A Chorus of Hits

April 16, 2010, 8:00 pm

Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre

A Chorus of Hits

2009 Robbins Pops

  • Jack Everly, conductor
    Richard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor)
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Pops master Jack Everly joins the ESO and the Richard Eaton Singers for a night of some of the best-loved and most famous works for chorus and orchestra. We’ve got some of the great choral treats from classics and opera like O Fortuna and the Humming Chorus. But we won’t overlook some of Broadway’s best – With a Song in My Heart, Sunrise, Sunset, and Song of a Summer night. We've also got a brand new arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah to pair up with Handel's famous Hallelujah Chorus!

Arrive early to hear Michael Bautista perform in the lobby as part of our Musicians in the Making program.

click for interactive map $79 Dress Circle (A)
$69 Terrace (B)
$58 Orchestra (C)
$49 Upper Circle (D)
$36 Gallery (E)
$24 Orchestra Front (F)
(click map for interactive version)

Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Thank you to the generous supporters of this series: Bill & Mary Jo Robbins

This concert is also performed on Saturday, April 17, 2010.

The next Robbins Pops performances are June 4 & 5, 2010.

Program Information

Program

RODGERS/HART
“With A Song In My Heart” (from Spring is Here)

MARTIN / BLANE
The Trolley Song (from Meet Me in Saint Louis)

TCHAIKOVSKY
Waltz (from The Sleeping Beauty)

POULENC
“Laudamus te” (from Gloria)

LLOYD WEBBER
“Pie Jesu” (from Requiem)

LOESSER
“Song of A Summer Night” (from The Most Happy Fella)

BOCK / HARNICK
“Sunrise, Sunset” (from Fiddler on the Roof)

COHEN
“Hallelujah”

HANDEL
“Hallelujah” (from Messiah)

Intermission

ORFF
“O Fortuna” (from Carmina Burana)

PUCCINI
Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly)

PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly: Prelude to Act III

BORODIN
Polovtsian Dances

HALLEY
"United in Song"

TCHAIKOVSKY
Ouverture solenelle, Opus 49 “1812”

Artist Information

jack everly

Jack Everly, conductor

Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He is widely known for his innovative approach to programs that have brought new audiences to the time-tested and beloved symphonic pops genre. This season he made his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center and appears as guest conductor in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Toronto, Cincinnati and Detroit.

Mr. Everly is the Music Director of Yuletide Celebration, now a 24-year tradition. These theatrical symphonic holiday concerts are presented annually in December in Indianapolis and are seen by more than 40,000 concert-goers. Mr. Everly led the ISO in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration, Volume One, that included three of his own arrangements.

Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mr. Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as Music Director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he has teamed with Marvin Hamlisch in Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored including, The Goodbye Girl, They’re Playing Our Song, and A Chorus Line. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.

In television and film, Jack Everly has appeared on In Performance at the White House and conducted the songs for Disney’s animated classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He has been music director on numerous Broadway cast recordings, and conducted the critically praised, Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Broadway’s Jule Styne. A CD released in July 2005, In the Presence, features tenor Daniel Rodriguez with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of Prague conducted by Mr. Everly.

In 1998, Jack Everly created the Symphonic Pops Consortium serving as Music Director. The Consortium, based in Indianapolis, produces a new theatrical pops program each season providing a superior quality artistic program for all. In the past nine years, more than 225 performances of SPC programs have taken place in 25 cities across the U.S. and Canada. This season’s world premiere will be Mysterioso: Music, Magic, Mayhem & Mirth.

In May 2009 Maestro Everly received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. When not on the podium or arranging, Maestro Everly indulges in his love for films, Häagen-Dazs, and a pooch named Max.

Richard Eaton Singers

Founded in 1951 by the late Richard S. Eaton, Edmonton’s symphonic choir, Richard Eaton Singers (RES), has played a leading role in the cultural community of the city for close to six decades. RES performances have included many Edmonton and Western Canadian premieres of choral masterpieces such as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony. RES has also commissioned and produced world premiere performances by Canadian composers including Mark Sirett’s In Praise of Music, Christos Hatzis’ The Sepulcher of Life and, most recently, The Houses Stand Not Far Apart by John Estacio. The choir is looking forward to premiering in March 2010 A Song of the Seasons by Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson with text by E. D. Blodgett to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Leonard Ratzlaff’s artistic leadership of RES.

The choir is honoured to have been associated with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. This partnership has created many memorable choral events in our city including Britten’s War Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Handel’s Messiah. In September of 1997 the choir performed Mahler’s 8th Symphony “Symphony of a Thousand” with the ESO to commemorate the opening of the Winspear Centre. In addition to its classical repertoire, RES enjoys performing a variety of music both on its own and as a guest of the ESO. The choir has traveled extensively across Canada, to the Netherlands, and Britain, and has exchanged with other choirs including the Vancouver Bach Choir. A highlight for RES was its participation at Festival 500 in Newfoundland in 2003.

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