Photographer: Richard Termine
MARCH 2017 I ISSUE 5
THE SECOND CITY GUIDE
TO THE SYMPHONY
MENDELSSOHN’S ELIJAH
MOZART & SERENADES
wso.ca I 204-949-3999
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
In March, we live with the pleasure of anticipating musical favourites
from two seasons of programs. It is somewhat delightful to start
thinking about the wonderful concerts coming up in the 2017-2018
season and selecting just the right mix of Classics concerts, Air Canada
Pops concerts and Specials, while at the same time savouring every
moment of the concerts remaining in the 2016-2017 season. This is
indeed a special time of year. Spend time with the season brochure
and visit the web site, wso.ca, for more information on the concerts
next year. Be certain to book your subscriptions by April 9th so that
your name can be entered into the draw for Air Canada tickets to any
North American location served by Air Canada.
As you know, the coming season is our 70th Anniversary Season. There are many concerts that pay
homage to the WSO’s wonderful history while also pointing toward new opportunities and, as we
think about the coming year, we want to encourage subscribers to share personal stories of their
connections with the WSO.Tell us about the ways the WSO has had an impact on your life.
Stories can be funny, serious, or thought provoking. Send you contributions to this project to
[email protected] so that we can use these glimpses into WSO history throughout the year. Photos
would also be appreciated. Tell us about your favourite concerts, the funniest moments, your WSO
traditions; all of this is part of the legacy of a seventy-year-old organization at work in its community.
The concerts featured this month are among the finest we offer this season. Hear the celebrated
Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, don’t miss the opportunity to poke a little fun at symphonic
traditions with Second City’s Guide to the Orchestra, immerse yourself in the glorious texts and
melodies from Mendelsohn’s Elijah, and take in a children’s concert featuring the always entertaining
Mr. Mark.This March, we also begin our Thursday Night Classics series at the Club Regent Event
Centre. Experience the most popular symphonic classics in an intimate and lovely setting.
There is no shortage of wonderful choices to immerse yourself in wonderful musical adventures.
Enjoy the music, the gradual lengthening of the days and the promise of spring.
Trudy Schroeder
Executive Director
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
March 2017 I OVERTURE 1
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CONDUCTORS AND COMPOSERS
Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director
German conductor Alexander Mickelthwate is renowned for his “splendid, richly
idiomatic readings” (LA Weekly),“fearless” approach and “first-rate technique” (Los
Angeles Times). Critics have noted Alexander’s extraordinary command over the
Austro-Germanic repertoire, commenting on the “passion, profundity, emotional
intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved” in Bruckner’s Symphony
No. 7 as “miraculous” (Anton Kuerti, 2011).
Following on from his tenure as Assistant Conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which
he completed in 2004, Alexander Mickelthwate was Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic for three years, under the direction of Essa-Pekka Salonen. Now in his tenth season
as Music Director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander has significantly developed
the orchestra’s profile through active community engagement and innovative programming
initiatives like the annual Winnipeg New Music Festival and the Indigenous Music Festival.
Chosen to perform at the Carnegie Hall Spring For Music Festival in New York, May 2014, due to
“creative and innovative programming” (CBC Manitoba Scene), the orchestra was the only
Canadian ensemble in the showcase.
Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor
Julian Pellicano’s boundless musical appetite makes him a formidable interpreter of
the symphonic repertoire as well as a versatile conductor in a wide range of genres. He
is currently the Resident Conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Artist in
Residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music festival, and Music Director of the University of
Manitoba Symphony Orchestra. From 2009 to 2013, he served as Music Director of the
Longy School of Music Conservatory Orchestra where he established a rigorous and
distinctive new orchestral program. Pellicano has conducted the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre
(Brazil), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New Britain Symphony,The Kallisti
Ensemble, Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and Milwaukee's Present Music. He has worked in
masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Peter Eötvös, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, and Carl St. Clair. An autodidact,
he was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory as a percussionist without typical classical training. He also
holds degrees from the Royal College of Music (Stockholm), and the Yale School of Music where he was
awarded the 2008 Presser Music Award and the Philip F. Nelson Award.
Harry Stafylakis, Composer-in-Residence
Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982, Montreal) is a Canadian–American composer based in NYC. He is
the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Composer-In-Residence and Festival Director of the
WSO's Winnipeg New Music Festival. His works have been performed by the American
Composers Orchestra, the Toronto,Winnipeg, Spokane, Stamford,Victoria, and PEI
symphonies, McGill Chamber Orchestra, Mivos Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, and Aspen
Contemporary Ensemble, among others. Awards include the Charles Ives Fellowship
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, four
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, and grants from the Canada Council and NYSCA.
Stafylakis holds degrees from McGill University and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and lectures at the City
College of New York. His doctoral research, supported by SSHRC, examines rhythm and meter in
progressive metal. www.hstafylakis.com
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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016-2017 SEASON
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Alexander Mickelthwate
RESIDENT CONDUCTOR
Julian Pellicano
COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Harry Stafylakis
CELLOS
Yuri Hooker, Principal
Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal
Alex Adaman
Arlene Dahl
Carolyn Nagelberg
Emma Quackenbush
Sean Taubner
FIRST VIOLINS
Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster
BASSES
The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtMeredith Johnson, Principal
Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed
Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal
by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Travis Harrison
Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster
Paul Nagelberg
Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster
Bruce Okrainec
Chris Anstey
Daniel Perry
Mona Coarda
Rodica Jeffrey
Hong Tian Jia
Meredith McCallum
Jane Pulford
Sonia Shklarov
Julie Savard
Jun Shao
SECOND VIOLINS
**Jeremy Buzash, Principal
*Darryl Strain, Principal
Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal
Karen Bauch
Kristina Bauch
**Teodora Dimova
*Elizabeth Dyer
Bokyung Hwang
Susan McCallum
Takayo Noguchi
Claudine St-Arnauld
VIOLAS
Daniel Scholz, Principal
Anne Elise Lavallée,
Assistant Principal
Laszlo Baroczi
Margaret Carey
Richard Bauch
Greg Hay
*Merrily Peters
Mike Scholz
FLUTES
Jan Kocman, Principal
Martha Durkin
PICCOLO
Martha Durkin
OBOES
Beverly Wang, Principal
Robin MacMillan
ENGLISH HORN
Robin MacMillan, Principal
CLARINETS
Micah Heilbrunn, Principal
Michelle Goddard
BASSOONS
Alex Eastley, Principal
Kathryn Brooks
TRUMPETS
Isaac Pulford, Acting Principal
Paul Jeffrey
Brian Sykora
TROMBONES
Steven Dyer, Principal
Keith Dyrda
BASS TROMBONE
Julia McIntyre, Principal
TUBA
Chris Lee, Principal
TIMPANI
Mike Kemp, Principal
PERCUSSION
Frederick Liessens, Principal
HARP
Richard Turner, Principal
Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
MANAGER
Chris Lee
PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN
Raymond Chrunyk
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
Laura MacDougall
*On Leave
**Temporary Position
Please note: Non-titled (tutti)
string players are listed
alphabetically and are seated
according to a rotational system.
HORNS
Patricia Evans, Principal
Fred Redekop is the official Piano
Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal
Tuner and Technician of the WSO.
James Robertson
Caroline Oberheu
Michiko Singh
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Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor
Angela Hewitt, piano
Arc of Horizon
CLASSICS
Angela Hewitt Plays Ravel
Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982)
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Manuel de Falla (1876 -1946)
“At the Generalife”: Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso
“Distant Dance”: Allegretto giusto
“In the Gardens of the Mountains of Córdoba”: Vivo
- INTERMISSION -
Piano Concerto in G major
Allegramente
Adagio assai
Presto
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Suite from the Ballet, The Firebird (1919 version)
Introduction
The Dance of the Firebird
Round Dance of the Princesses
Infernal Dance of the King Kastchei
Berceuse
Finale
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Friday, March 10
Saturday, March 11
8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Pre-Concert Chat on the Piano Nobile at 7:15 p.m.
Classics A
Series Sponsor:
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SPECIAL CONDENSED MATINEE
Stravinsky: Suite from the Firebird
Friday, March 10
10:30 a.m.
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PROGRAM NOTES
Nights in the Gardens of Spain and go in the second movement,
Manuel de Falla
b. Cadiz, Spain / November 23, 1876
d. Alta Gracia, Argentina / November 14, 1946
Arc of Horizon
Composed: 1915
Harry Stafylakis
First performance: April 9, 1916 (Madrid)
b. Montreal/1982
conducted by Fernandez Arbós with
Composed: 2015
José Cubiles as soloist
First performances: Chamber orchestra Last WSO performance: 2004; Michelle
version: August 26, 2015 (Lake George, Mourre, conductor, with Angela Cheng
NY), conducted by Roger Kalia; Full
as soloist
orchestra version: November 6, 2015
Falla was living in Paris
(Spokane), conducted by Eckhart Preu,
between 1907 and 1917
conductor
where he befriended
First WSO performance
Debussy, Ravel and
“When you grow up by
Dukas, all of whom had
the sea you spend a good become entranced with sun-drenched
deal of time looking at
Iberian images that both motivated
the horizon.You wonder music (Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole and
what on earth the waves Debussy’s Ibéria) and contributed to an
might bring – and where the sea might exotic sense of Spain in France at the
deposit you – until one day you know you
time. Dukas, especially, encouraged Falla
have lived between two places, the scene
to compose, and the genesis of Nights in
of arrival and the point of departure.”
the Gardens of Spain came in a set of
– Andrew O’Hagan,
solo piano pieces Falla entitled
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays (2008)
Nocturnes.When Falla showed the
pieces to his compatriot composer Isaac
“The title is drawn from the Greek
Albéniz and the famous Spanish pianist
horizon kyklos – “separating circle”–
Ricardo Viñes, both encouraged him to
which symbolizes the sliver of visible
orchestrate the pieces into a larger
horizon that always remains in the
distance no matter how much one tries symphonic setting.
to reach it.
Falla left Paris at the outbreak of war in
1914. He had been mostly impoverished
As a resident of NYC hailing from
Montreal, I have travelled between the during his years in Paris but became a
celebrity on his return home to Madrid
two cities countless times since
childhood. At the midpoint of that
due to the success of his opera La Vida
voyage, Lake George has always stood Brève in November, 1914. Out of that,
out as a landmark signaling my
Falla received the commission from
departure from one place and
conductor Fernandez Arbós to
imminent arrival at another.
complete Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
by James Manishen
This manifests itself tangibly as radio
broadcasts dissolve, replaced by new
ones ahead, but with significant overlap
and signal crossing along the way.
Unfailingly, this transition from one
“home”to another evokes tangled and
conflicting emotions of aspiration,
longing, regret, fear, and nostalgia.
Musically, Arc of Horizon emerges from
this symbolic personal transition
between my past in progressive metal
and my present in concert music – I
seem to perpetually chase whichever
horizon seems newest, and having
arrived I turn back to chase it again.”
– Harry Stafylakis
“If these ‘symphonic impressions’have
achieved their object, the mere
enumeration of their titles should be a
sufficient guide to the hearer,”Falla
wrote.“The music does not pretend to
be descriptive; but something more
than the sounds of festivals and dances
has inspired these ‘evocations in sound,’
for melancholy and mystery play their
parts also.”
with traces of the Orient. Bridging to
the finale, the music takes on the
feeling of sâmira, which the Moors
described as a gypsy revelry by
night. Falla treats this in the form of
a copla, resembling the rondo form’s
returning motifs. A quiet ending
welcomes sleep.
Piano Concerto in G major
Maurice Ravel
b. Ciboure, France / March 7, 1875
d. Paris, France / December 28, 1937
Composed: 1929-1931
First performance: January 14, 1932
(Paris) conducted by the composer
with Marguerite Long as soloist
Last WSO performance: 2007;
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor,
with Louis Lortie as soloist
Stravinsky and
Rachmaninoff had
success with piano
works composed for
themselves to tour
with and Ravel wanted the same for
himself. Back from a successful tour
to the United States, where Ravel
had also celebrated his 53rd birthday
in March at a party for him with the
29-year-old George Gershwin
present, Ravel seemed to have
wanted to become more of a
performing pianist. As he began to
compose a new piano concerto in
1929, Ravel rekindled an interest in
Chopin and Liszt while also starting
work on a piano concerto for left
hand alone commissioned by the
pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had
lost his right arm in the First World
War.
All these happenings occurred
simultaneously. Ravel’s two-hand
concerto however would be an
entertainment, a “divertissement”he
originally decided to call it, keeping
its moods light, entertaining and
obviously with a tang of jazz and
Gershwin, whose Piano Concerto in
F had been composed five years
earlier and Ravel no doubt knew.
Small winding intervals signal a
variation opening movement, fragrant Ravel could not find the time to
with the scent of the luxurious gardens learn to play his new concerto when
of the 13th-century Moorish village
it was finished in the autumn of
Generalife.Vibrant fiesta rhythms come
Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français.
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1931. His friend and long-time
interpreter Marguerite Long took
on the task, as she had been asking
Ravel to compose such a work for
some time.The premiere was a
great success and a world tour was
planned, but declining health only
allowed Ravel and Long a fourmonth European tour with the
work. It proved to be the last major
score he composed. A recording
with Long performing and Ravel
conducting was made in London.
The dazzling opening movement
recalls Ravel’s Basque folk roots,
followed by several nostalgically
drawn themes. A haunting almost
Satie-like simplicity permeates the
Adagio, with an especially tender
return of the theme in the English
horn.The finale is a jazz-infused
showcase whose episodes
breathlessly fall over each other,
ending with a tumbling close.
ARTIST BIOS
The Firebird (1919 Version)
Igor Stravinsky
b. Lomonosov, Russia Oranienbaum,
Russia / June 5/17, 1882
d. New York / April 6, 1971
Composed: 1909-1910
First performance: June 25, 1910 (Paris)
conducted by Gabriel Pierné
Last WSO performance: 2012; Alexander
Mickelthwate, conductor
Serge Diaghilev knew he
had found a composer to
be reckoned with when he
heard the first notes of 27year-old Igor Stravinsky’s
dazzling orchestral miniature Fireworks in
1908. Diaghilev was forming his Ballet
Russe at the time and preparing the
company for its first Parisian season.
Envisioning a new ballet filled with
Russian magic and fantasy, Diaghilev had
originally approached senior composers
Nikolai Tcherepnin, who declined,
followed by Anton Liadov, who was too
slow off the mark to reply. Stravinsky was
thrilled to be Diaghilev’s next choice and
eagerly accepted the commission.
Stravinsky’s teacher Rimsky-Korsakov was
adept at this kind of writing and much of
those skills had rubbed off on the young
composer, perhaps a reason he accepted
in spite of being handed a six-month
deadline to complete the score.
Stravinsky indeed borrowed from Rimsky
in the way he balanced edgy chromatic
harmony for the ballet’s magical
creatures, with alternately a more
traditional modal-diatonic style for the
mortals in the tale, in which the Firebird
helps a young prince rescue a princess
from the ogre Kastchei, winning her
heart.Though the music’s grass roots are
in the Romantic tradition, there is no
mistake Stravinsky’s musical syntax is at
the brink of the 20th century.
The 1919 version contains six scenes in a
brilliant musical summation of the old
and promise of the new.
CLASSICS
Angela Hewitt Plays Ravel
Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor
Angela Hewitt, piano
Acclaimed worldwide as
conductor and composer,
Benjamin Wallfisch has
conducted orchestras such
as the London Philharmonic,
Los Angeles Philharmonic
and the Sydney Symphony at venues
including the Hollywood Bowl and Sydney
Opera House. He has collaborated with
artists including Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock
and Yuja Wang, and has held the positions
of Associate Conductor of the English
Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of
the Crested Butte Music Festival of
Colorado. Golden Globe® and Emmy®
nominee Benjamin Wallfisch is recognized
as one of the leading film composers of his
generation, with a career spanning over a
decade and 60 feature films. He has
composed music for such legendary film
makers as Steven Spielberg, Rupert Wyatt,
Gore Verbinksi and Lars von Trier, and has
been recognized with awards and
nominations at the Academy Awards®,
BAFTAs® and World Soundtrack Awards.
In 2016, Angela Hewitt embarked on a
major project entitled ‘The Bach Odyssey,’
which comprises all of Bach’s keyboard
works in twelve recitals over the next four
years. Hewitt will present these
performances in major cities and venues
around the world including London’s Wigmore Hall, New
York’s 92nd Street Y, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, as
well as in Tokyo and Florence. Other recital highlights
this season include Vienna Konzerthaus, Rotterdam’s De
Doelen, and a tour of Australia with Musica Viva.
Other highlights of Hewitt’s 2016-2017 season include
the Baltimore Symphony and Winnipeg Symphony
orchestras, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal,
and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa. Hewitt
also directs Festival Strings Lucerne from the keyboard
and earlier this year toured the UK with with Vienna’s
Tonkünstler Orchestra.
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Yufei Liu, violin; Momoko Matsumura, viola; Laura MacDougall,
flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Allen Harrington, bassoon;
Todd Martin, assistant horn; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria
Sparks, percussion; Darryl Friesen, keyboard
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OVERTURE I March 2017
The Second City: Ensemble:
Carly Heffernan
Marty Adams
Matt Baram
Allison Price
Ashley Botting
Kevin Vidal
Lara Rae, host
Julian Pellicano, conductor
Written by: Carly Heffernan, Scott Montgomery,
Matthew Reid and Klaus Schuller
Original Music Composed by Matthew Reid
Directed by: Chris Earle
Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander
Producer: Klaus Schuller
Associate Producer: Sophie Santerre
Stylist: Laura Gardner
AIR CANADA POPS SOUNDBYTES
The Second City
Guide to the Symphony
First produced in collaboration with the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of Peter Oundjian.
ACT I
Big C
Life Is A Symphony
Symphony Bluff
Jingle
My First Love
The Key Of Life
You’re Late
Dance of the Comedians by Smetana
Audience ID
2001
Check Out My Flute
ACT II
Behind the Scenes
The Curse of Immortality
Sabre Dance by Khachaturian
They Have Names
Improv
When They Played
Bach Off
Close
Program Subject to Change.
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Friday, March 17
Saturday, March 18
Sunday, March 19
8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Pops Series Sponsor:
Presenting Media Sponsor:
Pre-Concert Performance on the Piano Nobile,
hosted by Canadian Improv Games
Friday, 7:15 p.m.
Massey Improv
Saturday, 7:15 p.m.
MBCI Cake Batter
Sunday, 1:15 p.m.
Canadian Improv Games
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ARTIST BIOS
AIR CANADA POPS
The Second City Guide to the Symphony
Lara Rae, host
Scott Montgomery, co-writer
Lara Rae is an award-winning comic
and the co-founding (and confounding)
Artistic Director of the Winnipeg
Comedy Festival. She was one of the
developers of the international hit
television show Little Mosque on the
Prairie. Lara is an avid fan of "long hair" music,
particularly Mahler, and is the opera reviewer for CBC
Manitoba. She lives in Wolseley (almost) with her two
rats Frida and Nina who are more partial to gangsta rap.
Originally from Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Scott is a writer,
producer, (sometimes) actor, and
alumnus of The Second City
Toronto. He's also a member of
Falcon Powder, a friendship
based comedy experiment with whom he
co-created/wrote/executive produced and starred
in the online series The Whole Truths, which you
can (and should!) check out at CBC Comedy.
Select credits include:Writer, Odd Squad
(PBS/TVO); Writer/Executive Story Editor, Young
Drunk Punk (Rogers); Writer/Co-Executive
Producer, Ron James: Fast Forward and Ron James
The Big Picture (CBC); Writer/ Co-executive
producer, The Ron James Show, seasons 2-5 (CBC);
Creator/Writer/Producer for the web series’
Canadian History Minute, and Your Path To
Enlightenment; and Senior Writer/Correspondent,
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos (CBC).
The Second City
Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander
Producer: Klaus Schuller
Associate Producer: Sophie Santerre
Stylist: Laura Gardner
Production Assistant: Georgia Priestley-Brown
The Second City / The Toronto
Symphony Orchestra
The Second City Guide to
the Symphony debuted with
the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra (TSO) in late 2014, and makes its first North
American tour in the 2016-2017 season. Founded in
1922, the TSO is one of Toronto’s—and Canada’s—
most important cultural institutions, recognized
internationally, and a distinguished and active
supporter of new Canadian and international work.
The Second City has delighted audiences for more
than 55 years as the world's premier comedy theatre,
with resident stages in Toronto and Chicago, and
touring companies all over the world.The TSO and The
Second City are pleased to present this unique
collaboration, with the hope of sharing the symphony
with comedy fans, and vice versa.
Klaus Schuller, producer, co-writer
Klaus Schuller is the Producer and
Executive Director of The Second City
Canada. He has produced dozens of
shows for the Second City including
the recent smash hit The Hotline
Always Blings Twice and Global TV’s The
Second City Project. As a writer, he has written and
composed several musicals for young audiences as
well as animation properties for Warner Brothers,
Nickelodeon, and Viacom. Klaus would like to thank
Victor Borge and Peter Schickele for proving that
classical music is hilarious.
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Carly Heffernan, ensemble, co-writer
Carly Heffernan is thrilled to
once again play a part in
bringing together the symphony
and The Second City. She is an
alumna of the Second City
Toronto where she wrote and
performed in four hit revues.Television credits
include: The Other Kingdom, Lost & Found Music
Studios, Spun Out, Odd Squad, But I'm Chris
Jericho,The L.A. Complex and This Hour Has
22 Minutes. Carly has written for George
Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Royal Canadian Air
Farce and CBC Radio’s, The Irrelevant Show, she is
a former member of the award-winning sketch
troupe The Sketchersons and the female, awardnominated, comedy cocktail, She Said What!
Matthew Reid, composer, sound
designer, co-writer, piano
Matthew Reid has been
composing music and making
comedy since the time he was
too short to ride on roller
coasters. For ten years he
composed and performed songs
and live soundtracks for Toronto's world famous
The Second City comedy theatre. He's also the
award-winning composer of Derek Frey's (head
of Tim Burton Productions) critically acclaimed film,
Green Lake. In addition, Matt has composed for and
licensed his music for film, television, games, web
series, art galleries, museum exhibits, clown operas,
and pyrotechnical circus events.To boot, he
composed an auto tune version of John Cage's 4'33".
Seriously. Check it out on YouTube. As a comedian,
he contributed years of jokes and insights to The
Second City productions and his critically acclaimed
sketch duo, Reid Along with Browning, and has been
making very weird things since 1999. Hey, for all you
investors willing to take a risk, they recently created
a musical version of Fargo. Surprisingly hummable!
The World, is renown all over Europe where he
continues to tour and teach improvisation. Matt
was part of the ensemble cast of Seed, a sitcom for
CityTV and the CW, and played Mr, Stark on
Nickelodeon’s Make It Pop. He also plays Dr.Van
Chris in the new Suicide Squad movie.
Ashley Botting, ensemble
Ashley Botting is an alumna of The
Second City Mainstage, where she
wrote and performed in four revues,
including How to Kill A Comedian,
and Sixteen Scandals. Other theatre
credits: One Night Only, a completely
improvised two-act musical (Klifffer Entertainment).
Chris Earle, director
Chris Earle is thrilled to be a part of this Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Studio180)
The Second City Guide to the Symphony (Roy
unique collaboration between the
Thomson Hall, 2014), Impromptu Splendour:
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and
Improvised Sondheim (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre),
The Second City. A veteran Torontobased director, playwright, and actor, Chicago Sketchfest. TV credits: Straight Talk (CTV
News Channel), Odd Squad (TVO/PBS), Schitt’s Creek
he has worked and played with The
(CBC), Coming In (CBC Punchline). Animation
Second City for over two decades, directing eight
main stage revues including The Hotline Always Blings credits: The Ridonculous Race, Arthur, Beywheelz, ZSquad.Writing credits: NOW Magazine,The Toronto
Twice and the Canadian Comedy Award winners
Sixteen Scandals and Something Wicked Awesome This Star,TheLoop.ca, shortlisted for The CBC Canada
Way Comes. His plays include Democrats Abroad (NYC Writes: Bloodlines prize. Regular panelist and writer
for Because News on CBC Radio.Two-time Dora
Fringe Excellence Award), Russell Hill (seven Dora
nominee, three-time Canadian Comedy Awardnominations including Outstanding New Play),
winner.
Radio :30 (Dora Award – Outstanding New Play,
Chalmers Award), Big Head Goes to Bed (co-written
with Shari Hollett), as well as a slew of scripts for Ross Marty Adams, ensemble
Marty Adams is an actor and writer
Petty’s annual panto musicals, including Peter Pan in
whose career has taken him all
Wonderland, Cinderella, and Robin Hood (Dora
across the board in the
nomination – Outstanding New Musical). His work as
entertainment industry. He wrote
an actor includes appearances for Tarragon Theatre
and performed in four main stage
(The Trouble with Mr. Adams, Miracle Mother, Faust,
revues with The Second City
Russell Hill),Theatre Columbus (The Knee Plays 2,
Toronto. He is a multiple Canadian Comedy Award
Doubt), Crows Theatre,Theatre Passe Muraille, the
recipient, winning Best Comedic Play three years
Blyth Festival, and numerous shows for the Toronto
in a row. Marty has worked as a stand up
Fringe.
comedian with Yuk Yuk’s international. Select film
and TV credits include: Orphan Black, Scare Tactics,
Matt Baram, ensemble
Nick Cannon’s Mission: 4Count, Saw 4, and Hemlock
Matt Baram is a veteran of the
legendary The Second City Comedy Grove. In 2015, Marty was nominated for a
Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting
Theatre in Toronto where he wrote
Actor/Guest Star in a comedy series for his work in
and performed in six Mainstage
Spun Out. 2016 brought another Canadian Screen
revues. He has also performed in
Award nomination for Best Performance in a
both dramatic and comedic plays
Sketch/Variety comedy series for The Second City
across Canada and is a recipient of the Canadian
Comedy Award for Best Male improviser. His award- Project, which was also nominated for best
Sketch/Variety Comedy Series.
winning theatre company,The National Theatre of
M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 1 3
ARTIST BIOS
AIR CANADA POPS
The Second City Guide to the Symphony
Allison Price, ensemble
Kevin Vidal, ensemble
Allison Price is a Canadian Comedy
Award-winning and Dora
nominated alumnus of The Second
City, where she wrote and
performed in four critically
acclaimed revues including Sixteen
Scandals and The Meme-ing of Life. Additional
theatre includes Dance Animal (Robin Henderson
Productions); People Suck (Nutmeg Productions);
pool (no water) and Pieces (Cue6 Productions);
The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine (Beacon Theatre).
As one half of the award-winning sketch comedy
duo Haircut, Allison has performed at festivals in
Chicago and Toronto and as a part of Just For
Laughs. She is the co-creator and star of the web
series SLUMBER PARTY and the upcoming The Lost
Pages for CBC Comedy.Television and film credits
include appearances on Odd Squad, Max & Shred,
A Puppy For Christmas and The New Yorker Presents.
Allison is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.
Kevin Vidal was born and raised in
Toronto. He decided to pursue his
love of acting in his last year of high
school and can now be seen doing
theatre and improv around the city.
He is an alumnus of The Second
City and recently starred in City TV's Sunnyside, for
which he won a Canadian Screen Award for "Best
Performance In A Variety/Sketch Series By An
Individual/Ensemble.” Kevin's previous theatre
credits include; Sixteen Scandals,We Can Be Heroes
(The Second City), RENT (Lower Ossington
Theatre), Hairspray (Curtain Call Players), Radio
Active Drag Queens of the Year 3000 (Toronto
Fringe), RENT (Fallen Rock), and Skule Nite 0T9/1T0
(UofT Skule).
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ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Laura MacDougall, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe;
Victoria Sparks, percussion; Tony Cyre, percussion
M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 1 5
Legacy Notes– A Marriage Imbued with Music
The Cairns’ love of the orchestra inspired them to
Lorraine and Gerry Cairns both love the piano.
become donors, but Gerry and Lorraine have also
“It’s our favourite instrument. ”They both took
taken the steps to leave a gift in their wills to the
lessons when they were younger although
WSO.“The symphony has brought so much
neither carried on with it past their teenage
pleasure and enjoyment to our lives, we feel it is
years. As Gerry puts it, he has the piano in his
our duty to give back. Sometimes the funding
head and in his heart, but not in his fingers. But,
model for the WSO is difficult
that doesn’t keep them from
so it’s important to give
loving music and being
The symphony
something to keep it going.
subscribers to the Winnipeg
has brought so
We wanted to help the
Symphony Orchestra (WSO).
symphony in the long-term so
much pleasure
Gerry’s love of music started when
other people can enjoy the
he was a kid living in Pilot Mound.
and enjoyment to orchestra long into the future.”
He, his two brothers, and sister
our lives, we feel
When asked if they had a
sang in Christmas concerts and
it is our duty to
message for other people who
were called the “Cairns Kids.”Then
might be thinking of doing a
in 1949 when he was living on a
give back.
legacy donation in their will
farm in Killarney, he remembers
- Gerry and Lorraine Cairns
to the WSO, Gerry replied,
hearing Ilene Farrell singing on
“To me, it is an honour to
the radio from New York City.
give this money. Even if they made some small
Lorraine’s earliest memories of music were
contribution in their will, they will really contribute
singing in a choir as a teenager.
to the life of the symphony. I
They both got to love the WSO when they
strongly encourage people
worked at the Winnipeg Free Press. Gerry was
to leave a legacy even if
just 17 and was working nights as a copy boy for it’s a small amount.
the paper. In those days the WSO rehearsed in
Every bit helps.”
the Free Press board room every Sunday
evening. Music would drift down the
hallway into the newsroom.“Walter
Kaufmann was the conductor in those
days. I would stand in the doorway and
listen and he wouldn’t notice me there,”
remembers Gerry.
“
”
One Sunday evening, Gerry invited
Lorraine up to the board room to listen to
the orchestra and that’s when she became
hooked.“We became subscribers
shortly after that,” says Lorraine.
“Our seats were on the
balcony in the old auditorium
and we had to crane our
necks to see.” They have
been subscribers ever
since.“We find the
symphony to be very
uplifting. It has a calming
effect and boosts our
spirits,” explains Lorraine.
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Gerry and Lorraine Cairns’love of the WSO
lead them to establish a gift in their will.
The Legacy Circle exists to recognize the following patrons whose foresight
ensures that the WSO plays on for all Manitobans for generations to come.The WSO
gratefully acknowledges Legacy Circle members for their planned future gift.
Siana Attwell, PhD
Greg Doyle & Carol Bellringer
Mrs. Lucienne Blouw
Lorraine & Gerry Cairns
Kevin & Els Kavanagh
Michel D. Lagacé
Gail E. Loewen
S. E. Loewen
W. H. Loewen
Dr. Brendan MacDougall
Margaret Kellermann McCulloch
Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell
Lesia Peet
Beth M. Proven
Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard
Trudy Schroeder
Muriel Smith
Dr. Stephen & Mrs. Elizabeth Szirom
Edith A.Toews & Dr. Helen A.Toews
Robin Wiens & Emilie Lagacé-Wiens
Donn K.Yuen
2 anonymous
We gratefully acknowledge and remember these thoughtful individuals whose
legacy gifts have been received. Most of these gifts are managed as part of the
WSO Endowment Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation and provide disbursements
that sustain the orchestra each year in perpetuity.
Dorothy Mildred Armstrong
Mary Besler
Norma Bingeman
Jonathan Birks
Daphne Florence Bolton
Eileen Bruce
D. Brummitt-Feasby
L R Buggey
Elizabeth Buggey
Mary Christie
Ethel Marjorie Colpitts
R.J. Cook
Dorothy Cook
Edith Kathleen Crowston
Bente Cunnings
Myra Davidson
Pearl Day
Vera Elizabeth De Wet
Esther May Dempsey
Adeline Denton
Margaret Allison Doak
Daphne Edwards
Doris K. Elliott
Gertrude Louise Elliott
Barbara Endres
Mollie English
Robert Ross Forrester
Michael Furby
Islay Galbraith
Madeleine Suzanne Gauvin
Frank Gladky
Doris May Hall
Nora Jean Hansell
Harold Hunter
Philip Carson Huntley
Donald Winkler Hurd
Leroy Montgomery Johnson
George Keates
Florence May Kelley
Lois M. Kendall
Helen Leckie
Mavis Cass Levins
Gordon P. Linney
Margaret Ann MacKenzie
Susan Martin
Gertrude Caroline Mueller
Mary Nesti
Ruth Palmour
Joseph Paolucci
Gladys Pearson
Rosalie Richman
Harold Edgar Shiells
Anne Shore
Margaret Simmons
Kathleen Elisabeth Sinclair
Robert Skinner
Jean Pierre Soulodre
Ronald George Spencer
Margaret Eileen Weir
Michael Zaluski
To learn more about
Legacy Gifts, please contact
Beth Proven, VP Development
at 204-949-3989 or
[email protected]
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Simon Burns, boy soprano
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Elijah, Op. 70
Part I
CLASSICS
Elijah
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
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M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 1 9
PROGRAM NOTES
by James Manishen
Elijah
Felix Mendelssohn
b. Hamburg / February 3, 1809
d. Leipzig / November 4, 1847
Composed: 1846
First performance: August 26, 1846
(Birmingham, England) conducted
by the composer
Last WSO performance: 2006;
Henry Engbrecht, conductor
Mendelssohn’s first
oratorio St.Paul had been
such a success, with 50
performances over 18
months following its May,
1836 Düsseldorf premiere, he began to
envision a sequel on an even grander
scale, settling on the Old Testament
subject of Elijah. Mendelssohn had
extensively studied the Old Testament
and one passage from the First Book of
Kings struck him in particular for its
musical possibilities, the text “And
behold, the Lord passed by.”
Mendelssohn wrote to his close friend,
the poet and London-stationed
Hanover diplomat Karl Klingemann, to
see if he would be interested in
sketching a libretto.They arranged to
meet in August, 1837 when
Mendelssohn would be conducting the
British premiere of St.Paul at the
Birmingham Festival.
Since Klingemann didn’t show much
interest in the subject’s personality and
Mendelssohn had a full slate of
activities going on - conducting the
Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts, directing
the Leipzig Conservatory of which he
was the founder in 1842, composing
and travelling - Elijah stalled until the
summer of 1845, when Mendelssohn
formally received a commission from
the Birmingham Festival’s director for a
follow-up work to St.Paul.
Mendelssohn enlisted Julius Schubring
to help him with the libretto. Schubring
was a respected theologian who had
previously assisted with the texts of
St.Paul and who understood
Mendelssohn’s proposed dramatic
thrust for the new work. By early 1846,
work on Elijah was in full force.
In June, Elijah was nearing
completion. Mendelssohn sent the
German-language original to another
friend, the eclectic William
Bartholomew in London, for a fitting
English translation. A violinist and
hymn writer, Bartholomew had
served the same purpose for St.Paul,
Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony
(Lobgesang) and many of the
composer’s songs.
Final preparations for the premiere
began when Mendelssohn arrived in
England on April 17, 1846.That year
he was serving as co-conductor of
the Birmingham Festival with the
famous pianist Ignaz Moscheles, who
helped Mendelssohn in choosing the
solo singers and engaging over 80
orchestral musicians from London, all
of whom would travel by special
train to Birmingham that August
following three days of rehearsals in
London. An additional 40 musicians
would be hired in Birmingham along
with a chorus of 270 singers.
Anticipation was at a fever pitch and
the premiere did not disappoint, the
audience of over 2000 shouting
approval with four arias and four
choruses encored on demand - an
unheard of reception for an oratorio.
When Mendelssohn left England in
October, he was Britain’s most
celebrated composer since Handel.
But Mendelssohn was unsatisfied
and wanted to refine the work
further, as he had done with his
“Scottish”and “Italian”symphonies.
He returned to England for a twoweek period in April 1847 to conduct
performances of the revised Elijah in
London, Birmingham and
Manchester.The trip included other
concerts that would leave the frail
composer in a state of nervous
exhaustion at the end of his stay.
When Mendelssohn returned to
Leipzig and learned of the death of
his beloved sister Fanny, he collapsed
in grief.Though he managed to
complete the String Quartet in F
minor and fragments of an oratorio
Christus after that, Elijah proved to be
Mendelssohn’s last important work
before his death on November 4, 1847.
Though Mendelssohn may not have
been the man of the theatre that
Handel obviously was, Elijah is
steeped in intense drama. Despite a
seeming liability of being a series of
isolated tableaux rather than
continuous unfolding action, the
music’s power and vision overcome
any shortcomings in the storytelling.
Elijah, the Hebrew prophet,
undertakes a mission to destroy the
pagan cults of Baal and idolatrous
worship of foreign gods that Jezebel,
wife of King Ahab, brought to the
people of Israel.The central episode
in Elijah’s complex tale is the contest
on Mt. Carmel with the prophets of
Baal: the Lord alone is able to send
fire from heaven, and the Israelites
thus learn that they can have no
other god before the Lord.
The first of Elijah’s two parts opens
with the prophet’s curse of drought,
over intonations of trombones,
followed by a stormy fugal Overture
depicting the plight of the Israelites.
A tenor aria seeks divine comfort. In
the next scene, Elijah is at the brook
of Cherith protected by a group of
angels, who command him to
journey to Zarepath where he will
find a widow with food to sustain
him during the drought, as promised
by God.The widow’s son is near
death and Elijah revives the boy over
a chorus of praise.
The third scene of Part I finds Elijah
presenting himself to King Ahab and
announcing that the drought is to
end. Elijah challenges Ahab’s priests
of Baal to prove the power of their
god.The priests call upon Baal to
bring fire to a sacrificial animal, but
nothing happens. Elijah’s prayers are
answered and he prays for rain.The
clouds gather, and the people offer
their monumental chorus “Thanks be
to God: He laveth the thirsty land!”
Part II is more serene than the first,
dealing with Elijah’s flight from the
wrath of Jezebel, his time in the
wilderness and the appearance of
God to the prophet, whose faith is
reinvigorated before being swept to
Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Veuillez vous adresser au service des abonnés ou consulter le site www.wso.ca pour la traduction en français.
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ARTIST BIOS
CLASSICS
Elijah
Elroy Friesen, conductor
Described as “innovative,
expressive, and dynamic,” Elroy
Friesen is Director of Choral Studies
at the University of Manitoba
where he conducts numerous
choirs, and teaches graduate and
undergraduate conducting and music education.
His award-winning ensembles tour nationally and
internationally, and are frequently recorded and
broadcasted by the CBC. They enjoy collaborating
with many outstanding local and national arts
organizations, including the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra, the Royal Canadian College of
Organists, WSO New Music Festival, Soundstreams
Canada, Groundswell, Vancouver Chamber Choir,
MusikBarock Ensemble, Manitoba Chamber
Orchestra, and the Latvian Radio Choir.
Dr. Friesen studied at the University of Manitoba
(B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Mus.) and at the University of
Illinois (DMA). He is in demand as a clinician,
adjudicator, and conductor throughout Canada,
the United States, and Europe.
Monica Huisman, soprano
Dutch-Canadian Soprano, Monica
Huisman has been hailed as
possessing a soprano voice that
"embodies both flawless technique
and dramatic impact" (Opera
Canada). Ms. Huisman has
delighted audiences from Amsterdam's
Concertgebouw to Guatemala City with the
reputation of her “silken" voice "consistently
crafting each note into a work of art" (Winnipeg
Free Press).
WSO, broadcasted by the CBC, Mendelssohn's
Lobegesang with the VSO, Four Songs for Cello and
voice by Previn with the VSO, Beethoven’s 9th
Symphony with both the VSO and the RSO, Falstaff
with MOA and the world premiere of A Prairie Boy’s
Life by John Greer.
Simon Burns, Boy Soprano
Simon loves soccer, singing,
dancing, acting, and spending time
with his friends and with his dog,
Noot. He has been an active soloist
and chorister in the École Riverview
School Choir (where he is in Grade 6),
Winnipeg School Division Honour Choir, and First
Mennonite Church Junior Choir. He has been a
member of The Winnipeg Boys’ Choir since 2015.
He has sung solos in Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony
of Carols in 2016 with First Mennonite, under the
direction of Yuri Klaz, and in 2015 with The
Winnipeg Boys’ Choir under Earl Stafford, as part of
the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra season. He
appeared in the Little Opera Company's Hansel
and Gretel in 2015. Simon has Grade 3 cello and
regularly participates in the Winnipeg Music
Festival in choral, vocal, and cello classes. He is
excited to be making his first solo appearance on
the Centennial Concert Hall stage.
Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano
Catherine Anne Daniel, mezzosoprano, is currently based in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her
upcoming projects for this season
include: Singing First Maid in
Edmonton Opera’s production of
Elektra, singing Jezebel and the Angel in Elijah
She has soared on the stages of Vancouver Opera, with the WSO and singing Elisabetta in
Knoxville Opera’s production of Maria Stuarda.
Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, Pacific Opera
Victoria, The Netherlands Opera, Manitoba Opera,
Last season’s engagements included singing
Opera Ontario and Saskatoon Opera in
First Maid in Opéra de Montréal’s production of
productions of Carmen, Marriage of Figaro, Cosi
Elektra, returning to Edmonton to sing
Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Cunning Little Vixen, La
Boheme, Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel and Lakme. Mercedes in their production of Carmen and a
summer Porgy and Bess tour in Germany.
Many of these performances have been
broadcasted by CBC Radio on Saturday Afternoon The 2015-2016 season featured Catherine
singing Third Lady with Edmonton Opera’s
at the Opera.
Magic Flute and a European tour of Porgy and
Bess. She sang Messiah with l’Orchestre
Recent engagements included Villa Lobos'
Symphonique de Sherbrooke and participated in
Bachianas Brasileiras with Rio International Cello
the Opéra de Montréal Gala. Arthur Kaptainis
Festival in Rio di Janeiro, Mahler's 4th with the
M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 2 1
ARTIST BIOS
CLASSICS
Elijah
from the Montreal Gazette wrote “mezzosoprano Catherine Anne Daniel applied a
bright, forward sound and vivacious acting
style to the ode from Strauss’s Ariadne auf
Naxos.” Catherine graduated from the
University of Manitoba with an Integrated
Music/Education degree in 2007. There she
studied voice with Coloratura soprano
Tracy Dahl.
John Tessier, tenor
The JUNO Award-winning
Tenor, John Tessier, has
garnered international
attention and praise for the
beauty and honesty of his
voice, for a refined style and
artistic versatility, and for his handsome,
youthful presence in the lyric tenor
repertoire. He has worked with many of
the most notable musicians of our day
including Plácido Domingo, Lorin Maazel,
Emmanuel Haim, Valery Gergiev, Charles
Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Bryn Terfel, Sir
Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, Pinchas
Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Deborah Voigt,
Samuel Ramey, Bobby McFerrin, John
Nelson, Franz Welser-Möst, Donald
Runnicles, Robert Spano, Dame Kiri Te
Kanawa, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Carlos
Alvarez and Bernard Labadie.
Appearances of the recent past and near
future include performances at the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener
Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon,
Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève,
English National Opera, Washington
National Opera, Seattle Opera, the New
York Philharmonic, Wiener Musikverein,
Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon,
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Equally
comfortable in the genres of opera,
oratorio and recital, Mr. Tessier is also in
high demand for coaching, master
classes, and private consultations. His
discography includes recordings on the
Naxos, Telarc, BIS, Challenge Records and
Dorian labels.
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Gregory Dahl, baritone
Gregory Dahl has attained a position
of prominence among baritones of his
generation with performances notable
for richness of characterization and a
remarkable vocal authority. Mr. Dahl’s
performances in Pelleas et Melisande for
Opera Theater of St. Louis were hailed for his
“appealingly lyrical baritone [that] emphasized Golaud’s
inner turmoil over his villainy.”
Dahl’s current season is highlighted by his debut at the
English National Opera as Tomsky in Tchaikovsky’s Pique
Dame and he was featured by the Canadian Opera
Company as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. L’Opéra de
Montréal welcomes him back to the Wilfrid Pelletier stage
as Nilakantha in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila and he also
looks forward to Escamillo in Carmen for Calgary Opera.
Last season, he was Ford in Falstaff for L’Opéra de
Montréal, Silvano in Ballo In Maschera for the Canadian
Opera Company, Macbeth for L’Opéra de Québec,
Golaud in Pélleas et Mélisande for Against the Grain
Theatre and an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera
covering the role of Mandryka in Arabella.
University of Manitoba Choirs
Elroy Friesen and Catherine Robbins, directors
University of Manitoba Singers (Elroy Friesen, director)
University of Manitoba Women’s Chorus
(Elroy Friesen, director)
University of Manitoba Alumni Chorus
(Elroy Friesen, director)
University of Manitoba concert Choir
(Catherine Robbins, director)
The last three decades have brought the University of
Manitoba choirs to prominence as performing ensembles
in Canada; they are known for their innovative and inspired
performances of new and traditional choral repertoire.
The various U of M choirs appear frequently with
leading professional organizations having performed
and recorded Arvo Pärt’s Litany with the Hilliard
Ensemble and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and
Glen Buhr’s Ritchot Mass with the Penderecki String
Quartet. Premieres of new music also include Canzoni
Romane by Sid Robinovitch, Styx by Kancheli, Raft
of the Medusa by Veda Hille, and Sid Robinovitch’s
Cantus Borealis (2011) with the Manitoba
Chamber Orchestra.
U of M choir membership is open to all
University of Manitoba students and all general
community members. For audition information
contact: [email protected]
In addition to the university choirs’ extensive
performance of new works, they regularly
perform traditional choral repertoire and
masterworks. Recent concerts have included
Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium,
Mozart’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Symphony of
Psalms, and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Allen Harrington, bassoon; Peter Collins, bass
trombone; Cary Denby, organ
The University Singers and Women’s Chorus have
toured extensively throughout the Americas and
Europe, recently including Serbia, Hungary,
Montenegro, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden. This
coming May, the University Singers will be
touring Slovenia, Croatia and Italy.
M a r c h 2 0 17 I O V E R T U R E 2 3
Melodius Prime vs
The Boyz of Noise!
Julian Pellicano, conductor
Mark Cameron, entertainer
Bryn Dubberley as LeeAnne / Harmony
Carlos Gonzales as Gavin / Melodious Prime
Kelsey Miller as Hullabaloo
Liam Sato as Havoc
Patrick Cameron as Konfused
Yuya Mizushima as Hoopla
Philippe Jacques, choreographer
Morning from Peer Gynt
Superhero Saturday
Sabre Dance
Danse espagnole from Swan Lake
Danse infernale from The Firebird
Wiener Blut Waltz
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Symphony No. 5 in C minor:
I. Allegro con brio
Prelude from Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Melodius Prime vs The Boyz of Noise!
Mr. Mark as Kaos
His real name is Mark Cameron but
he has been known to countless
kids and their families as Mr. Mark,
creator of wild and wonderful music
for kids to sing and dance to. Armed
with a truckload of enthusiasm and
a truckload of instruments, his shows are always
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When he is not gallivanting around the world with
Manny Tuba, the WSO’s greatest spokesperson, Mr.
Mark is either busy performing at children’s
festivals across Canada, or making orchestras out
of junk with kids, as part of Manitoba Arts Council’s
Artists in the School Program. If he’s not doing
that, he is most likely at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg
Ballet School, where he has been an accompanist
and teacher since 1989.
Bryn Dubberley as LeeAnne / Harmony
At 13, Bryn Dubberley is a veteran
performer, having appeared in a
number of productions with the
Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In addition to
her role as Blue, the little sister of
Princess Irene in Twyla Tharp's The
Princess and the Goblin, she has had four different
roles in Nutcracker (mouse, party child, angel, and
reindeer). Bryn was a member of the ensemble for
“Defilé-Mixed program,” and has danced at the
RWB Gala, the opening ceremony of the Canadian
Museum for Human Rights, and several times in
“Ballet in the Park.”
Bryn began taking classes at the RWB when she
was three. In addition to the RWB Intensive
Training Program, her classes this year include jazz,
hip hop, lyrical, modern and musical theatre. Bryn
is a Grade 8 French Immersion student.
Carlos Gonzales as Gavin / Melodious Prime
Since Carlos was 3-years-old, he has
gravitated to the stage. Starting
with performing at the Brazilian
Pavilion, demonstrating Capoeira, a
Brazilian Martial Art, he continued
to demonstrate his love for the
stage by developing skills as a magician (Carlos the
Magnificent), a hula-hoop artist, and a hip hop
animator at his school talent shows. Carlos has been
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taking classes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for the
past five years including hip hop, tap, jazz and
musical theatre. He played the role of a Mountie for
two years in the production of the Nutcracker. He has
also performed in a number of other Royal Winnipeg
Ballet productions. Just last year, Carlos held five
distinct roles in his school production of Shrek Junior,
including the role of Baby Shrek and Lord Farquaad’s
Father.Through the performing arts program at
Grant Park High School he has appeared in two Ad
Astra productions.
Kelsey Miller as Hullabaloo
Kelsey Miller is 18-years-old and an
Aspirant with Canada's Royal
Winnipeg Ballet. She is originally
from Red Deer, Alberta, and after
moving away from Alberta five years
ago, she has been dancing in
Winnipeg ever since. She has never danced during a
symphony performance and was very excited when
choreographer Philippe asked her to join.
Liam Sato as Havoc
Liam Saito is an Aspirant in the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet School, where he has
been a student for the past five years,
graduating from the professional
division in 2015. Liam grew up in
Massachusetts and began dancing at
age 7 with Rose and Charles Flachs at Massachusetts
Academy of Ballet. In 2012, Liam competed in the
New York finals of Youth America Grand Prix. Liam is
also an alumnus of the 2015 Jacob's Pillow Summer
Ballet Intensive, and has performed with the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet in such productions as Twyla Tharp’s
The Princess and the Goblin, Nutcracker, Giselle, and
Peter Pan, as well as Q-Dance 2016.
Patrick Cameron as Konfused
A Winnipeg-born performer, Patrick
Cameron studied with the RWB’s
Professional Division and preformed
in numerous productions with their
company including the roles of
Seryozha in Anna Karenina and
Dieter in Nutcracker. In addition to their stage
productions, he had involvement with their
documentary film series Ballet Girls and the full
length feature, Tu Tu Much.
ARTIST BIOS
GREAT-WEST LIFE KIDS CONCERTS
Melodius Prime vs The Boyz of Noise!
After his tenure with the RWB, Patrick
preformed in Danny Schur’s production of
Strike!, and later went on to being an active
member of the Winnipeg arts and culture
community as a board member of Reel Pride
Film Festival. He returns to join Mr. Mark, his
father, on stage this year with the WSO to help
him bring their joy of music and art as part of
the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s, GreatWest Life Kids Concerts.
Yuya Mizushima as Hoopla
Yuya Mizushima has been
dancing since the age of 3,
first training at a private
classical ballet studio in
Japan before being accepted
to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
School Professional Division in 2014.
Mizushima graduated in 2016 from the
Professional Division and has since been
training in the RWB Aspirant Program.
Philippe Jacques, choreographer
Philippe Jacques, a graduate of the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet School’s Aspirant Program,
performed and toured internationally in
many of the RWB company’s productions
while in the School and after. During this
time, Philippe also explored the realm of
choreography, creating for his fellows Aspirants, the David
Suzuki Blue Dot Tour and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics
in Toronto. His independent works include Text Me, created
in partnership with Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada, and Una
Vida Mejor, created on principal dancer Jaime Vargas for the
2015 International Metropolis Conference. His desire to
expand his contemporary vocabulary led him to participate
in programs such as the Nederlands Danz Theatre Summer
and Springboard Danse Montréal. He is currently working
as a choreographer and artistic coordinator for the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet School, while dancing independently. His
latest appearance was in the 2016 Q Dance.
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Allen Harrington, bassoon; Peter Collins, bass trombone;
Tony Cyre, percussion
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Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385,“Haffner”
Allegro con spirito
Andante
Menuetto
Presto
CLASSICS
Mozart & Serenades
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade for Winds, Cello and Bass in
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
D minor, Op. 44
Moderato quasi Marcia
Menuetto:Tempo di Menuetto – Presto – Tempo di Menuetto
Andante con moto
Finale: Allegro molto – Moderato, quasi Tempo di Marcia – Allegro molto
- INTERMISSION -
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50
Part I
Mässig schnell, mit Kraft –
Sehr breit, aber stets fliessend
Part II
Lebhaft –
Langsam –
Lebhaft
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pezzo in forma di Sonatina: Andante non troppo - Allegro moderato
Waltz: Moderato - Tempo di valse
Elégie: Larghetto elegiaco
Finale (Théma russe): Andante – Allegro con spirito
Friday, March 31
Saturday, April 1
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PROGRAM NOTES
by James Manishen
Symphony No. 35 “Haffner”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756
d.Vienna / December 5, 1791
Composed: 1782
First performance: March 23, 1783 (Vienna)
Last WSO performance: 2006;
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Mozart’s fortunes had
certainly looked up by the
summer of 1782. In his
personal life, he was
preparing for his marriage to
Constanze Weber. Commissions were
coming and Mozart’s acclaim as a pianist
and composer for the piano in the pianomad city of Vienna was growing. His
opera/singspiel The Abduction from the
Seraglio was in final stages of completion.
All this after just one year in Vienna,
where the young composer had come
from Salzburg to seek his fortune.
That July, Mozart received a letter from
his father with news that a special honour
was coming to the Burgomaster of
Salzburg, Siegmund Haffner, for whom
Mozart had composed the “Haffner”
Serenade K. 250 for the wedding of
Siegmund’s daughter.The Burgomaster
was being promoted to a position of
nobility and a sequel-serenade was being
requested from Salzburg’s favourite son.
Mozart knew he had to supply his best
effort and delivered a new six-movement
serenade in just two weeks.
In early 1783, Mozart was putting together a
concert and recalled his efforts from the past
summer. Maybe he could make a symphony
out of the new serenade, he thought. Adding
flutes and clarinets to the scoring and
discarding two movements, the new
“Haffner”Symphony was a great success at
the concert on March 23, 1783. Emperor
Joseph was there, enthusiastically applauding.
The opening movement recalls Handel in
its ceremonial clothes and Haydn in the
resourceful workings out of its single
theme.The second movement is an
elegant sonatina (sonata form minus a
development section).The Menuetto is
suitably formal, with an aria-like trio.The
chattering rondo-finale jumps from the
gate – “as fast as possible,”Mozart
instructed, with still more nods to Haydn.
A rousing close no doubt stirred the
Emperor.
Serenade for Winds
Antonin Dvořák
b. Bohemia / September 8, 1841
d. Prague / May 1, 1904
Composed: 1878
First performance: November 17, 1878
(Prague) conducted by the composer.
Last WSO performance: 1997,
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
February, 1875 was a
breakout year for
Antonin Dvořák.The
young Bohemian
composer was barely
earning a living as a
church organist, had been married
just over a year and was expecting his
first child when the tide turned. A
grant program had been established
by Emperor Franz Joseph to help
struggling artists in the eastern
provinces of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. Dvořák applied, and with
renowned critic Eduard Hanslick and
Johannes Brahms on the jury panel,
Dvořák not only received the highest
stipend but official endorsements
from both luminaries. It was Dvořák’s
first recognition outside his homeland.
musicians would play while arriving
and leaving. Dvořák opens the D
minor Serenade with a march that
provides more sun than the key of
D minor suggests.The Menuetto
that follows is born from Czech folk
dance, the trio resembling a furiant.
The heartfelt slow movement is the
work’s emotional centerpiece, while
the finale brings back the opening
march that culminates in a rousing
coda.
Concert Music for Strings
and Brass
Paul Hindemith
b. Hanau, nr Frankfurt / November 16,
1895
d. Frankfurt / December 28, 1963
Composed: 1930
First performance: April 3, 1931
(Boston) conducted by Serge
Koussevitzky
First WSO performance
At the age of 13,
Hindemith was
admitted to the
Conservatory in
Frankfurt to study
violin and
“Genuine and original,”Hanslick and composition.When his father was
Brahms wrote as their first official
killed in action during World War I,
review of Dvořák’s talent, going on to
the young Hindemith had to
supply him artistic guidance and
support his family as a performing
contacts that sparked a flurry of
musician. He went on to become
writing from the excited composer. In
not only one of the noted violists of
1877, Brahms recommended Dvořák
his time, but by the early 1920s, was
to the publisher Simrock, whose firm
widely recognized as one of
would later profit from the
Germany’s most talented composers
international success of Dvořák’s
through his appearances at the
Slavonic Dances, modeled on
famous concerts of new music at
Brahms’s Hungarian Dances.
the Donaueschingen Music Festival.
Dvořák’s first composition of 1878 was
Hindemith’s music during this early
the lovely Serenade for two oboes,
period aligned with the avanttwo clarinets, two bassoons, three
horns, cello and bass.This was likely a garde expressionism trending in
Germany at the time. But following
tribute to Brahms, who’s earlier
his appointment to the Festival’s
Serenade in A major had also been
scored for woodwinds, horns and low administrative committee in 1923,
Hindemith adopted a more inward,
strings. Dvořák would later achieve
fame as a conductor, and the premiere soul-based form of expression while
also looking back to a neo-classical
of the new Serenade marked his
veneer recalling J.S. Bach.
debut in that role. A month later in
Hindemith allied this in a language
Vienna, Dvořák met Brahms for the
of contrapuntal workings out of
first time to thank him effusively for
his inspiration and efforts on behalf of motives, clearly directed thematic
development and a lyrical yet
the young composer.
expressive objectivity designed to
The customary classical serenade
strip away post-Romantic
that was often played outdoors
emotionalism.This singular style
opened and closed with a march the emerged in Hindemith’s famous
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1934 opera Mathis der Maler and
remained in his music to the end
of his life. Hindemith’s Concert
Music for Strings and Brass of 1930
stood at the outset of this new
period.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
of that time was a magnificent
ensemble, its conductor Serge
Koussevitzky celebrated for
performances and premieres of
new music (Prokofiev’s Fourth
Symphony, Stravinsky’s Symphony
of Psalms among much else).The
Concert Music for Strings and Brass
was one of a number of works
commissioned by the orchestra in
celebration of its 50th anniversary,
and Hindemith exploited its
capabilities to the fullest. In two
large subdivided parts of tightly
argued narrative, the music sets
apart the strings and brass
amicably yet brilliantly, the closing
pages capped off with an exciting
Gershwin-esque coda reiteration
of the stabbing three-note theme
that opens the second part.
ARTIST BIOS
Serenade for Strings
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
b.Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840
d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893
Composed: 1879-1880
First performance: October 30, 1881
(St. Petersburg) conducted by Eduard
Nápravnik
Last WSO performance: 1999; Marin
Alsop, conductor
In 1879,Tchaikovsky’s
publisher Peter Jurgenson
asked the composer for
some kind of celebratory
piece to honour the Silver
Jubilee of the coronation of
Czar Alexander II. Tchaikovsky recognized
the importance of the request and the
1812 Overture was the result, though the
composer was quick to admit that his
heart was not really in its creation,
unapologetically claiming a lack of artistic
value in the Overture’s noisy
programmatic outcome. Simultaneously
and perhaps out of necessity, he was
working on a project that very much was,
the Serenade for Strings. It proved to be a
balm for his career and became one of his
favourite creations.
Tchaikovsky originally conceived the
Serenade as a symphony though he told
Jurgenson that it could also be suitable for a
string quartet or an orchestral suite. Following
a few amateur performances, a St. Petersburg
premiere took place with great success, the
famous Waltz immediately encored. Similar
successes followed in Moscow, Hamburg,
Prague, London, Paris and the United States
during Tchaikovsky’s 1891 visit, where he
conducted his Marche Solennelle on the
opening concert at the new Carnegie Hall.
Tchaikovsky regarded the first movement
as an homage to Mozart. A full bodied
introduction leads to a warmly affectionate
stance in the animated melody that
follows, rounding out this sonatina
movement with a return of the rich
opening material.The Waltz follows, one
of Tchaikovsky’s most famous.The work’s
dramatic centerpiece arrives with the
Elégie.The finale opens with a Russian
theme derived from a Volga work song
that was included in a book of folk music
by Mili Balakirev. More folk material
ensues in the Allegro, this time a street
song from the Kolomna area near
Moscow. A recall of the work’s introduction
gives way to a stirring close.
CLASSICS
Mozart & Serenades
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Brazilian-born Marcelo
Lehninger is the newlyappointed Music Director of
the Grand Rapids Symphony.
He previously served as Music
Director of the New West
Symphony in Los Angeles, for which the
League of American Orchestras awarded him
the Helen H. Thompson Award for Emerging
Music Conductors. Marcelo was appointed
Assistant Conductor of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra by James Levine, and
was later promoted to Associate Conductor.
Earlier in his career, Marcelo served as
Associate Conductor of the Minas Gerais
Philharmonic in Brazil, and Music Advisor of
the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.
Mr. Lehninger’s 2016-2017 season includes
debuts with the Sydney, Melbourne,
Colorado, Hawaii, Toledo, and Portland
Symphonies; the Colorado Springs
Philharmonic; and Symphony Nova Scotia; as
well as return engagements with, Minas Gerais
Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, New Mexico
Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and
the Bard Orchestra, the orchestra of his alma mater.
Career highlights include North American guest
conducting engagements with the Chicago,
Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore, Seattle,
Toronto, Milwaukee and National Symphony
Orchestras; and in Europe, with the Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre
National de France, Lucerne Symphony, Lausanne
Chamber Orchestra, and tours with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra assisting Mariss
Jansons; and Orchestre National de France, Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra, and NY Philharmonic
assisting Kurt Masur. Marcelo has conducted all
major orchestras of Brazil and across South
America.
ADDITIONAL MUSICIAN:
James Langridge, trumpet
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Ms. Lorraine MacLeod
Dr. Angelos and Pauline
Macrodimitris
Ruth May
David and Francesca McBean
Ms. Nola McBurney
Glen Mead
Mrs. Mona Mills
Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell
Sylvia Mitchell
D. Munro
Cameron Pauls
Ms. Pat Philpott
Mr. Rick Pinchin
Irvin & Sandra Plosker
Ruth Carol & Leonard Podheiser
Don & Carol Poulin
Donna & Gordon Price
Esther and Reynold Redekopp
Levi & Tena Reimer
Hans & Gabriele Schneider
Marie Schoffner
Dr. & Mrs. Alvin and Ethel
Schroeder
Dr. Robert J. Schroth
Dr. L. Sekla
Phil & Nancy Shead
Ms. Brenda Snider
Ms. Deborah Spracklin
Gary & Gwen Steiman
Margaret & Hartley Stinson
Paul Swart
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Dr. & Mrs. S. Szirom
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Tom & Lori Thomas
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June & Lorne Thompson
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Dr. J.M. Trainor
Neil & Carol Trembath
Ms. Edna Walpole
Harvey & Sandra Weisman
Debbie Wilson
Ms. Joan Wise
Alfred & Lina Woelke
Karin Woods
Joan Wright
Mr. John Yarema
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Prelude
Patricia Allen & Len Dueck
Trish Allison-Simms
Larissa Ashdown
Janice & Brian Bailey
Allan & Rochelle Baker
Barbara & Bruce Ball
Robert Barton
Audrey Belyea
Eric Bergen
Bruce & Joyce Berry
Donald & Edith Besant
Ms. Joanne Biggs
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Lorne & Rosada Bride
Susan Brownstone Brock &
Thomas Brock
Greg & Sylvia Brodsky
Miss Dorothy Broomhall
Chris Brown & Pat McCullough
Mr. E. Brown
Irene Brown
Jean Brown
Ms. Carol Budnick
Leona Burdeniuk
Mr. Gerald Callow
Laura Chan
Mrs. Patti Cherney
Bea and Lawrie Cherniack
Mrs. Leona Christiansen
Ms. Marcella Copp
Helle Cosby
Stephen Crane
Mr. & Mrs. Ted & Lacona
Cunningham
Judy & Werner Danchura
Ms. Janice Dietch
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda
Donald
Sally R. Dowler
Mr. & Mrs. Mervin & Ariela Drabinsky
Herbert & Norma Driver
Lisa Edel
Mrs. M.L. Elliott
John & Martha Enns
Katharine Enns
Siegfried Enns
John & Ruth Ens
Don & Martha Epstein
Doug & Joanne Flynn
Mrs. Marguerite Fredette
Mrs. Margaret Funk
D. Gooch
Ms. Mavis E. Gray
Marj Grevstad
Irene Groot-Koerkamp &
Greg Edmond
Miss Marilyn Hall
Dr. Bonnie Hallman
Ms. Meghan Hansen
Linda A. Harlos
Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin
Teresa A. Hay
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez
Ms. Shirley Hicks
Ms Marilyn Hido
Sonia & Harvey Hosfield
Richard & Karen Howell
Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki
Jacqueline Iwasienko
Alan Janzen & Leona Sookram
Father Stan A. Jaworski
Ross & Betty Jo Johnston
Ms. Bev Kawchuk
Randy & Kathleen Kemp
Erwin W. Kitsch
Mary Klassen
Alfonz & Susan Koncan
Mrs. Alvina Koshy
Jacki & Sheldon Koven
Kozub/Halldorson Family
D. Kristjanson
Miss Patricia Kuchma
Edith Landy, in Memory of
David Landy
Helen La Rue
Mrs. Ingrid Lee
Mr. R. Leroeye
Albert & Helen Litz
Roger Lowe
Sarah Luby
Dr. Amrit Malik
C. & J. McIntyre
Violet McKenzie
Mrs. Geraldine McKinley
Mrs. Jean McLennan
S. McMillan
Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier
Estelle Meyers
Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Gladys Mildren
Carolyn Garlich and Peter Miller
Mrs. Mona Mills
Margaret Moroz in memory of her
brother Andrew Lutz
Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz
Mrs. Joan Ann Morton
John & Margaret Mundie
Leesa Munroe
David & Hermine Olfert
Mrs. Henny Paritzky
Ms. Nettie Peters
Ingrid Peters-Fransen
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Ms. Clare Pollock
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Cristian Popescu
Mrs. Nell Provinciano
Bryan & Diana Purdy
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Kevin Rollason & Gail MacAulay
Frances E. Rowlin
Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler
Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad &
Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad
David Schroeder
R. Schroeder
Ms. Janet Schubert
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Carl & Margaret Shaykewich
Mr. & Ms. Ed Shwedyk
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Archie & Shirley Stone
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Juris & Aija Svenne
Robert & Barb Tisdale
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Henry & Elizabeth Toews
Dr. Helen A. Toews
Ms. Andrea Towers
Dr. & Mrs. Jose & Ruth Vasconcelos
Barry and Gail Veals
Elizabeth M. Wall
Jim & Joan Warbeck
Waverley Tenant Association
Mrs. Evelyn Wener
Dorcas & Kirk Windsor
Andrew Winkless
Mr. Edwin Yee
Donn K. Yuen
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Sonatina
Maryvonne & Robert Alarie in
Memory of William Cole
Jacqueline Anderson
Dr. John Badertscher
Ms. Donna Beaton
Ms. Denise Belanger & Mr. Sidney
Shapire
Mrs. Eva Berard
Anna Bird
Shirley Book
Frances Booth
Norma Bortoluzzi
Marilyn Boyd
Mrs. Diane Brine
Wendy & Ken Broadfoot
Sheila Burland
Mr. John Burrows
Canon Canada Inc.
Ms. Arline Christopherson
S.K. Clark
Mr. & Dr. Brad Cloet
Mrs. Barbara Coombs
Glynis Corkal
Mr. Alfred Cornies
Karen Couch
Ms. Judy Crawford
D. Cymbalist
Beth Derraugh
Marlene & Fred Dickson
Mrs. Ethel Dil
Ms. Marian Dore
Paul Dueck
Ms. Sheila M. Dumore
Ms. Georgette Durand
Vera & Peter Fast
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Ms. Helen Feniuk
Mr. Paul Ficek
Cal & Lois Finch
Hilda Franz
Ms. Anne Friesen
Mrs. Donna Friesen
Mr. Joe Furber
Mrs. Cathy Gervais
Mrs. Barbara Gessner
Mr. Christopher Golden
Heather F. Graham
Mrs. Inga Granovskaya
Victoria Gretchen
Mr. Anthony (Tony) Griffin
Ms. Marianne Gruber
Ms. Marion Guinn
B. & R. Hall
Gertrude Hamilton
Mrs. Helen Hayward
Kelly Hearson
Jean Highmoor
Dorothy L. Hodgson
Stella Hryniuk
Mrs. Mary-Ann Hudjik
William J. Hutton
David & Heather Jenkins
Brent & Karen Johnson
Mr. Tim Kasprick
Mr. Gordon C. Keatch
Katie Kirkpatrick
Ms. Betty Laing
Elizabeth Lansard
Wayne & Helen LeBlanc
Mr. Gabriel Lemoine
Katrina Limberatos
In Memory of Andrew Lutz
John & Carol MacKenzie
Joyce Manwaring
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff & Karen L. Mark
Mrs. Irene Marriott
Hugh McCabe
Ms. Susan McCarthy
J. Doreen McCormick
Mr. Derek McLean
Ardythe McMaster
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Mrs. Jocelyn Millard
Maureen Morin
Mr. Robert Nix
Shirley & Graham Padgett
Mrs. Margaret Parker
Sonjia Pasiechnik
Trudy Patzer
Ellen Peel & Neil Bruneau
Mr. Irwine Permut
Ken & Geri Porath
Mrs. Glennys Propp
Mrs. Avis Raber
Ms. Pat Repa
Ms. Barbara Robertson
Gisela Roger
Mrs. V. Rosolowich
Kay Schalme
William Scheidt
Mrs. Edna Schneider
Izzy Shore
Mrs. Elaine Silverberg
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith
Mrs. Joyce Smyth
Mrs. Marilyn Stothers
Lorne Sunley
Muriel Sutherland
Mrs. Joan Swaffer
Gladys Tarala
Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor
Ms. Doreen Thorlacius
Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh
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Shelley Turnbull
Ms. Eleanor Urquhart
Denis Vincent
Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace
Mr. Glen Angus Webster
Miss Christine Wojcikowski
Beverley Zimmerman
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The WSO gratefully acknowledges
the following patrons whose
foresight helps to ensure longterm financial support for the
WSO. Thank you!
Lorraine and Gerry Cairns
Dorothy Comer and Her Daughters
in Memory of Fern Royds
Ray G. Davis
Helene Dyck
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez
Marilynne Keil, in Memory of David
H. Skinner
Barbara Main
Judith Meunier
Ms. Iris Reimer
Grant & Janet Saunders
Barbara Scheuneman
Jim & Jan Tennant
James & Claudia Weselake
Festival donors help to further
the musical artistry of the
WSO’s New Music Festival.
Thank you!
Alpha Masonry
Jean Altemeyer
Gorden Andrus & Adele Kory
Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper
Alison Baldwin
David & Gillian Bird
Jackie Brignall
Kevin Burns
David Carr
Anne Cholakis & Howard Loewen
Mr. Peter Czaplinski
Eric Davies
Herbert Enns
Kathleen & David Estey
Dr. LeeAnn Fishback
Ms. Catherine Flower
Wayne Forbes
Daniel Friedman & Rob Dalgliesh
Dr. Alexander Grunfeld & Silvester
Komlodi
Dr. & Mrs. Don & Jerri Hall
Kelsey Hargreaves & Vojtech
Balaban
Ms. Helen Hawrysh
Dr. Wolfgang Heidenreich in
Support of Composer Henryk
Gorecki for the 2016-17 WNMF
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez
Hilda & Elmer Hildebrand
Bonnie Dee & Richard Jakubowski
Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones
Koren & Leonard Kaminski
Jo Kellendonk
Konstantinos Kotoulas & Family
Kozub/Halldorson Family
T. G. Kucera
Ron Lambert
Moira Swinton and Bernie Léveillé
Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall
Mr. & Mrs. Cam & Joy MacLean
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries
Lori Marks
Ms. Theresa Martin
Brent Mazur
Paul A. McCulloch
Ted McLachlan
Shana Menkis
The A. K. Menkis Medical Corporation
Ron & Sandi Mielitz
Ms. Sheila Miller
Mrs. Brenda Morlock
Bob and Cindy Newfield
Mikaela Oldenkamp
Lesia Peet
Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth
Tippett-Pope
Mark Potash, Darena Snowe,
Lily Snowe-Potash and
Lev Snowe-Potash
Beth M. Proven
Pat & Bill Reid
M. Rennie
Olga & Bill Runnalls
Mr. M. Schnitzer
Robert Shaw & Chris Krawchenko
Pam Simmons
Doug Smith
Muriel Smith
Ms. Marlene Stern
Tetrem Capital Management
Ms. Stephanie M. van Nest
Curt & Cathy Vossen
Nils & Melissa Vik
Ms. Meeka Walsh
Karin Woods
Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann
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Share the Music is a unique
outreach initiative of the WSO
that allows economically
disadvantaged children and
their families to attend WSO
performances. Thank you for
helping to Share the Music!
Pat & Harvey Anton
Ms. Margaret Barbour
Ralph & Eileen Baxter
Ms. Linda Campbell
Ms. Rheo Catt
Shelley Chochinov
Marlene Crielaard in Memory of
Gijsbert Crielaard
Michele Del Rizzo
Monica Dinney in Memory of
Gijsbert Crielaard
Barbara Filuk
George Haidau
Dr. Don & Jerri Hall In memory of Lois
Anderson
Huynh Van Ho
Ishbel Isaacs, in Loving Memory of
Gijsbert Crielaard
Cycelia Lazarowich in Memory of
Gijsbert Crielaard
Tom Liewicki in memory of Lovie
Liewicki
Claudette & Robert Lussier
James Manishen
Ms. Sharon Minuk
Margaret Moroz in memory of
Mrs. Pat Hoebig
Anne Martin
Dr. Sidney & Gwen Nelko
Lesia Peet in memory of Andrew Lutz
Ms. Marlene Reguly
Mr. L. J. Roy
Barbara Scheuneman
Ms. Brenda Sklar
Ms. Maureen Southam
Deborah Spracklin
In honour of Kinzel Keys
Jim & Jan Tennant
Anne Thiessen in Memory of Gijsbert
Crielaard
Ms. Gerardina Vanaert
Fran & Estela Violago
Betty Wayborn in Memory of
Gijsbert Crielaard
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Ms. Gail E. Loewen
Dr. David Lyttle
Lydia MacKenzie in Honour of John
J. March and His Parents
Manitoba Community Services
Council
Tom McIlwham
Ron & Sandi Mielitz
Scott MacDonald & Tracey Novak
Mr. Jean-Francois Phaneuf
Maurice (Moe) & Ethel Pierce Fund,
Jewish Foundation of Manitoba
The Winnipeg Foundation - Chief
Justice Richard J. Scott and
Mary Scott Fund
Jim & Jan Tennant
E. Toews
Strang / van Ineveld Family
Faye Warren
John Wells
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Conmoto
ADESA Winnipeg
Kathleen & Ken Alder
James & Faye Alward in Honour of
Margot J. Alward
In Memory of Eleanor Anne
Annandale
Sistema Winnipeg is a free daily Mr. John A. Bailey
after-school program offered at Ralph & Eileen Baxter
Ms. Kathleen Beach-Nelson
no cost to participants that
enriches the lives of children and In Honour of Helene Beauchemin
Jennifer Beirnes
young people with the fewest
Audrey Belyea
resources and the greatest
Byrnes Benoit
need. The WSO gratefully
Ms. Diane Bewell
acknowledges the following
patrons whose support makes a Tammy Brock in Honour of Noah
Weiszner's 65th Birthday
difference in the everyday lives
Paul & Doreen Bromley
of these children. Thank you!
Lorraine & Gerry Cairns
Camerata Nova
Honourary Chair
Mrs. Audrey Campbell
Daniel Scholz, Principal Viola
Dave Christie
Maestoso
In Memory of Robert Coates
Helen Bergen, Music Director FGUC
RBC Foundation
Choir
Richardson Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Jamit And Courtney
Dhaliwal
Vivace
Claire Dionne
Boeing Canada Winnipeg
R. Duddek
Cavalia Inc.
ECCO Singers
The Winnipeg Foundation
Linda Edel
Caroline Elder
Con Brio
Kathleen Estey in memory of Alan
Garth Lee Strings
Maxwell
Souchay Gossen Family
Nelma Fetterman
Foundation
Mathilda Fijn
Manitoba Community Services
Ms. Catherine Flower
Council
Judith Flynn
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries
Peter Flynn
Hilda Franz
Allegro
Bonny Fraser
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Alpha Masonry
Design
Mr. Ron Bell
Evelyn & Ricardo Galima
Timothy & Barbara Burt
Gardon
Construction Ltd.
Ms. Brenlee Carrington Trepel
Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Nadia Hanuschak
Art & Leona Defehr
Catherine Harrison
Jocelyn and Mark Gabbert in
Ruediger & Lydia Hedrich
memory of Benjamin John
D&R Herntier
West Flynn
Robin Hildebrand
Michael S Gray Fund C/O Private
Arlene Hintsa in Memory of Marilyn
Giving Foundation
Karen Hiscott
Mr. Elmer Hildebrand
Patricia Holbrow
Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Le Dorze
William J. Hutton
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Mrs. Jacquie James
Margaret Jeffries
Peter Jessiman
Joseph and Judith Malko Family
Fund - the Strategic Charitable
Giving Foundation
Ms. Nadia Kamienski
Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac
Kevin & Els Kavanagh
Marilynne Keil
Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck
Ed & Helen Kolomaya
Anne La Tour
Mrs. Anita Malbranck
Marian Martin in Memory of
Eleanor Annandale
Lynne McCarthy & Claude Davis
Mrs. Maureen McIntosh
Iona McPhee
Ron and Sandi Mielitz
Ms. Marlene Milne
Ms. Francine Morin
Kim Morton
Ms. Bonnie Neil
Mr. Robert Nix
Ms. Lucy Nykolyshyn
Leena Patel
David & Veronica Payne in memory
of Eleanor Annandale
John & Agnieszka Payne in memory
of Eleanor Anne
In memory of Eleanor Annandale
from Joan, Stuart and Helen
Patricia M. Patterson in Memory of
Max & Pearl Kuran and Mary
Kuran; In Honour of Beatrice
Kuran, Jean Kuran and Una
Kuran
Mr. Blair Peppler
Margaret Peters
Mrs. Edna Poulter
Ms. Lois Powne
Valerie Raber
Joan Sabourin
Ms. Corazon Saquilayan
Mrs. Claudia Sarbit
Mr. Terry Sargeant
Heather Sarna
In Memory of Jean Sauder
Nicola Schaefer
Barbara Scheuneman
Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer
Foundation
Ed & Susan Schmidt
A. Schroeder
Trudy Schroeder
Mrs. Mary Scott
Betty & Sam Searle
Olga & Myron Shatulsky
Wilma Sotas
Diane Stewart
Robert Stewart & Leslie RossStewart, in Memory of Eleanor
Anne Annaandale
Telpay Inc.
Mary and Robert Thomas
Deborah Thorlakson in Celebration
of Mrs. Tannis Richardson's
Birthday
Betsy F Thorsteinson in Memory of
Ruth Dowse
Edith A. Toews
Neil & Carol Trembath
Judith & Francisco Valenzuela
Ms. Christine Van Cauwenberghe
Curt & Cathy Vossen
Gerri Weigeldt
Dr. Noah Weiszner
Diane Weselake
Judy White in Honour of Doug and
Loreen Buss’ Marriage
WhoDunit? Mystery Bookstore
Grace M. Wiebe
Karin Woods
Wynward Insurance Group
Libby Yager & Billy Brodovsky
Arlene Young and Robert O'Kell
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ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
The WSO gratefully
acknowledges the following
patrons whose generosity helped
to support orchestral music in
our community. Thank you!
Greg Anderson
Joan Blight
C Bohemier
Crowe & Brownlie
Lori Butler
Carlyle Printers Service & Supplies
Eileen Chaban
Wayne Forbes
Carl & Vi Hultin
Margaret Jeffries
Dr. Arnold & Mrs. Doreen Kapitz
Ken Kinsley
Kat Kupca
Cynthia Marx
Bob and Betty McCamis
M. Morawski
D.E. Morrison
Ms. Lillian Murphy
Beth M. Proven
Adriana Sedlak
Pam Simmons
Tom Thiessen
Ms. Andrea Towers
Paul Trapnell
Ira van den Berg & Greg
Butterfield
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Remembrance Day
Rheo Catt in memory of Rex Catt
In Memory of Graham Dixon
Barbara Filuk in Honour of Alex
Pitkethly
Ms. Catherine Flower
Ms. Robin Hildebrand
Ms. Betty Laing in Honour of All
Veterans
Albert & Helen Litz, in Honour of
Our Veterans
Margaret Mahon in Honour of her
Father, Thomas Hoey McGown
C. & J. McIntyre in Honour of All
Veterans
Neil Middleton in memory of
Michael Bundon
Mrs. Kathy Parry in honour of
"PINK" RCN 4760
Donna & Gordon Price in Honour
of Donald MacDonald
Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Lynn Shead
Jim Skinner & Judy Nichol, in
honour of James Edward
Skinner and the late James
Edward Nichol
Jim & Jan Tennant in honour of
Stan and Ralph Hanson
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1948-51
1951-53
1953-55
1955-57
1957-58
1958-61
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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
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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
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Mr. William W. Draper
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2007- 2012
2012- 2016
2016- present
Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C.
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Mrs. Helen Hayles
Mr. William Norrie
Mr. William Loewen
Mr. Bruce MacCormack
Mr. Roger King
Ms. Patti Sullivan
Mr. Wally Fox-Decent
Ms. Carol Bellringer
Mr. Harvey I Pollock, QC
(Interim President)
Mr. Brendan MacDougall
Ms. Dorothy Dobbie
Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA
Mr. Terry Sargeant
PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL
Al Alexandruk
Mal Anderson
Carol Bellringer
Marilyn Billinkoff
Doneta Brotchie
John and Bonnie Buhler
James Carr
Edmund Dawe, D.M.A.
Dorothy Dobbie
Greg Doyle
Jamie Dolynchuk
Julia De Fehr
Susan Feldman
Barbara Filuk
Wally Fox-Decent
Jack Fraser
Evelyn Friesen
Elba Haid
Helen Hayles
Kaaren Hawkins
Sherrill Hershberg
Ian Kay
Roger King
Bill Knight
Michel Lagacé
Zina Lazareck
Gail Leach
Dr. Hermann Lee
Naomi Levine
Bill Loewen
Jackie Lowe
Dr. Brendan MacDougall
Don MacKenzie
Bill Marr
Ed J. Martens
Michael Nozick
Harvey I Pollock, QC
Dr. William Pope
John Rademaker
Kathleen Richardson
Tannis Richardson
Leney Richardson
Ed Richmond
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Bonnie Staples-Lyon
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Dennis Wallace
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WSO BOARD & STAFF 2016-2017 SEASON
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Terence Sargeant,
President
Curt Vossen,
Vice President
Rob Kowalchuk,
Treasurer
Michael Kay,
Corporate Secretary
Timothy E. Burt, CFA
Past President
Ida Albo
Sandra Altner
Lucienne Blouw
Emily Burt, MBA, CFA
James Cohen
Arlene Dahl
Marten Duhoux
Steven Dyer
Alan Freeman
Daniel Friedman
Dr. Selena Friesen
Micah Heilbrunn
Robin Hildebrand
Peter Jessiman
Margaret Kellermann
McCulloch
Maureen Kilgour
Silvester Komlodi
Sotirios Kotoulas
Dr. Eleanor MacDougall
Sherratt Moffatt
Richard Turner
Trudy Schroeder, Executive
Director
Alexander Mickelthwate,
Music Director
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Lyn Stienstra, VP Finance & Administration
Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator
Oscar Pantaleon Jr., Finance & Administration Assistant
SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES
Ryan Diduck, VP Sales & Audience Services
Desiree La Vallee, Patron Services Coordinator
Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative
Rachel Himelblau, Patron Services Representative
Aaron Lewis, Sales Specialist
Patron Services Representatives (p/t):
Phil Corrin
Melissa Houston
Meg Dolovich
Laura Gow
Kristie Enns
Crystal Schwartz
Shevaun Fortune Stephanie Van Nest
Jason Hayes
MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT
Neil Middleton,VP Marketing & Sponsorship
Beth Proven,VP Development
Carol Cassels, Development Manager
Carol Linsday, Campaign & Events Coordinator
Shenna Song, Development Coordinator
Sarah Panas, Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Matt Brooks, Designer
Diana Chabai, Intern
S.Thompson Designs Inc.
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Sylvia Cassie, Past President
Nancy Weedon, Treasurer
Agnes Bailey, Secretary
Florence Bell, Asssistant
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WSO Directors Emeritus
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Chris Lee, Orchestra Personnel Manager
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