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Guest Artists:
Garrett Arney, percussion
Chris Whyte, percussion
Barbora Kolářová, violin
Featured Composer:
Pascal Le Boeuf
March 4
Saturday Sunday 7:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
March 5 • • • •
Dennison Theatre, University of Montana
Repertoire:
Jennifer Higdon: Fanfare Ritmico
Pascal Le Boeuf: Triple concerto for Violin, Percussion Duo and Orchestra
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, “Titan”
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The Missoula Symphony Association Presents
JULIA TAI , Music Director
BARBORA KOLÁŘOVÁ , Violin
ARX DUO , Percussion
PASCAL LE BOEUF , Featured composer
March 4, 7:30 PM & March 5, 3:00 PM
68 th Season, 2022-23
Jennifer Higdon................................................................................................................. Fanfare Ritmico
Pascal Le Boeuf ....................... Triple Concerto for Violin, Percussion Duo and Orchestra
Barbora Kolář ová, violin
Garrett Arney, percussion
Chris Whyte, percussion
Intermission
Gustav Mahler .................................................................................................. Symphony No. 1, “Titan”
I. Langsam, schleppend. Wie ein Naturlaut (Slowly, dragging, like the sound of nature)
II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Moving vigorously, but not too fast)
III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen (Solemnly and measured, without dragging)
IV. Stürmisch bewegt (Moving like a storm)
This program is dedicated to the memory of Ruth Royter
Don Snavely
Longtime Missoula Symphony Supporters
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Sponsored by
JULIA TAI
Music Director
Praised by the Seattle Times as “poised yet passionate,” Julia Tai is one of today’s most dynamic young conductors on the international stage. Currently, she is the Music Director of Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra. Her career has led to acclaimed performances and rehearsals with the American Youth Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Brandenburger Symphoniker (Germany), Estonian National Youth Symphony (Estonia), New Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (Mexico), Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Charlos Chávez (Mexico), and the Seattle Symphony.
Ms. Tai has established a reputation for her creative programming and community partnerships. She has increased the esteem of her orchestras by elevating their artistic output, commissioning new works by renowned composers, and serving diverse communities. In 2017, in collaboration with Finlandia Foundation, Philharmonia Northwest celebrated Finland’s centennial by presenting Finland 100 at Benaroya Hall, featuring three generations of Finnish composers. The concert was attended by Finland’s ambassador to the U.S. from Washington D.C. The orchestra has cocommissioned new works by PDQ Bach (Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra), Mexican composer Osvaldo Mendoza (Three Mexican Portraits), ChineseAmerican composer Dorothy Chang (Gateways – Concerto for Erhu and Piano), and Sheila Silver (Being in Life – Concerto for French horn and Alpenhorn, 5 Tibetan singing bowls, and string orchestra).
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Tai began her violin studies at age four and piano at eight. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was awarded “Outstanding Graduate” in 2004. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Washington.
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GUEST ARTIST
Barbora Kolár ová
Ms. Kolářová is an artist of creative balances, always looking back and looking forward to find new fulcrums between past and present. Trained in the classical tradition, Kolářová’s artistic voice is oriented towards minute details and virtuosity, but with a creative intent to use these skills to generate new standards in classical music by collaborating with living composers on new works and uncovering lost works from the past.
Her latest projects include premiere performances and collaborative new works for violin including Pascal Le Boeuf’s “Imp in Impulse,” David Ludwig’s “Violin Concerto No.2,” Sheridan Seyfried’s “Capriccio for Solo Violin,” Alyssa Weinberg’s “Unstrung,” Antonio Sanz “Theme and Variations,” Daniel Withworth’s “Alma” for solo violin and electronics, numerous works by Rain Worthington, Nicholas Hubbell and most recently premiere of “All Kinds of Fire Inside Our Heads” for violin and prerecorded electronics by Che Buford and “Triple Concerto” for violin and percussion duo by Pascal Le Boeuf. Her debut album “Imp in Impulse” (New Focus/Furious Artisans) consists of unreleased virtuosic solo works ranging from 1963 to the present by Jean Françaix, Klement Slavický, and Pascal Le Boeuf. Solo album ‘Imp in Impulse’ has been voted ‘Best of 2020’ by “An Earful” and Barbora’s performance described as “spectacular” with “as much personality as skill” (An Earful), having “considerable virtuosity harnessed to a nicely overarching expressivity” with a “very own personal stamp” (Classical Modern Music).
She holds degrees in violin performance from Curtis Institute of Music (BM ‘12) and Yale School of Music (MM ‘14), and is the co-founder and artistic director of the Lake George Music Festival (a 501(c)(3) non-profit). Her primary mentors include Pavel Prantl, Charles Avsharian, Arnold Steinhardt and Ida and Ani Kavafian.
As a soloist and a highly demanded chamber musician she appeared at festivals such as the Haydn Music Festival, Young Prague Festival, 2012 Miloš Forman Festival presenting “Czech Music of the 60’s” in the National Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Sound of Piano, Strings & Voice China International Music Festival in Xi’an, Malaysian Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Curtis Summerfest, Artosphere Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, Unruly Sounds, Philadelphia Virtual Phestival, Recital Stream, TURN UP festival and collaborated with orchestras such as the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony, the Czech National Theatre Orchestra, the West Bohemia Symphony Orchestra, the Limoges Orchestra, and the Academy Sinfonietta Orchestra.
Barbora has received awards from a number of international competitions including Spotlight winner for Lincoln Center Stage, laureate prizes at the Golden Classical Music Awards International Music Competition in NYC, the Manhattan International Music Competition, and the Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition in Salzburg, Austria. Recipient of the Broadus Erle Prize and a holder of The Special Diploma at the Vadim Repin Master class Scholarship Competition, Barbora is also a laureate of the New York International Artist Association Competition, the Remember Enescu in Bucharest, Telemann Competition in Poland, of the Prague Junior Note and the Grand prize winner of the Michigan ASTA Solo Competition.
She holds degrees in violin performance from Curtis Institute of Music (BM ‘12) and Yale School of Music (MM ‘14), and is the co-founder and artistic director of the Lake George Music Festival (a 501(c)(3) non-profit).
Barbora plays an extremely rare 1780 Josephus Antonius Laske violin and is managed by Manhattan Concert Artists (MCA).
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GUEST ARTISTS
Garrett Arney
Garrett is an active chamber musician, soloist, and educator among some of the most innovative of the time. He currently runs Arx Music Association, or “arx duo,” a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on the creation of new music and engagement with the public.
As a chamber musician, Garrett has been a member of arx duo, Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble ACJW, and has performed with groups such as eighth blackbird, American Modern Opera Company, the Dover String Quartet, among others.
He performed the Carnegie Hall Premiere of Steven Mackey’s “Micro Concerto,” as well as in venues such as Royal Albert Concert Hall, Walton Arts Center, and more. He has held adjunct/ faculty positions at Peabody Conservatory, Michigan State University, Cleveland State University, University of Central Missouri, and Curtis Young Artist Summer Program.
Garrett is an ambassador for Vic Firth Mallets, Adams Musical Instruments, Pearl Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, and Evans Drumheads.
Christopher Whyte
Called “hypnotic, enthralling...dynamic” with playing described as “a striking diversity of styles and spirit,” Christopher Whyte is known for his wide-ranging artistry as a percussionist, timpanist, collaborator, composer, and educator. He has presented recitals, concerts, and masterclasses internationally in Asia, Europe, Canada, and throughout the United States. As an original member of the Portland Percussion Group, he is dedicated to fostering percussion performance through dynamic concerts, engaging collaborations, and the creation of new music. The quartet made its European debut in 2020, performing a full-length concert at the GAIDA Festival of Contemporary Music in Vilnius, Lithuania and collaborating on Steve Reich’s iconic “Drumming” with the Colin Currie Quartet. He is a founding member and resident faculty of the International Percussion Institute, held annually in Aberdeen, Scotland. Whyte also serves as percussionist with Third Angle New Music, and has collaborated closely with composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Pauline Oliveros, Sarah Hennies, William Kraft, Angélica Negrón, and Dominic Murcott, among others. He regularly performs with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera Orchestra, Oregon Ballet Theater, fEarnoMusic, Bach Cantata Choir, Portland Symphony Choir, and Portland Gay Men’s Chorus. Whyte is also preparing for the upcoming release of his debut solo recording featuring works by Lou Harrison, Sarah Hennies, Toshio Hosokawa, and an original composition for percussion and electronics entitled “A Cold Stability.” Whyte is Visiting Assistant Professor at Portland State University and has served on the faculty of Western Oregon University. He holds degrees from the University of Oregon (BM, MM) and Boston University (DMA).
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FEATURED COMPOSER
Pascal Le Boeuf
Described as “sleek, new” and “hyper-fluent” by the New York Times, Pascal Le Boeuf is a GRAMMYnominated composer, jazz pianist, and electronic artist whose works range from modern improvised music to hybridizing notation-based chamber music with production-based technology.
Recent compositions include “Triple Concerto” for violin, percussion duo and orchestra featuring Barbora Kolářová and arx duo; “Imprints” with Alarm Will Sound; “I Am Not A Number” commissioned by New World Symphony; and “Out of the Gate” commissioned and premiered by Nu Deco Ensemble.
Recent commercial recordings and videos with include collaborations with Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar, Friction Quartet, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Christian Euman, JACK Quartet, Hub New Music, Shattered Glass, Todd Reynolds, Sara Caswell, Jessica Meyer, Nick Photinos, Four/Ten Media, Bec Plexus featuring Ian Chang (of Son Lux), Dayna Stephens, Allan Harris, Linda Oh, Justin Brown, and the Le Boeuf Brothers Quintet (co-led by Remy Le Boeuf) praised by the New Yorker for “clearing their own path, mixing the solid swing of the jazz tradition with hip-hop, indie rock, and the complex techniques of classical modernism.”
As a keyboardist, Pascal has played as support for D’Angelo’s Black Messiah tour and Clean Bandit’s Rather Be tour with Australian pop artist Meg Mac. He actively performs with Le Boeuf Brothers, saxophonist Jeff Coffin (of Dave Matthews Band), jazz vocalist Allan Harris, the trip-hop duo Kissy Girls, and his piano trio “Pascal’s Triangle.”
Pascal’s most recent awards include a 2023 Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Composition,” a 2020 Copland House Residency Award, and various Independent Music Awards in “Jazz,” “Eclectic,” “Electronica” and “Music Video” categories. Pascal has received commissions and grants from NEA, New World Symphony, Nu Deco Ensemble, the Lake George Music Festival, Lincoln Center Stage, Chamber Music America, New Music USA, and ASCAP. He composed music for the 2008 Emmy Awardwinning movie King Lines, and won first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition.
Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor the Practice in Music and Technology at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, and a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University.
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DYNAMIC TRIO 9 CONTENTS Music Director 4 Guest Artists 5 Featured Composer 7 President’s Message ......................... 10 Executive Director’s Message .......... 11 Missoula Symphony Orchestra 12 Program Notes 13 Scholarship Fund 22 Missoula Symphony Association .... 25 Concert Sponsors .............................. 36 This program is printed on recycled paper using recyclable inks. To advertise in our programs, contact Jacque Walawander at: Phon e: (406) 214-7415 Email: jacquejwal@gmail.com (406)728-1455 www.bigskylawyers.com 620HighParkWay•Missoula,Mt 59803 •EstatE &ProbatE •rEal EstatE •Familylaw •accidEnt & injury claims •taxation •workErs comPEnsation civil litigation • transPortation • insurancE • construction law • businEss law • criminal law •
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Deborah
Stapley-Graham
My mother, who couldn’t resist a good pun, loved March 4th. She said it was a day to take stock of one’s direction, make a strategic plan, and to march forth. These days, we would call such a thing a Dad Joke. Mom was good at Dad Jokes, and I tend to follow in her footsteps.
Why not use our March 4th concert to appreciate the upcoming events and performances that will round out our current season? It is exciting to see the Missoula Symphony Association taking on new directions and making new plans. We are thrilled to have David O’Dell join us as our Executive Director. He comes to Missoula with decades of experience guiding nonprofit performing arts organizations. David is enthusiastic, personable, and is a perfect fit for our community. Welcome, David!
Julia Tai continues to expand educational outreach to Missoula kids of all ages, giving our young audiences knowledge of and accessibility to orchestral music. Our library concerts have been huge hits, as has collaboration with MCPS music teachers and their students. Plans are underway to expand our summer string camps for students from elementary through high school.
Our board and staff have established a new event that took place last month, Wine, Whiskey, and Wisdom. We hope to see it become an annual event. Last year’s Gala and Broadway Show were incredibly successful, and we look forward to those events wrapping up our season. Soon, we will announce some new Summer events that will complement Symphony in the Park.
I welcome you all in joining us as we march forth through a truly engaging and eventful second half of our season!
Thank you all for being with us this weekend,
Deborah Stapley-Graham President
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE David O’Dell
Greetings – and welcome to this third Masterworks concert of our 2022-2023 season, and my first as Executive Director of the Missoula Symphony Association. I’m thrilled and delighted to join a remarkable team to help steward this exceptional organization into its exciting future.
I’m a native St. Louisan, with roots planted at the other end of the Missouri River. From the time I was a small child, the American West has always represented limitless opportunity. A place where, no matter your current or past circumstances, dreams and aspirations really could come true.
I also recognize that these lands and waters we inhabit are precious to Native communities. All of us have the responsibility to treat them with the respect and care they deserve and to steward them carefully for the next generations. Stewardship. That’s really what this is all about, isn’t it? Doing our best to leave this world better than we inherited it.
We promise to do just that at the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. I’m confident that under the imaginative leadership of Musical Director Julia Tai, Chorale Director Dean Peterson, our exceptionally gifted board of directors and staff, and our talented core of musicians, we will continue to make Missoula a vibrant, healthy, and caring community.
So much has changed in our world over the past decade, let along the past three years. The worldwide artistic landscape is barely recognizable. As we step out of the shadows of a global pandemic, the role of the arts in our communities has never been more important and the future never as bright. Music matters. Thank you for coming to our performances and for your many gifts that sustain us as we chart a new future for the American orchestra. I’m confident our very best work is yet to come!
With sincere appreciation,
David O’Dell Executive Director
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Thank
Season Reception Sponsor Ed
JULIA TAI , Music Director
Music Director’s Chair sponsored by Rick & Diana Nash
FIRST VIOLIN
Margaret Nichols Baldridge, concertmaster
Chair sponsored by Janet & Harry Haines
Loy Koch, associate concertmaster
Chair sponsored by Sharon & Gerald Marks
Ali Schultz Levesque, assistant concertmaster
Chair sponsored by Betty Thisted
Janet Allison
Nancy Lofgren Kohler
Aidan McCormack
Edwin Mellander
Catherine Treis
Matthew Wu
SECOND VIOLIN
Rachel Fellows-Schnackel, principal
Chair sponsored by Laura Patterson
Kira Lee, acting associate principal
Chair sponsored by Rae
Lynn & Frank D’Angelo
Larysa Blavatsky
Owen Cleary+
Patricia Forsberg
Will Hunt
Marian Kale
Gabe Kantor+
Julie Lacey
Patrick Shannon
Beatrice Shimanek
VIOLA
Sara Schultz Levesque, principal
Chair sponsored by Robert Moseley
Kathy Mellander, associate principal
Chair sponsored by Ann Ruehr
Shelby Blum
Bayley Ginnaty+
Angie Janzen
Brett Kaplan
Bethany Rippeon
Leslie Collins-Rose
Lea Tonnerre
Rich Wells
CELLO
Adam Collins , principal
Chair sponsored by Sophie & Dan Lambros
David Harmsworth, acting assistant principal
Chair sponsored by Louisa & Paul Axelrod
Josiah Anderson
Joan Chesebro
Kylie Heit
Saje Johns
Angelica Kalasz
Jayla Mitchell+
Martha Pressler
Andy Taylor
DOUBLE BASS
Joel Schackel, principal Chair sponsored by Alice & Richard Dailey
Ryan Davis, associate principal
Fischer Friend+
Michael Johns
Nicholas Timmerhoff
FLUTE
Joanna Berg, principal Chair sponsored by Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite
Julia Vasquez
Alli High
Sylvia Wood
PICCOLO
Julia Vasquez
OBOE
Susi Stipich, principal Chair sponsored by Jennifer & Ben Yonce
Olivia Adams
Noah Durnell
ENGLISH HORN
Jennifer Gookin Cavanaugh, principal Chair sponsored by Jo May & Brian Salonen
CLARINET
Christopher Kirkpatrick Chair sponsored by Charla & Don Murray
Kathryn Pannell
David Stewart
Alexandra Vincent
BASSOON
Alicia Brischli, principal Chair sponsored by Jean & Bill Woessner
Logan Beskoon
JT Vineyard
HORN
Zachary Cooper, principal Chair sponsored by Betsy & Warren Wilcox
Andrew Morris
Daniel Lande
Robert B. Green
Madeleine Folkerts
Maria D’Ambrosio
Paul Rossi
Rory Genazzi
TRUMPET
Brendan McGlynn, principal Chair sponsored by Ann & Tom Boone
Andrew Kagerer
Nick Barr
Jarom Hein
TROMBONE
Rob Tapper, principal Chair sponsored by Maggie & Frank Allen
Sean Stineford
Chris Porter
Lexi Vine
TUBA
Benedict Kirby
Chair sponsored by NDG, LLC
TIMPANI
Robert LedBetter, principal Chair sponsored by Traci & Michael Punke
PERCUSSION
Willie Baltz, acting assistant principal Chair Sponsored by Sharon & Don Snavely
Autumn Schenck
Dylan Vandeberg
Danger Gersh+
PIANO
Barbara Blegen Chair sponsored by Twila Wolfe
HARP
Peggy Young, principal Chair sponsored by Maria & Peter van Loben Sels
LIBRARIAN
Suzanne Hartzell
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Susi Stipich
STAGE MANAGER
Olivia Adams
*Members of the string sections are listed alphabetically. Seating is rotated for each concert.
+Missoula Symphony Scholarship Recipients
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PROGRAM NOTES
by James Randall
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962): Fanfare Ritmico (2000)
With a Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several Grammys under her belt, Jennifer Higdon is also among the most frequently programmed living composers. Her professional journey is all the more remarkable as she got a bit of a late start in music. She taught herself to play flute at age 15, and she only wrote her first compositions in her early 20s. Incredibly prolific since, her compositions include orchestral music, an opera, chamber works, and music for symphonic wind ensemble. Ensuring that her works are accessible to a general listening audience is a particular priority. She writes “I always tell people that my music should speak to them… and that they shouldn’t feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.”
Fanfare Ritmico was commissioned in 1999 by the Women’s Philharmonic, a San Franciscobased orchestra made up entirely of women and dedicated to performing works solely by women. As she composed the work, Higdon found herself “reflecting on how all things have quickened as time has progressed. Our lives now move at speeds much greater than what I believe anyone would have ever imagined in years past… This fanfare celebrates the rhythmic motion, of man and machine, and the energy which permeates every moment of our being in the new century.” And, as it turns out, our lives haven’t gotten any slower in the nearly quarter century since the work’s premiere. In this virtuosic piece, listen particularly for the spatial distribution of musical sounds across the orchestra. Higdon scored it in such a way that the music often moves across the stage from one side to the other, similar to the effect you might get listening to a stereo recording on headphones.
Pascal Le Boeuf (b. 1986): Triple Concerto for Violin, Percussion Duo, and Orchestra (2022)
Pascal Le Boeuf is a genre-bending young composer, pianist, and producer whose works fuse influences from jazz, classical, and electronic music. His work “Alkaline” earned a 2017 Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Composition.” Other accolades include first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, the ASCAP Foundation Johnny Mandel Prize, and several New Jazz Works Commissions from Chamber Music America.
In the preface to his score, Le Boeuf writes that his Triple Concerto is “about new beginnings, adapting to change, and creating stability in a chaotic environment…” In the midst of the pandemic, Le Boeuf and his partner, also a composer, welcomed a new baby, Baxter, into their family. Both parents were determined to find time to continue to compose, and, at that point, art truly began to imitate life. On the form of the piece, the composer confesses that “the structure is based on childcare.” In the notebook he used to draft musical ideas, Le Boeuf had scribbled the couple’s hectic daily plan to ensure care for Baxter and time for them both to write music. According to the composer, the back-and-forth relay “provided a perfect structure for the form of the concerto—or was it the other way around? I don’t think I’ve ever restarted a piece so many times, generated so many ideas, or been sidetracked so consistently.” Ultimately these diversions and false starts found their way into the heart of the concerto “in the form of themes traded between the soloists and the orchestra that are consistently interrupted or redirected to other areas.” For all the parents in the audience who remember similar scenarios, this piece is for you!
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan” (1887-1888)
Listening to Mahler is an immersive experience. He once shared with the composer Jean Sibelius that “A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.” His music is
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famous for both its gargantuan proportions and for its complex allusions to the physical and the metaphysical. In his first symphony we hear passages that evoke the natural beauty of the Austrian countryside—the break of dawn, birdcalls, folk songs—but also passages whose emotional communication seems much more subjective and psychologically complex. How are we to react, for instance, when Mahler, in the third movement, reimagines a children’s song as a funeral march, and then interrupts this odd procession with a sentimental pop song and a klezmer band? What’s it all mean? For me, it helps to understand something of the world Mahler lived in.
During his lifetime, Mahler was better known as a conductor than a composer. He would compose during summers in a small cabin in the Austrian alps and conduct during the fall and winter concert season in Vienna. He thrived in the seasonal rhythm alternating between the natural beauty of the mountains and the intellectual and artistic bustle of the city. In addition to being a hub for music, Vienna was also the wellspring for the new science of psychology, and the theories of consciousness proposed by another of Vienna’s most famous residents, Sigmund Freud. In fact, Mahler eventually spent at least one session on Freud’s famous couch exploring the new field of psychoanalysis. Similar to Freud’s interest in recurrent dreams as a window into the subconscious mind, Mahler’s music returns again and again to melodies and themes he has explored in prior works. He once remarked that “composing is like playing with building blocks, where new buildings are created again and again, using the same blocks. Indeed, these blocks have been there, ready to be used, since childhood, the only time that is designed for gathering.” If this sounds a bit Freudian, that’s exactly where we’re headed. Rather than the more linear path that we hear in works by Beethoven or Brahms, where musical motives and themes usually follow a logical progression, we are instead dropped into a more episodic dreamlike narrative. Themes and musical styles are often juxtaposed in strange and surprising ways. To borrow from a recent film title, it can be “everything, everywhere, all at once.”
Mahler’s life experience was filled with the kinds of crises of modern identity that psychoanalysis sought to ameliorate. He famously described himself as “thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, as a Jew throughout the world— always an intruder, never welcomed.” Ever the outsider, he had tried his best to assimilate. His musical language was that of the German symphonic tradition. He revered Wagner, a virulent anti-Semite, and championed his operas. He also converted to Christianity and wrote music inspired by overtly Christian themes and texts. But these actions were never sufficient. His critics were often direct and vicious. Rudolph Louis, a German musical critic and popular author of several composer biographies and harmony textbooks wrote:
If Mahler’s music would speak Yiddish, it would be perhaps unintelligible to me. But it is repulsive to me because it acts Jewish. This is to say that it speaks musical German, but with an accent, with an inflection, and above all, with the gestures of an Eastern, all too Eastern Jew. So, even to those whom it does not offend directly, it cannot possibly communicate anything. One does not have to be repelled by Mahler’s artistic personality in order to realize the complete emptiness and vacuity of an art in which the spasm of an impotent mock-Titanism reduces itself to a frank gratification of common seamstress-like sentimentality.
The stinging phrase “impotent mock-Titanism” was a direct shot at Mahler’s first symphony. As originally conceived, it was a 5-movement tone poem called “Titan,” inspired by a Romantic novel by Jean Paul of the same name. The work’s mix of musical styles “high” and “low” and of music of varied origin didn’t fit his critics’ ideas for a unified work of art. It was, however, true to Mahler’s credo that a symphony should attempt to “embrace the entire world.” This was his world and his experience, which included, of course, music that might sound at any given moment Jewish, Christian, German, Austrian, or Bohemian. We hear all of these in the Symphony no. 1 in D Major.
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Movement I: Spring and No End
The work opens with a quiet, gorgeous curtain of strings. In one program for the piece, Mahler related that the beginning signifies the “awakening of nature from a winter’s sleep.” We hear distant awakening fanfares and the calls of a cuckoo. As a principal melodic theme, Mahler uses a melody from a previous work, a song which carries the text, “Isn’t it becoming a fine world? Chirp, Chirp! Fair and sharp! How the world delights me!”
Movement II: Under Full Sail
The music here takes the form of a Ländler, a spirited Austrian folk dance in triple time, which bookends a slower waltz section.
Movement III: The Hunter’s Funeral Procession
Mahler wrote to a friend suggesting a possible program for the famous third movement: On the surface one might imagine this scenario: A funeral procession passes by our hero, and the misery, the whole distress of the world, with its cutting contrasts and horrible irony, grasps him. The funeral march of “Bruder Martin” [Frère Jacques] one has to imagine as being played in a dull manner by a band of very bad musicians, as they usually follow such funeral processions. The roughness, gaiety, and banality of this world then appears in the sounds of some interfering Bohemian musicians, heard at the same time as the terribly painful lamentation of the hero.
Later, he recalled the movement in more personal terms, as “heart-rending, tragic irony, and is to be understood as exposition and preparation for the sudden outburst in the final movement of despair of a deeply wounded and broken heart.” As in the first movement, Mahler references a melody from a previous composition, a song entitled “Die zwei blauen Augen”: “The two blue eyes of my darling/they have sent me into the wide world. I had to take my leave of this well-beloved place! O blue eyes, why did you gaze on me? Now I will have eternal sorrow and grief.”
Movement IV: From Hell to Paradise
Mahler sets his initial musical hellscape in the key of F minor, a far distance tonally from the work’s heavenly ending in D major. For melodic material, he draws from a number of sources with Christian symbolism, including “inferno” and “cross” motives from Liszt’s “Dante” Symphony, and a “Grail” motive from Wagner’s opera Parsifal. He shared hints to a narrative for the movement with his close friend, Natalie Bauer-Lechner, an Austrian violist: “The last movement, which follows the preceding one without a break, begins with a horrible outcry. Our hero is completely abandoned, engaged in a most dreadful battle with all the sorrow of this world. Time and again he and the victorious motif with him is dealt a blow by fate whenever he rises above it and seems to get hold of it, and only in death, when he has become victorious over himself, does he gain victory. Then the wonderful allusion to his youth rings out once again with the theme of the first movement. (Glorious Victory Chorale!)”
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ASSOCIATION
— missoula — Morgan Eichwald, CFP®, CWS® Vice President, Financial Advisor
— hamilton — Trevor Morton, CWS® Financial Advisor
— missoula — Mark Nicholson Associate Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Wes Golie, AIF®, CFP® Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Cynthia Fritch, CFP®, CPFA, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Ray Round, CFP®, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Manager
— hamilton — Jim Moerkerke, CFP®, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Frank D’Angelo, CFP®, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, Branch Manager
— missoula — Sydney Stabio, CFP®, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Manager
— missoula — Bruce Madsen Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Tim Kato, CWS® Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — John Passuccio, CFP®, CWS® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
— missoula — Brad Cederberg, CFP® Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
DYNAMIC TRIO 19 firstinterstate.com Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. ⌂ Strings are always attached to our favorite events. Proud supporter of Missoula Symphony 4 locations across Missoula and Hamilton
20 MISSOULA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION Thank you to our ticket sponsor! TASTE THE WORLD mtpangea.com 223 N. Higgins Downtown Missoula We inspirepeopleto seek&discover. Ideasatwork,andatplay. 406.829.8200 | WINDFALLSTUDIO.COM DESIGN | MARKETING | WEBSITES PUBLICRELATIONS | CONTACTCENTER 2nd Annual Auction & Gala FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023 DoubleTree by Hilton Missoula – Edgewater Exclusive Auction Items from the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale Cash Bar Delicious Dinner Live Entertainment Contact the Symphony office for more details: (406) 721-3194
Please join us for an exciting new opportunity!
UM/MSA String Camp
June 18-23, 2023
The University of Montana Music Building, Missoula, MT
Music camp for students entering 1st grade through recent high school graduates. Instruction on bass, cello, viola and violin, beginning through advanced. Residential option for middle and high school students. A safe, fun, and musical environment that encourages all campers to achieve their very best. We look forward to seeing you this summer!
Registration opens in March 2023.
More Info: missoulasymphony.org/education
Missoula Symphony Association’s FREE Youth Education Programs
Symphony Kids @Missoula Public Library
Sponsored by the ALPS Corporation and MDU Resources
Julia Tai presents mini-concerts in the Library’s Imaginarium.
Student Night @Dress Rehearsal
Sponsored by Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Students and families are invited to join us for the dress rehearsal preceding each Masterworks Concert.
Symphony in the Schools
Sponsored by Max and Betty Swanson Foundation
Missoula Symphony musicians visit local high schools to perform and coach music students.
For dates and more information, email sylvia@missoulasymphony.org or visit missoulasymphony.org/education
To donate to our education programs, please contact the Missoula Symphony Association’s office at (406) 721–3194 or visit our website at missoulasymphony.org/donate
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MISSOULA SYMPHONY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
“I used to say music was a form of expression, a way of conveying human feeling and emotion...
Continuing the grand tradition of the Missoula Symphony Guild, the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund is dedicated to providing scholarships for outstanding University of Montana music students who play in the Missoula Symphony Orchestra or sing in the Missoula Symphony Chorale.
This year, the Missoula Symphony Association will award more than $20,000 in scholarships to ten talented young musicians. This commitment is possible thanks to the generosity of the individuals listed below. Every penny of their donations goes directly to scholarships. Our 2022-2023 scholarship recipients are noted on the Orchestra Roster with a “+” sign.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUPPORTERS
The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts. Listed below are contributions of $25 or more within 12 months of January 1, 2023. We apologize for any omissions or errors.
Prestissimo ($500+)
William A. & Kay Cook
Sophie & Dan Lambros
Betty Thisted
John Sargent
Janet Boyer
Alice & Dick Dailey
Anita Kurtz-Magee
Sharon & Terry Phillips
Donna & Don McCammon
Marie & Peter van Loben Sels
Jean & William Woessner
Presto ($250-$499)
Anonymous
Kay & Jim Driscoll
Marci & Jim Valeo
Deirdre Flaherty
Mary & David Wesley
Kathy Turner
Vivace ($100-$249)
Debbie & Brad Dantic
Nancy Jean DeCou
Shirley & Donald Hyndman
Deborah & Terry Johnson
Marlene Koch
Charla & Donald Murray
Amber & Lans Richardson
Sara Alice Steubs
Sharon & Don Snavely
Bill & Dori Johnston
Patti & Scott McKenzie
Carol Word
Allegro ($50-$99)
Brenda Bolton
Allegretto ($25-$49)
Barbara Collins
Carol & Dale Stovall
To be a part of the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund, contact the Symphony Office at (406) 721-3194, or mail a check payable to Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund to PO Box 8301, Missoula 59807. Donations are 100% tax-deductible.
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While that is still well and fully true, real music is so much more. It is soul. It is life.”— Jayla Mitchell
SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUPPORTERS
Cook Family Scholarship
New in 2020-2021, this scholarship is named for Will and Kay Cook. “We are happy to partner with the University of Montana and The Missoula Symphony Association to support the growth of music education in Montana and the cultural enrichment of our city.” 2022-2023 Recipients: Jayla Mitchell, Cello. Jayla is a junior who is studying cello performance and is from Great Falls, Montana. Catherine Treis, Violin. Catherine is a violin performance major from St. John, Washington. Fischer Friend, Double Bass. Fischer is from Helena, Montana, and is majoring in double bass performance.
The Florence Reynolds Scholarship
Named for a woman who shared her musical talent, enthusiasm and endless energy with the MSA for many years. Recipient: Kylie Heit, Cello. Kylie is an incoming freshman music education major from Helena, Montana.
The Symphony Guild Presidents’ Scholarship
Named in honor of those women who have given their time and energy as Presidents of the Missoula Symphony Guild. Recipient: Bayley Ginnaty, Viola. Bayley is from Great Falls, Montana, and is a viola performance major.
The Joseph Henry Scholarship
Named in honor of our Music Director Emeritus, who retired in 2007 after 21 years as Music Director of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. Recipient: Owen Cleary, Violin. Owen is a sophomore from Helena, Montana, who is majoring in violin performance and jazz studies.
The Donald Carey Scholarship
Named in honor of our former Chorale Director who retired in 2006, after 18 years at his post. Recipient: David Harmsworth, Cello. David is from Missoula, Montana, and is a music major.
The Virginia Vinal Scholarship
Named in honor of the longest-serving member of the orchestra, and her dedication to music and community. Recipient: Gabe Kantor, Violin. Gabe is a violin performance and forestry major from Missoula.
The Lorraine Andrie Prize
Not a scholarship but a cash award, this prize is presented at the final concert of each season to a U.M. graduating senior who is deemed a truly outstanding and dedicated orchestra member. Named in honor of the founding leader of the Guild. Recipient: Thomas Rice, French horn.
The Women’s Guild Tuition Scholarship
Funded by Betty Thisted and Sophie Lambros, two presidents of the former Missoula Symphony Guild, this scholarship provides full tuition, for four years, to an incoming University of Montana music major focusing on piano or percussion. Recipient: William (Danger) Gersh, Percussion.
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PRESIDENT
Deborah Stapley-Graham
VICE PRESIDENT
Bill Johnston
TREASURER
Pri Fernando SECRETARY
Mark Haythornthwaite
PAST PRESIDENT
Jim Valeo DIRECTORS
Scott Billadeau, Adam Collins, Dan Crary, Deirdre Flaherty, Andrew George, Theresa Johnson, Robin Kendall, Vinnie Pavlish
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Julia Tai
CHORALE DIRECTOR
Dean Peterson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
David O’Dell
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Peter McKenzie
PATRON SERVICES COORDINATOR
Kirsten McGlynn
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Beth Woody
EDUCATION COORDINATOR
Sylvia Allen Oman
SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROJECTS
Deborah Woody
LIBRARIAN
Suzanne Hartzell
CHORALE LIBARIAN
Abigail Carey
SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
Olivia Adams
EMERITUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tom Boone
Robert Homer
Caryl Klein
Sophie Lambros
Mora Payne
Carol Seim
John Talbot
Marci Valeo
The Missoula Symphony Association is a member of the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras and the League of American Orchestras.
The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts. Listed below are contributions of $50 or more within 12 months of January 1, 2023. We apologize for any omissions or errors.
SEASON SPONSOR
Good Food Store
CONCERT SPONSORS
Anonymous (2)
Anonymous Chorale Member
Blackfoot Communications
Phyllis & Bill Bouchee
Christian, Samson & Baskett, PLLP
D.A. Davidson & Company
DeMarois Buick-GMC-Mercedes
First Interstate Bank
First Security Bank
Flaherty Financial Services
Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP
Langel & Associates P.C.
Brian Eicholtz & Erik Johnston, Merrill Lynch
Missoula Bone & Joint
Missoulian
Muralt’s Travel Plaza
NorthWestern Energy
Payne West Insurance
RBC Wealth Management
Anne & Bruce Robertson
S.G Long & Company
Stockman Bank
Tremper Family
Washington Companies
Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation
GUEST ARTIST SPONSORS
Anonymous Chorale Member
Candace Boyer-in memory of Martin & Marion Boyer
Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite
Marci & Jim Valeo
MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CHAIR SPONSOR
Diana & Rick Nash
CHORALE CONDUCTOR’S CHAIR SPONSOR
Caryl & Doug Klein
TICKET SPONSOR
Pangea Bar & Restaurant
LIVE STREAM SPONSOR
First Security Bank
DOWNBEAT DOWNLOW SPONSOR
NorthWestern Energy
THE ED & LESLIE WETHERBEE RECEPTION SPONSOR
Ed & Leslie Wetherbee
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP Park Side Credit Union
YOUTH EDUCATION
PROGRAM SPONSOR
Maria & Peter van Loben Sels
MAESTRO ($25,000+)
William A. & Kay Cook
Matthew Royter
John & Susan Talbot
CONDUCTOR ($5,000-$24,999)
Anonymous (1)
Blackfoot Communications
Ann & Tom Boone – Principal Trumpet
First Security Bank
Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Good Food Store
Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite – Principal Flute
Sophie & Dan Lambros –Principal cello
Lillian A. McCammon
Betty Miller
Diana & Rick Nash – Music Director’s Chair Sponsor
Anne & Bruce Robertson
Ann Ruehr – Associate Principal Viola
John Sargent
Patricia Forsberg & Stephen Speckart
Betty Thisted – Associate Viola
Tremper Family
Marci & Jim Valeo
Maria & Peter van Loben Sels –Principal Harp
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
Twila Wolfe – Principal Piano
SPONSOR ($1,000-$4,999)
Allied Waste Services of Missoula
ALPS Insurance
Anonymous (3)
Maggie & Frank Allen –Principal Trombone, in honor of Suzanne Hartzell
Louisa & Paul Axelrod –Assistant Principal Cello
Steven Bahls
Deann Birnel
Phyllis & William Bouchee
Candice Boyer
Janet Boyer
Barbara & Craig Burns
Rebecca Canfield-Perkowski & Ronald Perkowski
Joan Chesebro
Christian, Samson & Baskett
PLLC
D.A. Davidson & Company
Linda & Pri Fernando
DeMarois Buick-GMC-Mercedes
Flaherty Financial Services
Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP
Andrew George
Joseph Fox Grinnell
Margie & Steve Grinnell
Janet & Harry Haines –Concertmaster
Joel Jacobson
Donald Johnston
Dori & Bill Johnston
Jean Larson & Daniel Kemmis
Christine & Paul Kilzer
Caryl & Doug Klein – Chorale Conductor’s Chair Sponsor
Wendy & Keith Kuhn
Anita Kurtz-Magee
Charla & Donald Murray –Principal Clarinet
Dorothea & George P. Lambros
Langel & Associates PC
Logjam Presents
Sharon & Gerald Marks –Associate Concertmaster
Sandra & Jeff Miller
Missoula Bone & Joint
Missoulian
Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras
Robert F. Moseley- Principal
Viola
Missoula Broadcasting Company
Muralt’s Travel Plaza
NDG, LLC – Principal Tuba
Northwestern Energy
Pangea Bar & Restaurant; Stave & Hoop Speakeasy
Parkside Credit Union
Payne West Insurance
Traci & Michael Punke –Principal Timpani
RBC Wealth Management
Amber & Lans Richardson
Jo May & Brian Salonen –Principal English Horn
Carol Seim
S.G. Long Financial Stockman Bank
Linda & Gregg Swanberg
Max and Betty Swanson Foundation
Deirdre Swanson - in honor of Jo May Salonen
Julia Tai & Matthew Wu
Sue Talbot
Sarah & William Towle
Janet Whaley & Phil Hamilton
Jean & William WoessnerPrincipal Bassoon
Jennifer & Ben Yonce –Principal Oboe
Betsy & Warren Wilcox –Principal F rench Horn
Washington Companies
Leslie & Edward Wetherbee
Alice & Clem Williams
Windfall
Wipfli
Peggy Young
BENEFACTOR ($600-$999)
Janet Bean-Dochnahl
Louise & Michael Flanagan
Missoula Community Foundation
Donna & Don McCammon
Mary & Duane Moe
Robin & Nick Nichols
Herbert Swick
Kathy Turner
Phyllis & Louis Whitsell
CONTRIBUTOR ($450-$599) Anonymous (1)
Patrick Beatty
Elsie Bull
Carolyn Goren
Joseph Fox Grinnell
Millicent & Robert Hawkins
Catherine & Donald Jenni
Deborah & Terry Johnson
Kari Kale
Corinne & Ralph Kirscher
Caroline Kurtz
Julie & Vinnie Pavlish
Pershing Phillips, Jr.
Sharon & Terry Phillips
Jonathan Qualben
Kitte Robins
Sandra Roe
Deborah Stapley-Graham
Rob Sterling
Matthew Thiel
Agnes & Jeff Vandergrift
Laura Wagner
Margery & Terry Whatley
Barbara Zellmer
PATRON ($250-$449)
Janet Allison
Mary Ann & Robert Albee
Carolyn and Robert Albers
Adele & Richard Allegra
Elaine & Philip Alman
Cynthia & Raymond Aten
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SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
Barbara Bekken
Kyle Bocinsky
Molly & Bruce Bowler
Marilyn Bruya
Kaye Carlson
Kathy & Brian Derry
Kay & Jim Driscoll
Danielle & Brian Eicholtz
Mary & Royce Engstrom
Carol Garlington
Mary & Donald Gillespie
Doosy Habbe
Laura & John Heit
Bob Homer
William James
KEMS
Tomi Kent
Donna & James Koch
Marilyn & Everett Leitzke
Ann Libecap
Virginia Markey
Sue & Dave McCormack
Patti & Scott McKenzie
Merrill Lynch
Joyce & Michael Nave
Kent Nelson
Marge Nordin
Mary Ann Oberhaus
Janet & Chris Palmer
Kathy & George Roth
Nancie Schumacher
Sara Alice Steubs
Nat & Margo Sturgis
Carol Thomas
Mary & Robert Tromly
Cristin & Richard Volinkaty
Steve Wallace
Mary & David Wesley
Bruce Whitehead
Judith Williams
Beth Woody
Phyllis & Norman Wight
Lynne & Gary Willstein
Luella & Wes Wilson
Carol Word
ASSOCIATE ($100-$249)
Karen Ruth Adams & Christopher Muste
Nukhet & Jon Anders
David Andrews
Judith & Roger Ahrens
Laurie Baefsky
Sharee & Kenneth Ballinger
Richard Baskett
Barbara Bekken
Barbara Blegen
Brenda Bolton
John A. Bonya
Boxcar Bistro
Louanna Butler
Mary Ellen Campbell
Lorraine & Steve Carlson
Adam Collins
Karyn & John Collins
Maggie Cook-Shimanek
Janelle & Steve Corn
Sally & Tom Daer
Debbie & Brad Dantic
Juliena Darling
Richard Earley
Suzanne & Richard Fahey
Candace Fetscher
Elaine & Dick Gagliardi
Jean & John P. ThorstensonGarrity
Carla Getz
Carol & Keith Glaes
Kimberley Granath
William Haffey
Tyler Harrison
Nancy & Doug Heyer
Trish & Art Hightower
Sharon & Bob Hinshaw
Kate Holsapple
Shirley & Donald Hyndman
Michael Irwin
Penny Jakes
Kathleen & John Jenks
Corinne & Ralph Kirscher
Marlene Koch
Linda Kulm
Sandra Lawler
Jacqueline Leung
Susan Lockner
Beth & Paul Loehnen
Eileen McCarty
Kathy McCaughey
Helena Maclay
John R. McGinley Jr.
Sally & Scott McNall
Kathryn & Ed Mellander
Mark Mniszewski
Mary & Ted Morse – in honor of Coco & Will Ballew
Gerald Mueller
Toni & Bob Ogg
Kathleen Ort & John Duffield
Eugene O’Sullivan
Diana & Kevin Pacini
Patricia Peeples
Marcia Holland & Chuck Pengelly
Judith & Joseph Perine
Dorothy & Dean Peterson
Priscilla & Robert Phillips
Jennifer & Josh Plum
Lisa Plunkett
Celeste Pogachar
Addie & Chris Porter
Sally Porter
Elizabeth Putnam
Olleke Rappe-Daniels
Caren & Chuck Reaves
Elisabeth Rice
Stacy & Rich Ridenour – in tribute to Louis & Phyllis
Whitsell
Patti Rosa
Gay Rushmer
Kay & Jon Salmonson
Kennedy Salonen
Wes Salonen
Sue & Fred Samson – in honor of Patti McKenzie
Robert Schurr
Scotty’s Table
Scott Seifert
Tom Severson
Myra Shults
Carol & Dale Stovall
Linda Stoudt
The Depot
Cheryl & Steve Thompson
Sally Tibbs
Judy Tobol
Catherine & Claude Tonnerre
Phyllis & Larry Topp
Milly & Fritz Tossberg
Phyllis Wade
Jacque Walawander
Janet & Warren Weber
Roxane Weikel
MEMBER ($50-$99)
Carolyn Abbott
Charles Anderson
Mary Archibald
Dick Auerbach
Anonymous (3)
Martina Baum-Acker & Robert Acker
Austin Athman
Peter Bensen
Christy Bocinsky
Kyle Bocinsky
Rose-Marie Bowman
Barbara Collins
Jerry Covault
Navyline Cuenco
JoAnn G. Davison
Virginia & Loren DeLand
Frances & Michael Flaherty
Maria Francis
Anne Frugoli
Patti Eldredge
Paulette Fischer
Michael Flaherty
Theresa & Paul Floyd
James Free
Susan Goss
Elizabeth Hart
Pam Hillygus
Jeffrey Aaron Jacobs
Christine Jorgensen
Renee Kloser
Wendy Lambert
Karla Long
Jennifer Mayo
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Leslie & James McShane
Mark Milanick
Richard Odan
Jan Pavlock
Barbara Quade
Laurie & Anthony Rollin
Laela & Dick Shimer
Nita Smith
Kathleen Snodgrass
Kristen Sohlberg
Emma Spencer
Anne & Donald Stewart
Martha & Russell Thayer
Shannon Tanaka
Annette Walker
Mary Younger
MEMORIAL DONATIONS
The following donations have made to the MSA in memory of loved ones in the past 12 months:
Richard Baskett – in memory of Marva Christian & Don Snavely
Barbara Blegen – in memory of Dorothy & Hal Blegen
John A. Bonya – in memory of George Kesel
Ethel Byrnes – in memory of Laura Patterson
Mary Ellen Campbell – in memory of John Talbot
Juliena Darling – in memory of Don Snavely
Richard Earley – in memory of George Kesel
Robert Eder – in memory of Tottie Parmeter
Candace Fetscher – in memory of Laura Patterson
Paulette Fischer – in memory of Don Snavely
Michael Flaherty – in memory of Caralee Mueller
Lynette Fritz – in memory of Thomas Fritz
Joseph Grinnell – in memory of Margie Grinnell
Don Johnston – in memory of Virginia Johnston
Leslie & Mike Halligan – in memory of Don Snavely
Kathleen & John Jenks – in memory of Don Snavely
Corinne & Ralph Kirscher – in memory of Don Snavely
Donna & James Koch – in memory of Doosey Habbe
Dorothea & George Lambros –in memory of Jane Dennison
Susan Lockner – in memory of Don Snavely
Helena Maclay – in memory of Don Snavely
Eileen McCarty – in memory of George Kesel
John R McGinley, Jr. – in memory of George Kesel
Mark Mniszewski – in memory of Jane Dennison
Gerald Mueller – in memorial of Caralee Mueller
Carol & Wayne Noeller – in memory of Caralee Mueller
Eugene O’Sullivan – in memory of George Kesel
Pershing Phillips, Jr. – in memory of Colleen Phillips
Priscilla & Robert Phillips – in memory of Don Snavely
Sally Porter – in memory of Nick Porter
Amber & Lans Richardson – in memory of Virginia Vinal
Kitte Robins – in memory of John Talbot
Matthew Royter – in memory of Ruth Royter
Scott Seifert – in memory of George Kesel
Rob Sterling – in memory of Margaret Sterling
Carol & Dale Stovall – in memory of Caralee Mueller
Sue Talbot – in memory of Laura Patterson
Kathy Turner - in memory of Don Snavely
Steve Wallace – in memory of Christine Wallace
Betsy & Warren Wilcox – in memory of Kay Duffield & Robert Seim
Lynne & Gary Willstein – in memory of Don Holliday
Phyllis & Louis Whitsell – in memory of Caralee Mueller
Twila Wolfe – in memory of Don Snavely
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Keep the music alive
ONLY TWO
When you sponsor a chair, you honor our individual helping to sustain high standards of professional suppor t for our named chair musicians.
MUSICIAN CHAIRS LEFT! THE FOLLOWING CHAIR SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE:
benefits include: - Recognition in
- Invitation to Backstage
Peek
other special
- Oppor tunity to
and
PLEASE DON’ T LEAV E TH ESE TALEN TE D MUSICIANS WIT HO U T CHAI R SPON SO RS! Assistant Principal Second Violin Assistant Viola Please con tact Beth Woody if yo u can help fill a c hai r sponsorshi p. be th@missoulas ymp hon y.or g ( 406) 721-319 4 www.missoul asy mpho ny.org
Chair sponsor
each concer t program book
Pass luncheons, Sneak
party and
events
meet
visit with your sponsored musician at concerts
DYNAMIC TRIO 33 YACHTING IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ, MEXICO TRIPLE CREEK RANCH, MONTANA YOUR DREAM TRIP COME TRUE! The grand-prize winner will have their choice of a trip for two to the Sea of Cortez, The Triple Creek Ranch Montana or $10,000 toward the trip of their dreams. Cash prizes awarded for 2nd ($2,500) and 3rd place ($1,000). TICKETS ON SALE NOW $175 per ticket RAFFLE IS LIMITED TO 250 TOTAL TICKETS SOLD—THAT MEANS GREAT ODDS! Your Chance to Win the Trip of a Lifetime! (Charitable Raffle) Call 406.721.3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for more information.
WAR AND PEACE SAVE THE DATE
Our last masterworks concert of the season presents the contrasting themes of war and peace, with the hope of grace and goodwill. The Orchestra will be joined by our beloved Symphony Chorale and our accomplished guest artists, Melanie Henley Heyn and José Rubio.
BUY TICKETS: missoulasymphony.org or call (406) 721-3194.
Student Night at Dress Rehearsal
Sponsored by Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Your support of young people in Missoula means so much. Thank you!
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SATURDAY • APRIL 15 • 7:30 PM SUNDAY • APRIL 16
3:00 PM
GUEST ARTIST: Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano
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JULIA TAI, MUSIC DIRECTOR DEAN PETERSON, CHORALE DIRECTOR Dennison Theatre, University of Montana
GUEST ARTIST: José Rubio, baritone
The University of Montana’s Dennison Theatre and School of Music are proud to serve as home to the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. This dynamic partnership between our organizations delivers professional musical opportunities to our students and provides engaging musical experiences for the Missoula community.
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
SEASON SPONSOR
AUGUST 14, 2022
SYMPHONY IN THE PARK
First Security Bank | Muralts Travel Plaza | PayneWest Insurance
Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation | Bill and Phyllis Bouchee
Anonymous | S.G. Long & Company | Langel and Associates
Flaherty Financial Services | Garlington Lohn & Robinson, PLLP
Brian Eicholtz and Erik Johnston, Merrill Lynch | NorthWestern Energy
Missoula Downtown Partnership | Allied Waste Services of Missoula
SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2022
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
NOVEMBER 4 & 6, 2022
SUPERHEROES
DECEMBER 2, 3 & 4, 2022
HOLIDAY POPS!
JANUARY 28, 2023
THE MOUNTAIN THAT LOVED A BIRD
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MARCH 4 & 5, 2023
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APRIL 15 & 16, 2023
WAR AND PEACE
Anne & Bruce Robertson | Anonymous Chorale Member
MAY 20 & 21, 2023
BROADWAY CONCERT
Sponsored by the Tremper Family in honor of their parents, Barbara and William Tremper.
MEDIA SPONSORS ACCOMMODATIONS SPONSOR
STREAMING SPONSOR
CONCERTMASTER
Janet & Harry Haines
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Sharon & Gerald Marks
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Betty Thisted
SECOND VIOLIN
Patterson Family
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
SECOND VIOLIN
Frank & Rae Lynn D’Angelo
VIOLA
Robert Mosely
ASSOCIATE VIOLA
Ann Ruehr
CELLO
Dan & Sophie Lambros
CHAIR SPONSORS
ASSISTANT CELLO
Louisa & Paul Axelrod
DOUBLE BASS
Richard & Alice Dailey
FLUTE
Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite
OBOE
Jennifer & Ben Yonce
ENGLISH HORN
Jo May & Brian Salonen
CLARINET
Charla & Don Murray
BASSOON
Jean & Bill Woessner
HORN
Betsy & Warren Wilcox
TRUMPET
Ann & Tom Boone
TROMBONE
Frank & Maggie Allen
TUBA
NDG, LLC
TIMPANI/PERCUSSION
Traci & Michael Punke
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION
Sharon & Don Snavely
HARP
Peter & Maria van Loben Sels
PIANO
Twila Wolfe
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Rick & Diana Nash
CHORALE DIRECTOR
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