2014/ 2015 Overture #1

SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2014 I ISSUE 1

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Kjotsupe – Icelandic Lamb Soup Onion Crusted North Atlantic Cod Fish with “Skyronnaise” Tartar set on Baked Gourmet Potatoes Fries & Root Vegetables Vinatarta Cake with Vanilla Custard, Fresh Blueberries

Randy Bachman’s Symphonic Overdrive Friday, December 5, 2014 Saturday, December 6, 2014

Holiday~Overdrive “An Elevated State of Christmas Fare”

“The House Salad” with Lobster~Macadamia Nut Emulsion Vine Tomato & English Cucumber, Goat Cheese Pate Black Truffle & Garlic Spiked Chicken Breast, Hickory Smoked Bacon & Wild Mushroom Yukon Gold Potatoes, Madeira Sauce, Fresh Vegetables Baked Alaska with Red Velvet Cake, Pistachio Ice Cream, Toasted Marshmallow

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

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Singin’ in the Rain - Film with Orchestra Saturday, March 14, 2015

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Trudy Schroeder

There is another season of wonderful concerts awaiting us in the WSO's programs for this coming year. Each concert offers us the chance to enjoy the music and the special contributions of each musician and soloist. I look forward to that special feeling of anticipation before the start of each concert, the chance to listen intently to the music, and the experience of discovery and renewal that comes to at some point in almost every concert.

The fall is also a period of welcoming newcomers to our community and to the WSO. As we start this year, we have the pleasure of welcoming new musicians, board members, staff members, and audience members to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. This fall we welcome a number of new musicians to the WSO Janet Liang to the first violin section, Elizabeth (Liz) Dyer to the second violin section, Daniel Perry to the double bass section, and Brendan Thompson to timpani. We wish the new musicians all the best as they begin work with our fine orchestra.

On the board of directors we welcome a large number of new members, and we hope they will find the experience of working with the WSO interesting and pleasurable. Joining the administrative team is Neil Middleton, our new director of Marketing and Communications, our new Production Manager is Evan Klassen, and the new Stage Manager is Sheena Sanderson.

The WSO is part of Manitoba's program for celebration... we are often called upon to mark special occasions in our province's history. To our community, we welcome and celebrate opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. We have included many powerful compositions with themes related to human rights in this year's program. Our hope is that the museum will add significantly to the encouragement and celebration of human rights throughout the world and will provide a context for greater dialogue within our local community.

We welcome back subscribers who have been with us for many years and new concert attendees and subscribers. Our audience members are a big part of our story and the experience of listening to a live music experience changes with the energy and passion you bring to the experience.

With my very best wishes for a fine year of musical enjoyment.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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

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

Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor In the fall of 2014, Julian Pellicano begins his second season as resident conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he leads the orchestra in a wide variety of programs throughout the year. He has worked with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre (Brazil), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New Britain Symphony, Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and Milwaukee's Present Music. In addition, Julian conducted the premiere of Martin Bresnick’s critically acclaimed opera My Friend's Story at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas and conducted at Carnegie Hall with the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra. Recognized for his work with living composers and transparent interpretations of contemporary works, he has premiered over 40 new pieces and as an artist in residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, he conducts the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble. Julian has worked in masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Peter Eötvös, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, Carl St. Clair, L’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (Stockholm), and the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the 2008 Presser Music Award and the Philip F. Nelson Award. Beyond his position with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Julian also serves as music director of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra.

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2014-2015 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Vincent Ho FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster

CELLOS Yuri Hooker, Principal Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal Alex Adaman Margaret Askeland Arlene Dahl Carolyn Nagelberg Emma Quackenbush

BASSES Meredith Johnson, Principal The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtAndrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Travis Harrison Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Paul Nagelberg Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry Karin Andreasen Chris Anstey FLUTES Mona Coarda Jan Kocman, Principal Hong Tian Jia Janet Liang Martha Durkin Simon MacDonald PICCOLO Meredith McCallum Julie Savard Martha Durkin Jun Shao OBOES SECOND VIOLINS Beverly Wang, Principal Darryl Strain, Principal Robin MacMillan Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch ENGLISH HORN Kristina Bauch Robin MacMillan Elizabeth Dyer Rodica Jeffrey CLARINETS Susan McCallum Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Takayo Noguchi Michelle Goddard Claudine St-Arnauld † Jane Pulford BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal VIOLAS Kathryn Brooks Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, HORNS Assistant Principal Patricia Evans, Principal Laszlo Baroczi Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal Richard Bauch James Robertson Greg Hay The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair Suzanne McKegney Caroline Oberheu Merrily Peters Michiko Singh Mike Scholz

TRUMPETS Brian Sykora, Principal Paul Jeffrey Isaac Pulford The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal John Helmer BASS TROMBONE Julia McIntyre, Principal TUBA Chris Lee, Principal TIMPANI **Brendan Thompson, Acting Principal PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal HARP Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Chris Lee PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Raymond Chrunyk ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall *On Leave **Temporary Position † Dual Section Position Please note: Non-titled (tutti) string players are listed alphabetically and are seated according to a rotational system.

Fred Redekop is the official Piano Tuner and Technician of the WSO.

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MATINEE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

10:30 A.M.

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL

Dvorˇák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

MASTERWORKS

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8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M.

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL

WSO IN BRANDON

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

3:00 P.M.

WESTERN MANITOBA CENTENNIAL AUDITORIUM

Dvorˇák: New World Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Natasha Paremski, piano University of Manitoba Singers, Elroy Friesen, director* (Winnipeg) Brandon University Concert Choir, Andrée Dagenais, director* (Brandon)

PROGRAM Canticle of Freedom*

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Piano Concerto in F Allegro Andante con moto Allegro agitato - INTERMISSION -

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World” Adagio – Allegro molto Largo Scherzo: Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco

Antonin Dvorˇák (1841-1904)

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Sunday, September 28 – Brandon University School of Music Clarinet Choir

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PROGRAM NOTES

Piano Concerto in F

George Gershwin b. Brooklyn, NY / September 26, 1898

by James Manishen d. Hollywood / July 11, 1937 Canticle of Freedom Composed: 1925 Aaron Copland First performance: December 3, 1925 b. Brooklyn NY / November 14, 1900 (New York), conducted by Walter d. North Tarrytown NY / Damrosch with the composer as soloist December 2, 1990 Last WSO performance: 2004; Composed: 1955, rev. 1967 Jon Kimura Parker, piano; First performance: 1955 (New York City) Andrey Boreyko, conductor conducted by Leonard Bernstein When the famous First WSO performance conductor Walter Copland was an Damrosch (New York Symphony) heard the enthusiastic reader premiere of Gershwin’s of world literature Rhapsody in Blue on the historic night of and had close February 12, 1924, Damrosch was so enthused friends such as that he set about to convince Gershwin to writer Gerald Sykes and director/critic Harold Clurman to produce another large-scale work, as well as to be the soloist in six subsequent concerts. discuss enlightening literary Gershwin jumped at the offer but knew he discoveries with. It was probably had to bone up on his writing technique for these associations that pointed symphony orchestra, namely, instrumentation, Copland towards the old esoteric structure and balance and general narrative Scottish poem and paean to flow. Where the Rhapsody was, as he termed it, freedom that became the text for a blues impression, the new Concerto had to his Canticle of Freedom. be a concise piece of ‘absolute’ music Copland’s patriotism was fervent at unrelated to any program. the time, so when the commission Gershwin produced his first sketches in from the Massachusetts Institute of London during May 1925. That July he was Technology to dedicate its Kresge back in New York playing sections of the Auditorium and MIT Chapel came evolving work to friends. Gershwin’s wealth through, he was most enthusiastic allowed him to hire an orchestra to test his about the project. Copland had orchestrations in October, a process that gave also been a victim of the McCarthy him the “greatest thrill of his musical life.” By witch hunts. This commission was a November, the Concerto in F was completed. direct affirmation of academic, The premiere on December 3, 1925 was a artistic and political freedom. success, though not as tumultuous as that of the Rhapsody. It was only the 27-year-old Since MIT was not a primarily artscomposer’s second concert work, and an focused school, Copland astonishing achievement. deliberately kept the vocal writing Gershwin summed up the Concerto in his simple: two-part singing and a relatively undemanding orchestral own words just four days before the premiere: “The first movement employs a role. Nonetheless, he created a Charleston rhythm. It is quick and pulsating, stirring work that deserves to be representing the young, enthusiastic spirit of better known. The familiar American life. Later a second theme is hallmarks of Copland’s Appalachian Spring style are here: introduced by the piano. The second movement has a poetical nocturnal its open harmonies with atmosphere which has come to be referred occasionally dissonant tang, confident melodies, ripe percussion to as American blues, but in a purer form than that in which they are usually treated. writing and jubilant finish.

The final movement is an orgy of rhythms.”

Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” Antonin Dvorˇák b. Nelahozeves, Bohemia / September 8, 1841 d. Prague / May 1, 1904 Composed: 1892 First performance: December 16, 1893 (New York) conducted by Anton Seidl.

Last WSO performance: 2012; Richard Lee, conductor America badly needed its National Conservatory of Music at the time founder Mrs. Jeanette Thurber brought Antonin Dvorˇák to New York to head it on September 27, 1892. She felt the 51-year-old composer was best suited to uncover and encourage an American school of composition. As Dvorˇák eased into his task, his long association with a Czech translation of Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha remained in his mind, in the hope of creating an opera with its story.

The poem would become the essence of the “New World” Symphony.

Though dedicated to celebrate the fourth centennial of Columbus’s socalled discovery of America, one might expect a brighter overall mood and sunnier key than E minor. Still, Dvorˇák’s New World Symphony, with its memorable English horn solo in the second movement (the forest funeral of Minnehaha), ranks among the most recognized and beloved of all symphonic works.

Dvorˇák wrote that “the influence of America can be felt by anyone who has a nose.” But the work’s influence is really Czech, reflecting the composer’s acute longing for home and identity. Yet one also feels the pull of Native American folk music: an inference of plantation songs, spirituals and other indigenous suggestions. As always in Dvorˇák, the music’s fertile supply of melody and brilliant orchestration have a timeless appeal that has won audiences for generations.

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CHORAL NOTES Canticle of Freedom Aaron Copland

Freedom is a noble thing!

Freedom makes man to have liking; Freedom to all solace to man gives, He lives at ease that freely lives.

A noble heart may have no ease, Nor aught beside that may him please If Freedom fail.

For free liking is yearned for over all thing, Nor he that aye have lived free may know well the misery, The anger, and the wretched doom That is coupled to foul thralldom; But if he have essayed it Then throughout all he should it wit; And should think freedom more to prize Than all the gold in world that is.

Excerpt from a fourteenth century Scottish poem extolling the idea of freedom. John Barbour (1320-1395) wrote his “Bruce” around 1375, in the language of the Middle Scots. The above words are an adaptation in equivalent modern English.

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MASTERWORKS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11

8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M.

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL

Aziz Conducts Brahms Aziz Shokhakimov, conductor Julie Albers, cello

PROGRAM Capriccio - Concertante

S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974)

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 85 Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Adagio – Moderato Lento – Allegro molto Adagio Allegro non troppo – Poco piu lento – Allegro molto - INTERMISSION Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Allegro giocoso Allegro energico e passionato

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Extra Musicians: Laura MacDougall, flute Jim Ewen, bassoon Donna Laube, keyboard

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Aziz Shokhakimov

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Capriccio - Concertante S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté b. Moscow, Russia / January 6, 1899 d. Stuttgart, Germany / December 2, 1974 Composed: 1941 Last WSO performance: 2008; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Moving to Winnipeg in 1953 with her husband Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt, Sophie-Carmen EckhardtGramatté was a virtuoso on both the piano and violin while also a composer of a wide variety of works. Her Capriccio – Concertante was written in Vienna in 1941, the title imparting a light-hearted piece in threepart form featuring opposing groups of instruments.

Perhaps the music’s relentless rhythm in the first section reflects the wartime atmosphere of Europe, the omnipresent dance melody encircling itself reiterating the same note with unexpected haltings, syncopations and accents. The middle section has a Siciliano dotted rhythm for a more cheerful foil, though still vitally rhythmic. The third section is a restatement of the opening theme leading to a lively finish.

Cello Concerto in E minor Edward Elgar b. Broadheath, nr Worcester, England / June 2, 1857 d. Worcester / February 23, 1934 Composed: 1918-1919 First performance: October 27, 1919 (London) conducted by the composer with Felix Salmond as soloist.

Last WSO performance: 2014; Colin Carr, cello; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor The Great War devastated Elgar, not only numbing in the residual effects of all its tragic events but also that so many of his friends of German ancestry were

being badly treated in England, with others killed or wounded in action. As well, Elgar’s Edwardian world, of which he so identified, was coming to a close after the War and he felt his seemingly anachronistic music would be pushed aside in the new world of harmonic daring. Most of all, his beloved wife Alice – his chief inspiration, critic and aide – was falling ill and Elgar knew that she hadn’t much time.

Symphony No. 4

motionless stillness and seems a direct window to Elgar’s worldweary soul. The finale starts with a recitative and then moves into a rondo-form narrative, trying hard to be a bit more optimistic but then retreating back to a memorable soliloquy as in the third movement. Moments of earlier material return before a final recall of the fast rondo music to close.

A tiny two-note motive pervades the opening movement of sad melancholy and wondrous compositional skill.

Richard Strauss described the second movement as “a funeral procession moving across moonlit heights.” The bright scherzo third movement brings respite with its dance-like joy.

The finale is a passacaglia – a gathering variation movement on a repeating theme hearkening back to the Baroque in form and never used in a symphony before it.

Johannes Brahms b. Hamburg / May 7, 1833 d. Vienna / April 3, 1897 Composed: 1884-1885 First performance: October 25, 1885 (Meiningen) conducted by the composer.

Last WSO performance: 2009; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

Perhaps the best way to approach a performance of With Alice’s passing in 1920, Brahms’ Fourth Elgar stopped composing Symphony is to recall completely and retreated into a the composer’s private world of disillusionment farewell to his beloved Vienna, and unhappiness. All these where conductor Hans Richter had factors presaged the Cello scheduled it for the Vienna Concerto, written just before Philharmonic’s concert of March 7, Alice’s death and Elgar’s last 1897. Mortally ill from liver cancer, major work. It proved to be a Brahms witnessed an overwhelming final statement for him, an response from the audience after introspective, meditative and each movement. In the words of his biographer Florence May: “Tears ran elegiac valedictory story very different from the vigor Elgar so down his cheeks as he stood there… another outburst of applause and yet regularly showed in his earlier music. One feels here that Elgar another.” As a valedictory statement to a life filled with searching and is describing a musical and discovery, Brahms’ Fourth is in the personal era that were dying highest tier and, extending from with him.

Schubert and Beethoven, the culmination of symphonic style.

Much of the solo cello role is given to solitary reflections, as in the recitative-like opening of the The outer movements are of such grand proportion and development work. The poignant opening movement is in three-part form that they could almost be considered symphonies in themselves. The key (ABA) and leads directly to the second movement, taking several of E minor is significant, a tonality signifying tragedy and melancholy, tries before the new movement takes flight in the concerto’s most perhaps Brahms’ resignation of his own mortality much as Mahler explored openly virtuosic moments. The in his Sixth Symphony later on.

Adagio that follows begins with

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8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M.

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL

The King – A Tribute to Elvis Julian Pellicano, conductor Scott Coulter, vocalist Lee Lessack, vocalist

Johnny Rodgers, vocalist Brian Wilson, vocalist Danny Mallon, drums

PROGRAM Heartbreak Hotel Blue Suede Shoes Early Hits Medley: All Shook Up/Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog Jailhouse Rock/Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On Movie Medley: Love Me Tender/Loving You/Blue Hawaii/Can't Help Fallin' in Love with You G.I. Blues It's Now or Never Are You Lonesome Tonight?/I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry Return to Sender Gospel Medley: Crying in the Chapel/Amazing Grace/Peace in the Valley/How Great Thou Art - INTERMISSION Theme from 2001: See See Rider Burning Love Viva Las Vegas!

What Now My Love In the Ghetto Movin’ To Graceland My Way An American Trilogy

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MASTERWORKS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M.

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL

Sigrun Plays Sibelius: Nordic Festival Opener Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Sigrun Edvaldsdottir, violin Prairie Voices, Vic Pankratz, director

PROGRAM Finlandia

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47 Allegro moderato Adagio di molto Allegro ma non tanto

Jean Sibelius

- INTERMISSION Credo

Kjartan Sveinsson (b. 1978)

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 (In One movement)

Jean Sibelius

Sigrun Edvaldsdottir

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PROGRAM NOTES

Violin Concerto

Jean Sibelius Composed: 1903; revised in 1905

by James Manishen First performance: February 8, 1904 (Helsinki), conducted by the Finlandia composer with Viktor Novácek as Jean Sibelius b. Hämeenlinna, Finland / December 8, 1865 soloist d. Järvenpää, Finland / September 20, 1957 Last WSO performance: 2009; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Alexander Composed: 1899 Mickelthwate, conductor First performance: November 4, 1899 (Helsinki), conducted by the composer Mahler, Richard Strauss, Scriabin and Last WSO performance: 2005; all the late romantics drew the Michelle Mourre, conductor famous comment by Sibelius that For most of the 19th century, Finland, as an autonomous Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire, was gently ruled by the Alexanders. That changed when Nicholas II took the Russian throne in 1894, his chief representative Nikolai Bobrikov proving to be a ruthless governor following the issuance of the socalled February Manifesto that restricted the Finnish press and curtailed the rights of the Finnish people by forcing them to speak Russian, among other restrictions.

The Finns responded by staging Press Celebrations, thinly veiled patriotic events ostensibly to help the hard-hit press.

For the Press Celebration of November 4, 1899, a series of Finnish living tableaux were planned for the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. The young Sibelius, recently back from study in Germany and Vienna, was hired to supply the music which was to comprise an introduction and incidental music for each of the six tableaus. Clearly Sibelius would infer pent-up revolution, in particular the closing tableau entitled Finland Awakes, as a patriotic response to the failed powers of darkness Finland had been suffering through.

Finlandia solidified Sibelius’ international reputation as a composer and the work became a worldwide statement of sympathy to the Finnish cause. When Finland became independent of Russia after the First World War, Finlandia became renowned as the country’s musical calling card.

Though the hymn-like theme suggests the simplicity of folksong, Sibelius claimed that all the work’s themes were his own. As a stirring display of inspired banner-waving, Finlandia is as grand a statement as it gets.

while other composers were "manufacturing heady cocktails of all colours," Sibelius was serving up "pure cold water."

The shimmering opening of the Violin Concerto certainly shows this, along with much of the orchestral colouring which sounds as if set more in autumn and winter half-lights rather than deep hues, though those aren’t neglected.

There is no doubt the work also falls into the tradition of the great Romantic virtuoso concertos of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, with solo writing that is characteristic, taxing and full of the kind of rapt expression that has made Sibelius’ Violin Concerto a benchmark of its realm.

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Credo was premiered at the Whitelight Festival in New York on November 16, 2010 with Kjartan Sveinsson along with Jonsi & Alex and The Hilliard Ensemble.

Symphony No. 7 Jean Sibelius Composed: 1923-1924 First performance: March 24, 1924 (Stockholm), conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 1993; Moshe Atzmon, conductor As Sibelius was completing his Fifth Symphony in 1918, he began to conceive that work as part of a trilogy of symphonies arising from the euphoria of the ending of the Great War. Each symphony would be in a threemovement design but open to changes as he proceeded. “I am a slave to my themes and submit to their demands,” he said.

After the premiere of the Sixth Symphony in 1923, Sibelius immediately went to Italy to begin The opening movement’s sonata form work on the Seventh, his final finds a cadenza in place of the usual symphony, finishing it on March 3, development section. Three theme groups take charge in rapturous fashion, 1924. What emerged bore no resemblance to the three-movement telling their stories within an airtight plotline. The second movement is one of original design, but rather an organic, tautly argued singleSibelius’ most ardent Romantic movement multi-section work statements. The finale launches into a reflecting the culmination of the dance the famed musicologist Donald Romantic urge towards structural Francis Tovey called “a polonaise for polar bears” gathering intensity as it goes. unification in a symphony.

Sibelius had been interested in the austere polyphony of Palestrina at Credo the time, and the Seventh Kjartan Sveinsson Symphony reflects a similar First performance: November 16, emotional reserve. This further 2010 (New York City) contributes to the music’s epic Last WSO performance: 2012; nature, the feeling of an indivisible Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor; organism overriding the sense of Prairie Voices sections, as the music’s iron-willed Kjartan "Kjarri" hold over tension and resolution Sveinsson is the drives the story to its logical former keyboardist conclusion. Rumors of an eighth for the Icelandic symphony persisted during the post-rock band Sigur Rós. He joined remainder of Sibelius’ life. But with the band in 1998, bringing his the Seventh, he obviously felt that background as a multi-instrumentalist he could advance no further. on many unorthodox instruments to

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NORDIC Friday, October 24 I 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 25 I 8:00 p.m.

SIGRUN PLAYS SIBELIUS: NORDIC FESTIVAL OPENER Centennial Concert Hall (See page 17 for concert details)

Sunday, October 26 I 3:00 p.m.

NORDIC SAGAS Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Avenue Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Yuri Klaz, director The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir kicks off its 92nd season on Sunday, October 26 at Westminster United Church with NORDIC SAGAS, part of the WSO’s Nordic Festival. This concert features some of the most beautiful choral music in the Nordic repertoire, including works by Grieg (Four Psalms and excerpts from Peer Gynt), Sibelius (Autumn Evening from his Opus 38 Song Cycle), and Nielsen, Hallgrimsson, Hemberg, Gjeilo and Mäntyjärvi. The Phil is excited to welcome very special guest artists Tracy Dahl, soprano, PJ Buchan, tenor and narrator and Sólskríkjan Kór, Winnipeg’s Icelandic Choir (director Kerrine Wilson). The Phil is proud to dedicate this performance to the 125th anniversary of Manitoba’s Icelandic community in Gimli.

Tickets available at the Philharmonic box office 204-896-7445, www.thephil.ca or at McNally Robinson.

Monday, October 27 I 7:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ORCHESTRA Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor Avenue University of Manitoba Orchestra, Julian Pellicano, conductor Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) was one of the most important figures in the history of Swedish musical life. Not only was he an influential composer, but he was also a sought after pianist and was the chief conductor of the newly formed Golthenburg Symphony Orchestra from 1907-1922.

Stenhammar's magnum opus, the Symphony No. 2, strives to break away from Neo-romantic orchestra virtuosity and the influence of Wagner and Strauss in favour of creating music that is a "sober and honest" portrayal of line and rhythm while incorporating elements of Swedish folk music. Stenhammar was greatly influenced by his Nordic contemporaries, especially Jean Sibelius.

Sibelius' Karelia Suite takes us to Finland's Karelia Province, which not only has mythical significance in Finnish culture, but also has a tangled history with Sweden. We are lucky to have our own local connection to contemporary Nordic music at the University of Manitoba, and we will open or concert with U of M faculty member Örjan Sandred's orchestral work Mechanica.

PROGRAM: Örjan Sandred: Mechanica Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite Op. 11 - Intermision Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony no. 2 Op. 34 Tickets available at the door.

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FESTIVAL Tuesday, October 28 I 7:30 p.m.

NORDIC MUSIC ROUNDTABLE

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McNally Robinson Booksellers WSO Music Director Alexander Mickelthwate and Artistic Operations Associate James Manishen discuss the great composers from Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Wednesday, October 29 I 8:00 p.m.

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THE HUNT (JAGTEN) Directed by Thomas Vinterberg; 2012, Denmark, 115 min.

(Danish with English subtitles) Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street One of the years defining and most controversial films, The Hunt is an intelligent and disturbing dissection of Danish society. Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a highly regarded schoolteacher, has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered.

Selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.

Cinematheque Regular Admission.

Friday, October 31 I 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 1 I 8:00 p.m.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

10:30 A.M.

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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Víkingur Ólafsson, piano DINNER & A SYMPHONY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2

3:00 P.M.

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Víkingur Plays Grieg: Nordic Festival Finale Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

PROGRAM Morgun

Kenley Kristofferson (b. 1983)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 16 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Allegro molto moderato Adagio – Allegro moderato molto e marcato – Poco più tranquillo – Tempo I - INTERMISSION Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable” Allegro Poco allegretto Poco adagio quasi andante Allegro (played without pause)

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

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by James Manishen

Morgun

Photo: Mike Latschislaw/Latsch Studios

Kenley Kristofferson b. Winnipeg / December 31, 1983 First performance “Morgun is the Icelandic word for “morning,” signaling the start of a new day.

On October 21, 1875, a group of Icelandic settlers landed on Willow Island near Gimli, MB changing their lives forever. While their intended destination had been further north up the shore of Lake Winnipeg, a vicious storm forced the S.S. Colville to cut the barges carrying the Icelanders to the island.

Morgun evokes the feelings of hope and trepidation on the first day of the new settlement. The image of “morning,” which was used as an inspiration for this piece, signifies the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of the Icelanders as well as the optimism and lamentation that they must have felt. The settlers were looking forward to their new life, while always carrying in their heart the home they left behind.”

Kenley Kristofferson

Piano Concerto in A minor Edvard Grieg b. Bergen, Norway / June 15, 1843 d. Bergen / September 4, 1907 Composed: 1868 First performance: April 3, 1869 (Copenhagen), with Edmund Neuport as soloist Last WSO performance: 2007; Stewart Goodyear, piano; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Grieg’s common perception as a miniaturist devoted to Norwegian folklore is perhaps a bit unfair, for large-scale works occupied him during the first half of his career. Following studies at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1863, he spent three years in Copenhagen studying with Niels Gade, at the time Denmark’s most prominent composer. By 1867, Grieg had produced a piano sonata, the first two violin sonatas, plus a symphony and In Autumn, a concert overture. His new Piano Concerto lay directly ahead - folk-inspired but born

notably from the German Romantic tradition of Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

Though Nielsen’s stature as Denmark’s greatest symphonist is commonly accepted, his name While in Copenhagen Grieg met doesn’t involuntarily Rikard Nordraak, another young Norwegian composer whose ambition resonate among Nordic composers the same way as with Grieg and Sibelius, to create a distinctive Norwegian musical identity equally fuelled Grieg’s who invite familiarity with time-worn music evoking their heritages and passion for his homeland’s music.

They established the Euterpe (“giver individual musical syntaxes. But Nielsen’s is a uniquely individual voice: of delight” in Greek mythology) provocative and original in his Society to help spread the word.

During this period Grieg also met his dramatic emphasis, resourceful and brilliant in his use of orchestral forces future wife, singer Nina Hagerup. well in evidence across his six In 1866, Grieg gave a concert in symphonies written over a period of 35 Norway exclusively of Norwegian years. compositions. It was a great success and as a result, he now had the means Nielsen’s first three symphonies to marry Nina in 1867. A daughter reflect his Danish youth, containing was born the following spring and music ripe with optimism and Grieg was a most happy man. exuberance, secure in career success and marital bliss, no more so than The couple returned to Denmark for in the Symphony No. 3 (1911), an an idyllic vacation in the summer of especially powerful celebration of 1868 and it was at a secluded retreat life. But all was to turn in 1916. there that Grieg wrote the Piano Concerto. When the Griegs returned Symphony No. 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’ was completed to Norway in the fall, the work was mostly complete. He tinkered with it when Europe was at war. Nielsen’s over the winter and the premiere the marriage was breaking down and he was battling with a musical following April was well received.

Grieg was thrilled to meet Franz Liszt establishment at odds with an expanded ideology he was in Rome in the fall of 1869, as Liszt played through the Concerto offering undergoing. Still, the will of life consumed the composer as did the encouragement and tips to the 26elemental goodness of life and year-old Norwegian. music’s ability to express it.

The famously opening flourish leads to the main theme in the woodwinds. The Writing about this piece himself, second theme is a tender cello melody. Nielsen explained what it meant to The development section is based on him, and what it was supposed to achieve: the main theme, wrapped up with a fine cadenza. The song-filled second The symphony evokes the most primal movement belies Hans von Bülow’s sources of life and the wellspring of the view of Grieg as “the Chopin of the life-feeling; that Life is indomitable and North.” Following without pause, the inextinguishable; the struggle, the wrestling, the generation and the finale uses rhythms of the popular wasting away go on today as yesterday, Norwegian dance, the halling, which tomorrow as today, and everything Grieg would go on to use often. A stirring close further seals this beloved returns. Once more: music is life, and like it inextinguishable. work as among the most popular concertos of all.

Cast over a single large span comprising four movements played without pause, the dramatic thrust Carl Nielsen lies in the music’s opposing forces: b. Sortelung, Denmark / June 9, 1865 one volatile and threatening, the d. Copenhagen / October 3, 1931 other life-affirming and joyous, the two sides unforgettably closing the Composed: 1914-16 work with a thunderous showcase of First performance: February 1, tympani followed by a transcendent 1916 (Copenhagen) climax of the opening movement’s Last WSO performance: 2005; hymnal melody.

Dmitry Liss, conductor

Symphony No. 4

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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the Great Hall at Canadian Mennonite University - North Campus 500 Shaftesbury Blvd. (North of Grant)

Reception to Follow Musicians: Patricia Evans (principal French Horn) and Meredith McCallum (violin) of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Darryl Friesen (piano)

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WSO MUSICIAN PROFILES Photographer: Nardella Photography Inc.

Gwen Hoebig

Laszlo Baroczi

Darryl Strain

Instrument: Violin and Concertmaster Joined WSO: 1987 Hometown: Vancouver, BC What advice would you give to aspiring musicians? Practice and always seek out the very best teacher.

Who are your favourite composers?

Beethoven and Brahms.

What is your favourite piece of music to play? Whatever I’m playing (mostly)!

Instrument: Viola Joined WSO: 2001 Hometown: Miskolc, Hungary What is your favourite book?

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

Pinchas Zukerman and Yuri Bashmet.

What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season? Copland’s Third Symphony

Instrument: Violin Joined WSO: 2002 Hometown: Prince George, BC What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Mahler 9 performance with Andrey Boreyko.

What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season? Sibelius’ Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 7.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

My former teacher Lorand Fenyves.

Paul Nagelberg

Travis Harrison

Michelle Goddard

Instrument: Bass Joined WSO: 1978 Hometown: New York, NY, USA What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Carnegie Hall, 1979 What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

My bass teacher Lawrence Hurst.

I think of his words every time I play my instrument.

What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season? Brahms’ Fourth

Instrument: Double Bass Joined WSO: 2013 Hometown: Etobicoke, ON What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season? The Nielsen Symphony No. 4 program on Halloween and November 1st. I’ve never played a Nielsen symphony before, so it will be an adventure!

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What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

My teacher Joel Quarrington.

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Instrument: Clarinet Joined WSO: 2012 Hometown: Vancouver, BC What is your favourite book? I really enjoyed reading The Inner Game of Tennis. There are many interesting connections between music and tennis when it comes to preparation, training, and focus.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

My former teacher James Campbell is my greatest musical influence and a continued mentor and friend.

Alex Adaman

Chris Lee

Michiko Singh

Instrument: Cello Joined WSO: 1984 Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Our Carnegie Hall concert of May, 2014.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

Mstislav Rostropovich and Vladimir Horowitz.

What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season?

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5

Instrument: Tuba Joined WSO: 2003 Hometown: Toronto, ON What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Premiere of Victor Davis Tuba Concerto.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

The Canadian Brass What concert are you most looking forward to performing this coming season? Copland’s Symphony No. 3

Instrument: Horn Joined WSO: 2010 Hometown: Kitimat, BC What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Playing Schumann’s Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra with the WSO horn section.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

Jerome Ashby, my teacher at Juilliard and the only African American musician in the New York Philharmonic from 1979-2007.

Carolyn Nagelberg

Brian Sykora

John Helmer

Instrument: Cello Joined WSO: 1972 Hometown: Wilmington, NC, USA What is your favourite book?

A series by Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

Zara Nelsova, who inspired me to learn the cello (instead of the bassoon) at age 11.

Instrument: Principal Trumpet Joined WSO: 1984 Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio, USA What is your favourite book?

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

Bernard Adelstein, my trumpet teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He didn’t mince words; once during a lesson, he had this to say about what I had just played: “Brian, do you ever listen to MUSIC?”

Instrument: Trombone Joined WSO: 1983 Hometown: Vancouver, BC What is your favourite book?

The History of the English Language What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Performing Jon Sandtröm’s Motorbike Concerto in 1994.

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you?

French horn player Dennis Brian

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ARTIST BIOS MASTERWORKS / MATINEE / WSO IN BRANDON

Elroy Friesen

Dvor ˇák: New World

Dr. Elroy Friesen is Associate Professor and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Manitoba where he conducts numerous choirs and teaches graduate choral conducting. Recently publishing his research on the choral music of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, Elroy continues to pursue his passion of study and performance of new Nordic repertoire.

Beginning in fall of 2014, he will also be the new Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional Baroque choir. His award-winning ensembles tour nationally and internationally, and are frequently recorded and broadcasted by the CBC.

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Natasha Paremski With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, 26-year-old pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. Born in Moscow, she began her piano studies at age four, emigrated with her family to the United States in 1995 and became a US citizen in 2001. Her professional debut was at age nine and at fifteen, she performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as recorded two discs with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky. In September 2010, Natasha was awarded the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year and released her first recital album in 2011.

MASTERWORKS

University of Manitoba Singers, Elroy Friesen, director

Aziz Conducts Brahms OCTOBER 10 -11

Aziz Shokhakimov

The last three decades have brought the University Singers to prominence as a performing ensemble in Canada; they have performed and recorded with organizations such as the Hilliard Ensemble, the WSO, the Penderecki String Quartet and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Most recently they performed works by Schnittke and Auerbach with the Latvian Radio Choir. In addition to the University Singers’ extensive performance of new works, they regularly perform traditional choral repertoire. Recent concerts have included Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium, Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.

The University Singers have placed first in the CBC National Choir Competitions. They have toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe and will be performing in Serbia and Hungary in May 2014.

The remarkable young conductor Aziz Shokhakimov burst on the scene at the age of just 21 by astounding audiences in Bamberg, where he was awarded second prize at the Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition under the auspices of the Bamberger Symphoniker. In 2006, Aziz Shokhakimov assumed the position of principal conductor at the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, a position which he continues to hold.

Next season, the 25-year old Shokhakimov will conduct debut performances of the Strasbourg Philharmonie, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras and enjoy engagements with La Verdi Milan, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Winnipeg Symphony.

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ARTIST BIOS Julie Albers American cellist Julie Albers is recognized for her superlative artistry, her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense musicianship. She was born into a musical family and began violin studies at the age of two with her mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland while in high school to pursue studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Julie was awarded the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai.

Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. She is currently is Assistant Professor and holds the Mary Jean and Charles Yates Cello Chair at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Georgia. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1872 and makes her home in Atlanta with her husband, Bourbon, and their dog, Dozer.

MASTERWORKS

Sigrun Plays Sibelius: Nordic Festival Opener OCTOBER 24-25

Sigrun Edvaldsdottir Sigrun Edvaldsdottir started playing the violin at the age of five. She graduated from the Reykjavik Music Conservatory with a soloist degree in 1984, where she studied with Gudny Gudmundsdottir, and from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1988 with a Bachelor’s degree, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky and Jaimee Laredo. She was a founding member and first violin of the Miami string quartet from 1988-1990.

The King – A Tribute to Elvis

She has won several prizes in international violin competitions, was awarded the Icelandic Optimist price in 1992 for her work in music and her positive outlook, and was knighted by the president of Iceland in 1998. She enjoys playing new music and has had violin concertos written for her and works dedicated to her. She has recorded with Naxos, Chandos, ITM and Steinar labels. Sigrun has been concertmaster at the Danish Royal Opera, but has held the position of one of the two concertmasters at the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra since 1998 and has performed as a soloist with them several times.

OCTOBER 17-19

Prairie Voices, Vic Pankratz, director

AIR CANADA POPS

The King – A Tribute to Elvis The King – A Tribute to Elvis stars award-winning vocalists Scott Coulter, Lee Lessack, Johnny Rodgers and Brian Wilson. The group, along with drummer Danny Mallon, has travelled the globe (both as a group and individually) performing in the world's top concert venues and symphony halls. In addition to their concert work, Scott, Lee and Johnny are solo recording artists with award-winning CDs to their credit. The King – A Tribute to Elvis was conceived and directed by Scott and features arrangements by Johnny and Scott.

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Founded in 2000 by Elroy Friesen, Prairie Voices is an award-winning company of singers ages 18-25 dedicated to the performance of innovative contemporary choral music from all over the world. Placing an emphasis on Canadian and Manitoban composers, the choir uses energy, expressiveness and movement to connect avantgarde composition with a popular audience.

ARTIST BIOS Prairie Voices has performed around the world, bringing their unique touch to a diverse repertoire, from African spirituals to Broadway hits. Prairie Voices has managed to grow as an organization while still remaining true to their Canadian roots. This past season, Prairie Voices released their new CD, Autumn.

Victor Pankratz Victor Pankratz is well known in Manitoba for his singing, conducting and teaching. He was a frequent performer with the Manitoba Opera Association. As a tenor soloist he has appeared with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw and the Mennonite Festival Chorus, and many more groups. For three years he was co-artistic director of the Winnipeg Singers. He has also had the privilege of conducting the regional youth choirs in Manitoba. Currently, Victor is artistic director of Prairie Voices, and teaches music at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate.

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Their highly acclaimed performances, which unite the concert orchestra with visual theatre, are consistently praised for imaginative and innovative content. Magic Circle Mime Co. performs with virtually every major orchestra in North America and has performed on numerous occasions with the Symphony Orchestras of Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Montreal, Saint Louis, Seattle and Toronto; Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra; and on more than half a dozen occasions at The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts with the National Symphony Orchestra.

MASTERWORKS/MATINEE/ WSO IN BRANDON

Víkingur Plays Grieg: Nordic Festival Finale OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2

Víkingur Ólafsson Possessing a rare combination of passionate musicality, explosive virtuosity and intellectual curiosity, Víkingur is an artist who constantly seeks new ways to engage with his audience. Passionate about music from the Renaissance to the present day, Víkingur has performed over 20 piano concertos and collaborated with such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Petri Sakari, Rumon Gamba, Ilan Volkov and Pietari Inkinen. Víkingur is the founder and artistic director of Reykjavík Midsummer Music, taking place annually around summer solstice in Reykjavík’s Harpa Concert House. He founded his own record label, Dirrindí, in 2009 and has released three albums to date.

Víkingur grew up in Iceland where he studied with Erla Stefánsdóttir and Peter Máté. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald.

Víkingur’s awards and recognitions include seven Icelandic Music Awards and The Icelandic Optimism Prize 2009, awarded by the presidential office to an outstanding artist in any field.

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A Program of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Changing our World through Music: Play Your Part Sistema Winnipeg is an innovative program that seeks to affect social change through the pursuit of musical excellence. It is a free daily after-school orchestra program that enriches the lives of children and young people with the fewest resources and the greatest need.

Get Involved! How can you be a part of Sistema Winnipeg?

Attend our Concert

Thursday, December 4, 2014 | 6:30pm Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, 340 Provencher Blvd.

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Your support makes a difference in the everyday lives of these children! Visit www.wso.ca to donate.

You will receive a tax-deductible receipt.

Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers in these areas.

• Weekly volunteers to support students during program classes • Concert volunteers to hand out welcome guests and hand out programs • Providing food or snacks for special events

Invite our students to perform

If you have a special event or reception where you would like a 10-minute performance by a Sistema Winnipeg Chamber Group, please let us know. We ask for an honorarium to cover costs, but smiles and energy are free.

www.sistemawinnipeg.ca Sistema Winnipeg is a partnership between:

Funders & Sponsors: MICHAEL NESBITT

Sistema Winnipeg is based on these guiding principles: • Social

Change

• Inclusion

& Accessibility

• Artistic

Excellence

• Teamwork

& Community Building

• Intensity • Leadership

Development

WSO SUPPORTERS Foundations

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following companies whose generous support helps to ensure musical enrichment within our community. Thank you!

Resident Artist $10,000 + The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada The Distillery Johnston Group Inc. Qualico Principal Chair $5,000 - $9,999 National Leasing Terracon Development Ltd. Premier Printing Ltd. Wawanesa Insurance Assistant Principal Chair $2,500 - $4,999 Cambrian Credit Union J.K. Investments Ltd. Orchestra Chair $1,000 - $2,499 B. A. Robinson & Co. Ltd./Robinson Bath Centre Bison Transport Durango Construction Inc. Long & McQuade Musical Instruments MTS Allstream Urban Ink Winmar Property Restoration Music Stand $500 - $999 Coghlan's Limited Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. E.H. Price Limited Hub International STRATA Benefits Consulting InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Peerless Garments LP Pollard Banknote Limited Red River Cooperative Ltd. True Value Hardware & V. & S. Dept. Stores Riser Under $500 A. Akman & Son Ltd. Con-Pro Industries Canada Ltd. Mid West Packaging Limited Patill/St. James Insurance

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following foundations: Aqueduct Foundation - Inga and Anna Storgaard Fund Brandon Area Community Foundation Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson Fund C.P. Loewen Family Foundation Inc. Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba George Warren Keates Memorial Fund Houston Family of Bradwardine Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation James Thompson Memorial Fund in Trust of WSO John and Carolynne McLure Fund Leslie John Taylor Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation Lutz Family Foundation Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Fund Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund Nita Eamer Memorial Fund Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation The Noreen & Robert Allen Charitable Trust The Pollard Family Foundation Program for the Enrichment of French in Education Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation RBC Foundation The Tallman Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Peter & Geraldine Spencer Fund True North Jets Foundation United Way of Greater Toronto

The Legacy Circle exists to recognize the following patrons whose foresight ensures that the WSO plays on for all Manitobans for generations to come. The WSO gratefully acknowledges Legacy Circle members for their planned future gift to the WSO. Lucienne Blouw Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Greg Doyle & Carol Bellringer Ethel & Joe Karr Michel D. Lagacé G. E. Loewen S. E. Loewen W. H. Loewen Dr. Brendan MacDougall Carolyn & Nathan Mitchell Lesia Peet Tannis M. Richardson

Trudy Schroeder June Slobodian Muriel Smith Robin Wiens & Émilie Lagacé-Wiens Donn K. Yuen 2 Anonymous

The Maestro’s Circle exists to recognize those special patrons whose significant philanthropy furthers the musical artistry of the WSO. Thank you!

Honourary Chair Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director Platinum Baton $25,000 + Bill & Shirley Loewen* Silver Baton $5,000 - $9,999 James Gibbs Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley Concertmaster's Bow $2,500 - $4,999 Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Timothy & Barbara Burt Pierce & Amy Cairns Bill & Margaret Fast Audrey F. Hubbard Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Dr. Brendan MacDougall Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall John Mansfield & Pam Simmons* Ron & Sandi Mielitz Frank & Jeanne Plett Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Diane Ramsey Hartley & Heather Richardson Tannis M. Richardson* Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Professor A.M.C. Waterman Black Tie $1,500 - $2,499 Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mr. Jim Barrett Morley & Marjorie Blankstein C.M., O.M. Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Doneta & Harry Brotchie Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler Herb & Erna Buller Ms. Patricia Chaychuk In Memory of Robert M. Chipman Mr. David Christianson Jan & Kevin Coates James Cohen & Linda McGarva-Cohen

De Fehr Foundation John & Gay Docherty Dorothy Dobbie Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer Douglas C. Everett, Chairman, Domo Gasoline Corporation Limited Dr. Beryl Peters & Dr. Blair Peters Ilse & Philipp Ens Mr. Alan Freeman Arnold & Myra Frieman Dr. & Mrs. Albert D. Friesen Dr. & Mrs. Percy Goldberg* Joanne Gudmundson & Brian Oleson Drs. Daya & Chander Gupta Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Hawkins Peter Jessiman Richard & Carol Jones Nora Kaufman Michael & Glenna Kay Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Mr. Sotirios Kotoulas Mr. Rob Kowalchuk Paul Leinburd Dr. Judith Littleford Graham & Suzie Lount Jackie Lowe and Greg Tallon Dr. David Lyttle In Memory of David Mann Elaine & Neil Margolis Mr. Brent R. Mazur Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Murray Wayne & Linda Paquin Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Parrish Diane Payment & Roxroy West Lesia Peet Harvey I. Pollock Q.C. Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope* Dr. & Mrs. Brian Postl Mr. & Mrs. G.V. Price John & Violet Rademaker Dr. Donald S. Reimer & Mrs. Anne Reimer Jim & Leney Richardson* Mrs. Shirley Richardson Mr. Rick Riess & Mrs. Jean Carter Sanford & Deborah Riley Mr. Terry Sargeant Trudy Schroeder Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe Jimmy & Morse Silden Winnifred Sim Jack & Elaine Sine Muriel Smith Dudley & Eleanor Thompson Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Mr. Richard Turner Dr. & Mrs. Eric Vickar Edward & Irene Warkentin Don & Florence Whitmore Klaus & Elsa Wolf Dr. & Mrs. Klaus Wrogemann * Founding Members

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Friends of the WSO help support the WSO’s artistic programs each season.

Thank you!

Honourary Chair Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster Symphony $600 - $1,500 Gorden Andrus & Adele Kory Margaret-Lynne & Jim Astwood Len & Mary Bateman David & Gillian Bird Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Miss O. Dilay Carrie Ferguson Robert & Linda Gold Marianne Johnson June & Lawrence Jones Christina & Alan Kowalec Millie & Wally Kroeker W.K. Labies Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Ms. Valerie Mollison Terence and Vi Moore Mrs. Marina Plett-Lyle Levi & Tena Reimer Jim & Pat Richtik Mr. Bob Tallman Dr. & Mrs. Willem T.H. van Oers Raymond & Shirley Wiest 1 Anonymous Concerto $300 - $599 All Charities Campaign Judy & Jay Anderson Ms. Margaret Barbour Cheryl & Earl Barish Monty & Mary-Claire Bell Mr. & Mrs. C.R. Betts Helga & Gerhard Bock Mr. Jim Bracken Sheila & David Brodovsky Mr. & Mrs. F. Buckmaster Canadahelps.Org Gail Carruthers Ross M. Cleeve Ms. Julie Collings Dr. & Mrs. David Connor Barbara Cook Dennis & Ruth Crook Gary & Fiona Crow Esther and Hy Dashevsky Marten & Joanne Duhoux Beverley & Fred Dyck Helene Dyck Kathleen & David Estey Marcia Fleisher & Kelly MacDonald Mr. Lloyd Friedman Penny Gilbert Mrs. Catherine Gordon Ms. Debbie Grenier 36

Patricia Guy Mary & Gregg Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Allan & Audrey Harburn Mr. Daniel Heindl Number Ten Architectural Group Robert Jaskiewicz Mr. Leroy M. Johnson Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones Koren & Leonard Kaminski J. Gartner & L. Kampeas Brian Kells Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. Kennedy Dr. I. Kinizsi Susan & Keith Knox T.G. Kucera Ms. Francoise Lesage & Mr. Ken Mills Ted & Wanda Lismer James & Pat Ludwig Andrew Lutz Douglas MacEwan Dr. & Mrs. John & Natalie Mayba Mrs. Maureen McIntosh Mrs. E. Louise McLandress Vera Moroz Drs. Kenneth & Sharon Mould Bonnie & Richard Olfert Carole & Cameron Osler Shelley Parham & David Smith Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Donna & Ian Plant Lois Anderson Carolynne Presser Rosemary Prior J. Reichert Ms. Iris Reimer Donald & Karen Ross Judge & Mrs. Charles & Naida Rubin F.E. Sanderson Hans & Gabriele Schneider Merrill & Shayna Shulman Brenda Standing Curtis & Lorane Steiman Dr. & Mrs. M.R. Steinbart Dr. Lea Stogdale Susan & Kerr Twaddle Mr. Robert Vineberg Jesse Vorst Pat Walker Ms. Donna Webb John & Diane Weselake Herbert & Shirley Wildeman Elma & Charles Wilson Robert & Rosalie Wood Zita & Mark Bernstein Family Foundation 8 Anonymous Serenade $150 - $299 Ross & Doreen Adamson Trish Allison-Simms Dick & Minnie Bell

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Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Bethune Mr. & Mrs. A.K. Bolton Paul & Doreen Bromley Mr. Chris Brown Mrs. Jane Bullied Sel & Chris Burrows Rev. Msgr. Michael Buyachok Mrs. Mary C. Campbell Ron Clement Dr. & Mrs. Andrew & Pamela Cooke Mrs. Joyce Cooper Irene & Robert Corne Ted & Margaret Cuddy Judy & Werner Danchura Ms. Linda Daniels Mrs. Maureen Danzinger Bob & Alison Darling Miss Anne Defehr Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Dingman In Memory of Graham Dixon Sally R. Dowler Mr. & Mrs. W. Easton George B. Elias Nobu Ellis Eva Enders John & Martha Enns John B. & Katie Epp Ms. Ursula Erhardt Margaret E. Faber Margaret & Bob Ferguson W. & K. Ferreira Dr. Nelma Fetterman Mr. & Mrs. D.C. Finnbogason Doug & Phyllis Flint Margaret Follett Arnold & Christa Froese Harold & Alice Funk Jim & Betty Gaynor Eileen George Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori Mr. Donald Graham Larry & Susanne Greer Dr. Hilary Grocott & Ms. Shivaun Berg Beth & Raymond Harris Nora Harvey Jane Hayakawa Jack & Elsie Hignell Bob & Biddy Hilton Mr. & Mrs. J.K. Holland Sonia & Harvey Hosfield Helmut & Dorothy Huebert Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Rudy & Gail Isaak David Jacobson Terry & Shirley James Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Henry Katz, in Memory of Dena Mr. Ray Kohanik Mrs. Marion Korn Ms. Janet Kuchma Elaine & Patrick LaMonica Mr. Norman Leathers Mrs. Donna Leech

Mrs. Myrna H. Levin Rose & Dick Lim Mr. Gordon P. Linney Jim MacNair in Memory of Mae Dr. & Mrs. A.G. Macrodimitris Barbara Main Matthew Gossen Advancement Trust Ruth May David and Francesca McBean D. McKay Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Terri McKerchar Mr. James A. McKinley Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod Glen Mead Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell Sylvia Mitchell Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Mr. Peter Morgan Margaret Morse Mrs. E. J. Nebbs Edgar Oddleifson George & Gladys Oelkers Ms. Pat Philpott Mr. Rick Pinchin Blumie Portnoy Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Don & Carol Poulin Tim Preston & Dave Ling Mrs. Nell Provinciano Reynold & Esther Redekopp Mrs. Eleanor Riach John & Wendy Russell Dr. & Mrs. Alvin N. Schroeder A. Schroeder Dr. Robert J. Schroth Mr. Gunter Schupke Mr. & Mrs. Ed & Elaine Segstro Dr. L. Sekla Shirley E. Sherwood Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak David & Lorraine Smith Lindi & John Smith Ms. Brenda Snider Gordon & Darby Spafford Mr. & Mrs. R.P. Spear R.P. Spear Gary & Gwen Steiman Bonnie Hoffer-Steiman & Lionel Steiman Margaret & Hartley Stinson Dr. V. Marie Storrie Dr. & Mrs. David Swatek Dr. & Mrs. John Taylor Tom & Lori Thomas Ms. Marilyn Thompson C. & R. Thomsen Jim & Joan Warbeck Melissa Weselake Myra Joan Wolch Karin Woods 11 Anonymous

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL Al Alexandruk Mal Anderson Carol Bellringer Marilyn Billinkoff Doneta Brotchie John and Bonnie Buhler James Carr Edmund Dawe, D.M.A. Dorothy Dobbie Greg Doyle Jamie Dolynchuk Julia De Fehr Susan Feldman Barbara Filuk Wally Fox-Decent Jack Fraser Evelyn Friesen Elba Haid Helen Hayles Kaaren Hawkins Sherrill Hershberg Ian Kay Roger King Bill Knight Michele Lagacé

Zina Lazareck Gail Leach Dr. Hermann Lee Naomi Levine Bill Loewen Dr. Brendan MacDougall Don MacKenzie Bill Marr Ed J. Martens Michael Nozick Harvey Pollock Dr. William Pope John Rademaker Kathleen Richardson George & Tannis Richardson Lenny Richardson Ed Richmond Lorne Sharfe William Shead Graeme Sifton Joanne Sigurdson Muriel Smith Bonnie Staples-Lyon Brenlee Carrington Trepel Dennis Wallace

PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1948-51 1951-53 1953-55 1955-57 1957-58 1958-61 1961-62 1962-64 1964-65 1965-67 1967-69 1969-71 1971-73 1973-74 1974-76 1976-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83

Hon. Mr. Justice J. T. Beaubien Mr. J. M. Sinclair Mr. Digby Wheeler Mr. W. D. Hurst Dr. Hugh H. Saunderson Mr. E. W. H. Brown Mr. David Slater The Hon. Mr. Justice Monnin Mr. Norman J. Alexander Mr. R. W. Richards Mr. W. R. Palmer Mr. E. J. Smith Dr. M. M. Pierce Mr. H. S. Brock-Smith Mr. Allan G. Moffatt Mr. Julian D. T. Benson Mr. John L. Buckworth Mr. N. Roger McFallon Mr. John F. Fraser Mr. William W. Draper Mr. John O. Baatz

1983-84 1984-86 1986-88 1988-90 1990-92 1992-94 1994-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 Feb 1999-May 1999 Jun 1999-2000 2000-Feb 03 Mar 2003-Dec 2003 Dec 2003-Jan 2005 Jan 2005- Jul 2006 Jul 2006-Nov 2006 Dec 2006- Jun 2007 2007-2012 2012-present

Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C. Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C. Mr. Michel Lagacé Mr. William H. Loewen Mrs. Julia DeFehr Mr. Gordon Fogg Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. Anthony Brookes Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. William Norrie Mr. William Loewen Mr. Bruce MacCormack Mr. Roger King Ms. Patti Sullivan Mr. Wally Fox-Decent Ms. Carol Bellringer Mr. Harvey Pollock (Interim President) Mr. Brendan MacDougall Ms. Dorothy Dobbie Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA

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Truus Oliver Theda Olson Miss Jenny Olynyk Mrs. L. Ozog Shirley & Graham Padgett Mr. Cam Pauls Mrs. Betty Peddie Ms. Nettie Peters Mrs. Helene Picton Sylvia & Earl Pitch Mr. & Mrs. Ron Polinsky Donna & Gordon Price Mr. David Procner Bryan & Diana Purdy Mrs. Carol Pyper Juta Rathke Mrs. Esther Remis Waltraut Riedel-Baun Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Vera Ripley Ms. Ludvika Rogozinska Frances E. Rowlin Christine van Cauwenberghe & Christopher Mainella in Memory of Ruth Rubinstein Mr. John Russell Alixe Ryles Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler Mr. Johnny & Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad R. Schroeder Shirley Schroeder Walter & Dorothea Schultz Charlene Scouten Ms. Noreen Sealy Ed Segstro Mrs. Doreen Shanks Ms. Selma Shearer Izzy Shore Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Dr. Don & Lynne Simonson Jack & Elaine Sine Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Arlene Smith Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Geri & Peter Spencer Coralie Standing Nicola Lindley Starin Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Mrs. Elsie Stasiuk Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Elva G. Stevens Archie & Shirley Stone Paul Swart Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Dr. Meir Serfaty & Bonnie Talbot Taylor McCaffrey Ms. Anne Thiessen Douglas & Leeann Thompson June & Lorne Thompson Robert & Barb Tisdale Henry & Elizabeth Toews Dr. Helen A. Toews Neil & Carol Trembath Mr. Richard Turner in Memory of William Schroeder Dr. & Mea. Jose & Ruth Vasconcelos Hugo & Anny Veldhuis

Dr. & Mrs. F.C. Violago Elizabeth M. Wall Ken and Mary Warmbrod Jack & Bernice Watts Harvey & Sandra Weisman Mrs. Evelyn Wener J. Whyte Debbie Wilson Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Joan Wright Patrick Wright Mr. Edwin Yee Ms. Vicki Young Donn K. Yuen 30 Anonymous Sonatina Under $75 Elinor Ableson, In Memory of Dr. Fred Ward Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Susan Allen Jacqueline Anderson Mr. M. Richard Arcand Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Janice Bailey Ray & Barb Bailey Veronique Barthet Asher Begleiter Mrs. Eva Berard Donald & Edith Besant Ms. Joanne Biggs Barbara Bohune Ms. Ingrid Bolbecher Mr. & Mrs. G.G. Brodsky Q.C. Edythe M. Brown Ms. Meira Buchszreiber Alfred Buelow Sheila Burland Saul Silbert Ruth Calvert Andrea Charron Ella Chenkie Ms. Claudia Chernitsky Sister Josephine Chudzik S.K. Clark Ms. Doreen Conlin Mr. Alfred Cornies Stephen Crane Ms. Judy Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Cunningham Ms. Jean Curtis D. Cymbalist Margaret Redekop Beth Derraugh M. Jane Dick Marlene & Fred Dickson Sylvia Dixon Mr. & Mrs. Peter Eibisch Ms. Margaret Elaine Ellis Vera & Peter Fast Cal & Lois Finch Mrs. Gitta Fricke Ms. Anne Friesen Mr. & Mrs. George & Carol Gamby

Ms. Barbara Gessner Marilyn Gilbert Satwant Gill Heather Graham Mrs. Inga Granovskaya John & Louise Greenaway Ms. Cheryl M. Greenwood Victoria Gretchen Ms. Marianne Gruber Ms. Marion Guinn Mr. & Mrs. H Gustafson B. & R. Hall Irene Hamerton Gertrude Hamilton Mrs. Sylvia Haverstick Ms. Shirley Hicks Jean Highmoor Elly Hoogterp-Hurst & Lorne Hurst Kim Horne Ken Howard Richard & Karen Howell Mrs. Carole Hreno In Appreciation of Mrs. Ishbel Isaacs Ishbel Isaacs Bob & Vi Jacob Peter & Dora Janzen David & Heather Jenkins Nadine Kampen Dr. & Mrs. Arnold & Doreen Kapitz Cindy Keenan Mrs. Shirley Kilburn Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Mrs. Jennifer Krestanowich Ms. Betty Laing Elizabeth Lansard Wayne & Helen LeBlanc Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Jackie Lowe In Memory of Sheila Lugtig Manitoba Museum Social Fund in Memory of Frances Thorsteinson Mr. Allan Mapes Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon & Rita Margolis Mrs. Irene Marriott Ms. Mary Massey Keith and Debbie Mayoh Ms. Susan McCarthy In Appreciation of Mrs. Sydney McInnis In Memory of Joan McLeod Ardythe McMaster Mrs. M. Jean Moniuk David Moroz & Gwen Hoebig, in Memory of William Schroeder Mrs. Joan Ann Morton Sonjia Pasiechnik Pat Patterson Mrs. Bev L. Penner Louise Penner

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Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Dorothy L. Hodgson In Memory of Gwendolyn Hodgson Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Marilynne Keil in Memory of David H. Skinner Mr. Don Lawrence Bill & Hilda Muir Mr. Jacob Pankratz Pat Patterson Mr. Irvin Plosker Dr. & Mrs. James Popplow Ms. Iris Reimer Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund - the Winnipeg Foundation Olga & Bill Runnalls Grant & Janet Saunders Dr. & Mrs. F.C. Violago Jesse Vorst Mr. & Mrs. James & Claudia Weselake Women's Committee of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra 4 Anonymous Conmoto Under $1,000

Share the Music is a unique outreach initiative of the WSO that allows economically disadvantaged children and their families to attend WSO performances. Thank you for helping to Share the Music!

M and G Crielaard Ms. Irene Lesniak Ms. Susan Rosner M Scheuneman Share the Music Ms. Brenda Sklar Bette Jayne Taylor, in Honour of Her Birthday

Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily after-school orchestra program that enriches the lives of children and young people with the fewest resources and the greatest need. Your support makes a difference in the everyday lives of these children.

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Vivace $10,000 - $24,999 Gail Loewen in Memory of Her Mother Sue Lemmerick Festival donors help to ensure the artistic excellence of the Allegro WSO’s New Music Festival. $1,000 - $4,999 Thank you!

Golden West Broadcasting Inc. Arnold & Myra Frieman All Charities Campaign Patricia Lee Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Lydia MacKenzie in Loving Deer & Almond Memory of Donn Fitzroy Valerie McPherson Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Sanford & Deborah Riley The Honourable TJ Hiebert Ms. Charlotte Robbins Koren & Leonard Kaminski Faye Warren Kozub/Halldorson Family Leave a Legacy by making a 1 Anonymous T.G. Kucera donation to the WSO’s Conmoto Ron Lambert Endowment Fund. Managed Under $1,000 Mr. Gordon P. Linney by the Winnipeg Foundation Ms. Hollie I. Andrew Dr. Brendan MacDougall since 1959, the fund has Lynne Axworthy Mr. Frank Martin grown in value to just over In Memory of Robert Coates 6.4M. Gifts to the fund ensure Ms. Sheila Miller Dr. Catalena Birek longterm financial support for Mrs. Brenda Morlock Broadway First Baptist Church Margaret Moroz the orchestra. Thank you!

Doneta & Harry Brotchie Bill Newman Mrs. Audrey Campbell Eugene Boychuk & Out of the Blue Maria Cefali Daniel Heindl Lesia Peet Shelley Chochinov Mr. Ray Davis Skipthedishes.com In Honour of John Cole Helene Dyck Iian Smythe Bernard Freeman Martin Reed & Joy Cooper Karin Woods S e p t e m b e r – N o v e m b e r 2 014 I O V E R T U R E 3 9

Martin Reed & Joy Cooper in Memory of Betty Ann Henry Mr. Roger Dennis Mary Dixon David Donald In Memory of Diane Dowling Mrs. Renate Duddek Ms. Fiona Duncalf Judge Judith Elliott Mrs. Martha Epp Kathleen & David Estey In Memory of Ron Oswald Ms. Fruma Farago Marilyn & John Rae Jan and John Restall, Lesli and Gerry Trottier, Lenore and Chris Good, Jan and Kevin Coates Ms. Judith Flynn Margo Foxford Hilda Franz Ms. Valerie Gilroy Diana Goods Karen Goossen Dr. Lisa Gould Ms. Marie-Alice Grassick

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Ms. Marianne Gruber Catherine Harrison Ms. Sandra Hart Lydia Hedrich Katherine Himelblau Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Marilyn In Memory of Carol Holm Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics of Manitoba P. Ilavsky InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Irene Baron Eden Centre James & Margaret Jeffries Bruce & Theresa Johnson Ms. Nadia Kamienski Janet and Tim Kroeker Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro John Lewis & Diane Ives-Lewis In Memory of Shelley Lugtig Andrew Lutz Dr. David Lyttle Carol Macoomb Carol Macoomb in Honour of the Birthday of Diane Jones Mrs. Mildred B. Mann

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William Stewart St George's Anglican Church Sturgeon Heights Music Parent Association Dr. Laura E. Targownik Mary and Robert Thomas S.Thompson Designs Inc. Thomson Duprey Fund Ms. Phyllis A. C. Thomson Neil & Carol Trembath Anonymous, in Memory of Susan Wieser John & Diane Weselake Ms. Stephanie Whitehouse Edith Wilde Winnipeg Foundation's Youth in Philanthropy Program Nicole & Graham Worden Libby Yager and Billy Brodovsky 10 Anonymous

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Our season opened with Aaron Copland’s incredible Canticle of Freedom and Nov. 14 & 15 you can hear his Third Symphony with its famous Fanfare for the Common Man along with Jerod Tate’s Fire & Light – a vivid setting of Chickasaw Nation story for orchestra – and Three Pieces from John William’s deeply moving Schindler’s List score. An evening that will definitely stir the soul!

Reimagining Broadway with Sarah Slean November 7 – 9

Nov. 7-9, hear the world of Broadway through the imagination of Manitoba-born pianist/composer/singer Mike Janzen along with Sarah Slean in Reimaging Broadway. Guys and Dolls, Mary Poppins, Annie, Wizard of Oz and Les Misérables are just of few of the hits that Janzen has pulled music from for this world premiere show.

Emily Bear: Girl with a Gift November 29

13-year-old composer/pianist Emily Bear is one of the most extraordinary musical talents of our time. “She’s astounding, man ... she’s astounding. And there are no limits to the musical heights she can reach,” says Quincy Jones. Emily opens our SoundBytes series on Nov. 29 and will perform her own original compositions as well as Gershwin, Ellington and Bernstein.

Randy Bachman takes on the symphony in Randy Bachman’s Symphonic Overdrive, Dec. 5-7. Randy has cranked out hit after hit throughout his legendary career since The Guess Who’s Shakin' All Over first topped the charts in 1965. Now, for the first time, Randy will perform with the full, sweeping sounds of orchestra.

Schwarz & Copland Third November 14 – 15

Winter Solstice: A Rocky Mountain Fairy Tale November 30 Randy Bachman’s Symphonic Overdrive December 5 – 7 Messiah Sing-Along December 12 Taurins Conducts Messiah December 13 A Prairie Christmas Celebration December 14

Next in December are two ways to enjoy the tradition of Handel’s Messiah: Messiah Sing-Along, Dec. 12, where the audience gets to sing along; and Taurins Conducts Messiah, Dec. 13, a traditional performance of the work.

And we close December with A Prairie Christmas Celebration, Dec. 14. Stunning visual artistry, comedy, magic, storytelling and favourite seasonal music all in an afternoon with host Ace Burpee!

Randy Bachman Credit: Mark Maryanovich

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WSO BOARD & STAFF 2014-2015 SEASON OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS His Honour the Honourable Philip S. Lee C.M., O.M. Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship Sam Katz, Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Mr. W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, WSO Directors Emeritus WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Sylvia Cassie, President Winnifred Warkentin, Vice-President Shirley Loewen, Past President Isobel Harvie, Treasurer Tracey LeClair, Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Timothy E. Burt, CFA Daniel Freidman President Dr. Daya Gupta Gregory Hay Richard Turner Micah Heilbrunn 1st Vice President Robin Hildebrand Terry Sargeant Peter Jessiman 2 nd Vice President Michael D. Kay Rob Kowalchuk Maureen Kilgour Treasurer Sotirios Kotoulas Sandra Altner Dr. Eleanor MacDougall Lucienne Blouw Alexander Mickelthwate, Sylvia Cassie Ex-officio Michael Cox Arlene Dahl Trudy Schroeder, Ex-officio Marten Duhoux Dr. Ian Thomson Alan Freeman Curt Vossen OFFICIAL AUDITORS Deloitte LLP

TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant

ARTISTIC Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor

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