Symphony at the Movies: Psycho and Halloween Spooktacular | Program Notes

2015/16 Season Colorado Symphony Pops Series presented by Arrow Electronics

POPS • 2015-2016 SYMPHONY AT THE MOVIES: PSYCHO COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDRES LOPERA, conductor This Weekend’s concert is gratefully dedicated to Liberty Global Tonight’s concert is gratefully dedicated to DaVita.

Saturday, October 30, 2015 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

PGM PRODUCTIONS A SYMPHONIC NIGHT AT THE MOVIES “Psycho with Orchestra” Film Credits CAST

SCREENPLAY BY

Anthony Perkins Norman Bates Vera Miles Lila Crane John Gavin Sam Loomis Martin Balsam Milton Arbogast John McIntire Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers Simon Oakland Dr. Fred Richmond Vaughn Taylor George Lowery Frank Albertson Tom Cassidy Lurene Tuttle Mrs. Chambers Patricia Hitchcock Caroline (as Pat Hitchcock) John Anderson California Charlie Mort Mills Highway Patrol Officer Janet Leigh Marion Crane

Joseph Stefano Robert Bloch

DIRECTED BY Alfred Hitchcock

MUSIC BY Bernard Herrmann

A Universal Picture The producer wishes to acknowledge the contributions and extraordinary support of John Waxman (Themes & Variations).

A Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York) and appears by arrangement with IMG Artists.

Production Credits: Producer: John Goberman Music Consultant: John Waxman

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POPS BIOGRAPHY ANDRES LOPERA, conductor Colombian Conductor Andres Lopera is one of the leading Latin-American artists in the United States with nearly a decade of engagements in both North and South America. A passionate conductor who believes in the transformational power of music, Lopera has directed the Oregon Symphony, Toledo Symphony, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra just in the past three seasons. He has also appeared with professional and youth orchestras throughout Central and South America, including Honduras, where he led the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in a musical camp for both young and professional musicians. In 2012, Lopera was appointed as Music Director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, for which he oversaw 12 different orchestral ensembles with more than 450 students. Also an accomplished trombonist, Lopera’s musical development started with the Red de Bandas de Antioquia and Red de Escuelas de Musica de Medellin, both El Sistema like programs developed in Colombia. Lopera earned a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from New England Conservatory of Music and in Trombone Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to these programs, he was awarded a double degree in Conducting and Trombone from the Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia. His principal teachers are Hugh Wolff and David Loebel, with additional studies with Ludovic Morlot, Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop.

Symphony at the Movies:

Back to the Future

NOV 14 SAT 7:30 Christopher Dragon, conductor

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FAMILY • 2015-2016 HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor This Weekend’s concert is gratefully dedicated to Liberty Global Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 2:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

JOHN WILLIAMS

“Imperial March” from Star Wars

PROKOFIEV Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet I. The Montagues and the Capulets MUSSORGSKY

Night on Bald Mountain

JOHN WILLIAMS

Main Title from Star Wars

JOHN WILLIAMS

Superman March

SAINT-SAËNS

Danse macabre, op. 40

JOHN WILLIAMS Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Hedwig’s Theme The Sorcerer’s Stone Nimbus 2000 Harry’s Wondrous World DUKAS

L’apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon begins his appointment as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony in the 2015/16 season.

In 2013 he was appointed the inaugural Assistant Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, a title he holds until the end of 2015.

This role provided him with the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch in addition to numerous other engagements. In April of 2015 Christopher made his debut at the Sydney Opera House conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Australian singer/ songwriter Josh Pyke. In 2016 he will be making his debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Christopher is a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program through which he has worked with orchestras in Australia and New Zealand under the guidance of Christopher Seaman and the orchestras’ Principal Conductors. In 2014 Christopher was invited to conduct the Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra in Thailand and earlier that year participated in the Jarvi Winter Academy in Estonia where he was awarded the Orchestra’s Favourite Conductor Prize. Christopher has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Paavo and Neeme Jarvi at the Jarvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

A Weekend of Star Wars DEC 26-27

SAT 7:30 T SUN 1:00 Andres Lopera, conductor

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