Program Notes: Jurassic Park in Concert

A STEVEN SPIELBERG Film

JURASSIC PARK SAM NEILL LAURA DERN JEFF GOLDBLUM and RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH

BOB PECK MARTIN FERRERO B.D. WONG SAMUEL L. JACKSON WAYNE KNIGHT JOSEPH MAZZELLO

Saturday, February 9 | 8PM

JURASSIC PARK IN CONCERT A Fox Theatre Film Series Presentation

ARIANA RICHARDS Live Action Dinosaurs STAN WINSTON Full Motion Dinosaurs by DENNIS MUREN, A.S.C. Dinosaur Supervisor PHIL TIPPETT Special Dinosaur Effects MICHAEL LANTIERI Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Film Edited by MICHAEL KAHN, A.C.E.

conductor Scott Terrell

Production Designer RICK CARTER Director of Photography DEAN CUNDEY, A.S.C.

Screening and performance at the Jacobs Music Center's Copley Symphony Hall

Based on the Novel by MICHAEL CRICHTON Screenplay by MICHAEL CRICHTON and DAVID KOEPP Produced by KATHLEEN KENNEDY and GERALD R. MOLEN Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

The Fox Theater Film Series is sponsored by

Jurassic Park is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios.

All rights reserved.

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Tonight's program is a presentation of the complete film Jurassic Park with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making.

In a career spanning more than five decades, JOHN WILLIAMS has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films, including all eight 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 45-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, The BFG and The Post. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler 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, 1988 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty-one Oscar® nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), 24 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 Honors in December of 2004. In 2009 Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016 he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer.

Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with a full symphony orchestra performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture.

Welcome… to Jurassic Park! n

Jurassic Park in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Manager Rob Stogsdill Production Coordinator Sophie Greaves Worldwide Representation IMG Artists, LLC Supervising Technical Director Mike Runice Technical Director Chris Szuberla Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Jurassic Park has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, Kristin Stark, Carol Nygren, Tamara Woolfork, Patrick Koors, Daniel Posener, Tammy Olsen, Angela Emery, Shayne Mifsud, Lauren Purnell, Darice Murphy, Chris Herzberger, Noah Bergman, Paul Ginsburg, Mike Matessino, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the San Diego Symphony.

In January 1980 Williams was named nineteenth music 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 of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the

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conducting. In 2000 Terrell was chosen as a fellowship conductor for the inaugural season of the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival under Music Director, David Zinman.

At Aspen, he was awarded the prestigious Conducting Prize from Zinman, an award recognizing exemplary musicianship and promise. n

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR Music Director of the Lexington Philharmonic since 2009, conductor SCOTT TERRELL has transformed the orchestra with his imaginative programs, engaging presence and determined passion for artistic excellence and viability. An ardent champion of new music and diversity of repertoire, he is a visionary leader with a keen intellect for bringing context to the concert hall. Adept in a broad range of repertoire from masterworks of orchestral canon, new commissions, opera and works beyond the mainstream, this American conductor can, as critics have noted, “program works that entertain and educate, innovate with new works and revitalize the old.”

A Note from the Composer

by John Williams

In his highly successful book, Jurassic Park, author Michael Crichton enabled us to imagine what the return of the great vertebrates of 150 million years ago might be like. In his thrilling 1993 film adaptation, Steven Spielberg brought these fascinating and terrifying creatures to life, and in so doing captivated movie audiences around the world.

I must say that I greatly enjoyed the challenge of trying to tell the film’s story musically. And while we can luxuriate this evening in the magnificent sound produced by the San Diego Symphony as they perform the entire score live to the picture, it’s nevertheless tempting to imagine what the trumpeting of these great beasts of the distant past might have been like…

I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of Jurassic Park in saying that we’re greatly honored by this event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will have some measure of the joy we experienced while making the film more than twenty years ago. n

In great demand as an international guest conductor, recent seasons included several important debuts including the Baltimore Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Houston Symphony, Fort Worth Opera, Colorado Music Festival, Tucson Symphony and the Kirchner-Waterloo Symphony. Terrell debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra in an all-Gershwin program in 2017, and had other debuts with the St. Louis Symphony, Vancouver Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He has been on the cover conductor staff of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012, assisting Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin and regularly leading their pre-concert lectures.

Terrell has led concert and productions with many prestigious international organizations including Opera Colorado, Opera Hong Kong, Colorado Symphony, Arizona Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Milwaukee Symphony, Spoleto Festival and Naples Philharmonic.

Multi-media presentations have been a staple in Terrell’s diverse repertoire – in particular his growing collaborations with film scores. He conducted The Wizard of Oz and Raiders of the Lost Ark at Lexington’s Keeneland Race Track, and Bernard Hermann’s iconic score for Psycho with the Vancouver Symphony.

A native of Michigan, Terrell is a graduate of Western Michigan University, and the University of Minnesota in orchestral

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