Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble Winter 2023 Concert "Look Up!"

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BEAR IS HONORED TO SUPPORT LAKESIDE PRIDE

Welcome to Lakeside Pride’s 26th Season!

Thankyouforjoiningusforthisperformance tonightandupcomingshowsacrossChicago. Overthepastdecades,we’vebroughttogether Chicagoansofdifferentsexualities,genders, ages,andculturestoshareintheuniversal languageofmusic,buildingacommunitythat honorsouroriginsandconnectseachofus.

This year’s season is entitled Rise, which encapsulates the LGBTQ community’s ongoing struggles and its persistence to resolve them, whetherthatbetosurvive,tothrive,ortoliveinharmonywitheachother. LakesidePrideisnodifferent,andaswe’veadaptedtothepandemic,we findourselvesstrongerandmoreresilientthanever.Wecontinuetobea welcoming family for our members and friends across the Chicagoland area.

We’ve risen to the challenge of keeping our community safe, healthy, strong,andexuberant.We’veovercomeadversityfromthepandemicand societalunrest,andcontinuetouseourplatformtoinspireourmembers andaudiencestojoinusinourrevitalization.Westillhavelotstodo,and manybarrierstoovercome.Butbybandingtogetherwecancontinueto changeheartsandminds,growasacommunity,andheroicallyrisetoany occasion.

Our membership levels continue to rise - we are now upwards of 400 membersstrongacross14differentensembles!Andit’sbecauseweknow asmuchaswevaluethemusicweshare,it’sthislovingcommunitythat wasestablisheddecadesagoandcontinuestobestrong.

Inclosing,wethankyouforyourcontinuedsupportofLakesidePride,our members,andourmission.It’sbecauseofaudiencememberslikeyouthat we’vebeenabletoreturntothismomentofrevitalizationandrenewal.We hopethisperformance,andthemanythroughoutourseason,inspireyou toriseinapplause!

JonathanAlvares Chair,BoardofDirectors LakesidePrideMusicEnsembles

About the Evening

Dear audience,

Welcome to the second season of the Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble! It has been such a joy to see how this ensemble continues to grow. Rehearsals make it feel like the group has developed a personality of its own we know how to work with each other, how to laugh with each other, and how to continue to connect with other members. This program’s repertoire is about 75% member-suggested, and the excitement that the musicians have to play pieces that are dear to them is palpable. We’re also thrilled to be back at the beautiful Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

Lakeside Pride's 2022-23 season theme is Rise. Think phoenix from the ashes. Lots of different routes we could have chosen with this one, and for this program, we chose to focus on things that could be found rising to the sky. The theme Look Up! brought us a wonderful variety of genres and references. Familiar tunes from Frank Sinatra, Up, and Wicked will certainly get you in the soaring feeling. Sheltering Sky and Star Ship are gorgeous pieces from the band repertoire that we are thrilled for you to hear. We’re also stoked to premiere an arrangement by one of our very own: flutist Imario Nuñez.

We’re glad to have you on this adventure. We hope you’ll also stay tuned for our June program, Still I Rise, which will feature artists and pieces that share the strength, grit, and tenacity found in Maya Angelou’s famous poem. Please prepare for takeoff!

Manic Maxxie Artistic Director, Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble

Come Fly With Me

James Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (1958) arr. Paul Murtha (2012)

Selections from Disney'/Pixar's

Up

Michael Giacchino (2009) arr. Paul Murtha (2009)

Star Ship

Yukiko Nishimura (2003)

Music from the Motion Picture

How to Train Your Dragon

John Powell (2010) arr. Sean O'Loughlin (2010)

Conducted by Assistant Artistic Director Inga Augustaitis

The Music of Disneyland

arr. Jerry Brubaker (2007)

- Intermission

Sheltering Sky

John Mackey (2012)

Conducted by Assistant Artistic Director Inga Augustaitis

Main Theme of Final Fantasy V

Nobuo Uematsu (1992)

植松 伸夫 arr. Imario Nuñez (2022)

from the opera "Tsar Saltan"

The Flight of the Bumble-Bee Selections from Wicked

Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov (1900) arr. Andrew Glover (2005)

Stephen Schwartz (2003) arr. Jay Bocook (2005)

Manic Maxxie

Artistic Director

Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble

Manic Maxxie is the drag persona of a classical musician Cleo Goldberg. Cleo(they/them/theirs) is regularly involved as a music educator, conductor, and percussionist. They teach K-8 music at Alexander Graham Bell School and are also the founder and director of the Millennial Chamber Players. As a percussionist, they have performed at festivals and competitions across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Russia. They have studied conducting at the New York Conducting Workshop, the International Conducting Workshop & Festival (Lviv, Ukraine), the Pierre Monteux School, and the Juilliard Evening Division. They are also a published arranger through Keiser Southern Music and are frequently invited to give professional development presentations on gender inclusion in arts education. Cleo received their Bachelor of Music degree in percussion performance from the Manhattan School of Music and their Master of Music Education and Certification degree from VanderCook College of Music.

Manic Maxxie was born in November 2019 and has been the Artistic Director of the Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble since the spring of 2021. Her drag allows her to celebrate black artists and let out a type of energy that she rarely shows in her day-to-day life. Maxxie is Cleo in their boldest, wackiest, and most feminine form.

Inga Augustaitis

Assistant Artistic Director

Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble

Inga Augustaitis has been the Assistant Lakeside Pride Pops Ensemble since November 2021. She is also in the process of forming another brass quintet in Lakeside Pride. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Artistic Director of the

As a music educator, Inga enjoys working as a private horn instructor, a competitive marching band instructor, and an ISYM (Illinois Summer Youth Music) Hip Hop Camp instructor/volunteer.

This is Inga’s second year as the general music teacher at Grove Junior High School, and loves teaching all students that anyone can be a musician, even if they did not previously consider themselves musicians. The curriculum she has created allows experiencing music education in a way that should be: fun! She is also the school’s club sponsor of SAGA (the Sexuality and Gender Alliance), which provides a safe space and a voice for the LGBTQ+ students of the school.

Lakeside Pride is a family of more than a dozen no-audition ensembles for musicians of all skill levels. Something new is always starting up, and we’d love to see you at rehearsal, even if it’s been years since you’ve played. We’re certain there’s an ensemble that’s right for you!

Find out how to join at lakesidepride.org/join

Performers

Flutes

Jane Folliard*

Geeana Harris

Emily Heuck

Dana Hesch

Saraa Koga

Imario Nuñez

Oboe

Thaddeus Metz

B-flat Clarinet

Greer Anderson*

Brock Ashford

Michelle Cerullo

Jordan Francisco*

Analisa Iole

Bridget Katholi

Paul Matylonek

Abdo Timejardine-Zomeño**

Alto Saxaphone

Michelle Candelario

Sam Decker

Ron Hornish

Victoria Przybylski*

Alex Tsaparis

Tenor Saxophone

Michael Connors

Baritone Saxophone

Rhonda Tullis

Trumpet

Jake Burrows

Clover Moisanu

Emmett O’Brien*

Kyle Rhoades**

Nisha Sen

Ed Swartz

French Horn

Roberto Astudillo

Alto Clarinet

Andrew Schaeffer

Inga Augustaitis*

Zachary Greenberg

Alli Torf

Bass Clarinet

Jessica Hyker

Trombone

Logan Henderson

Johnna Jackson

Brighten Jelke

Ben Katholi

Adam Lang

Eric Rosecrants

Kyle Weaver

Euphonium

Emmett Katholi

Emma Lin

Greg Marquis*

Tuba

TG Warford**

Percussion

Miranda Eston

Henry Katholi

Finley Lau*

Molly Mack

Renee Zha

Piano

Alex Tsaparis

Electric Bass

Emmett Katholi

Harp

Emily Kolody**

*section leader(s)

**denotes guest musician

SpecialThankYou!

To all our volunteers, donors, partner organizations, VanderCook College of Music, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, our musicians, and our audience members.

We hope you enjoyed the show and see you at our next events!

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