Program Notes PDF - The Grant Park Music Festival
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<strong>Grant</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Orchestra and Chorus<br />
Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor<br />
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director<br />
A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration<br />
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 6:30PM<br />
Jay Pritzker Pavilion<br />
<strong>Grant</strong> <strong>Park</strong> orchestra AND CHORUS<br />
Christopher Bell, Conductor<br />
Rebecca Luker, Soprano<br />
Doug LaBrecque, Tenor<br />
William Michals, Baritone<br />
RODGERS<br />
RODGERS &<br />
HAMMERSTEIN<br />
KERN & HAMMERSTEIN<br />
RODGERS & HART<br />
RODGERS &<br />
HAMMERSTEIN<br />
Overture from <strong>The</strong> King and I<br />
It’s a Grand Night for Singing from State Fair<br />
All the Things You Are from Very Warm for May<br />
Make Believe from Show Boat<br />
Ol’ Man River from Show Boat<br />
Falling In Love with Love from <strong>The</strong> Boys from Syracuse<br />
Where or When from Babes in Arms<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong> from <strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Lonely Goatherd from <strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong><br />
Edelweiss from <strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong><br />
Climb Ev’ry Mountain from <strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong><br />
Intermission<br />
RODGERS<br />
RODGERS &<br />
HAMMERSTEIN<br />
Carousel Waltz<br />
<strong>The</strong>re Is Nothin’ Like a Dame from South Pacific<br />
I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy from South Pacific<br />
Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific<br />
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ from Oklahoma!<br />
Shall We Dance? from <strong>The</strong> King and I<br />
Soliloquy from Carousel<br />
Oklahoma! from Oklahoma!<br />
This concert is sponsored by<br />
2013 <strong>Program</strong> <strong>Notes</strong>, Book 3 A15
Christopher Bell’s biography can be found on page 10.<br />
Wednesday, July 17, 2013<br />
Rebecca Luker’s Broadway credits include Mary Poppins<br />
(Tony Award nomination), Nine, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Man (Tony, Drama<br />
Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), <strong>The</strong> Sound of <strong>Music</strong><br />
(Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Showboat (Tony Award<br />
nomination), <strong>The</strong> Secret Garden (Drama Desk Nomination) and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Phantom of the Opera. With New York City Opera, Ms.<br />
Luker was featured in X: <strong>The</strong> Life and Times of Malcolm X and<br />
Brigadoon. In concert she has appeared with orchestras across<br />
the country and at the Library of Congress and New York’s Town<br />
Hall, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Her television credits include the CBS Television<br />
movie Cupid and Cate, Law and Order-SVU, Boardwalk Empire, Matlock, An Evening<br />
with the Pops, An Oscar Hammerstein Celebration and A Tribute to Rodgers and<br />
Hart, <strong>The</strong> Kennedy Center Honors honoring Julie Andrews, and a Richard Rodgers<br />
Celebration with the Boston Pops. Rebecca Luker was born and raised in Birmingham,<br />
Alabama and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Montevallo.<br />
Doug LaBrecque has appeared in both the title role and as<br />
Raoul in the Harold Prince production of <strong>The</strong> Phantom of the<br />
Opera. His additional Broadway credits include Ravenal in the<br />
Hal Prince revival of Showboat. Mr. LaBreque was featured in<br />
Oscar Hammerstein’s 100th Birthday Celebration on Broadway at<br />
the Gershwin <strong>The</strong>atre and toured nationally with Les Misérables.<br />
A graduate of University of Michigan, Mr. LaBrecque has been<br />
soloist with many of America’s leading orchestra, including the<br />
National Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra,<br />
Atlanta Symphony and San Francisco Symphony. In a tribute to Richard Rodgers, Mr.<br />
LaBrecque recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the New York Pops,<br />
the same season he debuted with the Boston Pops. His other special engagements<br />
have included singing with Carole Bayer-Sager at Feinsteins’ in Manhattan and the<br />
Cinegrill in Los Angeles, and appearing onstage with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin<br />
Hatch (singing together!) at Hickory Hill, the legendary home of Ethel Kennedy.<br />
WILLIAM MICHALS made his Broadway debut as <strong>The</strong> Beast in<br />
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and later returned to play Gaston<br />
in the same production. His career has continued in such roles<br />
as Javert in Les Misérables, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Don Quixote<br />
in Man of La Mancha, Harold Hill in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Man and the title<br />
role in <strong>The</strong> Phantom of the Opera. A recipient of the prestigious<br />
Anselmo Award, Mr. Michals also earned recognition by the<br />
National STAR awards for his portrayal of Chauvelin in the national<br />
tour of <strong>The</strong> Scarlet Pimpernel. Mr. Michals appears regularly with<br />
the country’s leading orchestras, including San Diego, Utah and Hartford; he recently<br />
returned to Peter Nero and the Philly Pops for another sold-out evening of “Broadway<br />
Showstoppers.” He enjoys the rare distinction of performing for the joint leadership of<br />
the House and Senate inside the United States Capitol. Mr. Michals also enjoys a career<br />
in opera, having appeared in leading roles in Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, La Bohème,<br />
Die Walküre and <strong>The</strong> Merry Widow.<br />
A16 2013 <strong>Program</strong> <strong>Notes</strong>, Book 3
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