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Playing to Our Strengths Fostering creative thinking and growth through the performing arts
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6 Welcome
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Colorado Symphony Staff
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Making Beautiful Music, Together
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Playing to Our Strengths
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Colorado Symphony Musicians
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Musician Spotlight
12 Colorado Symphony Board of Trustees
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Community Support
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WELCOME The Real Duration of a Concert When I was in grade school, my mother made two things very clear to me: symphonic music is an essential, beautiful experience and girls could grow up to be anything they wanted to be. That’s why she took my sister and me to Boettcher Concert Hall to see our Colorado Symphony perform. Marin Alsop was Music Director and quickly became our role model for her talent, ambition, and her groundbreaking drive. Besides an everlasting love of Mozart, my mom taught me something else, perhaps without realizing it: seeing music performed live is a joy we experience together and individually. Since then, I’ve attended literally thousands of concerts around the country and our beautiful state and have dedicated my life to philanthropy, because that’s exactly what I wanted to pursue: giving back for a greater good. Hers was a lesson that stuck, to say the least. We’re proud to be Colorado’s Symphony; ours is a state like no other. Like most Coloradans, I’m outside as soon as the sun’s out to enjoy our mountains and all they offer. And we’re incredibly fortunate — as a Symphony, as a community — to have stunning outdoor venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre. We’ve already announced some of our Red Rocks summer concerts with Pink Martini, Diana Krall, and Jethro Tull, and I can’t wait to see them all perform with our musicians. I’m a Denver native, and, like you, I’ve seen some mind-blowing changes over the years that affect us all — booming businesses, a population explosion, changing landscapes. One major transformation I’m especially looking forward to is Brett Mitchell joining us as Music Director in our 2017/18 Season, and taking our concert series and education programs to new heights with his energy, vision, and leadership. As a non-profit, the Colorado Symphony provides music education programs for lifelong learning — programs that rely on your support of our Annual Fund to continue and grow. Before this concert begins, I’m asking you to jump to page 20 and read about music education and philanthropy. Consider how this performance will make you feel, and how you’ll feel if your generosity means others can share this same joy for years to come. It’s incredible how something that lasts less than two hours can affect you for the rest of your life, isn’t it? With gratitude, Christina Carlson Chief Advancement Officer
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What Happens When You Give to the Colorado Symphony? Your donation ensures that superb symphonic performances by world-class musicians will continue to enliven and enrich our city. With each donation, you’re also supporting... A VIBRANT AND ACTIVE ORCHESTRA • 80 full-time musicians from all over the world • 191 days spent performing 85 concerts in Boettcher Hall FRESH TAKES ON CLASSICAL MUSIC • Casual and immersive Sip with the Symphony events • REMIX concerts and events for Young Professionals • Our annual Symphony Ball with live rock performances MORE ACCESSIBLE CONCERTS • 11,000+ students and teachers attended concerts for $10 • 5,000+ Community Ticketing Initiative guests attended concerts for free CHILDREN’S MUSIC EDUCATION • 25,000 K-12 students attended Youth Concerts at Boettcher Concert Hall • In-school education programs for grades Pre-K through 5 • On-site mentorship with Colorado Symphony Teaching Artists for grades K-12
Be Instrumental in Making Great Music. Give Today. Our entire staff and orchestra make financial contributions to the Colorado Symphony each year. Join us by making your own contribution at coloradosymphony.org/donate.
Ways to Give Individual donations, legacy giving, gifts of stock, and event sponsorship are just a few of the ways you can support the Symphony. Contact Director of Development Gerry Heise at gheise@coloradosymphony.org or 303.308.2475 for more information.
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ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
VIOLIN Yumi Hwang-Williams Concertmaster The Mary Rossick Kern & Jerome H. Kern Concertmaster Chair Claude Sim Associate Concertmaster Yi Zhao Assistant Concertmaster Ben Odhner Fixed 4th Chair Paul Primus Principal Second Allegra Wermuth Assistant Principal Second Alessandra Jennings Flanagan Fixed 3rd Chair / Second Larisa Fesmire Thomas Hanulik Wyn Hart John Hilton Anne-Marie Hoffman Miroslava IvanchenkoBartels Dorian Kincaid Karen Kinzie Mark Lamprey Susan Paik Miroslav Pastusiak Erik Peterson Robert Stoyanov Delcho Tenev Amy Tyson Bradley Watson Tena White Wenting Yuan
Charlyn Campbell   Marsha Holmes Leah Kovach Helen McDermott Kelly Shanafelt Phillip Stevens
VIOLA Basil Vendryes Principal Catherine Beeson Assistant Principal Mary Cowell Fixed 3rd Chair
OBOE Peter Cooper Principal Emily Moscoso * 2nd / Assistant Principal Jason Lichtenwalter
CELLO Austin Fisher Acting Principal Judith McIntyre Acting Assistant Principal Susan Rockey Bowles Danielle Guideri Thomas Heinrich Margaret Hoeppner Matthew Switzer Alice Yoo * Susan Yun BASS Steve Metcalf
Principal
Nicholas Recuber Assistant Principal John Arnesen Susan Cahill James Carroll Jeremy Kincaid Owen Levine FLUTE Brook Ferguson Principal Catherine Peterson 2nd / Assistant Principal Julie Duncan Thornton PICCOLO Julie Duncan Thornton
ENGLISH HORN Jason Lichtenwalter CLARINET Jason Shafer Principal Abby Raymond 2nd / Assistant Principal Andrew Stevens E-FLAT CLARINET Abby Raymond BASS CLARINET Andrew Stevens BASSOON Chad Cognata Principal Tristan Rennie 2nd / Assistant Principal Roger Soren CONTRA-BASSOON Roger Soren HORN Michael Thornton Principal Carolyn Kunicki Kolio Plachkov 3rd / Associate Principal David Brussel Austin Larson Assistant Principal TRUMPET Justin Bartels Principal Philip Hembree 2nd / Assistant Principal Patrick Tillery Associate Principal
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TROMBONE John Sipher Principal Paul Naslund 2nd / Associate Principal Gregory Harper BASS TROMBONE Gregory Harper TUBA Stephen Dombrowski Principal HARP Courtney Hershey Bress Principal TIMPANI William Hill Principal Steve Hearn Assistant Principal PERCUSSION John Kinzie Principal Steve Hearn Michael Van Wirt ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN Joanne Goble Principal Jonathan Groszew Assistant
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS Jerome H. Kern, Co-Chair Dr. Mary Rossick Kern, Co-Chair Stephanie Donner, Esq. Treasurer Susan Bowles,* Secretary TRUSTEES Anthony T. Accetta Dr. Paula P. Bernstein Susan Cahill* Young Cho Jim Copenhaver Zachary D. Detra, Esq. BJ Dyer Sandy Elliott Jack Finlaw Dr. Everette J. Freeman Dr. Michael G. Gundzik Diane S. Hill, Ph.D. Jessica Hobbs Yumi Hwang-Williams* Kathleen Johnson, Esq.
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EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Rose Blaschke President, Colorado Symphony Guild Ginger White City and County of Denver, Arts & Venues EMERITUS TRUSTEES William K. Coors John Low W. Gerald Rainer Lee Yeingst HONORARY TRUSTEES Governor John Hickenlooper Mayor Michael B. Hancock Christopher J. Ott, M.D.
ASSOCIATE BOARD OFFICERS Jackson Stevens, Chair William Kowalski, Treasurer Andrea Copland, Secretary Chris Strom, Marketing Chair Rachel Yeates, Membership Chair Brandon Seifert, Events Chair ASSOCIATE BOARD MEMBERS Marilyn Brock Mike Fredregill Gerry Heise Leah Kovach Bridget Kennedy McNeil Sarah Parmley Kelly Waltrip
SymphonyPreludes Pre-concert events to enhance your experience!
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Classical music author and historian Betsy Schwarm will share information about the composers and pieces on the program. Ms. Schwarm is a celebrated Denver icon. Catch her in action before hearing your Colorado Symphony!
Ever wonder what your Colorado Symphony musicians think about the music? Come find out! Violist Phillip Stevens hosts an informal Q&A featuring additional Colorado Symphony musicians who are delighted to share their unique point of view on the composers and pieces you’ll be hearing.
Take your mind, body, and spirit to a deeper listening plane with Catherine Beeson, Assistant Principal Violist for your Colorado Symphony. Catherine will guide you to an internal understanding of the music you’ll be hearing by encouraging your super powers of inquiry, observation, and application.
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COLORADO SYMPHONY STAFF LEADERSHIP TEAM Jerome H. Kern Chief Executive Officer Coreen Miller Chief Financial Officer Anthony Pierce Chief Artistic Officer Christina Carlson Chief Advancement Officer Parker Owens Chief Marketing Officer Susan Ellis Chief Administrative Officer Doug Yost Chief of Information Services ARTISTIC Brett Mitchell Music Director Designate Andrew Litton Principal Guest Conductor Duain Wolfe Chorus Director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Christopher Dragon Associate Conductor Andres Lopera Assistant Conductor Emily Scott Director of Artistic Administration Dave Aeling Production Stage Manager Travis Branam Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Larry Brezicka Orchestra Personnel Manager Mary Louise Burke Associate Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Aric Christensen Audio Engineer Joanne Goble Principal Orchestra Librarian Jonathan Groszew Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager / Assistant Librarian Deborah Guess Properties Master Philip Hiester Master Electrician Eric Israelson Chorus Manager Sam Jaehnig Head Carpenter Kyle Kamrath Manager of Artistic Operations
Taylor Martin Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Jessica Mays Outreach Coordinator Mike Pappas New Media Center Barbara Porter Assistant Chorus Manager Phillip Strom Artistic Coordinator ADVANCEMENT / DEVELOPMENT Gerry Heise Director of Development Sean Baker Annual Giving Manager Kate Bentley Development Associate Emily Spirk Development Administrative Assistant EDUCATION Catherine Beeson Director of Community Education Programs Shari Myers Education Coordinator FINANCE Annette Brown Staff Accountant Paula Rossin Staff Accountant INFORMATION SERVICES Matt Krupa Manager of Information Technology MARKETING / PUBLIC & COMMUNITY RELATIONS Stephanie Derybowski Digital Media Specialist Rachel Trignano Manager of Public & Community Relations SALES & PATRON SERVICES Susan Kelly Director of Sales & Patron Services Ian MacIntyre Manager of Patron Services Amanda Cantu Lead Patron Services Associate Sherri Colgan Patron Services Associate Molly Epstein Group Sales Associate
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SEPTEMBER Renée Fleming with the Colorado Symphony SEPT 9
C L A S S IC S
C L A S S IC S
SEPT 22-24 FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Queen of Jazz: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald SEPT 30
OCTOBER Purple Rain: The Music of Prince OCT 7 OCT 13-15
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
C L A S S IC S
Handel’s Messiah DEC 8-9
OCT 26-27
A Colorado Christmas
THU-FRI 7:30 SAT 2:30
FAMILY
DEC 15-17
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HOLI DAY
FRI 7:30 ■ SAT 2:30 & 6:00 ■ SUN 1:00 HOLI DAY
WED 7:30
Too Hot To Handel DEC 22-23
SPECI AL
SUN 7:30
Holiday Brass Returns to Boettcher Concert Hall DEC 20
HOLI DAY
FRI-SAT 7:30
Yo-Yo Ma with the Colorado Symphony DEC 10
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Disney in Concert: MOVIE AT THE S YMPHON Y Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas™
OCT 28
FAMI LY
SUN 1:00
DECEMBER All-Beethoven Conducted by Brett Mitchell DEC 1-3
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Halloween Spooktacular!
CL ASSI CS
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Stravinsky’s The Firebird OCT 20-22
NOV 26
SPECI AL
SAT 7:30
Drums of the World
SAT 7:30
Mozart’s Requiem
THU 7:30
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Natasha Paremski NOV 17-19
SAT 7:30
LI STEN/HEAR
Ravel's Boléro & Colorado Premiere NOV 11
S YMPHON Y PO PS
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 101 Decoding Classical & Baroque, Broken Down NOV 9
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
NOVEMBER Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony No. 41 NOV 3-5
SAT 7:30
Opening Weekend: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 SEPT 15-17
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30
HOLI DAY
A Night In Vienna DEC 31
HOL IDAY
SUN 6:30
JANUARY Harry Potter MOVIE AT THE S YMPHO N Y and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert JAN 5-6
FRI-SAT 7:30
A Tribute to Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops JAN 13 JAN 19-21
FEB 2-4
John Williams: An American Journey FEB 9-10
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring FEB 16-18
C L A S S IC S
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 102 L IS TEN/HEA R Anything But Innocent: The Hard-Core Romantics FEB 22
THU 7:30
SAT 7:30
MARCH Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Olga Kern MAR 2-4 MAR 9-10 MAR 11
FRI-SAT 7:30 CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Colorado Symphony Ball 2018 Fillmore Auditorium APR 28
MAY 3-4
FUNDR AI SER
SAT 6:00
M AY Jurassic Park In Concert
MOVI E AT THE SYMPHONY
THU-FRI 7:30
Pirates of the Symphony Seas! Buntport Theater and the Colorado Symphony MAY 6 MAY 11-13
S PEC IA L
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00 LI STEN/HEAR
THU 7:30
ROCK ON! with the Colorado Symphony
SYMPHONY POPS
SAT 7:30
Two Titans: Bernstein & Mahler MAY 25-27
FAMI LY
SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 104 Musique Nouveau – The Current Voice
MAY 19
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
FAMILY C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
John Denver: A Rocky Mountain High S YMPHO N Y POPS Concert Celebration With The Colorado Symphony MAR 23
SPECI AL
SUN 1:00
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto No. 5 MAR 16-18
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30
Carnival of the Animals
THU 7:30
Wagner: The Ring Without Words
MAY 17
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Video Games Live™ Returns!
LI STEN/HEAR
Mozart’s “Elvira Madigan” Piano Concerto No. 21
Red Carpet Rewind: S YMPHON Y PO PS Celebration of the Music of the Academy Awards FEB 24
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Béla Fleck: Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra No. 3
APR 20-22
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
CL ASSI CS
LISTEN/HEAR 103 The American Voice
APR 13-14 C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
FEBRUARY Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé
APR 6-8
APR 12 S YMPHON Y PO PS
SAT 7:30
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
APRIL Copland’s Rodeo Conducted by Andrew Litton
FRI 7:30
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Playing to Our Strengths By Rachel Trignano
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus Early on a snowy January morning, Catherine Beeson — Director of the Colorado Symphony’s Education and Community Programs and our Assistant Principal Viola player — drove from Denver to Colorado Springs to accept the Colorado Music Educators Association’s 2017 Exemplary Service to Music Education Award. “It is humbling to be in a room full of people who take seriously our responsibility to foster creative thinking and growth through the performing arts,” Catherine said to the room full of musicians and teachers. Like so many other local music educators, Catherine — along with her fellow Colorado Symphony musicians and colleagues — work hard to supplement our local schools’ music education programs. It’s a cause we believe in, because we believe all students deserve the proven benefits of music education — and that the future of symphonic music depends on them.
Music on Our Minds The rewards and decline of music education have been researched and reported for years, and the same conclusions are drawn time and again: early-age immersion in music improves test scores, enhances cognitive development, staves off mental decline in later years — the list goes on. Yet music programs in schools steadily dwindle as funds dry up and standardized testing remains in the foreground.
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One of the Colorado Symphony’s most in-demand programs is Very Young Composers, which places Symphony musicians in schools to guide students in creating original compositions using sounds, feelings, story-telling, and basic music lessons. The pieces are then performed in the students’ schools, communities, and even at Boettcher Concert Hall. Other in-school programs like MathNotes and Music of Life teach music in context of math and natural sciences to grade-schoolers, and students of all ages receive in-school lessons from the Symphony’s Teaching Artists through our Master Mentor program. Our adult education efforts like pre-concert Preludes, post-concert Talkbacks, and Inside the Score — which is getting revamped and revitalized for the 2017/18 Season — continue the Colorado Symphony’s commitment to lifelong music education.
Your Presence Determines Our Future Any Symphony relies heavily on active audiences who are educated to appreciate the arts, and patrons who make charitable donations to sustain them. In our world, these are often the same people. And whether we call you donors, patrons, guests, or audiences, you are absolutely philanthropists, and you are directly involved in the life cycle of a Symphony. Like most orchestras, we raise more money than we earn — 57% of our budget relies on your charitable donations and sponsorships. At the start of the 2016/17 Season, the Colorado Symphony had the great fortune to announce we had gotten out of our long-standing deficit and begun a successful endowment campaign. “An endowment is essential to a Symphony’s longevity,” says Christina Carlson, the Symphony’s Chief Advancement Officer. “Think of an endowment fund like a long-term savings account, and an Annual Fund like a checking account: both are crucial to financial health — but the Symphony’s day-to-day operating budget relies directly on the Annual Fund.” In other words, our concerts, education programs, and musician and staff salaries are all largely funded directly by you.
Stronger Together “I believe that philanthropy is the love of mankind and that it improves our own lives as much as the lives of others,” says Christina. “Philanthropy is a strengths-based pursuit. When you give to a cause you believe in, you, the donor — whether you’re giving your time, talent, or treasure — support your passions and what matters most to you. I love working with people and learning why they give. It’s an incredibly fulfilling journey of self-discovery.” Our plans for expanding our lifelong music education programs throughout our community are picking up fantastic momentum, especially as Brett Mitchell joins us as Music Director for the 2017/18 Season. He’s on a mission to make symphonic music more approachable through inventive repertoire and inspiring education for audiences of all ages. And when today’s music education is threatened, so is the future of your Symphony. Our longevity is as tied to the generosity of our donors as it is to each upcoming generation’s connection to the arts. As long as the Colorado Symphony has your loyal support, we can continue to educate the students in our community. Consider your causes, and the effects they have. Where do you see your Symphony in ten years? In fifty? And who’s going to be in the Hall? What’s your strength as a Symphony supporter? Contact Chief Advancement Officer Christina Carlson at ccarlson@ coloradosymphony.org or 303.308.2495.
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MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT All Together Now by Rachel Trignano
Yi Zhao, Assistant Concertmaster
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PHOTO: PETER LOCKLEY
Colorado’s one of the fastest-growing states in the U.S., and Denver’s proven itself as a migration destination — and not just for businesses and outdoors enthusiasts. The Colorado Symphony’s roster boasts musicians from all over the world: Ukraine, China, South Korea, and Bulgaria are just a few countries from which our musicians hail. Two of our musicians, Assistant Concertmaster Yi Zhao and Violinist Myroslava IvanchenkoBartels, took the time to reflect on the life events that brought them to Colorado, and what they enjoy about life here — as performers, parents, partners, and Coloradans.
Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels, Violin
Beginnings “I was born in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province in China. I always wanted to learn a musical instrument, and I remember I saw Itzhak Perlman playing on TV. Later that night, I used chopsticks to imitate playing the violin on my shoulder. My parents asked me if I wanted to learn the violin, and I said ‘YES!’ without a moment’s hesitation! “I started studying the violin when I was 7, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing selected me when I was 12. Afterwards, I got my Bachelor’s at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. There, I met Professor Cho-Liang Lin, who would become my mentor at Rice University for my graduate degree.” – Yi Zhao, Assistant Concertmaster “I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to parents who are both professional musicians (a violist and a bassoonist). When I was 6, I asked them to teach me music, so they bought me a piano. I was accepted to Lysenko Music School — but the piano studios were full and they suggested I try violin. I am so glad I did! I studied violin from the age of 7 at the Kyiv Specialized Music School and later the National Music Academy of Ukraine.” – Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels, Violin
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Colorado-Bound “This is my sixth year in the United States. Before I moved to the U.S. for my graduate studies, I had been here a few times for chamber music performances in New York and Baltimore. Knowing there were many talented players, teachers, and opportunities (competitions, prestigious music festivals, master-class series) in the States for musicians, I decided to get my Master of Music at Rice with Mr. Lin, who has inspired me since childhood and even now. I auditioned for the Assistant Concertmaster position in the Colorado Symphony, and, thankfully, was chosen for the job.” – Yi “I came to the U.S. on an exchange visitor visa in 1998 when I was almost 20 years old to attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas. When I finished my graduate degree, I earned a fellowship spot with Miami’s New World Symphony, where I met my future husband Justin Bartels — Colorado Symphony’s Principal Trumpet. “We got married and went on to perform in Birmingham, where Justin grew up, and Ohio before coming to Denver in 2008 when Justin won the Principal Trumpet position just before our first daughter was born. I auditioned in 2010 for a section violin spot with Colorado Symphony and was very happy to have gotten in! “When I came to the U.S., I wasn’t planning on immigrating here, though I always admired America and its people. But one never knows what is in store for them. After a few visa statuses, piles of paperwork, several interviews, and a substantial amount of money I have become a proud U.S. citizen in September 2016.” – Myroslava
Everyday Life “I have been Assistant Concertmaster with the Symphony for almost three years, and I am still discovering new perspectives on music and even of myself every season. I also find opportunities to perform smaller scale chamber music and concertos in our community. “Denver is beautiful. I love the weather, the mountains, and the dynamic nature of the city. I live in the Capitol Hill area and love exploring new restaurants — especially for dim sum and Japanese food.” – Yi “I really enjoy living in Denver. Outdoors is my favorite place to be and Colorado is the perfect state for that. In fall of 2015, [Justin and I] welcomed our second daughter to the family. Since then, my main hobby is trying to not drop any balls in terms of getting to places on time; preparing for concerts; and keeping the children fed, healthy, and happy. “Besides my coworkers, I enjoy socializing people in my church, Holy Transfiguration of Christ Cathedral in Globeville. It’s a welcoming group of people and I feel fortunate to have found them.” – Myroslava So many different purposes attract and keep our musicians stateside: better job opportunities, promising higher education, even marriage and family. No matter the reason, the Colorado Symphony is beyond fortunate to have an orchestra of talented, dedicated musicians playing together to make a beautiful, unified sound. SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG 23
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MASTERWORKS • 2016/2017 MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3 CONDUCTED BY ANDREW LITTON COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDREW LITTON, conductor MICHELLE DEYOUNG, mezzo COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director COLORADO CHILDREN’S CHORALE, DEBORAH DESANTIS, artistic director This Weekend's Concerts are Gratefully Dedicated to the Chambers Family Fund Saturday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Ed and Laurie Bock Sunday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Robert S. Graham / Erik Rurik Satie
Friday, May 19, 2017, at 7:30pm Saturday, May 20, 2017, at 7:30pm Sunday, May 21, 2017, at 2:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall
MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Kräftig, Entschieden Tempo di menuetto: Sehr mässig Comodo, scherzando, ohne Hast Sehr langsam, misterioso Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck Sehr langsam und durchaus mit innigster Empfindung
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MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES
JEFF WHEELER
ANDREW LITTON, conductor Andrew Litton is Music Director of the New York City Ballet and Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony. He recently ended his twelve-year tenure as Music Director of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic. Under Litton’s leadership, the Bergen Philharmonic gained international recognition through extensive touring, making debuts at London’s BBC Proms; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; and appearances at Vienna’s Musikverein, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. They recorded 25 CD records for Sweden’s BIS and Britain’s Hyperion labels. In acknowledgment of Litton’s service to the cultural life of Norway, Norway’s King Harald knighted Litton with the Royal Order of Merit. Now Bergen Philharmonic Music Director Laureate and Conductor Laureate of Britain’s Bournemouth Symphony, he carries on as Artistic Director of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest, a post he has held since 2003. He guest conducts the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies, and has a discography of almost 130 recordings with awards including America’s Grammy,™ France’s Diapason d’Or, and many other honors. Litton was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony from 1988-1994. A Music Director of the Dallas Symphony from 1994-2006, he hired over one third of the players, led the orchestra on three major European tours, appeared four times at Carnegie Hall, created a children’s television series broadcast nationally and in widespread use in school curricula, produced 28 recordings, and helped raise the orchestra’s endowment from $19 million to $100 million. He has conducted the Colorado Symphony both as Music Director and Artistic Advisor since 2012. An accomplished pianist, Litton often conducts from the keyboard and enjoys performing chamber music with his orchestra colleagues. Passionate about jazz, and long an admirer of the late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Litton recorded his first solo piano album, A Tribute to Oscar Peterson, released in 2014.
MICHELLE DEYOUNG, mezzo Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung appears regularly with the top orchestras in the world including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and the Concertgebouworkest. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. Equally at home on the opera stage, Ms. DeYoung has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Theater Basel, and the Tokyo Opera. A multi-Grammy® award-winning recording artist, Ms. DeYoung’s impressive discography includes Kindertotenlieder, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media), Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live!), and Mahler Symphony No 3 with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink (CSO Resound) and the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck (Challenge Records International). Her first solo disc was released on the EMI label.
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MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Mary Louise Burke is in her 23rd season as Associate Chorus Director of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. In addition to assisting Chorus Director Duain Wolfe, she also prepares the chorus for various Colorado Symphony pops concerts and special chorus projects. Burke is also Associate Director of the Colorado Children’s Chorale, conducting the Concert Choir and acting as vocal coach for the Chorale. With an expertise in vocal technique, Burke frequently does seminars in vocal and choral techniques for area church and community choirs. She is the Vocal Advisor at Montview Presbyterian Church and has taught classes in “Find Your Authentic Voice” at the University of Denver. She has a Doctorate in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado.
DEBORAH DESANTIS, artistic director, Colorado Children’s Chorale Deborah DeSantis has been instrumental in the growth and success of the Colorado Children’s Chorale since 1983. She regularly conducts performances throughout metropolitan Denver and has led numerous tours, nationally and internationally. Her passion for artistic excellence and music education has been a driving force in the development of the Chorale’s School Partnership program, which she established in 1994. In addition to designing and directing community performance residencies for the Chorale, she frequently serves as guest clinician and conductor for school and community children’s choral programs throughout the nation. Debbie has conducted seminars and workshops for Chorus America, the American Choral Director’s Association, Colorado Music Educators Association, the Choristers’ Guild, and the Suzuki Institute. She has served as cochair of Chorus America’s Children/Youth Choir Constituency.
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MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2016-2017 Colorado Symphony Concert Season marks the 33rd year of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1984 by Duain Wolfe at the request of Gaetano Delogu, then the Music Director of the Symphony, the chorus has grown, over the past three decades, into a nationally-respected ensemble. This outstanding chorus of 180 volunteers joins the Colorado Symphony for numerous performances (more than 25 this year alone), and radio and television broadcasts, to repeat critical acclaim. The Chorus has performed at noted music festivals in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Colorado Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, where it has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony. For over two decades, the Chorus has been featured at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival, performing many great masterworks under the baton of notable conductors Lawrence Foster, James Levine, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, and David Zinman. Among the recordings the Colorado Symphony Chorus has made is a NAXOS release of Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 4. The Chorus is also featured on a recent Hyperion release of the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis. In 2009, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Chorus, Duain Wolfe conducted the Chorus on a 3-country, 2-week concert tour of Europe, presenting the Verdi Requiem in Budapest, Vienna, Litomysl, and Prague, and in 2016 the Chorus returned to Europe for concerts in Paris, Strasbourg, and Munich. From Evergreen to Lochbuie, and Boulder to Castle Rock, singers travel each week to rehearsals and performances in Denver totaling about 80 a year. The Colorado Symphony continues to be grateful for the excellence and dedication of this remarkable, all-volunteer ensemble! For an audition appointment, call 303.308.2483.
COLORADO CHILDREN’S CHORALE For more than forty years the Colorado Children’s Chorale has brought its artistry and charm to audiences throughout the world. With a diverse repertoire ranging from fully staged opera and musical theater to standard choral compositions in classical, folk and popular traditions, the Chorale performs with an innovative stage presentation and a unique theatrical spirit. In recognition of its artistic excellence, the Chorale was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and the prestigious El Pomar Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Deborah DeSantis and Executive Director Meg Steitz, the Colorado Children’s Chorale annually trains 500 members between the ages of 7 and 14 from all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds representing more than 180 schools in the Denver metro area and beyond. Since its founding in 1974, the Chorale has sung countless performances with some of the world’s finest performing arts organizations, performed for numerous dignitaries, and appeared in several television and radio broadcasts. The Performance Program includes a series of self-produced concerts, numerous performances with other Colorado arts organizations, and touring around the world. The Chorale presents annual performances of Christmas with the Children’s Chorale and Spring with the Children’s Chorale at Boettcher Concert Hall in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, A Classical Afternoon at Montview Presbyterian Church, and Performing Small Miracles at Colorado Heights Theater. Spring Fling Sing! is presented in venues across the metro area. This season also includes La Boheme, A Colorado Christmas, Mahler’s Symphony #3 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Colorado Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Aspen Music Festival, and Carmen with Central City Opera. PROGRAM 4 SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS WOMEN'S ROSTER Duain Wolfe, Founding Director and Conductor; Mary Louise Burke, Associate Director; Travis Branam, Assistant Conductor; Taylor Martin, Assistant Conductor; Eric Israelson, Chorus Manager; Barbara Porter, Associate Manager; Brian Dukeshier, Danni Snyder, Accompanists SOPRANO I Brown, Jamie Causey, Denelda Choi, LeEtta H. Coberly, Sarah Colbert, Gretchen Daniels, Kaylin E. Dirksen, Sarah Dukeshier, Laura Emerich, Kate A. Gile, Jenifer D. Gill, Lori C. Graber, Susan. Guynn, Erika Harpel, Jennifer Henrich, Sarah B. Hinkley, Lynnae C. Hittle, Erin R. Hofmeister, Mary Hupp, Angela M. Joy, Shelley E. Kirschner, Mary E. Knecht, Melanie Kushnir, Marina Long, Lisa Look, Cathy Maupin, Anne Medema, Stephanie Moraskie, Wendy L.
Perera, Alokya P. Porter, Barbara A. Ropa, Lori A. Rudolph, Kathi L. Schawel, Camilia Sladovnik, Roberta A. Solich, Stephanie A. Stegink, Nicole J. Tate, Judy Van Leeuwen, Andrea Williams, Courtney Young, Cara M. SOPRANO II Ascani, Lori Blum, Jude Bowen, Alex S. Brauchli, Margot L. Christus, Athanasia Coberly, Ruth A. Cote, Kerry H. Dakkouri, Claudia Gross, Esther J. Higginbotham, Heather Irwin, Emily Khalifeh, Anne
Kraft, Lisa D. Linder, Dana Montigne, Erin Nyholm, Christine M. O’Nan, Jeannette R. Pflug, Kim Rae, Donneve S. Rattray, Rebecca E. Rider, Shirley J. Ruff, Mahli Saddler, Nancy C. Snyer, Lynne M. Travis, Stacey L. Von Roedern, Susan K. Walker, Marcia L. Weinstein, Sherry L. Woodrow, Sandy Zisler, Joan M. ALTO I Adams, Priscilla P. Brady, Lois F. Branam, Emily M. Brown, Kimberly Buesing, Amy Clauson, Clair T. Conrad, Jayne M.
Daniel, Sheri L. Drake, Erin A. Dunkin, Aubri K. Edwards, Dana Franz, Kirsten D. Frey, Susie Gayley, Sharon R. Groom, Gabriella D. Guittar, Pat Haller, Emily Holst, Melissa J. Hoopes, Kaia M. Horle, Carol E. Kolstad, Annie Kraft, Deanna Lawlor, Betsy McWaters, Susan Nordenholz, Kristen Passoth, Ginny Pringle, Jennifer Thayer, Mary B. Virtue, Pat Wyatt, Judith
ALTO II Boothe, Kay A. Carlisle, Allison Chatfield, Cass Cox, Martha E. Deck, Barbara Dominguez, Joyce Eslick, Carol A. Golden, Daniela Hoskins, Hansi Jackson, Brandy H. Janasko, Ellen D. Kibler, Janice London, Carole A. Maltzahn, Joanna K. Marchbank, Barbara J. McNulty, Kelly M. Mendicello, Beverly Meromy, Leah Nittoli, Leslie M. Paguirigan, Kali Pak, Lisa Schalow, Elle Scooros, Pamela R. Townsend, Lisa Trierweiler, Gin
COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE CONCERT CHOIR ROSTER Deborah DeSantis, Artistic Director and Conductor Mary Louise Burke, Associate Director and Conductor Evan Ackerman James Algermissen Ksenia Balabanova Ella Barrett Kylie Bennett John Berezniak Ashley Blondo Ben Bosch Gabi Bustamante Aiden Cessna Sophia Chavez Gabriella Chernoff Gabrielle Cohlmia Ethan Conklin Lucy Crile Emily Cull Kerala Curkendall Strider Dolfi
Katie Dupper Ophelia Egbe Adrienne Essel Kayla Farrell Emilia Fischer Reagan Fitzgerald Sophia Glinsky Madeline Greenberg Cailin Gregoire Amelie Haas Ethan Hecker Gunnar Henry Elena Higgins Samantha Hodson Christina Hoener Alex Holland Mary Hopkins Nate Hutabarat
Charles Hutchings Beckett Jansen Jake Jui Annabel Kales Kuyla Kim Shaedryn Klein Nora Knight Claire Koenig Connor Kramer Julia Kung Ella Leafgreen Vivianne Lee Evelyn Lee Amber Liñan Daisy Lynch Will Mahaffy Isabel Malik Eleni Maniatis Jacob Mays
Aeddon McPherson Case Meyer Noah Meyerhoff Maryn Miller Heather Mooney Maressa MoraCalderón Levi Morris Luke Morse Sarah Myers Carl North Chloe Osuna Gareth Page-Roth Jack Parry William Perrone Christian Peters Fiona Radebaugh Mariam Raynor
Johnny Reeves Lucy Reynolds Daya Robles Emelie Rosenberg Riley Ross Keeley Scanlan Talia Shier Claire Sladovnik Lily Suchomel Juliana Talbert Ira Timme Bridget Trujillo Max TrujilloAcevedo Davin Vanoni Alaina Wharton Josie Wilger Abigail Wilson Elliot Wu
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911): Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1895-1897) Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860, in Kalist, Bohemia, and died on May 18, 1911, in Vienna. He composed his monumental Third Symphony during the summers of 1895 and 1896; the orchestration was completed during the following winters. The composer conducted the work’s first complete performance, on June 6, 1902, at the Tonkünstlerfest of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein in the Rhineland city of Krefeld. Felix Weingartner had previously given the second, third, and sixth movements in Berlin during March 1897. The score calls for four flutes (third and fourth doubling piccolo), four oboes (fourth doubling English horn), E-flat clarinet, four clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet, fourth doubling E-flat clarinet), four bassoons (fourth doubling contrabassoon), eight horns, four trumpets, posthorn (playable on flügelhorn), four trombones, tuba, two sets of timpani, percussion, two harps, and strings. Duration is about 100 minutes. The last performance of the Symphony took place on June 1 and 2, 2012, with Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting the orchestra. On March 29, 1891, at the age of 37, Gustav Mahler arrived in Hamburg to become chief conductor of that city’s opera, a post he had earned by rising through a series of successively more important appointments in Cassel, Prague, Leipzig and Budapest which showed him to be one of the greatest interpretative musicians of his time. Despite his brilliance on the podium, then matched only by Bülow, Toscanini, Nikisch, Strauss and Weingartner, Mahler’s deepest ambition was to compose, to embody in tone the complexity, profundity and humanity of the world around him. Indeed, composition was for him an almost insatiable need. “I don’t choose what to compose,” he often said. “It chooses me.” In his perceptive study of the man and his music, Kurt Blaukopf suggested that Mahler was possessed by some higher power that drove him to creative work: “Mahler himself did not compose — something in him composed.” The enormous pressure of his conducting and administrative duties (he sometimes led six performances a week!) prevented Mahler from composing during the winter, so this activity was relegated to the summer months, when the opera houses were closed. June, July, and August were therefore not a time of relaxation for him but rather one of intense, often exhausting, creative work, a need which he could not meet with just the traditional Kapellmeister genres of song and piano pieces and chamber scores, but one that could only be satisfied by the grand, public form of the symphony. “If I want to go down into posterity,” he confided to the critic Max Graf, “I have to write large works during my short holiday.” Mahler’s favored place for his summertime retreats from the madding cities was among the hills and lakes of Austria’s Salzkammergut. In 1893, he found a villa on Lake Atter, thirty miles east of Salzburg, whose main attraction was a tiny, isolated cottage on the shore that provided him with the seclusion he demanded when composing, and he engaged the compound for several seasons. (He insisted on absolute quiet when he composed: the local children were bribed by Mahler’s sister and guests with toys and candy to play in silence; singing fieldhands were constantly admonished, and eventually told that the eccentric musician had lost his presence of mind and might be aroused to terrible acts by even the slightest disturbance; overly noisy chickens and livestock were bought and roasted for supper.) Mahler furnished his composing hut sparsely with a table, wooden chairs, a sofa, and a piano shipped from Vienna; the infrequent visitors he allowed into this sanctum complained that they were showered with beetles when the door was thrown open.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Bruno Walter, the young assistant conductor at Hamburg who became one of Mahler’s most ardent champions and greatest interpreters, wrote that the composer “spent his mornings in work [at the cottage], undisturbed by the noises of the house. He went there at six in the morning, at seven his breakfast was silently placed before him, and only when he opened the door at noon would he return to normal life. Later he might walk about the meadow, or rush uphill and go for longer walks.” When Mahler took up this daily regimen following his arrival at Steinbach on June 5, 1895, he had already formulated a plan for the successor to the “Resurrection” Symphony, whose partial performance just three months earlier in Berlin under his direction marked the first wide public recognition of his compositional genius. The new work was to be a grand, musical evocation of the forces and creations of Nature with, he wrote to his friend Friedrich Löhr, “the emphasis on my personal life (in the form of ‘what things tell me.’)” At the beginning of the summer, the piece was called “The Happy Life, a Midsummer Night’s Dream (not after Shakespeare)”; by August it had become “The Joyful Science” [after the title of the book by Nietzsche], A Summer Morning’s Dream.” There were originally to be seven movements divided into two parts. The first part, which Mahler called an “introduction,” though it eventually grew to a length of forty minutes, was titled “The Awakening of Pan; Summer marches in (procession of Bacchus).” Comprising the second part of the Symphony were a succession of shorter movements: “What the flowers of the meadow tell me”; “What the animals in the forest tell me”; “What the night tells me”; “What the angels tell me”; “What love tells me”; and “Life in Heaven”. Incorporated into this giant musical panorama were settings of poems by Nietzsche and from Des Knaben Wunderhorn for contralto soloist and choruses of women and children. Work progressed quickly on the Symphony. By the end of June, 1895, Mahler had drafted all of the seven movements except for the first one, and he confided to friends that together they comprised what was “probably the ripest and most individual work I have yet composed.” During July, he put aside composing for a few days in order to visit with the ailing Brahms at his summer haunt in nearby Bad Ischl. When Mahler took up work on his sketches again, he grew apprehensive about the immense scale that the work was assuming in its temporal duration, orchestral requirements and vast canvas of musical styles, and he started referring to it, only half-jokingly, as his “monster.” “My calling it a symphony is really inaccurate, for it doesn’t keep to the traditional form in any way,” he told Natalie Bauer-Lechner, the summer house guest of the Mahlers who kept a detailed chronicle during her stay. “But to me ‘symphony’ means constructing a world with all the technical means at one’s disposal. The eternally new and changing content determines its own form.” This statement is really the essence of Mahler’s musical philosophy — to embody an entire universe of feeling and experience in tones. He returned to the idea in a letter about the Third Symphony to his close friend, the Wagnerian soprano, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg: “Imagine a work of such scope that the whole world actually is reflected in it — one becomes, so to speak, only an instrument upon which the universe plays.... My Symphony will be something that the world has never heard before! In this score, all nature speaks and tells such deep secrets as one may intuit in a dream! I tell you, at certain places in the score, a quite uncanny feeling takes possession of me, and I feel as if I had not created this myself. If only I can complete the thing as I envisage it.” Composition on the second through seventh movements was largely finished by the time he left Steinbach in August; their orchestration and thoughts about the music that would precede them occupied him during the following winter. SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 7
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Mahler returned to Steinbach in June 1896, impatient to resume work on the Symphony. He had been making notes and sketches for the first movement for several months, but discovered to his horror when he arrived that he had left them in his office in Hamburg. Bauer-Lechner reported that he was like a caged tiger, growling and pacing, until they were delivered a week later. The first movement grew quickly thereafter. Sometime before it was completed, he told Bauer-Lechner, “It has almost ceased to be music; it is hardly anything but sounds of nature. ‘Summer marches in’ will be the prelude.... Naturally enough, it doesn’t come off without a struggle with the opponent, Winter; but Winter is easily defeated, and Summer, with his strength and superior power, soon gains undisputed mastery.” Mahler also decided during the summer of 1896 to remove the final, vocal movement, “Life in Heaven,” from the Symphony. This lovely music was not wasted, however, since it became the seed from which grew the Fourth Symphony, where it was used as the finale. The Third Symphony was completed in short score on August 6th. The first person to hear it was Bruno Walter (Mahler was absolutely secretive about the musical content, if not the underlying philosophy or program, of his works in progress), when the composer played it for him in the cottage at Steinbach. “Familiar as I had become with the spiritual atmosphere of the Symphony,” Walter wrote in his book on the composer, “it was a shattering and undreamed-of experience to hear him perform it on the piano. I felt as if I were recognizing him for the first time. His whole being seemed to breathe a mysterious affinity with the forces of nature. Had he been only a ‘nature lover’ in the ordinary sense of the word, his music, I thought, might have turned out more ‘civilized.’ But what I had always felt subconsciously — his Dionysian saturation with nature — was voiced now as a primitive musical sound from the very depths of his soul. Here I seemed to see him in the round: the oppressive weight placed on him by the stark majesty of the rocky summits, love for the tender flower, a sense of the shyness and drollery, and the untamable ferocity, within the primeval depths of the animal world, and finally the intuitive yearning of the human spirit to penetrate beyond the bounds of earthly transience. I carried this music with me when we parted, and it was a long time before its disturbing presence could pass into secure possession.” To which Philip Barford, in his study of Mahler’s symphonies, added, “In the background of his mind there seems always to be the ladder up which humanity can climb to heaven.” Mahler completed the orchestration of the Third Symphony during the winter of 1896-97, but was unable to arrange for its full performance, so he reluctantly allowed Felix Weingartner to extract the second, third, and sixth movements from the complete work and conduct them in Berlin during March 1897. They were received with only small enthusiasm. When Mahler finally performed the work complete, however, on June 6, 1902, at the Tonkünstlerfest of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein in the city of Krefeld, on the west bank of the Rhine north of Cologne, the composer’s sister, Justine, reported that it “made an enormous sensation, especially among the musicians.” Though Mahler was always impatient about the number of performances given to his music, this Symphony was heard and appreciated on numerous occasions during his lifetime. He was particularly gratified by one performance of it that he conducted with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1903. “The tumult of applause,” he wrote, “was almost daunting. Everyone said nothing like it could be remembered. I have beaten Strauss, who is all the rage here, by miles.” A year later, after the Symphony was first given in Vienna (Mahler astutely never allowed the world premieres of his music to occur in Vienna while he was director of the Opera there), the composer received a letter from the 30-year-old Arnold Schoenberg, who was still immersed in the hyper-romanticism that had yielded Gurrelieder and Pelleas und PROGRAM 8 SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Melisande. Schoenberg ended the letter with his reaction to the Third Symphony: “I saw your very soul naked, stark naked.... I felt your Symphony. I shared in the battling for illusion; I suffered the pangs of disillusionment; I saw the forces of good and evil wrestling with each other; I saw a man in torment struggling towards inward harmony.... Forgive me, I cannot feel by halves.” For the new work’s first performance, Mahler allowed the title and movement descriptions that he had devised for its composition to be printed in the program notes. After the premiere, however, he grew distrustful of mere words to frame the sense of his music, and he withdrew the sobriquets. “Those titles I originally intended for non-musicians as a point of reference and a guide to the thought, or rather, mood-content of individual movements, of movement to movement and to the whole,” he wrote. “That I did not succeed, as indeed one never can succeed, in this intent, and only opened the way to misinterpretations of the worst kind, soon became clear to me.... I now have given up for good any further commenting, analyzing, or providing any listener’s aid whatever! These titles will certainly tell you something after you have become acquainted with the score. From them, you can gain some suggestion of how I imagined the constantly increasing articulation of feeling, from the brooding, elementary forces of nature, to the tender creations of the human heart, which in turn reach out beyond themselves, pointing the way to God.” Despite his misgivings, however, his literary program is essential for understanding the ethic and progression of this magnificent Symphony, the longest such work in the repertory. Indeed, the philosophical program existed before the music was begun, and was the germ from which it grew. *** Of Mahler’s Third Symphony, Deryck Cooke wrote, “The idea behind the work was a conception of existence in its totality. The vast first movement was to represent the summoning of Nature out of non-existence by the god Pan, symbolized by the emergence of summer out of winter; and after this, the five shorter movements were to represent the ‘stages of being’ (as Mahler expressed it in a letter), from vegetable and animal life, through mankind and the angels, to the love of God.” Cooke called the opening movement (“Pan awakes; Summer marches in”), which solely occupies Part I of the Symphony, “the most original and flabbergasting thing Mahler ever conceived.” Though there are some vestigial connections with traditional formal types, this movement is better understood philosophically, as the musical evocation of powerful forces, than analytically. A long introduction, blown into being by an awesome opening blast from massed horns, is filled with what Mahler called “nature sounds.” There follows the struggle between dark Winter, with its sinister march theme, and life-giving Summer, first portrayed by a dancing strain cheerfully displayed by the winds. Other themes arise on both sides and are drawn into the conflict, but Summer prevails. This is music, in the mold of Beethoven, that is uplifting and fructifying, another evidence of Mahler’s underlying belief in the resiliency of good and its ultimate triumph over evil. “A pessimist does not think and feel like this,” noted Guido Adler. After calling up gargantuan cosmic forces in the opening movement, Mahler turned in the Symphony’s second part to evoking Nature’s (and God’s) bounties, or, more accurately, his musico/emotional responses to them. Mahler called the second movement (“What the flowers of the meadow tell me”) a “minuet,” though it is really more a country dance than a SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 9
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES recreation of Mozartian elegance. In its deliberate naïvete, it provides a startling contrast to the overwhelming music that precedes it, a quality Mahler employed throughout his works to heighten their drama and intensify their expression. (Mahler requested a pause of a few minutes between the first and second movements.) Near the end of his life, Mahler met with Sigmund Freud, and they uncovered a childhood experience from which this technique of juxtaposing very different musical styles may have grown. “His father, apparently a brutal person, treated his wife very badly,” recorded Freud. “When Mahler was young there was an especially painful scene between his parents. It became quite unbearable for the boy, who rushed away from the house. At that moment, however, a hurdy-gurdy in the street was grinding out the popular Viennese air, “Ach, Du Lieber Augustin.” In Mahler’s opinion, the conjunction of high tragedy and light amusement was from then on inextricably fixed in his mind, and the one mood inevitably brought on the other.” When the piece was still new, Mahler told Natalie Bauer-Lechner, “Yet but for that marriage, neither I nor my Third Symphony would exist — I find that quite remarkable.” The third movement (“What the animals in the woods tell me”) is a reworking of a song with a cheeky text from Das Knaben Wunderhorn, “Ablösung im Sommer” (“Changing of the Summer Guard”), that Mahler composed around 1890. Woven into the movement are episodes for solo posthorn, the traditional instrument used to announce the arrival of the mail coach and therefore associated with distant places and sentimental longing. The passages here entrusted to the posthorn are some of the most nostalgic and sweetly dreamy found in any of Mahler’s symphonies. The last three movements are played without pause. The fourth movement (“What the night tells me”) is a setting for contralto of the so-called “Drunken Song” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s novel Also sprach Zarathustra. (Richard Strauss’ tone poem on Zarathustra was completed in the same month as the Third Symphony — August 1896.) “The movement is one of the stillest things in all music,” wrote Deryck Cooke, “with its cry of a night-bird (oboe glissando) and its long-held contralto notes backed by thirds on trombones echoed by piccolos.” Choruses of boys’ and women’s voices sing in the following movement (“What the angels tell me”) of a heavenly vision whose words Mahler borrowed from the Wunderhorn poems. This wondrous music of bells and brightness is briefly clouded in its central section by the thoughts of a repentant sinner, sung by the contralto. Phrases from this music were recalled in the Fourth Symphony. Mahler called the last movement both “What love tells me” and “What God tells me,” and chose to end the Symphony not with the traditional, fast closing music, but rather with an instrumental Adagio of deep feeling and stirring optimism. “For Mahler, all quick music ... represented the flux of the world and human life,” assessed Burnett James, “while slow music, by contrast, enshrined the permanent, the eternal, the higher force.” Of this great finale, Bruno Walter wrote, “In the last movement, words are stilled — for what language can utter heavenly love more powerfully and forcefully than music itself? The Adagio, with its broad, solemn melodic line, is, as a whole — and despite passages of burning pain — eloquent of comfort and grace. It is a single sound of heartfelt and exalted feelings, in which the whole giant structure finds its culmination.” “What is best in music,” Mahler once said, “is not to be found in the notes.” ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda PROGRAM 10 SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Movement IV O Mensch! Gib Acht! Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht? Ich schlief! Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht! Die Welt ist tief! Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht! Tief ist ihr Weh! Lust, tiefer noch als Herzeleid! Weh spricht: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit! Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit! c
Oh Man, take heed! What does the deep midnight say? I slept! From a deep dream I was wakened! The world is deep! And deeper than the day imagined! Deep is its grief! Joy, deeper still than heartache! Grief speaks: Away! But all longing craves eternity, raves deep, deep eternity. * * *
Movement V Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang; mit Freuden es selig in dem Himmel klang, sie jauchzten fröhlich auch dabei, dass Petrus sei von Sünden frei.
Three angels were singing a sweet song; with joy it resounded blissfully in heaven; they cried out with joy that Peter was set free from sin.
Und als der Herr Jesus zu Tische sass, mit seinem zwölf Jüngern das Abendmahl ass: Da sprach der Herr Jesus: Was steht du denn hier? Wenn ich dich anseh’, so weinest du mir!
And as the Lord Jesus sat at the table with his twelve disciples and ate the Last Supper, the Lord Jesus said: Why then do you stand here? When I look at you, you weep before me.
Und sollt’ ich nicht weinen, du gütiger Gott? (Du sollst ja nicht weinen!) Ich hab’ übertreten die zehn Gebot. Ich gehe und weine ja bitterlich. (Du sollst ja nicht weinen!) Ach komm und erbarme dich über mich!
And should I not weep, thou merciful God? (No, you should not weep!) I have broken the Ten Commandments. I go my way and weep bitterly. (No, you should not weep!) Ah, come and have mercy on me!
Hast du denn übertreten die zehn Gebot, so fall auf die Knie und bete zu Gott! Liebe nur Gott in alle Zeit! So wirst du erlangen die himmlische Freud’.
If you have broken the Ten Commandments, then fall on your knees and pray to God. Love only God for all time! So will you attain heavenly joy!
Die himmlische Freud’ ist eine selige Stadt, die himmlische Freud’, die kein Ende mehr hat! Die himmlische Freude was Petro bereit’t durch Jesum und Allen zur Seligkeit.
Heavenly joy is a blessed estate, Heavenly joy, that knows no end! Heavenly joy was granted to Peter through Jesus, and for the blessedness of all.
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Ms. Jennifer Miller Thomas Milligan Ms. Anne B. Mills Gene and Dee Milstein Mr. Robert R. Montgomery Mr. Douglas G. and Dr. Laura B. Moran Janet Mordecai Anne and David Necker James Neely Ms. Mary Neidig Mr. David Parce Mr. and Mrs. W. Peterson Nelson 9NEWS Mr. Stephen Norris Dr. Richard and Mrs. Florence O’Day Ed and Jean Onderko Dr. Bonnie M. Orkow, Ph.D. Linda Diekvoss and Paul Parish Dr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Paton Ms. Sue Pawlik Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pokorny Al and Ursula Powell The Publishing House Mrs. Dorothy M. Read Richard Replin and Elissa Stein Mr. Eli and Mrs. Adina Reshotko Ayliffe and Fred Ris Ms. Margaret Roath Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio PC Mr. Robert Rodriquez Terri and Jay Rolls Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rootes Dr. Turpin H. Rose Michele Rowland Sallie and John Ruhnka Jim and Doreen Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Saunders Ruth Schoening Nancy & Robert Schulein Fund William Schumacher Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Shultz Singer Family Foundation Sam and Marty Sloven Billie Smith Mr. David C. Smith Marlis and Shirley Smith Billie Busby and Sidney Smith William and Janice Smith Sol Lingerie Philip Stoffel and Tricia Hughey Dr. Bill Strempel Marcia D. Strickland Helena and Allan Striker Mr. Steven Suflas Mr. Lloyd Sweet Lou and Katherine Svoboda Tim and Janet Taggert Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tashiro Walt and Sally Tejan Mr. Roger P. Thomasch Tipton Family Foundation Kyle and Bev Turner Mr. Tim and Mrs. Lisa Walsh
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Peter Weiser Mr. and Mrs. Tor Westgaard Rev. Stephen R. Weston Jon Wilkerson Dr. John Willhardt Mr. Jerry Winter and Ms. Lois Keener Henry E. Wurst Family Foundation Ms. Phyllis J. Young Dick and Lorie Young YourCause, LLC SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Anonymous (5) Dr. and Mrs. Jules Amer DeAnn Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Gary Armstrong Ms. Cynthia Auer Bruce Avery Lewis and Judith Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Baldwin Carlos A. Barradas Mr. Edward Bartholic Mr. Robert L. Bartholic Richard and Linda Bateman Mr. and Mrs. James Beall Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Beckwitt Anne and Henry Beer Ms. Mariette Bell George and Phee Belsey Claire Benson Mary Bessesen Mrs. Terry A. Biddinger Mr. Michael Biere and Ms. Patricia Romero Ms. Ellen Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Kermit J. Boothroyd Henry C. Bourne, III and Alisa Bourne Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bowry Ms. Susan Brasel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Brauchli Ms. Betty Brega Ms. Emily Brett Dr. and Mrs. David Brewer Mr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Elaine Brickman Michael and Catherine Brondos Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bronesky Ms. Barbara Brown Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Bryan Sandy and Rogene Buchholz M. Peyton and Suzanne Bucy - Bucy Family Fund Mrs. Elizabeth S. Budd Judge Doris E. Burd Robert and Linda Bushman Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Butz Mr. David Cahn Douglas and Constance Cain Lois M. Calvert Teresa Campos Christina Carlson Caulkins Family Foundation Ms. Martha Chamberlin Mr. Lee Chew Dr. David and Mrs. Delores Claassen Delores I. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Clark Colton
Dee Colton Mr. Frederic Conover Ms. Mary Cook Paul and Eileen Cooper Mr. Scott Coors and Dr. David Hurt Dr. John A. and Mrs. Jane H. Coppola Frances S. Corsello Dr. James W. Craft Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Craft Ray and Kathleen Cravy Mr. Lee Cryer Hille L. Dais Suzanne Dakin Ms. Ruth Dalrymple Jesse Davidson and Ellen Blatt Dr. and Mrs. Toby Derloshon George and Yonnie Dikeou Dorothy Dowden The Dowling Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Drew Kathryn and Gary Dudley Louise and Robert Dudley Ms. Shirley M. Duman Dr. and Mrs. Michael P. Earnest Leslie Easton Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Mr. Edward and Mrs. Judith Elgethun Lucy and Dan Ellerhorst Mr. Don Elliott Mrs. Susan Ellis and Mr. Izzy Abbass Mr. Bayard Ewing Ms. Elizabeth J. Feitner Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Fieman Paul S. Fischer Ms. Gail Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Flannery David and Debra Flitter Frederick G. Fish Foundation Dr. Lauren Fraser and Ms. Rebecca Coughlin Mrs. Joann Freedman Freeman Family Foundation Ms. JoAnne Friedman Deborah S. Froeb Virginia E. and Robert K. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gallagher Dr. Ben and Mrs. Jean Galloway Todd Gander and Terry Hsu-Gander Lester and Joan Garrison Marian P. Gelfand Fund Linda Laird Giedl Marshall and Jenifer Gile Michael Gill Mr. and Mrs. Jim Golanty Tamara Golden and Tim Worrall Mr. Barry J. Goldstein and Mrs. Thorey Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. James B. Grange Ms. Andrea J. Grant Mr. John and Mrs. Judy Green Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Greenberg Mr. Robert Greene Mr. and Mrs. Peter Griffiths Martha and Jim Groebe Renee and Martin Gross Donald Hagengruber
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Grace M. Halmi Charles and Linda Hamlin Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hancock Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell Sarah Hart Mr. and Mrs. John Helfrich Keith Herman Melvin and Carolyn Hess Ms. Susan A. Hill Mr. Stephen Hindes Cynthia Hinds Sarah C. Hite Dr. Bradley O. Hofer Mike and Vicki Hoffman Graham and Cathy Hollis Robert Homiak and Susan Schneider Ms. Sally Hopper Andrew Hornbrook Mrs. Isabella W. Horsky Robert and Betty Huzjak IBM International Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Johanos Mr. Eric E. Johnson Mrs. Kathleen Johnson and Mr. Stephen Vierling Margie Lee Johnson Marvin and Carole Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Everette G. Jones Ms. Dianne Eddolls Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Judd Mr. and Mrs. Colman Kahn
Mrs. Diana Kasson Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kelley Ms. Judy H. Kessenich John and Alicia Kinnamon Oza and Milan Klanjsek Mel and Roberta Klein Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber Midge Korczak Eric Krein Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Amy Kvistad Nancy Lambertson David C. Leger Judy and Dan Lichtin Theodore Lichtmann Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan Patty Lorie Mr. Joseph Lubinski Ms. Marian Lyons Mrs. Jean Macferran Bruce W. Martin Harold P. Martin, M.D. Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Mr. and Mrs. Amos C. Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClelland Ms. Tracey McCullough Carla E. McKennett The Janet Melson Charitable Gift Fund Virginia Messick Jay and Lois Miller Ron and Bonnie Milzer
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mr. Brett and Mrs. Angela Mitchell The Moe Family Charitable Fund Cheryl L. Moody Ms. Kathie Moore Corinne Morse and David Beeman William and Rosemarie Murane Mrs. Cynthia F. Nagel Ms. Marcia G. Naiman Newberry Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Nies Ms. Kristen Nordenholz Mr. Robert and Mrs. Ilsa Nordenholz Larry O’Donnell and Kermit Cain Ray O’Loughlin and Jamie Henderson Mary and Art Otten Carl Patterson David and Doris Pearlman Ms. Leah Peer Ms. Karen Peterson Mr. and Mrs. George C. Pickering Patrick and Susan Pientka Mr. Cason and Mrs. Rachel Pierce Mr. Hugh Pitcher Sally Plummer Mary and Bernard Polak Ed Post Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Praetorius Ms. Julie Prange Mr. Bennett L. Price Mr. Nick Recuber Nancy and Gene Richards Dr. Richard and Mrs. Sandra Roark Dr. Gregory Robbins Eleanor Roberts Anthony C. and Patricia J. Romeo Mr. Steven M. Ropa Sig and Lucille Rosefeld Mr. and Mrs. William E. Russell Ms. Carol L. Rust Mr. Clayton Saylor Cynthia L. and Paul D. Schauer Ms. Mary Ann Schultz Ms. Carla L. Seeliger Mr. and Mrs. Karl O. Seller Betty and Maurice Serotta Ms. Barbara Servis Dr. and Mrs. David Shander Jo Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Conner W. Shepherd Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Silverman Drs. Robert H. Slover, II and Robin Slover Dr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith James Smith and Robert Karow Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Smith John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich Mr. and Mrs. William H. Speaker Hanspeter and Kathryn Spuhler Myron and Marcia Stein Mr. Daniel Stenersen Gordon Stenger and Brooke Goudy Mrs. Mary L. Stewart Julie and John Strain
Mrs. Elaine B. Strauch Mr. and Mrs. Michael Strear Mrs. Mary C. Symonton Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Talley Carol and Cedric Tarr Judy and Rob Tate Mr. Frank Thomson Mr. Charles Thorman Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Tillery Nan Timbel David Tourtelot and Nikki Headlee Ms. Sheila Trader Barbara J. Tramutt Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trantow Helen Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Virtue Ed and Patty Wahtera Ms. Shirley Ward Ms. Hanna Warren Rosemary Whitaker Jordan Wight Daniel C. Williams Werner and Mary Winkler Jim and Marlene Wogsland Mr. Dieter and Mrs. Marianne Wons George and Beth Wood Richard and Mary Ann Woods Amy Wright Dr. and Mrs. Roy R. Wright Marsha F. Young Tom Zeiler Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ziebarth R.A. Zimmerman Mr. and Ms. Michael A. Zoellner Ms. Regina M. Zoglo
MATCHING DONATIONS
Thank you to those companies who match current and retired employee contributions to the Colorado Symphony and to our donors who apply for these matching gifts. Please check with your Human Resources Department to see if your contribution can double through the generosity of your company. To contact the Development Department directly, please call Kate Bentley at 303.308.2472.
WOMEN OF NOTE DONOR LIST
The following are members of the Colorado Symphony’s Women of Note (WON). WON members receive exclusive benefits and event invitations throughout the season. The Colorado Symphony is grateful for the support of these dedicated individuals. Anonymous Marin Alsop* Nancy Accetta Addie Barkley Paula Bernstein* Terry Biddinger* Libby Bortz
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Erna Butler* Taesuk Cho-Hwang Kirsten Collins Donna Connolly Anne Culver Courtney Ferer Kathie Finger Mary Lou Flater Monica Glickman Diane Hill Elizabeth Holtze Eileen Honnen-McDonald* Montjoy Kugeler Sandy Lasky* Nancy Lawrence Ann Levy Carolyn Longmire Jeri Loser Merry Low Janet Mordecai Karin Mote Carol Murphy Elizabeth B. Neva Jane Nielsen Shelia O’Brien Diane Padalino Ursula Powell Margaret Roath Mary Rossick Kern* Suzanne Barber Ryan
Suzanne Satter Alice Silver Phoebe Smedley Kathy Sphuler Vicki Sterling Janyce Wald Rivka Weisberg Judy Wigod *Founding Member
SPECIAL PROJECT DONORS
The Colorado Symphony constantly seeks new and creative ways to preserve the cultural legacy of symphonic music while actively co-creating its future. By working on new recordings and collaborations, the Colorado Symphony strives to stay relevant for generations to come. Anonymous Col. Philip Beaver and Mrs. Kim Beaver Bob and Cynthia Benson Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. Tom and Noel Congdon Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cromie Dr. Everette J. Freeman Mr. Paul E. Goodspeed and Ms. Mary Poole Jennifer Heglin Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Fred and Connie Platt Mr. Dan Poole Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Rosen
EDUCATION DONOR LIST
Through our MusiCurious program, your Colorado Symphony reaches thousands of young people within and well outside the Denver metro area, from months-old through high school and beyond. We always work to extend and increase our outreach and could not possibly do it without your support. PLATINUM CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($50,000+) Anonymous Malone Family Foundation Target
Mr. Jon Isenhart Ms. Carla McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turetzky R.A. Zimmerman
BALL SPONSOR LIST
The 2016 Colorado Symphony Ball raised money through table sales, individual and corporate contributions, sponsorship, silent and live auctions, and real-time voting during “THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS: REMATCH” where guests voted for their favorite band. This year’s bands were the Colorado Symphony, The DaVita Blues All Stars, and Tracksuit Wedding. PRESENTING SPONSOR ($75,000+) The Anschutz Foundation Arrow Electronics, Inc.
GOLD CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($25,000+) Anonymous
VIRTUOSO ($50,000+) Anonymous Liberty Global
CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($10,000+) Anonymous The AJL Charitable Foundation Ralph L. and Florence R. Burgess Trust The Denver Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation Verizon Wireless Walter S. Rosenberry, III Trust
MAESTRO ($25,000+) Anonymous AMG National Trust Bank DaVita Expedia Keith and Kathie Finger IAC Corporation Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern
SILVER CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($5,000+) Anonymous Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. Denver Post Charities, a McCormick Foundation Fund PeyBack Foundation Scientific & Cultural Collaborative US Bank Community Development Xcel Energy Foundation
ENCORE ($15,000+) Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Mrs. Sandy Elliott LionTree Advisors, LLC Dr. Christopher Ott and Mr. Jeremy Simons Sherman & Howard Linda Shoemaker and Steve Brett
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,000+) Anonymous Nathan B. & Florence R. Burt Foundation Cherry Hills Cultural Associates Collage Giving Fund ECA Foundation Katherine McMurray Henry B. Mohr Parker Foundation Ms. Lynne Valencia SYMPHONY CONCERTMASTER ($1,000+) Anonymous Ms. Connie Bender Kinder Morgan Foundation Singer F. Foundation SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Anonymous Nancy Ball Dr. John A. and Mrs. Jane H. Coppola Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell
CONCERTMASTER ($10,000+) Mr. and Mrs. Tony Accetta Baker Botts, LLP Baker & Hostetler, LLP Centura Health Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP Denver Broncos Football Club Discovery Communications Adam and Stephanie Donner Diane S. Hill and Kevin E. Somerville Amanda Precourt/The Precourt Foundation The Publishing House University of Denver PRINCIPAL ($5,000+) AEG Live AMC Network Sue Anschutz-Rodgers BeneFactor Boss Architecture Breakthru Beverage Cadre General Contractors, Inc. Mr. Scott Campbell Colorado Rockies Baseball Club
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Cooley, LLP CU Anschutz Medical Campus Ms. Susan Drumm Mrs. Susan Ellis and Mr. Izzy Abbass Ms. Jayne Ford Dr. Everette J. Freeman, President, Community College of Denver GBSM, Inc. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP KPMG, LLP Libby Anschutz Foundation Dr. Jon Masoudi The Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch Coreen and Michael Miller 9NEWS The Pashel/Chapman Group Pentec Health Republic National Distributing Company Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shpall Eric Sondermann and Tracy Dunning Mr. Walker and Mrs. Jenna Stapleton Volunteers of America Willis Towers Watson ($2,000+) Merle C. Chambers Mr. John F. Estes, III and Mrs. Norma Horner
Four Five One Events Mr. Paul E. Goodspeed and Ms. Mary Poole Mr. and Mrs. Ed Greene Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hirschfeld Mr. Keith Ladner Alan and Judy Wigod ($1,000+) Mr. Brad Bawmann Jim and Julie Copenhaver Mr. and Mrs. Bruce DiBiase Ms. Donna S. Gerich Ms. DeAnn Grasingers Bill and Donna Hoberecht Sandy and Evan Lasky Mr. and Mrs. Howard Noble Elyse Tipton and Paul Ruttum Mr. Adam Wimmer ($500+) Mr. Rick D. Bailey Alvina Crouse Ms. Dianne Eddolls Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Forensic Pursuit Ms. Lisa Hayes Mr. Brooks and Ms. Lauren Kanski Mr. Thomas Lorz Ms. Mary Neidig Nijole and Walter Rasmussen
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Barbara Servis Mr. John H. Voorheis Mr. Ernest and Mrs. Patti Ward IN-KIND DONATIONS Applejack Wine & Spirits Bouquets Ceavco Constellation Brands DaVita Blues All Stars Epicurean Jays Valet Leopold Brothers Live Nation The Publishing House Republic National Distributing Company Tivoli Brewing Tracksuit Wedding
IN MEMORIAM GIFTS
The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in memory of a family member, friend, or supporter of the symphony. These tributes hold an honored place with the Colorado Symphony and we are privileged to recognize them. In memory of David Abosch given by: Roger and Susan Bowles Mr. John and Mrs. Karen Kinzie Duain Wolfe In memory of Gene Amole from KVOD given by: Mr. R. Glesner and Mrs. B. Schwarm Glesner In memory of Eleanor Scott Annable given by: J. Fern Black In memory of Mr. Charles Ansbacher given by: Swanee Hunt Family Foundation In memory of Darthelia Baker given by: Ms. Veatrice Monroe In memory of John Carlson given by: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russel In memory of Muriel Cassidy given by: Mr. David Aker In memory of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Caton given by: Catherine Caton Groene In memory of Mingwah Chan given by: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Chan In memory of Blair Chotzinhoff given by: The Denver Foundation Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Mrs. Nancy Schulein In memory of Robert and Selma Cohen given by: Barbralu Cohen In memory of William R. Cook given by: Karen Cook In memory of Ben Cooper given by: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russel In memory of Harold Dillon given by: Ellen Coulter Lisa Dillon
John and Meritt Hutton Scott Hutton Leslee Viehoff In memory of Willis Dutra-Silveria given by: Ms. Janet M. Erjavec In memory of Frances E. given by: Cynthia Schauer In memory of Paul and Ann Emrich given by: Mr. David Emrich In memory of Mr. Gerald Endsley given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Lynn Erion given by: Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen In memory of her father, Barney Fox, on Father’s Day given by: Leslie Tjarks In memory of Dr. Joyce S. Freeman given by: Freeman Family Foundation Ms. JoAnne Friedman In memory of Jerry and Joyce Friedman given by: Ms. JoAnne Friedman In memory of Julie Gannon given by: Deep Space Systems 5K team In memory of Mr. Michael Gaughan given by: Tanya and Bruce Caughey Mr. David W. Durnell Tim and Janet Taggert In memory of Carol and Bill Gossard given by: Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wynkoop In memory of Manny Greenberg given by: Ellie Greenberg and Family The Sylvan Stool Family In memory of Mr. Ken Harper given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Eleanor Hayden given by: Ms. Jean Melville In memory of Dr. H. Michael Hayes given by: Hayes Family Foundation In memory of Allen Johannes Heim given by: Arik Heim Christian Heim Lauren Yager In memory of Jeannine D. Hiester given by: Phillip C. Hiester In memory of retired musician Fred Hoeppner given by: Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bakemeier Drs. Paula and William Bernstein Jim and Julie Copenhaver Mr. Edward and Mrs. Judith Elgethun David and Debra Flitter Mike Jalving and Susan Spero Mr. Gary Kleiman and Ms. Elisa Moran Judge and Mrs. John P. Leopold Karen Jo and Brett Levin John and Merry Low Mr. and Mrs. James Maurer Paul and Barb Moe
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Kathleen Newman F.R. Owen Don Ruggles Rob and Jane Scofield Mr. and Ms. Steve Straub Judy Wiese In memory of Kenneth W. Kohlenberg given by: Mr. Bryan Kohlenberg In memory of David Kulaas given by: Mrs. Jennifer S. Kulaas In memory of Samuel Lancaster given by: Ms. Mary Louise Burke In memory of Lea LaParle given by: Ms. Donna S. Gerich In memory of Maurice Larue given by: Scott and Jackie Barnes Denis and Kathy Donnelly Ms. Carol A. Greenwald In memory of Edward Levy given by: Ann Levy Ms. Denison Levy In memory of Marie Lindvall given by: Anonymous In memory of Dr. James List, M.D. given by: Emma L. Dafoe In memory of Ronald S. Loser given by: Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Bansbach, III Mr. Jim Bowers Ms. Betty Brega Mr. and Mrs. Mackintosh Brown Mr. and Mrs. George M. Canon Centennial Airport Mr. Robert L. Eaton Mrs. Ann B. Fawcett Barbara H. and Charles Ferguson Mr. Joesph Flierl Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Fuller Mr. Frank M. Hall, III Mr. Roger D. Hunt Judge and Mrs. John P. Leopold Meg MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Neil McLagan Brian and Deborah Magoon Ms. Lucille Maun Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Ms. Virginia L. Park Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, PC Mr. William C. Rodraun Ms. Julie Shade Ms. Karyn Thompson-Panos Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Warren In memory of Suzanne Hewitt Lowell given by: Mr. and Mrs. Neil W. Hamilton Mr. Charles Homsy In memory of Thomas L. McClintock given by: Colorado Symphony Guild-Foothills Unit Ms. Nancy L. Graham G.J. and P.A. Graziano James D. and Elizabeth McMahon Mrs. Carol Reeves
In memory of Ruthi McEwen given by: Frank Parce In memory of their late spouses, Richard McKennett and Sarah Porter given by: Carla McKennett and David Porter In memory of Pierson F. Melcher given by: Cynthia Melcher In memory of her husband, Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., M.D. given by: Jo Ann Paffenbarger In memory of Roxanne Pinneo given by: Quality Life Services Ms. Dorothy Wright In memory of Herman D. Post given by: Dr. Robin D. Post In memory of Dorothy Presta given by: Mr. and Mrs. William Cowan Ms. Mary Neidig P. A. Price In memory of Mr. Harry T. Safstrom given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Michael Schatz given by: Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen In memory of Robert Schulein given by: The Denver Foundation Mrs. Nancy Schulein In memory of David Callistus Smith given by: Mr. Stephen M Book Ms. Darla Duval Ms. Lougena M. Foxhoven Mr. Tony and Mrs. Gina Gradisher Ms. Colleen Higgins Ms. Carmen Huff Mr. Charles R. McMullin Shawn Miller Ms. Letitia Ottem Mr. James Schmitt Ms. Krista Wright Ms. Katarina Zarlengo In memory of Mary Ruth Smith given by: Ms. Anne H. Wheeler In memory of his wife, Tracy Smith given by: Mr. Clyde Eaton Smith In memory of Betty Sonnenberg given by: Sylvia Kreider In memory of Lee and Margaret Tipton given by: Tipton Family Foundation In memory of Ablie Ubran given by: Mr. and Mrs. David McGaw In memory of Sue Van Deusen given by: M Cati Flater David P. and Chady L. Hall Ms. Violet Wagener In memory of Guenther Vogt given by: Mr. Charles Anderson Ms. Anne Oberbroeckling In memory of Seymour (SY) Wallach given by: Mrs. Merrily Wallach In memory of Jean Watt given by: Rob and Jane Scofield
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT In memory of Heinrich Weinberg given by: Dr. Adriana Weinberg In memory of Lisa Gayle Wigod given by: Alan and Judy Wigod In memory of Charleen Wippler given by: Ms. Linda Will In memory of Jim Withers given by: Ann and Henry Jesse In memory of Dorothy Yoder given by: Ms. C. D. Chalfant Ms. Joanne Y. Dearth In memory of Bill Zishkagiven by: Lisa, Susan, and Ellen Madsen In memory of Josephine Zoglo given by: Regina Zoglo
IN HONOR GIFTS
The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in honor of a family member, friend, or special occasion. These tributes hold an honored place with the Colorado Symphony and we are pleased to recognize them. In honor of Silver Ainomäe’s fine artistry given by: Elizabeth and Heather Neva In honor of Libby Anschutz given by: Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hirschfeld
Mr. and Mrs. John Sie In honor of Kristina Arko given by: Alenka Han In honor of Linda Battan given by: Nancy Battan In honor of Kay Ann Obering Powers Benda given by: Ms. Ronnie Mitzner In honor of Dr. Paula Bernstein given by: Ms. Paula Folkman In honor of Marge and Ed Blaine given by: Dr. Judy Blaine In honor of Mary Louise Burke given by: Frank Y. Parce In honor of Char Campbell given by: Mr. and Mrs. Bradley James In honor of Christina Carlson given by: Ms. Marjorie H. Adler Carolyn and Ronald Baer Frederick W. Damour Virginia E. & Robert K. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan In honor of Taesuk Cho-Hwang given by: Ms. Ruth Williams In honor of Ellie Caulkins given by: Anna and John J. Sie Foundation
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT In honor of Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen’s birthday given by: Mandelbaum Family Charitable Foundation Ms. Sharon Marks Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation Ms. Faye Gardenswartz In honor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus given by: Jude Blum Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sladovnik Susan Von Roedern In honor of the Colorado Symphony Guild given by: Billie Smith In honor of Pera Beth Eichelberger given by: Anonymous Marian Bakken Karen Fabean In honor of Monica Glickman given by: Ms. Ruth Schorsch In honor of Frank Gordon given by: Trevor Crandall In honor of Bill and Carol Gossard given by: Anonymous In honor of retired musician, Chet Hampson given by: Susan Martin In honor of James Hart given by: Ms. Kathleen A. Schmidt In honor of Philip C. Hiester, Master Electrician of the CSO given by: Mr. Eli Reshotko and Mrs. Adina Reshotko In honor of Dr. Diane Hill given by: Michael P. Dowling In honor of our Concertmaster, Yumi Hwang-Williams given by: Michael P. Dowling In honor of Jerry Kern given by: Nancy Battan Mrs. Terry A. Biddinger Laura Bond Patty and Don Cook Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Sari and Bob Freedman Mr. and Mrs. John Sie In honor of Mary Rossick Kern and Jerry Kern given by: Michael and Christine James Myron and Marcia Stein In honor of John and Karen Kinzie given by: Ms. Kathleen Dunnewald In honor of Keith Kirby given by: Ms. Sara Alt In honor of Samuel Lancaster given by: Mr. Keith F. Corrette In honor of Carole Leight given by: Ms. Melinda Quiat In honor of Rebecca Moritzky given by: Barb Moritzky
In honor of Kathy Newman given by: Ms. Sheila Lehrburger In honor of Scott O’Neil given by: Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. John and Kathleen Sloan In honor of Frank Parce and Ellie Roberts given by: Mr. David Parce In honor of Ken Quarles given by: Frank Y. Parce In honor of Dr. Gerald Rainer given by: Dr. and Mrs. James G. Chandler In honor of Chuck and Janet Robinson given by: Jim and Lorraine Adams In honor of Eleanor Roberts given by: Mr. David Parce In honor of Julie Rubsam given by: Mollie Leone In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sanders given by: Ms. Ann Gugenheim In honor of Kathleen Schmidt given by: Edith M. and Norman C. Bertelsen In honor of Janice Schultz given by: Ms. Jennifer D. Spaulding In honor of Enid Slack’s Birthday given by: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Freese In honor of Robert Steiger given by: Gretchen Williams In honor of Irene Szyliowicz’s 80th Birthday given by: Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Spilka In honor of John and Kristine Wallack given by: Richard Falb and Gail Skaggs In honor of Robert Warner given by: Ruth Mosteller In honor of Darlee Whiting given by: Hayes Family Foundation In honor of Alan and Judy Wigod given by: Robert Wigod In honor of Ava Williams given by: Daniel Williams In honor of Harold Wippler given by: Ms. Linda Will In honor of Duain Wolfe for his outstanding work with the Chorus given by: Mr. Eugene J. Nuccio In honor of Barbara and Jack Zable given by: Diane K. Henderson In honor of Rowena Zelkind given by: Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Spilka
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