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This special matinee performance for the whole family is the perfect way to get those sugar plums dancing! Favourite ESO guest conductor Steven Reineke will be joined by our new Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin and special guests for holiday songs and carols, and a performance of the magical animated film The Snowman, projected above the stage as the orchestra performs the score live. This performance will last approximately 75 minutes, without intermission.

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs by arrangement with Snowman Enterprises Ltd © 1982, 2009 www.thesnowman.co.uk

Adults $30 / Child $15

Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

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We will be collecting food bank donations at all ESO Christmas concerts. Please remember the less fortunate and bring your non-perishable food donations as you celebrate the season with us!

The next ESO Special performance is Piano Spectacular on March 10, 2010.

Program Information

Program

ANDERSON
Sleigh Ride

TRADITIONAL
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Arr Goldstein)

VARIOUS
Carolling Fun (Arr Bruce Healey)
“Here We Come a Wassailing” / “Over the River and Through the Woods” / “Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella” / “Pat-A-Pan” / “Jolly Old St Nicholas” / “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”

TCHAIKOVSKY
Two Selections from The Nutcracker Suite, Opus 71a
Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy / Russian Dance (Trepak)

BOOTHS / BEAL
Jingle Bell Rock (Arr Reineke)

VARIOUS
Holiday Favourites (Arr Healey)
“Santa Claus is Coming To Town” / “Here Comes Santa Claus” / “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” / “Frosty the Snowman” / “Jingle Bells”

VARIOUS
Christmas Sing Along (Arr Reineke)
“Oh Come All Ye Faithful” / “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” / “Joy to the World” / “Silent Night”

TRADITIONAL
“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” (Arr Healey)

BLAKE
The Snowman

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs by arrangement with Snowman Enterprises Ltd © 1982, 2009 www.thesnowman.co.uk

Artist Information

 

Lucas Waldin, conductor

 

The 2009/10 season marks the first for Lucas Waldin as Resident Conductor for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This mentorship position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts. Mr. Waldin graduated in 2006 from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Masters in Conducting. He has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-Sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart. Lucas was assistant conductor of the contemporary orchestra RED (Cleveland), director of the Cleveland Bach Consort, and a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2007, he was invited to conduct the Miami-based New World Symphony Orchestra in masterclasses given by Michael Tilson Thomas. In Lucerne in 2009, he also participated in a masterclass led by Bernard Haitink, with the Lucerne Festival Strings.

A native of Toronto, Lucas Waldin has spent summers studying in Europe, including studies at the International Music Academy in Leipzig, the Bayreuth Youth Orchestra, and the Acanthes New Music Festival in France. On this continent, he has studied under the renowned Bach conductor Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, and has attended conducting masterclasses with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. Mr. Waldin received a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the Cleveland Institute, studying with Joshua Smith.

 

Steven Reineke, conductor

 

Steven Reineke begins his tenure as Music Director of The New York Pops in the 2009-2010 season. Mr. Reineke conducts the orchestra’s annual concert series at Carnegie Hall as well as tours, recordings, and nationwide telecasts, including the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC Television. New York’s only permanent and professional symphonic pops orchestra, The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States.

Mr. Reineke begins as Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra in 2009-2010 and he retains that title with the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he holds the title of Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, where for more than thirteen years he has served as a composer, arranger, and conducting protégé of the celebrated pops conductor Erich Kunzel.

Steven Reineke’s recent guest conducting appearances include the orchestras of Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Vancouver and Edmonton. In 2009 he made his Boston Pops and Philadelphia Orchestra debuts. In 2008 Mr. Reineke made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting The New York Pops 25th Birthday Gala. Mr. Reineke makes his Asian debut conducting the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2009. He made his Hollywood Bowl debut in 2007 with the multi-faceted entertainer Wayne Brady and returned to the Hollywood Bowl in 2008 to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition, Mr. Reineke conducted, arranged and orchestrated the music for Mr. Brady’s orchestral show and played the same role in his collaboration with rock legend Peter Frampton.

As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s arrangements have been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. Mr. Reineke is also an established symphonic composer. His works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America, with the most recent performances by the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic in July 2008. In August 2008 his Sun Valley Festival Fanfare debuted with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony to commemorate the opening of the orchestra’s new pavilion. In 2005 his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were performed by the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops respectively. The Cincinnati Enquirer had this to say about Festival Te Deum: “Melodious and joyous, it had antiphonal brass in the balconies, organ, full orchestra and wonderful choral passages.” His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world.

A native of Ohio, Mr. Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in New York City. Mr. Reineke is represented by Peter Throm Management, LLC.

Media

Clip from the animated film "The Snowman":

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs by arrangement with Snowman Enterprises Ltd © 1982, 2009 www.thesnowman.co.uk