WSO 2018-2019 Overture Issue 5

MARCH 2019 I ISSUE 5

FIALKOWSKA AND MENDELSSOHN’S SCOTTISH SYMPHONY SYMPHONIC VIKINGS HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN VERDI’S REQUIEM GUYS AND DOLLS

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The WSO’s March concerts provide some of the most delightful variety and exciting new elements of the whole season. You might want to consider attending all six concerts. From the radiantly musical performances of Janina Fialkowska, to the next installment of Harry Potter and friends, through the breathtaking drama of Verdi’s Requiem, to the classic musical Guys and Dolls, and ending the month with Gustav Holst’s breathtaking exploration of The Planets presented with images from NASA’s great observatories. Truly, the month of March is filled with heavenly music.

In other news from the WSO, you may have noticed two significant projects that we have brought to your attention. First, we have officially launched our Adopt-A-Musician program for the WSO’s May 2020 tour to the Netherlands in honour of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands during the Second World War. This is the WSO’s first European tour and it is an opportunity to participate in the process of funding the trip. It is also time to think about your personal interest in visiting the Netherlands with the WSO and enjoying a never to be replicated experience of the Netherlands. Look for information on the trip in the front lobby.

In mid-February, the WSO took the problem of the lack of an acoustical shell to our audience members for support. The absence of a functional physical shell has been a major difficulty for our orchestra members for the past three seasons. We hope that with your help, we can convince the Government of Manitoba to fund the required repairs on the mechanical system so that the WSO can perform in the Centennial Concert Hall with the appropriate acoustical setting. If you have not yet done so, please contact your provincial MLA to request support for this initiative.

With my best wishes for a memorable and warmer March.

Trudy Schroeder Executive Director Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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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, WSO Composer-in-Residence, WNMF Co-Curator 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 4

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2018-2019 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Daniel Raiskin RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE WNMF CO-CURATOR 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 BASSES

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

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal Keith Dyrda BASS TROMBONE **Isabelle Lavoie, Principal

The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtMeredith Johnson, Principal Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal TUBA by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation

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

OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan

TIMPANI Mike Kemp, Principal

HARP Richard Turner, Principal 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, 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.

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

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Gemma New, conductor Janina Fialkowska, piano

Concerto for String Orchestra Allegro Andante Vivo

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Janina Fialkowska and Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony

Graz• yna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 17 Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) Allegro Romanza. Andante Allegro molto vivace - INTERMISSION -

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish” Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Andante con moto – Allegro un poco agitato – Andante come prima Vivace non troppo Adagio Allegro vivacissimo – Allegro maestoso assai

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SPECIAL CONDENSED MATINEE Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor

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by James Manishen

Concerto for String Orchestra

and riveting temperament – well preserved in numerous recordings – one was guaranteed of something unique at a Paderewski performance, the genesis of which began with a pair of spectacular debut recitals in March 1888 in Paris and one in Vienna that November.

Graz• yna Bacewicz b. Lodz, Poland / February 5, 1909 d. Warsaw / January 17, 1969 Composed: 1948 As a pupil of the eminent Theodor First performance: June 18, 1950 (Warsaw), conducted by Grzegorz Fitelberg Leschetizky, whose students included a vast array of future First WSO performance legendary pianists, the young • Grazyna Bacewicz’s music is Paderewski also wanted to inspired by her strong roots as compose. In Berlin where he was a performing violinist and her studying composition with Friedrich experience with the Kiel, Paderewski met Anton neoclassical ideals of French Rubinstein, one of Europe’s dazzling inter-war culture that she discovered while piano virtuosos before he founded studying violin and composition in Paris in the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862. Rubinstein encouraged his the early 1930s. Bacewicz’s stature among young colleague to actively pursue Poland’s leading composers is widely composition. Paderewski complied, recognized, with a special commitment towards music for strings.The Concerto for and the year of his Paris and Vienna performing triumphs aligned with String Orchestra is her most frequently the composition of his only Piano performed work, whose neoclassical tang emphasizes clarity, wit and vitality wrapped Concerto. Not surprisingly, the Concerto reflects plenty of keyboard in a distinctive musical syntax. flair and emotional fervour.

The opening movement uses three principle “I wrote it in a very short time,” themes: the first, a walking Baroque-like Paderewski recalled in his memoirs. theme; the second, a passage for solo violin “I wanted the opinion then of a over nasally sul ponticello violas leading to really great orchestral composer. So the third, an energetic theme in the low without further thought I took my strings punctuated by pizzicato violins. An engaging development follows, ending with score and went directly to SaintSaëns.” the return of the opening key.

“There is nothing to be changed,” The Andante is a rich-textured lyrical outpouring, recalling the opening theme and Saint-Saëns remarked after rising to several levels of intensity as its story Paderewski played the Concerto for him. “It will please the public. It is unfolds.The Vivo finale is in a buoyant 6/8, quite ready.”Paderewski left with with a bouncing theme, cross rhythms and high hopes. plenty of optimism one suspects born from dreams and hopes for post-war Poland.

Paderewski dedicated the Concerto to Leschetizky in more ways than Piano Concerto in A minor one.Though Paderewski wanted to Ignace Jan Paderewski perform the premiere himself, he b. Kursk, Podolia / November 6, 1860 allowed Anetta Essipoff – an d. New York / June 29, 1941 excellent pianist and wife of Leschetizky – to do the honours Composed: 1888 since she had been studying the First performance: January 20, 1889 work and had previously introduced (Vienna), conducted by Hans Richter, Paderewski’s music in Vienna.With with Anetta Essipoff as soloist the famed conductor Hans Richter First WSO performance on the podium, the premiere was a Ignace Jan Paderewski was great success. the heir apparent to Franz The opening movement begins Liszt when it came to boldly, giving way to a folk-like pianistic charisma.With his golden tone, fabulous touch melody in the woodwinds.The

piano enters quietly impassioned but builds its expressive and virtuosic arsenal as the movement progresses.

Melody abounds.The Romanza echoes Chopin – Paderewski was a master performer of that composer.

The Finale begins as a lively Polish dance; then, a chorale-like theme in the brass beautifully embroidered by the piano.The dance returns as the orchestra conveys no less flair as the pyrotechnical solo writing in this highly entertaining display.

Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” Felix Mendelssohn b. Hamburg / February 3, 1809 d. Leipzig / November 4, 1847 Composed: 1841-42 First performance: March 3, 1842 (Leipzig) conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2012, Joshua Weilerstein, conductor In the same way the young Beethoven had conquered Vienna’s musical appetite, 20-yearold Felix Mendelssohn took London by storm in his first appearances during the spring and summer of 1829. Mainstream audiences took to his engaging, brilliantly crafted music. He was a magnificent pianist and an innovative conductor, a painter of near professional level and reportedly could speak English with no trace of German accent.

His affluent financial state fed an obsession to travel and with travelling companion Karl Klingemann, Mendelssohn undertook a walking tour of the Scottish highlands that summer.

Mendelssohn’s keen eye and ear absorbed everything, especially the half-ruined castle in Holyrood where Mary Stuart lived and where her advisor Rizzio had been killed. ` “Everything around is broken and moldering and the bright sky shines in,”he wrote, going on to say that he found in the old chapel the beginning of his Scottish Symphony. Continuing on

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the trip, Mendelssohn was also impressed with the stormy Isle of Staffa off the Western coast of Scotland.

Though he started sketching the piece in Italy in 1830, Mendelssohn put the drafts aside claiming he could not quite evoke Scotland’s “misty moods”while touring such a sun-drenched country like Italy.

Though he always called the work his Scottish Symphony, it was completed in

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Berlin in January 1842, published simply as Symphony No.3. It was the last symphony he composed but published before his Fourth (Italian) and Fifth (Reformation) Symphonies.

Mendelssohn refused to attach a program to the Third Symphony. He didn’t

particularly like Scottish music either, so there is little folk-like melody in the work overall.

Instead, he wrote,“It is in pictures, ruins and natural surroundings that I find the most music.”The music’s deeply felt melancholy and reflection of history underscore that, elevating the Scottish Symphony far beyond that of a mere tonal travelogue.

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Janina Fialkowska and Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony

Gemma New, conductor

Janina Fialkowska, piano

Sought after for her insightful interpretations and dynamic presence, New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New is Music Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Resident Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. She was recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, a position she will assume in the 2019/20 season.

For over 40 years, Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach and her unique piano sound thus becoming “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2015).

During the 2018/19 season, New conducts the Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony,Tucson Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Winnipeg Symphony and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester in Germany.

In April 2019, she leads a second St. Louis Symphony subscription week on a program of works by Adès, Mozart and Strauss.

Gemma New holds a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where she studied with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar. She graduated with honors from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Music in violin performance.

Born in Montréal, Canada, she began her piano studies with her mother at age 4 continuing on with Yvonne Hubert. In Paris she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and at Juilliard with Sascha Gorodnitzki, experiencing the best of French and Russian piano traditions. Her career was launched in 1974, when the legendary Arthur Rubinstein became her mentor after her prize-winning performance at his inaugural Master Piano Competition, calling her a “born Chopin interpreter”, laying the foundation for her lifelong identification with this composer.

Since then, she has performed with the foremost orchestras and conductors worldwide: Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Roger Norrington and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to name but a few. Ms Fialkowska’s discography includes many award-winning recordings.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, Oboe; Jeff Dyrda, violin; Laurel Ridd, flute

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Symphonic Vikings Andrew Crust, conductor Buzz Brass: Sara Rodrigez - Hott Eloi ArchamBaudoin - Björn Sylvain Lapointe - Viking Warrior / Trumpet Gäetan Chénier - Viking Warrior / Trumpet

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Andrew Crust, conductor Andrew Crust is the newly-appointed Assistant Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony, beginning in the 19/20 season, where he will conduct the VSO in a variety of concert series each season. Previously Assistant Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Crust conducted over 35 performances each season.

Recent positions include Assistant Conductor of the Portland Symphony, Cover Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony and Nashville Symphony, Assistant Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic, and Assistant Conductor of Opera McGill. In 2017/18 Mr. Crust served as Assistant Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA with Michael TilsonThomas, Marin Alsop and Giancarlo Guerrero.

Sara Rodriguez, Liv / Percussion

Awards) for Outstanding Performance, he will star in Juste pour rire's production of Mamma Mia! next summer. TV credits include Jack Ryan, The Art of More,19-2, and District 31.

Sylvain Lapointe Artistic Direction / Viking Warrior / Trumpet A Université de Montréal graduate in classical music and jazz, Sylvain Lapointe is both a seasoned trumpet player and a veritable dynamo. Upon finishing his studies in 2002, Sylvain founded Buzz Brass and put forward an original concept that blends music and theatre. Since then, the quintet has given over 1,500 chamber-music performances and won over more than 300,000 spectators in North America, Europe and China. Listeners and journalists alike are constantly singing its praises, as attested by the numerous awards, nominations and distinctions the quintet has earned both throughout Canada and abroad for its various concert programmes, shows and recordings. The exceptional quality of its performances elevates the ensemble among the best brass quintets in Canada. Since its appearance at the celebrated Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Buzz Brass has been shining forth overseas. The group is preparing new tours of China as well as the release of a new recording.

Currently a MFA Directing Candidate at the University of California, Irvine, Sara has been following these magical Vikings since she stage-managed their first performance and is now honoured to share the stage with them. Other directing highlights include The Shape of Things (Mainline Theatre), For the Love of Pie (Toronto Fringe), Blood Wild (Next Stage Theatre Festival), A is for Arsenic Gaëtan Chénier, Viking Warrior / Trumpet (Montreal's Shortstanding Festival), Trudy and Max in After taking up trumpet in high school, Love (University of California, Irvine), Atomic City Gaëtan graduated from the Hull (Quebec) (Montreal Fringe), Proof (University of California, Conservatory of Music before obtaining a Irvine), and Mrs.Warren's Profession (University of Master’s degree in Performance (classical California, Irvine). trumpet) from the Université de Montréal.

He has been an active symphony player since 1976 and, over the years, has played with various orchestras of which the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and many A graduate of the National Theatre Montreal-area symphonies including, as a regular School of Canada, Eloi is a long-time member since 1987, the Orchestre symphonique de contributor of Buzz Brass (the Longueuil. In addition to his symphony work, Gaëtan is musicians who produced Symphonic active as a recitalist on modern trumpet and plays in Vikings); he has performed The ancient-music, Baroque ensembles on valveless,“natural” History of Music with them over 200 times across trumpet with the Studio de musique ancienne de the country, and has directed their latest Montréaland with the Bande Montréal baroque, having production for young audiences, ClassCircus, recorded with them both on the REM and ATMA labels. currently touring North America and China. In Aside from also playing in various groups that include Montreal, Eloi has been seen on various stages big band, brass band and wind band, Gaëtan has been including Centaur Theatre (Hosanna, Intimate part of the Symphonic Vikingsproductions since its very Apparel, With Bated Breath), the Segal Centre inception.

(Marjorie Prime), Duceppe (Sunderland, Frères de sang), and in musicals for young audiences (The ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Halloween Tree, Geronimo Stilton, Holy Cow).

Anthony Cyre, Percussion; Laura MacDougall, flute; Recipient of two METAs (Montreal English Theatre Tracy Wright, Oboe

Eloi Archam Baudoin, Theatrical Direction / Björn / Percussion

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BMO NIGHT AT THE MOVIES SOUNDBYTES Julian Pellicano, conductor Horizon, Johanna Hildebrand, artistic director Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Produced by David Heyman, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe Written by Steve Kloves Based on “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling Starring: Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint Emma Watson Robbie Coltrane Michael Gambon Richard Griffiths Gary Oldman

Alan Rickman Fiona Shaw Maggie Smith Timothy Spall David Thewlis Emma Thompson Julie Walters

Music by John Williams Cinematography by Michael Seresin Edited by Steven Weisberg Produced by Heyday Films, 1492 Pictures Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures About Warner Bros. Consumer Products Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanTM Synopsis In their third year at Hogwarts TM, Harry, Ron and Hermione meet escaped prisoner Sirius BlackTM and learn to handle a half-horse/halfeagle Hippogriff, repel shape-shifting Boggarts and master the art of Divination.

Harry must also withstand soul-sucking Dementors, outsmart a dangerous werewolf and deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship to Harry and his parents.

John Williams, composer In a career spanning more than five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films, including all eight Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 45-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T.The ExtraTerrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, The BFG and The Post. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards and fiftyone Oscar nominations, making him the 16

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Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-four Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer.

In January 1980, Mr. Williams was named nineteenth music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler.

He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor which he assumed following his retirement in December, 1993, after fourteen highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009, Mr. Williams composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama, and in September 2009, the Boston Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled “On Willows and Birches”.

Brady Beaubien A Stanford graduate and AllAmerican Athlete, Beaubien studied cognitive neuroscience before founding Interlace Media – an award winning motion graphics company.

Life in Concert, DreamWorks Animation In Concert, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Concert Tour, Breakfast at Tiffany's in Concert, and A Christmas Dream Live. Justin Freer has quickly become one of the most sought-after conductors of film music with a long list of full symphonic live to projection projects. He has Beaubien co-founded CineConcerts, a company appeared with some of the world's leading orchestras dedicating to reinventing the experience of including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland theatrical presentation and orchestral music. He Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles is currently producing Gladiator Live, The Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Godfather Live, DreamWorks Animation in Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Concert, It’s a Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. From Tiffany’s, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, and The full-length movie screenings with live orchestra to Harry Potter Film Concert Series. music-interactive sporting event experiences to original He had spearheaded Cineconcerts invention of 3D-environment holiday programming, CineConcerts is at the forefront of live entertainment. new genres and its creative presentations of cherished film and television content, including Staff and Thanks writing Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, a project Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanTM In Concert that celebrates 50 years of iconic material. He Produced by works to ensure Cineconcerts inspires a return to communal entertainment and continues to Justin Freer President/Founder/Producer offer modern audiences and the worlds youth Brady Beaubien Co-Founder/Producer a chance to re-connect with concert halls and Director of Production, Jeffery Sells local orchestras.

Head of Publicity and Communications, As a designer Beaubien co-designed Matsuhisa Andrew Alderete Paris at the Le Royal Monceau-Raffles and General Manager, Nicolas Rehm designed the Citrus building on Melrose Ave. Brand/Marketing/IP Acquisition, Ma’ayan Kaplan This new architectural addition to the Hollywood Brand/Marketing Manager, Brittany Fonseca cityscape represents a commitment to the Brand/Marketing and PR Manager, Molly Kossoff metropolitan and interconnected providence of Brand/Marketing Manager, Si Peng Los Angeles. At The Citrus, advanced materials Office Manager, Gabe Cheng and technology merge with wood, concrete and Worldwide Representation WME Entertainment glass in an organic and modernist design. Mr. Beaubien has partnered with award winning Music Preparation JoAnn Kane Music Service sushi chef, Nobu Matsuhisa, to bring his new Music Editing Ed Kalnins restaurant concept - Umeda - into the building. Playback Operation and Synthesizer Production, Mr. Beaubien also designed the restaurant. iMusicImage Sound Remixing Justin Moshkevich, CineConcerts Igloo Music Studios CineConcerts is one of the leading producers of Merchandising by Firebrand live music experiences performed with visual media. Founded by Producer/Conductor Justin ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Freer and Producer/Writer Brady Beaubien, Matt Abraham, percussion; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; CineConcerts has engaged millions of people Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Caroline Bucher, percussion worldwide in concert presentations that redefine Anthony Cyre, percussion Jeff Dyrda, violin; Darryl the evolution of live experience. Recent and Friesen, keyboard; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Madeline current live concert experiences include Rudy in Hildebrand, piano; Leanne Lee, piano; Laura MacDougall, Concert, The Harry Potter Film Concert Series, flute; Todd Martin, horn; Anna Milllan, horn; Sparks, Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live, It's a Wonderful Victoria-percussion; Crystal White, bass; Tracy Wright, oboe Interlace is a premiere CG animation and creative agency for feature films. They have defined the global campaigns of over 100 major Hollywood movies, including Avatar, X-Men, Rio, Ice Age, and Die Hard franchises.

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Daniel Raiskin, conductor Lyne Fortin, soprano Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano David Pomeroy, tenor Alain Coulombe, bass CMU Festival Chorus, Janet Brenneman, Artistic Director Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Yuri Klaz, Artistic Director

Requiem Mass, in Memory of Alessandro Manzoni

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

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Requiem

Requiem aeternam: Andante (chorus) Kyrie eleison: Animando un poco (soloists and chorus)

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Dies Irae

Dies irae: Allegro agitato (chorus) Tuba mirum: Allegro sostenuto (bass and chorus) Mors stupebit: Molto meno mosso (bass) Liber scriptus: Allegro molto sostenuto (mezzo-soprano and chorus) Dies irae (chorus) Quid sum miser: Adagio (soprano, mezzo-soprano and tenor) Rex tremendae: Adagio maestoso (chorus and soloists) Recordare: Lo stesso tempo (mezzo-soprano and soprano) Ingemisco: Poco meno mosso (tenor) Confutatis maledictis: Andante (bass) Dies irae (chorus) Lacrimosa: Largo (soloists and chorus)

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Offertorio

Domine Jesu Christe: Andante mosso (soloists) Quam olim Abrahae: Allegro mosso (chorus) Hostias: Adagio (soloists) Quam olim Abrahae (soloists) Libera animas (soloists)

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Sanctus

Sanctus: Allegro (chorus)

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Agnus Dei

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Lux Aeterna

VII. Libera Me

CLASSICS

Verdi’s Requiem

Agnus Dei: Andante (soprano, mezzo-soprano and chorus) Lux aeterna: Allegro moderato (mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass) Libera me: Moderato (soprano and chorus) Dies irae: Allegro agitato (chorus and soprano) Requiem aeternam: Andante (soprano and chorus) Libera me: Allegro risoluto (chorus and soprano)

There will be no intermission

Friday, March 15 Saturday, March 16

8:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

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

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

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Requiem Giuseppe Verdi b. Roncole, nr Busseto, Italy / October 9 or 10, 1813 d. Milan / January 27, 1901 Composed: 1873-1874 First performance: May 22, 1874 (Milan), conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 2014; Marc Piollet, conductor

composers would be decided by the publisher Ricordi.Verdi would contribute the closing Libera me.

The Mass was actually written but the premiere, scheduled on the first anniversary of Rossini’s death, was cancelled since the performers could not be secured.The first-ever performance took place September 11, 1988 in Stuttgart with Helmut Rilling conducting.The Rossini Mass is significant since Verdi’s Libera me had been discovered in 1871 by his respected friend Albert Mazzucato, a teacher at the Milan Conservatory who was so moved, he urged Verdi to compose a whole Mass of his own at some point in the future.

from composition to preparation to performance. He finished the work on April 10, 1874 and the premiere, six weeks later, was an immediate success. A tour was then organized, in which seven performances in Paris in 1874, eight in London in 1875 and sold-out performances in Vienna were all met with enthusiastic acclaim.

Verdi was a man of the theatre and an agnostic.Though a much argued topic, the identification of the Manzoni Requiem as an opera-inconcert is a valid one, for Verdi infused the Requiem with all the Giuseppe Verdi Alessandro Manzoni resources and inspiration found in his greatest operas to produce a concert Throughout his life,Verdi was an work more about patriotism and impassioned patriot and ardent humanism than religious testament.

Poet, playwright and novelist member of the Risorgimento, the As the language of the theatre was Alessandro Manzoni was a hero to 19th-century ideological and literary Verdi’s most natural gift, in the Verdi and a dominant figure in movement dedicated to arousing Requiem he seizes all the elements of Italian pride in a quest to free Italy from 19th-century Italy. His work galvanized the Italian soul, especially musical potential within and outside foreign domination and to unite the through his historical novel I promessi of the texts to extract every trace of country politically. As his life drama, as in the thundering Dies irae sposi (The Betrothed), which also progressed Verdi quickly became a became a de facto stylebook to unite (Day of Wrath), the sensuous writing hero to the cause and, through his for solo voices, richly detailed the country’s many dialects – similar operas, its most illustrious advocate. to Luther’s translation of the Bible for orchestral scoring and vivid choral styles.

Verdi’s early operas often ran afoul of the linguistically chaotic times in the political censors who realized that Germany.Verdi called Manzoni’s novel “the finest in all ages which has In seven large movements,Verdi’s opera could mobilize national pride, Requiem follows the texts closely as issued from the human mind.” perhaps to subversion.Verdi’s the work unfolds.The opening Nabucco of 1842 contained a section Verdi and Manzoni met in 1868.Verdi Requiem aeternam is serene and that slipped through, going on to wrote,“I would have knelt before him solemn, the longing chorus invoking become a rallying cry for Italy’s departed souls leading on to the if men worshipped men.” When freedom fighters – the famous Va, moving Kyrie eleison and its call for pensiero chorus of the Hebrew slaves Manzoni died at age 87 on May 22, divine compassion.The brilliant Dies longing for their lost homeland while 1873,Verdi was devastated, refusing in grief to leave his home. Now five irae occupies one-third the work’s imprisoned in Babylon. Soon, this years after the death of Rossini,Verdi length.The Offertorio overflows with chorus became the anthem for the vowed to produce a memorial Mass song in its swaying rhythm.The Risorgimento, sung during the dark to Manzoni.Verdi proposed the Sanctus explodes from the gate, days of World War II, by the crowds project to the mayor of Milan who leading to a striking fugue for aligning the streets at Verdi’s funeral immediately got on board.The divided chorus.The Lux aeterna and many other questing causes. premiere would take place on the contains some of Verdi’s most first anniversary of Manzoni’s death. ethereal scoring, while the Verdi’s love of his country and its concluding Libera me is an culture were bonded to his grief over Verdi immediately set to work on his unforgettable multi-part setting that the death of Rossini in Paris on seals this masterpiece, of which November 13, 1868.“He was a glory of new Mass, reviving the Libera me from before and composing the rest Brahms described his Italian Italy,”Verdi wrote to the Countess Maffei. To commemorate Rossini (and afresh. Hoping to avoid the problem colleague’s efforts as – “a work of with the Rossini Mass premiere,Verdi genius.”

Verdi’s patriotism) Verdi proposed a took on the whole project himself, composite Requiem Mass whose 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

Verdi’s Requiem

Lyne Fortin, soprano Recognized as one of Canada’s greatest voices, soprano Lyne Fortin is distinguished by her impeccable vocal and stage technique as well as her virtuosity, which allows her to carry off vocal acrobatics with disconcerting ease. Known for the accuracy of her interpretations and her great versatility, she stands out through her refinement in the Mozart repertoire, her vocal power and her deep sensitivity in Verdi and Puccini, and the excellence of her performances, whatever the style. She has earned numerous awards and distinctions in the course of her career. She has additionally sung in several radio concerts on Radio-Canada and CBC Radio.

Morning Musical Club in Montreal and the Frick Collection and Lincoln Center "Art of the Song" series in New York City. Especially celebrated for her Mahler interpretations, she is featured on a Naxos release of Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version) with JoAnn Falletta conducting.

David Pomeroy, tenor Internationally acclaimed for his rich voice and thrilling upper register, tenor David Pomeroy is enjoying a career in the spotlight on some of the world's most important opera stages and concert halls.

The Newfoundland native made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the title in Les contes d'Hoffmann followed by the title role in Faust. During the Listeners will happily discover the singer’s rocksummer of 2018, Pomeroy starred as Don Jose in solid dramatic sense, along with the originality Carmen at the Bregenz Festival in Austria and his and good taste that are inevitably signs of her season continued with Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos performances. in Stuttgart, Paul in Die Tote Stadt in Limoges, Calaf in Turandot at Teatro Colon in Sao Paolo and for New On the opera stage, she has held numerous roles Orleans Opera and in Vancouver for Faust. Elgar’s of importance all over Canada as well as the The Dream of Gerontius took him to Mexico City United States and Europe. while Verdi’s Requiem for the Winnipeg Symphony Ultimately, no one can help but enjoy the and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the Vancouver virtuosity, the technical mastery and the Symphony are among his concert engagements. remarkable stage presence of Lyne Fortin.

Further credits include the Cologne, Frankfurt, Seattle, Royal Danish opera and the Canadian Opera Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano Company as well as the Vancouver Symphony and Rolex-Prize-winning Canadian the Warsaw Philharmonic. mezzo-soprano Susan Platts has performed at London's Royal Alain Couloumbe, bass Opera House, Covent Garden, One of the most commanding and Milan's La Scala, New York’s exciting singers of his generation, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, French-Canadian bass Alain Coulombe and been guest soloist with the Philadelphia, is a favourite of international critics Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, Orchestre and audiences alike. He has de Paris, BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National collaborated with conductors such as Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos,Yannick Montreal,Toronto, American, Detroit, Milwaukee, Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano, Bernard Labadie, Alain Baltimore and Houston Symphonies, among Altinoglu, Ingo Metzmacher and Richard Bonynge. many others, collaborating with such conductors as Marin Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Ludovic Morlot, Recently, he was Der Doktor in Wozzeck at La Scala, Geronte di Ravoir in Manon Lescaut at the Dutch Christoph Eschenbach, Jane Glover, Carlos National Opera, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni at Kalmar, Keith Lockhart, Kent Nagano,Yannick the Salzburg Festival and l’Opéra de Montréal,Timur Nézet-Séguin, Sir Roger Norrington, Peter Oundjian, Bramwell Tovey and Osmo Vänska. She in Turandot with Vancouver Opera and Bishop Taché in Louis Riel at the Canadian Opera Company, the has appeared on many distinguished art-song National Arts Centre and le Festival d’Opéra de series including the Vocal Arts Society at the Québec.

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Verdi’s Requiem

Additional highlights include Clark Gable in the world premiere of Waiting for Miss Monroe at the Dutch National Opera, Phinée in the EuroArts DVD of Lully’s Persée, as well as Masetto in the Rhombus Media film Don Giovanni Unmasked.

Winnipeg Phil, Yuri Klaz, artistic director

CMU Festival Chorus

The CMU Festival Chorus, in its inaugural season, brings together the choral traditions and excellent quality of three distinct ensembles under the CMU umbrella to create an ensemble comprised of current CMU students, CMU alumni, and community members.With its roots in excellent performances by the former Mennonite Festival Chorus, the choir members have worked with distinguished WSO directors Bramwell Tovey, Andrey Boreyko and Alexander Mickelthwate, as well as guest conductors such as Helmut Rilling, Robert Shaw, Ivars Taurins, Jane Glover, and Tania Miller. Performances with the WSO include masterworks by Mozart, Britten, Handel, Beethoven,Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Silvestrov, and Pärt.

CMU Festival Chorus Director Janet Brenneman is Associate Professor of Music at Canadian Mennonite University where she teaches music education, choral conducting, and conducts the CMU Singers and the CMU Women’s Chorus. Active in the Manitoba choral community, Janet is also the Conductor of Renaissance Voices, and the Faith and Life Women’s Choir. Janet has studied and worked with notable conductors Doreen Rao, Elmer Iseler, Charles Smith, and Helmuth Rilling. Recent guest conducting engagements have taken her across Canada, most notably to conduct the Elmer Iseler Singers and the Amadeus Choir of Toronto in a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in December 2017.

The current season brings CMU Festival Chorus to the concert hall stage with WSO’s new director Daniel Raiskin to perform Handel’s Messiah in December 2018 and Verdi’s Requiem in March 2019.

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The Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Western Canada’s longest-established adult choral group, has a well-earned reputation for excellence. A choral trademark for the City of Winnipeg, the Phil’s repertoire covers a broad range of music including oratorios, masses, songs, and choral symphonies with a focus on major choral works with orchestral accompaniment. Priding itself on premiering original music, the Phil has commissioned works by composers from both Manitoba and across Canada.The choir has also captivated audiences in Toronto, Vancouver and New York’s storied Carnegie Hall.

Major choral works, performed with either the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra or the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, include: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and his 9th Symphony; Britten’s War Requiem; Bach’s Mass in B Minor; Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem; Sir Edward Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius; Mozart’s Mass in C minor; Fauré’s Requiem; Verdi’s Stabat Mater and his Requiem; Bach’s Cantata No. 4 (Christ lag in Todesbanden) Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Each season, under the direction of Maestro Yuri Klaz, the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir provides music lovers of all ages a subscription series of three concerts that bring to life some of the world’s finest choral works. As it moves towards its 100th anniversary, the Phil continues its tradition of performing works that are dramatic, profoundly moving and always entertainingly full of heart.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Jeff Dyrda, violin Allen Harrington, bassoon; Sam Hughes, trumpet; Mike Macaulay, bassoon; Laura MacDougall, flute; Richard Scholz, trumpet; Brian Sykora, trumpet; Daniel Preun, Bassoon

Wed, March 20, 2019 6:30 pm Tech Voc High School 155 Wall Street Admission by Donation

wso.ca/sistema

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Julian Pellicano, Conductor Jillian Willems, Director Rachel Cameron, Music Director Matthew Armet, Choreographer Angela Marshall & Sheena Sanderson, Stage Managers

POPS SOUNDBYTES

Guys and Dolls: In Concert

Featuring: The Stars of Rainbow Stage With: Dancers from Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Recreational Division Rainbow Stage: Julie Eccles, Executive Director Carson Nattrass, Artistic Director Jeffrey Kohut, Assistant Executive Director Jacqueline Harding, Production Administration Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School: Nicole Kepp, Recreational Division Principal Kate Fennell, Director of School Operations

Act One Overture Fugue For Tin Horns Follow The Fold Oldest Established I’ll Know A Bushel And A Peck

Adelaide’s Lament Guys And Dolls Havana If I Were A Bell My Time Of Day I’ve Never Been In Love Before - INTERMISSION -

Act Two Entr’acte Take Back Your Mink Adelaide’s Second Lament More I Cannot Wish You Crapshooters’ Dance

Friday, March 22 Saturday, March 23 Sunday, March 24

Luck Be A Lady Sue Me Sit Down,You’re Rockin’The Boat Marry The Man Today Guys And Dolls (Reprise)

8:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

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

Ultimate Music Theory and Piano Studio Saturday, 7:15 p.m. Jane Petroni Piano Studio Sunday, 1:15 p.m. University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music Students March 2019 I OVERTURE 25

PROGRAM NOTES Guys and Dolls: In Concert For 65 years, Rainbow Stage has been dedicated to the genre of musical theatre; bringing together the best actors, singers, dancers and musicians Manitoba has to offer.

For a third consecutive season, the WSO has invited Rainbow Stage to share its musical theatre stars with you and for a second season we include the gifted students from the RWB School Recreational Division. It is collaboration between three very different and independent organizations that defines the heart of musical theatre: harmony.

It is a pleasure for Rainbow Stage to find harmony with the WSO and the RWB School Recreational Division in presenting this Tony Award winner for Best Musical. Please enjoy Damon Runyon’s vibrant characters set against Frank Loesser’s incomparable score played for the first time in Winnipeg by a full symphony orchestra.

- Carson Nattrass Artistic Director, Rainbow Stage

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When I was quite small, my grandmother would sing to me,“I love you, a bushel and a peck”. I didn’t know at the time, but that song - and the show it came from - would go on to lead me down a new path as a director.Taking a creative leap isn’t easy, but I feel perhaps that Lady Luck was on my side. She did, after all, gift me Guys & Dolls, a show that critics call “a perfect musical comedy”.

Since the first WSO and Rainbow collaboration in 2017, I have felt inspired to take this Pops Concert to the next level, and to redefine what this partnership means. It is not lost on me how remarkable it is to bring together Winnipeg’s best musicians, performers, and RWB School Recreational Division students.We’ve been granted the freedom to create, and create we did.Together, we’ve made an iteration that has never been seen before and will likely never be seen again.

Thank you to the WSO, Rainbow Stage, and the RWB School Recreational Division for opening your hearts to the possibilities within collaboration like this.They took a gamble on me, and quite frankly,“I’ve got a little more than dough riding on this one.”

- Jillian Willems Director

ARTIST BIOS

POPS

Guys and Dolls: In Concert

Paula Potosky* Sarah Brown

Tinman in The Wizard of Oz, Frankie in Forever Plaid and Link Larkin in Hairspray. Other favourite If Paula were a bell she’d be ringing! roles include Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain (Drayton Entertainment and Capitol Theatre); She is elated to be joining her Robert in The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe friends at Rainbow and the WSO to Theatre); Link Larkin in Hairspray (Mayfield); mount this hilarious and iconic George in The Drowsy Chaperone (MTC and TC); show! Other favourites at Rainbow Ugly in Honk! (MTYP), Northbrook in Mary Poppins include: Beauty and the Beast (WCT and Persephone); and Anthony in Sweeney (Babette), Mary Poppins (Mary), Les Misérables (Fantine), Annie (Grace), Sister Act, The Little Mermaid Todd (Dry Cold Productions). Enjoy the show! and The Producers. Other theatre credits include: Daniel Bogart Happy Place, The Birds and the Bees (PTE); Pippin, Avenue Q (WST); Heisenberg; Billy Elliot (Mum); Alice Nathan Detroit Dan is honoured to be part of Through the Looking Glass, The Penelopiad (RMTC); the WSO and Rainbow Stage Falsettos (Dry Cold/WJT), Tribes (WJT), The Bridges of production of Guys and Dolls. Dan Madison County, Follies (Dry Cold). She will also be played the role of Marius in the making her professional music directorial debut in National Tour of Les Misérables, Dry Cold’s production of Kiss of the Spider Woman and had the privilege of this spring! Many thanks to family and friends for performing in the China premiere. He continued their love and support. Enjoy the show! with Les Misérables to Broadway as an original cast member of the first revival. Other credits include Laura Olafson* productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Miss Adelaide Paper Mill Playhouse; Austin in True West (Theatre Laura is honoured to be a part of Raleigh); Sweeney Todd (Geva Theatre Centre); and this extraordinary collaboration soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. between the WSO and Rainbow Stage. She would like to extend her Dan is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati gratitude to Carson and the creative College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He also earned a dual Master of Science in Education team for making her dream to sing degree and is proud to be the music teacher at with the symphony come true. She would also like Brooklands School. Love to Jayne, Oliver,Winnie, to thank the incredible musicians of the WSO for and the rest of his wonderful family. this amazing opportunity. Laura graduated from Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Arts program and has Bernie Pastorin appeared locally with RMTC, Rainbow Stage, PTE, Nicely-Nicely Johnson SIR, WJT,TPM, DTC, Echo (Beach) Theatre and Dry Bernie is very excited to be Cold Productions. She has also performed on stages making his debut with the WSO in Edmonton,Toronto and more recently, singing and Rainbow Stage in this with a girl group, Unique3, onboard various cruise production.Years ago, a 16-yearship lines. Laura also sings with her gal pals,The Fu old Bernie was cast as NicelyFu Chi Chi Choir. Laura used to sing “A Bushel and a Nicely in his High School Peck” to her younger sister/favourite “doll” Fiona and she would love to dedicate this performance to her. production of Guys and Dolls, making this show very special to him. Bernie studied theatre at the University of Winnipeg and is a member of Timothy Gledhill * Winnipeg-based a cappella group, Those Guys.

Sky Masterson Select Theatre credits include: Bloodless: The Trial Timothy is very excited to be of Burke and Hare (White Rabbit); Generous playing one of his dream roles, (Theatre by the River); West Side Story (CMU); and Sky, especially with the WSO and Rainbow Stage. Some favourite roles A Midsummer Night’s Fever (Winnipeg Fringe).

Bernie sends big hugs to his friends and family. with Rainbow Stage include The Lots of love to Wobyn.

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ARTIST BIOS

POPS

Guys and Dolls: In Concert

Elliot Lazar Benny Southstreet

Winnipeg, she has been working as a professional actor and director for over 30 years. Musical theatre credits include roles in Nine, Into the Woods, A Man Elliot is so excited to be back home and working on this classic of No Importance, Follies, Little Women, and the deliciously amoral Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Dry show! For the past two years he Cold Productions). Recent acting work includes the has been in Boston, working title role in Becoming Dr. Ruth (WJT); The Birds and towards his MFA in Musical the Bees (PTE); and Alice through the Looking Glass Theatre at The Boston Conservatory, where he most recently appeared (RMTC). Many thanks to Carson Nattrass and Jillian in Another Roll of the Dice - a new musical based Willems for the chance to perform in this brilliant, joyous piece of musical theatre. on the short stories of Damon Runyon and the music of Frank Loesser. Local credits include: The Aaron Hutton* Little Mermaid (Rainbow); James and the Giant Peach (MTYP); Way to Heaven (WJT); A Little Night Rusty Charlie/Harry the Horse Award winning singer/actor, Aaron Music, The Addams Family (Dry Cold); American Hutton is a versatile performer with Idiot (WST); The Trump Card (DTC); and You Were a resume ranging from Baroque to There (Pocket Frock). Elliot would like to dedicate Contemporary Musical Theatre. this performance to his mom, the toughest doll Being no stranger to the local arts in town. scene, Guys and Dolls marks Aaron’s third Pops Series engagement with Rainbow Stage Debbie Maslowsky* and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra having Arvide Abernathy been seen as Mike in A Chorus Line and Lt. Joseph Debbie is thrilled to be working with the WSO and Rainbow Stage Cable in South Pacific. Select stage performances on this production. Guys and Dolls include Pinocchio in Shrek: The Musical, Robertson Ay in Mary Poppins, Les Misérables (Rainbow); Billy was her first Rainbow show in Elliot (RMTC); Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Fabrizio in 1992! Other Rainbow favourites The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold Productions); and include Fiddler on the Roof, Princeton in Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre).

Oklahoma, 42nd Street, The Full Monty, Footloose, Beauty and the Beast (x2), Annie and Breaking Up is Previous WSO collaborations include Mozart’s Requiem, Carmina Burana, and Send in the Clowns: Hard to Do. Other credits: Chicago (Pizza Party Productions); Billy Elliot, Cabaret, Miracle on South The Music of Stephen Sondheim. Stay connected at aaronhutton.com and @amjhutton.

Division Street, Grumpy Old Men, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), My Fair Lady (RMTC); Closer Youth Ensemble Then Ever, Follies, She Loves Me, Into the Woods Danika Burdeniuk (Dry Cold Productions); Honk, Seussical (MTYP); The Rothschilds, Chutzpah a Go Go, Hello Muddah Aliyah Cole Hello Fadduh, and Stars of David (WJT). Debbie is Bryn Dubberley Megan Gareau proud to be on Rainbow’s Wall of Fame, and Delaney Giesbrecht thanks the artistic team and company for this Gabriella Janus wonderful opportunity and AMC and SBC for Chantelle McAllister their ongoing support.

Ben McIntyre-Ridd Daria McKennitt Mariam Bernstein* Sadie Paquette Big Jule Mariam is thrilled to be making Juliette Schroeder-Suss Shayla Trippier her Rainbow Stage debut in Katie Welham Guys and Dolls with the Irina Znamirowski wonderful WSO. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and the University of

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Guys and Dolls: In Concert

Jillian Willems *, Director Select directorial and choreographic credits include: Pippin (WST/ViC); Chicago (Pizza Party Productions); Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Rainbow Stage); The 25th Annunal Putnam County Spelling Bee (Uniform Theatre); American Idiot (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Mr. Burns (District Theatre Collective); Assassins (Loose Ends); Zanna, Don’t! (Stage 16). Select performance credits include: South Pacific (Regina Symphony); A Charlie Brown Double Bill (MTYP); South Pacific (WSO); Heathers (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Aida (Edmonton Opera); Dogfight (Threeform); Letters and Words (Synaethesis); Annie (Rainbow Stage).

This show is for my grandparents, Lorna and Garry. I love you a bushel and peck.

Rachel Cameron, Music Director Rachel Cameron is a local music director and musician with a background in musical theatre and collaborative musicianship. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Film from the University of Winnipeg, is an ARCT candidate with the Royal Conservatory of Music and has over 20 years of training in piano, conducting, voice and dance. Select music director credits include: Falsettos (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre/Dry Cold Productions); School of Rock (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); and Bittergirl: the musical (RMTC). Rachel has also worked on three Rainbow Stage productions: Shrek (Children’s Music Supervisor), Sister Act and Les Misérables (Assistant Music Director). She most recently could be heard playing in RMTC’s Matilda. This is Rachel’s first contract with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

Matthew Armet *, Choreographer Matthew is originally from Saskatchewan but is now proud to call Winnipeg home.

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specialty in choreography. His six seasons at The Stratford Festival credits include: Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, A Chorus Line, As You Like It, The Sound of Music, Carousel, Crazy For You, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, The Who’s: Tommy, 42nd Street, and The Pirates of Penzance.

Other Theatre credits: Cabaret,White Christmas (RMTC); Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company); Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn, How to Succeed…, Hairspray (Drayton); Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical (Grand Theatre); High School Musical, Peter Pan (Neptune); Hairspray, Les Feux Follets (Charlottetown Festival); Peter Pan (Elgin Theatre) and Grief: Another Common Bond (Winchester St.Theatre). Select Film credits: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (CBC), and Johnny J, a member of the boyband SOUNDCHECK, in Odd Squad (PBS/TVO).

His upcoming choreography can been seen in Mamma Mia! (Lawyers Play) at RMTC in May. Much love to Tyrell, Fenwick and Oliver.

Angela Marshall*, Stage Manager It has been a few years since Angela last worked in Winnipeg, but she excited to be back and working on this amazing collaboration! Selected Credits Include: Orpheus Descending, A Christmas Carol and Trying (RMTC); Misery (The Grand Theatre); Home & Away (Theatre Orangeville); The All Night Strut (Stirling Festival) and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Neptune Theatre). Other ASM credits include: 18 Seasons with the Stratford Festival, The Globe Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, Factory Theatre, Mirvish Productions & Theatre Orangeville. Angela would like to thank her family & friends for all of their love & support. *The participation of these Artists are arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance•Opera•Theatre Policy.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Paul Balcain, saxophone; Will Bonness, piano; Janice Finlay, saxophone; Julie Husband, saxophone; David Lawton, trumpet; Jonathan Stevens, saxophone; Sharon Atkinson, saxophone

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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Julian Pellicano, conductor José Francisco Salgado, narrator Science and Symphony, videography University of Manitoba Women’s Chorus, Elroy Friesen, director*

Solaris Borealis Wondrous Light

CLASSICS

Holst:The Planets

John Estacio (b. 1966) John Estacio John Estacio - INTERMISSION -

The Planets, Op. 32 Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Mars, the Bringer of War: Vivace Venus, the Bringer of Peace: Adagio Mercury, the Winged Messenger:Vivace Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity: Allegro giocoso – Andante maestoso Saturn the Bringer of Old Age: Adagio Uranus, the Magician: Allegro Neptune, the Mystic: Andante*

Friday, March 29 Saturday, March 30

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Official Radio Station of the WSO Classics:

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

This concert is performed in memory of Barbara Cook, who left a substantial gift to the WSO in her will. We are extremely grateful for her generosity.

SPECIAL CONDENSED MATINEE Holst: The Planets Friday, March 29

10:30 a.m.

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Solaris John Estacio b. Newmarket, Ontario / April 8, 1966 First performance: June 2, 2000 (Calgary), conducted by Hans Graf First WSO performance Solaris was written as an overture to begin a concert that could feature Holst’s The Planets. Just as Holst fashioned a suite based on the characteristics of the Gods and Goddess associated with the planets, Solaris attempts to capture the essence of the Sun. The piece is divided into three sections.The first section depicts the inhospitable nature of the Sun, a behemoth of burning gas with gigantic flares leaping off of the surface.The energy abates in the second section and the mood becomes much more peaceful.This section suggests the lonely vacuum of space and the huge distance the Sun’s energy must travel to reach the corners of our universe.

Gradually, as the Sun rises on our tiny planet, the delicate melody previously introduced by the oboe transforms into a noble fanfare for the full brass – a celebration of the Sun’s lifegiving energy.

The piece concludes with a recapitulation of music from the first section, and an energetic flurry for the brass and strings.

- John Estacio

Borealis John Estacio First performance: June 15, 1997 (Edmonton), conducted by Grzegorz Nowak Last WSO performance: 2007, Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor The first time ever I experienced the glorious spectacle of the Aurora Borealis was when I arrived in Edmonton. Up until that moment I had to settle for textbook explanations and a geography teacher's descriptions.

I had no idea what I was seeing when I first noticed the majestic curtains of swirling green light in the sky one crisp October evening until a friend confirmed that it was indeed the Northern Lights. I was completely captivated and awestruck by the magical sight of dancing light; how could I not be inspired to compose a piece of music?! Having recently completed two serious compositions, it was the right time to revisit a style for unabashed lyrical

volume accompanied by quick glissandos were inspired by the swirling curtains of green light which twist and turn and vanish Borealis is meant to be awesuddenly in the night sky.Towards invoking and attempts to capture the conclusion of this movement the ethereal atmosphere of the the nimble theme is transformed lights of the northern skies; wide into a noble melody performed as streams of bending, curving light a traditional chorale by the that abruptly disappear and trombones, and then repeated by reappear.The ephemeral nature of the full orchestra.The conclusion these celestial happenings is represented by the sudden colourful of this piece attempts to capture the majesty of the Northern Lights outbursts followed by movements – they have graced our northern of near silence.The movement skies since time began and will begins with the strings playing a continue to dance ever more. major chord and then gradually - John Estacio glissing (bending the pitch) until they all arrive at a different chord; for The Planets me, this musical gesture captures Gustav Holst the essence of bending curtains of b. Cheltenham, England / light and serves as a recurring motive throughout this movement. September 21, 1874 A solo flute introduces fragments of d. London, England / May 25, 1934 Composed: 1914 -1917. a melody; this melody is not heard in its entirety until later in the piece First performance: September 29, 1918 (London), conducted by when it is performed by a solo bassoon and then an English horn. Adrian Boult The strings perform the melody and Last WSO performance: 2013; the composition swells to its climax Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor featuring the brass and the sound Holst’s most famous splashes provided by the score was born from percussion. Borealis concludes with a a friend who in 1913 unique auditory effect in the introduced the percussion section that again composer to attempts to convey the enchanting and magical quality of the borealis. astrology. A musician to the core, Holst commented that he liked to - John Estacio study anything with the suggestion of music, and the Wondrous Light resulting seven-movement John Estacio masterpiece combined his First performance: April 17, 1997 mystical view of what the (Edmonton), conducted by David Hoyt character of each planet implied, First WSO performance fused to a strong British nationalistic sympathy, with a Wondrous Light is designed to sense of the nation’s collective be a celebration of the Aurora emotions during World War I. Borealis, also known as the “Northern Lights.”Being inspired Holst was an avid reader of by the notion of dancing celestial horoscopes, studied Eastern religious lights, the music is fervent and literature and used such visions animated. Wondrous Light is when they suggested musical perhaps less of a literal musical possibilities, as the astrological representation of the Aurora characteristics of the planets so Borealis and is, instead, inspired resoundingly called out when he by their energy and the speed at began to explore its musical which the lights seem to zip possibilities. Holst chose the form of a through the evening skies. A suite for orchestra, which his nimble melody introduced by the daughter Imogen Holst suspected as oboe is developed intervallically easier for him since large-scale and rhythmically throughout the symphonic writing had been giving composition. Sudden swells in her father structural challenges. melodies and joyous bright orchestral colours that Borealis would require.

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The Planets occupied the composer for three years. Due to an arthritic condition, Holst sketched it in twopiano score so that he could conserve energy in his writing hand.The mystical Neptune movement was written for organ, and all seven movements were orchestrated by 1917 with help from two of Holst’s fellow faculty members at St. Paul’s School in London, who transcribed Holst’s keyboard notes under his direction.The masterly orchestration is one of the work’s hallmarks.

significance of the planets.There is no program music in them. If any guide to the music is required, the subtitle to each piece will be found sufficient.”Though the music’s “Englishness”is well up front, a wide variety of influences are found from Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Dukas and Debussy through Schoenberg.

Each movement is strikingly individual: the hammer blows of Mars – the Somme perhaps – the ethereal beauty of Venus, the fleet Mercury, the Bacchanalian, if rurally English, dance Following the highly successful in Jupiter, all with the most sharply London premiere and subsequent profiled identities.The world-weary performances, interest in America solemnity of the Mahler-inspired became so high that simultaneous Saturn (Holst’s favourite movement) premieres took place in New York and and the Falstaffian magician Uranus Boston during the 1920-21 season. give way to the closing siren song’s Holst explained The Planets at its first women’s chorus in Neptune, ending with the ultimate unknown as we performance:“These pieces were peer into the dark sky. suggested by the astrological

ARTIST BIOS

In 1921 Holst set Sir Cecil Spring Rice’s patriotic hymn I Vow to Thee My Country to Jupiter’s famous central hymn and it became a popular fixture of Armistice memorial ceremonies going forward.

Throughout, one marvels not just the boundless imagination in this music but its meticulous construction. As Holst said in describing the Mystic verses the Artist:“I suggest the latter has the advantage for he has something at once more tangible – that something which Artists call Form.”

“Holst’s music reaches into the unknown, but it never loses touch with humanity,”his composer friend Ralph Vaughan Williams once said.The feeling of head-in-the-clouds balanced with feet-on-the-ground is all pervasive in The Planets, Holst’s most popular composition and among the most acclaimed English orchestral works of all time.

CLASSICS

Holst: The Planets

José Fransisco Salgado, narrator José Francisco Salgado is an Emmy-nominated astronomer (BSc in Physics, Univ. of Puerto Rico; PhD in Astronomy, Univ. of Michigan), experimental photographer, visual artist, and public speaker who creates multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. As the Executive Director and co-founder of KV 265, a non-profit science and arts education organization, Dr. Salgado collaborates with orchestras, composers, and musicians to present films that provoke curiosity and a sense of wonder about the Earth and the Universe.

His Science & Symphony films have been presented in 210 concerts and 160 lectures in 18 countries, reaching a combined audience of 400,000 people. Orchestras that have presented these works include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino.

UNESCO has recognized three of these films for their artistic and educational value.

University of Manitoba Women’s Chorus

The University of Manitoba Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Elroy Friesen, is comprised of singers from the Desautels Faculty of Music, the wider university campus, and the surrounding community. This award-winning choir was founded in 1990 by Dr. Henry Engbrecht, and is a frequent collaborator with various arts organizations including the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Prairie Voices, Canzona, Musik Barock and the WSO New Music Festival.They received several accolades in the 2017 Canadian National Choral Competition including Best Prairie Region Choir, and overall Best Performance of a French Song, and in 2018 they placed 4th in the International Canterode Choral Competition in the Netherlands.

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS: Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Tracy Wright, oboe; Sharon Atkinson, clarinet; Anthony Cyre, percussion; Jeremy Epp, timpani; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Donna Laube, piano; Laura MacDougall, flute; Chad Reimer, tuba; Laurel Ridd, flute; Olivia Ritchey, harp; Victoria Sparks, percussion March 2019 I OVERTURE 35

Amelia is a high-spirited, energetic 12-year-old who has been a student of Sistema Winnipeg for the last six years.

Su, Amelia’s mother, recounts the time before joining Sistema Winnipeg when Amelia – diagnosed with autism, OCD, and anxiety – struggled to participate in group activities and social interactions with her peers. But Sistema Winnipeg has given Amelia an amazing gift – focus.

For Amelia, Sistema is so much more than musical teachings. It’s learning social skills, the creation of a community, and … focus. Prior to Sistema, Amelia couldn’t focus long enough to complete a beaded necklace.

Today, Amelia dreams of becoming a surgeon.

Serenity, Amelia’s 13-year-old sister, plays violin with Sistema, and now also with the Winnipeg Youth Orchestra. The year before Sistema came to their school, Su enrolled Serenity in private violin lessons, but the cost proved out of her reach. Fortunately for Serenity, who

desperately wanted to be a violinist, Sistema Winnipeg started in her school the following year and she was able to pursue her dream of playing violin.

Serenity, born paralyzed from her neck to her hip on her left side, has spent her life attending various therapies to gain the ability to walk and use her arm.

“Playing the violin has given her fine motor skills, better articulation, and has improved her arm’s mobility,” Su tells us. But beyond that, playing the violin has increased Serenity’s self-confidence and pulled her out of her shell, a little bit at a time.

Serenity

Su talks about the community they have found in other Sistema families. The sense of family they have. She talks about the struggles and successes of the students and their parents. Amelia, who

spends one day a week mentoring the first year students, expresses how proud she is of their growth.

For the families involved, Sistema Winnipeg is so much more than musical training. Sistema is community, friendship, family. Sistema is opportunity.

Sistema Winnipeg is funded through the generous donations of people who want to make a difference in the lives of kids like Serenity and Amelia.

Kids who dream of being surgeons and therapists. Kids who have the same interests, hobbies, passions, and dreams of any other child. Kids who deserve every opportunity to thrive.

To donate to Sistema or for more information, please contact Beth Proven at bproven@wso.mb.ca or (204) 949-3989.

Amelia

The Centennial Concert Hall: 50 Years of Service and In Need of Some TLC Communities around the world take pride in the central performance space that helps to present the success, values, and viability of their home to local people and to visitors who come to visit the community. When the Manitoba Centennial Centre was opened on March 27, 1968, the facility was an expression of pride in our ability to thrive in Manitoba. The Manitoba Centennial Centre looked to the future with a modern design, a space to create a museum of our history, a planetarium, and a Centennial Concert Hall.

spots on stage. It makes it very difficult to work with Winnipeg’s wonderful choirs, and the conductor has difficulty hearing and shaping the nuances of the musicians’ work.

The stress and strain of working to a high musical standard is multiplied many times in this environment, and the danger of overplaying in this environment greatly increases the risk of injuries to the musicians.

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has been performing in the Centennial Concert Hall without a functional acoustic shell since the spring of 2016. Engineers brought in to assess the safety of the mechanical system that raises and lowers the massively heavy shell structure determined that use of the shell had to be curtailed because it was in danger of failing and crashing to the stage and wreaking havoc on the stage and anyone working on the stage.

An electronic acoustical enhancement system The Centennial Concert Hall was designed as that is intended to electronically simulate the a multi-purpose hall and intended to presence of a shell was installed as an interim showcase the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, measure until the shell could be repaired.

Manitoba Opera, and the Royal Winnipeg This electronic shell is helpful, but it is an Ballet as well as present other events and emergency measure not a long term solution. community groups when needed. The It is like putting an emergency tire in place opening night was a huge celebration of the when you have a flat tire. The emergency history of Canada, Manitoba, and Winnipeg. spare tire will get you to a garage, but it is not In order to create the acoustical environment intended to be used for the long term. needed for symphony orchestra After fifty years of service with less than adequate performances, a complex and large orchestra budgets for capital repairs and maintenance, shell design was created that could be the Manitoba Centennial Centre in its entirety lowered into place for symphony is deeply in need of refurbishment. Many performances and lifted into storage position aspects of the buildings need to be repaired above the stage when it was needed. The and modernized, but for us at the Winnipeg shell, once it is set up on stage, is like a three Symphony Orchestra, the absolute priority is sided room with three walls and a roof with the repair of the orchestral shell. an open front side that faces the audience.

We have a wonderful orchestra in Winnipeg, The operation and functionality of the and its highly trained and skilled musicians orchestral shell is very important to the should be performing in a concert facility that ability of the orchestra members to hear meets basic professional standards. We have themselves play and to hear their colleagues asked people who care about the orchestra to well enough to be able to coordinate speak to their elected representatives to entrances, artistically shape phrases, and support making this important repair. You can balance the combination of sounds to create help this effort by speaking with your elected the most satisfying and musically satisfying representative. experience for audience members. The absence of an orchestral shell for symphony Trudy Schroeder, Executive Director orchestra performances creates sonic dead February 19, 2019 38

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Mrs. Marilyn Hido Darlene Hildebrand & Steve van Vlaenderen Ms. Susan Hildebrandt Kathryn Hofley, in celebration of Lorraine Cairns' special milestone birthday June Horsberg Mr. & Mrs. Richard Howell Viola Hultin Shaun Humphries Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki Mr. Alan J. Janzen Father Stan A. Jaworski Ms. Crystal Jochum Brent & Karen Johnson Victoria Johnston Ms. Bev Kawchuk Mrs. Patricia Kellendonk Mr. Erwin Kitsch Ms. Mary Klassen Mrs. Katarina Kliman Ms. Jacki Koven Elsa Krahn Dr. Jeremy Kredentser Patricia Kuchma Ron Lambert Ms. Edith Landy Mrs. Ingrid Lee Mr. & Ms. Kathy and Saul Leibl Mr. Tom Liewicki Mr. & Mrs. Barry & Pat Lloyd

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Lorron Agency Ltd. Zeeba Loxley Mrs. Lori Luby Angela MacDonald Alan & Carol Macinnes in memory of Barbara Filuk Mr. & Mrs. Al & Pat Mackling, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Ms. Joann L. MacMorran Ms. Barbara Main Ms. Priya Mani Mr. Allan L. Mapes Mrs. Linda Martin Frank & Terry Martin Mr. Harold Mawhinney Ms. Samara May Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba Dr. Ian McIntyre Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod Ms. Ardythe McMaster Ms. Linda Meckling Mrs. Estelle Meyers Ms. Pat Michalski Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Gladys Mildren Mrs. Jocelyn A. Millard Dr. Peter Miller & Ms. Carolyn Garlich Bob & Penny Miller Mrs. Mona Mills Mr. & Mrs. Fred & Margaret Mooibroek Ms. Linda M. Moore Ms. Francine Morin Miss D. Elizabeth Morrison Mrs. Joan Ann Morton Dr. & Mrs. John Mundie Leesa Munroe Mrs. Charlotte Murrell Mr. & Mrs. Hermine & David Olfert Mrs. Truus Oliver Prof. Kerrie A. Orlick Dr Shelley Page Mrs. Henny Paritzky Kathleen Parums Mr. Julian Pellicano Ms. Nettie Peters Ingrid Peters-Fransen Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Ann-Margret Plummer Cristian Popescu Mrs. Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan Carol Poulin Ms. Lois Powne Dr. Fiona Punter Judith Putter Mr. James Read Ms. J. E. Louanne Reid Daryl & Sheila Reid Mrs. Barbara Rempel Mrs. Sheila Rempel Leslie Rentz Mr. William Reynolds Mrs. Eleanor Riach Mrs. Melissa Rice Tracy Ridley Ms. Frances Rowlin Mr. Chris Rudd Joan Sabourin

Mr. Johnny Rule & Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad Mrs. Claudia Sarbit Mrs. Nicola Schaefer Mr. William Scheidt Ms. Henriette Schellenberg Ms. Augusta Schroeder Ms. Janet Schubert Ms. Beverley J. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Douglas & Margaret Scott Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Lynn Shead Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Wilma A. Sotas Dr. & Mrs. Garry & Linda Specht Mr. & Mrs. Peter & Geri Spencer Ms. Nata L. Spigelman Mr. C Starodub Mrs. Elsie Stasiuk Victoria Stayner-Albl Ms. Melissa Steele & George Toles Dr. Camelia Stefanovici Mr. Lionel B. Steiman Ms. Helena Stelsovsky Ms. Sally Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Lorne & Lorna Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Archie & Shirley Stone TEC Video Security Inc Tom Thiessen Ms. Vanessa Thiessen Dr. Robert Thomas Betsy Thorsteinson, in memory of Ruth Dowse Mr. Robert Tisdale Dr. Helen A. Toews Elizabeth Toews Ms. Andrea Towers Mr. Jim Turnock Edith Ugrin Suzanne Ullyot in honour of Barbara Filuk Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest, In memory of Blair Simpson Mr. & Mrs. Barry R. Veals Mr. Hugo Veldhuis Mr. & Mrs. Roy & Nancy Vincent Ms. Erika von Kampen Mr. & Mrs. Gordon & Charlotte Walkty Mr. & Mrs. James Warbeck Dr. Ken Warmbrod Vanessa Warne Shawn & Beth Watters Mrs. Evelyn Wener Annemarie Wiebe Edith Wilde Mrs. Dorcas Windsor Debbie & Robert Witzke in memory of the late Mayer Rabkin The Women's Committee Terrie Woodward Mr. Patrick D. Wright Anne P.Yankiwski Wanda Young in memory of Edwin Yee Mr. Donn K.Yuen Mr. Brad Zander 3 Anonymous

Sonatina under $75 Judy Amy-Penner for Michelle Berger at Ecole Marie Anne Gaboury Mr. Lance Arthur Anderson David Annandale Ms. Dorothy Arnold Aaron Bailey Ms. Veronique Barthet Karen Bauch Mr. Richard P. Bauch Ms. Oslen Belle Mrs. Eva Berard Eva Berman-Wong, In Memory of George Berman Anna Ruth Bird Rex & Connie Blamey in memory of Barbara Filuk Doug Blaylock Mr. Dick J. Bloemheuvel Lucienne Blouw in memory of Louise Nebbs Lucienne Blouw, in honour of Barbara Filuk J Darlene Boettcher Matthew Bolley Mr. Leonard Bookbinder Ms. Sally Boulding Chantelle Bowser Jean Boyes Mr. Laurence Brandt Joan Braun J & J Braun Ms. Catherine Brockway Harry & Doneta Brotchie, in memory of Barb Filuk Miss Shirley Brown Mr. & Mrs. Alfred & Mildred Buelow Kari Melissa Chastko Sister Josephine Chudzik Ms. Shirley K. Clark Ms. Shirley Clark Candee Clark Ms. Katherine Cobor Karen Couch Ms. Joan Cousins Ms. Judy Crawford Mr. Fred J. Cross Margaret Cuddy, in honour of Dr. Robert O'Kell's birthday Mrs. Jean Cunningham Betty Curnew, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak on their 65th Anniversary Ms. Donna Cymbalist Mrs. Michele Del Rizzo Mr. Chad Gabriel Desrosiers Christine Dewar Mrs. Ethel Dil Monica Dinney Susan Docker, in memory of Barbara Filuk Ms. Amanda Douglas Diane Duma Mr. Spencer Duncanson Ms. Margaret Elaine Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Peter & Vera Fast Dr. Michelle Faubert Ms. Catherine Flower

Judith & Peter Flynn in honour of Arlene Young's Birthday Judith & Peter Flynn, in honour of Robert O'Kell's birthday Hilda Franz Marie Elizabeth Friesen Mr. Bryan Gawryluk Ms. Bonnie Geller Mrs. Eleanor Giffin Heather F. Graham Mrs. Inga Granovskaya Russel & Mary Grenkow, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Anniversary Victoria Gretchen Mr. Anthony (Tony) Griffin Ms. Marianne Gruber Ms. Marion Guinn Mrs. Gertrude Hamilton Travis Harrison Ms. Audrey Hawkins Mrs. Helen Hayward Dr. & Mrs. Paul Henteleff in memory of Dr. Stephen Szirom Mrs. Margaret Hill Arlene Hintsa Mrs. Cathy Hobday Mary Holmen Dr. Susan Holt Stella Hryniuk Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik Ms. Barbara Hunnie Karen Hurst Lee & Theresa Huscroft Dr. Janice C. Ingimundson Ishbel Isaacs Ardelle & Denis Jacques, Cathy Carter, and Stanley Byskal, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Victoria Johnston, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak on their anniversary Janis Kaminsky Mrs. Karen Kaplen Cathy & Robert Kaptian Mr. Gordon C. Keatch Ms. Marilynne Keil Russell Kennedy Katie Kirkpatrick Dorothy Knowles in honour of Barbara Filuk Ed & Helen Kolomaya, in memory of Dawn Louise Sitar Ms. Tusia Kozub Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Marie Kuhn Ms. Irene Kuhtey Anne La Tour Ms. Desiree La Vallee Mrs. Karen Lagadi Ms. Betty Laing Mr. & Mrs. Emery & Vlasta Lajtai Mrs. Elizabeth Lansard Mr. & Mrs. David & Sherrill Levene Dr. Mark Libin Mrs. Katrina Limberatos Mr. Rick Linden Linda Litwack in memory of Mayer Rabkin Ms. Gail E. Loewen Patricia Loustel Roger & Norma Lowe

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Linda Magne Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon & Rita Margolis Mrs. Jane Markesteyn Mrs. Irene Marriott Mr. & Mrs. Hugh R. McCabe Ms. Marlene McCulloch Angela McDonald Mr. Dan & Heidi McInnis Jim McLaren Barbara McNeill Mr. Garfield McRae Alison Mendres, in honour of Arlene Young's Birthday Mrs. Alison Mendres, honouring Dr. Robert O'Kell on his Birthday Karen Menkis Carolyn Mitchell Sandi Mitchell Marguerite Mohr Margaret Morse Ms. Bonnie Neil Dr. Thomas Nesmith Ms. Sabrina Neumann Mr. Brian O'Leary Alice Oswald Mrs. Clarice Owen Judith Owens, in honour of Arlene Young's Birthday Ms. Shirley Padgett Ms. Georgine Palmquist Ms. Heather Partridge Sonjia Pasiechnik Judy Pateman Ms. Patricia Mary Patterson Mrs. Liz Patzer Donald Pearen in honour of Arlene Young's Special Birthday Neil Bruneau & Ellen Peel Lesia Peet, in memory of Burtie & Doris Bass Lesia Peet, in memory of Marion Ruth Maxwell Mrs. Denise Penley Mr. Randy Pitch Ross Pokeza Dr. Christine Polimeni Ms. Rose Popowich Dr. & Mrs. James Popplow Ken and Geri Porath Rick & Peg Porter Janis Pregnall Mr. James & Christine Prendergast Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Lorraine Prescott Adeline Pressey, Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Ms. Margaret Proven Ms. Joanne Prygrocki Darcia Ratuski, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Wedding Anniversary Ms. Marlene Reguly Ms. Susan Renard Ms. Pat Repa Ms. Beverley Ridd Ms. Ann Rivera Ms. Heather Robbins Mrs. Susan E. Roe-Finlay Gisela Roger Mrs. V Rosolowich

Mrs. Shirley Russell Elaine Rust Joan Sabourin in memory of Alex Beyak Joan Sabourin, in memory of David Banks Mr. Edward Sale Mr. & Mrs. James Sankey Mr. Eduardo Saveliovsky Jessie Sawicz M Scheunenman Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Miss Rita Schroeder Mr. Ken Schykulski Sharna Searl, in Honour of Sophie Taylor Braunstein Jim & Susan Shaw Ms. Norrine Shobrooke Mr. Izzy Shore Mrs. Marie Sichler Ms. Arlene Sinclair Ms. Gail Singer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith Joan Smith, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Anniversary Ms. Kaye Snatenchuk Ms. Meg Specht Adam Spigelman Mr. & Mrs. Gerry St. Laurent Marianne Wojtas Staub in honour of Eileen Zaluski Dola and Beverly Karan Pope's 60th Birthday Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Ms. Frances Stewart Mrs. Marilyn Stothers Ms. Muriel L. Sutherland Ms. Dianne Szelag Charles Tax Mrs. Margaret Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Barbara Toews Audrey Toni Ms. Josette Toye Ms. Christine Tymchak & Les Cels, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak on their 65th wedding anniversary Mrs. Ricki Valcourt Stephanie Van Nest, in memory of Blair Simpson Breandan Waddell-Flynn Miss A. H. Wagstaffe Dr. Jackie Walker Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Walton Dr. Vanessa Warne Phyllis M Waters, in honour of Ben & Nadia Hanuschak's 65th Anniversary Mr. Glen Angus Webster Morgan Wege Mr. James Wernham Mrs. Diane Patricia Weselake Grace M. Wiebe Emily Wilcosh Mrs. Lilli Williams Mrs. Myra Wolch Linda Wright Ms. Libby Estelle Yager Tyler Yip 3 Anonymous

Share the Music is a unique Festival donors help to further outreach initiative of the WSO the musical artistry of the WSO’s that allows economically New Music Festival. Thank you! disadvantaged children and Ms. Jean Altemeyer their families to attend WSO Mr. & Dr. Aubrey & Linda Asper performances. Thank you for Mr. Neil Bardal helping to Share the Music!

Mr. & Mrs. David & Gillian Bird Doug Blaylock Ms. Jacqueline Brignall Shelley Chochinov Wendy Burnham Candee Clark Kevin Burns Cheryl Ferguson Timothy & Barbara Burt Mrs. Eleanor Giffin Mr. & Mrs. T. Patrick Carrabre Ms. Crystal Jochum Dr. Peter Czaplinski Dr. Maureen Kilgour Mrs. Kathleen Estey Mrs. Karen Lagadi Ms. Beth Grubert, Baked Mr. Dan & Heidi McInnis Ms. Henriette Schellenberg Expectations - Beth Grubert Barbara Scheuneman & Family Brenda Sklar Mrs. Elba Haid Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Jan Tennant Dr. & Mrs. Don & Jerri Hall Mr. & Mrs. Alan Wright Mr. & Mrs. Helios Hernandez Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Elmer & Hilda Hildebrand Mr. & Mrs. Len & Koren Kaminski Mrs. Patricia Kellendonk Ms. Tusia Kozub Ron Lambert Bernard Léveillé Drs. Grant & Eleanor MacDougall Ms. Ruth Magnuson Ms. Teresa Martin Mr. & Mrs. Ron & Sandi Mielitz Ms. Sheila Miller Sharon Mooney Mrs. Margaret Moroz Mr. Michael F B Nesbitt Bob & Cindy Newfield Ms. Lesia Peet Mx. Randy Pitch Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth TippetPope in honor of Dr. Lorna Grant Orr on her birthday Ms. Beth Proven Michael Rennie Guillermo Rocha, Guillermo Rocha Medical Corporation Mr. & Mrs. William & Olga Runnalls Barbara Scheuneman Ms. Barbara Sharp Ms. Muriel Smith Ms. Marlene Stern Dr. Ken Thorlakson Stephanie Van Nest, in memory of Blair Simpson Mrs. Karin Woods Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann Anne P. Yankiwski 2 Anonymous

Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily after-school program offered at no cost to participants that enriches the lives of children and young people with the fewest resources and the greatest need. The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following patrons whose support makes a difference in the everyday lives of these children. Thank you!

Honourary Chair Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola Vivace $1,500+ The Asper Endowment, The Winnipeg Foundation Blair Family Foundation Bridgeport Office Solutions D'Addario Foundation The Bertram Austin Goodman, Mary Easton McLaren Goodman and Dorothy Jean Goodman Foundation Margaret & Peter Hughes Junior League of Winnipeg Legacy Fund Manitoba Community Services Council Ms. Heather Menzies Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund Mr. & Mrs. Gerry & Barb Price Richardson Foundation Mr. James Richardson The Thomas Sill Foundation Inc Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Jan Tennant E. Toews True North Jets Foundation

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Con Brio $600 - $1,499 Chelsey Hiebert Dr. David Lyttle Ms. Lydia MacKenzie Jonathan Mitchell Sharon Mooney Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation Debra Scott Ms. Korenna Thorunson Allegro $150 - $599 Elizabeth & John Ash Mr. John A. Bailey Ms. Kathleen Beach Nelson Karine Beaudette Ms. Irene Bergner Mr. William Richard Bloxom Stephen Brodovsky Mr. & Mrs. Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Mrs. Audrey Campbell Ann Cathcart Dave Christianson & Vera Steinberger Mrs. Mary Clarke Ms. Diana Dinon Mr. Don Dyck Robert Eastwood Mrs. Kathleen Estey Juliana Fast Judith & Peter Flynn Ms. Penny Gilbert Greg Blair Hawrysh Robert Hilton Ms. Margaret Jeffries Ms. Leslie Johnson Drs. Grant & Eleanor MacDougall Mrs. Anita Malbranck Joseph and Judith Malko Family Fund - the Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation Manitoba Children's Museum Inc. Mrs. Jackie Markstrom Mrs. Kathy Martinuk Mrs. Maureen McIntosh John and Carolynne McLure Fund, The Winnipeg Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ron & Sandi Mielitz Ms. Vera Moroz Oscar Pantaleon Jr. Patricia Pollard Mr. Guy Prokopetz Dr. David Punter Kris Ramsay Ms. Teresa Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Levi Reimer Ms. Trudy Schroeder Dr. Marlis Schroeder Marie Shannon Mr. Myron Shatulsky Mrs. Winnifred Sim Ms. Margot Sim Ms. Catherine Skene Jim Skinner Donald Smith Ms. Deborah Spracklin Drs. Christie J. MacDonald & Philip St. John St. Mary's Road United Church Mrs. Pat Stefanchuk Ms. Suzanne Stevenson

Mr. & Mrs. Hartley Stinson James Thomson Memorial Fund Dr. Ken Thorlakson Mr. & Ms. Neil & Carol Trembath Mr. Bertram Unger Dr. Cornelia van Ineveld Thuraya Weedon Prof. Arlene Young Don & Betty Young Conmoto $1 - $149 Victoria Stayner-Albl Judy Amy-Penner David Annandale Ms. Marilyn Barker Ms. Veronique Barthet Brenda Batzel Karen Bauch Mr. Richard P. Bauch Ralph & Eileen Baxter Dan & Marnie Belhassa Mrs. Audrey C. Belyea Isaak & Tina Bergen Ms. Diane Bewell J Darlene Boettcher Ms. Shirley Book Ms. Sally Boulding Chantelle Bowser Joan Braun Mr. Pierre Brien Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bromley Miss Shirley Brown Ms. Judi L. Burling Mr. Bryan Byhre Miss Pensy Chan Kari Melissa Chastko Mr. Art Chow Melina Chow Ms. Glynis Corkal Ms. Helle Cosby Ms. Carmerlita Crawford Mrs. Margaret Cuddy Betty Curnew Mrs. Michele Del Rizzo Marc Desjardins Mr. Chad Gabriel Desrosiers Monica Dinney Dr. Harry W. Duckworth & Mrs. Mary Lynn Duckworth Mrs. Renate Duddek Mr. Spencer Duncanson Linda Edel Mr. John & Marilyn Ekins Audrey Epp Ms. Ursula Erhardt Dr. Michelle Faubert Ms. Nelma Fetterman Ms. Catherine Flower Judith & Peter Flynn Margo Foxford Hilda Franz Mr. Bryan Gawryluk Dr. Barbara Graham Russel & Mary Grenkow Mr. & Mrs. DeLloyd Guth Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak Ms. Audrey Hawkins Teresa A. Hay Ms. Shirley Hicks Darlene Hildebrand & Steve van Vlaenderen Arlene Hintsa Kathryn Hofley Mary Holmen

June Horsberg Viola Hultin Shaun Humphries Karen Hurst Lee & Theresa Huscroft Mr. William John Hutton Ardelle Jacques Victoria Johnston Cathy & Robert Kaptian Ms. Marilynne Keil Mrs. Katarina Kliman Ed & Helen Kolomaya Mrs. Jennifer Krestanowich Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Marie Kuhn Anne La Tour Ms. Desiree La Vallee Ms. Edith Landy Mrs. Ingrid Lee Dr. Mark Libin Karen Liddiard Mr. Tom Liewicki Helen Litz Ms. Gail E. Loewen Zeeba Loxley Angela MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Al & Pat Mackling Ms. Joann L. MacMorran Ms. Priya Mani Neil & Elaine Margolis Mrs. Jane Markesteyn Angela McDonald Dr. Ian McIntyre Barbara McNeill Ms. Linda Meckling Alison Mendres Mrs. Alison Mendres Karen Menkis Ms. Pat Michalski Mrs. Jocelyn A. Millard

Sandi Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Fred & Margaret Mooibroek Ms. Francine Morin Mrs. Margaret Moroz Margaret Morse Ms. Bonnie Neil Dr. Thomas Nesmith Robert O'Kell Mr. Brian O'Leary Alice Oswald Judith Owens Dr Shelley Page Judy Pateman Ms. Patricia Mary Patterson Mr. Donald Pearen Mrs. Liz Patzer Mr. Julian Pellicano Ms. Rose Popowich Mrs. Edna Poulter Ms. Lois Powne Mr. James & Christine Prendergast Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Lorraine Prescott Adeline Pressey Ms. Beth Proven Dr. Fiona Punter Darcia Ratuski Mr. James Read Ms. Marlene Reguly Mrs. Barbara Rempel Mrs. Sheila Rempel Leslie Rentz Mr. Louis Ricciuto Mrs. Tannis Richardson Shirley Richardson Ms. Ann Rivera Mr. Chris Rudd Joan Sabourin

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Mr. Edward Sale Mrs. Claudia Sarbit Mr. Eduardo Saveliovsky Mrs. Nicola Schaefer Barbara Scheuneman Harald & Vicky Schulz Harald Schulz Ms. Beverley J. Scott Charlene Scouten Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk Joan Smith Wilma Sotas Dr. & Mrs. Garry & Linda Specht Ms. Meg Specht Marianne Staub Ms. Melissa Steele & George Toles Ms. Diane Elisabeth Stewart Ms. Frances Stewart Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor Ross G. Taylor Dr. Robert Thomas Ms. Betsy F Thorsteinson Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Barbara Toews Audrey Toni Mr. Jim Turnock Ms. Christine Tymchak Mrs. Ricki Valcourt Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest Breandan Waddell-Flynn Mr. & Mrs. Gordon & Charlotte Walkty Dr. Vanessa Warne Shawn & Beth Watters Mrs. Diane Patricia Weselake Annemarie Wiebe Grace M. Wiebe Edith Wilde Ms. Libby Estelle Yager Tyler Yip

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Harry & Doneta Brotchie, in memory of Barb Filuk Waverley Tenant Association ENDOWMENT FUND Hilary Druxman Sistema Winnipeg gratefully Heather Graham, in memory of acknowledges those who have Harold George Vogt Dr. & Mrs. The WSO gratefully acknowledges the started their own named funds Paul Henteleff in memory of Dr. following patrons whose foresight at The Winnipeg Foundation.

Stephen Szirom helps to ensure long-term financial The Marjorie & Morley Blankstein Richard and Carol Jones in honour support for the WSO. Thank you!

Sistema Endowment Fund of Barbara Filuk Kevin & Els Dr. Siana Attwell Kavanagh in memory of The Tannis M. Richardson Mr. George Baldwin Jacqueline Desmarais Sistema Endowment Fund Mr. & Mrs. Lorraine & Linda Litwack in memory of Mayer The Michael Nozick Family Gerry Cairns Rabkin Bill & Shirley Loewen Sistema Endowment Fund Mr. Raymond Davis Patricia Loustel Helene Dyck Alan & Carol MacInnes in memory Darlene Hildebrand & Steve van Mr. & Mrs. Helios Hernandez of Barbara Filuk Vlaenderen Ms. Marilynne Keil Anne MacKay & Paul Edwards, in Manfreda & Ricou Mr. Thomas G. Kucera memory of Barb Filuk Mr. & Mrs. Fred & Jure Manfreda Brian Muirhead in memory of Margaret Mooibroek Blumie & Iser Portnoy Endowment Mayer Rabkin Mr. & Mrs. Gerry & Barb Price Fund Lesia Peet, in memory of Burtie & Mr. & Mrs. Levi Reimer Barbara Scheuneman Doris Bass Mrs. Alison Mendres Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Lesia Peet, in memory of Marion Mrs. Liz Patzer Marie Schoffner Ruth Maxwell Ms. Carmerlita Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Lynn Shead Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippett-Pope Ms. Pat Michalski Ms. Helga Sickert The Asper Endowment c/o The in honour of Bill & Shirley Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Jan Tennant Winnipeg Foundation Loewen's 60th Anniversary Ms. Barbara Cook Ms. Beth Proven Mrs. Faye Warren OTHER DONATIONS Mr. Terry Sargeant & Eva Berman-Wong, In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. James & Ms. Margaret Haney George Berman Claudia Weselake Wanda Young in memory of Rex & Connie Blamey in memory of Mr. K. Robin Wiens Edwin Yee Barbara Filuk Lucienne Blouw The Women's Committee, in Anonymous in memory of Louise Nebbs memory of Leila Alvare Listing as of Feb. 12, 2019 Lucienne Blouw, in honour of Barbara Filuk GENERAL WSO

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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.

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

Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C. Mr. Michel Lagacé Mr. William H. Loewen Mrs. Julia DeFehr Mr. Gordon Fogg Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. Anthony Brookes Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. William Norrie Mr. William Loewen Mr. Bruce MacCormack Mr. Roger King Ms. Patti Sullivan Mr. Wally Fox-Decent Ms. Carol Bellringer Mr. Harvey I Pollock, QC (Interim President) Dr. Brendan MacDougall Ms. Dorothy Dobbie Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA Mr. Terry Sargeant

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL Ida Albo Al Alexandruk Mal Anderson Carol Bellringer Marilyn Billinkoff Doneta Brotchie John and Bonnie Buhler Timothe E. Burt 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 Alan Freeman

Evelyn Friesen Elba Haid Helen Hayles Kaaren Hawkins Sherrill Hershberg Peter Jessiman Ian Kay Roger King Bill Knight Michel Lagacé Zina Lazareck Gail Leach Dr. Hermann Lee Naomi Levine Bill Loewen Jackie Lowe Dr. Brendan MacDougall Dr. Eleanor 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 2018-2019 SEASON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terry Sargeant, President Curt Vossen, Vice President Rob Kowalchuk, Treasurer Michael Kay, Corporate Secretary Sandra Altner Lucienne Blouw Emily Burt, MBA, CFA James Cohen Arlene Dahl Marten Duhoux Steven Dyer Daniel Friedman

Dr. Selena Friesen Margaret Harvie Micah Heilbrunn Robin Hildebrand Jackie Hunt, ex-officio Margaret Kellermann McCulloch Dr. Maureen Kilgour Silvester Komlodi Sotirios Kotoulas Julie Ryckman Marlene Stern Richard Turner Trudy Schroeder, Executive Director Daniel Raiskin, Music Director

Trudy Schroeder, Executive Director Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant ARTISTIC Daniel Raiskin, Music Director Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor Harry Stafylakis, Composer-in-Residence and Festival Director, Winnipeg New Music Festival HONOURARY STAFF Alexander Mickelthwate, Director Emeritus Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate ARTISTIC OPERATIONS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Jean-Francois Phaneuf, VP Artistic Operations & Community Engagement James Manishen, Artistic Operations Associate Laura Lindeblom, Production Manager Tatiana Carnevale, Operations Coordinator Sheena Sanderson, Stage Manager Stuart Bremner, Stage Supervisor Greg Hay, Orchestra Personnel Manager Greg Hamilton, Principal Librarian Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian Brent Johnson, Education & Community Engagement Manager

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OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS Her Honour the Honourable Janice C. Filmon C.M., O.M. Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba The Honourable Brian Pallister, Premier of Manitoba His Worship Brian Bowman, Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Mr. W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, WSO Directors Emeritus WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Margaret Harvie, President Eva Lavallee, Vice-President Sherratt Moffatt, Past President Susan Cooke, Secretary Nancy Weedon, Treasurer

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Lyn Stienstra, CPA, CMA, VP Finance & Administration Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator Oscar Pantaleon Jr, Finance & Administration Assistant MARKETING Brent Phillips, VP Marketing & Communications Kristen Einarson, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Diana Chabai, Communications Assistant S.Thompson Designs Inc. DEVELOPMENT Beth Proven, VP Development Carol Cassels, Development Manager Theresa Huscroft, Development Coordinator Chelsey Hiebert, Sistema & Special Events Manager Kae Normandeau, Development Communications Coordinator SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES Ryan Diduck, VP Sales & Audience Services Jen Skelly, Sales & Audience Services Manager Rachel Himelblau, Box Office Coordinator Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Patron Services Representatives (P/T): Meg Dolovich Paul Longtin Sandesh Fernandez Emma Milner Laura Gow Kelsey Rosentreter Jason Hayes Stephanie Van Nest

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