Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Featuring Sean Botkin, Piano Conducted by Henry Duitman, founding Conductor of NISO

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

HENRY DUITMAN,CONDUCTOR

SEAN BOTKIN,piano

Christopher Stanichar,Principal Conductor

WELCOMEGood evening, Welcome to the Spring Concert “Rocky! An All-Rachmaninoff Program.” I am pleased that Henry Duitman, founding NISO conductor, is back to conduct a piano concerto featuring Sean Botkin. I know that you will enjoy the concert this evening! This is the grand finale of the 30th anniversary season. We say a big thank you to people who played in the symphony, people who served on the NISO board, and people who were part of the Friends organization over the past 30 years. Your contributions have made NISO successful! Before intermission our principal conductor Christopher Stanichar will introduce our 2017-2018 season “Symphonic Treasures.” We have an excellent roster of concerts for next year. This evening there is opportunity to purchase season tickets at a reduced price. Also remember to buy coffee, truffles, and 30th anniversary CDs to continue your support of NISO. We are looking forward to another fantastic season and further success in the future.

Best Regards,Rhonda PenningsNISO Board Chairperson

NISO 30TH ANNIVERSARY CD NISO is excited to present our very first CD as part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary. The CD is a sampler of performance highlights from past years. It includes twelve pieces by twelve different composers from eleven different concerts conducted by Henry Duitman, Tim McGarvey, Henry Charles Smith, Jungho Kim, and Christopher Stanichar. The compositions include the lovely Pavane by Fauré, the “Triumphal March” from Aida by Verdi, the dramatic Pines of Rome by Respighi, and nine other concert favorites. The CD will be for sale at all NISO concerts this season. It is also available in the NISO office; requests for mail orders can be submitted by e-mail. The CD costs $15.00, with proceeds going toward 2016-2017 season expenses. Further information, including a complete listing of the titles and ordering information, is available at www.niso.dordt.edu.

PROGRAM

WELCOME________________________ Dear NISO friends, Celebrating 30 years: Welcome to the opening concert of our 30th Anniversary season, "Musical Gems." Tonight we hear music telling stories and creating visual images, music considered some of the most well-known and well-liked program music. This is just the beginning of our celebratory season with outstanding guest artists, reunion of former players and board members, and welcoming back to the stage the NISO founder, Dr. Henry Duitman conducting Rachmaninoff. Tonight I also say farewell as my fourth term on the Board of Directors concludes January 1, 2017; of those twelve years, I have served seven years as board chair. What an amazing experience and outstanding organization to lead! I'm convinced the next 30 years will be filled with strong players, fabulous music, and joy that only the arts can contribute. Thank you to so many who have helped me, thank you for all the generous financial support, and thank you to the players and conductors for sharing their talents. Enjoy the Friends' truffles at intermission and look into purchasing the new (don't miss it!) NISO 30th Anniversary CD. Musically yours, Norma Snyder Jones, Board Chairperson

NISO releases 30th Anniversary CD

NISO is excited to present our very first CD as part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary. The CD is a sampler of performance highlights from past years. It includes twelve pieces by twelve different composers from eleven different concerts conducted by Henry Duitman, Tim McGarvey, Henry Charles Smith, Jungho Kim, and Christopher Stanichar. The compositions include the lovely Pavane by Fauré, the “Triumphal March” from Aida by Verdi, the dramatic Pines of Rome by Respighi, and nine other concert favorites.

The CD will debut TONIGHT and will be for sale at all NISO concerts this season. It will also be available in the NISO office; requests for mail orders can be submitted by e-mail. The CD costs $15.00, with proceeds going toward 2016-2017 season expenses.

Further information, including a complete listing of the titles and ordering information, is available at www.niso.dordt.edu.

PROGRAM__________________ THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christopher Stanichar, Principal Conductor Henry Duitman, Guest Conductor Sean Botkin, Piano

11 April 2017

RACHMANINOFF Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2, in C Minor, Op. 18

I. Moderato

II. Adagio sostenuto – Più animato

III. Allegro scherzando

Presentation of 2017-2018 NISO Concert Season

Intermission

RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

I. Non allegro

II. Andante con moto

III. Lento assai – Allegro vivace – Lento assai

Come prima – Allegro vivace

Please Note: Flash photography and the use of recording devices is prohibited during NISO concerts.

Please disable all cell phones and pagers.

2017-2018 Season Tickets will be available for purchase at Pre-Season Sale Prices - TONIGHT ONLY!

PROGRAM NOTES_________________

“[Rachmaninoff’s] music is well constructed and effective, but monotonous in texture, which consists in essence mainly of artificial and gushing tunes accompanied by a variety of figures derived from arpeggios. The enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninoff’s works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favor.”

Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition (1954) In an age when futurists yearned for a brave new horizon of endless dissonance, musicians and critics alike found the tuneful, appealing music of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff dated. In fairness, it perhaps was. And this should come as no surprise: he composed the majority of his music when quite young, when names such as Schönberg and Stravinsky were still unknown. After emigrating to America in 1917, Rachmaninoff enjoyed such success as a pianist and conductor that his busy schedule left him little time for composing. Indeed, in the final 25 years of his life, he completed only six new works. Ultimately and with hindsight’s clarity, we may today appreciate Rachmaninoff as one of the great musical figures of the 20th century. Though renowned as a towering giant of the keyboard, he wrote fluently for choir, orchestra, opera, and chamber ensembles. He worked as a recording artist during the earliest days of commercially recorded sound. Even the editors at Grove’s finally got around to changing their minds in 1980, favorably describing Rachmaninoff as “the last great representative of Russian late romanticism.” Vocalise, Op.34, No.14 In February of 1912, the Armenian poet Marietta Shaginyan began writing letters to Rachmaninoff under the pseudonym “Ré”. The two corresponded for five years and Rachmaninoff asked Ré for recommendations on poetry that might go well with music; she suggested works by the likes of Pushkin, Korinfsky, and Tyutchev. By the end of that year, Rachmaninoff had completed his op. 34, a collection of fourteen “Romances” for voice and piano. Ironically, though the project began with a shared love of poetry, it is the collection’s closing movement, a wordless Vocalise, which has garnered lasting acclaim. Rachmaninoff dedicated this movement to the Ukrainian soprano Antonina Nezhdanova, who performed the work with orchestra in 1916. Since then, the work’s dreamy spiral of mordents floating on a pillow of repeated chords has enchanted musicians and listeners alike. Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise has been arranged and rearranged for countless combinations by countless artists, even appearing as a background melody in the Pet Shop Boys’ 1999 song, “Happiness is an Option.” Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

1. Moderato 2. Adagio sostenuto 3. Allegro scherzando

After three years of work and revision, Rachmaninoff’s first symphony was ready for its premiere. Rachmaninoff had called in favors from fellow composers to persuade philanthropist Mitrofan Belyayev to include the work on one of the Russian Symphony concerts in St. Petersburg. The premiere on March 28th, 1897 is remembered in musical infamy: The orchestra was under-rehearsed, the conductor was incompetent and rumored to be drunk, the audience was appalled, the critics were savage...and the young composer himself walked out, heartbroken, before the final movement. Rachmaninoff sank into profound depression. He moped through insignificant work as a piano teacher and conductor for three years until undergoing hypnosis by psychotherapist and amateur violist Nikolai Dahl. At last he was able to resume composing, completing the present concerto (dedicated to Dahl) in 1901. Premiered in its entirety by Rachmaninoff in April, 1901, the concerto was a resounding success. With swirling pianism and soaring lyricism, it remains a favorite of audiences worldwide and has crossed gracefully into vernacular circles: excerpts are heard regularly in figure skating and gymnastics; several of Rachmaninoff’s melodies have found their way into popular songs by artists such as Eric Carmen and Frank Sinatra. Symphonic Dances, Op.45

1. Non allegro 2. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) 3. Lento assai—Allegro vivace

“Last week I finished a new symphonic piece, which I naturally want to give first to you and your orchestra. It is called ‘Fantastic Dances’. I shall now begin the orchestration.”

Rachmaninoff, writing to Eugene Ormandy in August, 1940 In 1915 Rachmaninoff began working out ideas for a ballet to be titled “The Scythians.” Celebrated choreographer Mikhail Folkine rejected the material as unpromising for ballet; Rachmaninoff shelved the ideas and the project never materialized. Half a lifetime later and half a world away, Rachmaninoff recast these earlier themes as purely orchestral music, maintaining the moniker “dances” as a nod to the work’s origin. Rachmaninoff cultivated a close relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was in Philadelphia that he gave his American conducting debut. He collaborated with Philadelphia’s new Hungarian-American director, Eugene Ormandy, in a recording of three of his concerti in 1939. His dedication of the present “Symphonic Dances” to Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra is a fitting tribute to a strong bond between composer and band. Ormandy first conducted the work in January, 1941. Heartened by the premiere, Rachmaninoff contacted Mikhail Folkine, who by then was based in New York City. Folkine was impressed by the work but passed away the following year, putting an end to Rachmaninoff’s hopes for collaboration. The work opens with a “Non allegro”, a menacing march with a Tchaikovskian bending of syncopation into ersatz downbeats. The woodwind section is enriched with the Stygian growl of the contrabassoon and the rare appearance of an alto saxophone. The expansive, melancholy lyricism of the movement leads to a curious quotation at the very end:

...a melody from none other than Rachmaninoff’s own first symphony. One can only imagine what the composer must have thought, looking back at disastrous memories of a failed premiere after an entire lifetime of music. As for the second movement, the waltz may have epitomized the belle epoque of genteel society at the turn of the 20th century, yet as the world descended into war, composers began to present the waltz with satire and contempt for the arrogance that it represented. Rachmaninoff sweeps us into a dark and mystical ballroom, treating the waltz as an unsettled parody of itself. PROGRAM NOTES_________________

The Allegro vivace grabs our attention with exoticism and exuberant tambourines. Yet herein Rachmaninoff has hidden a deeply personal testament: towards the end, we hear trumpets announce the ancient Latin hymn Dies irae, dies illa (“Day of judgment, day of wrath”):

This is followed by a mark of “Alliluya” in the score and material derived from Blagosloven esi Gospedi (“Blessed art Thou, Lord”), the 9th movement of Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil, op. 37”, an a capella work for choir written in 1915. By now the composer was suffering from lung cancer and melanoma after a lifetime of heavy tobacco use and knew that his life was coming to an end. Juxtaposing these melodies reminds us that death does not have the final victory. Indeed, on the last page of what would be his final work, Rachmaninoff penned the following: “I thank thee, Lord.”

Notes by Robert Horton, 2017

PROGRAM NOTES__________________

ARTISTS_________________________

SEAN BOTKIN, pianist, began studying the piano at age five with his mother, making his first orchestral appearance four years later with the

Honolulu Symphony. He went on to study privately with Neal O’Doan at the University of Washington and, under his direction, performed with the Seattle Symphony, Spokane Symphony, and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. Sean has garnered prizes in an impressive list of international piano competitions: William Kapell International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Busoni International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Dong-A International Music Competition of Korea, International Music Competition of Japan, and the Washington D.C. International Competition. A graduate of Stanford University, the Juilliard School, and Indiana University at South Bend, Sean has studied with eminent artists Adolph Baller, Martin Canin, and Alexander Toradze. Botkin has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and Russia. Concerto and recital performances include Kazan and St. Petersburg, Russia; Tbilisi and Kutaisi, Georgia; Salzburg Festival, Ravenna Festival, Stresa Festival, Ruhr Klavier Festival, Gilmore Festival, London, Cagliari, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Palermo, Lisbon, Tokyo, Seoul, Bogotá, and San José (Costa Rica). He made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1993 performing Bartók’s Concerto No. 2 with the Juilliard Symphony, conducted by Carl St. Clair. In 2009, he made a CD recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor and performed a series of concerts in Europe sponsored by Alexander Rachmaninoff and the Rachmaninoff Foundation. In 2012, also sponsored by the Rachmaninoff Foundation, he performed Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and in 2013 with the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and guest conductor, Alexander Sladkovsky. In May 2015, Sean performed in Tbilisi, Georgia as part of the Easter to Ascension Festival. Reactions to Sean’s performances typically are expressed with phrases such as “multidimensional talents”, “superb musicianship”, and “beautiful and rare musical experience”. Other recent performances include Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor on the New York Philharmonic Ensembles concert at Merkin Hall and a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. He is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Northern Iowa and Artistic Advisor of the Midwest International Piano Competition.

HENRY DUITMAN joined the faculty of the Department of Music and Dance at Grand Valley State University in the fall of 2008. Before coming to

Michigan, he conducted the orchestra and bands at Dordt College as well as the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra. While at Grand Valley, Duitman has taken the GVSU Chamber Orchestra on several tours, including a trip to London in 2013. He has conducted all-state and other honors orchestras, most recently the 2015 Michigan Home School Association Honors Orchestra. In 2015 Duitman was a named as a finalist in the University Conductor division of The American Prize. Duitman has conducted several of GVSU’s Fall Arts Celebration concerts which bring together members of the Grand Rapids Symphony, the GVSU faculty, and top student musicians. He recently conducted this orchestra in two ballets with nationally-known ballet companies: Pulcinella by Stravinsky and Creatures of Prometheus by Beethoven. Duitman has a strong interest in conducting opera and helped form the West Michigan Opera Project, which has the goal of bringing a great opera experience to those hearing their first live opera. He conducted its first production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica, which was met with strong positive response. He recently performed as Assistant Conductor for Opera Grand Rapids’ productions of Bizet’s Carmen and Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice and was principal conductor for its June, 2016 production of Romberg’s The Student Prince. This year Duitman conducted GVSU Opera Theater’s production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Duitman received a bachelor’s degree from The Florida State University and a master’s degree from the University of South Florida. He earned his doctorate from The Ohio State University.

CHRISTOPHER STANICHAR is the Principal Conductor of the Northwest Iowa Symphony, an ensemble of some of the finest musicians in

northwest Iowa and southeast South Dakota. Stanichar was appointed to this position in 2011, following a number of guest appearances. Stanichar has continued NISO’s tradition of artistic excellence, innovative programming, and collaborations with guest artists from the region and beyond. Stanichar leads NISO in three concerts per season, in addition to the annual Concert for Children. He has been praised for “his obvious energy, great joy directing, and outright enthusiasm.” (Peter Wagner, Northwest Iowa Review).

In addition to his position with Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Stanichar conducts the Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota. Stanichar has conducted professional orchestras in Europe, Russia, Mexico, and the United States, including the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra,

St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Sochi Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Orquesta Sinfónico Juvenil del Estado de Veracruze (Mexico), and many orchestras in the United States.

Stanichar earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Gerard Samuel. In 1996 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study conducting in Slovakia, where he appeared as a guest conductor of many top orchestras in that country. In 1997 he was appointed Conducting Assistant for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he was mentored by maestros Jesús López-Cobos and Erich Kunzel.

Stanichar is an active composer; his works have been commissioned and performed throughout the world. His Trisagion was used in the Ric Burns’ PBS documentary, Andy Warhol. More recent projects include a full-length cantata, St. Mark Passion, written as part of a Granskou grant for the 150th anniversary of Augustana College. His Variations on a Theme by Handel for string orchestra is featured in the independent film, Dust of War. TrevCo-Varner Music has published several of his works for English horn.

In his free time, Christopher’s interests outside of music include Russian icons, foreign languages, and biking; he is an avid pinball player. The most important thing to Christopher is his family, and his children are active in music. For more information about Christopher and a catalogue of his compositions, please visit christopherstanichar.com.

THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA comprises the finest musicians in the tri-state area. Teaching principals are of a

professional caliber and function as first chair players and teachers in sectional rehearsals. The orchestra’s 80 members include adults of all ages as well as gifted music students from area high schools, middle schools and colleges. Five of the middle school and high school students are recipients of scholarships from Friends of the Symphony for the purpose of continuing their private music instruction. NISO presents three concerts each season in addition to the annual Concert for Children, which is given each November for over 1,000 area 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.

ARTISTS__________________

OFFICERS: Katie Lynn Haan, Deb & Daryl Hibma, Sally Jongsma, Joanne &Cliff Soodsma, Emily Sybesma, and Beth Vanden Berg

MEMBERS: Curt & Patricia AhrenholzJoanne AlberdaDallas & Carol ApolArt & Phyllis AttemaHoward & Marge BeerninkDave BloemendaalGert BoerJim & Lavonne BolkemaJim & Glenda BosDel & Annafeen BroekMark & Miriam BussJim & Marilyn Dean

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FRIENDS of NISO__________________

Tonight’s Intermission Feature: Gourmet coffee and truffles. Consider joining Friends and helping with rehearsal refreshments, ushering, serving coffee/truffles,

and selling tickets to benefit the orchestra.

PERSONNEL__________________

PERSONNEL_______________________

** Concertmistress * Teaching Principal p Assistant Principal + Scholarship recipient

NISO Members Years of Service: ♩5+ years ♪10+ years ♬15+ years ♮20+ years ♯25+ years

FIRST VIOLIN Daniel Amin, Dordt College Kinza Brue, Dordt College♩

+ Erika Buiter, Unity Christian HS ** Jennifer Frens, Sioux Center♮ Holly Hiemstra, Dordt College Dasol Kim, Dordt College Kirbee Nykamp, Sioux Center♪ Tim Rylaarsdam, Sioux Center♯

+ Heather Shih, Boyden-Hull HS Tara Tilstra, Dordt College Kylie Van Wyhe, Dordt College p Jill Wigton, Merrill SECOND VIOLIN Matt Augustine, Dordt College Corinne Efflandt, Dordt College Caleb Herman, Dordt College Rebecca Mangold, Orange City

* Lisa Miedema, Sioux Center♮ Rebecca Nymeyer, Dordt College Katrina Regnerus, Dordt College McKenzie Roselle, Dordt College Stan Spaulding, Sioux Center Janelle Van Der Zwaag, Hospers♪ Ashley Verhoef, Dordt College Kendra Wieringa, Dordt College VIOLA + Marissa Beaty, MOC-FV HS Kristin Buskohl, Sioux Falls Meagan DeGraaf, Dordt College

Katie Fictorie, Dordt College Derek Friend, Dordt College♩ Kaitlyn Frye, Dordt College Rachel Louwerse, Dordt College * Kirsten Meyer, Omaha Gary Vander Hart, Sioux Center♯

CELLO Jack Bonnecroy, Orange City Jaren Brue, Dordt College + Max Foster, Akron-Westfield HS Dane Hibma, Sioux Center♬ * Stephanie March, Sioux City Jonathan Nyman, Dordt College Jessica Setiawan, Dordt College Joseph Slegers, Orange City♪ Cathie Tien, Orange City♩ STRING BASS * John Casey, Sioux Falls♩ Trevor Carlson, Sioux Falls♩

Nicholas Grossmann, MOC-FV HS + Hannah Hulstein, MOC-FV MS Dalton Petersen, Augustana University

FLUTE/PICCOLO Shannon Abels, Sioux Falls♩

* Anna Davis, Spencer♩ Ellen Podhajsky, Northwestern College

OBOE Ronja Jung, Sioux City

* Kristi Stanichar, Sioux Falls♩

CLARINET * Susan DeJong, Orange City♩ Shirley Van Engen, Boyden♪ BASSOON Lois Estell, Orange City♩

* Chris Haak, Sioux Falls♩

FRENCH HORN Michael Digatono, Sioux Falls Sharon McGarvey, Alton♯

* Tim McGarvey, Alton♯ * Rebekah McLaughlin, USD Melanie Witt, Orange City♯

TRUMPET Spencer Fynaardt, Dordt College * Dan Mangold, Orange City♩ Karissa Van Surksum, Dordt College

TROMBONE Matt Honken, Orange City * Vance Shoemaker, Hawarden♯

Jason Roseth, Sioux Falls Emily Wehde, Sioux Falls

TUBA * Peter Boerema, Sioux Falls♪

PERCUSSION * Jason Domonkos, Omaha Sabrina Fox, Alton Sam Roskamp, Dordt College Cody Tucker, Sioux City

HARP Anna Blauw, Dordt College Maggie Burgsma, Dordt College PIANO Norma Snyder Jones, Sheldon

PERSONNEL_______________________

** Concertmistress * Teaching Principal p Assistant Principal + Scholarship recipient

NISO Members Years of Service: ♩5+ years ♪10+ years ♬15+ years ♮20+ years ♯25+ years

FIRST VIOLIN Daniel Amin, Dordt College Kinza Brue, Dordt College♩

+ Erika Buiter, Unity Christian HS ** Jennifer Frens, Sioux Center♮ Holly Hiemstra, Dordt College Dasol Kim, Dordt College Kirbee Nykamp, Sioux Center♪ Tim Rylaarsdam, Sioux Center♯

+ Heather Shih, Boyden-Hull HS Tara Tilstra, Dordt College Kylie Van Wyhe, Dordt College p Jill Wigton, Merrill SECOND VIOLIN Matt Augustine, Dordt College Kathy Broadwell, Port Wing, WI♯ Corinne Efflandt, Dordt College Caleb Herman, Dordt College Rebecca Mangold, Orange City

* Lisa Miedema, Sioux Center♮ Rebecca Nymeyer, Dordt College Katrina Regnerus, Dordt College McKenzie Roselle, Dordt College Stan Spaulding, Sioux Center Janelle Van Der Zwaag, Hospers♪ Ashley Verhoef, Dordt College Kendra Wieringa, Dordt College VIOLA + Marissa Beaty, MOC-FV HS Kristin Buskohl, Sioux Falls * Fei Chen, Sioux Falls Meagan DeGraaf, Dordt College

Katie Fictorie, Dordt College Derek Friend, Dordt College♩ Kaitlyn Frye, Dordt College Rachel Louwerse, Dordt College Gary Vander Hart, Sioux Center♯

CELLO Jack Bonnecroy, Orange City Jaren Brue, Dordt College + Max Foster, Akron-Westfield HS Dane Hibma, Sioux Center♬ * Stephanie March, Sioux City Jonathan Nyman, Dordt College Jessica Setiawan, Dordt College Joseph Slegers, Orange City♪ Cathie Tien, Orange City♩ STRING BASS Trevor Carlson, Sioux Falls♩

* John Casey, Sioux Falls♩ Marian Casey, Sioux Falls♩ Nicholas Grossmann, MOC-FV HS + Hannah Hulstein, MOC-FV MS Dalton Petersen, Augustana University

FLUTE/PICCOLO Shannon Abels, Sioux Falls♩

* Anna Davis, Spencer♩ Sue De Haan, Orange City♬

OBOE/ENGLISH HORN Lynn Gross, Sioux City Ronja Jung, Sioux City

* Kristi Stanichar, Sioux Falls♩

CLARINET/BASS CLARINET Susan DeJong, Orange City♩ * Beverly Gibson, Sioux Falls♩ Amanda Long, Orange City BASSOON/CONTRABASSOON Mindy Braithwaite, Sioux Falls Lois Estell, Orange City♩

* Chris Haak, Sioux Falls♩

ALTO SAXOPHONE Pamela De Haan, Alton PO FRENCH HORN Michael Digatono, Sioux Falls Sharon McGarvey, Alton♯

* Tim McGarvey, Alton♯ * Rebekah McLaughlin, Vermillion Melanie Witt, Orange City♯

TRUMPET * Richard Bogenrief, Merrill♮ Spencer Fynaardt, Dordt College Dan Mangold, Orange City♩

TROMBONE Matt Honken, Orange City

Jason Roseth, Sioux Falls * Vance Shoemaker, Hawarden♯

Emily Wehde, Sioux Falls

TUBA * Peter Boerema, Sioux Falls♪

PERCUSSION * Jason Domonkos, Omaha Sabrina Fox, Alton Nathan Kanis, Dordt College Sam Roskamp, Dordt College Cody Tucker, Sioux City Marcus Zevenbergen, Dordt College

HARP Anna Blauw, Dordt College Maggie Burgsma, Dordt College PIANO John MacInnis, Sioux Center

THANK YOU TO: DORDT COLLEGE for its generous provision of rehearsal and performance space, support staff, and office accommodations.CONTRIBUTORS for their sustaining appreciation of fine music and their continuing support of the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra.FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY for ushering, ticket sales, and refreshments at our rehearsals.

THE STAFF: Christopher Stanichar, Conductor Bradley Miedema, Music Director Timothy McGarvey, Assistant Conductor Karen De Mol, General Manager Mary Hulstein, Administrative Assistant

CREDITS__________________

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Daniel Finley – Sioux CenterSally Jongsma - Sioux CenterBonnie Meier, Vice-Chairperson – Orange CityRhonda Pennings, Chairperson - Orange CityLee Schneider – HullT.J. Speer – Sioux CenterBert Van Batavia - Boyden

Herm Van Den Hul – Sioux CenterBrian Van Engen, Treasurer – Sioux CenterNancy Vermeer, Secretary - Sioux Center

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CONTRIBUTORS __________________

CREDITS___________________________ THANK YOU TO:

ELIZABETH SOLADAY for the use of the Celeste. DORDT COLLEGE for its generous provision of rehearsal and performance space, support staff, and office accommodations. CONTRIBUTORS for their sustaining appreciation of fine music and their continuing support of the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra. FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY for ushering, ticket sales, and refreshments at our rehearsals.

THE STAFF: Christopher Stanichar, Conductor Bradley Miedema, Music Director Timothy McGarvey, Assistant Conductor Karen De Mol, General Manager Mary Hulstein, Administrative Assistant

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Norma Snyder Jones, Chairperson - Sheldon Carol Buteyn – Sanborn Daniel Finley – Sioux Center Bonnie Meier – Orange City Rhonda Pennings, Secretary - Orange City Lee Schneider – Hull T.J. Speer – Sioux Center Bert Van Batavia - Boyden Herm Van Den Hul – Sioux Center Beth Vanden Berg - Sioux Center Brian Van Engen, Treasurer – Sioux Center Nancy Vermeer, Vice-Chairperson - Sioux Center

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRPERSONS:

Bernie Weidenaar Yette Te Paske

Musical Gems Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra Concerts

Christopher Stanichar, conductor

GUEST CONCERT - Saturday, February 4, 2017 – 7:30pm WINTER POPS - Saturday, February 25, 2017 – 7:30pm SPRING CONCERT - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 – 7:00PM

Northwest Iowa Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerts

Christopher Stanichar, Conductor

Saturday, December 3, 2016, 3:00pm Saturday, April 8, 2017, 3:00pm

Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra 498 4th Ave NE, Sioux Center, IA 51250

712.722.6230 - niso@dordt.edu - http://niso.dordt.edu

CONTRIBUTORS___________________ CORPORATE SPONSORS

American State Bank Premier Communications Foundation

GRANT SPONSORS Sioux Center Recreation & Arts Council

Arts Midwest Touring Fund

Peter H. and E. Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation Fa Walmart, Sioux Center

MEDIA SPONSORS Color FX KDCR FM 88.5

KWIT FM 90.3/KOJI FM 90.7 Iowa Information Publications

MAESTRO ($1000+) Lloyd & Dianne Bierma Jim & Marilyn Dean

W. Dale & Karen Den Herder Norma Snyder Jones

Yette Te Paske

SOLOIST ($500 to $999) Beaver Eyecare Center Fresh Group Citizens State Bank of Sheldon & Boyden Karen A. DeMol Bill & Ila Jean Mouw

Northwest Bank People’s Bank Lee & Audrey Plasier Sioux Center Health Thomas A. Snyder

Dr. Christopher Stanichar Van Den Hul Asset Management Marvin & Joy Vogel

CONCERTMASTER ($250 to $499) Howard & Marge Beernink Martin Dekkenga Golden Crisp Farmers Mutual Insurance, Hull, IA Formosa Food Co. Katie Lynn Haan Hi-Way Chevrolet-Buick Inc. Drs. Erik & Barb Hoekstra

Carl & Ellen Klompien John R. & Betty Kreykes Marion & Darlene Mouw Eric & Lora Rankin Kevin Schmidt John & Sheryl Slegers Marvin & Audrey Van Vuuren Ken & Dorothy Vanden Brink

Doug & Janet Vander Berg Dale & Eileen Vander Wilt Orville & Arlene Van’t Hul Evan & Nancy Vermeer Harold & Emily Vonk Dennis & Donna Walstra Walstra Plumbing & Heating, Inc. Judy Winkel

PRINCIPAL ($100 to $249) Curt & Pat Ahrenholz Willis & Joanne Alberda Clarice Alons Doug & Joan Anderson Matt & Bethany Bosma Del & Ann Broek Jonathan & Eileen Buiter Jerry & Carol Buteyn John & Marian Casey Casey’s General Store, Sioux Center Garold & Donna Den Herder Bob & Rebecca De Smith Bernie & Kathy De Wit Verlyn & June De Wit Driesen Eye Center George & Jo Faber Lee & Eleanor Feenstra Greenworld, Inc. Howard & Vicki Hall Brent & Mary Hulstein Nanci Jahn Gerald Jansen Arnold & Carol Koekkoek Fran Koets

Jim & Sally Koldenhoven Henry & Dee Kramer Kroese & Kroese, PC Roger & Jerilyn Lueders Shirley Matheis Rockne & Joan McCarthy Lee & Bonnie Meier Dr. Verne & Gidge Meyer Andy & Joan Miedema Bradley & Lisa Miedema Mouw Motor Company, Inc. Henrietta Muilenburg Neal Chase Lumber Co. Northwestern Bank No Streaking, Inc. Don & Joyce Oostenink Kenneth E. Sabers Savings Bank – Primghar, Hartley, Lake

Park Cliff & Joanne Soodsma Greg & Dawn Steggerda Jack & Alethea Stubbe Mark & Emily Sybesma Team Realty Services, Inc.

John & Loretta Thomas Bert & Sandra Van Batavia Todd & Jennifer Van Bruggen Ron & LuAnn Van Den Berg Herm & Dawn Van Den Hul Lou & Tina Van Dyke The Van Engelenhoven Agency Brian & Stephanie Van Engen Jerry & Kim Van Es Arlin & Janene Van Gorp Perry & Jo Van Gorp Marion & Jan Van Soelen Stan & Beth Vanden Berg Mike & Nancy Vanden Bosch Vander Berg Homes/Furniture Gary & Joan Vander Hart Bill & Jo Vander Werf Glen & Betty Vermeer Drew & Jean Vogel Vogel Foundation Bernie & Marilyn Weidenaar Piet & Nelene Westerbeek West Rock Construction Op. Inc.

Farney R. Wurlitzer Foundation Fund