Saturday, April 7, 2018
THE BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA Keith Lockhart, Conductor John Williams, Conductor Laureate
The Very Best of the Boston Pops Tour Overture to Candide Bernstein Times Square: 1944, from On the Town
Bernstein
Letter from Home
Copland
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, from On Your Toes
Rodgers-Spialek
Rhapsody in Blue MICHAEL CHERTOCK, piano
Gershwin INTERMISSION
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Ellington/Mills-Sebesky
Oblivion
Piazzolla-Calandrelli
Cantina Band, from Star Wars
Williams-Ramin
Theme from Schindler’s List KATHERINE WINTERSTEIN, violin
Williams
Swing, Swing, Swing, from 1941
Williams
Bohemian Rhapsody Dancing Queen
Mercury-Walden Andersson/Ulvaeus/Anderson-Walden
You Must Remember This: A Cinematic Sing-Along As Time Goes By — Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head —
arr. Sebesky
Moon River — The Way We Were — Que Sera, Sera — Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah — Over The Rainbow
The Boston Pops Orchestra may be heard on Boston Pops Recordings, RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Philips Records.
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BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA Keith Lockhart
Games in Salt Lake City. He has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic ensemble in North America, as well as several in Asia and Europe. Prior to coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.
Having celebrated his twentieth anniversary as Boston Pops Conductor in 2015, Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995, following John Williams’s thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993; Mr. Williams succeeded the legendary Arthur Fiedler, who was at the helm Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, Keith Lockhart began of the orchestra for nearly fifty years. his musical studies with piano lessons at the Keith Lockhart has conducted nearly 1,800 age of seven. He holds degrees from Furman Boston Pops concerts, most of which have taken University and Carnegie Mellon University, and place during the orchestra’s spring and holiday honorary doctorates from several American seasons in Boston’s historic Symphony Hall. He universities. has also led annual Boston Pops appearances Visit keithlockhart.com for further information. at Tanglewood, forty national tours to 134 cities in 33 states, and four international tours to Michael Chertock Japan and Korea. The annual July 4 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular was featured on national Michael Chertock has fashioned a successful network television through 2013 and was career as a piano soloist, collaborating with broadcast on CBS this year; live webcasts of the such conductors as Keith Lockhart, Jack Everly, 2014 and 2015 events garnered a cumulative 4 Robert Bernhardt, John Morris Russell, Thomas Wilkins, Carmon DeLeone, and the late Erich million viewers. Kunzel. His many orchestral appearances inThe list of more than 250 guest artists with clude solo performances with the Philadelphia whom Mr. Lockhart has collaborated is a virtual Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Sym“who’s who” of performers and pop culture icons. phony, Dallas Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, He has led eight albums on the RCA Victor/BMG Baltimore Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, DeClassics label, including two—The Celtic Album troit Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Utah and The Latin Album—that earned Grammy Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis nominations. Recent releases on Boston Pops Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, and Dayton Recordings include The Red Sox Album, A Boston Philharmonic. He has toured Asia with the BosPops Christmas–Live from Symphony Hall, and ton Pops and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. He has The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy recorded John Alden Carpenter’s Concertino for Brothers—featuring narrators Robert De Niro, piano and orchestra with the BBC Concert OrEd Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Cherry Jones— chestra; Roger Davis’s Piano Concerto in F with which was a Boston Pops commission premiered the Sofia Philharmonic; and William Perry’s in 2010 during the orchestra’s 125th season. Rhapsodies for piano and orchestra with DubKeith Lockhart’s increased focus on musical lin’s RTE Orchestra. theater has attracted leading Broadway artists Michael Chertock made his debut at age to the Pops stage. He has worked closely with seventeen, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano hundreds of talented young musicians, including Concerto No. 3 under Andrew Litton. For his Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, college 1999 Carnegie Hall debut he performed students from the Boston Conservatory and Duke Ellington’s New World A’Comin’ with Berklee College of Music, and area high school the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. In 2005 he students. He introduced the PopSearch talent performed Gershwin’s Concerto in F with competition and the innovative JazzFest and Keith Lockhart and London’s National Youth EdgeFest series, featuring prominent jazz and Orchestra; later that year, with the Boston Pops indie artists performing with the Pops. at Symphony Hall, he performed the world In addition to occupying the Julian and Eunice premiere of Tod Machover’s concerto for hyperCohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, Keith piano and orchestra, Jeux Deux, commissioned Lockhart currently serves as principal conductor by the Boston Pops expressly for Mr. Chertock. of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London, which He began conducting in 2001, stepping in for he led in the June 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert Carmon De Leone for the Cincinnati Ballet’s for Queen Elizabeth II, and as artistic director of Nutcracker performances. Mr. Chertock is the Brevard Music Center summer institute and the conductor of the Blue Ash-Montgomery festival in North Carolina. Symphony Orchestra (in suburban Cincinnati), Prior to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven and has led The Nutcracker with the Columbus years as music director of the Utah Symphony, (Ohio) Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony. In which he led at the 2002 Olympic Winter 2015, 2016, and 2017 he led Gershwin programs
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2018 with the State Symphony Orchestra of Moscow and the Moscow Conservatory Orchestra. His 2003 performance on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Petrouchka with Paavo Järvi earned rave reviews in Gramophone and American Record Guide. In 1994 he released his first CD on the Telarc label, Cinematic Piano, a collection of his own original arrangements of music from movies, which was praised by American Record Guide and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Subsequent acclaimed Telarc discs include Palace of the Winds, Christmas at the Movies, and Love At the Movies. In 2004 Mr. Chertock joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he currently chairs the piano department. He has garnered numerous awards at major competitions, among them the top prize in the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (Brahms Division) and the grand prize in the 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition. He also shared the silver medal in the 1991 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association, and in 1986 received the Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn Scholarship. Michael Chertock makes his home in Cincinnati with his wife Maaike, son Joshua, and daughters Maria and Janneke. Most Sundays he plays piano and organ for services at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. The Boston Pops In 2018 the Boston Pops enters its 133rd season of entertaining audiences in Boston and beyond. Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart marks his 24th year at the helm of the orchestra. In 1881 Civil War veteran Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra, calling its establishment “the dream of my life.” From the start he intended to present, in the warmer months, concerts of light classics and the popular music of the day. From a practical perspective, Higginson realized that these “lighter” performances would provide yearround employment for his musicians. In May 1885—a little more than a month before the inaugural “Promenade Concert”— German-born conductor Adolf Neuendorff, under the aegis of the BSO, conducted a series of “Popular Concerts” in the Boston Music Hall, where the audience sat in typical concert
seating and no refreshments were served. On July 11, 1885, Neuendorff—who became the first conductor of the Pops, before that name was officially adopted—led the first official “Promenade Concert,” distinguished from “Popular Concerts” by virtue of seating (tables and chairs instead of auditorium-style rows), program format (three parts divided by two intermissions, during which patrons could promenzxc ade around the concert hall), and the availability of food and beverages. For the rest of the 19th century, although formally called “Promenade Concerts,” they continued to be referred to informally as “Popular,” which eventually became shortened to “Pops,” the name officially adopted in 1900. The following year the orchestra performed for the first time in its new home, Symphony Hall. There were seventeen Pops conductors— beginning with the aforementioned Adolf Neuendorff—who preceded the legendary Arthur Fiedler (1930-1979). The first Americanborn musician to lead the orchestra, he established the Boston Pops as a national icon. When John Williams (1980-1993) succeeded Fiedler in 1980, he was the most highly acclaimed composer in Hollywood, and today, with 51 Academy Award nominations, he is the most-nominated living person in Academy history. With the Pops, Mr. Williams made a series of best-selling recordings, broadened and updated the Pops repertoire, and entertained audiences with live orchestral accompaniment to film clips of memorable movie scenes, many of which featured iconic music from his own scores. Keith Lockhart (1995-present) has led concerts spotlighting artists from virtually every corner of the entertainment world, all the while maintaining the Pops’ appeal to its core audience. He has made 79 television shows, led 42 national and four overseas tours, led the Pops at several high-profile sports events, and recorded fourteen albums. Mr. Lockhart’s tenure has been marked by a dramatic increase in touring, the orchestra’s first Grammy nominations, the first major network national broadcast of the July Fourth concert on the Charles River Esplanade, and the release of the Boston Pops’ first self-produced and selfdistributed recordings. In 2017 the July Fourth concert opened a new page in its history, as the Pops organization presented its first selfproduced Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular.
BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA
THE BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor endowed in perpetuity JOHN WILLIAMS George and Roberta Berry Boston Pops Conductor Laureate
First Violins Katherine Winterstein Charles Dimmick Lisa Crockett Kristina Nilsson Cynthia Cummings Gregory Vitale Susan Faux Sasha Callahan Sarita Uranovsky
Cellos Ronald Lowry Jennifer Lucht Melanie Dyball Steven Laven
Saxophones Robert Bowlby Michael Monaghan Marc Phaneuf Kenneth Reid
Basses Robert Caplin Susan Hagen Anthony D’Amico
Bassoon Ronald Haroutunian
Second Violins Clayton Hoener Jennifer Elowitch Colin Davis Dorothy Han Melissa Howe Stacey Alden Julie Leven Judith Lee
Flute Renée Krimsier
Violas Stephen Dyball Jean Haig Susan Culpo Donna Jerome David Feltner Barbara Wright
Piccolo Sarah Brady Oboe Andrew Price
Horns Hazel Dean Davis Whitacre Hill Trumpets Terry Everson Michael Dobrinski Bruce Hall Richard Kelley
English Horn Barbara LaFitte
Trombones Hans Bohn Alexei Doohovskoy
Clarinet Ian Greitzer
Bass Trombone Angel Subero
Bass Clarinet Ryan Yuré
Tuba Takatsugu Hagiwara
Percussion Jim Gwin Richard Flanagan John Tanzer Harp Ina Zdorovetchi Piano Michael Chertock Banjo Scott Johnson Librarian Mark Fabulich Personnel Manager Bruce M. Creditor Stage Manager Tuaha Khan