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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