2015/2016 Overture #1 by Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2015 I ISSUE 1

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MESSAGE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Welcome to the symphony! This season is very special for me as it marks my tenth anniversary with this wonderful orchestra. Ten years in Winnipeg, which so far have been the luckiest in my life! We have had many artistic highlights, from Manitoba’s first performances of Mahler’s Symphonies 6 and 7, to our recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, to our trips to Ottawa and Carnegie Hall. I learned to love hockey, embrace exotic winters, my second son was born here, and I’ve come to know many of you personally. Music is such a life force. It gives energy, excitement, solace, peace. And to listen to a live concert is the most powerful thing I can imagine. We are starting the season with the electric Tianwa Yang playing the Paganini Violin Concerto, and Umi Garrett is back with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. Paganini and Mozart were incredibly virtuosic performers themselves and you will hear it in their music, as it leaves you wondering, “how the heck did she just play that…” The Pops series kicks off with Quartetto Gelato. You will be enthralled by their fun and acrobatic performance. We will continue our annual composer festival with the romantic giant Gustav Mahler. All of Mahler’s works go way beyond the standard concert experience. They affect me personally in a very existential way. No one else was able to capture the tremendous range of human emotions and passions like Mahler did. His Resurrection Symphony opens up the heavens in the last movement with the tremendous chorus singing “Auferstehn!” (Ascend). His Symphony No. 10 was left unfinished and has never been performed in Manitoba. Mahler knew it would be his last work and it captures his final struggle and lament. We will perform a completed version by Deryck Cooke. The famous English music critic and writer Norman Lebrecht will host of the evening. Again, welcome to the Centennial Concert Hall and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Be swept away by the music! I wish you a wonderful season.

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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 tenth 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 led 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. Photographer: Grajewski Fotograph Inc.

Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor Julian Pellicano’s voracious musical appetite makes him a formidable interpreter of the symphonic repertoire. An autodidact, he was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory without any formal musical training. Currently resident conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Artist-in-Residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and music director of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra, Pellicano has built his career by following an unconventional path. The creation, with Dr. Paul Lehrman, of a new performance edition of George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique first brought Pellicano to the public’s attention. From 2009 to 2013 he served as music director of the Longy School of Music Conservatory Orchestra where he established a rigorous and distinctive new orchestral program. Pellicano has conducted the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre (Brazil), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New Britain Symphony, The Kallisti Ensemble, Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and Milwaukee's Present Music. He has worked in masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Peter Eo”tvo”s, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, and Carl St. Clair. 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. He premiered 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. Photographer: Nardella Photography Inc.

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2015-2016 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster

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

The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtBASSES Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed Meredith Johnson, Principal by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation

Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Chris Anstey **Jeremy Buzash Mona Coarda Rodica Jeffrey Hong Tian Jia Meredith McCallum Julie Savard Jun Shao *Karin Andreasen *Simon MacDonald

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

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda

BASS TROMBONE Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal Julia McIntyre, Principal Travis Harrison TUBA Paul Nagelberg Chris Lee, Principal Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry TIMPANI **Mike Kemp, Acting Principal FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal PERCUSSION Martha Durkin Frederick Liessens, Principal PICCOLO Martha Durkin

HARP Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

SECOND VIOLINS Darryl Strain, Principal Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch Kristina Bauch **Calvin Cheng **Teodova Dimova Elizabeth Dyer **Jonathan Garabedian Bokyung Hwang Takayo Noguchi Claudine St-Arnauld *Jane Pulford *Susan McCallum

OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan

BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal Kathryn Brooks

*On Leave **Temporary Position

VIOLAS Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, Assistant Principal Laszlo Baroczi Margaret Carey Richard Bauch Greg Hay Merrily Peters Mike Scholz

HORNS Patricia Evans, Principal Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal James Robertson

Please note: Non-titled (tutti) string players are listed alphabetically and are seated according to a rotational system.

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Chris Lee

ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Raymond Chrunyk

CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Michelle Goddard

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall

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Tianwa Yang: Passion of the Violin Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Tianwa Yang, violin

Overture to Semiramide

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6 Allegro maestoso Adagio Rondo: Allegro spirituoso

Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840)

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Alborada:Vivo e strepitoso – Variations: Andante con moto – Alborada:Vivo e strepitoso – Scena e canto Gitano: Allegretto Fandango asturiano

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PROGRAM NOTES by James Manishen

Overture to Semiramide Gioacchino Rossini b. Pesaro, Italy / February 29, 1792 d. Passy, France / November 13, 1868 Composed: 1823 First performance: February 3, 1823 (Teatro La Fenice,Venice) Last WSO performance: 1999; Rosemary Thomson, conductor The story of Semiramide is one of treachery, with a perceived shift to more serious expression in contrast to the often effervescent plotlines of Rossini’s earlier operas. Set in ancient Babylon, the libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire’s drama Semiramis is a story of murder and usurpation. Rossini needed just 33 days to complete the score. It was the last opera he wrote in Italy prior to leaving for Paris where remunerations were higher late in 1823.Though overlong initially, cuts and revisions to the opera produced one of Rossini’s regarded masterpieces of the time. The Overture is one of his few that uses material heard later in the opera.The beautiful horn chorale recalls Weber in its German romantic overtones. Sprightly themes and one of Rossini’s famously individual crescendos cap off a sparkling overture far removed from its grisly story.

Violin Concerto No. 1 Nicolò Paganini b. Genoa, Italy / October 27, 1782 d. Nice, France / May 27, 1840 Composed: 1817 or 1818 First known performance: March 29, 1819 Last WSO performance: 2006; Rei Hotoda, conductor; Nikki Chooi, violin

displays of harmonics, double-stops, Capriccio espagnol flying bow and blinding speed. Intimacy Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov too, in the Italian operatic bel canto of his b.Tikhvin, Novgorod / March 18, 1844 lyrical side. d. St. Petersburg / June 21, 1908 Composed: 1887 Fiercely protective of his work, Paganini First performance: October 31, 1887 originally wrote the First Concerto in E- (St. Petersburg) conducted by the flat, a near impossible key for the soloist composer since it mostly denies the use of open Last WSO performance: 2005; strings in negotiating the pyrotechnics. Michelle Mourre, conductor After Paganini’s death it was discovered that he played the solo part in the easier Rimsky-Korsakov key of D major. He simply tuned his own had a long strings a half-step higher! Now (always) memory of his only in D major, the Concerto remains a visit to Spain as a mesmerizing act for the violin, its young naval cadet capabilities, possibilities and tuneful in December 1864. pleasures made unforgettable in the The fragrant Iberian atmosphere hands of a master soloist. entranced him just as it had for fellow Russian composer Mikhail Mother Goose: Suite Glinka, whose Jota aragonesa Maurice Ravel influenced Rimsky-Korsakov as he b. Ciboure, France / March 7, 1875 devised his own Spanish piece in d. Paris, France / December 28, 1937 1887, during which time he had Composed for piano 1908; been hard at work orchestrating the orchestrated in 1911 opera Prince Igor by his friend First performance: 1912 (Paris) Alexander Borodin, who had died Last WSO performance: 2009; Alexander not long before. Mickelthwate, conductor At barely over five feet in height, Ravel didn’t have to look down very far as he delighted the Godebski family children during visits, playing with them and later encouraging their musical studies by composing short piano pieces based on favourite fairy tales that were to comprise Mother Goose. In 1911, Ravel transcribed the pieces for orchestra for a Paris ballet for Nijinsky based on the Sleeping Beauty story.

The brief Pavane tells of the Good Fairy who guards the Princess while asleep. Hop o’ My Thumb tells of the boy who thought he could find his path home scattering bread crumbs, only to be Paganini’s dazzling violin deceived by some hungry crows (string wizardry not only scales in the music). Laideronnette tells of shattered audiences of a young girl made ugly by a wicked fairy, his time – one report with pagoda figures performing as she had a large number of bathes. All is happy at the end as her listeners in hospital beauty is restored. In Conversations of suffering from ‘over-enchantment’ – but Beauty and the Beast, the high also the finest artists and composers of woodwinds depict Beauty while the the day. “A comet,” Berlioz called him. contrabassoon plays the Beast, Perception of Paganini in league with culminating in both melodies joining for the devil was a common tale of those the betrothal with the Beast’s theme that heard his ear and eye-popping floating off in the solo violin.

Capriccio espagnol was originally intended to be for solo violin and orchestra. Instead, RimskyKorsakov recast it for full orchestra and dedicated it to the Russian Concert Society, inscribing the names of all 67 players in the score. Harnessing his immense skills as an orchestrator, RimskyKorsakov produced a dazzling sonic display to suit each kind of instrument. At the first rehearsal the musicians began to applaud, the applause growing with every pause in the action.The premiere was a triumph. A vivid “Alborada” (“morning song”) opens, marked “lively and noisy.” Solo violin then predominates, followed by variations on a heat-hazed theme from the horns.The “Alborada” returns featuring solo clarinet. A Gypsy song arrives beginning with a group of cadenzas and leading without pause to the finale, the trombones carrying the theme of traditional Andalusian dance. A brilliant code ensues as the “Alborada” returns.

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CLASSICS

Tianwa Yang: Passion of the Violin

Tianwa Yang, violin Winner of the prestigious ECHO Klassik Best Up-and-Coming Artist Award 2014, and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2014 for her Naxos recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concertos and Complete Music for Violin by Sarasate, Tianwa Yang is referred to as “an unquestioned master of the violin” by American Record Guide who “rises above her competition” (Fanfare), while quickly establishing herself as a leading international performer and recording artist. The young violinist, a resident of Germany and heralded by the Detroit News as “the most important violinist to come on the scene in many a year,” has debuted with major orchestras as the Seattle, Baltimore,

Nashville, Kansas City, Pacific, Toledo, SWRBaden Baden-Freiburg, and New Zealand Symphonies, in addition to the MDRSinfonieorchester-Leipzig, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Orchestre National d'Île de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and the Hong Kong, Buffalo, BBC, Deutsche Radio, Warsaw Philharmonics. As a critically acclaimed recording artist for Naxos, Ms. Yang recently added the Violin Concertos by Castelnuovo Tedesco and Solo Sonatas by Ysaÿe to her extensive discography.

EXTRA MUSICIANS: Ray Chrunyk, violin; Momoko Matsumura, viola; Sean Taubner, cello; Laura MacDougall, flute; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Brendan Thompson, percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard

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Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

CLASSICS

Umi Garrett: Piano Prodigy Umi Garrett, piano

Overture to La forza del destino

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio Menuetto e Trio: Allegro vivace Allegro ma non troppo

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Mozart had been signed as a rising star when he arrived for his by James Manishen decade in Vienna in 1781 and by 1786 he Overture to La forza del destino had been sealed, with Giuseppe Verdi a string of successes ranging from the b. Roncole, near Busseto, Italy / exotic tune-laden opera Abduction October 9 or 10, 1813 from the Seraglio (1782) through 15 d. Milan / January 27, 1901 piano concertos, symphonies and Composed: 1861 chamber works plus Mozart’s own First performance: November 17, 1862 renown as a virtuoso pianist. But his (St. Petersburg) success would soon unravel as the Last WSO performance: 2005; mature genius began to spread his Jeff Tyzik, conductor compositional wings beyond the “entertainments” the Viennese Verdi was anxious to audiences were expecting. Now it was compose after completing his term as a time for challenging realms of personal statement from him that member of the first National Parliament in the would later blossom in the 19th century among Romantic composers. spring of 1861. It had been three years since he had written an opera and Verdi welcomed a lucrative offer Mozart’s brooding D minor Piano Concerto, K. 466 had arrived in 1785 – from the Russian Imperial Opera in St. an arrestingly dark work the Viennese Petersburg for a new work for the stage. grudgingly chalked up to experimentation.When his deeply Verdi always enjoyed working with a strongly dramatic story and turned to Don personal A major Concerto, K. 488 Alvaro, a Spanish play from 1835 by Don came along in 1786, along with the Concerto, K. 491 in the intensely dark Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas.Verdi key of C minor, the Viennese public worked with his trusted poet Francesco Piave on the libretto and the result was La had had enough. Mozart’s concerts and commissions quickly evaporated. forza del destino, a melodrama about The travails of life could not be sold to eloping lovers, murdered family and the locals no matter how luminously subsequent revenge.The Russian premiere they were conveyed. got a mixed reception, mostly due to the libretto’s excessive violence, so Verdi made But such is the reason No. 23 has extensive revisions for the La Scala become among Mozart’s most production in 1869, expanding the brief frequently heard works for he speaks prelude to the Overture that vividly directly to the listener’s psyche in a encapsulates the action of the story. deeply felt journey of abundant resource even for him: the wealth of Six insistent unison notes announce the emotional insight in the first opening, after which an unsettling theme movement, the passionate soul of the suggests Fate, the opera’s motto. Other second movement with its siciliana themes underscore the inevitable rhythm in the unusual key of F-sharp destinies of the characters in an Overture minor, and the sunshine of the Finale, a that has become one of Verdi’s bestperfect conclusion to a remarkable known instrumental works. work for which the term “invigorating” is just a point of entry.

PROGRAM NOTES

Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 d.Vienna / December 5, 1791 Composed: 1786 First performance: 1786 (Vienna), with the composer as soloist Last WSO performance: 2003; Tania Miller, conductor; Ian Wood, piano

Symphony No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven b. Bonn / December 17, 1770 d.Vienna / March 26, 1827 Composed: 1806 First performance: 1807 (Vienna) Last WSO performance: 2008; Rei Hotoda, conductor

Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio had undergone cool receptions in Vienna in the fall of 1805 and in the spring of 1806, despite revisions. So Beethoven decided to seek some summer relief at the estate of his aristocratic friend Count Brunsvick at Martonvásár, Hungary.The Count’s three sisters resided there and though rumors of a spell of love between Beethoven and Therese (for whom he wrote Für Elise) possibly sparked the sunny disposition of the Fourth Symphony, its genesis was more likely influenced by the idyllic setting since Beethoven was clearly occupied with work. Before the year was out he would complete the “Appassionata” Piano Sonata, the three “Razumovsky” Quartets, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto plus the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. Following this visit, Beethoven moved to the summer castle of Prince Lichnowsky in Grätz. Lichnowsky introduced the composer to his highly musical neighbor Count Franz von Oppersdorf, a Beethoven admirer who promptly commissioned a new symphony from the composer. Beethoven put aside the already started Fifth Symphony and by October, much of the new B-flat Symphony was finished at Lichnowsky’s castle.To the chagrin of Oppersdorf (and breach of contract) the premiere took place in Vienna at a concert sponsored by Prince Lobkowitz. Beethoven made amends by dedicating the published score to Oppersdorf. The structure of the Fourth Symphony looks back to the earlier Viennese Classical style. Only one flute is used and the opening movement has a slow introduction leading to a movement of Haydnesque sunlight.The purity and tenderness of the second movement give way to one of Beethoven’s most boisterous scherzos.The finale is a high-octane energy-fest in sonata form, with deft writing for the winds as it looks back to the writing of old with muscles of steel.

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Umi Garrett: Piano Prodigy

Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

Umi Garrett, piano

Brazilian-born Marcelo Lehninger is Music Director of the New West Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles. For his work there, he was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award for Emerging Music Director in 2014 by the League of American Orchestras. He recently concluded an appointment as Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Hailed by The Huffington Post as “a budding musical genius,” 15-yearold American pianist Umi Garrett is gaining acclaim from all over the world for her exquisite musicality, emotional and mature sound, and virtuosity. Umi is a winner of the Chopin International Competition in Budapest, Hungary, the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in Japan and many more. Umi has performed with the Boston Pops, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in Florida, Missouri Symphony, Wuhan Symphony Orchestra in China, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada, the Pasadena Symphony in California and the New Mexico Philharmonic in Albuquerque. Umi is studying with Professor John Perry and Mrs. Mina Perry in Los Angeles. At age 13, Umi was granted a title of the Young Steinway Artist.

The 2015-2016 season includes Mr. Lehninger’s debut with the Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Ft. Worth, Knoxville, Winnipeg and KitchenerWaterloo Symphonies, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; as well as return engagements with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Grand Rapids Symphony, and Minas Gerais Philharmonic. His 2014-2015 season included debuts with the Detroit and Milwaukee Symphonies, and Rochester Philharmonic; and return engagements with the Florida Orchestra and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. In Europe, he appeared with the Lucerne Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and Slovenian Philharmonic, and assisted Mariss Jansons on tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

EXTRA MUSICIAN: Jim Ewen, bassoon

As a guest conductor in the United States, Mr. Lehninger has led the Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, Seattle, National, Jacksonville, New Jersey, Omaha, Hartford, Fairfax, and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Florida and Louisville Orchestras, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, New England Conservatory Philharmonia and Bard College Conservatory Orchestra. In Canada, Mr. Lehninger has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, and Calgary and Hamilton Philharmonics. In 2013, Mr. Lehninger recorded the work of composer Christopher Culpo for Radio France in Paris, conducting the Orchestre National de France. S Se ep pt et emmb be er r– –O O c tcotboebre r2 0210511I I OO V EVRETRUTRUER E1 73

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Quartetto Gelato: Peter De Sotto, violin, tenor Alexander Sevastian, accordion Colin Maier, oboe Elizabeth McLellan, cello

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Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute Winnipeg Youth Orchestras Sweet Silver Winds

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ARTIST BIOS

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Quartetto Gelato!

Quartetto Gelato Quartetto Gelato, featured on the Hollywood soundtrack Only You, has been a dominant force on the music scene for over 20 years. Early in their career they were awarded the coveted title of NPR Performance Today’s Debut Artist of the Year, and have maintained their ongoing popularity, being honoured Best Classical Ensemble at Canada's 2010 INDIE awards and selling over 150,000 CDs to date. Quartetto Gelato’s definitive performances of repertoire that spans the globe include classical masterworks, operatic arias, ballads and folk songs, and the sizzling energy of tangos and gypsy dances. Their eight CDs are regularly

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heard on the CBC, Classical 96.3 FM, NPR, PRI, and NUR networks. In 2007, the group’s first DVD, Quartetto Gelato: A Concert in Wine Country!, was picked up by PBS and is now broadcast regularly throughout the US. Quartetto Gelato’s first two CDs accompanied Canadian astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk during his NASA flight on board the space shuttle Columbia in 1997, redefining the claim of being heard around the world.

EXTRA MUSICIANS: Victoria Sparks, percussion; Tony Cyre, percussion

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Mahler's 2nd: Resurrection

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Butter Lettuce & Bistro Greens Mixed Salad, Cranberry~Poppyseed Dressing, Mandarins, Pumpkin Seed Brittle, English Cucumber & Tomato, Red Wine Braised Alberta Boneless Beef Short Rib Set on Black Truffle Yukon Mashed Potatoes, Maple Scented Root Vegetables Old Fashioned Style Grand Marnier Scented Tiramisu, Fresh Berries Macaroon Garnish

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Manhattan Clam Chowder with Pretzel Roll Crouton Sliced Butter Glazed New York Striploin, Set on a Hash of Steakhouse Potatoes, Button Mushrooms, Asparagus & Creamed Corn, Crowned with Crispy Onions The Big Apple Cheesecake with Strawberry Compote

Cheese & Ale Pub Soup,Whipped Devonshire Cream Foam Not so Traditional Roast Chicken Dinner Breast of Chicken Stuffed with “Banger & Mash Parfait”with Pan Gravy, Peas & Carrots Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake Vanilla Ice Cream

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A Canadian’s Take on Salad Olivier (“Moscow Potato”Salad) Apple Infused Russian Dressed Glazed Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Cabbage Holopchi and Market Vegetables “Ploomi Moos,”Mennonite Style Dried Fruit Soup Crowned with Jesse’s Manna Pudding Cloud

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Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano Emilia Boteva, mezzo-soprano Mennonite Festival Chorus, Janet Brenneman & Rudy Schellenberg, co-conductors Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Yuri Klaz, conductor

Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) Allegro maestoso Andante moderato In ruhig fliessender Bewegung – Urlicht: Sehr feierlich aber schlicht – Finale: Im Tempo des Scherzos

CLASSICS

Mahler’s 2nd: Resurrection

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

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Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) Gustav Mahler b. Bohemia / July 7, 1860 d.Vienna / May 18, 1911 Composed: 1888-1894 First performance: December 13, 1895 (Berlin) conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2012, Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor The genesis of Mahler’s six-year struggle to complete his monumental Second Symphony actually began by way of a forgotten opera by Carl Maria von Weber. In August 1886, the 26-year-old Mahler was hired by the eminent conductor Arthur Nikisch in Leipzig to assist Carl von Weber, the composer’s grandson, in making a performing edition of Weber’s Die Drei Pintos. Mahler, whose nerve-endings were usually on high alert, quickly fell in love with Weber’s wife.They planned to run off together but Mahler was left high and dry at the train station! The opera’s premiere in January 1888 was a success but the flower-laden reception led to images in his mind of his own funeral, awash in floral display - an image of death that led to a tone poem he conceived that would be called Totenfeier (“Funeral Rite’’). Though he considered the piece as a stand-alone work, he labeled the manuscript “Symphony in C minor/First Movement’’ without any idea as to what music might complete a symphony. Mahler finished the movement on September 10, 1888. Turbulent years followed. Mahler had left the Leipzig Opera in May 1888 for a hardwon position at the Budapest Opera in October.The following year both of his parents died and he was entrusted with

the care of his five siblings, one of which died from a brain tumor soon after. In 1891 Mahler changed jobs, moving to the Hamburg Opera as principal conductor where he encountered famed conductor Hans von Bülow, who much admired the younger man’s skills as an opera conductor. Mahler wanted to play Totenfeier for Bülow to get his reaction. “If that is still music then I do not understand a single thing about music!’’ Bülow shot back, though in friendly terms. Mahler was wounded since he considered himself a composer first and a conductor second. Still, he viewed Bülow as a mentor and since Mahler had not written anything in the last three years since Totenfeier, he had to make some decisions in his composing career, namely, to go ahead with a full symphony. The following summer Mahler reacquainted himself with a collection of German folk-poems by Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (“The Youth’s Magic Horn’’). It was now five years after the first movement was completed. Mahler found himself a tiny cottage in the idyllic countryside near Salzburg and set to work.Two of the poems were used as underpinnings for the internal intermezzo-like movements of the new symphony.The Scherzo was modeled after “St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fish’’ in which St. Anthony preaches to the fishes who return to their earthly ways once the sermon ends! Shortly after, the Andante (Ländler) and the Urlicht (“Primal Light’’) were completed.

Throwing himself into his work, Mahler had four movements done by the end of the summer 1893 and was very much on edge. “ While one has something to say,’’ he told a close friend, “do you think that one can spare oneself?’’The final movement remained – a dilemma, since Mahler wanted a culminating, epic statement and felt that the opening movement was climactic all by itself.What to do? In December 1892 Bülow died. At the memorial service Mahler was deeply affected by the children’s voices that sang Klopstock’s moving poem Auferstehen (“Resurrection’’) followed by the church bells that rang out to the whole city.This became the basis for the finale and on June 29, 1894 the symphony was complete, a symphony that became Mahler’s most often heard work in his lifetime. Mahler chose it for his Viennese farewell concert in 1907 and for his first concert as conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra on December 8, 1908. From the opening funeral march through the intervening movements, the Urlicht with its contralto solo leading the soul out of the darkness of death to the resurrection of the body and heavenly transfiguration of the spirit, the “Resurrection’’ Symphony is a striking experience in design, execution and emotional impact. Even for Mahler, no symphony has ever been more transcendent.

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Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano Whether being hailed as “mesmerizing” (Classical Voice of North Carolina),“thrilling” (The New Classical 96.3 FM), or “a clear standout” (San Francisco Classical Voice), versatile soprano Lara Ciekiewicz is quickly making her mark as a compelling, intelligent, and accomplished singing-actress. A graduate of l’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, she has distinguished herself at some of the continent’s most prestigious training programs including San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts’ Opera as Theatre program, the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, and Opera NUOVA. Her combination of flair, humour, presence, vocal beauty, and style, all backed by a solid technique, is already gaining attention. Ms. Ciekiewicz will be heard in the coming season as the Countess in Manitoba Opera’s Nozze Di Figaro, in concert with the Winnipeg Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and she will be featured in New Year’s operetta concerts in three appearances for Salute To Vienna in the United States. Ms. Ciekiewicz holds a Masters in Music (Opera) from McGill University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Voice) from the University of Winnipeg. She is a laureate of Montreal’s Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques.

Emilia Boteva, mezzo-soprano Canadian-Bulgarian mezzosoprano Emilia Boteva studied at the Bulgarian Academy of Music in Sofia. An award-winner at the Svetoslav Obretenov National Competition in Bulgaria and a finalist in the Toulouse International Vocal Competition, she made her professional debut at the State Opera House in Sofia and has appeared there in such roles as Ulrica, Azucena, Maddalena, Fenena, Eboli and Amneris. In April of 2015, Ms. Boteva was in Mexico City for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with David Stern conducting Orchesta

sinfonica national de Mexico, and was previously heard there in Verdi’s Requiem with Carlos Prieto. She was well received in Chicago at the Grant Park Festival for Alexander Nevsky and also recently appeared for Edmonton Opera as Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin, for Opera Tampa as Ulrica in Ballo In Maschera, and for Opéra de Montréal as Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer. She looks forward to Brigitta in Die Tote Stadt for Calgary Opera and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 for the Winnipeg Symphony. Works by Elgar, Verdi, Britten, Mahler and Rossini are in her repertoire and her recordings include Mozart’s Requiem with the National Bulgarian Radio Orchestra and Rachmaninov’s Vespers with the French National Radio Orchestra from Lyon.

Mennonite Festival Chorus Rudy Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, co-conductors The Mennonite Festival Chorus (MFC) made its debut in 1985 under the distinguished leadership of the late Robert Shaw, together with the WSO, in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Following that auspicious beginning, it twice appeared at the International Choral Festival in Toronto with the TSO: in 1989 with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Robert Shaw) and in 1993 with Britten’s War Requiem (Bramwell Tovey). Together with the WSO, the choir has performed a great variety of works including those of Mahler, Handel, Bach, Dvorˇák, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Arvo Pärt, and Valentin Silvestrov. MFC has sung under the distinguished leadership of WSO music directors Bramwell Tovey, Andrey Boreyko and Alexander Mickelthwate, as well as guest conductors such as Helmut Rilling, Ivars Taurins and Jane Glover. MFC is a highly select core of choristers from Winnipeg and surrounding communities, many of whom are regular members of other choirs, including numerous alumni and present students of the Canadian Mennonite University. SSeepptteem 5 I I OOVVEERRTTUURREE2 71 mbbeerr –– OOcct toobbeer r 22001 11

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Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Minor

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

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Symphony No. 10 Gustav Mahler b. Bohemia / July 7, 1860 d.Vienna / May 18, 1911 Composed: 1910 First performances: Adagio & Purgatorio: November 14, 1924 (Vienna) conducted by Franz Schalk; Cooke first version: December 19, 1960 (London); reworked version: August 13, 1964 (London) both conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt First WSO performance As he had always lived,Mahler was intense and stressed during the spring of 1910. Three years earlier he had been diagnosed with serious heart disease,his older daughter Maria had died and Mahler chose to leave his decade-long position as director of the Vienna Court Opera in large part due to the antiSemitic elements in Viennese society. He had returned to his summer composing cottage near Toblach,Northern Italy following a strenuous tour conducting the New York Philharmonic,where he had just finished the Ninth Symphony and was preparing for the Munich premiere of his gigantic Eighth in September. Mahler was 50,his young wife Alma was 30 and family pressures festered. Her subservient life with Mahler in demanding service of his blazing career and the ongoing feeling of loss of their daughter took her to the breaking point. Retreating to a sanatorium at Tobelbad for a rest,Alma met a young architect,Walter Gropius,who declared his love for her. Gropius followed Alma back to Toblach where Mahler hauled them both into his house for an explanation. “My marriage was no marriage”Alma wrote in her memoirs.Since Mahler depended on Alma in so many facets of his emotional well-being,he became crushed with guilt.In August he travelled to Holland to seek advice from Sigmund Freud, with whom he became a great friend.Alma married Gropius in 1915 but the marriage was short-lived. Mahler had begun his Tenth Symphony in July 1910 but put it aside in September to revise the orchestration of his Ninth Symphony. He never returned to the score after that.The Munich premiere of the Eighth Symphony and the upcoming New York Philharmonic’s winter season of nearly 50 concerts occupied him fully. On February 21,1911 Mahler collapsed after a concert.

Asking to return to his beloved Vienna,he died there on May 11.

contained all but six minutes of Mahler’s work.

Cooke would hit a dead end though when Mahler’s protégé,conductor Bruno Walter, Before his death Mahler had entrusted the pressed Alma to veto any further performances material for the Tenth Symphony to Alma. Two of the movements – the opening Adagio of the score. Walter was adamant that Mahler and the Purgatorio – were virtually complete. would never allow a performance of an incomplete work of his.Despite this,Cooke Alma asked the young composer Ernst worked for three more years on a performing Krenek (who was married to her daughter version,a “labour of love.” Anna) to prepare the movements for a performance and such was given by Franz Schalk who had been Mahler’s assistant at the Walter died on February 17,1962 and the next Opera. This edition was published but Hitler’s year,Alma rescinded her veto through a letter to Cooke.Following Alma’s death in 1964,her ban on non-Aryan composers prevented daughter Anna made available to Cooke further work on the score. additional material previously unseen by For the Mahler centenary in 1960,British anyone outside the Mahler family. Cooke musicologist Deryck Cooke (1919-1976) continued his revisions and from 1966 onwards undertook a full study of all the materials he he was assisted by Goldschmidt plus two young could find on the Tenth.He discovered the Mahler scholars/composers in Colin and David shell of a complete five-movement Matthews. This 1975-published version is now symphony that dispelled the view that accepted as the standard Cooke performing Mahler was continuing in the earlier twoversion. movements the “intrinsic feeling of death” that characterized the Ninth Symphony,as The first movement gives cause to the misappropriated sense of Mahler’s Tenth as Alma wrote in the 1924 edition.With the something valedictory since its resigned mood Tenth overall,Cooke discovered a compelling view of a spiritually victorious of parting and its structure seem to extend out of the last movement of his Ninth Symphony. emotional phase in Mahler’s last year,set out within a complete symphonic design. The extraordinary dissonant climax containing nine of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale heard simultaneously has prompted some Mahler approached the composition of commentators to feel this moment each of his symphonies in a methodical representing Mahler’s discovery of Alma’s way:Step one consisted of a full length “short score”of four or five staves in which infidelity. he pulled his sketches together with tempo The second and fourth movements are pure markings,some dynamics and broad orchestration details. Step two expanded Viennese dance music,though distorted in the short score into a full manuscript with Mahler’s distinctive way.In the second,the time each instrument having its own line. Step signature changes nine times in the first 13 bars. The fourth is a Viennese danse macabre.“Destroy three was the definitive full score,with all me that I may forget I exist,that I may cease to necessary revisions. be…”Mahler scrawled on the cover of the folder. At the time of his death,Mahler was half Connecting the fourth to the fifth movement is way through step two for the Tenth.The a series of muffled bass drum strokes,the short score of the entire work was sound influenced by a funeral procession complete.Mahler’s vision of a fiveMahler and Alma witnessed in New York in movement structure was clear:two slow 1908.The music then builds to an ecstatic song outer movements with a short central of love,a life-affirming change from the Purgatorio movement flanked by two conclusions of farewell in the Ninth Symphony. scherzos implying Viennese dance. At the end of the score Mahler inscribes “Für In 1960,for the 100th anniversary of dich leben,Für dich sterben,Almschi!”(To live Mahler’s birth,Cooke planned a BBC radio for you,to die for you,darling Alma!). lecture on the Tenth for December 19th As Norman Lebrecht writes in Why Mahler? that would include a performance of the “The Tenth exists as Mahler’s last word.It Mahler’s completed first and third reveals Mahler,in his favored metaphor, movements plus whatever manuscripts wrestling with his angel,refusing to let go which could also be played.But as Cooke continued his preparation,a striking sense without a blessing.In these final pages he of the entirety of the work began to unfold surmounted the fickleness of love and life in a way that only Mahler could,with a never-sayto him.The version that was eventually performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra die symphony that offers on its last unfinished page a glimmer of hope.” conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt

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Norman Lebrecht, host Norman Lebrecht is a prolific cultural commentator and an award-winning novelist. He has written 12 books about music, which have been translated into 17 languages. The latest is Why Mahler?, a radical reinterpretation of the most influential composer of modern times. Norman Lebrecht’s first novel The Song of Names won a Whitbread Award in 2003 and is presently being cast as a major feature film. His second novel, The Game of Opposites, was published in the US by Pantheon Books. A third is in preparation. Slipped Disc, Norman Lebrecht’s blog, has become the world’s most-read cultural news and views site in English, drawing well over one million readers every month. A collection of Lebrecht columns was published in China in

2012, the first such anthology by any western cultural writer. A Lebrecht essay appears monthly in Standpoint, the cultural and intellectual magazine. Norman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week is featured on the Sinfini website. Norman Lebrecht is a popular lecturer at cultural institutions and leading universities. Other works in progress include a stage play, a radio series and television documentaries.

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Mr. Ray Kohanik T.G. Kucera Ms. Francoise Lesage & Mr. Ken Mills Ted & Wanda Lismer James & Pat Ludwig Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Douglas MacEwan Dr. & Mrs. John & Natalie Mayba Mrs. Maureen McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Terri McKerchar Mrs. E. Louise McLandress Sylvia Mitchell Margaret Moroz, in Memory of Ben Moroz Vera Moroz Drs. Kenneth & Sharon Mould George & Gladys Oelkers Bonnie & Richard Olfert Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Donna & Ian Plant Carolynne Presser Tim Preston & Dave Ling Rosemary Prior Fred & Carolyn Redekop J. Reichert Ms. Iris Reimer Levi & Tena Reimer Bruce Roe & Margo Lane Judge & Mrs. Charles & Naida Rubin F.E. Sanderson Barbara Scheuneman Merrill & Shayna Shulman John & Linda Smith Murray & Loretta Steinbart Lea Stogdale Susan & Kerr Twaddle Robert Vineberg and Lena Horne Pat Walker Ms. Donna Webb John & Diane Weselake Ron & Shirley Williams Harry & Evelyn Wray Zita & Mark Bernstein Family Foundation 4 Anonymous Serenade $150 - $299 Trish Allison-Simms Kaeren Anderson Allan & Rochelle Baker Mr. Robert Baragar, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Carol Hitchon, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Dianne J. Beaven Dick & Minnie Bell Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Bethune Mrs. Jean M. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. G.G. Brodsky Q.C. Sel & Chris Burrows Lawrie Cherniack Dr. George and Irene Chuchman Ross M. Cleeve Ron Clement Dr. & Mrs. Andrew & Pamela Cooke Martin Reed & Joy Cooper

Mrs. Joyce Cooper Irene & Robert Corne Ted & Margaret Cuddy Ms. Linda Daniels Bob & Alison Darling James Defehr Mr. Tom Dercola Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Dingman Mary Dixon Sally R. Dowler Mrs. Dorothy Easton George B. Elias John & Martha Enns Margaret E. Faber Dr. Nelma Fetterman Mr. & Ms. Gary & Janice Filmon Doug & Phyllis Flint Doug & Joanne Flynn Margaret Follett Mr. Wayne Forbes Kevin & Pam Friesen Arnold & Christa Froese Harold & Alice Funk Eileen George C. M. Greenwood Larry & Susanne Greer Dr. Hilary Grocott & Ms. Shivaun Berg Tariq & Annette Hameed Kelsey Hargreaves Beth & Raymond Harris Teresa A. Hay Agnes Hechter Mr. & Mrs. J.K. Holland Helmut & Dorothy Huebert Mrs. Joan M. Hunter David Jacobson Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Henry Katz, in Memory of Dena Mrs. Marion Korn Mrs. Mona Koropatnick Janet Kuchma Robert Kusmack Elaine & Patrick Lamonica Edith Landy, in Memory of David Landy Mr. Norman Leathers Owen Lewis, in Memory of Eric T. Lewis Jennifer Lidstone Rose & Dick Lim Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Jim MacNair in Memory of Mae Barbara Main David and Francesca McBean Nola M. McBurney Robert McDowall Ms. Diane McGregor Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod Glen Mead Mrs. Mona Mills Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Mr. Peter Morgan Margaret Morse Ms. Pat Philpott Mr. Rick Pinchin Ruth Carol & Len Podheiser Blumie Portnoy

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Don & Carol Poulin Mrs. Nell Provinciano Reynold & Esther Redekopp Mrs. Eleanor Riach Mme. Henriette Ricou Hans & Gabriele Schneider Marie Schoffner Dr. Alvin and Ethel Schroeder A. Schroeder Dr. Robert J. Schroth Ms. Janet Schubert Faye Schultz Viola J. Schultz Marilyn & Jon Seguire Dr. L. Sekla Phil & Nancy Shead Ms. Barb Shipley Shirley Ann & Louis Simkulak Jim Skinner David & Lorraine Smith Ms. Brenda Snider Gordon & Darby Spafford Geri & Peter Spencer Gary & Gwen Steiman Ms. Marlene Stern Margaret & Hartley Stinson Paul Swart Dr. & Mrs. David Swatek Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Dr. & Mrs. John Taylor Tom & Lori Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Thompson June & Lorne Thompson Ms. Marilyn Thompson C. & R. Thomsen Dr. J.M. Trainor Neil & Carol Trembath Harvey & Sandra Weisman David C. Wilson Alfred & Lina Woelke Myra Wolch & Saul M. Cherniack Karin Woods Mr. John Yarema 13 Anonymous Prelude $75 - $149 Patricia Allen Linda Armbruster Mr. Philip Ashdown Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ball Mr. Charles Crossin, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Ian & Marie Chalmers, in Loving Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Rosemary & David Barney Robert Barton Dianne Beaven Florence Bell Audrey Belyea Eric Bergen Donald & Edith Besant Ms. Joanne Biggs Keith & Marnie Bolland Shirley Book Brian & Bev Born Rob & Wendy Borody

Lorne & Rosada Bride Mr. Robert Briercliffe Miss Dorothy Broomhall Mr. Chris Brown Mr. E. Brown Mrs. Margaret Brown Mr. Ross Brownlee Ms. Carol Budnick Mr. Charles Burns Canadahelps.Org Ms. Donna Carruthers Mrs. Patti Cherney Mrs. Leona Christiansen Ms. Julie Collings In Memory of Rev. Thomas Collings Ms. Marcella Copp Joyce Cormack Helle Cosby M. & G. Crielaard Ms. Maxine Cristall Margaret Cumming Mr. Bradley J. Curran Judy & Werner Danchura Maureen Danzinger Mrs. Sheila M. Davis Jack & Mary Davison F. De Grazia Marlene & Fred Dickson Herbert & Norma Driver John & Ada Ducas Mr. & Mrs. J.G. Ekins Mrs. M.L. Elliott Empiricus Medical Corp Mrs. Katharine Enns John & Ruth Ens Dr. & Mrs. Willie R. Falk Greg & Linda Fearn Wayne Forbes Mrs. Marguerite Fredette Mrs. Gitta Fricke Mrs. Margaret Funk Mr. & Mrs. George & Carol Gamby M. & Mme. Andre Gautron Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori D. Gooch Mrs. Noreen Greenberg Marj Grevstad Irene Groot-Koerkamp & Greg Edmond Marjorie & Kenneth Grower Katie & DeLloyd Guth Mr. Patrick Hackett Miss Marilyn Hall Irene Hamerton Ian & Gerry Hamilton Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin Jane Hayakawa Larry & Evelyn Hecht Millie Hemmelgarn Mrs. Carolyn Henry Laurence Herd Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Max & Eleanor Herst Ms. Shirley Hicks Ms. Marilyn Hido Jean Highmoor Ms. Susan Hildebrandt

Mr. Martin & Mrs. Rose Marie Horseman Sonia & Harvey Hosfield Richard & Karen Howell Empiricus Medical Corporation Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Jacqueline Iwasienko Wilfred & Dorothy James Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram Father Stan A. Jaworski James & Margaret Jeffries Ms. Crystal Jochum Ms. Bev Kawchuk Miss Esme Keith Mrs. Shirley Kilburn Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Kinnear Erwin W. Kitsch Ms. Mary Klassen Mrs. Alvina Koshy Elsa Krahn D. Kristjanson Patricai Kuchma Mrs. Helen La Rue Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. R. Leroeye Fraser & Joan Linklater Mr. Gordon P. Linney Albert & Helen Litz Barry & Patricia Lloyd Lorron Agencies Ltd. Roger Lowe G. & G. Lowry Mr. Al Mackling Mr. John Macrae Alan & Margaret Mahon Matthew Gossen Advancement Trust Ruth May Dr. & Mrs. Ihor & Helen Mayba Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Mr. & Mrs. Raymond & Margaret McDougall C. & J. McIntyre D. McKay Violet McKenzie Mrs. Geraldine McKinley Mrs. Jean H. McLennan S. McMillan Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier Estelle Meyers Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Gladys Mildren Mrs. Jocelyn Millard Peter Miller & Carolyn Garlich Mrs. Barb Moon Harold S. Mawhinney & Judy Moon Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz Mrs. Joan Ann Morton John & Margaret Mundie Don Munro Leesa Munroe Charlotte Murrell Edgar Oddleifson David & Hermine Olfert Truus Oliver Theda Olson Miss Jenny Olynyk

Terry Parsonage Pat Patterson Ms. Nettie Peters Mrs. Helene Picton Irvin & Sandra Plosker Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Donna & Gordon Price Ms. Beth Proven Bryan & Diana Purdy Juta Rathke Mrs. Esther Remis Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie Waltraut Riedel-Baun Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Vera Ripley Kevin Rollason & Gail MacAulay Brian & Iris Rountree Frances E. Rowlin Alixe Ryles Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad & Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad R. Schroeder Shirley Schroeder Mr. Gunter Schupke Mr. Ken Schykulski Charlene Scouten Ms. Noreen Sealy Mr. & Mrs. Ed & Elaine Segstro Mrs. Doreen Shanks Izzy Shore Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Dr. Don & Lynne Simonson Nicola Lindley Starin Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Dan & Elsie Stasiuk Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Elva G. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Lorne & Lorna Stevens Archie & Shirley Stone Dr. V. Marie Storrie Dr. Ian Robert Sutton Douglas & Leeann Thompson Robert & Barb Tisdale Edith A. Toews Henry & Elizabeth Toews Dr. Helen A. Toews Louise & Jim Townsend Mrs. C.M. Valentine Christine van Cauwenberghe & Christopher Mainella in Memory of Ruth Rubinstein Barry and Gail Veals Hugo & Anny Veldhuis Jesse Vorst Elizabeth M. Wall Jim & Joan Warbeck Ken & Mary Warmbrod Jack & Bernice Watts Mrs. Evelyn Wener Snjolaug Whiteway J. Whyte Mr. Paul Wiebe Debbie Wilson Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Patrick Wright Mr. Edwin Yee Donn K. Yuen 26 Anonymous September â&#x20AC;&#x201C; October 2015 I OVERTURE 37

Sonatina Under $75 Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Susan Allen Jacqueline Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Janice Bailey Heather Baker Alfred & Mildred Buelow, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Shirley Woods, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar Dr. Gary Beazley, in Memory of Mary Louise Baragar In Memory of Mrs. Mary Louise Baragar Veronique Barthet Mrs. Eva Berard Mrs. Diane Brine Edythe M. Brown Blumie Portnoy in Honour of her 90th Birthday Norma Bortoluzzi Barbara Bryant-Anstie A. F. Buelow Sheila Burland Ms. Rosemary Butterworth Mr. Gerald Callow Ruth Calvert Yvette Cancade Andrea Charron Ella Chenkie Ms. Claudia Chernitsky S.K. Clark Mrs. Barbara Coombs Mr. Alfred Cornies Stephen Crane Ms. Judy Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Cunningham Ms. Jean Curtis Mr. Roger Dennis Beth Derraugh M. Jane Dick Mrs. Ethel Dil Claire Dionne Sylvia Dixon Anna Doorenbos Ms. Suzanne Doyle Ms. Sheila M. Dumore Ken Dzogan Ecole Pointe-Des-Chenes Mr. & Mrs. Peter Eibisch Mr. S. J. Enns Mr. Garry W. Epp Eric & Clara Bohm Vera & Peter Fast Ms. Allison Fenske Robert Filiatront Cal & Lois Finch Hilda Franz Donalda Fridfinnson Ms. Anne Friesen Mrs. Cathy Gervais Ms. Barbara Gessner Mr. Christopher Golden Heather F. Graham Mrs. Inga Granovskaya John & Louise Greenaway Irvin & Gilda Greenburg Victoria Gretchen Ms. Joyce Grose Ms. Marianne Gruber Miss Laurie Anne Marie Gydé B. & R. Hall

Gertrude Hamilton Mrs. Sylvia Haverstick Mrs. Helen Hayward Kelly Hearson Dorothy L. Hodgson Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik Don Hutniak Ho V Huynh Ishbel Isaacs Bob & Vi Jacob Peter & Dora Janzen Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Rodica Jeffrey David & Heather Jenkins Bryan Johnson Dr. Karen L. Johnson J. Gartner & L. Kampeas Mr. Tim Kasprick Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Katie Kirkpatrick Dr. Birte Klug Ray Knowles Jim Komishon Alfonz & Susan Koncan Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Rhoda Kravetsky Janet and Tim Kroeker Mrs. Audrey Krushel Mary Kuzminski Ms. Betty Laing Elizabeth Lansard Wayne & Helen LeBlanc Rod & Ann Ledwich Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle Mr. & Mrs. David Levene R. & J. Lewis M. T. Low Mr. John MacKenzie Mrs. Joyce Manwaring Mr. Allan Mapes Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Cornelia Marcil Mrs. Irene Marriott Ms. Carol Masse Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba Ms. Kimberley McCallum Ms. Susan McCarthy Terri L. McKerchar Ardythe McMaster In memory of Maria Michalak Marguerite Mohr Nancy Morgan Mr. Robert Nix Mrs. Clarice Owen Shirley & Graham Padgett Sonjia Pasiechnik Ms. Beverley Phillips Sylvia & Earl Pitch Darell Plummer Ms. Clare Pollock Cristian Popescu Ken & Geri Porath Rick & Peg Porter Mr. Guy Prokopetz Mrs. Glennys Propp Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Mrs. Charlotte Redekopp Ms. Pat Repa Ms. Patricia G. Ritchie Ms. Barbara Robertson Gisela Roger Mrs. V. Rosolowich Rory Runnells

John & Shirley Russell Leonore Saunders O.M. Kay Schalme William Scheidt Mrs. Edna Schneider Adolph & Diane Schurek Mrs. Marie Sichler Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Muriel Sutherland Dianne J Szelag, C.G.A.,CFP Ms. Marguerite Szymesko Ms. Melinda Tallin Mary Lou Talmage Gladys Tarala Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Ms. Anne Thiessen Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh Mr. Alan Tring Ms. Eleanor Urquhart Mrs. Roseline Usiskin Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Denis Vincent Miss A. H. Wagstaffe Ms. Louise Waldman Mr. Gordon Walkty Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace E. Sylvia Warrington Mr. Glen Angus Webster Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weidman Ms. Lorraine Willms Mrs. Margaret Wilson Terrie Woodward In Memory of Cyril and Margaret Woolf 9 Anonymous

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5468796 Architecture Madelyn & Michael Acht Alpha Masonry All Charities Campaign Art Upholstery Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mrs. Alison Baldwin Mr. R.D. Bell David & Gillian Bird Mr. John Bockstael Hans & Lorna Boge Dr. Oliver A I Botar Jackie Brignall Mr. Harry Broumas Kevin Burns Sel & Chris Burrows Emily Burt Paul Butler CAA Manitoba Canadian Music Centre Ms. Anne Cholakis Lara Ciekiewicz Michelle Cleland Kathy & David Connor Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. Mr. Peter Czaplinski M. Donald in Honour of Mr. T. Wong & Family Cora Eaton & Jordan Sodomsky Robert Enright Kathleen & David Estey Neil Farber The WSO gratefully Daniel Friedman & Robert Dalgleish acknowledges the following Terri Fuglem patrons whose foresight helps Wendy Gale to ensure long-term financial Gardon Construction Ltd. Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & support for the WSO. Sylvester Komlodi Thank you! Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Ms. Helen Hawrysh Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Mr. Ray Davis Humphry Inn & Suites Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda Ellen & Harry Johnson Donald Koren & Leonard Kaminski Helene Dyck Ms. Jose Koes Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham Sotirios Kotoulas Eugene Boychuk & Daniel Heindl Konstantinos & Chrysoula Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Kotoulas Marilynne Keil in Memory of Kozub/Halldorson Family David H. Skinner T.G. Kucera Deanne Lander Patrick B. Kuzyk Mr. Don Lawrence Ron Lambert Brent Mazur Ms. Veronica L. Larmour Ms. Edna Poulter Heather Laser Grant & Janet Saunders Hideo Mabuchi Mr. & Mrs. James & Claudia Weselake Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Alan Wiseman Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Committee of the Mr. Frank Martin Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Ms. Sylvia Marusyk 2 Anonymous V. & M. Mattheos September – October 2015 I OVERTURE 39

Brent Mazur Allison McPhee Shana Menkis Ms. Sheila Miller Ingrid & Lothar Moehlmann Margaret Moroz Michael Nesbitt Char Okell Mikaela Oldenkamp Carole & Cam Osler Parlour Coffee Mr. Chris Pearce Lesia Peet Margaret & Peter Peters Cheryl Janzen & Randolph Peters Sandra Peters Plug In ICA Kathleen Polischuk Mark Potash Ms. Kathy Pratt Mrs. Victoria Ramnawaj Martin Reed & Joy Cooper Bill & Pat Reid Marisa Rodrigues Peter Sampson & Anna Robertson Mr. Alfred Schleier Demitris Scouras Mr. Michael Shnier Drs. A. Majid & Mohtaram Shojania John Mansfield & Pam Simmons Muriel Smith Iian B. Smythe SOCAN Terrell Stephen Marlene Stern & Peter Rae Margaret & Hartley Stinson Ms. Linda Sundevic Brenda Taylor Fenella & Ray Temmerman Ms. Karen Tereck Tom & Lori Thomas Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Urbanink Goline Vanderhoof Nils & Melissa Vik Ms. Meeka Walsh Snjolaug Whiteway Karin Woods Nicole & Graham Worden Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann 2 Anonymous

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! Shelley Chochinov In Honour of John Cole Mr. Denzil Feinberg Greystone Managed Investments Inc.

John Balsillie Ms. Angelica Banmann Sylvia Barr In Memory of Benjamin Flynn From Jean & John Beaver Marissa Becker Ms. Diane Bewell Helen & Henry Bially in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Michael Bingham Dr. Catalena Birek Sistema Winnipeg is a free, daily Doneta & Harry Brotchie Tim & Joelle Brown after-school program that Ms. Coralie Bryant enriches the lives of children Mrs. Donna Bryk and young people with the Mrs. Dee Buchwald fewest resources and the Ms. Lorelei Bunkowsky greatest need. The WSO Dominador Calpatura gratefully acknowledges the Amihan P. Camacho following patrons whose Mrs. Audrey Campbell support makes a difference in Mr. Alan Cantor the everyday lives of these Minna Chung children. Thank you! Margaret Clarke in Memory of Ben Flynn Honourary Chair Joan C. Cohen Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Russell & Joan Colnett in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Vivace Lily Conway in Memory of Benjamin $10,000 - $24,999 John West Flynn Michael Nesbitt Cathy & Roger Coss Con Brio Mrs. Diane Coughlin $5,000 - $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Barbara Crow Heather Belle Ladies Pipe Band F. De Grazia In Memory of Kenneth Hrynchuk Dr. Rayleen Deluca Manulife Mr. Roger Dennis in Memory of Mr. Sanford & Deborah Riley Ben Flynn Drs. Diana & Dhali Dhaliwal Allegro Judy Doctoroff $1,000 - $4,999 In Memory of Diane Dowling Golden West Broadcasting Itd. Ruth & Charles Dowse Sandra & Harvey Secter Family Linda Edel Fund, Jewish Foundation Judge Judith Elliott of Manitoba Connie Epp Dr. David Lyttle Kathleen & David Estey Ron & Sandi Mielitz Ms. Fruma Farago Linda Moore in Remembrance of Rick & Julie Fast Anastasia Moore Linda and Greg Fearn Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Denzil Feinberg CFP R.F.P. Ms. Charlotte Robbins In Memory of Benjamin Flynn Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Ms. Judith Flynn Seven Oaks School Division #10 Mr. Peter Flynn MB Tourism, Culture, Sport and Margo Foxford Consumer Protection Bonny Fraser Moira Swinton & Bernie Léveillé Albert & Luisa Friesen Jan and Jim Tennant Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert E. Toews Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Faye Warren Celebrating the marriage of Marlene 1 Anonymous and Jerry Conmoto Gary Gervais Under $1000 Dr. Lisa Gould Mr. Bruce Granove James & Faye Alward in Memory of Judith Hall Benjamin John West Flynn Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Mr. Barry Anderson Harvard Property Management Inc. / In Memory of Lois Anderson 201 Portage Ltd. Ms. Hollie I. Andrew Lydia Hedrich Betty & Ted Ash Ms. Donna Herold Gail Asper & Michael Paterson

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Katherine Himelblau Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Glen Pierce Debby and Brian Hirsch Vladimir Hlas In Memory of Carol Holm William J. Hutton P. Ilavsky Margaret Jackson and Family Mrs. Miriam Jaeger James & Margaret Jeffries Bruce & Theresa Johnson Nancy Johnson Ms. Nadia Kamienski Kevin & Els Kavanagh Ron Koswin Harry & Shirley Kowalchuk Chapel Lawn Funeral Home Nancy LeBlond Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro Ms. Leona MacDonald Lovie Liewicki Ms. Margaret Looney in Memory of Ben Flynn Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John J. March and His Parents Kathleen Malone James Manishen Elaine & Neil Margolis Maylanne Maybee in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Mrs. Mary McCormick Ms. Linda Meckling Lorna Mendoza Rita & Don Menzies Mr. Peter Mertins Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell G.F. (Rick) Morgan Francine Morin Margaret Moroz, in Memory of Ben Moroz Mrs. Norma Morris Kim Morton Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Bob and Cindy Newfield Mr. Robert Nix Nostalgia Broadcasting Cooperative Ms. Claudette Novak Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn Ms. Anna Olson Margaret Owen R & J Palmer Theresa Parker Elizabeth Parry Pat Patterson Mrs. Jackie Paul Mr. Julian Pellicano Brenda Peterson Ruth Carol & Len Podheiser Mrs. Edna Poulter in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Ms. Lois Powne Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott Thomas & Lorraine Prescott in Memory of Ben Flynn Mr. David Procner Dr. David Punter

Catherine Purchase Val Raber John & Violet Rademaker In Honour of Debra Radi Mr. Carl Radimer Dr. Diane Ramsey In memory of Henry Ray Mrs. Marieann Reeves Barbara Rempel Garry and Tamara Roehr Karen Romanoff Mrs. Jeanne Romanoski Sheryl Rosenberg Jay Ross Penny Rossman Edward Sale in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Corazon Saquilayan Lynn Saunders Nicola Schaefer Betty & Sam Searle Marilyn & Jon Seguire Ms. Selma Shearer Wayne Shimizu Roger Simoens Heartland Singers Christine Skene and Nick Logan Muriel Smith Michael Soriano Wilma Sotas Meg Specht Patricia Spencer and Thomas Osborn

George Toles and Melissa Steele Wally & Pat Stefanchuk Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Patricia & Fletcher Stewart in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Strang/van Ineveld Family Sturgeon Heights Music Parent Association Sweet Silver Szwajcer Family Dr. Laura E. Targownik Caroline Taubensee Mary and Robert Thomas Ms. Phyllis A. C. Thomson Bill & Barb Toews Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Gail Walker in Memory of Benjamin Flynn The Waverley Tenant Association John & Diane Weselake Steve West S Whitehouse Don & Florence Whitmore Drs. Lora Cuddy & Mel Wiebe in Memory of Benjamin Flynn Ms. Edie Wilde Ms. Sid Williamson V Wowryk Libby Yager and Billy Brodovsky Ms. Diane Zack 9 Anonymous

ANNUAL CAMPAIGN The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose generosity helped to support orchestral music in our community. Thank you! Dianne J. Beaven Monty & Mary-Claire Bell Ms. Bev Bosiak Ms. Carol Budnick Mr. & Mrs. Norm & Sylvia Cassie Dave Christianson Lena Donald Connie Epp John B. & Katie Epp Rev. Brenda Ferguson Marian H. Friesen Carol & George Gamby Mrs. Marie-Alice Grassick The Hintsas Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard P. Ilavsky J. H. Kaminsky Dr. Maureen Kilgour Ken Kinsley Mrs. Ingrid Lee Jennifer Lidstone Meiya Liu Dr.and Mrs. A. Macrodimitris

Ms. Nola McBurney Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Jim & Terri McKerchar Bill and Hilda Muir Pat Patterson Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Frank & Jeanne Plett David Punter Juta Rathke Lisa Anderson Mal and Pat Anderson Alixe Ryles Juris and Aija Svenne In Honour of Richard Turner David Westfall 8 Anonymous

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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

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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

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 Michel Lagacé Zina Lazareck Gail Leach Dr. Hermann Lee Naomi Levine Bill Loewen Jackie Lowe Dr. Brendan MacDougall Don MacKenzie Bill Marr Ed J. Martens Michael Nozick

Harvey Pollock Dr. William Pope John Rademaker Kathleen Richardson Tannis Richardson Lenny Richardson Ed Richmond Lorne Sharfe William Shead Graeme Sifton Joanne Sigurdson Muriel Smith Bonnie Staples-Lyon Brenlee Carrington Trepel Dennis Wallace

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WSO BOARD & STAFF 2015-2016 SEASON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Timothy E. Burt, CFA President Richard Turner 1st Vice President Terry Sargeant 2 nd Vice President Rob Kowalchuk Treasurer Michael D. Kay Corporate Secretary Sandra Altner John Balsillie Lucienne Blouw Sylvia Cassie Arlene Dahl Marten Duhoux

Alan Freeman Daniel Freidman Dr. Daya Gupta Gregory Hay Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Peter Jessiman Maureen Kilgour Sotirios Kotoulas Dr. Eleanor MacDougall Alexander Mickelthwate, Ex-officio Dr. Michael Nelson Trudy Schroeder, Ex-officio Dr. Ian Thomson Curt Vossen

ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor

OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS Her Honour the Honourable Janice C. Filmon C.M., O.M. Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship Brian Bowman, 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

TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Lyn Stienstra, VP Finance & Administration Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator Oscar Pantaleon Jr., Finance & Administration Assistant SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES Ryan Diduck, VP Sales & Audience Services Desiree La Vallee, Box Office Coordinator Shevaun Fortune, Patron Services Representative Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Patron Services Representatives (p/t): Phil Corrin Chelse McKee Meg Dolovich Crystal Schwartz Rachel Himelblau Stephanie Van Nest Melissa Houston

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Jean-Francois Phaneuf, VP Artistic Operations & Community Engagement James Manishen, Artistic Operations Associate Evan Klassen, Production Manager Sheena Sanderson, Stage Manager Chris Lee, Orchestra Personnel Manager Ray Chrunyk, Principal Librarian Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian Lawrence Rentz, Stage Supervisor Brent Johnson, Education & Community Engagement Manager Shannon Darby, Education & Community Engagement Coordinator

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