2016/2017 Overture #2

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2016 I ISSUE 2

WAGNER UNMASKED HANDEL’S MESSIAH E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTIAL, FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR November and December are months of gratitude, contemplation, celebration, and renewal. In November, we celebrate the freedom of our nation and remember the sacrifices made by many during the wars of the past, and we can all be so thankful for the peaceful nation of opportunity in which we live. Live music performances with the WSO provide time to listen attentively and explore new landscapes created by the music. After one concert, an audience member approached me and said,“I am just so thankful that I am alive and that I heard that music tonight.” Perhaps that is the great gift of the live symphonic experience in our busy distracting lives, it gives us time to reflect and be grateful for the many blessings of our lives.

In this period of thankfulness and family celebration, we encourage you to include time for some fine musical explorations with friends and family members to add to your holiday season and truly make the season bright.We also know that many people make annual charitable gifts at this time of year, and WSO staff members would be very pleased to talk with you about projects and opportunities for annual giving or planning for legacy gifts that can support the work of the WSO in our community. More than 30% of the WSO’s annual budget comes through the generosity of the community.This makes it possible to keep tickets affordable, provide educational programs for youth and young adults, and serve our community with celebratory concerts at various points in the year.

The best way to experience the WSO for the first time, is to attend with friends or family members who enjoy the experience. As you consider holiday gift options, consider the enjoyment it could bring to friends and family members to attend a WSO concert with you.

Dinner & Symphony ticket packages are popular gift items, as are flex packages of tickets, or for this year the Winnipeg Culture Pass is available through the WSO box office for $89.

From all of us at the WSO, best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a new year brimming with good health, great music, and wonderful times with friends and family members.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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

Following on from his tenure as Assistant Conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which he completed in 2004, Alexander Mickelthwate was Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for three years, under the direction of Essa-Pekka Salonen. Now in his 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 Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg 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.

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Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor Julian Pellicano’s boundless musical appetite makes him a formidable interpreter of the symphonic repertoire as well as a versatile conductor in a wide range of genres.

He is currently the 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 typical classical training. He also holds degrees from 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 has conducted at Carnegie Hall with the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra.

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016-2017 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Harry Stafylakis FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster

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

TRUMPETS Isaac Pulford, Acting Principal Paul Jeffrey Brian Sykora

BASSES

BASS TROMBONE

The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda

Meredith Johnson, Principal Julia McIntyre, Principal The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtGramatté Memorial Chair, endowed Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal TUBA by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Travis Harrison Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Chris Anstey Mona Coarda Rodica Jeffrey Hong Tian Jia Meredith McCallum Jane Pulford Sonia Shklarov Julie Savard Jun Shao

Paul Nagelberg Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry

SECOND VIOLINS **Jeremy Buzash, Principal *Darryl Strain, Principal Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch Kristina Bauch **Teodora Dimova *Elizabeth Dyer Bokyung Hwang Susan McCallum Takayo Noguchi Claudine St-Arnauld

OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan

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

Chris Lee, Principal TIMPANI Mike Kemp, Principal Supported by Gorden & Audrey Fogg

FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal Martha Durkin

PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal

PICCOLO Martha Durkin

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

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Chris Lee

ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan, Principal

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Raymond Chrunyk

CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Michelle Goddard

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall

BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal Kathryn Brooks

*On Leave **Temporary Position

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.

The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair

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

Caroline Oberheu Michiko Singh

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Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Peter Wedd, tenor (Tristan) Karen Foster, soprano (Isolde) Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano (Brangäne) Nathan Starke, bass (Marke) Peter John Buchan, tenor (Melot) Kris Kornelsen, baritone (Kurwenal) Rob Herriot, host and stage director*

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod

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Wagner Unmasked: Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Tristan und Isolde: An Overview* - INTERMISSION -

Tristan und Isolde: Act II Scene I Scene II Scene III Presented with English surtitles.

Friday, November 4 Saturday, November 5

8:00 p.m.

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Judith Otway, vocalist

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Wagner’s musical syntax opened an unprecedented musico-dramatic world. His new and bold tonal language with its

by James Manishen seemingly endless evaded resolutions produced a turbulent eroticism in its Tristan und Isolde overwhelming sense of longing, Richard Wagner heightened by the composer’s own b. Leipzig / May 22, 1813 voluptuous prose that startled even d.Venice / February 13, 1883 himself as he progressed during its Composed: 1856-1859 creation while carrying on affair with First performance: June 10, 1865 (Munich), conducted by Hans von Bülow Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of Wagner’s friend Otto Wesendonck, who so First WSO performance generously provided a cottage for Wagner In 1854 Wagner wrote to to work in at the time.“This Tristan is turning into something terrifying!” composer Franz Liszt: “Never in my life having In 1856 while Wagner and his wife Minna enjoyed the true were living in Wesendonck’s cottage on the happiness of love I shall outskirts of Zurich, the composer was about erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which,from the first to the last, two-thirds of the way through completion of The Ring of the Nibelung, his epic cycle of love shall,for once,find utter repletion.I four operas encompassing the beginning have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde,the simplest,yet most full-blooded and the end of the world.Due to his part in musical conception imaginable,and with the defeated Dresden uprising in 1849, the ‘black flag’that waves at the end I shall Wagner had been a political exile with a price on his head.He knew that a cover myself over – to die.” performance in Germany of The Ring would Whether it is prophetic or coincidental, be a fierce challenge, further complicated by his vision of a theatre specifically designed the fact that Wagner was penning the first notes of Tristan und Isolde during the for the 14-hour cycle.The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opened with the premiere of year of Sigmund Freud’s birth in 1856 gave a whole new meaning to the role The Ring in August 1876. of subconscious motivation in music In any event and with Wagner’s normally where life and death and the status of chronic shortage of cash for The Ring the outer world revolve on the inner project, he decided to undertake a “modest” movements of the mind. A “music music drama based on the medieval drama”it was called, for there are no mere trappings of opera melodrama or romance of Tristan und Isolde.There would be a small cast, not much stage action and familial consequences among the two main characters such as with Romeo and no special effects. Modesty wasn’t the word for the finished Tristan of course, but Juliet or Lancelot and Guinevere, Bavarian King Ludwig II provided princely memorable as those are. patronage to cover the costs. Completing In Wagner’s telling, the “action,”allied to the score in 1859,Wagner had to wait six the most potent musical abstractions, years for the premiere that took place in probes the depths of the minds of the Munich in June of 1865. characters and by association, ours, over Cast in the leads of Tristan und Isolde were the nearly five-hour length of the full score.The ambiguity in finding answers Ludwig and Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfield - real life husband and wife.The to what Tristan und Isolde asks is a premiere was delayed a month due to an necessary part of experiencing the affliction of hoarseness from Malvina. work because of the profoundly individual manner in which the music Ludwig died suddenly after only four performances, the stress of singing the role affects each listener. suspected as the cause. By then Wagner Like Darwin, who published The Origin of was living with Cosima von Bülow, Species the same year Wagner finished daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Hans Tristan und Isolde, the human condition von Bülow who, though cuckolded, still was put to the test in both realms, as managed to conduct the premiere.The scientific and musical exploration forever audience was confused but respectful, but changed their respective courses.

Wagner’s friends that travelled in for the

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premiere and King Ludwig were ecstatic, proclaiming the work a masterpiece.

The emotional narrative, in Wagner’s own words: “A primitive old love poem,which,far from having become extinct,is constantly fashioning itself anew,and has been adopted by every European language of the Middle Ages,tells of Tristan and Isolde.Tristan,the faithful vassal,woos for his king her for whom he dares not avow his own love,Isolde.

Isolde,powerless than to do otherwise than obey the wooer,follows him as bride to his lord.Jealous of this infringement of her rights,the Goddess of Love takes her revenge.

As the result of a happy mistake,she allows the couple to taste of the love potion which,in accordance with the custom of the times,and by way of precaution,the mother had prepared for the husband who should marry her daughter from political motives, and which,by the burning desire which suddenly inflames them after tasting it,opens their eyes to the truth and leads to the avowal that for the future they belong only to each other.

Henceforth,there is no end to the longings,the demands,the joys and woes of love.The world,power,fame, splendor,honor,knighthood,fidelity, friendship — all are dissipated like an empty dream.One thing only remains: longing,longing,insatiable longing, forever springing up anew,pining and thirsting.Death,which means passing away,perishing,never awakening, their only deliverance....

Powerless,the heart sinks back to languish in longing,in longing without attaining; for each attainment only begets new longing, until in the last stage of weariness the foreboding of the highest joy of dying, of no longer existing,of the last escape into that wonderful kingdom from which we are furthest off when we are most strenuously striving to enter therein.Shall we call it death? Or is it the hidden wonder-world from out of which an ivy and vine,entwined with each other,grew up upon Tristan’s and Isolde’s grave,as the legend tells us?”

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Wagner Unmasked

Peter Wedd, tenor (Tristan) The international career of Peter Wedd has taken him to sing in Opera Houses like the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Semperoper Dresden, Bellas Artes in Mexico, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Polish National Opera, Opera North, Nederlandse Reisopera, Longborough Festival, Garsington Opera, and Opera Australia.

His first repertoire included Alfredo, Don José, Tamino, Don Ottavio, Laca (Jenufa), Gregor (Makropoulos Case), Florestan or Giasone, moving in 2013 into the lyric Wagner repertoire. Lohengrin at the Welsh National Opera got Peter Wedd outstanding reviews, followed by Siegmund (Die Walküre) with Jan Latham Koenig, Lohengrin at the Polish National Opera and Tristan at the Picketts Festival and the Longborough Festival, where the press wrote:“His Tristan is a triumph, ” The Guardian.

Peter Wedd recordings include Beethoven’s Symophony No.9 with Avie Recordings or Jenufa, Fidelio, Der Fliegende Holländer and Les Dialogues des Carmelites, all for Chandos.

Karen Foster, soprano (Isolde) Soprano Karen Foster has been praised for a voice that “fills the palette of emotions with conviction and flexibility” (Aftenposten). In the 2015-2016 season, Ms. Foster sang Isolde in Tristan und Isolde and Sieglinde in Die Walküre with Adelphi Orchestra; Gerhilde in Die Walküre with Hong Kong Philharmonic (recording to be released by Naxos in 2017); and Gerhilde with Bayerische Staatsoper, which she will reprise in the 2017-2018 season. Recent highlights include Isolde in a new production with Den Norske Opera (Norwegian Opera); third prize in the Lauritz

Melchoir International Singing Competition; the title role in Turandot with New Rochelle Opera and Arizona Opera; Helmwige in Die Walküre with Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein; Leonora in Il trovatore with Westfield Symphony; Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Wagner Society of Washington D.C at the Kennedy Center; and joining Lyric Opera of Chicago for Lohengrin and Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano (Brangäne) With a voice that has been called “pure gold,” and dramatic gifts that place her in the first rank of singer-actors, American mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips is closely associated with the music of Wagner. She has performed most of the mezzo roles in The Ring cycle, making an acclaimed role debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde for Dallas Opera, as well as returning to the Metropolitan Opera as Schwertleite in Die Walküre, in which she also covered the role of Fricka. She has sung Fricka and Waltraute in Die Walküre and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung at Canadian Opera; Erda in the Scottish Opera’s Ring, and Wellgunde and Rossweise in Seattle Opera’s Ring cycles.

Ms. Phillips has also been hailed for her Verdi.

Of her performances of Princess Eboli in Don Carlo, Vancouver Sun said “she deserves an opera best supporting actress Oscar: vocally confident and theatrically practiced, she is a singer/actress of power and stature.”

Nathan Starke, bass (Marke) Praised by the Washington Post as having a voice of “unearthly power,” Nathan Stark has performed on operatic and concert stages throughout the United States, China and Europe. In the summer of 2016, Mr. Stark returned to Cincinnati Opera as Rocco in Fidelio. His engagements in the 2016-2017 November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 9

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Wagner Unmasked

season include Colline in La bohème (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Madison Opera); Father Palmer in Puts’ Silent Night (Opera San Jose); Verdi’s Requiem (New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Canton Symphony Orchestra); Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Pacific Chorale); and Defiant Requiem (Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic).

Mr. Stark’s recent engagements include reprising the roles of Gravedigger/Montressor in Buried Alive and Embedded (Fort Worth Opera); Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hawaii Opera Theatre); La bohème (Tulsa Opera); Sulpice in La fille du regiment (Mill City Summer Opera); and Old Hebrew in Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra).

Kris Kornelsen, baritone (Kurwenal) Baritone Kris Kornelsen is no stranger to the music scene in Winnipeg. He has sung as both a soloist and chorister with The Winnipeg Singers and Canzona and has enjoyed guest appearances with The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, The Mennonite Oratorio Choir and the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir. Kris has performed as soloist in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew’s Passions. He is known for his musicianship and ability to actively communicate with his audiences. He brings a refreshingly bright yet warm vocal quality marked by sensitive phrasing to his performances. Kris is also very active singing various styles of music, from classical to jazz, gospel and pop with the mixed vocal quartet, Encore.

Peter John Buchan, tenor (Melot) PJ Buchan – a native of Winnipeg – has been involved with choral and vocal music since he joined the men and boys choir at All Saint’s Church in 1979. He has appeared as a chorister and soloist with 10

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many of Winnipeg’s foremost ensembles, including the Winnipeg Singers, Camerata Nova, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, as well as for CBC national broadcast.

PJ has been a competitor for both the Rose Bowl and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival, has appeared as a soloist in London’s Millennium Centre and Prague’s St Vitus’s Cathedral, and was the guest soloist at the February 2005 Reykjavik Winter Festival. PJ has been involved in a number of opera productions with Winnipeg’s Musical Offering and Little Opera Company.

Rob Herriot, Stage Director/Singer/Actor Canadian stage director/singer/actor Rob Herriot has directed productions of Turandot, 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, Addams Family and A Little Night Music with Dry Cold Productions here in Winnipeg.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Yufei Liu, violin; Momoko Matsumura, viola; Laurel Ridd, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Mary Chalk, bassoon; Karine Breton, bassoon

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Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist and piano Julian Pellicano, conductor

Day In, Day Out Walkin' My Baby Back Home Mona Lisa Nature Boy Route 66 Smile To The Ends of The Earth When I Fall In Love L-O-V-E

AIR CANADA POPS SOUNDBYTES

Denzal Sinclaire Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook

Rube Bloom Fred. E. Ahlert Ray Evans/Jay Livingston Eden Ahbez Bobby Troup Charles Chaplin Noel & Joe Sherman Victor Young Bert Kaempfert/Milt Gabler

- INTERMISSION -

Amazing Grace I'm Getting Ready Follow You Follow Me You & The Night & The Music Always On My Mind This Is My Lucky Day I've Got The World On A String

John Newton, arr. Denzal Sinclaire Michael Kiwanuka T. Banks/P. Collins/M. Rutherford Arthur Schwartz J. Christopher Jr./W.Thompson/M. James L. Brown/B. De Sylva/R. Henderson, arr. Sinclaire Harold Arlen

All arrangements by Jeff Tyzik unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, November 11 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 12 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 13 2:00 p.m.

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Regimental Band of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Saturday, 7:15 p.m. TBD Sunday, 1:15 p.m.

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Denzal Sinclaire Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook

Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist and piano In addition to his talents as a pianist, percussionist and actor, Denzal Sinclaire is one of Canada’s most popular jazz vocalists and is ranked among the finest jazz singers of his generation. From the moment he steps on stage, he seems to naturally and effortlessly evoke a profound emotional interaction with his audience, touching the listener with his passionate and sincere delivery and the purity of the message in every song he sings.

Sinclaire is a multiple nominee of the Juno Award, a recipient of the 2004 National Jazz Award for “Best Album,” four-time consecutive recipient of Jazz Report Magazine Award for Male Jazz Vocalist, and France’s 2007 Choc Jazzman Award.

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From his early days as a canny interpreter of Nat ‘King’ Cole’s mentholated crooning, he’s grown into one of the most distinctive and individualistic singers anywhere. He has graced the stages of numerous concert halls and festivals around the world, and appeared on several TV shows, including Canada's Bravo!TV, Canada AM, Nashville Now, and Ireland's The Late Late Show. As a former member of UK soul artist Jamie Lidell's band, he has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Manu Katché's show in France, One Shot Not. Sinclaire has recorded three albums for Universal Music: I Found Love, Denzal Sinclaire, and My One & Only Love.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Janice Finlay, alto sax; Ken Gold, bari sax; Nenad Zjelar, bass; Will Bonness, piano; Quincy Davis, drums

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Finjan: Shayla Fink, accordion, vocals Sasha Boychouk, saxophones, clarinet Myron Schultz, clarinet Victor Schultz, violin Daniel Koulack, guitar, mandolin, banjo Kinzey Posen, bass, vocals Julian Pellicano, conductor

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Fiddler on the Roof: Medley Jerry Bock, arr. John Williams Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra Sid Robinovitch Burlesque Arioso Galicienne Tango Tzigane - INTERMISSION -

S'vivon, sov, sov, sov Bukovinska Polka Abi Gezunt

Trad, arr. Howard Cable Trad, arr. Myron Schultz Abraham Ellstein/Molly Picon arr. Finjan Trad, arr. Finjan Ziggy Elman/Johnny Mercer Arr. Finjan/Sid Robinovitch Aaron Lebedeff, arr. Finjan Trad. Arr. Finjan

Kolamenka And the Angels Sing Roumanye Ot Ot

Saturday, November 26

8:00 p.m.

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DINNER & SYMPHONY

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Finjan Returns!

Finjan, klezmer band

Canada’s first klezmer group, Finjan, started up in Winnipeg in 1982. At the time, the Klezmer revival was just establishing itself in the United States. Finjan made its debut in February of 1983 on CBC national radio and soon the group was in demand throughout North America. Finjan has recorded five albums and have appeared in films, including

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The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick and The Saddest Music in the World. With three Juno nominations and a Prairie Music Week award for Outstanding Classical Album, Finjan has paved the way for similar groups and influenced a new generations of players, including Socalled A.K.A. Josh Dolgin. After commissioning composer Sid Robinovitch to write Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra, Finjan premiered the piece with the WSO and since then, has performed it with orchestras throughout North America. It’s with joy, that Finjan is back to present the work with the WSO once again.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIAN: Tony Cyre, drums

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Peter & the Wolf Live Julian Pellicano, conductor Gordon Tanner, actor

Peter and the Wolf

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Sergei Prokofiev

Original Script & Poetry by Simon Armitage,commissioned by Southbank Centre,London Script written by Matthew Sharp Breakthru Films,production Suzie Templeton,director

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Peter & The Wolf Gordon Tanner, actor Gordon Tanner has earned his living as an actor and writer in Winnipeg for more than 20 years.

His introduction to Peter & The Wolf was through the narration of Sterling Holloway on the Walt Disney LP, which he listened to hundreds of times lying on the floor in his parents’ living room. He is thrilled to have the chance to introduce a new generation to Prokofiev's delightful characters.

He has performed with Prairie Theatre Exchange, Theatre Projects Manitoba, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shakespeare In The Ruins, Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, et Le Cercle Molière and is looking forward to touring the province this winter with MTYP's Dib and Dob and the Journey Home.

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Tania Miller, conductor Jennie Such, soprano Kirsten Schellenberg, alto

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Messiah Justin Odwak, tenor Michael Nyby, baritone Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, co-directors

Messiah

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Part the First - INTERMISSION -

Part the Second There will be a very brief interval between Parts II and III. Please remain in the hall.

Part the Third

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The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra wishes to acknowledge the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra for the use of the portative organ in tonight’s performance.

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by James Manishen

Messiah George Frideric Handel b. Halle, Prussia / February 23, 1685 d. London, England / April 14, 1759 Composed: 1741. First performance: 1742 (Dublin).

The most celebrated oratorio of all time, Messiah elicits almost an involuntary response of recognition at the mere mention of its name. It is the most loved of all oratorios and for all their estimable merits, neither the Passions of Bach nor Haydn’s Creation rival Messiah’s popularity, though Mendelssohn’s Elijah was, in the 19-century, considered its equal.

One feels the urge to want to sing as with no other work of its genre, as imperial melody, invention and vision are presented with the matchless proportion of a theatrical master. And for the gift of Messiah, we literally have to thank inches, when, as a young man, Handel’s life was saved after a metal frock button deflected a sword point in a duel!

Yet for all the visionary qualities in the music’s progression from dark to light, the dramatic strength of Messiah comes not from telling a story.

Handel’s theatrical background was inbred when he composed Messiah, but his priority was contemplation of the sacred rather than the dramatic.

“I should be sorry if I only entertained them,”Handel told an admirer.

“I wished to make them better.”

Messiah is an anomaly among Handel’s two dozen oratorios in that, apart from Israel in Egypt, its entire text is drawn from the Bible and is his only oratorio based on the New Testament. Messiah was also the only oratorio presented in a consecrated space during his lifetime. Not intended as part of a devotional service, Handel intended it as a middle-class entertainment with pious leanings and just a step removed from the Italian operatic style ventures he had been having success with as London’s leading composer, impresario and producer of opera.

But in 1740, Handel was having trouble keeping such ventures solvent. English public taste was moving away from continental influences towards more localized entertainments, spurred on by the success of the 1728 satirical romp The Beggar’s Opera by Gay and Pepusch.

Rumors abounded that Handel was finished.

Handel withdrew from public life in the early months of 1741 and seldom ventured out. But that summer, he came across a small book of Biblical texts assembled by Charles Jennens, a wealthy and pretentious type but a great admirer of the composer.

Handel’s imagination lit up.

Rumor has it that Handel confined himself to his room, completing Messiah on September 14, 1741 in just over three weeks, but evidence shows that the Lord Lieutenant of Dublin had visited Handel early in 1741 to propose a new work for a series of Dublin charity concerts.

Handel traveled to Dublin that November and after the disappointments of London, took much pleasure in being enthusiastically received by the Irish press. Preparations for the premiere went on throughout the winter of 1742. Choristers were recruited from Dublin churches and excitement elevated to fever pitch.

The premiere on April 13th 1742 was a triumph. Handel couldn’t wait to take it home to London.

In London however, it was felt that Messiah’s texts would be compromised by performances in theatres propagated by actors of questionable morals. Messiah received a few subsequent performances but had to wait until more liberal times arrived in 1750 when Handel staged a performance to benefit London’s Foundling Hospital, a charity for abandoned children.

Such good will further ensured Messiah’s success, inspiring annual performances for the Foundling Hospital up until Handel’s death in 1759. It was the last work Handel directed, just eight days before his death and is the only major Baroque work that has an unbroken performance tradition from the time of its creation to the present day.

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français.

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Tania Miller, conductor In 2016-2017, Tania Miller celebrates her fourteenth season as Music Director of the Victoria Symphony. As the first Canadian woman ever to be Music Director of a major Canadian symphony orchestra, Tania Miller and the Victoria Symphony marked the orchestras’ 75th anniversary in 2015-2016 by touring Canada with performances in Vancouver, Ottawa, Quebec City and Toronto.

Internationally, Jennie has performed in Germany at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Handel Festival in Halle, the Seoul Arts Centre in Korea and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. In 2014, Jennie joined the Artistic Company at the Stratford Festival where she is the resident Singing Coach. This season she received a prestigious Guthrie Award from the company. A member of the Voice Faculty at Western University, Jennie joined the Don Wright Faculty of Music in 2013.

Kirsten Schellenberg, alto Tania Miller also pursues an active guestconducting schedule. She has appeared in Canada with (among others) the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Orchestra London, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; and the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Vancouver, Kitchener-Waterloo, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton. In the United States, she has conducted the Seattle, Tucson, New West and Elgin Symphony Orchestras and the Naples (FL) Philharmonic, while in Europe she has conducted the Berne Symphoniker in Switzerland and Poland’s Wroclow Philharmonic.

Jennie Such, soprano Jennie enjoys a diverse career as a performer, teacher and coach. Her repertoire spans the genres of oratorio, opera, and musical theatre. As an oratorio soloist Jennie made her professional debut with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Vancouver Symphony in Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem.

Subsequently, she has performed across Canada with many organizations including the Victoria Symphony, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the National Ballet Orchestra.

Mezzo-soprano Kirsten Schellenberg is considered “one of Manitoba’s most consistent singers” and has been described as “a young Maureen Forester” (Winnipeg Free Press). She has appeared as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra on many occasions. Kirsten presently sings with Canzona, Winnipeg’s Baroque Choir, and is often featured as a soloist in major works by Handel and Bach. She has also enjoyed guest appearances with The Winnipeg Singers, The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, the Mennonite Festival Chorus, and the Little Opera Compnay. Kirsten’s day job is teaching music to students in kindergarten to Grade 4 at École Margaret Underhill in Transcona. She is also in demand as a choral clinician and guest conductor for children’s choirs.

Justin Odwak, tenor Tenor, Justin Odwak is an active performer, choral conductor and vocal instructor. Justin made his solo debut in 2013 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in A Prairie Christmas Celebration, and has appeared as soloist in Messiah with Orchestra London and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, both under the baton of Tafelmusik’s Ivars Taurins. Justin has also recently appeared as soloist with the Regina November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 27

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Symphony Orchestra, and the Okanagan Festival Singers and Orchestra. He has performed as soloist with other organizations such as the Winnipeg Singers, Canzona, Camerata Nova, and the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir. Justin has appeared as soloist with the University of Manitoba singers for Soundstreams at Toronto's Koerner Hall along with the Latvian Radio Choir. He has also performed as soloist with the group for the Rocky Mountain Music Festival at the Banff Centre. Justin has performed with the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble, appearing at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium, and in Winnipeg at the Centennial Concert Hall, as well as performing at the International Karmiel Festival in Israel. As a choral conductor, Justin is co-founder and director of the Kolot Choir at the Rady JCC, is the current choir director of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, is the codirector of the Rainbow Harmony Project, and has conducted vocal and choral workshops in Winnipeg. Currently, he is completing his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education at the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, under the direction of Mel Braun.

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.

In 2015, Mr. Nyby sang the world-premiere of Georgia Bottoms, a comic opera set in modern day Alabama, with the Huntsville Symphony. World premieres also include Kuszmenko’s oratorio Golden Harvest for the Winnipeg Symphony, and Isis and Osiris by 28

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Peter Anthony Togni for VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert of Toronto. Recent and upcoming engagements include Danilo in The Merry Widow with Edmonton Opera, and performances with the Windsor Symphony (Messiah), Winnipeg Symphony, 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.

Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, co-directors The Mennonite Festival Chorus 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 Canadian Mennonite University.

Erin Propp & Larry Roy

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Tuesday, December 13 - 7:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, December 14 - 7:30 p.m.

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Friday, December 16 - 7:30 p.m.

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Christmas at the Movies God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen* Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy * Amahl and the Night Visitors: Introduction, March & Dance How the Grinch Stole Christmas “Boh Predvichnay” (God Eternal)** The Christmas Song*** Twas the Night Before Christmas

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Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Ron Jeffers Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez Johann Strauss Jr. David Itkin Leontovich arr. Hayman arr. David Willcocks Jerry Herman

Sunday, December 4

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MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile.

Sunday, 1:05 p.m.

Manitoba Band Association Christmas Tuba Festival

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Ace Burpee, host Ace Burpee has worked in radio for over a decade in almost every capacity, and is well known for the hundreds of charitable events and causes that he donates his time to every year. He is currently the host of The Ace Burpee Show on 103.1 Virgin Radio.

Ace is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his service to our community, he is the recipient of a Hero of Mental Health Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association, he has received a Volunteer Manitoba Award for Outstanding Community Leadership, was recognized as Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Manitoba and also named a Manitoba Hero.

He is proudly from Cooks Creek, Manitoba.

Pembina Trails Voices Family of Choirs Minnesingers: Debra Yacheson, conductor; Myrna Hagues, pianist PTV Boys TC: Jenna-Lynn Fraser, conductor; Leanne Regehr Lee, pianist Choraliers: Andrea Wicha, conductor; Amanda Hahn-Tomchuk, pianist Chorale: Monika Lukomska, conductor; Kimberly Lapatha, pianist PTV Boys: Alisa Wiebe, conductor; Leanne Regehr Lee, pianist Cantemus: David Sawatzky, conductor; Leanna Regehr Lee, pianist PTV Men: Philip Lapatha, conductor; Amanda Hahn-Tomchuk, pianist PTV Singers: David Sawatzky and Philip Lapatha, co-conductors; Leanne Regehr Lee, pianist

Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, Christopher Sklepowich, director

Pembina Trails Voices

Having sung for audiences for over thirty years, Pembina Trails Voices (PTV) is one of Manitoba’s premiere children’s and youth choir organizations. PTV is a collection of eight choirs comprised of choristers from Kindergarten through Grade 12, and affiliated with Pembina Trails School Division. PTV choirs are consistent winners in local as well as national and international festivals and competitions. PTV tours have taken choristers from locations throughout Manitoba to festivals and competitions across Canada, Europe and Latin America.

Most recently, PTV Singers undertook a 10-day concert tour of China in 2015, and is looking forward to travelling to Cuba in March. The choirs are thrilled to be in concert today with the WSO as part of the Prairie Christmas Celebration!

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Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus was founded in Winnipeg in the fall of 1969, by alumni of the former St. Vladimir’s College (Minor Seminary) in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada.The group’s aim was to encourage, promote, and preserve their Ukrainian heritage as part of the mosaic that makes up Canada’s rich cultural tapestry. Hoosli’s main objectives today are to contribute to the development of Canadian culture by promoting and preserving Ukrainian cultural traditions; to educate the public about the origins of Ukrainian performing arts; and to encourage and enhance understanding and appreciation of Ukrainian-Canadian cultural traditions. Over the past 47 years, more than 175 men have poured their hearts and souls into Hoosli, and have helped pass on the fire and spirit of the Kozaky to this day. Hoosli has performed all over North America, recorded nine albums, and continually strives to inspire audiences with the majestic sound of four-part male harmony. Under the

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direction of Conductor Walter Skakun, Hoosli proudly shows its dedication to the Ukrainian heritage through its repertoire of liturgical music and folk songs, as well as the patriotic songs of Ukraine and the Kozaky.

Amber Epp, vocalist The shortest distance between a Mennonite choir and an open-air jazz patio in Havana is Amber Epp. A childhood of singing at the dinner table and exploring the piano (with her fingers and her toes) has not surprisingly culminated in music filled with adventure, discovery, joy, and a Western Canadian Music Award for one of her four CDs. A connoisseur of musical genres, Amber transports you with her to wherever she's going. No matter the language, no matter the country, from Cuba to the Yukon, Amber leaves you with a heart pumping out the rhythms of the world.

“You instantly know you're in great hands from the moment Amber Epp begins singing. The depth and breadth of her skill becomes evident - and suddenly, you are transported to wherever she wants to take you, and you can't help but be entirely seduced.” – Heather Bishop

Chris Funk, wonderist Were you to just meet him in the street and then be asked what you think Chris Funk does for a living, "magician" probably wouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind. Hair model, maybe. "The guy who gets stuff down off the high shelves," sure, but not magician.

And Chris wouldn't call himself that either.

Performing on stage since the age of seven — first as a musician and then as a magician — and having spent the last 23 years honing his current craft, Chris blends intuition, influence, and illusion to truly redefine wonder. That's why he goes by "The Wonderist" — "magician" just doesn't cover it. A magician

can do a trick and wow an audience, but it takes a Wonderist to truly connect with that audience and create an engaging, personal, and hilarious experience time and time again. An improv master, Chris truly takes advantage of the special and spontaneous moments that make every show different from the last. His comedic timing is spot-on and his rapier wit is as refreshing as it is side-splitting.

Odette Heyn-Projects Odette Heyn, as Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Professional Program of The School of Contemporary Dancers, has choreographed works, both nationally and internationally, for various performances including The Festival of Canadian Modern Dance, the Olympics Danscene (Calgary 1988) the Kuan Du Arts Festival in Taipei, The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006, Odette was nominated for the “Woman of the Year” award for Arts and Culture through the YWCA. Odette created two full-length works, which were hailed with glowing reviews, for the WSO’s La Noche de los Mayas and the Rite of Spring. She also choreographed for WSO’s Adventures in Music and SoundBytes. In 2012, Odette choreographed for the off-Broadway production Requiem for a Lost Girl and, in 2013, Mata Hari, in New York City and in December 2013 for the WSO. Odette performed in WCD’s Rachel Browne Tribute Tour in January 2013. In June 2013, Odette was the recipient of the Winnipeg Arts Council’s “Investors Group Making a Difference Award – for extraordinary contribution to the arts.” She is delighted to be returning to choreograph for this project.

Todd Martin, vocalist Todd Martin is an artist that thrives in Winnipeg's uniquely diverse and rich musical community. A singer and multiinstrumentalist and founding member of the Dirty Catfish Brass November – December 2016 I OVERTURE 33

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Band, Todd has performed at all of the top venues and festivals in and around Winnipeg, including the Winnipeg Folk Festival, TD Winnipeg Jazz Festival, and Dauphin's Countryfest. He is a regular performer with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The Ron Paley Big Band and Rainbow Stage. Todd has recorded with many of Winnipeg's finest musicians and bands, including three Juno award winning albums: Let it Lie by The Bros.

Landreth, Pilgrimage by Steve Bell and Key Principles by Nathan. A lifelong student of music, Todd enjoys teaching both the French horn, and the harmonica. Todd has lived in Winnipeg since 2002 with his wife Patricia Evans, Gus the cat and Farkas the dog.

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The Honourable Rochelle Squires, special guest Narrator Rochelle Squires was elected as the MLA for Riel in 2016. A journalist, Squires holds a bachelor of arts in communications from the University of Winnipeg, a master of fine arts from the University of British Columbia and a journalism diploma from Red River College. She and her husband Daniel have a combined family of five children and one grandson.

Clara Hughes and Andrea Brazeau, co-hosts

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Arctic Symphony Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Nunavut Sivuniksavut students

Welcome & Introduction by Canadian Olympian Clara Hughes and Andrea Brazeau of Nunavik, Northern Quebec Remarks by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada Remarks by composer Vincent Ho Arctic Symphony (2010)* I. Prelude – Lamentations III. Aboard the Amundsen IV. Nightfall V. O Glorious Arcticus - Postlude

Vincent Ho

*Including Qauma, a traditional Inuit song, and Inuit sivuniksangan by Sylvia Cloutier and former Nunavut Sivuniksavut students, plus arctic environmental recordings provided by Dr. Derek Charke.

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Presentation of 2016 Award Finalists Presentation of $1M Arctic Inspiration Prize The $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize honours the extraordinary contribution made by multidisciplinary teams in the gathering of Arctic knowledge and their plans to implement this knowledge to real world applications for the benefit of the Canadian Arctic, Arctic Peoples and therefore Canada as a whole.

For more information visit www.arcticinspirationprize.ca Presented by the Rideau Hall Foundation in collaboration with ArcticNet’s 12th Annual Scientific Conference.

Arctic Symphony image credits: Doug Barber

Thursday, December 8

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by Vince Ho

Arctic Symphony Vincent Ho b. Ottawa / 1975 First performance: February 2010; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor, Nunavut Sivuniksavut Performers, choir

In the summer of 2008, I was offered the opportunity to visit the Arctic region as part of an “Artist on Board”program through the Circumpolar Flaw Lead Systems Study organization (CFL). I was taken on board a state-of-the-art research vessel,The CCGS Amundsen, where I was introduced to the studies conducted by many of the world’s leading climate change scientists. I was also taken to many indigenous communities to learn about their culture and how the current state of the environment has impacted their way of life.The goal was to provide me with first-hand experience of the Northern region while gaining a better understanding of climate change (from both the scientific and the cultural perspective) so it may inspire the creation of a large-scale symphonic work.The result was my Arctic Symphony.

For the first movement, I.Prelude – Lamentations, I wanted to open with the sense of wonder and enchantment that I felt when I first arrived in the Arctic.To convey this, I decided to compose a very simple harmonious chorale for the strings (Prelude) so it may invite the listener into the world that I walked into.The next section takes a different turn (Lamentations).

After learning about some of the things that were occurring to the Northern environment and their ramifications, I thought to myself “if the land could sing what would it say or sound like?”This

thought process led me to the creation of an emotion-laden song without words (conveyed primarily through the strings). For every emotional statement and sorrowful cry, the sounds of cascading harmonies and freefloating melodies drift in and out like Northern winds.

While I was on the ship,The Amundsen, I felt like a kid in a candy store for the very first time.

To be on a state-of-art research vessel surrounded by many of the world’s top climate change scientists was an exciting adventure for me. I wasted no time exploring every area I could find and meeting everyone along the way. From the engineering room to the main deck, to the cafeteria to the science labs, I left no place unexplored. For the third movement, III.Aboard the Amundsen, I wanted to musically re-create this environment that by simulating the sounds that surrounded me: the driving rhythms of the engines, the motoric pounding of the machinery, the clanging collisions of the industrial equipment, etc.

Throughout my trip I was fascinated to see how the scientists and elders would meet to share their valuable information, each from completely different angles: one was scientific while the other was cultural (or modern versus traditional knowledge).Though their experiences and relationship with the Arctic came from differing perspectives, the one thing they did share was a concern for the region’s plight.

Thus, for the last movement, V.O Glorious Arcticus – Postlude, I aimed to bring two worlds together in musical form.The music combines elements of the Western world (such as chorales, major/minor tonality, counterpoint, etc.) with those of the Northern world (“throatsinging”motifs, pentatonic harmonies, rhythmic cell structures, etc.). In many ways, this movement captures the wondrous experience I had in the Arctic with representatives of the two different worlds as my guides.

For the fourth movement, IV. Nightfall, I wanted recreate the environmental conditions of the Arctic as I had experienced during nightfall.The orchestra is used percussively to convey sounds normally associated to nature: gusting winds, distant howls, pattering of water, etc.The opening captures the chaos of a windstorm but this slowly settles into a gentle breeze as night falls over the land.

As everything comes to quieter calm and peace has finally arrived, a melancholy chorale is heard in the distant (performed by a string quartet) to finish the evening off with a musical prayer.

Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français.

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Nunavut Sivuniksavut Choir

Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS) is a college program, dedicated to providing Inuit youth with unique cultural and academic learning experiences that will allow them to develop the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes needed to contribute to the building of Nunavut.

For 30 years, this eight month Ottawabased college program has been achieving remarkable success in helping Inuit youth make the transition from high school into the workforce and/or further post-secondary education.

Affiliated with Algonquin College and Carleton University, students learn a variety of subjects concentrating on Inuit issues. The 1st year program focuses on the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Inuit History and Contemporary issues surrounding Inuit to name a few. The optional 2nd year program focuses on Circumpolar issues, as well as Political Science and Research Methods.

The eight students performing are: Aislyn Bolt, Kugluktuk, Avery Keenainak, Pangirtung, Donovan Gordon-Tootoo, Rankin Inlet, Emmeline Ipeelie, Iqaluit, Haail Nowdlak, Iqaluit, Isaiah McKeownPhilip, Iqaluit, Leetia Kalluk, Arctic Bay, and Olaf Christensen, Grise Fiord.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; TBD, trumpet; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Donna Laube, piano

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Jann Arden, vocalist Julian Pellicano, conductor Miles Macdonell Symphony Singers, Zane Zalis, director

Canadian Brass Christmas Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas Sleigh Ride It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year The Christmas Song The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth

Please Come Home for Christmas The Best Christmas of All

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A Jann Arden Christmas

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Rejoice Carol of the Bells Silent Night Happy X-mas (War is Over) I’ll Be Home for Christmas O Holy Night It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas We Need a Little Christmas

Friday, December 9 Saturday, December 10

8:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Steven Amundsen Leontovich arr. Richard Hayman Gruber arr. John Rutter John Lennon / Yoko Ono Kim Gannon / Walter Kent / Buck Ram Trad. Arr. Dave Pierce Meredith Willson Jerry Herman

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Friday, 7:15 p.m.

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A Jann Arden Christmas

Jann Arden, Renowned Musician | Bestselling Author

Miles Macdonell Symphony Singers, Zane Zalis, director

Jann Arden can bring a hall full of people to tears through song, only to have them, moments later, rolling in the aisles, through her off-the-cuff comedy. Whether she’s performing her music, hosting an event, or telling her deeply personal and affecting stories, Arden’s wisdom and wit shine in everything she does.

Over the years Miles Macdonell Collegiate vocal students have shared their talents with a host of guest artists and memorable special events. MMC vocal students have graced the stage with Sarah Brightman, Michael Burgess, WSO “Queen” Concert, Tom Jackson, Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Solitude Chor (Stuttgart, Germany), Lord of the Rings Live Symphony Show (WSO), recorded at Abbey Road Studio, and were guest performers for the Queen Elizabeth II Gala Golden Jubilee Concert.

They have performed internationally in Scotland (Orkney), Germany, Austria, USA, and Mexico. A number of MMC vocal students continue to perform with regional groups or have established professional careers in musical theatre or the recording industry. Zane Zalis is the founder and director of the program.

Arden catapulted onto the Canadian music scene in 1993, with the release of her debut album, Time For Mercy. To date, she has released 13 albums, boasts 19 top-10 singles, and has received eight Juno Awards, including “Female Artist of the Year” and “Songwriter of the Year.” She has also been recognized with 10 SOCAN Awards, four Western Canadian Music Awards, a Much Music Video Award, three Prairie Music Awards, and an Alberta Recording Industry Association Award. And the list goes on: she has been honoured with a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, and inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Of course, never one to settle on a single discipline, Arden was the host of Being Jann on CBC Radio; she has been a judge on television’s Canada Sings, and has appeared on CBC TV’s Rick Mercer Report and in several sitcoms; she is also a returning co-host of CTV’s The Social; on stage, she was part of the cast for the Canadian tour of The Vagina Monologues. Her most recent album of original material is Everything Almost, released in the spring of 2014, which was followed in 2015 by her first seasonal album titled A Jann Arden Christmas.

Arden is the author of four books, including If I Knew, Don’t You Think I’d Tell You?; I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That’s All I Know; and Falling Backwards, the widely praised memoir of her life in rural Canada.

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Film with Orchestra Julian Pellicano, conductor

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E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, Sunday, December 11 2:00 p.m.

A STEVEN SPIELBERG Film

Sunday, December 11 8:00 p.m.

DEE WALLACE PETER COYOTE

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HENRY THOMAS as ELLIOTT

Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile.

Music by JOHN WILLIAMS

Sunday, 1:15 p.m.

Suzuki Music Winnipeg

Written by MELISSA MATHISON Produced by STEVEN SPIELBERG & KATHLEEN KENNEDY

Sunday, 7:15 p.m.

Desautels Faculty of Music Prep Studies Flute Students

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AIR CANADA POPS

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, Film with Orchestra

John Williams, composer

From the Composer

In a career spanning five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than one hundred films, including all seven Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone and The Book Thief.

His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, and Lincoln. Mr. Williams has composed themes for four Olympic Games. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor.

He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by many of America’s most prominent orchestras. Mr. Williams has received five Academy Awards and 50 Oscar nominations (making him the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars), seven British Academy Awards, twenty-two Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. In 2004, he received the Kennedy Center Honor, and in 2009 he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government.

Steven Spielberg’s film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has always held a special place in my heart, and I personally think it’s his masterpiece. In looking at it today, it’s as fresh and new as when it was made in 1982. Cars may change, along with hairstyles and clothes… but the performances, particularly by the children and by E.T. himself, are so honest, timeless and true, that the film absolutely qualifies to be ranked as a classic.

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What’s particularly special about tonight’s concert is that we’ll hear one of our great symphony orchestras, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, performing the entire score live, along with the complete picture, sound effects and dialogue.

I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of E.T. in saying that we’re greatly honoured by this event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will find great joy in experiencing this magical film.

John Williams PRODUCTION CREDITS E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Film with Orchestra produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Manager: Rob Stogsdill Production Coordinator: Rebekah Wood Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice Technical Director: Matt Yelton Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, David Newman, Chris Herzberger, Tamara Woolfork, Adrienne Crew, Darice Murphy and Mark Graham.

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WSO SUPPORTERS

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

Podium Johnston Group Inc. Resident Artist Qualico Principal Chair Terracon Development Ltd. Wawanesa Insurance Assistant Principal Chair Brandon School Division Cambrian Credit Union ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior Design J.K. May Investments Ltd. Music for Young Children Orchestra Chair Premier Printing Ltd. Royal Bank of Canada Urbanink Winmar Property Restoration Music Stand Coghlan's Limited Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. Price Industries Limited Galsworthy Holdings Ltd. Number Ten Architectural Group Red River Cooperative Ltd.

Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Fund In Memory of Peter D. Curry Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation George Warren Keates Memorial Fund Lutz Family Foundation Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund The Winnipeg Foundation – John and Carolynne McLure Fund Program for the Enrichment of French in Education Richardson Foundation Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson Fund David & Leda Slater Memorial Fund, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Aqueduct Foundation - Inga and Anna Storgaard Fund Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation - Leslie John Taylor Fund James Thompson Memorial Fund in Trust of WSO The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Ken and Lorna Thorlakson Fund 1 Anonymous

The Legacy Circle exists to recognize the following patrons whose foresight ensures that the WSO plays on for all Manitobans for generations to come. The WSO gratefully acknowledges Legacy Circle members for their planned future gift to the WSO.

Siana Attwell, PhD Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Kevin & Els Kavanagh Michel D. Lagacé Gail E. Loewen S. E. Loewen W. H. Loewen The WSO gratefully acknowledges Dr. Brendan MacDougall the following foundations: Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund - the Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell Winnipeg Foundation Lesia Peet The Noreen & Robert Allen Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Charitable Trust Trudy Schroeder Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund Muriel Smith Brandon Area Community Edith A. Toews & Dr. Helen A. Toews Foundation Robin Wiens and Emilie The Winnipeg Foundation - Chipman Lagacé-Wiens Family Foundation Fund Donn K. Yuen Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation 2 Anonymous Nita Eamer Memorial Fund Francofonds Inc. Riser A. Akman & Son Ltd. European Art Glass Ltd. InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Mid West Packaging Limited Patill/St. James Insurance

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MAJOR GIFTS The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons for their generous support to the orchestra.

Art & Leona Defehr Frank & Jeanne Plett

The Maestro’s Circle recognizes patrons whose significant philanthropy furthers the musical artistry of the WSO. Honourary Chair Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director Platinum Baton Bill & Shirley Loewen* Gold Baton Timothy & Barbara Burt Dr. Marcel A. Desautels Arlene Wilson & Allan MacDonald Dr. Brendan MacDougall Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Silver Baton James Cohen & Linda McGarva-Cohen Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley Ron & Sandi Mielitz Frank & Jeanne Plett Barb & Gerry Price Hartley & Heather Richardson Tannis Richardson* Dr. Lea Stogdale Concertmaster's Bow Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Mrs. Marjorie Blankstein Herb & Erna Buller Pierce & Amy Cairns Ernest & Anastasia Cholakis John & Gay Docherty Marten & Joanne Duhoux Bill & Margaret Fast Bert & Lee Friesen Foundation James Gibbs Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard Peter Jessiman Christine Skene & Nick Logan Elaine & Neil Margolis Brent Mazur Ken and Judy Murray Wayne & Linda Paquin Diane Payment and Roxroy West Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope*

Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Curt & Cathy Vossen Professor A.M.C. Waterman Black Tie Mr. Austin Abas Ms. Sandra Altner Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Shibashis Bal Mr. Jim Barrett Mr. R.D. Bell Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Doneta & Harry Brotchie Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler Ms. Emily Burt Jan & Kevin Coates Art & Leona DeFehr Frank & Agnes DeFehr Douglas C. Everett, Chairman, Domo Gasoline Corporation Ltd. Glen & Joan Dyrda Philipp & Ilse Ens Ms. Barbara Filuk* Radhika Desai & Alan Freeman Drs. Daya & Chander Gupta Mr. Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Richard & Carol Jones Nora Kaufman Michael & Glenna Kay Mr. John Kearsey Mr. & Mrs. Konstantinos & Chrysoula Kotoulas Mr. Sotirios Kotoulas Mr. Rob Kowalchuk Mr. & Mrs. Bob & Deirdre Kozminski Aaron Lewis Ted & Wanda Lismer Dr. Judith Littleford Gail Loewen in Memory of Her Mother Sue Lemmerick Jackie Lowe & Greg Tallon Dr. David Lyttle Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Ms. Valerie Mollison Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Murray Dr. Michael Nelson & Dr. Selena Friesen Ted & Mary Paetkau Athina Panopoulos & Gordon Sinclair Donna and Bill Parrish C.M. Lesia Peet Dr. Beryl Peters & Dr. Blair Peters Harvey I. Pollock Q.C. Dr. & Mrs. Brian Postl Barb & Gerry Price John & Violet Rademaker Dr. Diane Ramsey Dr. Donald S. Reimer & Mrs. Anne Reimer Jim & Leney Richardson* Mrs. Shirley Richardson Mr. Rick Riess & Mrs. Jean Carter Sanford & Deborah Riley Tamara & Garry Roehr Olga & Bill Runnalls Terry Sargeant & Margaret Haney

Trudy Schroeder Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe Jimmy & Morse Silden M. Winnifred Sim Pam Simmons* Jack & Elaine Sine Muriel Smith Mrs. B Rae Spear Jim & Jan Tennant Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Martin & Michelle Weinberg Don & Florence Whitmore Klaus & Elsa Wolf Klaus and Dorit Wrogemann 2 Anonymous * Founding Members

Friends of the WSO support the WSO each season.

Honourary Chair Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster Symphony Margaret-Lynne & Jim Astwood Len & Mary Bateman David & Gillian Bird Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Pierce & Amy Cairns John Corp and Mary Elizabeth McKenzie Margaret Cuddy Carrie Ferguson Robert & Linda Gold Gregg & Mary Hanson Marianne Johnson Lawrence Jones Millie & Wally Kroeker Katarina Kupca W.K. Labies Jack & Zina Lazarek Family Foundation James & Pat Ludwig Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton Terri & Jim McKerchar Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Terence and Violeta Moore Jim & Pat Richtik Dr. Willem van Oers & Mrs. Margaretha van Oers Herbert & Shirley Wildeman Raymond & Shirley Wiest 2 Anonymous Concerto Judy & Jay Anderson Gorden Andrus & Adele Kory Cheryl & Earl Barish Zita & Mark Bernstein Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C.R. Betts Dr. & Mrs. Brian and Cathie Bowerman Mr. Jim Bracken Sheila & David Brodovsky

Mr. & Mrs. F. Buckmaster Gail Carruthers Nancy Cipryk Dr. & Mrs. David Connor Irene & Robert Corne Ms. Linda Daniels Esther and Hy Dashevsky Mr. Marcel A. Desautels Mark & Stephanie Dufresne Mrs. Elfrieda H. Dupuis Beverley & Fred Dyck Helene Dyck Mr. & Mrs. W. Easton David and Kathleen Estey Mr. Wayne Forbes Arnold & Christa Froese Penny Gilbert Dr. & Mrs. W. L. Gordon Bruno Gossen Ms. Debbie Grenier Patricia Guy Gordon E. Hannon Mrs. Audrey Harburn Jack & Elsie Hignell Bob & Biddy Hilton Robert Jaskiewicz Koren & Leonard Kaminski J. Gartner & L. Kampeas Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. Kennedy Maureen Kilgour and Richard Goulet Dr. Istvan Kinizsi Susan & Keith Knox Ray Kohanik & Terri Ashcroft T.G. Kucera Mr. Don Lawrence Ms. Francoise Lesage & Mr. Ken Mills Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Douglas MacEwan Dr. & Mrs. John & Natalie Mayba Mrs. E. Louise McLandress Amanda McLeod Margaret Moroz Drs. Kenneth & Sharon Mould Bonnie & Richard Olfert Carole & Cam Osler Donna & Ian Plant Carolynne Presser Tim Preston & Dave Ling Rosemary Prior Fred & Carolyn Redekop J. Reichert Ms. Iris Reimer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie Mme. Henriette Ricou Judge & Mrs. Charles & Naida Rubin F.E. Sanderson Barbara Scheuneman A. Schroeder Merrill & Shayna Shulman Dr. & Mrs. M.R. Steinbart Mr. Robert Vineberg Diane Weselake David C. Wilson Harry & Evelyn Wray 7 Anonymous

Serenade Trish Allison-Simms Kaeren Anderson Linda Armbruster Doug Arrell & Dick Smith Mr. Philip Ashdown Dick & Minnie Bell Mrs. Jean M. Bradley Sel & Chris Burrows Ron Clement Ms. Julie Collings Julie Collings Pam & Andrew Cooke Martin Reed & Joy Cooper Gary & Fiona Crow Mr. Bradley J. Curran Mr. Tom Dercola Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Dingman Faye Dixon in Memory of Graham John & Ada Ducas George B. Elias Ms. Ursula Erhardt Margaret E. Faber Marcia Fleisher Doug & Phyllis Flint Kevin & Pam Friesen Harold & Alice Funk Mrs. Margaret Funk Eileen George Larry & Susanne Greer Dr. Don and Jerri Hall Beth & Raymond Harris Richard & Karen Howell Helmut & Dorothy Huebert Mrs. Joan M. Hunter David Jacobson Terry & Shirley James Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Henry Katz in Memory of Dena Heather Kirkham Mrs. Marion B. Korn Mrs. Marion Korn Mona Koropatnick Elaine & Patrick Lamonica Jennifer Lidstone Rose & Dick Lim Fraser & Joan Linklater Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Mr. John Macrae Dr. Angelos and Pauline Macrodimitris Ruth May David and Francesca McBean Ms. Nola McBurney Glen Mead Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell D. Munro Edgar Oddleifson Patricia Mary Patterson Cameron Pauls Ms. Pat Philpott Mr. Rick Pinchin Irvin & Sandra Plosker Ruth Carol & Leonard Podheiser Don & Carol Poulin Donna & Gordon Price Levi & Tena Reimer

Eleanor Riach Hans & Gabriele Schneider Marie Schoffner Dr. & Mrs. Alvin and Ethel Schroeder Dr. L. Sekla Phil & Nancy Shead Ms. Brenda Snider Ms. Deborah Spracklin Gary & Gwen Steiman Mr. & Mrs. Lorne & Lorna Stevens 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 C. & R. Thomsen Dr. J.M. Trainor Neil & Carol Trembath Ms. Edna Walpole Jack & Bernice Watts Harvey & Sandra Weisman Debbie Wilson Alfred & Lina Woelke Karin Woods Joan Wright 10 Anonymous Prelude Patricia Allen & Len Dueck Larissa Ashdown Janice & Brian Bailey Allan & Rochelle Baker Barbara & Bruce Ball Robert Barton Audrey Belyea Donald & Edith Besant Ms. Joanne Biggs Eric & Clara Bohm Keith & Marnie Bolland Shirley Book Lorne & Rosada Bride Susan Brownstone Brock & Thomas Brock Miss Dorothy Broomhall Mr. Chris Brown Mr. E. Brown Irene Brown Jean Brown Ms. Carol Budnick Jan Burdon Mr. Gerald Callow Ms. Donna Carruthers Laura Chan Mrs. Patti Cherney Bea and Lawrie Cherniack Mrs. Leona Christiansen Ross M. Cleeve Ms. Marcella Copp Joyce Cormack Helle Cosby Ms. Maxine Cristall Judy & Werner Danchura Maureen Danzinger

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Ms. Janice Dietch Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda Donald Sally R. Dowler Herbert & Norma Driver Mrs. M.L. Elliott John & Martha Enns John J. Enns Katharine Enns Siegfried Enns John & Ruth Ens Don and Martha Epstein Greg & Linda Fearn Helen Feniuk Doug & Joanne Flynn Mrs. Marguerite Fredette George & Carol Gamby Jim & Betty Gaynor Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori D. Gooch Ms. Mavis E. Gray Marj Grevstad Irene Groot-Koerkamp & Greg Edmond Katie & DeLloyd Guth Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Miss Marilyn Hall Dr. Bonnie Hallman Ms. Meghan Hansen Linda A. Harlos Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin Teresa A. Hay Millie Hemmelgarn Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ms. Shirley Hicks Ms Marilyn Hido Sonia & Harvey Hosfield Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Jacqueline Iwasienko Wilfred & Dorothy James Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram Father Stan A. Jaworski Margaret Jeffries Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Mrs. Shirley Kilburn Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Kinnear Erwin W. Kitsch Ms. Mary Klassen Alfonz & Susan Koncan Mrs. Alvina Koshy Kozub/Halldorson Family D. Kristjanson Miss Patricia Kuchma Edith Landy, in Memory of David Landy Helen La Rue Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. R. Leroeye Albert & Helen Litz Barry & Patricia Lloyd Lorron Agencies Ltd. Roger Lowe G. & G. Lowry Mr. Al Mackling Dr Amrit Malik Matthew Gossen Advancement Trust C. & J. McIntyre Violet McKenzie

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Mrs. Geraldine McKinley Jean McLennan Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier Estelle Meyers Walter A. Mildren Carolyn Garlich and Peter Miller Mrs. Mona Mills Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz Mrs. Joan Ann Morton John & Margaret Mundie Leesa Munroe Charlotte Murrell David & Hermine Olfert Truus Oliver Miss Jenny Olynyk Shirley & Graham Padgett Ms. Nettie Peters Ingrid Peters-Fransen Mrs. Helene Picton Ms. Clare Pollock Cristian Popescu Juta Rathke Waltraut Riedel-Baun Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Vera Ripley Kevin Rollason & Gail MacAulay Frances E. Rowlin Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad & Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad David Schroeder R. Schroeder Ms. Janet Schubert Viola J. Schultz Charlene Scouten Mr. & Mrs. Ed & Elaine Segstro Marilyn & Jon Seguire Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak Dr. Don & Lynne Simonson Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Geri & Peter Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Elsie Stasiuk Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Archie & Shirley Stone Dr. & Mrs. Ian & Karen Sutton Juris & Aija Svenne Robert & Barb Tisdale Edith A. Toews Henry & Elizabeth Toews Dr. Helen A. Toews Mrs. C.M. Valentine Barry and Gail Veals Jesse Vorst Ms. Louise Waldman Elizabeth M. Wall Jim & Joan Warbeck Jack Watts Mrs. Evelyn Wener Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Patrick Wright Mr. Edwin Yee Donn K.Yuen 20 Anonymous Sonatina Maryvonne & Robert Alarie in Memory of William Cole Jacqueline Anderson Dr. John Badertscher

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Ms. Donna Beaton Ms. Denise Belanger & Mr. Sidney Shapire Mrs. Eva Berard Anna Bird Frances Booth Norma Bortoluzzi Marilyn Boyd Mrs. Diane Brine Alfred Buelow Sheila Burland Mr. John Burrows Canon Canada Inc. Ms. Arline Christopherson S.K. Clark Mr. & Dr. Brad Cloet Mrs. Barbara Coombs Mr. Alfred Cornies Stephen Crane Ms. Judy Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Ted Cunningham Beth Derraugh Marlene & Fred Dickson Mrs. Ethel Dil Ms. Marian Dore Paul Dueck Ms. Sheila M. Dumore Ms. Georgette Durand Vera & Peter Fast Mr. Paul Ficek Cal & Lois Finch Hilda Franz Ms. Anne Friesen Mrs. Donna Friesen Mr. Joe Furber Mrs. Cathy Gervais Mrs. Barbara Gessner Mr. Christopher Golden Heather Graham Mrs. Inga Granovskaya Victoria Gretchen Mr. Anthony (Tony) Griffin Ms. Marianne Gruber Ms. Marion Guinn B. & R. Hall Gertrude Hamilton Mrs. Helen Hayward Kelly Hearson Jean Highmoor Dorothy L. Hodgson Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik William J. Hutton Island Lakes School Pat Jarrett Brent & Karen Johnson Mr. Tim Kasprick Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Katie Kirkpatrick Ms. Betty Laing Elizabeth Lansard Wayne & Helen LeBlanc Mr. Gabriel Lemoine Mr. & Mrs. David Levene Katrina Limberatos John & Carol MacKenzie Joyce Manwaring Mr. & Mrs. Jeff & Karen L. Mark Mrs. Irene Marriott Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba

Hugh McCabe Ms. Susan McCarthy Mr. Derek McLean Ardythe McMaster Lyle McNichol & Frances Stewart Mrs. Jocelyn Millard M. Mohr Maureen Morin Mrs. Margaret Parker Sonjia Pasiechnik Trudy Patzer Ken & Geri Porath Mrs. Glennys Propp Bryan & Diana Purdy Mrs. Avis Raber Ms. Pat Repa Gisela Roger Mrs. V. Rosolowich John & Shirley Russell Kay Schalme William Scheidt Mrs. Edna Schneider Izzy Shore Mrs. Elaine Silverberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Mrs. Joyce Smyth Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Lorne Sunley Muriel Sutherland Gladys Tarala Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Ms. Anne Thiessen Ms. Doreen Thorlacius Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh Shelley Turnbull Denis Vincent Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace Mr. Glen Angus Webster Snjolaug Whiteway Miss Christine Wojcikowski Beverley Zimmerman 16 Anonymous

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose foresight helps to ensure long-term financial support for the WSO. Thank you!

Edwin & Susan Bethune Lorrraine and Gerry Cairns Stephen Choy & Gina Yoo Dorothy Comer and Her Daughters in Memory of Fern Royds Ray G. Davis Helene Dyck Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Marilynne Keil, in Memory of David H. Skinner Grant & Janet Saunders Jim & Jan Tennant James & Claudia Weselake 2 Anonymous

Ms. Marlene Stern Jon Stewart Sally Sweatman Tetrem Capital Management Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Curt & Cathy Vossen Ms. Meeka Walsh Karin Woods Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann 1 Anonymous

Teresa A. Hay Larry & Evelyn Hecht Monique Henderson Katherine Himelblau Dorothy L. Hodgson Festival donors help to further Mrs. Katherine Hoeppner the musical artistry of the Huynh Van Ho WSO’s New Music Festival.

Ishbel Isaacs, in Loving Memory of Thank you!

Gijsbert Crielaard Alpha Masonry Ms. Margaret Jeffries Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mr. & Mrs. C Jenkins Alison Baldwin Ross & Betty Jo Johnston Jackie Brignall Marilyn Kapitany Kevin Burns Kevin & Els Kavanagh Timothy & Barbara Burt Ursula & Sandor Kelemen David Carr Ms. Mary Klassen Share the Music is a unique Jill Carr & Alex Snukal Sandra Kneller outreach initiative of the WSO Dr. & Mrs. David Connor Mr. Eugene S. Kovach that allows economically Ravi Dookeran Cycelia Lazarowich in Memory of disadvantaged children and Mrs. Ann England Gijsbert Crielaard their families to attend WSO Herbert Enns performances. Thank you for Frances Lemieux Robert Enright helping to Share the Music!

Ms. Marion Lewis Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Dr. Judith Littleford Katherine Devine & George Andrich Wendy Gale Dr. Brendan MacDougall Pat & Harvey Anton Tyler Gompf Dr. Sabine Mai Ms. Margaret Barbour Stepan Gordienko Elaine & Neil Margolis Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Ralph & Eileen Baxter C & V Martens Komlodi Bernice Blakeman Mr. Peter Martin Dr. Don & Jerri Hall Mrs. Lucienne Blouw, in Memory of Reina & Mark McDowell - in Memory Ms. Helen Hawrysh Gijsbert Crielaard of Gijsbert Crielaard Dr. Wolfgang Heidenreich in Ms. Patricia Bozyk Jean & Mike McIlrath Support of Composer Henryk Sheila & David Brodovsky Mr. Sheldon Leonard McLeod Gorecki for the 2016-17 WNMF Ms. Carol Budnick Mrs. Jose Meers Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ms. Linda Campbell Ms. Pat Michalski Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Hildebrand Eileen & Ted L & D Mitchell Kim Jeremic Shelley Chochinov M. Mohr Koren & Leonard Kaminski Ray Cloutier in Memory of Gijsbert Margaret Moroz in Memory of Ms. Jose Koes Crielaard Gijsbert Crielaard Konstantinos Kotoulas & Family Joan C. Cohen Vera Moroz Dr. Thomas G Kucera M. & G. Crielaard Bill & Hilda Muir Ron Lambert In Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard, Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko Hideo Mabuchi Marlene Crielaard M. Nancy Lynn O'Brien Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Dr. & Mrs. Harold Diamond D Ogale Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean Monica Dinney in Memory of Truus Oliver Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Gijsbert Crielaard Sam O. Lori Marks Doreen Docking Mrs. Alice Oswald Mr. Frank Martin Ms. Enid Durward Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike Brent Mazur Ken Dyck Ms. Clare Pollock The A. K. Menkis Medical Shaun Dyck in Memory of Gijsbert Ms. Rose Popowich Corporation Crielaard Rosemary & Walter Prychodko Ron & Sandi Mielitz Mr. & Ms. John Edwards Ms. Marlene Reguly Ms. Sheila Miller Don & Martha Epstein Pat and Bill Reid Mrs. Brenda Morlock Kathy Feader Ms. Lyse Remillard Margaret Moroz Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Tannis Richardson Matthew Narvey Dr. Leeann Fishback Don & Joceline Ringach, Pamela Michael Narvey Dorothy Flight Ringach & Chris Jordan Mikaela Oldenkamp Mrs. Louise Friesen David & Elena Roberts Mr. Chris Pearce Mrs. Joyce Fyke Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sagert Lesia Peet Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert Olive Sayers Kathleen Polischuk & Richard George & Carol Gamby Your HR Support Co. Derksen Francois Gauvin Mr.Walter Silicz Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth The Staff of GD5 in Memory of Mrs. Roslyn Silver Tippett-Pope Gijsbert Crielaard Ms. Brenda Sklar Bill Reid Mr. Richard Gillanders Debbie Smith Majid & Moti Shojania Dr. Don & Jerri Hall In memory of Lois Ms. Maureen Southam Muriel Smith Anderson Ms. Deborah Spracklin Carrie Solmundson B. & R. Hall Herbert Stewart Terrell Stephen

In honour of Kinzel Keys Mrs. Joan Swaffer Ms. Ruth Swan Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom Dr.Teresa Sztaba Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tapscott James & Marlene Taylor Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Etta Telford in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Jim & Jan Tennant Anne Thiessen in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard 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 Betty Wayborn in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard Carmel Wayborn in Memory of Gijsbert Crielaard 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.

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose support makes a difference in the everyday lives of these children. Thank you!

Honourary Chair Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Maestoso Burns Foundation RBC Foundation Richardson Foundation Vivace Boeing Canada Winnipeg Cavalia Inc. The Winnipeg Foundation Con Brio Souchay Gossen Family Foundation Michael S Gray Fund The Winnipeg Foundation - George and Tannis Richardson Fund Rotary Club of Winnipeg North Don & Lorraine Swanson Allegro Alpha Masonry Mr. Ron Bell Timothy & Barbara Burt Ms. Brenlee Carrington Trepel

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The Winnipeg Foundation - Chief Justice Richard J. Scott and Mary Scott Fund Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in Memory of Benjamin John West Flynn Mr. Elmer Hildebrand Ms. Gail E. Loewen Dr. David Lyttle Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John J. March and His Parents Tom McIlwham Ron & Sandi Mielitz Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Ms. Charlotte Robbins Jim & Jan Tennant Faye Warren John Wells 2 Anonymous Conmoto ADESA Winnipeg Kathleen & Ken Alder James & Faye Alward in Honour of Margot J. Alward Brenda Batzel Ralph & Eileen Baxter Jennifer Beirnes Byrnes Benoit Ms. Diane Bewell Paul & Doreen Bromley Ms. Coralie Bryant Camerata Nova Mrs. Audrey Campbell Dave Christie Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC Joan C. Cohen Ms. Barbara Crow Dr. & Mrs. Jamit And Courtney Dhaliwal Claire Dionne Bob Dueck and Joan Duerksen Mrs. Cynthia Dutton Caroline Elder Ms. Ursula Erhardt Ms. Catherine Flower Ms. Judith Flynn Peter Flynn Hilda Franz ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior Design Helena Jane Gahungu Evelyn & Ricardo Galima Gardon Construction Ltd. Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Ms. Rhue Hayden Robin Hildebrand Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Marilyn Karen Hiscott Patricia Holbrow William J. Hutton Margaret Jeffries Peter Jessiman Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund At the Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation

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Ms. Nadia Kamienski Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac Marilynne Keil Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Zandra Lea in Honour of Paul and Pamela Connolly Melanie & Craig Leonhardt Helen Litz Mrs. Anita Malbranck Manitoba Association of School Superintendents Mrs. Maureen McIntosh Ms. Linda Meckling Linda Meckling in Memory of Alan Blanchette Ron and Sandi Mielitz Ms. Marlene Milne Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Mr. Rick Morgan Ms. Francine Morin Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Denise Murphy Mr. Robert Nix Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn Mr. David Pate Leena Patel Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary Kuran; In Honour of Beatrice Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una Kuran Mr. Blair Peppler Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Ms. Lois Powne Dr. & Mrs. D. Punter James Ray in Memory of Henry Ray Joan Sabourin Ms. Corazon Saquilayan Mrs. Claudia Sarbit Mr. Terry Sargeant Heather Sarna Nicola Schaefer Barbara Scheuneman Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation Trudy Schroeder Mrs. Mary Scott Betty & Sam Searle Olga & Myron Shatulsky Wilma Sotas In Memory of Jean Sauder Mary and Robert Thomas Deborah Thorlakson in Celebration of Mrs. Tannis Richardson's Birthday Greg Tramley in Memory of Dave Hunt Neil & Carol Trembath Ms. Terry Trupp Judith & Francisco Valenzuela Ms. Christine Van Cauwenberghe Mr. Curt and MacCathy Vossen Dr. Noah Weiszner Diane Weselake In Honour of Doug and Loreen Buss’ Marrage Grace M. Wiebe Karin Woods Wynward Insurance Group Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky 6 Anonymous

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ANNUAL CAMPAIGN The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose generosity helped to support orchestral music in our community. Thank you!

Ms. Sylvia L. Barr F. Bell Marjorie Blankstein Helga & Gerhard Bock Frances Booth Wendy Broadfoot Greg & Sylvia Brodsky Dolores P. Brommell Ms. Carol Budnick Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk Lori Butler 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 Mr. & Ms. Jim & Virginia Dyck Lisa Edel Scott & Margaret Edmonds Donna Ekerholm Vera & Peter Fast Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Janice Filmon Joan Fleming Miriam Fliegel Mrs. Gitta Fricke Arnold & Myra Frieman Robert & Monica Friesen George & Carol Gamby Mrs. A. Lee Gibson 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 & Günter Jochum 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 Roger Lowe Grant MacDougall Lydia MacKenzie Ms. Lorraine MacLeod Barbara Main Mr. Allan Mapes Aubrey Margolis Bob and Betty McCamis Ms. Diane McGregor Sylvia Mitchell Margaret & Fred Mooibroek D.E. Morrison Ms. Lillian Murphy Robert Nix Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Mr. Irwine Permut Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Mr. & Mrs. Barry Prentice 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 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 15 Anonymous Listing as of Oct 1 2015 - Oct 1, 2016

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Hon. Mr. Justice J. T. Beaubien Mr. J. M. Sinclair Dr. 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 Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C.

1984-86 1986-88 1988-90 1990-92 1992-94 1994-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 Feb 1999-May 1999 Jun 1999-2000 2000-Feb 03 Mar 2003-Dec 2003 Dec 2003-Jan 2005 Jan 2005- Jul 2006 Jul 2006-Nov 2006 Dec 2006- Jun 2007 2007- 2012 2012- 2016 2016- present

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 I Pollock, QC (Interim President) Mr. Brendan MacDougall Ms. Dorothy Dobbie Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA Mr. Terry Sargeant

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 I Pollock, QC Dr. William Pope John Rademaker Kathleen Richardson Tannis Richardson Leney 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 2016-2017 SEASON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terry Sargeant, President Curt Vossen, Vice President Rob Kowalchuk, Treasurer Michael Kay, Corporate Secretary Timothy E. Burt, CFA Past President Ida Albo Sandra Altner Lucienne Blouw Emily Burt, MBA, CFA James Cohen Arlene Dahl Marten Duhoux Steven Dyer

Alan Freeman Daniel Friedman Dr. Selena Friesen Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Peter Jessiman Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Maureen Kilgour Silvester Komlodi Sotirios Kotoulas Dr. Eleanor MacDougall Sherratt Moffatt Richard Turner 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, Patron Services Coordinator Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Rachel Himelblau, Patron Services Representative Aaron Lewis, Sales Specialist Patron Services Representatives (p/t): Phil Corrin Melissa Houston Kristie Enns Laura Gow Meg Dolovich Crystal Schwartz MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Sponsorship Beth Proven,VP 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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BOX OFFICE: ADMIN OFFICE:

WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Sherratt Moffatt, President Winnifred Warkentin, Vice-President Sylvia Cassie, Past President Nancy Weedon, Treasurer Agnes Bailey, Secretary Florence Bell, Asssistant 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 Brian Pallister, Premier of Manitoba His Worship Brian Bowman, Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Mr. W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, WSO Directors Emeritus

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 Amy Wolfe, Education Coordinator Lindsay Woolgar, Education Programs Coordinator (Term) Shannon Darby, Sistema Winnipeg Manager

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