2023 Holiday Pops

HOL I DAY POPS! 2023 -2024

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HOLIDAY POPS! December 15, 2023 | 7:30pM Maryland Hall José-Luis Novo, Artistic Director & Conductor The Philip Richebourg Chair Gilbert Pryor, trumpet & narrator

The Skaters’ Waltz

Émile Waldteufel

March of the Toys from Babes in Toyland

Victor Herbert arr. O. Langey

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Ralph Vaughan Williams

King of the Magi from The Three Black Kings Polonaise, Daybreak, and Procession from Christmas Eve

Duke Ellington

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

~ INTERMISSION ~ Hanukkah Festival Overture

Lucas Richman

A Trumpeter’s Lullaby

Leroy Anderson arr. P. Lang

Gilbert Pryor, trumpet Christmas Song

Mel Tormé/Robert Wells arr. R. Lowden

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Gilbert Pryor, narrator Music from Frozen

Bill Holcombe

Kristen Anderson-Lopez/ Robert Lopez arr. B. Krogstad

From The Nutcracker: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky March, Chinese Dance, Dance of the Reeds, Russian Dance (Trepak) Photography and video/audio recording are not permitted in the concert hall. Please silence all electronic devices. Thank you.

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M USI C IAN ROSTER VIOLIN I

CELLO

TRUMPET

Nicholas Currie, Acting Concertmaster

Todd Thiel, Principal Pei Lu, Associate Principal April Studeny Daniel Shomper Nicole Boguslaw Alison Bazala Kim

Christopher Sala, Principal Christopher Buchanan Andrew Fremder

Heather Haughn, Acting Associate Concertmaster Rachael Stockton, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Susan Benac Justin Gopal Sara Schneider Angela YuTing Chew Amelia Giles Paula Sweterlitsch

BASS Patrick Raynard, Principal Broc Mertz, Acting Associate Principal Peter Cohn Adriane Irving

TROMBONE David Sciannella, Acting Principal Katie Thigpen Jay Heltzer

TUBA Andrew Dougherty, Acting Principal

Essena Setaro

FLUTE

TIMPANI

VIOLIN II

Kimberly Valerio, Principal Genevieve Eichman Lori Kesner

Jeffrey DeRoche, Acting Principal

OBOE

Robert Jenkins, Acting Principal Gregory Herron Thomas Maloy Gerald Novak

Christian Tremblay, Principal Kristin Bakkegard, Associate Principal Sally Stallings Amass Alexandra Mikhlin

Fatma Daglar, Principal Joseph DeLuccio

PERCUSSION

Karin Kelleher

CLARINET

Natalia Merezhuk

Robert DiLutis, Principal Brian Eldridge Sara Reese

HARP

BASSOON

PIANO

Asha Kline, Principal Randy Fultz

Yimeng Xu, Acting Principal

Haerin Jee Glen Kuenzi

VIOLA Kate Zahradnik, Acting Principal Rachel Holaday, Acting Associate Principal Louise Elder Chestnut Heidi Remick Christof Huebner Liz O’Hara

Maryanne Meyer, Acting Principal

HORN Alex Kovling, Principal Shane Iler, Associate Principal Markus Osterlund Anthony Valerio Kenneth Bell

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AR I ES YOUTH C HAM B ER O RC H ESTR A

December 15, 2023 | 7:30pM Maryland Hall Heather Haughn, Director

Battle

Soon Hee Newbold Alexa Velasquez, violin

Hanukkah Habanera (Featuring Habanera, Hanukkah O Hanukkah and The Dreidel Song) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)

arr. Tim McCarrick

Music and Lyrics by Mel Rome and Robert Wells Paul Jennings

M USI C IAN ROSTER VIOLINS Bailey Chestnut-Sampson Ella Choe Calvin Curtis Jasmyne Escobar Sarah Hawks

Divyajot Jha Nadya Jones Karma Lobsang Aubrey Marino Martín Novo

Aaron Nurser Isaac Shoemaker Miles Toney Alexa Velasquez

VIOLA

CELLO

BASS

Elizabeth Neumann

Matthew Lindquist Briant Patterson Nikoli Papa Anabel Washington Freyja Raines Nicollette Baldridge

Emily Sidebottom

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Rhys Thomas, The Harbour School of Annapolis Snow Miser/Heat Miser Hayven Applefield, Kent Island High School Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Adam Brooks, Ignite Learning Academy The Christmas Song Sarah Cannon, Stevensville Middle School Winter Wonderland

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ARTISTI C D I R EC TO R & CO N DUC TO R

JOSÉ-LUIS

NOVO THE PHILIP RICHEBOURG CHAIR

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panish-born José-Luis Novo has instilled a new and vibrant artistic vision into the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra since his appointment as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Maryland-based symphony in 2005. Highlights of Novo’s tenure include numerous appearances at the Music Center at Strathmore with violinists James Ehnes, Anne Akiko Meyers, Leticia Moreno, and Chee-Yun, pianist Olga Kern, late cellist Lynn Harrell, guitarist Manuel Barrueco,

pipa virtuoso Wu Man, and the Naval Academy Glee Club. Also remarkable are a 2012 return appearance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, national broadcasts on NPR’s Performance Today, debut TV broadcasts on Washington’s WETA Metro PBS, the launching of the ASO’s award-winning streaming platform Symphony+, the creation of the Annapolis Symphony Academy, and the ASO’s first commercial CD commemorating the 300th anniversary

The Artistic Director’s Chair is graciously underwritten by Elizabeth Richebourg Rea, daughter of Philip Richebourg, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Co-Founder and First Board President (1967-1974).

“My father conducted every day of his life as if resolute in achieving perfect harmony. I can think of no greater legacy than naming the Artistic Director’s Chair after my father, Philip Richebourg.”

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of the signing of the City of Annapolis’ Royal Charter. In July of 2022, Maestro Novo and the ASO stunned audiences on both sides of the Atlantic in a debut international tour to Spain with guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero as guest soloist.

Maestro Novo’s continuous drive for artistic excellence, innovative thematic programming, and collaborations with some of today’s most respected guest artists keeps generating unprecedented artistic growth and enthusiastic reviews from publications such as The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun. In addition to his directorship of the ASO, Maestro Novo held an impressive thirteen-year tenure as Music Director and Conductor of the Binghamton Philharmonic in New York state from 2003 to 2016. Prior to this, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under both late Music Director Emeritus Jesús LópezCobos and former Music Director Paavo Järvi, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the late Erich Kunzel.

Recent and upcoming guest conducting engagements include debut appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Grand Rapids, Hilton Head, Palm Beach, Alexandria, and South Bend Symphony Orchestras, and return appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, the Fresno Philharmonic, Symphoria, and a Kimmel Center debut in Philadelphia conducting the Curtis Institute Orchestra. After a successful debut with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) for the Thailand International Composition Festival in 2015, Maestro Novo has been invited back regularly to guest conduct the TPO on several occasions. Other guest conducting engagements have included appearances with the Symphony Silicon Valley; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Syracuse, Modesto, Windsor, Stamford, Tulsa, and Tallahassee Symphonies; the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra; the Cleveland and Abilene Philharmonics; and most of the major Spanish orchestras.

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CONDUCTOR continued José-Luis Novo has also fostered a reputation as a keen educator of young musicians. He has held conducting positions with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Miami University Symphony Orchestra, and National Repertory Orchestra, and has been on the conducting faculty at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina since 1999. In addition, he has conducted many noteworthy college and youth orchestras such as the Curtis Institute Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, and the Portuguesa State Youth Orchestra of the Venezuelan El Sistema. Under the auspices of the Annapolis Symphony Academy, he presided over the debut of

its Orion Youth Orchestra, conducting the inaugural concert in June 2022.

Maestro Novo was featured in the League of American Orchestras Symphony magazine in “Podium Powers,” an article about emerging Hispanic conductors in the United States of America. He holds music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Yale University, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and is the recipient of a 2010 Annie Award in Performing Arts from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, a 2008 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Adventurous Programming Award, and a 2005 Broome County Arts Council Heart of the Arts Award.

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