Music in the Parks Summer 2021

2021 Season At-a-Glance The Great Outdoors «» Sunday, July 18, 2021, 5:30pm - Lake Harriet Bandshell July 3, 7:30pm Pops Preview Potpourri July 4, 2:00pm Overture to Der Freischütz Carl Maria von Weber American Celebration July 11, 5:30pm Three Old American Songs Aaron Copland Little Women and Men The Boatman’s Dance July 17, 7:30pm Simple Gifts Beethoven Turns 250! I Bought Me a Cat July 18, 5:30pm The Great Outdoors July 20, 6:00pm Elliot Park On the Mall Edwin Franko Goldman The Great Outdoors July 24, 7:30pm Soliloquy from Carousel Richard Rodgers & Thank You, Heroes! Oscar Hammerstein II July 25, 5:30pm An Old-Fashioned Concert in Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 Johann Strauss II the Park August 1, 2:00pm Selections from Man of La Mancha Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion The People’s Choice arr. Lang

Man of La Mancha sponsored by Burt and Pops Trivia: Did you know? Sandy Hoverson in memory of Mark Weigel Former Pops Master of Ceremonies, Arnold Walker, Bradley Greenwald, baritone announced Pops concerts Jere Lantz, conductor and host for 25 years and later served on the Pops board. He created the Helen Rice and Arnold Walker scholarship at UMN after his wife, a singer, died in 2012.

Another Glorious Summer Season at Lake Harriet The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra brings to the Twin Cities community the power and pleasure of live orchestra concerts performed by professional musicians, free of charge. Pops Orchestra musicians can be heard in the off-season playing with the Minnesota Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Sinfonia, and other distinguished Twin Cities ensembles. Text MPLSPOPS to 44-321 to donate via your smartphone to help sustain this longstanding tradition! MINNEAPOLIS POPS ORCHESTRA Musicians Flute Trombone Violin II Kay Sahlin Larry Zimmerman Mark Bjork Sponsored by David & Sponsored by John Erickson Sponsored by Ken & Michele Alwin Hisao-Ping Ou-Yang and Rick Gaynor David Mickens Peggy Prowe Sponsored by Elizabeth Borg & Brenda Mickens Liz Gomoll David Stevens Lorie Hippen David Stevens Sponsored by Richard & Oboe Faith Wisland Merilee Klemp Tuba Troy Gardner Sponsored by Joe Hognander Warren Starr Dana Maeda Viola Tympani Coca Bochonko Clarinet Bob Adney Matthew Mindeman Shelley Hanson Sponsored by Karl Diekman Stella Anderson Sponsored by Ellis & Nancy Olkon Percussion Sponsored by Gene Weiss & Karl Diekman Mary Jane White and Kyle Cingi Sponsored by David Thomas & Erik Barsness Sponsored by Barb & Tran Alfrey Mark Anderson Jennifer Jewell Thomas Sponsored by Penny Bond & Bassoon Violin I Chuck Grimsrud Carole Smith Michal Sobieski Cello Sponsored by Holly MacDonald & Sponsored by Penny Bond & Joshua Koestenbaum Chuck Grimsrud and John Orbison Sponsored by Cynthia Stokes C. James & Barbara K. Kanter Laurie Merz Lucia Magney Julia Persitz Adrianna O’Brien French Horn Sponsored by Alberto & Anna Vasquez Neal Bolter Alexandra Ricart Charles Hodgson Conor O’Brien Bass Becky Jyrkas Huldah Niles Nancy Bjork Thomas Gullickson Sponsored by Robin Ou-Yang Sponsored by Carole Rydberg Emily Saathoff Connie Martin Trumpet Sponsored by Conor & Sponsored by Helene Haapala Lynn Erickson Adrianna O’Brien John Michael Smith Sponsored by Jane Cowles Zach Saathoff Conductor Takako Senn Sponsored by Robin Ou-Yang Jere Lanz Sponsored by Dr. Joan Madden Eric Olson Mark Adler Sponsored by Jim & Donna Peter Sponsored by Manny Laureano Our Generous Benefactors The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association is an This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota independent, nonprofit corporation, dedicated through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board to funding free concerts by the Minneapolis Pops and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to Orchestra. We are grateful for major support from a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural Target, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minnesota heritage fund. Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Thomson Reuters, Emerson, These programs are made possible by a grant from the Medtronic, and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund, Board. It is the generosity of corporations, foundations, which is funded by the recording industry. It has been government entities, and hundreds of individual donors arranged by Local 30-73 of the American Federation that sustains this remarkable Twin Cities tradition. of Musicians.