Concert Program: Home Alone in Concert

Home Alone in Concert

Dec 16 - 18

FRI, SAT | 7:30PM & SUN | 3:00PM

© 1990 Twentieth Century Fox

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Presents A JOHN HUGHES Production A CHRIS COLUMBUS Film

Home Alone

MACAULAY CULKIN JOE PESCI DANIEL STERN JOHN HEARD and CATHERINE O’HARA

Music by JOHN WILLIAMS

Film Editor RAJA GOSNELL

Production Designer JOHN MUTO

Director of Photography JULIO MACAT Executive Producers MARK LEVINSON & SCOTT ROSENFELT and TARQUIN GOTCH Written and Produced by JOHN HUGHES

Directed by CHRIS COLUMBUS

Soundtrack Album Available on CBS Records, Cassettes and Compact Discs

In gratitude, this performance is dedicated to: Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Weitzman

JAYCE OGREN Conducts DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS WILL MCLEAN Assistant Chorus Director DALLAS SYMPHONY CHILDREN’S CHORUS VICTOR C. JOHNSON Mixed Ensemble Conductor

THERE WILL BE ONE 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION

Tonight's program is a presentation of the complete film Home Alone with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra

during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience

members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

Film screening of Home Alone courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. © 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Home Alone in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.

Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill Production Manager: Sophie Greaves Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Technical Director: Mike Runice Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe

The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Twentieth Century Fox, Chris Columbus, David Newman, John Kulback, Julian Levin, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

A Note from the Composer

EVER SINCE Home Alone appeared, it has held a unique place in the affections of a very broad public. Director Chris Columbus brought a uniquely fresh and innocent approach to this delightful story, and the film has deservedly become a perennial at Holiday time. I took great pleasure in composing the score for the film, and I am especially delighted that the magnificent Dallas Symphony Orchestra has agreed to perform the music in a live presentation of the movie.

I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of the film in saying that we are greatly honored by this event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will experience the renewal of joy that the film brings with it, each and every year.

John Williams

Composer

IN A CAREER spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and the concert stage. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, and his nearly 50-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the Indiana Jones films. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies and concertos commissioned by some of America’s most prominent orchestras. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty-two Oscar nominations, seven British Academy Awards, twenty-five GRAMMYS®, four Golden Globes and five Emmys. His other honors include the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts and the Gold Medal from the UK’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society.

Jayce Ogren

Conductor

JAYCE OGREN HAS established himself as one of the most innovative and versatile conductors of his generation. From symphonic concerts to revolutionary community service programs to operatic world premieres, Mr. Ogren is a leader in breaking down barriers between audiences and great music.

Mr. Ogren began his career as Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director of the Cleveland Youth Orchestra, a concurrent appointment he held from 20062009. In the years since, he has conducted many of the world’s most prominent orchestras, including the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, the Dallas and San Francisco Symphonies, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, in programs ranging from Mozart to Beethoven through Sibelius and Bernstein, to presenting U.S. and world premieres of works by Steve Mackey and Nico Muhly.

Among the numerous progressive projects Mr. Ogren has conducted are the New York premieres of Leonard Bernstein’s only opera, A Quiet Place, and puppeteer Basil Twist’s The Rite of Spring, both at Lincoln Center; the world premiere of David Lang’s symphony for a broken orchestra, bringing together 400 student, amateur and professional musicians in Philadelphia; and the world premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

A longtime collaborator of singer/songwriter/composer Rufus Wainwright, Mr. Ogren conducted the 2012 U.S. premiere of his opera Prima Donna at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and led its recording with the BBC Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon in 2016. Mr. Ogren and Mr. Wainwright have since appeared together throughout the world, with ensembles such as the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France in Paris and the Toronto Symphony.

A devoted educator, Mr. Ogren was invited by renowned poet Paul Muldoon to create an interdisciplinary studio class at Princeton University for the 2017-2018 academic year. He has worked with students at the Brevard Music Center, the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Music Academy of the West and Verbier Festival. In 2016, he presented a unique workshop in orchestral rehearsal techniques for music teachers at Carnegie Hall in collaboration with the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute and the Juilliard School Pre-College. For his own part, Mr. Ogren earned his Masters in conducting at the New England Conservatory and studied as a Fulbright Scholar with Jorma Panula. In March 2022 the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance announced Jayce Ogren would join the faculty as Associate Director of Orchestras in fall 2022.

A native of Hoquiam, Washington, Jayce Ogren lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Carly, an architect, and their son, Alistair. An avid athlete, he has run the Big Sur, Boston and New York City marathons, the JFK 50 Miler trail run, and the Ironman Lake Placid triathlon. As an individual member of 1% for the Planet, Mr. Ogren is proud to connect his artistic work with his deep love of nature and concern for the environment.

Victor C. Johnson

Mixed Ensemble Conductor

VICTOR C. JOHNSON, Mixed Ensemble Conductor, is a native of Dallas, Texas, and the School Choral Editor for Sing!, the educational publishing division of Choristers Guild. A prolific composer and arranger, he has over 350 choral works, vocal solo books, and keyboard collections currently in print. Prior to his position at Choristers Guild, from 2000-2018, Victor was a choral director at Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts (FWAFA). At FWAFA, Victor directed the Academy Singers, Academy Men’s Choir and was the Artistic Director of the Singing Girls of Texas and Children’s Choir of Texas.

Victor is in demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for music educators and students throughout the United States. He has conducted All-State and Regional Honor choirs in the US and Canada. His own choirs have performed at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in 2011 and 2014 as well as the American Choral Directors Association-Southwest Division conference in March 2016. His professional affiliations include: ACDA, TMEA, NAME, TCDA, ASCAP, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Inc.

SOPRANO

Dyuthi Arella Julie Barnett Tricia Carroll Jacqueline Hernandez Amy Kelley JoNell Lindh Jane McKee Abigail Muñoz Anne Tracy Jessica Zeller

ALTO

Rebecca Baker Melanie Gilmore Rachael Hinck Jillian Hughes Sierra Johnson Kyra McGuirk Victoria Medrano Siena Morgan Rachel Oney Sara Spock Hannah Trippe Emily Williams

TENOR

Michael Bentley Trey Bourland Beau Dream Anthony Gray Kenneth Lambert Scott Loudder Kevin Patrick John Rasbury John Skinner Richard Snelling Chuck Tackett Terry Thompkins Clint Turner Nathan Whitmire

BASS

Clint Bailey Mason Barlow Zane Crownover Matt Garner Michael Hogan Michael Lysinger Jason Mahan Duane Ruck Dave Senter Alex Stack Dave Westgate

DALLAS SYMPHONY CHILDREN’S CHORUS

MIXED ENSEMBLE

Arya Ajith Peter Alamares Maia Anchia Emily Anderson Guru Aroul Mary Berg Jared Chao Isaac Chen Sydney Chien Isabelle Clemente Maria Goretti Correa Jackson Davis Joshua Davis Georgia Grace Dreher Joshua Emmet Nicole Green Ai-Vy Hoang Joanne Jin Jefferson Lee Rabel McNutt Gigi Melucci Isabel Metteauer Chelsea Mpita Marvin Mpita Agustina Victoria Muela Selise Phillips Pratyasha Rath Alex Reich Maryanne Schwalm Maddox Short Aashi Shyam Lainie Siegel Luke Tippetts It’aly Toliver Elisa Vasenden Varsha Vijay Ethan Williams Fay Xu Rose Zhao Annie Zhu