UNC REX HEALTHCARE PRESENTS
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PRESENTED BY LOWES FOODS OF CARY
Foodies, Gourmets, BBQ Kings, and Picnic Wizards, show off your culinary skills at this year’s UNC REX Healthcare Summerfest Series concerts, and you can win BIG!
Our roving judge will select the most creative Summerfest picnic each week.* The winner earns a $100 gift card from Lowes Foods of Cary, and two honorable mention $25 Lowes Foods gift cards are awarded as well. 2
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*Selection made by 6:45pm. Excludes Independence Day.
THE NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY THANKS OUR UNC REX HEALTHCARE SUMMERFEST SPONSORS
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Letter from
THE MAYOR
Welcome
to Koka Booth Amphitheatre and the North Carolina Symphony’s Summerfest! On behalf of the entire Cary Town Council and the more than 167,000 people who call Cary home, welcome to Cary’s premier outdoor performance venue — the summer home of the North Carolina Symphony and more than 60 other performances and festivals where we can enjoy outstanding events in this spectacular facility. From its lakeside location inside a Piedmont forest, to its internationally renowned design, to the very materials used in its construction, Booth Amphitheatre is second to none. In addition to the great symphony concerts, I invite you to take advantage of the wide variety of events and activities, from our Movies by Moonlight series to colorful festivals and a dazzling line-up of national touring concerts including a return visit by “Weird Al” Yankovic (playing with the Symphony no less!), the legendary Travis Tritt and Charlie Daniels, and recent Grammy Award-winning singer Kacey Musgraves, among many others. We hope you accept our personal invitation to join the thousands of us who regularly retreat to the extraordinary events and beautiful surroundings here at Booth Amphitheatre. Entertainment – naturally!
HAROLD WEINBRECHT, JR.
Mayor
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FOOD & DRINK GUIDE
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OPENING NIGHT SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE AND PLAY WITH THE PROS
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A SPACE SPECTACULAR
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PIAZZOLLA’S FOUR SEASONS
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VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS
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CLASSICS UNDER THE STARS
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BEN FOLDS
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BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
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RUSSIAN NIGHTS
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THE MUSIC OF CHICAGO WITH BRASS TRANSIT
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BEACH PARTY STARRING THE EMBERS
Picnic of the Week
Instrument Zoo
Our roving judge selects the best picnic spread before each concert to win gift certificates to Lowes Foods of Cary. Or, take a break from cooking and order a picnic at boothamphitheatre.com.
Our popular Instrument Zoo lets kids of all ages try out orchestra instruments.
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TICKETS & SERVICES TICKET PACKAGES
GROUP DISCOUNTS
Lawn Flex 10-Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $225 Package includes 10 tickets, plus two Flex Parking Passes, that can be used for any Summerfest concerts in any combination.
Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more! Celebrate your special occasion, bring your club members or teammates, or organize an outing for your office with an evening at Summerfest. For information, please call Ashley Blankenship at 919.789.5505; group discounts are not available at the door.
Covered Crescent: Full Series Package includes tickets to 10 concerts in the Summerfest series, seated at a table in the Covered Crescent — plus VIP Parking for each concert. Call for availability.
GROUP PRICING Advance Lawn Ticket . . . . . . . . . $20-$36 Advance Covered Crescent Table Seat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24-$40
For information about reserving an entire table, please call the North Carolina Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750.
North Carolina Symphony Box Office hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
SINGLE-CONCERT TICKETS
Gates open at 5:30pm for all concerts except Independence Day, when gates open at 3pm.
Buy today and save up to 20% when compared to single-concert tickets!
Lawn Advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28-$46 Night-Of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30-$48 Covered Crescent Tables Advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $31-$50/seat Night-Of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $33-$55/seat
Early admission at 5pm is a benefit available to North Carolina Symphony donors of $500 or more; learn more at ncsymphony.org. Dates, programs, artists, and prices are subject to change. Prices listed do not include sales tax.
Kids 12 & under are always admitted free on the lawn! PARKING Parking is adjacent to the Amphitheatre and free of charge. Upfront Preferred Parking is available for $15 the day of a concert. A courtesy shuttle is in service at most events to assist patrons needing extra help getting from the parking lots to the entrance. Except for the Preferred Parking lot, the Amphitheatre’s parking is free. WEATHER Summerfest concerts take place rain or shine. GUEST SERVICES/LAWN CHAIR RENTALS Located at the tent next to the Pine Needle Pub, Guest Services volunteers are on-hand to answer any questions you may have. Lawn chairs are also available to rent there for $5 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Town of Cary Parks and Recreation Scholarship fund.
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GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES Booth Amphitheatre offers special seating areas, assisted listening devices, and interpreters’ services. For more information, contact the Amphitheatre at 919.462.2052 or akellogg@rprk.com. MEDICAL SERVICES UNC REX Healthcare Emergency Response Team members are on site for all Amphitheatre events. In the event of an emergency, they can be found behind the Crescent Cafe. ATMS Four ATMs are located on site for your convenience in the Cobblestone Courtyard (3) and Crescent Cafe (1). American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa are accepted at concession windows. SMOKING Smoking is prohibited in all Amphitheatre seating areas. Smoking is allowed only on the Pine Needle Pub patio.
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ABOUT YOUR SYMPHONY
Each year, the North Carolina Symphony’s 300 concerts, education programs, and community engagement events are enjoyed by adults and schoolchildren in more than 90 North Carolina counties. The Symphony’s full-time professional musicians perform under the artistic leadership of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, delivering orchestral experiences of the highest quality and collaborating with renowned performers that range from classical artists, to bluegrass musicians, to jazz bands. NCS leads the most extensive education program of any symphony orchestra, engaging 70,000 students annually. The Symphony makes its home in the spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh. NCS travels 18,500 miles per year for performances throughout the state, including its concert series in Chapel Hill, Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines, and Wilmington, as well as its Summerfest concerts at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Founded in 1932, NCS performs under the auspices of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
ABOUT OUR CONDUCTORS MUSIC DIRECTOR
GRANT LLEWELLYN
The Maxine and Benjamin Swalin Chair Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony and Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Grant Llewellyn is renowned for his exceptional charisma, energy, and easy authority in music of all styles and periods. Born in Tenby, South Wales, Llewellyn won a Conducting Fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts in 1985. As Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the early 1990s, he conducted at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and on classical series and Boston Pops concerts. Grant Llewellyn has conducted many orchestras in North America and Europe. As Music Director of the Handel and Haydn Society, America’s leading period orchestra, Llewellyn gained a reputation as a formidable interpreter of music of the Baroque and classical periods. Llewellyn has led NCS in four critically acclaimed recordings, most recently Britten’s Cello Symphony and Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante, both with cellist Zuill Bailey. A spring 2019 concert with NCS, featuring Zuill Bailey and violist Roberto Díaz in Strauss’ Don Quixote, was recorded for future release.
Deeply committed and passionate about engaging young people with music, Llewellyn regularly leads education activities with NCS and around the world. ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
WESLEY SCHULZ The Lucy Moore Ruffin Chair Wesley Schulz was appointed NCS Associate Conductor in the 2017/18 season and is also Music Director of the Auburn Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Schulz served as Music Director of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Festival Orchestra, and as Director of Orchestras at the University of Puget Sound. In the 2014/15 season, Schulz was the Conducting Fellow at the Seattle Symphony. Upcoming and recent conducting engagements include the Austin Symphony Orchestra, The Venice Symphony, Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, and the Juneau Symphony. Schulz graduated magna cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in percussion performance and music education from Ball State University, and doctoral and master’s degrees in orchestral conducting from the University of Texas at Austin. When not on the podium, he can be seen hitting the pavement in preparation for his next marathon.
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SUMMERFEST SERIES PRESENTED BY
OPENING NIGHT
SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE AND PLAY WITH THE PROS
SAT, MAY 25 | 7:30 PM North Carolina Symphony Wesley Schulz, conductor Morgan Short, harp
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, Op. 47
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Harp Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6 I. Andante allegro II. Larghetto III. Allegro moderato Morgan Short, harp GEORGES BIZET Suite No. 1 from Carmen* Ed. Fritz Hoffman I. Prélude & Aragonaise II. Intermezzo III. Sequedille IV. Les Dragons d’Alcala (“The Dragons of Alcala”) V. Les Toréadors (“The Bullfighters”) Intermission HECTOR BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 I. Reveries, Passions II. A Ball III. Scene in the Country IV. March to the Scaffold V. Dream of the Witches’ Sabbath *Featuring Play with the Pros: Citizen musicians will join the Symphony for this work.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST MORGAN SHORT harp Harpist Morgan Short is the 2018 winner of the North Carolina Symphony’s Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Youth Concerto Competition. She recently received the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young and Emerging Artists and the Mary Graham Lasley Award from the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and was selected as a semifinalist in the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Short has performed 15 concertos with orchestras since 2015. Upcoming engagements include Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane with the Eastern Music Festival and An Appalachian Summer Festival under the baton of Gerard Schwarz, two performances of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and a 2020/21
debut with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. In 2015, Short was praised by harpist Elizabeth Hainen for her “stellar performance” of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto alongside members of The Philadelphia Orchestra in a Play with the Pros Concert in New York. She has performed in notable venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium (at age 15), the New York International Music Festival, and the Móra Ferenc Museum (Hungary) and Galeri Caernarfon (Wales) for International Harp Competitions. Having received an Ann Jett Rogers Scholarship from the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and the Ambassador Middendorf Young Artist Award from the U.S. Navy, she was also a finalist in the 2018 American Harp Society’s Anne Adams Awards and a presenter in the 2019 American Harp Society National Convention. Currently, she is a Tom Kenan Merit Scholar studying with Jacquelyn Bartlett at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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North Carolina Symphony Keitaro Harada, conductor RICHARD STRAUSS Introduction from Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
GUSTAV HOLST
Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets
JOHN WILLIAMS
Rey’s Theme from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Allegro ma non troppo from Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, “Pastoral”
Flight to Neverland from Hook
JOHN WILLIAMS
Princess Leia’s Theme from Star Wars Suite
Imperial March from Star Wars Suite Intermission
GUSTAV HOLST
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / ARR. ANDRE CAPLET
JOHN WILLIAMS
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets Clair de Lune (“Light of the Moon”) Luke and Leia from The Star Wars Saga
March of the Resistance from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
GUSTAV HOLST
Venus, the Bringer of Peace from The Planets
JOHN WILLIAMS Adventures on Earth from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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