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<strong>Beethoven</strong><br />
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<br />
March – June 2013<br />
ISSUE 6<br />
“<strong>Beethoven</strong> embraced<br />
the universe with the<br />
power of his spirit.”<br />
– Frédéric Chopin
<strong>Beethoven</strong><br />
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<br />
March – June 2013<br />
ISSUE 6<br />
“<strong>Beethoven</strong> embraced<br />
the universe with the<br />
power of his spirit.”<br />
– Frédéric Chopin
WSO SPONSORS, FUNDERS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
The WSO proudly acknowledges the ongoing support of the following sponsors, media and funders:<br />
IN MEMORY OF<br />
PETER D. CURRY<br />
POPS SERIES<br />
CANADA DAY<br />
AT THE FORKS<br />
Wo me n’s Co mmitte e<br />
of the<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS<br />
CONCERTS FOR KIDS SERIES<br />
INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS<br />
SOUNDCHECK PROGRAM WSO IN BRANDON<br />
PIANO RAFFLE<br />
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY<br />
MEDIA SPONSORS<br />
FUNDERS<br />
POWER SMART HOLIDAY TOUR<br />
SUMMER<br />
CONCERT SERIES<br />
CAR RAFFLE<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 1
2 OVERTURE I March – June 2013
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
Trudy Schroeder<br />
There are truly many wonderful ways to celebrate the presence and<br />
impact of the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> in our community.<br />
One of the ways that we recognize important milestones in the WSO<br />
is through our special events. Each year the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> celebrates the life of the orchestra and the community<br />
with a WSO Sprin g Achievemen t Awards Din n er. This year, the<br />
event will be held on April 25th at the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> Convention Centre,<br />
and please join us as we recognize the Richardson Foundation and<br />
Steve Bell with Golden Baton Awards. For tickets, please contact<br />
Sarah at 204-949-3987 or slund@wso.mb.ca.<br />
The Richardson Foundation through strategic and directed support has transformed the<br />
WSO’s connection with high school students in <strong>Winnipeg</strong>, young students in rural Manitoba,<br />
and has been working with us in planning for a more dynamic future presence in <strong>Winnipeg</strong>’s<br />
downtown. The WSO’s current fiscal stability and programming renewal would not have<br />
been possible without their positive and dynamic support.<br />
Juno Award-winning <strong>Winnipeg</strong> singer -songwriter Steve Bell will receive an award for artistic<br />
achievement. Steve took a musically interesting and entrepreneurial approach to developing<br />
musical products and performances with the WSO. The resulting CD <strong>Symphony</strong> Sessions has<br />
proven popular with his loyal audience base and WSO audiences. Steve has generously<br />
helped the WSO with fundraising events, and continues to be an active and much appreciated<br />
partner for the WSO.<br />
2013 Steve Bell, Singer Songwriter<br />
Richardson Foundation, Transformational Support<br />
2012 Tracy Dahl, soprano<br />
Carol Bellringer, WSO Past Chair<br />
2011 James Ehnes, violinist<br />
2010 Irmgard and William Baerg<br />
1999 Manitoba Telecom Services Tom Stefanson<br />
1998 William H. Loewen William H. Loewen<br />
1997 Canada Council for the Arts Donna Scott, Chair<br />
1996 The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> Foundation William Parish, President<br />
1995 Investors Group Sanford Riley, President and CEO<br />
1994 Great-West Life Raymond McFeeters, President & CEO<br />
1993 du Maurier Arts Ltd. Don Brown, President & CEO, Imperial Tobacco Limited<br />
1992 James Richardson & Sons George T. Richardson, President & CEO<br />
1991 Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Charles Bronfman, President & CEO<br />
1990 Harold Buchwald, Q.C. Harold Buchwald, Q.C., Past WSO President<br />
We look for ward to seeing you at th e Sp ring Ach ievem en t Award s Dinn er!<br />
Trudy Schroeder<br />
WSO Executive Director<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 3
CONDUCTORS<br />
Photographer: Keith Levit<br />
Photographer: Keith Levit<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director<br />
German conductor, Alexander Mickelthwate is renowned for his “splendid,<br />
richly idiomatic readings” (LA Weekly), “fearless” approach and “first-rate<br />
technique” (Los Angeles Times). Critics have noted Alexander’s extraordinary<br />
command over the Austro-Germanic repertoire, commenting on the “passion,<br />
profundity, emotional intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved” in<br />
Bruckner’s <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 7 as “miraculous” (Anton Kuerti, 2011).<br />
Following on from his tenure as Assistant Conductor with the Atlanta<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>, which he completed in 2004, Alexander Mickelthwate was Associate<br />
Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for three years, under the direction of Essa-Pekka<br />
Salonen. Now in his seventh season as Music Director of the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>,<br />
Alexander has sign ificantly developed the orch estra’s profile through active commun ity<br />
engagement and innovative programming initiatives like the annual New Music Festival and the<br />
Indigenous Music Festival. Chosen to perform at the Carnegie Hall Spring for Music Festival in<br />
New York, May 2014, due to “creative and innovative programming” (CBC Manitoba Scene), the<br />
orchestra is the only Canadian ensemble in the showcase. As well as significantly contributing to<br />
the New Music Festival and Indigenous Festival, Alexander lead the orchestra’s first out of province<br />
tour since 1979 to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, launched the International Conducting<br />
master-classes, the New Music Festival 2012 film project and played a major part in the acoustic<br />
overhaul of the Centennial Concert Hall.<br />
Always lookin g for a fresh approach and creative ways of crossin g musical gen res, Alexander has<br />
collaborated with Iceland’s Bedroom Community, Wayne Shorter, Mark O’Connor, Belle and<br />
Sebastian, Jason Alexander, DJ P-Love, Canadian bands Waking Eyes, Liptonians and Dukhs.<br />
Alexander has con ducted for the Queen of En gland, for former Presiden t Jimmy Carter, and was<br />
awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.<br />
Richard Lee, Resident Conductor<br />
From the time his mother sat him down at a toy piano when he was three years<br />
old, Richard Lee has spent his life immersed in music. He graduated to a real<br />
piano at the age of five and took up the violin at age seven. At age seventeen, he<br />
passed – with honours – the grade X piano and violin exams at the Royal<br />
Conservatory of Music in Toronto.<br />
After a brief and ill-advised stin t as a ph ysics major, Rich ard came to his sen ses<br />
and pursued a degree in Music Performance at the University of Toronto as<br />
both a violinist and violist. After teaching middle school music for five years, Richard returned to<br />
the U of T where, as the Victor Feldbrill Fellow in orchestral conducting, he obtained a Master’s<br />
degree under the tutelage of Raffi Armenian.<br />
Richard is the Music Director of the East Texas <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> (based in Tyler) and the<br />
Korean Canadian Symph on y Orch estra (Toron to) . He is also the Residen t Con ductor of the<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> and conductor of the University of Manitoba <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />
Guest engagements this season include the Kingston <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> as well as a tour of<br />
Mexico with I Musici de Montréal. Musician, news junkie and connoisseur of fine ales, whiskies and<br />
cigars, Richard maintains residences in both <strong>Winnipeg</strong> and Toronto. He roots for the Toronto FC<br />
and the Toronto Raptors basketball club.<br />
4 OVERTURE I March – June 2013
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON<br />
MUSIC DIRECTOR<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate<br />
RESIDENT CONDUCTOR<br />
Richard Lee<br />
COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE<br />
Vincent Ho<br />
FIRST VIOLINS<br />
Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster<br />
The Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-<br />
Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed<br />
by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation<br />
Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster<br />
Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster<br />
Chris Anstey<br />
Raymond Chrunyk<br />
Mona Coarda<br />
Hong Tian Jia<br />
Simon MacDonald<br />
Rachel Moody<br />
† Jane Radomski<br />
Julie Savard<br />
Jun Shao<br />
SECOND VIOLINS<br />
Darryl Strain, Principal<br />
Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal<br />
Karen Bauch<br />
Rodica Jeffrey<br />
**Takayo Noguchi<br />
Boyd MacKenzie<br />
Meredith McCallum<br />
Susan McCallum<br />
Claudine St-Arnauld<br />
Phoebe Tsang<br />
VIOLAS<br />
Daniel Scholz, Principal<br />
Anne Elise Lavallée,<br />
Assistant Principal<br />
Laszlo Baroczi<br />
Richard Bauch<br />
Greg Hay<br />
Suzanne McKegney<br />
Merrily Peters<br />
Mike Scholz<br />
CELLOS<br />
Yuri Hooker, Principal<br />
**Cristian Markos, Assistant Principal<br />
Alex Adaman<br />
Margaret Askeland<br />
Arlene Dahl<br />
Carolyn Nagelberg<br />
Emma Quackenbush<br />
BASSES<br />
Meredith Johnson, Principal<br />
**Viorel Alexandru, Assistant Principal<br />
Paul Nagelberg<br />
Bruce Okrainec<br />
Zdzislaw Prochownik<br />
Patrick Staples<br />
FLUTES<br />
Jan Kocman, Principal<br />
Martha Durkin<br />
PICCOLO<br />
Martha Durkin<br />
OBOES<br />
Bede Hanley, Principal<br />
Robin MacMillan<br />
ENGLISH HORN<br />
Robin MacMillan<br />
CLARINETS<br />
Micah Heilbrunn, Principal<br />
Michelle Goddard<br />
BASSOONS<br />
Alex Eastley, Principal<br />
Meryl Summers<br />
HORNS<br />
Patricia Evans, Principal<br />
Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal<br />
James Robertson<br />
The Hilda Schelberger Memorial<br />
Chair<br />
Caroline Oberheu<br />
Michiko Singh<br />
TRUMPETS<br />
Brian Sykora, Principal<br />
Paul Jeffrey<br />
Isaac Pulford<br />
The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair<br />
TROMBONES<br />
Steven Dyer, Principal<br />
John Helmer<br />
BASS TROMBONE<br />
Julia McIntyre, Principal<br />
TUBA<br />
Chris Lee, Principal<br />
TIMPANI<br />
Jeremy Epp, Principal<br />
PERCUSSION<br />
Frederick Liessens, Principal<br />
HARP<br />
Richard Turner, Principal<br />
Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen<br />
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL<br />
MANAGER<br />
Chris Lee<br />
PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN<br />
Raymond Chrunyk<br />
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN<br />
Laura MacDougall<br />
Fred Redekop is the official Piano<br />
Tuner and Technician of the WSO<br />
*On Leave<br />
**Temporary Position<br />
† Dual Section Position<br />
Please note: Non-titled (tutti) string<br />
players are listed alphabetically<br />
and are seated according to a<br />
rotational system.<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 5
MASTERWORKS<br />
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 8:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
Mozart Requiem<br />
Jane Glover, conductor<br />
Allison An gelo, soprano<br />
Concert Sponsor:<br />
Marcia Whitehead, mezzo-soprano<br />
Christopher Mayell, tenor<br />
Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone<br />
Mennonite Festival Chorus, Rudy Schellenberg, William Baerg & Janet Brenneman, co-directors<br />
PROGRAM<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 29 in A major, K. 201 Wolfgan g Am ad eu s Mozart ( 1756-1791)<br />
Allegro moderato<br />
An dante<br />
Menuetto e Trio<br />
Allegro con spirito<br />
- INTERMISSION -<br />
Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br />
Requiem: Adagio –<br />
Kyrie: Allegro<br />
Dies irae: Allegro assai<br />
Tuba mirum: Andante<br />
Rex tremendae: Grave<br />
Recordare<br />
Confutatis: Andante<br />
Lacrymosa<br />
Domine Jesu: Andante con moto<br />
Hostias: Andante<br />
Sanctus: Adagio –<br />
Osanna: Allegro<br />
Benedictus: Andante –<br />
Osanna: Allegro<br />
Agn us Dei –<br />
Lux aeterna: Adagio –<br />
Cum sanctis: Allegro<br />
Extra Musician:<br />
Cary Denby, organ<br />
Pre-concert chat on the Piano Nobile<br />
begins 45 minutes prior to the concert.<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 7
PROGRAM NOTES<br />
by James Manishen<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 29<br />
Wo lf gang Amade us Mo zart<br />
b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756<br />
d. Vienna / December 5, 1791<br />
Composed: 1774<br />
Last WSO performance: 2006;<br />
Maximiano Valdes, conductor<br />
Leopold Mozart much<br />
wan ted a musical<br />
position for his son in<br />
1773. On hearing the<br />
news that Vienna’s<br />
court music director<br />
was resignin g due to illn ess, Leopold<br />
and son Wolfgang went to Vienna that<br />
July to explore the opportunity. Though<br />
Empress Maria Theresa had known the<br />
precocious Wolfgang as a child, she felt<br />
he wasn’t suitable for the job. After a<br />
few weeks in Vienna, father and son<br />
departed.<br />
But the stay was hardly a wasted effort,<br />
for 17-year-old Mozart absorbed<br />
influences like a sponge and Vienna was<br />
the world’s greatest musical city,<br />
supplying the young composer with the<br />
sounds of the most eminent musicians<br />
of the time: Haydn, Gluck, Salieri and<br />
more. When Mozart returned to<br />
Salzburg in September, his expressive<br />
palette was much expanded when he<br />
undertook his <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 29 over the<br />
following months.<br />
This was a time of Mozart pushing the<br />
envelope in invention and ambition. In<br />
No. 29, textures are fuller, expression<br />
intensifies, and the special<br />
individualized stamp of a compelling<br />
personality underpins the obvious<br />
constructive skill.<br />
Who but Mozart could explore the<br />
expressive possibilities of an octave the<br />
way h e does in th e open in g movemen t?<br />
Here, exquisite harmonic underpinning<br />
gives way to imitative violin conversation<br />
and new themes within a beautifully<br />
integrated narrative.<br />
The elegant second movement recalls<br />
the gentle rococo influence Mozart<br />
absorbed from his earlier London study<br />
8 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
with J.C. Bach. O n e feels H aydn ’s<br />
influence in the dotted rhythms of<br />
the vigorous Minuet, as also in the<br />
Finale’s cheeky use of silence in its<br />
theme and confident development.<br />
Requiem<br />
Wo lf gang Amade us Mo zart<br />
Composed: 1791<br />
Last WSO performance: 2006;<br />
Maximiano Valdes, conductor<br />
“An unknown grey stranger’’ Mozart<br />
called the mysterious individual that<br />
delivered a letter from an unnamed<br />
patron to commission a new<br />
Requiem Mass in early July 1791.<br />
Mozart was in the thick of<br />
composing The Magic Fluteand<br />
getting ready to take on an<br />
important commission for another<br />
opera, La Clemenza di Tito, to<br />
celebrate the September coronation<br />
in Prague of Emperor Leopold.<br />
Mozart would be well paid for the<br />
Requiem but he was not to know the<br />
identity of the patron. In serious<br />
financial condition, he accepted the<br />
commission.<br />
Mozart’s wife Constanze had been in<br />
an almost continuous state of<br />
pregnancy since they married in<br />
1782 and had been in the spa town<br />
of Baden for a month to try to<br />
regain some semblance of health.<br />
Mozart went to bring her home later<br />
that July. The “stranger’’ appeared in<br />
Baden, asking about the Requiem’s<br />
progress. Mozart assured him all was<br />
on track. On the 25th, Constanze<br />
gave birth to Franz Xavier Wolfgang.<br />
From mid-August Mozart, his pupil<br />
Franz Süssmayr and Constanze were<br />
in Prague for the premiere of Tito<br />
on September 6th. Magic Flute wasn ’t<br />
quite complete for its scheduled<br />
premiere September 30th. By<br />
October, the overworked and<br />
overburdened composer’s health<br />
began a steep decline.<br />
Headaches, fever and pain plagued<br />
Mozart. On November 17th he<br />
became bedridden, receiving<br />
treatments of cold compresses and<br />
bloodletting from Dr. Closset, one of<br />
Vien n a’s best ph ysician s. Mozart<br />
obsessed over the Requiem, the<br />
image of the stranger and an<br />
increasingly potent thought that<br />
the work would be “my funeral<br />
song, which I must not leave<br />
incomplete.’’<br />
But Mozart could only complete<br />
parts of the piece - the Requiem<br />
and Kyrie sections plus sketches<br />
for the voice parts and the bass<br />
along with scoring instructions<br />
for the Dies irae through the<br />
Hostias. On December 4th with<br />
his last remaining strength, he<br />
scrawled a few bars of the<br />
Lacrymosa and asked three<br />
friends in the room to sing it<br />
back. Trying to sing the alto part<br />
himself, Mozart collapsed. At<br />
midnight Mozart said goodbye to<br />
his family. Fifty-five minutes later,<br />
he died.<br />
As sh e sorely needed the<br />
commission money, Constanze<br />
asked her husband’s composerfriend<br />
Joseph Eybler to complete<br />
the score. He did his best with<br />
the orchestration but had to turn<br />
the project over to Süssmayr who<br />
had received more detailed<br />
instructions from Mozart earlier<br />
on. Süssmayr revised Eybler’s<br />
work, completed th e last th ree<br />
movements and recopied the<br />
score to show it as coming from<br />
Mozart alone. The stranger came<br />
for the music and paid the fee.<br />
Mozart never knew for whom he<br />
was writin g th e Requiem. We now<br />
know it was Count Franz von<br />
Walsegg, wh o h ad been<br />
anonymously commissioning<br />
composers to supply music he<br />
could pass off as his own, in this<br />
case for his wife Anna who had<br />
died in February 1791.<br />
In its depths of expression and<br />
poignancy of its journey, Mozart’s<br />
Requiem is a wondrous<br />
summation of an unworldly life<br />
and gift, whose circumstances<br />
only add to its sublime impact.<br />
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Garden Soirée<br />
We dn e sday Jun e 26, 2013<br />
5 p.m.<br />
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Day Tour<br />
Saturday June 22, 2013<br />
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<br />
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WSO Box Office at (204) 949-3999 or visit www.wso.ca.
SOUNDBYTES<br />
SATURDAY, APRIL 20 8:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
Chaplin: The Gold Rush<br />
Richard Lee, conductor<br />
CAST<br />
Charles Chaplin.............................. Producer<br />
Charles Chaplin.............................. Director<br />
Charles Chaplin.............................. Screenplay<br />
Rollie Totheroh .............................. Photography<br />
Jack Wilson, Mark Marlatt ................ Cameramen<br />
Charles D Hall .............................. Art Director<br />
Charles Chaplin.............................. Original Music<br />
Timothy Brock .............................. Musical Adaptation & Revision<br />
Kevin Brownlow, David Gill .............. Film Restoration<br />
Charles Chaplin.............................. The Lone Prospector<br />
Georgia Hale ................................ Georgia<br />
Mack Swain .................................. Big Jim<br />
Tom Murray .................................. Black Larson<br />
Henry Bergman.............................. Hank Curtis<br />
Malcolm Waite .............................. Jack<br />
Betty Morrissey .............................. Georgia’s friend<br />
Joan Lowell .................................. Georgia’s friend<br />
John Rand .................................... Prospector<br />
Heinie Conklin .............................. Prospector<br />
Albert Austin.................................. Prospector<br />
Allan Garcia .................................. Prospector<br />
Tom Wood .................................... Prospector<br />
Stanley J Sandford .......................... Barman<br />
Production started December 1923<br />
Production completed 21st May 1925<br />
Première 26th June 1925, Grauman’s Egyptian theatre, Hollywood<br />
Length 8555 feet<br />
MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING<br />
Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile<br />
begins 45 minutes prior to concert.<br />
Beautiful Savior Lutheran School Band<br />
Extra Musicians:<br />
Donna Laube, keyboard<br />
Tony Cyre, percussion<br />
Sharon Atkinson, clarinet<br />
January March – February – June 2013 2011 I IOVERTURE OVERTURE 11 7
GREAT- WEST LIFE CONCERTS FOR KIDS<br />
PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES 1:00 P.M.<br />
SUNDAY, APRIL 21 2:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
Music, Noise & Silence<br />
Richard Lee, conductor<br />
Magic Circle Mime Company<br />
PROGRAM<br />
Poet and Peasant Overture Franz von Suppé<br />
Dance of the Clowns Felix Mendelssohn<br />
Fugue in G minor (Little Fugue) Johann Sebastian Bach<br />
Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II<br />
On the Beautiful Blue Danube Johann Strauss II<br />
Country Band March Charles Ives<br />
Wed d ing March Felix Men d elssoh n<br />
Cloudburst Ferde Grofé<br />
Extra Musicians:<br />
Donna Laube, keyboard<br />
Allen Harrin gton , alto sax & bassoon<br />
Tony Cyre, percussion<br />
Tracy Wright, oboe<br />
Concerts for Kids Series Sponsor:<br />
Pre-Concert Activities Partner:<br />
Presenting Radio Partner:<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 13
AIR CANADA POPS<br />
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 8:00 P.M.<br />
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 8:00 P.M.<br />
SUNDAY, APRIL 28 2:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
Cirque M usica<br />
Richard Lee, conductor<br />
Cirque Musica<br />
PROGRAM<br />
Entry of the Gladiators Julius Fučik<br />
Flight of the Bumblebee – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov<br />
Orpheus in the Underworld: Can-can – Jacques Offenbach<br />
Star Wars: Imperial Death March John Williams<br />
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Paul Dukas<br />
Night on Bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)<br />
Star Wars: Theme/ Superman: Theme John Williams<br />
The Planets: Mars Gustav Holst<br />
- INTERMISSION -<br />
1812 Overture Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Rodeo: Hoe Down – Aaron Copland<br />
William Tell: Overture Gioachino Rossini<br />
Love is All You Need arr. Bruce Healey<br />
Violin Con certo in D major Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Extra Musicians:<br />
Laura MacDougall, flute<br />
Bronwen Garand-Sheridan, oboe<br />
Sharon Atkinson, clarinet<br />
Allen Harrin gton , bassoon<br />
Pops Series Sponsor: Presenting Media Sponsor:<br />
Richard Gillis, trumpet<br />
Tony Cyre, percussion<br />
Victoria Sparks, percussion<br />
Donna Laube, keyboard<br />
Yo u are invite d to visit the Air Canada lo unge o n<br />
the Piano Nobile level at all three performances of<br />
Cirque Musica. Stop in and receive a music card<br />
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March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 15
HIGH NOTES<br />
in Fashion<br />
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MASTERWORKS<br />
FRIDAY, MAY 10 8:00 P.M.<br />
SATURDAY, MAY 11 8:00 P.M.<br />
SUNDAY, MAY 12 2:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> 9<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate, con ductor<br />
Yu r i H o o k e r, c e llo<br />
Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano<br />
Michèle Bogdanowicz, mezzo-soprano<br />
Edgar Ernesto Ramirez, tenor<br />
Justin Welsh, baritone<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> Philharmonic Choir, Yuri Klaz, artistic director<br />
Flin Flon Community Choir, Crystal Kolt, artistic director<br />
PROGRAM<br />
Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)<br />
for Cello and <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
- INTERMISSION -<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral’’ Ludwig van <strong>Beethoven</strong> (1770-1827)<br />
Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso<br />
Molto vivace – Presto – Molto vivace<br />
Adagio molto e cantabile<br />
Finale: Presto – Allegro ma non troppo – Vivace –<br />
Adagio cantabile – Allegro – Allegro assai<br />
Extra Musicians:<br />
Liz Dyer, violin<br />
Laurel Ridd, flute<br />
Bronwen Garand-Sheridan, oboe<br />
Sharon Atkinson, clarinet<br />
Jim Ewen, bassoon<br />
Donna Laube, keyboard<br />
An n Germani, harp<br />
Tony Cyre, percussion<br />
Matt Abraham, percussion<br />
Pre-concert chat on the Piano Nobile<br />
begins 45 minutes prior to the concert.<br />
DINNER & A SYMPHONY<br />
SUNDAY, MAY 12<br />
Brunch starts at<br />
11:30 a.m.<br />
Concert at 2:00 p.m.<br />
Centennial Concert Hall<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Brunch Buffet<br />
Catered by:<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 17
PROGRAM NOTES<br />
by James Manishen<br />
Schelomo<br />
Ernest Bloch<br />
b. Geneva / July 24, 1880<br />
d. Portland, OR / July 15, 1959<br />
Composed: 1916<br />
First performance: May 3, 1917<br />
(New York), conducted by Artur Bodansky<br />
with Hans Kindler as soloist<br />
Last WSO performance: 1988; Bryan<br />
Epperson, cello; Kazuhiro Koizumi,<br />
conductor<br />
Swiss composer Ernest<br />
Bloch described his Jewish<br />
soul as “the better part of<br />
me – the complex, glowing,<br />
agitated soul I feel vibrating<br />
throughout the Bible.’’<br />
In 1915 Bloch had been assembling<br />
sketches for the Book of Ecclesiastes he<br />
wan ted to set to music, but foun d th at<br />
his rhythmic patterns could not be<br />
realized by the French, German or<br />
English languages. Soon after, Bloch<br />
met cellist Alexander Barjansky and his<br />
artist-wife, both of whom impressed<br />
Bloch deeply. They became fast friends<br />
and at once Bloch realized that<br />
Barjansky’s “marvellous’’ playing could<br />
transcend language issues, speaking<br />
more deeply than words could<br />
communicate.<br />
Without a program or plan, Bloch<br />
began to set The Ecclesiastes as a<br />
rhapsody for cello and orchestra. As<br />
Mrs. Barjansky had been working on a<br />
Kin g Solomon -in spired sculpture for<br />
Bloch in appreciation, he named the<br />
rhapsody Schelomo [Solomon].<br />
In 1916 Bloch found himself stranded<br />
in America due to a conducting<br />
engagement for a dance group that<br />
wen t broke. Still, h is work didn ’t go<br />
unnoticed and after performances of<br />
his music by the famed Flonzaley<br />
Quartet and the Boston <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />
Bloch’s star began to rise. An all-Bloch<br />
concert took place May 3, 1917 in<br />
Carnegie Hall featuring the premiere<br />
of Schelomo. Its success brought him<br />
international recognition and an<br />
eventual move to the United States.<br />
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Schelomo covers a vast range of<br />
dramatic states from Solomon’s<br />
lamentations of broken idealism<br />
through an ardent prayer for<br />
brotherhood and peace. “One may<br />
imagine the solo cello as King<br />
‘Schelomo’ Bloch said. ``The<br />
complex voice of the orchestra is the<br />
voice of h is age..his world..his<br />
experience.’’<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 9<br />
Ludwig van <strong>Beethoven</strong><br />
b. Bonn / December 17, 1770<br />
d. Vienna / March 26, 1827<br />
Composed: 1822-1824<br />
First performance: 1824 (Vienna).<br />
Last WSO performance: 2009;<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> had loved<br />
Schiller’s Ode to Joy ever<br />
since first encountering<br />
it in 1793. At 23, the<br />
youn g composer was so<br />
inspired by the poem’s<br />
message of brotherhood and universal<br />
love, he became a Freemason, vowing<br />
that there must be a way to be able to<br />
make a musical setting to infuse even<br />
greater emotional weight to Schiller’s<br />
text for all to feel and be inspired by.<br />
It took <strong>Beethoven</strong> quite some time –<br />
three decades, in fact, plus hundreds<br />
of revisions, stops and starts and an<br />
obvious internal focus of staggering<br />
proportions. The majestic Ninth<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> was th e result, for man y, th e<br />
penultimate timeless happening in all<br />
art.<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> had completed the Seventh<br />
and Eighth Symphonies by 1812 and<br />
immediately decided on his next<br />
symphony, the first idea being the<br />
selection of the key of D minor. The<br />
Ninth’s original material began in 1815<br />
with sketches for th e Scherzo secon d<br />
movement. In 1818 he considered<br />
adding a choral movement, but only as<br />
a song within the slow movement. Ill<br />
health and the immense Missa<br />
Solemnis came <strong>Beethoven</strong>’s way, so the<br />
Ninth was only sporadically touched on<br />
for the next four years. In 1822 Missa<br />
was fin ish ed an d its in fluen ce was to<br />
pervade the Ninth’s dramatic and<br />
psychological narrative, though the<br />
Ninth was to be more a<br />
celebration of Schiller’s strivings<br />
than religious declamation.<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> then received a<br />
commission from the London<br />
Philharmonic Society for the new<br />
symphony but continued to<br />
wrestle with h ow h e would in clude<br />
Schiller’s text. All but the finale<br />
was completed. Wh at to do to cap<br />
off the work?<br />
“I have it! I have it!’’ he shouted.<br />
A recitative was to be the device,<br />
recalling fragments of what comes<br />
before in the symphony and<br />
bridging the gap to the famous<br />
theme introduced unadorned by<br />
the cellos to be forever lodged in<br />
the subconscious of all who would<br />
hear the work then, now and<br />
forever.<br />
The premiere on May 7, 1824 was<br />
a triumph. The totally deaf<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> had conducted but<br />
didn’t know when the applause<br />
had begun. Police had to<br />
maintain order in the erupted<br />
house. <strong>Beethoven</strong> was so<br />
overwhelmed he slept in the same<br />
clothes he wore that evening.<br />
One can look at the Ninth from<br />
innumerable perspectives, clearly<br />
its musical revelations, the finale’s<br />
ultimate anthem of freedom or<br />
the Ninth’s overall influence<br />
toward Romantic expressionism.<br />
But it’s the immediacy of this<br />
masterpiece that registers most<br />
strongly - the ongoing asks to look<br />
inward at one’s feelings and<br />
outward to how they should<br />
impact all else. An invitation to, as<br />
Chopin said about <strong>Beethoven</strong><br />
“embrace the universe with the<br />
power of his [our] spirit.’’<br />
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January March – February – June 2013 2011 I IOVERTURE OVERTURE 19 5
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, MB March 2013 -- Music for Young<br />
Children ® students from across Canada continue to<br />
collect money for the Firefighters’ Burn Fund Inc.<br />
The Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Music<br />
for Young Children teachers are the most successful<br />
in Canada with their annual Musical Kids Helping<br />
Kids wh ich is n ow in its n in th year. MYC ® students<br />
and teachers raised $2,364.76 last year; this year’s<br />
total is not yet in. A grand total of $28,719.32 has<br />
been collected for this worthy cause.<br />
Students ask their family and friends to support<br />
them by paying for every minute of practicing<br />
done over a period of four to six weeks. This<br />
money is collected and then donated to the<br />
Firefighters’ Burn Fund in Manitoba which is<br />
spent on burn-related equipment at the hospital,<br />
innovative programs for burn survivors as well as<br />
a summer camp for children for patients in their<br />
burn unit.<br />
To firefighters, there is no greater measure of courage<br />
than burn patients struggling to survive devastating<br />
injuries. The heroism of burn survivors inspires the<br />
men and women of Manitoba’s Fire Service to<br />
volunteer their time and effort in raising funds to<br />
support exceptional burn care, treatment,<br />
rehabilitation and research. Please go to<br />
www.firefightersburn fun d.mb.ca for more<br />
information on how you can donate.<br />
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St u d en t s<br />
cont ribut e t o<br />
Burn Fund<br />
The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> will be<br />
presenting “Music, Noise & Silence” on Sunday,<br />
April 21st at 2:00 p.m. As the Concerts for Kids<br />
Pre-Concert Activities Partner, MYC teachers along<br />
with th e WSO h ost various music activities<br />
beginning at 1:00 p.m. As well, Manitoba/ NW<br />
Ontario Coordinator Marilyn Unrau will be<br />
presenting the Pennies for Practice cheque to<br />
Barbara-Anne Hodge, a Board Member of the<br />
Burn Fund and chair of the Mamingwey Burn<br />
Survivor Committee.<br />
Music for Young Children in its 33rd year is<br />
taught annually to 24,000 students in Canada,<br />
the United States, New Zealand, Korea,<br />
Vietn am, Sin gapore an d Malaysia. For more<br />
information, visit MYC’s website www.myc.com<br />
or call Manitoba/ NW Ontario Coordinator<br />
Marilyn Unrau at 204-488-8488.
GREAT- WEST LIFE CONCERTS FOR KIDS<br />
PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES 1:00 P.M.<br />
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 2:00 P.M.<br />
CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> Ta les<br />
Richard Lee, conductor<br />
Michael Boudewyns and Sara Valentine, performers<br />
Kimberly Sch roeder, soprano<br />
PROGRAM<br />
Green Eggs and Ham Robert Kapilow/ Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)<br />
Peter and the Wolf Serge Prokofiev<br />
Extra Musicians:<br />
Tracy Wright, oboe<br />
Tony Cyre, percussion<br />
Donna Laube, piano<br />
Concerts for Kids Series Sponsor:<br />
Pre-Concert Activities Partner:<br />
Presenting Radio Partner:<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 21
WSO MUSICIAN PROFILES Photographer: Chronic Creative<br />
Meredith Johnson<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 2004<br />
Hometown: Tuscaloosa, AL, USA<br />
If you could have dinner with<br />
one historical figure, who would<br />
that be? Tough one. Maybe<br />
St. Francis of Assisi or Ghandi.<br />
What do you enjoy most about<br />
being part of the WSO?<br />
The genuine sense of<br />
community that is shared<br />
amongst the members of the<br />
organization. Very few<br />
orchestras are like that.<br />
Bruce Okrainec<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 1980<br />
Hometown: Edmonton, AB<br />
What is one of your most<br />
memorable live performances?<br />
My participation in a<br />
performance of Michael<br />
Praetorius’s Christmas Mass.<br />
If you weren’t a musician,<br />
what would you be?<br />
Science has always been a<br />
strong interest of mine.<br />
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Viorel Alexandru<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 2012<br />
Hometown: Braila, Romania<br />
What is your f avourite piece<br />
to play? Enescu Sonata<br />
If you could have dinner with<br />
one historical figure, who would<br />
that be? Rossini because he<br />
was a good cook.<br />
Zdzislaw Prochownik<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 1983<br />
Hometown: Bielsko-Biala, Poland<br />
When did you start playing your<br />
instrument? Age 14. Music in<br />
high school had only one<br />
opening for bass.<br />
What is one of your most<br />
memorable live performances?<br />
Mahler 9th <strong>Symphony</strong> with<br />
An drey Boreyko in 2006, Brahms<br />
Requiem with Robert Sh aw.<br />
Paul Nagelberg<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 1978<br />
Hometown: New York area<br />
and Toronto, ON<br />
What is your f avourite restaurant<br />
to go to after a WSO concert?<br />
Kum Koon Garden for the<br />
Mu Shu Pork.<br />
What do you enjoy most about<br />
being part of the WSO?<br />
The variety (classics, opera,<br />
ballet, Pops).<br />
Patrick Staples<br />
Instrument: Double Bass<br />
Joined WSO: 2011<br />
Hometown: Calgary, AB<br />
Who was your idol growing up?<br />
Gary Karr<br />
What is your f avourite piece<br />
to play?<br />
An ythin g by Bach .
Al Alexandruk<br />
Mal Anderson<br />
Carol Bellringer<br />
Marilyn Billinkoff<br />
Doneta Brotchie<br />
John and Bonnie Buhler<br />
Edmund Dawe<br />
Greg Doyle<br />
Julia De Fehr<br />
Susan Feldman<br />
Jamie Dolynchuk<br />
Barbara Filuk<br />
Wally Fox-Decent<br />
Jack Fraser<br />
Elba Haid<br />
Helen Hayles<br />
Kaaren Hawkins<br />
Sherrill Hershberg<br />
Ian Kay<br />
Roger King<br />
Bill Knight<br />
Michel Lagacé<br />
PRESIDENT’S<br />
ADVISORY COUNCIL<br />
Zina Lazareck<br />
Gail Leach<br />
Dr. Hermann Lee<br />
Naomi Levine<br />
Bill Loewen<br />
Dr. Brendan MacDougall<br />
Don MacKenzie<br />
Bill Marr<br />
Michael Nozick<br />
Harvey Pollock<br />
Dr. William Pope<br />
John Rademaker<br />
Kathleen Richardson<br />
George & Tannis<br />
Richardson<br />
Ed Richmond<br />
Lorne Sharfe<br />
William Shead<br />
Graeme Sifton<br />
Joanne Sigurdson<br />
Bonnie Staples-Lyon<br />
Brenlee Carrington Trepel<br />
Dennis Wallace<br />
1948-51 Hon. Mr. Justice J. T. Beaubien<br />
1951-53 Mr. J. M. Sinclair<br />
1953-55 Mr. Digby Wheeler<br />
1955-57 Mr. W. D. Hurst<br />
1957-58 Dr. Hugh H. Saunderson<br />
1958-61 Mr. E. W. H. Brown<br />
1961-62 Mr. David Slater<br />
1962-64 The Hon. Mr. Justice Monnin<br />
1964-65 Mr. Norman J. Alexander<br />
1965-67 Mr. R. W. Richards<br />
1967-69 Mr. W. R. Palmer<br />
1969-71 Mr. E. J. Smith<br />
1971-73 Dr. M. M. Pierce<br />
1973-74 Mr. H. S. Brock-Smith<br />
1974-76 Mr. Allan G. Moffatt<br />
1976-78 Mr. Julian D. T. Benson<br />
1978-79 Mr. John L. Buckworth<br />
1979-80 Mr. N. Roger McFallon<br />
1980-81 Mr. John F. Fraser<br />
1981-82 Mr. William W. Draper<br />
1982-83 Mr. John O. Baatz<br />
PRESIDENTS OF THE<br />
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<br />
1983-84 Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C.<br />
1984-86 Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C.<br />
1986-88 Mr. Michel Lagacé<br />
1988-90 Mr. William H. Loewen<br />
1990-92 Mrs. Julia DeFehr<br />
1992-94 Mr. Gordon Fogg<br />
1994-96 Mrs. Helen Hayles<br />
1996-97 Mr. Anthony Brookes<br />
1997-98 Mrs. Helen Hayles<br />
1998-99 Mr. William Norrie<br />
Feb 1999-May 1999 Mr. William Loewen<br />
Jun 1999-2000 Mr. Bruce MacCormack<br />
2000-Feb 03 Mr. Roger King<br />
Mar 2003-Dec 2003 Ms. Patti Sullivan<br />
Dec 2003-Jan 2005 Mr. Wally Fox-Decent<br />
Jan 2005-Jul 2006 Ms. Carol Bellringer<br />
Jul 2006-Nov 2006 Mr. Harvey Pollock (Interim President)<br />
Dec 2006-Jun 2007 Mr. Brendan MacDougall<br />
2007-2012 Ms. Dorothy Dobbie<br />
2012-present Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA<br />
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24 OVERTURE I March – June 2013
ARTIST BIOS<br />
MASTERWORKS<br />
Mozart Requiem<br />
MARCH 30<br />
Jane Glover, conductor<br />
Music Director of Chicago’s<br />
Music of the Baroque since<br />
2002 and Artistic Director of<br />
Opera at London’s Royal<br />
Academy of Music, Jane Glover<br />
made her professional debut at<br />
the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her<br />
own edition of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea. She joined<br />
Glyndebourne in 1979 and was Music Director<br />
of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981<br />
to 1985; and she was Artistic Director of the<br />
London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991.<br />
In continual demand on the international opera<br />
stage, Ms. Glover has appeared with numerous<br />
companies including the Royal Opera House,<br />
Covent Garden, English National Opera,<br />
Glyndebourne, Berlin Staatsoper, Royal Danish<br />
Opera, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg,<br />
Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glimmerglass<br />
Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia,<br />
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Teatro La<br />
Fenice in Venice.<br />
Allison Angelo, soprano<br />
Hailed as “a fabulous discovery”<br />
by the Toronto Star’s John<br />
Terauds, Canadian soprano<br />
Allison Angelo is emerging as a<br />
talented and versatile young<br />
singer who is rapidly gaining<br />
recognition on the operatic and concert stage.<br />
Ms. Angelo has recently been named Musician<br />
in Residence with the St. Cecilia Concert Series<br />
in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 2011-2012<br />
season, and returns to the Mountain View<br />
Concert Series in the summer or 2012. In early<br />
2010, she made her debut with the Toronto<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> conducted by Peter Oundjian during<br />
the Mozart 254 Festival. Last season, she<br />
appeared in Mozart’s Requiem for <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
Nova Scotia and Messiah with the Edmonton<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> and Vancouver Bach Choir and was<br />
Frasquite in Carmen for the Brott Music Festival<br />
Hamilton, Ontario.<br />
Marcia Whitehead, mezzo-soprano<br />
“Stunning low notes and<br />
impressive sound…” (Paula Citron<br />
96.3fm Toronto). Mezzo soprano<br />
Marcia Whitehead’s dark, elegant<br />
voice, paired with her stellar<br />
comedic timing has established<br />
herself as a strong, singing actress as seen in her<br />
portrayals of: Carmen (Carmen), Dorabella (Cosi<br />
fan tutte), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), 3rd Lady<br />
(Magic Flute), Flora (La Traviata), La Marquise<br />
(La Fille du Regiment), Alisa (Lucia di<br />
Lammermoore), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel),<br />
L’Enfant (L’Enfant et les Sortileges), Jeanne D’Arc<br />
(Electric Flesh), Cixous (Trudeau: Long<br />
March/Shining Path), and as The Page in Salome.<br />
This Manitoba native, well known for her<br />
versatility, has enjoyed concert & symphonic<br />
engagements ranging from: Handel to<br />
Mendelssohn, one woman cabarets, and pops<br />
symphony concerts. Marcia is thrilled to return to<br />
her hometown stage for the WSO’s Masterworks<br />
series. www.marciawhitehead.com<br />
Christopher Mayell, tenor<br />
Praised in Opera Canada<br />
magazine for his wholesome tenor<br />
voice, Christopher Mayell is<br />
quickly making his mark on the<br />
opera stages and concert halls of<br />
Canada.<br />
He is an alumnus of the Calgary Opera Emerging<br />
Artist Ensemble program, through which he<br />
performed the roles of Borsa in Rigoletto, Samuel<br />
in the Canadian premiere of The Ballad of Baby<br />
Doe, and Brighella in Strauss’ Araiadne auf Naxos<br />
(featured on CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at<br />
the Opera). While in Calgary, he was also featured<br />
by the Spritus Chamber Choir in a national CBC<br />
Radio broadcast performance of Respighi’s<br />
Laudate per la Nativita del Signore.<br />
Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone<br />
A graduate of the Atelier lyrique<br />
de l’Opéra de Montréal, Stephen<br />
Hegedus made his Opéra de<br />
Montréal debut as Silvano (Un<br />
ballo in maschera) and appeared<br />
with the company as Sprecher (Die<br />
Zauberflöte), Angelotti (Tosca), Grégorio (Roméo et<br />
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26 OVERTURE I March – June 2013
ARTIST BIOS<br />
Stephen Hegedus (Cont’d): Since the mid-nineteen sixties, he has<br />
Ju liette), Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Il<br />
Commissario (Madama Butterfly) and Sicario<br />
(Macbeth). With the Atelier lyrique, he sang Don<br />
Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte) and Don Inigo Gomez<br />
(L’Heure Espagnole).<br />
Mr. Hegedus’ 2012 summer festival season included<br />
Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at Festival Lanaudière and<br />
Dvorak’s Spectre’s Bride for the Grant Park Festival<br />
in Chicago conducted by Carlos Kalmar. The<br />
2012-2013 season is an ideal mix of opera and<br />
concert engagements including Colline in La<br />
bohème (Vancouver Opera), The Captain in<br />
Eugene Onegin, Mozart’s Requiem (<strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
<strong>Symphony</strong>), Bach’s Mass in B minor (Elmer Iseler<br />
Singers) and his Four Shorter Masses (Les Violons<br />
du Roy).<br />
Mennonite Festival Chorus,<br />
Rudy Schellenberg, William Baerg<br />
& Janet Brenneman, co-directors<br />
The Mennonite Festival Chorus made its debut in<br />
1985 under the distinguished leadership of Robert<br />
Shaw, together with the WSO in Brahms’ Ein<br />
Deutsches Requiem. Following that auspicious<br />
beginning, it twice appeared at the International<br />
Choral Festival in Toronto with the TSO: in 1989<br />
with <strong>Beethoven</strong>’s Missa Solemnis (Robert Shaw)<br />
and in 1993 with Britten’s War Requiem (Bramwell<br />
Tovey). Together with the WSO, the choir has<br />
performed works by Mahler, Handel, Bach,<br />
Dvofiák, Haydn, Mozart, <strong>Beethoven</strong>, Schoenberg,<br />
Orff and Arvo Pärt.<br />
MFC is a highly select core of choristers from<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> and surrounding communities, many of<br />
whom are regular members of other choirs,<br />
including those of Canadian Mennonite University.<br />
Janet Brenneman is rehearsal conductor for this<br />
evening's performance of the Mozart Requiem.<br />
William Baerg<br />
Co-director, Mennonite Festival Chorus<br />
No stranger to the <strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
choral scene, William Baerg,<br />
Professor Emeritus of Canadian<br />
Mennonite University, has<br />
conducted choirs here and across<br />
Canada for over four decades.<br />
collaborated with the WSO in performances<br />
spanning the entire repertoire from Scheutz to<br />
Stravinsky, as well as taken great delight in<br />
bringing the finest international choral<br />
conductors to <strong>Winnipeg</strong> such as Robert Shaw<br />
and Helmuth Rilling. Dr. Baerg was recently<br />
honoured by the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
with the Golden Baton Award for his<br />
distinguished contribution to the Canadian<br />
choral scene. He is married to pianist Irmgard<br />
Baerg.<br />
Rudy Schellenberg<br />
Co-director, Mennonite Festival Chorus<br />
Rudy Schellenberg is Associate<br />
Professor of Music at Canadian<br />
Mennonite University, teaching<br />
in the areas of choral music,<br />
conducting and church music.<br />
He conducts the CMU<br />
Chamber Choir and Men's Chorus, which,<br />
together with other CMU choirs have a busy<br />
performance schedule, including regular<br />
engagements at the WSO's New Music Festival.<br />
GREAT-WEST LIFE CO N CERTS FO R KIDS<br />
Music, Noise & Silence<br />
APRIL 21<br />
Magic Circle Mime Company<br />
Magic Circle Mime<br />
Co. is regarded as one<br />
of today’s premier<br />
family attractions.<br />
Their highly acclaimed<br />
performances, which<br />
unite the concert<br />
orchestra with visual theatre, are consistently<br />
praised for imaginative and innovative content.<br />
Magic Circle Mime Co. performs with virtually<br />
every major orchestra in North America and has<br />
performed on numerous occasions with the<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>s of Atlanta, Detroit,<br />
Chicago, Montreal, Saint Louis, Seattle and<br />
Toronto; Cleveland <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Minnesota<br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> and Philadelphia <strong>Orchestra</strong>; and on<br />
more than half a dozen occasions at The<br />
Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts with<br />
the National <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />
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ARTIST BIOS<br />
Magic Circle Mime Company (Cont’d): WSO and MCO have met with critical and audience<br />
Magic Circle Mime Co. also has a growing<br />
reputation outside North America. In the<br />
Pacific Rim and Far East they have performed<br />
at festivals and with major orchestras in<br />
Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong,<br />
Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and<br />
Taiwan.<br />
AIR CANADA POPS<br />
Cirque M usica<br />
APRIL 26-28<br />
Cirque Musica<br />
Cirque Musica takes audiences<br />
on a musical journey to a land<br />
of dazzling beauty, mystery and<br />
suspense. The show blends the<br />
grace and thrills of the world’s<br />
greatest circus performers with<br />
stunning symphonic music from<br />
classical, POPS and popular<br />
repertoire. Audiences are treated to a full sensory<br />
experience that will have them on the edge of<br />
their seats and in awe of the beauty, thrills, and<br />
majesty that is…Cirque Musica.<br />
Cirque Musica features top circus performers<br />
from around the world and veterans of Ringling<br />
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and Cirque du Soleil.<br />
The music includes all time favorites from the<br />
classical repertoire including excerpts from Flight<br />
of the Bumblebee, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto,<br />
Holst the Planets, and more. From the POPS<br />
world, the show features pieces by John Williams<br />
and a musical salute to the Beatles. Cirque<br />
Musica also features original music composed by<br />
Emmy and Academy Award nominated<br />
composer, Marcelo Zarvos.<br />
MASTERWORKS<br />
<strong>Beethoven</strong> 9<br />
MAY 10-12<br />
Yuri Ho o ke r, ce llo<br />
Yuri Hooker is Principal cellist<br />
with the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> and is a core member<br />
of The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> Chamber<br />
Music Society. His frequent<br />
concerto appearances with the<br />
acclaim, and his most recent performances include the<br />
world premiere of John Tavener's new work for cello<br />
and orchestra Popule Meus and the North American<br />
premiere of the orchestral version of Michael Oesterle's<br />
Agate Rosary and the North American premiere of<br />
Tavener's Requiem. He was also honoured to present the<br />
Western Canadian premiere of Henri Dutilleux's cello<br />
concerto Tout un monde lointain in 2009 with the<br />
WSO conducted by Michelle Mourre. A strong<br />
advocate of new music, he appears regularly with<br />
GroundSwell, and recently made the premiere of Ørjan<br />
Sandred's Amanzule Voices for cello and live electronics<br />
(Navona Records).<br />
Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano<br />
Whether being hailed as<br />
“mesmerizing” (Classical Voice of<br />
North Carolina), “thrilling” (The New<br />
Classical 96.3 FM), or “a clear<br />
standout” (San Francisco Classical<br />
Voice), versatile soprano Lara<br />
Ciekiewicz is quickly making her mark as a<br />
compelling, intelligent, and accomplished singingactress.<br />
A graduate of l’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de<br />
Montréal, she has distinguished herself at some of the<br />
continent’s most prestigious training programs<br />
including San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program, the<br />
Banff Centre for the Arts’s Opera as Theatre<br />
program, the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard<br />
Music Center, and Opera Nuova. Her combination of<br />
flair, humour, presence, vocal beauty, and style, all<br />
backed by a solid technique, is already gaining<br />
attention.<br />
Credits include: Micaëla (Carmen); Musetta (La<br />
Bohéme); Sylva (The Gypsy Princess); Maritza<br />
(Countess Maritza); Lyudmila (Ruslan I Lyudmila);<br />
Fiordiligi (Così Fan Tutte); Pamina and Papagena<br />
(Die Zauberflöte); and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi).<br />
Michèle Bogdanowicz, mezzo-soprano<br />
Canadian Michèle Bogdanowicz is<br />
poised to take a commanding place<br />
among the young sopranos of her<br />
generation. A 2007 Fellow at Ravinia’s<br />
Steans Institute for Young Artists, she<br />
was chosen to present the world<br />
premiere of a set of songs by acclaimed American<br />
composer Jake Heggie and as a member of the<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 29
Did you<br />
Know...<br />
The WSO performed at Carnegie Hall,<br />
New York City on March 3, 1979<br />
204-949-3999 I www.wso.ca<br />
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ARTIST BIOS<br />
Michèle Bogdanowicz (Cont’d): Justin Welsh, baritone<br />
prestigious Merola Program of the San<br />
Francisco Opera, she had a resounding success<br />
as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. A young<br />
Mozartean of note, Ms. Bogdanowicz also<br />
appeared in several recent productions of Don<br />
Giovanni as Zerlina (Opera Ontario, Opera<br />
Lyra Ottawa, Pacific Opera Victoria and<br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> London) and sang Papagena in The<br />
Magic Flutein Andrew Porter’s staging for the<br />
Canadian Opera Company Ensemble. As a<br />
member of the COC’s Ensemble Studio, she<br />
appeared in mainstage productions of Carmen<br />
as Mercédès, Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Taleas<br />
New Ofglen and Albert Herring as Nancy.<br />
Edgar Ernesto Ramirez, tenor<br />
Mexican-American tenor<br />
Edgar Ernesto Ramírez is<br />
garnering rave reviews for his<br />
distinctive Italianate sound, his<br />
youthful exuberance, and for<br />
his expressive musicality.<br />
Recent and upcoming engagements include<br />
Ramiro in La Cenerentola by Rossini in the<br />
Wildbad Belcanto Opera Festival, Nemorino<br />
in l’Eisir D’amore with Opéra de Angers-<br />
Nantes, Javier in Luisa Fernanda with Toronto<br />
Operetta Theatre, Leicester in Maria Stuarda<br />
with Pacific Opera Victoria, Il Conte<br />
d'Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera<br />
Hamilton and Raoul de Nanguis in<br />
Meyerberr's Les Huguenots for Toronto's<br />
Opera in Concert, Messiah with The Brott<br />
Festival in Hamilton, An Opera Gala with<br />
Opera de Quebec.<br />
Born in Guadalajara, México, Edgar Ernesto<br />
Ramírez was accepted at the early age of<br />
fifteen to the University of Guadalajara, where<br />
he studied the clarinet. An accomplished<br />
musician, Ramírez played solo clarinet with the<br />
Philharmonic <strong>Orchestra</strong> of Jalisco, and<br />
appeared as a guest of the Opera <strong>Orchestra</strong> of<br />
Teatro Bellas Artes, the Symphonic <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
of Pachuca, and toured with the Naval<br />
Symphonic Band and <strong>Orchestra</strong>. Additionally,<br />
he is a member of the International<br />
Association of Clarinetists of México.<br />
From British Columbia, baritone<br />
Justin Welsh is a former member of<br />
the Canadian Opera Company<br />
Ensemble Studio. He was featured<br />
as Ari in the world premiere of the<br />
Ensemble production of Swoon and<br />
took the role of Fiorello in the mainstage production<br />
of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by<br />
Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Previously he has been seen<br />
as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte in the Andrew Porter<br />
production for the COC Ensemble and covered the<br />
roles of Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte, Count<br />
Almaviva in Le Nozze Di Figaro and Wagner in<br />
Gounod’s Faust. A Fellow at Tanglewood’s Summer<br />
Institute, he recently appeared with Tapestry New<br />
Opera Works and in Messiah with the Regina<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong>. During the winter and spring of 2011,<br />
he was in Brooklyn with the COC’s Nightingale<br />
production and toured with Jeunesses Musicales du<br />
Canada as Belcore in L’ Elisir d’Amore.<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> Philharmonic Choir,<br />
Yuri Klaz, artistic dire cto r<br />
Now in its 91st<br />
season, the<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
Philharmonic<br />
Choir has a wellearned<br />
reputation<br />
for excellence. A choral trademark for the City of<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, the Phil’s repertoire covers a broad range<br />
of music focusing on major choral with orchestral<br />
accompaniment including oratorios, masses and<br />
choral symphonies. Priding itself on premiering<br />
original music, the Phil has commissioned works by<br />
composers from both Manitoba and across Canada.<br />
The choir has captivated audiences in Toronto,<br />
Vancouver and New York’s Carnegie Hall.<br />
Under Maestro Yuri Klaz, the Phil provides music<br />
lovers of all ages a subscription series of three Sunday<br />
afternoon concerts, bringing new life to some of the<br />
world’s finest choral works that are dramatic,<br />
profoundly moving and always entertainingly full of<br />
heart. www.thephil.ca<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 31
"Sistema has<br />
changed my life. I’ve<br />
been ge ting be ter<br />
on my instrument<br />
and I feel like I have<br />
a place to belong."<br />
- Viola student in<br />
Sistema <strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
In partnership with:<br />
32 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
A Program of the <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
Changing our W orld<br />
through Music: Play Your Part<br />
Sistema <strong>Winnipeg</strong> is a free, ensemble- based orchestra<br />
program to inspire underserved children and youth to reach<br />
their full potential and have a positive impact on their lives<br />
and society. Students learn to play an orchestral instrument,<br />
participate in orchestra and other music classes, and share<br />
their talents through numerous performance opportunities.<br />
From 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., five days a week, more than<br />
80 students participate in this program that uses the power<br />
of the musical ensemble to dramatically change the life<br />
trajectory of children’s lives. Inspired by Venezuela’s<br />
El Sistema, Sistema <strong>Winnipeg</strong> focuses on the values of<br />
musical excellence, teamwork and community partnerships.<br />
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Whether you need a string quartet, solo performer, jazz or any other<br />
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ARTIST BIOS<br />
Flin Flon Community Choir,<br />
Crystal Kolt, artistic director<br />
Started in 1996 soon<br />
after the arrival of Mark<br />
and Crystal Kolt, the<br />
Flin Flon Community<br />
Choir has been a driving<br />
force in the development<br />
of professional quality<br />
musical production in<br />
Northern Manitoba.<br />
Built upon a strong local musical tradition fostered by<br />
the dedicated and talented Flin Flon Glee Club which<br />
flourished in the postwar period, ‘the Choir’ alternates<br />
between Musical Theatre Productions and Classical<br />
Masterworks seasons. The FFCC, which ranges in size<br />
from 60 – 100 individuals, has had the opportunity to<br />
perform with The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>,<br />
The Saskatoon <strong>Symphony</strong>, Heather Bishop, Paris to<br />
Kiev, Maria Luz Alvarez and Jeff Dimitriou. In 2002,<br />
twenty five members joined The CAMMAC<br />
Anniversary Chorus in the New York Premiere of<br />
Scott MacMillan’s Celtic Mass for the Sea in Carnegie<br />
Hall.<br />
GREAT-WEST LIFE CO N CERTS FO R KIDS<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> Ta les<br />
JUNE 23<br />
Michael Boudewyns, performer<br />
Michael is excited to make his<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
debut. He regularly performs family<br />
concerts with orchestras around<br />
North America. Since 2004 he has<br />
been a frequent guest with The<br />
Philadelphia <strong>Orchestra</strong>’s Family Concerts. Other<br />
orchestra performances include: Saint Louis, Illinois,<br />
Richmond, Princeton, Texarkana, Des Moines,<br />
Milwaukee, Charlotte, Annapolis, Lincoln, New<br />
Haven, Harrisburg, and Kennett; the Westchester<br />
Philharmonic; the Tulane University <strong>Orchestra</strong>; and<br />
James Madison University’s Montpelier Wind<br />
Quintet. Upcoming debuts include: National<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Kansas City <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />
Richardson <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>, and the Victoria<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> of British Columbia. He is a graduate of<br />
the University of Northern Iowa and the University<br />
of Delaware.<br />
Sara Valentine, performer<br />
Sara is thrilled to make her<br />
Canadian debut with the<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />
She has performed with the<br />
orchestras of Philadelphia,<br />
Charlotte, Richmond, New<br />
Haven, Harrisburg, Annapolis, Princeton, and<br />
Camden’s <strong>Symphony</strong> in C. This season she<br />
appeared with the Saint Louis and Texarkana<br />
symphonies; the Tulane University <strong>Orchestra</strong>;<br />
and James Madison University. She is currently<br />
a Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice and<br />
Speech at Tulane University in New Orleans,<br />
and is co-founder and creative director of<br />
ReallyInventiveStuff.com. She is a graduate of<br />
Ithaca College in New York and the University<br />
of Delaware. Sara grew up in New England.<br />
Kimberly Schroeder, soprano<br />
Kimberly Schroeder is delighted<br />
to be making her <strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> debut. In<br />
2010 she made her orchestral<br />
debut with the Annapolis<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> in Robert<br />
Kapilow’s Green Eggs and Ham, and continues<br />
performing family concerts throughout North<br />
America. She has performed with the<br />
Milwaukee, Richmond, Charlotte, Annapolis,<br />
and Lincoln symphonies, and this season<br />
appeared with the Saint Louis, Illinois,<br />
Harrisburg, and Kennett symphonies. Next<br />
season she debuts with the symphonies of<br />
Kansas City, Texarkana, and Victoria, British<br />
Columbia. She is currently a member of the<br />
dance faculty at the University of Delaware,<br />
and a graduate of the Universities of Nebraska-<br />
Lincoln and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 33
WSO SUPPORTERS<br />
The WSO gratefully acknowledges<br />
the following companies whose<br />
generous support helps to ensure<br />
musical enrichment within our<br />
community. Thank you!<br />
Resident Artist<br />
$10,000 - $24,999<br />
Corus Entertainment Inc.<br />
Johnston Group Inc.<br />
Qualico<br />
Principal Chair<br />
$5,000 - $9,999<br />
Montrose Mortgage Corporation<br />
National Leasing<br />
Premier Printing Ltd.<br />
Wawan esa Insuran ce<br />
Assistant Principal Chair<br />
$2,500 - $4,999<br />
Cambrian Credit Union<br />
J.K. Investments Ltd.<br />
The Standard Life Assurance<br />
Company of Canada<br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> Chair<br />
$1,000 - $2,499<br />
Bison Transport<br />
Dormond Industries<br />
Industrial Alliance Insurance &<br />
Financial Services Inc.<br />
Long & McQuade Musical<br />
Instruments<br />
Payworks Inc.<br />
Peerless Garments LP<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP<br />
B.A. Robinson Co. Ltd./<br />
Robinson Bath Centre<br />
Silpit Industries Co. Ltd.<br />
Music Stand<br />
$500 - $999<br />
Coghlan's Limited<br />
Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd.<br />
Florence & Sheldon Berney<br />
Number Ten Architectural Group<br />
InterGroup Consultants Ltd.<br />
Piston Ring Service<br />
Pollard Banknote Limited<br />
Price Industries Limited<br />
Red River Co-Operative Ltd.<br />
Robinson Lighting Ltd.<br />
Strata Benefits Consulting Inc.<br />
True Value Hardware &<br />
V. & S. De p t . St o r e s<br />
Riser<br />
Under $500<br />
A. Akman & Son Ltd.<br />
Con-Pro Industries Canada Ltd.<br />
M. Morris W. Dorosh<br />
Mid West Packaging Limited<br />
Patill/ St. James Insurance<br />
34 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
Foundations<br />
The Noreen & Robert Allen<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Aqueduct Foun dation - In ga and<br />
An n a Storgaard Fun d<br />
Brandon Area Community<br />
Foundation<br />
Francofonds Inc.<br />
Marjory Alexander Graham<br />
& Family Fund<br />
Gerald M. Hechter & Agnes<br />
Hechter Fund in Honour of<br />
Max & Ethel Hechter &<br />
Elizabeth Fleischmann<br />
Houston Family of Bradwardine<br />
Fund, the <strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
Foundation<br />
George Warren Keates Memorial<br />
Fund<br />
C.P. Loewen Family Foundation Inc.<br />
W.H . & S.E. Loewen Fou n d ation<br />
Inc.<br />
Lutz Family Foundation<br />
The Mauro Family Foundation<br />
Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund<br />
John and Carolynne McLure Fund<br />
Morden Area Foundation<br />
Private Giving Foundation<br />
Richardson Foundation<br />
Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer<br />
Foundation<br />
Leslie John Taylor Fund, the<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> Foundation<br />
The Tallman Foundation<br />
James Thompson Memorial<br />
Fund in Trust of WSO<br />
Terracon Development Ltd.<br />
The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> Foundation<br />
The Legacy Circle exists to<br />
recognize the following patrons<br />
whose foresight ensures that the<br />
WSO plays on f or all Manitobans<br />
for generations to come. The WSO<br />
gratefully acknowledges Legacy<br />
Circle members for their planned<br />
future gift to the WSO.<br />
Lucienne Blouw<br />
Lorraine & Gerry Cairns<br />
Greg Doyle & Carol Bellringer<br />
Ethel & Joe Karr<br />
Michel D. Lagacé<br />
G. E. Loewen<br />
S. E. Loewen<br />
W. H . Loewen<br />
Dr. Brendan MacDougall<br />
Carolyn & Nathan Mitchell<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
George and Tannis Richardson<br />
Trudy Schroeder<br />
June Slobodian<br />
Muriel Smith<br />
Robin Wiens & Émilie<br />
Lagacé -Wiens<br />
Donn K. Yuen<br />
2 Anonymous<br />
Major Gifts<br />
Dr. David Lyttle, In Support<br />
of Education<br />
Ruth Carol & Len Podheiser,<br />
In Support of Music<br />
Connections<br />
The Maestro’s Circle exists<br />
to recognize special patrons<br />
whose significant philanthropy<br />
furthers the musical artistry<br />
of the WSO. Thank you!<br />
Honourary Chair<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate,<br />
Music Director<br />
Platinum Baton<br />
$25,000 +<br />
Bill & Shirley Loewen*<br />
Gold Baton<br />
$10,000 - $24,999<br />
Dr. Brendan MacDougall<br />
Silver Baton<br />
$5,000 - $9,999<br />
Greg Doyle and<br />
Carol Bellringer<br />
Dr. Terry Klassen &<br />
Ms. Grace Dueck<br />
Muriel Smith<br />
Concertmaster's Bow<br />
$2,500 - $4,999<br />
Gail Asper & Michael Paterson<br />
Bill & Margaret Fast<br />
Timothy & Barbara Burt<br />
James Gibbs<br />
Mr. Frank Fred Gladky<br />
Kevin & Els Kavanagh *<br />
Drs. Eleanor & Grant<br />
MacDougall<br />
John Mansfield &<br />
Pam Simmons*<br />
Michael Nozick &<br />
Cheryl Ashley<br />
Frank & Jeanne Plett<br />
Lawrie & Fran Pollard<br />
George & Tannis Richardson*<br />
Hartley & Heather<br />
Richardson<br />
In Memory of Mr. John<br />
Thistlethwaite<br />
Ian R. Thomson &<br />
Leah R. Janzen<br />
Professor A.M.C. Waterman<br />
Black Tie<br />
$1,500 - $2,499<br />
Aubrey & Dr. Lin da Asper<br />
Mr. Jim Barrett<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John &<br />
Leah Bracken<br />
Brenlee Carrington Trepel &<br />
Brent Trepel<br />
Morley & Marjorie<br />
Blankstein C.M., O.M.<br />
Mrs. Lucienne Blouw<br />
Harry & Doneta Brotchie<br />
Bonnie & John Buhler<br />
Herb & Erna Buller<br />
James Carr<br />
Ms. Patricia Chaychuk<br />
Jan & Kevin Coates<br />
James Cohen & Linda<br />
McGarva-Cohen<br />
Art & Leon a DeFeh r<br />
Dorothy Dobbie<br />
Douglas C. Everett,<br />
Chairman,<br />
Domo Gasoline<br />
Corporation Limited<br />
Philipp R. & Ilse K. Ens<br />
Ms. Barbara Filuk*<br />
Mr. Alan Freeman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Frieman<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Albert D. Friesen<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Percy Goldberg<br />
Drs. Daya & Chander Gupta<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Hawkins<br />
Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard<br />
Joanne Gudmundson &<br />
Brian Oleson<br />
Richard & Carol Jones<br />
Michael & Glenna Kay<br />
Mr. Richard J. Lee<br />
Paul Leinburd<br />
Ted & Wan da Lismer<br />
Dr. Judith Littleford<br />
Ms. Ann Loewen<br />
Charles Loewen<br />
Ms. Gail E. Loewen<br />
Suzanne & Graham Lount<br />
Jackie Lowe<br />
Dr. David Lyttle<br />
David Mann<br />
Elaine & Neil Margolis<br />
Ron & Sandi Mielitz<br />
Judy and Ken Murray<br />
Wayn e & Lin da Paquin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Parrish<br />
Diane Payment &<br />
Roxroy West<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
Dr. Blair Peters Dental<br />
Corporate & Dr. Beryl<br />
Peters<br />
Harvey I. Pollock Q.C.<br />
Dr. Bill Pope &<br />
Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope*<br />
Mr. & Mrs. G. V. Price<br />
John & Violet Rademaker<br />
Dr. Diane Ramsey<br />
Dr. Donald S. Reimer &<br />
Mrs. Anne Reimer<br />
Jim & Leney Richardson*<br />
Mrs. Shirley Richardson<br />
Mr. Rick Riess &<br />
Mrs. Jean Carter<br />
Sandy & Debbie Riley<br />
Mr. Terry Sargeant<br />
Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe<br />
Jimmy & Morse Silden<br />
Jack & Elaine Sine
Karl & Steph anie Stobbe<br />
Stuart Olson Dominion<br />
Construction<br />
Dudley & Eleanor Thompson<br />
Arn i Th orstein son &<br />
Susan Glass<br />
Trudy Schroeder<br />
Ewa Tarsia<br />
Mr. Richard Turner<br />
Edward & Irene Warkentin<br />
Don & Florence Whitmore<br />
Klaus & Elsa Wolf<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Klaus Wrogemann<br />
Ivy & Norval Young<br />
*Founding Members<br />
Friends of the WSO help<br />
support the WSO’s artistic<br />
programs each season.<br />
Members enjoy special<br />
benefits that bring Friends<br />
closer to the music, guest<br />
artists and WSO musicians.<br />
Honourary Chair<br />
Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong><br />
$600 +<br />
All Ch arities Campaign<br />
Len & Mary Bateman<br />
David & Gillian Bird<br />
Lorraine and Gerry Cairns<br />
Pierce Cairns<br />
Pamela & Andrew Cooke<br />
John & Gay Docherty<br />
Carrie Ferguson<br />
Delores Gembey<br />
Robert & Linda Gold<br />
Marjory Alexander Graham &<br />
Family Fund<br />
Dr. & Mrs. W.L. Gordon<br />
Gwen Hodgson<br />
Michael & Hélène Hoffer<br />
Mr. Donald K. Johnson<br />
June & Lawrence Jones<br />
Millie & Wally Kroeker<br />
M.L. Kuntzemueller<br />
W.K. Labies<br />
Kyle McLean<br />
Gord & Sherratt Moffatt<br />
Valer ie Mo lliso n<br />
In Memory of Jean Mooney<br />
Terry & Vi Moore<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
Mrs. Marina Plett-Lyle<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Brian Postl<br />
Jim & Pat Richtik<br />
Ms. Charlotte Robbins<br />
Frank Stewart & Elaine Parent<br />
Jim & Jan Tennant<br />
Mr. Peter van Dijken &<br />
Dr. Lorelie Mitchell<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Willem T.H. van Oers<br />
Jesse Vorst<br />
Raymond & Shirley Wiest<br />
Joan Wright<br />
1 Anonymous<br />
Concerto<br />
$300 - $599<br />
Judy & Jay Anderson<br />
Gorden Andrus & Adele Kory<br />
Margaret-Lynne & Jim Astwood<br />
Ms. Margaret Barbour<br />
Cheryl & Earl Barish<br />
Monty & Mary-Claire Bell<br />
Mark & Zita Bernstein Family<br />
Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C.R. Betts<br />
Helga & Gerhard Bock<br />
Mr. Jim Bracken<br />
Sheila & David Brodovsky<br />
Mr. & Mrs. F. Buckmaster<br />
Gail Carruthers<br />
Bruno Gossen & Solange<br />
Chabannes<br />
Ms. Nancy G. Cipryk<br />
Ms. Julie Collings<br />
Dr. & Mrs. David Connor<br />
Barbara Cook<br />
Dennis & Ruth Cook<br />
John Corp & Mary Elizabeth<br />
McKenzie<br />
Gary & Fiona Crow<br />
Ted & Margaret Cuddy<br />
Sally R. Dowler<br />
Dr. Joseph N.H. Du<br />
Marten & Joanne Duhoux<br />
Elfrieda Dupuis<br />
Kathleen & David Estey<br />
Peerless Garments LP<br />
Ms. Jo-Ann Finney<br />
Marcia Fleisher<br />
Penny Gilbert<br />
Mrs. C Gordon<br />
Dr. & Mrs. W. L. Gordon<br />
Patricia Guy<br />
Mary & Gregg Hanson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Allen Hattie<br />
Mr. Daniel Heindl<br />
Jack & Elsie Hignell<br />
Sonia & Harvey Hosfield<br />
Robert Jaskiewicz<br />
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Marianne Johnson<br />
David & Diane Johnston<br />
Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones<br />
Penny & Gerald Kalef<br />
Koren & Leon ard Kamin ski<br />
J. Gartner & L. Kampeas<br />
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Richard Goulet<br />
Dr. I. Kinizsi<br />
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T.G. Kucera<br />
Ms. F Lesage<br />
Ye t t a a n d Ja c k L e vi t<br />
James & Pat Ludwig<br />
An drew Lutz<br />
Douglas MacEwan<br />
Pat & Murray Macrae<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Steven & Melanie<br />
Maksymyk<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John & Natalie<br />
Mayba<br />
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Mrs. E. L. McLandress<br />
Robert Mondy<br />
Ve r a Mo r o z<br />
Drs. Kenneth & Sharon Mould<br />
Bonnie & Richard Olfert<br />
Shelley Parham & David Smith<br />
Capt. Kevin & Karen Peters<br />
Mr. David Pike<br />
Mr. Richard Pinchin<br />
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Donna & Ian Plant<br />
Ms. Danuta Podkomorska<br />
Carolynne Presser<br />
Rosemary Prior<br />
Fred & Carolyn Redekop<br />
Ms. Iris Reimer<br />
Levi & Tena Reimer<br />
Donald & Karen Ross<br />
Judge & Mrs. Charles &<br />
Naida Rubin<br />
F.E. San d erson<br />
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Dr. & Mrs. A. N. Schroeder<br />
Merrill & Shayna Shulman<br />
Winnifred Sim<br />
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E. Stamp<br />
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Curtis & Lorane Steiman<br />
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Susan & Kerr Twaddle<br />
Pat & Peter Walker<br />
Ms. Donna Webb<br />
Mr. & Mrs. R. John<br />
& Diane Weselake<br />
Harry & Evelyn Wray<br />
4 Anonymous<br />
Serenade<br />
$150 - $299<br />
Ross & Doreen Adamson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael &<br />
Susan Allen<br />
Trish Allison-Simms<br />
Mr. Stuart Attwood and<br />
Michele Dupuis<br />
George & Eleanore Balacko<br />
Dick & Minnie Bell<br />
R.C. Bellan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Bethune<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A.D. Brady<br />
Mr. Kurt Braun<br />
Paul & Doreen Bromley<br />
Sel & Chris Burrows<br />
Carol A. Cassels<br />
Ron Clement<br />
Ms. Julie Collings<br />
Mrs. Joyce Cooper<br />
Ms. Helle Cosby<br />
M. & G. Crielaard<br />
Ms. Linda Daniels<br />
Mrs. Maureen Danzinger<br />
Bob & Alison Darling<br />
Hy & Esther Dashevsky<br />
Ms. Rhonda Diamond<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Dingman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda<br />
Donald<br />
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George B. Elias<br />
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Miss Tina Enns<br />
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Margaret E. Faber<br />
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Doug & Phyllis Flint<br />
Reg Friend<br />
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Harold & Alice Funk<br />
Eileen George<br />
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Dr. Lisa Gould<br />
Mrs. Harold W. Grant<br />
Larry & Sue Greer<br />
Dr. Hilary Grocott &<br />
Ms. Shivaun Berg<br />
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Dr. Don and Jerri Hall<br />
Mr. James Hanley<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Allan &<br />
Audrey Harburn<br />
Larry & Evelyn Hecht<br />
Bob & Biddy Hilton<br />
Mr. Derek B. Holke<br />
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N.J. & L.J. Holliday<br />
Helmut & Dorothy Huebert<br />
Mrs. Joan M. Hunter<br />
Rudy & Gail Isaak<br />
Henry & Dena Katz<br />
Ms. Heather Kirkham<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Kirkland<br />
Mrs. M. E. Kittle<br />
Mrs. Marion Korn<br />
Ms. Janet Kuchma<br />
Ms. Teena Laird<br />
Ms. Elaine Lamonica<br />
Ms. Phyllis Law<br />
Mr. Don Lawrence<br />
Mr. Norman Leathers<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Don Leech<br />
Mrs. Donna Leech<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H.F. Leggett<br />
Mrs. Myrna H. Levin<br />
Rose & Dick Lim<br />
Wen d ell & Elean or Lind<br />
Emily Lyons<br />
Dr. & Mrs. A.G. Macrodimitris<br />
Barbara Main<br />
Ruth May<br />
D. McKay<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jim &<br />
Terri McKerch ar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon McLeod<br />
Glen Mead<br />
Sylvia Mitchell<br />
Armelle & Louis Molin<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 35
Margaret & Fred Mooibroek<br />
Margaret Moroz<br />
Mrs. J.E. Morris<br />
Valin d a Mo r r is<br />
Margaret Morse<br />
Bill & Hilda Muir<br />
Mrs. E. J. Nebbs<br />
Terri & Trevor Nordman<br />
George & Gladys Oelkers<br />
Carole & Cam Osler<br />
Mrs. B. Ozog<br />
Margaret & Peter Peters<br />
Tim Preston & Dave Ling<br />
Mary Redekopp<br />
Reynold Redekopp<br />
J. Reichert<br />
Levi & Tena Reimer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie<br />
Eleanor Riach<br />
Olga & Bill Runnalls<br />
Alixe Ryles<br />
Mr. Johnny Rule Salangad &<br />
Ms. Pearly Rule Salangad<br />
F.E. San d erson<br />
Dr. & Mrs. A. N. Schroeder<br />
Dr. Robert J. Schroth<br />
Mr. Gunter Schupke<br />
Ms. Barb Shipley<br />
Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak<br />
David & Lorraine Smith<br />
Lindi & John Smith<br />
Ms. Brenda Snider<br />
Gordon & Darby Spafford<br />
Mr. & Mrs. R.P. Spear<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Starodub<br />
Mr. Herbert Stewart<br />
Bonnie Hoffer-Steiman<br />
& Lionel Steiman<br />
Margaret & Hartley Stinson<br />
Dr. V. Marie Storrie<br />
Dr. & Mrs. David Swatek<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Virgina Tate<br />
Lori & Tom Thomas<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Thompson<br />
Ms. Marilyn Thompson<br />
C. & R. Thomsen<br />
Lee Treilhard<br />
Ms. Rosemarie van Der Hooft<br />
Dr. & Mrs. F.C. Violago<br />
Douglas & Janet Watson<br />
Mr. Paul Wiebe<br />
Herbert & Shirley Wildeman<br />
Ron & Shirley Williams<br />
Elma & Charles Wilson<br />
Dianne Wilt & Keith Millan<br />
In Momory of Cyril Woolf<br />
Melanie Wood<br />
Karin Woods<br />
14 Anonymous<br />
Prelude<br />
$75 - $149<br />
P. Achtem ichu k<br />
Patricia Allen<br />
Doug Arrell & Dick Smith<br />
Mr. Philip Ashdown<br />
Jack Atchison<br />
Ray & Barb Bailey<br />
Allan & Roch elle Baker<br />
Ms. Margaret Barbour<br />
36 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
Rosemary & David Barney<br />
Robert Barton<br />
Audrey Belyea<br />
Eric Bergen<br />
Donald & Edith Besant<br />
Lorne & Marilyn Billinkoff<br />
William & Heather Birtles<br />
Frances Booth<br />
Ted Bock & Lian e Ch almers<br />
Marnie Bolland<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A. K. Bolton<br />
Norma Bortoluzzi<br />
Mrs. Jean M. Bradley<br />
Mrs. Ruth Bredin<br />
Lorne & Rosada Bride<br />
Mr. Robert Briercliffe<br />
Miss Dorothy Broomhall<br />
Mr. & Mrs. E. & M. Mavis Brown<br />
Gloria Brown<br />
Mr. Ross Brownlee<br />
Ms. Carol Budnick<br />
Rev. Msgr. Michael Buyachok<br />
Ruth Calvert<br />
Mrs. Mary C. Campbell<br />
Ms. Donna Carruthers<br />
Dr. Jong Chang<br />
Robert Charbonneau<br />
Saul Cherniack & Myra Wolch<br />
Mrs. Leona Christiansen<br />
Alex & Peggy Colon ello<br />
Ms. Marcella Copp<br />
Joyce & Lawrence Cormack<br />
Irene & Robert Corne<br />
Mrs. E. Craig<br />
Ms. Maxine Cristall<br />
Mrs. Isabel J. Crowson<br />
Kathleen Crowston<br />
Rev. & Mrs. W. A. Cross<br />
Margaret Cumming<br />
Ms. Denise Cyr-Gander<br />
Alon zo & Lise Daley<br />
Mrs. Sheila M. Davis<br />
Jack & Mary Davison<br />
Miss Anne Defehr<br />
F. De Grazia<br />
Marilyn Derksen<br />
& Merle Neufeld<br />
Mary Dixon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence & Brenda<br />
Donald<br />
F.P. Doyle<br />
Herb & Norma Driver<br />
John & Ada Ducas<br />
Ms. Joan Duerksen<br />
Kobus & Corn e Du Preez<br />
Mrs. Dorothy Easton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J.G. Ekins<br />
Mrs. M.L. Elliott<br />
John & Ruth Ens<br />
Ken & Con n ie Epp<br />
Don & Martha Epstein<br />
Greg & Linda Fearn<br />
Ms. Nelma Fetterman<br />
Doug & Joanne Flynn<br />
Margaret Follett<br />
Mrs. Marguerite Fredette<br />
Mr. Lloyd Friedman<br />
Mrs. Margaret Funk<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Evelyn<br />
Gardner<br />
M. & Mme. Andre Gautron<br />
Jim & Betty Gaynor<br />
Deborah L. Ginther<br />
Joyce & Bob Gladding<br />
D. Gooch<br />
Mr. Donald Graham<br />
Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham<br />
Mrs. Noreen Greenberg<br />
Marj Grevstad<br />
Greg Edmond & Irene<br />
Groot-Koerkamp<br />
Ms. Christina W. Grose<br />
Mr. Kenneth W. Grower<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Mel Guberman<br />
Maxine M. Gurvey<br />
Katie & DeLloyd Guth<br />
Mr. Patrick Hackett<br />
Miss Marilyn Hall<br />
Mr. Roy Halstead<br />
Ian & Gerry Hamilton<br />
Marie Harnois<br />
Ms. Dawn Harris<br />
Beth & Raymond Harris<br />
Nora Harvey<br />
Mrs. Phyllis Hatskin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Allen Hattie<br />
Teresa A. Hay<br />
Mrs. Elisabeth Hellmuth<br />
Millie Hemmelgarn<br />
Mrs. Betty Henderson<br />
L.G. Herd<br />
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez<br />
Mrs. Marilyn Hido<br />
Ms. Susan Hildebrandt<br />
Dr. L. Hurst<br />
William J. Hutton<br />
P. Ilavsky<br />
Mr. Lindsay Ingram<br />
Rozin & Cathy Iwanicki<br />
Terry & Sh irley James<br />
Wilfred & Dorothy James<br />
Alan Janzen & Leon a Sookram<br />
Father Stan A. Jaworski<br />
Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac<br />
Ms. Bev Kawchuk<br />
Ms. Marilyn Kapitany<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Kinnear<br />
Erwin W. Kitsch<br />
John & Martha Klassen<br />
Ms. Mary Klassen<br />
Dr. Birte Klug<br />
Alfon z & Susan Kon can<br />
Mr. Ernie Krahn<br />
D. Kristjanson<br />
Patricia Kuchma<br />
M.L. Kuntzemueller<br />
Robert Kusmack<br />
Alan Lain g<br />
Jesse Lang<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Levit<br />
Edith Landy<br />
Mrs. Helen La Rue<br />
Rod & Ann Ledwich<br />
David & Suzanna Libby<br />
K. Le Madec<br />
Mr. R. Leroeye<br />
Mrs. Myrna H. Levin<br />
R. & J. Lewis<br />
Sheila & Elvin Linder<br />
Mr. Gordon P. Linney<br />
Donald & Barbara Little<br />
Albert & Helen Litz<br />
Mrs. Mary Lloyd<br />
Lorron Agencies Ltd.<br />
Roger Lowe<br />
G. & G. Lowry<br />
Ms. Lorraine MacLeod<br />
Mr. John Macrae<br />
Jim MacNair in Memory of Mae<br />
Harold S. Mawhinney &<br />
Judy Moon<br />
Mr. Alan Maxwell<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Ihor Mayba<br />
Mr. & Mrs. R. McDougall<br />
C. & J. McIntyre<br />
Violet McKen zie<br />
Mr. James A. McKinley<br />
Mrs. Jean H. McLennan<br />
Sandra McMillan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Erhard Meier<br />
Rita & Don Menzies<br />
In Memory of Henry Crosby<br />
Mrs. Mona Mills<br />
Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell<br />
Ms. Akemi Miyahara<br />
Mr. Peter Morgan<br />
Dr. Stan & Wendy Moroz<br />
D. Munro<br />
Charlotte Murrell<br />
Ron & Ollie Nelson<br />
Glenn Nicholls<br />
B. & J. Nielsen<br />
Edgar Oddleifson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kiem Oen<br />
J.T. & Karen Ogden<br />
Truus Oliver<br />
Theda Olson<br />
Mrs. B. Ozog<br />
Shirley Graham Padgett<br />
Mr. & Dr. Grant W. Pastuck<br />
In Memory of Mary Patterson<br />
Pat Patterson<br />
Mrs. Betty Peddie<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne &<br />
Joy Peirson<br />
Holly Penner<br />
Mrs. June Perron<br />
Ms. Pat Philpott<br />
Mrs. Helene Picton<br />
Sylvia & Earl Pitch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Polinsky<br />
Blumie Portnoy<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Potter<br />
Don & Carol Poulin<br />
Donna & Gordon Price<br />
R. Publow<br />
Eric & Erna Pullam<br />
Bryan & Diana Purdy<br />
Mrs. Carol Pyper<br />
Mrs. Evelyn Ramsay<br />
Juta Rathke
Ms. Marjorie Reed<br />
George & Lois Reenders<br />
Mrs. Esther Remis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rerie<br />
Waltraut Riedel-Baun<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert &<br />
Ve r a Rip le y<br />
Ms. Barbara Robertson<br />
Donald & Karen Ross<br />
Frances E. Rowlin<br />
John S. Russell<br />
John & Wendy Russell<br />
Bill Sands<br />
Dr. Brent Schacter<br />
A. Sch roeder<br />
R. Schroeder<br />
Shirley Schroeder<br />
Walter & Doroth ea Schultz<br />
Mr. John Schwandt<br />
Mr. Ken Schykulski<br />
Charlene Scouten<br />
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Dr. L. Sekla<br />
Mrs. Doreen Shanks<br />
Shirley E. Sherwood<br />
Garth Simonson<br />
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Ian & Arlene Smith<br />
Geri & Peter Spencer<br />
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Nicola Lindley Starin<br />
Dan & Elsie Stasiuk<br />
Ms. Helena Stelsovsky<br />
Elva G. Stevens<br />
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Ron Surcon<br />
Juris & Aija Svenne<br />
Jo Swartz & Richard Silverman<br />
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Ms. Anne Thiessen<br />
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Robert & Barb Tisdale<br />
Edith A. Toews<br />
Dr. Helen A. Toews<br />
Carol & Neil Trembath<br />
Mrs. Yoko Tsuyuki<br />
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Dr. & Mea. Jose & Ruth<br />
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Mr. Robert Vineberg<br />
Bill & Brenda Voort<br />
Miss A. H. Wagstaffe<br />
Elizabeth M. Wall<br />
Jim & Joan Warbeck<br />
Ken & Mary Warmbrod<br />
Jack & Bernice Watts<br />
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Mrs. Evelyn Wener<br />
J. Whyte<br />
Dorcas & Kirk Windsor<br />
Patrick Wright<br />
Mr. John Yarema<br />
Mr. Edwin Yee<br />
Vicky Youn g<br />
Mr. Donn K. Yuen, in Honour<br />
of Margaret Kuntzemueller's<br />
90th Birthday<br />
26 Anonymous<br />
Sonatina<br />
Under $75<br />
Joyce Aitken<br />
Jacqueline Anderson<br />
Mr. M. Richard Arcand<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Brian &<br />
Janice Bailey<br />
Mr. Cliff Barrett<br />
Ve r o n iq u e Bar th e t<br />
Ms. D. Beaven<br />
Gertie and Asher Begleiter<br />
Mrs. Margaret Bellhouse<br />
Mrs. Eva Berard<br />
Balram & Carole Bhakar<br />
Dr. Eric R. Bohm<br />
Barbara Bohune<br />
Ms. Ingrid Bolbecher<br />
Norma Bortoluzzi<br />
Edythe M. Brown<br />
Dr. Jeff & Madeline Brown<br />
Narendra Budhia<br />
Mr. Alfred Buelow<br />
Lydia Bulat<br />
Ms. Sheila Burland<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Cantor<br />
Mrs. Audrey Cassels<br />
Betty & Bruce Catchpole<br />
Robert Charbonneau<br />
Mrs. Ella Chenkie<br />
Mrs. Patti Cherney<br />
Ms. Claudia Chernitsky<br />
Ms. Aileen Gail Chmeliuk<br />
Melina Chow<br />
S.K. Clark<br />
Ross M. Cleeve<br />
Ms. Katherine Cobor<br />
Ms. Patricia A. Coleman<br />
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Glynis Corkal<br />
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Stephen Crane<br />
Barrie & Sally Cranston<br />
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M. & G. Crielaard<br />
J. & B. Croxford<br />
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Cunningham<br />
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June Curtis<br />
D. Cymbalist<br />
Margaret Redekop<br />
D & E De Graff<br />
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Marlene & Fred Dickson<br />
Sylvia Dixon<br />
Mrs. Enid Dorward<br />
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Cheryl Elias<br />
Margaret Ellis<br />
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Laurel Fife<br />
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Mrs. Gitta Fricke<br />
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Marilyn Gilbert<br />
Marybet & Jim Gilroy<br />
Mr. Laurent Gimenez<br />
Les & Doreen Girling<br />
Linda Graham<br />
Mrs. Inga Granovskaya<br />
John & Louise Greenaway<br />
Ms. Cheryl M. Greenwood<br />
Mr. George Grenier<br />
Donna Grescoe Dojack<br />
Ms. Victoria Gretchen<br />
Jim & Lorraine Griffiths<br />
Ms. Marianne Gruber<br />
Ms. Marion Guinn<br />
Dr. Dina Guth<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff & Debbie Hall<br />
Irene Hamerton<br />
Gertrude Hamilton<br />
Ms. Heather Hartry<br />
Nora Harvey<br />
Mrs. Sylvia Haverstick<br />
Dr. & Mrs. J.C. Haworth<br />
Jane Hayakawa<br />
Olga Hembroff<br />
Max & Eleanor Herst<br />
Ms. Shirley Hicks<br />
Jean Highmoor<br />
Mrs. Kathy Hildebrand<br />
Ms. Susan Hildebrandt<br />
Robyn Hoeppner<br />
Ms. Catherine Holmes<br />
Elly Hoogterp-Herst &<br />
Lorne Herst<br />
Mr. Martin Horseman<br />
Ken Howard<br />
Mrs. Carole Hreno<br />
Roberta & Larry Hurtig<br />
Ms. Ishbell Isaacs<br />
Jacqueline Iwasienko<br />
Bob & Vi Jacob<br />
Neoma Jantz<br />
Pat Jarrett<br />
David Jenkins<br />
Mr. Bruno Jessop<br />
Ms. Jayne Laverne Kapac<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Arnold &<br />
Doreen Kapitz<br />
Mr. Gordon C. Keatch<br />
Mr. Brian Kells<br />
Mrs. Shirley Kilburn<br />
Mr. Ray Kohanik<br />
Mr. Eugene S. Kovach<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hy Kraitberg<br />
Ms. Betty Laing<br />
Elizabeth Lansard<br />
Mr. and Ms. Leblanc<br />
Wayn e & H elen LeBlan c<br />
Mrs. Ingrid Lee<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lentle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David Levene<br />
Ms. Hildy Leverton<br />
Mr. Paul Lindsay<br />
Barry & Patricia Lloyd<br />
Mr. Brian Gordon Lundmark<br />
Mr. Al Mackling<br />
Mr. Allan Mapes<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon &<br />
Rita Margolis<br />
Darrell Marleau<br />
Mrs. Irene Marriott<br />
Ms. Mary Massey<br />
Keith R. Mayoh<br />
Ms. Kimberley McCallum<br />
Ms. Susan McCarthy<br />
Mr. & Ms. Jim & Christina<br />
McDermid<br />
Ms. Mary-Jane McIntyre<br />
Ardythe McMaster<br />
Sandra McMillan<br />
Mr. Lyle W. McNichol<br />
Mr. Gordon R. Meads<br />
In Honour of Donn Yuen's<br />
Retirement<br />
Mrs. Jocelyn Millard<br />
Peter Miller & Carolyn Garlich<br />
Ms. Sheila Miller<br />
Mr. Howard Mitchell<br />
M. Mohr<br />
Mrs. Joan Ann Morton<br />
Mr. Robert Nix<br />
Miss Jenny Olynyk<br />
Shirley & Graham Padgett<br />
Sonjia Pasiechnik<br />
Mrs. Evelyn Pearlman<br />
Vale r ie Pe ar so n<br />
Mrs. Denise Penley<br />
Louise Penner<br />
Ms. Heather Penno<br />
Mrs. June Perron<br />
Ms. Beverley Phillips<br />
Ken & Geri Porath<br />
Mr. David Procner<br />
Mrs. Glennys Propp<br />
Ms. Joanne Prygrocki<br />
R. Publow<br />
Mrs. Virginia Radcliffe<br />
Ms. Pat Repa<br />
Beverley Ridd, in Memory of<br />
Robert Turner<br />
Mrs. Susan E. Roe-Finlay<br />
Mr. & Mrs. D Rosenbaum<br />
Ms. Susan Rosner<br />
Mrs. V. Rosolowich<br />
Rory Runnells<br />
John & Shirley Russell<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 37
Mr. & Mrs. John Sadler<br />
Leonore Saunders O.M. &<br />
Hans-Herman Roeder<br />
Kay Sch alme<br />
William Scheidt<br />
Ms. Velma Schmidt<br />
Mrs. Edna Schneider<br />
Mrs. Marion Schroeder<br />
Mrs. Marian Schroeder<br />
Viola J. Schultz<br />
Adolph & Diane Sch urek<br />
B.J.N. Scott<br />
Jessie & Laura Shea<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Phil & Nancy Shead<br />
Izzy Shore<br />
Mrs. Rita Shreiber<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jiri Sichler<br />
Mrs. Elaine Silverberg<br />
Ms. Barb Simeonidis<br />
In Memory of Henry Crosby<br />
Mr. Michael Spakowski<br />
Ms. Nata L. Spigelman<br />
Clara Steinberg<br />
Josephine Stemerowicz<br />
William Stewart<br />
Muriel Sutherland<br />
Marguerite Szymesko<br />
Bonnie Talbot<br />
Linda Tallin<br />
Mary Lou Talmage<br />
Gladys Tarala<br />
Ewa & Ludwick Tarsia<br />
Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor<br />
Nancy & Geoff Tidmarsh<br />
Henry & Elizabeth Toews<br />
Mr. Alan Tring<br />
Ms. Suzanne Ullyot<br />
Ms. Eleanor Urquhart<br />
Mrs. Roseline Usiskin<br />
Henri & Jane van Dam<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gerry S. Varnes<br />
Sophia Venter<br />
Denis Vincent<br />
Jesse Vorst<br />
Jesse Vorst, in Honour of<br />
Concert Hall Paramedic<br />
Vo lu n te e r s<br />
In Memory of Betty Vouriot<br />
Miss A. H. Wagstaffe<br />
Robin & Joanne Walker<br />
Mrs. Laurabelle Wallace<br />
E. Sylvia Warrington<br />
Mrs. Hilda Weber<br />
Mr. Glen Angus Webster<br />
Ms. Louise Welsh<br />
Mr. Warren Whittaker<br />
Ms. Lois A. Whyte<br />
Ms. Lorraine Willms<br />
Ms. Audrey Wilson<br />
Mrs. Barbara Wolch<br />
Terrie Woodward<br />
Phillip S. Young<br />
27 Anonymous<br />
38 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
Based on Venezuela’s<br />
revolutionary El Sistema<br />
social change model, Sistema<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> is a free daily afterschool<br />
orchestra program that<br />
enriches the lives of children and<br />
young people with the fewest<br />
resources and the greatest need.<br />
Maestoso<br />
$25,000 +<br />
C.P. Loewen Family Foundation<br />
Vivace<br />
$10,000 - $24,999<br />
BMO Financial Group<br />
Boeing<br />
Gail Loewen in Memory of Her<br />
Mother Sue Lemmerick<br />
Con Brio<br />
$5,000 - $9,999<br />
The Manitoba Teachers’<br />
Society<br />
The Tallman Foundation<br />
Allegro<br />
$1,000 - $4,999<br />
Ron & Sandi Mielitz<br />
Manitoba Association of School<br />
Superintendents<br />
Faye Warren<br />
Conmoto<br />
Under $1,000<br />
Lynne Axworthy<br />
Mr. John A. Bailey<br />
Ms. Carmen R. Barchet<br />
Ms. Janet D. Beach<br />
Marcel Bonneau, in Honour of<br />
His 90th Birthday<br />
Doneta & Harry Brotchie<br />
Ms. Coralie Bryant<br />
Ms. Maureen Collison<br />
Roger Dennis<br />
Joy Cooper & Martin Reed<br />
Ms. Gillian P. Cotton<br />
Croft Music<br />
Bob & Alison Darling<br />
Mary Dixon<br />
Ruth & Charles Dowse<br />
Mr. Spencer Duncanson<br />
Judge Judith Elliott<br />
Ms. Heather Emberley<br />
Kathleen & David Estey<br />
Ms. Fruma Farago<br />
Rick & Julie Fast<br />
Ms. Judith Flynn<br />
Mr. Verland Force<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Colin Foster<br />
Future Leaders of Manitoba<br />
Council Inc<br />
F George<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J Gibson<br />
Ms. Valerie Gilroy<br />
Bobbi-Lynn Haegeman<br />
Ms. Irene Hamilton<br />
Mr. Rudy Hedrich<br />
Mr. Donald Henry<br />
Ms. Ellen Henry<br />
Ms. Gail Henry<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Terry & Phyllis<br />
Hidichuk<br />
Katherin e Himelblau<br />
Ms. Lisa Houtkooper<br />
P. Ilavsky<br />
Ms. Sue Irving<br />
Graham Isaak<br />
Mrs. Marion Jagger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Reg & Nancy Johnson<br />
Ms. Barbara L. Jones<br />
Ms. Diane Jones<br />
In Memory of Paul Kettner<br />
Ms. Margruite Krahn<br />
Mrs. Judy Lamont<br />
Ms. Veronica L. Larmour<br />
Mr. Frederick Lee<br />
Dr. Peter Letkemann<br />
Dr. David Lyttle<br />
Ms. Leona MacDonald<br />
Ms. Shannon MacFarlane<br />
Mrs. Carol Macoomb<br />
Mr. Dave Madson<br />
Art Mauro & Naomi Levin e<br />
Ms. Lynne McCarthy<br />
Pat McCarthy-Briggs<br />
Iona McPhee<br />
Rita & Don Menzies<br />
Walter A. Mildren<br />
Nathan & Carolyn Mitchell<br />
Addie Pen n er<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Rollin & Katherine<br />
Penner<br />
Donna Plant<br />
Ms. Margaret Podolsky<br />
Lawrie & Fran Pollard<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Prescott<br />
Dr. David Punter<br />
Mr. Douglas Riske<br />
Ms. Lavonne Ross<br />
Nicola Schaefer<br />
Mr. M. Schnitzer<br />
Ms. Janet Schubert<br />
Ms. Carol Sharp<br />
Clarice Shell<br />
Mr. Jon Sigurdson<br />
Wilma Sotas<br />
Deidre Sozansky<br />
Ms. Barbara Sparling<br />
William Stewart<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth & Lorraine<br />
Stone<br />
Mr. Tim Swanson &<br />
Ms. Anne Longston<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Mary<br />
Thomas<br />
Ms. Phyllis A. C. Thomson<br />
Carol & Neil Trembath<br />
Mrs. Audrey Vandewater<br />
Mrs. Nancy Vincent<br />
Stephen & Linda Vincent<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur & Carrie<br />
Walker-Jon es<br />
The Children and Grandchildren<br />
of Colin and Frances Walley<br />
P. & B. Walsh<br />
Ms. Stephanie Whitehouse<br />
In Memory of Susan Wieser<br />
Edith Wilde<br />
Nicole & Graham Worden<br />
4 Anonymous<br />
Leave a legacy by making a<br />
donation to the WSO’s<br />
Endowment Fund. Managed<br />
by The <strong>Winnipeg</strong> Foundation<br />
since 1959, the fund has<br />
grown in value to just over<br />
$4M. Gifts to the fund ensure<br />
long term financial support<br />
for the orchestra. Thank you!<br />
Ms. Lisa Abram<br />
Judy & Jay Anderson<br />
Aubrey & Dr. Lin da Asper<br />
John Bacon<br />
John & Janet Bailey<br />
Doris & Burton Bass<br />
Greg Doyle and Carol<br />
Bellringer<br />
Eric Bergen<br />
In Memory of Jessica<br />
Bernardin<br />
Mark & Zita Bernstein Family<br />
Foundation<br />
Edwin & Susan Bethune<br />
Ms. Joanne Biggs<br />
David & Gillian Bird<br />
Morley & Marjorie Blankstein<br />
C.M., O.M.<br />
Blumie & Iser Portnoy<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
Helga & Gerhard Bock<br />
Mr. Boychuk<br />
Kurt Braun<br />
Ms. Meira Buchszreiber<br />
Mr. & Mrs. F. Buckmaster<br />
Mrs. Leona Burdeniuk<br />
Timothy & Barbara Burt<br />
Lorraine and Gerry Cairns<br />
Sandra Caplan<br />
T & J Carter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norm & Sylvia Cassie<br />
Chavurad Tefilah; in<br />
Appreciation of Clara Belkin<br />
Chavurad Tefilah; in<br />
Appreciation of Karin Klassen<br />
Lawrie Cherniack<br />
Ms. E.R Chochinov<br />
Audrey Clifford<br />
Mrs. Joyce Cooper<br />
Ms. Helle Cosby<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Roger & Cathy<br />
Coss<br />
D.J. Cowan<br />
M. & G. Crielaard<br />
Gary & Fiona Crow<br />
D. Cymbalist<br />
Esther and Hy Dashevsky<br />
Kathleen Davis
Mr. Ray Davis<br />
Dept of Otolaryngology, Head<br />
& Neck Surgery<br />
Tanya & Cameron Derksen<br />
Mrs. Christine Dewar<br />
Mr. Isaac Ben Diamond<br />
Ms. Janice Dietch<br />
Mrs. Elfrieda H. Dupuis<br />
Beverley & Fred Dyck<br />
Helene Dyck<br />
Ms. Alexandra Eastley<br />
John & Martha Enns<br />
Ms. Ursula Erhardt<br />
Sharon Erickson-Nesmith<br />
Kathleen & David Estey<br />
Irwin & Gail Fine<br />
Ms. Jo-Ann Finney<br />
Julien Fradette<br />
Mrs. Gitta Fricke<br />
Eileen George<br />
Mr. Randy Gesell<br />
Roger Giesbrecht<br />
Jeremy & Maureen Gordon<br />
Heather Graham<br />
Dr. & Mrs. L.C. Graham<br />
Mr. Ralph B. Guppy<br />
Mr. James Hanley<br />
In Memory of Emily Hasinoff<br />
Teresa A. Hay<br />
Dr. Wolfgang Heidenreich<br />
Mr. Daniel Heindl<br />
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez<br />
Katherin e Himelblau<br />
Rachel Himelblau<br />
Dorothy L. Hodgson<br />
Mrs. Audrey F. Hubbard<br />
William J. Hutton<br />
Terry & Sh irley James<br />
Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones<br />
Ms. Marilyn Kapitany<br />
A Special Th ank You to Jackie<br />
Godard<br />
Kevin & Els Kavanagh<br />
Miss Esme Keith<br />
Mr. Ken Kinsley<br />
Brad and Cheryl Klassen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bryan D. Klein<br />
In Memory of Donald<br />
Kluch n ik<br />
T.G. Kucera<br />
Mr. Roland Lanoie<br />
Mr. Don Lawrence<br />
Amanda Le Rougetel &<br />
Val Paap e<br />
Lisa Lewis<br />
Fraser & Joan Linklater<br />
An drew Lutz<br />
K.J. Lyon s & C.E. Simcoe<br />
Mr. Simon MacDonald<br />
Bonnie Makodanski<br />
Dr. Peter & Jane Markesteyn<br />
In Memory of Grant Marshall<br />
Robert McDowall<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Terri<br />
McKerchar<br />
Mrs. Jean H. McLennan<br />
Ardythe McMaster<br />
Glen Mead<br />
Stephen & Marianne Meush<br />
Margaret & Fred Mooibroek<br />
Linda Moore<br />
Margaret Moroz, in Memory<br />
of Donald Kluchnik<br />
Margaret Moroz<br />
Ve r a Mo r o z<br />
Ron & Ollie Nelson<br />
Mr. Sveto Nikic<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Ormonde<br />
In Memory of Fern Papushka<br />
Ms. Joan S. Papushka<br />
Mr. & Dr. Grant W. Pastuck<br />
In Memory of Mary Patterson<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
In Memory of Dr. & Mrs. M.M.<br />
Pierce<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Werner Pieterse<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David & Wanda Pike<br />
Phyllis Portnoy & Rory Egan<br />
Ms. Lois Powne<br />
Eric & Erna Pullam<br />
J. Reichert<br />
Ms. Iris Reimer<br />
Mrs. Shirley Richardson<br />
Ms. Charlotte Robbins<br />
James Robertson<br />
Gisela Roger<br />
Mr. Kevin Rollason<br />
Olga & Bill Runnalls<br />
Ms. Tracy Sachvie<br />
Grant & Janet Saunders<br />
William Scheidt<br />
A. Sch roeder<br />
Marilyn & Jon Seguire<br />
Dr. L. Sekla<br />
David Shefford<br />
Shirley E. Sherwood<br />
Michael Silicz & Alison<br />
Hamilton<br />
Winnifred Sim<br />
Louis & Shirley Ann Simkulak<br />
Jack & Elaine Sine<br />
In Memory of David H.<br />
Skinner<br />
Mrs. Carolyn E. Smith<br />
Mr. Jean P. Sourisseau<br />
Ms. Patricia Steele<br />
Dr. & Mrs. M.R. Steinbart<br />
Margaret & Hartley Stinson<br />
Lea Stogdale<br />
L. & P. Talbot<br />
James & Joanne Teitsma<br />
Ms. Marilyn Thompson<br />
Heather A. Thornton<br />
Edith A. Toews<br />
Dr. Helen A. Toews<br />
Louise Waldman & David<br />
Loftson<br />
Pat & Peter Walker<br />
Professor A.M.C. Waterman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James & Claudia<br />
Weselake<br />
Mr. Paul Wiebe<br />
Robin Wiens and Emilie<br />
Lagacé-Wiens<br />
Raymond and Shirley Wiest<br />
Dianne Wilt & Keith Millan<br />
Lisa Abram<br />
Wom en 's Com m ittee of th e<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
Theresa Huscroft<br />
Terence & An gela Wu<br />
Phillip S. Young<br />
6 Anonymous<br />
Share the Music is a unique<br />
outreach initiative of the WSO<br />
that allows economically<br />
disadvantaged children and<br />
their families to attend WSO<br />
performances. Thank you for<br />
helping to Share the Music!<br />
His Worship Mayor Sam Katz<br />
Ms. E.R Chochinov<br />
Shelley Chochinov<br />
Barbara Cook<br />
EJ Day<br />
Addie Pen n er<br />
In Memory of Dr. &<br />
Mrs. M.M. Pierce<br />
Ms. Linda Sander<br />
Kay Sch alme<br />
Heida & Skuli Sigfusson<br />
Ms. Brenda Sklar<br />
Geri & Peter Spencer<br />
G.W. & Jean Swift<br />
Bette Jayne Taylor, in Honour<br />
of Her Birthday<br />
Ross & Bette Jayne Taylor<br />
Allyson Watts<br />
2 Anonymous<br />
Festival donors help to<br />
ensure the artistic excellence<br />
of the WSO’s New Music<br />
Festival. Thank you!<br />
Aubrey & Dr. Lin da Asper<br />
Ms. Ruth Asper<br />
Baked Expectations<br />
Pat & Mary Jo Carrabre<br />
Warren Carth er<br />
Mr. Ernest P. Cholakis<br />
Dr. & Mrs. David Connor<br />
Aris Econ omou<br />
Elvira Finnigan<br />
For Eyes<br />
Mr. Georgios Giannelis<br />
Paul & Nel Henteleff<br />
Marilyn & Helios Hernandez<br />
Richard & Karen Howell<br />
Humphry Inn & Suites<br />
Drs. Keith & Gwyneth Jones<br />
Koren & Leon ard Kamin ski<br />
Kozub/ H alldorson Family<br />
Mrs. Caroline Ksiazek<br />
T.G. Kucera<br />
Ron Lambert<br />
Rolf & Alana Langelotz<br />
Mr. Gordon P. Linney<br />
Dr. Brendan MacDougall<br />
Mr. Frank Martin<br />
Mr. Pat Meagher<br />
Ms. Nancy Mercury<br />
Ms. Sheila Miller<br />
Mrs. Brenda Morlock<br />
Margaret Moroz<br />
Robert & Cindy Neufield<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
Ms. Dominique Rey<br />
Mr. Doug Shewfelt<br />
Mr. Michael Shnier<br />
Muriel Smith<br />
Iian Smythe<br />
Juris & Aija Svenne<br />
Karin Woods<br />
Mr. & Dr. Jens J. Wrogemann<br />
Ms. Sylvia Yaeger<br />
3 Anonymous<br />
Listing as of Feb. 2, 2013<br />
March – June 2013 I OVERTURE 39
WSO BOARD & STAFF 2012-2013 SEASON<br />
OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS<br />
His Honour the Honourable<br />
Philip S. Lee C.M., O.M.<br />
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba<br />
The Honourable Greg Selinger,<br />
Premier of Manitoba<br />
His Worship Sam Katz,<br />
Mayor of the City of <strong>Winnipeg</strong><br />
Mr. W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen,<br />
WSO Directors Emeritus<br />
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE<br />
Shirley Loewen, President<br />
Sylvia Cassie, Vice President<br />
Lesia Peet, Past President<br />
Margaret Harvie, Treasurer<br />
Evelyn Davidson, Secretary<br />
TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
EXECUTIVE OFFICE<br />
Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant<br />
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION<br />
John Bacon, Director of Finance & Administration<br />
Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator<br />
Mihye Shin, Accounting & Administrative Assistant<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
Joanne Gudmundson, Director of Development<br />
Carol Cassels, Development Manager<br />
Sarah Lund, Development Coordinator<br />
Gail Loewen, Manager of Strategic Advancement Projects<br />
Caroline Murphy, Telefunder, Donations & Raffles<br />
Karen Deda & Chelse McKee, Development Assistants<br />
SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES<br />
Ryan Diduck, Director of Sales & Audience Services<br />
Jason Hayes, Patron Services Coordinator<br />
Heather Thornton, Group Events Representative<br />
Rachel Himelblau, Patron Services Representative<br />
Patron Services Representatives (p/t):<br />
Theresa Huscroft Melissa Ungrin<br />
Clare Neil Stephanie Van Nest<br />
Crystal Schwartz<br />
NEW<br />
WSO ADMINISTRATION OFFICE:<br />
Richardson Building<br />
Suite 1650 – One Lombard Place<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, MB R3B 0X3<br />
Phone: 204.949.3950<br />
Fax: 204.956.4271<br />
www.wso.ca<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Timothy E. Burt, CFA,<br />
President & Chair<br />
Richard Turner,<br />
Vice President<br />
Muriel Smith, Secretary<br />
Rob Kowalchuk,<br />
Treasurer<br />
Dorothy Dobbie, Past<br />
President<br />
James Carr<br />
Sylvia Cassie<br />
Michael Cox<br />
Arlene Dahl<br />
ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR<br />
ARTISTIC<br />
Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate<br />
Richard Lee, Resident Conductor<br />
Vincent Ho, Composer-in-Residence<br />
Alan Freeman<br />
Dr. Daya Gupta<br />
Gregory Hay<br />
Michael D. Kay<br />
Maureen Kilgour<br />
Caroline Ksiazek<br />
Jackie Lowe<br />
Terry Sargeant<br />
Karl Stobbe<br />
Trudy Schroeder,<br />
Ex officio<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate,<br />
Ex officio<br />
OFFICIAL AUDITORS<br />
Runchey Miyazawa Abbott Chartered Accountants<br />
ARTISTIC OPERATIONS<br />
Jean-Francois Phaneuf, Director of Artistic Operations<br />
James Manishen, Artistic Operations Associate<br />
Andrea de Haan, Production Manager<br />
Amanda Wilson, Stage Manager<br />
Chris Lee, <strong>Orchestra</strong> Personnel Manager<br />
Ray Chrunyk, Principal Librarian<br />
Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian<br />
Lawrence Rentz, Stage Supervisor<br />
EDUCATION & OUTREACH<br />
Tanya Derksen, Director of Education & Outreach<br />
Amy Wolfe, Education & Outreach Coordinator<br />
Brent Johnson, Community Outreach Coordinator<br />
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS<br />
Lisa Abram, Director of Marketing & Communications<br />
Sarah Panas, Intern<br />
Cheryl Waldner, Communications (p/t)<br />
S. Thompson Designs Inc.<br />
WIN N IPEG SYMPH O N Y O RCH ESTRA TICKET IN FO RMATIO N<br />
40 OVERTURE I March – June 2013<br />
WSO BOX OFFICE:<br />
Centennial Concert Hall<br />
555 Main Street<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, MB R3B 1C3<br />
Phone: 204.949.3999<br />
www.wso.ca<br />
TICKETMASTER:<br />
Phone: 1-855-985-ARTS<br />
Ticketmaster.ca<br />
GROUP EVENTS:<br />
Phone: 204-949-3995<br />
groupevents@wso.mb.ca<br />
The WSO is a chartered non-profit organization operated by a voluntary Board of Directors.
20132014 SEASON GUIDE<br />
Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director<br />
Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor<br />
Vincent Ho, Composer-in-Residence<br />
WSO Season<br />
at-a-Glance<br />
SEASON OPENER:<br />
LAPLANTE PLAYS RACHMANINOFF<br />
Friday, September 20 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, September 21 I 8:00 pm<br />
SCI-FI SPECTACULAR<br />
Friday, September 27 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, September 28 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, September 29 I 2:00 pm<br />
BRAHMS: SYMPHONY NO. 1<br />
Friday, October 4 I 10:30 am<br />
JAMES EHNES<br />
Friday, October 4 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, October 5 I 8:00 pm<br />
WALL TO WALL PERCUSSION<br />
Sunday, October 6 I 2:00 pm<br />
TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL<br />
Friday, October 25 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, October 26 I 8:00 pm<br />
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 6<br />
(PATHÉTIQUE)<br />
Friday, November 1 I 10:30 am<br />
TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL FINALE<br />
Friday, November 1 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, November 2 I 8:00 pm<br />
THE HOCKEY SWEATER<br />
Sunday, November 3 I 2:00 pm<br />
LE OMBRÉ<br />
Friday, November 8 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, November 9 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, November 10 I 2:00 pm<br />
UMI PLAYS CHOPIN<br />
Friday, November 15 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, November 16 I 8:00 pm<br />
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Richardson Building<br />
Suite 1650 – One Lombard Place<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, Manitoba<br />
R3B 0X3<br />
A PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION<br />
Saturday, November 30 I 7:30 pm<br />
STEVE BELL<br />
Sunday, December 1 I 8:00 pm<br />
MESSIAH<br />
Friday, December 6 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, December 7 I 8:00 pm<br />
THE SNOWMAN<br />
Sunday, December 8 I 2:00 pm<br />
NATALIE MACMASTER<br />
Friday, December 13 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, December 14 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, December 15 I 2:00 pm<br />
SYMPHONY IDOL<br />
Friday, January 10 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, January 11 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, January 12 I 2:00 pm<br />
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3<br />
(EROICA)<br />
Friday, January 17 I 10:30 am<br />
FOUR HORNS & BEETHOVEN<br />
Friday, January 17 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, January 18 I 8:00 pm<br />
HILLIARD<br />
Saturday, January 25 I 8:00 pm<br />
RICHTER & SILVESTROV<br />
Friday, January 31 I 8:00 pm<br />
LINDI ORTEGA WITH THE WSO<br />
Friday, February 7 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, February 8 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, February 9 I 2:00 pm<br />
BRUCKNER 8<br />
Friday, February 21 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, February 22 I 8:00 pm<br />
WSO Box Office:<br />
Centennial Concert Hall<br />
555 Main Street<br />
<strong>Winnipeg</strong>, Manitoba<br />
R3B 1C3<br />
MANNY TUBA’S MUSICAL<br />
TREASURE HUNT<br />
Sunday, February 23 I 2:00 pm<br />
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION<br />
– BEYOND THE SCORE ®<br />
Saturday, March 1 I 7:30 pm<br />
WINNIPEG PHILHARMONIC CHOIR<br />
Sunday, March 2 I 3:00 pm<br />
BOND & BEYOND:<br />
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF 007<br />
Friday, March 7 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, March 8 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, March 9 I 2:00 pm<br />
MENDELSSOHN & MAHLER<br />
Friday, March 14 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, March 15 I 8:00 pm<br />
MANITOBA ROCKS!<br />
Friday, March 28 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, March 29 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, March 30 I 2:00 pm<br />
FRITZ LANG’S METROPOLIS<br />
Saturday, April 12 I 7:30 pm<br />
THE FIREBIRD<br />
Sunday, April 13 I 2:00 pm<br />
VERDI REQUIEM<br />
Saturday, April 19 I 8:00 pm<br />
PEKING ACROBATS ENCORE!<br />
Friday, April 25 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, April 26 I 8:00 pm<br />
Sunday, April 27 I 2:00 pm<br />
R. MURRAY SCHAFER:<br />
SYMPHONY NO. 1<br />
Friday, May 2 I 10:30 am<br />
CARNEGIE HALL!<br />
Friday, May 2 I 8:00 pm<br />
Saturday, May 3 I 8:00 pm<br />
CELLO FESTIVAL<br />
Sunday, June 22 I 8:00 pm<br />
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