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1 FEB pops series SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL presents POPS SERIES The performance begins at 8 p.m. RICHARD KAUFMAN CONDUCTOR JOHN CASHION GUEST CONDUCTOR (Fri. only) Felix Mendelssohn ( ) Wedding March from A Midsummer Night s Dream John Barry ( ) Max Steiner ( ) John Williams (b. 1932) Jacques Offenbach ( ) Marc Shaiman (b. 1959) Flying Over Africa from Out of Africa Three Dances from Gone With the Wind If We Were in Love from Yes, Giorgio Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld (Friday only) John Cashion Tango from Addams Family Values INTERMISSION Bernadette Peters MARVIN LAIRD MUSIC DIRECTOR CUBBY O BRIEN DRUMMER KEVIN AXT BASS The appearance of Bernadette Peters is generously sponsored by Sally Segerstrom Andrews and Toby Andrews. The Saturday, Feb. 13, concert is generously sponsored by Dan Smith. PACIFIC SYMPHONY PROUDLY RECOGNIZES ITS OFFICIAL PARTNERS Official Hotel Official Television Station Pops Radio Sponsor

RICHARD meet the principal pops conductor 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

2 RICHARD meet the principal pops conductor 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 concert season marks Kaufman s 25th season as principal pops conductor of Pacific Symphony. He also holds the permanent title of pops conductor laureate with the Dallas Symphony, and soon begins his 10th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series, CSO at the Movies. This past May, Kaufman made his conducting debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra, substituting for John Williams at the Annual Pops Film Night. Kaufman regularly appears as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras throughout both the United States and around the world including Cleveland, Atlanta, St. Louis, London, Calgary, Edmonton, Liverpool, the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Rotterdam and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In addition to conducting traditional concert presentations, Kaufman often leads performances of complete film scores in concert, synchronizing the music to the actual film as it is shown on the screen above the orchestra. These legendary film titles include Singin in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Psycho, Casablanca, The Bride of Frankenstein, Pirates of the Caribbean and various silent films. Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In addition to his two recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, he has recorded CDs with the Nuremberg Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg Philharmonic in Berlin. He has conducted for performers including John Denver, Andy Williams, Mary Martin, Nanette Fabray, Sir James Galway, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, The Pointer Sisters, The Beach Boys, Peter Paul and Mary, Robert Goulet, David Copperfield, The Righteous Brothers and Art Garfunkel. As a violinist, Kaufman performed on numerous film and television scores including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever and (in a moment of desperation) Animal House. He has recorded with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, The Carpenters and Ray Charles. Kaufman joined the music department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1984 as music coordinator, and for the next 18 years supervised music for MGM. He received two Emmy Award nominations, one for the animated series, The Pink Panther, in the category of Outstanding Music Direction and Composition, and another for Outstanding Original Song co-authored for the series, All Dogs Go to Heaven. For the MGM television series In the Heat of the Night, Kaufman composed songs with actor/producer Carroll O Connor. He conducted the scores for films including Guarding Tess and Jungle to Jungle. As a unique part of his career in film, Kaufman has coached various actors in musical roles including Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore and Tom Hanks. Kaufman has served as music director and conductor for numerous musicals, including a national tour of Sweet Charity starring Juliet Prowse, the first national tours of Company (for Hal Prince) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (for the New York Shakespeare Festival). He has conducted numerous musicals for the Los Angeles and San Francisco civic light operas (for one of these, he was nominated by the San Francisco Theater Critics for Outstanding Music Direction). RICHARD KAUFMAN HAL AND JEANETTE SEGERSTROM FAMILY FOUNDATION PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR CHAIR In 2012, Kaufman received the Distinguished Alumni Award from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). While a student at CSUN, he composed the University s Alma Mater and Fight Song, and was the keynote speaker for the CSUN Honors Convocation Ceremony. He has appeared as a guest speaker at various universities including USC, University of Georgia and the California State Universities at Northridge and Fullerton. He is a member of the Music Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation. Born in Los Angeles, Kaufman began violin studies at age 7, played in the Peter Meremblum California Junior Symphony and was a member of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. He attended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in the fellowship program, and earned a B.A. in Music from California State University, Northridge. Kaufman lives in Southern California with his wife, Gayle, a former dancer in film, television and on Broadway. His daughter, Whitney, is a graduate (with honors) from Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and for 2 ½ years was a member of the cast of the National Tour of Mamma Mia. Kaufman is proud to be represented by Opus 3 Artists. 2 Pacific Symphony

BERNADETTE meet the guest artist Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings.

3 BERNADETTE meet the guest artist Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. One of Broadway s most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has won numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, three Emmy nominations and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She recently appeared in City Center s Encores! production, A BED A CHAIR: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Other recent Broadway credits include Sondheim s A Little Night Music and Follies, which also played the Kennedy Center. Peters received both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance. She earned her second Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun. She also received Tony nominations for her memorable performances as Momma Rose in Sam Mendes critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, and in Neil Simon s The Goodbye Girl, Sondheim s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel and the Leonard Bernstein/ Comden and Green musical On the Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her memorable portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim s Into the Woods. While Peters is best known for her work in the theater, her career also boasts an impressive list of television credits, which includes Amazon Prime s Mozart in the Jungle, which won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical series. She has recently appeared on NBC-TV s Smash and had guest-starring rolls on ABC-TV s Grey s Anatomy and Ugly Betty, among others. In addition to starring in Lifetime TV s Living Proof, Peters has lit up the silver screen in 17 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in Pennies from Heaven. Other film credits are: The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie, Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen s Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family and Coming Up Roses. Peters has recorded six solo albums; including the Grammy-nominated I ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings. Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her pet project Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals throughout the New York City area. Her two children s books, Broadway Barks (New York Times bestseller) and Stella Is a Star, feature original songs written and performed by Peters. Her third children s book, Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever was released this past summer. All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks. Peters resides in New York and Los Angeles with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia. Maestro John Cashion (guest conductor on Friday) John Cashion is a native Californian. He attended USC, where he met his wife Marcia. They have been married for 56 years and have three children and six grandchildren. They both love the many programs at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and have been regular attendees since opening night. Besides a love of music, Cashion enjoys his family, travel, bridge and his many friends. We congratulate Maestro Cashion on his debut performance with Pacific Symphony! BERNADETTE PETERS VOCALIST THANK YOU TO OUR ARTIST SPONSOR Sally Segerstrom Andrews and Toby Andrews Sally Segerstrom Andrews exceptional generosity makes this week s Pops performances with Bernadette Peters possible. Sally and her siblings have been loyal supporters of the Pops series, and she is a great fan of Richard Kaufman and Pacific Symphony. We are immensely grateful to Sally and her husband Toby for their support of these concerts. The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family s long tradition of support to Pacific Symphony includes leadership gifts to the Symphony s endowment, in addition to cornerstone support of our Classical and Pops series. We are grateful for the gift of this wonderful family and their tradition of philanthropy to Pacific Symphony. Pacific Symphony 3

ABOUT pacific symphony Pacific Symphony, currently in its 37th season, is led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, who celebrates his 26th season with the orchestra in 2015-16.

4 ABOUT pacific symphony Pacific Symphony, currently in its 37th season, is led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, who celebrates his 26th season with the orchestra in The largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 50 years, the Symphony 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. Presenting more than 100 concerts and events each year and a rich array of education and community programs, the Symphony reaches more than 275,000 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, highlighted by the annual American Composers Festival and a series of multimedia concerts called Music Unwound. Five seasons ago, the Symphony launched the highly successful opera and vocal initiative, Symphonic Voices. It also offers a Pops season, enhanced by state-of-the-art video and sound, led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman, who celebrates 25 years with the orchestra in Each Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a chamber music series; an educational Family Musical Mornings series; Pedals and Pipes, a concert series that spotlights the William J. Gillespie Concert Organ; and Sunday Casual Connections, an orchestral matinee series offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair. 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, where Clark served as music director until 1990, and since 1987, the orchestra has additionally presented a summer outdoor series at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre (formerly Verizon Wireless Amphitheater). In , 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 sees the continuation of a recent slate of recordings of works commissioned and performed by the Symphony, including William Bolcom s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus and James Newton Howard s I Would Plant a Tree, plus his Violin Concerto featuring James Ehnes. In , Elliot Goldenthal released a recording of his Symphony in G# Minor, written for and performed by the Symphony. In , the Symphony released Richard Danielpour s Toward a Season of Peace and Philip Glass The Passion of Ramakrishna; in , Michael Daugherty s Mount Rushmore all three commissioned 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, Laura Karpman, William Kraft, Ana Lara, Tobias Picker, Christopher Theofanidis, Frank Ticheli and Chen Yi. PACIFIC SYMPHONY 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 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 as well as Santa Ana Strings. THANK YOU TO OUR SATURDAY CONCERT SPONSOR: DAN SMITH Dan Smith is a longtime Pacific Symphony supporter and a valued patron. His many years of friendship to the Symphony is further deepened by his membership in the Marcy Mulville Legacy Society. We are deeply grateful to Dan for his strong commitment to our Pops Series and for his continued support of Pacific Symphony. Thank you! 4 Pacific Symphony

5 MEET the orchestra 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 NARONG PRANGCHAROEN COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE FIRST VIOLIN Raymond Kobler Concertmaster, Eleanor and Michael Gordon Paul Manaster Associate Concertmaster Jeanne Skrocki Assistant Concertmaster Nancy Coade Eldridge 20 Christine Frank Kimiyo Takeya Ayako Sugaya Ann Shiau Tenney Maia Jasper 10 Robert Schumitzky Agnes Gottschewski 20 Dana Freeman Grace Oh Jean Kim Angel Liu Marisa Sorajja SECOND VIOLIN Bridget Dolkas* Elizabeth and John Stahr Yen-Ping Lai Yu-Tong Sharp Ako Kojian Ovsep Ketendjian Linda Owen Phil Luna MarlaJoy Weisshaar Alice Miller-Wrate 20 Shelly Shi Chloe Chiu VIOLA Robert Becker* Catherine and James Emmi Meredith Crawford** Carolyn Riley John Acevedo Erik Rynearson Victor de Almeida Julia Staudhammer Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang Pamela Jacobson Adam Neeley Cheryl Gates Margaret Henken CELLO Timothy Landauer* Catherine and James Emmi Kevin Plunkett** John Acosta Robert Vos László Mezö Ian McKinnell M. Andrew Honea 30 Waldemar de Almeida Jennifer Goss 30 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 PICCOLO Cynthia Ellis OBOE Jessica Pearlman Fields* Suzanne R. Chonette Ted Sugata ENGLISH HORN Lelie Resnick CLARINET Vacant* 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* Mark Adams James Taylor** Russell Dicey TRUMPET Barry Perkins* Susie and Steve Perry Tony Ellis David Wailes 30 TROMBONE Michael Hoffman* David Stetson BASS TROMBONE Kyle Mendiguchia TUBA James Self* TIMPANI Todd Miller* PERCUSSION Robert A. Slack* Cliff Hulling 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 * Principal ** Assistant Principal On Leave The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7. Celebrating 30, 20 or 10 years with Pacific Symphony this season. Pacific Symphony 5

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