Patriotic Pops

DEER VALLEY RESORT

PATRIOTIC POPS THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER

LAWRENCE LOH, conductor NIKKI RENÉE DANIELS, vocalist UTAH SYMPHONY

CONCERT SPONSOR

JOHN & JEAN YABLONSKI

SMITH/KEY

Star Spangled Banner

JOHN WILLIAMS “Midway March” from Midway COPLAND “Saturday Night Waltz” from Rodeo GERSHWIN “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess SOUSA

ORCHESTRA SPONSOR

The Liberty Bell March

JOHN WILLIAMS “The Men of the Yorktown March” from Midway TRADITIONAL

My Country ’Tis of Thee

ARR. LOWDEN

Armed Forces Salute INTERMISSION

E. BERNSTEIN STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Suite from The Magnificent Seven Highlights from Wicked

SMALLS “Home” from The Wiz ALAN SILVESTRI

Suite from Forrest Gump

TRADITIONAL

Amazing Grace

GOULD

American Salute

COPLAND

Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring

VARIOUS

America the Beautiful and Battle Hymn of the Republic

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES — PATRIOTIC POPS

Lawrence Loh Conductor

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escribed as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville), Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.

CONDUCTOR SPONSOR

After an extensive two year search, Lawrence Loh was recently named Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra beginning in the spring of 2024. Since 2015, he has served as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly called Symphoria), the successor to the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Loh will hold this position until the end of the 2024–2025 season. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that might have seemed impossible at the beginning,” (Syracuse.com). The Syracuse Orchestra and Lawrence Loh show that it is possible to create a “new, more sustainable artistic institution from the ground up.”

Nikki Renée Daniels Vocalist

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ikki Renée Daniels recently starred in Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larken) and in the Tony Award-winning revival of Company (Jenny) on Broadway. She played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton at the CIBC Center in Chicago. Other Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi); the 2012 Tony Award-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Clara); Les Misérables (Fantine); Nine; Aida; Little Shop of Horrors; The Look of Love; Promises, Promises along with Anything Goes and Lestat. She made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess.

Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Eve/Mama Noah in the New York premiere of Children of Eden at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR

JOANNE SHIEBLER GUEST ARTIST FUND

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