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BEYOND THE SCORE速 ELGAR: ENIGMA VARIATIONS CARMINA BURANA GOLDEN HARVEST WORLD PREMIERE KIDS CONCERTS: MAXIMUS MUSICUS VISITS THE ORCHESTRA
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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR As we make our way through the musical season, I am always struck by the huge diversity in programs the WSO provides for the community. In this upcoming series of concerts we move through Strauss’ glorious Four Last Songs with soprano Joni Henson, to the full symphonic splendour of Bruckner’s Symphony No.4 in E-flat major (Romantic).This is a concert to satisfy the hearts of the most dedicated lovers of symphonic music, or for those that have an interest in the ultimate symphonic experience where the full orchestra is put through the most demanding of technical and expressive repertoire. As audience members, we can immerse ourselves in the rich glory of the music.You cannot help but be deeply moved by experiencing this music live. Then we move to a wonderful exploration of great music developed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score® series.This year’s presentation features Edward Elgar’s much loved Enigma Variations.The work is based on musical sketches of fourteen people in the composer’s life, and the wonderful material and research provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra provides exceptional clarity and insight that adds immensely to the experience of the music. We continue our partnership with the Philharmonic Choir in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, and then we explore the musical genius of Rufus Wainwright.This is a marvellous opportunity to experience the great musical talent and extraordinary song writing that Rufus Wainwright brings to our stage. We move then to a world premiere of Larysa Kuzmenko’s Golden Harvest, an oratorio honouring the 125th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. We welcome Andriana Chuchman, Manitoba’s globe-trotting opera star, back to her home orchestra, and also feature the ever popular Carmina Burana. We end this portion of the season with a delightful concert for children. It is indeed a journey of musical discovery to move through the year with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. During this year’s New Music Festival, I read a comment somewhere (I cannot remember the location or source) that “art decorates space, and music decorates time.”While I don’t think that “decorate” is quite the right word, I love the idea that through music, we are able to add colour, dimension, passion, and joy to the seconds, minutes, and hours of our lives.The WSO is pleased to provide these exceptional musical moments to add beauty to your life. Enjoy your WSO enhanced time.
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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. He is 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 Eötvös, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, and Carl St. Clair. As a young musician he played drums, percussion, organ, and accordion in rock, blues and jazz groups. An autodidact, he was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory as a percussionist without any formal training. 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. 4
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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2015-2016 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster
TRUMPETS Isaac Pulford, Acting Principal Paul Jeffrey Brian Sykora
CELLOS Yuri Hooker, Principal Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal Alex Adaman Arlene Dahl Carolyn Nagelberg Emma Quackenbush Sean Taubner
The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair
TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda
The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtGramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation BASSES
Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Chris Anstey **Jeremy Buzash Mona Coarda Rodica Jeffrey Hong Tian Jia Meredith McCallum Jane Pulford Julie Savard Jun Shao *Karin Andreasen *Simon MacDonald SECOND VIOLINS Darryl Strain, Principal Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch Kristina Bauch **Calvin Cheng **Teodora Dimova Elizabeth Dyer **Jonathan Garabedian Bokyung Hwang Takayo Noguchi Claudine St-Arnauld *Jane Pulford *Susan McCallum VIOLAS Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, Assistant Principal Laszlo Baroczi Margaret Carey Richard Bauch Greg Hay Merrily Peters Mike Scholz
Meredith Johnson, Principal Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal Travis Harrison Paul Nagelberg Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal Martha Durkin PICCOLO Martha Durkin OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan
BASS TROMBONE Julia McIntyre, Principal TUBA Chris Lee, Principal TIMPANI Mike Kemp, Acting Principal PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal HARP Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen
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CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Michelle Goddard
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall
BASSOONS *Alex Eastley, Principal Kathryn Brooks, Acting Principal
*On Leave **Temporary Position
Please note: Non-titled (tutti) string players are listed HORNS alphabetically and are seated Patricia Evans, Principal according to a rotational system. Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal James Robertson Fred Redekop is the official Piano The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair Tuner and Technician of the WSO. Caroline Oberheu Michiko Singh
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Bruckner & Strauss: Nature, Love & Longing Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Joni Henson, soprano
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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
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PROGRAM NOTES by James Manishen
Four Last Songs Richard Strauss b. Munich, Germany / June 11, 1864 d. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany / September 8, 1949 Composed: 1948 First performance: May 22, 1950 (London) conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler with Kirsten Flagstad as soloist Last WSO performance: 1992; Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor; Elizabeth Knighton Printy, soprano The bombing of Dresden and the loss of many friends weighed heavily on Richard Strauss during the war, even though he was shielded from its ravages at his villa in the Bavarian Alps where he had been living since 1935. Fearing the Denazification hearings that began in October 1945, Strauss and his wife Pauline decided to move to Switzerland where they remained for the next four years. Officially exonerated in June 1948, the increasingly frail composer stayed in Switzerland for medical treatment and returned to Bavaria in May 1949. His Four Last Songs date from this period that also included his Oboe Concerto and Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and strings. The aging Strauss occupied his time in Switzerland reading Goethe, studying his score of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and reflecting on his long life as a guardian of German Romantic musical tradition and never apologized that he always had one foot in the previous century as a consistent traditionalist opposed to modernism, though with enough decorous irony to underscore his own time. Strauss had read Eichendorff’s poem Im Abendrot in 1946, in which an aging couple reflects on the lifetime they’ve spent together, viewing the setting sun and asking “Could this
perchance be death?”Soon after, Strauss read a collection of poems by Hermann Hesse and decided to make a five-song setting for soprano and orchestra concluding with the Eichendorff poem which he had set in May 1948. Completing the entire set by September less one Hesse song that was never finished, Four Last Songs became Strauss’ final work.
blanketed additions, deletions, orchestrations and responses before the work was premiered. Began January 2, 1874, just two days after finishing his Third Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic read through the score a year later and deemed only the first movement fit for public performance, the rest “idiotic.”Deeply hurt yet busy enough with his teaching and organ The Four Last Songs metaphorically reflect performing commitments, Bruckner on death, looking back and ahead, waited until 1878 to persevere with worldly and wise rather than angry or the Fourth, completing it over a fearful. As Wagner famously did, the two-year period to largely the form orchestra is integral to the narratives, the that it is today. horn in particular (Strauss’father Franz had been a professional horn player) and When conductor Hans Richter the beauty of the soprano voice was accepted the Fourth for clearly uppermost in Strauss’thoughts. performance, Bruckner at 57 years of With universal rather than autobiographical age still hadn’t had a major success messages and without any suggestion of as a composer, so he followed the religious consolation, Strauss offers a rehearsals for the premiere with glowing valedictory in a musical nervousness and hope for a landscape he had loved throughout his triumph. At the end of the rehearsal entire composing life. the sheepish composer pressed a coin into Richter’s hand and told Symphony No. 4 him to buy a beer “to my health.” Anton Bruckner b. Ansfelden / September 4, 1824 d.Vienna / October 11, 1896 Composed: 1874; revised in 1878-1881 and 1887-1888 First performance: February 20, 1881 (Vienna) conducted by Hans Richter Last WSO performance: 2001: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor
The music of Anton Bruckner is unique, and inexorably bonded to both its creator and his own Creator. Descended from generations of Catholic peasants, Bruckner lived in a seemingly religious ecstasy, sparing himself as he could from the necessities of everyday life with a guileless humility and in constant fear that God might condemn him for not using his time and talent to his fullest capacity.Wagner adored the simplicity of this extraordinary man, and Bruckner returned the favour with Wagner becoming his musical mentor. It took Bruckner 14 years to create the Fourth Symphony. Endless revisions, trials, tribulations and insecurities
The premiere on February 20, 1881 was an immediate success. Bruckner was called to the stage after every movement and the Scherzo had to be encored. For the first time in 25 years in Vienna, Bruckner was receiving his due. Richter wore the coin on his watch chain for the rest of his life as a memento of the rehearsal – “of a day when I wept,” he said. The Fourth Symphony is among Bruckner’s most fervently argued works, in both spirit and construction. As always in his music, one senses the “cathedral in sound” as popularly ascribed.Time, space, the long controlled climaxes, repetitions and occasional yet endearing stammering produce a matchless bonding of grandeur of expression to simplicity of outline. Those who take Bruckner on his own terms receive a special hour of a purity of discourse achieved by few others in the history of music.
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Bruckner & Strauss: Nature, Love & Longing
Joni Henson, soprano Soprano Joni Henson is one of Canada’s most thrilling performers on both the opera and concert stage. Past seasons have included Fricka in Das Rheingold for Pacific Opera Victoria, Britten’s War Requiem with the Victoria Symphony, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer for Calgary Opera, Elisabetta in Don Carlos for Vancouver Opera and as Tosca for Pacific Opera Victoria. Concert credits include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony and the Detroit Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Orchestre Metropolitain, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Calgary
Philharmonic and Opera Galas for the Colorado and Fairfax Symphonies. Most recently, she was heard as Marguerite in Berlioz’s La Damnation De Faust with the Calgary Philharmonic and looks forward to Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Winnipeg Symphony. She has recorded for the Canadian Art Song Project, with her group Casa Diva and is featured on the Millenium Gala CD from CBC.
EXTRA MUSICIANS: Momoko Matsumura, violin; Patrick Horn, viola; Laurel Ridd, flute; Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; E-Chen Hsu, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harington, bassoon; Donna Laube, celeste
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Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gerard McBurney, creative director, Beyond the Score® Martha Gilmer, executive producer, Beyond the Score® Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Rob Herriot, actor Tom Soares, actor Donna Fletcher, actor Madeline Hildebrand, piano James Manishen, narrator Jennifer Parr, production stage director
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Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma” Variation I (C.A.E.) – Variation II (H.D. D.-P) – Variation III (R.B.T.) – Variation IV (W.M.B.) – Variation V (R.P.A.) – Variation VI (Ysobel) – Variation VII (Troyte) – Variation VIII (W.N.) – Variation IX (Nimrod) – Variation X (Dorabella): Intermezzo – Variation XI (G.R.S.) – Variation XII (B.G.N.) – Variation XIII (***): Romanza – Variation XIV (E.D.U.): Finale
Saturday, March 5
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
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MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Saturday, 6:45 p.m. Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 11
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Beyond the Score® - Elgar: Enigma Variations
Rob Herriot, actor
Donna Fletcher, actor
Canadian stage director/singer/actor Rob Herriot has directed productions of The Magic Flute, The Mikado, Tosca, Pirates of Penzance, Daughter of the Regiment and HMS Pinafore for Edmonton Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Boheme, Carmen, Rigoletto (Manitoba Opera), La Traviata (Opera Hamilton), Carmen (Arizona Opera), Don Pasquale (Opera Hamilton, Connecticut Opera, Manitoba Opera, Utah Opera). Other productions include Albert Herring, Marriage of Figaro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci. Rob also works extensively with Calgary Opera as a returning director for their main stage and Emerging Artist shows. Recent productions include Pirates of Penzance, Candide and Barber of Seville. He has also performed in productions of South Pacific, Music Man and Annie with Rainbow Stage and productions of Sweeney Todd, A Man of No Importance and Addams Family with Dry Cold Productions here in Winnipeg.
Donna Fletcher is an accomplished director, actor, singer, and concert performer with a wide range of national experience in theatre, musical theatre, and symphonic work. Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Toronto. She has performed with the Winnipeg Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and was featured on the CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. Donna’s most recent credits include the Mother Superior in Rainbow Stage’s Sister Act and Desiree Armfeldt in Dry Cold Production’s upcoming May, 2016 production of the Sondheim classic A Little Night Music. She is a Sessional Voice and Musical Theatre Instructor at the University Of Manitoba Marcel Desautels Faculty of Music and the University of Winnipeg Theatre Department.
Tom Soares, actor This is the second time Tom has worked as an actor with the WSO. He appeared as the eccentric Mozart in celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday and is delighted to be back. Tom has his MFA in Acting from York University and is a voice and speech specialist and instructor at the University of Winnipeg's Department of Theatre and Film. He has acted in theatre and film and some credits include: Quo Vadis (That Way Productions), Annie (Rainbow Stage), Little Women, Urinetown (Dry Cold Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (RMTC), as well as Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida (Tom-Tom Theatre). 12
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Madeline Hildebrand, piano Madeline’s passion for piano music recently culminated in a Master of Piano Performance from UBC under the tutelage of distinguished Canadian pianist, Jane Coop. Previously she earned a performance degree with Judy Kehler Siebert at University of Manitoba, where she received the Millennium Scholarship. The opportunities afforded her have been many and exhilarating, including the prestigious Doris McLellan first prize for solo performance with the WSO in 2012. Madeline has been awarded scholarships to study with such luminaries as André Laplante, John Perry
ARTIST BIOS and Gilbert Kalish through Orford, Banff, Icicle Creek and Kneisel Hall, Maine. Besides performances at home and on the west coast, highlights have included the 2013 Egré national competition, premiers at Manitoba’s Cluster festival, collaborations with Randolph Peters, a House Concert Series across the prairies, the Eastern European Cultural Festival in Romania, and accompanying Canada’s National Youth Choir.
Since 2011, Jennifer has been the resident Production Stage Director for the Chicago Symphony’s Beyond the Score® productions in Canada including Beethoven 5 and Dvorˇ ák From the New World with the Montreal Symphony, Tchaikovsky à l’heure de multimédia and Il Était une Fois Elgar with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, and The Rite of Spring, The Miraculous Mandarin and Tchaikovsky 4 with the Toronto Symphony.
James Manishen, narrator
Jennifer most recently directed an acclaimed all-female production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at Toronto’s Red Sandcastle Theatre and the Canadian concert premiere of Brian Current & Anton Piatigorsky’s opera Airline Icarus for Maniac Star.
James Manishen is a longstanding figure in Manitoba's music community. He joined the WSO as a clarinetist in 1966 and holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He was the classical music columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press and CBC broadcaster; hosting his own national radio show and appearing on many other music shows as host, writer, and commentator. As a writer, he has been published in every major Canadian music journal plus international journals Gramophone, Stereo Review and others. As an adjudicator, he has judged the Canadian Music Competitions, the JUNO awards and many others.
EXTRA MUSICIANS: Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion
Jennifer Parr, production stage director Jennifer is delighted to be returning to work with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as Production Stage Director for The Elgar Variations - Beyond the Score®, having previously directed four other BTS shows with the WSO: Beethoven 5, Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Dvorˇák From the New World. N o vFeembbr eu ra r–y D – eMc ea m r cbhe r2 0210611I I OO V EVRETRUTRUER E1 73
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Rufus Wainwright, singer-songwriter Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Candide: Overture April Fools Art Teacher This Love Affair Beauty Mark Maker Makes Vibrate A Woman’s Face Matinée Idol Who Are You New York
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The Best of Rufus Wainwright
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Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo Complainte de la Butte Les Feux Tiergarten Martha Going to a Town Dinner at Eight Zebulon Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
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All songs by Rufus Wainwright unless otherwise noted.
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MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile. Friday, 7:15 p.m. Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts Cello Ensemble Saturday, 7:15 p.m. St. Germain Music Studio Sunday, 1:15 p.m. Manitoba Chapter of Canadian Music Competition: Provincial Competitors February – March 2016 I OVERTURE 15
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The Best of Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, one of the great male vocalists, songwriters and composers of his generation, has released seven studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach. His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London, Toronto and BAM in New York. In 2010, Wainwright was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony to compose and interpret “Five Shakespeare Sonnets,” a
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five-movement song cycle that sets Shakespeare’s “Sonnets” to orchestra and voice. Last Fall saw the Deutsche Grammophon release of a double CD/vinyl recording of Prima Donna with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon will also be releasing an album of Shakespeare Sonnets set to Rufus’ music in Spring 2016 in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Andriana Chuchman, soprano 1, 2 Adam Sperry, tenor 2 Michael Nyby, baritone 1, 2 Mennonite Festival Chorus 1, 2, Janet Brenneman & Rudy Schellenberg, co-directors Canadian Mennonite University Chorus 2 Winnipeg Boys’ Choir 2, Carolyn Boyes, director
Golden Harvest 1
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Carmina Burana
Larysa Kuzmenko (b. 1956) Words by Talia Zajac
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Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (“Fortune, Empress of the World”) I. Primo Vere (“Spring-time”) II. In Taberna (“In the Tavern”) III. Cour d’Amours (“Court of Love”) Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
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Golden Harvest
inform Ukrainians about the true conditions of life in the Prairies were hampered by the fact that encouraging emigration was prohibited by law in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Larysa Kuzmenko b.Toronto / January 23, 1956 Composed: 2015 World premiere
Once in Canada, Ukrainian pioneers faced hardships ranging from disease and starvation on their homesteads to xenophobia.This xenophobia The oratorio culminated in the internment of over 8,000 Ukrainians from 1914 to 1920 in Golden forced labour camps, and the Harvest registration of over 80,000 others (the (“Zoloty Zhnyva”/ “La majority of whom were Ukrainians) as “enemy aliens”who had to carry identity moisson Talia Zajac & Larysa Kuzmenko papers with them and report to the dorée”) police on a regular basis. Despite this chronicles the journey of one family, symbolic of all Ukrainian pioneers, who discrimination, thousands of Ukrainians still volunteered to serve in Canada’s made the difficult decision to leave behind all that was familiar and dear to armed forces during the First World War, including Filip Konowal, who was them in order to build a better life in awarded the Victoria Cross for his Canada. Between 1891 and 1914, approximately 200,000 Ukrainians made bravery. the similar decision to flee poverty, The oratorio chronicles these hardships military conscription, and cultural and and achievements in three archetypal religious discrimination in the AustroHungarian Empire, which then occupied moments, which reflect the universal experience of all immigrants coming to western Ukraine. Canada: their journey, their struggle, and finally their settlement in their new land. Following the completion of the The piece culminates in a celebration of Canadian Pacific Railroad, Sir Clifford the “Golden Harvest”Ukrainians brought Sifton, the minister responsible for immigration under the government of to Canada: a harvest of precious wheat Sir Wilfred Laurier, looked to Ukraine for and uncountable cultural wealth. peasant farmers to open the Prairies. European shipping companies who - Talia Zajac brought over Ukrainian immigrants Carmina Burana received payment from the Canadian government. As a result, these Carl Orff companies tried to get as many b. Munich, Germany / July 10, 1895 immigrants as possible onto Canadian- d. Munich / March 29, 1982 bound ships.They presented an Composed: 1935-1936 idealized version of life in Canada First performance: December 8, 1937 through leaflets, newspaper (Frankfurt), conducted by Bertil advertisements, and a network of Wetzelberger agents going from village to village, Last WSO performance: 2013; Alexander often disguised as peddlers. Since Mickelthwate, conductor Ukrainian has no word for “homestead,” The texts of Orff’s wildly advertisements for immigrants energetic and enormously translated this word loosely as “farm,” popular Carmina Burana and many settlers came to Canada came from the discovery thinking that they would have a readyin 1803 of a 13th-century built home on arrival. codex among the Having spent all of their money on the holdings of the abbey of Benediktbeuren, voyage, they arrived in shock on the in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. Prairies to find that they had to build a Some 200 secular poems satirizing the shelter in the wilderness. Efforts to
church and its morals in favour of the lustiness of everyday life were found.Written by a band of presumed ecclesiastics, the poems depicted a vivid if likely literary view of medieval life set in an amorphous language with some primitive notation indicating that some were sung. Under the title of Carmina Burana (“Songs of Beuren”), the poems were published in 1847 by Johann Andreas Schmeller. When Orff discovered the lyrics in the 1930s he immediately saw its theatrical potential, originally figuring on a spectacle for the stage but with costumes sets and scenery stripped away. Philosophically, Orff wanted to fuse the intellect with the primal creative spirit of the poems, establishing a tension in the story to be felt through structural simplicity, primitive rhythmic energy and immediately impactful melody. Orff’s idea was to draw listeners to their instinctual awareness of “oneness with the universe.”The experience was to be viscerally felt, without any traces of Romantic symphonic argument or rich orchestral timbre. Whether a Medieval play on morals, a set of risqué songs, a philosophical statement or a blending of all of these, Carmina Burana is immensely entertaining. As the poems had no known associating music, Orff’s settings of the 24 he chose are all original. The work has a prologue and an epilogue that flank three large sections.While these sections proclaim the libidinous songs of lusty life, the prologue and epilogue (containing the same music) warn against indulgent living, the chorus standing as the bond to eternal morality at the outset and the close. As the wheel of fate turns (“Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi”), so too can it grind sensual pleasure to dust.
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Carmina Burana
Larysa Kuzmanko, composer Larysa Kuzmenko is a Torontobased composer, pianist, and JUNO nominee. Her works have been published by Boosey and Hawkes, commissioned, performed, broadcast and recorded by many outstanding musicians all over the world. Some prominent ensemble and soloists who have performed her works include: the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, directed by Peter Oundjian and Jukka-Pekka Saraste; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, directed by Bramwell Tovey; Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, directed by Jeffrey Moule; the Gryphon Trio; the Composer’s Orchestra, directed by Gary Kulesha; pianists Anton Kuerti and Christina Petrowska-Quilico; cellist Shauna Rolston and the New Hampshire Philharmonic, directed by Mark Latham. Her works demonstrate a strong affinity towards the mainstream of classical music. She imbues her music with a strong melodic sense, and a firm rooting in traditional, albeit extended tonal processes. She is currently on staff at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where she teaches piano and composition.
Talia Zajac, librettist Talia Zajac is currently completing her PhD in medieval history at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Canadian magazines, including Audeamus, Contemporary Verse 2, The Toronto Quarterly, the Hart House Review, Misunderstandings Magazine, Carousel, and NoD Magazine. In 2010 her story Dinner at the Sandstone Hotel was featured in an anthology of works by young writers, Writing Without Direction: Ten and a Half Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under Thirty (Clark-Nova Books). Driven by constant curiosity and a sense of wonder, writing has been her life-long passion.
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Talia Zajac would like to dedicate these performances to the memory of her grandparents: Ludmilla and Evhen Makaryk, and Volodymyr and Melania Zajac.
Andriana Chuchman, soprano This season, soprano Andriana Chuchman makes her debuts at the Los Angeles Opera as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and the Dallas Opera as Magnolia in Show Boat, and returns to the Manitoba Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She also sings Handel's Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Orff's Carmina Burana and the world premiere of Larysa Kuzmenko's Golden Harvest with the Winnipeg Symphony, and appears in recital in Toronto. In concert, Ms. Chuchman has appeared with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in performances of the Brahms Requiem, the Rhode Island Philharmonic in Orff's Carmina Burana, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 4, the Ravinia Festival as a guest on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, and with the International Music Foundation of Chicago in performances of Handel’s Messiah. In her native Canada, Ms. Chuchman recently made her debut at the Canadian Opera Company as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. She has also appeared at the Edmonton Opera as Yum-Yum and Marie in La Fille du Regiment, and at the Manitoba Opera as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Concert performances have included engagements with the Toronto Symphony, Prince George Symphony, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
ARTIST BIOS Adam Sperry, tenor Adam Sperry is currently in his fourth year of vocal performance at the Desautels Faculty of Music. Adam grew up immersed in the Manitoban choral culture and has developed a passion for opera, oratorio and art song during his time at both the Canadian Mennonite University and The University of Manitoba. His performance highlights include singing as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra last year in their 2014 Holiday Express Tour throughout Southern Manitoba, performing Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Canzona, and performing in the University of Manitoba School Tour of The Brothers Grimm. He is also looking forward to his fourth year performance recital this coming April. Adam is incredibly grateful for his experiences thus far, and is excited to perform with the WSO, again.
Michael Nyby, baritone A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian-American baritone Michael Nyby has performed with the Vancouver Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, the Caramoor Festival, Burnaby Lyric Opera, Opera Atelier, Theatre Aquarius, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Duluth Festival Opera, and others. Recently, Mr. Nyby sang the worldpremiere of Georgia Bottoms, a comic opera set in modern day Alabama, with the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama. World premieres in his future include Kuszmenko’s oratorio Golden Harvest for the Winnipeg Symphony and Isis and Osiris by Peter Anthony Togni for VOICEBOX:
Opera in Concert of Toronto. Recent and upcoming engagements include Carmina Burana for the Victoria Symphony, Danilo in The Merry Widow with Edmonton Opera, and performances with the Windsor Symphony (La Boheme and Messiah), Kingston Symphony, Thunder Bay Symphony (Carmina Burana), and Niagara Symphony (Gilbert and Sullivan Concert). He was also featured with the Toronto Operetta Theatre in Der Vetter aus Dingsda and in Opera Atelier’s Der Freischütz.
Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg, Janet Brenneman, Co-directors 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.
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CLASSICS
Carmina Burana
Canadian Mennonite University Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg, Janet Brenneman, Co-directors The Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Chorus combine’s two of CMU’s premiere ensembles, the CMU Women’s Chorus (Janet Brenneman, conductor) and the CMU Men’s Chorus (Rudy Schellenberg, conductor).These auditioned choirs are comprised of students from a variety of academic programs at CMU and perform regularly in worship and in concert across Manitoba. Known for their innovative programming, energy, and enthusiasm, these choirs perform demanding repertoire that represents their commitment to exploring a global context in close relation to the music of their Christian heritage and faith.Together, the CMU Women and Men’s choirs host the annual CMU Choral Connections and can be heard regularly on Golden West Broadcasting throughout southern Manitoba. Past performances with the WSO include the the world premiere of T. Patrick Carrabre’s Creation Stories, Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata Seid Nuchtern und Wachet, Christos Hatzis’ Sepulcher of Life, Glen Buhr’s Symphony No. 3, John Tavener’s Requiem, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem, and Giya Kancheli’s Styx.
Winnipeg Boys’ Choir, Carolyn Boyes, director
The Winnipeg Boys’ Choir (WBC) is an auditioned group dedicated to high-quality music making and vocal training in a convivial atmosphere. Founded in 1925, the choir has for decades delighted audiences with music in many genres and languages. In recent years, WBC ensembles have been invited to perform with many of our city’s finest arts organizations, including the WSO,
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the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the RWB, Canzona, The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, and Camerata Nova. Music Director Carolyn Boyes conducts the Treble and Chamber Choruses and Spencer Duncanson conducts the changed voices of the Senior Chorus. The choir is open by audition to boys and young men from 8-18. Please join us for our spring concert “The People Sing”—an evening of traditional songs from many lands and contemporary music written on the theme of human rights—on 15 April 2016 at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. See our website at winnipegboyschoir.ca for more information.
EXTRA MUSICIANS: Momoko Matsumura, violin; Linda Umbrico, viola; Laura MacDougall, flute; Sarah Jeffrey, oboe; Ross Edwards, clarinet; Jim Ewen, bassoon; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Gabe Radford, horn; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Brendan Thompson, percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard; Earl Stafford, keyboard
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Julian Pellicano, conductor Matthew Fletcher, narrator
Boléro Symphony No. 5: Movement I Fanfare for the Common Man On Sprengisandur Maxi s Song
Pre-concert Activities Sunday, March 20
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Matthew Fletcher, narrator As an active actor and musician, Matthew is rooted in vocal technique, theatrical conceptualization and musical exploration. Pursuing a career in performance from age seven, he strives to explore the classics and develop/broaden modern perceptions of theatre and music. A proud graduate of Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal and Opera Performance and a Certificate of Musical Theatre.
Select credits: WSO: E.T.A. Hoffmann Beethoven's Fifth: Beyond The Score®. Theatre: JD Heathers (WST), Earthworm James And The Giant Peach (MTYP), Marius Pontmercy Les Misérables (Rainbow), U/S Enjolras/Cast Les Misérables (Drayton), Robbie Fay A Man of No Importance (Dry Cold), Moritz Stiefel Spring Awakening (Griffin, Chicago Premiere). Film/TV: T.R. Tilden The Pinkertons (Buffalo Gal/Rosetta), Master Class Participant Triple Sensation (CBC). He thanks friends and family for their continued support.
EXTRA MUSICIAN: Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe
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The Women’s Committee of the
Brunch on Sunday April 17, 2016 Delta Hotel 350 St. Mary Avenue. Time 10:30 a.m. Tickets $65 (partial tax receipt) Entertainment I Silent Auction I Door prize Tickets Available at the Music Stand at WSO concerts or from Shirley Loewen 204 269 1912 (seloewen36@shaw.ca)
WMC McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the WSO The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg is proud to announce the 2016 semi-finalists in the WMC McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Coded entry MP3s were adjudicated online by six professional musicians, and the following 12 semi-finalists (in alphabetical order) were chosen to audition: Natalie Dawe, cello Everett Hopfner, piano Zander Howard-Scott, cello Jaena Kim, flute
Jason Klippenstein, baritone Gregory Lewis, violin Anne-Marie MacIntosh, soprano Jesse Plessis, piano
Daniel Tselyakov, piano Paul Williamson, piano Caitlin Wood, soprano Tony Zhou, piano
The competition is open to advanced Manitoba musicians pursuing performance careers in all disciplines including voice. It offers a unique rehearsal and performance opportunity with the WSO for emerging classical musicians, as well as a substantial financial award. Semi-final auditions take place on Saturday March 26, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Admission: $10 at the door (no admission during an audition). Final Competition Concert with the WSO and the Award Ceremony will take place Friday, April 22, 2016, 7:30 pm at Jubilee Place Auditorium. The three finalists will appear in performance with the WSO, and will be ranked by another set of adjudicators. A thrilling finish to a great competition! Tickets are $30 from McNally Robinson Booksellers, WSO box office, or at the door. Students (with ID cards) $5, at the door only.
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In Memory of Peter D. Curry DeFehr Foundation Nita Eamer Memorial Fund Francofonds Inc. Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Fund The WSO gratefully acknowledges Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the the following companies whose Winnipeg Foundation generous support helps to ensure George Warren Keates Memorial musical enrichment within our Fund community. Lutz Family Foundation Manitoba Children's Museum Resident Artist Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund Qualico The Winnipeg Foundation - John and Carolynne McLure Fund Principal Chair Program for the Enrichment of Canon Canada Inc. French in Education Carlyle Printers, Service & Supplies Ltd. Richardson Foundation Manulife Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson Premier Printing Ltd. Fund Terracon Development Ltd. David & Leda Slater Memorial Fund, Wawanesa Insurance Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Aqueduct Foundation - Inga and Assistant Principal Chair Anna Storgaard Fund Cambrian Credit Union The Winnipeg Foundation - Leslie Cardinal Capital Management John Taylor Fund Con-Pro Industries Canada Ltd. James Thompson Memorial Fund in ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior Trust of WSO Design The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Ken J.K. May Investments Ltd. and Lorna Thorlakson Fund Music for Young Children The Whitehead Foundation 1 Anonymous Orchestra Chair Long & McQuade Musical Instruments Mr. J. Ross Robinson Royal Bank of Canada Urbanink Winmar Property Restoration The Legacy Circle exists to Music Stand Coghlan's Limited Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. Galsworthy Holdings Ltd. InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Mid West Packaging Limited Number Ten Architectural Group Peerless Garments LP Pollard Banknote Limited Red River Co-Operative Ltd. Terrell Stephen
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.
Siana Attwell, PhD Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer Lucienne Blouw Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Kevin & Els Kavanagh Riser Michel D. Lagacé A. Akman & Son Ltd. Gail E. Loewen Patill/St. James Insurance S. E. Loewen W. H. Loewen Dr. Brendan MacDougall The WSO gratefully acknowledges Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell the following foundations: Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund - the Lesia Peet Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Winnipeg Foundation Trudy Schroeder The Noreen & Robert Allen Muriel Smith Charitable Trust Edith A. Toews & Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund Dr. Helen A. Toews Brandon Area Community Robin Wiens and Emilie Lagacé-Wiens Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation - Chipman Donn K. Yuen Family Foundation Fund 2 Anonymous Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation
Foundations
MAJOR GIFTS The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons for their generous support to the orchestra. Timothy & Barbara Burt Art & Leona Defehr W. H. Loewen Mr. John T. McGoey Michael Nesbitt Frank & Jeanne Plett Mrs. Doreen Foth Rashwan
The Maestro’s Circle recognizes patrons whose significant philanthropy furthers the musical artistry of the WSO. Honourary Chair Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director Platinum Baton Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler Bill & Shirley Loewen* Gold Baton Timothy & Barbara Burt Arlene Wilson & Allan MacDonald Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Silver Baton Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley Frank & Jeanne Plett Tannis Richardson* Dr. Lea Stogdale Concertmaster's Bow Morley & Marjorie Blankstein C.M., O.M. Herb & Erna Buller Pierce & Amy Cairns Marten & Joanne Duhoux Bill & Margaret Fast Daniel Friedman & Robert Dalgliesh Bert & Lee Friesen Foundation James Gibbs Robin Hildebrand Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Elaine & Neil Margolis Ken and Judy Murray Diane Payment and Roxroy West Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope* Hartley & Heather Richardson Mr.Terry Sargeant Pam Simmons* Ian R.Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Professor A.M.C.Waterman Klaus & Elsa Wolf
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Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Katrina Limberatos Mrs. Joyce Manwaring Mr. Allan Mapes Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Cornelia Marcil Mrs. Irene Marriott Ms. Carol Masse Ms. Kimberley McCallum Ms. Susan McCarthy Terri L. McKerchar Ardythe McMaster Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart M. Mohr Nancy Morgan Theda Olson Mrs. Clarice Owen Shirley & Graham Padgett Sonjia Pasiechnik Darell Plummer Ms. Clare Pollock Cristian Popescu Ken & Geri Porath Mr. Guy Prokopetz Mrs. Glennys Propp Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Mrs. Avis Raber Mrs. Charlotte Redekopp Ms. Pat Repa Ms. Patricia G. Ritchie Gisela Roger Mrs. V. Rosolowich Rory Runnells John & Shirley Russell Leonore Saunders O.M. Kay Schalme William Scheidt Mrs. Edna Schneider Izzy Shore Mrs. Marie Sichler Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Muriel Sutherland Ms. Marguerite Szymesko Ms. Melinda Tallin Mary Lou Talmage Gladys Tarala Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Ms. Anne Thiessen Mrs. Roseline Usiskin Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Denis Vincent Miss A. H. Wagstaffe Mr. Gordon Walkty Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace E. Sylvia Warrington Mr. Glen Angus Webster Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weidman Snjolaug Whiteway Ms. Lorraine Willms Mrs. Margaret Wilson Terrie Woodward 18 Anonymous
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Tyler Gompf Stefan Gordienko Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Komlodi Dr. Don & Jerri Hall The WSO gratefully Ms. Helen Hawrysh acknowledges the following Marilyn & Helios Hernandez patrons whose foresight helps Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Hildebrand to ensure long-term financial Kim Jeremic support for the WSO. Peter Jessiman Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Ellen & Harry Johnson Stephen Choy & Gina Yoo Koren & Leonard Kaminski Mr. Ray Davis Ms. Jose Koes Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda Konstantinos & Chrysoula Donald Kotoulas Helene Dyck Sotirios Kotoulas Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham Kozub/Halldorson Family Eugene Boychuk & Daniel Heindl Dr. Thomas G Kucera Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ron Lambert Marilynne Keil in Memory of Ms. Veronica L. Larmour David H. Skinner Hideo Mabuchi Brent Mazur Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Ms. Edna Poulter Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean Grant & Janet Saunders Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Mr. & Mrs. James & Claudia Lori Marks Weselake Mr. Frank Martin James & Claudia Weselake Brent Mazur Women's Committee of the Allison McPhee Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The A. K. Menkis Medical Women's Committee of the Corporation Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Ron & Sandi Mielitz , in Memory of Vera Gorlick Ms. Sheila Miller Women's Committee of the Ingrid & Lothar Moehlmann Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Margaret Moroz in Memory of Norma Bingeman Matthew Narvey Women's Committee of the Michael Narvey Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Michael Nesbitt in Memory of Maria Michalak Mikaela Oldenkamp 2 Anonymous Mr. Chris Pearce Lesia Peet Conmoto Margaret & Peter Peters Cheryl Janzen & Randolph Peters Kathleen Polischuk & Richard Derksen Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Alpha Masonry Tippett-Pope Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mrs. Victoria Ramnawaj Mrs. Alison Baldwin Bill & Pat Reid Mr. R.D. Bell Majid & Moti Shojania David & Gillian Bird Pam Simmons Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar Muriel Smith Jackie Brignall Carrie Solmundson Kevin Burns Terrell Stephen Sel & Chris Burrows Ms. Marlene Stern Timothy & Barbara Burt Jon Stewart David Carr Margaret & Hartley Stinson Jill Carr & Alex Snukal Sally Sweatman Ms. Anne Cholakis Brenda Taylor Lara Ciekiewicz Fenella & Ray Temmerman Kathy & David Connor Tetrem Capital Management Mr. Peter Czaplinski Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest M. Donald in Honour of Mr. T. Mr. Curt Vossen Wong & Family Ms. Meeka Walsh Ravi Dookeran Snjolaug Whiteway Mrs. Ann England Karin Woods Robert Enright Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann 3 Anonymous Wendy Gale
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Share the Music is an outreach initiative that allows economically disadvantaged children and their families to attend WSO performances. Katherine Devine & George Andrich Ms. Margaret Barbour Ralph & Eileen Baxter Bernice Blakeman Mrs. Lucienne Blouw, in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Ms. Patricia Bozyk Sheila & David Brodovsky Ms. Carol Budnick Eileen & Ted Shelley Chochinov Ray Cloutier in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Joan C. Cohen M. & G. Crielaard Dr. & Mrs. Harold Diamond Doreen Docking Ms. Enid Durward Shaun Dyck In memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Mr. & Ms. John Edwards Don & Martha Epstein Kathy Feader Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Dr. Leeann Fishback Dorothy Flight Mrs. Louise Friesen Mrs. Joyce Fyke Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert George & Carol Gamby Francois Gauvin The Staff of GD5 in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Mr. Richard Gillanders Greystone Managed Investments Inc. B. & R. Hall Teresa A. Hay Larry & Evelyn Hecht Monique Henderson Katherine Himelblau Dorothy L. Hodgson Mrs. Katherine Hoeppner Huynh Van Ho Ms. Margaret Jeffries Mr. & Mrs. C Jenkins Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Marilyn Kapitany Mrs. Karen Kaplen Kevin & Els Kavanagh Ursula & Sandor Kelemen Ms. Mary Klassen Sandra Kneller Mr. Eugene S. Kovach Frances Lemieux Ms. Marion Lewis Dr. Judith Littleford Dr. Brendan MacDougall
Dr. Sabine Mai Elaine & Neil Margolis C & V Martens Mr. Peter Martin Reina and Mark McDowell - in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Jean & Mike McIlrath Mr. Sheldon Leonard McLeod Mrs. Jose Meers Ms. Pat Michalski L & D Mitchell M. Mohr Margaret Moroz in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Vera Moroz Bill & Hilda Muir Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko M. Nancy Lynn O'Brien D Ogale Truus Oliver Sam O. Mrs. Alice Oswald Pat Patterson Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Piston Ring Ms. Clare Pollock Ms. Rose Popowich Rosemary & Walter Prychodko Pat and Bill Reid Ms. Lyse Remillard Tannis Richardson Don & Joceline Ringach, Pamela Ringach & Chris Jordan David & Elena Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sagert Olive Sayers Your HR Support Co. Mr. Walter Silicz Mrs. Roslyn Silver Ms. Brenda Sklar Debbie Smith Ms. Deborah Spracklin Herbert Stewart Mrs. Joan Swaffer Ms. Ruth Swan Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Dr. Teresa Sztaba Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tapscott Bette Jayne Taylor James & Marlene Taylor Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Mrs. Bonnie E Thiessen in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Ms. Mia Timmermans Ms. Melita Tonogai Fran & Estela Violago E. Sylvia Warrington Professor A.M.C. Waterman Bruno Zimmer 20 Anonymous
Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily after-school program that enriches the lives of children and young people with the fewest resources and the greatest need.
Honourary Chair Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Maestoso Burns Foundation RBC Foundation Richardson Foundation Vivace Boeing Canada Winnipeg Cavalia Inc. George Weston Limited Michael Nesbitt The Pollard Family Foundation The Thomas Sill Foundation Con Brio Michael S Gray Fund Souchay Gossen Family Foundation In Memory of Kenneth Hrynchuk The Winnipeg Foundation - George and Tannis Richardson Fund Sanford & Deborah Riley Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Don & Lorraine Swanson Allegro Assiniboine Credit Union Ms. Judith Flynn Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Dr. David Lyttle Ron & Sandi Mielitz Linda Moore in Remembrance of Anastasia Moore Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Sanford & Deborah Riley Ms. Charlotte Robbins Sandra & Harvey Secter Family Fund, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Moira Swinton & Bernie Leveille Jan and Jim Tennant E. Toews Faye Warren Winnipeg Regional Health Authority 3 Anonymous
Conmoto James & Faye Alward in Honour of Margot J. Alward James & Faye Alward in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Mr. Barry Anderson In Memory of Lois Anderson Ms. Hollie I. Andrew Ms. Hollie I. Andrew in Memory of Ben Flynn Betty & Ted Ash Gail Asper & Michael Paterson John Balsillie Ms. Angelica Banmann Brenda Batzel Ralph & Eileen Baxter Jean & John Beaver in Memory of Benjamin Flynn Marissa Becker Aaron Benarroch Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC Ms. Diane Bewell Ameet Bharaj Helen & Henry Bially in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Cathy Bilyk Michael Bingham Dr. Catalena Birek Gwen Birse Bryan Bjerring In Memory of Benjamin Flynn Sally Boulding Paul & Doreen Bromley Doneta & Harry Brotchie Tim & Joelle Brown Ms. Coralie Bryant Mrs. Donna Bryk Mrs. Dee Buchwald Ms. Lorelei Bunkowsky Dominador Calpatura Amihan P. Camacho Mrs. Audrey Campbell Gordon & Ann Campbell Mr. Alan Cantor Ms. Darlene J. Chimilar Minna Chung Margaret Clarke in Memory of Ben Flynn Michael Cobus & Christine Wigglesworth Joan C. Cohen Russell & Joan Colnett in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Lily Conway in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Gerald Corr Cathy & Roger Coss Mrs. Diane Coughlin Barbara Crow Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Barbara Crow F. De Grazia Melissa Delaronde N. Denboer Mr. Roger Dennis in Memory of Mr. Ben Flynn Ms. Lucy De Sousa Drs. Diana & Dhali Dhaliwal Judy Doctoroff In Memory of Diane Dowling Bob Dueck and Joan Duerksen
Mrs. Cynthia Dutton Linda Edel Judge Judith Elliott Connie Epp Kathleen & David Estey Ms. Fruma Farago Rick & Julie Fast Denzil Feinberg CFP R.F.P. In Memory of Ben Flynn Ms. Judith Flynn Mr. Peter Flynn Mr. Verland Force Margo Foxford Albert & Luisa Friesen Gisaya Gahungu Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Diane Gerhard Celebrating the Marriage of Marlene and Jerry Gary Gervais Dr. Lisa Gould Ms. Barbara Graham Mr. Bruce Granove Bobbi-Lynn Haegeman Alison Hall Stephen & Barbara Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Harvard Property Management Inc. / 201 Portage Ltd. Ms. Rhue Hayden Lydia Hedrich Ms. Donna Herold Katherine Himelblau Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Glen Pierce Debby and Brian Hirsch Vladimir Hlas Cathy Horbas William J. Hutton P. Ilavsky Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin & Jeanette Jackson Mrs. Miriam Jaeger James & Margaret Jeffries Bruce & Theresa Johnson Nancy Johnson Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones in Memory of Ben Flynn Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund at the Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation Ms. Nadia Kamienski Kevin & Els Kavanagh Ron Koswin Harry & Shirley Kowalchuk Peter Krahn Bryon Devries & Diane Lau Chapel Lawn Funeral Home Zandra Lea in Honour of Paul and Pamela Connolly Nancy LeBlond Melanie & Craig Leonhardt Lovie Liewicki Helen Litz Ms. Margaret Looney in Memory of Ben Flynn Ms. Leona MacDonald Ms. Lorraine MacIboric Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John J. March and His Parents Kathleen Malone James Manishen Manitoba Association of School
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Superintendents Elaine & Neil Margolis Maylanne Maybee in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Mrs. Mary McCormick Ross Meacham Ms. Linda Meckling Linda Meckling In Memory of Alan Blanchette Linda Lee-Meiers & Matt Meiers Lorna Mendoza Rita & Don Menzies Mr. Peter Mertins Trish Minish Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell G.F. (Rick) Morgan Mr. Rick Morgan Francine Morin Margaret Moroz, in Memory of Ben Moroz Mrs. Norma Morris Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Helena Jane Gahungu Bob and Cindy Newfield Mr. Robert Nix Nostalgia Broadcasting Cooperative Ms. Claudette Novak Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn William & Linda Oakley in Memory of Ben Flynn Peter Obendoerfer Thomas Obendoerfer Mr. Brian O'Leary Ms. Anna Olson Margaret Owen R & J Palmer Theresa Parker Elizabeth Parry Mr. David Pate Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary Kuran; In Honour of Beatrice Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una Kuran Mrs. Jackie Paul Mr. Julian Pellicano Brenda Peterson Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Mrs. Edna Poulter in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Ms. Lois Powne Thomas & Lorraine Prescott in Memory of Ben Flynn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott Mr. David Procner Dr. David Punter Catherine Purchase John & Violet Rademaker Mr. Carl Radimer Dr. Diane Ramsey James Ray in memory of Henry Ray Mrs. Marieann Reeves Barbara Rempel Tannis Richardson Erin Risbey David Guspodarchuk & Joey-Heather Robertson Garry and Tamara Roehr Karen Romanoff
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Mrs. Jeanne Romanoski Sheryl Rosenberg Jay Ross Penny Rossman Joan Sabourin Edward Sale in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Corazon Saquilayan Nicola Schaefer Barbara Scheuneman Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation Gaylene Schroeder-Nishimura Trudy Schroeder Kathleen Schubert Betty & Sam Searle Marilyn & Jon Seguire Ms. Mary Semanowich Olga & Myron Shatulsky Ms. Selma Shearer Wayne Shimizu Roger Simoens Christine Skene and Nick Logan Muriel Smith Michael Soriano Wilma Sotas Meg Specht Patricia Spencer and Thomas Osborn George Toles and Melissa Steele Lynne Stefanchuk Wally & Pat Stefanchuk Pat & Wally Stefanchuk Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Patricia & Fletcher Stewart in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Szwajcer Family Dr. Laura E. Targownik Caroline Taubensee Mary and Robert Thomas Ms. Phyllis A. C. Thomson Rev. & Mrs. William & Molly Titus in Memory of Benjamin Flynn Bill & Barb Toews Greg Tramley in memory of Dave Hunt Neil & Carol Trembath Ms. Terry Trupp Strang/van Ineveld Family Gail Walker in Memory of Benjamin Flynn Barbara Warrack The Waverley Tenant Association John & Diane Weselake Steve West S Whitehouse Don & Florence Whitmore Grace M. Wiebe Drs. Lora Cuddy & Mel Wiebe in Memory of Benjamin Flynn Ms. Edie Wilde William Wilde Ms. Sid Williamson The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Peter & Geraldine Spencer Fund V Wowryk Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky Ms. Diane Zack 9 Anonymous
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ANNUAL CAMPAIGN The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose generosity helped to support orchestral music in our community. Ms. Sylvia L. Barr Dianne J. Beaven F. Bell Monty & Mary-Claire Bell Marjorie Blankstein Helga & Gerhard Bock Frances Booth Ms. Bev Bosiak Wendy Broadfoot Greg & Sylvia Brodsky Dolores P. Brommell Ms. Carol Budnick Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Gerald Callow Mrs. Audrey Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Carl & Donna Chambers Karen Couch Dennis & Ruth Crook Jean Cunningham Ellen Curtis D. Cymbalist Piotr Czaykowski & Anne Worley Lena Donald Mr. & Ms. Jim & Virginia Dyck Lisa Edel Scott & Margaret Edmonds Donna Ekerholm Connie Epp John B. & Katie Epp Vera & Peter Fast Rev. Brenda Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Joan Fleming Miriam Fliegel Mrs. Gitta Fricke Arnold & Myra Frieman Marian H. Friesen Robert & Monica Friesen Arnold & Christa Froese George & Carol Gamby Mrs. A. Lee Gibson Mrs. Marie-Alice Grassick Mr. Patrick Hackett George Handyman Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Ian & Gerry Hamilton L. Harasym Teresa A. Hay Daniel Heindl & Eugene Boychuk L.G. Herd Terry Heron Sanford Hildebrand Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Carole Holke Stella Hryniuk Vi Hultin Mrs. Joan M. Hunter Rudy & Gail Isaak Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki
Crystal & GĂźnter Jochum J. H. Kaminsky Henry Katz in Memory of Dena Dr. Maureen Kilgour Ken Kinsley Frances R. Kolt Mona Koropatnick Paul Kosowan Ms. Jacki Koven Ms. Janet Kuchma Elizabeth Lansard Don Lawrence Mr. Norman Leathers P. M. Litwin Meiya Liu Roger Lowe Grant MacDougall Lydia MacKenzie Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Barbara Main Mr. Allan Mapes Aubrey Margolis Ms. Nola McBurney Bob and Betty McCamis Ms. Margaret K. McCulloch Ms. Diane McGregor Sylvia Mitchell Margaret & Fred Mooibroek D.E. Morrison Ms. Lillian Murphy Robert Nix Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Mr. Irwine Permut Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Mr. & Mrs. Barry Prentice David Punter Barbara M. Robertson Olga & Bill Runnalls Barbara Scheuneman A. Schroeder Dr. Robert Schroth Ken Schykulski Mrs. Doreen Shanks Carl and Margaret Shaykewich Pam Simmons Ms. Debbie Spacklin Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Stanton Mr. Herbert Stewart Juris and Aija Svenne Mrs. Joan Swaffer Ms. Judith Thompson Ms. Marilyn Thompson Ms. Andrea Towers Mrs. Susan Twaddle Audrey Walker Patricia Walker Mrs. Marilyn Weimer Evelyn Wener Ms. Joan Wise 17 Anonymous Listing as of January 28, 2016
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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 Terry Sargeant, 1st Vice President Curt Vossen, 2nd Vice President Rob Kowalchuk, CA, Treasurer Michael D. Kay, Secretary Sandra Altner Lucienne Blouw Emily Burt, MBA, CFA James Cohen Arlene Dahl Marten Duhoux Alan Freeman Daniel Friedman
Gregory Hay Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Peter Jessiman Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Maureen Kilgour Silvester Komlodi Sotirios Kotoulas Dr. Eleanor MacDougall Dr. Michael Nelson Dr. Ian Thomson Richard Turner Ex-Officio Trudy Schroeder, Executive Director Alexander Mickelthwate, Music 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 MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Development Sarah Duval, Director of Development Carol Cassels, Development Manager Shenna Song, Development Coordinator Sarah Panas, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Matt Brooks, Designer S.Thompson Designs Inc.
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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Margaret Kellermann McCulloch, President Sylvia Cassie, Past president Winnifred Warkentin, Vice president Nancy Weedon, Treasurer Sherratt Moffatt, Secretary
TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor
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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
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