inTune, Magazine of the Saskatoon Symphony Vol 2, Issue 4.2 by Michael McCoy

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Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia

The “singer’s singer is doing it his way.

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Contents

simply sinatra with steve lippia

Conexus Pops Series – May 4, 2013

Richard Carnegie guest conductor Steve Lippia vocalist Presented by PotashCorp

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Gyro Productions Masters Series – May 18, 2013

Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Michael Kim piano Sponsored by SaskPower Buy tickets, order subscriptions, get more information:

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© Saskatoon Symphony & contributors Publisher: Saskatoon Symphony Society 408 20th St W Saskatoon SK S7M 0X4 Ph: 306.665.6414 office@saskatoonsymphony.org www.saskatoonsymphony.org Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please send to marketing@saskatoonsymphony.org or contact the SSO office. Program advertising: Mike Covey, mike@mcmedia21.ca Photos: Trudy Janssens - Photography One 2 One, Mike McCoy, others contributed. Printed in Canada. Concert details subject to change without notice.

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Violin 1

Viola

Bass

Michael Swan, Concertmaster Martha Kashap, Assistant Concertmaster (on leave) William Boan, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Mary Lou Day Lillian Jen-Payzant Joan Savage Marcel van den Hurk Simon Fanner Maxim Pletnev Nova Wong Brita Tastad

James Legge, Principal

Richard Carnegie, Principal David Humphrey David Grosse Warren Hay (on leave) Stephen Kreuger Zachary Carter

Violin 2 Oxana Ossiptchouk, Principal Karen Bindle Rosanne Daku Karen Ogle Sophie McBean Arthur Boan William Boan (on leave from Violin 2) Evan Friesen

Chair generously sponsored by the Viola Section of the Saskatoon Philharmonic Orchestra Saache Heinrich Jeremy Janzen Heather Wilson Miles Buchwaldt Stacey Mennie

Flute Randi Nelson, Principal

Cello

Chair generously sponsored by Lilian and Doug Thorpe

Lahni Russell, Principal

Brenda Moats (flute, piccolo)

Chair generously sponsored by Bill Richards and Sandra Beardsall John Payzant Bernadette Wilson Carman Rabuka Joel MacDonald (on leave) Christina Bakanec Scott McKnight

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Oboe Erin Brophey, Principal Kevin Junk (oboe, English Horn)

Clarinet Margaret Wilson, Principal

Chair generously sponsored by Jack and Sylvia Vicq Melissa Goodchild (clarinet, Eb clarinet)

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Music Director Maestro Victor Sawa Bassoon

Trumpet

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Stephanie Unverricht, Principal

Terry Heckman, Principal Daniel Funk Dean McNeill

Darrell Bueckert, Principal

Chair generously sponsored by Dr. Mary C. Marino Marie Sellar (bassoon, contrabassoon)

Horn Carol-Marie Cottin, Principal Arlene Shiplett Dubrena Bradley Micajah Sturgess

Trombone Don Schmidt, Principal Brian Unverricht Dawn McLean-Belyk

Tuba Brent Longstaff, Principal

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Chair generously sponsored by Ms. Betty Reynolds

Percussion Mathieu Pouliot, Principal

Chair generously sponsored by The Ewing Family, in Memory of Earl and Mary Ewing Kevin Grady

Harp CĂŠcile Denis, Principal

Personnel varies by concert. We gratefully acknowledge the support of additional musicians who perform with the orchestra when larger works are presented. Violin Kim deLaforest, Evan Barber, Oriana Watt Flute Melanie Sydiaha Oboe Sara Spigott Clarinet Paul Hyun-Bai Ji, Alyssa Thompson Bassoon Danielle Robertson-Boersma Saxophones Troy Linsley, Glen Gillis, Sheldon Corbett, Nathan Degenhart, Melissa Latos Trumpet Frank Harrington Piano / Keyboard Gillian Lyons, Kim Salkeld Percussion Brad Litster, Mark Altman, Will Martin, David Bindle Bass Spencer Rayner Drums Arlan Kopp

Thank you to all our musicians and to our chair sponsors who support their work. For information about the benefits of chair sponsorship, please contact Jill Reid at 306.665.4862 or email general.manager@saskatoonsymphony.org inTune 7

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From Maestro Vic

Welcome from the SSO! As our season draws to a close, we want to thank everyone who helped make it a success. There are too many to thank individually in this space, but one group deserves special mention. The Saskatoon Symphony is extremely grateful to the SSO Book & Music Sale management committee and volunteers who work tirelessly all year on the SSO’s biggest fundraiser. Thank you! We are pleased to introduce you to the “fresh,” new 2013–2014 season, with exciting concerts and new initiatives, especially in children’s and family programming. The new Gyro Productions Masters Series and Conexus Pops Series concerts are listed in these pages. We have other series and specials available by subscription, as well. Visit SaskatoonSymphony.org to find out more and to subscribe online. Act by June 7 and you could save up to 34%. If you have never subscribed to the SSO, you can purchase a 2013–2014 subscription to the Masters Series for half-price! That’s a deal! When you subscribe, please consider adding a donation to the SSO to your payment. Ticket prices cover only a portion of an orchestra’s costs, and we depend on financial support from the community to be able to bring these programs to you and your family. So subscribe, and have a great summer. Lynn Ewing, President Saskatoon Symphony Society

Music-lovers, have I got a deal for you! Do you already subscribe to the SSO? If you do, renew your subscription by June 7 and you’ll receive up to 34% off regular ticket prices for the 2013-2014 season. You have never subscribed to our series? Make this the year and you can save 50% on a Masters Series subscription with our Introductory Prices! We’ve planned a great season of top-notch events and we need you to help make them memorable. Visit the SSO website for details and subscribe by the June 7 Early Bird Deadline. Then join me and the musicians in September as we make more beautiful music together! Maestro Victor Sawa, Music Director

EXCITING | ENTERTAINING | EXCEPTIONAL Turn the heat up and let your hair down! From songs fueled with prairie pride to the exotic rhythms of the tango, the iconic hits of rock band Pink Floyd and a post-Oscars® wrap party, the Conexus Pops Series is your ticket to excitement— with the big symphonic sound of the SSO! SERIES HIGHLIGHTS • Singer-songwriter-pianist Jeff Straker’s salute to Saskatchewan • Jeans ‘n Classics rock musicians are back in the house • Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ & ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ • Award-winning music from the SUBSCRIBE BY JUNE 7 movies—recent and classic FOR 20% DISCOUNT! • Quartango’s hot Latin rhythms BUY 4 CONCERTS OR • World-renowned tango dancers Roxana Callegari & Fabian Belmonte BUILD A FLEXPAK WITH

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OCTOBER 19, 2013 | 7:30 PM

PRAIRIE POPS SPECTACULAR Jeffery Straker and the Handsome Strangers Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Saskatchewan singer-songwriter-pianist Jeffery Straker performs his original compositions set to orchestral arrangement, along with well-known classics from prairie greats including Joni Mitchell, Connie Kaldor and Ian & Sylvia. Photo: Calvin Fehr Photography

JANUARY 18, 2014 | 7:30 PM

THE MUSIC OF PINK FLOYD

The Wall & Dark Side of the Moon Jeans ‘n Classics rock ensemble Jean Meilleur lead vocals Mathieu Pouliot guest conductor The music of British rock band Pink Floyd comes to the SSO, with Jeans ‘n Classics, lead singer Jean Meilleur, and a full complement of musicians including the SSO. MARCH 15, 2014 | 7:30 PM

AT THE MOVIES

An Oscars® Wrap Party Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Walk the red carpet into a celebration of great movie music, featuring a spectacular line up of nominated and winning scores! APRIL 26, 2014 | 7:30 PM

Quartango

QUARTANGO!

with Roxana Callegari and Fabian Belmonte Richard Carnegie guest conductor Quartango is Stéphane Aubin (piano), Jonathon Goldman (bandoneon), René Gosselin (double bass), Antoine Bareil (violin). Their music ranges from classic tango to tango nuevo and Piazzolla. When they team up with the SSO and Argentine tango dancers Roxana and Fabian, the excitement reaches new heights! Roxana and Fabian

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INSPIRING | INTENSE | INCREDIBLE Experience some of the world’s most exciting music in the Gyro Productions Masters Series. Be in the hall as Internationally-renowned guest artists and conductors join nationally-known and local guests to create electrifying performances and life-long memories. It is all about the music—and you. SUBSCRIBE BY JUNE 7 FOR 20% DISCOUNT!

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SERIES HIGHLIGHTS • An evening “at the Opera” with two rising operatic stars • Stéphane Levesque, principal bassoon, Montreal Symphony • Cellist Denise Djokic performs ‘Variations on a Rococo Theme’ • Maestro Victor Sawa and two charismatic guest conductors Daniel Smith and Gilles Auger • Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s fiery 4th • Celebration of GREAT Britain’s music with massed chorus • The Samuels: pianist Samuel Deason and violinist Sam Milner

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 | 7:30 PM

EVENING AT THE OPERA Classics for Skeptics

John Brancy baritone Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano Maestro Victor Sawa conductor An evening of favourite arias and selections drawn from the world of opera, with two of the most outstanding young voices of this era: baritone John Brancy, third place winner at the 2012 Montreal International Music Competition, hailed as “a vibrant, resonant presence” (New York Times), and mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, winner of the Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera, making her main stage debuts with the Met and the Canadian Opera Company this season. NOVEMBER 16, 2013 | 7:30 PM

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John Brancy

Wallis Giunta Stéphane Levesque

Stéphane Levesque bassoon Saskatoon Youth Orchestra Dr. David Kaplan special guest Maestro Daniel Smith guest conductor Kaplan Opening Credits Dvořák Carnival Overture, op. 92 Elgar Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, op. 62 Weber Andante and Rondo ungarese, J.158, op.35 Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70 Charismatic Australian conductor Daniel Smith returns to the podium directly from the Tokyo Philharmonic with a program that includes the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s principal bassoon, Stéphane Lévesque’s performance of the two best-known works for the instrument, and Czech composer Antonin Dvořák’s tragic masterpiece. Plus, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, we celebrate Dr. David Kaplan’s contribution to the musical life of Saskatchewan.

Daniel Smith

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014 | 7:30 PM

ROMANTIC BY NATURE Denise Djokic cello Maestro Gilles Auger guest conductor Barber Adagio for Strings Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 Beethoven Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

Denise Djokic

A romantic evening fitting for Valentine’s. Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ rarely leaves a dry eye in the house. Denise Djokic, fast-becoming an international star, performs Tchaikovsky’s brilliant Variations on a Rococo Theme. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, one of the world’s most-beloved works, portrays the splendour of nature and reminds us of its violent power. Maestro Gilles Auger, once a student of Leonard Bernstein’s and one of Québec’s most renowned conductors, leads the orchestra. MARCH 8, 2014 | 7:30 PM

Gilles Auger

MUSIC IS GREAT BRITAIN Saskatoon Chamber Singers James Hawn, director Saskatoon Greystone Singers Dr. Gerald Langner, director University and Community Chorus Graham Codling, director Monica Huisman soprano Peter McGuillivray baritone Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Becker Commissioned work Britten Four Sea Interludes, op. 33a Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony A celebration of choral music and British composers, endorsed by the Consulate of Great Britain, featuring Benjamin Britten’s Four Seas Interludes, describing the moods of the sea in all its tranquility and brutality. Vaughan Williams’ epic choral work ‘A Sea Symphony,’ contains settings of Walt Whitman’s poems, encompassing their wild optimism and spirit of adventure. Plus, the premiere of a work from young composer Matthew Becker.

Monica Huisman Peter McGuillivray

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APRIL 12, 2014 | 7:30 PM

FIRE AND FURY Samuel Deason piano Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Murphy From the Drums Comes a Thundering Beat Khachaturian Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

Samuel Deason

Be ready as Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy’s From the Drum Comes a Thundering Beat envelopes you in sound. Samuel Deason, 2011 winner, Saskatchewan Concerto Competition, performs Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto—when first recorded, it became a jukebox favourite. Tchaikovsky’s life was full of drama that found its way into his music. His fourth symphony is intense and colourful with lush orchestrations that make a live performance unforgettable. MAY 3, 2014 | 7:30 PM

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Samuel Milner

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Samuel Milner violin Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Somers Picasso Suite (Movt. 1, 3, 9) Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26 Respighi Trittico Botticelliano Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

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Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 7:30 pm

Richard Carnegie guest conductor Steve Lippia vocalist

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And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, I’ll state my case of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full, I traveled each and ev’ry highway. And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

– Lyrics by Paul Anka

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Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia I’ve Got the World on a String Harold Arlen/Riddle

The Good Life Distel & Reardon/Friedlander

The Best is Yet to Come Coleman & Leigh/Jones

Come Fly With Me Cahn & Van Heusen/May

All the Way Cahn & Van Heusen

I Have Dreamed Rodgers & Hammerstein/Riddle

Cheek to Cheek Berlin & May

Fly Me to the Moon Howard/Riddle

Witchcraft Leigh & Coleman/Riddle

Saturday Night Cahn & Styne/Stordahl

It Was a Very Good Year Ervin Drake/Vanacore

In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning Mann & Hilliard

I’ve Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter/Riddle The Way You Look Tonight Kerns & Fields/Riddle Send in the Clowns Stephen Sondheim That’s Life Kay & Gordon

Luck Be a Lady Loesser/May/Friedlander Let Me Try Again Anka/Cahn My Way Anka/Francois/ Revaux/Costa

The Lady Is a Tramp Rodgers & Hart/Riddle

intermission Artist bios 

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Steve Lippia vocalist Steve Lippia has become one of the most prominent, in-demand vocalists and has quickly established his place among the finest interpreters of “standards” and traditional pop music in North America. Steve’s youthful, energetic talent and powerful show creates a perfect blend of “classic” with “today”. His show introduces a new generation to this timeless music, while appealing to long-time listeners. Steve has headlined in highly successful, extended engagements in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He has recently performed hundreds of shows to sold-out audiences with symphony orchestras across North America, including Peter Nero and The Philly Pops, Dallas, Rochester, Hartford, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Cleveland Pops, Phoenix, Grand Rapids, Duluth-Superior, Virginia, Austin and Toronto, Vancouver, Brampton-Ontario, Edmonton, and Calgary. Steve has headlined to SRO crowds at the legendary BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB in New York City, backed by the Nelson Riddle and Woody Herman orchestras. His TV appearances include “EXTRA”, FOX’s “Good Day New York”, CNN’s “Showbiz Today”, ABC, BBC and FINNISH TV2. Lippia’s recordings include Steve Lippia, Steve Lippia Live and his latest Grammynominated CD, Steve Lippia In Concert.

Richard Carnegie guest conductor

Richard Carnegie has been Principal Double Bass of the Saskatoon Symphony since 2006 and in July 2009 he was appointed Director of the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra (SYO) program. Richard’s creative activities blur the line of a traditional classical musician and include a professional acting debut with Persephone Theatre, frequent performances with the Mark deJong Trio, collaborations with singer-songwriters and rock bands and his one-man show “Conversations with My Double Bass”. Richard has served as instructor of the SYO’s Double Bass Program, continues to work as a sessional lecturer in the University of Saskatchewan Department of Music and teaches in his private studio as well as serving as a clinician in Saskatoon-area schools. Richard received a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and studied at Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School and the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute. He credits his teachers, youth orchestra experiences and parental support for the good fortune to have a professional life filled with music. In 2011, Richard Carnegie was selected as one of three Canadians to play in the YouTube Live Orchestra in Sydney, Australia, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. 

STEVE is a native of Southington Connecticut. He makes his home in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and 2 miniature German Schnauzers.

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Victor has been the recipient of many Maestro SaskTel Victor SawaSymphony conductor awards and honours, including three in Schools

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Free Pre-Concert Talks Prior to Masters Series Concerts

Enhance Your Experience at the Symphony ATTEND THE PRE-CONCERT TALK Not sure about the music? Come early and get the inside scoop! Prior to each Masters Series concert, the SSO presents a Pre-Concert talk with informative and engaging conversations.

An expert presenter himself, Brian also invites other musicians and guest artists to add their insights about the evening’s program through interviews, performances, and lecture/demonstrations.

This season we welcome Brian Unverricht as our host. Not only is Brian a long standing musician in our orchestra, he is widely recognized as a superb educator. The 2012 Sask. Music Education Conference honoured Brian with its ‘Director of Distinction’ award.

The talks begin at 6:55 pm and last about 25 minutes. Concertgoers are invited to drop in anytime during the conversation. Pre-concert talks are held in the TCU Place Green Room. Follow the signs or check for directions from an usher or at the SSO kiosk in the lobby.

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Gyro Productions Masters Series May 18, 2013

MAESTRO VICTOR SAWA

MICHAEL KIM

An American Salute

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TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 7:30 pm

Maestro Victor Sawa conductor Michael Kim piano

Lizée Arcadiac Gershwin Cuban Overture Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

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Bernstein

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Pre-Concert Talk Learn about the music in tonight’s repertoire. TCU Place Green Room, 6:55 to 7:20 pm. Free with ticket to the concert.

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Maestro Victor Sawa conductor

where he held the Vladimir Horowitz Piano Scholarship.

Victor Sawa is a triple threat of talent, experience and personal dynamism. Music Director of the SSO, he holds similar positions with orchestras in Sudbury and Regina. He was previously Resident Conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (19931997), Music Director with the North Bay Symphony, the Guelph Youth Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra. He also served as Principal Clarinet with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has guest conducted for orchestras across the country.

Michael Kim has toured extensively in North America, South America, the United Kingdom and Korea. As a concerto soloist, he has performed with the Boston and Cincinnati Pops, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, the Florida Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic, among others . His performance highlights include a tour in Peru with Orchestra Sinfonica de Trujillo and the UK tour with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony.

Victor has been the recipient of many awards and honours, including three Canada Council awards for Conducting, a As a chamber musician, Michael has Grand Prix du Disque—Best Chamber Music performed at the Brevard, Aspen, Banff, Recording (Canadian Chamber Ensemble), Huntsville, and Heifetz (Annapolis, MD) festia Grammy award (with the New England vals to name a few. He frequently collaboRagtime Ensemble), and the Tanglewood rates with his wife, pianist Kyungran Kim, in a Festival award for Outstanding Musician. special four hand - one piano program. A Montreal native, Sawa holds a Bachelor In August 2008, Dr. Kim was appointed Dean of Music with Distinction from McGill of Brandon University’s School of Music, in University and an Honours Masters of Brandon Manitoba, Canada. Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is also a b. 1973 graduate of the Pierre Monteux School for Advanced Conductors. In 2011, Victor Sawa ARCADIAC was appointed Honorary Consul for Japan Montreal-based composer Nicole Lizée in Saskatchewan. was born in Gravelbourg SK. Arcadiac is a concerto for arcade games and orchestra, piano where the orchestra not only accompanies Michael Kim is a gifted pianist and performer. images from arcade games of the 70s and As a soloist and concerto artist, Michael has 80s but also builds and expands on the brought audiences to their feet with his out- games’ gritty sounds, their rhythms and standing technique and refined artistry. melodies, to create a composite between machines and the orchestra. Lizée Michael is the recipient of a multitude of composed Arcadiac as an homage to the awards, including the grand-prize of the inventiveness of early game designers. Canadian Music Competition and the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Performers. He was also silver medallist at 1898–1937 the Scottish International Competition in Cuban overture Glasgow, and a prize winner in the Leeds and Ivo Pogorelich International Piano When George Gershwin was twelve years Competitions. An artistic scholar, Dr. Kim old, his parents bought a piano for their received his Master of Music and Doctor cramped Brooklyn home. He took to it  of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School inTune 29

Nicole Lizée

Michael Kim

George Gershwin

immediately, and at 15 he quit school and became a song-plugger for the music publishers of Tin Pan Alley. By his early 20s, Gershwin had successful shows on Broadway and in London. But he aspired to write classical music as well as Broadway and pop tunes, an endeavour he launched in 1924 with Rhapsody in Blue. He once asked French composer Maurice Ravel for lessons, to which Ravel famously replied, “Why should you be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin?” By 1932 Gershwin was one of America’s foremost composers of both classical and popular music. He took a much-needed vacation in Havana, Cuba. Fascinated by Cuban percussion instruments and Caribbean rhythms, he wrote Cuban Overture (originally titled Rumba), in part inspired by the popular song Échale salsita by Cuban composer Ignacio Piñeiro. Gershwin brought bongos, maracas, claves, and güiro home from Cuba and wrote detailed instructions in the music for how the Cuban instruments were to be placed in front of the conductor’s stand. Cuban Overture premièred at an all-Gershwin program in New York. Gershwin wrote: “It was, I really believe, the most exciting night I have ever had...17,845 people paid to get in and just about 5,000 were at the closed gates trying to fight their way in—unsuccessfully.”

George Gershwin 1898–1937 RHAPSODY IN BLUE George Gershwin was playing pool one evening in 1924 when he read in the New York Tribune that he was composing a piece for a concert to be put on by jazz band leader Paul Whiteman. Whiteman hoped his experimental classical-jazz concert would help jazz become acceptable to classical music audiences. That he was composing a piece for this concert and had only a month in which to write it was news to Gershwin. On the train to Boston, Gershwin came up with a plan for the

piece. “It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer—I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise... And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper…. [the piece] as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness. By the time I reached Boston I had a definite plot of the piece.” As was the habit of Broadway composers, Gershwin wrote the music in a piano score than was then arranged for Whiteman’s jazz band by Ferde Grofé. The now famous clarinet glissando opening began as a joke the clarinetist played at a rehearsal, but Gershwin liked it so much he wrote it into the part. At the first performance Gershwin improvised many of the piano solos, having left blank areas in the conductor’s music with only the direction to wait for Gershwin’s nod to know when to bring the orchestra back in. Rhapsody in Blue opened the door for classical audiences and composers to accept and utilize jazz elements within classical compositions. It also launched Gershwin’s reputation as a classical composer and established his trademark sound: the style and vitality of jazz and Broadway brought to the concert stage.

Leonard Bernstein 1918–1990 WEST SIDE STORY: SYMPHONIC DANCES In 1947, choreographer Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and writer Arthur Laurents with the idea of making a modern, musical re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Bernstein called it “a noble idea. ...making a musical that tells a tragic story in musical-comedy terms, using only musical-comedy techniques, never falling into the “operatic” trap. Can it succeed? It hasn’t yet in our country. I’m excited. If it can work—it’s the first.” inTune 30

They set the story’s conflict between the love music that recalls the lost vision of Irish Catholics and the Jews of Manhattan’s “Somewhere” before the piece ends on an East Side, but they soon abandoned the unresolved chord. project. Not until 1955 did they revisit it, with lyricist Stephen Sondheim. In the revised story—a process Bernstein called 1898–1937 “re-re-rewriting”—star-crossed lovers Maria AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and Tony are caught up in the conflict Commissioned to write a piece by the between what was then a relatively new conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and growing problem, juvenile gangs. Walter Damrosch, Gershwin wrote the Despite difficulties with finding backers and a producer, West Side Story opened on symphonic tone poem An American in Paris in 1928 after one of his many trips Broadway in 1957. to that city. The piece depicts a bustling By the 50s Bernstein was already a notable Paris street complete with infamous Paris conductor and an accomplished composer, taxi horns (Gershwin brought taxi horns having written ballets, musicals, operas/opback to New York to be played in the erettas, film scores, works for orchestra, and première) as well as fragments of the Canchamber music. Like Gershwin, jazz idioms can, the Charleston, and American blues. infuse Bernstein’s music. He also borrowed Gershwin wrote, “It’s not a Beethoven elements from rock, Broadway, national Symphony, you know… It’s a humorous styles, and classical music, and made them piece, nothing solemn about it.... If it all his own. West Side Story is arguably his pleases symphony audiences as a light, most popular work. Part of its success, he jolly piece.... it succeeds.” felt, was because “So much [of the story] was conveyed in music, including the enor- In a 1928 interview for Musical America Gershwin said: “This new piece [is] really mous reliance upon dance to tell plot.” a rhapsodic ballet.... My purpose is to The film adaptation of West Side Story, portray the impression of an American visiwhich won 10 Academy Awards, came out tor in Paris, as he strolls about the city and in 1961. After the film score was complete listens to various street noises and absorbs Bernstein prepared the Symphonic Dances the French atmosphere.... The opening from the dance numbers. In the Broadway gay section is followed by a rich blues tradition where composers compose and with a strong rhythmic undercurrent. Our others arrange, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal American friend, perhaps after strolling arranged the music for orchestra under into a café and having a couple of drinks, Bernstein’s direction. has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.... the homesick American, having West Side Story: Symphonic Dances has left the café and reached the open air, has nine connected movements. “Prologue” disowned his spell of the blues and once depicts the growing rivalry between the again is an alert spectator of Parisian life.” gangs. “Somewhere” is a visionary dance; “Scherzo” a vision of space, air, and sun. The 1951 musical An American in Paris, “Mambo” depicts a competitive dance staring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, was between the gangs, in “Cha-Cha” the inspired by this composition, and the star-crossed lovers first see each other movie’s final dance number is a sixteenand dance, and in “Meeting Scene” they minute “rhapsodic” ballet set to Gershwin’s first speak. “‘Cool’ Fugue” is a dance of symphonic poem.  controlled hostility, “Rumble” depicts Program notes prepared by Joan Savage, member, the gang battle in which both leaders Violin section, Saskatoon Symphony. © 2013 are killed, and “Finale” plays again the

George Gershwin

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Saskatoon Symphony Supporters Circle 2012–2013 Season Thank you to all the donors on whose generosity we depend. Your investment allows the Saskatoon Symphony to strive for artistic excellence, and to create meaningful community connections, in a financially sound manner.

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Saskatoon Symphony Supporters Circle 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013 Season Serenade (continued)

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Saskatoon Summer Players’ Amateur Production of

LyRiCs By Tim Rice MusiC By Andrew Lloyd Webber DiReCTOR Dennis Beerling PRODuCeR Kelly Brophy MusiCAL DiReCTOR Jennifer Rommens

June 28 – July 7, 2013 Remai Arts Centre

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Saskatoon Symphony Supporters Circle 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013 Season Prelude (continued) David Leatherdale Elaine Lee Allen and Kit Loewen Karla Longpre Murray Lyons Theodore Makeechak Johann Malan Margaret Marcoux Jennifer McAllister Linda Mcmillan Wendy McSheffrey Sylvia Mills Esther Molina Fred and Muriel Montbriand Mercedes Montgomery James Morrison Bonnie Nicholson

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In Memory of COLIN MACPHERSON

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by Jill Reid

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by Dale Kelly

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FOR VOLUNTEER WORK BY SKIP KUTZ with thanks Sask. Registered Music Teachers Association

by The Gallery/Art Placement Inc.

Women of Note A membership of women who believe in the Saskatoon Symphony and its vital role within the city of Saskatoon. Formed March 1, 2012

Shannon Whyley Darien Moore Lorraine Salt

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Women of Note wish to ensure that the orchestra remains healthy, fully engaged with its community, and able to continue to offer excellent symphonic music. Their generous financial donation makes them members of Women of Note and ambassadors for our symphony.

If you are passionate about the the Symphony and wish to join Women of Note, please contact Jill Reid at general.manager@saskatoonsymphony.org This list reflects donations received up to the preparation and publication of Volume 2, Issue 4. Donations received after publication will be included in the Annual Report for the 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013 season. Please accept our sincere apologies for errors or omissions.

For information on investing in your symphony through an annual, monthly, or weekly donation, a gift of securities, or a planned gift, including recognition, please email Jill Reid, general.manager@saskatoonsymphony.org or call her at 306.665.4862. inTune 35

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presents

Georges Bizet’s

Georges Bizet’s Presents Georges Bizet’s

Sung in French with English Surtitles

June 15, 18, 20 & 22, 2013 Remai Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK For tickets, call 384-7727 or on line at www.persephonetheatre.org DAKOTA DUNES

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C O R P O R AT I O N

June 15, 18, 20 & 22, 2013 Remai Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK For tickets, call 384-7727 or on line at www.persephonetheatre.org

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