Program 2: Star Wars: A New Hope Artist Profiles:

FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ROBERT SPANO, MUSIC DIRECTOR KEVIN JOHN EDUSEI, PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR KEITH CERNY, Ph.D., PRESIDENT AND CEO

Dec. 16–18, 2022 Will Rogers Auditorium Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

JOHN WILLIAMS

Feature Film with Orchestra

There will be one intermission

Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm Ltd., and Warner/Chappell Music. All rights reserved. © 2018 & TM LUCASFILM LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©DISNEY

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Star Wars Film Concert Series Star Wars: A New Hope

Twentieth Century Fox Presents A Lucasfilm Ltd. production

Starring Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness

Written and Directed by George Lucas

Produced by Gary Kurtz

Music by John Williams

Panavision Prints by Deluxe Technicolor MPAA PG Rating Logo: Dolby Logo: Twentieth Century Fox Logo: Disney Concerts

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available at Disneymusicemporium.com

Star Wars Film Concert Series Production Credits

President, Disney Music Group Ken Bunt

SVP/GM, Disney Concerts Chip McLean

Supervising Technical Director Alex Levy – Epilogue Media

Film Preparation Ramiro Belgardt

Business Affairs, Lucasfilm Rhonda Hjort

Chris Holm Music Preparation Mark Graham Matthew Voogt Joann Kane Music Service

Disney Music Library Operations, Disney Concerts Brannon Fells Royd Haston Jonathan Heely

For Booking Inquires: Emily.Yoon@ICMPartners.com Business Affairs, Disney Concerts Darryl Franklin Gina Lorscheider Phil Woods Elena Contreras Addison Granillo

Business Affairs, Warner-Chappell Scott McDowell

Marketing & Publicity Lisa Linares Maria Kleinman 20 | 2022/2023 SEASON

ABOUT JOHN WILLIAMS

In a career spanning more than six 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 for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone and The Book Thief.

His nearly 50-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 ExtraTerrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, The BFG and The Post. Mr. Williams has composed themes for four Olympic Games.

He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 14 seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by many of America’s most prominent orchestras. Mr. Williams has received five Academy Awards and 52 Oscar nominations (making him the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars), seven British Academy Awards, 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys.

In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. In 2004, he received the Kennedy Center Honors, and in 2009 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 a composer was honored with this award. And in 2020 he received Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts as well as the Gold Medal from the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society in the UK.

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ABOUT MIGUEL HARTHBEDOYA

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Emmy awardwinning and Grammy-nominated conductor, is a master of color, drawing idiomatic interpretations from a diverse and wide range of repertoire in concerts across the globe.

Celebrating more than 30 years of professional conducting, and with a deep commitment to passing his experience on to the next generation of musicians, he is currently the Mary Franks Thompson Director of Orchestral Studies at Baylor University, and Music Director of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra where in addition to performing, he teaches orchestral conducting at the undergraduate and graduate level.

He has also established The Conducting Institute to teach the fundamentals of conducting to students ages high school and up, of all levels, through an intensive summer and winter programs, workshops, courses, and seminars.

Harth-Bedoya has amassed considerable experience at the helm of orchestras, including recently completing tenures as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra - a post he held for seven seasons - and 20 seasons as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, where he now holds the title of Music Director Laureate and will conduct regularly. Previously he has held Music Director positions with the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand and the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, and the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra in Peru. Previously he held the position of Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Harth-Bedoya guest conducts with orchestras around the world. In the United States, he has conducted the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, among others. He is also frequently a guest at summer festivals such as Aspen Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Grant Park Festival, and Hollywood Bowl and the New Zealand Festival. Following his exceptional tenure as Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the early years of his career, Harth-Bedoya’s “special chemistry” (LA Times) with the orchestra remains strong and he returns often as a guest conductor.

Worldwide he is a frequent guest of the Helsinki Philharmonic, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, National Orchestra of Spain, New Zealand Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared with the Melbourne Symphony, London Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Bilbao Symphony and Barcelona Orchestras, among others. In the summer of 2016, Harth-Bedoya made his Japanese debut conducting both the NHK Symphony and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras.