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GloriaCHRISTMAS CONCERT Highland Choral Arts Cathy Jolley, director Featuring: TIMPANOGOS Rutter, Gloria SYMPHONY Wilberg, The First Nowell ORCHESTRA Handel, Selections from Messiah John Pew Friday, December 9, 2016 and Music Director Saturday, December 10, 2016 • 7:30 PM Timberline Middle School 500 West Canyon Crest, Alpine Season Sponsor Member FDIC A Message from the Music Director Dear Friends, of items for our auction—everything from Merry Christmas and welcome to our concert. restaurant gift cards to wisdom teeth extraction. What better way to start the holiday season The silent auction is an important part of our than with a concert of great Christmas music. annual fundraising and your participation is We hope that our concert will add to your appreciated. Please look over our items before holiday cheer and bring the true spirit of the concert and during intermission. I’m sure Christmas to each of you. you’ll find something of interest on which to bid. I am particularly delighted Another important part of our fundraising is to welcome the Highland Choral the Bank of American Fork’s matching donation Arts as our partners in this program. The bank will match your donation concert. The Highland Choral Arts dollar for dollar up to a total of $15,000. This is a relatively new choir formed by program expires on December 31, 2016. Please director, Cathy Jolley. Cathy is consider a donation of any amount to the well-known in the area as an Timpanogos Symphony through the bank’s outstanding choir director and is matching program. You can use the envelope the choir director at Timberline that was included with the program, or go to Middle School. I was so happy to our website (thetso.org) and click on the link on learn that she had started a new community our home page to make an online donation. All choir and sought her out to perform with us donations are tax deductible. You might not this year. Christmas choral music provides us the realize that ticket sales represent less 25 percent ability to present familiar Christmas carols as of the revenue needed to run our program. well as other music written for choir and Your donation can make an important orchestra. difference to our organization and allow us to I am pleased that our feature number this continue our mission to provide quality music at evening is Gloria by John Rutter. This piece has affordable prices! been a favorite of mine for over 25 years and I I want to publicly express my appreciation to have always wanted to perform it. It is an everyone who makes the Timpanogos exciting, even electrifying, piece of music that Symphony Orchestra a successful organization: sings praise to Him whose birth we celebrate our musicians, our board of directors, our this Christmas season. All the words in Gloria volunteers, and our concert patrons. It is a are sung in Latin. In order for you to better blessing to have so many talented and dedicated appreciate the meaning of Gloria, we have individuals supporting our efforts! included the text and the English translation on As we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at this page 17. I hope this will increase your apprecia- special time of year, may you feel the blessings tion of this great music. of heaven in your life! As part of tonight’s concert we present our Merry Christmas! annual silent auction. We have received some John Pew, Conductor and Music Director terrific support from businesses and individuals Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra in our community and have gathered a variety The Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the Utah Arts & Museums Council and the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation. Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Concert Program Kay Thompson’s Jingle Bells Concert Suite From James Pierpont The Polar Express Arranged by Kay Thompson and Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard Johnny Mandel Arranged by Jerry Brubaker Masters in This Hall Messiah Traditional French Carol 1. Overture Arranged by Mark Hayes 14. There were shepherds abiding Conducted by Cathy Jolley in the fields 15. And the angel said unto them Fantasia on Greensleeves 16. And suddenly there was with Ralph Vaughan Williams the angel 17. Glory to God in the highest Bugler’s Holiday 44. Hallelujah Leroy Anderson George Frideric Handel Featuring Marcia Harris, Benjamin Russell, Allison Henscheid, soprano and Harold Henderson, trumpets I Saw Three Ships God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen English Christmas Carol English Carol Arranged by Mack Wilberg Arranged by Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller Gloria! Craig Courtney Conducted by Cathy Jolley Gloria Allegro vivace The First Nowell Andante English Christmas Carol Vivace e ritmico Arranged by Mack Wilberg John Rutter (b. 1945) Conducted by Cathy Jolley A Carol Festival INTERMISSION Arranged by Hawley Ades 2 John Pew – Music Director John Pew is Music Director of the Timpanogos Past soloists with the TSO have included Symphony Orchestra. He is an energetic Richard Elliott, Principal Tabernacle Organist; champion of live symphonic music known for violinists Jenny Oaks Baker, Monte Belnap, and his warm rapport with audiences and musicians Rosalie Macmillan; guitarist Lawrence Green; alike and his genius for innovation and educa- vocalists Nathan Osmond and Melissa Heath; tion. pianists Jeffrey Shumway, Scott Holden, Robin He has led the TSO since founding it in Hancock, Vedrana Subotic, David Glen Hatch, 2010. Now in its sixth season, the orchestra has and Josh Wright; and narrators Bruce Seely and grown to include 75 musicians, an actively Lloyd Newell. Past concerts have included engaged board of directors, and many other volunteers who together donate more than 10,000 hours each year to bring symphonic music to north Utah County. Like John himself, the musicians in the orchestra are unpaid. Selected by audition, they nonetheless represent different skill levels, from amateur to professional. John is a master at keeping all of them inspired and engaged, forging personal connections and leading rehearsals with a sense of energy and abandon. performances with the Deseret Chamber He is a tireless, enthusiastic teacher in many Singers and the Wasatch Chorale. settings. He educates audiences through his John’s passion can be traced to early childhood; choice of repertoire and program notes and by he began piano lessons at age five. In high taking the TSO and its music to elementary school he held season tickets to the San schools and underserved communities from Francisco Symphony Orchestra and began to Tooele to Nephi. He reaches out to youth amass a large collection of classical scores and through the TSO’s Aspiring Musicians Competi- recordings, spending countless hours studying tion and by inviting young musicians to play the masters. He studied piano with Reid Nibley side-by-sides in the orchestra. He stretches the at Brigham Young University, but pursued a orchestra by programming a balance of career in software engineering. John now works challenging and accessible music, by inviting for SAP in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and professional musicians to coach sections and to telecommutes from his home office in American critique the orchestra as a whole, and by Fork. featuring superb guest soloists. His prior posts include Assistant Conductor The TSO has gained a reputation among of the Santa Clara Chorale, Music Director of community orchestras for excellent perfor- the Oakland Temple Pageant, and Music mance and innovative programming. Innovations Director of the Temple Hill Symphony have included new commissions, performance Orchestra in Oakland, California, a position he premieres, and outside-the-box programming held for eight years. such as an organ symphony, music from the John and his wife, Renee, reside in American Baroque and classical periods, family-friendly Fork, Utah, and are the parents of five children. Halloween concerts, Broadway classics and movie music, and an evening of classic rock. 3 Highland Choral Arts Director Cathy Jolley is in her 28th year of teaching Women and General Relief Society meetings Junior High School choral music. She began for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day playing the piano at the age of Saints. From 1999 to the present she has four. But singing and choral served as chairman for the Utah State Jr. High music was her first love having Honor Choir. She has musically directed over been taught and trained by 20 musicals for regional and community theatre Linda Anderson in California. Dr. in Utah and California. Ralph Woodward was her idol Cathy was recognized in 1997 as runner-up and mentor at BYU. She was a teacher of the year for Alpine School District, member of the first A Cappella 2003 Teacher of the Year for Alpine School choir to tour Europe. After District, 2003 1st runner-up teacher of the year raising her children to be for the state of Utah, 2004 Superior Accom- teenagers, she went back to plishment Award (Utah Music Educators BYU to finish her degree in Music Education Association), 2008 Accent on Excellence working there with Dr. Donald Ripplinger. She Award (Alpine School District), 2013 first started teaching choral music and Outstanding Jr. High/Middle School Educator co-teaching Musical Theater at American Fork (Utah Music Educators Association). Also in Jr. High, then Mountain Ridge Jr. High and now 2013 she was awarded the Outstanding Arts at Timberline Middle School. Her choirs have Educator by the Sorensen Legacy Foundation never received less than a superior rating at and in 2015 recognized by the American District Festivals. The choirs are consistently Choral Directors Association with their Award between 60 and 100 students each. of Excellence She is active as an adjudicator and guest She and her husband Doug (also a teacher) conductor in Utah and Wyoming.