a season l ike no other!

Innovation Excitement &

113th Season of Excellence

Welcome f rom the Music Director

Alexander Platt

Dear Friends Old and New:

Today I have the rarest of experiences in life: to come back to La Crosse, a city I came to know and love fifteen years ago as an auditioning conductor, and now “press the rewind button” and finally make the dream of being your Music Director a reality. The warmth and hospitality that I have already received from so many people in this

wonderful community moves me beyond words.

But then of course, as the saying goes, “Where Words end, Music begins”, and so it shall be with this 2010-11 season of the LSO, our maiden voyage together. For while I cannot wait to begin celebrating, through music, the great traditions of

the many peoples who, through the centuries, have passed through this beautiful Coulee Region, this coming season will simply celebrate music itself, in all its forms and majesty. From a “Down-home Christmas”

to greatest hits of the Broadway stage to several towering masterpieces of the symphonic genre, there truly will be something for everyone in this 2010-11 season of the La Crosse

Symphony Orchestra. I look forward to getting to know you all, and to begin our years of musical celebration and exploration together.

Warmest wishes,

Biography

Alexander Platt is honored to be the thirteenth Music Director of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Educated at Yale University and as a Marshall Scholar at King’s College Cambridge, and as a conducting fellow at both the Apsen Music Festival and at Tanglewood (the legendary summer school of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Alexander came to the Midwest nearly 20 years ago: following his work conducting all the leading music ensembles at Cambridge University, he moved to Minneapolis in 1991 to spend two years as apprentice conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the University of Minnesota School of Music. At Yale, he graduated winning the College’s major music prizes; at Cambridge, his main project was his reconstruction of the lost 1920 Chamber Version of the Mahler Fourth Symphony, which has gone on to be a classic of the repertoire.

Along with 12 extremely successful years as Music Director of the Racine Symphony Orchestra, which he built into an artistically and financially thriving institution, Alexander is now in his fifteenth year as Music Director of the Marion Indiana Philharmonic, and in his fourteenth year as Music Director of the Waukesha Symphony, which has now built on its six decades of excellence to transform itself into the Wisconsin Philharmonic.

He has also guest-conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Freiburg Philharmonic in Germany and for three years the Aalborg Symphony in Denmark, along with the Houston, Charlotte, Columbus, Indianapolis, and El Paso Symphonies. He made his New York debut with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, before thousands in Central Park, and has since returned to work with them twice. He has recorded for National Public Radio, the South-West German Radio, and the BBC, and his 2004 recording of Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the eminent violinist Rachel Barton Pine is still heard frequently on radio stations across America. He spends his summers as music director of the Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, New York, the oldest summer chamber-music festival in the nation.

Welcome Reception & Chamber Concert

October 2 1

Antonin Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Op.44

Conductor Alexander Platt

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra

Come join us at La Crosse’s Cargill Ballroom in Riverfront Center as we welcome Alexander Platt as our new Maestro. Following hors d’ oeuvres, Alexander will donate his musical artistry to lead a La Crosse Symphony Orchestra chamber ensemble in Antonin Dvorak’s jubilant masterpiece.

This special reception is for single tickets only and is not part of the subscription series. Tickets are $40 per person and include hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.

Photo Credit: Scott Bjorge

The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra takes a worldwide tour through one of music’s favorite genres, that of the rhapsody -- with the help of the “technical wizardry”(The New York Times) of the dashing young Spanish clarinet phenomenon Jose Franch-Ballester From Aaron Copland’s jazzy, rhapsodic Clarinet Concerto, to the haunting beauty of the English countryside, to barn-burners of Enesco and Liszt (in celebration of his upcoming bicentennial). You’ll be dazzled by this evening of musical fire and virtuosity.

Guest Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, Clarinet

“Rhapsody!”Georges Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody No.1

Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No.1

Aaron Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Claude Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.6, “The Carnival at Pest”

November 20

December 17 & 18“Christmas, American Style” is our theme for this year’s Holiday program, featuring

the return of the Grand River Singers show choir, and some gems of American popular Christmastime music, courtesy of our new, eclectic Maestro.....from

Vegas to Harlem to the Boston Pops to Hollywood, this will truly be a Holiday program not to be missed!!

Various, arr. Custer: It’s Christmastime

Mel Torme, arr. Chase: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Various, arr. Deane Kincaide: Winter FantasyIntermission

arr. Finnegan: Christmas Sing-Along

Tchaikovsky, arr. Duke Ellington and Jeff Tyzik: The Nutcracker Suite

Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

Guest Artists’: The Grand River Singers

“A Holiday Homecoming”

“Song and Dance”

Guest Artist Linda Balgord

Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances

Greatest Hits from GYPSY, FUNNY GIRL, PAL JOEY, KISS ME KATE, MY FAIR LADY, SUNSET BOULEVARD and CATS

Intermission

Rodgers and Hart: “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from WEST SIDE STORY

La Crosse’s own Broadway star, Linda Balgord, comes back to her alma mater, Viterbo University, in a fabulous program of music-theatre hits, from Richard Rodgers to the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber.....in this wonderful evening of “crossover” programming, we’ll contrast The Great American Songbook with two deservedly popular sets of Symphonic Dances: one being Edvard Grieg’s tribute to Norwegian folksong, the other Leonard Bernstein’s whirlwind tour through what many consider to be the greatest musical of all time.

February 5

GivingPhoto Credit: Scott Bjorge

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra

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Kent Handel, President & CEO

Trust Point Inc. has been a proud sponsor of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra for eleven years. It is our distinct pleasure to partner with the Symphony in uplifting and enriching the culture of the Three Rivers Region. At the start of this new season of innovation for the organization, I am especially proud of the selection of Maestro Alexander Platt, who will assuredly bring a new standard of excellence to the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra.

Join us for what has become one of the Coulee Region’s most popular cultural events, a celebration of the amazing talent our area’s finest young musicians in selections from the most beloved classical concertos.....and two amazing

symphonies by the great “boy wonders” of music history, Mozart and Mendelssohn, serve as bookends to a scintillating evening.

Rising Stars Concert: “Boy Wonders”W.A. Mozart: Symphony No.25, “Little G Minor”

Rising Stars Concerto Competition WinnerIntermission

Rising Stars Concerto Competition Winner

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A, “Italian”

March 12

“Music, Magic, Mime!”Conductor Wannabe Piece

Franz von Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture

Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Intermission

Dmitri Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 5

Excitement! Innovation! Seattle’s now-legendary Magic Circle Mime Company makes its overdue LSO debut, in their fresh, bold, original interpretation of Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf. Another masterpiece of musical imagery, Dmitri Shostakovitch’s monumental Fifth Symphony -- a ringing voice of freedom from the depths of Stalinist Russia -- concludes this fantastic concert.

Magic Circle Mime CompanyPhoto Credit: David WatanabeApril 15 & 16

June 11

All-Orchestral Program: “Stunning Symphonies”

Daron Hagen: Advance, Fanfare for Orchestra

Franz Schubert: Symphony No.4, “Tragic”

Intermission

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4

What a grand finale! The LSO proudly presents two towering symphonies of Schubert and

Tchaikovsky -- and we’ll begin with a bracing new fanfare by Daron Hagen, in celebration of this great Wisconsin composer’s 50th

birthday. This unforgettable evening of Coulee musical history closes out a truly spectacular season.

Photo Credit: Scott Bjorge

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Special Events at the LSO

The AnnualRising staRs ConCeRto C o m p e t i t i o n

The Valentine Ball (Feb. 12, 2011)

LSO Show House (Spring 2011)

The Pops Concert (June 2011)

Other events to watch for on our website:January 15, 2011piano & oRChestRal instRuments

All high school students 14-18 years of age are eligible to compete for cash prizes. One pianist and

one instrumentalist will be selected to perform at the regular season concert in March each year.

Application, repertoire list, competition rules & entry deadline are available at:

www.lacrossesymphony.orgFor more information, contact:Rita Schuman at tschoo@centurytel.netJanet Roth at theroths07@msn.com

Announcing...

Thank you to our valued La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Sponsors!

Dr. Michael and Carolyn White

David P. Ludington, DDS

of La Crosse

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John W. Moore, DDS, S.C.Kerrie A. Moore, DDS

The Marie Lokken Family Memorial

Mr. Richard Record