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1 THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF OZ POPS SERIES Pacific Symphony Richard Kaufman, conductor Kelli Rabke, vocalist Law Dunford, vocalist Scott Coulter, vocalist John Boswell, piano THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF OZ Selections will be announced from the stage There will be a 20-minute intermission Friday, November 9, 8:00 PM Saturday, November 10, 8:00 PM Segerstrom Center for the Arts Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Official Hotel Official TV Station Media Sponsor 1

with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.

For 18 years, he supervised music at MGM, during which he received two Emmy Award nominations. He is proud to be represented by Opus 3 Artists.

) and is so excited to see the new performing arts school at BergenPAC opening this fall.

2 with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra. Kaufman served as music associate to Lionel Newman at 20th Century Fox before joining the music department of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1984 as music coordinator. For 18 years, he supervised music at MGM, during which he received two Emmy Award nominations. He is proud to be represented by Opus 3 Artists. childhood music education class for infants through 4 years old. She has sung on numerous CD s for Music Speaks (including a duet with her son!) and is so excited to see the new performing arts school at BergenPAC opening this fall. Rabke also served as producer and creative director for Beyond the Storm, a Hurricane Sandy relief concert which raised money for local towns hard hit by the storm. RICHARD KAUFMAN Richard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. The season marks Kaufman s 28th as principal pops conductor of Pacific Symphony. In addition to traditional concert presentations, he often conducts complete film scores in concert, synchronizing the music as the film is shown above the orchestra. These include Casablanca, North by Northwest, Singin in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Psycho, Vertigo, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, The Bride of Frankenstein, Pirates of the Caribbean I and II, Silverado, On the Waterfront, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Beyond, Home Alone, Harry Potter and Star Wars (various episodes). He recently made his New York Philharmonic debut conducting five sold-out performances of the Oscar-winning film Amadeus. Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category. He has recorded with the London Symphony, Nuremberg Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony and the Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin. He also has conducted for numerous performers including John Denver, Andy Williams, Nanette Fabray, Amy Grant, the Beach Boys, Chicago, Chris Botti, Arturo Sandoval and many others. As a studio violinist, Kaufman performed on numerous film and television scores including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and (in a moment of desperation) Animal House. He has recorded and performed in concert 2 NOVEMBER KELLI RABKE Kelli Rabke got her big break playing the role of Dorothy in Paper Mill Playhouse s acclaimed production of The Wizard of Oz. Shortly thereafter, she was handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to play the lead role of the Narrator in the Broadway revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (U.S. cast recording). Following that, she played her dream role: Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway. She went on to perform around the country in such roles as Mabel in Mack and Mabel, Christine in Phantom, and back to Paper Mill Playhouse in Stephen Schwartz s Children of Eden as Yonah (American premiere recording). She is one of only two Broadway stars to originate a role in both a Stephen Schwartz and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical a distinction for which she is incredibly honored. A new chapter in her career began when joining the board of the BergenPAC in Englewood, NJ. There she developed the Kidz Cabaret series, the BeyondMusic program of instrumental lessons and her personal favorite: Music Speaks an early LAW DUNFORD Law Dunford burst upon the New York scene as one of Broadway s Rising Stars of His performance of I m Here from The Color Purple at B.R.S. earned him raves from critics and audiences alike. He is currently starring on Broadway in the hit Sara Bareilles musical Waitress as Cal. Prior to his Broadway debut, he appeared in a number of roles with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and other Midwest regional theaters. He is a regular performer at New York City s The Town Hall, Feinstein s/54 Below and The Green Room. Dunford is a Tom Hanks Scholar and proud alumnus Wright State University, with a bachelor s degree in acting.

SCOTT COULTER For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter has received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist,

the revue 11 O Clock Numbers at 11 O Clock, which he also cocreated, directed and musically arranged.

3 SCOTT COULTER For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter has received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist, and he has performed at most of NYC s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein s at The Regency, where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O Clock Numbers at 11 O Clock, which he also cocreated, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Coulter was director and star of A Christmas Carol: The Symphonic Concert in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony and reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production which premiered in December He was an Emmy nominee himself for his performance in American Song at NJPAC. Since 1997, Coulter has performed with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many award-winning revues. While singing with Goldrich and Heisler he was discovered by Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, who then invited him to join the revue Stephen Schwartz & Friends. That revue (starring Schwartz and Coulter along with Liz Callaway and Tony Award-winner Debbie Gravitte) has been performing all over the world since Schwartz has said, One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter. Coulter is creator, arranger and director of several touring shows including Music of the Knights, You ve Got a Friend, Blockbuster Broadway!, The Fella Sings Ella, The King: The Music of Elvis and, for The ASCAP Foundation, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert. As a director, his credits include many shows for The Town Hall in NY (Broadway By the Year, Broadway s Rising Stars, Broadway Originals, Broadway Unplugged) and BBTY for The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Broadway by the Bay. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he s a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein s Standard Time at Carnegie Hall. Coulter recently wrote the book for the new musical Got To Be There, which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky. Coulter is founder/owner of Spot-On Entertainment and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway s Supper Club) in NYC. He was recently named artistic director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and is a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music. JOHN BOSWELL Pianist John Boswell has served as music director for Judy Collins, Andy Williams, Bob Newhart, Scott Coulter, Maude Maggart, Faith Prince, Carmen Cusack, Babbie Green, Jason Graae and a host of other fine talents. Boswell played the role of Moose in the national tour of Crazy For You and has appeared on The Tonight Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Regis and Kathie Lee, General Hospital and was the piano playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sitcom The Facts of Life. Recent concerts with symphonies have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert, Blockbuster Broadway!, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me and Music of The Knights. Boswell has been heard singing in the shows Three Men and a Baby... Grand, Cinema Toast, Broadway Today, Wiseguys and the New York cult hit Cashino. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Crazy For You, The Secret Garden, Liza! Steppin Out at Radio City Music Hall, Back to Bacharach and David and The Kathy And Mo Show: Parallel Lives. His monthly concerts in 2017 at The Gardenia in Los Angeles have been crowd pleasers. Boswell has eight CDs of original piano music and a ninth on the way. While a student at UCLA, he received the Frank Sinatra Award for popular instrumentalists. 3

PACIFIC SYMPHONY Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair for the last 29 years, has been the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall for over a decade.

4 PACIFIC SYMPHONY Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair for the last 29 years, has been the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall for over a decade. Currently in its 40th season, the Symphony is the largest-budgeted orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 50 years and is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own community of Orange County. In April 2018, Pacific Symphony made its debut at Carnegie Hall as one of two orchestras invited to perform during a yearlong celebration of composer Philip Glass 80th birthday, and the following month the orchestra toured China. The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, conducted by St.Clair. Presenting more than 100 concerts and events a year and a rich array of education and community engagement programs, the Symphony reaches more than 300,000 residents from school children to senior citizens. The Symphony offers repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today s most prominent composers. Eight seasons ago, the Symphony launched the highly successful opera initiative, Symphonic Voices, which continues in February 2019 with Puccini s Madame Butterfly. It also offers a popular Pops season, enhanced by state of the art video and sound, led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman. Each Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a chamber music series; an educational Family Musical Mornings series; and Sunday Matinées, an orchestral matinée series offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair. 4 NOVEMBER Founded in 1978 as a collaboration between California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), and North Orange County community leaders led by Marcy Mulville, the Symphony performed its first concerts at Fullerton s Plummer Auditorium as the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of then CSUF orchestra conductor Keith Clark. Two seasons later, the Symphony expanded its size and changed its name to Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Then in , the orchestra moved to Knott s Berry Farm for one year. The subsequent four seasons, led by Clark, took place at Santa Ana High School auditorium where the Symphony also made its first six acclaimed recordings. In September 1986, the Symphony moved to the new Orange County Performing Arts Center, and from , the orchestra additionally presented a Summer Festival at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. In 2006, the Symphony moved into the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, with striking architecture by Cesar Pelli and acoustics by Russell Johnson and in 2008, inaugurated the Hall s critically acclaimed 4,322 pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ. The orchestra embarked on its first European tour in 2006, performing in nine cities in three countries. The season continued St.Clair s commitment to new music with commissions by pianist/composer Conrad Tao and former composer in residence Narong Prangcharoen. Recordings commissioned and performed by the Symphony include the release of William Bolcom s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus in , Richard Danielpour s Toward a Season of Peace and Philip Glass The Passion of Ramakrishna in ; and Michael Daugherty s Mount Rushmore and The Gospel According to Sister Aimee in In , Elliot Goldenthal released a recording of his Symphony in G sharp Minor, written for and performed by the Symphony. The Symphony has also commissioned and recorded An American Requiem by Danielpour and Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio by Goldenthal featuring Yo Yo Ma. Other recordings have included collaborations with such composers as Lukas Foss and Toru Takemitsu. Other leading composers commissioned by the Symphony include Paul Chihara, Daniel Catán, James Newton Howard, William Kraft, Ana Lara, Tobias Picker, Christopher Theofanidis, Frank Ticheli and Chen Yi. In both 2005 and 2010, the Symphony received the prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Also in 2010, a study by the League of American Orchestras, Fearless Journeys, included the Symphony as one of the country s five most innovative orchestras. The Symphony s award winning education and community engagement programs benefit from the vision of St.Clair and are designed to integrate the orchestra and its music into the community in ways that stimulate all ages. The Symphony s Class Act program has been honored as one of nine exemplary orchestra education programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the League of American Orchestras. The list of instrumental training initiatives includes Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings. The Symphony also spreads the joy of music through arts X press, Class Act, Heartstrings, OC Can You Play With Us?, Santa Ana Strings, Strings for Generations and Symphony in the Cities.

5 PACIFIC SYMPHONY CARL ST.CLAIR, Music Director William J. Gillespie Music Director RICHARD KAUFMAN, Principal Pops Conductor Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor ROGER KALIA, Assistant Conductor Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor FIRST VIOLIN Dennis Kim Concertmaster; Eleanor and Michael Gordon Paul Manaster Associate Concertmaster Jeanne Skrocki Assistant Concertmaster Nancy Coade Eldridge Christine Frank Kimiyo Takeya Ayako Sugaya Ann Shiau Tenney Ai Nihira Robert Schumitzky Agnes Gottschewski Dana Freeman Angel Liu Marisa Sorajja SECOND VIOLIN Bridget Dolkas* Elizabeth and John Stahr Jennise Hwang** Yen Ping Lai Yu Tong Sharp Ako Kojian Ovsep Ketendjian Linda Owen Sooah Kim MarlaJoy Weisshaar Alice Miller Wrate Shelly Shi * Principal ** Assistant Principal On Leave Celebrating or years with Pacific Symphony this season. VIOLA Meredith Crawford* Catherine and James Emmi Joshua Newburger** Carolyn Riley John Acevedo Adam Neeley Julia Staudhammer Joseph Wen Xiang Zhang Cheryl Gates Margaret Henken CELLO Timothy Landauer* Catherine and James Emmi Kevin Plunkett** John Acosta Robert Vos László Mezö Ian McKinnell M. Andrew Honea Waldemar de Almeida Jennifer Goss Rudolph Stein BASS Steven Edelman* Douglas Basye** Christian Kollgaard David Parmeter Paul Zibits David Black Andrew Bumatay Constance Deeter FLUTE Benjamin Smolen* Valerie and Hans Imhof Sharon O Connor Cynthia Ellis The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7. PICCOLO Cynthia Ellis OBOE Jessica Pearlman Fields* Suzanne R. Chonette Ted Sugata ENGLISH HORN Lelie Resnick CLARINET Joseph Morris* The Hanson Family Foundation David Chang BASS CLARINET Joshua Ranz BASSOON Rose Corrigan* Elliott Moreau Andrew Klein Allen Savedoff CONTRABASSOON Allen Savedoff FRENCH HORN Keith Popejoy* Adedeji Ogunfolu Kaylet Torrez** TRUMPET Barry Perkins* Susie and Steve Perry Tony Ellis David Wailes TROMBONE Michael Hoffman* David Stetson BASS TROMBONE Kyle Mendiguchia TUBA James Self* TIMPANI Todd Miller* PERCUSSION Robert A. Slack* HARP Mindy Ball* Michelle Temple PIANO CELESTE Sandra Matthews* PERSONNEL MANAGER Paul Zibits LIBRARIANS Russell Dicey Brent Anderson PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER Will Hunter STAGE MANAGER & CONCERT VIDEO TECHNICIAN William Pruett DIRECTOR OF IMAGE MAGNIFICATION Jeffery Sells POPS AND OPERA LIGHTING DIRECTOR Kathy Pryzgoda 5

SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL. presents POPS SERIES. The performance begins at 8 p.m.

FEB. 12-13 pops series SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL presents 2015-16 POPS SERIES The performance begins at 8 p.m. RICHARD KAUFMAN CONDUCTOR JOHN CASHION GUEST