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Board of Directors

Board Members

Message from the Music Director and Board PresidentThank you for joining us as we celebrate 38 years of performing and sharing our love of symphonic music with YOU, our audience members.

Each season we select a title that conveys an attitude or thought about the magic of music. This season’s theme, “In the Mood,” was chosen because it represents how music has the power to create different atmospheres and transform feelings. It is also well-suited as the perfect precursor for our first concert of the season that features the jazz music of the Big Band Era from the mid-1930’s and 1940’s. Many of you may have danced and/or listened to the 1939 Glenn Miller orchestra’s recording of “In the Mood,” which was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

This concert season also marks Les Pfutzenreuter’s 28th year as the Conductor and Music Director and Margie Salcedo Rice’s 33nd year as Concertmaster and Assistant Conductor. The majority of our orchestra musicians have played in the symphony for more than a decade. Please see the program insert for the names of the performers who will be playing in this concert.

Jean Craig, Secretary & Corresponding Secretary Brenda Hoek, Ticket Manager Ken Hoek, TreasurerLes Pfutzenreuter, Music Director & ConductorJean Stirling, President & Event Coordinator

Robert AxtJoel CohenMilli HickeyGeorge Husaruk Joseph NemethSandy Spencer

Les PfutzenreuterConductor & Music Director

Jean StirlingBoard President

Les Pfutzenreuter Jean Stirling

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Christine Mullis, Owner

Our newest audience members may not be aware that the Ukiah Symphony Association depends on sponsors, donors, and advertisers to help bridge the gap between ticket sales and our expenses, which average $10,000-$18,000 per concert. Please consider a donation, sponsorship or endowment that will allow us to keep on providing symphonic music for anniversaries to come. Buying refreshments and raffle tickets during intermission help us, too. If you are a past or current sponsor, donor or advertiser, we thank you for making it possible for us to celebrate our 38th season!

Attending a fundraising concert is another way to add enjoyment to your life and help us by buying an admission ticket. If you want to be on our mailing list, please let one of our ushers know during intermission.Now, please sit back and enjoy the music!

Welcome to our 38th Anniversary Season!

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Volunteer Usher Coordinators: Stephanie Heath and Marilyn Simpson

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Denise & Bob Doering, Dr. Margaret Arner & Dr. Larry Falk, Katie Gibbs, Mary & Bob Gustafson, Monte & Kay Hill, Katherine McElwee, Ann & Keith Tiemann, Bill Walls, and Ilene Weeks

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MARGIE SALCEDO RICE, Assistant Conductor & Concertmaster

This year marks the 29th season that Les Pfutzenreuter has served as Music Director and Conductor of the Ukiah Symphony. In May 2017, he retired from his full-time position as Professor of Music at Mendocino College for 32 years. He conducted and taught the Masterworks Chorale, Symphony Orchestra and the Symphonic Band. Pfutzenreuter also taught Music History, Music Appreciation and coordinated the performance course sections. He plans to return to part-time teaching in 2018. He has served as the Music Director of the Philharmonia Healdsburg and for the past three years with the North Bay Stage Company. Pfutzenreuter has appeared with the Mendocino Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Raven Players in Healdsburg, Holy Names Orchestra in Oakland, Opera Fresca, Symphony of the Redwoods Pops and Children’s Concerts, Ukiah Civic Light Opera, Ukiah Players, Chico City Opera, and Santa Rosa Players.

Pfutzenreuter holds a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Northern Colorado where he studied with Dr. Howard Skinner, Music Director of the Greeley Philharmonic and Dean of the College of Performing Arts, and Eugene Corporon, now Director of Wind Activities at the University of Northern Texas. However, his musical training and philosophy is owed to his mentor, Professor John Colson, former Director of Orchestra and Brass Activities at South Dakota State University. There, Pfutzenreuter received his undergraduate education and was Musical Director for Prairie Repertory Theatre for six years.

In addition to conducting, Pfutzenreuter is a French horn player and vocalist, having performed in orchestras and on stage.

Margie is beginning her 33rd season with the Ukiah Symphony. She began violin lessons at age seven and later studied with Claire Hodgkins, former assistant to world-renowned violinist, Jascha Heifetz. She has played with the Riverside Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Guayaquil Symphony, and later became Concertmaster of the Loma Linda University Orchestra where she received her degrees in business administration and music, graduating magna cum laude.

In 2008 she performed the Mozart Symphony Concertante with Keith Lawrence, violist. Her past musical accomplishments have included performances as featured soloist of the Bruch Violin Concerto and Mozart G Major Concerto. In 2005, she and her students debuted at Carnegie Hall and in 2006 at Kennedy Center. Margie has been teaching violin for more than 30 years and currently conducts the Ukiah Junior Academy Orchestra, K-6 Choirs and Ukiah Junior Academy Chorale. She has served as Choral

Director and Minister of Music for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church conducting the annual “Christmas Cantata--The Glory of Christmas,” now in its 23rd season.

In addition to playing the violin, Margie is an accomplished vocalist. She was a featured soloist in “Broadway Under the Stars” in 2011. She has appeared as “Beauty” in the Ukiah Symphony’s production of Beauty and the Beast and “Broadway Under the Stars” with Jarrod McNaughton. She completed her third album, “In Your Holiness,” released in April of 2010 and has two albums, “Carry Me On” and “By My Side” with the Salcedo Sisters. She is featured regularly on Three Angels Broadcasting Television Network and performs Christian Contemporary concerts across the country.

Margie resides in Ukiah with her husband, Dr. Geoffrey Rice, Ophthalmologist. She has three musical daughters, Jessica (violinist), Patricia (violinist) and Elizabeth (cellist).

LES PFUTZENREUTER, Music Director

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PAULA SAMONTEPaula Samonte’s list of contributions to the artistic betterment of her community and beyond are well known to music lovers, theatre goers and particularly those who crave a good cabaret jazz vocal.

There are the many musical memories of her years in Ukiah with the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, Ukiah Players Theatre, Near and Arnold’s School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education (SPACE), Ukiah Civic Light Opera, and Mendocino College that include such performances in Cats, Cabaret, Sussical the Musical, and Hot L Baltimore. She has also sung at special events and concerts at Barra of Mendocino, Simaine Cellars, Rivino, Parducci, Nelson Family Vineyards “Broadway Under the Stars,” Anna’s Bistro, Patrona Restaurant, Himalayan Café, Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg, and for Sunday Concerts in the Park in Ukiah, where she was honored with the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

Her talents have taken her coast to coast as well as to Italy, where she has received frequent requests for return engagements. Most recently after a visit to Baja California, she was asked “when can you come back?” Earlier this year she reprised her role as Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha under the direction of Les Pfutzenreuter with the North Bay Stage Company based in the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa.

Ms. Samonte gives private vocal/performance classes to aspiring singers hoping to inspire and guide them to higher artistic goals and dreams. She is currently the

artistic director of the Ukiah Civic Light Opera and looks forward to events featuring local talent as well as performers from outside the area. Paula is also writing a musical called The Reception, an exciting work in progress.

Paula says “the beat goes on, because YOU continue to support live entertainment. Thank you.”

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Elena CasanovaElena Casanova lived in Mendocino County for 16 years, and performed a number of concertos with the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, and has been a soloist with Symphony of the Redwoods and Pacific Union College Orchestra. Casanova has been a guest of Fort Bragg Center for the Arts, Mendocino College, Concerts Grand Piano Series, Clearlake Performing Arts series, Concerts with Conversation, Professional Pianist Concert, Santa Rosa Etude Music Club, and many others.

She studied at the Alejandro Garcia Caturla Music Conservatory in Havana, the San Francisco Conservatory, Pacific Union College, and graduated with her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from University of Redlands. Casanova studied with Robert Bowman, Paul Glover, Annie Kim (a student of Cuban pianist Jorge Bolet) Louanne Long, Maria D. “Marilola” (Vasquez) Robles, Tom Turinia, Daniel Glover and Dr. Lynn Wheeler.

Her concerto repertoire includes among others: Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto in D-flat major, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 “The Emperor” and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major.

Her enthusiasm for the music of Cuba, where she was born, led her to record a piano solo album released on the MSR Label in 2005. Her album “Recordando” is a sampling of the Maestros of Cuban Classical Music: Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Manuel Saumell and René Touzet. Fanfare Magazine says, “She plays throughout with style, sensitivity, and obvious enjoyment… cheerfully compelling.” Casanova’s albums “Recordando” and “Fuente Sin Igual” are widely available on iTunes, Amazon.com. Her recordings of live

performances are also available on YouTube.

Casanova also works with numerous artists in the area as a “crossover” artist and can be seen on the stage playing Latin jazz, rock, or tango as well as chamber works by Mozart and Elgar.

Casanova continues to be a very active member of the community in Mendocino County. She is still active on the Board of Ukiah Community Concert Association and donates her time and energy to promote organizations like the Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Allegro Scholarship Fund, and many other organizations. She also enjoys teaching a handful of students that include her children Adrian and Briana.

Music is the core of Casanova’s life. Her unbreakable spirit, her engaging style, her joy and her passion are always present. She is a musician and a performer!

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Christmas Concerto in g minor, Op. 6, No. 8Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)Vivace – Grave – Allegro – Adagio, allegro, adagio – Vivace – Allegro – Largo, Pastorale

Concerto No. 3 for Piano andOrchestra in c minor, Op. 37L. V. Beethoven (1770-1827)I. Allegro con brioII. LargoIII. Rondo – Allegro

I N T E R M I S S I O NSymphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67L. V. BeethovenI. Allegro con brioII. Andante con motoIII. Scherzo – AllegroIV. Allegro

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Jessica Rice Vierra

Elizabeth Rice Oliver

Patricia Rice AgeePatricia also began taking violin at two and a half from her mother and joined the Ukiah Junior Academy String Ensemble performing in recitals and chamber concerts. While attending the Academy, she also joined the Ukiah Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra. Patricia became the concertmistress of the Rio Lindo Academy Orchestra and a member of the Santa Rosa Youth Symphony while in high school. Patricia has won several talent shows with her violin and is also a vocalist and pianist.

Jessica began taking violin lessons from her mother, Margie Salcedo Rice at the age of two and a half. She quickly progressed and started performing in recitals and chamber concerts. She began piano lessons at age six and joined the Ukiah Junior Academy String Ensemble and later the Ukiah Orchestra Youth Symphony. She soloed with the Ukiah Symphony performing “Spring” from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi and later performed “Winter” with the Ukiah Symphony. Jessica won the annual talent show while at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy. She received a scholarship to join the New England Youth Ensemble at Washington University in Maryland

Elizabeth also started violin at two and a half, taking from her mother, and switched to cello at age nine. She joined the Ukiah Junior Academy String Ensemble and later joined the Ukiah Symphony Youth Orchestra. She quickly excelled and was accepted into the youth program at San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying cello. Elizabeth became a member of the Ukiah Symphony at age 12 and while in high school, joined the Santa Rosa Youth Symphony and became the principal cellist with the Rio Lindo Adventist Academy Orchestra where

She was featured in the Ukiah Seventh-Day Adventist Church Christmas Cantata as Mary. Patricia graduated from Walla Walla University with a degree in business administration and a minor in music with an emphasis in violin performance. She and her husband, Caleb currently live in Walla Walla, Washington where Patricia is a member of the Walla Walla Symphony and is employed as an investment associate at Baker Boyer Bank.

where she performed at Carnegie Hall and other major performing venues. She returned to Pacific Union College and received her associate degrees in nursing and music with an emphasis in violin performance. She later completed her bachelor’s in nursing from Loma Linda University and a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from Bastyr University in Washington. She currently lives in Lodi with her husband, Daniel Vierra and is employed by Adventist Health, Lodi Memorial Hospital as a dietician. Jessica also likes to sing and play the piano.

she won the annual talent show. She was recently featured in the 25th annual Ukiah Seventh-Day Adventist Church Christmas Cantata singing the part of Mary. Elizabeth graduated from Walla Walla University with a music cello performance major. She has been a member of Laudat, an acapella women’s group in Loma Linda. Elizabeth just completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University graduating in June of 2017. She and her husband, Benji, make their home in Ukiah and is employed by Adventist Health Ukiah Valley as a physical therapist.

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SPONSORS: Robert Axt, Rich & Jean Craig, Savings Bank of Mendocino County, Jaye Alison Moscariello & Bill Taylor

Landon Gray - Landon has pursued a diverse freelance career with the trumpet. As an orchestral musician, he has performed iconic works including Bach’s Magnificat and B minor mass, as well as other

Concerto for 2 Horns and Strings RV 538Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)Allegro – Larghetto – Allegro

Piano Concerto in f minorJoseph C. Nemeth1. Andante2. Andante – Andantino 3. Allegro

Trumpet Concerto in A-flat Major 1950Alexander Arutiunian (1920-2012)

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In the Hall of the Mountain KingEdvard Grieg (1843-1875)Danse MacabreCamille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Ride of the ValkyriesRichard Wagner (1813-1883)

Night on Bald MountainModest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

works with both Ukiah Symphony and the New York Summer Music Festival Orchestra. As an orchestral musician Landon has toured South America visiting major cities across Uruguay and Argentina.

Landon can also be seen performing in the commercial context within pit orchestras around the Bay Area. He has played with both the North Bay Theater Company and the Summer Repertory Theater. Some of the works he has performed with these companies include: West Side Story, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, and Cabaret.

While attending the University of North Texas, Landon continued to perform in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. As in improviser Landon performed weekly at the Scat Jazz Lounge in Fort Worth. An active chamber musician, he frequently performed classical repertoire and jazz arrangements with the group Braz Quintet. Some main teachers and mentors include Adam Gordon, Jan Kagarice, John Holt, and Keith Karns.

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Elizabeth MacDougallElizabeth MacDougall is an active local performer and a pianist for the Ukiah Symphony orchestra, where she has been a featured soloist for many season concerts and benefit events. She teaches piano courses at Mendocino College and privately in her Ukiah studio. Elizabeth has performed for many years to sold-out audiences for the annual Professional Pianist Concert.

She received her bachelor’s degree in music in piano performance from the University of the Pacific and her Master of Music degree at Northwestern University. Elizabeth also earned her California Teaching Credential with a single subject in music through Dominican University. She continues her classical piano studies with master teachers.

Her performances include piano concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. Elizabeth also enjoys playing duets with fellow pianist, Elena Casanova, such as Mozart’s Concerto No.10 in Eb major and the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens.

John LounsberyMr. Lounsbery is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. He is a member of several North Bay ensembles including the Sonoma County Philharmonic, the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Redwoods in Ft. Bragg. He is the adjunct horn instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College. Mr. Lounsbery was also member of the Milwaukee Symphony for 35 years and principal horn player for the New Haven Symphony.

Randy MasselinkSince his Michigan college days in the early 70’s Randy Masselink has been an active horn player and school music teacher. After several years teaching and performing in southwest Michigan and Chicago, he moved to Europe in 1981 where he played in various professional orchestras in Italy and Switzerland, and where he also met his wife, Donatella. In 1997 they moved with their two sons to Healdsburg where he taught music in the junior and senior high schools until 2015 and has continued to be actively involved as a performer and director in many area musical organizations.

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SPONSORS: Dr. Larry Falk & Dr. Margaret Arner, Dr. Andrew I. Corbett DDS, MS, Inc.,Pacific Redwood Medical Group

Piano Concerto in d minor, Op. 15Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)1. Maestoso2. Adagio3. Rondo: Allegro non troppo

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Symphony No. 1 “Spring” in B-flat Major, Op. 38Robert Schumann (1810-1856)1. Andante; Allegro molto vivace2. Larghetto3. Scherzo: Molto vivace4. Allegro animato

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FRANK WIENS

Frank Wiens is a concert pianist who makes his home in Stockton, California. He has toured the United States annually in recital and with orchestra since 1974.

Mr. Wiens gave his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1984. His London recital debut took place in May of 1986. He made his European continental debut in Vienna, Austria in May of 1987 at the Brahmssaal of the Musikverein. Other international performances have included a concert tour of the Soviet Union, two such tours of South Korea, and engagements in Romania and Poland.

Frank Wiens won first prize in the North American Young Artists Competition and the Southwest Pianists Foundation Competition. He has performed as soloist with the Atlanta, Denver and Detroit Symphonies, and has been a touring artist with the Iowa Arts Council and the California Arts Council.

In the 1990-91 season Mr. Wiens returned to New York with an all-Prokofieff recital in celebration of the 100th anniversary of that composer’s birth. Mr. Wiens was invited to tour the Soviet Union in April of 1991 in numerous solo and orchestral engagements as part of the celebrations of the centennial in the composer’s native land. In addition he was featured in a lecture-recital on the Prokofieff piano sonatas at the national convention of the Music Teachers National Association in Miami. He closed the season with this lecture-recital at the Gina Bachauer International Competition and Festival in Salt Lake City, where he served as a member of the international jury for the competition.

In the fall of 1994 Mr. Wiens travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia, to record a compact disc including the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with the

Slovakia National Orchestra and the Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 1. The CD was released internationally in 1995 on the Fanfare-Intersound label.

Late in 2006, Frank Wiens appeared as soloist with the Orchestra “Dinu Lipatti” in Romania, and gave a pair of recitals devoted to the music of Chopin at the Chopin Academy and at the Lazienki Palace on Water in Warsaw, Poland.

A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Frank Wiens received his bachelor’s

and master’s degrees in music from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Stanley Medal, that school’s highest award for musical excellence. He has taught at Drake University and, since 1976, at the University of the Pacific, where he holds the position of Professor of Piano.

In 1997 he was honored with the University of the Pacific’s Distinguished Faculty Award, and in 2000 with the university’s Faculty Research-Lecturer Award. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Stockton Arts Commission’s award for Outstanding Achievement in Music.

His performance with the Ukiah Symphony in May of 2018 will be his third appearance as soloist with that orchestra. He has performed the Brahms D Minor Concerto in the past with the Atlanta and Stockton Symphonies.

Mr. Wiens lives in Stockton with his wife, mezzo-soprano Lynelle Frankforter Wiens. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf and trying his hand at gourmet cooking.

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Beasta reimagined fairytaleOctober 5th - October 29th

November 24th - December 17tha little Princess

February 8th - March 4th1984

April 12th - May 6th guys & Dolls

June 14th - July 8thAVENUE Q

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OUR 41ST SEASONUkiah Players Theatre proudly presents

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Celebrating 11 years in business!

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DONOR LEVELSConductor $1,000 or moreConcertmaster $400 - $999Principal Chair $200 - $399Section Player Up to $199

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