Valentine's Day with Kenny G - Pacific Symphony

FEB. 14, 15, 16
pops series
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Concerts begin at 8 p.m.
presents
2012-2013 POPS SERIES
Valentine’s Day with Kenny G
Richard Kaufman • conductor | Kenny G • saxophone
Robert Damper • piano | Daniel Bejarano • drums
John Raymond • guitar | Ron Powell • percussion | Vail Johnson • bass
Jane Taylor • guest conductor (friday only)
OC Can You Sing? Finalists:
Brooke DeRosa • vocalist | Monty Linton • vocalist
Amanda Strader • vocalist | grant Yosenick • vocalist
Meredith Wilson
Richard Rodgers/
oscar Hammerstein II
Frank wildhorn/
leslie Bricusse
Jule Styne/Bob Merrill
Claude-Michel Schönberg/
alain Boublil
Kenneth Joseph Alford
Brian Shyer
Seventy-Six Trombones from The Music Man
I Love You from Carousel
Brooke deRosa
This Is the Moment from Jekyll & Hyde
Monty Linton
Don’t Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl
Amanda Strader
Bring Him Home from Les Misérables
Grant Yosenick
Colonel Bogey March (Friday night only)
Jane Taylor
Century of Flight
INTERMISSION
Kenny G
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RICHARD
meet the principal pops conductor
R
ichard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising
music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music
in concert halls and on recordings. The 2012-13 concert season marks Kaufman’s 22nd
season as Principal Pops Conductor of Pacific Symphony. He also holds the permanent title
of Pops Conductor Laureate with the Dallas Symphony, and is in his eighth season with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series, “Friday Night at the Movies.”
Kaufman regularly appears as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras both throughout
the United States and around the world including Cleveland, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, St. Louis,
Houston, the National Symphony in Washington DC, London, Calgary, Edmonton, Liverpool, the
RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Rotterdam and the Malaysian Philharmonic. In addition to
conducting “traditional” concert presentations, Kaufman often leads performances of complete
film scores in concert, synchronizing the music to the actual film as it is shown on the screen above
the orchestra. These legendary film titles include The Wizard of Oz, Psycho, Casablanca, The Bride
of Frankenstein, Pirates of the Caribbean and various silent films. In October 2011, Kaufman
conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert of the film music of Dimitri Tiomkin.
This recording has recently been released to rave reviews on the LSO LIVE recording label.
Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Instrumental
Performance. In addition to his two recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, he has
recorded CDs with the Nuremberg Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the
Brandenburg Philharmonic in Berlin. He has conducted for performers including John Denver,
Andy Williams, Mary Martin, Nanette Fabray, Sir James Galway, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, The
Pointer Sisters, The Beach Boys, Peter Paul and Mary, Robert Goulet, David Copperfield, The
Righteous Brothers and Art Garfunkel.
As a violinist, Kaufman performed on numerous film and television scores including Jaws, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever and (in a moment of desperation) Animal
House. He has recorded with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, The
Carpenters and Ray Charles.
Kaufman joined the music department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1984 as music
coordinator, and for the next 18 years supervised music for MGM. He received two Emmy
Award nominations, one for the animated series The Pink Panther, in the category of
Outstanding Music Direction and Composition, and another for Outstanding Original Song coauthored
for the series All Dogs Go to Heaven. For the MGM television series In the Heat of the
Night, Kaufman composed songs with actor/producer Carroll O’Connor. He conducted the scores
for films including Guarding Tess and Jungle to Jungle. As a unique part of his career in film,
Kaufman has coached various actors in musical roles including Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore
and Tom Hanks.
Kaufman has served as music director and conductor for numerous musicals, including a national
tour of Sweet Charity starring Juliet Prowse, the first national tours of Company (for Hal Prince)
and Two Gentlemen of Verona (for the New York Shakespeare Festival). He also conducted
numerous musicals for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Operas (for one of these, he
was nominated by the San Francisco Theater Critics for Outstanding Music Direction).
Richard Kaufman
Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom
Family Foundation Principal
Pops Conductor Chair
In April of 2012, Kaufman received the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from his alma mater,
California State University, Northridge (CSUN). While a student at CSUN, he composed the
University’s Alma Mater and Fight Song. In May 2008, Kaufman was the keynote speaker
for the CSUN Honors Convocation Ceremony. He has appeared as a guest speaker at various
universities including USC, Georgia and the California State Universities at Northridge and
Fullerton. He is a member of the Music Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation.
Born in Los Angeles, Kaufman began violin studies at age 7, played in the Peter Meremblum
California Junior Symphony and was a member of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut
Orchestra. He attended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in the fellowship program,
and earned a B.A. in Music from California State University, Northridge. Kaufman lives in
Southern California with his wife, Gayle, a former dancer in film, television and on Broadway.
His daughter, Whitney is a graduate (with honors) from Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
and for 2 ½ years was a member of the cast of the national tour of Mamma Mia.
Kaufman is proud to be represented by Opus 3 Artists.
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KENNY
meet the guest artist
I
n a recording career that spans almost three decades and 23 albums, Grammy Awardwinning
saxophonist Kenny G has grafted elements of R&B, pop and Latin to a jazz
foundation solidifying his reputation as the premiere artist in contemporary jazz. Since
the early ‘80s, his combination of unparalleled instrumental chops and indelible melodies has
resulted in sales of more than 75 million records worldwide (45 million in the U.S. alone) and
more than a dozen climbs to the top of Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart.
Given these and other commercial and critical achievements, one might think Kenny is an artist
with nothing to prove but he once again reaffirms his enduring place in popular music with the
June 29, 2010, release of Heart and Soul on Concord Records. Following up on the success of
Rhythm and Romance, his first Latin jazz album and his Concord debut in 2008, Heart and Soul
captures the spirit and the vibe of the classic R&B that Kenny grew up listening to in his native
Seattle.
Kenny’s longtime songwriting partner and producer, Walter Afanasieff, once again serves as a
creative foil in the making of this record. In addition, guest vocalists Robin Thicke and Kenny
“Babyface” Edmonds each take a turn at the mic.
In many respects, this album takes him back to the beginning – the R&B of the early and mid-
1970s that Kenny soaked up during his teen years at an inner-city Seattle high school where he
mixed with a culturally diverse student body at a young age. Inspired by the likes of Earth, Wind
& Fire and Grover Washington, Jr., he was only 17 when he landed a gig with Barry White and his
Love Unlimited Orchestra at the Paramount Northwest Theater (now the Paramount Theater) in
1973.
After high school, the gigs with R&B and contemporary jazz artists like White and Jeff Lorber
kept coming. In 1982, he landed a record deal with Arista and launched a solo career with three
critically acclaimed jazz albums – Kenny G (1982), G-Force (1983) and Gravity (1985). By the
‘90s, he was a multi-platinum seller and a frequent collaborator with some of the most iconic
figures in American popular music, including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole and
Frank Sinatra.
His subsequent studio albums, Silhouette (1988) and Breathless (1992), were hugely successful,
the latter selling more than 12 million records in the U.S. alone and spawning the Grammywinning
single, “Forever in Love.”
Other career highlights include Miracles, a 1994 holiday album that took him to the top of the
Billboard chart for the first time and has since become the best-selling holiday album of all time.
His two holiday albums since then – Faith in 1999 and Wishes in 2002 – have been similarly
successful.
At Last…The Duets Album, released in 2004, featured performances by Barbara Streisand, Burt
Bacharach and LeAnn Rimes, along with a remake of Outkast’s “The Way You Move” with Earth,
Wind and Fire.
He joined Concord in 2008 with the release of Rhythm and Romance, an album that united him
with an all-star lineup of Latin musicians, including guitarist Ramon Stagnaro; percussionists
Michito Sanchez, Paulino Da Costa and Ron Powell; and legendary Weather Report drummer
Alex Acuña. In many respects, Heart and Soul is a culmination of everything that has come before
it — a confident statement from an instrumentalist and songwriter who remains true to his own
voice after nearly three decades of artistically satisfying and commercially compelling recordings.
Kenny G
saxophone
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GUESTS
meet the oc can you sing? contestants
Brooke deRosa began her voice studies under the guidance of the late Alice Branagan in
Westchester County, N.Y. During her senior year of high school, deRosa’s family moved
to Florida where she placed third in the Bach Festival Society. As a college sophomore
she was spotted while working during her summer break and recruited to join the cast of Ben
Hur, a new musical which opened in Orlando, Fla. DeRosa graduated with a double major in
music and theatre from Washington and Lee University and was awarded the John Graham
Award in Fine Arts. She is a recipient of the Leni Fe Bland Scholarship Award in Santa
Barbara. She has traveled to Spain, performing the soprano solos in Leonard Bernstein’s Lark
Chorus in Toledo, Seville, Grenada, Cordoba and Madrid. Most recently she was an operatic
soloist on the Jimmy Kimmel stage, performed all the lyric opera roles in Jonathan Price’s new
opera, Aesopera, at the Pasadena Playhouse and played Sister Genevieve in Suor Angelica with
Center Stage Opera.
Brooke DeRosa
Born on April 6, 1968, Monty Linton got his musical start in second grade when he was
the “Solo Santa” at Meadowlark Elementary (Great Falls, Mont.). Following, Linton
spent his young life in many school music programs. Then, as a college freshman, he
landed a spot with Montana State University’s elite college jazz ensemble. At age 23, Linton
joined “Up with People,” a traveling educational music group, and toured nine different
countries as one of the cast “leads.” Linton moved to Southern California in 1996, and joined
the William Hall Master Chorale. The group performed with the likes of Carol Burnett, sang
back-up on Celine Dion’s Christmas album and did a 14-city tour with Keith Lockhart and the
Boston Pops. Linton is currently a member of the Men Alive Chorus which recently kicked off
its season with “Winter Spectacular” featuring Liza Minnelli. Linton’s greatest passion is for
music, and he is very thankful for any opportunity to continue to share his passion through his
voice and a great song!
Monty Linton
Amanda Strader
Amanda Strader is thrilled to be singing with the Pacific Symphony again! Having
made her debut in the first OC Can You Sing? competition singing “Defying Gravity”
from Wicked, she was invited back later that year to sing the National Anthem at the
Symphony’s Fourth of July Spectacular. Since then, she has been busy building her tutoring
business while pursuing her dreams of performing. After appearing in the world premiere
musical Jane Eyre with Fullerton Civic Light Opera, she earned the part of Cathy in The Last
Five Years. Next, she joined the non-profit organization, Broadway Knights, where she has had
the honor of sharing the stage with Sutton Foster, Karen Olivo, Norm Lewis, Adam Pascal,
Anthony Rapp and Shoshana Bean. Classical singing is also in Strader’s repertoire, including
Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Evil Princess) and choral soprano solos (Mozart’s Requiem and
Rutter’s Requiem), as well as contralto solos (Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir and Vaughan William’s
Magnificat). Strader thanks God for the gift of music and all those who have loved and
supported her through the years.
Grant Yosenick is a tenor from Laguna Niguel. Born with a chronic visual impairment,
he showed a keen aptitude for music from an early age. In his freshman year of high
school, he made his musical theater debut as the Steward in Into the Woods. Since then
he has performed such roles as Charles in Titanic, Noah in Children of Eden and Jean Valjean in
Les Misérables. As a sophomore, Yosenick began taking voice lessons with instructor Kathleen
Martin and joined his high school’s Chamber Singers group. With much training and practice,
he was accepted into the USC Thornton School of Music where he currently studies voice with
renowned tenor Gary Glaze. As a college student, his most recent arts endeavor has been with
the Chamber Opera of USC, a student performance group whose repertoire includes light operas
and musicals. This is his first year in the OC Can You Sing? competition, and whatever happens,
he hopes to do his best.
Grant Yosenick
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ABOUT
pacific symphony
P
acific Symphony, celebrating its 34th season in 2012-13, is led by Music Director Carl
St.Clair, who marks his 23rd season with the orchestra. The largest orchestra formed
in the U.S. in the last 40 years, the Symphony is recognized as an outstanding ensemble
making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own burgeoning
community of Orange County. Presenting more than 100 concerts a year and a rich array of
education and community programs, the Symphony reaches more than 275,000 residents—
from school children to senior citizens.
The Symphony offers moving musical experiences with repertoire ranging from the great
orchestral masterworks to music from today’s most prominent composers, highlighted by the
annual American Composers Festival and a new series of multi-media concerts called “Music
Unwound.”
The Symphony also offers a popular Pops season led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard
Kaufman, who celebrates 22 years with the orchestra in 2012-13. The Pops series stars some
of the world’s leading entertainers and is enhanced by state-of-the-art video and sound. Each
Pacific Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a three-concert chamber music series, and
Classical Connections, an orchestral series on Sunday afternoons offering rich explorations of
selected works led by St.Clair. Assistant Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy, now in his final season
with the Symphony, brings a passionate commitment to building the next generation of audience
and performer through his leadership of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as the
highly regarded Family Musical Mornings series.
Since 2006-07, the Symphony has performed in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall,
with striking architecture by Cesar Pelli and acoustics by the late Russell Johnson. In September
2008, the Symphony debuted the hall’s critically acclaimed 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie
Concert Organ. In March 2006, the Symphony embarked on its first European tour, performing
in nine cities in three countries.
Founded in 1978, as a collaboration between California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)
and North Orange County community leaders led by Marcy Mulville, the Symphony performed
its first concerts at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium as the Fullerton Chamber Orchestra under
the baton of then-CSUF orchestra conductor Keith Clark. The following season the Symphony
expanded its size, changed its name to Pacific Symphony Orchestra and moved to Knott’s Berry
Farm. The subsequent six seasons led by Keith Clark were at Santa Ana High School auditorium
where the Symphony also made its first six acclaimed recordings. In September 1986, the
Symphony moved to the new Orange County Performing Arts Center, where Clark served as
music director until 1990.
The Symphony received the prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming in
2005 and 2010. In 2010, a study by the League of American Orchestras, “Fearless Journeys,”
included the Symphony as one of the country’s five most innovative orchestras. The orchestra
has commissioned such leading composers as Michael Daugherty, James Newton Howard, Paul
Chihara, Philip Glass, William Bolcom, Daniel Catán, William Kraft, Tobias Picker, Frank
Ticheli and Chen Yi, who composed a cello concerto in 2004 for Yo-Yo Ma. In March 2012,
the Symphony premiered Danielpour’s Toward a Season of Peace. The Symphony has also
commissioned and recorded The Passion of Ramakrishna by Philip Glass (released in September
2012), An American Requiem, by Richard Danielpour, and Elliot Goldenthal’s Fire Water
Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio with Yo-Yo Ma.
PACIFIC SYMPHONY
The Symphony’s award-winning education programs benefit from the vision of St.Clair and are
designed to integrate the Symphony and its music into the community in ways that stimulate all
ages. The orchestra’s Class Act program has been honored as one of nine exemplary orchestra
education programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the League of American
Orchestras. The list of instrumental training initiatives includes Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra,
Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings.
In addition to its winter home, the Symphony presents a summer outdoor series at Irvine’s
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, the organization’s summer residence since 1987.
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MEET
the orchestra
CARL ST.CLAIR • MUSIC DIRECTOR
William J. Gillespie Music Director Chair
RICHARD KAUFMAN • PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR
Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair
MAXIM ESHKENAZY • ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Alejandro Gutiérrez • ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair
FIRST VIOLIN
Raymond Kobler
Concertmaster,
Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair
Paul Manaster
Associate Concertmaster
Jeanne Skrocki 20
Assistant Concertmaster
Nancy Coade Eldridge
Christine Frank
Kimiyo Takeya
Ayako Sugaya
Ann Shiau Tenney
Maia Jasper
Robert Schumitzky
Agnes Gottschewski
Dana Freeman
Grace Oh
Jean Kim
Angel Liu
Marisa Sorajja
Second Violin
Bridget Dolkas*
Jessica Guideri**
Yen-Ping Lai
Yu-Tong Sharp
Ako Kojian
Ovsep Ketendjian
Linda Owen
Phil Luna
MarlaJoy Weisshaar
Robin Sandusky 30
Alice Miller-Wrate
Shelly Shi
10
Viola
Robert Becker* 30
Catherine and James Emmi Chair
Meredith Crawford**
Carolyn Riley
John Acevedo
Erik Rynearson
Luke Maurer
Julia Staudhammer 20
Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang
Pamela Jacobson
Adam Neeley
Cheryl Gates 10
Margaret Henken
Cello
Timothy Landauer* 20
Kevin Plunkett**
John Acosta
Robert Vos
László Mezö
Ian McKinnell
M. Andrew Honea
Waldemar de Almeida
Jennifer Goss
Rudolph Stein
Bass
Steven Edelman*
Douglas Basye**
Christian Kollgaard
David Parmeter†
Paul Zibits
David Black
Andrew Bumatay 30
Constance Deeter
Flute
Benjamin Smolen*
Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair
Sharon O’Connor
Cynthia Ellis
Piccolo
Cynthia Ellis
Oboe
Jessica Pearlman*
Suzanne R. Chonette Chair
Deborah Shidler
English Horn
Lelie Resnick
Clarinet
Benjamin Lulich*
The Hanson Family Foundation Chair
David Chang
Bass Clarinet
Joshua Ranz
Bassoon
Rose Corrigan*
Elliott Moreau
Andrew Klein
Allen Savedoff
Contrabassoon
Allen Savedoff
French Horn
Keith Popejoy*
Mark Adams
James Taylor**
Russell Dicey 30
Trumpet
Barry Perkins*
Tony Ellis
David Wailes
Trombone
Michael Hoffman*
David Stetson
Bass Trombone
Robert Sanders
TUBA
James Self*
Timpani
Todd Miller*
Percussion
Robert A. Slack*
Cliff Hulling
Harp
Mindy Ball*
Michelle Temple
Piano•Celeste
Sandra Matthews*
Personnel Manager
Paul Zibits
Librarians
Russell Dicey
Brent Anderson
Production
Stage Manager
Will Hunter
Assistant
Stage Manager
William Pruett
* Principal
** Assistant Principal
† On Leave
The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7.
Celebrating 30, 20 or 10 years with
Pacific Symphony this season.
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