Program - LISTEN/HEAR 103 — Musique Nouveau

Colorado Symphony 2017/18 Season Presenting Sponsor:

LISTEN/HEAR • 2017/18 MUSIQUE NOUVEAU – THE CURRENT VOICE COLORADO SYMPHONY EDWIN OUTWATER, conductor BASIL VENDRYES, viola Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

VIVIAN FUNG

Launch!

GABRIELA LENA FRANK “Mestizo Waltz” from Three LatinAmerican Dances for Orchestra OWEN PALLET Five Women Basil Vendryes, viola JESSIE MONTGOMERY

Starburst for String Orchestra

ANDREW NORMAN

rip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow D Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash

MASON BATES

Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

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LISTEN/HEAR BIOGRAPHIES EDWIN OUTWATER, conductor Edwin Outwater is a visionary conductor who is reinventing the concert experience with major orchestras and institutions throughout the world.

He is Artistic Director of the Eastern Sierra Symphony, a groundbreaking music festival in Mammoth Lakes, California; Artistic Director of The LineUp, a concert series at The Park at Wrigley in Chicago; and Music Director Laureate of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada. An ardent champion of new music and cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration, he is equally adept at interpreting canonical masterworks, premiering new commissions, and connecting audiences with repertoire beyond the mainstream.

He is, in the words of Michael Tilson Thomas, “one of the most innovate conductors on the scene today.” Outwater’s recent projects include “Sound Health,” a collaboration with soprano Renée Fleming, The Kennedy Center, and the National Institutes of Health, as well as a jazz version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, with Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony. This season he appears with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall in a concert for families featuring a world premiere of composer Caroline Shaw, narrated by actor John Lithgow. He also introduces Chicago to The Line-up, an outdoor concert series he created and curates at The Park at Wrigley, which combines multi-genre music performances with the technology and capabilities of major-league sports. A native of Santa Monica, California, Edwin Outwater graduated cum laude in English literature from Harvard University, where he was music director of the Bach Society Orchestra and the a cappella group Harvard Din and Tonics, and wrote the music for the 145th annual production of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. He received his master’s in conducting from UC Santa Barbara, where he studied with Heiichiro Ohyama and Paul Polivnick, besides studying music theory and composition with John Stewart, Joel Feigin, and Leonard Stein. Learn more at edwinoutwater.com

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LISTEN/HEAR BIOGRAPHIES BASIL VENDRYES, viola Basil Vendryes has been Principal Violist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 1993. He is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Rochester Philharmonic orchestras. As violist with the Aurora String Quartet (1986-95) Mr. Vendryes performed extensively, including recitals in New York, London and Tokyo.

He currently serves on the faculties of the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver, the Quartet Program at SUNY Fredonia, New York, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont and the Interharmony International Music Festival in Italy. Mr. Vendryes has served on the faculties of Biola University (CA), California Summer Music at Pebble Beach, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Green Valley Music Festival and the Montecito International Music Festival. He is also the founder/director of the Colorado Young Sinfonia, comprised of some of the best young talent in the Denver area, and now in its 16th year.

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Two Titans: Bernstein & Mahler MAY 25-27 FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00 Brett Mitchell, conductor Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin BERNSTEIN BERNSTEIN MAHLER

Overture to Candide Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium) Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan”

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SYMPHONY POPS • 2017/18 ROCK ON! WITH THE COLORADO SYMPHONY COLORADO SYMPHONY SCOTT O'NEIL, conductor DUSTIN BRAYLEY, vocals LAKISHA JONES, vocals CHLOE LOWERY, vocals Tonight's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to KUSA-9 News

Saturday, May 19, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall QUEEN/Arr. RC Fleischer

We Will Rock You/Champions

LAMM/Arr. RC Fleischer

25 or 6 to 4

LAUPER/Arr. RC Fleischer

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

FELDER/Arr. RC Fleischer

Hotel California

FEKARIS & PERREN/Arr. RC Fleischer

I Will Survive

WILKINS & PERKINS/Arr. RC Fleischer

Son of a Preacher Man

REDDING/Arr. Maule

RESPECT

STEINBERG & KELLY/Arr. RC Fleischer

Alone

ASHFORD & SIMPSON/ Arr. RC Fleischer

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

MERCURY/Arr. RC Fleischer

Bohemian Rhapsody — INTERMISSION —

DE YOUNG/Arr. RC Fleischer

Come Sail Away

BEE GEES/Arr. RC Fleischer

Stayin' Alive

FOGERTY/Arr. RC Fleischer

Proud Mary

PLANT & PAGE/Arr. RC Fleischer

Stairway to Heaven

MADONNA/Arr. RC Fleischer

Like a Prayer

BALLARD & GARRETT/Arr. RC Fleischer

Man in the Mirror

TYLER/Arr. RC Fleischer

Dream On

SHAINMAN & WHITTMAN/Arr. RC Fleischer

You Can't Stop the Beat

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SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES SCOTT O'NEIL, conductor Scott O’Neil is the former Resident Conductor of the Colorado Symphony after a nine-year tenure, and he currently works with Colorado Public Radio Classical (88.1 FM) to create radio and online programs to bring classical music to a wider audience. His “TED Talk” on Creating Meaning in Music, using his original composition, composed for Arrow Electronics, can be seen on YouTube. He served as Associate Conductor for the Utah Symphony from 2000-2006, and Resident Conductor of the Colorado Symphony from 2006-2015. O’Neil has guest conducted the Houston Symphony, Houston Youth Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, Tulsa Philharmonic, Portland Symphony (Maine), the Lubbock Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Denver Philharmonic, and the Columbus Symphony in Ohio. O’Neil has served to fill in as a sabbatical replacement at both the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

O’Neil studied piano performance at the Oberlin College Conservatory, served as the assistant conductor of the Eastman School Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras at the Eastman School of Music, and earned a master’s degree in orchestral conducting at Rice University, where he was the director of the Campanile Orchestra, a community/university orchestra. In 1999 he served as director of orchestras at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas. In the spring of 2003, O’Neil was selected by the League of American Orchestras (LAO) to conduct an orchestra comprised of members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and advanced students from the University of Southern California in Synergy, a program created to promote young, contemporary composers. Also in the spring of 2003, O’Neil was selected by LAO to appear on the Conductor Preview with the Jacksonville Symphony. O’Neil remains active in engaging audiences through his radio programming, one-man-shows at the piano, as well as with the Rosetta Music Society, which he founded.

Dustin Brayley, vocals No stranger to the game, Dustin Brayley, has traveled the world for almost 2 decades, bringing his love of music to the masses. Dustin was seen on Broadway in Rocktopia and performed leading roles in the Broadway National Tours of RENT, Miss Saigon, and Saturday Night Fever. Dustin is also a member of the multi-platinum selling band, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, as a vocalist and guitar player, playing to sold out arenas every year. When not on the road, he spends his time at his home in Los Angeles where he occasionally jumps on the big screen, most recently in Hail Caesar! dancing (yes dancing) behind Channing Tatum. He also spends time in the studio as a recording artist, songwriter, and producer with an album on the way, so be on the lookout! So much love to his wife Meredith, his two sons Maxwell and Billy Van, and his Mama, who without them could not be on this crazy ride called life. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @DustinBrayley.

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C O L O R A D O SY M P H O N Y.O R G

SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES LAKISHA JONES, vocals Best known to millions of TV viewers as a top four finalist during the 2007 season of American Idol, LaKisha Jones is ready to reclaim center stage in music, theatre and television. Her last album, So Glad I’m Me was full of Jones’ expressive, full-bodied and arresting vocals, the same voice that electrified American Idol viewers with the Dreamgirls showstopper And I Am Telling You and later the Broadway stage in the Oprah Winfrey produced, Tony Award-winning musical, The Color Purple.

CHLOE LOWERY, vocals Chloe Lowery, an American singer/dancer/actress/songwriter, is best known as a soloist in the multi-platinum selling rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. In the spring of 2010, she performed as Theresa on their Beethoven’s Last Night Tours. Chloe joined their annual winter tour in 2011 to rave reviews for her renditions of For the Sake of Our Brother (Oh Come all Ye Faithful), Prince of Peace, and Music Box Blues. Chloe continues to work with TSO on stage and in the studio. Chloe simultaneously worked closely with world-renowned producer, Ric Wake which led to her collaboration with Yanni. She lent her vocals and songwriting talents to the 2009 Yanni Voices Project produced by Disney Pearl Imprint. She was featured on PBS as a featured artist in “Yanni, Voices Live from Acapulco.” Her most successful performance/release, Change, quickly became a fan favorite. Chloe has since been featured on Yanni’s 2013, 2014, and 2016 releases: Truth of Touch, Inspirato, and Sensuous Chill. Lowery has since had the privilege to tour with Chris Botti, perform with the New York City Ballet as a featured vocalist, contributed her songwriting talents for artists like Everclear, among many others. After US and Mexico Tours with Yanni, she was signed to Disney/Hollywood Records as solo artist. Other recent credits include: Featured vocalist and songwriter on Yanni’s 2016 release “Sensuous Chill,” Trans-Siberian Orchestra Live at Wacken and Winter Tours, featured vocalist on Joel Hoekstra’s 13 Album, featured artist on Phantasms “The Deviant Hearts” Album, lead vocalist in The Rock Tenor, CHAMELEON, Forbidden Saints and Friends @ Nokia L.A Live and New York City Ballet’s Thou Swell. In December, 2016, Chloe will be featured as a lead vocalist in Rocktopia, which will be broadcast nationwide on PBS.

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