2021 Boston Pops Holiday Tour | The Hanover Theatre by TheHanoverTheatre

2021

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Welcoming

the Boston Pops BACK to Worcester

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THE BOSTON POPS ON TOUR KEITH LOCKHART, Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor JOHN WILLIAMS, George and Roberta Berry Boston Pops Conductor Laureate KEITH LOCKHART conducting with the Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, Music Director 2021 HOLIDAY TOUR We Gather Together: A Holiday Fanfare

Valerius-Bass

Hallelujah Chorus

Handel-Mozart

A Christmas Festival

arr. Anderson

México, Ángel y Pastor

Jaramillo-Rodríguez

Villancico Mexicano

Jaramillo/Aguirre-Rodríguez

The Good News Voyage arr. Coleman/Elliott Go Tell It on the Mountain—Rise, Shine for Your Light Is Coming—Mary Had a Baby Boy Of Lights, Nights, and Brass

arr. Kelly

A Soldier’s Carol Cheryl Singleton, narrator

Flaherty/Ahrens-Brohn

Happy Holiday!

arr. Mishkin

Veni, Veni Emmanuel Lisa Graham conducting

arr. Trotta

Excerpts from Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite Sugar Rum Cherry—Peanut Brittle Brigade

arr. Tyzik

INTERMISSION

Somewhere in My Memory, from Home Alone Williams A Visit from St. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas) Narration by Tye Roberson. Text by Clement C. Moore

Reisman

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Coots/Gillespie-Chase/Elliot

The Twelve Days of Christmas

arr. Chase

Steve Colby, Sound Designer | Rob Smith, Lighting Designer The Boston Pops Orchestra may be heard on Boston Pops Recordings, RCA Victor, Sony Classical and Philips Records.

Keith Lockhart Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995, following John Williams’s thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993. Keith Lockhart, who occupies the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, has conducted more than 2,000 Boston Pops concerts and annual Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, as well as 45 national tours and four international tours to Japan and Korea. The annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular conducted by Mr. Lockhart draws a live audience of over half a million to the Charles River Esplanade and millions more who view it on television or live webcast. He has led eight albums on RCA Victor/BMG Classics; recent releases on Boston Pops Recordings include A Boston Pops Christmas–Live from Symphony Hall, The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, and Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams. The list of more than 250 guest artists with whom Keith Lockhart has collaborated represents performers from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. Having recently completed an eightyear tenure as principal conductor, he is now chief guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London; he is also artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and festival in North Carolina. Prior to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven years as music director of the Utah Symphony. He has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic ensemble in North America and many in Asia and Europe. Before coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. For more on Keith Lockhart, visit keithlockhart.com or bostonpops.org. The Boston Pops In spring 2021 the Boston Pops, affectionately called “America’s Orchestra,” entered its 136th season of entertaining audiences in Boston and beyond, and Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart began his 27th season at the helm of the orchestra. In 1881, Civil War veteran Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra, calling its establishment “the dream of my life.” From the start he intended to present, in the warmer months, concerts of light classics and the popular music of the day. Seventeen Pops conductors, beginning with Adolf Neuendorff, preceded the legendary Arthur Fiedler (1930-1979). The first American-born musician to lead the orchestra, he established the Boston Pops as a national icon. When John Williams (1980-1993) succeeded Fiedler in 1980, he was the most highly acclaimed composer in Hollywood, and today, with 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the mostnominated living person in Academy history. With the Pops, Mr. Williams made a series of best-selling recordings, broadened and updated the Pops repertoire, and entertained audiences with live orchestral accompaniment to film clips of memorable movie scenes, many of which featured his own iconic scores. Having led more than 2,000 Boston Pops concerts in the past 27 years, Keith Lockhart (1995-present) has created programs that reach out to a broader and younger audience by presenting artists from virtually every corner of the entertainment world, all the while maintaining the Pops’ core appeal. Mr. Lockhart’s tenure has been marked by a dramatic increase in touring, the orchestra’s first Grammy nominations, the first major network national broadcast of the Fourth of July spectacular from the Esplanade, and the release of the Boston Pops’ first self-produced and self-distributed recordings. In 2017 the Pops opened a new page in its history, as the Pops organization presented its first self-produced Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. continued

Buy early to get the best seats at these upcoming shows. New shows added all the time! November 24 November 26 December 6 December 7 December 16-23 December 19 December 25 January 16 January 21 February 3 February 5 February 6 February 17 March 3-6 March 12 March 20 March 25 March 29 March 30 March 31 - April 3 April 7-10 April 14-17 April 26 - May 1 May 8 June 16-19 June 24 June 25

20 Days of Deals begin. Follow us on social media for details Conservatory registration opens for winter/spring 2022 semester Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical sponsored by Fidelity Investments Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies A Christmas Carol sponsored by Assumption University Relaxed Performance of A Christmas Carol $25 tickets on the 25th STOMP sponsored by Reliant Medical Group Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live! Neighbor Day sponsored by Webster Five Mystery Science Theatre 3000 LIVE: Time Bubble Tour Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock & Roll sponsored by Cornerstone Bank The Choir of Man Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies LIVE CATS sponsored by Country Bank** The Red Hot Chilli Pipers Brit Floyd World Tour 2022 Bert Kreischer: The Berty Boy Relapse Tour One Night of Queen sponsored by Eagle Cleaning Corporation An Evening with Straight No Chaser Summer: The Donna Summer Musical sponsored by Bay State Savings Bank** Blue Man Group sponsored by Berkshire Bank** Anastasia sponsored by Cornerstone Bank** The Prom sponsored by Fidelity Investments** The Kid Brother: Silent film accompanied by Clark Wilson on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ The Band's Visit sponsored by The Club at Rockland Trust** Gordon Lightfoot: The Legend in Concert Menopause the Musical®

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The Metropolitan Chorale Lisa Graham, Music Director Founded in 1979, The Metropolitan Chorale (metropolitanchorale.org) is an auditioned chorus that is recognized as one of metropolitan Boston’s premier choral ensembles. Since 2004 the ensemble has been under the direction of Dr. Lisa Graham, 2021 winner of the American Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting. Metropolitan Chorale concerts explore works by many of today’s leading American and British composers, as well as major choral masterworks. In addition to performances at All Saints Parish (Brookline, Massachusetts), the Chorale has been heard throughout the Boston area. Its Artists in Residence program enables the chorus to work with young professional singers. Under the leadership of Lisa Graham, The Metropolitan Chorale’s membership has grown to encompass 100 members who hail from communities throughout greater Boston. Dr. Graham has expanded the ensemble’s repertory and has enhanced the reputation and reach of the Chorale. Also the Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Programs at Wellesley College, she conducts the Wellesley College Choir, Chamber Singers and Choral Scholars and teaches academic courses. Active in the Boston musical scene and as a clinician and festival adjudicator, Dr. Graham prepared a vocal ensemble for this season’s Holiday Pops Kids’ Matinee and Sensory-Friendly concerts at Symphony Hall. Cheryl Singleton Cheryl Singleton is honored to be performing with Maestro Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops. Ms. Singleton is a professional actress and arts leader with stage, screen, television, and voice-over experience. Some of her credits include performances with Front Porch Arts; Theatre on Fire; Lyric Stage Company; New Repertory Theatre; Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; Wheelock Family Theatre; Gloucester Stage; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; and American Repertory Theater. She has appeared in improv festivals in New York City, Toronto and Chicago, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and StageSource, Ms. Singleton serves on three arts boards in the Boston community. Tye Roberson Tye Roberson (Narrator) is a versatile artist who acts and sings. Tye loves to explore new projects that participate in his growth as an artist. Whether they are film, television, voiceovers, musical theater or opera, Tye is ready to take the ride. Tye has recently been seen in a recurring role on Mozart in the Jungle Season 4. Tye is fortunate to have played the roles of Tom Collins (Rent), Jake (Porgy and Bess), Kofi (The Family Resemblance) and Duma (Underground) to name a few. Tye grew up singing, playing piano, organ and conducting choirs at church which developed a great love of Negro Spirituals and Gospel Music and has toured extensively throughout Europe and South America singing these genres. Tye’s rich baritone voice has given way to opportunities in voice-overs for companies like BBDO and The New York Historic Society and HHC. Tye studied classical voice at The Manhattan School of Music.

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A Christmas Carol as you experience music, dance, love, suspense and of course, redemption!

December

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