Program - Mandolin Orange - A Tribute to Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops

2019/20 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

ALTERNATIVE

2019/20

MANDOLIN ORANGE WITH YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor MANDOLIN ORANGE Friday, January 17, 2020 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

Program to be announced from stage

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

FIRST TIME TO THE SYMPHONY? SEE PAGE 8 OF THIS PROGRAM FOR FAQ’S TO MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE GREAT!

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ALTERNATIVE BIOGRAPHIES CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, resident conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon is in his fifth season with the Colorado Symphony. For three years he previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, which gave him the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch. Dragon works regularly in Australia and has guest conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.

His 2015 debut performance at the Sydney Opera House with Josh Pyke and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was released on album by ABC Music and won an ARIA the following year. Dragon’s international guest conducting includes the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted at numerous festivals including the Breckenridge and Bangalow Music Festivals, with both resulting in immediate re-invitations. At the beginning of 2016 Dragon conducted Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony as part of the Perth International Arts Festival alongside Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. Dragon began his conducting studies in 2011 and was a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program in Australia under the guidance of course director Christopher Seaman. He has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Leonid Grin, Paavo and Neeme Järvi at the Järvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

MANDOLIN ORANGE – symphonic debut Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth — their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. The North Carolina duo have built a steady and growing fanbase with this kind of intimacy, and on Tides of A Teardrop, it is more potent than ever. By all accounts, it is the duo’s fullest, richest, and most personal effort. You can hear the air between them — the taut space of shared understanding, as palpable as a magnetic field, that makes their music sound like two halves of an endlessly completing thought. Singersongwriter Andrew Marlin and multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz have honed this lamp glow intimacy for years.

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C O L O R A D O SY M P H O N Y.O R G

SYMPHONY POPS

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2019/20 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR FIEDLER AND THE BOSTON POPS PERFORMED BY YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor STEPHEN DOMBROWSKI, tuba ROGER SOREN, contrabassoon JESSICA KAUFFMAN, guest percussionist Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

OFFENBACH

Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

PUCCINI

Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut

MASSENET Four Dances from Le Cid 1. Castillane 3. Aragonaise 4. Aubade 7. Navarraise — INTERMISSION —

DANIEL DORFF Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra ARBAN

Carnival of Venice — INTERMISSION — continued on next page

Saturday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Eugene C. & Florence Armstrong Family Foundation and Craig Ponzio.

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SYMPHONY POPS

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HAMLISCH/arr. Lowden

Selections from A Chorus Line

ANDERSON

Syncopated Clock

RODGERS/arr. Bennet

Oklahoma! Selections

BERNSTEIN/arr. Mason

West Side Story Selections

SOUSA

Stars and Stripes Forever

CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 15 MINUTES WITH TWO 15 MINUTE INTERMISSIONS.

FIRST TIME TO THE SYMPHONY? SEE PAGE 8 OF THIS PROGRAM FOR FAQ’S TO MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE GREAT!

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C O L O R A D O SY M P H O N Y.O R G

SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, resident conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon is in his fifth season with the Colorado Symphony. For three years he previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, which gave him the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch. Dragon works regularly in Australia and has guest conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.

His 2015 debut performance at the Sydney Opera House with Josh Pyke and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was released on album by ABC Music and won an ARIA the following year. Dragon’s international guest conducting includes the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted at numerous festivals including the Breckenridge and Bangalow Music Festivals, with both resulting in immediate re-invitations. At the beginning of 2016 Dragon conducted Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony as part of the Perth International Arts Festival alongside Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. Dragon began his conducting studies in 2011 and was a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program in Australia under the guidance of course director Christopher Seaman. He has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Leonid Grin, Paavo and Neeme Järvi at the Järvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

CLASSICS

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 JAN 24-26 FRI-SAT 7:30 SUN 1:00 n

Brett Mitchell, conductor Lukáš Vondráček, piano Dancers from Colorado Ballet COPLAND Suite from Billy the Kid BERNSTEIN Facsimile RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

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SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES ROGER SOREN, contrabassoon Contrabassoonist Roger Soren joined the Colorado Symphony in 2011, after holding positions in the Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony and Jacksonville Symphony. He has also performed with the Montreal, Cincinnati, Nashville and Grant Park Symphonies. He is making his first solo appearance with the Colorado Symphony with tonight’s performance of the Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra

by Daniel Dorff. Roger has previously performed this piece with the Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony, Louisville (KY)Orchestra, and with members of the Oklahoma City Symphony at the International Double Reed Society conference at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma. Roger gave the world premiere performance of Mr. Dorff’s In A Deep Funk for solo contrabassoonist at the 1997 International Double Reed Society conference at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He was also Bassoonist in the Colorado premier of Dorff’s Cape May Breezes for Woodwind Quintet on a chamber music concert in Denver, sponsored by the Colorado Symphony. Roger also performed as Solo Contrabassoonist in the North American premier of Hell’s Angels by Michael Daugherty for 3 bassoons, contrabassoon and orchestra with the Louisville Orchestra in 2000. Mr. Soren is an active music educator, teaching at the Denver School of the Arts and privately as well.

He formerly taught at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, University of Denver, Western Kentucky University, Bellarmine University and Florida State College in Jacksonville.

He has given master classes and recitals at over 30 universities across the United States. Roger has recorded extensively with the Colorado and Nashville Symphonies, and the Louisville Orchestra. He can be heard on First Edition, Naxos, Geffen, CRI, D’Note, Koch, Bis labels.

A graduate of Indiana University, Roger studied bassoon with Sidney Rosenberg, Wilbur Simpson, Frank Wangler, and Sam Jordan. He also studied contrabassoon with Bradford Buckley and Burl Lane. He held fellowships to the National Orchestral Association (NY), Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Aspen Music Festival. He has been married to Angela Soren since 1989, and they have three beautiful daughters.

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C O L O R A D O SY M P H O N Y.O R G

SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES STEPHEN DOMBROWSKI, tuba A native of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Stephen Dombrowski is Principal Tubist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Instructor of Tuba at Colorado State University. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in tuba from Boston University, where his teachers were Gary Ofenloch and Toby Hanks. Mr. Dombrowski continued his studies with Daniel Perantoni at Indiana University. In addition to his performances with the Colorado Symphony and Brass Quintet, Stephen has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Central City Opera, and Denver Municipal Band.

He has also performed with the Summit Brass, Grand Teton Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center Brass, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra (IN), Chicago Civic Orchestra, and SchleswigHolstein Musik Festival. Mr. Dombrowski has served on the faculty of the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado Christian University, and the Music at Maple Mount Festival. Stephen has also been a clinician for the University of Colorado at Boulder, Northern Arizona University, Colorado State University, the International Tuba-Euphonium Association, and Denver School of the Arts. Stephen can be heard on A Summit Brass Night�with the Summit Brass, Laude, the Music of Howard Hansen with the Philharmonia A Vent, and on live broadcasts of the Colorado Symphony. Mr. Dombrowski currently resides in Centennial, CO, with his wife, Angela, and three children. Aside from tuba, Stephen enjoys woodworking, Red Sox baseball, and home renovation projects. Please visit his website at www.stephendombrowski.com.

JESSICA KAUFFMAN, guest percussionist Jessica Kauffman has always loved music of all kinds. She grew up singing in the school chorus and played trombone and bass guitar throughout middle school in Atlanta. She enjoys singing and practices guitar for fun in her spare time. Ms. Kauffman earned her first Bachelors in Interior Design, while playing soccer at Mississippi State University. She recently graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a second degree in Chemical Engineering. Jessica currently lives outside of Seattle with her wife and two cats, where she works for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as a nuclear engineer on submarines.

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