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All American
22nd SeasonWINTER CONCERT
Friday, January 13, 20177:00 pm
TORU TAGAWAConductor
Photo by Pauline Fredericks Photography
Welcome fellow classical music lovers!
On behalf of the Sierra Vista symphony Association’s board of Directors, thank you for joining us for tonight’s exciting “All American” Winter Concert. We are truly excited about tonight’s program featuring works by Copland, Williams, Bock, Bernstein conducted by Artistic Director Toru Tagawa. And we are honored to offer the “Washington Post March” by Sousa featuring a special Guest Conductor – Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels!
As has become tradition, in addition to our Winter Concert, we also provide a free Student Concert to fifth grade students attending schools in Cochise County and Fort Huachuca.
The Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra is committed to student education; and you too can help expose the youth of this community to the performing arts by inviting them along to the regular concerts.
A quick reminder of our events coming up: Men Who Cook, one of our principal fundraisers, will be held at the Columbian Hall (formerly the Knights of Columbus Hall) on Saturday, March 4th; and the next day, Sunday, March 5th, here in the Buena Performing Arts Center, we will be presenting a very exciting Neil Diamond Tribute concert featuring Branson, MO, performing artist, Keith Allynn. Additionally, plan to attend our final concert of the season on Saturday, April 22nd with a program titled “Inspiration.”
Finally, I want to thank all of YOU for coming this evening and for all the support you give to this orchestra. The Association genuinely appreciates your commitment to our ongoing mission: To provide the highest quality live symphonic music to Sierra Vista and surrounding communities. Our musicians can only play because of your support with memberships, advertising, sponsorships, attendance, and contributions. Your continued involvement with this orchestra helps to ensure that the Sierra Vista Symphony will continue to thrill local audiences well into the future!
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Larry HamptonPresidentSierra Vista Symphony Association
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From the President
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Toru Tagawa, ConductorToru Tagawa, from Hiroshima, Japan, started playing the violin at age 6, and joined the Kurashiki Junior Philharmonic Orchestra at age 9. He received his Violin Performance degrees from the University of Tulsa (BM) and the Florida State University (MM), and a Music Education degree (MME) from the University of Arizona. His main Violin teachers include Steven Moeckel, Gary Kosloski, Eliot Chapo, Derry Deane, and Mikio Ejima.
Toru has been the Music Director and Conductor of the Tucson Repertory Orchestra (TRO) since 2011. In 2015, TRO toured Japan and performed
in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures. He also has been the orchestra director of the Canyon del Oro High School since 2008, under his direction, the orchestra received many Superior with Distinction ratings at ABODA Festival, and the orchestra is performing at Carnegie Hall on March 20, 2017 in the Isaac Stern Auditorium.
His conducting teachers include Thomas Cockrell, Charles Bontrager, Jung-Ho Pak, Maurice Peress, and Sandra Dackow. Toru was one of the co-founders/conductors of the Interlochen Repertory Orchestra in 2007 under Jung-Ho Pak’s guidance. He has participated in conducting workshops at the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College, Conducting Symposiums in Boston with Benjamin Zander and in Chicago with Cliff Colonot, and Toru is a member of the Conductors Guild. He was one of the finalists in the American Prize 2014 as a conductor in community orchestra division.
As active violinist, Toru plays with the Tucson Symphony, Tucson Pops, Arizona Opera Orchestras, and has played with National Repertory (CO), Shreveport (LA), Arkansas, Tallahassee (FL), AIMS (Austria), Hiroshima (Japan), and Vancouver (Canada) Symphony Orchestras. Toru is the President-Elect for the American String Teachers Association of Arizona, and he is the new Artistic Director of the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra starting in the 2016-2017 season. Website: toru tagawa.com
Photo by Pauline Fredericks Photography
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Sheriff Mark J. DannelsGuest Conductor
On November 6th, 2012, Mark J. Dannels was elected by the citizens of Cochise County to serve as their 26th Sheriff.
Sheriff Mark J. Dannels is a 31 year veteran of law enforcement. He holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Management from Aspen University and is a Certified Public Manager from Arizona State University. He has over 3000 hours of law enforcement training in his portfolio. He attended Disney’s Leadership and Executive Training programs and is a graduate of the Rural Executive Management Institute. He began his law enforcement career in 1984 after serving a successful tour in the United States Army. He progressed through the ranks with the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office to the position of Deputy Commander after working numerous specialty assignments and leadership roles to include an appointment by the Governor for his efforts directed toward highway and community safety.
Sheriff Dannels is a long time member of the Fraternal Order of Police, current member of the National Sheriffs Association, Southwest Border Sheriffs, Western Sheriffs Association, Arizona Sheriffs Association, Arizona Homeland Security-South Regional Advisory Council, Arizona POST Board, Arizona Sexual Assault Task Force, Past Chair-Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats, Border Security Advisory Council, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Cochise Family Advocacy Center, 88-Cime and serves on several community service groups; San Pedro Kiwanis, Just Kids Inc., CASA, Sierra Vista Elks, the Boys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista, the varsity wrestling coach at Buena High School, and instructs at Wayland Baptist University. Sheriff Dannels participates in many community outreach programs such as Project Graduation, Sizzle, Stocking Stuffers, Community Haunted House, Men who Cook, Boys & Girls Club Kars for Kids, and Shop with a Cop.
Sheriff Dannels has been recognized and received the Medal of Valor, Sheriff’s Medal, Deputy of the Year, Distinguished Service Award, Unit Citation Award, National Police Hall of Fame, Lifesaving Award and dozens of community-service awards from service groups and governmental organizations.
Sheriff Dannels is married to Nickie, who is a Registered Nurse. They have three sons, Justin, a police officer with the City of Sierra Vista, Ryan who works as a firefighter with the Sierra Vista Fire Department, and Corey, a college student.
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2016 - 2017 SVSA MembershipWe are grateful for the generosity and support of the following community leaders. Their contributions make it possible for the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra to perform in our community. Each concert’s expenses exceed that of ticket sales, thus the contributions of these music lovers provide for the benefit of the whole community.
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MAESTRO$10,000.00 or more
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Board of DirectorsSierra Vista Symphony Association
Larry Hampton, PresidentVice President
William Howard, TreasurerBarbara Cayer, Secretary
Zanetta BoughanSteve ConroyKevin EnrightPam Enright
Renae HumburgDebra L Koltveit
Kathy MarvinBobbie MooreMary Mueller
Cristina ReinertBarry Smith
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Barbara Arsenault, Office ManagerPam Collins, Bookkeeper
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The Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestraproudly presents its 22nd Season
WINTER CONCERTPROGRAMJanuary 13, 2017
All AmericanToru Tagawa, Conductor
Aaron CoplandFanfare for the Common Man (1942)
John WilliamsThe Cowboys Overture (1980)
Jerry BockFiddler on the Roof (1964)
“If I Were a Rich Man” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”
“To Life” “Tradition”
John WilliamsStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
“Star Wars (Main-Title Theme)” “Anakin’s Theme”
“Jar Jar’s Introduction”
“Augie’s Great Municipal Band” “Duel of the Fates” End Credit Theme
~ Intermission ~
“Sunrise, Sunset” “Wedding Dance”
“The Prologue”“Somewhere”
“Dream Scene”
“Mambo”“Cha-Cha”
“Meeting Scene”(including the “Maria” theme)
“Cool” “Rumble” “Finale”
John Philip SousaWashington Post March (1889)
Sheriff Mark Dannels, Guest Conductor
Leonard BernsteinWest Side Story: Symphonic Dances (1961)
LIMELIGHT PRODUCTIONS, INC.presents the Symphony’s Cookies and Punch tradition
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~ Program Notes ~
Maestro Toru Tagawa’s “All-American” theme for tonight’s concert includes pieces from Aaron Copland, John Williams, Jerry Bock, John Philip Sousa, and Leonard Bernstein. It is a kaleidoscopic fare that unfolds and frees all the colors of the American experience and imagination.
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Aaron Copland(1900, Brooklyn, NY – 1990, North Tarrytown, NY) Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
Born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family, Copland did not receive a formal music education until he went to Paris at 21 years of age as one of the first American students of the legendary Parisian piano teacher Nadia Boulanger. In 1938 he became instantly famous with the score he wrote for the ballet Billy the Kid which was perceived as a different type of music, later to be recognized as the quintessentially-American Aaron Copland sound. More than merely “a new sound,” as he often explained, his works were a sort of compendium of many influences that he would simply transform into completely new works that would be unequivocally all his own.
Commissioned by Eugene Goossens, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Fanfare for the Common Man was to be one of ten works meant to honor various entities engaged in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. Some of the other ten works were Fanfare de la Liberté by Darius Milhaud, A Fanfare for Russia by Deems Taylor, and Fanfare for the Signal Corps by Howard Hanson. Undecided about the title of his work, Copland first thought of calling it Fanfare for the Spirit of Democracy, then Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony, and also Fanfare for the Day of Victory. He finally decided to utilize as inspiration the noble theme of the “common man.” His composition premiered on March 12, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio with Goossens conducting the Cincinnati Symphony. It has remained the most famous and recognizable of all the other commissioned fanfares.
Marked “very deliberately,” the fanfare starts fairly slow with a symbolic call to arms delivered by the percussion family (the timpani, bass drum, gong). After the initial injection of an inspiring sense of pride and assertiveness, it is the brass family (trombones, tubas, horns and trumpets) that delivers the full emotional impact, symbolizing the patriotic spirit of the allied forces during WWII. Conceived as an “occasional” piece, it has remained famous ever since, and has become an indispensable piece in the American repertoire.
Copland was so satisfied with the final result that he included the fanfare’s main theme into the final movement of his Third Symphony of 1946. It has also been re-elaborated in the Omnibus TV series in the 1950s, and other countless venues. It reached the rock scene when it was rearranged by the famous rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
ByCristina Reinert, Ph.D.
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John Williams(1932, New York City, NY – )The Cowboys Overture (1980)
John Williams’s impressive list of Awards include five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 21 Grammies. His first Oscar was for Fiddler on the Roof, in the music adaptation category. His other four Oscars were in the original score category: Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Schindler’s List (1993), for which he custom-composed a violin solo section of the entire score for violinist virtuoso Itzhack Perlman.
Influenced by his father, who was a jazz percussionist and by the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Williams’s musical journey took him to serve as music conductor in the U.S. Air Force Band, and later to teach at The Juilliard School. During these years, he worked as a jazz pianist for many clubs and for the studio of composer Henry Mancini.
Williams scored the 1972 film The Cowboys starring the great John Wayne who was cast in the role of a 60-year-old Montana cattleman. Falling to the lure of the Gold Rush, his regular ranchmen desert him and leave him no choice but to hire ten young boys who will work for him and will learn from him the art of the trade. Immediately, the bright and optimistic music of the score conjures up images of life in the vastness of the Old American West where camaraderie and loneliness live side by side in the beauty of the open range. When Williams became music director of the Boston Pops, he thought of opening his first performance with themes from the film orchestrated into what was missing from the film score, a true Overture, which is now performed as a stand-alone concert piece.
Jerry Bock(1928, New Haven, CT – 2010, Mount Kisco, NY) Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
The huge success of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof was in great part due to the energetic score of Broadway composer Jerry Bock, paired to the lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The musical’s libretto by Joseph Stein based its narrative structure on Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye and his Daughters, a series of tales that portray Jewish life in small villages in the Pale of Settlement, more specifically, in the western Ukraine region of Imperial Russia in 1905.
Unlike the original story’s sad conclusion (where Tevye is left alone, after his wife’s death, and his five daughters have left the village), the musical has a much more uplifting ending: Tevye and his whole family are reunited and are about to set out for a journey that will take them to America. Because of its universal qualities that include identity, tradition, and belonging, Fiddler on the Roof and many of its songs have achieved over time a special place in American culture. The SVSO will be playing “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “Wedding Dance,” “To Life,” and the most memorable “Tradition.”
John Williams adapted the original material from the Broadway musical into the score for the 1971 film version by Norman Jewison. His work exceeded all expectations and won him his first Oscar, for music adaptation.
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John Williams(1932, New York City, NY – )Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
On the matter of music referencing, John Williams admits that he was very much influenced by the symphonic music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the instrumental flare of Also sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem for orchestra by Richard Strauss. He also recognized the influence of the greatest film composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood like Max Steiner, who had brought from Vienna to the Film Studio System the romantic sounds of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. For the Star Wars series, Williams used a grand symphonic score that employed Richard Wagner’s concept of the leitmotif, a musical theme that is associated with a situation or a character and is meant to direct the audience’s emotional responses. In “neoromantic” fashion, he succeeded in combining the romantic, heroic sounds and the soaring melodies of the composers of the classical Hollywood film-scoring style with the tradition of the late 19th century’s large-scale orchestral music.
Following their collaboration on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg introduced Williams to George Lucas. Spielberg thought that Williams, with his attention to the smallest nuances of both music and script, would be the right composer for a symphonically-conceived score that would accompany the mythical characters of the first Star Wars movie (1977). The captivating narrative of the film displayed a blend of the science fiction genre and the old medieval “romance” stories of journeys, sword, and sorcery, where the ancient tale of Everyman took new life in the intergalactic figure of Luke Skywalker, the new common man of the future, caught once again in the struggle between good and evil.
Our program from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, the fourth film in the series, includes the “Star Wars (Main-Title Theme),” “Anakin’s Theme,” “Jar Jar’s Introduction,” “Augie’s Great Municipal Band,” “Duel of the Fates,” and the End Credit Theme. In assigning music to the characters and their adventures, Williams continued to avoid the common practice of recycling pop songs as soundtrack, a cost-effective strategy that often precludes the film composer to achieve the most befitting mood for the film. Instead, he turned to sound-mixing some recycled motifs from the previous films in the series, and further “customized” the sound in a great array of subsidiary motifs. It is this “personalization” of the symphonic score that projects the greatest emotional impact, It helps us “read” and understand the characters, and the overall narrative-sequencing of their epic stories set in unknown galaxies, millions of light-years away from earth.
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John Philip Sousa(1854, Washington, D.C. – 1932, Reading, PA)Washington Post March (1889) Mark Dannels, Guest Conductor
With over 130 marches to his credit, Sousa is easily the most important figure in the history of band music. His strong penchant for organizing musical ensembles emerged when Sousa was only 11, while his musical education continued as a violin student, and later as an apprentice musician with the U.S. Marine Band. He started to compose for band and achieved some success in 1886 with The Gladiator march. Some six years later he had
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formed the Sousa’s Band which toured the U.S. first, then Europe in 1910, and later went around the world during which Sousa himself and his music became a true American wondrous phenomenon. The “King of March” as he was called, Sousa was not only a bandmaster, but also the composer of fifteen operettas.
Commissioned and composed in 1889 by the publishers of The Washington Post newspaper, the march premiered June 15 of that year, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., with Sousa leading the United States Marine Band. Some believe that when he was composing the march Sousa had in mind the Marine Contingent in Washington. But The Washington Post maintained the piece had been commissioned by the paper’s owner for the awards ceremony for a public school essay contest.
While many marches are in simple-double time (2/4 or 4/4) Sousa’s march used a tighter compound-duple meter in 6/8 that made the enticing vivacity and panache of its sound an instant success. It is quite ironic that the march was sold to his publisher for only $35.00!
Leonard Bernstein(1918, Laurence, Mass – 1990, New York, NY)West Side Story: Symphonic Dances (1961)
A pianist, composer, and conductor, Bernstein was one of the most gifted musicians of the 20th century, able to finesse the urban dazzle of so many of his works into a sophisticated societal commentary. His career as a conductor started in 1943 when he was asked to substitute the indisposed conductor of the New York Philharmonic and turned out a triumphant performance. He then became the philharmonic’s principal conductor from 1958 to 1969. Among the uncountable accomplishments of Bernstein’s brilliant career there is a special honor: he was the first American to conduct at the opera house La Scala in Milan, Italy.
In 1949 Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, his choreographer friend, and librettist Arthur Laurents (later to be substituted by the young composer-lyricist, Stephen Sondheim) began toying with the idea of producing an updated musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. They envisioned this tale of impossible love set against all odds in mid-20th-century America. More specifically, they structured the plot within the social tensions of rival social groups in contemporary New York City. The idea was then put aside for some five years and was only revived after a chance encounter of the trio. It was then decided to set the final concept of the story in a very close-knit neighborhood in New York’s Upper West Side, where a Polish-American boy would fall in love with a Puerto Rican girl, and the final title would be West Side Story. The musical premiered in August 1957 at the National Theater in Washington, D.C. where it ran successfully for almost two years.
While writing the musical West Side Story, composed from fall 1955 to the end of summer 1957, Bernstein was already planning to organize some sections into what would become the Symphonic Dances which premiered on February 13, 1961 at Carnegie Hall with Lukas Foss conducting the New York Philharmonic. The nine sections he had in mind were of course the most striking songs from the musical: “The Prologue,” “Somewhere,” “Dream Scene,” “Mambo,” “Cha-Cha,” “Meeting Scene” (includes the famous “Maria” theme), “Cool,” “Rumble,” and the “Finale” Section. It is an anthological work that became an instant hit. Although the musical version was very successful, it was the filmic version that solidified the work’s popularity by winning Oscars in ten of the eleven categories in which it was nominated.
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Violin I Debbie Dinkel, ConcertmasterLisa HeinemeierAmy OsmunMary JamesAlex CardonJennifer SankerSancho ManzanoLaura TagawaJennifer Goff
Violin IISandra Lanz, PrincipalJanine PiekDeborah McCannPamela EnrightWhitney OlsonMarantha StruseJose Moore
ViolaKathryn Asher, PrincipalJanei EvansDaphne MadsonLeslie GrantRachel PortEmily Chao
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CelloHelena Pederson, PrincipalRobert HutsonPaula KleinJean RankinSylvia PayneLynne ConnelyRobert MarshallJoel Schaefer
BassJudy Skroback, PrincipalLisa BrownElizabeth Clawson
FluteMindi Acosta, PrincipalLisa Fiddes Jeneanne Rabon, Piccolo
OboeDevin Gardner, PrincipalAndrew ClarkAmy Shea, English Horn
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Pre-Concert SeminarOur Artistic Director, Toru Tagawa, will host the pre-concert seminar held at 6:00 PM the night of the concert in a Buena Performing Arts Center pod. The free seminar is open to all ticket holders (as long as they are in their seats by 6:00 sharp when the doors close). Often guest artists, members of the orchestra or others contribute to their presentation.
TORU TAGAWAConductor
22nd Season 2016 - 2017The Sierra Vista Symphony Association
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MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES - THE SIERRA VISTA SYMPHONY’S 22ND SEASON
***Reserved Seats are your choice. If you select at this level, contact the Officeto obtain your individual choice of specific seats in the auditorium for all concerts.***
Membership Level RequestedNumber of Tickets per concert (you may request fewer tickets than full member benefit)Additional Contribution to Endowment Fund: $Support Tickets for Students or Soldiers at $20 each: $Sponsor a Musician for one rehearsal $70 or one concert $350: $Contribution to the Children’s Concert: $
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Category Membership Member Benefit Amounts Seating location & number of tickets per concert
Maestro $ 10,000.00 & up Reserved Seats (8 tickets)Concertmaster $ 5,000.00 to $ 9,999.00 Reserved Seats (7 tickets)President’s Circle $ 2,500.00 to $ 4,999.00 Reserved Seats (6 tickets)First Chair Club $ 1,500.00 to $ 2,499.00 Reserved Seats (5 tickets)Symphony $ 1,000.00 to $ 1,499.00 Reserved Seats (4 tickets)Concerto Member $ 800.00 to $ 999.00 Reserved Seats (3 tickets)Rhapsody Member $ 500.00 to $ 799.00 Reserved Seats (2 tickets)Toccata Member $ 300.00 to $ 499.00 General Seating (2 tickets)Concertina Member $ 150.00 to $ 299.00 General Seating (1 ticket)General $ 75.00 to $ 149.00 Invitation to the Annual Meeting
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Youth ConcertJanuary 13, 2017 10am
This season, the Sierra Vista Symphony will present one Youth Concert for Cochise County fifth grade students.
It doesn’t take long for students to respond to what they have heard and experienced. Children from the Huachuca Mountain Elementary School wrote: “My favorite part was the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’ I felt
Janira ArbaltoNaco Elementary School
like I was watching one of those action scenes where they play music but I wasn’t actually watching but it felt like it.” “I like music. It’s like dreaming, except it’s not. First I was in the ocean with the water in my face. I was Tristan the Pirate! Then I was at the games! I was a marathoner. I was the brass team captain. I won first prize for the one mile dash.”
A child from Naco Elementary School wrote: “You inspired me when you said, ‘The music is for us. The music is for everyone.’ You also inspired me to play one of the orchestra instruments. Thank you again for inviting us!” The Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra is committed to student education. Invite and bring young people to the evening concert. Bless them with great music. The Education Committee
EndowmentFund
Your charitable contributions to the Sierra Vista Symphony Endowment Fund will provide for financial stability of the orchestra both now and in the future.
With proper estate planning, your planned gift to the SymphonyEndowment Fund can also afford you many financial benefits as well. Contact
your Financial Advisor to find out more information on creating planned giving through the Sierra Vista Symphony Endowment Fund.
For more information on ways that you can support theSymphony Endowment Fund and participate in the Symphony’s future,
contact us at (520) 458-5189.
2016-2017 Season Contributorsto the Sierra Vista Symphony Endowment Fund
John & Hannelore Cannon • Richard & Nancy Gray • George & Dotti PohlmanPhyllis “Sue” Sword • Barbara Jordan • Gene & Helen Manring
Bill Howard & Katherine Zellerbach
ENDOWMENT COMMITTEEWilliam Howard - George Kirmse - Ron McCreery - Ken Symmes
March 5, 2017
3:00 pm
Tickets: $30
Buena PerformingArts Center
5225 Buena School BlvdSierra Vista
Tickets on sale at Safeway, Dillard’s and the Sierra Vista
Chamber of Commerce
All proceeds benefit theSierra Vista Symphony Orchestra.
Colombian HallTickets will go on sale in February
230 tickets only, available at ACE Hardware, Dillard’s,Safeway, and Sierra Vista Chamber of Commerce
Presented by the Sierra Vista Symphony Association
Featuring at least 20 celebrity chefs from the community, preparing their favorite culinary delights. Don’t miss the great food and all the fun!
For more information, contact the Symphony officeat 520-458-5189 or www.sierravistasymphony.org,
email at [email protected]
All proceeds to benefit the Sierra Vista SymphonyA 501 (c)(3) organization EIN 86-0768498
Saturday, March 4, 20176 to 8 PM
Celebrates its 10th Anniversary!
