Program - The Words & Music of Bob Dylan and An Evening with Dianne Reeves

2021/22 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

ALTERNATIVE 2021/22 THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN': THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF BOB DYLAN RE-IMAGINED BY STEVE HACKMAN

STEVE HACKMAN, conductor COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director Friday, February 18, 2022 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

The Times, They are A-Changin' Like A Rolling Stone Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man All Along the Watchtower The Times they are A-Changin' Tangled Up in Blue Subterranean Homesick Blues I Shall Be Released Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door The Times, They are A-Changin' Make You Feel My Love Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright Tom Jirak, soloist

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Blowin’ in the Wind Soloists: Jared Joseph, Jim Carlson, Todd McCracken, Josh Richards Manda Baker, Charlotte Braud-Kern, Joanna Maltzahn, Brienna Martin CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 20 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION FIRST TIME TO THE SYMPHONY? SEE PAGE 7 OF THIS PROGRAM FOR FAQ’S TO MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE GREAT! PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY SOUNDINGS

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PROGRAM I

ALTERNATIVE BIOGRAPHIES STEVE HACKMAN, conductor Steve Hackman is a daring voice leading the charge among a new generation of classical musicians’ intent on redefining the genre. Equally adept in classical and popular forms, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny—he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses those wide-ranging abilities to create hybrid compo-itions that blur the lines between high and pop art. The result is evocative works that are both derivative yet wholly original. He synthesizes Brahms and Radiohead, Bartók and Björk, and Beethoven and Coldplay into epic orchestral tone poems; re-imagines Stravinsky and Shostakovich into original orchestral-electronic concept albums; and samples Verdi and Debussy and interpolates them into hip-hop tracks. His performances of these pieces have surprised and thrilled diverse sellout audiences across the country, including with the orchestras of San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Charlotte, Southwest Florida, Alabama, Colorado Music Festival, and the Boston Pops.

With live performances halted during 2020, Hackman turned his focus to composing. He composed four original scores in collaboration with Jacob Jonas The Company’s global film initiative films.dance, teaming up with Hilary Hahn, Dave Koz, and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra in the process. His music was featured on the American Express campaign Stand For Small, alongside the voice of Lin-Manuel Miranda, and he composed strings for pop superstar Doja Cat’s performances at the Billboard Music Awards and iHeart Radio Music Awards. 2021 will see the completion and realization of several more projects: a solo piano album, a strings album, a choral album, and the premiere of a new ballet with Jacob Jonas The Company.

In December 2019, Hackman collaborated with Kanye West, the Sunday Service Choir and Access Opera in their production of the opera Mary. Hackman contributed as composer, conductor, and orchestrator. The opera had public performances at Art Basel in Miami and Lincoln Center in New York City.

Beginning with the 2019-20 season, Hackman serves as Creative Director of the Indianapolis Symphony’s Stella Artois Happy Hours Series, one of the most successful millennial-focused concert experiences in the country. Hackman has been instrumental in the development of this concert series since 2010. One of the highlights of this season’s programming will be the premiere of his newest fusion work The Resurrection Mixtape, a combination of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and the music of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. In September 2019 Hackman recorded a seventy-piece orchestra of LA’s finest studio musicians at Eastwood Soundstage on the Warner Brothers lot for his original music project STEREO HIDEOUT. The results will be heard on the upcoming Stereo Hideout album, The Revival.

In early 2019, Hackman debuted Igor Damn Stravinsky, an orchestral/hip-hop synthesis of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN. Earlier that year, Hackman premiered his choral re-imagination of Bob Dylan, a fifteen-song anthology entitled The Times They Are A-Changin’ with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. The piece was PROGRAM II

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ALTERNATIVE BIOGRAPHIES commissioned by six American choirs, and received its orchestral premiere with the Nashville Symphony in January 2020.

In June of 2017, Hackman was invited to perform an excerpt from Beethoven V. Coldplay at the Microsoft INSPIRE convention at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., for nearly 20,000 people from around the world.

After conducting a concert with Andrew Bird in 2018, Hackman was asked to play piano with Bird on the live taping of the PBS show Articulate. Other soloists and ensembles Hackman has composed/arranged for and collaborated with include the Beach Boys, Michael Bolton, Aoife O’Donovan, Storm Large, and Carly Rae Jepsen; violinist Joshua Bell; and choral ensembles Chanticleer, The Tallis Scholars and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. In addition, he has collaborated closely with the group Time for Three for nearly a decade, serving as their music director for a time, producing two of their albums, and penning over fifty arrangements, orchestrations, and compositions. Hackman is also a frequent contributor to From the Top. From 2015-2017, Hackman served as creative director and conductor of FUSE@PSO, a genredefying series of the Pittsburgh Symphony that introduced the symphony to thousands of new listeners. From 2013 to 2015, Hackman was music director of the “Mash-Up” series at the Colorado Music Festival.

In 2001 Hackman was the only outside student to be accepted to Otto-Werner Mueller’s conducting studio at The Juilliard School and Curtis Institute of Music. He received an advanced diploma in conducting at Curtis, where he also studied counterpoint, composition and improvisation under his mentor Dr. Ford Lallerstedt. He subsequently studied conducting with David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. He received further training in orchestration from the Broadway orchestrator and composer William Brohn. His undergraduate degree is in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Gustavo Romero.

Hackman is active on social media under the handle @stevehackmanmusic.

MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Mary Louise Burke is in her 28th season as Associate Director of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. In addition to assisting Chorus Director Duain Wolfe, she also prepares the chorus for various Colorado Symphony pops concerts and special projects. She was the Associate Director of the Colorado Children’s Chorale, participating in hundreds of concerts and dozens of the Chorale’s regional, national and international tours.

She is now Vocal Director of the Children’s Chorale, where she provides specialized vocal coaching and opera preparation. With an expertise in vocal technique, Burke frequently conducts seminars in vocal and choral techniques for area church and community choirs. She is the Vocal Advisor at Montview Presbyterian Church and has taught classes in Find Your Authentic Voice at the University of Denver. She has a Doctorate in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado.

SOUNDINGS

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PROGRAM III

ALTERNATIVE BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2021-2022 Colorado Symphony concert season marks the 38th season of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1984 by Duain Wolfe at the request of Gaetano Delogu, then the Music Director of the Symphony, the chorus has grown into a nationally respected ensemble. This outstanding chorus of volunteers joins the Colorado Symphony for numerous performances each year, to repeated critical acclaim.

The Chorus has performed at noted music festivals in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Colorado Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, where it has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony, under conductors Alan Gilbert, Hans Graf, Jaap van Zweden, and Yannick NézetSéguin. For over two decades, the Chorus has been featured at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival, performing many great masterworks under the baton of conductors Lawrence Foster, James Levine, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, and Robert Spano.

Among the eight recordings the CSO Chorus has made is a NAXOS release of Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 4. The Chorus is also featured on a Hyperion release of the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis. Most recently, the Colorado Symphony and Chorus released a world-premiere recording of William Hill’s The Raven.

In 2009, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the chorus, Duain Wolfe conducted the chorus on a three-country, two-week concert tour of Europe, presenting the Verdi Requiem in Budapest, Vienna, Litomysl and Prague; and in 2016 the chorus returned to Europe for concerts in Paris, Strasbourg and Munich featuring the Fauré Requiem.

In the summer of 2022, the chorus will return to Austria to do concerts in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg.

SOPRANO Baker, Manda Blum, Jude Bowen, Alex Collums, Angie Cote, Kerry Dakkouri, Claudia Dobreff, Mary Graber, Susan Headrick, Alaina Hittle, Erin Jones, Kaitlyn Kermgard, Lindsey Look, Cathy Maupin, Anne Montigne, Erin Nyholm, Christine O'nan, Jeannette Porter, Barb

PROGRAM IV

Stegink, Nicole Von Roedern, Susan Zisler, Joan ALTO Adams, Priscilla Braud, Charlotte Buechner, Carrie Conrad, Jayne Darone, Janie Deck, Barbara Golden, Daniela Guittar, Patricia Haxton, Sheri Janasko, Ellen Kim, Annette Lebaron, Andrea Long, Tinsley Maltzahn, Joanna

Martin, Brienna Mcwaters, Susan Nordenholz, Kristen Rudolph, Kathi Trubetskoy, Kim Virtue, Pat TENOR Carlson, James Davies, Dusty Dinkel, Jack Fuehrer, Roger Gale, John Guittar, Forrest Ibrahim, Sami Kolm, Ken Mccracken, Todd Milligan, Tom Thompson, Hannis

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BASS Adams, John Bindman, Aaron Friedlander, Bob Gray, Matthew Israelson, Eric Jirak, Thomas Joseph, Jared Lingenfelter, Paul Quarles, Ken Richards, Josh Skillings, Russ Struthers, David Swanson, Wil

An Evening with Leslie Odom, Jr. and your Colorado Symphony APR 2 | SAT 7:30

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POPS 2021/22

2021/22 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

AN EVENING WITH DIANNE REEVES AND YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY DIANNE REEVES, vocalist VINCE MENDOZA, conductor Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

Program to be announced from stage CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 34 MINUTES WITH A 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION

FIRST TIME TO THE SYMPHONY? SEE PAGE 7 OF THIS PROGRAM FOR FAQ’S TO MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE GREAT! PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

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PHOTO: JERRIS MADISON

DIANNE REEVES, vocalist Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today — her arsenal of talents is richly on display in each and every song of her limitless repertoire. As a result of her virtuosity, improvisational prowess and unique jazz and R&B stylings, Dianne has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. Dianne’s magical, timeless voice, exceptional personality and the sheer force of her performance mark her as a captivating world-class artist.

Wynton Marsalis exclaims, “She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of this or any time.” Dianne’s Grammy Award winning album, Beautiful Life, epitomizes the spirit of her storied and extraordinary career, traversing many genres and collaborating with a diverse collection of artists. Adored by audiences and critics alike throughout the world, Dianne Reeves is a natural wonder not to be missed.

VINCE MENDOZA, conductor Vince Mendoza has been at the forefront of the Jazz and contemporary music scene as a composer, conductor and recording artist for the last 30 years. He has written scores of compositions and arrangements for big band, chamber and symphonic settings while his jazz composing credits read like a “who’s who” of the best modern instrumentalists and singers in the world today.

Mendoza’s arranging has appeared on many critically acclaimed projects that include dozens of albums with song writing legends and vocalists such as Björk, Gregory Porter, Chaka Khan, Elvis Costello, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Sting and Joni Mitchell. He has 6 Grammy awards and 37 nominations.

Mendoza is the composer in residence with the West Deutsche Rundfunk in Koln and the Conductor Laureate of the Netherlands Metropole Orkest, of which he was Chief Conductor for 9 seasons. In addition, he appeared as a guest conductor with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic, as well as other orchestras throughout Europe, the U.S., Japan, Scandinavia, and the U.K. His Grammy Nominated new recording “Freedom Over Everything” (BMG Modern Recordings) featuring Master Emcee Black Thought and soprano Julia Bullock weaves his individual approach to Jazz rhythms and instrumental colors through a grand symphonic tapestry.

Mendoza has also written commissioned compositions and arrangements for the Turtle Island String Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Berlin Philharmonic, Metropole Orkest, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC. He has performed at the Monterey, Montreux, Berlin and North Sea Jazz Festivals.

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Welcome Back We are looking forward to seeing you at Boettcher Concert Hall this season!

COVID-19 Protocols To protect audiences and the community from illness and to slow the transmission of COVID-19, the Colorado Symphony joins the resident companies of the Denver Performing Arts Complex — Colorado Ballet, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and Opera Colorado — in requiring both proof of full vaccination and face masks to attend indoor public performances starting October 1, 2021. Please see Coloradosymphony.org for full details.

Please see Coloradosymphony.org for full details.