Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Presents: War and Peace

WAR AND PEACE Guest Artists:

Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano

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José Rubio, baritone

• 7:30 p.m.

• 3:00 p.m.

Dennison Theatre, University of Montana Julia Tai, Music Director Dean Peterson, Chorale Director

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Sergei Prokofiev: War and Peace Overture Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs Adolphus Hailstork: Fanfare on Amazing Grace Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem (406) 721-3194

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Missoula Symphony & Chorale JULIA TAI, Music Director DEAN PETERSON, Chorale Director MELANIE HENLEY HEYN, soprano JOSÉ RUBIO, baritone April 15, 7:30 PM & April 16, 3:00 PM 68th Season, 2022-23 Sergei Prokofiev.............................................................................................. War and Peace Overture Richard Strauss................................................................................................................. Four Last Songs I. Beim Schlafengehen (While going to sleep) II. September III. Frühling (Spring) IV. Im Abendrot (In the twilight)

Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano

Intermission Adolphus Hailstork....................................................................................Fanfare on Amazing Grace Vaughn Williams......................................................................................................... Dona Nobis Pacem I. II. III. IV. V. VI.

Agnus Dei. Beat! Beat! Drums!

Reconciliation.

Dirge for Two Veterans.

“The Angel of Death has been abroad…”

“Oh man, greatly beloved”

Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano José Rubio, baritone This program is dedicated to the memory of Donald Carey Former Missoula Symphony Chorale Director War and Peace Overture by Serge Prokofiev presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.

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JULIA TAI Music Director Praised by the Seattle Times as “poised yet passionate,” Julia Tai is one of today’s most dynamic young conductors on the international stage. Currently, she is the Music Director of Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra. Her career has led to acclaimed performances and rehearsals with the American Youth Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Brandenburger Symphoniker (Germany), Estonian National Youth Symphony (Estonia), New Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (Mexico), Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Charlos Chávez (Mexico), and the Seattle Symphony.

Ms. Tai has established a reputation for her creative programming and community partnerships. She has increased the esteem of her orchestras by elevating their artistic output, commissioning new works by renowned composers, and serving diverse communities. In 2017, in collaboration with Finlandia Foundation, Philharmonia Northwest celebrated Finland’s centennial by presenting Finland 100 at Benaroya Hall, featuring three generations of Finnish composers. The concert was attended

by Finland’s ambassador to the U.S. from Washington D.C. The orchestra has cocommissioned new works by PDQ Bach (Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra), Mexican composer Osvaldo Mendoza (Three Mexican Portraits), ChineseAmerican composer Dorothy Chang (Gateways – Concerto for Erhu and Piano), and Sheila Silver (Being in Life – Concerto for French horn and Alpenhorn, 5 Tibetan singing bowls, and string orchestra).

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Tai began her violin studies at age four and piano at eight. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was awarded “Outstanding Graduate” in 2004. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Washington.

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DEAN PETERSON Chorale Director Dean Peterson has been actively involved in the Montana music scene for many years. He has conducted the Missoula Symphony Chorale since 2006 and also serves as Musical Director and is the former conductor of the Missoula Mendelssohn Club. In 2011 he retired from his position as Director of Choirs at Hellgate High School and went on to serve as the interim Director of Choirs at the University of Montana.

Prior to his years at Hellgate High School, he worked as an elementary general music teacher in the Missoula Public Schools. In addition to his conducting duties, he is an active choral clinician, adjudicator and instructor for the University of Montana’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (MOLLI).

He received his Bachelor of Music degrees with high honors from the University of Montana in Music Education and Piano Performance. Later he completed his Master of Music Education degree with Kodaly emphasis from Holy Names College, Oakland, CA. During his teaching career, Dean received the prestigious National Milken Educator award. Later, he was honored to be recognized by the National Federation of High Schools as the 2010-2011 Outstanding Music Educator for Montana and the Northwest region. In that same year, he was named Missoula Arts Educator of the Year by the Missoula Cultural Council and was also honored to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Montana Music Educators Association.

In the Fall of 2013 Dean was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Montana Choral Directors Association.

In March of 2014, he was inducted into the University of Montana Fine Arts Hall of Fame at the annual Odyssey of the Stars.

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GUEST ARTISTS Melanie Henley Heyn, Soprano Roaring onto the operatic stage in recent seasons, Melanie made her Straussian and Wagnerian debuts as Salome & Brünnhilde, followed closely by a harrowing portrayal of Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Consul.

Singing a vast repertoire of music spanning the opera, concert and folk worlds, her 33 divas recording project combining classic Wagner, Verdi & Puccini roles with modern American opera heroines remains the #1 Most Funded Kickstarter for a solo classical artist.

A career-long focus on orchestral lieder has led to performances of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Rückert-Lieder, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire & Gurre-Lieder, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi & Harawi, Berg’s 7 Frühe Lieder and, most recently, Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder. She is excited to add Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs to the list.

Melanie has premiered the music of living composers and collaborated with a who’s who of fantastic chamber musicians. Her Vienna to Hollywood recital program featuring composers who fled Vienna for Los Angeles on the eve of WWII has been heard in libraries, in synagogues, and on college campuses in the United States and Europe.

After early training in New York at the Manhattan School of Music, Melanie graduated from the University of Southern California and went on to study triple master’s degrees at the Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria. She can be heard on the soundtrack of the cult television series Battlestar Galactica.

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GUEST ARTISTS José Rubio , Baritone Internationally acclaimed baritone José Rubio has garnered attention performing at major and regional venues across the world. Mr. Rubio’s recent international operatic engagements have included his operatic debuts in Germany at the Berlin Staatsoper, the famed Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, and in Vienna at the historic Ronacher Theater.

Through his involvement with the iSing! International Festival, he has become among the first westerners in the world to sing leading roles in contemporary Chinese operas, which has led to his debuts at the most important opera houses in China, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Shanghai Grand Theater, and the Jiangsu Grand Theater in Nanjing.

His operatic credits include the title roles in Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Gianni Schicchi. Other credits include Escamillo in Carmen, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème, Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, Tonio in Pagliacci, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Hannah Before in As One, El Payador in Maria de Buenos Aires, Harlekino in Ariadne auf Naxos and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. His leading credits include principal roles for Cincinnati Opera, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, Nashville Opera, Alamo City Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera, Music of Remembrance, Tacoma Opera, Vashon Opera, Juneau Lyric Opera, Inland Opera Northwest, Pacific Northwest Opera and Encompass Opera, among others.

On the concert stage he has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and the Tianjin Juilliard School. He has been a guest soloist the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Boise Philharmonic, Bellingham Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, Orpheus Project, and the Rogue Valley Symphony.

His 2023 season includes premieres with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Missoula Symphony, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater Festival, and Lake Union Civic Orchestra, as well as performances with the Rogue Valley Symphony and the Tacoma Opera.

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WELCOME to Missoula, Melanie and José!

Melanie Henley Heyn,

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José Rubio, baritone

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CONTENTS Music Director ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 Chorale Director ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 5 Guest Artists ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 President’s Message ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10 Executive Director’s Message ������������������������������������������������������������ 11 Missoula Symphony Orchestra ��������������������������������������������������������� 12 Missoula Symphony Chorale ������������������������������������������������������������� 13 Program Notes ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 14 Text and Translations �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 26 Scholarship Fund �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 30 Missoula Symphony Association ������������������������������������������������������32 Concert Sponsors ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 40

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE David O’Dell Welcome to this fourth Masterworks concert of our 20222023 season. This program, focusing on the themes of war and peace, includes monumental works created by four gifted composers based on inspirational texts by some of our world’s most admired authors and poets.

These composers drew inspiration not only from the works of Walt Whitman, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Joseph von Eichendorff, and John Newton, but also from the bible and from the Latin Mass. Most of the compositions straddle the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century and chronicle the struggles each composer faced in the aftermath of human atrocity and brutality.

As a longtime producer of opera, these works have a deep meaning to me personally.

The marriage of music and text has been an interest of mine for decades and each of these deeply moving works challenges and inspires us to greater good. Some, like Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Prokofiev’s War and Peace, are based on grim reminders of past conflicts that offer solace and guidance to a population in the face of adversity. Others, like Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on Amazing Grace for Orchestra, serve as testimonials to inner peace and reconciliation, with the Strauss representing the very pinnacle of German lieder by the master of the genre and my all-time favorites.

My thanks to our fine musicians in the orchestra and chorale, and to our guest artists for bringing this extraordinary concert to life in such a meaningful way.

I know you’ll find these works both challenging and deeply moving and hope you leave this performance with renewed determination to further the cause of peace in our world, in our community and in our daily lives. After all, that’s the transformative nature of music and our mission as artists – to change lives in a positive and meaningful way.

Thank you for coming to this concert, and for your continued support of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. None of this would be possible without you.

With sincere appreciation,

David O’Dell Executive Director

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JULIA TAI, Music Director Music Director’s Chair sponsored by Rick & Diana Nash

FIRST VIOLIN Margaret Nichols Baldridge, concertmaster Chair sponsored by Janet & Harry Haines Loy Koch, associate concertmaster Chair sponsored by Sharon & Gerald Marks Ali Schultz Levesque, assistant concertmaster Chair sponsored by Betty Thisted Owen Cleary+ Suzanne Hartzell Gabe Kantor+ Kira Lee Edwin Mellander Kyle Unruh SECOND VIOLIN Rachel Fellows-Schnackel, principal Chair sponsored by Laura Patterson Pam Hillygus, associate principal Chair sponsored by Rae Lynn & Frank D’Angelo Kenneth Ballinger Larysa Blavatsky Patricia Forsberg Will Hunt Julie Lacey Ariah Mann Catherine Treis+ Patrick Shannon VIOLA Sara Schultz Levesque, principal Chair sponsored by Robert Moseley Kathy Mellander, associate principal Chair sponsored by Ann Ruehr Bayley Ginnaty+ Brett Kaplan Bethany Rippeon Leslie Collins-Rose Lea Tonnerre Rich Wells

CELLO Adam Collins, principal Chair sponsored by Sophie & Dan Lambros Christine Ranf Sopko, assistant principal Chair sponsored by Louisa & Paul Axelrod Dawn Douglas David Harmsworth+ Kylie Heit Saje Johns Jayla Mitchell+ DOUBLE BASS Joel Schackel, principal Chair sponsored by Alice & Richard Dailey Fischer Friend+ Dillon Johns Michael Johns Nicholas Timmerhoff FLUTE Joanna Berg, principal Chair sponsored by Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite Julia Vasquez Alli High PICCOLO Julia Vasquez OBOE Susi Stipich, principal Chair sponsored by Jennifer & Ben Yonce Olivia Adams ENGLISH HORN Jennifer Gookin Cavanaugh, principal Chair sponsored by Jo May & Brian Salonen CLARINET Christopher Kirkpatrick Chair sponsored by Charla & Don Murray Savannah Holgate Kathryn Pannell BASSOON Alicia Brischli, principal Chair sponsored by Jean & Bill Woessner Logan Beskoon JT Vineyard

HORN Zachary Cooper, principal Chair sponsored by Betsy & Warren Wilcox Andrew Morris Daniel Lande Robert B. Green TRUMPET Brendan McGlynn, principal Chair sponsored by Ann & Tom Boone Jens Jacobsen Nick Barr TROMBONE Rob Tapper, principal Chair sponsored by Maggie & Frank Allen Sean Stineford Chris Porter TUBA Benedict Kirby Chair sponsored by NDG, LLC TIMPANI Robert LedBetter, principal Chair sponsored by Traci & Michael Punke PERCUSSION Willie Baltz Danger Gersh+ Autumn Schenck Dylan Vandeberg HARP Peggy Young, principal Chair sponsored by Maria & Peter van Loben Sels ORGAN/CELESTE Christopher Hahn Chair sponsored by Twila Wolfe LIBRARIAN Suzanne Hartzell PERSONNEL MANAGER Susi Stipich STAGE MANAGER Olivia Adams *Members of the string sections are listed alphabetically.

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DEAN PETERSON, Chorale Director Chorale Conductor’s Chair Sponsor – Caryl & Doug Klein Dorothy Beck Peterson, Accompanist SOPRANOS Mary Ann Albee Erin Bray Lisa Buseman Kristen Cottom Toni Evans Theresa Floyd Jennifer Gaston Smith Shelley Geiszler Gina Hegg Ursula Holloway Julie McFarlane Elizabeth Putnam Janet Seidel Ann Sharkey Laurie Simonson Kristie Speck Erika Sylvester Beth Taylor Wilson Deborah Woody Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp ALTOS Melissa Blunt Creagh Breuner Karen Callan

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Torey Learn Don McCammon Philip O’Connell Ira Robison Phil Stauffer Kent Watson BASSES Bob Albee Bill Barksdale Mike Bray Lance Collister Brad Elison Jon Ellingson Donald Gisselbeck Dustin Holmquist Chris Muste Michael Panique James Powers Keith Rieger Mike Rosbarsky Steve Thompson Greg Weller Ronald Wilcott Walter Wilde Mark Woodward

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Randall Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Overture to War and Peace (1941-1952) In 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Prokofiev found himself in a state of shock. He recalled: “During this period an idea which had been germinating in my mind to write an opera on Tolstoy’s War and Peace took decisive shape. Somehow those pages recounting the Russian people’s struggle against Napoleon’s hordes in 1812 and the expulsion of the French armies from Russian soil seemed especially close. It was clear that precisely those pages should lie at the basis of the opera.” Spurred on the timeliness of the composition, Prokofiev worked feverishly to complete a draft, which was finished just one year later. Subsequently, however, politics, personal health, and the logistics of staging such an enormous work created nearly insurmountable obstacles after numerous drafts. In 1947, the opera finally received a dress rehearsal. Health issues prevented Prokofiev from attending, but representatives from Stalin’s Committee on Art Affairs and the Union of Soviet Composers were in the hall listening intently.

Without their approval, a public performance of the work would be impossible. They objected to the opera’s representation and staging of historical events and also to portions of the music itself, which some deemed “formalist”—too complex to appeal to the common people. It was death by committee, so to speak. Prokofiev was desperate to see the work produced, and made numerous suggested revisions and cuts, but he unfortunately never lived to hear a fully staged performance. Ironically, Stalin died on the same day as Prokofiev, March 5, 1953. Just two months later, the opera finally had its first public premiere. Prokofiev’s own words serve as a program for the idealism of the overture: “in composing War and Peace, I strove to write a work imbued with principle, one needed by our people.”

Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Four Last Songs (1948) “It’s a funny thing, Alice, dying is just the way I composed it…” These were Strauss’s sardonic words to his daughter-in-law as he lay on his deathbed, referencing his symphonic poem, Death and Transfiguration, a work he had written nearly sixty years earlier. In fact, Strauss quotes a melody from that composition in one of his Four Last Songs. Among his final compositions, these songs are a stunning apotheosis of an exceptionally long-lived career in music. Strauss wrote his very first composition when he was just six, in 1870, and nearly eight decades later, in 1948, he was still composing. At the time, however, he found himself in a considerable depression and writing was difficult. His finances, after the war, were in awful shape, and he had resorted to selling some of his original manuscript scores just to make ends meet. In a flurry of correspondence with friends, he lamented the new trends toward atonality in music and also the loss of cultural life across Europe as a result of the war. His family was concerned, too.

His son Franz intervened, encouraging Strauss to stop brooding and to return to composition, particularly to songs, which had always given the composer great comfort. Fortunately, Strauss listened, deciding first to turn to the orchestration of a song he had set aside a couple of years prior, “Im Abendrot” “At sunset.” With a text by the Romantic poet Joseph von Eichendorff, the song portrays an older couple, in nature, contemplating the peace and stillness that their eventual deaths will bring. Strauss also set to work on three additional songs, these with texts by Herman Hesse, a contemporary of Strauss, who had recently won a Nobel Prize for Literature. These texts also explored seasons of life and of romantic love: “Frühling” (Spring); (September); and “Beim Schlafengehen” (While going to sleep.) In many ways, the four songs together were intimately biographical, a celebration of Strauss’s enduring marriage to and love for Pauline Strauss. Strauss’s biographer, Michael Kennedy, notes that “the Four Last Songs are really a final homage to Pauline, his marital and artistic partner for over fifty years… They are the music of old age and wisdom and serenity, of death and transfiguration.” Pauline was a famous operatic soprano and the muse for so many of his works. He had gifted Pauline with four songs on their wedding day in 1894, and these Four Last Songs, coming at the end of life, could serve as no better memorial of their life together. In the final song, “Im Abendrot” (In the 14

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twilight,) we hear the lines, “How weary are we of wandering—is this perhaps death?” Strauss provides a musical answer that promises an existence beyond the couple’s own mortality. He interrupts that final question with the “transfiguration theme” from his earlier work Death and Transfiguration. It’s a transcendent passage of music, and we can only hope that death might be just a little bit the way Strauss composed it.

Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941): Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” (2011) Hailstork has said that a principal aim of his music is “to capture or reflect the tribulations and the occasional triumphs of African Americans in this country.” In that spirit, recent works include America’s Requiem – A Knee on The Neck, in memory of George Floyd, and Rise for Freedom, an opera about the Underground Railroad. Hailstork’s musical training began as a boy soprano singing in the church choirs of his youth, and works for voice and choir became a particularly important part of his body of compositions. His teachers included Mark Fax, at Howard University, Nadia Boulanger (who also mentored a young Aaron Copland), David Diamond, at Manhattan School of Music, and H. Owen Reed at Michigan State University, where Hailstork received his doctorate in composition. Hailstork’s music is expressive and accessible.

He places himself firmly in the populist camp of classical composers, writing music that he sees as a continuation of a tradition and a service to humanity: You may remember, 10, 15, 20 years ago, they were saying the symphony orchestra’s dead. I hope that’s not the case, because I love the symphony orchestra. I think it’s a service. I once called music a service art, and that’s probably because growing up as a chorister, I was performing service. I was at the church with my little ruffled collar and my hymnbook and singing and that was part of the service. It’s a ceremonial aspect.

The ceremonial qualities of Hailstork’s music fully resonate in Fanfare on “Amazing Grace.”

Initially scored for solo organ, he envisioned the work as a contemporary version of a Bach chorale prelude. Bach’s chorale preludes had reimagined Protestant hymns in complex musical arrangements, in which the familiar strains of a hymn would eventually surface from polyphonic interlocking parts. Hailstork does the same with “Amazing Grace,” with strains of the tune slowly emerging from a glorious texture of instruments. The festive solemnity of the work has made it a popular choice for ceremonial events. Performed in an arrangement written for the United States Marine Band at President Biden’s inauguration, it was only the second time that a work by a living African American composer had been selected for an inaugural ceremony.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Dona Nobis Pacem (1936) The cantata Dona Nobis Pacem “Give us peace” was a work born out of grief and frustration at the magnitude of human loss that came as the result of World War II and the deep existential dread that history was about to repeat itself. And, of course, it did. Vaughan Williams had understood the horrors of war firsthand. In 1914, although he was old enough to have been granted exemption and already leading a comfortable life as one of Britain’s rising composers, he chose to enlist as a medical orderly with the Royal Army Medical Corps. It was a treacherous line of service, as his duties included evacuating and tending to the wounded, often in direct line of fire. It took its toll on Vaughan Williams personally. He wrote to the composer Gustav Holst in 1916 that “I sometimes dread coming back to normal life with so many gaps...out of those seven who joined up together in August 1914 only three are left - I sometimes think now that it is wrong to have made friends with people younger than oneself.” Nonetheless, he continued his service. In 1917, he became a lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was involved in active combat in France. His exposure to heavy artillery caused hearing loss that worsened throughout his life.

After WWI, Vaughan Williams was initially slow to return to composition, but his reputation continued to grow as one of Britain’s preeminent composers throughout the 1920s and 30s.

As political storms again gathered in Europe, Vaughan Williams was commissioned by the Huddersfield Choral Society to commemorate their centennial as an institution in 1936. Rather than providing a celebratory work, he offered Dona Nobis Pacem as a cautionary warning against another global war. For the texts of his composition, Vaughan Williams drew from the WAR AND PEACE

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secular poetry of Walt Whitman, whose works he had long admired, as well as portions of the Agnus Dei, a prayer for peace from the Mass Ordinary: “Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.” Those last three words, “Dona Nobis Pacem” resonate throughout the work. The work is performed in six continuous movements without a break.

I. Agnus Dei. Within the first few measures, Vaughan Williams foreshadows the structural conflict and drama of this expansive work, which juxtaposed individual and collective cries for peace.

It opens with the soprano soloist singing softly, plaintively the last line of the Agnus Dei: “Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give us peace.” What we hear initially as a plea for pity, however, is soon interrupted as the full orchestra and chorus crashes in, sounding more like a commandment than an appeal for grace.

II. Beat! Beat! Drums!

In the second movement, Vaughan Williams plunges us into the sounds of war itself, providing a vivid musical depiction of Whitman’s poem. We hear bugle calls from the brass and percussive rhythms that could doubly signify gunfire or the military strikes of a snare drum. Each stanza of Whitman’s poem begins with the line “Beat! beat! drums!— blow! bugles! blow!” War shows no prejudice in wreaking its havoc on every facet of life.

III. Reconciliation.

In the third movement, opening with a baritone soloist, Whitman’s text asks us to confront the individual humanity of the enemy. Is he so unlike us? The last lines conjure a solemn final recognition and reconciliation: “For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin - I draw near, bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.” At the end of the movement, the solo soprano interjects once again with the plea for peace. The solo voice wafts and lingers for a moment before we hear a funereal drum leading us forward and back down to earth.

IV. Dirge for Two Veterans.

Movement four contemplates the toll of war on families. As the funeral march unfolds, we understand that the dirge is for a father and a son, two veterans buried together: “A double grave awaits them.”

V. “The Angel of Death has been abroad…”

The baritone soloist returns in the beginning of movement five. His sings a text taken from a famous speech by John Bright, a Quaker pacifist: “The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one as of old… to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on.” The Dona nobis pacem returns in its loudest and most furious statement yet: “GIVE US, GIVE US…” the choir implores and the soprano soloist, rather than the plaintive cry of the beginning, cries out, too, in frustration. The drama then subsides into a chorale of quiet resignation from the Book of Jeremiah: “We looked for peace but no good came… Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?”

VI. “Oh man, greatly beloved” But then there’s a glimmer of hope, as the baritone soloist opens movement six with the text, “Oh man, greatly beloved, fear not, peace be unto thee, be strong…” He sings of a day of peace when the nation will be stronger than it was before. The ending offers a utopian possibility. We hear the triumphant text, “For as the new heavens, and the new earth…” imagining a better world to come, and the pealing of bells, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men.” After this climatic moment, the Dona Nobis Pacem returns, the movement ending quietly with one last exhortation for peace.

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ONLY THREE MUSICIAN CHAIRS LEFT!

When you sponsor a chair, you honor our individual musician’s exceptional dedication and effort, while helping to sustain high standards of professional support for our named chair musicians.

THE FOLLOWING CHAIR SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE:  Assistant Principal Second Violin  Assistant Viola  Associate Double Bass

PLEASE DON’T LEAVE THESE TALENTED MUSICIANS WITHOUT CHAIR SPONSORS!

Chair sponsor benefits include:

- Recognition in each concert program book - Invitation to Backstage Pass luncheons, Sneak Peek party and other special events - Opportunity to meet and visit with your sponsored musician at concerts

Please contact Beth Woody if you can help fill a chair sponsorship. beth@missoulasymphony.org (406) 721-3194 www.missoulasymphony.org

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Contact the Symphony office for more details: (406) 721-3194

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Please join us for an exciting new opportunity!

Music camp for students entering 1st grade through recent high school graduates.

Instruction on bass, cello, viola and violin, beginning through advanced. Residential option for middle and high school students. A safe, fun, and musical environment that encourages all campers to achieve their very best. We look forward to seeing you this summer!

June 18-23, 2023 The University of Montana Music Building, Missoula, MT

Registration and info at missoulasymphony.org/education

Missoula Symphony Association’s FREE Youth Education Programs Symphony Kids @Missoula Public Library

Sponsored by the ALPS Corporation and MDU Resources Julia Tai presents mini-concerts in the library’s Imaginarium.

Student Night @ Dress Rehearsal

Sponsored by Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation Students and families are invited to join us for the dress rehearsal preceding each Masterworks Concert.

Symphony in the Schools

Sponsored by Max and Betty Swanson Foundation Missoula Symphony musicians visit local high schools to perform and coach music students.

For dates and more information, email sylvia@missoulasymphony.org or visit missoulasymphony.org/education

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MISSOULA SYMPHONY SCHOLARSHIP FUND “I used to say music was a form of expression, a way of conveying human feeling and emotion...

Continuing the grand tradition of the Missoula Symphony Guild, the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund is dedicated to providing scholarships for outstanding University of Montana music students who play in the Missoula Symphony Orchestra or sing in the Missoula Symphony Chorale.

This year, the Missoula Symphony Association will award more than $20,000 in scholarships to ten talented young musicians. This commitment is possible thanks to the generosity of the individuals listed below. Every penny of their donations goes directly to scholarships. Our 2022-2023 scholarship recipients are noted on the Orchestra Roster with a “+” sign.

SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUPPORTERS The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts. Listed below are contributions of $25 or more within 12 months of March 1, 2023.

We apologize for any omissions or errors.

Prestissimo ($500+) William A. & Kay Cook Sophie & Dan Lambros Betty Thisted John Sargent Janet Boyer Alice & Dick Dailey Anita Kurtz-Magee Sharon & Terry Phillips Donna & Don McCammon Marie & Peter van Loben Sels Jean & William Woessner Presto ($250-$499) Anonymous Kay & Jim Driscoll Marci & Jim Valeo Deirdre Flaherty Mary & David Wesley Kathy Turner

Vivace ($100-$249) Debbie & Brad Dantic Nancy Jean DeCou Shirley & Donald Hyndman Deborah & Terry Johnson Marlene Koch Charla & Donald Murray Amber & Lans Richardson Sara Alice Steubs Sharon & Don Snavely Bill & Dori Johnston Patti & Scott McKenzie Carol Word Allegro ($50-$99) Brenda Bolton Allegretto ($25-$49) Barbara Collins Carol & Dale Stovall

To be a part of the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund, contact the Symphony Office at (406) 721-3194, or mail a check payable to Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund to PO Box 8301, Missoula 59807. Donations are 100% tax-deductible.

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While that is still well and fully true, real music is so much more. It is soul. It is life.”— Jayla Mitchell

SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUPPORTERS Cook Family Scholarship New in 2020-2021, this scholarship is named for Will and Kay Cook. “We are happy to partner with the University of Montana and The Missoula Symphony Association to support the growth of music education in Montana and the cultural enrichment of our city.” 2022-2023 Recipients: Jayla Mitchell, Cello. Jayla is a junior who is studying cello performance and is from Great Falls, Montana. Catherine Treis, Violin. Catherine is a violin performance major from St. John, Washington. Fischer Friend, Double Bass.

Fischer is from Helena, Montana, and is majoring in double bass performance.

The Florence Reynolds Scholarship Named for a woman who shared her musical talent, enthusiasm and endless energy with the MSA for many years. Recipient: Kylie Heit, Cello. Kylie is an incoming freshman music education major from Helena, Montana.

The Symphony Guild Presidents’ Scholarship Named in honor of those women who have given their time and energy as Presidents of the Missoula Symphony Guild. Recipient: Bayley Ginnaty, Viola. Bayley is from Great Falls, Montana, and is a viola performance major.

The Joseph Henry Scholarship Named in honor of our Music Director Emeritus, who retired in 2007 after 21 years as Music Director of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. Recipient: Owen Cleary, Violin.

Owen is a sophomore from Helena, Montana, who is majoring in violin performance and jazz studies.

The Donald Carey Scholarship Named in honor of our former Chorale Director who retired in 2006, after 18 years at his post. Recipient: David Harmsworth, Cello. David is from Missoula, Montana, and is a music major.

The Virginia Vinal Scholarship Named in honor of the longest-serving member of the orchestra, and her dedication to music and community. Recipient: Gabe Kantor, Violin. Gabe is a violin performance and forestry major from Missoula.

The Lorraine Andrie Prize Not a scholarship but a cash award, this prize is presented at the final concert of each season to a U.M. graduating senior who is deemed a truly outstanding and dedicated orchestra member. Named in honor of the founding leader of the Guild. Recipient: Thomas Rice, French horn.

The Women’s Guild Tuition Scholarship Funded by Betty Thisted and Sophie Lambros, two presidents of the former Missoula Symphony Guild, this scholarship provides full tuition, for four years, to an incoming University of Montana music major focusing on piano or percussion. Recipient: William (Danger) Gersh, Percussion.

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TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss I. While going to sleep Now that the day has made me so tired, my dearest longings shall be accepted kindly by the starry night like a weary child.

III. Spring In dusky vaults I have long dreamt of your trees and blue skies, of your scents and the songs of birds.

Hands, cease your activity, head, forget all of your thoughts; all my senses now will sink into slumber.

Now you lie revealed in glistening splendour, flushed with light, like a wonder before me.

And my soul, unobserved, will float about on untrammeled wings in the enchanted circle of the night, living a thousandfold more deeply.

You know me again, you beckon tenderly to me; all of my limbs quiver from your blissful presence!

II. September The garden is mourning, the rain sinks coolly into the flowers.

Summer shudders as it meets its end.

IV. In the twilight Through adversity and joy We’ve gone hand in hand; We rest now from our wanderings Upon this quiet land.

Leaf upon leaf drops golden down from the lofty acacia.

Summer smiles, astonished and weak, in the dying garden dream.

Around us slope the valleys, The skies grow dark; Two larks alone are just climbing, As if after a dream, into the scented air.

For a while still by the roses it remains standing, yearning for peace.

Slowly it closes its large eyes grown weary.

Come here and let them whir past, For it will soon be time to rest; We do not wish to get lost In this solitude.

O wide, quiet peace, So deep in the red dusk...

How weary we are of our travels -Is this perhaps - Death? —

Translations © by Emily Ezust, reprinted with permission from the LiederNet Archive.

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Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams I. Agnus Dei Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace,

would the singer attempt to sing?

Then rattle quicker, heavier drums, blow, you bugles wilder, wilder, wilder blow, Beat! beat! drums! blow! bugles! blow!

peace.

Make no parley, stop for no expostulation,

II. Beat! Beat! Drums!

Mind not the timid mind not the weeper or prayer,

Beat! beat! drums! blow! bugles! blow!

Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,

Through the windows, through the doors,

Let not the child’s voice be heard

burst like a ruthless force,

nor the mother’s entreaties,

Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,

Make even the trestles to shake the dead

Into the school where the scholar is studying;

Where they lie awaiting the hearses,

Leave not the bridegroom q uiet,

So strong you thump O terrible drums,

no happiness must he have now with his bride,

so loud you bugles blow.

Nor the peaceful farmer any peace,

III. Reconciliation

plowing his field, or gathering in his grain, So fierce you whirr and pound you drums so shrill you bugles blow.

Beat! beat! drums! blow! bugles! blow!

Over the traffic of cities, over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for the sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers’ bargains by day, would they continue?

Would the talkers be talking?

Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly, softly, wash again and ever again, this soiled world; For my enemy is dead, A man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies whitefaced and still in the coffin.

I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Grant, grant us peace, peace.

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IV. Dirge for Two Veterans The last sunbeam lightly falls from the finished Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking

O strong deadmarch you please me!

O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!

O my soldiers twain!

down a new-made double grave.

O my veterans passing to burial!

Lo, the moon ascending,

What I have I also give you.

up from the east the silvery round moon,

The moon gives you light,

Beautiful over the housetops, ghastly, phantom moon,

And the bugles and the drums give you music,

Immense and silent moon.

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,

I see a sad procession,

My heart gives you love.

And I hear the sound of coming full-keyed bugles, All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding As with voices and with tears.

I hear the great drums pounding, And the small drums steady whirring, And every blow of the great convulsive drums Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father,

V. “The Angel of Death has been abroad...”

The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings, There is no one, as of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on.

Grant, grant us peace.

We looked for peace, but no good came;

In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,

and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Two veterans, son and father, dropped together,

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan;

And the double grave awaits them.

the whole land trembled at the sound

Now nearer blow the bugles,

of the neighing of his strong ones

And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded, And the strong deadmarch enwraps me.

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for they are come, and have devoured the land and those that dwell therein.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Is there no balm in Gilead?

Is there no physician there?

Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

VI. “Oh man, greatly beloved”

Mercy and truth are met together,

that I will gather together all nations and tongues.

O man greatly beloved, fear not,

righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

And they shall come and see my glory.

peace be unto thee,

Truth shall spring out of the earth;

And I will set a sign among them,

and righteousness will look down from heaven

And they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Open to me the gates of righteousness,

For as the new heavens and the new earth,

I will go into them.

which I will make, shall remain before me,

be strong, yea, be strong.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, And in this place will I give peace.

Let all the nations be gathered together.

Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,

Let all the nations be assembled;

neither shall they learn war any more.

And let the people be assembled;

and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

And none shall make them afraid,

and let them hear, and say, it is the truth.

Grant us peace.

neither shall the sword go through their land.

And it shall come,

so shall your seed and your name remain forever.

Glory to God in the highest,

Translation by Jay Reeve TastefulTitles.com

THIS WEEKEND’S CONCERTS ARE DEDICATED IN THE MEMORY OF

DONALD CAREY

MISSOULA SYMPHONY CHORALE DIRECTOR 1987-2006 Donald Carey served as Chorale Director of the Missoula Symphony Chorale and also as Music Director of the Missoula Mendelssohn Club. In addition, he served on the University of Montana music faculty and established The Vienna Residency Program. Carey’s legacy will have a lasting impact on countless musicians and music-lovers in Missoula and across the state of Montana.

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PRESIDENT Deborah Stapley-Graham

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Beth Woody

VICE PRESIDENT Bill Johnston

EDUCATION COORDINATOR Sylvia Allen Oman

TREASURER Pri Fernando

SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROJECTS Deborah Woody

SECRETARY Mark Haythornthwaite

LIBRARIAN Suzanne Hartzell

PAST PRESIDENT Jim Valeo

CHORALE LIBARIAN Abigail Carey

DIRECTORS Scott Billadeau, Adam Collins, Dan Crary, Deirdre Flaherty, Andrew George, Theresa Johnson, Robin Kendall, Vinnie Pavlish

SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Olivia Adams

MUSIC DIRECTOR Julia Tai CHORALE DIRECTOR Dean Peterson EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR David O’Dell DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Peter McKenzie PATRON SERVICES COORDINATOR Kirsten McGlynn

EMERITUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tom Boone Robert Homer Caryl Klein Sophie Lambros Mora Payne Carol Seim John Talbot Marci Valeo The Missoula Symphony Association is a member of the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras and the League of American Orchestras.

The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts.

Listed below are contributions of $50 or more within 12 months of March 1, 2023.

We apologize for any omissions or errors.

SEASON SPONSOR Good Food Store CONCERT SPONSORS Anonymous (2) Anonymous Chorale Member Blackfoot Communications Phyllis & Bill Bouchee Christian, Samson & Baskett, PLLP D.A. Davidson & Company DeMarois Buick-GMC-Mercedes First Interstate Bank First Security Bank Flaherty Financial Services Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP Langel & Associates P.C. Brian Eicholtz & Erik Johnston, Merrill Lynch

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Missoula Bone & Joint Missoulian Muralt’s Travel Plaza NorthWestern Energy Payne West Insurance RBC Wealth Management Anne & Bruce Robertson S.G Long & Company Stockman Bank Tremper Family Washington Companies Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation GUEST ARTIST SPONSORS Anonymous Chorale Member Candace Boyer-in memory of Martin and Marion Boyer Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite Marci & Jim Valeo

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MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CHAIR SPONSOR Diana & Rick Nash CHORALE CONDUCTOR’S CHAIR SPONSOR Caryl & Doug Klein TICKET SPONSOR Pangea Bar & Restaurant LIVE STREAM SPONSOR First Security Bank DOWNBEAT DOWNLOW SPONSOR NorthWestern Energy THE ED & LESLIE WETHERBEE RECEPTION SPONSOR Ed & Leslie Wetherbee

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP Park Side Credit Union YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAM SPONSOR Maria & Peter van Loben Sels MAESTRO ($25,000+) William A. & Kay Cook Matthew Royter John & Susan Talbot CONDUCTOR ($5,000-$24,999) Anonymous (1) Blackfoot Communications Ann & Tom Boone – Principal Trumpet First Security Bank Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation Good Food Store Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite – Principal Flute Sophie & Dan Lambros – Principal Cello Lillian A. McCammon Betty Miller Diana & Rick Nash – Music Director’s Chair Sponsor Anne & Bruce Robertson Ann Ruehr – Associate Principal Viola John Sargent Patricia Forsberg & Stephen Speckart Betty Thisted – Associate Viola Tremper Family Marci & Jim Valeo Maria & Peter van Loben Sels – Principal Harp Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation Twila Wolfe – Principal Piano SPONSOR ($1,000-$4,999) Allied Waste Services of Missoula ALPS Corporation Anonymous (3) Maggie & Frank Allen – Principal Trombone, in honor of Suzanne Hartzell Louisa & Paul Axelrod – Assistant Principal Cello Steven Bahls Deann Birnel Phyllis & William Bouchee Candice Boyer Janet Boyer Barbara & Craig Burns

Rebecca Canfield-Perkowski & Ronald Perkowski Joan Chesebro Christian, Samson & Baskett PLLC D.A. Davidson & Company Linda & Pri Fernando DeMarois Buick-GMC-Mercedes Flaherty Financial Services Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP Andrew George Joseph Fox Grinnell Margie & Steve Grinnell Gail & Lyle Grimes Janet & Harry Haines – Concertmaster Joel Jacobson Donald Johnston Dori & Bill Johnston Jean Larson & Daniel Kemmis Christine & Paul Kilzer Caryl & Doug Klein – Chorale Conductor’s Chair Sponsor Wendy & Keith Kuhn Anita Kurtz-Magee Charla & Donald Murray – Principal Clarinet Dorothea & George P. Lambros Jo-Ann & Ian Lange Langel & Associates PC Logjam Presents Sharon & Gerald Marks – Associate Concertmaster Sandra & Jeff Miller Missoula Bone & Joint Missoulian Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras Robert F. Moseley-Principal Viola Missoula Broadcasting Company Muralt’s Travel Plaza NDG, LLC – Principal Tuba Northwestern Energy Pangea Bar & Restaurant; Stave & Hoop Speakeasy Parkside Credit Union Payne West Insurance Traci & Michael Punke – Principal Timpani RBC Wealth Management Amber & Lans Richardson Jo May & Brian Salonen – Principal English Horn Carol Seim S.G. Long Financial Sharon & Don Snavely Stockman Bank Linda & Gregg Swanberg Max and Betty Swanson

Foundation Deirdre Swanson - in honor of Jo May Salonen Julia Tai & Matthew Wu Sue Talbot Sarah & William Towle Janet Whaley & Phil Hamilton Jean & William WoessnerPrincipal Bassoon Jennifer & Ben Yonce – Principal Oboe Betsy & Warren Wilcox – Principal French Horn Washington Companies Leslie & Edward Wetherbee Alice & Clem Williams Windfall Wipfli Peggy Young BENEFACTOR ($600-$999) Janet Bean-Dochnahl Louise & Michael Flanagan Missoula Community Foundation Donna & Don McCammon Mary & Duane Moe Robin & Nick Nichols Herbert Swick Kathy Turner Phyllis & Louis Whitsell CONTRIBUTOR ($450-$599) Anonymous (1) Patrick Beatty Elsie Bull Carolyn Goren Joseph Fox Grinnell Millicent & Robert Hawkins Catherine & Donald Jenni Deborah & Terry Johnson Kari Kale Corinne & Ralph Kirscher Caroline Kurtz Nancy McCulloch Julie & Vinnie Pavlish Pershing Phillips, Jr. Sharon & Terry Phillips Jonathan Qualben Kitte Robins Sandra Roe Deborah Stapley-Graham Rob Sterling Matthew Thiel Agnes & Jeff Vandergrift Laura Wagner Margery & Terry Whatley Barbara Zellmer PATRON ($250-$449) Janet Allison Mary Ann & Robert Albee WAR AND PEACE

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Carolyn and Robert Albers Adele & Richard Allegra Elaine & Philip Alman Cynthia & Raymond Aten Barbara Bekken Kyle Bocinsky Molly & Bruce Bowler Marilyn Bruya Kaye Carlson Kathy & Brian Derry Kay & Jim Driscoll Danielle & Brian Eicholtz Mary & Royce Engstrom Carol Garlington Mary & Donald Gillespie Doosy Habbe Laura & John Heit Bob Homer William James KEMS Tomi Kent Donna & James Koch Marilyn & Everett Leitzke Ann Libecap Virginia Markey Sue & Dave McCormack Patti & Scott McKenzie Merrill Lynch Joyce & Michael Nave Kent Nelson Marge Nordin Mary Ann Oberhaus Janet & Chris Palmer Kathy & George Roth Nancie Schumacher Sara Alice Steubs Nat & Margo Sturgis Carol Thomas Mary & Robert Tromly Cristin & Richard Volinkaty Steve Wallace Mary & David Wesley Bruce Whitehead Judith Williams Beth Woody Phyllis & Norman Wight Lynne & Gary Willstein Luella & Wes Wilson Carol Word ASSOCIATE ($100-$249) Karen Ruth Adams & Christopher Muste Nukhet & Jon Anders David Andrews Judith & Roger Ahrens Laurie Baefsky Sharee & Kenneth Ballinger Richard Baskett Barbara Bekken Barbara Blegen Brenda Bolton

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John A. Bonya Boxcar Bistro Louanna Butler Mary Ellen Campbell Lorraine & Steve Carlson Adam Collins Karyn & John Collins Maggie Cook-Shimanek Janelle & Steve Corn Sally & Tom Daer Debbie & Brad Dantic Juliena Darling Richard Earley Suzanne & Richard Fahey Candace Fetscher Elaine & Dick Gagliardi Jean & John P. ThorstensonGarrity George Law Offices, PLLC Carla Getz Carol & Keith Glaes Kimberley Granath William Haffey Tyler Harrison Nancy & Doug Heyer Trish & Art Hightower Sharon & Bob Hinshaw Kate Holsapple Shirley & Donald Hyndman Michael Irwin Penny Jakes Kathleen & John Jenks Corinne & Ralph Kirscher Marlene Koch Linda Kulm Sandra Lawler Jacqueline Leung Susan Lockner Beth & Paul Loehnen Eileen McCarty Kathy McCaughey Paddy MacDonald Helena Maclay John R. McGinley Jr. Sally & Scott McNall Kathryn & Ed Mellander Mark Mniszewski Mary & Ted Morse – in honor of Coco & Will Ballew Gerald Mueller Toni & Bob Ogg Kathleen Ort & John Duffield Eugene O’Sullivan Diana & Kevin Pacini Patricia Peeples Marcia Holland & Chuck Pengelly Judith & Joseph Perine Dorothy & Dean Peterson Priscilla & Robert Phillips Plum Property Management Jennifer & Josh Plum Lisa Plunkett Celeste Pogachar Addie & Chris Porter Sally Porter

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Montana Rarities Elizabeth Putnam Olleke Rappe-Daniels Caren & Chuck Reaves Elisabeth Rice Stacy & Rich Ridenour – in tribute to Louis & Phyllis Whitsell Patti Rosa Gay Rushmer Kay & Jon Salmonson Kennedy Salonen Wes Salonen Sue & Fred Samson – in honor of Patti McKenzie Robert Schurr Scotty’s Table Scott Seifert Tom Severson Myra Shults Carol & Dale Stovall Linda Stoudt The Depot Cheryl & Steve Thompson Sally Tibbs Judy Tobol Catherine & Claude Tonnerre Phyllis & Larry Topp Milly & Fritz Tossberg Phyllis Wade Jacque Walawander Janet & Warren Weber Roxane Weikel MEMBER ($50-$99) Carolyn Abbott Charles Anderson Mary Archibald Dick Auerbach Anonymous (3) Martina Baum-Acker & Robert Acker Austin Athman Peter Bensen Christy Bocinsky Kyle Bocinsky Rose-Marie Bowman Barbara Collins Jerry Covault Navyline Cuenco JoAnn G. Davison Virginia & Loren DeLand Frances & Michael Flaherty Maria Francis Anne Frugoli Patti Eldredge Paulette Fischer Michael Flaherty Theresa & Paul Floyd James Free Susan Goss

Elizabeth Hart Pam Hillygus Jeffrey Aaron Jacobs Christine Jorgensen Renee Kloser Wendy Lambert Karla Long Jennifer Mayo Leslie & James McShane Mark Milanick Richard Odan Jan Pavlock Barbara Quade Laurie & Anthony Rollin Laela & Dick Shimer Nita Smith Kathleen Snodgrass Kristen Sohlberg Emma Spencer Anne & Donald Stewart Martha & Russell Thayer Shannon Tanaka Annette Walker Mary Younger MEMORIAL DONATIONS The following donations have made to the MSA in memory of loved ones in the past 12 months:

Kathleen & John Jenks – in memory of Don Snavely Corinne & Ralph Kirscher – in memory of Don Snavely Donna & James Koch – in memory of Doosey Habbe Dorothea & George Lambros – in memory of Jane Dennison Jo-Ann & Ian Lange – in memory of Fred & Paol Susan Lockner – in memory of Don Snavely Helena Maclay – in memory of Don Snavely Eileen McCarty – in memory of George Kesel John R McGinley, Jr. – in memory of George Kesel Mark Mniszewski – in memory of Jane Dennison Gerald Mueller – in memorial of Caralee Mueller Carol & Wayne Noeller – in memory of Caralee Mueller Eugene O’Sullivan – in memory of George Kesel Pershing Phillips, Jr. – in memory of Colleen Phillips Priscilla & Robert Phillips – in memory of Don Snavely

Sally Porter – in memory of Nick Porter Amber & Lans Richardson – in memory of Virginia Vinal Kitte Robins – in memory of John Talbot Matthew Royter – in memory of Ruth Royter Scott Seifert – in memory of George Kesel Rob Sterling – in memory of Margaret Sterling Carol & Dale Stovall – in memory of Caralee Mueller Sue Talbot – in memory of Laura Patterson Kathy Turner - in memory of Don Snavely Steve Wallace – in memory of Christine Wallace Betsy & Warren Wilcox – in memory of Kay Duffield & Robert Seim Lynne & Gary Willstein – in memory of Don Holliday Phyllis & Louis Whitsell – in memory of Caralee Mueller Twila Wolfe – in memory of Don Snavely

Richard Baskett – in memory of Marva Christian & Don Snavely Barbara Blegen – in memory of Dorothy & Hal Blegen John A. Bonya – in memory of George Kesel Ethel Byrnes – in memory of Laura Patterson Mary Ellen Campbell – in memory of John Talbot Juliena Darling – in memory of Don Snavely Richard Earley – in memory of George Kesel Robert Eder – in memory of Tottie Parmeter Candace Fetscher – in memory of Laura Patterson Paulette Fischer – in memory of Don Snavely Michael Flaherty – in memory of Caralee Mueller Lynette Fritz – in memory of Thomas Fritz Joseph Grinnell – in memory of Margie Grinnell Don Johnston – in memory of Virginia Johnston Leslie & Mike Halligan – in memory of Don Snavely WAR AND PEACE

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“THERE'S MANY LOST, BUT TELL ME WHO HAS W O N ? ” -U2

The University of Montana’s Dennison Theatre and School of Music are proud to serve as home to the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. This dynamic partnership between our organizations delivers professional musical opportunities to our students and provides engaging musical experiences for the Missoula community.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! SEASON SPONSOR AUGUST 14, 2022

SYMPHONY IN THE PARK

First Security Bank | Muralts Travel Plaza | PayneWest Insurance Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation | Bill and Phyllis Bouchee Anonymous | S.G. Long & Company | Langel and Associates Flaherty Financial Services | Garlington Lohn & Robinson, PLLP Brian Eicholtz and Erik Johnston, Merrill Lynch | NorthWestern Energy Missoula Downtown Partnership | Allied Waste Services of Missoula

SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2022

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NOVEMBER 4 & 6, 2022

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JANUARY 28, 2023

THE MOUNTAIN THAT LOVED A BIRD

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MISSOULA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

MARCH 4 & 5, 2023

DYNAMIC TRIO

APRIL 15 & 16, 2023

WAR AND PEACE

Anne & Bruce Robertson | Anonymous Chorale Member

MAY 20 & 21, 2023

BROADWAY CONCERT

Sponsored by the Tremper Family in honor of their parents, Barbara and William Tremper.

MEDIA SPONSORS

ACCOMMODATIONS SPONSOR

STREAMING SPONSOR

CHAIR SPONSORS CONCERTMASTER Janet & Harry Haines

ASSISTANT CELLO Louisa & Paul Axelrod

TROMBONE Frank & Maggie Allen

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Sharon & Gerald Marks

DOUBLE BASS Richard & Alice Dailey

TUBA NDG, LLC

FLUTE ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite Betty Thisted SECOND VIOLIN Patterson Family

OBOE Jennifer & Ben Yonce

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Frank & Rae Lynn D’Angelo

ENGLISH HORN Jo May & Brian Salonen

VIOLA Robert Mosely ASSOCIATE VIOLA Ann Ruehr CELLO Dan & Sophie Lambros

CLARINET Charla & Don Murray BASSOON Jean & Bill Woessner HORN Betsy & Warren Wilcox TRUMPET Ann & Tom Boone

TIMPANI/PERCUSSION Traci & Michael Punke ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION Sharon & Don Snavely HARP Peter & Maria van Loben Sels PIANO Twila Wolfe MUSIC DIRECTOR Rick & Diana Nash CHORALE DIRECTOR Doug & Caryl Klein

WAR AND PEACE

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DOWNBEAT DOWNLOW IS SPONSORED BY

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, MUSIC RECITAL HALL Presentation begins one hour before each concert Saturdays – 6:30 p.m. Sundays – 2:00 p.m.

Student Night at Dress Rehearsal

Sponsored by Bill and Rosemary Gallagher Foundation Your support of young people in Missoula means so much. Thank you!

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MISSOULA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

Striking the right chord in health plan administration for over 35 years.

WAR AND PEACE

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