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“Unquestioned master of the violin” (American Record Guide) Tianwa Yang makes her ESO debut playing music she knows very well. Having recorded an historic collection of Sarasate’s complete works for violin and orchestra for Naxos, she appears in the season finale of the Robbins Lighter Classics in a night celebrating the Spanish virtuoso (see page 26).

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ARTISTIC & LEADERSHIP TEAM(Eddins, Petrov, Uchida, Waldin)

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SO MUCH MORE THAN AN AUDIENCEESO patrons are the foundation

LEXUS FRIDAY MASTERS/LANDMARK HOMES MASTERSTCHAIKOVSKY’S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO (MARCH 27 & 28)

Daniel Hege, conductorBehzod Abduriamov, piano

LEXUS FRIDAY MASTERS/LANDMARK HOMES MASTERSTHE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN (APRIL 10 & 11)

William Eddins, conductorRichard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff, Music Director)

ROBBINS POPSBOND & BEYOND (APRIL 24 & 25)

Michael Krajewski, conductorDebbie Gravitte, vocalist

LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR EDMONTON RECITAL SOCIETYNOBUYUKI TSUJII (MAY 5)

EARLY CLASSICS MIDWEEKHANDEL & HAYDN (MAY 13)

Viswa Subbaraman, conductorLidia Khaner, oboe d’amoreJeremy Spurgeon, organ

ROBBINS LIGHTER CLASSICSVIOLIN SHOWSTOPPERS (MAY 21)

Carl Topilow, conductorTianwa Yang, piano

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demonstrates tremendous and infectious passion and enthusiasm, as well as an adventurous musical curiosity that propels the orchestra to new and exciting achievements. His commitment to the entire spectrum of the ESO audience brings him to the podium for performances in every subscription series, as well as for a wide variety of galas and specials.

A distinguished and versatile pianist, Mr. Eddins caught the conducting bug while in his sophomore year at the Eastman School of Music. In 1989, he began conducting studies at the University of Southern California with Daniel Lewis, and assistant conductorships with both the Minnesota Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony (the latter under the leadership of Daniel Barenboim) followed.

Mr. Eddins has many non-musical hobbies including cooking, eating, discussing food and planning dinner parties. He is also quite fond of biking, tennis, reading and pinball. Based in Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife

Jen (a clarinetist) and their sons Raef and Riley, the Eddins home comes complete with a state-of-the-art recording studio, built by Mr. Eddins himself.

While conducting is his principal pursuit, he continues to perform as pianist, organist and harpsichordist. He has conducted the ESO from the keyboard on many occasions. An important aspect of every performance in the Masters series over the last few seasons (including 2014/15) is the inclusion in every program of a work that the orchestra has never performed. In 2008, he conducted Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for Opéra Lyon, leading to repeat performances in Lyon, London and at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2010. Other international highlights include a 2009 tour of South Africa, where Mr. Eddins conducted three gala concerts with soprano Renée Fleming and the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra. On May 8, 2012, Mr. Eddins made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the ESO at a memorable concert featuring four Canadian soloists, and music by three Canadian composers alongside Martinů’s rarely performed Symphony No. 1.

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Now in his second season as ESO Concertmaster, ROBERT UCHIDA is hailed for his “ravishing sound,

eloquence and hypnotic intensity” (Strings Magazine). He enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and educator. His performances across North America and Europe receive great critical acclaim. Mr. Uchida previously served as Concertmaster of Symphony Nova Scotia and Associate Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and has acted as Guest Concertmaster for the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He works as concertmaster with many of the world’s top conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart and Pinchas Zukerman.

In recent years he has been a featured soloist with several of Canada’s orchestras including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Ottawa Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia and Symphony New Brunswick. His recital and chamber music performances have included prestigious venues including Lincoln Center (New York),

Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto). He has been a guest violinist at a number of Canadian festivals and chamber music series.

An advocate of new music, Uchida has worked with many composers including John Corigliano and Richard Danielpour, and has given premieres of works by Tim Brady, John Frantzen, Augusta Read-Thomas, Scott Wollschleger, and recorded the premiere of the Sonata for Solo Violin by Andrew Violette for Innova Records. He has held teaching positions at Acadia University, the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College, and the National Arts Centre’s Young Artist Program. He is Artistic Director of the Acadia Summer Strings Festival in Wolfville and is frequently invited to give master classes at schools across the country. Mr. Uchida performs on a Lorenzo Ventapane violin made in Naples, Italy in 1820, bows by Peccatte and Sartory, and a baroque bow by Max Kasper. He plays Vision Solo Titanium violin strings by Thomastik-Infeld Vienna. He currently lives in Edmonton with his wife Laura and their two children.

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ANNEMARIE PETROV, Executive Director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) and Francis

Winspear Centre for Music, brings more than 26 years of experience to a role that oversees one of Alberta’s flagship performing ensembles and one of the world’s premier concert halls.

With a combined annual budget of over $12 million, Ms. Petrov supervises day-to-day operations, long-term planning, government relations and community support of both organizations.

A native of Montréal, Ms. Petrov is a graduate of McGill University where she majored in French horn performance. Following several years in Europe, she returned to Canada and stepped into the role of General

Manager of Symphony New Brunswick. She followed her position at the National Arts Centre Orchestra with work at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where she also oversaw the popular Winnipeg New Music Festival. She joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Winspear Centre in 2007.

Ms. Petrov is guided by her profound love of the arts in a career focused on every aspect of the concert experience – from international orchestral tours to concerts in curling rinks in Canada’s North. She is fuelled by the belief that participation in live music is essential to our well-being and is driven to make it accessible to everyone. She is a frequent guest speaker at arts industry conferences and has served on the board of Orchestras Canada.

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[ VIOLIN I ]Robert Uchida, ConcertmasterThe John & Barbara Poole Family Concertmaster ChairEric Buchmann, 5 Associate ConcertmasterVirginie Gagné, Assistant ConcertmasterLaura VeezeBroderyck OlsonRichard CaldwellJoanna Ciapka-SangsterAlison StewartAnna KozakAiyana Anderson-HowattNeda Yamach

[ VIOLIN II ]Dianne New 1

Susan Flook 2

Heather BergenPauline BronsteinRobert HryciwZoë SellersMurray VaasjoTatiana Warszynski

[ VIOLA ]Stefan Jungkind 1

Charles Pilon 2

Clayton LeungRhonda HenshawMikiko KohjitaniAndrew Bacon

[ CELLO ]Colin Ryan 1, 5 The Stuart & Winona Davis Principal Cello ChairSheila Laughton 3

Derek Gomez 4

Ronda MetsziesGillian CaldwellVictor Pipkin

[ BASS ]Jan Urke 1

John Taylor 2

Janice QuinnRhonda TaftRob Aldridge

[ FLUTE ]Elizabeth Koch 1

Shelley Younge 2

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Lidia Khaner 1 Paul Schieman 2 The Steven & Day LePoole Assistant Principal Oboe Chair

[ CLARINET ]Charles Hudelson, Principal EmeritusJulianne Scott 1

David Quinn 2

[ BASSOON ]William Harrison 1

Matthew Howatt 3

Edith Stacey 2

[ HORN ]Allene Hackleman 1

Megan Evans 2

Gerald Onciul 2

Donald Plumb 2

[ TRUMPET ]Alvin Lowrey, Principal EmeritusRobin Doyon 1

Frédéric Payant 2

[ TROMBONE ]John McPherson 1

Kathryn Macintosh 2

[ BASS TROMBONE ]Christopher Taylor 1

[ TUBA ]Scott Whetham 1

[ TIMPANI ]Barry Nemish 1

[ PERCUSSION ]Brian Jones 1

[ HARP ]Nora Bumanis 1

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ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Eric Filpula, Orchestra Personnel ManagerAaron Christopher Hawn, Orchestra Librarian

The following musicians may appear at performances in this issue:Julie Amundsen CelloChris Andrew PianoAaron Au ViolinRaymond Baril SaxophoneJim Cockell ViolinJeanette Comeau ViolaElizabeth Faulkner FluteMary Fearon HornErin Fung ClarinetJoel Gray TrumpetMarie Krejcar ViolinAlden Lowrey TromboneMichael Massey KeyboardsJohn McCormick PercussionRaj Nigam PercussionDiane Persson BassoonLeanne Regehr KeyboardsBrian Sand TrumpetYukari Sasada BassRob Spady ClarinetJeremy Spurgeon KeyboardsElaine Stepa PercussionKate Svrcek ViolinBrian Thurgood PercussionDan Waldron OboeRussell Whitehead TrumpetIan Woodman CelloChristine Yu ViolinJoanne Yu Cello Keri Zwicker Harp

F or the 2014/15 season, LUCAS WALDIN

continues to wear with distinction the mantle of Enbridge Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador, as well as that of YONA-Sistema Artistic Director. In these capacities, he continues to establish strong ties with our community through inventive outreach initiatives, assist in programming and presenting the ESO’s education and family

concerts, and applying his artistic leadership to the YONA-Sistema program. During his time with the ESO (which began with his appointment as Conductor in Residence in 2009), Mr. Waldin has collaborated with some of North America’s finest musicians including Jens Lindemann, Angela Cheng and Sergei Babayan. An experienced conductor of pops and crossover, he has worked with a range of artists such as Ben Folds, Chantal Kreviazuk and the Canadian Tenors. His acclaimed work with the Barenaked Ladies led the iconic Canadian pop group to select Mr. Waldin as their conductor of choice for their performances with the Toronto Symphony at Roy Thomson Hall.

Strongly dedicated to Canadian composers, Lucas Waldin has performed over 25 Canadian compositions including six world premieres. In recognition of his valuable contribution to the artistic life in Canada, he was awarded the 2012 Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting by the Canada Council for the Arts. He studied conducting and flute at the Cleveland Institute of Music and has conducted in master classes with Helmuth Rilling, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Colin Metters, and Bernard Haitink. In 2012, he was invited to conduct the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) in a conductor workshop, and as a participant of the St. Magnus Festival, Orkney, Lucas conducted both the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony. Prior to his appointment with the Edmonton Symphony, Mr. Waldin was a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival, and Assistant Conductor of Cleveland’s contemporary orchestra {RED}. He has performed with orchestras across Europe, including the Jugendsinfonieorchester Kassel, Bachakademie Stuttgart, and Staatstheater Cottbus.

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In addition to our own concerts, the ESO provides orchestral

accompaniment for performances by Edmonton Opera and Alberta Ballet.

The ESO works in proud partnership with the AF of M (American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada) Local 390.

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MMUSIC HAS POWER – TO TOUCH LIVES AND influence them in ways you probably don’t realize until

they happen. A connection is made, and an audience member becomes a steward, or a child becomes empowered, or a musician puts down roots in the community. The activities of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and its musicians send ripples out into our region and beyond that enrich us all, and not just those who attend our concerts. We talk a lot in the pages of Signature about the music and those who make it – as well we should! But we wanted to take up a little space here to introduce you to some of our stakeholders, and what the power of music has done for them.

Robert Uchida & Laura VeezeConcertmaster and member of First Violins (respectively), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, with Marten and Noemi.

When did you start playing violin? What got you interested?

Laura: I was three. My father is a violinist and most of my family are musicians, so there was always music around me. Robert: I was four. I saw Itzhak Perlman on Sesame Street at three and a half and started bugging my parents to play, and when it didn’t go away they decided to start me in lessons.

Why do you think an orchestra is important for Edmonton? Robert: To me, and many people, this music has the amazing power to take you away from everything. It is food for the soul. The experience of live sound is quite an amazing thing, and getting up close to a big instrument such as our orchestra really magnifies the experience.

Describe your connection with the audience during a performance. Laura: There is something in the air that is created by everyone in the Winspear Centre. While you are playing, because of this silence, you can feel how engaged the audience is and I find it very inspiring. Afterwards, I love that that people are not shy to talk about how they felt and what they are most captivated by, and you realize it is different for everyone, which is wonderful.

What does the Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta (YONA)-Sistema and other outreach programs do for our community? What did music education do for you from a young age?Robert: There are skills that you learn from studying music from a young age – discipline…Laura: Long-term focus, working towards a goal together…Robert: Dedication. And hopefully it’s inspiring and something that you carry with you in whatever you do. Because of the really wonderful teachers, the real gift they are getting is an appreciation for one of the most beautiful things that humankind has ever created, and they will have that their whole life.

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Evelyn Johnson & Violet WatsonLong-time ESO patrons. Evelyn is 99 years old; Violet is 88.

Why do you come to the ESO?Evelyn: I enjoy it. I look at the different instruments – I go home after the concert and read all the biographies in Signature.

Violet: We look forward to going – when I come to the symphony I’m in another world. I close my eyes. And if it’s dancing music I can’t keep still – I go home after the concert and think about it.

What does music do for the community?Violet: It would be horrible without it. You have to have art; it’s good for our brains. It fills my soul with pleasure.Evelyn: It rounds out your education, and provides balance in life.

Music is:Violet: My best friend. If I was somewhere and I couldn’t have music, I wouldn’t last very long. Since the 1920s there has been music in my life.Evelyn: I remember our first radio. My father loved the violin and I took lessons but wasn’t very good. I enjoyed chorus.

ShyleahIn her second year with the Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta (YONA-Sistema) program, Shyleah is nine years old, and in grade four.

Likes:Violin, YONA, making new friends, and my dog Lulu.

Dislikes:Celery – it gives me headaches.

Do you remember how you felt on the first day of YONA?Really nervous, because I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t know how to make my paper violin. But on the second day I made new friends!

What do you like about the violin?Before I even knew about YONA, I went on the internet and learned about them. I would print off pictures and glue them to cardboard and pretend to play. I really wanted to play! At YONA I met (YONA-Sistema teaching artists) Ms. Deborah, Ms. Sasha and Ms. Lauren and thought they were so nice!

What do you want to be when you grow up?A violinist and a police officer. I want to protect my mom, family, and friends.

What is it like to play on the Winspear stage?I was so nervous. My knees were shaking, my eyes were concentrated on the music. And when we walked on stage I looked for my mom and papa and couldn’t see her. She said: “I’m here Leah!” and everyone heard it and laughed and I waved.

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Why does this city need an orchestra?Barb: I think every city needs one, to provide music for the soul! Music is a connection and it can’t be just one kind of music. Once you get involved with the ESO you realize the musicians are part of the community. I can’t carry a tune, but I love music. And Darcy, I know you love music and sometimes when you close your eyes I think you are falling asleep, but he sees music in colour.Darcy: It is a necessary part of the life experience!

Music is:Darcy: A place you want to be.Barb: A wonderful vacation from your daily troubles and trials.

Darcy & Barb KoshmanLongtime subscribers, donors, and volunteers to the ESO, the Koshmans attend just about everything!

How long have you attended the ESO and Winspear Centre?Darcy: I started in the Jubilee days, so

maybe around 1994 or 1995.Barb: We had the Pops series first. And now we have the Pops, Lighter Classics, Encore, Applause, Late Night… Darcy: Almost everything!

What got you to try other genres? Darcy: You always think – this one sounds interesting, so I will go to that. And you never seem to get around to trying new concerts, so when you have the season subscription you end up going to so many concerts you may not have chosen originally to find out they are fantastic.

Thank you for being donors! What does the ESO and Winspear Centre do that inspires you to donate?Darcy: The organization is so at ease with itself. The ESO has integrated themselves into the community. They play what the city wants to hear. You are in the business of not just classical music, but providing an experience to Edmontonians!Barb: Being able to be at Symphony Under the Sky at the park; then when

Thank you so much to all of our donors and subscribers for the continued support you provide to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Winspear Centre! We are so grateful to have such a strong community of supporters and want you to know that you make a great difference. Thank you.

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MMUSIC HAS POWER – TO TOUCH LIVES AND influence them in ways you probably don’t realize until

they happen. A connection is made, and an audience member becomes a steward, or a child becomes empowered, or a musician puts down roots in the community. The activities of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and its musicians send ripples out into our region and beyond that enrich us all, and not just those who attend our concerts. We talk a lot in the pages of Signature about the music and those who make it – as well we should! But we wanted to take up a little space here to introduce you to some of our stakeholders, and what the power of music has done for them.

Robert Uchida & Laura VeezeConcertmaster and member of First Violins (respectively), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, with Marten and Noemi.

When did you start playing violin? What got you interested?

Laura: I was three. My father is a violinist and most of my family are musicians, so there was always music around me. Robert: I was four. I saw Itzhak Perlman on Sesame Street at three and a half and started bugging my parents to play, and when it didn’t go away they decided to start me in lessons.

Why do you think an orchestra is important for Edmonton? Robert: To me, and many people, this music has the amazing power to take you away from everything. It is food for the soul. The experience of live sound is quite an amazing thing, and getting up close to a big instrument such as our orchestra really magnifies the experience.

Describe your connection with the audience during a performance. Laura: There is something in the air that is created by everyone in the Winspear Centre. While you are playing, because of this silence, you can feel how engaged the audience is and I find it very inspiring. Afterwards, I love that that people are not shy to talk about how they felt and what they are most captivated by, and you realize it is different for everyone, which is wonderful.

What does the Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta (YONA)-Sistema and other outreach programs do for our community? What did music education do for you from a young age?Robert: There are skills that you learn from studying music from a young age – discipline…Laura: Long-term focus, working towards a goal together…Robert: Dedication. And hopefully it’s inspiring and something that you carry with you in whatever you do. Because of the really wonderful teachers, the real gift they are getting is an appreciation for one of the most beautiful things that humankind has ever created, and they will have that their whole life.

SO MUCH MORE THAN AN AUDIENCEPHOTOS GRAEME HAUNHOLTER

Evelyn Johnson & Violet WatsonLong-time ESO patrons. Evelyn is 99 years old; Violet is 88.

Why do you come to the ESO?Evelyn: I enjoy it. I look at the different instruments – I go home after the concert and read all the biographies in Signature.

Violet: We look forward to going – when I come to the symphony I’m in another world. I close my eyes. And if it’s dancing music I can’t keep still – I go home after the concert and think about it.

What does music do for the community?Violet: It would be horrible without it. You have to have art; it’s good for our brains. It fills my soul with pleasure.Evelyn: It rounds out your education, and provides balance in life.

Music is:Violet: My best friend. If I was somewhere and I couldn’t have music, I wouldn’t last very long. Since the 1920s there has been music in my life.Evelyn: I remember our first radio. My father loved the violin and I took lessons but wasn’t very good. I enjoyed chorus.

ShyleahIn her second year with the Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta (YONA-Sistema) program, Shyleah is nine years old, and in grade four.

Likes:Violin, YONA, making new friends, and my dog Lulu.

Dislikes:Celery – it gives me headaches.

Do you remember how you felt on the first day of YONA?Really nervous, because I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t know how to make my paper violin. But on the second day I made new friends!

What do you like about the violin?Before I even knew about YONA, I went on the internet and learned about them. I would print off pictures and glue them to cardboard and pretend to play. I really wanted to play! At YONA I met (YONA-Sistema teaching artists) Ms. Deborah, Ms. Sasha and Ms. Lauren and thought they were so nice!

What do you want to be when you grow up?A violinist and a police officer. I want to protect my mom, family, and friends.

What is it like to play on the Winspear stage?I was so nervous. My knees were shaking, my eyes were concentrated on the music. And when we walked on stage I looked for my mom and papa and couldn’t see her. She said: “I’m here Leah!” and everyone heard it and laughed and I waved.

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MOZETICHPostcards from the Sky (13’)* Unfolding Sky Weeping Clouds A Messenger

SIBELIUSSymphony No. 3 in C Major, Op.52 (31’)* Allegro moderato Andantino con moto, quasi allegretto Moderato – Allegro (ma non tanto)

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ANIEL HEGE served for 11 seasons as the Music

Director of the Syracuse Sym-phony, and in June 2009 was appointed Music Director of the Wichita Symphony, beginning his tenure with that orchestra in September 2010. Mr. Hege was named Music Director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in April, 1999. In June 2001, he completed a five-year tenure with the Baltimore Symphony where he held the titles of As-sistant, Associate, and Resident Conductor and led the orchestra in subscription, family, and run-out concerts. Daniel Hege has guest conducted the Houston, Detroit, Seattle, Indianapolis, Oregon, Colorado, San Diego, Columbus, and Phoenix Symphonies; the Buffalo and Calgary Philharmon-ics; and led the orchestras at the Grand Teton and Aspen Music Festivals. International engagements include performances with the Singapore Symphony, and the St. Petersburg Symphony at the Winter Nights Festival. Recent and upcoming guest conducting engagements include appearances with the Rochester, Rhode Island, and Naples Philharmonics; the Louisville, Sarasota and Florida Orchestras; the Houston, Pacific, Puerto Rico, Hartford, Omaha, Tulsa, and Virginia Symphonies.

Daniel Hege received his bachelor of arts degree in 1987 from Bethel College, Kansas where he majored in music and history. He continued his studies at the University of Utah, receiving a Master of Music degree in orchestra conducting and also founding the University Chamber Orchestra and serving as Assistant Conductor of the University Orchestra and Music Director of the Utah Singers. He subsequently studied with Paul Vermel at the Aspen Music Festival and in Los Angeles with noted conductor and pedagogue Daniel Lewis. In May 2004, Mr. Hege was awarded an honou-rary degree of doctor of humane letters from Le Moyne College in Syracuse for his contributions to the cultural life in central New York State. Born in Colorado, Mr. Hege currently resides in Syracuse with his wife and their three daughters.

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P R O G R A M N O T E SPROGRAM NOTES

Postcards from the SkyMARJAN MOZETICH(b. Gorizia, Italy, 1948)

First performed: April 12, 1996 in OttawaLast ESO performance: February 2010

OSTCARDS FROM THE SKY IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME OF THE first three of a series of ongoing short works for strings inspired by the

heavens, literally and figuratively. This suite was commissioned by Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings ensemble in 1996. Unfolding Sky, as its title suggests, is a gradual opening out of the musical material. The slow and haunting Weeping Clouds features a melody passed from one section of the strings to another, over a gossamer accompaniment. A Messenger has a minimalist, repeated accompaniment create a mesmerizing underpinning to a direct and poignant melody.

Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op.52JEAN SIBELIUS(b. Tavestehus, 1865 / d. Järvenpää, 1957)

First performed: September 25, 1907 in HelsinkiLast ESO performance: May 1975

EAN SIBELIUS’ FIRST TWO SYMPHONIES WERE LARGE-SCALE, romantic works – popular, but written by a composer still finding his

unique compositional voice. That process of maturation began with his Third Symphony, which may explain why audiences, used to the sweeping scores of before, did not warm to the work. In fact, Sibelius held the work back from its intended London premiere, where it was supposed to have been performed in early 1907. Instead, the first performance took place in Helsinki, and not until September.

Sibelius found inspiration for this symphony not from immediate predecessors such as Tchaikovsky, but from the more formal and concise music of Bach and Mozart. “To my mind a Mozart allegro is the most perfect model for a symphonic movement!” Sibelius wrote. “It is like an uninterrupted flowing, where nothing stands out and nothing encroaches upon the rest.” Only three movements long, the symphony begins as insistent, driving lower strings usher in outdoorsy motives from violins, then woodwinds. The brass soon enter, and the music broadens out, then softens as the violins bring in a more sobering song. All these musical cells seem disconnected at this stage; it would become a Sibelius trademark in his symphonic works to only resolve fragmentary ideas in the latter stages of each symphony. An unusual Tranquillo passage (marked “ppp” in the score) brings in the Development section, again driven on by rhythmic ideas in the strings. The music builds slowly, but when at last the Recapitulation is reached, the energy of the opening re-emerges, and the music once again becomes extrovert and grand.

The slow movement is formally a Rondo (A-B-A-C-A), the main theme of which is a plaintive song first heard in the woodwinds, eventually taken up by the violins to woodwind accompaniment. The “B” section is introduced by the cellos – a slow, almost tragic song, answered in kind by woodwinds once again. The “A” section returns to pizzicato strings underneath the winds’ song, while the next contrasting episode (the

EHZOD ABDURAIMOV’S captivating performances have won him high critical praise. An exclusive Decca Classics recording

artist, Mr. Abduraimov has worked with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, Boston Symphony, London Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbański, Vasily Petrenko, James Gaffigan, Charles Dutoit, and Vladimir Jurowski.

Highlights of the 2014/15 season include a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his debut with the Czech Philharmonic (Jiří Bělohlávek). He takes part in the Mariinsky Orchestra’s Prokofiev Piano Concerto cycle at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Vienna, and Dortmund under Valery Gergiev; and returns to the London Philharmonic for a performance under David Zinman, to be followed by a tour of China with Vassily Sinaisky. He debuts with the Helsinki Philharmonic (Osmo Vänskä) and Detroit Symphony (Andrey Boreyko); and embarks on a U.S. tour with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Gergiev, to include Carnegie Hall. He also makes his debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard.

Last season, Behzod Abduraimov’s engagements included his debuts with the Boston Symphony (including a tour of China) and the NHK Symphony. He released his debut recital CD on Decca Classics in 2012, which won both the Choc de Classica and the Diapason Découverte. His first concerto disc features Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under Juraj Valčuha.

Behzod Abduraimov was born in Tashkent in 1990 and began to play the piano at the age of five. He was a pupil of Tamara Popovich at the Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent, and studied with Stanislav Iudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University, Kansas City, where he is now Artist in Residence.

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The concerto’s remarkable and very famous opening begins with strong horn pronouncements, followed by a rich, romantic melody for strings, punctured by powerful piano chords, and that followed by the piano taking up the rich melody itself. The real surprise is, following that sweeping opening, that lush melody never shows up in the work again. Instead, a secondary theme, based on a Ukrainian folksong, becomes the basis for the direction the music takes for the rest of the movement. Using a technique often employed in Russian concertos, Tchaikovsky uses repeated statements of the folksong theme to add decorative elements, growing more ornate, while the orchestra – which seldom plays along with the soloist – handles many of the movement’s dramatic flourishes.

The second movement’s A-B-A format combines a slow movement with a Scherzo. The A section is a lovely Andantino in D-flat Major first presented by the flute, then taken up by the piano. That is contrasted by a Prestissimo B section in a quick waltz tempo, the theme of which Tchaikovsky said was based on a French song, Il faut s’amuser, danser et rire. The finale is dominated by two main thematic ideas. A strongly Russian-flavoured dance introduced by the piano alternates with a passionately romantic secondary idea – one of those gorgeously rapturous melodies at which Tchaikovsky excelled.

As a footnote, it’s worth mentioning that, following the concerto’s enthusiastic reception at its first performances, Nikolai Rubinstein had a change of heart, and became one of the work’s greatest champions, performing it several times in his career.

Program notes © 2015 by D.T. Baker

“C” part of the Rondo), brings the tempo and the nervous energy up – a swirling “quasi allegretto.”

The third movement combines a bit of a Scherzo with the finale, one which Sibelius described as “crystallization from chaos.” Once again, fragmentary ideas are heard, including a reference to the “A” theme of the previous movement. The music builds, but the fragments to not coalesce until cellos (which have had so much of the introductory material of this symphony) begin a march tune out of a tiny descending motif from earlier in the movement, which builds to a triumphant C Major climax.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op.23PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY(b. Kamsko-Votinsk, 1840 / d. St. Petersburg, 1893)

First performed: October 25, 1875 in BostonLast ESO performance: March 2013

MAGINE WRITING A CONCERTO FOR SOMEONE, HOPING he’ll play it, and he writes of it, “The music is vulgar…unplayable…

unworthy of its composer,” among other things. Chances are, you’d remove the dedication, and find someone else. That’s exactly what Tchaikovsky did with his First Piano Concerto, crossing out Nikolai Rubinstein’s name, and adding Hans von Bülow’s, as the German musician praised the music highly. Completed in late 1874, the concerto was finally premiered on October 1875 in Boston.

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Postcards from the SkyMARJAN MOZETICH(b. Gorizia, Italy, 1948)

First performed: April 12, 1996 in OttawaLast ESO performance: February 2010

OSTCARDS FROM THE SKY IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME OF THE first three of a series of ongoing short works for strings inspired by the

heavens, literally and figuratively. This suite was commissioned by Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings ensemble in 1996. Unfolding Sky, as its title suggests, is a gradual opening out of the musical material. The slow and haunting Weeping Clouds features a melody passed from one section of the strings to another, over a gossamer accompaniment. A Messenger has a minimalist, repeated accompaniment create a mesmerizing underpinning to a direct and poignant melody.

Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op.52JEAN SIBELIUS(b. Tavestehus, 1865 / d. Järvenpää, 1957)

First performed: September 25, 1907 in HelsinkiLast ESO performance: May 1975

EAN SIBELIUS’ FIRST TWO SYMPHONIES WERE LARGE-SCALE, romantic works – popular, but written by a composer still finding his

unique compositional voice. That process of maturation began with his Third Symphony, which may explain why audiences, used to the sweeping scores of before, did not warm to the work. In fact, Sibelius held the work back from its intended London premiere, where it was supposed to have been performed in early 1907. Instead, the first performance took place in Helsinki, and not until September.

Sibelius found inspiration for this symphony not from immediate predecessors such as Tchaikovsky, but from the more formal and concise music of Bach and Mozart. “To my mind a Mozart allegro is the most perfect model for a symphonic movement!” Sibelius wrote. “It is like an uninterrupted flowing, where nothing stands out and nothing encroaches upon the rest.” Only three movements long, the symphony begins as insistent, driving lower strings usher in outdoorsy motives from violins, then woodwinds. The brass soon enter, and the music broadens out, then softens as the violins bring in a more sobering song. All these musical cells seem disconnected at this stage; it would become a Sibelius trademark in his symphonic works to only resolve fragmentary ideas in the latter stages of each symphony. An unusual Tranquillo passage (marked “ppp” in the score) brings in the Development section, again driven on by rhythmic ideas in the strings. The music builds slowly, but when at last the Recapitulation is reached, the energy of the opening re-emerges, and the music once again becomes extrovert and grand.

The slow movement is formally a Rondo (A-B-A-C-A), the main theme of which is a plaintive song first heard in the woodwinds, eventually taken up by the violins to woodwind accompaniment. The “B” section is introduced by the cellos – a slow, almost tragic song, answered in kind by woodwinds once again. The “A” section returns to pizzicato strings underneath the winds’ song, while the next contrasting episode (the

EHZOD ABDURAIMOV’S captivating performances have won him high critical praise. An exclusive Decca Classics recording

artist, Mr. Abduraimov has worked with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, Boston Symphony, London Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbański, Vasily Petrenko, James Gaffigan, Charles Dutoit, and Vladimir Jurowski.

Highlights of the 2014/15 season include a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his debut with the Czech Philharmonic (Jiří Bělohlávek). He takes part in the Mariinsky Orchestra’s Prokofiev Piano Concerto cycle at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Vienna, and Dortmund under Valery Gergiev; and returns to the London Philharmonic for a performance under David Zinman, to be followed by a tour of China with Vassily Sinaisky. He debuts with the Helsinki Philharmonic (Osmo Vänskä) and Detroit Symphony (Andrey Boreyko); and embarks on a U.S. tour with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Gergiev, to include Carnegie Hall. He also makes his debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard.

Last season, Behzod Abduraimov’s engagements included his debuts with the Boston Symphony (including a tour of China) and the NHK Symphony. He released his debut recital CD on Decca Classics in 2012, which won both the Choc de Classica and the Diapason Découverte. His first concerto disc features Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under Juraj Valčuha.

Behzod Abduraimov was born in Tashkent in 1990 and began to play the piano at the age of five. He was a pupil of Tamara Popovich at the Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent, and studied with Stanislav Iudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University, Kansas City, where he is now Artist in Residence.

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Afterthoughts, Friday post-performance, Main Lobby with William Eddins

Symphony Prelude, Saturday 7:15 pm, Upper Circle (Third Level) Lobby with D.T. Baker

RACHMANINOFFThree Russian Songs, Op.41 (12’)* Moderato (“Cherez rechku”) Largo (“Akh ty, Vanka”) Allegro moderato (“Belilitsy, rumyanitsy, vy moi”)

POULENCStabat Mater (33’)* “Stabat Mater dolorosa” (Très calme) “Cujus animam gementem” (Allegro molto – Très violent) “O quam tristis” (Très lent) “Quae moerebat” (Andantino) “Quis est homo” (Allegro molto – Prestissimo) “Vidit sum” (Andante) “Eja Mater” (Allegro) “Fac ut ardeat” (Maestoso) “Sancta Mater” (Moderato – Allegretto) “Fac ut portem” (Tempo de Sarabande) “Inflammatus et accensus” (Animé et très rythmé) “Quando corpus” (Très calme)


BARTÓKA csodálatos mandarin, Op.19 (“The Miraculous Mandarin”) (32’)* Allegro: Introduction Moderato: First decoy game Second decoy game

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a genuine Verdian soprano; MICHELE CAPALBO is that rarity. Whatever the role, Ms. Capalbo’s portrayals of her characters’ emotional and psychological journeys are tempered by a remarkable discipline in the bel canto vocal tradition. Her consistently stunning performances make clear Ms. Capalbo’s talents include a devotion to classical singing’s inherent beauty and drama. Widely renowned as an interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, Michele Capalbo excels in capturing both the vulnerability and strength of some of opera’s greatest heroines, a specialty that prompted Opera News to proclaim her “a world-class Aïda.” Her impressive performance credits have already taken her to stages across North and South America as well as Europe. She is in demand for starring roles such as Verdi’s Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, Elisabetta, Amelia, and both Leonoras. In the verismo repertoire, her roles include Puccini’s Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimi, and Manon Lescaut. She has been described by Opera News as “a statuesque beauty with strong stage presence” and someone who “may well be the verismo soprano we’ve been waiting for.”

William Eddins, conductorMichele Capalbo, sopranoAmber Borotsik, dancer/choreographerJesse Gervais, actorDavid Horak, actorZillur Rahman John, mimeRichard Lee, actorJohn Ullyat, directorDaniela Masellis, designerRichard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff, Music Director)

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Sostenuto: Third decoy game Maestoso: The Mandarin enters Allegro: The girl sinks down to embrace him Sempre vivo: The tramps leap out Adagio: Suddenly the Mandarin’s head appears Agitato: Again, the frightened tramps discuss how to

eliminate the Mandarin Molto moderato: The body of the Mandarin begins to glow Più mosso – Vivo: She resists no longer, they embrace

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No stranger to the symphonic stage, Michele Capalbo’s recent worldwide concert performances have included Verdi’s Requiem with the Nashville Symphony; Mahler’s 8th Symphony in Bergen, Norway; Poulenc’s Stabat Mater in Florence, Italy; and Beethoven’s 9th with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Further credits for the Ontario native include Le Festival de Musique de Strasbourg, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico; Théâtre du capitole de Toulouse, France; the Canadian Opera Company, and the San Francisco Opera. She looks forward to engagements in Ottawa and Saskatoon. Her debut recording, the independently produced Christmastide, is inspired by the relationship of mother and child. The disc features Verdi’s rarely heard Ave Maria for soprano and strings, sacred songs, lullabies, and new arrangements of classic carols.

This is Ms. Capalbo’s debut with the ESO.

ounded in 1951 by the late Richard S. Eaton, Edmonton’s symphonic choir RICHARD EATON SINGERS (RES) has played a leading role in

the cultural community of the city for six decades. RES performances have included many Edmonton premieres of choral masterpieces, such as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony. RES has also commissioned and produced world premiere performances by Canadian composers, including Mark Sirett’s In Praise of Music, Christos Hatzis’ The Sepulcher of Life, and The Houses Stand Not Far Apart by John Estacio. In March 2010, the choir premiered A Song of the Seasons by Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson with text by E.D. Blodgett, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Leonard Ratzlaff’s artistic leadership of RES. The choir recently commissioned John Estacio to compose branche (text by Ted Blodgett) in memory of former choir member Frieda H. Haliburton. This work premiered in Edmonton on June 22, 2014.

The choir has traveled extensively across Canada, to the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany, and has exchanged with other choirs including the Vancouver Bach Choir. RES is honoured to have been associated with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for 62 years. This partnership has created many memorable choral events in our city, including the September 1997 performance of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, to commemorate the opening of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music.

The choir last appeared with the ESO in December 2014.

Three Russian Songs, Op.41SERGEI RACHMANINOFF(b. Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 / d. Beverly Hills, 1943)

First performed: March 18, 1927 in PhiladelphiaThis is the ESO premiere of the piece

HERE IS A CANADIAN CONNECTION TO THE THREE RUSSIAN Songs, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final work for chorus and orchestra.

Composed for the same program at which his last piano concerto also premiered, the work was first presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski – with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir as the choral group (supplemented by some Russian bassi profundi singers recruited specifically for the concert). Scored for only alto and bass voices, the set’s three traditional Russian folksongs are laid out in a fast-slow-fast conventional format, beginning with “Cherez rechku” (“Over a Brook, a Swift-Running Brook”), a surprisingly dark-hued tale of lost love, with wild fowl as a metaphor, and set to the eddying rhythm of a swift stream.

The second song, “Akh ty, Vanka” (“Ah, Vanka! What a Hothead You Are”) is the longest of the three, and set to a Largo tempo: another song of lost love. The altos sing of being abandoned by a deceptive lover. In the final song, “Belilitsy, rumyanitsy, vy moi” (“White of My Cheeks, Blush of My Cheeks”), a young bride anticipates a punishment she feels her husband will dole out, all due to a misunderstanding. Most of the choral singing is done in unison or in octaves; harmonies are used sparingly and to great effect.

Stabat MaterFRANCIS POULENC(b. Paris, 1899 / d. Paris, 1963)

First performed: 1951 in StrasbourgThis is the ESO premiere of the piece

HE MEDIEVAL REFLECTION on the grief-stricken mother of

Christ at the cross of her son is one of the most poignant sacred texts ever written. Known in Latin as Stabat Mater (“The sorrowful mother stood”), its immediate emotional impact has attracted a number of composers to it. A short list of those who have set it includes Palestrina, Haydn, Rossini, Dvořák, Howells, Pärt, and Szymanowski.

Francis Poulenc, as one of the members of the French circle known as Les Six, established an early reputation for that group’s penchant for light, breezy, often mischievous music that was a deliberate

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thugs throw him out as well.Third decoy game: The girl once again stands at the window, trying

to draw in a victim of means.The Mandarin enters: Her efforts bear fruit, bringing in the

Mandarin, and after overcoming her initial disdain, the girl is drawn to him. The girl sinks down to embrace him: but she pulls away, and the Mandarin pursues her vehemently.

The tramps leap out: They rob the Mandarin, and make three attempts to kill him – first by suffocation under the bedding. Suddenly the Mandarin’s head appears: having survived the attempt, and driven by his passion for the girl, the Mandarin emerges from the failed attempt on his life.

Again, the frightened tramps discuss how to eliminate the Mandarin: They stab him to death with a sword, yet still, he survives, and his passion for the girl draws him to her again. The ruffians now hang the Mandarin from the light fixture.

The Mandarin’s head begins to glow: Still alive, the Mandarin’s passion seems to render him invulnerable.

She resists no longer, they embrace: Realizing what it will take to finally kill him, the girl instructs her comrades to cut the Mandarin down. They do so, and he rushes at her. This time, she allows him to take her, and as they embrace, his wounds begin to bleed, and he dies in her arms.


counter to the over-serious and epic music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a consequence, when he turned to more serious music himself later in life, it was not always well received. Following the death of his friend, artist Christian Bérard, Poulenc was moved to compose a work in his memory. Poulenc’s setting of the Stabat Mater is in 12 brief movements, and is scored for chorus and orchestra, with a solo soprano in three of the movements (“Vidit sum,” “Fac ut portem,” and “Quando corpus”). Unlike some of his other compositions of the time, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater was extremely well-received, and won the New York Critics’ Circle Award for best choral work in 1951.

Poulenc makes some daring choices in the way he sets the texts. The drama and darkness of the opening “Stabat mater dolorosa,” or the chromatic choral harmonies against the dissonances in the orchestra of the “Quam tristis,” and certainly the slow procession of the sarabande tempo of “Fac ut portem” and the fire and brimstone nature of “Inflammatus et accensus” are musically portrayed as one might expect. But the pastoral nature of “Quae moerebat,” the strong and declamatory “Quis est homo,” and the rather expansive canvas of “Sancta Mater” bring new interpretations to the familiar texts.

A scodálatos mandarin, Op.19 (“The Miraculous Mandarin”)BÉLA BARTÓK(b. Nagyszentmiklós, 1881 / d. New York, 1945)

First performed: November 28, 1926 in CologneThe ESO last performed the Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin in September 2000. This is their premiere performance of the music of the entire pantomime ballet.

ENYHÉRT LENGYEL (AKA MELCHIOR LENGYEL, 1880-1974) was a Hungarian writer, who added playwright to his

accomplishments as a journalist during the First World War. His allegorical “pantomime grotesque” entitled A scodálatos mandarin (“The Miraculous Mandarin”) was published in 1916. Characters from the East were a bit of a fashion at the time, their exotic nature standing as a metaphor for alienation and lack of acceptance in society. The decadent city in which the story takes place is society itself. Composer Béla Bartók, a year younger than Lengyel and a fellow resident of Budapest, was drawn to the story, and following the 1917 success of his ballet The Wooden Prince, Bartók felt ready to take on writing music to accompany Lengyel’s wordless pantomime.

Budapest, however, was not so ready, and would not allow the work to be presented. Instead, the premiere took place in Cologne. But after that first performance, it was banned there, too, on moral grounds. For a long time, the music was heard in a truncated suite that included about two-thirds of the score; in recent years, complete performances are starting to become more common.

The 11 sections of the work have no pauses between them, and the action of the story is this:

Introduction: Setting the mood, this introduces the seedy part of a city. The curtain rises, and we see three ruffians and a young girl, a street-walker, in a dingy apartment. Upon realizing they have no money, the men have the girl lure in someone they can rob.

First decoy game: The first one to be lured is a shabbily dressed old man, clearly without money. The thugs throw him out.

Second decoy game: A young man, also without money, attempts to make love to the girl, but after she begins to waltz with him, the

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No stranger to the symphonic stage, Michele Capalbo’s recent worldwide concert performances have included Verdi’s Requiem with the Nashville Symphony; Mahler’s 8th Symphony in Bergen, Norway; Poulenc’s Stabat Mater in Florence, Italy; and Beethoven’s 9th with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Further credits for the Ontario native include Le Festival de Musique de Strasbourg, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico; Théâtre du capitole de Toulouse, France; the Canadian Opera Company, and the San Francisco Opera. She looks forward to engagements in Ottawa and Saskatoon. Her debut recording, the independently produced Christmastide, is inspired by the relationship of mother and child. The disc features Verdi’s rarely heard Ave Maria for soprano and strings, sacred songs, lullabies, and new arrangements of classic carols.

This is Ms. Capalbo’s debut with the ESO.

ounded in 1951 by the late Richard S. Eaton, Edmonton’s symphonic choir RICHARD EATON SINGERS (RES) has played a leading role in

the cultural community of the city for six decades. RES performances have included many Edmonton premieres of choral masterpieces, such as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony. RES has also commissioned and produced world premiere performances by Canadian composers, including Mark Sirett’s In Praise of Music, Christos Hatzis’ The Sepulcher of Life, and The Houses Stand Not Far Apart by John Estacio. In March 2010, the choir premiered A Song of the Seasons by Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson with text by E.D. Blodgett, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Leonard Ratzlaff’s artistic leadership of RES. The choir recently commissioned John Estacio to compose branche (text by Ted Blodgett) in memory of former choir member Frieda H. Haliburton. This work premiered in Edmonton on June 22, 2014.

The choir has traveled extensively across Canada, to the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany, and has exchanged with other choirs including the Vancouver Bach Choir. RES is honoured to have been associated with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for 62 years. This partnership has created many memorable choral events in our city, including the September 1997 performance of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, to commemorate the opening of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music.

The choir last appeared with the ESO in December 2014.

Three Russian Songs, Op.41SERGEI RACHMANINOFF(b. Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 / d. Beverly Hills, 1943)

First performed: March 18, 1927 in PhiladelphiaThis is the ESO premiere of the piece

HERE IS A CANADIAN CONNECTION TO THE THREE RUSSIAN Songs, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final work for chorus and orchestra.

Composed for the same program at which his last piano concerto also premiered, the work was first presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski – with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir as the choral group (supplemented by some Russian bassi profundi singers recruited specifically for the concert). Scored for only alto and bass voices, the set’s three traditional Russian folksongs are laid out in a fast-slow-fast conventional format, beginning with “Cherez rechku” (“Over a Brook, a Swift-Running Brook”), a surprisingly dark-hued tale of lost love, with wild fowl as a metaphor, and set to the eddying rhythm of a swift stream.

The second song, “Akh ty, Vanka” (“Ah, Vanka! What a Hothead You Are”) is the longest of the three, and set to a Largo tempo: another song of lost love. The altos sing of being abandoned by a deceptive lover. In the final song, “Belilitsy, rumyanitsy, vy moi” (“White of My Cheeks, Blush of My Cheeks”), a young bride anticipates a punishment she feels her husband will dole out, all due to a misunderstanding. Most of the choral singing is done in unison or in octaves; harmonies are used sparingly and to great effect.

Stabat MaterFRANCIS POULENC(b. Paris, 1899 / d. Paris, 1963)

First performed: 1951 in StrasbourgThis is the ESO premiere of the piece

HE MEDIEVAL REFLECTION on the grief-stricken mother of

Christ at the cross of her son is one of the most poignant sacred texts ever written. Known in Latin as Stabat Mater (“The sorrowful mother stood”), its immediate emotional impact has attracted a number of composers to it. A short list of those who have set it includes Palestrina, Haydn, Rossini, Dvořák, Howells, Pärt, and Szymanowski.

Francis Poulenc, as one of the members of the French circle known as Les Six, established an early reputation for that group’s penchant for light, breezy, often mischievous music that was a deliberate

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MICHAEL KRAJEWSKI is a much-sought-after conductor of symphonic pops. He is Music Director of the Philly Pops and Principal Pops Con-ductor of the Houston, Atlanta and Jacksonville Symphonies. As a guest conductor, he has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Or-chestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and National Symphonies, and numerous other orchestras across the United States. In Canada he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toron-to Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and the Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies. Other international appearances include performances in Dublin and Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra as well as performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and last season’s debut with Spain’s Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

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a Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony and later served as that orchestra’s assistant conductor. Michael lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Darcy. When not conducting he enjoys travel, photography and solving crossword puzzles.

Mr. Krajewski last appeared with the ESO in November 2013.

ne of Broadway’s biggest personalities, DEBBIE GRAVITTE received the Tony Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Jerome

Robbins Broadway, along with the New York Showstopper Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, and went on to appear in Blues In The Night, Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Zorba, Ain’t Broadway Grand?, Chicago, and Les Misérables. Ms. Gravitte appeared in London in Jerry Herman’s Mack and Mabel at the Drury Lane Theatre, and has been seen in the New York City Encores! productions of The Boys From Syracuse, Tenderloin, and Carniva.

Debbie Gravitte has sung with more than 100 orchestras worldwide, including the National Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston

Pops, Cleveland Pops, Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, San Diego Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and Houston Symphony. Overseas, she has appeared with the London Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Syphonica of Brazil, Munich Philharmonic, and a special performance in Beijing with Lang Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic. Ms. Gravitte is featured on many recordings including her three solo CDs: Defying Gravity, The Alan Menken Ablum, and The MGM Album. On film, she has featured in Isn’t She Great and The Little Mermaid and in television in Trial and Error (CBS), Pursuit of Happiness (NBC), and numerous PBS Specials including Broadway Plays Washington, Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Live from Carnegie Hall, and In Concert with the Boston Pops. She was featured in Peter Martin’s ballet Thou Swell with the NYC Ballet. You can learn more about her at debbiegravitte.com

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MICHAEL KRAJEWSKI is a much-sought-after conductor of symphonic pops. He is Music Director of the Philly Pops and Principal Pops Con-ductor of the Houston, Atlanta and Jacksonville Symphonies. As a guest conductor, he has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Or-chestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and National Symphonies, and numerous other orchestras across the United States. In Canada he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toron-to Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and the Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies. Other international appearances include performances in Dublin and Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra as well as performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and last season’s debut with Spain’s Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

On recordings, Mr. Krajewski has led the Houston Symphony on two holiday albums: Glad Tidings and Christmas Festival. His collabora-tive programs have included such artists as flutist James Galway, mezzo Marilyn Horne, pianist Alicia de Larrocha, guitarist Angel Romero, and pop artists Jason Alexander, Roberta Flack, Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel, Wynonna Judd, Kenny Loggins, Ben Folds, Doc Severinsen, Patti Austin, Sandi Patty, Ann Hampton Callaway, Chicago, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Chieftains, Pink Martini, Rockapella, Cirque de la Symphonie, Classical Mystery Tour, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and The Midtown Men. With degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michael Krajewski furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Conductors. He was

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winner at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. An inspirational musician with a formi-dable technique and a natural gift for pianistic colour, he has earned international recognition in recent years for the excitement of his live performances.

Recent engagements have included the “unparalleled excitement” (The Observer) of his BBC Proms/Royal Albert Hall debut, and appearances with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and La Scala Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in major tours of the U.S. and Japan, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, the BBC Philharmonic with both Juanjo Mena and Yutaka Sado, Seattle Symphony under Stilian Kirov, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with Thierry Fischer. He has also appeared with all the major Japanese orchestras including NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. He has given recitals in recent seasons at the Aspen and Ravinia Festivals, in New York at the Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, and in Washington D.C, Boston, Berlin, and Munich. Recitals this year include an appearance at the Green Music Centre in California, and a return to both Munich and Berlin with a programme of Chopin and Ravel.

Nobuyuki Tsujii records exclusively for Avex Classics, and has made a num-ber of best-selling recordings in recent years including Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with DSO Berlin, an all-Chopin recital disc, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yukata Sado and the BBC Philharmonic, a Mozart recital disc, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and an all-Liszt disc released in Japan in September 2014. A live DVD recording of his 2011 Carnegie Hall recital was DVD of the Month in Gramophone magazine, and a live DVD Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights, his debut with Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, has recently been released, as has a new documentary by Peter Rosen entitled Touching the Sound. All three are distributed by Naxos in the U.S. and Euroarts in Europe.

Nobuyuki Tsujii’s international tours are supported by All Nippon Airways (ANA), and he gratefully acknowledges their assistance.

CHOPINBarcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op.60 (9’)*

Nocturne No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op.9 No. 1 (6’)*

Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 (5’)*

LISZTConsolation No. 3 in D-flat Major (4’)*

Mephisto Waltz No. 1 in A Major (The Dance at the Village Inn) (11’)*

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BEETHOVENPiano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op.13 “Pathétique” (18’)* Grave–Allegrodimoltoeconbrio Adagiocantabile Rondo:Allegro

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor “Appassionata” (24’)* Allegroassai Andanteconmoto Allegromanontroppo-Presto

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A R T I S T B I O SARTIST BIOSViswa Subbaraman, conductorLidia Khaner, oboe d’amoreJeremy Spurgeon, organ

nternationally acclaimed American conductor,

VISWA SUBBARAMAN, is currently the Artistic Director/Music Director of The Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his inaugural season at the Skylight, highlights in-clude a number of critically acclaimed and audience acclaimed productions such as a Bollywood production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which he both stage directed and conducted, a production of Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón, and Philip Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox. Most recently, Subbaraman was selected by INKTalks in India as a 2014 INK Fellow, named by On Milwaukee magazine’s Dave Begel as one of Milwaukee’s 14 most influential people, and selected by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of Milwaukee’s most influential 40 Under 40 for 2015.

Equally comfortable in the orchestral realm as with opera, Mr. Subbaraman served as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre national de France where he assisted Kurt Masur and visiting guest conductors, such as distinguished artists Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, and Sir Colin Davis. Highlights of his tenure with the Orchestre national de France include the world premiere of the Overture du Roi Lear by Paul Dukas, a performance of the Stravinsky Octet with soloists of the orchestra in Paris’ famed Théatre des Champs-Elysées and the French premiere of the Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra by Ernst Bloch, which has been recorded and released under the title Tranquille through the districlassic label. Mr. Subbaraman has been featured as a guest conductor of the Orchestre national de France, and he was invited to conduct a New Year’s Day concert with the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Mr. Subbaraman has completed his MBA through the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and is collaborating with renowned economics professor Michael Brandl to write a business primer for musicians.

This is Mr. Subbaraman’s debut with the ESO.

HANDELSolomon, HWV 67: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (3’)*

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IDIA KHANER has performed as Principal Oboe with the Edmon-

ton Symphony Orchestra since 1996. She studied oboe in her native Poland at the Warsaw Academy of Music and graduated With Distinction in 1987. As a member of the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Polish Chamber Orchestra, she toured around the world playing both orchestral parts and solo concerts. During a sabbatical, she studied in Germany at the Stuttgart Hochshule für

Musik with Ingo Goritzki, and played with the Deutsche Kammerakademie. Ms. Khaner played Principal Oboe with the Sinfonia Helvetica from 1992 to 1997. She has recorded works for the KOS label, the Polish radio and televi-sion network, CBC, and Arktos Recordings. Ms. Khaner has performed and recorded solo concerti with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and soloed with the Edmonton Symphony and the Edmonton Chamber Orchestras.

In 2003 she released two CDs, of oboe and piano music with Janet Scott Hoyt and Mozart chamber music for oboe and strings. Her latest release, Inspiration, on Edmonton’s Arktos Recordings label, unites her once again with Janet Scott Hoyt in music by Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Lai. Ms. Khaner is a third-degree black belt in Taekwon-do and has twice been part of Team Canada in ITF Taekwon-do World Championships in Belarus and Estonia. On May 17, 2015, Ms. Khaner appears at a concert presented by the Edmonton Recital Society. Works by Schumann, Hindemith, Archer, and a world premiere of a work commissioned for the performance by ESO Principal Trombone John McPherson will be presented. There are also plans for a recording of the music presented at the recital (EdmontonRecital.com). Lidia Khaner would like to thank the Alberta Baroque Ensemble for the use of their oboe d’amore for this performance.

Ms. Khaner last appeared as a soloist with the ESO in January 2014.

ritish-born JEREMY SPURGEON won scholarships to study both

piano accompaniment and organ at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and later studied organ with Lionel Rogg at the Geneva Conservatoire where he gained the Premier Prix de la Classe de Virtuosité. In 1980, he came to Edmonton as director of music at All Saints’ Cathedral and has since appeared in concert with many Canadian and international ensembles, singers and instrumentalists, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Richard Eaton Singers, Pro Coro Canada, and Edmonton Opera. Mr. Spurgeon has performed as piano accompanist and organist across Canada and Europe.

Mr. Spurgeon last appeared as a soloist with the ESO in January 2014.

Solomon, HWV 67: Arrival of the Queen of ShebaGEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL(b. Halle, 1685 / d. London, 1759)

HE GREAT GERMAN BAROQUE MASTER GEORGE FRIDERIC Handel actually made most of his living in England. He arrived in

London in 1712, and quickly became the favourite composer to the throne and among the people. The short instrumental interlude that was used between scenes of his 1748 oratorio Solomon has come to be known as the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. Listening to the music, it is hard indeed to picture anyone “arriving” to this brisk, scurrying scene-setter, let alone a queen. More than likely, it was meant to convey the busy-ness of activity in anticipation of the queen’s arrival, and has become known to us by a title Handel never used.

Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”HANDEL(see above)

EARLY ALL THE ORGAN CONCERTOS HANDEL WROTE WERE published in two sets, his Opus 4 and Opus 7, six concertos per set.

The F Major Concerto, featuring imitations of birdsong in the second move-ment which earned the work its distinctive nickname, was not included in either of the two volumes. But, like nearly all its fellows, this concerto was used by Handel as interlude music at a performance of one of his great choral works – in this case, a performance in 1739 of his oratorio Israel in Egypt.

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nternationally acclaimed American conductor,

VISWA SUBBARAMAN, is currently the Artistic Director/Music Director of The Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his inaugural season at the Skylight, highlights in-clude a number of critically acclaimed and audience acclaimed productions such as a Bollywood production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which he both stage directed and conducted, a production of Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón, and Philip Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox. Most recently, Subbaraman was selected by INKTalks in India as a 2014 INK Fellow, named by On Milwaukee magazine’s Dave Begel as one of Milwaukee’s 14 most influential people, and selected by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of Milwaukee’s most influential 40 Under 40 for 2015.

Equally comfortable in the orchestral realm as with opera, Mr. Subbaraman served as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre national de France where he assisted Kurt Masur and visiting guest conductors, such as distinguished artists Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, and Sir Colin Davis. Highlights of his tenure with the Orchestre national de France include the world premiere of the Overture du Roi Lear by Paul Dukas, a performance of the Stravinsky Octet with soloists of the orchestra in Paris’ famed Théatre des Champs-Elysées and the French premiere of the Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra by Ernst Bloch, which has been recorded and released under the title Tranquille through the districlassic label. Mr. Subbaraman has been featured as a guest conductor of the Orchestre national de France, and he was invited to conduct a New Year’s Day concert with the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Mr. Subbaraman has completed his MBA through the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and is collaborating with renowned economics professor Michael Brandl to write a business primer for musicians.

This is Mr. Subbaraman’s debut with the ESO.

HANDELSolomon, HWV 67: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (3’)*

HANDELOrgan Concerto No. 13 in F Major, HWV 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” (14’)* Larghetto Allegro Andante Larghetto Allegro

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J.S. BACHConcerto for Oboe d’amore in D Major, BWV 1053a (22’)* Allegro Siciliano Allegro

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A lilting theme is introduced before the solo instrument joins in, its dark tone standing out among the accompanying strings. While virtuoso display for its own sake was never Bach’s intention with his concertos, this is still a challenging piece – the first movement abounds with not only challenges of articulation, but in long lines followed by passages requiring nimbleness; breathing is a paramount obstacle, as the oboe is rarely given a rest all through the graceful movement. The second movement is a Siciliano, begun as a steadily measured processional rhythm in the violins and continuo. The oboe d’amore’s entrance is with a long lyrical cantabile over off-beat pulses in the continuo, and chords in the strings. An Allegro in dancing triple time follows, with the oboe d’amore playing a swirling melody around the rhythmic urging of the orchestra. There are some unusual detours into darker keys, but the overall tone is one of light-spirited merriment. Like the first movement, this movement features a false ending, then a reprise of the main material.

Symphony No. 96 in D Major, Hob.I: 96 “The Miracle”FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN(b. Rohrau, Lower Austria, 1732 / d. Vienna, 1809)

APA” HAYDN LIKELY HAD ONE OF THE MOST PLEASANT retirements in the history of music. With his position as Kapellmeister

to the court at Esterháza now an honorific, Haydn spent many agreeable years being fêted as a grand elder statesman of music. Yet the works he produced during this time, while certainly catering to contemporary taste, were still bold and ever-more visionary in their ambition.

Haydn wrote 12 symphonies for the English-based impresario Johann Peter Salomon, collectively known as the “London” Symphonies. No. 96 was one, and its nickname, “The Miracle,” while based on an actual event, is misapplied. During a performance, a chandelier fell from the ceiling of the hall; “miraculously,” no one was injured. However, the incident took place during a performance of a completely different work, but history has stamped the nickname to his one.

Among his mature symphonies, Symphony No. 96 is one of the briefest, though the opening movement still features an Adagio introduction, pitting a tender section against some rather stern-sounding chords, and concluding ominously in the minor. An utterly amiable D Major Allegro follows, strong and striding, with some sudden phrase endings and a Recapitulation complete with a loud and unexpected shift back into D minor – but only for that moment.

The slow movement is one only Haydn could pull off as well as he does. It begins as an off-kilter, lurching figure in G Major, contrasted by a secondary episode that seems to calm the waters temporarily. Every new section seems bent on keeping its audience guessing – a highlight is an extended duet for two violins against the woodwinds that manages to slide the music from G Major to E-flat. The third movement is a Men-uet-Trio-Menuet, with a vigorous first and third dance more in keeping with a foot-stomping folk dance as opposed to a French ballroom. The contrasting Trio is a Ländler, the German precursor to the waltz, and featuring a lilting solo for oboe.

Haydn stressed a “very soft piano” and a quick tempo for the finale, a brief Rondo in the work’s home key, dominated by a quicksilver main subject. Contrast is provided mainly by a not very serious detour back into D minor (as in the first movement – brief and in good fun), and the movement is capped off by a grand, timpani-accompanied heroic finish.


Nailing down an authentic performance of any of the organ concertos is a bit tricky. Handel, being one of the finest organists of his day, would extemporize freely during performances of his concertos, and beginning in 1739, the words “ad libitum” (“at your pleasure,” shortened these days to the words “ad lib”) would appear in Handel’s scores in place of movements. But for this concerto, following the Allegro second movement that features the imitations of birdsong, Handel replaced his free-form third movement with a gentle Siciliana in D minor, which has become the standard third movement of the work.

It is thought that Handel had some symbolism in mind when he juxtaposed the two birds of the concerto’s nickname. “Their contrasting songs can be seen as symbols of a fundamental musical duality,” wrote scholar Catherine Moore, “rhythm (the cuckoo) versus melody.” Whether profound musical statement, or merely a charming use of the organ’s ability to illustrate, the net result is a work of lightness and virtuosity.

Gli uccelliOTTORINO RESPIGHI(b. Bologna, 1879 / d. Rome, 1936)

TALIAN COMPOSER OTTORINO RESPIGHI STUDIED WITH Rimsky-Korsakov in Russia, learning much about orchestration from

him. It stood him in good stead, as many of Respighi’s best-known works are his elaborate and sparkling orchestrations of much older pieces. His three suites of Ancient Airs and Dances are probably the best known, but in 1927, he took five disparate Baroque harpsichord pieces, and fashioned them into a suite which he called Gli uccelli (“The Birds”). He added an element of unity to the suite by quoting from movements to come in the opening Preludio, similarly quoting from the Preludio in the suite’s final movement.

The Preludio is based on a piece by Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710). The next movement, “The Dove,” is an Andante believed to have been composed by French composer Jacques Gallot (1625-c.1695). The next movement, “The Hen,” comes from a harpsichord work by the famous French master Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). Next is “The Nightin-gale,” from an anonymous English source. Last is “The Cuckoo,” another work by Pasquini.

Concerto for Oboe d’amore in D Major, BWV 1053aJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH(b. Eisenach, Saxony, 1685 / d. Leipzig, 1750)

E DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW OF ANY WORK WRITTEN BY Bach for which any instrument in the oboe family was a solo instru-

ment. However, there are a number of works in which it is felt likely. Oboe scholar Anthony Robson states that it is now “generally accepted” that the Bach Concerto for Harpsichord, BWV 1053 was likely a later arrangement of a work originally written for oboe, but which is now lost. Upon further research, however, he decided that the oboe of Bach’s day would have been inadequate to the task – but the oboe d’amore would be a perfect candidate.

The oboe d’amore is rarely used today. Longer and deeper in tone than the standard oboe (but not as deep-voiced as the common English horn of today), the oboe d’amore’s range suits the theoretical compass the concerto would have had, based on the idea that it was, in fact, written for oboe. In this form, Bach’s concerto has received a number of performances and recordings. For tonight’s performance, Lidia Khaner will be performing on an oboe d’amore.

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R A R T I S T B I O SARTIST BIOSCarl Topilow, conductorTianwa Yang, violinwith:Robert Uchida, violin onductor CARL TOPILOW has established

his professional reputation in his posi-tions as Music Director and Conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Music Director of the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado, Conductor and Director of Orchestral Programs at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and conduc-tor of the Firelands (OH) Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has served as guest conductor with 120 orchestras in 37 states and 12 foreign countries, and has conducted for such notable artists as Itzhak Perlman, Victor Borge, Michael Feinstein, Doc Severinsen, Peter Nero, and the Canadian Brass.

Mr. Topilow has helped train talented young musicians and conductors for positions in the United States and abroad, and has supplied numerous musi-cians the opportunity to perform as both orchestra members and soloists. His manner of presenting music through musical illustrations and guides enhances the concert experience for audiences. In addition to his work as conductor, Carl Topilow continues to perform as clarinetist with orchestras as well as with piano in informal recitals. Mr. Topilow’s wife Shirley is the Director of the Morgenstern Dance Studio and Executive Director of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. Their daughter Jenny, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, is a violinist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. And daughter Emily plays with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in Cleveland and is concertmaster of her high school orchestra.

This is Mr. Topilow’s debut with the ESO.

inner of the ECHO Klassik Best Up-and-Coming Artist Award 2014 and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2014, TIANWA

YANG is referred to as an “unquestioned master of the violin” by American Record Guide. A resident of Germany, Ms. Yang has debuted with such orches-tras as the Detroit, Seattle, Batlimore, Nashville, Kansas City, Pacific, Toledo, SWR-Baden Baden-Freiburg, and New Zealand Symphonies, as well as the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and the Hong Kong, Buffalo, BBC, Deutsche Radio, Erfurt, Warsaw, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics. As a critically ac-claimed recording artist for Naxos, Ms. Yang will expand her disography with the release of concertos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Most recently, she released the complete Solo Sonatas of Eugene Ysaÿe, and both Mendelssohn violin concertos. She has also recorded the complete works of Sarasate on eight discs, winning acclaim for her “stunning effortless virtuosity” (All Things Strings). Ms Yang continues to build her growing reputation in concert halls across

Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture (“The Barber of Seville”) (8’)*Rossini

Canciones rusas, Op.49 (9’)*Sarasate

Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op.45 No. 3 (14’)*Dvorák

Introduction and Tarantella, Op.43 (5’)*Sarasate


Carnival Overture (7’)*Morawetz

Jota de Pamplona, Op.50 (7’)*Sarasate

Navarra, Op.33 (7’)*Sarasate

Light Cavalry: Overture (7’)*Suppé

Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen, Op.25 (14’)*Sarasate


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d Europe, Australasia, and North America. Recently, she gave her Canadian debut per-formances in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal, and Calgary with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, making her Rose Theater (New York) debut on the same tour.

Raised in the Chinese capital city, Tianwa Yang began studying violin at age four, winning six competitions as a young child. At 10, she was accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, recording the 24 Caprices of Paganini

at age 13. Over her career, Ms. Yang has won the Volkswagen Foundation prize “Star of Tomorrow” and the 2006 “Prix Montblanc.” She holds a place on the teaching faculty of the Music Academy of Kassel, Germany, and is grateful to Lin Yaoji, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn, and Anner Bylsma for the musical insight and support they have offered throughout her career. She performs on a Guarneri de Gesu (1730) on kind loan from Mr. Kei Mei Rin in Singapore.

This is Ms. Yang’s debut with the ESO.

Violin Showstoppers – Program Notes

ANY OF THE WORKS ON TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WERE written by one of the most talented violinists who ever lived – specifically

to showcase his talents. Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) was the son of a military bandmaster, and his own talent was recognized early on. Studies as a child in Madrid led to the Paris Conservatoire. He soon acquired a reputation for an inex-haustible facility on the violin, and in short order, the greatest composers of the age wanted to write works for him. But he also wrote a steady supply of his own music, much of which – not surprisingly – reflected his Spanish heritage and pride.

Not so the Canciones rusas (“Russian songs”), written likely as a gift of gratitude for Russia, a county in which Sarasate was a star attraction. Two Rus-sian folksongs make up the brief work, the first calling to mind the traditional balalaika with its use of pizzicato (plucked strings).

The Tarantella originated in Taranto, Italy, hence the name, and its lively 6/8 tempo and changes from major to minor, have made it a favourite. Sarasate’s version is preceded by a brief introduction.

One of Sarasate’s Spanish-inspired pieces is his Jota de Pamplona. Named for the town in which Sarasate was born, this lively work is based on the traditional Jota, a dance dating back to the 12 century of Moorish origins, and based on a quick 3/4 metre.

It would take a brave violinist to share the stage with Pablo de Sarasate, especially to play one his pieces! Enrique Fernandez-Arbos was such a person. A friend of the great virtuoso, Fernandez-Arbos was also a violinist and composer, and was a frequent partner with Sarasate for the work Navarra, for two violinists and orchestra. Also in the tempo of a Jota, this work provides each violinist ample display opportunity, as well as a contrasting middle section that may have been meant to be sung. Tonight, ESO Concertmaster Robert Uchida will join Ms. Yang.


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During the time Sarasate’s career flourished, opera was the dominant art form in Europe. Many virtuosos wrote display works for themselves based on the popular operas of the day. Perhaps no work by Sarasate is better known than his dazzling Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen. The opera itself is brimming with melodies which have become famous, and Sarasate’s tour de force exploits many of them, but always maintaining the integrity of the music itself, while providing some of the most sensational violinistic fireworks ever written.

As for the other works on tonight’s program:

HE OVERTURE WITH WHICH WE HAVE COME TO INDELIBLY associate Rossini’s comic masterpiece Il barbiere de Siviglia (“The Barber

of Seville”), or its associations with Bugs Bunny massaging hair tonic on the bald pate of Elmer Fudd, has, musically, nothing to do with the actual opera. For good reason, too. Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote the overture for another op-era – a drama, in fact – which had flopped. Rossini merely appropriated what was a fine curtain-raiser, and added it to his 1816 comic opera of the merry comings, goings, and machinations of Figaro and his fellows. When this new opera with the old overture became a hit, the overture became indelibly associated with it.

The Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) seized upon the surge in popularity of eastern European music, and for several years in the late 1870s and early 1880s, wrote a steady stream of works in what became known as “Slavonic” – a catch-all word that fit equally works inspired by Bohemian, Moravian, or Czech sources. Dvořák published three Slavonic Rhapsodies as his Opus 45, the third of which begins with a solo harp, beckoning us to an increasingly exuberant landscape which seems to fade away – but concludes with a final, authoritative and good-natured cadence.

Oskar Morawetz (1917-2007) came to Canada from his native Czecho-slovakia at the age of 23. Only five years later, he was commissioned by the noted Canadian conductor Ernest MacMillan to write a festive concert opener. Imbued with the flavour and rhythms of Czech folk music, the resulting overture has become a staple of the Canadian repertoire. It was MacMillan, not Morawetz, who came up with the title. “It is a work which has a tremendous rhythmic vitality and a most colourful orchestration; let’s call it Carnival Overture,” the conductor said prior to its 1947 premiere with the Montréal Symphony. The overture is in a standard three-part form, though it features a clever “double climax,” in which the work appears to be ending quietly, only to spring out exuberantly once again.

It is just as well that Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) was an extremely successful and popular composer in his day. Time has not been so kind to him, and apart from the occasional revival of one of his nearly 400 stage works, only a handful of his overtures are heard commonly today. Light Cavalry tells the story of Count Rheinfels, who is smitten by the charms of Countess Ilonka Csikos – to the point where his subjects have grown weary of the count’s prefer-ential treatment. Of particular public displeasure is the count’s use of state funds for his mistress’ ballet company. It is the dance company, by the way, who are pejoratively known as the “light cavalry” of the work’s title. The overture to this charming operetta has as its centrepiece a jolly and famous tune, set to a brisk horse’s canter – contrasted by a thrilling Hungarian folk dance, the csárdás.


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R A R T I S T B I O SARTIST BIOSCarl Topilow, conductorTianwa Yang, violinwith:Robert Uchida, violin onductor CARL TOPILOW has established

his professional reputation in his posi-tions as Music Director and Conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Music Director of the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado, Conductor and Director of Orchestral Programs at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and conduc-tor of the Firelands (OH) Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has served as guest conductor with 120 orchestras in 37 states and 12 foreign countries, and has conducted for such notable artists as Itzhak Perlman, Victor Borge, Michael Feinstein, Doc Severinsen, Peter Nero, and the Canadian Brass.

Mr. Topilow has helped train talented young musicians and conductors for positions in the United States and abroad, and has supplied numerous musi-cians the opportunity to perform as both orchestra members and soloists. His manner of presenting music through musical illustrations and guides enhances the concert experience for audiences. In addition to his work as conductor, Carl Topilow continues to perform as clarinetist with orchestras as well as with piano in informal recitals. Mr. Topilow’s wife Shirley is the Director of the Morgenstern Dance Studio and Executive Director of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. Their daughter Jenny, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, is a violinist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. And daughter Emily plays with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in Cleveland and is concertmaster of her high school orchestra.

This is Mr. Topilow’s debut with the ESO.

inner of the ECHO Klassik Best Up-and-Coming Artist Award 2014 and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2014, TIANWA

YANG is referred to as an “unquestioned master of the violin” by American Record Guide. A resident of Germany, Ms. Yang has debuted with such orches-tras as the Detroit, Seattle, Batlimore, Nashville, Kansas City, Pacific, Toledo, SWR-Baden Baden-Freiburg, and New Zealand Symphonies, as well as the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and the Hong Kong, Buffalo, BBC, Deutsche Radio, Erfurt, Warsaw, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics. As a critically ac-claimed recording artist for Naxos, Ms. Yang will expand her disography with the release of concertos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Most recently, she released the complete Solo Sonatas of Eugene Ysaÿe, and both Mendelssohn violin concertos. She has also recorded the complete works of Sarasate on eight discs, winning acclaim for her “stunning effortless virtuosity” (All Things Strings). Ms Yang continues to build her growing reputation in concert halls across

Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture (“The Barber of Seville”) (8’)*Rossini

Canciones rusas, Op.49 (9’)*Sarasate

Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op.45 No. 3 (14’)*Dvorák

Introduction and Tarantella, Op.43 (5’)*Sarasate


Carnival Overture (7’)*Morawetz

Jota de Pamplona, Op.50 (7’)*Sarasate

Navarra, Op.33 (7’)*Sarasate

Light Cavalry: Overture (7’)*Suppé

Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen, Op.25 (14’)*Sarasate


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Marie-Josée Dupuis-Arsenault *Craig AumannBrent Bailey *Joan & Monty Baker *Todd & Sian Barraclough *Ian & Janice BartonVera BayrakD. E. BeckwithAllen & Ruth BenbowGabriella Bergsten *Keith & Joyce BerrimanMiriam M. Bertsch-MannMandi BexsonGurvinder Bhatia & Aimee HillShelley BindonAnne BlatzTerry & Kathleen BocockElisabeth BodnerCheryl & Gary Bosgoed *Barry & Angela BreadnerKeith BrownCharles & Joan BuckleyT. CastellJoe ChapmanHeidi Christoph &

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Douglas & Marietta ClementWalter & Judith CookRalph & Isabelle CorbettDr. David R. CornishMarilyn CreeKathleen H. DaintithE. DaleLouise DavisBob & Cathy de FreceMark Demers & Marcia McLean *Jean & Ann DeschenesEva DezseUrsula Duke *Alice Dumaine

Casey T. Edmunds *Jerrold Eilander *George ElaschukPhoebe Elliot *Dr. Kerry & Mrs. Natalya EngerJake & Marilyn EnsTerry EppW. Grant FairleyJim & Joan FargeyMurray & Kathleen FarisBetty & Bill Faulder *Ian & Pat Fisher *Robert T. Fleming *Christine Ford *Bruce & Margaret Foy *Vincent & Ruth FriesenFred & Connie Gainer *Mr. & Mrs. D. GaylardPeter Gerbeth & Anna Gablenz *Don & Diane Gibson *Shirley GiffordDarrell & Barbara GotaasRae & Pat GrahamBetty GravettMargaret GreenhillNorman & Marsha GrimesKen & Bev Hadlington *M. E. Haggerty *Ray Hannley & Jean LeeRuth HarleTimothy & Patricia HartnagelDavid & Germaine HarveyBill & Sandy HaunChristina Hayashi *Gerhard & Emily HenkemansConnie HighsmithLeigh & Maureen HillLeroy & Barb HillerPatsy HoAudrey HodgsonRay & Barbara HowardMargaret HusbandCarol Jackson & Larry BailerColleen & Douglas Jahns *D. JenkinsSam Jenkins *Mr. & Mrs. T. N. JohnstonElizabeth & Brian Jolly

Laura & Tim JosephRoger & Patricia Juniper *Ian & Louise KiddHelen & Gordon KirschLoretta KlarenbachKobie & Miensie Kloppers *Reg & Crispin Kontz *Dr. Sabrina KwonGordon E. LangfordMarcel & Louise LavalleeMr. & Mrs. H.G. LawrenceDr. Maurice &

Mrs. Mary Ann LegrisMarilyn LemayAube & Diana LevineDyann Lewis *Ross LindskoogBob LosieIlda LubaneMr. & Mrs. R. Lucas *Lorri Luchka *Janet & Bill LywoodTom & Deborah Lyzun *Brenda MacDonaldDr. & Mrs. G. F. MacDonaldBeth & Muriel MacIntosh &

Ken StokesEd & Lu MacMillanLynn & Arnold MakiPeter MalcolmBerniece Malone *Allyson Mandrusiak *Estelle I. MarshallLisa & Petr McAllisterMr. & Mrs. R.E. McCallum *Lloyd McDonaldPiano Studio of Rhonda McEachenChris & Charissa McKay *Ruth McKinley *David McLeod *Marla MillerCatharine Millson *Daniel J. Mol *Doris MoonieRod & June MorganPamela S. Muirhead *Gerald Murnane *Peter & Sharon Murphy

Dr. Julianna NagyJohn Neilson & Susan CribbsRobin & Melonia NicolDavid Nixon & Lois LeVesconte *Anne NothofLouise OlshewskiDennis & Linda Olson *Louis OlsonChelsea O’Neill, Laynee Becker,

& Amica BeckerDermot & Laura O’NeillJim & Bev OrieuxDonna & Daniel OrobkoAaron & Jean OshryTim PaetkauDr. & Mrs. Edward PappFred & Mary ParanchychBrian ParkerDr. Edward & Mrs. Anne ParkinsonLois Pawl *David & Tikker PercyFordyce & Patricia PierChristopher Piggott *Victor PipkinMargaret & Hil ReineJoanne Ritcey-DevaneyAllan & Karen RobertsonBarbara RomanowskiDavid RoseIngrid & Steve Rose *Roger & Janet RussellTed SalterSari Salmon SchiffMiriam Schnellert *John & Frances ScotvoldP. Shapka *Margaret & Glenn SharplesDr. R. W. SherbaniukEllie Shuster *Judy Sills *Sidney Simpson &

Lou Lesperance *D. SkaretEdward & Eluned SmithMichael & Nance SmithMichael & Barbara Smith *Sharon & Rick Smith *Trevor Snaychuk *

Bob and Cathy Legate







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SUSTAINING PLEDGES: A NEW WAY OF GIVINGDonors who have made a Sustaining Pledge to the ESO and/or Winspear Centre (My Winspear) are recognized with an * symbol. A Sustaining Pledge is a commitment to the continued success of the ESO, and the sustainability of Edmonton’s performing arts culture. Last year, we had 202 of our donors pledge approximately $120,000 annually for five years – thank you! We encourage you to consider joining this passionate group and sign up for a Sustaining Pledge to support the ESO or Winspear Centre by:1. Pledging an annual gift each year for at least five years, OR 2. Pledging an ongoing monthly gift

A Sustaining Pledge:• Provides immeasurable support to the ESO and Winspear Centre as we continue to grow our community accessibility• Provides fiscal stability to the ESO and Winspear Centre, ensuring the continuity of our programs and allowing us to plan

wisely for the future of the organization• Ensures the ESO and Winspear Centre remain beacons for the performing arts in our community for our grandchildren

and their children

Help us build a long-term future for the ESO and Winspear Centre! Please consider making the commitment to a Sustaining Pledge by contacting Erin Mulcair at 780-401-2539 or [email protected].

ORCHESTRA CIRCLE

Collectively, this generous group of donors provides annual support totalling nearly half a million dollars. To join the Orchestra Circle, please contact Margo Pardely at 780.401.2552.+Orchestra Circle gifts completely or partially endowed in perpetuity

HONORARY MEMBERSRaymond J. NelsonJohn & Barbara Poole +Bill & Mary Jo RobbinsHarriet Snowball Winspear

DIAMOND ($25,000+)Anonymous (1)Rae & Carol Allen *Dr. Lorraine Bray & Jim CarterColin & Lila EicherLa Bruyere FundSteven & Day LePoole *Arliss MillerElisabeth & Reinhard MuhlenfeldJo-Anne & Jack Watt

PLATINUM ($10,000 TO $24,999)

Anonymous (1)Larry & Janet Anderson *Rhonda BakerDr. Bruce Dancik &

Brenda Laishley *Bev Martin *Marcie & Reg Milley *Judy MiltonEsther OndrackArnold & Grace RumboldEric & Elexis SchlossAngus & Heather WattSusan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom *

GOLD ($5,000 TO $9,999)Anonymous (2)

Bob & Sheryl BowhayDavid & Carol Cass *Ronald CavellMaria David-Evans *Dr. Chris Eagle &

Dr. Oksana SuchowerskyLois A. Field *Sandy FitchJan & Bill GraceMark & Nancy Heule *Glen & Brenda Kemp *Darcy & Barbara KoshmanDarrel & Edith MartinBob & Bev McNally *Jean & Stewart MontgomeryTim & Nancy MuzykaAl & Fran Olson *Kathleen E. Camp PearsonSheila & Tony RichGeorg Schmolzer &

Megan O’Reilly *Michael Veitch *Barry & Valerie Walker

SILVER ($2,500 TO $4,999)Anonymous (2)Madam Justice Darlene ActonThe Honourable John A. Agrios

& Mrs. Ruth AgriosDrs. Dick & Heather-Jane Au *Diana M. BaconHarold & Linda BanisterDrs. Barb & Jim BeckDavid & Janet BentleyRichard & Barbara Bergstrom *Marion & John Boyd *Marianne Brown *Ursula BullerPhyllis ClarkElaine M. CoachmanDavid & Gina CoscoDoug & Wendy DaveyGrant Dunlop & Erika NorheimCatherine Field & Kevin LewisPeggy GarrittyGeorge & Ann HammondMargaret HarrisGus & Alexandra Hildebrandt

John & Susan HokansonStanton & Shirley Hooper *Travis Huckell *Ken & Janet JohnstoneDr. Donald & Christina JollySharon & Allan Kerr *Bohdan KorbutiakBob & Cathy LegateDrs. Gary &

Catharine LopaschukHilliard & Nancy MacbethRobert MarkowskiHugh McPhail &

Yolanda van WachemLorna H McPherson *Glen A. Mead, CIMAPaul Melancon *Karen & Wally Might *Shauna Miller &

James Gillespie *John & Maggie Mitchell

KHG Family FundMary-Anne & David MorrisonMary PerssonAnnemarie & Paul PetrovJohn & Martha SchielRon & Dorothy ScottHarvey SheydwasserAndrew Sims &

Simone ChartersAllen & Myrna SnartEira SpanerMr. & Mrs. G. TertzakianHon. Allan & Bette WachowichPaddy WebbDr. P.J. White & Patty WhitingJohn & Carol WodakC. J. Woods, FCALinda Youell

BRONZE ($1,500 TO $2,499)Anonymous (3)Michael & Debbie Anderson *Dr. Gail Andrew *Barbara BatoniDonna BezansonKaren BidniakLeone & Ken Biggs

Dr. Len & Mrs. Barb Bistritz *Beverley Boren *Dr. Elmer & Marion BrookerDavid & Marlene BurnettButler Family FoundationMarguerite &

Zbigniew ChrzanowskiAllan & Jane deCaenMonique & Douglas DuvalDennis & Doreen ErkerJoan FargeyMr. & Mrs. Heinz FeldbergDavid & Rachel Ferro *Geoffrey & Kathryn Frisby *Lorie GarrittyJaima, Sheldon &

Jacqueline GellerPaul & Winifred Greenwood *Bryan Gutteridge *Cynthia Hansen & Joe ConciniAlice HarrisonChristopher HeadMr. Aloys &

Mrs. Agnes Hendriks *Cecil & Anne HoffmanDr. Karen & Pam Hofmann *John & Leni HonsakerKaron & Jotham HuisingDr. Andrew J. JaremaDr. Kaori Kabata *Ralph & Debbie KleinDonna KrucikC. A. KushlykRobert & Lesley LambertIvor & Mieke LammerinkDoug McConnell &

Claire DesrochersJohn R. & Irene McDougallMuriel J. McIntoshMichael & Mary-Lynn MelleKatherine & David Middleton *Catherine Miller & Len DolgoyStephen & Lynne MurgatroydLewis & Lindsay NakatsuiOle & Marilyn NielsenSherry & Jim Noyes *K. PatriquinIvan & Mary A. Radostits *Leonard RatzlaffJim & Vivian RedmondBryan & Linda Reed *

Helen Resta *David & Rachel RossAlan RuslerMr. & Mrs. H.G. SabourinMichel & Sylvie SauveElizabeth M. Schwab M.D.Marianne & Allan ScottJerry & Midge SmolykCurtis StrobeckElaine & Dylan TaylorChristine & Terry ThompsonMary Totman *Maryann Walker in memory of

Dr. David Cook *Elaine Warick & Jim O’Neill *Neil & Jean Wilkinson *Robert A. WilsonBill & Betty YoungMichael & Carol Zukiwsky

FRIENDS OF MUSIC ADVOCATE ($1,000 TO $1,499)Anonymous (2)T. Ed AdamsSharon, Neil, Amanda, &

Ben AlstadCatherine AndrewJohn BabicRichard Baird *Karen & Craig BanksTommy & Ida BanksJon & Marilyn Been *Dr. Douglas K. Bingham &

Sheila Janki-BinghamJulia Boberg *Donna Bonk *Alex & Christine Brown *Rita & Charles BurnsFrank CalderIrene CameronChristine Chung *Matthew CorriganJohn & Ann DeaAnne Marie DecoreLouis & Marcelle DesrochersDieleman-Bradley FamilyRon Gardner *Catherine Garvey *Brian & Lois HalinaZenia HawryshRonald HolgateMargaret Lair *Malcolm & Oryssia LennieC. B. LomowWard Mabbutt *Dr. Jean MacIntyreSue MarxheimerSheelagh McCourtLaurie McInnesA. Anne McLellanBruce & Cindy McPhersonCatherine MelnychukKen & Gerda MillerDr. Elisa Mori-TorresLucie Moussu *Tulane RollingherDavid & Carin RoutledgeDwayne & Salwa SamyciaWayne & Tabea SchieweTom Solyom & Teresa HaykowskyLeonard & Ruby SwansonDr. Stauffer & Dr. TodorukGary & Sue Trigg







We wish to express our gratitude to the following patrons who continuously support the ESO and Winspear Centre and allow us to bring music to life in our community. Thank you!

THANK YOU ESO AND WINSPEAR CENTRE DONORS!



Ruthanna ElsonRob & Corinne EmersonMartin & Patricia EnoksonMegan EvansChelsea Evans-RymesJane & Laurier FagnanElizabeth Fair & Lyle TryttenDawn Fargey *Marilyn FedunIvan & Ksenia FedynaWerner FenskeDoug & Fran FerrierKaren FingasEleanor Finger & G. Rauscher *Sarah FinnerConnie & Calvin FirthDixie FischerEsther FluevogLois FowlerKim FreyDiane R. Gagnon *Calvin GardnerGail GatesDouglas GaudinDavid GeakeKatherine GibsonNeil & Twyla GibsonKevin & Alice GleesonGerda GoetzLaura & Keith GrahamRichard GrahamCharles & Ann GrantLilian GreenMarion GreenSusan GreenSheila GreenbergJune & Ken GrimesMyrna GrimmBob & Judy GroseJacqueline GrossRenie GrossE. GuilfoyleMr & Mrs. Luther HaavePeter HallDrs. Bohdan & Elaine HarasymiwAnne HarderLois Harder & Curtis ClarkeTom HardinPeter & Deborah HarropLorne & Faye HatchMargaret HauckElizabeth HawrylukGina HenklemanGeorge HennigMarion HensleyCathryn Heslep *Charles & Ferne HickmanDamien Hildebrandt *Cheryl & Selwyn HilnerD. HodginsDeborah Hoekstra *John Hoekstra *Brandy HoltJill Horbay *Agnes HovelandBeth HowsonMartha HowsonMiroslav HruskaJoan HubeDr. Sheila HughesBeatrice HunterJohn HunterLinda HutLea Halinen

Paul & Linda SorensonJames & Linda Spurr *Charlotte St. GermainBen StaleyPeter & Jane Staveley *David & Donna TamPeter & Linda TaschukR. & S. TeplyDr. & Mrs. Timothy TerryCharles & Myrna ThompsonChris & Val Thomson *Ellen E. ThomsonGordon TidswellNikki & Steffen ToxopeusLorene TurnerRon & Gail UnrauMeghan Unterschultz *Doneida & Bill VandersteltJerry & Vi VasilashEvan Verchomin *Christina & Tracy Verheire *Dr. D. VickMr. & Mrs. A. C. VismanJohn Vrolijk *Bruce & Lori WalkerDoug WattKristopher WellsDonald WhiteNancy & Walder WhiteOrest & Gail Windjack

Bruce & Nora WisselinkDean & Mary WoodDon Wright *Luella & Mike YakymyshynEleanor & Gerry Young *M. Yun *George & Gloria Zaharia

FRIEND ($100 TO $249)Anonymous (101)Dr. & Mrs. Stephen AaronKaren AbrahamsonGail AdamsonDr. Bernie & Miriam AdlerZoe AfaganisKaren Albarda *Dorothy & Ted AllanShirley AllderBert & Olga AlmonDavid & Jean AndersonVi AndersonMilton & Elnora Andre

Cassie & Khalid Aziz *Bill & Olli BagshawStephen BalogRoderick E. BanksValerie BarlottDeborah BarnesRoy & Annette BarrettRay & Joan Barth *David & Kirsteen BassAnnette & Maurice BastideGloria BauerDr. Cecelia BaxterLaurie BaydaStella & Walter BaydalaJudy Beattie *Alec & Marianne BenningDonna BereskaHeather BergenLouis & Lorna BerlinguetteCalvin BinnemaStephanie Bishop *Fran BittmanJoan BlackburnJeanne BoerMichael BognerAmy BorkentY. BortnickE. Ross BradleyWilma & Fred BreeuwsmaBev & John Brennan

Brian BrodaMrs. Annabel BrophyGarth & Mary Jane Brown *Linda BrownDavid & Betty Jean BuchananKathryn BuchananBarb Bulat *Nora BumanisAubrey & Evelyne BurrowesAdolf & Kathleen BuseBob & Darlene CaldwellCarolyn & Stephen Campbell *Mrs. K.K. CampbellPat Campbell *Ken & Verna CarlsonMr. & Mrs. James CarlsonJeanne CaronJohn & Marilyn CarrPeter & Barbara Carstensen *Gerlinde CegielnyAnita ChalmersMatthew & Laura Chapman *

Ms Darlene ChapmanMonica ChesneyAlissa CheungChrystia Chomiak &

John-Paul HimkaNorma ChristiansenAlice & Nestor ChumerEarl Clements *Linda & Frank Clish *Roger & Carol CohenMegan Collins *Nancy ColpittsArlene Connolly *Edwin & Lucille Cossins *Joseph & Marilyn Cote-DupuisJohn CottonAndrea & Lyndon CrosleyDavid & Sandra CrossPatrick & Luxie CroweIngrid Crowther & James BoltonMary Cummins & Gunther TrageserTim CusackBrenda DaleMarilyn DarwishJean-Anne DaveyErik & Mila De RegtMr. & Mrs. Arthur & Betty Deane *Sheila DechantCinde DehaanPeter & Judy Deines

Thomas & Karen deJongKen & Mary DemedashLisa DenesiukDavid & Grace Denholm *Randy Diamond & D. ThomsonGordon & Verle DickauDarcy Doble *Bill & Sharon DonnellyTB & Les Dowhaluk *Sharon DownsRobin DoyonMike DreanyFrancis & Muriel DunniganPaul DusseaultJames & Carmen DykesLowell & Irma EckertTim EckertShirley EdgarDavid Edwards *L.E. Edwards *Marshall & Ardis EliasonJim Ellis

Richard & Laurel InnesJanis IrwinGeorge & Barbara IwaniukStuart & Kathy Jackson *Erik JacobsenJohn & Linda JamiesonDr. S. B. JoeCathy JohnsonDon H. JohnsonSandra JohnsonMaryGrace JohnstoneJustice Lionel & Mrs. Sharon JonesBeata Kaczmarczyk *Lyndi Karbonik *Bernard & Dorothy KeelerJoanne KennyJune & Bob KerrisonIrene King *Borden & Vivien KisilevichMaxine KlakSallie KleinDorothy KnowlerElla KolmJill KonkinDavid KoskiPeter KossowanJoe KostlerAnna KozakMs Iris KozmakIrvin KrezanoskiMickey & Sylvia KrikunWilma KrischBrian & Seaneen KropfTerrence KulasaWendy Lam & Lonnie HaineCarol & Bob LamontDoug LangevinRoger & Catherine LangevinLorne & Joan Langman *Bin Lau *Mike LauClaire-Ann Lauder &

Georgina Hodgson *Douglas LawlorAllan & Diana LeeAngela LeeIvy & Thomas LeeHugo & Lucie LehmannSusan LentJames LewisSusan & Murray LiebermanJoanne LindenElizabeth Lint *Lorraine LoewenJane & Ross LoganDoug & Joan LongleyK. LouieVictoria LukSusan LynchIan & Susan MacDonald *Janice MacDonald &

Randy WilliamsJohn & Marilyn MacDonaldWilliam MacDonald *Baunita MacKayRod & Elaine MacLeodJack & Cora MacMillan *Madeline MacPhersonAgnes MacRaeRosemary Marks *Dawn MarshMaureen MaslenMary Masson *Brian Match

Sharon MatthiasMrs. Patricia Mattson *Linda MaulGwen MazurekKaren MazurekWilliam & Anne McAtheyAlec McClayKathy McClellanIan & Janice McCrumRonald N. McElhaneyKen & Phyllis McFaddenJoyce E. McGilvrayCatherine & Norman McLeodGordon & Kathleen McLeod *Nancy McLeodEleanor & Jack McMahonCaroline McManusJan & Jim McMillanMargaret McMullenDr. Tim McNamaraBrigida Meza-Diaz *Ronald & Carole MiddletonJohn & Judy MillerCecily MillsJ. T. MitchellChantal MoreauElizabeth Mowat &

Ian KupchenkoAllan & Margaret MuirErin Mulcair *Ronald & Betty MullenLawrence Muwazi *Elizabeth MylesDale & Laurie NagelRon NewJim NewmanDawn NewtonLaurel NikolaiConnie NissenG. Douglas OakleyDavid OberholtzerColin & Sarah OddoyeBill & Joan OheAndy & Connie OhlmannNorma Jean Olivier *Emily & Daniel OngMolly OrtliebBill & Linda PaddonMargo PardelySheila & Allan ParrGary & Tara PaterokJoan Paton *Amanda PatrickFrederic PayantJohn E. PedersenLeanne Persad *Don & Margaret PetersonLillian PheaseyLarry & Shirley PhillipsThe Pick Family *Walter Pinto & Pat Mulholland *Dennis & Virginia PohranychnyDr. Wade &

Mrs. Stephanie Poitras *Mr. Michael PrendergastCharles & Edith PrimmerR K RamseyJeanne & Eugene RatsoyDorian RauschningAl Reed *Nora ReidDiana Remmer *Pierrette Requier *Pat Richardson *

Dineke van Gelder and Marilyn Larson

Ruth Harle


MAR-MAY 2015




Sheila RingroseMichael & Lucille RintoulGlenn RipleyJames & Margaret RobertsonLinda RobertsonLynn RobertsonSusan RobertsonDebra & Don RobichaudG. W. RochollMary-Lou RoseMrs. Joan RossallKenneth RoyAnthony S. RussellJames SaboJeannine SabourinMaryann SabourinGerald & Betty SaelhofMelanie Samaroden *Barbara & Gregory SargentVirginia SauveB & T Sawyer *Julia L. SaxFrank & Gertrude SchoblocherMagda SchoutenGail SchullerBarbara SchwegerDorothy Stoutjesdyk *Dr. Perry & Sandra SegalJoseph & Denise SelannGerry SemlerYakov & Larisa ShapiroDale ShewardDoug & Lynne SiglerJohn SimpkinNorman & Mary Jane Skretting *E. J. SloaneJason SmithMelanie Smith-Doderai *Paula Snyder

Steven Snyder & Connie SilvaJohn & Judy SoarsKaren SochatskyMarilyn SochatskyElaine SolezBrian & Marnie SprouleRobert Squair *Norman & Kathie St. ArnaudJoe & Linda Staszko and FamilySheila Steinhauer-MozejkoDr. Margaret StevensonA. Strack

Ken StrattonMartin StribrnyJulius & Jean SultMerna SummersDr. & Mrs. Guy SwinnertonElizabeth SzynkowskiJohn & Marvel TaekemaRhonda Taft *Dr. Amy Tan & FamilyBill Taylor & Marie LosierMerle & Neil Taylor *Robin TaylorLinda Telgarsky *Dave TerriffPaul ThibodeauMr. & Mrs. H. ThiessenAdele ThurstonMrs. TinaTodd TougasElinor & Ernie TownendAndrew & Mary Ann TrachimowichEdward & Jean TredgetLarry & Noreen TrekofskiLouis TrempeAdam & Aleksandra Trzebski *Barbara & Ernest TurnbullKathy TurnbullDavid & Carol TurnerElizabeth C. Tweddle *Gail TweddleLydia Van Aller *Bonnie Van Dalfsen *Dennis & Jean VanceLloyd & Sheila VasicekMichele & Terry VeemanTrudy VelichkaIrene WalkerCindy WandioWilliam Wandio

Shona WardsDale Warick *Lyn WatamaniukScott WatsonViolet WatsonCash Webster &

Robyne Walters *Eva & Mahlon WeirRonald A. WeirDr. Sam & Eva WeiszWilliam WellsRich & Grace Whitehouse

Kim & Matthew WiensWilliam & Sharla WiesenerKaren Wilke *Max & Mary Wilke *Cary & Alana WilliamsEd & Marliene WillsonChris Wilson *Lisa WilsonRon & Diane WilsonAlvin & Sue WinestockDavid WinfieldDiane WishartD.Wladyka *Sandra B. Woitas-MenczelMorley & Pat WorkunDoris Wrench-EislerJoan WynnykEmma Wynters *Hilary WyntersChristiana YeongCaroline YoungSteve & Leanne YoungFred ZieglerK. Zielinski

IN MEMORIAM

We thank our supporters who have chosen to honour the memory of a loved one through a gift to the ESO. These gifts have been given in memoryof the following individuals.Dr. P.B.R. AllenJack AllfordSonia Allore Leroy AnholtBill AstleDorothy AstleLen Aston

Derin Dogu AtaogluBarney BakerMargo BalogPeter BatoniAlan BelcherHelen S. Petersen BentleyEiner Boberg *Harvey BodnerAlma Boehm-KabushBob CallingAgnes W. (Nan) CameronKathleen Carter

Patricia Anne CavellDr. Grace ChanMary ClarkAvis CoburnJ. R. (Bob) ConnellDr. David CookShirley CoveyRichard Lee CowlesJames DanielsMartin DavisCharles DobiasEdward DobkoMs DoderaiJoan DostalerDr. John P. Ferri *Ken Gillett *Ewa GodlewskiHilda & Richard GolickMary HansonJack HarstoneGordon HeskeDorothy “Dode” HeuleMarguerite Elizabeth HighamDoreen HillLavon Holgate *William R. HowsonAnnie HutchingsJames C. HunterVern HunterMrs. Kun-Shih HuangBob & Muriel KennyPeggy KingIlse KoernerWilly KohnGerhard (Garry) KrischGerald William KrucikCol. H. Gregory Leitek PPCLICoralie LundbergJohn David LunnAlmeda LysneJohn MarchakIn Honour of MaryDorothea MacDonnellAllison McConnellDr. Sherburne McCurdyFlo McGavinBlair McPhersonRudy MelnychukDonald A. MiddletonBruce MillerGeorge MiltonDilys MitchellRoderick & Blanche Moses x”1Matthew William MilesDonna NaylorFrances T. OlsonTom PearsonCharles PeiAlberta Rose PellandJim PietrzykowskiLou PunkoRonalda ReichweinCatherine C. RogersDaphne RogersGeorgette RoyDr. Anna RudovicsDr. David SchiffVern SchwabAndre SchwabenbauerKrista Michelle SimsJohn Sinclair *Kay SlemkoHarcourt D. SmithV W M Smith

Jean SprouleMary SpurveyMarsha StantonMonte StoutRobert Stoutjesdyk *Lydia TakatsGrete Timmins *Riet van Esch *Josephine WelchLenora WilsonAlta & Bernard WoodIva J. Wood *Dr. John E YoungSara E. ZalikMetro “Mac” Zelisko

IN HONOUR OF

The following individuals have been honoured by their friends and families in recognition of birthdays, life milestones or significant anniversariesCarol AllenGordon AndreiukMy Son AndrewTory BachmannTommy Banks - Happy 75th

BirthdayLina BecerraMike and Annette BoormanMarg Bowen & Russell WellsPeachez BozakskiDesmond ChowBarbara CohoeMr & Mrs Commanda

of Golden Lake, OntarioFiorella da SilvaMaria David-Evans *Lillian DickauJorim DisengomokaIn honor of DonGary DuitsBette Anne &

Jim Edwards’ MarriagePaola EsquivelElsie Louise EvansLaura GrahamLilian Green’s 90th BirthdayJeanette HarcusPhyllis & Walter HarrisEvelyn & Eugene HendersonIbon Antiques & Collectibles Inc.Bill & Marlene KehoeBill KellyLanna KellySteve KohlmanBonnie KyleSteven LePooleDaniel LeVesconteLogan LiboironNathaniel MandelMarie Marleau LaingBetty McDowellDaphne McKayBrielle MelleDavid MerinoRonda MetsziesIvy MivilleMichel NucMary OhleNorman & Margaret Olson’s

50th wedding anniversaryMary RainbowCarla C. Salvado

Dr. Tami ShandroJon SharekAlayne SinclairTeresa SomervilleHugh & Anne-Marie StaceyThe Stacey FamilyGalina SternMary StevensonBarrie StinsonThe Swanson FamilyLorene TurnerToscha TurnerLucas & Sophie Waldin’s

MarriageJohn & Leslie WilsonKrysta Wosnack

CORPORATE SUPPORT OF THE ESO

Orchestra Circle: Diamond ($25,000 and up)ATB Financial

Orchestra Circle: Platinum ($10,000 to $24,999)Rotary Club of Edmonton

Strathcona

Orchestra Circle: Silver ($2,500 to $4,999)Driving Force IncFath Group / O’Hanlon PavingFidelity InvestmentsMelcor Developments Ltd.

Orchestra Circle: Bronze ($1,500 to $2,499)Audio Ark *Canuck Industrial Sales

(1982) Ltd.Rotary District 5370Wawanesa Mutual Insurance

Company

Advocate ($1,000 to $1,499)Airco Aircraft Charters Ltd.Cenovus EnergyMark V Investments Alta Ltd. *Oddball ProductionsSardan Holdings - Bistro Praha

Contributor ($500 to $999)The Dinner Optimist Club of

EdmontonEnbridgeID Productions IncNorthern Bluegrass Circle

Music SocietyRotary Club of Edmonton WestSinclair Supply

Supporter ($250 to $499)Alberta Registered Music

Teachers’ AssociationTelus Corporation

Friend ($100 to $249)AnonymousRyland Engineering Ltd.University of Alberta Graduate

Music Student Association

Ruth Harle

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Ruthanna ElsonRob & Corinne EmersonMartin & Patricia EnoksonMegan EvansChelsea Evans-RymesJane & Laurier FagnanElizabeth Fair & Lyle TryttenDawn Fargey *Marilyn FedunIvan & Ksenia FedynaWerner FenskeDoug & Fran FerrierKaren FingasEleanor Finger & G. Rauscher *Sarah FinnerConnie & Calvin FirthDixie FischerEsther FluevogLois FowlerKim FreyDiane R. Gagnon *Calvin GardnerGail GatesDouglas GaudinDavid GeakeKatherine GibsonNeil & Twyla GibsonKevin & Alice GleesonGerda GoetzLaura & Keith GrahamRichard GrahamCharles & Ann GrantLilian GreenMarion GreenSusan GreenSheila GreenbergJune & Ken GrimesMyrna GrimmBob & Judy GroseJacqueline GrossRenie GrossE. GuilfoyleMr & Mrs. Luther HaavePeter HallDrs. Bohdan & Elaine HarasymiwAnne HarderLois Harder & Curtis ClarkeTom HardinPeter & Deborah HarropLorne & Faye HatchMargaret HauckElizabeth HawrylukGina HenklemanGeorge HennigMarion HensleyCathryn Heslep *Charles & Ferne HickmanDamien Hildebrandt *Cheryl & Selwyn HilnerD. HodginsDeborah Hoekstra *John Hoekstra *Brandy HoltJill Horbay *Agnes HovelandBeth HowsonMartha HowsonMiroslav HruskaJoan HubeDr. Sheila HughesBeatrice HunterJohn HunterLinda HutLea Halinen

Paul & Linda SorensonJames & Linda Spurr *Charlotte St. GermainBen StaleyPeter & Jane Staveley *David & Donna TamPeter & Linda TaschukR. & S. TeplyDr. & Mrs. Timothy TerryCharles & Myrna ThompsonChris & Val Thomson *Ellen E. ThomsonGordon TidswellNikki & Steffen ToxopeusLorene TurnerRon & Gail UnrauMeghan Unterschultz *Doneida & Bill VandersteltJerry & Vi VasilashEvan Verchomin *Christina & Tracy Verheire *Dr. D. VickMr. & Mrs. A. C. VismanJohn Vrolijk *Bruce & Lori WalkerDoug WattKristopher WellsDonald WhiteNancy & Walder WhiteOrest & Gail Windjack

Bruce & Nora WisselinkDean & Mary WoodDon Wright *Luella & Mike YakymyshynEleanor & Gerry Young *M. Yun *George & Gloria Zaharia

FRIEND ($100 TO $249)Anonymous (101)Dr. & Mrs. Stephen AaronKaren AbrahamsonGail AdamsonDr. Bernie & Miriam AdlerZoe AfaganisKaren Albarda *Dorothy & Ted AllanShirley AllderBert & Olga AlmonDavid & Jean AndersonVi AndersonMilton & Elnora Andre

Cassie & Khalid Aziz *Bill & Olli BagshawStephen BalogRoderick E. BanksValerie BarlottDeborah BarnesRoy & Annette BarrettRay & Joan Barth *David & Kirsteen BassAnnette & Maurice BastideGloria BauerDr. Cecelia BaxterLaurie BaydaStella & Walter BaydalaJudy Beattie *Alec & Marianne BenningDonna BereskaHeather BergenLouis & Lorna BerlinguetteCalvin BinnemaStephanie Bishop *Fran BittmanJoan BlackburnJeanne BoerMichael BognerAmy BorkentY. BortnickE. Ross BradleyWilma & Fred BreeuwsmaBev & John Brennan

Brian BrodaMrs. Annabel BrophyGarth & Mary Jane Brown *Linda BrownDavid & Betty Jean BuchananKathryn BuchananBarb Bulat *Nora BumanisAubrey & Evelyne BurrowesAdolf & Kathleen BuseBob & Darlene CaldwellCarolyn & Stephen Campbell *Mrs. K.K. CampbellPat Campbell *Ken & Verna CarlsonMr. & Mrs. James CarlsonJeanne CaronJohn & Marilyn CarrPeter & Barbara Carstensen *Gerlinde CegielnyAnita ChalmersMatthew & Laura Chapman *

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BOARD & STAFFTHE EDMONTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EDMONTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY/ FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC

LIST OF PAST BOARD CHAIRSMrs. Marion Mills 1952-53 Dr. H.V. Rice 1953-54Mr. John D. Dower 1954-56Mr. Gerry M. Wilmot 1956-57Dr. A.O. Minsos 1957-58Mr. E.M. Blanchard 1958-59Mr. A.G. Culver 1959-60Mr. D.D. Campbell 1960-61Mr. D.M. Ramsay 1961-62Mr. Merrill E. Wolfe 1962-63Mr. Ken R. Higham 1963-65Mr. George M. Peacock, Q.C. 1965-66Mr. Robert L. Horley 1966-67The Honourable David C. McDonald 1967-68Mrs. Madeline Williams 1968-69The Honourable Tevie H. Miller 1969-70Mr. Jack W. Kennedy 1970-71The Honourable Roger P. Kerans 1971-72Mr. Richard W. Palmer 1972-73Dr. John R. Huckell 1973-76Dr. John L. Schlosser 1976-77Mr. J.R. Singleton 1977-79Mr. D.A. Cox 1979-80Mr. Ron Ritch 1980-82Mrs. Margaret Clarke 1982-84Mr. Brian Hetherington 1984-86Mr. Charles T. Austin 1986-88Mr. Neil Wilkinson 1988-90Mr. Robert Binnendyk 1990-93Mr. Ron Pearson 1993-95Ms. Audrey Luft 1995-97Mr. Andrew Hladyshevsky, Q.C. 1997-00Mr. Douglas Noble 2000-01Mr. D. Mark Gunderson, Q.C. 2001-03Mr. W.D. (Bill) Grace, F.C.A. 2003-04Mrs. Phyllis Clark 2004-07Mr. Steven LePoole 2007-11

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EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC LEADERSHIPAnnemarie Petrov William EddinsExecutive Director Music Director

Rob McAlear, Director of Artistic OperationsMichael Schurek, Director of Community RelationsAlison Kenny-Gardhouse, Director of Educational OutreachAlly Mandrusiak, Director of Events ManagementBrian Alguire, Director of Finance & OperationsElaine Warick, Director of Patron DevelopmentMolly Staley, Executive Coordinator/Board Liaison

Complete staff listing can be found at WWW.EDMONTONSYMPHONY.COM

EDMONTON SYMPHONY & CONCERT HALL FOUNDATIONPhyllis Clark, ChairJohn BrennanJim CarterBob Kamp Ron NewGary Smith

BOARD OF DIRECTORSReginald Milley, ChairPeggy Garrity, Vice ChairJim E. Carter, P.Eng., Past ChairCarol Ann Kushlyk, C.M.A., C.F.E., TreasurerLeanne Krawchuk, Secretary/Legal CounselSheryl BowhayJoanna Ciapka-SangsterMaria David-EvansMegan EvansSusan FlookCynthia Hansen, C.A.Travis HuckellSam JenkinsKathy KnowlesMary Persson




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EDMONTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY/ FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC

LIST OF PAST BOARD CHAIRSMrs. Marion Mills 1952-53 Dr. H.V. Rice 1953-54Mr. John D. Dower 1954-56Mr. Gerry M. Wilmot 1956-57Dr. A.O. Minsos 1957-58Mr. E.M. Blanchard 1958-59Mr. A.G. Culver 1959-60Mr. D.D. Campbell 1960-61Mr. D.M. Ramsay 1961-62Mr. Merrill E. Wolfe 1962-63Mr. Ken R. Higham 1963-65Mr. George M. Peacock, Q.C. 1965-66Mr. Robert L. Horley 1966-67The Honourable David C. McDonald 1967-68Mrs. Madeline Williams 1968-69The Honourable Tevie H. Miller 1969-70Mr. Jack W. Kennedy 1970-71The Honourable Roger P. Kerans 1971-72Mr. Richard W. Palmer 1972-73Dr. John R. Huckell 1973-76Dr. John L. Schlosser 1976-77Mr. J.R. Singleton 1977-79Mr. D.A. Cox 1979-80Mr. Ron Ritch 1980-82Mrs. Margaret Clarke 1982-84Mr. Brian Hetherington 1984-86Mr. Charles T. Austin 1986-88Mr. Neil Wilkinson 1988-90Mr. Robert Binnendyk 1990-93Mr. Ron Pearson 1993-95Ms. Audrey Luft 1995-97Mr. Andrew Hladyshevsky, Q.C. 1997-00Mr. Douglas Noble 2000-01Mr. D. Mark Gunderson, Q.C. 2001-03Mr. W.D. (Bill) Grace, F.C.A. 2003-04Mrs. Phyllis Clark 2004-07Mr. Steven LePoole 2007-11

THE ESO AND WINSPEAR CENTRE WORK IN PROUD PARTNERSHIP WITH IATSE LOCAL 210Warren Bertholet, Head Lighting TechnicianJonas Duffy, Head Audio Technician Alan Marks, Head of Stage ManagementMike Patton, Assistant Head of Stage Management


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EDMONTON SYMPHONY & CONCERT HALL FOUNDATIONPhyllis Clark, ChairJohn BrennanJim CarterBob Kamp Ron NewGary Smith

BOARD OF DIRECTORSReginald Milley, ChairPeggy Garrity, Vice ChairJim E. Carter, P.Eng., Past ChairCarol Ann Kushlyk, C.M.A., C.F.E., TreasurerLeanne Krawchuk, Secretary/Legal CounselSheryl BowhayJoanna Ciapka-SangsterMaria David-EvansMegan EvansSusan FlookCynthia Hansen, C.A.Travis HuckellSam JenkinsKathy KnowlesMary Persson



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THANK YOU Community Support of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra & Winspear Centre

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ROLLING STONES AT THE WINSPEAR

October 1997

Know Your Winspear

The Studio – the Winspear Centre’s main rehearsal room – is one of the building’s busiest and most adaptable spaces. This room has been used for rehearsals, Christmas parties, large meetings, and yoga or Zumba classes. But the Studio’s most noteworthy booking to date took place in October 1997 – only a month after the Winspear Centre opened its doors.

The Rolling Stones were one of the �rst groups to rent the Studio when they came to Edmonton on their Bridges to Babylon tour. After the band played their show at Commonwealth Stadium, on October 2nd, they decided to stick around for a few days to check out Edmonton’s newest concert venue. They booked the Studio for the next two days as a rehearsal space, but unfortunately, we will never know how much rehearsing actually took place. At 6:30 pm on Friday night, the band parked two bikers at the front of the Studio door and refused entry to all Winspear sta�, including cleaning personnel. The band jammed and partied for more than four hours and, over the course of the evening, several

orders of food and a case of wine were delivered to the room. By the next morning, news of the Rolling Stones’ presence downtown had spread throughout the city and eager fans waited outside the Winspear Centre with hopes of meeting the band. Ron Wood, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts all stopped to sign autographs, but Mick Jagger allegedly failed to show up to both practice sessions. When the weekend was over, the band packed up and continued on to Madison, Wisconsin – the next stop on their tour.

When the sta� entered the Studio at the end of the weekend, it was, as one might expect, an absolute mess. In addition to the debris left from a weekend of jamming, eating and general partying, the smoke stains on the velour curtains were so bad that they had to be dry-cleaned multiple times. Of course, the Winspear Centre sent their management the bill, but we’re very proud to be able to say that our venue can withstand even the Rolling Stones!

by Julia Dolman & Graeme Haunholter

Follow the Winspear Centre story at KnowYourWinspear.com

Keith Richards signing a fan’s autograph on his way into rehearsal. The group on stage at the Commonwealth Stadium.

Ron Wood satisfying autograph seekers outisde of Winspear Centre.

The No Security album recorded over the length of the Bridges to Babylon tour in 1997-98.

Some signatures left as a parting gift.

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The No Security album recorded over the length of the Bridges to Babylon tour in 1997-98.


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The No Security album recorded over the over the length of the Bridges to Babylon tour in 1997-98.


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