2016/2017 Overture #5

Photographer: Richard Termine

MARCH 2017 I ISSUE 5

THE SECOND CITY GUIDE TO THE SYMPHONY MENDELSSOHN’S ELIJAH MOZART & SERENADES

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR In March, we live with the pleasure of anticipating musical favourites from two seasons of programs. It is somewhat delightful to start thinking about the wonderful concerts coming up in the 2017-2018 season and selecting just the right mix of Classics concerts, Air Canada Pops concerts and Specials, while at the same time savouring every moment of the concerts remaining in the 2016-2017 season. This is indeed a special time of year. Spend time with the season brochure and visit the web site, wso.ca, for more information on the concerts next year. Be certain to book your subscriptions by April 9th so that your name can be entered into the draw for Air Canada tickets to any North American location served by Air Canada.

As you know, the coming season is our 70th Anniversary Season. There are many concerts that pay homage to the WSO’s wonderful history while also pointing toward new opportunities and, as we think about the coming year, we want to encourage subscribers to share personal stories of their connections with the WSO.Tell us about the ways the WSO has had an impact on your life.

Stories can be funny, serious, or thought provoking. Send you contributions to this project to 70th@wso.mb.ca so that we can use these glimpses into WSO history throughout the year. Photos would also be appreciated. Tell us about your favourite concerts, the funniest moments, your WSO traditions; all of this is part of the legacy of a seventy-year-old organization at work in its community.

The concerts featured this month are among the finest we offer this season. Hear the celebrated Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, don’t miss the opportunity to poke a little fun at symphonic traditions with Second City’s Guide to the Orchestra, immerse yourself in the glorious texts and melodies from Mendelsohn’s Elijah, and take in a children’s concert featuring the always entertaining Mr. Mark.This March, we also begin our Thursday Night Classics series at the Club Regent Event Centre. Experience the most popular symphonic classics in an intimate and lovely setting.

There is no shortage of wonderful choices to immerse yourself in wonderful musical adventures.

Enjoy the music, the gradual lengthening of the days and the promise of spring.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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CONDUCTORS AND COMPOSERS 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.

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. 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. 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.

Harry Stafylakis, Composer-in-Residence Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982, Montreal) is a Canadian–American composer based in NYC. He is the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Composer-In-Residence and Festival Director of the WSO's Winnipeg New Music Festival. His works have been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, the Toronto,Winnipeg, Spokane, Stamford,Victoria, and PEI symphonies, McGill Chamber Orchestra, Mivos Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, among others. Awards include the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, four SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, and grants from the Canada Council and NYSCA. Stafylakis holds degrees from McGill University and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and lectures at the City College of New York. His doctoral research, supported by SSHRC, examines rhythm and meter in progressive metal. www.hstafylakis.com 4

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016-2017 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Harry Stafylakis

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

FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster

BASSES The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtMeredith Johnson, Principal Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Travis Harrison Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Paul Nagelberg Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Bruce Okrainec Chris Anstey Daniel Perry Mona Coarda Rodica Jeffrey Hong Tian Jia Meredith McCallum Jane Pulford Sonia Shklarov Julie Savard Jun Shao 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 VIOLAS Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, Assistant Principal Laszlo Baroczi Margaret Carey Richard Bauch Greg Hay *Merrily Peters Mike Scholz

FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal Martha Durkin PICCOLO Martha Durkin OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan, Principal CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Michelle Goddard BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal Kathryn Brooks

TRUMPETS Isaac Pulford, Acting Principal Paul Jeffrey Brian Sykora TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda BASS TROMBONE Julia McIntyre, Principal TUBA Chris Lee, Principal TIMPANI Mike Kemp, Principal PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal HARP Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Chris Lee PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Raymond Chrunyk ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall

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

HORNS Patricia Evans, Principal Fred Redekop is the official Piano Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal Tuner and Technician of the WSO. James Robertson Caroline Oberheu Michiko Singh

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Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor Angela Hewitt, piano

Arc of Horizon

CLASSICS

Angela Hewitt Plays Ravel

Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982)

Nights in the Gardens of Spain Manuel de Falla (1876 -1946) “At the Generalife”: Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso “Distant Dance”: Allegretto giusto “In the Gardens of the Mountains of Córdoba”: Vivo - INTERMISSION -

Piano Concerto in G major Allegramente Adagio assai Presto

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Suite from the Ballet, The Firebird (1919 version) Introduction The Dance of the Firebird Round Dance of the Princesses Infernal Dance of the King Kastchei Berceuse Finale

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Friday, March 10 Saturday, March 11

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Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 7:15 p.m.

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SPECIAL CONDENSED MATINEE Stravinsky: Suite from the Firebird

Friday, March 10

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PROGRAM NOTES

Nights in the Gardens of Spain and go in the second movement,

Manuel de Falla b. Cadiz, Spain / November 23, 1876 d. Alta Gracia, Argentina / November 14, 1946 Arc of Horizon Composed: 1915 Harry Stafylakis First performance: April 9, 1916 (Madrid) b. Montreal/1982 conducted by Fernandez Arbós with Composed: 2015 José Cubiles as soloist First performances: Chamber orchestra Last WSO performance: 2004; Michelle version: August 26, 2015 (Lake George, Mourre, conductor, with Angela Cheng NY), conducted by Roger Kalia; Full as soloist orchestra version: November 6, 2015 Falla was living in Paris (Spokane), conducted by Eckhart Preu, between 1907 and 1917 conductor where he befriended First WSO performance Debussy, Ravel and “When you grow up by Dukas, all of whom had the sea you spend a good become entranced with sun-drenched deal of time looking at Iberian images that both motivated the horizon.You wonder music (Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole and what on earth the waves Debussy’s Ibéria) and contributed to an might bring – and where the sea might exotic sense of Spain in France at the deposit you – until one day you know you time. Dukas, especially, encouraged Falla have lived between two places, the scene to compose, and the genesis of Nights in of arrival and the point of departure.” the Gardens of Spain came in a set of – Andrew O’Hagan, solo piano pieces Falla entitled The Atlantic Ocean: Essays (2008) Nocturnes.When Falla showed the pieces to his compatriot composer Isaac “The title is drawn from the Greek Albéniz and the famous Spanish pianist horizon kyklos – “separating circle”– Ricardo Viñes, both encouraged him to which symbolizes the sliver of visible orchestrate the pieces into a larger horizon that always remains in the distance no matter how much one tries symphonic setting. to reach it.

Falla left Paris at the outbreak of war in 1914. He had been mostly impoverished As a resident of NYC hailing from Montreal, I have travelled between the during his years in Paris but became a celebrity on his return home to Madrid two cities countless times since childhood. At the midpoint of that due to the success of his opera La Vida voyage, Lake George has always stood Brève in November, 1914. Out of that, out as a landmark signaling my Falla received the commission from departure from one place and conductor Fernandez Arbós to imminent arrival at another. complete Nights in the Gardens of Spain.

by James Manishen

This manifests itself tangibly as radio broadcasts dissolve, replaced by new ones ahead, but with significant overlap and signal crossing along the way.

Unfailingly, this transition from one “home”to another evokes tangled and conflicting emotions of aspiration, longing, regret, fear, and nostalgia.

Musically, Arc of Horizon emerges from this symbolic personal transition between my past in progressive metal and my present in concert music – I seem to perpetually chase whichever horizon seems newest, and having arrived I turn back to chase it again.”

– Harry Stafylakis

“If these ‘symphonic impressions’have achieved their object, the mere enumeration of their titles should be a sufficient guide to the hearer,”Falla wrote.“The music does not pretend to be descriptive; but something more than the sounds of festivals and dances has inspired these ‘evocations in sound,’ for melancholy and mystery play their parts also.”

with traces of the Orient. Bridging to the finale, the music takes on the feeling of sâmira, which the Moors described as a gypsy revelry by night. Falla treats this in the form of a copla, resembling the rondo form’s returning motifs. A quiet ending welcomes sleep.

Piano Concerto in G major Maurice Ravel b. Ciboure, France / March 7, 1875 d. Paris, France / December 28, 1937 Composed: 1929-1931 First performance: January 14, 1932 (Paris) conducted by the composer with Marguerite Long as soloist Last WSO performance: 2007; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor, with Louis Lortie as soloist Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff had success with piano works composed for themselves to tour with and Ravel wanted the same for himself. Back from a successful tour to the United States, where Ravel had also celebrated his 53rd birthday in March at a party for him with the 29-year-old George Gershwin present, Ravel seemed to have wanted to become more of a performing pianist. As he began to compose a new piano concerto in 1929, Ravel rekindled an interest in Chopin and Liszt while also starting work on a piano concerto for left hand alone commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the First World War. All these happenings occurred simultaneously. Ravel’s two-hand concerto however would be an entertainment, a “divertissement”he originally decided to call it, keeping its moods light, entertaining and obviously with a tang of jazz and Gershwin, whose Piano Concerto in F had been composed five years earlier and Ravel no doubt knew.

Small winding intervals signal a variation opening movement, fragrant Ravel could not find the time to with the scent of the luxurious gardens learn to play his new concerto when of the 13th-century Moorish village it was finished in the autumn of Generalife.Vibrant fiesta rhythms come

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1931. His friend and long-time interpreter Marguerite Long took on the task, as she had been asking Ravel to compose such a work for some time.The premiere was a great success and a world tour was planned, but declining health only allowed Ravel and Long a fourmonth European tour with the work. It proved to be the last major score he composed. A recording with Long performing and Ravel conducting was made in London.

The dazzling opening movement recalls Ravel’s Basque folk roots, followed by several nostalgically drawn themes. A haunting almost Satie-like simplicity permeates the Adagio, with an especially tender return of the theme in the English horn.The finale is a jazz-infused showcase whose episodes breathlessly fall over each other, ending with a tumbling close.

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The Firebird (1919 Version) Igor Stravinsky b. Lomonosov, Russia Oranienbaum, Russia / June 5/17, 1882 d. New York / April 6, 1971 Composed: 1909-1910 First performance: June 25, 1910 (Paris) conducted by Gabriel Pierné Last WSO performance: 2012; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Serge Diaghilev knew he had found a composer to be reckoned with when he heard the first notes of 27year-old Igor Stravinsky’s dazzling orchestral miniature Fireworks in 1908. Diaghilev was forming his Ballet Russe at the time and preparing the company for its first Parisian season.

Envisioning a new ballet filled with Russian magic and fantasy, Diaghilev had originally approached senior composers Nikolai Tcherepnin, who declined, followed by Anton Liadov, who was too

slow off the mark to reply. Stravinsky was thrilled to be Diaghilev’s next choice and eagerly accepted the commission.

Stravinsky’s teacher Rimsky-Korsakov was adept at this kind of writing and much of those skills had rubbed off on the young composer, perhaps a reason he accepted in spite of being handed a six-month deadline to complete the score.

Stravinsky indeed borrowed from Rimsky in the way he balanced edgy chromatic harmony for the ballet’s magical creatures, with alternately a more traditional modal-diatonic style for the mortals in the tale, in which the Firebird helps a young prince rescue a princess from the ogre Kastchei, winning her heart.Though the music’s grass roots are in the Romantic tradition, there is no mistake Stravinsky’s musical syntax is at the brink of the 20th century.

The 1919 version contains six scenes in a brilliant musical summation of the old and promise of the new.

CLASSICS

Angela Hewitt Plays Ravel

Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor

Angela Hewitt, piano

Acclaimed worldwide as conductor and composer, Benjamin Wallfisch has conducted orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony at venues including the Hollywood Bowl and Sydney Opera House. He has collaborated with artists including Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock and Yuja Wang, and has held the positions of Associate Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of the Crested Butte Music Festival of Colorado. Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominee Benjamin Wallfisch is recognized as one of the leading film composers of his generation, with a career spanning over a decade and 60 feature films. He has composed music for such legendary film makers as Steven Spielberg, Rupert Wyatt, Gore Verbinksi and Lars von Trier, and has been recognized with awards and nominations at the Academy Awards®, BAFTAs® and World Soundtrack Awards.

In 2016, Angela Hewitt embarked on a major project entitled ‘The Bach Odyssey,’ which comprises all of Bach’s keyboard works in twelve recitals over the next four years. Hewitt will present these performances in major cities and venues around the world including London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, as well as in Tokyo and Florence. Other recital highlights this season include Vienna Konzerthaus, Rotterdam’s De Doelen, and a tour of Australia with Musica Viva.

Other highlights of Hewitt’s 2016-2017 season include the Baltimore Symphony and Winnipeg Symphony orchestras, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa. Hewitt also directs Festival Strings Lucerne from the keyboard and earlier this year toured the UK with with Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchestra.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Yufei Liu, violin; Momoko Matsumura, viola; Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Todd Martin, assistant horn; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Darryl Friesen, keyboard M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 9

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The Second City: Ensemble: Carly Heffernan Marty Adams Matt Baram Allison Price Ashley Botting Kevin Vidal Lara Rae, host Julian Pellicano, conductor Written by: Carly Heffernan, Scott Montgomery, Matthew Reid and Klaus Schuller Original Music Composed by Matthew Reid Directed by: Chris Earle Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander Producer: Klaus Schuller Associate Producer: Sophie Santerre Stylist: Laura Gardner

AIR CANADA POPS SOUNDBYTES

The Second City Guide to the Symphony

First produced in collaboration with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Oundjian.

ACT I Big C Life Is A Symphony Symphony Bluff Jingle My First Love The Key Of Life You’re Late Dance of the Comedians by Smetana Audience ID 2001 Check Out My Flute

ACT II Behind the Scenes The Curse of Immortality Sabre Dance by Khachaturian They Have Names Improv When They Played Bach Off Close Program Subject to Change.

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Friday, March 17 Saturday, March 18 Sunday, March 19

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Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile, hosted by Canadian Improv Games Friday, 7:15 p.m.

Massey Improv Saturday, 7:15 p.m.

MBCI Cake Batter Sunday, 1:15 p.m.

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ARTIST BIOS

AIR CANADA POPS

The Second City Guide to the Symphony

Lara Rae, host

Scott Montgomery, co-writer

Lara Rae is an award-winning comic and the co-founding (and confounding) Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. She was one of the developers of the international hit television show Little Mosque on the Prairie. Lara is an avid fan of "long hair" music, particularly Mahler, and is the opera reviewer for CBC Manitoba. She lives in Wolseley (almost) with her two rats Frida and Nina who are more partial to gangsta rap.

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Scott is a writer, producer, (sometimes) actor, and alumnus of The Second City Toronto. He's also a member of Falcon Powder, a friendship based comedy experiment with whom he co-created/wrote/executive produced and starred in the online series The Whole Truths, which you can (and should!) check out at CBC Comedy.

Select credits include:Writer, Odd Squad (PBS/TVO); Writer/Executive Story Editor, Young Drunk Punk (Rogers); Writer/Co-Executive Producer, Ron James: Fast Forward and Ron James The Big Picture (CBC); Writer/ Co-executive producer, The Ron James Show, seasons 2-5 (CBC); Creator/Writer/Producer for the web series’ Canadian History Minute, and Your Path To Enlightenment; and Senior Writer/Correspondent, The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos (CBC).

The Second City Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander Producer: Klaus Schuller Associate Producer: Sophie Santerre Stylist: Laura Gardner Production Assistant: Georgia Priestley-Brown

The Second City / The Toronto Symphony Orchestra The Second City Guide to the Symphony debuted with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in late 2014, and makes its first North American tour in the 2016-2017 season. Founded in 1922, the TSO is one of Toronto’s—and Canada’s— most important cultural institutions, recognized internationally, and a distinguished and active supporter of new Canadian and international work.

The Second City has delighted audiences for more than 55 years as the world's premier comedy theatre, with resident stages in Toronto and Chicago, and touring companies all over the world.The TSO and The Second City are pleased to present this unique collaboration, with the hope of sharing the symphony with comedy fans, and vice versa.

Klaus Schuller, producer, co-writer Klaus Schuller is the Producer and Executive Director of The Second City Canada. He has produced dozens of shows for the Second City including the recent smash hit The Hotline Always Blings Twice and Global TV’s The Second City Project. As a writer, he has written and composed several musicals for young audiences as well as animation properties for Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, and Viacom. Klaus would like to thank Victor Borge and Peter Schickele for proving that classical music is hilarious.

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Carly Heffernan, ensemble, co-writer Carly Heffernan is thrilled to once again play a part in bringing together the symphony and The Second City. She is an alumna of the Second City Toronto where she wrote and performed in four hit revues.Television credits include: The Other Kingdom, Lost & Found Music Studios, Spun Out, Odd Squad, But I'm Chris Jericho,The L.A. Complex and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Carly has written for George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Royal Canadian Air Farce and CBC Radio’s, The Irrelevant Show, she is a former member of the award-winning sketch troupe The Sketchersons and the female, awardnominated, comedy cocktail, She Said What!

Matthew Reid, composer, sound designer, co-writer, piano Matthew Reid has been composing music and making comedy since the time he was too short to ride on roller coasters. For ten years he composed and performed songs and live soundtracks for Toronto's world famous The Second City comedy theatre. He's also the award-winning composer of Derek Frey's (head

of Tim Burton Productions) critically acclaimed film, Green Lake. In addition, Matt has composed for and licensed his music for film, television, games, web series, art galleries, museum exhibits, clown operas, and pyrotechnical circus events.To boot, he composed an auto tune version of John Cage's 4'33".

Seriously. Check it out on YouTube. As a comedian, he contributed years of jokes and insights to The Second City productions and his critically acclaimed sketch duo, Reid Along with Browning, and has been making very weird things since 1999. Hey, for all you investors willing to take a risk, they recently created a musical version of Fargo. Surprisingly hummable!

The World, is renown all over Europe where he continues to tour and teach improvisation. Matt was part of the ensemble cast of Seed, a sitcom for CityTV and the CW, and played Mr, Stark on Nickelodeon’s Make It Pop. He also plays Dr.Van Chris in the new Suicide Squad movie.

Ashley Botting, ensemble

Ashley Botting is an alumna of The Second City Mainstage, where she wrote and performed in four revues, including How to Kill A Comedian, and Sixteen Scandals. Other theatre credits: One Night Only, a completely improvised two-act musical (Klifffer Entertainment).

Chris Earle, director Chris Earle is thrilled to be a part of this Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Studio180) The Second City Guide to the Symphony (Roy unique collaboration between the Thomson Hall, 2014), Impromptu Splendour: Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Improvised Sondheim (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), The Second City. A veteran Torontobased director, playwright, and actor, Chicago Sketchfest. TV credits: Straight Talk (CTV News Channel), Odd Squad (TVO/PBS), Schitt’s Creek he has worked and played with The (CBC), Coming In (CBC Punchline). Animation Second City for over two decades, directing eight main stage revues including The Hotline Always Blings credits: The Ridonculous Race, Arthur, Beywheelz, ZSquad.Writing credits: NOW Magazine,The Toronto Twice and the Canadian Comedy Award winners Sixteen Scandals and Something Wicked Awesome This Star,TheLoop.ca, shortlisted for The CBC Canada Way Comes. His plays include Democrats Abroad (NYC Writes: Bloodlines prize. Regular panelist and writer for Because News on CBC Radio.Two-time Dora Fringe Excellence Award), Russell Hill (seven Dora nominee, three-time Canadian Comedy Awardnominations including Outstanding New Play), winner.

Radio :30 (Dora Award – Outstanding New Play, Chalmers Award), Big Head Goes to Bed (co-written with Shari Hollett), as well as a slew of scripts for Ross Marty Adams, ensemble Marty Adams is an actor and writer Petty’s annual panto musicals, including Peter Pan in whose career has taken him all Wonderland, Cinderella, and Robin Hood (Dora across the board in the nomination – Outstanding New Musical). His work as entertainment industry. He wrote an actor includes appearances for Tarragon Theatre and performed in four main stage (The Trouble with Mr. Adams, Miracle Mother, Faust, revues with The Second City Russell Hill),Theatre Columbus (The Knee Plays 2, Toronto. He is a multiple Canadian Comedy Award Doubt), Crows Theatre,Theatre Passe Muraille, the recipient, winning Best Comedic Play three years Blyth Festival, and numerous shows for the Toronto in a row. Marty has worked as a stand up Fringe. comedian with Yuk Yuk’s international. Select film and TV credits include: Orphan Black, Scare Tactics, Matt Baram, ensemble Nick Cannon’s Mission: 4Count, Saw 4, and Hemlock Matt Baram is a veteran of the legendary The Second City Comedy Grove. In 2015, Marty was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Theatre in Toronto where he wrote Actor/Guest Star in a comedy series for his work in and performed in six Mainstage Spun Out. 2016 brought another Canadian Screen revues. He has also performed in Award nomination for Best Performance in a both dramatic and comedic plays Sketch/Variety comedy series for The Second City across Canada and is a recipient of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male improviser. His award- Project, which was also nominated for best Sketch/Variety Comedy Series. winning theatre company,The National Theatre of M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 1 3

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The Second City Guide to the Symphony

Allison Price, ensemble

Kevin Vidal, ensemble

Allison Price is a Canadian Comedy Award-winning and Dora nominated alumnus of The Second City, where she wrote and performed in four critically acclaimed revues including Sixteen Scandals and The Meme-ing of Life. Additional theatre includes Dance Animal (Robin Henderson Productions); People Suck (Nutmeg Productions); pool (no water) and Pieces (Cue6 Productions); The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine (Beacon Theatre).

As one half of the award-winning sketch comedy duo Haircut, Allison has performed at festivals in Chicago and Toronto and as a part of Just For Laughs. She is the co-creator and star of the web series SLUMBER PARTY and the upcoming The Lost Pages for CBC Comedy.Television and film credits include appearances on Odd Squad, Max & Shred, A Puppy For Christmas and The New Yorker Presents.

Allison is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.

Kevin Vidal was born and raised in Toronto. He decided to pursue his love of acting in his last year of high school and can now be seen doing theatre and improv around the city.

He is an alumnus of The Second City and recently starred in City TV's Sunnyside, for which he won a Canadian Screen Award for "Best Performance In A Variety/Sketch Series By An Individual/Ensemble.� Kevin's previous theatre credits include; Sixteen Scandals,We Can Be Heroes (The Second City), RENT (Lower Ossington Theatre), Hairspray (Curtain Call Players), Radio Active Drag Queens of the Year 3000 (Toronto Fringe), RENT (Fallen Rock), and Skule Nite 0T9/1T0 (UofT Skule).

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ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Tony Cyre, percussion

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Legacy Notes– A Marriage Imbued with Music The Cairns’ love of the orchestra inspired them to Lorraine and Gerry Cairns both love the piano. become donors, but Gerry and Lorraine have also “It’s our favourite instrument. ”They both took taken the steps to leave a gift in their wills to the lessons when they were younger although WSO.“The symphony has brought so much neither carried on with it past their teenage pleasure and enjoyment to our lives, we feel it is years. As Gerry puts it, he has the piano in his our duty to give back. Sometimes the funding head and in his heart, but not in his fingers. But, model for the WSO is difficult that doesn’t keep them from so it’s important to give loving music and being The symphony something to keep it going. subscribers to the Winnipeg has brought so We wanted to help the Symphony Orchestra (WSO). symphony in the long-term so much pleasure Gerry’s love of music started when other people can enjoy the he was a kid living in Pilot Mound. and enjoyment to orchestra long into the future.”

He, his two brothers, and sister our lives, we feel When asked if they had a sang in Christmas concerts and it is our duty to message for other people who were called the “Cairns Kids.”Then might be thinking of doing a in 1949 when he was living on a give back. legacy donation in their will farm in Killarney, he remembers - Gerry and Lorraine Cairns to the WSO, Gerry replied, hearing Ilene Farrell singing on “To me, it is an honour to the radio from New York City. give this money. Even if they made some small Lorraine’s earliest memories of music were contribution in their will, they will really contribute singing in a choir as a teenager. to the life of the symphony. I They both got to love the WSO when they strongly encourage people worked at the Winnipeg Free Press. Gerry was to leave a legacy even if just 17 and was working nights as a copy boy for it’s a small amount. the paper. In those days the WSO rehearsed in Every bit helps.” the Free Press board room every Sunday evening. Music would drift down the hallway into the newsroom.“Walter Kaufmann was the conductor in those days. I would stand in the doorway and listen and he wouldn’t notice me there,” remembers Gerry.

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One Sunday evening, Gerry invited Lorraine up to the board room to listen to the orchestra and that’s when she became hooked.“We became subscribers shortly after that,” says Lorraine.

“Our seats were on the balcony in the old auditorium and we had to crane our necks to see.” They have been subscribers ever since.“We find the symphony to be very uplifting. It has a calming effect and boosts our spirits,” explains Lorraine.

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Gerry and Lorraine Cairns’love of the WSO lead them to establish a gift in their will.

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.

Siana Attwell, PhD Greg Doyle & Carol Bellringer Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Kevin & Els Kavanagh Michel D. Lagacé Gail E. Loewen S. E. Loewen

W. H. Loewen Dr. Brendan MacDougall Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell Lesia Peet Beth M. Proven Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Trudy Schroeder

Muriel Smith Dr. Stephen & Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom Edith A.Toews & Dr. Helen A.Toews Robin Wiens & Emilie Lagacé-Wiens Donn K.Yuen 2 anonymous

We gratefully acknowledge and remember these thoughtful individuals whose legacy gifts have been received. Most of these gifts are managed as part of the WSO Endowment Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation and provide disbursements that sustain the orchestra each year in perpetuity.

Dorothy Mildred Armstrong Mary Besler Norma Bingeman Jonathan Birks Daphne Florence Bolton Eileen Bruce D. Brummitt-Feasby L R Buggey Elizabeth Buggey Mary Christie Ethel Marjorie Colpitts R.J. Cook Dorothy Cook Edith Kathleen Crowston Bente Cunnings Myra Davidson Pearl Day Vera Elizabeth De Wet Esther May Dempsey Adeline Denton Margaret Allison Doak Daphne Edwards Doris K. Elliott

Gertrude Louise Elliott Barbara Endres Mollie English Robert Ross Forrester Michael Furby Islay Galbraith Madeleine Suzanne Gauvin Frank Gladky Doris May Hall Nora Jean Hansell Harold Hunter Philip Carson Huntley Donald Winkler Hurd Leroy Montgomery Johnson George Keates Florence May Kelley Lois M. Kendall Helen Leckie Mavis Cass Levins Gordon P. Linney Margaret Ann MacKenzie Susan Martin Gertrude Caroline Mueller

Mary Nesti Ruth Palmour Joseph Paolucci Gladys Pearson Rosalie Richman Harold Edgar Shiells Anne Shore Margaret Simmons Kathleen Elisabeth Sinclair Robert Skinner Jean Pierre Soulodre Ronald George Spencer Margaret Eileen Weir Michael Zaluski

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Elijah, Op. 70 Part I

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Elijah

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Elijah Felix Mendelssohn b. Hamburg / February 3, 1809 d. Leipzig / November 4, 1847 Composed: 1846 First performance: August 26, 1846 (Birmingham, England) conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2006; Henry Engbrecht, conductor Mendelssohn’s first oratorio St.Paul had been such a success, with 50 performances over 18 months following its May, 1836 Düsseldorf premiere, he began to envision a sequel on an even grander scale, settling on the Old Testament subject of Elijah. Mendelssohn had extensively studied the Old Testament and one passage from the First Book of Kings struck him in particular for its musical possibilities, the text “And behold, the Lord passed by.”

Mendelssohn wrote to his close friend, the poet and London-stationed Hanover diplomat Karl Klingemann, to see if he would be interested in sketching a libretto.They arranged to meet in August, 1837 when Mendelssohn would be conducting the British premiere of St.Paul at the Birmingham Festival.

Since Klingemann didn’t show much interest in the subject’s personality and Mendelssohn had a full slate of activities going on - conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts, directing the Leipzig Conservatory of which he was the founder in 1842, composing and travelling - Elijah stalled until the summer of 1845, when Mendelssohn formally received a commission from the Birmingham Festival’s director for a follow-up work to St.Paul.

Mendelssohn enlisted Julius Schubring to help him with the libretto. Schubring was a respected theologian who had previously assisted with the texts of St.Paul and who understood Mendelssohn’s proposed dramatic thrust for the new work. By early 1846, work on Elijah was in full force.

In June, Elijah was nearing completion. Mendelssohn sent the German-language original to another friend, the eclectic William Bartholomew in London, for a fitting English translation. A violinist and hymn writer, Bartholomew had served the same purpose for St.Paul, Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony (Lobgesang) and many of the composer’s songs.

Final preparations for the premiere began when Mendelssohn arrived in England on April 17, 1846.That year he was serving as co-conductor of the Birmingham Festival with the famous pianist Ignaz Moscheles, who helped Mendelssohn in choosing the solo singers and engaging over 80 orchestral musicians from London, all of whom would travel by special train to Birmingham that August following three days of rehearsals in London. An additional 40 musicians would be hired in Birmingham along with a chorus of 270 singers.

Anticipation was at a fever pitch and the premiere did not disappoint, the audience of over 2000 shouting approval with four arias and four choruses encored on demand - an unheard of reception for an oratorio.

When Mendelssohn left England in October, he was Britain’s most celebrated composer since Handel.

But Mendelssohn was unsatisfied and wanted to refine the work further, as he had done with his “Scottish”and “Italian”symphonies.

He returned to England for a twoweek period in April 1847 to conduct performances of the revised Elijah in London, Birmingham and Manchester.The trip included other concerts that would leave the frail composer in a state of nervous exhaustion at the end of his stay.

When Mendelssohn returned to Leipzig and learned of the death of his beloved sister Fanny, he collapsed in grief.Though he managed to complete the String Quartet in F minor and fragments of an oratorio Christus after that, Elijah proved to be Mendelssohn’s last important work before his death on November 4, 1847.

Though Mendelssohn may not have been the man of the theatre that Handel obviously was, Elijah is steeped in intense drama. Despite a seeming liability of being a series of isolated tableaux rather than continuous unfolding action, the music’s power and vision overcome any shortcomings in the storytelling.

Elijah, the Hebrew prophet, undertakes a mission to destroy the pagan cults of Baal and idolatrous worship of foreign gods that Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, brought to the people of Israel.The central episode in Elijah’s complex tale is the contest on Mt. Carmel with the prophets of Baal: the Lord alone is able to send fire from heaven, and the Israelites thus learn that they can have no other god before the Lord.

The first of Elijah’s two parts opens with the prophet’s curse of drought, over intonations of trombones, followed by a stormy fugal Overture depicting the plight of the Israelites.

A tenor aria seeks divine comfort. In the next scene, Elijah is at the brook of Cherith protected by a group of angels, who command him to journey to Zarepath where he will find a widow with food to sustain him during the drought, as promised

by God.The widow’s son is near death and Elijah revives the boy over a chorus of praise.

The third scene of Part I finds Elijah presenting himself to King Ahab and announcing that the drought is to end. Elijah challenges Ahab’s priests of Baal to prove the power of their god.The priests call upon Baal to bring fire to a sacrificial animal, but nothing happens. Elijah’s prayers are answered and he prays for rain.The clouds gather, and the people offer their monumental chorus “Thanks be to God: He laveth the thirsty land!”

Part II is more serene than the first, dealing with Elijah’s flight from the wrath of Jezebel, his time in the wilderness and the appearance of God to the prophet, whose faith is reinvigorated before being swept to Heaven in a fiery chariot.

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

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Elijah

Elroy Friesen, conductor Described as “innovative, expressive, and dynamic,” Elroy Friesen is Director of Choral Studies at the University of Manitoba where he conducts numerous choirs, and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and music education.

His award-winning ensembles tour nationally and internationally, and are frequently recorded and broadcasted by the CBC. They enjoy collaborating with many outstanding local and national arts organizations, including the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, WSO New Music Festival, Soundstreams Canada, Groundswell, Vancouver Chamber Choir, MusikBarock Ensemble, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and the Latvian Radio Choir.

Dr. Friesen studied at the University of Manitoba (B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Mus.) and at the University of Illinois (DMA). He is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator, and conductor throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Monica Huisman, soprano Dutch-Canadian Soprano, Monica Huisman has been hailed as possessing a soprano voice that "embodies both flawless technique and dramatic impact" (Opera Canada). Ms. Huisman has delighted audiences from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to Guatemala City with the reputation of her “silken" voice "consistently crafting each note into a work of art" (Winnipeg Free Press).

WSO, broadcasted by the CBC, Mendelssohn's Lobegesang with the VSO, Four Songs for Cello and voice by Previn with the VSO, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with both the VSO and the RSO, Falstaff with MOA and the world premiere of A Prairie Boy’s Life by John Greer.

Simon Burns, Boy Soprano Simon loves soccer, singing, dancing, acting, and spending time with his friends and with his dog, Noot. He has been an active soloist and chorister in the École Riverview School Choir (where he is in Grade 6), Winnipeg School Division Honour Choir, and First Mennonite Church Junior Choir. He has been a member of The Winnipeg Boys’ Choir since 2015.

He has sung solos in Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols in 2016 with First Mennonite, under the direction of Yuri Klaz, and in 2015 with The Winnipeg Boys’ Choir under Earl Stafford, as part of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra season. He appeared in the Little Opera Company's Hansel and Gretel in 2015. Simon has Grade 3 cello and regularly participates in the Winnipeg Music Festival in choral, vocal, and cello classes. He is excited to be making his first solo appearance on the Centennial Concert Hall stage.

Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano

Catherine Anne Daniel, mezzosoprano, is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her upcoming projects for this season include: Singing First Maid in Edmonton Opera’s production of Elektra, singing Jezebel and the Angel in Elijah She has soared on the stages of Vancouver Opera, with the WSO and singing Elisabetta in Knoxville Opera’s production of Maria Stuarda.

Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, The Netherlands Opera, Manitoba Opera, Last season’s engagements included singing Opera Ontario and Saskatoon Opera in First Maid in Opéra de Montréal’s production of productions of Carmen, Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Elektra, returning to Edmonton to sing Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Cunning Little Vixen, La Boheme, Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel and Lakme. Mercedes in their production of Carmen and a summer Porgy and Bess tour in Germany.

Many of these performances have been broadcasted by CBC Radio on Saturday Afternoon The 2015-2016 season featured Catherine singing Third Lady with Edmonton Opera’s at the Opera.

Magic Flute and a European tour of Porgy and Bess. She sang Messiah with l’Orchestre Recent engagements included Villa Lobos' Symphonique de Sherbrooke and participated in Bachianas Brasileiras with Rio International Cello the Opéra de Montréal Gala. Arthur Kaptainis Festival in Rio di Janeiro, Mahler's 4th with the M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 2 1

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from the Montreal Gazette wrote “mezzosoprano Catherine Anne Daniel applied a bright, forward sound and vivacious acting style to the ode from Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos.” Catherine graduated from the University of Manitoba with an Integrated Music/Education degree in 2007. There she studied voice with Coloratura soprano Tracy Dahl.

John Tessier, tenor The JUNO Award-winning Tenor, John Tessier, has garnered international attention and praise for the beauty and honesty of his voice, for a refined style and artistic versatility, and for his handsome, youthful presence in the lyric tenor repertoire. He has worked with many of the most notable musicians of our day including Plácido Domingo, Lorin Maazel, Emmanuel Haim, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Bryn Terfel, Sir Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Deborah Voigt, Samuel Ramey, Bobby McFerrin, John Nelson, Franz Welser-Möst, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Carlos Alvarez and Bernard Labadie.

Appearances of the recent past and near future include performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon, Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, English National Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, the New York Philharmonic, Wiener Musikverein, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Equally comfortable in the genres of opera, oratorio and recital, Mr. Tessier is also in high demand for coaching, master classes, and private consultations. His discography includes recordings on the Naxos, Telarc, BIS, Challenge Records and Dorian labels.

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Gregory Dahl, baritone Gregory Dahl has attained a position of prominence among baritones of his generation with performances notable for richness of characterization and a remarkable vocal authority. Mr. Dahl’s performances in Pelleas et Melisande for Opera Theater of St. Louis were hailed for his “appealingly lyrical baritone [that] emphasized Golaud’s inner turmoil over his villainy.”

Dahl’s current season is highlighted by his debut at the English National Opera as Tomsky in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame and he was featured by the Canadian Opera Company as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. L’Opéra de Montréal welcomes him back to the Wilfrid Pelletier stage as Nilakantha in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila and he also looks forward to Escamillo in Carmen for Calgary Opera.

Last season, he was Ford in Falstaff for L’Opéra de Montréal, Silvano in Ballo In Maschera for the Canadian Opera Company, Macbeth for L’Opéra de Québec, Golaud in Pélleas et Mélisande for Against the Grain Theatre and an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera covering the role of Mandryka in Arabella.

University of Manitoba Choirs Elroy Friesen and Catherine Robbins, directors

University of Manitoba Singers (Elroy Friesen, director) University of Manitoba Women’s Chorus (Elroy Friesen, director) University of Manitoba Alumni Chorus (Elroy Friesen, director) University of Manitoba concert Choir (Catherine Robbins, director) The last three decades have brought the University of Manitoba choirs to prominence as performing ensembles in Canada; they are known for their innovative and inspired performances of new and traditional choral repertoire.

The various U of M choirs appear frequently with leading professional organizations having performed and recorded Arvo Pärt’s Litany with the Hilliard Ensemble and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and Glen Buhr’s Ritchot Mass with the Penderecki String Quartet. Premieres of new music also include Canzoni

Romane by Sid Robinovitch, Styx by Kancheli, Raft of the Medusa by Veda Hille, and Sid Robinovitch’s Cantus Borealis (2011) with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

U of M choir membership is open to all University of Manitoba students and all general community members. For audition information contact: elroy.friesen@umanitoba.ca

In addition to the university choirs’ extensive performance of new works, they regularly perform traditional choral repertoire and masterworks. Recent concerts have included Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium, Mozart’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Allen Harrington, bassoon; Peter Collins, bass trombone; Cary Denby, organ

The University Singers and Women’s Chorus have toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe, recently including Serbia, Hungary, Montenegro, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden. This coming May, the University Singers will be touring Slovenia, Croatia and Italy.

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Melodius Prime vs The Boyz of Noise!

Julian Pellicano, conductor Mark Cameron, entertainer Bryn Dubberley as LeeAnne / Harmony Carlos Gonzales as Gavin / Melodious Prime Kelsey Miller as Hullabaloo Liam Sato as Havoc Patrick Cameron as Konfused Yuya Mizushima as Hoopla Philippe Jacques, choreographer

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Mr. Mark as Kaos His real name is Mark Cameron but he has been known to countless kids and their families as Mr. Mark, creator of wild and wonderful music for kids to sing and dance to. Armed with a truckload of enthusiasm and a truckload of instruments, his shows are always lively and engaging!

When he is not gallivanting around the world with Manny Tuba, the WSO’s greatest spokesperson, Mr. Mark is either busy performing at children’s festivals across Canada, or making orchestras out of junk with kids, as part of Manitoba Arts Council’s Artists in the School Program. If he’s not doing that, he is most likely at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, where he has been an accompanist and teacher since 1989.

Bryn Dubberley as LeeAnne / Harmony At 13, Bryn Dubberley is a veteran performer, having appeared in a number of productions with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In addition to her role as Blue, the little sister of Princess Irene in Twyla Tharp's The Princess and the Goblin, she has had four different roles in Nutcracker (mouse, party child, angel, and reindeer). Bryn was a member of the ensemble for “Defilé-Mixed program,” and has danced at the RWB Gala, the opening ceremony of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and several times in “Ballet in the Park.”

Bryn began taking classes at the RWB when she was three. In addition to the RWB Intensive Training Program, her classes this year include jazz, hip hop, lyrical, modern and musical theatre. Bryn is a Grade 8 French Immersion student.

Carlos Gonzales as Gavin / Melodious Prime Since Carlos was 3-years-old, he has gravitated to the stage. Starting with performing at the Brazilian Pavilion, demonstrating Capoeira, a Brazilian Martial Art, he continued to demonstrate his love for the stage by developing skills as a magician (Carlos the Magnificent), a hula-hoop artist, and a hip hop animator at his school talent shows. Carlos has been 26

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taking classes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for the past five years including hip hop, tap, jazz and musical theatre. He played the role of a Mountie for two years in the production of the Nutcracker. He has also performed in a number of other Royal Winnipeg Ballet productions. Just last year, Carlos held five distinct roles in his school production of Shrek Junior, including the role of Baby Shrek and Lord Farquaad’s Father.Through the performing arts program at Grant Park High School he has appeared in two Ad Astra productions.

Kelsey Miller as Hullabaloo Kelsey Miller is 18-years-old and an Aspirant with Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She is originally from Red Deer, Alberta, and after moving away from Alberta five years ago, she has been dancing in Winnipeg ever since. She has never danced during a symphony performance and was very excited when choreographer Philippe asked her to join.

Liam Sato as Havoc Liam Saito is an Aspirant in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, where he has been a student for the past five years, graduating from the professional division in 2015. Liam grew up in Massachusetts and began dancing at age 7 with Rose and Charles Flachs at Massachusetts Academy of Ballet. In 2012, Liam competed in the New York finals of Youth America Grand Prix. Liam is also an alumnus of the 2015 Jacob's Pillow Summer Ballet Intensive, and has performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in such productions as Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin, Nutcracker, Giselle, and Peter Pan, as well as Q-Dance 2016.

Patrick Cameron as Konfused A Winnipeg-born performer, Patrick Cameron studied with the RWB’s Professional Division and preformed in numerous productions with their company including the roles of Seryozha in Anna Karenina and Dieter in Nutcracker. In addition to their stage productions, he had involvement with their documentary film series Ballet Girls and the full length feature, Tu Tu Much.

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After his tenure with the RWB, Patrick preformed in Danny Schur’s production of Strike!, and later went on to being an active member of the Winnipeg arts and culture community as a board member of Reel Pride Film Festival. He returns to join Mr. Mark, his father, on stage this year with the WSO to help him bring their joy of music and art as part of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s, GreatWest Life Kids Concerts.

Yuya Mizushima as Hoopla Yuya Mizushima has been dancing since the age of 3, first training at a private classical ballet studio in Japan before being accepted to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division in 2014.

Mizushima graduated in 2016 from the Professional Division and has since been training in the RWB Aspirant Program.

Philippe Jacques, choreographer Philippe Jacques, a graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Aspirant Program, performed and toured internationally in many of the RWB company’s productions while in the School and after. During this time, Philippe also explored the realm of choreography, creating for his fellows Aspirants, the David Suzuki Blue Dot Tour and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics in Toronto. His independent works include Text Me, created in partnership with Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada, and Una Vida Mejor, created on principal dancer Jaime Vargas for the 2015 International Metropolis Conference. His desire to expand his contemporary vocabulary led him to participate in programs such as the Nederlands Danz Theatre Summer and Springboard Danse Montréal. He is currently working as a choreographer and artistic coordinator for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, while dancing independently. His latest appearance was in the 2016 Q Dance.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Allen Harrington, bassoon; Peter Collins, bass trombone; Tony Cyre, percussion

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Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385,“Haffner” Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto Presto

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Mozart & Serenades

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Serenade for Winds, Cello and Bass in Antonin Dvorˇák (1841-1904) D minor, Op. 44 Moderato quasi Marcia Menuetto:Tempo di Menuetto – Presto – Tempo di Menuetto Andante con moto Finale: Allegro molto – Moderato, quasi Tempo di Marcia – Allegro molto - INTERMISSION -

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Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Pezzo in forma di Sonatina: Andante non troppo - Allegro moderato Waltz: Moderato - Tempo di valse Elégie: Larghetto elegiaco Finale (Théma russe): Andante – Allegro con spirito

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Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 d.Vienna / December 5, 1791 Composed: 1782 First performance: March 23, 1783 (Vienna) Last WSO performance: 2006; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

Mozart’s fortunes had certainly looked up by the summer of 1782. In his personal life, he was preparing for his marriage to Constanze Weber. Commissions were coming and Mozart’s acclaim as a pianist and composer for the piano in the pianomad city of Vienna was growing. His opera/singspiel The Abduction from the Seraglio was in final stages of completion.

All this after just one year in Vienna, where the young composer had come from Salzburg to seek his fortune.

That July, Mozart received a letter from his father with news that a special honour was coming to the Burgomaster of Salzburg, Siegmund Haffner, for whom Mozart had composed the “Haffner” Serenade K. 250 for the wedding of Siegmund’s daughter.The Burgomaster was being promoted to a position of nobility and a sequel-serenade was being requested from Salzburg’s favourite son.

Mozart knew he had to supply his best effort and delivered a new six-movement serenade in just two weeks.

In early 1783, Mozart was putting together a concert and recalled his efforts from the past summer. Maybe he could make a symphony out of the new serenade, he thought. Adding flutes and clarinets to the scoring and discarding two movements, the new “Haffner”Symphony was a great success at the concert on March 23, 1783. Emperor Joseph was there, enthusiastically applauding.

The opening movement recalls Handel in its ceremonial clothes and Haydn in the resourceful workings out of its single theme.The second movement is an elegant sonatina (sonata form minus a development section).The Menuetto is suitably formal, with an aria-like trio.The chattering rondo-finale jumps from the gate – “as fast as possible,”Mozart instructed, with still more nods to Haydn.

A rousing close no doubt stirred the Emperor.

Serenade for Winds Antonin Dvorˇák b. Bohemia / September 8, 1841 d. Prague / May 1, 1904 Composed: 1878 First performance: November 17, 1878 (Prague) conducted by the composer.

Last WSO performance: 1997, Bramwell Tovey, conductor

February, 1875 was a breakout year for Antonin Dvorˇák.The young Bohemian composer was barely earning a living as a church organist, had been married just over a year and was expecting his first child when the tide turned. A grant program had been established

by Emperor Franz Joseph to help struggling artists in the eastern provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dvorˇák applied, and with renowned critic Eduard Hanslick and Johannes Brahms on the jury panel, Dvorˇák not only received the highest stipend but official endorsements from both luminaries. It was Dvorˇák’s first recognition outside his homeland.

musicians would play while arriving and leaving. Dvorˇák opens the D minor Serenade with a march that provides more sun than the key of D minor suggests.The Menuetto that follows is born from Czech folk dance, the trio resembling a furiant.

The heartfelt slow movement is the work’s emotional centerpiece, while the finale brings back the opening march that culminates in a rousing coda.

Concert Music for Strings and Brass Paul Hindemith b. Hanau, nr Frankfurt / November 16, 1895 d. Frankfurt / December 28, 1963 Composed: 1930 First performance: April 3, 1931 (Boston) conducted by Serge Koussevitzky First WSO performance

At the age of 13, Hindemith was admitted to the Conservatory in Frankfurt to study violin and “Genuine and original,”Hanslick and composition.When his father was Brahms wrote as their first official killed in action during World War I, review of Dvorˇák’s talent, going on to the young Hindemith had to supply him artistic guidance and support his family as a performing contacts that sparked a flurry of musician. He went on to become writing from the excited composer. In not only one of the noted violists of 1877, Brahms recommended Dvorˇák his time, but by the early 1920s, was to the publisher Simrock, whose firm widely recognized as one of would later profit from the Germany’s most talented composers international success of Dvorˇák’s through his appearances at the Slavonic Dances, modeled on famous concerts of new music at Brahms’s Hungarian Dances. the Donaueschingen Music Festival.

Dvorˇák’s first composition of 1878 was Hindemith’s music during this early the lovely Serenade for two oboes, period aligned with the avanttwo clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, cello and bass.This was likely a garde expressionism trending in Germany at the time. But following tribute to Brahms, who’s earlier his appointment to the Festival’s Serenade in A major had also been scored for woodwinds, horns and low administrative committee in 1923, Hindemith adopted a more inward, strings. Dvorˇák would later achieve fame as a conductor, and the premiere soul-based form of expression while also looking back to a neo-classical of the new Serenade marked his veneer recalling J.S. Bach. debut in that role. A month later in Hindemith allied this in a language Vienna, Dvorˇák met Brahms for the of contrapuntal workings out of first time to thank him effusively for his inspiration and efforts on behalf of motives, clearly directed thematic development and a lyrical yet the young composer. expressive objectivity designed to The customary classical serenade strip away post-Romantic that was often played outdoors emotionalism.This singular style opened and closed with a march the emerged in Hindemith’s famous

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1934 opera Mathis der Maler and remained in his music to the end of his life. Hindemith’s Concert Music for Strings and Brass of 1930 stood at the outset of this new period.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra of that time was a magnificent ensemble, its conductor Serge Koussevitzky celebrated for performances and premieres of new music (Prokofiev’s Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms among much else).The Concert Music for Strings and Brass was one of a number of works commissioned by the orchestra in celebration of its 50th anniversary, and Hindemith exploited its capabilities to the fullest. In two large subdivided parts of tightly argued narrative, the music sets apart the strings and brass amicably yet brilliantly, the closing pages capped off with an exciting Gershwin-esque coda reiteration of the stabbing three-note theme that opens the second part.

ARTIST BIOS

Serenade for Strings Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky b.Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840 d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893 Composed: 1879-1880 First performance: October 30, 1881 (St. Petersburg) conducted by Eduard Nápravnik Last WSO performance: 1999; Marin Alsop, conductor

In 1879,Tchaikovsky’s publisher Peter Jurgenson asked the composer for some kind of celebratory piece to honour the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of Czar Alexander II. Tchaikovsky recognized the importance of the request and the 1812 Overture was the result, though the composer was quick to admit that his heart was not really in its creation, unapologetically claiming a lack of artistic value in the Overture’s noisy programmatic outcome. Simultaneously and perhaps out of necessity, he was working on a project that very much was, the Serenade for Strings. It proved to be a balm for his career and became one of his favourite creations.

Tchaikovsky originally conceived the Serenade as a symphony though he told Jurgenson that it could also be suitable for a string quartet or an orchestral suite. Following a few amateur performances, a St. Petersburg premiere took place with great success, the famous Waltz immediately encored. Similar successes followed in Moscow, Hamburg, Prague, London, Paris and the United States during Tchaikovsky’s 1891 visit, where he conducted his Marche Solennelle on the opening concert at the new Carnegie Hall.

Tchaikovsky regarded the first movement as an homage to Mozart. A full bodied introduction leads to a warmly affectionate stance in the animated melody that follows, rounding out this sonatina movement with a return of the rich opening material.The Waltz follows, one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous.The work’s dramatic centerpiece arrives with the Elégie.The finale opens with a Russian theme derived from a Volga work song that was included in a book of folk music

by Mili Balakirev. More folk material ensues in the Allegro, this time a street song from the Kolomna area near Moscow. A recall of the work’s introduction gives way to a stirring close.

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Mozart & Serenades

Marcelo Lehninger, conductor Brazilian-born Marcelo Lehninger is the newlyappointed Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphony.

He previously served as Music Director of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles, for which the League of American Orchestras awarded him the Helen H. Thompson Award for Emerging Music Conductors. Marcelo was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by James Levine, and was later promoted to Associate Conductor.

Earlier in his career, Marcelo served as Associate Conductor of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic in Brazil, and Music Advisor of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.

Mr. Lehninger’s 2016-2017 season includes debuts with the Sydney, Melbourne, Colorado, Hawaii, Toledo, and Portland Symphonies; the Colorado Springs Philharmonic; and Symphony Nova Scotia; as

well as return engagements with, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and the Bard Orchestra, the orchestra of his alma mater.

Career highlights include North American guest conducting engagements with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore, Seattle, Toronto, Milwaukee and National Symphony Orchestras; and in Europe, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Lucerne Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and tours with the Concertgebouw Orchestra assisting Mariss Jansons; and Orchestre National de France, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and NY Philharmonic assisting Kurt Masur. Marcelo has conducted all major orchestras of Brazil and across South America.

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Remembrance Day Rheo Catt in memory of Rex Catt In Memory of Graham Dixon Barbara Filuk in Honour of Alex Pitkethly Ms. Catherine Flower Ms. Robin Hildebrand Ms. Betty Laing in Honour of All Veterans Albert & Helen Litz, in Honour of Our Veterans Margaret Mahon in Honour of her Father, Thomas Hoey McGown C. & J. McIntyre in Honour of All Veterans Neil Middleton in memory of Michael Bundon Mrs. Kathy Parry in honour of "PINK" RCN 4760 Donna & Gordon Price in Honour of Donald MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Lynn Shead Jim Skinner & Judy Nichol, in honour of James Edward Skinner and the late James Edward Nichol Jim & Jan Tennant in honour of Stan and Ralph Hanson 3 Anonymous Listing as of Feb 1 2016 – Feb 14, 2017

PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1948-51 1951-53 1953-55 1955-57 1957-58 1958-61 1961-62 1962-64 1964-65 1965-67 1967-69 1969-71 1971-73 1973-74 1974-76 1976-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84

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.

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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 Terence 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

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 Meg Dolovich Laura Gow Kristie Enns Crystal Schwartz Shevaun Fortune Stephanie Van Nest Jason Hayes MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Sponsorship Beth Proven,VP Development Carol Cassels, Development Manager Carol Linsday, Campaign & Events Coordinator Shenna Song, Development Coordinator Sarah Panas, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Matt Brooks, Designer Diana Chabai, Intern S.Thompson Designs Inc.

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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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EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant 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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