Program - FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Orchestra World Tour

MOVIES AT THE SYMPHONY 2021/22

2021/22 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE ORCHESTRA WORLD TOUR ARNIE ROTH, conductor PAUL MABIN, vocal soloist COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, Taylor Martin, assistant conductor Friday, March 18, 2022 at 7:30pm Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

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CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS AND 15 MINUTES WITH A 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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2021/22

PROGRAM I

MOVIES AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES The FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Orchestra World Tour, presented by AWR Music Productions, is an electrifying new concert based entirely on the groundbreaking game from SQUARE ENIX. Experience all new symphonic arrangements based on composer Nobuo Uematsu’s beloved FINAL FANTASY VII music, and the FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE theme song “Hollow.”

This brand new music is performed by an orchestra and chorus of over 100 musicians, led by GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth, with stunning, high-definition video scenes from the new game created exclusively for this concert by SQUARE ENIX. Immerse yourself in the world of one of the most visionary games of all time with this sensational multimedia concert experience!

ARNIE ROTH, conductor Music Director Arnie Roth is a Grammy-winning artist known for his work with performers including Il Divo, Diana Ross, Jewel, Andrea Bocelli, The Irish Tenors, Charlotte Church, Peter Cetera, Mannheim Steamroller, and Dennis DeYoung. Roth has conducted renowned orchestras of the world including the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony.

Roth is well known in the world of video game music for his work with Nobuo Uematsu and Square Enix as Music Director and Conductor of the “Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY,” “Dear Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY,” “More Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY,” “VOICES: music from FINAL FANTASY,” as well as his role as Music Director and Conductor of “ PLAY! A Video Game Symphony.” He was the winner of the Best Score Award at the 2003 DVD Premier Awards for his score for the film Barbie™ as Rapunzel and was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for his original song “Shine” from the movie Barbie™ in The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Roth has produced dozens of best selling CD’s. For more information, visit www.awrmusic.com.

PROGRAM II

C O LO R A D O S Y M P H O N Y.O R G

MOVIES AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES TAYLOR MARTIN, chorus director Taylor Martin is an emerging conductor and sought-after educator in the greater Denver area who has served as Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus since 2017. He made his Colorado Symphony debut conducting Handel’s Messiah in 2019 and in 2020 he conducted the Colorado Symphony’s Virtual Colorado Christmas. For the Colorado Symphony, Taylor has prepared the chorus for The Flaming Lips, Video Games Live, Zelda Symphony of the Goddess, and the Music of Danny Elfman. He also prepared and conducted the recent Red Rocks Amphitheater performance by Opiuo with ELUS Vocal Ensemble. Since 2016 Taylor has served as the Artistic Director of this innovative chamber choir. His passion for creative and thoughtprovoking programming has led the ensemble to considerable acclaim for their immersive presentations of repertoire ranging from great orchestral masterworks to new, imaginative works for unaccompanied choir. Taylor has worked with Duain Wolfe on major choral-orchestral masterpieces and operas, not only with the Colorado Symphony, but also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

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 perform concerts in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg.

SOUNDINGS

2021/22

PROGRAM III

MOVIES AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS Duain Wolfe, Founding Director and Conductor Mary Louise Burke, Associate Director Taylor Martin, Assistant Conductor Hsiao-Ling Lin, ShaoChun Tsai, pianists Eric Israelson, Barbara Porter, Chorus Managers Soprano Baker, Manda Coberly, Sarah Collums, Angela Cowen, Kim Hedrick, Elizabeth Kermgard, Lindsey Lopez, Anne Pflug, Kim Rooney, Andi

Alto Buechner, Carrie Cox, Jan Darone, Janie Fairchild, Raleigh Golden, Daniela Haxton, Sheri Maltzahn, Joanna Martin, Brienna Rudolph, Kathi Scarselli, Elizabeth

Tenor DeMarco, James Dinkel, Jack Fuehrer, Roger Gale, John Kolm, Ken McCracken, Todd

Bass Bradshaw Jonathan Grossman, Chris Joseph, Jared Pilcher, Ben Quarles, Ken Skillings, Russ

Face masks and proof of vaccination required 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.

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PROGRAM IV

C O LO R A D O S Y M P H O N Y.O R G