynn Mrs. Marie-Alice Grassick Mr. Herbert Stewart Thomas & Lorraine Prescott in Barbara Warrack Mr. Patrick Hackett Juris and Aija Svenne Memory of Ben Flynn The Waverley Tenant Association George Handyman Mrs. Joan Swaffer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott John & Diane Weselake Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Ms. Judith Thompson Mr. David Procner Steve West Ian & Gerry Hamilton Ms. Marilyn Thompson Dr. David Punter S Whitehouse L. Harasym Ms. Andrea Towers Catherine Purchase Don & Florence Whitmore Mrs. Susan Twaddle John & Violet Rademaker Grace M. Wiebe Teresa A. Hay Daniel Heindl & Eugene Boychuk Audrey Walker Mr. Carl Radimer Drs. Lora Cuddy & Mel Wiebe in Patricia Walker Dr. Diane Ramsey Memory of Benjamin Flynn L.G. Herd Terry Heron Mrs. Marilyn Weimer James Ray in memory of Henry Ray Ms. Edie Wilde Evelyn Wener Mrs. Marieann Reeves William Wilde Sanford Hildebrand Ms. Joan Wise Barbara Rempel Ms. Sid Williamson Ms. Susan Hildebrandt 17 Anonymous Tannis Richardson The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Peter Carole Holke Erin Risbey & Geraldine Spencer Fund Stella Hryniuk Listing as of January 28, 2016 David Guspodarchuk & Joey-Heather V Wowryk Vi Hultin Robertson Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Garry and Tamara Roehr Ms. Diane Zack Rudy & Gail Isaak Karen Romanoff 9 Anonymous Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki

38 OVERTURE I February – March 2016 PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL

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

February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 39 WSO BOARD & STAFF 2015-2016 SEASON

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

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

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

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