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ELLA & LOUISa pops tribute to Fitzgerald and Armstrong

THE 2015/16 SEASONBill Eddins & the ESO unveil the details

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ON THE COVER

Fresh on the heels of the announcement that William Eddins has renewed his contract as Music Director of the Edmonton Symphony through 2016/17, he leads the orchestra through another season of timeless classics and innovative programs. Get a sneak peek on pages 8 and 9.

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WELCOME

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

EDMONTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2014/2015

SEASON’S GREETINGSESO Music Director William Eddins curates another season of successes and surprises

ROBBINS LIGHTER CLASSICSPIANO BRILLIANCE (MARCH 5)

Dirk Meyer, conductorIlya Yakushev, piano

RBC SUNDAY SHOWCASERACHMANINOFF’S THIRD PIANO CONCERTO (MARCH 8)

Aziz Shokhakimov, conductorPavel Kolesnikov, pianoElizabeth Koch, flute

LEXUS FRIDAY MASTERS/ LANDMARK HOMES MASTERSVIOLIN & CELLO (MARCH 13 & 14)

William Eddins, conductorKaren Gomyo, violinChristian Poltéra, cello

EARLY CLASSICS MIDWEEKEDDINS CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN (MARCH 18)

William Eddins, conductor & piano

ROBBINS POPS ELLA & LOUIS: THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (MARCH 20 & 21)

William Eddins, conductorByron Stripling & Marva Hicks, special guests

DONOR LISTINGS

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Raga UnveiledIndian Music Ensemble with special guests. Presented in partnership with Edmonton’s Raga-Mala Society of Music.Sunday, March 22 at 3 p.m.Winspear Centre

Eine Kleine Night SerenadeUniversity Symphony Orchestra with tenor John Tessier. Britten’s Serenade. Berlioz’s Love Scene.Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m.Winspear Centre

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ESO / Winspear Centre Vision: Providing outstanding music experiences for individuals, families and the community and a place where those experiences evoke the height of personal emotion, adventure and excitement.

HIS IS THAT ODD TIME OF YEAR WHEN WE ALL GET MUSICAL “BIFOCALS.” IN this issue of Signature, for example, I’m looking forward to a pops concert with the amazing

Byron Stripling (as dynamite a performer as we have today); I’m playing and conducting another Mozart concerto (what was I thinking?) in the Early Classics Midweek; and then to cap it off, one of our dear friends, violinist Karen Gomyo, drops by with cellist Cristian Poltéra for the very cool Sinfonia concertante by legendary film composer Miklós Rózsa.

But then, look into the distance a little bit, and you’ll see our 2015/16 season on the horizon. There are some details about it (pages 8 and 9), and more to be said over the next few weeks and months as the new season draws near. It takes a lot of painstaking detail to put together a season every year, and many of those details are the ones we put on the stage each and every night. I hope, as you prepare to sit back and enjoy whichever performance has you perusing the program tonight, that you’re also looking ahead for when you’ll be with us next year.

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Raga UnveiledIndian Music Ensemble with special guests. Presented in partnership with Edmonton’s Raga-Mala Society of Music.Sunday, March 22 at 3 p.m.Winspear Centre

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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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ARTISTIC & LEADERSHIP TEAM

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 Amundsenmm CelloChris Andrew PianoAaron Au ViolinJim Cockell ViolinElizabeth Faulkner FluteJoel Gray TrumpetMichael Massey KeyboardsJohn McCormick PercussionRaj Nigam PercussionBrian Sand TrumpetYukari Sasada BassRob Spady ClarinetKate Svrcek ViolinBrian Thurgood PercussionIan Woodman CelloChristine Yu Violin

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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W ILLIAM EDDINS IS PROBABLY GETTING USED TO THE mammoth jigsaw puzzle putting an orchestral season together is.

There are more variables among dates, guest artists, musical preferences, and 400-odd years of music to choose from, than in figuring out the odds in most lottery draws. But as the wrapping is torn from the 11th season announced during his tenure as ESO Music Director, Eddins and the orchestra probably still feel that same sense of accomplishment – and relief – they feel every year.

The Masters, Lighter Classics, Pops, Sunday matinees, and kids’ symphony series are all still there – as are more recent additions to the orchestra’s lineup, such as the Early Classics Midweek and the innovative Late Night with Bill Eddins concerts. And sprinkled in, of course, are enough familiar faces among the guest artists that you definitely feel a sense of welcoming back many old friends.

Alexander Prior, Jack Everly, Robert Bernhardt, Steven Reineke, and Jacques Lacombe are all familiar faces among next season’s crop of con-ductors. Katherine Chi, Marc-André Hamelin, Stewart Goodyear, Jens Lindemann, Nathan Berg, the Chooi brothers (Nikki and Timothy), Janina

Fialkowska, Carol Wincenc, Angela Cheng, Sara Davis Buechner, and former ESO Concertmaster Martin Riseley will all be welcomed back warmly as well. And for the first time in 18 years, Canadian Celtic legends the Barra MacNeils will be coming back.

Current ESO musicians get spotlights too. Allene Hackleman, Robert Uchida, Eric Buchmann, Aiyana Anderson-Howatt, Robin Doyon, Frédéric Payant, Virginie Gagné, and Clayton Leung step out from their desks to take centre stage.

As has been a cornerstone of his tenure with the ESO, Music Director Eddins will conduct in nearly every subscription series the ESO has. “Good music is good music,” he insists. “Naturally, the chance to do Prokofiev with Kathy (Chi), or Françaix’ fractured French take (say that five times real fast) on Mozart, and partnering with Robert Uchida with Shostakovich – that’s a gas, but that’s what people expect. But to have Elmer – the other Bernstein – on the Masters, or turn me loose with the goofballs from Time for Three on the Pops, or a night of amazing Spanish music in the Lighter Classics – that variety is what makes this job fun. And interesting, and unexpected, and always fresh.”

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granted. For many patrons, the orchestra’s holiday shows are as much a part of Christmas as turkey and tinsel. Handel’s Messiah (conducted by Christopher Warren-Green this coming December), and the holiday Pops and Lighter Classics concerts have now established themselves as red-letter days on the seasonal calendar.

One of the more gratifying aspects of unveiling each new season for Bill Eddins is the fact that, as his Music Directorship enters double digits in years spent here, audiences have come to trust even the shows that might look, at first blush, to be a little outside the norm.

“It’s an honour knowing that we can program a Masters concert with Duke

Ellington, or Shakespeare-inspired music by Wagenaar and Griffes, and our audiences will say, ‘Just play it well, and we’re with you,’” Eddins feels. “To have that level of trust is huge, knowing that most of the time, we’ll hear, ‘I had no idea that music would be that good.’ But even when we don’t, our audiences know that the next time around, they’ll hear the Beethoven Fifth, or the Tchaikovsky Fourth. We understand each other, and there’s mutual respect.”

As ever at this time of year, subscription renewals are now underway. Make sure you keep your place for next season as soon as possible. There are more details on the 2015/16 season in the lobby, and at EdmontonSymphony.com.

“It’s an honour knowing that we can program a Masters concert with Duke Ellington,

or Shakespeare-inspired music by Wagenaar and Griffes, and our audiences will say, ‘Just play it well, and we’re with you.’”

– Bill Eddins

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W ILLIAM EDDINS IS PROBABLY GETTING USED TO THE mammoth jigsaw puzzle putting an orchestral season together is.

There are more variables among dates, guest artists, musical preferences, and 400-odd years of music to choose from, than in figuring out the odds in most lottery draws. But as the wrapping is torn from the 11th season announced during his tenure as ESO Music Director, Eddins and the orchestra probably still feel that same sense of accomplishment – and relief – they feel every year.

The Masters, Lighter Classics, Pops, Sunday matinees, and kids’ symphony series are all still there – as are more recent additions to the orchestra’s lineup, such as the Early Classics Midweek and the innovative Late Night with Bill Eddins concerts. And sprinkled in, of course, are enough familiar faces among the guest artists that you definitely feel a sense of welcoming back many old friends.

Alexander Prior, Jack Everly, Robert Bernhardt, Steven Reineke, and Jacques Lacombe are all familiar faces among next season’s crop of con-ductors. Katherine Chi, Marc-André Hamelin, Stewart Goodyear, Jens Lindemann, Nathan Berg, the Chooi brothers (Nikki and Timothy), Janina

Fialkowska, Carol Wincenc, Angela Cheng, Sara Davis Buechner, and former ESO Concertmaster Martin Riseley will all be welcomed back warmly as well. And for the first time in 18 years, Canadian Celtic legends the Barra MacNeils will be coming back.

Current ESO musicians get spotlights too. Allene Hackleman, Robert Uchida, Eric Buchmann, Aiyana Anderson-Howatt, Robin Doyon, Frédéric Payant, Virginie Gagné, and Clayton Leung step out from their desks to take centre stage.

As has been a cornerstone of his tenure with the ESO, Music Director Eddins will conduct in nearly every subscription series the ESO has. “Good music is good music,” he insists. “Naturally, the chance to do Prokofiev with Kathy (Chi), or Françaix’ fractured French take (say that five times real fast) on Mozart, and partnering with Robert Uchida with Shostakovich – that’s a gas, but that’s what people expect. But to have Elmer – the other Bernstein – on the Masters, or turn me loose with the goofballs from Time for Three on the Pops, or a night of amazing Spanish music in the Lighter Classics – that variety is what makes this job fun. And interesting, and unexpected, and always fresh.”

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ESO Music Director William Eddins curates another season of successes and surprises

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erman conductor DIRK MEYER is Music Director and Conductor of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra (DSSO) in Minnesota.

Leading all artistic endeavours of the DSSO, he conducts a wide variety of concerts, including a new series that incorporates theatrical and multimedia aspects into the performance. In 2013 he was appointed Music Director of the Lyric Opera of the North (LOON).Winner of the 2012 American Prize in orchestral conducting, he has guest conducted many orchestras throughout the United States. He has led the Orlando Philharmonic in numerous performances and in 2015 he returns to Orlando as one of five Music Director finalists. In 2014 Mr. Meyer also gave his Canadian debut with the Toronto Symphony. He continues his work with the Sarasota Orchestra in Florida, currently holding the position of Principal Guest Conductor.

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CHOPINGrande valse brillante in E-flat Major, Op.18 (arr. Dragon) (6’)*

MENDELSSOHNCaprccio brilliant in B minor, Op.22 (12’)*

BRAHMSIntermezzo in E Major, Op.116 No. 4 (arr. Klengel) (5’)*Intermezzo in E-flat Major, Op.117 No. 1 (arr. Klengel) (5’)*

WEBERPolonaise brilliant in E Major, Op.72 (arr. Liszt) (10’)*

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Winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Mr. Yakushev received his first award at age 12 as a prizewinner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition in his native St. Petersburg. In 1997, he received the Mayor of St. Petersburg’s Young Talents award, and in both 1997 and 1998 he won First Prize at the Donostia Hiria International Piano Competition in San Sebastian, Spain. In 1998, he received a national honour, the Award for Excellence in Performance, presented to him by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. Recently, Mr. Yakushev became a recipient of the prestigious Gawon International Music Society’s Award in Seoul. He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music in his native St. Petersburg, and subsequently came to New York City to attend Mannes College of Music where he studied with legendary pianist Vladimir Feltsman. Since 2002, Mr. Yakushev has served as Executive Director of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College. Ilya Yakushev is a Yamaha artist.

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

Piano Brilliance – Program Notes

T COULD BE ARGUED THAT THERE IS NO GREATER COMBINATION in music than that of piano and orchestra. Certainly, the wealth of

material written for that specific combination outnumbers the competi-tion by a pretty wide margin. Tonight’s program celebrates this pairing in a number of ways. There are works written for piano and orchestra. But there are also a few works written originally for piano, but then orchestrated, leaving the piano out entirely. All but one of the composers represented on tonight’s concert were outstanding pianists themselves.

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) composed almost exclusively for piano. Polish-born and Paris-based, Chopin revolutionized writing for his instrument, evoking colours and emotions in his piano works that no one had realized before. Upon leaving Poland, Chopin made a number of stops before Paris, including Vienna, where he confessed he found himself puzzled by the waltzes which so gripped the city. Determined to figure out his own way of writing such pieces, he ended up composing many of them, which number among his happiest and most extroverted pieces. His Grande valse brillante is a fine example of Chopin at his most exuber-ant. Tonight’s orchestral arrangement of this solo piano piece was done by Carmen Dragon.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), an almost exact contemporary of Chopin’s, was in some ways his musical opposite. Where Chopin was an innovator, Mendelssohn kept to traditional forms and musical ideas, trea-suring the legacy of the past. However, he could certainly write dashing and virtuoso music to display his own formidable talents, too, such as the 1832 Capriccio brilliant for piano and orchestra, a work which was quite influential for future such display vehicles. “The themes are gracious, and the constructions are finely integrated, revealing an incomparable mastery and clarity,” writes pianist and piano scholar David Dubal.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote important piano music through-out his career. Many of his pieces are miniatures that he would collect and publish as, say, sets of three pieces of this, or six pieces of that. Yet many of these short works are intricate, complex marvels of construction, which lend themselves well to the elaborate sound palette of the orchestra. Paul Klengel has orchestrated a number of them, and tonight we will hear the

Maestro Meyer is the author of Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire: A Catalog of Modern Music, published by Scarecrow Press (2011), the first entry in Scarecrow’s new series “Music Finders” edited by David Daniels. Possessing a special interest in contemporary music, Mr. Meyer established a new music series with the Sarasota Orchestra, leading numerous world premieres. Audiences and critics have been equally enthusiastic about these concerts, praising Meyer’s “precise and expert direction.” He has conducted many orchestras in Europe and abroad, including appearances in South Africa, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Dirk Meyer studied with Neeme Järvi and Jorma Panula; in addition, he assisted Maestro Kevin Rhodes with numerous performances at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Germany), as well as at the Vienna State Opera (Austria) and the Teatro Real in Madrid (Spain). He holds doctor of musical arts and master’s degrees in orchestral conduct-ing from Michigan State University, where he worked with Leon Gregorian. He holds bachelor’s degrees from the Folkwang Conservatory in Germany (music) as well as the University Duisburg-Essen (philosophy).

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

ussian pianist ILYA YAKUSHEV continues to astound and mesmerize audiences at major venues on three continents. He made his San Francisco

Symphony debut in 2007 as part of the orchestra’s Prokofiev Festival. His performances were included in the top 10 classical music events of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and prompted a return engagement in September 2009. In February 2014, Nimbus Records published Mr. Yakushev’s Prokofiev by Yakushev Vol. 1 CD. American Record Guide wrote “Yakushev is one of the very best young pianists before the public today.” In past seasons, Mr. Yakushev has performed in such venues as Glinka Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg), Victoria Hall (Singapore), Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), and Sejong Performing Arts Center (Seoul, Korea). His performances with orchestra include the Kirov Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Boston Pops, Syracuse Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Arkansas Symphony, and others.

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over its story of the interactions between Russian city slickers and workers on a collective farm was obviously mandated by political reality. In 1949, composer Lev Atovmyan took five excerpts from the ballet, added the Lyr-ic Waltz from one of Shostakovich’s early jazz suites, and created Ballet Suite No. 1 – a light, fun, and engaging set of short movements (none is longer than three minutes) that showcase Shostakovich as an entertainer.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) created some of the 20th centu-ry’s most popular and often-performed works for piano and orchestra. Yet the man himself was perpetually plagued by doubts and anxiety as both a performer and composer. By the time he got around to writing his Piano Concerto No. 3, he was once again a major figure on the world stage. In fact, the work was specifically written as a supreme showcase for his legendary pianistic prowess on a tour of the United States, where it premiered in 1909. The entire work, and specifically the final movement, is regarded as one of the most demanding and difficult in the standard repertoire. The outstanding pianist Gary Graffman joked that he wished he’d learned the piece as a youngster, noting, “probably the only time I could have learned that magnificent knucklebreaker would have been when I was still too young to know fear.”

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Intermezzo No. 4, one of seven “fantasies” published as Op.116, together with the lullaby-like First Intermezzo of the three published as Op.117.

Two talented pianists figure into the next work, the last of tonight’s first half. Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) is known today mainly for his influential opera Der Freischütz, but he was also a conductor, a pianist – even a guitarist. His Polonaise brilliant, Op.72 dates from 1819, jocularly subtitled “L’Hilarité.” A great admirer of Weber’s music was one of the most talented pianists who ever lived – Franz Liszt (1811-1886) – who orchestrated a few of Weber’s solo piano pieces, including this good- natured work, based on a 3/4 dance of Polish origin, the polonaise.

The second half of tonight’s program is made up of works by Russian composers. In the case of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), we have tonight’s only example of a composer who was not a gifted pianist, yet wrote nearly a hundred works for solo piano, and a handful for piano and orchestra. His Second Piano Concerto, composed in 1881, has forever lived in the shadow of its more popular predecessor, but is one of his sunnier compositions. The final movement begins with the piano stating a happy theme, answered by a second melody of a much more strongly Russian folk flavor. The entire movement has a driving, infectious energy.

Before the Soviet regime’s crackdown on what it regarded as the dec-adent music of the west, particularly American jazz, Russian musicians of the early 20th century embraced all the latest, daring trends in music. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a leader among this cadre of art-ists, and was one of the main targets of government criticism because of it. By the time of his third ballet, The Limpid Stream (1934-35), Shostakov-ich’s musical language had less snappy, avant garde jazz in it, and more-

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Winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Mr. Yakushev received his first award at age 12 as a prizewinner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition in his native St. Petersburg. In 1997, he received the Mayor of St. Petersburg’s Young Talents award, and in both 1997 and 1998 he won First Prize at the Donostia Hiria International Piano Competition in San Sebastian, Spain. In 1998, he received a national honour, the Award for Excellence in Performance, presented to him by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. Recently, Mr. Yakushev became a recipient of the prestigious Gawon International Music Society’s Award in Seoul. He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music in his native St. Petersburg, and subsequently came to New York City to attend Mannes College of Music where he studied with legendary pianist Vladimir Feltsman. Since 2002, Mr. Yakushev has served as Executive Director of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College. Ilya Yakushev is a Yamaha artist.

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

Piano Brilliance – Program Notes

T COULD BE ARGUED THAT THERE IS NO GREATER COMBINATION in music than that of piano and orchestra. Certainly, the wealth of

material written for that specific combination outnumbers the competi-tion by a pretty wide margin. Tonight’s program celebrates this pairing in a number of ways. There are works written for piano and orchestra. But there are also a few works written originally for piano, but then orchestrated, leaving the piano out entirely. All but one of the composers represented on tonight’s concert were outstanding pianists themselves.

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) composed almost exclusively for piano. Polish-born and Paris-based, Chopin revolutionized writing for his instrument, evoking colours and emotions in his piano works that no one had realized before. Upon leaving Poland, Chopin made a number of stops before Paris, including Vienna, where he confessed he found himself puzzled by the waltzes which so gripped the city. Determined to figure out his own way of writing such pieces, he ended up composing many of them, which number among his happiest and most extroverted pieces. His Grande valse brillante is a fine example of Chopin at his most exuber-ant. Tonight’s orchestral arrangement of this solo piano piece was done by Carmen Dragon.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), an almost exact contemporary of Chopin’s, was in some ways his musical opposite. Where Chopin was an innovator, Mendelssohn kept to traditional forms and musical ideas, trea-suring the legacy of the past. However, he could certainly write dashing and virtuoso music to display his own formidable talents, too, such as the 1832 Capriccio brilliant for piano and orchestra, a work which was quite influential for future such display vehicles. “The themes are gracious, and the constructions are finely integrated, revealing an incomparable mastery and clarity,” writes pianist and piano scholar David Dubal.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote important piano music through-out his career. Many of his pieces are miniatures that he would collect and publish as, say, sets of three pieces of this, or six pieces of that. Yet many of these short works are intricate, complex marvels of construction, which lend themselves well to the elaborate sound palette of the orchestra. Paul Klengel has orchestrated a number of them, and tonight we will hear the

Maestro Meyer is the author of Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire: A Catalog of Modern Music, published by Scarecrow Press (2011), the first entry in Scarecrow’s new series “Music Finders” edited by David Daniels. Possessing a special interest in contemporary music, Mr. Meyer established a new music series with the Sarasota Orchestra, leading numerous world premieres. Audiences and critics have been equally enthusiastic about these concerts, praising Meyer’s “precise and expert direction.” He has conducted many orchestras in Europe and abroad, including appearances in South Africa, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Dirk Meyer studied with Neeme Järvi and Jorma Panula; in addition, he assisted Maestro Kevin Rhodes with numerous performances at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Germany), as well as at the Vienna State Opera (Austria) and the Teatro Real in Madrid (Spain). He holds doctor of musical arts and master’s degrees in orchestral conduct-ing from Michigan State University, where he worked with Leon Gregorian. He holds bachelor’s degrees from the Folkwang Conservatory in Germany (music) as well as the University Duisburg-Essen (philosophy).

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

ussian pianist ILYA YAKUSHEV continues to astound and mesmerize audiences at major venues on three continents. He made his San Francisco

Symphony debut in 2007 as part of the orchestra’s Prokofiev Festival. His performances were included in the top 10 classical music events of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and prompted a return engagement in September 2009. In February 2014, Nimbus Records published Mr. Yakushev’s Prokofiev by Yakushev Vol. 1 CD. American Record Guide wrote “Yakushev is one of the very best young pianists before the public today.” In past seasons, Mr. Yakushev has performed in such venues as Glinka Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg), Victoria Hall (Singapore), Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), and Sejong Performing Arts Center (Seoul, Korea). His performances with orchestra include the Kirov Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Boston Pops, Syracuse Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Arkansas Symphony, and others.

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he remarkable young conductor AZIZ SHOKHAKIMOV burst

on the scene at the age of just 21 by astounding audiences in Bamberg, where he was awarded second prize at the Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition under the auspices of the Bamberger Symphoniker. Following the competition, Mr. Shokhakimov made several triumphant debuts: in Germany with Staatskapelle Dresden, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; in Italy with Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and la Verdi Orchestra in Milan; in Poland with the Sinfonia Varsovia; in the U.S. with the Orgeon, Pacific, and Houston Symphony Orchestras; and I Musici de Montréal and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada. Aziz Shokhakimov made his European operatic debut with Teatro Communale di Bologna in a production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Oper am Rhein in Carmen by Bizet. In addition to numerous re-invitations in the 2014/15 season, Aziz Shokhakimov will also have debuts with HR Frankfurt, Tonkunstler Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recognition came very early for Aziz Shokhakimov. Born in 1988 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he entered Uspensky Music School for Gifted Children at the age of six, where he studied violin, viola, and orchestral conducting (class of professor Vladimir Neymer). At age 13 he made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, conducting Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. During the following year he conducted his first opera, Carmen, at the National Opera of Uzbekistan. His relationship with both organizations resulted in invitations to perform symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich – as well as operas by Verdi and Bizet among others. For a number of years, starting at just 18, Aziz Shokhakimov held the position of the Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan. He received support from the Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Foundation and is a recipient of Nihol Prize from the State of Uzbekistan.

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

TSunday Prelude, 1:15 pm in Upper Circle (Third Level) Lobby with D.T. Baker

ESTACIOBootlegger’s Tarantella (7’)*

RUTTERSuite Antique (18’)* Prelude Ostinato Aria Waltz Chanson Rondeau

GRIEGPeer Gynt: Suite No. 1, Op.46 (15’)* Morning Mood The Death of Ase Anitra’s Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King


RACHMANINOFFPiano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30 (39’)* Allegro maestoso Romance: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace

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KOLESNIKOV’S Wigmore Hall debut in January 2014, The Telegraph gave his recital a rare five-star review and called it “one of the most memorable of such occasions London has witnessed in a while.” Since becoming Prize Laureate of the Honens International Piano Competition in 2012, Mr. Kolesnikov has been winning hearts around the world. A live recording of his prize-winning performances was

released on the Honens label in March 2013, to which the BBC Music Magazine attributed “tremendous clarity, unfailing musicality and considerable beauty.” Last June, his debut studio recording was released on the Hyperion label to critical acclaim. The Sunday Times described his playing on this all-Tchaikovsky disc as having “affection and élan” and named it one of the top 100 recordings of 2014. Significant recital and festival appearances resulting from the Honens Prize include Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, the Louvre (Paris), Vancouver Recital Society, La Jolla Music Society, Spoleto Festival USA, Ottawa ChamberFest, Banff Summer Festival, and the United Kingdom’s Plush Music Festival. Recent and upcoming orchestral appearances include Russia’s National Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, and Toronto Symphony.

London-based Kolesnikov was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. He studied both piano and violin for 10 years before concentrating solely on the piano. He has studied at Moscow State Conservatory with Sergey Dorensky, at London’s Royal College of Music with Norma Fisher, and at Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Maria João Pires thanks to the generous support of Mr. Christopher D Budden, the RCM Scholarship Foundation, and Hattori Foundation. Last fall, Mr. Kolesnikov was named one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists for 2014 to 2016, a scheme “that provides opportunities to develop live and recorded performances,” including broadcasts with BBC orchestras.

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

riginally from the Philadelphia area, ELIZABETH KOCH has been Principal

Flute with the ESO since 1987. She studied at the New School of Music in Philadelphia, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Blossom Festival School (the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra). Her teachers include David Cramer (Assistant Principal Flute, Philadelphia Orchestra), Jeffrey Khaner (Principal Flute, Philadelphia Orchestra), and Adeline Tomasone (Principal Flute, Philadelphia Opera). In the summer of 1987, Elizabeth was the only American flutist to play in the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orkester under Leonard Bernstein.

Since arriving in Edmonton, Elizabeth Koch has been in demand as a soloist with the ESO, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, ECHO, and the Arden Ensemble. Elizabeth was a founding member of the woodwind trio Take 3 which was heard regularly on CBC Radio from 1992-98. She is on faculty at King’s University College and maintains a private studio. She is married to ESO violinist Murray Vaasjo. They have one son - and a number of cats.

Ms. Koch last appeared as a soloist with the ESO in October 2009.

Bootlegger’s TarantellaJOHN ESTACIO(b. Newmarket, Ontario, 1966)

First performed: May 2001 in CalgaryLast ESO performance: January 2013

OOTLEGGER’S TARANTELLA IS A PRECURSOR TO JOHN Estacio’s opera Filumena, which had its world premiere in Calgary in

February, 2003 to great critical and popular success. It was presented by Edmonton Opera in 2005. The opera is based on the true story of Filumena Losandro, a young Italian woman who immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s and settled in the Crowsnest Pass. Caught up in the criminal boot-legging life of the family she married into, Filumena became the last woman executed in Canada.

Mr. Estacio has said this about Bootlegger’s Tarantella: “I wrote this short overture before I started writing the opera, and a few of the themes from this overture in fact ended up in the opera. The first of three themes in this piece is a folk-like melody, which segues into a dance tune that one might hear at a traditional Italian wedding party, and perhaps the wedding band has had one too many of the bootlegger’s brew. The third theme suggests the passionate ele-ments of the story: betrayal, unrequited love, and the despair at the tragic turn of events. Gradually, the music returns to the theme that started off the piece.”

Suite AntiqueJOHN RUTTER(b. London, 1945)

First performed: 1979 at the Cookham Festival, BerkshireThis is the ESO premiere of the piece

Program note supplied by JohnRutter.com, used with permission

HE SUITE ANTIQUE WAS WRITTEN IN 1979 IN RESPONSE TO AN invitation to write a piece for the Cookham Festival, and was premièred

by Duke Dobing and the London Baroque Soloists in Cookham Parish Church. Since Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 was on the program, Rutter decided to write for the same combination of instruments, using the forms and styles of Bach’s day.

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he remarkable young conductor AZIZ SHOKHAKIMOV burst

on the scene at the age of just 21 by astounding audiences in Bamberg, where he was awarded second prize at the Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition under the auspices of the Bamberger Symphoniker. Following the competition, Mr. Shokhakimov made several triumphant debuts: in Germany with Staatskapelle Dresden, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; in Italy with Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and la Verdi Orchestra in Milan; in Poland with the Sinfonia Varsovia; in the U.S. with the Orgeon, Pacific, and Houston Symphony Orchestras; and I Musici de Montréal and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada. Aziz Shokhakimov made his European operatic debut with Teatro Communale di Bologna in a production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Oper am Rhein in Carmen by Bizet. In addition to numerous re-invitations in the 2014/15 season, Aziz Shokhakimov will also have debuts with HR Frankfurt, Tonkunstler Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recognition came very early for Aziz Shokhakimov. Born in 1988 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he entered Uspensky Music School for Gifted Children at the age of six, where he studied violin, viola, and orchestral conducting (class of professor Vladimir Neymer). At age 13 he made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, conducting Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. During the following year he conducted his first opera, Carmen, at the National Opera of Uzbekistan. His relationship with both organizations resulted in invitations to perform symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich – as well as operas by Verdi and Bizet among others. For a number of years, starting at just 18, Aziz Shokhakimov held the position of the Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan. He received support from the Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Foundation and is a recipient of Nihol Prize from the State of Uzbekistan.

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

TSunday Prelude, 1:15 pm in Upper Circle (Third Level) Lobby with D.T. Baker

ESTACIOBootlegger’s Tarantella (7’)*

RUTTERSuite Antique (18’)* Prelude Ostinato Aria Waltz Chanson Rondeau

GRIEGPeer Gynt: Suite No. 1, Op.46 (15’)* Morning Mood The Death of Ase Anitra’s Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King


RACHMANINOFFPiano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30 (39’)* Allegro maestoso Romance: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace


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The suite is written for flute, harpsichord, and strings with six movements ranging from a Bach-like aria to a jazz-influenced, “Richard Rodgers-style” waltz. Rutter’s own style comes forth most strongly in the final Rondeau with its characteristically forward-driving rhythms and melodic lines.

Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1, Op.46EDVARD GRIEG(b. Bergen, Norway, 1843 / d. Bergen, 1907)

First performance of the play with Grieg’s incidental music: February 24, 1876 in OsloLast ESO performance of Suite No. 1: May 2011

HEN NORWAY’S TWO GREATEST ARTISTIC FIGURES FIRST MET, EDVARD GRIEG WAS only 22, while Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was already an established playwright. Ten years later, when

Ibsen approached Grieg to ask the composer to write incidental music for his new play Peer Gynt, both were now mutually acclaimed. Still, Grieg was nervous about the commission at first. “He went about in a nervous, restless state, in great doubt and anxiety as to the heavy task,” Grieg’s wife remembered. But his tension eased as the process went along, and in the end, Grieg composed 22 moments of music for the play – which was a smash at its opening, with both the drama and the music receiving high praise.

Grieg himself regarded some of the music he wrote for Peer Gynt to be among his finest work, and he excerpted eight sections to fashion two different suites. The outer movements of Suite No. 1 are two of the most famous works by Grieg – the tender Morning Mood and the jaunty, ultimately rousing In the Hall of the Mountain King. The death of the title character’s mother Ase is the plaintive second movement, while the swirling, seductive dance of Anitra forms the third movement.

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30SERGEI RACHMANINOFF(b. Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 / d. Beverly Hills, 1943)

First performed: November 28, 1909 in New YorkLast ESO performance: January 2012

HE STORY OF SERGEI RACHMANINOFF’S GRADUAL RETURN TO COMPOSITIONAL confidence and success following the failures of both his First Symphony and First Piano Concerto is well

known. The first fruits of his new-found artistic security include the remarkable Second Piano Concerto. The now-famous Third Concerto followed Second by nearly a decade. About to embark on a tour of the United States, Rachmaninoff wanted a new concerto to present on the tour, and he wrote this one at his country estate of Ivanovka, practicing it on a paper keyboard during the ocean voyage. One of the most astounding pianists who ever lived, Rachmaninoff was the soloist at the work’s first performances in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and again in New York. Among his four concertos, the Third is considered likely his most demanding pianistically, but also his most ambitious and communicative.

The work’s opening theme sounds so much like a quotation from a folk song, or perhaps a church hymn, that Rachmaninoff was at pains to stress the theme is “borrowed neither from folk songs or from church sources. It simply wrote itself.” Parts of this theme recur in the subsequent two movements, but in the opening movement, its first appearance is followed by a much gentler one, and the mood of the movement alternates between these two poles. Another interesting feature of the movement is the presence of two climaxes, the second at the summit of the brilliant cadenza.

The second movement is imbued with the same exotic, far-East flavour which colours other Russian works. Rachmaninoff labeled this movement an Intermezzo, a bridge of calm which rises to a certain triumphant feel when the first movement theme returns in the form of a waltz.

This serene moment is broken by the piano as it bridges directly into the third movement. The final move-ment of the Third Concerto is structured quite differently from the other three Rachmaninoff wrote. There is no hesitation between statements of the first and second main themes; Rachmaninoff piles the energy upon itself. The movement’s central section borrows from the main theme of the first movement, presented against a completely rebuilt rhythm. The collage of theme, sparkling piano virtuosity, and rhythm only increases in the recapitulation, bursting out in the coda – an epic, crowd-pleasing finish.

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The suite is written for flute, harpsichord, and strings with six movements ranging from a Bach-like aria to a jazz-influenced, “Richard Rodgers-style” waltz. Rutter’s own style comes forth most strongly in the final Rondeau with its characteristically forward-driving rhythms and melodic lines.

Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1, Op.46EDVARD GRIEG(b. Bergen, Norway, 1843 / d. Bergen, 1907)

First performance of the play with Grieg’s incidental music: February 24, 1876 in OsloLast ESO performance of Suite No. 1: May 2011

HEN NORWAY’S TWO GREATEST ARTISTIC FIGURES FIRST MET, EDVARD GRIEG WAS only 22, while Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was already an established playwright. Ten years later, when

Ibsen approached Grieg to ask the composer to write incidental music for his new play Peer Gynt, both were now mutually acclaimed. Still, Grieg was nervous about the commission at first. “He went about in a nervous, restless state, in great doubt and anxiety as to the heavy task,” Grieg’s wife remembered. But his tension eased as the process went along, and in the end, Grieg composed 22 moments of music for the play – which was a smash at its opening, with both the drama and the music receiving high praise.

Grieg himself regarded some of the music he wrote for Peer Gynt to be among his finest work, and he excerpted eight sections to fashion two different suites. The outer movements of Suite No. 1 are two of the most famous works by Grieg – the tender Morning Mood and the jaunty, ultimately rousing In the Hall of the Mountain King. The death of the title character’s mother Ase is the plaintive second movement, while the swirling, seductive dance of Anitra forms the third movement.

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30SERGEI RACHMANINOFF(b. Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 / d. Beverly Hills, 1943)

First performed: November 28, 1909 in New YorkLast ESO performance: January 2012

HE STORY OF SERGEI RACHMANINOFF’S GRADUAL RETURN TO COMPOSITIONAL confidence and success following the failures of both his First Symphony and First Piano Concerto is well

known. The first fruits of his new-found artistic security include the remarkable Second Piano Concerto. The now-famous Third Concerto followed Second by nearly a decade. About to embark on a tour of the United States, Rachmaninoff wanted a new concerto to present on the tour, and he wrote this one at his country estate of Ivanovka, practicing it on a paper keyboard during the ocean voyage. One of the most astounding pianists who ever lived, Rachmaninoff was the soloist at the work’s first performances in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and again in New York. Among his four concertos, the Third is considered likely his most demanding pianistically, but also his most ambitious and communicative.

The work’s opening theme sounds so much like a quotation from a folk song, or perhaps a church hymn, that Rachmaninoff was at pains to stress the theme is “borrowed neither from folk songs or from church sources. It simply wrote itself.” Parts of this theme recur in the subsequent two movements, but in the opening movement, its first appearance is followed by a much gentler one, and the mood of the movement alternates between these two poles. Another interesting feature of the movement is the presence of two climaxes, the second at the summit of the brilliant cadenza.

The second movement is imbued with the same exotic, far-East flavour which colours other Russian works. Rachmaninoff labeled this movement an Intermezzo, a bridge of calm which rises to a certain triumphant feel when the first movement theme returns in the form of a waltz.

This serene moment is broken by the piano as it bridges directly into the third movement. The final move-ment of the Third Concerto is structured quite differently from the other three Rachmaninoff wrote. There is no hesitation between statements of the first and second main themes; Rachmaninoff piles the energy upon itself. The movement’s central section borrows from the main theme of the first movement, presented against a completely rebuilt rhythm. The collage of theme, sparkling piano virtuosity, and rhythm only increases in the recapitulation, bursting out in the coda – an epic, crowd-pleasing finish.

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BOULANGERMarche gaie (arr. Orledge) – North American Premiere (4’)*

VARIOUSL’Éventail de Jeanne: excerpts (14’)* I. RAVEL Fanfare III. IBERT Valse V. DELANNOY Bourrée VII. MILHAUD Polka IX. AURIC Rondeau

SHOSTAKOVICHSymphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op.70 (26’)* Allegro Moderato Presto Largo Allegretto


RÓZSAEl Cid: Overture and Love Scene (9’)*

RÓZSASinfonia concertante for Violin and Cello, Op.29 (34’)* Allegro non troppo Theme and Variations: Andante Allegro con brio


ecipient of the prestigious Avery

Fisher Career Grant in 2008, violinist KAREN GOMYO has established herself in recent years as a much-in-demand soloist internationally, performing with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. Outside of the U.S., she has appeared with the Danish National Symphony, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, and Sydney Symphony. 2014/15 highlights include returns to the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and a return to Australia, making her debuts with the Tasmanian Symphony and the Melbourne Symphony. She performs with the Taipei Symphony, and in Europe she makes her debut with the Staatsoper Hannover, Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Aalborg Symfoniorkester (in a première of Anders Koppel’s new concerto), and Argovia Philharmonic (Switzerland tour).

Last season included debuts at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, which was televised on Netherlands National Television, a tour of Australia including the Sydney Symphony, Queensland, and Western Australian Symphonies, and the Danish National Symphony. Karen Gomyo has worked with conductors Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Neeme Järvi, Andrew Litton, David Robertson, David Zinman, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Louis Langrée, Thomas Dausgaard, Pinchas Zukerman, Heinrich Schiff, Peter Oundjian, Hannu Lintu, Vasily Petrenko, Kirill Karabits, Robin Ticciati, and Jakub Hrůša. In December 2013, a documentary about Stradivarius, The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin, in which Gomyo is violinist, navigator, and narrator, was broadcast worldwide on NHK WORLD. Ms. Gomyo is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzolla, and has an ongoing special project with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler. Karen Gomyo plays the “Aurora, ex-Foulis” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.

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POLTÉRA was a pupil of Nancy Chumachenco and Boris Pergamenschikov before studying with Heinrich Schiff in Salzburg and Vienna. Since replacing Yo-Yo Ma with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich at the age of 17, Mr. Poltéra has steadily established himself as one of the most prominent cellists of his generation. As soloist he has worked with orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Hamburg Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna

and Bamberg Symphonies, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Mr. Poltéra made his solo debut in the US in 2006 with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. In 2014/15, he makes his solo debuts with the Phoenix Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony. Further highlights include appearances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Hanover Opera, and recitals at Wigmore Hall London and Beethoven-Haus Bonn.

Together with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and violist Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra has formed a regular string trio that performs at the most prestigious concert venues in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne, Brussels, and Milan, as well as at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals.

In 2004 he received the Borletti-Buitoni Award and was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist. His discography reflects his wide range of repertoire on the labels BIS Records, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, and Chandos. These recordings have won acclaim from the international press, and have been honoured with the Diapason d’or, Gramophone magazine’s “Editor’s Choice,” Strad magazine’s “Strad Selection,” and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Now recording regularly for BIS, planned is a recording of the Dvořák/Martinů concertos (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/ Thomas Dausgaard). Christian Poltéra plays the famous “Mara” Stradivarius cello dated from 1711.

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

Marche gaie (orch. Orledge) – North American PremiereLILI BOULANGER(b. Paris, 1893 / d. Mézy, Seine-et-Oise, 1918)

First performance of this orchestration: February 26, 2015 in LondonThis is the North American premiere of the piece

LL AND BEDRIDDEN FOR MUCH OF HER ALL-TOO-BRIEF LIFE, French composer Lili Boulanger (the first woman to win the Prix de

Rome and younger sister of legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger) left many works unpublished or unfinished at her death. Several of these are known to exist, but the whereabouts of them are not. Such was the case with the brief, occasional Marche gaie, which was discovered in a private collection in 2011, owned by the grandchildren of the work’s dedicatee, Jeanne Leygues, a friend of Lili Boulanger’s, and the daughter of a local politician and community leader. Leygues married an American soldier during World War One, which was how the work ended up in the United States.

Boulanger scored the work for chamber orchestra, and since its discovery, versions have been made for different instrumental forces. Robert Orledge’s orchestration calls for pairs of woodwinds and horns, a trumpet, timpa-ni, harp, percussion, and strings. Orledge is professor emeritus from the University of Liverpool, and a leading scholar of French music of the early 20th century.

L’Éventail de Jeanne: excerptsVARIOUS COMPOSERS

Ballet first performed privately: June 16, 1927 in ParisFirst public performance: March 4, 1929 in ParisThis is the ESO premiere of any music from the ballet

EANNE DUBOST WAS A COLOURFUL AND MAGNETIC presence in the very colourful and very magnetic Paris of the 1920s.

A tireless patron of the arts, she ran a children’s ballet school (at which Tamara Toumanova first attracted attention); she also hosted many evenings at which commissioned music was presented. Such was her place in the Parisian art world that 10 different composers – both known and obscure to us today – united for a miniature ballet score for her young dancers, with the dances sketched on leaves of Madame Dubost’s fan – hence the ballet’s title L’Éventail de Jeanne (“Jeanne’s Fan”).

The most famous composer to contribute to the cheerful enterprise con-tributed the shortest section. Maurice Ravel’s (1875-1937) music opens the ballet with a Fanfare, which fellow composer (and one of the contributors to the ballet) Alexis Roland-Manuel perfectly described as “a Lilliputian flourish.” The next excerpt to be presented tonight is Jacques Ibert’s (1890-1962) Valse, the third movement of the ballet. It is one of the suite’s more

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BOULANGERMarche gaie (arr. Orledge) – North American Premiere (4’)*

VARIOUSL’Éventail de Jeanne: excerpts (14’)* I. RAVEL Fanfare III. IBERT Valse V. DELANNOY Bourrée VII. MILHAUD Polka IX. AURIC Rondeau

SHOSTAKOVICHSymphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op.70 (26’)* Allegro Moderato Presto Largo Allegretto


RÓZSAEl Cid: Overture and Love Scene (9’)*

RÓZSASinfonia concertante for Violin and Cello, Op.29 (34’)* Allegro non troppo Theme and Variations: Andante Allegro con brio


ecipient of the prestigious Avery

Fisher Career Grant in 2008, violinist KAREN GOMYO has established herself in recent years as a much-in-demand soloist internationally, performing with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. Outside of the U.S., she has appeared with the Danish National Symphony, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, and Sydney Symphony. 2014/15 highlights include returns to the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and a return to Australia, making her debuts with the Tasmanian Symphony and the Melbourne Symphony. She performs with the Taipei Symphony, and in Europe she makes her debut with the Staatsoper Hannover, Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Aalborg Symfoniorkester (in a première of Anders Koppel’s new concerto), and Argovia Philharmonic (Switzerland tour).

Last season included debuts at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, which was televised on Netherlands National Television, a tour of Australia including the Sydney Symphony, Queensland, and Western Australian Symphonies, and the Danish National Symphony. Karen Gomyo has worked with conductors Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Neeme Järvi, Andrew Litton, David Robertson, David Zinman, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Louis Langrée, Thomas Dausgaard, Pinchas Zukerman, Heinrich Schiff, Peter Oundjian, Hannu Lintu, Vasily Petrenko, Kirill Karabits, Robin Ticciati, and Jakub Hrůša. In December 2013, a documentary about Stradivarius, The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin, in which Gomyo is violinist, navigator, and narrator, was broadcast worldwide on NHK WORLD. Ms. Gomyo is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzolla, and has an ongoing special project with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler. Karen Gomyo plays the “Aurora, ex-Foulis” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.

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2014/2015 SEASONsophisticated movements, musically speaking, with rich chromatic figures accompanying the swirling and occasionally unsettled 3/4 rhythms. The fifth movement is a Bourrée, a French court dance in double time dating back to the 16th century. The ballet’s bourrée was composed by Marcel Delannoy (1898-1962), and is a sparkling, thoroughly modern-sounding confection.

Only two of the movements were composed by that well-known unit of French composers known as Les Six, and we conclude tonight’s excerpts of the ballet with them, beginning with the ballet’s seventh section, a Polka by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). As it turned out, Milhaud was one of the least happy with the single-movement commission, and so missed young Ms. Toumanova’s performance of his gentle and genteel dance, full of wit and effervescence. The final movement to be heard tonight is the Rondeau by Georges Auric (1899-1983), in which four versions of the “A” section are interspersed with a dance in 3/8, a galop (a ballroom dance in 2/4 of German origin), and a waltz.

Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op.70DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH(b. 1906 / d. Leningrad, 1975)

First performed: November 3, 1945 in LeningradLast ESO performance: November 2003

N SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION REGARDING DMITRI Shostakovich’s stormy and precarious dealings with the Stalinist regime,

his Ninth Symphony holds a unique place. It followed two vast wartime symphonies, and was supposed to have been a celebratory work following the defeat of the Nazis. Yet is hardly the grand affair the Soviet government hoped it would be. Instead, it is Shostakovich’s shortest symphony since the Second, and full of unusual, angular motifs and moods that have led many to glean many different interpretations of what Shostakovich might have been “up to.”

Shostakovich began work on a ninth symphony early in 1945, when the end of the war was in sight. He told his students about his plans for a grand work, quoted in the press as saying, “We must honour with reverence the memory of the brave soldiers who have died, and glorify the heroes of our army for eternity.” The work, a worthy “ninth” to rival Beethoven’s it was said, became a much-anticipated one among the music community and the Stalinist government as well.

But something happened to make him change his mind. He scrapped everything he had written to that point, and by the time of the actual victory over Germany that May, the work was entirely new; “…lacking all pretensions to gravity and majesty…it was almost the antithesis of expecta-tions,” writes Laurel E. Fay in her recent biography of Shostakovich. In his highly controversial “memoir” of Shostakovich, Solomon Volkov maintains that Shostakovich himself could not bear to write an “apotheosis of Stalin,” following the war, so he didn’t. Everyone was surprised, yet initially, the work was quite favourably received by all, including the Kremlin. It was not long, however, before second thoughts crept in, and the work was even-tually excoriated for being superficial and a mockery of the victory it was supposed to have celebrated.

Since then, people have read into this unusual entry in the Shostakovich canon all manner of subtexts and allusions. Some go to the extreme of hearing a not-so-subtle mockery of Stalin throughout the piece, though its defenders during Shostakovich’s life maintain it was simply an exuberant and cheeky bit of fun after so many years of darkness and trial for Russia.

It begins with a gentle spoof of a classical, Haydnesque symphony, though the opening movement is dominated by a mischievous march tune, heard first in the piccolo. The Moderato second movement begins with a solo clarinet against pizzicato low strings in a sad, lonely song. Other woodwinds begin to expand the music outward as if commiserating, until another theme, set to a two-note pattern, is presented by the strings, but the mood of despair and loss is constant.

The final three movements are presented without a pause between them. The Presto third movement is a mad scamper, almost a soundtrack for a cartoon chase. It winds down, and somber brass chords usher in a Largo fourth movement dominated by a haunting bassoon recitative punctured by a second brass intrusion. The bassoon rouses the fourth movement to life, an Allegretto that restores the sense of manic energy of earlier movements. Building to a careening climax, in which the comic main theme is given a grand statement, the symphony’s final, crazed moments are as unexpected as the work itself proved to be.

El Cid: Overture and Love SceneMIKLÓS RÓZSA(b. Budapest, 1907 / d. Los Angeles, 1995)

Film premiere: December 14, 1961The ESO last played the Overture in March 2006. This is the ESO premiere of the Love Scene.

IRECTOR ANTHONY MANN’S EPIC FILM DEPICTING THE story of real-life Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz (“El Cid”) plays

rather loosely with historical fact, but was a thrilling and very successful film in the “swords and sandals” age of Hollywood. It starred Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, and featured a soundtrack that earned Miklós Rózsa two Academy Award nominations (Best Music, and Best Music – Original Song for the Love Theme). He didn’t win either, though he did win three Oscars during his lifetime.

While he did his share of blockbuster scores, Rózsa was a master of film noir soundtracks: Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, Double Indemnity, and Lady on a Train to name a few. Taking its title, Double Life, from one of his films, Rózsa’s memoirs detail his lifelong effort to maintain both a success-ful movie career, and that of a classical composer for the concert stage. That success is demonstrated by the presence of both halves of that career on tonight’s program.

Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Cello, Op.29RÓZSA (SEE ABOVE)

First performed: September 22, 1966 in ChicagoThis is the ESO premiere of the work

S ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST CELEBRATED FILM scorers (see above), you’d think Miklós Rózsa would have had a lot

of experience with king-sized egos. But even he didn’t realize the war of one-upmanship that would ensue when he undertook to write a concertante work for famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz – together. It was Piatigorsky’s idea, but one which Rózsa imme-diately took to, as he had been looking for a way to write a concerto for Heifetz as it was.

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present a unique dual cadenza, out of which a clarinet, then a flute begin to broaden the music out. The opening melody, more passionately stated now, returns to the solo instruments, and as the pace and energy draw the move-ment to a close, both orchestra and soloists are equally engaged.

The second movement, as mentioned, is a theme and variations, and once again, the cello gets first say with the statement of the theme. The violin picks up the pace in the first variation, while close counterpoint between the soloists dominates the second. Orchestral textures begin to get richer as the violin explores its upper register in the third variation. Against a tricky orchestral syncopation, violin and cello dance an agitated variation of the theme. A lush orchestral section, expansive and passionate, brings in the fifth variation, the soloists entering well into it, swirling around each other as they had in the opening movement. The sixth variation is another set, a rolling boil, begun with sforzando double stops in the violin and a sense of frantic energy. The long final variation restores the introspection and wistfulness of much of the movement, and as the cello got a solo at the beginning, the violin is given a long one of its own at the end, set to a gossamer orchestral backdrop.

Orchestra sets the final movement off in an edgy, off-kilter dance with rustic Hungarian folk overtones. Violin and cello come skipping out at an equally brisk gallop, but soon settle things down into an extended rumina-tive section. The orchestra again rouses itself up, bringing the soloists along in an impressively equal dialog between orchestra and the two solo instru-ments. The sense of urgency and brio carries the work to its conclusion.


Piatigorsky and told him the first draft was finished, and I thought we should all try it through (with the composer playing a piano reduction of the orchestral part). The first movement began with a long passage for the cello alone before the violin entered. Heifetz pulled a face. ‘I can’t wait as long as that. Give him (Piatigorsky) about four bars and then I’ll take over.’ ” The second movement was more of the same. It begins with a long theme in the solo cello. “Do you expect me to stand there like an idiot all that time?” Heifetz groused. “Yes, Jascha,” Piatigorsky retorted, “we expect you to stand there like an idiot!”

That somehow Rózsa not only fashioned a work that the two could agree on and in fact perform, but also come to love, probably says as much about Rózsa’s lost potential as a diplomat as it does about him as a composer. The second movement, a set of variations on a theme, was completed well ahead of the rest of the work, and was actually presented on its own (by Heifetz and Piatigorsky) in September 1963 under the name Tema con variazioni. When the entire sinfonia was ready, neither of its intended soloists were, so the first performance was given by Concertmaster Victor Aitey and Prin-cipal Cello Frank Miller of the Chicago Symphony – the orchestra which premiered the piece.

Cello is given the first statement in the opening movement, joined right after by the violin in a swirling duet in a slightly exotic, Hungarian folk- flavoured melody. After a brief tutti, the violin begins the next section, with cello joining in (Rózsa’s diplomatic dance begins!). A second subject would seem to steer towards stormier shores after an agitated introduction in the woodwinds, but the mood calms once again as the two soloists present a quite duet. Following a declamatory orchestral passage, violin and cello


2014/2015 SEASONsophisticated movements, musically speaking, with rich chromatic figures accompanying the swirling and occasionally unsettled 3/4 rhythms. The fifth movement is a Bourrée, a French court dance in double time dating back to the 16th century. The ballet’s bourrée was composed by Marcel Delannoy (1898-1962), and is a sparkling, thoroughly modern-sounding confection.

Only two of the movements were composed by that well-known unit of French composers known as Les Six, and we conclude tonight’s excerpts of the ballet with them, beginning with the ballet’s seventh section, a Polka by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). As it turned out, Milhaud was one of the least happy with the single-movement commission, and so missed young Ms. Toumanova’s performance of his gentle and genteel dance, full of wit and effervescence. The final movement to be heard tonight is the Rondeau by Georges Auric (1899-1983), in which four versions of the “A” section are interspersed with a dance in 3/8, a galop (a ballroom dance in 2/4 of German origin), and a waltz.

Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op.70DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH(b. 1906 / d. Leningrad, 1975)

First performed: November 3, 1945 in LeningradLast ESO performance: November 2003

N SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION REGARDING DMITRI Shostakovich’s stormy and precarious dealings with the Stalinist regime,

his Ninth Symphony holds a unique place. It followed two vast wartime symphonies, and was supposed to have been a celebratory work following the defeat of the Nazis. Yet is hardly the grand affair the Soviet government hoped it would be. Instead, it is Shostakovich’s shortest symphony since the Second, and full of unusual, angular motifs and moods that have led many to glean many different interpretations of what Shostakovich might have been “up to.”

Shostakovich began work on a ninth symphony early in 1945, when the end of the war was in sight. He told his students about his plans for a grand work, quoted in the press as saying, “We must honour with reverence the memory of the brave soldiers who have died, and glorify the heroes of our army for eternity.” The work, a worthy “ninth” to rival Beethoven’s it was said, became a much-anticipated one among the music community and the Stalinist government as well.

But something happened to make him change his mind. He scrapped everything he had written to that point, and by the time of the actual victory over Germany that May, the work was entirely new; “…lacking all pretensions to gravity and majesty…it was almost the antithesis of expecta-tions,” writes Laurel E. Fay in her recent biography of Shostakovich. In his highly controversial “memoir” of Shostakovich, Solomon Volkov maintains that Shostakovich himself could not bear to write an “apotheosis of Stalin,” following the war, so he didn’t. Everyone was surprised, yet initially, the work was quite favourably received by all, including the Kremlin. It was not long, however, before second thoughts crept in, and the work was even-tually excoriated for being superficial and a mockery of the victory it was supposed to have celebrated.

Since then, people have read into this unusual entry in the Shostakovich canon all manner of subtexts and allusions. Some go to the extreme of hearing a not-so-subtle mockery of Stalin throughout the piece, though its defenders during Shostakovich’s life maintain it was simply an exuberant and cheeky bit of fun after so many years of darkness and trial for Russia.

It begins with a gentle spoof of a classical, Haydnesque symphony, though the opening movement is dominated by a mischievous march tune, heard first in the piccolo. The Moderato second movement begins with a solo clarinet against pizzicato low strings in a sad, lonely song. Other woodwinds begin to expand the music outward as if commiserating, until another theme, set to a two-note pattern, is presented by the strings, but the mood of despair and loss is constant.

The final three movements are presented without a pause between them. The Presto third movement is a mad scamper, almost a soundtrack for a cartoon chase. It winds down, and somber brass chords usher in a Largo fourth movement dominated by a haunting bassoon recitative punctured by a second brass intrusion. The bassoon rouses the fourth movement to life, an Allegretto that restores the sense of manic energy of earlier movements. Building to a careening climax, in which the comic main theme is given a grand statement, the symphony’s final, crazed moments are as unexpected as the work itself proved to be.

El Cid: Overture and Love SceneMIKLÓS RÓZSA(b. Budapest, 1907 / d. Los Angeles, 1995)

Film premiere: December 14, 1961The ESO last played the Overture in March 2006. This is the ESO premiere of the Love Scene.

IRECTOR ANTHONY MANN’S EPIC FILM DEPICTING THE story of real-life Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz (“El Cid”) plays

rather loosely with historical fact, but was a thrilling and very successful film in the “swords and sandals” age of Hollywood. It starred Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, and featured a soundtrack that earned Miklós Rózsa two Academy Award nominations (Best Music, and Best Music – Original Song for the Love Theme). He didn’t win either, though he did win three Oscars during his lifetime.

While he did his share of blockbuster scores, Rózsa was a master of film noir soundtracks: Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, Double Indemnity, and Lady on a Train to name a few. Taking its title, Double Life, from one of his films, Rózsa’s memoirs detail his lifelong effort to maintain both a success-ful movie career, and that of a classical composer for the concert stage. That success is demonstrated by the presence of both halves of that career on tonight’s program.

Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Cello, Op.29RÓZSA (SEE ABOVE)

First performed: September 22, 1966 in ChicagoThis is the ESO premiere of the work

S ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST CELEBRATED FILM scorers (see above), you’d think Miklós Rózsa would have had a lot

of experience with king-sized egos. But even he didn’t realize the war of one-upmanship that would ensue when he undertook to write a concertante work for famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz – together. It was Piatigorsky’s idea, but one which Rózsa imme-diately took to, as he had been looking for a way to write a concerto for Heifetz as it was.

In his memoir Double Life, here is how Rózsa recalled the ordeal: “I called

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INTERMISSION(20 minutes)

BEETHOVENSymphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op.60 (34’)* Adagio–Allegrovivace Adagio Menuetto:Allegrovivace–Trio:Unpocomenoallegro Allegromanontroppo


by Felix Mottl. A staple of many operas is a ballet section, and the Dance of the Blessed Spirits was just that in the opera’s second act. The Dance of the Furies is also from Act II, after Orfeo has charmed the guardians of the underworld to allow him to enter in search of his beloved Euridice.

Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART(b. Salzburg, 1756 / d. Vienna, 1791)

HE G MAJOR CONCERTO IS ONE OF THOSE RARE WORKS by Mozart for which we know pretty much the entire back story –

including the exact date of its premiere (June 13, 1784 in the Viennese suburb of Döbling). Part of the reason we know so much is that it is one of the few concertos Mozart published during his lifetime; another is that Mozart did not write the concerto for himself to play. Instead, it was writ-ten to showcase the skills of one of his prize pupils: Barbara von Ployer, whose father financed the first performance.

It may have been written for someone else, but that does not mean Mozart made it any easier a work to play. The concerto’s opening move-ment is a lengthy one, and the orchestra-only exposition contains about a half dozen separate thematic ideas and nearly as many shifts out of the home key, and some unexpected fortes. The piano’s entrance settles on one of these themes for its somewhat understated entrance, and the ensuing dialog both reprises and develops the previously heard themes. About halfway through, the music takes on a more ethereal quality, the rhythmic drive becomes less insistent, and when the main theme returns, it is gentler at first, though the opening sense of drive and energy returns. There is a somewhat muted, but still taxing cadenza, and a resolute orchestra-only coda.

The slow movement is nearly as long as the opening movement, with another lengthy orchestral exposition which builds to a surprising intensity before ebbing away, and ushering in a tender, gently syncopated piano passage. It, too, is beset by intense fortissimo chords in the orches-tra, which return at key moments throughout the movement. It keeps the music at a constant state of stress and drama, an unusual feature of a Mozart slow movement.

There is no question that Mozart’s pet starling figures into the finale of the concerto. But while some accounts say that Mozart was inspired by the bird’s song in creating the theme that the final movement’s set of variations is based upon, other accounts state that Mozart tried to teach the theme to the bird after he’d written it. Either way, the merrily chirped tune is certainly birdlike, presented by the violins and flute, and put through a series of increasingly taxing reprises. The moods vary widely, although not surprisingly, the work ends in high spirits and brilliant pianism, well beyond what your average starling could muster.

William Eddins, piano & conductor

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HE OPERA ORFEO ED EURIDICE IS PROBABLY MORE important than it is famous. Premiered in 1762 and written by

Christoph Willibald Gluck, it is one of many musical versions of the familiar Greek myth about the lyre-playing husband who risks everything to win back his wife from the underworld. What Gluck’s opera did, however, was pave the way for a reformation of opera as a genre, from the excesses of the day in which singers and extraneous display had priority over the drama and the music. This reform, however, is not hinted at in the conventional, yet engaging and richly melodic Overture. The Dance of the Blessed Spirits is another instrumental excerpt from the opera, which has become a popular part of the orchestral repertoire in this arrangement



Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op.60LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN(b. Bonn, 1770 / d. Vienna, 1827)

HE GREEK-LIKE SLENDER ONE,” SAID ROBERT SCHUMANN of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, a reputation further solidified due

to its neighbours – the revolutionary “Eroica” Third Symphony, and the ep-ochal Fifth. But if the Fourth does not have the reputation, or the fame, of its fellows, what strengths it does have earns it more performances than it gets.

Beethoven actually went straight on from completing the Third Symphony to sketching out notes for what would become the Fifth. As if he needed a break from the dimensions he had been dealing with, he turned to more clas-sical lines and lighter moods to create an altogether different work. Premiered in Vienna in March 1807, the Fourth is scored for a much smaller orchestra than for either of the bookend symphonies, and begins with a slow introduc-tion of more drama and weight than any Beethoven symphony prior to the Ninth. It is followed by an Allegro vivace of great rhythmic drive – classical in dimension, but all muscular Beethoven in execution. A number of themes, each with its own distinctive rhythm, cross the first movement’s landscape. A series of varying keys heralds the close of the development, while the timpani’s steady, quiet roll on B-flat ushers in the long, elaborate recapitulation.

Rhythm is a key aspect in the slow second movement. The lovely melody in the strings is underpinned by a steady pulse, which flares to life at regular intervals. The clarinet introduces a secondary theme, also set to regularly undulating strings. There are major-minor contrasts through the Development section, and the regular, steady pulse returns as the Recapit-ulation restores the wide range of moods – and the clarinet melody – once again. But just as it seems like the movement will end quietly, the music takes a brief, detour – woodwinds and horns precede a suddenly dramatic flourish, and the movement concludes on two powerful chords.

The third movement is not in the usual three-part (Scherzo-Trio- Scherzo) format, but in five, bringing back both the trio and scherzo one more time. The Scherzo theme is a brusque, chugging tune, full of dynamic contrasts. The Trio is a gentler affair – a broad, triple-metre dance with a pastoral flavour. Musicians, by rights, ought to have seatbelts for the finale – a rush of sixteenth notes abound in this helter-skelter movement that pauses only occasionally to catch its breath. No instrument is spared the daunting – but jolly – pace which, even in its quieter moments, has at least some instruments prodding the relentless moto perpetuo-like movement.


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INTERMISSION(20 minutes)

BEETHOVENSymphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op.60 (34’)* Adagio–Allegrovivace Adagio Menuetto:Allegrovivace–Trio:Unpocomenoallegro Allegromanontroppo


by Felix Mottl. A staple of many operas is a ballet section, and the Dance of the Blessed Spirits was just that in the opera’s second act. The Dance of the Furies is also from Act II, after Orfeo has charmed the guardians of the underworld to allow him to enter in search of his beloved Euridice.

Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART(b. Salzburg, 1756 / d. Vienna, 1791)

HE G MAJOR CONCERTO IS ONE OF THOSE RARE WORKS by Mozart for which we know pretty much the entire back story –

including the exact date of its premiere (June 13, 1784 in the Viennese suburb of Döbling). Part of the reason we know so much is that it is one of the few concertos Mozart published during his lifetime; another is that Mozart did not write the concerto for himself to play. Instead, it was writ-ten to showcase the skills of one of his prize pupils: Barbara von Ployer, whose father financed the first performance.

It may have been written for someone else, but that does not mean Mozart made it any easier a work to play. The concerto’s opening move-ment is a lengthy one, and the orchestra-only exposition contains about a half dozen separate thematic ideas and nearly as many shifts out of the home key, and some unexpected fortes. The piano’s entrance settles on one of these themes for its somewhat understated entrance, and the ensuing dialog both reprises and develops the previously heard themes. About halfway through, the music takes on a more ethereal quality, the rhythmic drive becomes less insistent, and when the main theme returns, it is gentler at first, though the opening sense of drive and energy returns. There is a somewhat muted, but still taxing cadenza, and a resolute orchestra-only coda.

The slow movement is nearly as long as the opening movement, with another lengthy orchestral exposition which builds to a surprising intensity before ebbing away, and ushering in a tender, gently syncopated piano passage. It, too, is beset by intense fortissimo chords in the orches-tra, which return at key moments throughout the movement. It keeps the music at a constant state of stress and drama, an unusual feature of a Mozart slow movement.

There is no question that Mozart’s pet starling figures into the finale of the concerto. But while some accounts say that Mozart was inspired by the bird’s song in creating the theme that the final movement’s set of variations is based upon, other accounts state that Mozart tried to teach the theme to the bird after he’d written it. Either way, the merrily chirped tune is certainly birdlike, presented by the violins and flute, and put through a series of increasingly taxing reprises. The moods vary widely, although not surprisingly, the work ends in high spirits and brilliant pianism, well beyond what your average starling could muster.

William Eddins, piano & conductor

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Orfeo ed Euridice: excerptsCHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK(b. Erasbach, 1714 / d. Vienna, 1787)

HE OPERA ORFEO ED EURIDICE IS PROBABLY MORE important than it is famous. Premiered in 1762 and written by

Christoph Willibald Gluck, it is one of many musical versions of the familiar Greek myth about the lyre-playing husband who risks everything to win back his wife from the underworld. What Gluck’s opera did, however, was pave the way for a reformation of opera as a genre, from the excesses of the day in which singers and extraneous display had priority over the drama and the music. This reform, however, is not hinted at in the conventional, yet engaging and richly melodic Overture. The Dance of the Blessed Spirits is another instrumental excerpt from the opera, which has become a popular part of the orchestral repertoire in this arrangement



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“A Tisket, A Tasket”Fitzgerald/Feldman (arr. Cook)

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“Sweet Georgia Brown”Bernie/Pinkard/Casey (arr. Mackrel)


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ith a contagious smile and captivating charm, trumpet virtuoso BYRON STRIPLING has ignited audiences internationally. As soloist

with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Mr. Stripling has performed frequently under Keith Lockhart, as well as being featured soloist on the PBS television special Evening at Pops, with conductors John Williams and Mr. Lockhart. Currently, Mr. Stripling serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Since his Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, Byron Stripling has become a pops orchestra favourite throughout the country, soloing with Boston Pops, National Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, and the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Seattle, Baltimore, Dallas, Minnesota, Detroit, Vancouver, Toronto, and Dallas, to name a few. He has been a featured soloist at the Hollywood Bowl and performs at jazz festivals throughout the world.

An accomplished actor and singer, Byron Stripling starred in the lead role of the Broadway bound musical, Satchmo. Many saw his critically acclaimed virtuoso trumpet and riotous comedic performance in the 42nd Street production of From Second Avenue to Broadway. Television viewers have enjoyed his work as soloist on the worldwide telecast of the Grammy Awards. Millions have heard his trumpet and voice on television commercials, TV theme songs including 20/20, CNN, and soundtracks of favourite movies. He earned his stripes as lead trumpeter and soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. He has also played and recorded extensively with the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, and Buck Clayton in addition to The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and The GRP All Star Big Band. Mr. Stripling was educated at the Eastman School of Music and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. A resident of Ohio, he lives in the country with his wife Alexis and their beautiful daughters.

Mr. Stripling last appeared with the ESO in May 2009.

orn in Petersburg, Virginia, MARVA HICKS grew up singing in the church founded by her grandfather, Rev. E. E. Hicks, where she remembers

being a shy singer in the children’s choir. Winning a local teen contest would expose her to the Broadway stage and lead to a career in the Performing Arts. After graduating (B.F.A., cum laude from Howard), she moved to New York and was cast in her first Broadway show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. Ms. Hicks worked with Ms. Horne for two and a half years, then moved to Los Angeles. At Polygram Records, Marva recorded her eponymous CD, which yielded the Top 10 R&B single, “Never Been In Love Before.” During this period, she landed recurring roles on the TV shows L.A. Law, Star Trek: Voyager, and Mad About You. She was introduced to Stevie Wonder and subsequently travelled the world as a backing vocalist. This led to work with Whitney Houston, James Ingram, and with Michael Jackson for the HiSTORY Tour.

Earning the role of Jacarra Principle on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live brought Marva Hicks back to the east coast, and closer to her love for the theatre. She wasted no time and was the recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in the blues musical Thunder Knocking On the Door. Since returning to New York, she has added The Lion King and Caroline or

Change to her Broadway credits. Marva is currently performing in Berry Gordy’s Broadway smash, Motown the Musical under the Direction of Charles Randolph Wright. She is currently commissioned by Arena Stage to create and star in a solo musical piece about her journey in show business as a woman of faith. As a gospel singer, Marva is a featured vocalist on the Broadway Inspirational Voices Choir’s Christmas CD, Great Joy. The Christian Cultural Center, under the leadership of Pastor A.R. Bernard, and Elder Karen Bernard, is her church home.

This is Ms. Hicks’ debut with the ESO.

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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 Bodner

Cheryl & Gary Bosgoed *Barry & Angela BreadnerKeith BrownCharles & Joan BuckleyLaura & Patrick CameronT. CastellJoe ChapmanJoyce M. ClarkRon ClarkMarian ClarkeDouglas & Marietta ClementWalter & Judith CookRalph & Isabelle CorbettDr. David R. CornishDiane CoxKathleen H. DaintithE. DaleLouise DavisBob & Cathy de FreceMark Demers & Marcia McLean *Jean & Ann DeschenesEva DezseUrsula Duke *Alice DumaineFrancis & Muriel DunniganCasey T. Edmunds *Jerrold Eilander *George ElaschukPhoebe Elliot *Dr. Kerry & Mrs. Natalya EngerJake & Marilyn EnsTerry EppW. Grant FairleyJim & Joan FargeyMurray & Kathleen FarisBetty & Bill Faulder *Eleanor Finger & G. Rauscher *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 Gotaas

Rae & Pat GrahamBetty GravettMargaret GreenhillNorman & Marsha GrimesKen & Bev Hadlington *M. E. Haggerty *Ray Hannley & Jean LeeRuth HarleDavid & Wendy Harrison *Timothy & Patricia HartnagelDavid & Germaine HarveyBill & Sandy HaunChristina Hayashi *Gerhard & Emily HenkemansConnie HighsmithLeigh & Maureen HillPatsy HoAudrey HodgsonRay & Barbara HowardMargaret HusbandBonnie HutchinsonCarol Jackson & Larry BailerColleen & Douglas Jahns *D. JenkinsSam Jenkins *Elizabeth & Brian JollyLaura & Tim JosephRoger & Patricia Juniper *Janice KentIan & Louise KiddHelen & Gordon KirschLoretta KlarenbachKobie & Miensie Kloppers *Reg & Crispin Kontz *Terrence KulasaDr. 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 *Larry LynchJanet & 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 *David McLeod *Marla MillerCatharine Millson *Daniel J. Mol *Doris MoonieRod & June MorganPamela S. Muirhead *Gerald Murnane *Peter & Sharon MurphyDr. Julianna NagyJohn Neilson & Susan CribbsRobin & Melonia NicolDavid Nixon & Lois LeVesconte *Anne NothofLouise OlshewskiDennis & Linda Olson *Louis OlsonChelsea O’Neill & Laynee BeckerDermot & Laura O’NeillJim & Bev OrieuxDonna & Daniel OrobkoAaron & Jean OshryTim PaetkauDr. & Mrs. Edward PappFred & Mary ParanchychBrian ParkerDr. Edward &

Mrs. Anne ParkinsonLois Pawl *

Lillian Pheasey






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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 *Judy MiltonEsther OndrackArnold & Grace RumboldEric & Elexis SchlossAngus & Heather WattSusan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom *

GOLD ($5,000 TO $9,999)Anonymous (1)Bob & Sheryl Bowhay

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

Dr. Oksana SuchowerskySandy 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 *Bob & Lynda Binnendyk *Marion & John Boyd *Marianne Brown *Ursula BullerCarolyn & Stephen Campbell *Phyllis ClarkElaine M. CoachmanDavid & Gina CoscoDoug & Wendy DaveyGrant Dunlop & Erika NorheimCatherine Field & Kevin LewisLois A. Field *Peggy GarrittyGeorge & Ann HammondMargaret Harris

Alice HarrisonGus & Alexandra HildebrandtJohn & 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, F.C.A.Linda Youell

BRONZE ($1,500 TO $2,499)Anonymous (4)Michael & Debbie Anderson *Dr. Gail Andrew *Barbara BatoniDonna Bezanson

Karen BidniakLeone & Ken BiggsDr. 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 ConciniChristopher 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 DolgoyMarcie & Reg Milley *Stephen & Lynne MurgatroydLewis & Lindsay NakatsuiOle & Marilyn NielsenSherry & Jim Noyes *K. PatriquinIvan & Mary A. Radostits *Leonard Ratzlaff

Jim & 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 *John Vrolijk *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 BobergDonna Bonk *Alex & Christine Brown *Neil Burkard &

Diana de Sousa *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 *Sean Robitaille *Tulane RollingherDavid & Carin Routledge






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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!



Andrea & 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 DeinesThomas & Karen deJongKen & Mary DemedashLisa DenesiukDavid & Grace Denholm *Randy Diamond and D. ThomsonGordon & Verle DickauDarcy Doble *Bill & Sharon DonnellyTB & Les Dowhaluk *Sharon DownsRobin DoyonMike DreanyPaul DusseaultJames & Carmen DykesLowell & Irma EckertTim EckertShirley EdgarDavid Edwards *L.E. Edwards *Marshall & Ardis EliasonJim EllisRuthanna ElsonRob & Corinne EmersonMartin & Patricia EnoksonMegan EvansChelsea Evans-RymesJane & Laurier FagnanElizabeth Fair & Lyle TryttenDawn Fargey *Marilyn FedunIvan & Ksenia FedynaWerner FenskeDoug & Fran FerrierKaren FingasSarah 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 Grimm

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 *

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. Vick

Mr. & Mrs. A. C. VismanBruce & Lori WalkerDoug WattKristopher WellsDonald WhiteNancy & Walder WhiteOrest & Gail WindjackBruce & Nora WisselinkDean & Mary WoodDon Wright *Luella & Mike YakymyshynEleanor & Gerry Young *M. Yun *George & Gloria Zaharia

FRIEND ($100 TO $249)Anonymous (103)Dr. & Mrs. Stephen AaronKaren AbrahamsonGail AdamsonDr. Bernie & Miriam AdlerZoe AfaganisKaren Albarda *Dorothy & Ted AllanShirley AllderBert & Olga AlmonDavid & Jean AndersonVi Anderson

Milton & Elnora AndreAnnette Austin *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 BergenGabriella BergstenLouis & Lorna Berlinguette

Calvin BinnemaStephanie Bishop *Fran BittmanJoan BlackburnJeanne BoerMichael BognerAmy BorkentY. BortnickE. Ross BradleyJacqueline BreaultWilma & Fred BreeuwsmaBev & John BrennanBrian BrodaMrs. Annabel BrophyGarth & Mary Jane Brown *Linda BrownDavid & Betty Jean BuchananKathryn BuchananBarb Bulat *Nora BumanisAubrey & Evelyne BurrowesAdolf & Kathleen BuseBob & Darlene CaldwellMrs. K.K. CampbellPat Campbell *Ken & Verna CarlsonMr. & Mrs. James CarlsonJeanne Caron

John & Marilyn CarrPeter & Barbara Carstensen *Alma CarterGerlinde CegielnyAnita ChalmersMatthew & Laura Chapman *Ms Darlene ChapmanMonica ChesneyAlissa CheungChrystia Chomiak &

John-Paul HimkaNorma ChristiansenAlice & Nestor ChumerEarl Clements *Roger & Carol CohenMegan Collins *Nancy ColpittsArlene Connolly *Edwin & Lucille Cossins *Joseph & Marilyn Cote-DupuisJohn CottonMarilyn Cree

Bob & Judy GroseJacqueline 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 HalinenRichard & Laurel InnesJanis IrwinGeorge & Barbara IwaniukStuart & Kathy Jackson *Erik JacobsenJohn & Linda JamiesonDr. S. B. JoeCathy JohnsonDon H. 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 KropfWendy 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 *Sharon MatthiasMrs. Patricia Mattson *Linda MaulGwen MazurekKaren MazurekWilliam & Anne McAtheyAlec McClayKathy McClellanIan & Janice McCrumRonald N. McElhaneyKen and Phyllis McFaddenJoyce E. McGilvrayCatherine & Norman McLeodGordon & Kathleen McLeod *Nancy McLeodEleanor & Jack McMahonCaroline McManusJan and 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 NagelThe Naik FamilyRon NewJim NewmanDawn NewtonLaurel NikolaiConnie NissenG. Douglas Oakley

Maurice and Annette Bastide

Martin Garber-Conrad, Anne McClellan, Sallie Klein, Leanne Bjornstad


MARCH 2015





David OberholtzerColin & Sarah OddoyeBill & Joan OheAndy & Connie OhlmannNorma Jean Olivier *Norman & Margaret Olson *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 *Sheila RingroseMichael & Lucille RintoulGlenn Ripley

James & Margaret RobertsonLinda RobertsonLynn RobertsonSusan RobertsonDebra & Don RobichaudG. W. RochollMary-Lou RoseMrs. Joan RossallKenneth RoyAnthony S. RussellJames SaboJeannine Sabourin

Maryann SabourinGerald & Betty SaelhofMelanie Samaroden *Barbara & Gregory SargentVirginia SauveFrances SavageB & 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 SnyderSteven Snyder & Connie SilvaJohn & Judy SoarsKaren SochatskyMarilyn SochatskyElaine SolezBrian & Marnie SprouleRobert Squair *Norman & Kathie St. ArnaudJoe & Linda Staszko & 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 Taylor

Linda Telgarsky *Dave TerriffMr. & 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 WandioDale Warick *Lyn WatamaniukScott WatsonViolet WatsonCash Webster & Robyne Walters *Eva & Mahlon WeirRonald A. WeirDr. Sam & Eva WeiszWilliam WellsRich & Grace WhitehouseKim & Matthew WiensWilliam & Sharla Wiesener

Karen Wilke *Max & Mary Wilke *Cary & Alana WilliamsEd & Marliene WillsonChris Wilson *Lisa WilsonRon & Diane WilsonAlvin & Sue WinestockDavid WinfieldDiane WishartD.Wladyka *Morley & Pat Workun

Doris 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 AstonDerin Dogu AtaogluBarney BakerMargo BalogPeter BatoniAlan BelcherHelen S. Petersen BentleyEiner Boberg *Harvey BodnerAlma Boehm-KabushBob CallingAgnes W. (Nan) CameronKathleen CarterPatricia 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 Lundberg

John David LunnAlmeda LysneJohn MarchakIn Honour of MaryDorothea MacDonnellAllison McConnellDr. Sherburne McCurdyFlo McGavinBlair McPhersonRudy MelnychukDonald A. MiddletonBruce MillerGeorge MiltonDilys MitchellRoderick & Blanche Moses x”1Matthew William MilesFrances 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 SmithJean 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 AllenTommy Banks -

Happy 75th BirthdayMike and Annette BoormanMarg Bowen & Russell WellsDesmond ChowBette Anne &

Jim Edwards’ MarriageMaria David-Evans *Lilian Green’s 90th BirthdayPhyllis & Walter HarrisEvelyn & Eugene HendersonIbon Antiques & Collectibles Inc.Bill KellyLanna KellySteven LePooleLogan Liboiron

Brielle MelleRonda MetsziesMary OhleNorman & Margaret Olson’s

50th wedding anniversaryJon SharekTeresa SomervilleHugh & Anne-Marie StaceyThe Stacey FamilyBarrie StinsonThe Swanson FamilyLorene TurnerToscha TurnerLucas & Sophie Waldin’s

MarriageJohn & Leslie Wilson

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.Wawanesa Mutual Insurance

Company

Advocate ($1,000 to $1,499)Airco Aircraft Charters Ltd.Cenovus EnergyMark V Investments Alta Ltd. *Oddball ProductionsRotary District 5370Sardan Holdings - Bistro PrahaSinclair Supply

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

of EdmontonEnbridgeID Productions IncNorthern Bluegrass Circle

Music SocietyRotary Club of Edmonton West

Supporter ($250 to $499)Alberta Registered Music

Teachers’ AssociationTelus Corporation

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

Music Student Association


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Andrea & 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 DeinesThomas & Karen deJongKen & Mary DemedashLisa DenesiukDavid & Grace Denholm *Randy Diamond and D. ThomsonGordon & Verle DickauDarcy Doble *Bill & Sharon DonnellyTB & Les Dowhaluk *Sharon DownsRobin DoyonMike DreanyPaul DusseaultJames & Carmen DykesLowell & Irma EckertTim EckertShirley EdgarDavid Edwards *L.E. Edwards *Marshall & Ardis EliasonJim EllisRuthanna ElsonRob & Corinne EmersonMartin & Patricia EnoksonMegan EvansChelsea Evans-RymesJane & Laurier FagnanElizabeth Fair & Lyle TryttenDawn Fargey *Marilyn FedunIvan & Ksenia FedynaWerner FenskeDoug & Fran FerrierKaren FingasSarah 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 Grimm

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 *

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. Vick

Mr. & Mrs. A. C. VismanBruce & Lori WalkerDoug WattKristopher WellsDonald WhiteNancy & Walder WhiteOrest & Gail WindjackBruce & Nora WisselinkDean & Mary WoodDon Wright *Luella & Mike YakymyshynEleanor & Gerry Young *M. Yun *George & Gloria Zaharia

FRIEND ($100 TO $249)Anonymous (103)Dr. & Mrs. Stephen AaronKaren AbrahamsonGail AdamsonDr. Bernie & Miriam AdlerZoe AfaganisKaren Albarda *Dorothy & Ted AllanShirley AllderBert & Olga AlmonDavid & Jean AndersonVi Anderson

Milton & Elnora AndreAnnette Austin *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 BergenGabriella BergstenLouis & Lorna Berlinguette

Calvin BinnemaStephanie Bishop *Fran BittmanJoan BlackburnJeanne BoerMichael BognerAmy BorkentY. BortnickE. Ross BradleyJacqueline BreaultWilma & Fred BreeuwsmaBev & John BrennanBrian BrodaMrs. Annabel BrophyGarth & Mary Jane Brown *Linda BrownDavid & Betty Jean BuchananKathryn BuchananBarb Bulat *Nora BumanisAubrey & Evelyne BurrowesAdolf & Kathleen BuseBob & Darlene CaldwellMrs. K.K. CampbellPat Campbell *Ken & Verna CarlsonMr. & Mrs. James CarlsonJeanne Caron

John & Marilyn CarrPeter & Barbara Carstensen *Alma CarterGerlinde CegielnyAnita ChalmersMatthew & Laura Chapman *Ms Darlene ChapmanMonica ChesneyAlissa CheungChrystia Chomiak &

John-Paul HimkaNorma ChristiansenAlice & Nestor ChumerEarl Clements *Roger & Carol CohenMegan Collins *Nancy ColpittsArlene Connolly *Edwin & Lucille Cossins *Joseph & Marilyn Cote-DupuisJohn CottonMarilyn Cree

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Mrs. Donna FeldbergBeth FenskeMr. Douglas & Mrs. Fran FerrierMrs. Connie & Mr. Calvin Firth

Mr. Bruce & Mrs. Joyce FlesherArlene FowlisLora FriedShirley GiffordMrs. Lucy E. Gilchrist &

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Mrs. Marlene BurnettMrs. Rita &

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Mrs. Lorraine S. CaldwellHarry CalhounArlene CallinMaureen CampbellMelanie CampbellDr. Hugh &

Christine CampbellLorelei & John CampbellPat CampbellAnton Capri

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Mrs. Kristin CarriereTerry CarsonMrs. Evelyn &

Mr. Gordon CarsonMr. William M. &

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30 + YEAR SUBSCRIBERS

10 - 29 YEAR SUBSCRIBERS

During Subscriber Appreciation Month we like to recognize and thank the longest-standing members of the ESO family for their loyalty. This year we have 1022 patrons who have been subscribing to ESO concerts for more than 10 years, and 180 patrons who have been attending for an incredible 30 years or more. Thank you so much for your dedication to live orchestra music in Edmonton! We look forward to sharing many more years with you. Please note that unfortunately our records only go back so far – if you belong to either group and do not see your name listed, we would love to hear from you! Contact Adam Trzebski at 780-401-2501 or [email protected] to update your record today.

THANK YOUTHANK YOU TO THE ESO’S LONGTIME SUBSCRIBERS



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During Subscriber Appreciation Month we like to recognize and thank the longest-standing members of the ESO family for their loyalty. This year we have 1022 patrons who have been subscribing to ESO concerts for more than 10 years, and 180 patrons who have been attending for an incredible 30 years or more. Thank you so much for your dedication to live orchestra music in Edmonton! We look forward to sharing many more years with you. Please note that unfortunately our records only go back so far – if you belong to either group and do not see your name listed, we would love to hear from you! Contact Adam Trzebski at 780-401-2501 or [email protected] to update your record today.

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Mr. Stephen & Mrs. Lynn Mandel

Ann MansonNick MarchakSharon MarksMerle MarplesJoan MarshallBeverley MartinSuzette MarxheimerDoreen MasonMary MassonMr. James MatasSharon MatthiasUrsula MaydellPhyllis McAnallyMarilynn McAraKathy McClellanMs. Sandy McClellan &

Mr. Kirby O’ConnorR. McClellandDoug McConnell &

Claire DesrochersDennis & Dianne McCoyJoyce McCoyMr. Ian &

Mrs. Janice McCrumMrs. Maureen McCubbin &

Lynn HolroydJeanne McCuskerBrian &

Lorraine McDonaldJohn R. & Irene McDougallMcElheran’s Fine FurnitureMargaret McFarlaneJohn McIvor &

Doris KentMichelle McKayMargaret McKenzieMarge McLennanKathleen & Gordon McLeodMr. David McLeodMr. Jack &

Mrs. Eleanor McMahonMrs. Jan &

Mr. Jim McMillanMargaret McMullenBob McMullenMr. Bob &

Mrs. Bev McNallyDavid McNeilBev McNeillHugh McPhail &

Yolanda Van WachemElaine McPheeMr. Bruce &

Mrs. Cindy McPhersonJudy McTavishBert MeekerPaul MelanconW. Michael GrayMr. Peter & Mrs. Carole

MichalyshynEdward &

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Mrs. Gerda MillerMs. Shauna Miller &

Mr. James GillespieMarcella R. &

Reginald MilleyChristine MilliganElizabeth Mills &

Mary KykoszHeather MillsMr. Earl MinogueJudith MoenBruce & Sandy MoffattNafeesa MohamedTina Monaco-PiekemaGordon MongrawJoAnn Montgomery-BegerMichael &

Sandra MooreGail Moores

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Mrs. Lynne MurgatroydLouis L. MussbacherJudge William MustardEd & Cherryle MustecaDr. Tim &

Mrs. Nancy MuzykaLorraine MykitiukElizabeth MylesMrs. Sonja &

Mr. Orest MyroonAlfred &

Teresa NachtigallRebecca Nagel &

Andrew M. MacMillanMr. Dale & Mrs. Laurie NagelMr. Lewis &

Mrs. Lindsay NakatsuiKaye & Dennis NashHeather & Grant NaylorBunny & Linda NedohinMadeline NeedhamMarilou NeufeldVirginia NewellJanice NeyrinckRey NickelMr. Nelson &

Mrs. Anne NickleRobin & Melonia NicolJana NigrinMrs. Sherry & Mr. Jim NoyesSylvia ObornNorma O’ConnorMr. Robert &

Mrs. Jean O’HaraCarol OhlmannMr. Mark & Ms. Dawn C. OifferLouise OlshewskiMr. Allan & Mrs. Fran OlsonEsther S. & Jack OndrackMrs. Emily & Mr. Daniel OngTeresa O’RiordanDaniel & Donna OrobkoMarlaine OsgoodAaron & Jean OshryLiz OstoloskyA. OstryFred & Helen OttoJustice Vital O. &

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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

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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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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

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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

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

BOARD OF DIRECTORSReginald Milley, ChairCarolyn Campbell, 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 FlookPeggy GarrityCynthia Hansen, C.A.Travis HuckellSam JenkinsKathy KnowlesMary Persson



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

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is a registered charitable organization, incorporated under the Societies Act of the Province of Alberta on November 22, 1952. As Canada’s fourth-largest professional orchestra, the ESO is financed by ticket sales, grants from government agencies, and by contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.T

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

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is a registered charitable organization, incorporated under the Societies Act of the Province of Alberta on November 22, 1952. As Canada’s fourth-largest professional orchestra, the ESO is financed by ticket sales, grants from government agencies, and by contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.T

Sponsor Introductory Series Offer The Rozsa Innovation Award

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Our Program Sponsors

Series Sponsors:

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A bequest in support of healthcare is a gift to theentire community.Community support builds great hospitals and the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation receives generous donations, including bequests, from across Alberta and beyond.

Bequests and planned gifts are an inspired way to help ensure that the Royal Alexandra Hospital has the resources it needs to provide exceptional and compassionate patient care when it matters most, now and in the future.

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“When you support healthcare, you support the entire community and help many people, so it was a good choice for me to name the Royal Alexandra Hospital as the beneficiary in my Will.”

— Kazimierz (Kasey) Kozak, Donor

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THE ESO GOES NORTH APRIL 1994

Know Your Winspear

In April 1994, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra embarked on one of their most ambitious tours to date. The Northern Lights Tour consisted of concerts and educational programs in Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Yellowknife, Inuvik, and Whitehorse. As they traveled further and further north, the ESO brought orchestral music to remote communities that had rarely experienced this form of entertainment. Furthermore, through clinics and masterclasses, they provided much-needed instruction to aspiring musicians, particularly through their involvement with students of Strings across the Sky – a program run from Toronto that supplies string instruments to children and funds teachers to travel to Inuvik to provide instruction. The ESO’s concerts were well received all along their journey. Conducted by Uri Mayer, the program included Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

Op. 64 in E minor, performed by the Edmonton-based violinist, Juliette Kang, and a newly commissioned piece by John Estacio – the ESO’s Composer in Residence at the time – entitled A Farmer’s Symphony. Marty Brown from the Yellowknifer wrote: “It was an evening of magic. It was champagne and tru�es in the lobby. It was a reception at the Arctic Art Gallery. It was the night the Edmonton Symphony came to town. All in all, it was a night to remember.” For audiences in Inuvik, the concert’s �nale, “Amazing Grace,” performed by ESO musicians alongside Strings across the Sky students, would be remembered for a long time to come.

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