WSO 2018-2019 Overture Issue 1

SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2018 I ISSUE 1

WELCOMING MAESTRO DANIEL RAISKIN MAHLER’S TITAN DISNEY: SILLY SYMPHONY

Photographer: Marco Borggreve

CASABLANCA WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA

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MESSAGE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Welcome to a new and exciting season of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra!

“From the heart, may it go further, to the heart!” is the famous inscription on the score of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. I chose this motto since everyone of us at WSO – musicians, board and staff alike – are passionate about the music we’d like to reach your hearts.

As the WSO’s new Music Director, I feel privileged and blessed presenting my first season built on a 70-year legacy of an institution so strongly embedded in the community, so respected and loved in Winnipeg.

Like many of us, The Beatles played a significant role in my life as a teenager in the Soviet Union, where the group was actually banned for years. I am particularly excited about Classical Mystery Tour – A Tribute to The Beatles, a show that presents some 30 Beatles tunes sung, played, and performed exactly as they were written. The Beatles recorded with a 41-piece orchestra, so this is going to sound bigger than any recording you’ve ever heard!

For kids and parents alike – no one will leave without a smile after having fun at our Disney in Concert: A Silly Symphony Celebration. Groundbreaking cartoons by Walt Disney Studios accompanied by their original scores, performed live by full orchestra – it will be a real treat.

Continuing our commitment to presenting the finest scores of film music, we move on to Casablanca with Live Orchestra. Casablanca is often rated as one of the best movies ever and if you have not seen it yet – now is the time. Captivating performances by Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart and a few iconic lines like “Here’s looking at you, kid” will spring to life like never before.

Our Masterworks concerts in September and October each feature works that have changed the course of music forever. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 “Titan” is the symphony as much about space as it is about time. And however familiar it might sound to us in 21st century, when we hear this music, we should try and recreate the sense of wonder that audiences felt during premiere of this revolutionary work in Budapest in 1889.

Even more stunned were the audiences in Paris in May 1913 at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” We have often heard about the riot it provoked when it was first performed, and even though I do not expect riots breaking out at Centennial Concert Hall, it is easy to comprehend why it was so shocking, provocative and groundbreaking then. This iconic work is a ballet and our collaboration with Buffy Handel’s Aboriginal School of Dance and Odette Heyn-Projects will surely imbue performance with joy and thrill of dance.

We are also excited to welcome young Canadian pianist Charles-Richard Hamelin for his debut with WSO. Silver medalist and laureate of the Krystian Zimerman award at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, he is surely an authority when it comes to performing Chopin’s 1st Piano Concerto.

There is much to discover and to enjoy in our season and I am confident that you will not leave after our concerts untouched and uninspired. You, our beloved audience, have a unique ability to inspire us musicians to aim for the stars. And, rephrasing another iconic line from Casablanca:“We’ll always have music.”

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CONDUCTORS AND COMPOSERS Daniel Raiskin, Music Director A son of a prominent musicologist, Daniel Raiskin grew up in St. Petersburg. He attended music school and later the celebrated conservatory in his native city, where he studied violin, viola and conducting. At the age of twenty, Daniel Raiskin left the Soviet Union to continue his studies in Amsterdam and Freiburg. Inspired to take up the baton by an encounter with the distinguished teacher Lev Savich, he also took classes with Maestri such as Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Milan Horvat, Woldemar Nelson and Jorma Panula. Raiskin, who cultivates a broad repertoire, often looks beyond the mainstream in his strikingly conceived programmes.

He was Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz (2005-2016) and held the same title with the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestrain Lódz (2008-2015). From the 2017-2018 season onwards, Daniel Raiskin will be Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Artistic Partner of the Chamber Orchestra St. Michael Strings in Finland.

Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor A musician with wide-ranging musical interests, conductor Julian Pellicano has made his mark with a multifaceted approach to programming and performing, engaging audiences in a diverse mélange of concerts and genres. Dedicated to invigorating performances of the traditional and contemporary symphonic repertoire, Pellicano’s range has extended to films live with orchestra, classical and modern ballet, collaborations with composers, opera, pops, musical theater, multi-media productions, workshops, as well as carefully programmed concerts for young listeners.The Winnipeg Free Press says of Pellicano,“His versatility is truly astonishing…”

The 2018 - 2019 season includes exciting debut performances with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as well as a return to conduct two productions with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.This year also marks Pellicano’s sixth season as Resident Conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra with concerts on the WSO’s Masterworks Series in addition to leading a multitude of performances throughout the season on the WSO’s Pops, Movie, Kids, Specials and Education series. He studied conducting on fellowship at the Yale School of Music where he was also a member of the critically acclaimed Yale Percussion Group.

Harry Stafylakis, Composer-in-Residence, WNMF Festival Director New York City-based composer Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982) hails from Montreal. "Dreamy yet rhythmic" (NY Times), with a “terrible luminosity” and “ferociously expressive” (Times Colonist), his concert music is “an amalgamation of the classical music tradition and the soul and grime of heavy metal” (I Care If You Listen).

He is the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Composer-In-Residence and Co-Curator of the Winnipeg New Music Festival. His works have been performed by the Toronto, Winnipeg,Vancouver, Edmonton,Victoria, Spokane, Stamford, and PEI symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, McGill Chamber Orchestra, ICE, Contemporaneous, Mivos Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, among others. www.hstafylakis.com 3

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2018-2019 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Daniel Raiskin 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 **Alyssa Ramsay Sean Taubner

TRUMPETS Chris Fensom, Principal Paul Jeffrey Isaac Pulford The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda BASS TROMBONE

BASSES The Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt**Isabelle Lavoie, Principal Meredith Johnson, Principal Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal TUBA Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Chris Anstey Mona Coarda Teodora Dimova Tara Fensom Hong Tian Jia Meredith McCallum Sonia Shklarov Julie Savard Jun Shao SECOND VIOLINS Jeremy Buzash, Principal Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch Kristina Bauch Elizabeth Dyer Bokyung Hwang Rodica Jeffrey **Momoko Matsumura Susan McCallum *Takayo Noguchi Jane Pulford Claudine St-Arnauld VIOLAS Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, Assistant Principal Marie-Elyse Badeau Laszlo Baroczi Richard Bauch Greg Hay Michael Scholz Heather Wilson

Travis Harrison Paul Nagelberg Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry **Anna Scheider

*Chris Lee, Principal **Jarrett McCourt

FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal Alex Conway

PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal

TIMPANI Mike Kemp, Principal

HARP Richard Turner, Principal

OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan

Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan, Principal

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Greg Hay

CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Taylor Eiffert

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Greg Hamilton

The James Thomson Memorial Chair

BASSOONS Kathryn Brooks, Acting Principal **Brenton Foster HORNS Patricia Evans, Principal Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair

Aiden Kleer Caroline Oberheu Michiko Singh

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.

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Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles Classical Mystery Tour Jim Owen: rhythm guitar, piano, vocals Paul Curatolo: bass guitar, piano, vocals Tom Teeley: lead guitar, vocals Chris Camilleri: drums, vocals Julian Pellicano, conductor

Let It Be

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James Owen presents

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Performing selections from the following:

A Day in the Life All You Need Is Love Come Together Eleanor Rigby Golden Slumbers Good Night Got to Get You Into My Life Here Comes the Sun I Am the Walrus I Saw Her Standing There Imagine Live and Let Die Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Magical Mystery Tour Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Penny Lane Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Long and Winding Road While My Guitar Gently Weeps With a Little Help from My Friends Yellow Submarine Yesterday *Note: there will be an intermission between sets.

All songs written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, or George Harrison.

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Friday, September 21 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, September 22 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 23 2:00 p.m.

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ARTIST BIOS

POPS

Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles

James Owen presents Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles Since its initial performance at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (now renamed Segerstrom Center for the Arts) in 1996, Classical Mystery Tour has become the number one Symphony Pops attraction over the last decade. The group has been performing consistently for more than 20 years with more than 100 orchestras in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The group played to packed houses at the Sydney Opera House, and has performed with America’s most

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prestigious orchestras: The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, The Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, among many others.

Classical Mystery Tour has CDs and T-shirts available for purchase at the concert and on their website (www.classicalmysterytour.com).

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Laura MacDougall, flute; Laurel Ridd, flute; James Langridge, trumpet; Miles Thomsen, trumpet; Julia McIntyre, bass trombone; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Will Bonness, keyboards; Janice Finley, saxophone; Ken Gold, saxophone; Julie Husband, saxophone; Jonathan Stevens, saxophone

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Mahler’s Titan Daniel Raiskin, conductor Charles-Richard Hamelin, piano

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Allegro maestoso Romanze: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

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Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Langsam, schleppend – Sehr gemächlich Kräftig bewegt Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen Stürmisch bewegt

Friday, September 28 Saturday, September 29

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

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The Sept 29th concert is performed in memory of Louise Nebbs. Louise left a gift of $100,000 to the WSO in her will. The WSO is tremendously grateful for her generosity.

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At the time 20-year-old Chopin composed this concerto, the concert

by James Manishen world was ruled by the Overture to The Marriage touring virtuoso, of Figaro equipped with technical extravagance, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thundering volume and plenty of b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 showmanship.The arrival of Paganini d. Vienna / December 5, 1791 on the circuit in 1805 followed by Liszt Composed: 1785-1786 in 1823 set the rules whereby if a First performance: May 1, 1786 (Vienna) young artist wanted success, he had Last WSO performance: 2015, Alexander to both play his own music and Mickelthwate, conductor ensure he had something that could be performed with orchestra. Chopin’s The appointment of Venetian- Piano Concerto No.1 was the second of born Lorenzo da Ponte by the two piano concertos he composed Emperor Joseph II as poet to in 1830 but the first to be published.

Vienna’s Imperial Theatres in Chopin’s playing was the ultimate in 1783 proved a godsend to Mozart, a true man of the theatre whose first sensitivity and poetry, perhaps love was opera.When the two met soon after, unequalled in the entire history of the piano. Berlioz praised Chopin’s da Ponte agreed to furnish a new libretto performing style and music, with the when Mozart told him he had searched requirement that “it is necessary to through “hundreds of plays”hoping to find hear him at no great distance, rather in material for a new opera. But nothing the salon than in the theatre.”Chopin happened until 1785, when Mozart came upon the idea of fashioning an opera around knew his intimate style well, quickly a recent and highly successful satiric comedy becoming a much sought-after artist of manners entitled La Mariage de Figaro by among the private Parisian salons of the elite. the French writer Beaumarchais.

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The original play was written around 1781 and had to wait three years before being produced due to Louis XVI’s objections in the way it slammed the aristocracy.After the play became a runaway hit in Paris in 1784, da Ponte was able to convince the Emperor, who was equally wary of the subject matter, that he and Mozart could make an opera buffa that would not shock conventionalities.Permission was granted.

“As fast as I wrote the words,”da Ponte told in his memoirs,“Mozart wrote the music, and it was all finished in six weeks.”The Overture was composed just two days before the May 1, 1786 premiere, which was a great success with immediate encores demanded of many of the numbers.The boisterous Overture captures the lively spirit and fast pace of the story.

Piano Concerto No. 1

with one Johanne Richter, a singer at the Cassel Opera where Mahler was conducting (an affair which also inspired his Songs of a Wayfarer), and a liaison in 1887 with Marion Weber, the wife of the grandson of the composer Carl Maria von Weber. Mahler acknowledged these but referred to them as the “occasion”of the First Symphony, not the “message.”

The work originally had five movements but the “Blumine”(Flora) second movement was dropped as Mahler felt it not sufficiently symphonic since it came from incidental music he had written for a play.

The Symphony opens with a giant evocation of nature, starting with a seemingly unending string octave over which the first appearance of a descending fourth figure arrives in the woodwinds.This descending interval of the fourth unites the other four movements and runs through all of them.

Cuckoos, hunting horns and quotes from the Wayfarer songs are heard as All one expects from Chopin’s mature the music speeds up. More Wayfarer style are in the E minor Concerto: the references appear in the Scherzo as ongoing flow of arresting melody, the well as the middle of the third ease and variety of his harmonic turns, movement, whose grotesque the inventive exploration of piano harmonies and strident orchestration sonority and a finely constructed follow an eerie rendering of Frère storyline, if somewhat sparse in the Jacques from the solo double bass. orchestral contribution.The second This mock funeral march was inspired movement “Romanze”is especially memorable, while the rondo-finale is by a woodcut of Moritz von Schwindt entitled How the Animals Bury the an exuberant setting of the native Hunter and was attacked by the critics Polish dance, the Krakowiak. of the time, especially in Vienna where the prevailing conservatism felt that a Symphony No. 1 symphony should not have such a Gustav Mahler subversive, even evil reference to b. Bohemia / July 7, 1860 Nature. d.Vienna / May 18, 1911 Composed: 1883-1888, revised 1892-1893 The finale is a great storm of First performance: November 20, 1889 excitement and a journey from (Budapest), conducted by the composer Inferno to Paradise with majestic Last WSO performance: 2010; hunting horns (their “bells in the air,” Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Mahler instructs) and a stunning

Frédéric Chopin b.Warsaw / March 1, 1810 The First Symphony was d. Paris / October 17, 1849 a special piece for Mahler.

Composed: 1830 He conducted it more First performance: October 11, 1830 (Warsaw), times than any of his Carlo Soliva, conductor; with the composer as other later works. One might suspect several reasons for this, soloist not the least the love affairs that Last WSO performance: 2013; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor; Umi Garrett, soloist inspired its creation – an affair in 1884

affirmation of Mahler’s friend and colleague, conductor Bruno Walter’s view of the Symphony:“the youthful work of genius…the unconditional courage to use new ways of expression…the pulse beat of fervent passion.”

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ARTIST BIOS

CLASSICS

Mahler’s Titan

Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano Silver medalist and laureate of the Krystian Zimerman award of the best sonata at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, Charles RichardHamelin is standing out as one of the most important pianists of his generation.

As a soloist, he has performed with various ensembles including the Montréal Symphony Orchestra,Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM (Mexico City), Orchestre Métropolitain, National Arts Center Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Violons du Roy, I Musici de Montréal, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Poznań Philharmonic. He has played under the baton of renowned conductors such as Kent Nagano, Vasily Petrenko, Jacek Kaspszyk, Aziz Shokhakimov, Peter Oundjian, Jacques Lacombe, Fabien Gabel, Carlo Rizzi, Alexander Prior, Christoph Campestrini, Lan Shui and Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

Charles Richard-Hamelin’s 2018-2019 season is marked by three tours in Asia (Japan, Korea and China), the recording of the second volume of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for piano and violin with Andrew Wan, the recording of Chopin’s two concertos with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal conducted by Kent Nagano, a solo recording of Chopin’s works and over 75 concerts in Canada, Asia, Europe and the United States.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Karin Erhardt, cello; Martin Blanchet, bass; Graeme Delahey, bass; Laura MacDougall, flute; Laurel Ridd, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Tracy Wright, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Mike Dassios, clarinet; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Todd Martin, French horn; Neil Spaulding, French horn; James Langridge, trumpet; Julia McIntyre, bass trombone; Brendan Thompson, timpani; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion

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Daniel Raiskin, conductor Odette Heyn-Projects, Odette Heyn, C.M., artistic director and choreographer Aboriginal School of Dance, Buffy Handel, artistic director and choreographer

Three Dance Variations from Fancy Free Galop Waltz Danzon

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

CLASSICS

The Rite of Spring

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The Rite of Spring Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Part One:The Adoration of the Earth Introduction The Augurs of Spring, Dances of the Young Girls Mock Abduction Spring Round Dances Ritual of the Rival Tribes Procession of the Wise Elder Adoration of the Earth Dance of the Earth Part Two: The Sacrifice Introduction Mystical Circles of the Young Girls Glorification of the Chosen One Evocation of the Ancestors Ritual of the Ancestors Sacrificial Dance:The Chosen One Friday, October 19 Saturday, October 20

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 6:45 p.m.

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Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Friday, October 19

10:30 a.m.

Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 10:05 p.m.

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Three Dance Variations from Fancy Free Leonard Bernstein b. Lawrence, MA / August 25, 1918 d. New York / October 14, 1990 Composed: 1944 First performance: April 18, 1944 (New York), conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2005, David Itkin, conductor

Suite from Der Rosenkavalier The Rite of Spring Richard Strauss b. Munich, Germany / June 11, 1864 d. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany / September 8, 1949 Composed: 1909-1910 First performance: January 26, 1911 (Dresden), Ernst von Schuch, conductor Last WSO performance: 1997, Bramwell Tovey, conductor

In the last dozen years of the 19th century, no composer’s newest Leonard Bernstein took offerings were more New York City by storm anticipated than the tone poems of when, on his 25th Richard Strauss, and he didn’t birthday in 1943, he was disappoint. Each one stretched the named both assistant limits of what programmatic conductor of the New York orchestral music could be, both in Philharmonic and recipient of a the use of orchestral resources and commission from New York’s Ballet psychological probing.When his Theater for his first ballet, Fancy Free, operas Salome appeared in 1905 which would also mark the debut of and Elektra three years later, Strauss choreographer Jerome Robbins.The clearly wore the mantle of musical premiere at the Metropolitan Opera modernist par excellence. But with House was a smash hit, playing 99 his new opera in 1910, Strauss did times in New York that year and an about-face. paving the way for a collaboration the same year between Bernstein, Adolph Leaked to the Berlin press before the premiere, Der Rosenkavalier’s Green and Betty Comden for the premise would be a bittersweet Broadway musical On the Town, which lookback to 18th-century Vienna, a used the same story but different music. story of love and longing ripe with catchy melodies mostly in the Bernstein summarized the plot of three-four time of the waltz.The Fancy Free: “From the moment the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal action begins, the ballet is strictly was a warmly affectionate pastiche young America of 1944.The curtain of sentiment and wit that rises on a street corner with a lamppost, a side-street bar and New poignantly examined both the young love of Octavian and Sophie York skyscrapers picked out with a crazy pattern of lights, making a dizzy and the fading youth of the aristocratic Marschallin. backdrop.Three sailors explode on the stage; they are on shore leave in Der Rosenkavalier caught on like the city and on the prowl for girls.” wildfire in Dresden following the premiere and acclaim quickly Bernstein fashioned an orchestral suite spread throughout Europe as from the score. In the Three Dance productions became mounted in Variations, the three sailors devise a all its major capitals. Soon after, contest to determine which of them instrumental arrangements of Der would keep company with two girls Rosenkavalier’s music began to they’ve just met.The sailors are to appear in many combinations, dance; the girls will pick two winners including a sequence of waltzes the and the loser will disappear.The first composer compiled in 1944.The contestant dances a punchy Galop; the arranger of this other orchestral next does a lyrical Waltz; the third sailor suite from 1945 has never been goes Latin as the orchestra plays a identified, though it is thought that Cuban Danzon. Unfortunately for them, the conductor Artur Rodzinski may the contest produces no result. have had some involvement.

Igor Stravinsky b. Oranienbaum, Russia / June 5/17, 1882 d. New York / April 6, 1971 Composed: 1910-1913; revised in 1921 & 1943 First performance: May 29, 1913 (Paris), Pierre Monteux, conductor Last WSO performance: 2010, Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Igor Stravinsky had a vision while he was completing The Firebird in 1910: a solemn pagan rite where a group of wise elders seated in a circle watch a young girl dance herself to death to appease the god of spring.Thinking that this could be an exciting ballet (not knowing his score would later become the most influential work of the 20th-century), Stravinsky asked for input from his friend Nicholas Roerich, an authority on ancient Slavic legend, and Serge Diaghilev, director of the Ballet Russe that had commissioned The Firebird. Both jumped at the idea.

Stravinsky wanted to convey “the surge of spring, the magnificent upsurge of nature reborn”as inspired by his childhood memories in Russia of “the earth cracking,”as he recalled.

He developed a libretto with Roerich around ancient Slavic ideas of earthly joy.Bold new music unlike anything ever before was to be the rule.“I was guided by no design,”Stravinsky wrote.“I heard, and I wrote what I heard.”

Intense preparations went on for the premiere without a hint of the now famous melee that took place at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on May 29. Just after the music started, a riot broke out with shrieks and catcalls from the audience punctuated by fistfights and whistles.

Diaghilev flashed the houselights on and off to try to calm things down. Debussy called for order while Ravel stood up shouting “genius, genius.”Puccini called the score the “creation of a madman.”A furious Stravinsky ran from the theatre while a cool Pierre Monteux kept conducting the score to the end.

Yet as the work began to be heard on its own, audiences took to its slashing new style.

Within a year, more and more listeners began to understand that revolutionary music as bold as this could be a truly special experience.

The Rite of Spring is filled with hard hitting dissonance, galvanic irregular rhythms and a deliberate primitivism using ostinato (repeated) rhythms and simple melodic materials within a complex harmonic structure. No work has had a greater impact on the music of its time than this.

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ARTIST BIOS

CLASSICS

Mahler’s Titan

Odette Heyn-Projects, Odette Heyn, C.M., artistic director and choreographer Odette Heyn, C.M., Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Professional Program of The School of Contemporary Dancers and Artistic Director of Odette Heyn-Projects. Odette has choreographed works both nationally and internationally. In the past six years she created two full-length works for the WSO’s La Noche de los Mayas and the Rite of Spring. Odette choreographed for the offBroadway production Requiem for a Lost Girl and, in 2013, Mata Hari, in New York City. On December 30, 2015, Odette was honoured to be appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for her “contribution to contemporary dance in Canada and the development of the next generation of dancers.” She is also the recipient of the Winnipeg Arts Council’s “Investors Group Making a Difference Award - for extraordinary contribution to the arts” and of Dance Manitoba’s “Lifetime Achievement Distinction Award for Excellence in Dance.” Odette is thrilled to be collaborating once again with the WSO and Buffy Handel to present the Rite of Spring.

Founded by accomplished dancer, choreographer and entrepreneur Buffy Handel, this Winnipeg-based group is recognized for high quality Aboriginal artistic entertainment and educational programming and presentations.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Jeff Dyrda, violin; Coca Bochonko, viola; Laura MacDougall, flute; Laurel Ridd, flute; Katrina Panchuk, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Tracy Wright, oboe; Rick Basehore, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Mike Dassios, clarinet; Ross Edwards, clarinet; Allen Harrington, contra bassoon; Elizabeth Mee, bassoon; Kristy Tucker, bassoon; Todd Martin, French horn; Roslyn Black, French horn; Micajah Sturgess, French horn; James Langridge, trumpet; Francois Godere, bass trumpet; Chad Reimer, tuba; Brendan Thompson, timpani; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Matt Abraham, percussion; Josh Bater, percussion; Donna Laube, piano/celeste; Olivia Richey, harp

Aboriginal School of Dance, Buffy Handel, artistic director and choreographer Since making their explosive debut more than ten years ago, the Aboriginal School of Dance has become the number one choice for multicultural entertainment and educational programming for 13 school divisions and over 100 organizations and businesses.

The Aboriginal School of Dance is known for energetic and innovative choreography that provokes an intense emotional experience for audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Training young people as professional performers and providing them with skills to be independent, the Aboriginal School of Dance was built on the traditional values of integrity, respect and community as well as imagination, creativity and most importantly – the purpose: our youth.

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Disney in Concert: A Silly Symphony Celebration

GREAT-WEST LIFE KIDS CONCERTS

G R E AT- W E S T L I F E

Julian Pellicano, conductor

The Skeleton Dance (1929) Flowers and Trees (1932) Three Little Pigs (1933) The Old Mill (1937) The Ugly Duckling (1939) Music Land (1935) Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts. © All rights reserved.

Pre-concert Activities Sunday, October 21

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

Kids Concerts Series Sponsor:

Pre-Concert Activities Partner:

Instrument Petting Zoo Sponsor:

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Julian Pellicano, conductor

Directed by Produced by Screenplay by Based on

Michael Curtiz Hal B. Wallis Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett & Joan Allison

Starring

Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains

BMO NIGHT AT THE MOVIES SOUNDBYTES

Casablanca: Film with Orchestra

Conrad Veidt Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre

Music by

Max Steiner

Cinematography Edited by Production company

Arthur Edeson Owen Marks Warner Bros. – First National Pictures

Release date: Runtime:

January 23, 1943 (USA) 102 minutes

*Note: there will be an intermission.

In 1989, Casablanca was one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” In 2006, the Writers Guild of America voted it the best ever in its list of the 101 greatest screenplays.

PRODUCTION CREDITS: Producer Live orchestra adaptation by Technical supervisor Music preparation

John Goberman Patrick Russ Pat McGillen Larry Spivack

A Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York) and appears by arrangement with IMG Artists.

Film courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Friday, October 26 Saturday, October 27 Sunday, October 28

8:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile, Friday, 7:15 p.m.

Sistema Winnipeg Saturday, 7:15 p.m. Sistema Winnipeg Sunday, 1:15 p.m.

University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music

BMO Night at the Movies Series Sponsor:

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Brendan Thompson, percussion; Olivia Richey, harp; Donna Laube, piano September – November 2018 I OVERTURE 20

AIR CANADA SOUNDBYTES POPS

On behalf of

DARRELL G EBHARDT Family, Partners, & Associates

Proud supporter of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, we celebrate and wish them a huge success on their 71st season!

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Daniel Raiskin, conductor Tracy Dahl, soprano

Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), K.384

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Misera, dove son—Ah, non son io che parlo, K.369 “Crudele……Non mi dir”from Don Giovanni

W. A. Mozart W. A. Mozart

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 Molto allegro Andante Menuetto e Trio: Allegretto Allegro assai

W. A. Mozart

CLASSICS

An Evening of Mozart

- INTERMISSION -

“Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben”from Zaide

W. A. Mozart

“Ach, ich liebte”from The Abduction from the Seraglio

W. A. Mozart

Suite No. 4 for Orchestra, Op. 61 “Mozartiana” Gigue: Allegro Menuet: Moderato Preghiera: Andante ma non tanto Thème et variations: Allegro giusto

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Friday, November 2 Saturday, November 3

8:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

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

Classics A Series Sponsor: Official Radio Station of the WSO Classics: The Nov 2nd concert is performed in memory of Dr. Stephen Szirom, who is fondly remembered by his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom.

DINNER & SYMPHONY 3-course Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m., Saturday

Catered by:

SPECIAL CONDENSED MATINEE Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Friday, November 2

10:30 a.m.

Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 10:05 p.m.

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

The Abduction from the Symphony No. 40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Seraglio: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 d. Vienna / December 5, 1791 Composed: 1781 First Performance: July 16, 1782 (Vienna), conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2005, Andrey Boreyko, conductor

Composed: 1788 Last WSO performance: 2010, Cristian Mandeal, conductor

over throughout his life, writing in his diary that Mozart inspired “nearness to that something which we call ideal.”

In Tchaikovsky’s view, Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni stood above all his other works. In In less than two months Mozart produced the May 1884,Tchaikovsky decided to recognize the 100th anniversary of the towering masterpieces of his orchestral opera’s premiere on October 29, 1787 by output,Symphonies 39,40 and 41.Though writing a suite based on small, lesserone cannot simplify the striking wealth of resource in No.40,it may be fair to say that in known Mozart compositions. its key of G minor and the symphony’s Tchaikovsky began work on the suite in Mozart knew he was a impassioned moods and restless intensity may June 1887, continuing over the summer in very well be in response to the tragic Borzhom in the Caucasus while visiting his man of the theatre conditions Mozart was living under at the time. brother Anatol, and in Aachen where he when he moved to spent six weeks nursing a sick friend.That Vienna in 1781. At age Mozart was 32 in the summer of 1788, in 25, he had enough of declining health and with only three years August,Tchaikovsky completed the score the service of the archbishop of to live. His wife was in failing health and they in Aachen.The premiere was scheduled on Salzburg and had just received a had just lost their six-month-old daughter. the first all-Tchaikovsky concert conducted by the composer in Moscow on November His opera Don Giovanni was not well tentative offer from the National received in May, not much was on Mozart’s 26, 1887 and it turned out to be a triumph.

Singspiel Theatre’s resident poet/director Gottlieb Stephanie to plate performance-wise and he was deeply However sincerely done,Tchaikovsky’s vast compose a German comic opera, as in debt.Those two summer months may be resources in orchestration considerably requested by Emperor Joseph II in its the most magical period of musical creation override the effect of Mozart’s originals, in mandate to advance stage works in in the history of the art. part since the Mozart models used are not the native language. especially characteristic of his style.The No. 40 is a work at the crossroads of the result is a valentine painted in Stephanie offered Mozart a libretto Classical and Romantic eras – a phenomenal Tchaikovsky’s broadest brush strokes. happening that seems to live in both worlds titled Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the same time.

Here the orderly ways of (The Abduction from the Seraglio), a The opening Gigue comes from a little piano piece (K. 574) Mozart penned on May 16, lively story set in 16th-century Turkey the Classical period find themselves amalgamated to a new and vivid power of 1789 into the musical notebook of Carl of an Englishwoman Konstanze self- expression which Beethoven was to Engel, the Leipzig court organist. It recalls captured by pirates and her eventual take up and run with. All that, coupled with Engel’s great predecessor Johann Sebastian rescue from the harem by her lover a masterly technical skill produce a truly Bach in its light contrapuntal style.The Belmonte.With exotic “orientalism”in gripping experience in No. 40, no matter following Menuet comes from a keyboard vogue at the time, ripe with drums, how many times you hear it. dance Mozart composed in Vienna in 1789. cymbals and triangle from what Orchestral Suite No. 4 Europeans associated with the For the Preghiera (Prayer) movement, “Mozartiana” Janissary bands, Mozart had a field Tchaikovsky draws from one of Mozart’s Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky day capitalizing on his theatrical last works, the motet Ave verum corpus. b.

Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840 instincts and carefully prepared a Rather than the using the original choral score perfect for the occasion. It was d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893 version,Tchaikovsky’s model is a florid Composed: 1887 a huge hit but though it was First performance: November 26, 1887 piano transcription by Franz Liszt titled A la Mozart’s first acclaim as a musical (Moscow), conducted by the composer Chapelle Sistine. dramatist, he didn’t receive much The closing movement variations uses a revenue from the 16 performances Last WSO performance: 1985, theme Mozart had improvised at a concert at the Burgtheater. Still, he felt secure Kazuhiro Koizumi, conductor enough in his new-found fame to Tchaikovsky was never more in 1783.Based on a buffo aria from Gluck’s comic opera Die Pilger von Mecca, about the take Constanze Weber as his wife on effusive than when he Calendar Monk who feasts on wine and August 4, 1782. would praise Mozart’s delicatessen while the commoners imagine genius as the reason he The Overture dances and sparkles, decided to devote his life to him living on fruit and milk, it became the with a middle section drawn from music. Mozart was the only composer living starting point for some of Mozart’s finest Belmonte’s air that opens the first act. or dead that Tchaikovsky went into raptures variations for a piano setting in 1784 (K.455).

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

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ARTIST BIOS

CLASSICS

An Evening of Mozart

Tracy Dahl, soprano Tracy Dahl has appeared with such esteemed companies as the Metropolitan, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe and Calgary operas; the Canadian Opera Company, Pacific Opera Victoria, Teatro alla Scala (Milan) and the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris). Ms. Dahl’s 20182019 season highlights include appearances with Regina Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, and the Canadian Opera Company in Cosi fan tutte. She has recently performed as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony and the Vancouver

Symphony. She also recently appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and sung in a dual recital with Adrianna Chuchman with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Born in Winnipeg, Tracy Dahl has been appointed to the Order of Canada for her accomplishments as an opera singer and for her commitment to mentoring the next generation of Canadian singers.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIAN: Victoria Sparks, percussion

Now in their 71st Season, the Women’s Committee promotes community interest in the WSO, organizes and implements activities to provide financial support to the WSO, supports the WSO community outreach and educational programs, and assists in many other facilities.

Shop for exciting gifts and accessories at great prices at the Music Stand prior to WSO’s performances and during intermission.

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WSO SUPPORTERS

George Warren Keates Memorial Fund C/O the Winnipeg Foundation The WSO gratefully acknowledges The Thomas Sill Foundation Inc Allen and Marion Lambert Fund the following companies whose generous support helps to ensure Lutz Family Foundation Joseph and Judith Malko Family musical enrichment within our Fund - the Strategic Charitable community.

Giving Foundation Manitoba Community Services Council The Winnipeg Foundation - Mauro Family Fund Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund The Winnipeg Foundation - John and Podium Carolynne McLure Fund Aaron David Witzke Bar Mitzvah Johnston Group Inc. Fund - Mr. Aaron Witzke in Resident Artist memory of his grandfather, Qualico Mayer Rabkin Wawanesa Insurance NYSE Euronext Foundation Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund Principal Chair Program for the Enrichment of Terracon Development Ltd. French in Education RBC Foundation Assistant Principal Chair Siobhan Richardson Foundation Inc. Cambrian Credit Union Richardson Foundation J.K. May Investments Ltd. Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson Fund, The Winnipeg Foundation Orchestra Chair Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Long & McQuade Musical Foundation Instruments David & Leda Slater Memorial Fund, Maxim Truck & Trailer Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Pollard Banknote Limited Leslie John Taylor Fund, the Royal Bank of Canada Winnipeg Foundation James Thompson Memorial Fund Music Stand in Trust of WSO, C/O the A2B Communication Ltd. Winnipeg Foundation Coghlan's Limited The Winnipeg Foundation – Dr. Ken Mid West Packaging Limited and Lorna Thorlakson Annual Number Ten Architectural Group Giving Fund, in memory of Winmar Property Restoration Alan Adams True North Jets Foundation Riser Marylla van Ginkel Memorial Fund Akman Management Ltd. The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music European Art Glass Ltd. White Rose Foundation Inc InterGroup Consultants Ltd. 1 Anonymous

Foundations The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following foundations: Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund - the Winnipeg Foundation The Noreen & Robert Allen Charitable Trust Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund, The Winnipeg Foundation The Benevity Community Impact Fund Hy & Pat Cohen Fund Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation In Memory of Peter D. Curry D'Addario Foundation Nita Eamer Memorial Fund, The Winnipeg Foundation Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Francofonds Inc. The Bertram Austin Goodman, Mary Easton McLaren Goodman and Dorothy Jean Goodman Foundation Souchay Gossen Family Foundation Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Fund 27

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 Dolores P. Brommell Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Mr. Hugh Cowan Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard Richard & Carol Jones Koren & Leonard Kaminski Henry Katz Kevin & Els Kavanagh Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Erwin W. Kitsch Michel D. Lagacé

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The Maestro’s Circle recognizes patrons whose significant philanthropy furthers the musical artistry of the WSO. Honourary Chair Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director Diamond MC Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Michael Nesbitt Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley Tannis Richardson* 1 Anonymous Platinum Baton Mrs. Marjorie Blankstein James Cohen & Linda McGarva-Cohen Marten Duhoux & Joanne Defehr Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Bill and Shirley Loewen* Raymond & Lynne-Anne McFeetors Mr. & Mrs. Curt & Cathy Vossen Bob & Heather Williams 1 Anonymous Gold MC Art & Leona DeFehr Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton Ron & Sandi Mielitz Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom Silver MC Ida Albo & Rick Bel Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler John & Gay Docherty Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Margaret Kellermann McCulloch & Paul A. McCulloch Don & Kim MacDonald Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak Mr. Art Mauro & Ms. Naomi Levine Bob and Cindy Newfield Frank & Jeanne Plett Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope* Barb & Gerry Price Hartley & Heather Richardson

Dr. Lea Stogdale Dr. Kenneth Thorlakson Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann Concertmaster's Bow Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Timothy & Barbara Burt Dr. Leslie Simard-Chiu & Dr. Aaron Chiu Frank & Agnes DeFehr Ravi & Leomark Dookeran Bill & Margaret Fast Dr. Albert & Mrs. Lee Friesen James Gibbs Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard David & Diane Johnston Nick Logan & Christine Skene Jack & Zina Lazareck Dr. David Lyttle Elaine & Neil Margolis Brent Mazur & Nancy Quiring Ken and Judy Murray Oliver & Gennie Plett Lawrie & Fran Pollard Ms. Iris Reimer Mrs. Shirley Richardson Olga & Bill Runnalls Mr. Terry Sargeant & Ms. Margaret Haney Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen E. Toews Professor A.M.C. Waterman Klaus & Elsa Wolf Sandy Woytowich 1 Anonymous Black Tie Austin Abas Ms. Sandra Altner Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Shibashis Bal Mr. R.D. Bell Frances Booth Doneta & Harry Brotchie Mr. William Burnett Emily Burt & Tyler Makodanski Pierce & Amy Cairns Mr. Steven Chipman Haderra Chisick Jan & Kevin Coates D.J. Cowan Maria & Ugo De Nardi Dr. Marcel A. Desautels S & E Dyer Glen & Joan Dyrda Robert Enright Philipp & Ilse Ens Mr. Douglas C. Everett Ms. Susan Feldman Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert John & Mabel Garcea Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Richard & Carol Jones Nora Kaufman Michael & Glenna Kay Dr. Leah Kells Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Mr. & Mrs. Konstantinos & Chrysoula Kotoulas Mr. Sotirios Kotoulas Mr. Rob Kowalchuk, CPA, CA Mr. & Mrs. Bob & Deirdre Kozminski Mr. Aaron Lewis in Memory of Robert Handler

Dr. Judith Littleford Lydia MacKenzie Mike McLenehan Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Ms. Valerie Mollison Dr. Michael Nelson & Dr. Selena Friesen Mr. John Pacak & Dr. Clare Ramsey Ted & Mary Paetkau Wayne & Linda Paquin Diane Payment and Roxroy West Lesia Peet Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Carolynne Presser Beth M. Proven Dr. Diane Ramsey Dr. Donald S. Reimer & Mrs. Anne Reimer Jim & Leney Richardson Mr. Rick Riess & Mrs. Jean Carter Sanford & Deborah Riley Trudy Schroeder Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe Mr. Sandy G. Shindleman Jimmy & Morse Silden Pam Simmons* Muriel Smith Mrs. Rae Spear Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom Jim & Jan Tennant Mr. & Mrs. Victor & Ruth Thielmann Sabino Tummillo Mr. Richard Turner Dr. & Mrs. Eric Vickar Meeka Walsh Don & Florence Whitmore Dr. & Mrs. Klaus & Dorit Wrogemann 1 Anonymous * Founding Members

Friends of the WSO support the WSO each season.

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Maureen Danzinger Mr. Raymond Davis Dan De Bruijn F. De Grazia Beth Derraugh Mr. & Mrs. Ryan & Janice Diduck Claire Dionne Jennifer Dobson Herbert & Norma Driver Anne Dubouloz-Gislason R. Duddek Lezlee Dunn Gloria Dyck Andrea Dyhe Lisa Edel Audrey Epp Don & Martha Epstein S & G Fast Rick & Julie Fast Greg & Linda Fearn Michael Feld Ms. Helen Feniuk Ms. Catherine Flower Joanne Flynn Mrs. Marguerite Fredette Lise Laverdure & François Gauvin Mrs. Margaret Funk Jim & Betty Gaynor Dr. & Mrs. Jon Gerrard W. Blair Gohl D. Gooch Ms. Barbara Graham Suzanne Gray Marj Grevstad Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. & Marjorie Grower Saul & Lolly Guttman George Haidau Gertrude Hamilton Meghan Hansen Ms. Erin Harley Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin Larry & Evelyn Hecht Ruediger & Lydia Hedrich Ms. M. Hido Darlene Hildebrand & Steve van Vlaenderen Richard & Karen Howell Shaun Humphries Huynh Van Ho Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram Father Stan A. Jaworski Victoria Johnston Ms. Bev Kawchuk Patricia Kellendonk Erwin W. Kitsch Nadine & Herb Klassen Ms. Mary Klassen John Knowles & Kathryn Knowles Ed & Helen Kolomaya Ms. Jacki Koven Patricia Kuchma Ron Lambert Lisa & Ted Edith Landy, in Memory of David Landy Langrell Family Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. & Ms. Kathy and Saul Leibl Mr. Francois Lentz Mr. & Mrs. David & Sherrill Levene Tom & Lovie Liewicki Albert & Helen Litz Barry & Patricia Lloyd Pamela Lockman Mr. & Mrs. Chris and Lori Luby Angela MacDonald Al & Pat Mackling Dr. Sabine Mai

James Manishen Mr. Allan Mapes Linda Martin Margaret (Bouskill) Maw Mr. Harold Mawhinney Jemara Fay Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba J. Doreen McCormick Dr. Ian McIntyre Ardythe McMaster Cheryl McNabb & Gerald Davis Mr. & Mrs. Q. McNaught Ms. Linda Meckling Karen Menkis Estelle Meyers Dr. Adrienne Meyers In Honour of Donn Yuen's Retirement Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Gladys Mildren Peter Miller & Carolyn Garlich Ms. Sheila Miller Mrs. Mona Mills Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Ms. Francine Morin Mrs. Joan Ann Morton John & Margaret Mundie Leesa Munroe Mel & Sharon Myers Mrs. Sheila Mymryk Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko Ms. Judy M. Nichol & Dr. Jim Skinner David & Hermine Olfert Truus Oliver Mrs. Henny Paritzky Kathleen Parums Mr. Julian Pellicano Ms. Nettie Peters Ingrid Peters-Fransen Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Cristian Popescu Gabriela Popescu Carol Poulin Ms. Lois Powne Mr. Guy Prokopetz Dr. Fiona Punter Bryan & Diana Purdy Judith Putter Erin Rafferty Shane Rafferty Holly Rafferty Daryl & Sheila Reid Mrs. Barbara Rempel Mr. William Reynolds Sheilas Music Studio Eleanor Riach Mrs. Melissa Rice Mrs. Tracy Ridley Frances E. Rowlin Mr. Chris Rudd Mr. Johnny & Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad Mrs. Claudia Sarbit R. Schroeder A. Schroeder Dr. Marlis Schroeder Mr. Ken Schykulski Charlene Scouten Robert Shaw Lynn & Bill Shead Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Patricia Simcoe-Rosenbaum & Harvey Rosenbaum Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak Jordan Sodowsky Geri & Peter Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Starodub Dan & Elsie Stasiuk Bonnie Hoffer-Steiman & Lionel Steiman Ms. Sally Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Lorne & Lorna Stevens Art Turner & Lyn Stienstra

Joycelyn and Bryan Gawryluk Mr. David P. Giesbrecht Heather F. Graham Ms. Gail Granger Mrs. Inga Granovskaya Victoria Gretchen Ms. Marion Guinn Raul Gutierrez Michael & Elaine Shnier Helen & Peter Hayward Paul Henteleff Ms. Shirley Hicks Mrs. Margaret Hill Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Marilyn Mrs. Cathy Hobday Walter & Victoria Hrabluk Stella Hryniuk Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik Ms. Barbara Hunnie Mr. & Mrs. Peter & Rosalind Husband Ishbel Isaacs David & Heather Jenkins Susan Johnson Mrs. Karen Kaplen Cathy & Robert Kaptian Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Ursula & Sandor Kelemen Katie Kirkpatrick Mrs. Vera Kostyshyn Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Marie Kuhn Ms. Irene Kuhtey Sonatina Anne La Tour Arshad Ahsanuddin Ms. Desiree La Vallee Jonathan Alvaran Ms. Betty Laing Alyssa Amposta Mr. & Mrs. Emery & Vlasta Lajtai Judy Amy-Penner Elizabeth Lansard Mr. Lance Arthur Anderson Frances Lemieux Ms. Susan Baird Kim Lentowitsch Veronique Barthet Linda Litwack Ralph & Eileen Baxter Gail Loewen Ms. Oslen Belle Roger & Norma Lowe Mrs. Eva Berard Zeeba Loxley Mrs. Lori Bettig Pat & Murray Macrae Anna Ruth Bird Barbara Main Mr. Dick J. Bloemheuvel Frank & Terry Martin Sally Boulding Marian Martin Monica Brechka Emily Mayoralgo Ms. Shirley Brown Hugh McCabe Alfred Buelow Ms. Marlene McCulloch Susan Burchill Kelly McGonigal Canada Guaranty Jim McLaren Canadian Association of Gift Mrs. Jean McLennan Planners Manitoba Chaper Sen. Marilou McPhedran Sister Josephine Chudzik Mr. Garfield McRae S. K. Clark Ms. Kathleen Michener Melissa Colquhoun Mrs. Jocelyn Millard Glynis Corkal Howard Miller Karen Couch Bob & Penny Miller The Crawford & McCarver Family Sandi Mitchell Mrs. Jean Cunningham Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Mr. & Mrs.Ted & Lacona Cunningham Mr. Gordon Mitchell D. Cymbalist M. Mohr Shannon Darby Jon Montes Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Monique Davis Margaret Morse Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP Kim Morton Mrs. Wilma Dehls Ms. Bonnie Neil Mrs. Michele Del Rizzo Ms. Sabrina Neumann L. N. Delisle Fred & Karen Nicholson Ms. Shawna Dempsey Mrs. Clarice Owen Christine Dewar Shirley & Graham Padgett M. Jane Dick Oscar Pantaleon Jr. Mrs. Ethel Dil Sonjia Pasiechnik Monica Dinney Judy Pateman Paul Dueck Mrs. Liz Patzer Mr. Spencer Duncanson Donald Pearen Ms. Margaret Elaine Ellis Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau Vera & Peter Fast Mrs. Denise Penley Ross Feldman Robert Peterson Dr. Jeannette Filion-Rosset Ms. Bettina Pfeiffer Bonny Fraser Grant & Gail Pierce Ms. Karen Swain Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor TEC VIDEO SECURITY INC Mary and Robert Thomas Mrs. Deborah Thorlakson Julian Thorsteinson Betsy F. Thorsteinson Robert & Barbara Tisdale In Memory of Ronald George Spencer Henry & Elizabeth Toews Edith Ugrin Mr. Michael van Lierop Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Barry and Gail Veals Jim & Joan Warbeck Ken & Mary Warmbrod Ms. Vanessa Warne Shawn & Beth Watters Waverley Tenant Association James & Claudia Weselake Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Andrew Winkless Ms. Joan Wise Terrie Woodward Patrick Wright Libby Yager and Billy Brodovsky Wanda Young Donn K.Yuen 20 Anonymous

Denise Piper Randy Pitch Ross Pokeza Dr. Christine Polimeni Dr. & Mrs. James Popplow Ken & Geri Porath Janis Pregnall Mr. James & Christine Prendergast Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott Ms. Margaret Proven Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Joanne Prygrocki Valerie Raber W Rannie & Elaine Walker Karen Rassmussen-Oke Mrs. Marieann Reeves M. Reguly Ms. Susan Renard Beverley Ridd Ms. Heather Robbins Ettie Robinson Jean Robson Mrs. Susan E. Roe-Finlay Gisela Roger Sandra Rosen Mrs. V. Rosolowich Margot A. Ross John & Shirley Russell Brittany Rycroft Mr. & Mrs. James Sankey Eduardo & Olga Saveliovsky Jessie Sawicz Nicola Schaefer Kay Schalme Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Charlene & Harry Schwartz Sharna Searle Izzy Shore Gail & Murray Singer Evelyn R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Darby Spafford Garry & Linda Specht Ms. Meg Specht Gerry & Jasmin St. Laurent Marianne Staub Diane Stewart Archie & Shirley Stone Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Muriel Sutherland Dianne Szelag Frank Talbot Gladys Tarala Charles Tax Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Sherri Towaij Ms. Josette Toye Cathy Tymm Mrs. Nancy Vincent Denis Vincent Irv & Toby Vinsky Miss A. H. Wagstaffe Dr. Jackie Walker Patricia & Lorne Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Walton Phyllis M Waters Mr. Glen Angus Webster Morgan Wege Mr. James Wernham Grace M. Wiebe Annemarie Wiebe Emily Wilcosh Peter Wilk Mrs. Lilli Williams Anne Yankiwski Garden City Collegiate Ms. Ruth Zahodnik Mr. & Mrs. Edward & Susan Zwingerma 27 Anonymous

Festival donors help to further the musical artistry of the WSO’s New Music Festival.

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Mrs. France Adams Jean Altemeyer Janet Ash & Associates Ltd. Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Gail & Domenic Auriti Neil Bardal Funeral Centre Ms. Trudy Blight Dr. Tenley Nicole Bower Medical Corporation Jackie Brignall Stephen Brodovsky Kevin Burns Dr. David Camoriano Pat & Mary Jo Carrabre Mr. & Mrs. John & Claudia Corona Cushman & Wakefield Dr. Peter Czaplinski Ms. Shawna Dempsey Sandra & Robert Dewey Dr. R. Dookeran Medical Corporation Andrea Dyhe Robert Enright Kathleen & David Estey Randy Ewanika Ms. Susan Feldman Wayne Forbes Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh Baked Expectations - Beth Grubert & Family Mrs. Elba Haid Dr. & Mrs. Don & Jerri Hall Michael & Elaine Shnier Mrs. Lisa Hastings Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Patti Holm Mr. Peter Johnson Marianne Johnson Richard & Carol Jones Koren & Leonard Kaminski J. Gartner & L. Kampeas Kevin & Els Kavanagh Patricia Kellendonk Ms. Jose Koes Ron Lambert Lisa & Ted Ms. Bergthora Laxdal Bernie Léveillé & Moira Swinton Sherri Walsh & Dr. Louis Ludwig Drs. Grant & Eleanor MacDougall Chris Pearce & Ruth Magnuson John Maguire & Susan Collison Drs. Joshua Manusow & Kristen Creek Frank & Terry Martin Brent Mazur & Nancy Quiring Shana Menkis Ron & Sandi Mielitz Ms. Sheila Miller Howard Miller Conor Mulholland Michael Nesbitt Bob and Cindy Newfield Dr. Rashmi Nigam Medical Corp Mikaela Oldenkamp Lesia Peet Randy Pitch Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope

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Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Beth M. Proven Dr. Clare Ramsey Kelly Regula Dental Corp Pat and Bill Reid Michael Rennie Guillermo Rocha Medical Corporation Steve Ruddy & Pauline Boisselle Olga & Bill Runnalls Barbara Scheuneman Robert Shaw & Chris Krawchenko Dr. Moti Shojania SOCAN Foundation Jordan Sodomsky Marlene Stern Susan Stobart Dr. Kenneth Thorlakson Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Mr. Ron Timlick University of Manitoba Icelandic Department Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Brad Vannan Volvo Winnipeg Meeka Walsh Dr. Marnie Waters Mr. & Mrs. Hymie & Shaaron Weinstein Mr. Neil Wilcox Karin Woods Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann Anne Yankiwski 2 Anonymous

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

Honourary Chair Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Maestoso The Bertram Austin Goodman, Mary Easton McLaren Goodman and Dorothy Jean Goodman Foundation RBC Foundation Richardson Foundation Winnipeg Jets True North Foundation Vivace Manitoba Community Services Council Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton The Thomas Sill Foundation Inc Siobhan Richardson Foundation Inc. Con Brio Bridgeport Office Solutions Dr. Ken Fowler Souchay Gossen Family Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation - Mauro Family Fund Allegro Mr. R.D. Bell Andy Burgess D'Addario Foundation Judith & Peter Flynn in honour of Arlene Young's Birthday Judith & Peter Flynn in memory of Diena Young Judith & Peter Flynn in memory of Andrew Wihelm-Boyles Mark & Jocelyn Gabbert Margaret & Peter Hughes Dr. David Lyttle Miss Heather Menzies Jonathan E. Mitchell Yvonne Morier John Morriss Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund E. Toews Faye Warren 1 Anonymous

Ms. Margaret Barbour Lucienne Blouw in memory of Hermi van den Berg Mrs. Marlene J. Crielaard Huynh Van Ho Volvo Winnipeg Pat & Murray Macrae Mr. Gordon Mitchell Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko Daryl & Sheila Reid Margot A. Ross Barbara Scheuneman Brenda Sklar Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor 2 Anonymous

Conmoto Jonathan Alvaran Alyssa Amposta Judy Amy-Penner Betty & Ted Ash Ms. Susan Baird In Memory of Robert Coates Neovation Learning Solutions Isaak & Tina Bergen Ms. Diane Bewell Mr. William Richard Bloxom Carole Boily Sheila & David Brodovsky Kathy Burchill Ms. Judi L. Burling Mr. Bryan Byhre Stanley Byskal, Ardelle & Denis Jacques, and Cathy Carter in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily Lorraine and Gerry Cairns after-school program offered at Mrs. Audrey Campbell no cost to participants that enriches the lives of children and Canada Guaranty Canadian Maple Wings Association young people with the fewest Winnipeg Chapter resources and the greatest Melina Chow need. The WSO gratefully Dave Christianson & Vera Steinberger acknowledges the following D.J. Cowan patrons whose support makes a Greg Cox difference in the everyday lives of The Crawford & McCarver Family Tracey Cullen these children. Thank you!

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Betty Curnew in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Shannon Darby Silvia V. de Sousa Mrs. Michele Del Rizzo L. N. Delisle Marc Desjardins Mr. & Mrs. Ryan & Janice Diduck Monica Dinney Jennifer Dobson Harry & Mary Duckworth in honour of Arlene Young's birthday Dr. Harry & Mrs. Mary Lynn Duckworth in Memory of Diena Young R. Duddek Gloria Dyck John and Marilyn Ekins Audrey Epp Ms. Ursula Erhardt Kathleen & David Estey Rick & Julie Fast Michael Feld Ross Feldman Ms. Catherine Flower Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Bonny Fraser Joycelyn and Bryan Gawryluk Dr. & Mrs. Jon Gerrard Penny Gilbert Ms. Barbara Graham Ms. Gail Granger Suzanne Gray Russel & Mary Grenkow in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Raul Gutierrez Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Audrey A. Hawkins in memory of her mother, Mrs. Janice Hawkins Ruediger & Lydia Hedrich Carl & Vi Hultin Shaun Humphries William J. Hutton P. Ilavsky Investors Group Susan Johnson Victoria Johnston in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Cathy & Robert Kaptian Kevin & Els Kavanagh Marilynne Keil, in Memory of David H. Skinner Marion & Bill Kinnear Ed & Helen Kolomaya Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester Komlodi Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Marie Kuhn Kim Lentowitsch Albert & Helen Litz Gail Loewen Zeeba Loxley Drs. Christie J. MacDonald & Philip St. John Angela MacDonald Drs. Grant & Eleanor MacDougall Lydia MacKenzie Allan & Anita Malbranck Mr. & Mrs. Al & Pat Mackling in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund James Manishen Jackie Markstrom Marian Martin in memory of Eleanor Annandale

Margaret (Bouskill) Maw Emily Mayoralgo Kelly McGonigal Mrs. Maureen McIntosh Dr. Ian McIntyre Mr. & Mrs. Q. McNaught in Memory of Merrily Peters Quinton & Maureen McNaught in Memory of Barry Anderson Ms. Linda Meckling Karen Menkis In Honour of Donn Yuen's Retirement Mrs. Jocelyn Millard Carolyn and Nathan Mitchell Gord & Sherratt Moffatt Ms. Francine Morin Morna-June Morrow Margaret Morse Kim Morton Mrs. Sheila Mymryk Ms. Bonnie Neil In Memory of Diena Young In honour of Arlene Young's birthday Oscar Pantaleon Jr. Garth & Diane Panting Judy Pateman Donald Pearen in honour of Arlene Young's Special Birthday Lesia Peet Mr. Julian Pellicano Robert Peterson Grant & Gail Pierce Patricia Pollard in Memory of Gary Pollard Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth TippettPope Mrs. Edna Poulter Ms. Lois Powne Mr. James & Christine Prendergast Elizabett Prenter Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott Adeline Pressey in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Beth M. Proven Valerie Raber Erin Rafferty Shane Rafferty Holly Rafferty Darcia Ratuski in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Mrs. Marieann Reeves Ms. Teresa Reilly Sheilas Music Studio Mrs. Shirley Richardson Tannis Richardson Ettie Robinson Jean Robson Mr. Chris Rudd Ms. Miriam Rudolph Joan Sabourin Mrs. Claudia Sarbit Nicola Schaefer Barbara Scheuneman Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation Ed & Susan Schmidt Trudy Schroeder & Norman Dyck Harald & Vicky Schulz Ms. Beverley J. Scott Debra Scott Olga & Myron Shatulsky Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Jim Skinner & Judy Nichol Joan Smith in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Darby Spafford

Garry & Linda Specht Ms. Meg Specht St. Mary's Road United Church Marianne Wojtas Staub in honour of Eileen Zaluski Dola and Beverly Karan Pope's 60th Birthday Mrs. Pat Stefanchuk Ms. Suzanne Stevenson Diane Stewart Art Turner & Lyn Stienstra Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor TEC Video Security Inc Mary and Robert Thomas The Winnipeg Foundation – Dr. Ken and Lorna Thorlakson Annual Giving Fund, in memory of Alan Adams Julian Thorsteinson Betsy F. Thorsteinson Toad Hall Toys Inc. Edith A. Toews Carol & Neil Trembath Christine Tymchak & Les Cels in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Cathy Tymm in Honour of Meg Specht's Birthday Strang/van Ineveld Family Mr. Michael van Lierop Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Mr. & Mrs. Gordon & Charlotte Walkty Ms. Vanessa Warne Shawn & Beth Watters Thuraya Weedon Noah & Myrna Weiszner Diane Weselake Westminster United Church WhoDunit? Mystery Bookstore Edith Wilde Peter Wilk Libby Yager and Billy Brodovsky Tyler Yip Arlene Young and Robert O'Kell Don & Betty Young 20 Anonymous

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

Judy & Jay Anderson Dr. Siana Attwell Shibashis Bal Sheila & David Brodovsky Lorraine and Gerry Cairns Katherine Cobor & Gordon Steindel Ms. Barbara Cook Glynis Corkal D.J. Cowan Mr. Raymond Davis Helene Dyck Ruth & Ernest Epp Ms. Ursula Erhardt Dr. LeeAnn Fishback Ms. Catherine Flower Mrs. Gitta Fricke Marilyn & Helios Hernandez Ms. Marilyn Kapitany Marilynne Keil, in Memory of David H. Skinner Margaret Kellermann McCulloch & Paul McCulloch

T.G. Kucera Aaron Lewis Nick Logan & Christine Skene Brent Mazur & Nancy Quiring Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Carol McArton Judith Meunier Margaret Moroz Gabriela Popescu Pat and Bill Reid Levi & Tena Reimer Ms. Iris Reimer Mr. Louis Ricciuto Henriette Ricou & Jure Manfreda Ross & Allana Robinson Olga & Bill Runnalls Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Marie Schoffner Pietra Shirley Mr. & Mrs. Daniel & Maureen Sitar Ms. Karen Swain Dr. & Mrs. David Swatek Frank Talbot James & Joanne Teitsma The Winnipeg Foundation Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson In Memory of Ronald George Spencer Garnet Ward James & Claudia Weselake Robin Wiens and Emilie Lagacé-Wiens Raymond & Shirley Wiest Edith Wilde David C. Wilson Karin Woods Mr. John Yarema Blumie & Iser Portnoy Endowment Fund WSO Women's Committee in memory of Leila Alvare 4 Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey & Irene Bergner Shirley Book Frances Booth Sally Boulding Joan Braun Ms. Shirley Brown Mr. E. Brown Mrs. Dee Buchwald Rev. Msgr. Michael Buyachok Helle Cosby D.J. Cowan The Crawford & McCarver Family Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Monique Davis Siegfried Enns John J. Enns S & G Fast Dr. Jeannette Filion-Rosset Mr. David P. Giesbrecht Katie & DeLloyd Guth Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Ms. Linda Harlos & Mr. Adrian Wildsmith Teresa A. Hay Ms. Shirley Hicks Darlene Hildebrand & Steve van Vlaenderen Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Bob & Biddy Hilton Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Marilyn Walter & Victoria Hrabluk Carl & Vi Hultin William J. Hutton Margaret Jeffries Ursula & Sandor Kelemen John Knowles & Kathryn Knowles Ed & Helen Kolomaya ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE Mrs. Vera Kostyshyn Anne La Tour ENDOWMENT FUND Edith Landy, in Memory of David Shelley Chochinov in Honour of Landy Alexander Mickelthwate Barbara & Brian Crow in Honour of Langrell Family Mrs. Ingrid Lee Alexander Mickelthwate In honour of Robert Dalgliesh and Frances Lemieux Daniel Friedman Mr. Francois Lentz Bruno Gossen in Honour of Mr. & Mrs. David & Sherrill Levene Alexander Mickelthwate Tom & Lovie Liewicki Richard & Carol Jones Dr. Sabine Mai Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of Mr. Allan Mapes Alexander Mickelthwate, in Elaine & Neil Margolis Loving Memory of Donn Cheryl McNabb & Gerald Davis Lawrie & Fran Pollard Barbara Scheuneman Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Lynn & Bill Shead Kim Morton Jim Skinner & Judy Nichol in Charlotte Murrell Honour of Alexander Mr. Tom Mutter and Mickelthwate Ms. Raena Buksak Hien Tran Ms. Judy M. Nichol & Dr. Jim Skinner Wayne & Linda Paquin Mrs. Liz Patzer Ms. Bettina Pfeiffer ENDOWMENT FUND Ms. Pat Philpott Sistema Winnipeg gratefully Carolynne Presser acknowledges those who have Barb & Gerry Price started their own named funds Mr. Guy Prokopetz at The Winnipeg Foundation.

Dr. Fiona Punter The Marjorie & Morley Blankenstein W Rannie & Elaine Walker Sistema Endowment Fund M. Reguly Levi & Tena Reimer The Tannis M. Richardson Sistema Endowment Fund Mrs. Barbara Rempel Mrs. Shirley Richardson The Michael Nozick Family Jim & Pat Richtik Sistema Endowment Fund Mrs. Patricia Romeyn Mr. John A. Bailey Sandra Rosen Veronique Barthet Eduardo & Olga Saveliovsky Ralph & Eileen Baxter Kay Schalme Audrey Belyea

Ms. Debbie Spracklin Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom The Winnipeg Foundation – The Asper Endowment Mrs. Deborah Thorlakson Patricia & Lorne Wallace Annemarie Wiebe Grace M. Wiebe Ms. Ruth Zahodnik 11 Anonymous

OTHER DONATIONS Lucienne Blouw in memory of Louise Nebbs Lucienne Blouw in Memory of Alexander Mickelthwate's Father Lucienne Blouw in Honour of Marlene Crielaard and Alan Schmitt's Wedding Lucienne Blouw in Memory of Nancy Lambert Hilary Druxman Nessie & David Greenberg in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Barry & Susan Greenberg in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Saul & Lolly Guttman in memory of Dr. Stephen Szirom Dr. & Mrs. Paul Henteleff in memory of Dr. Stephen Szirom Harvelyn, Catherine, Lisa, Pam, Nora, Fran, Betty & Al, Bev & Bruce in Memory of Merrily Peters Kevin & Els Kavanagh in memory of Jacqueline Desmarais Nadine & Herb Klassen in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Linda Litwack in memory of Mayer Rabkin Sharon Love in Memory of Jeannine McCallum Brian Muirhead in memory of Mayer Rabkin In memory of Katherine (Kay) Lee Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippett-Pope in honour of Bill & Shirley Loewen's 60th Anniversary Bill & Elizabeth Pope in Honour of Bert & Lee Friesen's 50th Anniversary Charlene & Harry Schwartz in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Robert Shindleman and Family in memory of Mayer Rabkin Evelyn R. Smith in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom, in Memory of Edith Sagi In memory of Mayer Rabkin Irv & Toby Vinsky in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Mr. Aaron Witzke in memory of his grandfather, Mayer Rabkin Margaret Wollner, in Memory of Dr. Stephen Szirom Wanda Young in memory of Edwin Yee Mr. & Mrs. Edward & Susan Zwingerman in Memory of Mayer Rabkin Listing as of Sept. 4, 2018

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WSO BOARD & STAFF 2018-2019 SEASON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terry Sargeant, President Curt Vossen, Vice President Rob Kowalchuk, Treasurer Michael Kay, Corporate Secretary Ida Albo Sandra Altner Lucienne Blouw Emily Burt, MBA, CFA James Cohen Arlene Dahl Marten Duhoux Steven Dyer Alan Freeman

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