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LA Waterfront, CA, November 21, 2016 Golden State Pops Orchestra Announces Holiday POPS Spectacular! Special Guests
December 17, 2016 • 8:00 pm • Warner Grand Theatre 478 W. 6th St, CA, 90731
FEATURING: William Ross, conducting, with Flautist Sara Andon, A Charlie Brown Christmas George S. Clinton conducting The Santa Claus Suite John Debney conducting Elf Bill Rogers (Voice of Disneyland) narrating The Night Before Christmas OTHER MUSIC: Home Alone by John Williams, Polar Express by Alan Silvestri, Selections from the Nutcracker, Sleigh Ride, White Christmas and a special Christmas Sing-Along
The nationally acclaimed Golden State Pops Orchestra presents "Holiday POPS Spectacular,” a concert of joyous music and high spirits. Celebrate the holiday season by joining world renowned conductor, Maestro Steven Allen Fox, the GSPO and the GSPO Chorale, led by Choir Maestra Marya Basaraba, for a festive performance of timeless holiday film music and traditional favorites that will be sure to put you in the holiday mood! A great L.A. holiday tradition for the whole family.
Tickets range from $30 to $60 Receive 15% off with code GSPOWeb when ordering online www.GSPO.com or call 310-433-8774
WILLIAM ROSS's work has spanned feature films, the recording industry and television. He has composed music for The Tale of Despereaux, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas, Touchback, Ladder 49, Tuck Everlasting, and My Dog Skip, and adapted and conducted the score to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Mr. Ross has arranged music for Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Kenny G., Sting, Seal, Quincy Jones, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, David Foster, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston, and served as music director and conductor for Barbra Streisand’s 2006, 2007 and 2012 tours and the 79th, 83rd, 85th, and 86th Academy Awards. His arrangements for films include Andrea Bocelli’s “God Bless Us Everyone” for Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” for Titanic; “Believe,” sung by Josh Groban for The Polar Express; “The Prayer” with Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion for Quest For Camelot, for which he received a Grammy nomination; and the Academy Award Nominated song “Run To You” sung by Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard. Mr. Ross is the recipient of four Emmy Awards, two BMI Film Music Awards and was nominated for an Annie Award and two Grammy Awards.
GEORGE S. CLINTON began his professional musical career as a songwriter, arranger, and session musician in Nashville. A staff writer for Warner Brothers Music, with songs recorded by such artists as Michael Jackson, Joe Cocker, and Three Dog Night, Mr Clinton also did albums for MCA, Elektra, ABC, and Arista as a recording artist. The critically acclaimed George Clinton Band attracted the attention of a movie producer, giving George the opportunity to score his first film, Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin', and, later, Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers. He alos contributed memorable scores to such diverse films as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and its sequels and Mortal Kombat and its sequel, Disney's holiday hits The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3; and the sexy thriller Wild Things. Awards include a Grammy nomination, an Emmy nomination, and 9 BMI Film Music Awards, including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award.
Academy award nominated JOHN DEBNEY is considered one of the most prolific and successful composers in Hollywood. The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), Mr. Debney has scored television projects as diverse as Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, and Sea Quest DSV, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title, blockbuster comedies such as Elf, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty and Hocus Pocus, action adventures like Iron Man 2 and Spy Kids (1 & 2), and dark thrillers including I Know What You Did Last Summer and Sin City. He recently scored Draft Day, Stoneheart Asylum and HISTORY’s Emmy nominated Hatfields & McCoys as well as the HISTORY’s most recent mini-series Houdini. He also scored A&E mini-series Bonnie & Clyde, The Jungle Book and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Debney is the youngest recipient of ASCAP’s prestigious Henry Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award.
SARA ANDON is an international flute soloist and recording artist who has performed in major music festivals and concert venues, on TV and radio broadcasts, and in the Hollywood studios for countless documentaries, video games and movie soundtracks. She is a graduate from USC and Yale and has performed with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has recorded music of J.S. Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Schoenberg as well as some of the most current contemporary composers on the new music concert scene. She premieres many new concert suites for solo flute and orchestra of classic film scores of legendary composers such as Elmer Bernstein, Alex North, Lee Holdridge and Henry Mancini that many current film composers are writing for her. In addition, she has recorded with singer Placido Domingo, pop duo Daft Punk, composer/jazz pianist Billy Childs and cellist YoYo Ma.
BILL ROGERS Voice over and commercial producer for over forty years, Bill is the voice for automotive to zoos. As a narrator, Bill's expertise in medical and scientific terminology keeps him in demand for clients IBM, Boeing, Beckman-Coulter, and Schneider Electric… 75 of the Fortune 100. Bill's announcing skills show up at amusement parks in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan... Anaheim, Hollywood, Santa Monica and San Diego on the US West coast, and New York, Richmond, Orlando and Tampa in the East.