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Program: August 31-September 1

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Richard Kaufman Richard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. He made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in May 2009, and his most recent appearance with the Orchestra was at Blossom in August 2012. Mr. Kaufman begins his 23rd year as principal pops conductor with Orange County’s Pacific Symphony with the 201314 season. He also holds the title of pops conductor laureate with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and begins a ninth season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “Friday Night at the Movies” series. In addition, he regularly appears as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras throughout the United States and around the world. Richard Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. His most recent recording, with the London Symphony Orchestra, received a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Accompaniment for a Vocal (“Wild is the Wind,” arranged by Nan Schwartz). Other recordings include film music with the Brandenburg Philharmonic, Nuremberg Symphony, and New Zealand Symphony. Mr. Kaufman has conducted for many performers and entertainers, including John Denver and Andy Williams. As a violinist, he has performed on the soundtracks of numerous film and television scores, including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Animal House. Mr. Kaufman joined the MGM Music Department in 1984 as music coordinator, and for the next eighteen years supervised music for MGM film and television projects. He received two Emmy Award nominations. As a unique part of his career in film, Mr. Kaufman has coached various actors in musical roles, including Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore, and Tom Hanks. He has served as music director and conductor for staged musicals, in Los Angeles and on national tours, including the First National Tours of Company (for Hal Prince) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (for Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival). Born in Los Angeles, Richard Kaufman began violin studies at age 7. He attended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in the Fellowship program, and earned a bachelor’s degree in music from California State University Northridge. For additional information, visit www.kaufmanconductor.com.

The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes special guest performers Bernie Dresel (drums) and Wayne Bergeron (trumpet) for this weekend’s concerts. Both musicians were featured on several of the original Pixar soundtracks and add their artistry to this live presentation of Pixar In Concert here at Blossom.

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T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A FRANZ WELSER-MÖST MUSIC DIREC TOR Kelvin Smith Family Chair

FIRST VIOLINS William Preucil CONCERTMASTER

Blossom-Lee Chair

Yoko Moore

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair

Peter Otto

FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Jung-Min Amy Lee

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair

Alexandra Preucil

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair

Takako Masame Paul and Lucille Jones Chair

Wei-Fang Gu Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair

VIOLAS Robert Vernon *

OBOES Frank Rosenwein *

Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair

Lynne Ramsey 1 Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair

Stanley Konopka 2 Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair

Arthur Klima Richard Waugh Lisa Boyko Lembi Veskimets Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany Patrick Connolly

Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair

Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair

Jeanne Preucil Rose Dr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair

Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair

Yu Yuan Patty and John Collinson Chair

Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair

Mark Dumm Gladys B. Goetz Chair

Richard Weiss 1 The GAR Foundation Chair Helen Weil Ross Chair

Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair

Tanya Ell Ralph Curry Brian Thornton David Alan Harrell Paul Kushious Martha Baldwin Thomas Mansbacher BASSES Maximilian Dimoff * Clarence T. Reinberger Chair

Katherine Bormann Ying Fu

Kevin Switalski 2 Scott Haigh 1

SECOND VIOLINS Stephen Rose *

Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune

Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair

Emilio Llinas 2 James and Donna Reid Chair

Eli Matthews

Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair

Elayna Duitman Ioana Missits Carolyn Gadiel Warner Stephen Warner Sae Shiragami Vladimir Deninzon Sonja Braaten Molloy Scott Weber Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Jeffrey Zehngut Yun-Ting Lee

Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair

Robert Walters ENGLISH HORN Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair

CLARINETS Franklin Cohen * Robert Marcellus Chair

Robert Woolfrey Daniel McKelway 2 Linnea Nereim

Charles Bernard 2

Chul-In Park

Mary Lynch Jeffrey Rathbun 2

Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair

CELLOS Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair

Kim Gomez

Edith S. Taplin Chair

E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair

BASS CLARINET Linnea Nereim BASSOONS John Clouser * Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair

William Hestand Barrick Stees 2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair

Jonathan Sherwin CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin HORNS Richard King * George Szell Memorial Chair

Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair

Michael Mayhew §

Charles Barr Memorial Chair

Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Derek Zadinsky

Knight Foundation Chair

Jesse McCormick Hans Clebsch Alan DeMattia TRUMPETS Michael Sachs * Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair

HARP Trina Struble *

Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2

Alice Chalifoux Chair

James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair

FLUTES Joshua Smith *

Michael Miller

Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair

Saeran St. Christopher Marisela Sager 2 Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair

Mary Kay Fink PICCOLO Mary Kay Fink

CORNETS Michael Sachs * Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller

EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET Richard Stout TUBA Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair

TIMPANI Paul Yancich * Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

Tom Freer 2 PERCUSSION Marc Damoulakis°

Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Donald Miller Tom Freer KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Joela Jones * Rudolf Serkin Chair

Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair

LIBRARIANS Robert O’Brien Donald Miller ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Carol Lee Iott DIRECTOR

Karyn Garvin MANAGER

ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair Sunshine Chair

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Associate Principal First Assistant Princi pal Assistant Principal

CONDUCTORS Christoph von Dohnányi MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE

Giancarlo Guerrero

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI

James Feddeck

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

TROMBONES Massimo La Rosa* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair

Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair

BASS TROMBONE Thomas Klaber

Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair

Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

Robert Porco

DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES

Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair

Shachar Israel 2

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Pixar Animation A Roundup of Achievement

T H E T H I R T E E N F E AT U R E F I L M S that Pixar Animation Studios has produced

with Walt Disney Studios have changed the way we look at animation for the big screen. Critics across the country have remarked on the quality of the storytelling, the cleverness of the scripts, and the increasingly lifelike look of the computer-generated imagery that the Pixar team employs. One of the distinguishing aspects of the Pixar films is serious and respectful attention to music and its role in that storytelling. All thirteen scores have been written by just four composers — Randy Newman (b. 1943), Michael Giacchino (b. 1967), Thomas Newman (b. 1955), and Patrick Doyle (b. 1953). Collectively, this music has won three Academy Awards,® received ten additional Oscar® nominations, and won ten Grammys.® “Music, to me, is one of the most important things to give a movie emotion,” John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, told Variety during a Hollywood recording session last year. “Lighting, color, and music are all things I use as a storyteller. I’m in absolute awe of the talent of these musicians. . . . The fact that they have never seen this music before and yet play it perfectly, with feeling and interpretation.” Toy Story (1995) was the first of the Pixar films. Its clever story of a child’s playthings, including the rivalry of cowboy doll Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and astronaut action figure Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen), was embraced by young and old alike. It became the year’s top-grossing film and won a Special Achievement Oscar as the first feature-length computer-animated film. Its lively orchestral score, and three original songs — including “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” — were composed by Randy Newman, the Los Angeles-born pop songwriter and respected film composer (whose earlier films included Ragtime, The Natural, and Parenthood). Randy Newman returned to score A Bug’s Life (1998), the story of an ant Blossom Festival 2013

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inventor named Flik (Dave Foley) who recruits a troupe of bug circus performers to help rid the ant colony of its grasshopper oppressors. Newman’s score employed a variety of styles from mock-heroic to Gershwinesque big-city jazz and remains among the composer’s most delightful scores. Pixar’s third feature, Toy Story 2 (1999), found Woody declared a valuable collectible and stolen for eventual sale. The toys’ saga gains additional depth with the introduction of yodeling cowgirl Jessie and Buzz’s intergalactic enemy Emperor Zurg, prompting Randy Newman to add Coplandesque roundup music and John Williams-style space-opera sounds to his score. The Oscar-nominated song “When She Loved Me” remains among the most poignant of all the Pixar tunes. Monsters, Inc. (2001) was another big box-office hit, the story of a parallel universe where a monster world is powered by the screams of children. Monster pals Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) discover that a little girl has accidentally infiltrated their workplace and must hide her from the authorities. Randy Newman added a strong jazz element to his fourth consecutive Pixar score, and won his first Academy Award for the film’s song “If I Didn’t Have You.” Finding Nemo (2003) takes place mostly underwater, with its story of clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks), on a search across the ocean for his son, Nemo, and regal tang Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who suffers from short-term memory loss. Director Andrew Stanton said that he wrote the entire script while listening to the music of Thomas Newman (composer of The Shawshank Redemption, Little Women, and American Beauty, and Randy’s cousin) and so decided to hire the younger Newman for the Finding Nemo score, which adds synthesizer textures and exotic instruments to the traditional symphony orchestra. Finding Nemo became the first Pixar film to win the new Oscar category of Animated Feature Film; the second was The Incredibles (2004), a comedy about a family of superheroes who must conceal their powers from the public (Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter are the voices of the adult heroes). Michael Giacchino, composer of the Medal of Honor series of videogames and the TV series Alias and Lost, scored the film with a lively pastiche of 1960s spy and caper music. He has cited such influences as John Barry, Henry Mancini, and Hanna-Barbera cartoon composer Hoyt Curtin. Cars (2006), the seventh Pixar feature, was inspired by the sights and sounds of the American West’s Route 66. This time the characters were all motor vehicles, including racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and former racer Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), stuck in the forgotten town of Radiator Springs. For music, Lasseter Blossom Festival 2013

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returned to Randy Newman, an especially apt choice given Newman’s well-known grasp of the Americana idiom in film scores, both the orchestral and the more folkand country-based, guitar-and-banjo traditions. Ratatouille (2007) offered the most outrageous storyline yet — a French rat named Remy who wants, more than anything, to become a chef. Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) eventually becomes the secret weapon of Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), heir to a top Paris restaurant frequented by feared food critic Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole). Director Brad Bird, as he had on The Incredibles, turned to Michael Giacchino for a lighthearted score filled with waltzes and flavored with such classic French colors as accordion and musette. “This simple little robot love story” is how director Andrew Stanton described WALL-E (2008), an ecology-minded science-fiction tale about a future, garbagestrewn Earth, the sole robot (WALL-E) left to clean it up, and the streamlined, vegetation-seeking robot (named EVE) who visits; soon they are in space on an adventure that will change mankind’s destiny. Stanton again called on Thomas Newman, who invested the quirky robots with charm and warmth, and the outer-space scenes with appropriate large-orchestra drama. Although six of the previous Pixar films had been Oscar-nominated for Best Original Score, Up (2009) became the first to take home the Academy Award for its composer. For this touching story of an old man (voiced by Ed Asner) whose balloon-borne house travels to South America with an 8-year-old in tow, Michael Giacchino supplied his most personal and emotional score — particularly for the “Married Life” sequence, a constantly evolving waltz for a four-minute condensation of Carl and his wife Ellie’s life together. Toy Story 3 (2010) continued Woody and Buzz Lightyear’s adventures with a surprising, thrilling, and heartfelt story about their owner Andy growing up, leaving home, and finding new homes for his beloved toys. For his sixth Pixar score, composer Randy Newman once again rose to the challenge, writing music that both propelled the action and lent human qualities to the characters. Touches of classical music, jazz, and country can be heard, along with Newman’s most hair-raising music for the toys’ near-death experience at a dump and perhaps the most moving finale ever for a Pixar film. Toy Story 3 became the year’s highest-grossing film in the U.S., making more than $1 billion worldwide. It also won Newman a second Oscar for his song “We Belong Together.” Cars 2 (2011) takes Radiator Springs residents Lightning McQueen and his towtruck pal Mater to Japan, Italy, and England on a spy caper (with the voice of Michael Blossom Festival 2013

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Caine as master spy Finn McMissile). For music, Lasseter once again called on Michael Giacchino, whose score creatively combines elements of 1960s British spymovie music and surf rock. Last year saw Brave (2012), which departed from Pixar tradition in several ways. It’s the first to feature a female protagonist, and it takes place entirely in the past, on foreign soil (ancient Scotland), with mythical overtones. Brave concerns a young Scottish princess named Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald), who defies her parents by refusing an arranged marriage and foolishly asking a witch to help solve her problems. Scottish-born composer Patrick Doyle — Oscar-nominated for Sense and Sensibility, perhaps best-known for his scores for Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare films Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet — supplied a colorful and authentic-sounding musical backdrop that includes such ethnic sounds as Celtic fiddle, Celtic harp and whistles, Uilleann pipes, and bagpipes. —Jon Burlingame © 2012 Jon Burlingame writes about film music for Variety and teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California.

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