MONTHLY PROGRAM

Holiday Sing-Along

Melissa Peterman, host John Sutton, conductor

Angeles Chorale

Bryan Pezzone, piano Sean Barrett, bass Philip Smith, organ Bryan Taylor, drums and percussion

Today’s program is presented without intermission.

Programs and artists subject to change.

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 3, 2022 11:30AM and 2:30PM

Michael Wilson is Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ Conservator.

Manuel Rosales and Kevin Cartwright are principal technicians for the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ.

Melissa Peterman John Sutton Angeles Chorale

Bryan Pezzone Sean Barrett Philip Smith Bryan Taylor

MELISSA PETERMAN

Growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Melissa Peterman first made a name for herself when she was cast in the local production of Tony and Tina’s Wedding. She has gone on to perform in over 600 shows and become a staple on the comedy and improv scene.

Melissa currently recurs in the CBS No. 1-rated comedy Young Sheldon. She starred as Bonnie Wheeler in ABC Family’s No. 1-rated comedy series Baby Daddy, which won the People’s Choice Award. Melissa is well known for her starring role as Barbra Jean on the hit series Reba. She also starred alongside Ed Asner and was an executive producer of Working Class for CMT. She guest starred in Retired at 35, Surviving Suburbia, Rita Rocks, Just Shoot Me, Cedric, Living in Abandon, The Pitts, and American Dad. She can also be seen on Disney’s Sydney to the Max. She is a frequent guest co-host on Access Live and Daily POP. Her first televised comedy special, Melissa Peterman: Am I the Only One?, aired on CMT, and she also starred in Dusty Peacock, the online series created for crackle.com.

Melissa has hosted several competition shows including Fox’s Punchline, four seasons of CMT’s The Singing Bee, ABC Family’s reality comedy-clip show Dancing Fools, and ABC’s primetime game show Bet on Your Baby. She competed in Food Network’s hit celebrity Worst Cooks. She recently created, produced, and co-starred in a pilot Val’s Hot Dish for the Food Network with Valerie Bertinelli and Nicole King. She had been a frequent guest on Fox’s syndicated hit 25 Words or Less, going into its third season.

Peterman made her feature film debut as Hooker No. 2 in the Coen Brothers’ Oscarwinning movie Fargo. Other film credits include 40 Is the New Dead, Here Comes the Boom, and Dirty Politics. She has toured with Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, George Strait, and Lee Ann Womack.

A long-standing guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Melissa has hosted the Sing-A-Long Sound of Music at the Hollywood Bowl since 2004. She also hosts the LA Phil’s annual Holiday Sing-Along at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Peterman is committed to many charities, including Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night, Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross, and the nonprofit Buzzworks Theatre Company.

Follow Melissa Peterman on Twitter at @Followtheblonde and on Instagram at @melissapeterman. alike. Today, he is one of the most active professional conductors in the nation.

Sutton holds degrees from Northwest University, San José State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. His mentors include Dr. Charlene Archibeque and Professor Donald Neuen, and he has worked and performed with notable conductors and choral luminaries such as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Eric Ericson, Weston Noble, Frank Pooler, Howard Swan, Paul Salamunovich, Anton Armstrong, Eph Ely, and Jerry Blackstone.

His performance career has taken him throughout the U.S. and abroad in choral concert tours and recording projects, including performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Constitution Hall. His performance tours have taken him across the U.S. and around the world, conducting throughout Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. His ongoing relationship with the LA Phil has resulted in conducting performances at the Hollywood Bowl with Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, and two sold-out performances with Julie Andrews at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Sutton’s enthusiasm for the choral art and his commitment to excellence has made him a popular choral clinician, festival conductor, and adjudicator, leading workshops for the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association of Church Musicians, American Christian Schools International, Choristers Guild, the national Conference on Liturgy and Worship, the Mount Herman

JOHN SUTTON

John Sutton, DMA, is the Artistic Director of the Angeles Chorale, where he has served the choral community of Los Angeles since 2004. His professional choral career spans over five decades of conducting in the community, church, academic, and professional settings. From major choral and instrumental works to concert and chamber choirs, to music for television and movies, Sutton is recognized for his ability to work with children, youth, adults, amateurs, and professionals

Summer Choral Conference, and many others. He was the plenary speaker at the National Association of Church Musicians, Mid-Winter Conference, and the featured clinician for the Lake Tahoe “Summer Sing.” Sutton has prepared choirs from the U.S. and the U.K. for performances at the Britannia Music Festival in Birmingham and London, and he is the founding conductor for the Exultate Deo Choral Festival in Buenos Aires. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2000, Sutton has conducted choral music heard on weekly television series and national ad campaigns for major motion pictures and events such as the Olympics, the Harry Potter series, the Spider-Man series, The Da Vinci Code, Fantastic Four, and countless others.

Sutton is a professor at Azusa Pacific University in the College of Music and the Arts (CMA), where he has been nominated for the national Arlin G. Meyer Award for Outstanding Musical Performance, received the inaugural Faith & Fine Arts Award, and, for two consecutive years, was CMA’s nominee for APU’s Most Inspirational Faculty of the Year.

He continues to lead and consult with the choral and worship programs at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, where he has served since fall 2000. He resides in Altadena with his wife, Dr. Cecilia PatiñoSutton, a native Argentine.

BRYAN PEZZONE

Bryan Pezzone maintains an active freelance performing and recording career and has been based in the Los Angeles area since 1987. He is known for playing in all genres, equally comfortable in the classical repertoire (including contemporary music and premieres) as in pop/jazz and improvisation. Pezzone has spent his entire life, from 18 months of age, at the piano, which he calls “home.”

He plays solo piano as well as performing in collaborations of all kinds. Pezzone was the principal pianist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra from its inception in 1991 through 1999. From 1987 to 2000, he was the chair and founder of the multi-focused keyboard program at the California Institute of the Arts.

He has recorded on innumerable motion-picture and television soundtracks. Beginning in the fall of 2017, Pezzone was asked to join the faculty of the Los Angeles College of Music as a multi-style specialist. He holds a degree from the Eastman School of Music and subsequently spent a year at the Banff Centre in Canada to focus on his own stylistic interplay, philosophies, and originality.

PHILIP SMITH

Philip Smith is active as a performer, as a substitute organist in Palm Springs and Los Angeles, and is organist for Congregation Har-El in Palm Desert. He was appointed Organ Conservator of Walt Disney Concert Hall in July 2004 and concluded his responsibilities in August 2019. Previous work has been at Temple Judea, Tarzana; Temple Israel of Hollywood (1998–2008); and Wilshire United Methodist Church, Los Angeles (2002-07). In June 2015, Smith was given the title of Honorary Canon of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, Los Angeles.

Smith was featured in Jennifer Zobelein’s 2006 book A Forest of Pipes, and he released a demonstration CD on the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ with Manuel Rosales, who built the famed instrument. A recent DVD, The Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ, and an expanded 10th-anniversary edition of the book are now available at the LA Phil Store.

Whether appearing as a soloist, a member of the Price/ Smith Duo for trumpet and organ, or as an accompanist for choral groups in Southern California, Smith has earned bravos worldwide. He has been the organist for the LA Phil’s annual Holiday Sing-Along since 2004. He was Dean of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (2013-16, 2018).

SEAN BARRETT

Sean Barrett is a Los Angelesbased composer, orchestrator, and bassist. His diverse background in many different genres has led him to write music for everything from indie films to jazz ensembles, brass bands, and string quartets. As an orchestrator, Barrett has worked alongside his associates at Tutti Music Partners to assist composers of a growing list of film, television, and video game projects, including Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Bridgerton, The Handmaid’s Tale, and God of War. When he is not playing or writing music, Barrett can typically be found nerding out with one of his favorite board games.

BRYAN TAYLOR

Bryan Taylor grew up in Los Angeles and began playing music at a young age. He graduated from Azusa Pacific University with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in percussion and drum set performance. Currently, Bryan is a full-time musician and is a faculty member in the music department at Citrus College in Glendora, CA. He has had the opportunity to travel the world and perform/record with many wonderfully talented artists over the years, such as Gwen Stefani, Lee Ritenour, Tommy Walker, Tyrone Wells, Eric Hutchinson, Crystal Lewis, Bebe Winans, Dale Kristien, and Melissa Manchester. More recently, Taylor can be heard drumming on the hit TV shows The Walking Dead and Eureka. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

ANGELES CHORALE

The Angeles Chorale is a 100-voice, auditioned, professional-level volunteer choir based in Los Angeles. For over 45 years, it has brought inspiring choral music experiences to the Los Angeles community.

Its mission is to engage, enrich, and inspire its audiences, singers, and a diverse community by performing great choral music with a passionate commitment to excellence and to increase access to and appreciation of choral music in greater Los Angeles.

The Angeles Chorale’s performance highlights include A John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall, sold-out performances with Julie Andrews at the LA Phil’s Holiday Sing-Along, and Barbra Streisand’s Back to Brooklyn concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

In 2014, the Chorale was featured with the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl in An Evening of Chinese Splendor and, in 2015, the Angeles Chorale performed in Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy at the Microsoft Theater. 2015 also marked the release of An American Christmas, recorded live in concert and featuring works by Morten Lauridsen, Alfred Burt, and Randol Alan Bass. In the summer of 2018, the Chorale was featured in live concert performances of Final Fantasy XIV at the Dolby Theatre and in a Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki at the Microsoft Theater.

The Angeles Chorale was founded in 1975 as the Valley Master Chorale by Bill and Ada Beth Lee under Bill Lee’s artistic direction. The Chorale merged with the Masterworks Chorale from Cal State Northridge in 1987 and performed under the baton of John Alexander for nine years; during this tenure, the name was changed to the Angeles Chorale. Upon Alexander’s departure, Donald Neuen, Director of Choral Activities at UCLA, stepped to the podium and led the organization for the next 13 years, focusing on classical masterworks for chorus and orchestra. The Chorale’s 2022/23 concert season marks its 13th under Artistic Director Dr. John Sutton.

The Angeles Chorale has performed with many fine orchestras and choral ensembles including the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and the American Youth Symphony.

For the past several years, the Angeles Chorale has worked with Immediate Music, Megatrax, and Two Steps from Hell, leasing libraries for movie previews and television commercials. Chorale voices can be heard in many Hollywood movie trailers, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tangled, Meet the Parents: Little Fockers, and Prince of Persia.

SPECIAL THANKS

We would like to thank Kathryn Orindgreff for creating all of Melissa’s costumes and making the Holiday SingAlong even more magical with her talent and creativity.

The Nutcracker with Dudamel: Tchaikovsky & Ellington

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus

Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, artistic director

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I (c. 45 minutes) Overture 1 Decoration and Illumination of the Christmas Tree 2 March 3 Children’s Galop and Entry of the Parents 4 Arrival of Drosselmeyer 5 Presentation of the Nutcracker and Grandfather’s Dance 6 Clara and the Nutcracker 7 The Nutcracker Battles the Army of the Mouse King 8 A Pine Forest in Winter 9 Waltz of the Snowflakes

INTERMISSION

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Suite (c. 7 minutes) /ELLINGTON Overture /STRAYHORN, Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed Pipes)

arr. TYZIK

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II (c. 2 minutes) 12c Divertissement: Tea 12d Divertissement: Trepak

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Suite (c. 12 minutes) /ELLINGTON Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers) /STRAYHORN, Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) arr. TYZIK Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II (c. 15 minutes) 14 Pas de deux 15 Finale

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 3, 2022 8PM

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 4 2PM

WEDNESDAY

DECEMBER 14 8PM

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 18 2PM

Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Wednesday’s concert is generously supported by the Otis Booth Foundation.

Programs and artists subject to change.