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MOUNTAIN VIEW CONNECTION PRESENTS THE PHANTOM SHIP SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 & MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014 • 7:30 PM LOUGHEED HOUSE • CALGARY, ALBERTA

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Page 1: SUNDAY,D E,CM BUDDCBA,UD · Adriana Bishop, Donovan Seidle, violins Michael Bursey, viola Kirill Kalmykov, cello Charles Foreman, Kathleen van Mourik, piano The Garden of Shadow SUNDAY,

MOUNTAIN VIEW CONNECTION

PRESENTS

THE PHANTOM SHIPS U N DAY, DE C E M B E R 7 & M O N DAY, DE C E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 4 • 7 : 3 0 P M

L O U G H E E D H O U S E • C A L G A RY, A L B E RTA

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M O U N TA I N V I E W C O N N E C T I O N – D E C E M B E R 7 & 8 , 2 0 1 4b

Bohemia RevisitedSUNDAY, April 19 and MONDAY, April 20, 2015

7:30 PM • Lougheed House

An evening of chamber music featuring the Brahms Piano Quintet, the Dvorak Piano Quartet and the Dvorak Gypsy Songs

Michèle Cusson, sopranoAdriana Bishop, Donovan Seidle, violins

Michael Bursey, violaKirill Kalmykov, cello

Charles Foreman, Kathleen van Mourik, piano

The Garden of ShadowSUNDAY, June 7 and MONDAY, June 8, 2015

7:30 PM • Lougheed House

Days of Decadence: from the Rhymers’ Club to the Latin Quarter, delve into the world of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley,

W.B. Yeats and Ernest Dowson

Allison Angelo, soprano Olga Primak, actor

Charles Foreman, Kathleen van Mourik, piano

Reception catered by The Restaurant at Lougheed House. Limited Seating

Available; only 80 tickets will be solf for each night.

SUBSCRIPTIONS: $90 (adults) / $70 (students/seniors)

SINGLE TICKETS: $40 (adults) / $30 (students/seniors/members)

Children under 12 are free!

(403) 240-4174 [email protected]

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The Intimate World of Art Song & Chamber Music

Join us this season as we travel from Christ Church Elbow Park to Calgary’s Historic Lougheed House to hear the splendid music of Bohemia and visit the world of Brahms and Dvorak, and spend time with the English Decadents, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Earnest Dowson to name a few, sail the seas with Pirate Ships, and bask in the glory of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach.

Our opening concert takes place at Christ Church Elbow park, one of Calgary’s oldest and most colourful neighbourhoods, and the final three concerts take place in the beautiful historic Lougheed House, an impressive sandstone mansion built in 1891, considered to be one of the finest residences in the Canadian northwest.

At intermission you will be entertained by a lovely reception and given a chance to explore the house.

The Mountain View Connection Concert Series is dedicated to offering concert opportunities to professional young artists embarking on their careers.

Artistic Directors, Charles Foreman and Kathleen van Mourik are the pianists for the three Lougheed House concerts.

Mountain View Connection Lougheed House2014-2015 Concert Season

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In Haven Sir Edward Elgar

Where the Corals Lie

Come Away, Death Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Adieu Good Man Devil

Sonata in B flat major K. 570 (arr. Mozart) W. A. MozartAllegro AdagioAllegretto

Pirate Song Henry Gilbert

~ INTERMISSION ~

Meditation Frank Bridge

Sea Slumber Jasha Heifetz

Seal Man Rebecca Clarke

La mer est plus belle Claude Debussy

L’heure exquise Reynaldo Hahn

En Sourdine

L’ile inconnue Hector Berlioz

Grand Duo sur Le Pirate Charles de Beriot

Please join us for a reception catered by The Restaurant at Lougheed House.

PROGRAMME DECEMBER 7 & 8, 2014, 7:30 PM

SARA STAPLES ~ mezzo soprano

ANITA DUSEVIC OLIVA ~ violin

CHARLES FOREMAN, KATHLEEN VAN MOURIK ~ piano

THE PHANTOM SHIP

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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

IN HAVEN

Closely let me hold thy hand,Storms are sweeping sea and land;

Love alone will stand.

Closely cling, for waves beat fast,Foam-flakes cloud the hurrying blast;

Love alone will last.

Kiss my lips, and softly say:Joy, sea-swept, may fade to-day;

Love alone will stay.

~ Caroline Alice Elgar ~

WHERE THE CORALS LIE

The deeps have music soft and lowWhen winds awake the airy spry,

It lures me, lures me on to goAnd see the land where corals lie.

By mount and mead, by lawn and rill,When night is deep, when noon is high,

That music seeks and finds me still,And tells me where the corals lie.

Yes, press my eyelids close, ‘tis well,But far the rapid fancies fly

The rolling worlds of wave and shell,And all the lands where corals lie.

Thy lips are like a sunset’s glow,Thy smile is like a morning sky,Yet leave me, leave me, let me goAnd see the land where corals lie.

~ Richard Garnett ~

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COME AWAY DEATH

Come away, come away, death,And in sad cypress let me be laid;

Fly away, fly away, breath;I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,O prepare it!

My part of death, no one so trueDid share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,On my black coffin let there be strown;

Not a friend, not a friend greetMy poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:

A thousand, thousand sighs to save,Lay me, O where

Sad true lover never find my grave,To weep there!

~ Shakespeare ~

ADIEU, GOOD MAN DEVIL

I am gone, sir,And anon, sir,

I’ll be with you again,in a trice,

Like to the old vice,Your need to sustain.

Who with dagger of lathIn his rage and his wrath,

Cries, aha, to the devil, aha, ha, ha!Like a mad lad,

Pare thy nails, dad.Adieu, good man devil.

~ Shakespeare ~

PIRATE SONG

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest,Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest,Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

Hate lies close to love of gold.Dead men’s secrets are tardily told.

Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

Dead men only the secret shall keepYo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

So bare the knife and plunge it deep.Yo! ho! ho! Yo! ho! Yo! ho! ho!

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest,Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum,

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,Drink and the devil had done for the rest,

Yo! ho! ho! Yo! ho! Yo! ho! Ho!

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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THE SEAL MAN

And he came by her cabin to the west of the road, calling.There was a strong love came up in her at that,and she put down her sewing on the table, and “Mother,” she says,“There’s no lock, and no key, and no bolt, and no door.There’s no iron, nor no stone, nor anything at allwill keep me this night from the man I love.”And she went out into the moonlight to him,there by the bush where the flow’rs is pretty, beyond the river.And he says to her: “You are all of the beauty of the world,will you come where I go, over the waves of the sea?”And she says to him: “My treasure and my strength,” she says,“I would follow you on the frozen hills, my feet bleeding.”Then they went down into the sea together,and the moon made a track upon the sea, and they walked down it;it was like a flame before them. There was no fear at all on her;only a great love like the love of the Old Ones,that was stronger than the touch of the fool.She had a little white throat, and little cheeks like flowers,and she went down into the sea with her man,who wasn’t a man at all.She was drowned, of course.It’s like he never thought that she wouldn’t bear the sea like himself.She was drowned, drowned.

~ John Masefield ~

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LA MER EST PLUS BELLE

La mer est plus belleQue les cathédrales,

Nourrice fidèle,Berceuse de râles,La mer qui prie

La Vierge Marie !

Elle a tous les donsTerribles et doux.

J’entends ses pardonsGronder ses courroux.

Cette immensitéN’a rien d’entêté.

O! si patiente,Même quand méchante !

Un souffle ami hanteLa vague, et nous chante :

« Vous sans espérance,Mourez sans souffrance ! »

Et puis sous les cieuxQui s’y rient plus clairs,

Elle a des airs bleus.Roses, gris et verts...Plus belle que tous,

Meilleure que nous !

THE SEA IS MORE BEAUTIFUL

The sea is more beautifulThan cathedrals;

Faithful wet-nurse,A cradle-rocker of death rattles;

The sea over which The Virgin Mary prays!

It has all qualities,Terrible and gentle.

I hear its forgiveness,The rumble of its anger;

This immensityHas no stubbornness.

Oh! So patient,Even when cruel!

A friendly breeze hauntsThe waves, and sings to us:

“You without hope,May you die without suffering!”

And then under the skiesThat smile more brightly,

It shows its colors bluePink, grey, and green...

More beautiful than anything,Better than us!

~ Paul Verlaine ~

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L’HEURE EXQUISE

L’heure exquiseLa lune blanche

Luit dans les bois;De chaque branche

Part une voix Sous la ramée...

Ô bien aimée.

L’étang reflète,Profond miroir,La silhouetteDu saule noir

Où le vent pleure...

Rêvons, c’est l’heure.

Un vaste et tendreApaisement

Semble descendreDu firmament

Que l’astre irise...

C’est l’heure exquise.

THE EXQUISITE HOUR

The exquisite hourThe white moon

shines in the woods.From each branch

springs a voicebeneath the arbour.

Oh my beloved...

Like a deep mirrorthe pond reflects

the silhouetteof the black willow

where the wind weeps.

Let us dream! It is the hour...

A vast and tendercalm

seems to descendfrom a sky

made iridescent by the moon.

It is the exquisite hour!

~ Paul Verlaine ~

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EN SOURDINE

Calmes dans le demi-jourQue les branches hautes font,Pénétrons bien notre amour

De ce silence profond.

Fondons nos âmes, nos cœursEt nos sens extasiés,

Parmi les vagues langueursDes pins et des arbousiers.

Ferme tes yeux à demi,Croise tes bras sur ton sein,

Et de ton cœur endormiChasse à jamais tout dessein.

Laissons-nous persuaderAu souffle berceur et douxQui vient, à tes pieds, riderLes ondes des gazons roux.

Et quand, solennel, le soirDes chênes noirs tomberaVoix de notre désespoir,Le rossignol chantera.

MUTED

Calm in the half-lightThat the high branches make,

Let our love be penetratedBy this profound silence.

Let us fuse our souls, our heartsAnd our ecstatic senses

Among the vague langoursOf the pines and the bushes.

Close your eyes halfway,Cross your arms on your breast,And from your sleeping heartChase away forever all design.

Let us abandon ourselvesTo the breeze, rocking and soft,

Which comes to your feet to rippleThe waves of russet grass.

And when, solemnly, the eveningFrom the black oaks falls,The voice of our despair,The nightingale will sing.

~ Paul Verlaine ~

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L’ILE INCONNUE

Dites, la jeune belle,Où voulez-vous aller ?La voile ouvre son aile,La brise va souffler !

L’aviron est d’ivoire,Le pavillon de moire,

Le gouvernail d’or fin ;J’ai pour lest une orange,

Pour voile une aile d’ange,Pour mousse un séraphin.

Dites, la jeune belle !Où voulez-vous aller?La voile ouvre son aile,La brise va souffler !

Est-ce dans la Baltique,Sur la mer Pacifique,Dans l’île de Java ?

Ou bien dans la Norwége,Cueillir la fleur de neige,Ou la fleur d’Angsoka ?

Dites, la jeune belle,Où voulez-vous aller?La voile ouvre son aile,

La brise va souffler!

Menez-moi, dit la belle,À la rive fidèle

Où l’on aime toujours.Cette rive, ma chère,

On ne la connaît guèreAu pays des amours.

THE UNCHARTED ISLAND

Tell me, young beauty,Where do you wish to go?

The sail swells,The breeze will blow.

The oar is made of ivory,The flag made of silk,

The helm is of fine gold;For ballast I have an orange,

For a sail, the wing of an angel,For foam, a seraph.

Tell me, young beauty,Where do you wish to go?

The sail swells,The breeze will blow.

Is it to the Baltic?To the Pacific Ocean?To the island of Java?

Or is it well to Norway,To gather the flower of the snow,

Or the flower of Angsoka?

Tell me, young beauty,Where do you wish to go?

The sail swells,The breeze will blow.

Lead me, says the beauty,To the faithful shore

Where one loves always!This shore, my love,

We hardly know at allIn the land of Love.

~ Theophile Gautier ~

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THIS EVENING’S PERFORMERS

KATHLEEN VAN MOURIK – pianoAlberta-born pianist Kathleen Van Mourik earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Calgary in Piano Performance before moving to the Netherlands, where she studied lied and chamber music at the Hilversum Conservatory under Hans Broekman, receiving the Uitvoerend Musicus degree. Upon returning to Canada, she received a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Vladimir Levtov at the University of Calgary. Other important teachers include the late Greta Kraus and Rudolf Jansen.

She also studied with Martin Isepp at the Banff Centre and completed a two piano residency there with her husband, pianist Charles Foreman. As a two-piano team, they commissioned works by several composers, and recorded a CD of French two-piano music released on the Arktos label, En blanc et noir, which was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award in 2008.

Ms. Van Mourik is the founder and co-artistic director of the Mountain View International Festival of Song, Canada’s only summer master class programme and concert festival combining art song and chamber music, as well as the Mountain View Connection, Calgary’s only concert series devoted to presenting emerging artists in concert.

In addition to her work with Mountain View, she maintains an active performing schedule, and has appeared across Canada, as well as in the United States, Belgium and the Netherlands. She is also in demand as an adjudicator, and has been a jury member for the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition in Brandon, Manitoba. She has been a soloist with the Kensington Sinfonia, playing Mozart and Schumann, and performed For the Time Being by Juno-nominated Canadian composer Brian Current for national CBC Radio during the 2008 Juno Awards weekend. She also performs regularly as orchestral pianist with the Red Deer Symphony. Her original theatrical recital, Pierrot Moonstruck! toured Nova Scotia in May, 2012, and was a part of Toronto’s Moordale Concert Series in April 2013.

She has developed a reputation as an outstanding chamber musician and vocal accompanist, collaborating with such artists as violinists Edmond Agopian, Donovan Seidle and Olivier Thouin, cellists Yegor Dyachkov and Kirill Kalmykov, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, dancer Denise Clarke, soprano Allison Angelo, and flautist Christie Reside. She can be heard on the Laura Taler DVD Love Songs featuring soprano Tracy Smith Bessette recorded by Bravo!FACT. Her work is regularly broadcast on national and regional CBC Radio, and she has also appeared on radio and television in the Netherlands.

For more information, please visit www.kathleenvanmourik.wordpress.com.

TICKETS $20 Adults; $15 Students/SeniorsChildren 12 and under FREE

Available at: http://[email protected] or 403.208.6094

www.voicescapes.ca

Buy 4 tickets and get a free CD!

Sing Along Messiah

VoiceScapes

Your time to shine!

Our thirteenth annual Sing Along Messiah features VoiceScapes with established and debuting vocal soloists,VoiceScapes Chamber Orchestra, all led by conductor Benjamin Butterfield.

Bring your friends, family and your score and be part of the fun and the fellowship. Non-singers are welcome too!

Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 2.30 pmKnox United Church, 506 – 4th Street SW, Calgary

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CHARLES FOREMAN – pianoPianist Charles Foreman was born near Chicago, where he was a scholarship student of Rudolph Reuter at the American Conservatory. His undergraduate degree, awarded with high distinction, is from Indiana University, where he studied piano with Abbey Simon and Joseph Battista and conducting with Julius Herford and Fiora Contino. He also holds the Artist Diploma and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto, where he studied with Anton Kuerti and Katharina Wolpe. Foreman has done postgraduate work with William Aide, and also at the Juilliard School with Abbey Simon.

Foreman made his debut in 1972 with the Chicago Civic Orchestra conducted by David Gilbert, playing the Brahms B-flat Concerto. Since then, he has won prizes in Canadian and U.S. piano competitions, received two Canada Council grants for study and performance in Europe, performed over 30 times with orchestras in North America (including eight repeat engagements with the Calgary Philharmonic), under conductors such as Edmond Agopian, Mario Bernardi, Boris Brott, Rolf Bertsch, Stephen Franse, Stewart Grant, Arpad Joo, and Gerhardt Zimmermann, and played over 675 solo and chamber recitals in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S. He has been equally praised for his superb musicianship, his formidable technique, his vast repertoire, and his imaginative programming. He has premiered works by composers as diverse as Istvan Anhalt, George Crumb, Stewart Grant, Oskar Morawetz, Violet Archer, Gerhard Wuensch, and William Jordan. His multi-faceted career has included professional broadcasting, professional acting, musical direction, and arts administration.

Professor of piano at the University of Calgary from 1973 – 2009, Foreman also served at various times as Assistant Dean of Fine Arts and as Head of the Performance Area, and he held key roles in establishing the Department of Music’s innovative master classes and in founding the University’s Celebration Series. His close ties with virtually every arts organization in Alberta as well as many national and international institutions have made him sought-after as a giver of master classes and workshops, and as a juror. His students continue to win prizes in local, regional, national and international competitions. Foreman was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002, and, since 2008, is a faculty member of the Mount Royal University Conservatory. He was appointed Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Calgary in May, 2010.

As a chamber musician, Charles Foreman has performed repeatedly with artists such as Edmond Agopian, Robert Aitken, Allison Angelo, Donald Bell, Jeremy Brown, James Campbell, Karen Cargill, Jonathan Crow, Stephen Dann, Yegor Dyachkov, Anthony Elliott, Lea Foli, Phil Hansen, Phyllis Mailing, Jason Nedecky, János Négyesy, Wendy Nielsen, Päivikki Nykter, Per Øien, Anita Dusevic Oliva, Carol Plantamura, Gerald Stanick, Olivier Thouin, Kathleen van Mourik, Carol Wincenc, and Tanya Dusevic Witek. In 1982, he won the Canada Music Council Award for best recorded chamber music with Aitken and Øien. He was a founding member of the Shawnigan Trio from 1990 to 1998, concertizing extensively in Germany to rave reviews, and making two recordings for Antes Edition.

Indeed, Foreman’s discography is continually growing, and includes four solo albums and five duo albums (with violinist Edmond Agopian, baritone Donald Bell, saxophonist Jeremy Brown, pianist Kathleen van Mourik, and flautist Tanya Dusevic Witek). In addition, Foreman has appeared as both artist and host on radio and television stations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

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ANITA DUSEVIC OLIVA – violinAnita Dusevic Oliva has performed as soloist & chamber musician throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia & has been the winner of numerous international and national prizes. Anita began her studies in Calgary at the age of three, studying primarily with Dr. Lise Elson. While in her teens, she studied with Professor Lorand Fenyves in Toronto and at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Subsequent studies were completed with Joel Smirnoff, former Chair of the Violin Department at the Juilliard School in New York and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. Anita also studied privately with Isaac Stern and participated in master classes with Ruggiero Ricci & Zakhar Bron, amongst many others. At the age of 10, she made her concerto debut with orchestra and, at the age of 13, she debuted with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performing the Brahms Violin Concerto. Other concerto performances followed, including performances with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony and Lethbridge Symphony. Anita made her National Arts Centre recital debut in Ottawa in 2000, which was broadcast on CBC National Radio’s “In Performance”. In 1997, she was named as the winner of the Royal Overseas League Prize, which included a concert tour of England with engagements at St. James’ Piccadilly and St. Martin’s-in-the-Field. As second violinist in Calgary’s Beau Quartet, she contributed to the recording of the Quartet’s debut CD on the Arktos label. Along with her sister, Tanya Witek, Anita was named as one of the 100 Young Canadians to Watch by MacLean’s Magazine in 2000. She also completed degrees in French and German literature, as well as law, at the University of Calgary. Anita is currently in-house counsel to Inter Pipeline Ltd. in Calgary. She is married to the writer, Peter Oliva, and mom to budding violinist, Serafina.

SARA STAPLES – mezzo-sopranoSara Staples is an active performer across North America specializing in opera, concert work and in professional ensembles. She has performed the roles of Maria (The Sound of Music), La Suora Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Mercédès (Carmen), Doris Whithers (Mr. Moreover’s Magic), The Foreign Princess (Rusalka), Nancy (Albert Herring), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Hora (Egisto). Ms. Staples has also portrayed roles in numerous scenes from the operas L’incoronazione di Poppea, Candide, I Capuletti e i Montecchi, Don Giovanni, La Calisto and Così fan tutte. Equally at home on the concert stage, Sara has been featured as the Mezzo-Soprano soloist with The Calgary Bach Society, Symphony of the Vines, Horizon Music Group, The South Dakota Chorale, Luminous Voices, Voicescapes and La VIe. She has also performed as a soloist at the Taipei International Choral Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival. Also an active recitalist, Ms. Staples has performed as a part of the Mountain View International Festival of Song & Chamber Music, The Paso Robles Paderewski Festival, The Sunday’s Live Concert series at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Casalmaggiore International Festival. Ms. Staples holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California..

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SPONSOR ($5000 and up)Alberta Foundation for the ArtsAlberta Government Culture

and Community SpiritAnonymous (1)Irene BakkerDr. Hallgrimur Benediktsson

& Gudrun JorundsdottirCADACanadian HeritageDon Ferris & Jeanne Keith

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BenediktsonHarry and Martha Cohen

FoundationCharles Foreman &

Kathleen van MourikSally GallinariGeoffrey Melvill JonesNetherlands Investment

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Anita Dusevic OlivaClarice SiebensDr. Leonard & Hilda SmithUniversity of Calgary

Department of MusicVan Leeuwen

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Terzi-DuganReg FrylingPreston Berry & Debra GargulDorothy GirlingPamela GriggHenderikus GrolDorothy HallPhilip HansenTalmon & Ena HertzRachel HopPatricia HrynkiwLuisa Izzo &

Alexander PetroianuEldean KatholWalter & Ruth Keith

Glenn and Maureen McGuiganKathleen McNally-LeitchMary MillerElizabeth MilnerAnn NewmanJohn & Sylvie OlynykRodica PostoleMrs. Hazel PreeceDr. Amitava SarkarJeffery & Donna SchmidtMrs. Sophie SchmidtJose & Myrth SorianoCarl & Chris SvobodaTakao TanabeMargaret TaylorTELUSRoger & Charlotte ThomasJerzy & Beth TobiaszWes & Dorothy van der LeeJohannes van der WalFred & Audrey van ZuidenRobert & Louise WestraJean WisemanMaurice Yacowar & Anne PetriePo YehS. Zubcic

DONOR ($50 – $99)Anonymous (1)Quenten & Joyce DoolittleGerrit and Carla HosChristina Jahn & Paul GrindlayProf. Don RayMarnie Patrick RobertsHal and Barbara SiegelBill Wilson

FRIEND (up to $49)Cheryl CooneyJanice DahlbergFrances EkvallPeter Jancewicz &

Susan HlasnyMildred JowseyLinda Kundert-StollCody ObstGeneva Scriggins

The International Festival of Song and Chamber Music Society is a non-profit charitable organization with the registration number 89042 1597 RR0001

The Mountain View International Festival of Song and Chamber Music Society is dedicated to providing opportunities for young professional classical musicians. Our mandate is to provide concert experience as well as training completion at the highest level.

CHEQUES PAYABLE TO

Mountain View Connection

#108, J10 Hemlock Crescent SW

Calgary, AB T3C 2Z1

Tel: (403) 240-4174

email: [email protected]

www.mountainviewfestival.com

ALBERTA CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT

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ARTISTIC CO-DIRECTORS

Charles Foreman & Kathleen van Mourik

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

Hallgrimur Benediktsson President

Irene BakkerVice President

Jeff Burnell Treasurer/Secretary

Richard Mercer Director

Harrie VredenburgDirector

Quinn KuikenDirector

MOUNTAIN VIEW CONNECTION WOULD LIKE TO  THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:Gerald Borch, stage managerTokie Brideaux, publicistSue Hauke Design, program designSally Gallinari

F E B R U A R Y 2 8 , 2 0 1 5A T C H R I S T C H U R C H , E L B O W P A R K

The Thirty Two Piano Sonatas

of Beethoven performed by

Charles Foreman

A Nine Concert Fundraising Project for the Benefit of Mountain View

B E S U R E T O P I C K U P A B R O C H U R E

F O R F U L L C O N C E R T A N D T I C K E T D E T A I L S

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