Maestro Victor Sawa and the

GOES TO THE MOVIES!

A NIGHT OF OSCAR®

AWARD-WINNING MUSIC

Saskatoon Symphony Pops Series presented by Build your dreams

TCU PLACE, SID BUCKWOLD THEATRE, 7:30 PM

SATURDAY APRIL 2, 2011

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Maestro Victor Sawaconductor

Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

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meet the orchestraViolin 1Michael Swan (Concertmaster) Martha Kashap (Assistant Concertmaster) Mary Lou Day Lillian Jen-PayzantJoan SavageMarcel van den HurkSimon FannerMaxim Pletnev

Violin 2Oxana Ossiptchouk (Principal) Karen Bindle Oriana WattSarah TsoiRosanne DakuKaren Ogle Sarah TsoiSophie McBean

ViolaJames Legge (Principal) Saache HeinrichJeremy JanzenKatie McBean

CelloScott McKnightJohn Payzant Bernadette WilsonCarman RabukaTerry SturgeChristina Bakanec

BassRichard Carnegie (Principal)David HumphreyDavid GrosseWarren HayDavid Pyra

FluteRandi Nelson (Principal)Brenda Moats Jennifer McAllister

OboeErin Brophey (Principal, temporary)Kevin Junk

ClarinetMargaret Wilson (Principal)Bradley PowellAlyssa Thompson

BassoonPeter Gravlin (Principal)Marie Sellar

HornCarol-Marie Cottin (Principal) Arlene Shiplett Dubrena MyroonMicajah Sturgess

TrumpetTerry Heckman (Principal) Daniel Funk Frank HarringtonEric Woodsworth

TromboneDon Schmidt (Principal)Brian UnverrichtDawn McLean Belyk

TubaBrent Longstaff

TimpaniDarrell Bueckert (Principal)

PercussionTrent RemingerBrad ListerMark AltmanWill Martin

HarpCecile Denis

PianoLynn Ewing

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meet maestro sawa

Victor Sawa is a triple threat of talent, experience and personal dynamism in the orchestral world. Now Music Director of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, he holds similar positions with orchestras in Sudbury and Regina. He was prev-iously Resident Conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (1993-1997), Music Director with the North Bay Symphony, the Guelph Youth Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra. He also served as Principal Clarinet with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has been guest conductor for orchestras across the country.

Maestro Sawa has received many awards and honours, including three Canada Council awards for Conducting, a Grand Prix du Disque—Best Chamber Music Recording (Canadian Chamber Ensemble), a Grammy award (with the New England Ragtime Ensemble), and the Tanglewood Festival award for Outstanding Musician. A Montreal native, Mr. Sawa holds a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from McGill University and an Honours Masters of Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and is also a graduate of the Pierre Monteux School for Advanced Conductors.

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Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre)

Chariots of Fine (Vangelis)

E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (John Williams)

Moon River (Henry Mancini)

The Pink Panther (Henry Mancini)

Casablanca (Max Steiner)

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Exodus (Ernest Gold)

The Shadow of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel)

Swan Lake (Pytor Tchaikovsky)

Star Wars Suite (John Williams)

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Maestro Victor Sawa, conductor

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Maurice Jarre Best Music, Score - Substantially OriginalAn epic film over 3 hours in length, director David Lean’s movie had ten nominations and won seven of them, including Best Picture and Best Original Score. Maurice Jarre’s score won out over another standout—Elmer Bernstein’s emotional music for To Kill a Mockingbird.

Chariots of Fire (1981)Vangelis Best Original ScoreThe low-budget inspirational story of the running event from the 1924 Paris Olympics won Best Picture in a major upset over Warren Beatty’s Reds, which was highly-favoured to win. Vangelis’ throbbing score of rich electronic music remains one of the most memorable movie scores in Oscar history.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)John Williams. Best Original ScoreSteven Spielberg’s science-fiction block–buster, which tells the story of an adorable creature from another world and his bond to a young boy, lost to the British biopic Gandhi, but the magical score netted a win for composer John Williams—his fourth Oscar.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)Henry ManciniBest Score - Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Original Song ‘Moon River’ - lyrics by Johnny MercerBlake Edwards’ retelling the Truman Capote story of eccentric Holly Golightly features one of Audrey Hepburn’s most-loved roles. Mancini’s music, with Mercer’s lyrics, not only won two Oscars but created a “standard” that still plucks at the heartstrings fifty years later.

The Pink Panther (1964)Henry ManciniNominated Best Music Score - Substantially Original

Mancini’s playful score to this hilarious Blake Edwards movie has been reused in numerous sequels and remakes, and cartoons for the big screen and TV, it but lost to Disney musical Mary Poppins (itself overshadowed that year by the success of The Sound of Music, which had an adapted score). The big pink cool cat, with the same jazz-inspired music, still managed to nab an Oscar that year, for the animated short ‘The Pink Phink,’ – a re-working of the title sequence from the feature film.

Casablanca (1943)Max SteinerNominated - Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. While Casablanca (the most quotable movie of all time, some say) won the Best Picture Oscar, Steiner’s score came away with only a nomination, losing to The Song of Bernadette, in a huge field of sixteen nominees. Nonetheless, the score remains a classic. Max Steiner received a total of 26 Oscar nominations for Best Score during his lifetime, winning three times. ‘As Time Goes By,’ sung by Dooley Wilson (Sam) in the movie, was actually written in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld for the Broadway musical Everybody’s Welcome.

Exodus (1960)Ernest Gold. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy PictureBesides winning the Oscar and two Grammy Awards, Gold’s dramatic music for this Otto Preminger war epic based on Leon Uris’s novel has been covered and remixed many times. A version by

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piano duo Ferrante and Teicher rose to number 2 on the pop charts and the music became a vocal hit, with lyrics by Pat Boone. It even found its way into hip-hop, sampled by Ice-T (‘Ice’s Exodus’), Nas, and T.I.

The Sandpiper (1965) Johnny Mandel Best Original Song ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ - lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterAlso known as ‘Love Theme from The Sandpiper,’ this song also won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1966 and remains far more popular than the soap opera-like Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie it sprang from. It’s a ‘standard’ covered by the likes of Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Barbara Streisand and myriad of jazz vocalists. Among Mandel’s other notable hits is ‘Suicide is Painless,’ the theme from the movie and then TV series M*A*S*H.

Black Swan (2010)Clint Mansell, based on themes by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (uncredited)Score ruled ineligible by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Performed is a selection from Swan Lake, Mansell’s source material. The score for Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller set in the ballet world of ballet is sometimes as harrowing as the tale itself, but the legendary Swan Lake Theme features prominently throughout, sometimes in playful homage, at times bursting through with dramatic effect. Current AMPAS rules exclude scores that are “diluted by . . . preexisting music . . .” and thus Mansell’s own masterful work could not be nominated.

Star Wars (1977)John WilliamsBest Original ScoreComposer John Williams has 45 Oscar nominations and 5 wins thus far in his career. His iconic music for George Lucas’s space fantasy is reminiscent of Max Steiner’s symphonic scores and the main theme resembles composer Wolfgang Korngold’s composition for the 1942 movie Kings Row. It is one of the most widely recognized pieces of music of any genre. Williams also scored the rest of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the later three prequels. John Williams has served as the Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and is now its Laureate Conductor, leading it for several concerts each year.

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Opening Fanfare: April 7, 10 am; more music performances April 11, 13, 15 (times vary)

Maestro Victor Sawa and the

GOES TO THE MOVIES!

A NIGHT OF OSCAR®

AWARD-WINNING MUSIC

Saskatoon Symphony Pops Series presented by Build your dreams

TCU PLACE, SID BUCKWOLD THEATRE, 7:30 PM

SATURDAY APRIL 2, 2011

saskatoonsymphony.org

Maestro Victor Sawaconductor

Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra