— INTERMISSION —
“On the Steps of the Palace” from Into the Woods
“So Many People” from Saturday Night
JAYDEN GREICIUS, youth vocal competition winner
“The Miller’s Son” from A Little Night Music
ELIZABETH STANLEY, vocalist
COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, MARY LOUISE BURKE, TAYLOR MARTIN, directors
“Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods
Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall
IMAGINATION ARTIST SERIES 2022/23
LINDSAY ROBERTS, vocalist
ELIZA NEFF, youth vocalist
JEFF KREADY, vocalist
SONDHEIM “Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
“Being Alive” from Company
Saturday’S concert iS dedicated to GeneSee Mountain Foundation
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MARY-MITCHELL CAMPBELL, conductor
A TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN SONDHEIM WITH MARY-MITCHELL CAMPBELL AND YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY
“Old Friends” from Merrily We Roll Along
“What More Do I Need” from Saturday Night
“What Can You Lose” from Dick Tracy
“Johanna” from Sweeney Todd
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SERIES 2022/23
SONDHEIM
“Everybody Says Don’t” from Anyone Can Whistle
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“Putting it Together” from Sunday in the Park with George “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with George “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George ARTIST
“Unworthy of Your Love” from Assassins
“Not a Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along
CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 45 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!
“Getting Married Today” from Company
“Stay With Me” from Into the Woods
MARY-MITCHELL CAMPBELL, Mary-MitchellconductorCampbellis
of the “Breakout Stars of 2020” by The New York Times, Elizabeth Stanley received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations and a Grammy Award for her recent performance as Mary Jane Healy in the musical Jagged Little Pill, inspired by the music of Alanis Morissette, book by Diablo Cody, and directed by Diane Paulus. Ms. Stanley has dazzled Broadway audiences as Claire De Loone in the revival of On the Town (Drama Desk Nomination), Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet, Allison in Cry Baby, and April in the Tony Award-winning revival of Company. She appeared as Gussie in James Lapine’s production of Merrily We Roll Along at City Center Encores! (PS Classics cast recording), The Nurse in Hello, Again (Transport Group, Drama League Award), Signature Theatre’s production of F**king A and Of Thee I Sing (Master Voices, Carnegie Hall). She starred as Francesca in the First National Tour of Jason Robert Brown’s The Bridges of Madison County and as Kira in the First National Tour of Xanadu. She recently appeared opposite Vanessa Williams and Santino Fontana in Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle in Concert at Carnegie Hall with MasterVoices. On television, Elizabeth has a recurring role in the upcoming FX seres “Kindred”, and her many other appearances include “The Equalizer”, “Gossip Girl” (HBO Max), “New Amsterdam”, “Younger”, “Blue Bloods”, “N0S482”, “FBI”, “The Get Down”, “The Affair,” “Black Box,” “Made in Jersey,” “Fringe,” and “PBS Great Performances - Company.” She has played leading roles on stages throughout the country including: Sundance Theatre Festival, Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh CLO, Barrington Stage Co., Philadelphia Theatre Co., Rep. of St. Louis, O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Co., Cincinnati Playhouse. Graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. IG: @el.stans 240
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a conductor, music director, orchestrator, composer and arranger who recently joined the Colorado Symphony as an Imagination Artist where she’ll develop and conduct a Tribute to Stephen Sondheim on September 23-24, 2022. She has served as the Music Director for many Broadway shows including: Mean Girls, The Prom, My Love Letter to Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, and Sweeney Todd. She also music directed Stephen Sondheim’s last musical Road Show at the Public Theater. She won a Drama Desk for Best Orchestrations for the 2006 revival of Company starring Raul Esparza and was nominated for Best Orchestrations for her work on the Off-Broadway productions of Allegro and Hello Again. She has a very active concert career and performs frequently with Kristin Chenoweth, Gavin Creel, Jonathan Groff, Laura Benanti and Raul Esparza. In her pop career she has worked with Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, John Legend, Amy Grant, Kelly Clarkson, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, and Josh Groban in concerts. She has conducted the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati symphony, the Dallas symphony, the Nashville Symphony, and many other symphonies around the United States. She is passionate about arts education and poverty reduction. She is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of ASTEP- Artists Striving To End Poverty (www.asteponline.org) which recruits and trains high level artists to work with kids in extreme situations to teach them health education and life skills through the arts. She is a regular volunteer with ASTEP programs in the US, Africa and India. She is from North Carolina and has taught on the faculties of Juilliard, NYU, and Boston College.
ELIZABETH STANLEY,Heraldedvocalistasone
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is a Broadway actress, currently performing in The Phantom of the Opera. Lindsay made her Broadway National Tour debut in the Tony Award-winning musical, MEMPHIS, covering the starring role of Felicia Farrell. She then covered the role of Clara in the Broadway First National Tour of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and was featured as the “Creole Love Call” singer on the NCL International Tour of Broadway’s After Midnight. Lindsay holds a number of off-Broadway and regional credits including Brigadoon, The New Yorkers, The Golden Apple, Lady, Be Good, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Lost in the Stars at New York City Center Encores, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, and La Jolla Playhouse. She was hailed as “notably heartfelt” by the New York Times for her portrayal of Cindy Lou in Classic Stage Company’s New York Revival of Carmen Jones and is an AUDELCO, IRNE, and WILDE Award nominee. Her voice can be heard on over a dozen cast albums, film and television projects including NBC’s Michael Bublé Christmas Special, Amazon, Disney, HBO, and multiple national commercials.
Mr. Kready was most recently on Broadway in the 2022 Tony Award winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, where he played the on-stage husband to his real-life wife, Nikki Renée Daniels. Before that he was seen standing by for the “title” role of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie. Other Broadway credits: Monty Navarro in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Tony Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical, Sunday in the Park with George, and Les Misérables (Jean Valjean understudy). Regional theatre credits include: Tommy in Brigadoon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Mr. Snow in Carousel (Goodspeed Opera House), Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (Paper Mill Playhouse), Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill), Crumpet the elf in David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks), and In This House (world premiere, Two River Theater). On television, Mr. Kready was featured as Bert Healy the radio announcer in “Annie Live!” on NBC, starring Harry Connick Jr. He has also been on “The Code” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “Elementary” (recurring, CBS), and “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). He has performed as guest soloist with The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, The Grand Teton Music Festival, The Seattle Chamber Music Society, the Allentown Symphony, the Topeka Symphony, and can be heard on the album, “The Broadway Tenors” (Jay Records). His two-man cabaret with Broadway veteran Tally Sessions, “A Fine Bromance,” has played to sold-out engagements across the country, including at the famed 54 Below in New York City. He is a former elementary school music teacher and graduate of Washburn University in his native Topeka, KS. Favorite roles of all are husband to Nikki and dad to Lena (9) and Louise (5).
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LINDSAY ROBERTS,LindsayvocalistRoberts
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Off-stage, Lindsay is the Director of Programs for Arts Ignite, an international arts education organization with the mission to develop agency in young people through the arts. Specializing in culturally responsive arts education, under her leadership, thousands of students on three different continents receive access to quality arts-rich education each year. Lindsay is a member of Americans for the Arts, Women of Color in the Arts, the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and is the founder of Lindsay Roberts Consulting.
JEFF KREADY, vocalist
ELIZA NEFF, youth vocalist
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Eliza is currently a junior at Littleton High School. She has performed in Hairspray (Amber Von Tussle), Anything Goes (Hope Harcourt) and Les Misérables (Cosette) with Rocky Mountain Theater for Kids; Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red) with the Boulder Opera Youth Production; Joseph and the Technicolor DreamCoat (Chorus) at Lincoln Center, and most recently in the Bobby G Best Show nominated production of Into the Woods (Cinderella) at Littleton High School. She is a two-time participant in the Colorado Middle School All-State Choir and a soloist with the Southwestern American Choral Directors Association (SWACDA) Women’s Honor Choir. Eliza is honored to have attended Kristen Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp the past two years. She is an active participant in her high school show choirs and a regular soloist at Bethany Lutheran Church. Eliza would like to thank her family and vocal coaches, Celeste Simone and Corrine Denny, for their continuing support – and is very appreciative and thankful to Mary Mitchell Campbell and the Colorado Symphony for this amazing opportunity.
JAYDEN GREICIUS, youth vocal competition winner
Jayden Greicius is a 15 year old 10th grade vocal major at Denver School of the Arts. She has been singing, dancing, and acting for six years, and has a passion for the arts, most especially musical theatre. She recently competed at the state and national levels in Chicago in both classical and musical theater genres. Jayden has recently performed as Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz in the Music and Masque theatre company, and has dreamt of collaborating with the Colorado Symphony since she was a little girl! She would like to thank her family, her coaches and teachers, as well as the Symphony for this amazing opportunity.
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Mary Louise Burke is in her 29th season as Principal 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, including Too Hot to Handel. In the summer of 2022, she conducted the Symphony chorus on their concert tour of Austria. She has worked as 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 was also Vocal Director of the Children’s Chorale, where she provided 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.
Taylor Martin has served as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus since 2017. He made his Colorado Symphony conducting debut with Handel’s Messiah in 2019 and has been the conductor of the Colorado Symphony’s A Colorado Christmas since 2020. In the summer of 2022, Taylor conducted the Symphony Chorus for a concert tour of Austria, which included Bruckner’s Te Deum. In addition, he has prepared the chorus for multiple pops concerts. Taylor is the Artistic Director of ELUS, an innovative chamber choir. His passion for creative and thought-provoking 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 MARTIN, associate director, Colorado Symphony Chorus
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MARY LOUISE BURKE, principal associate director, Colorado Symphony Chorus
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Among the eight recordings the Colorado Symphony 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.
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The 2022/23 Colorado Symphony concert season marks the 39th 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.
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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; 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 toured Austria, performing to great acclaim in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg.
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, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Fabio Luisi. For over twenty five years, the Chorus was 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.
Eric Israelson, Chorus Manager/Librarian
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Dallas Rehberg
Barbara Porter, Associate Chorus Manager
Mary Louise Burke, Principal Associate Director and Conductor
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Taylor Martin, Associate Director and Conductor
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Hsiao-Ling Lin and ShaoChun Tsai, Pianists
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