Program Notes: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

PROGRAM JOHN WILLIAMS Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ in Concert

This presentation will have one 20-minute intermission.

Saturday, July 29, 2017 | 7:30PM Sunday, July 30, 2017 | 7:30PM

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS™ IN CONCERT conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos

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Performances at Embarcadero Marina Park South

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ In Concert Produced by CineConcerts Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer Jennifer Wootton, Production Associate David Hoffis, Sound Engineer/Production Supervisor Ed Kalnins, Playback Operator and Synthesizer Production Marketing Director: Kory Kelly Press Manager: Andrew P. Alderete Worldwide Representation: WME Entertainment

Cars fly, trees fight back and monsters are on the loose in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! This concert features the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ in high-definition, on a giant screen, while a live orchestra performs John Williams’ unforgettable score.

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Music Preparation: JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Editing: Ramiro Belgardt and Ed Kalnins Sound RemixingJustin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios A Very Special Thanks to: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie Richardson, Alex Rabens and John Williams.

HARRY POTTER, characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING'S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s17)

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ABOUT THE COMPOSER

of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for

In a career spanning five decades,

Orchestra and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony

JOHN WILLIAMS has become one

Orchestra. In 2009 Mr. Williams composed and arranged Air

of America’s most accomplished

and Simple Gifts especially for the first inaugural ceremony of

and successful composers for film

President Barack Obama, and in September 2009 the Boston

and for the concert stage, and he

Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra

remains one of our nation’s most

entitled On Willows and Birches. In 2016, he received the 44th

distinguished and contributive

Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the

musical voices. He has composed

first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon

the music and served as music

a composer. n

the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland

director for more than 100 films, including all seven Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 40-year

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted

CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS

in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films,

has made a name for himself as a

including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic

conductor whose musical experiences

Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse and Lincoln. His contributions to television music include scores

comfortably span the worlds of opera and symphony, where he conducts in such venues as Carnegie Hall,

for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early

Avery Fisher Hall and Royal Albert

anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler

Hall, and musical theater, where he

Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984,

can be found leading orchestras on Broadway. The 2016-17 season marked his 7th as Music Director of the Festival of the Arts BOCA, an

1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games as well as the 2002

multi-day cultural arts event for South Florida. He also recently

Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards

completed an eight-year tenure as Music Director of the Queens

and fifty Oscar® nominations, making him the Academy’s most-

Symphony Orchestra.

nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars®. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-two Grammys®, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor in December of 2004. In 2009 Mr. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the

Mr. Kitsopoulos’ 2016-17 season included return engagements with the New Jersey Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley and the Calgary Philharmonic.

Also much in demand as a theater conductor, both on Broadway and nationwide, Mr. Kitsopoulos has been Music Director

highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government.

and Conductor of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella on

In January 1980 Mr. Williams was named nineteenth music

winning Broadway musical revival featuring Audra McDonald.

director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor which he assumed following his retirement in December, 1993, after 14 highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by several S AN D I EG O SYM PHONY ORCHES TRA 2017-18 SE ASON J U LY 2017

Broadway and of Gershwin’s’ Porgy and Bess, the Tony-Award Other musical theater highlights include serving as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Baz Luhrmann’s highly acclaimed production of Puccini’s La bohème.

For the San Diego Symphony, Constantine Kitsopoulos conducted the live screening of Home Alone at Copley Symphony Hall last December. n P ERFO RM AN C ES M AG A Z I N E

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