A Salute To Our Troops and Symphony at the Movies: Back To The Future | Program Notes

COMMUNITY • 2015-2016 A SALUTE TO OUR TROOPS COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDRES LOPERA, conductor MAJOR GENERAL STEVEN P. BEST, host MELANIE STARKMAN (SERGEANT, USMC), narrator Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

KEY Star-Spangled Banner

JOHN WILLIAMS Liberty Fanfare GOULD

American Salute

COPLAND

Fanfare for the Common Man

COPLAND

Lincoln Portrait

ANDERSON

Phantom Regiment

Arr. LOWDEN

Armed Forces Salute

SOUSA

The Thunderer

SOUSA

Stars and Stripes Forever A special thanks to the Valkyrie Cadet Squadron.

Colorado Wing, Civil Air Patrol

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MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES ANDRES LOPERA, conductor Colombian Conductor Andres Lopera is one of the leading Latin-American artists in the United States with nearly a decade of engagements in both North and South America. A passionate conductor who believes in the transformational power of music, Lopera has directed the Oregon Symphony, Toledo Symphony, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra just in the past three seasons. He has also appeared with professional and youth orchestras throughout Central and South America, including Honduras, where he led the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in a musical camp for both young and professional musicians. In 2012, Lopera was appointed as Music Director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, for which he oversaw 12 different orchestral ensembles with more than 450 students. Also an accomplished trombonist, Lopera’s musical development started with the Red de Bandas de Antioquia and Red de Escuelas de Musica de Medellin, both El Sistema like programs developed in Colombia. Lopera earned a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from New England Conservatory of Music and in Trombone Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to these programs, he was awarded a double degree in Conducting and Trombone from the Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia. His principal teachers are Hugh Wolff and David Loebel, with additional studies with Ludovic Morlot, Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop.

MAJOR GENERAL STEVEN P. BEST, Unites States Army (Retired), host Major General Steven P. (Steve) Best received an appointment to the United States Military Academy from Congressman William Springer (Central Illinois) in 1972. He graduated from West Point in 1976, with a Bachelor of Science degree, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. He served for over 11 years on active duty, with the 3rd Armored Division Artillery in Hanau, Germany; the 7th Infantry Division Artillery at Fort Ord, California, where he commanded a 155mm towed howitzer battery; the 85th Division Maneuver Training Command at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; and the 25th Infantry Division Artillery, at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, where he commanded the Headquarters Battery of the Division Artillery. Maj. Gen. Best and his wife, Judi, reside in Golden, CO with their two sons (23, 19) and two daughters (16, 16). His oldest son (37) is married, with one son, and lives in Montevideo, Minnesota. His oldest daughter (35) was a Captain in the Army Reserve, is married to a Marine Corps Major, and they live in Corrales, New Mexico. In his civilian career, he has served as a Corporate Training Director in the banking, specialty chemical, and industrial rental equipment industries. He currently serves in the Senior Executive Service, with the National Cemetery Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, located in the Lakewood, Colorado VA Regional Office.

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POPS • 2015-2016 SYMPHONY AT THE MOVIES: BACK TO THE FUTURE COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor

Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

BACK TO THE FUTURE STEVEN SPIELBERG Presents

BACK TO THE FUTURE A ROBERT ZEMECKIS Film MICHAEL J. FOX CHRISTOPHER LLOYD LEA THOMPSON CRISPIN GLOVER

Written by ROBERT ZEMECKIS & BOB GALE Music by ALAN SILVESTRI

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POPS • 2015-2016 Produced by BOB GALE and NEIL CANTON Executive Producers STEVEN SPIELBERG KATHLEEN KENNEDY and FRANK MARSHALL Directed by ROBERT ZEMECKIS

Back to the Future is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and U-Drive Joint Venture. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

PRODUCTION CREDITS Back to the Future – Film with Orchestra produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Coordinator: Rob Stogsdill Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Technical Director: Mike Runice Marketing Coordinator: Dan Barry Music Composed by Alan Silvestri Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Kristopher Carter and Mako Sujishi Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Synthesizer Programming: Alex Levy Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Back to the Future has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Universal Studios, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Chris Herzberger, Tamara Woolfork, Adrienne Crew, Darice Murphy and Mark Graham.

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POPS BIOGRAPHIES ALAN SILVESTRI, composer In his ongoing, decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has scored some of the most iconically revered and profitable films in Hollywood history, amassing over a hundred credits to the tune of two Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, two Emmy awards, as well as three Grammy® awards. While stylistically diverse, the unifying voice of Alan’s work is an unmistakable rhythmic melody whose themes continue to embody movie excitement and drama for generations of moviegoers.

Born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Silvestri first thought of becoming a bebop jazz guitar player. After spending two years at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Silvestri hit the road as a performer and arranger. The 1970s witnessed the rise of energetic synth-pop scores, establishing Silvestri as the action rhythmatist for TV’s highway patrol hit “CHiPs.” This action driven score caught the ear of budding filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, whose hit film 1984’s Romancing the Stone was the perfect first date for the composer and director and its success became the basis of a decades long collaboration between the filmmaker and composer that continues to the current day. Though the Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration is legendary, Silvestri has scored well over 100 films of every imaginable style and genre. Alan’s talent for a dynamically heroic sound has helped propel such Marvel superheroes as Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers to spectacular world-wide success, even as he provided the restrained, anguished sound for the alcoholic pilot of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight.

Silvestri’s rambunctious orchestral cheer has also helped to create the hit caveman family film The Croods. In 2014 Alan won two Emmy awards for his work on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

The new Cosmos updates Carl Sagan’s original series with the latest discoveries about the universe we live in and combines those facts with spectacular visual effects and animation.

Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan and a co-writer on the original Cosmos series, serves as an executive producer, writer and director alongside executive producer Seth MacFarlane. Most recently, Alan has composed the music for Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk. The film is the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. The film will be in theaters October, 2015.

A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER Great Scott! After 30 years we find ourselves being sent Back To The Future. This time the re-entry is in the concert hall, bringing a new sense of excitement through gifted musicians all around the world. Unlike Doc Brown, I could never have dreamed that I would have the opportunity to set the time circuits back to 1985 and have the chance to relive the excitement of the arrival of Back To The Future.

“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…” With a timeless film, and a timeless machine known as an orchestra, we can go anywhere.

Alan Silvestri

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POPS PROGRAM NOTES CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon begins his appointment as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony in the 2015/16 season.

In 2013 he was appointed the inaugural Assistant Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, a title he holds until the end of 2015.

This role provided him with the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch in addition to numerous other engagements. In April of 2015 Christopher made his debut at the Sydney Opera House conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Australian singer/ songwriter Josh Pyke. In 2016 he will be making his debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Christopher is a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program through which he has worked with orchestras in Australia and New Zealand under the guidance of Christopher Seaman and the orchestras’ Principal Conductors. In 2014 Christopher was invited to conduct the Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra in Thailand and earlier that year participated in the Jarvi Winter Academy in Estonia where he was awarded the Orchestra’s Favourite Conductor Prize. Christopher has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Paavo and Neeme Jarvi at the Jarvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

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