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www.VareseSarabande.com STEVEN ALLEN FO X, CONDUCTOR THE GSPO CHORALE Expect the unexpected LED BY MAESTRA MARYA BASARABA VICTOR PESAVENT O, MUSIC DIRECTOR

PRODUCED AND HOSTED BY ROBERT TOWNSON SOLOIST: SARA ANDO N, FLUTE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CLIFF EIDELMAN JOEL M cNEELY DIEGO NAVARRO JOHN POWELL

MAY 11, 2013 WARNER GRAND THEATER Producer’s Note

Welcome to Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Gala! There are music fans all over the world tonight who wish they could be occupying the seat you are currently in, but you are the lucky ones. What a night this is going to be! The forces that have come together for the show you are about to see are remarkable. There is so much more history represented in tonight’s program than merely the last 35 years. This evening is really about the entire history of film music. We’ll be enjoying the performances of a select few … some of my best friends, who just happen to the masters of modern film music. And we’ll hear the music of those I dearly miss … legends of the art form — the immortals. As I’ve said before, the great thing about celebrating Varèse Sarabande history is that, for us, the spotlight is always on the . Tonight is, without question, about them. All of them! We could never represent everyone. That’s been the hardest part about putting together this programme. I started with a list of well over 1500 scores — closer to 2000, actually. I had to reduce that to 20, which ended being about 30. But that’s the nature of . In addition to the superstars of film music who will soon be taking the stage, the honorees of tonight’s celebration most certainly include the composers who are not on the programme. Some are here; so many are spread far and wide … all over the world. But they are all part of this and they all deserve to take a bow. May 10, 2008 The composers have always been film music’s royalty, but we need the full court for what front row: MICHAEL GIACCHINO , , , RICHARD M. SHERMAN we do. I have been blessed to work with dozens of from all over the world and second row: MARK ISHAM , JAN A.P. KACZMAREK , , thousands of . Certainly there have been musicians from every continent, and third row: , BRIAN TYLER , , CHARLES BERNSTEIN , probably very nearly every country. There are the contractors, on whom all of the composers , ROBERT TOWNSON , JOHN DEBNEY , MATTHEW JOSEPH PEAK fourth row: , CLIFF EIDELMAN , , rely to assemble the musicians for each new score; and the music preparation, librarian and RICHARD KRAFT , , JOEL M CNEELY , copyist teams — these are just a few of the invaluable people behind the scenes. And it goes on — endless lists, upon lists — , singers, conductors, and recording engineers. The directors and writers who have contributed liner notes … and the artists who’ve painted the covers. Of course there are the composers’ agents and publicists; the music department heads at all the film studios … even the lawyers! We’ve needed everyone and they have all been there for us. Year after year. It’s a big industry, but also a close-knit one. So much of what I do is based on personal relationships. Working with friends. There are truly no words to express the degree of gratitude I hold for them, so to everyone I simply say, thank you. Thank you also to the Golden State Pops , Artistic Director Steven Allen Fox, Music Director Victor Pesavento and the entire GSPO team. I have been so touched by everyone’s incredible enthusiasm for helping me celebrate the music we all love. This is a very special organization and I am honored to have had the Varèse anniversary tour begin right here at home, with this orchestra. We have a special soloist, too. The remarkable flute virtuoso Sara Andon is with us tonight. Her performances on the scoring stages of have made her one of the most in- demand flutists in town, while her acclaim around the world is soaring. Believe me … you are in for such a treat! This evening will soon be a memory that we all will share forever. It will pass far too quickly. Each of us will leave here with different pieces of the memory puzzle of tonight’s musical celebration — one that will never be fully reassembled once we’ve all dispersed. But after tonight, all the different memories will live on — and sharing them with each other, as well as with those who aren’t here, will help keep them alive forever. Isn’t so much of life all too fleeting? Thankfully music has an extraordinary power to stay upper left: ROBERT TOWNSON , with us. STEVEN ALLEN FOX , Since I won’t have the opportunity to enjoy this concert from the audience, I am already a above: ROBERT TOWNSON , little envious of you. But getting to produce and host this evening’s gala and to introduce on SARA ANDON , stage so many of my friends to an audience full of so many other friends — and family as well (Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!) — is one of the great honors of my life. left: ANA MOLOWNY Thank you for coming. ROBERT TOWNSON , TENERIFE SYMPHONY Enjoy the show!

41 51 35 Years of Film Music History Part One

Thirty-five years is a long time by any estimation. It’s a demanding, rewarding and VARÈSE SARABANDE 35 TH ANNIVERSARY OVERTURE transforming period of time and these last thirty-five years have certainly seen Varèse ...... Arranged by Steven Allen Fox and Victor Pesavento

Sarabande Records through a significant metamorphosis. Varèse Sarabande [V ˘a-r ˘ez´ S ˘ar´- Steven Allen Fox, conductor e -b ˘and´] was founded in the spring of 1978 as a classical label with a mandate to rescue ...... Hans Zimmer archival recordings of some of the more obscure works by both the great masters as well as Steven Allen Fox, conductor Hans Zimmer, • , guitar many lesser-known composers. Sibelius’ Origin Of Fire and Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony are Ann Marie Calhoun, found alongside -conducted by Enesco, Harris, Copland, and . Also from this earliest period came the first flirtation with composers who were Love Theme ...... best known for their film composition. Albums featuring concert works by Erich Wolfgang Steven Allen Fox, conductor Paul Henning, violin Korngold, Miklós Rózsa and were the first to foreshadow what was to come. DOLPHIN TALE Suite ...... Mark Isham Later, there was a series of state-of-the-art recordings produced incorporating the latest methods from the developing world of digital technology. Dvorák’s New World , Saint-Saens’ Steven Allen Fox, conductor Organ Symphony , Beethoven’s Seventh , Tchaikovsky’s Sixth plus works by DeFalla, Rodrigo A LITTLE ROMANCE Main Title ...... and Gould made up Varèse’s release schedule during this time. Concurrent with all of this, Steven Allen Fox, conductor Sara Andon, flute a few film found their way into the catalog. ’s , Rózsa’s A Time To Love And A Time To Die and ’s Four Girls In Town were among the scores HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Suite ...... John Powell that initiated an exploration of the world of film music. As sales of the soundtracks overtook John Powell, guest conductor the classical releases, the tide began to turn and soon Varèse Sarabande became the first VS. : REQUIEM Overture ...... Brian Tyler record label to be devoted exclusively to film music. Greater ambitions soon led to a series Brian Tyler, guest conductor of new recordings produced by the great George Korngold and conducted by the legendary likes of Miklós Rózsa and . RUDY The Final Game ...... The rest, as they say, is history. For over three decades, Varèse Sarabande Records has Cliff Eidelman, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale been home to more of film music’s greatest composers than any other label. Now with a catalog of over 1500 albums, which grows by 60 to 70 titles each year, Varèse Sarabande remains the most prolific label in the world. Over the years, our extended family Part Two has grown to include an international group of film music's very best composers — all of them. But with nearly 100 releases, no composer has appeared more frequently on the label than VARÈSE SARABANDE 35 TH ANNIVERSARY ENTR’ACTE our patron saint, Jerry Goldsmith, whose importance to Varèse Sarabande and, indeed, to ...... Arranged by Christopher Lennertz all of film music is immeasurable. Christopher Lennertz, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale It has been both a thrill and an honor to have had the opportunity to work with so many of the greatest composers of our time on preserving their music and making it available to be IRON WILL ...... Joel McNeely enjoyed by fans around the world. In doing this, we have also enjoyed performances by many Joel McNeely, guest conductor of the world’s finest musicians and orchestras. There is no question that motion pictures SPARTACUS Love Theme ...... Alex North, Arranged by Lee Holdridge afford the music featured in them the opportunity of reaching an audience more vast than Diego Navarro, guest conductor Sara Andon, flute what has been available to composers at any other time throughout history. It is important that the best of this music be allowed to lead a life apart from the film for which it was PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Finale ...... Danny Elfman composed. In fact, many wonderful film scores became classics almost solely due to the Steven Allen Fox, conductor impression they made on . Without soundtrack releases, some of the greatest scores THE ANT BULLY ...... John Debney, Lyric by ever written would remain unknown and hidden away in the vast film studio vaults. Whether in film or on album, it is encouraging to realize that it is never too late to make John Debney, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale • Sara Andon, penny whistle discoveries. A person could devote their entire life to exploring the world of SHREK Suite ...... Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell and, if they lived to be a thousand, would not exhaust the infinite riches it has to offer. Film Arranged by Victor Pesavento music, having attracted the great musical minds of the world for nearly one hundred years Steven Allen Fox, conductor The GSPO Chorale now, could also (and easily) fill a few lifetimes with perpetual discovery and revelation. As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, it is this notion and of discovering new, INTO DARKNESS Suite ...... Michael Giacchino wonderful and moving music that keeps us doing what we do and, it is our hope, will keep Michael Giacchino, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale you listening. — Robert Townson There will be a fifteen-minute intermission

61 71 1 Hans Zimmer John Powell One of the true giants in film music today, Hans Zimmer John Powell has become the virtual king of animation in began his American film career with a pair of consecutive Best recent years, but we’ve been working with him since long Picture Oscar winners … (1988) and Driving Miss before that. John’s Varèse relationship began with a Daisy (1989). Daisy was also the score which began Hans’ wonderful score for the little-known film Just Visiting but relationship with Varèse Sarabande Records, that has gone immediately launched into the stratosphere after that with on to include such scores as Green Card, Pacific Heights, the first Shrek . John was unstoppable after this, with a string Drop Zone, Tears Of The Sun, Frost/Nixon, and of both live actions ( The Identity, Two Weeks 2 . Zimmer has also forged a powerful set of Notice, The Italian Job, Paycheck, X-Men: The Last Stand, director relationships with , and Hancock, The Bourne Supremacy, United 93 ) and a growing , among others, as well as producer Jerry number of animated films ( Robots, Horton Hears A Who!, Ice Bruckheimer. Zimmer’s string of innovative blockbuster Age 2, 3 and 4, Rio and The Lorax ). Powell’s acclaimed score scores includes , Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, for How To Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy The Dark Knight, and . Award nomination. We are so proud to have released all of these scores on Varèse Sarabande.

Ann Marie Calhoun Brian Tyler Brian Tyler debuted on Varèse Sarabande in 2003 with a trio Internationally acclaimed violinist Ann Marie Calhoun is of scores all released on the same day! Children Of Dune, currently playing violin in the band SuperHeavy, with Dave Darkness Falls and The Hunted began a series of Stewart, , , AR Rahman, and Joss collaborations that continues to this day. A partial list of Stone. Her extensive experience as a rock violinist also Brian’s extensive Varèse discography includes Timeline, The includes tours as a featured soloist with the legendary Ringo Final Cut, Constantine, Annapolis, Partition, , Aliens Starr, , Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Jethro Tull, and Steve Vs. Predator: Requiem, Dragonball: Evolution, Battle Los Vai. Her music collaborations also include The Dave Angeles, 4 & 5, and Brake . Brian’s series of Matthews Band, Hans Zimmer, , Incubus and three scores, including The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift , . Fast & Furious and helped propel the franchise to She was a featured soloist on Hans Zimmer's Sherlock Holmes even greater heights. Brian also contributed to our Alex score and we are thrilled to have her join us for our special North Spartacus tribute in 2010 and recently completed his anniversary! score for 3 .

Cliff Eidelman We’ve been working with Cliff Eidelman from the very beginning and his spectacularly powerful score for Triumph Of Mark Isham The Spirit in 1989. As the years went by we were on board for Mark Isham came to film music as a trumpeter and a wonderful exciting series of new works — from Christopher composer. His first early to appear on Varèse was Columbus: The Discovery to Untamed Heart , from Now And the 1991 film Little Man Tate . We’ve been working Then to 3 , from One True Thing to The Sisterhood together ever since on a long string of varied scores for Cool Of The Traveling Pants . Our latest with Cliff was the wonderful World, The Public Eye, Of Mice and Men, Mrs. Parker And The whale adventure . Cliff travelled to Seattle to Vicious Circle, Timecop, The Net, , Life As A House, Don’t record his own score for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Say A Word, Racing Stripes, Running Scared, Lions for Lambs, Country and other pieces for our album The Ultimate Star The Mist, The Crazies and Dolphin Tale , among many others. Trek . Working with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Cliff Mark also contributed a stunning of Alex North’s conducted our albums Romeo & Juliet and also The Spartacus Love Theme for our deluxe Spartacus boxed set, Trilogy , which, in recent years has turned into a live concert celebrating North’s 100th birthday in 2010. event now known as Alien: A Biomechanical Symphony .

101 111 Christopher Lennertz Danny Elfman Christopher Lennertz had his first pair of scores released on Danny Elfman’s film music found a home on Varèse Varèse ( Marmaduke and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Sarabande right from the very beginning! It all started during Galore ) in 2010, just prior to the Úbeda film music festival that the days with in 1982. And year. This was followed by the tremendous Easter hit, Hop . then came Danny’s first real score and first film with Tim And we can’t wait for the next! Christopher’s role in our Burton, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in 1985. The rest, as they concert tonight is a special one. He won't be performing his say, is history. Danny’s set of Varèse releases includes such own music, but will instead be paying tribute to a group of an eclectic group of scores as Back To School, Wisdom, To composer friends, colleagues and heroes of his. And he’ll be Die For, Dolores Claiborne, Standard Operating Procedure, doing that in epic fashion, the premiere of the 2, The Wolfman and Real Steel . Varèse Sarabande 35th Anniversary Entr’acte ! If we were Elfman’s Tim Burton relationship has grown into one of the going to open our first half with an overture, how could we not great director/composer collaborations of all time with such open our second half with an Entr’acte? scores as , Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, , Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows .

Joel M CNeely John Debney Joel McNeely’s music for the early ’90s television series The John Debney is another of our oldest friends here at Varèse Young Indiana Jones Chronicles first brought him to Varèse Sarabande. We started working with John during his TV days. Sarabande and we were excited to stand by him as his feature His first Varèse release was SeaQuest DSV in 1993. We career unfolded with films like Iron Will, Terminal Velocity and followed him as the feature films began pouring in. Sudden Soldier . Joel also became a key member of the Varèse Death, Paulie, End Of Days, Cats & Dogs, Dragonfly, The Sarabande team of conductors and would lead a series of Scorpion King, , Elf, The Whole Ten Yards, new recordings of classic film scores for us. McNeely became Duma, Sin City, Zathura, The Ant Bully, and particularly identified with the music of Dream House are just a few. John was also part of our team during this time after conducting acclaimed albums of Vertigo, of conductors that included Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer , Fahrenheit 451, and the Grammy- Bernstein, Joel McNeely and Cliff Eidelman, sharing various nominated The Day The Earth Stood Still . Joel’s music for the trips to Glasgow to record classic film music with the Royal Varèse/ album project : Shadows Of The Scottish National Orchestra. John’s albums included Empire became an enormous success. Most recently Joel has Herrmann’s The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad , Williams’ Superman: been composing for Disney’s Tinker Bell franchise and teamed The Movie and Barry’s Somewhere In Time . up with Seth MacFarlane for the Grammy-nominated album Music Is Better Than Words .

Diego Navarro Michael Giacchino Diego Navarro is one of the most exciting new composers to It was Michael Giacchino’s music for a series of successful come from Spain. Navarro is also the founder and director video games that brought him to the attention of director J.J. of the film music festival in Tenerife called Fimucité. Diego Abrams, who sought him out and offered him the opportunity has conducted a series of concerts each summer in the of scoring his new TV series Alias . This is also the show that Canary Islands that pay tribute to composers like Jerry brought Michael to Varèse Sarabande for the first time. 2004 Goldsmith, , Bernard Herrmann, Alex North saw Giacchino add the new television series to his and . The Fimucité festival has also hosted such workload and also skyrocket to the next stage of things, visiting guest composers as Don Davis, Mychael Danna, scoring his first feature film ( ) for ! Scores , Christopher Young, Trevor Rabin, John for , Mission: Impossible III, Ratatouille, Ottman, Joel McNeely, , and , Star Trek, Let Me In, Super 8, Mission: many others. In July 2012 Navarro conducted the official Impossible: Ghost Protocol and an Oscar® for Up all followed 100th Anniversary concert with the over the years since. All of these film and television Tenerife Symphony. Navarro’s own music for Oscar: The soundtracks (except for the Pixar movies) are available on Color Of Destiny and Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead Varèse Sarabande. Michael’s latest score, and our newest have been released on Varèse Sarabande, as well as a album, is for this summer’s blockbuster Star Trek Into continuing series of concert CDs and DVDs from Fimucité. Darkness .

12 13 Jerry Goldsmith (1929 – 2004) Jerry Goldsmith was one of the most prolific composers of modern times. But it wasn’t the amount of music Goldsmith wrote that distinguished him; it was the amount of extraordinary music. He held himself to an exacting standard his whole life. Even Jerry’s earliest scores were Miklós Rózsa (1907 – 1995) exceptionally sophisticated. Jerry Goldsmith was born Could there ever have been a Golden Age of film music February 10, 1929. His musical career began in radio and, without Miklós Rózsa? Rózsa was one of the principal listening to a score like 1489 Words makes abundantly architects of the sound we hear when we think of classic clear that Jerry Goldsmith was already Jerry Goldsmith , film music. His music conveys a special majesty that is so even this early on. His move to television came quickly luminous, so glorious, so unabashedly cinematic that, with scores for and Thriller — but without him, the era could never have been quite so concurrently with this and him becoming the name in golden. He was born in in 1907. Rózsa scored television, the world of feature films began calling. In his first films while living in , but soared in quick succession, Lonely Are The , The Spiral Road popularity after his 1940 move to Los Angeles and score and Freud (all 1962) established Goldsmith as a master. for The Thief Of Bagdad . He won for Freud earned him his first of 18[!] Academy Award his scores for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947) and nominations. The list of classics that followed includes , The Sand Pebbles , Planet Of Ben Hur (1959). It is such an honor to have the of The Apes , Patton , Chinatown , , Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Alien , , Total this label tied so closely with this great legend. A huge list Recall , Rudy , L.A Confidential and . All of these scores are represented on Varèse of Rózsa masterworks is represented on Varèse Sarabande. Goldsmith also conducted a series of important Alex North scores in both London and Sarabande in recordings of themes, suites and full albums. Glasgow for Varèse. This series included Alex North’s 2001 , A Streetcar Named Desire and Who’s El Cid, Eye Of The Needle, Julius Caesar, The Lost Weekend, Lust For Life, Quo Vadis, Spellbound Afraid Of Woolf?, among others. It is impossible to quantify Jerry Goldsmith’s importance and The Thief Of Bagdad are just a few. The piece we will hear tonight is one of his most to film music. He impacted everything . He reshaped the entire industry, inspiring many composers exquisite. The Love Theme from That Hamilton Woman has been recorded twice for Varèse to follow him into the art of film music and aspire to the heights he reached. He inspired a certain Sarabande — first by Morton Gould and the London Symphony Orchestra and, in a recording to honor Varèse Sarabande to take up a career in soundtrack production. There would our friend after his passing in 1995, with Joel McNeely and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. probably be no Varèse Sarabande at all if it wasn’t for Jerry Goldsmith. We lost Jerry in the summer Tonight we pay tribute to Dr. Rózsa again in a performance of this favorite, featuring GSPO of 2004, but will remember him always. concertmaster Paul Henning on violin.

Alex North (1910 – 1991) Georges Delerue (1925 – 1992) Alex North was a wonder. As a composer he led a wildly Georges Delerue was responsible for some of the most diverse career and had a profound effect on every genre beautiful film music ever written. Georges’ music is simply of music he touched. It was at an Alex North ballet where infectious, and he possessed a truly extraordinary gift — and Leonard Bernstein first met each he could write music that made you happy. He could other. He wrote Revue For for . capture joy in music like else and he shared that On Broadway he scored the ground-breaking Death Of A with the world. Georges Delerue was born in Roubaix, Salesman . His very first film score was A Streetcar Named in 1925. His exceptional and prolific work during Desire in 1950. It was a revolutionary work and instantly the 1960s saw him become the premiere musical voice of changed the course of film music. A few years later, his such cinema directors as François became a timeless standard of the Truffaut, Alain Renais and Jean-Luc Godard. Delerue had American songbook. As featured in the film Ghost (1990), become a cinematic legend long before he moved to Los North’s classic love song gave us our most successful Angeles in 1985 but he then added such films as Agnes Of album ever. And in 1960, North composed arguably the God, Salvador, Crimes Of The Heart, Platoon, Beaches, greatest film score of all time for Spartacus . His Emmy® Steel Magnolias, Joe Vs. The Volcano and Black Robe to Award was for the sprawling Rich Man, Poor Man . To all his already enormous filmography. Georges was an that, we add Viva Zapata! , The Rose Tattoo , The Long Hot Summer , Cleopatra , The Agony And The incredibly prolific composer. New Delerue releases were a regular occurrence at Varèse Sarabande. Ecstasy , Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and The Misfits . We are so proud to have released all of We loved him. Everyone did. In one of the most important recordings this label has ever undertaken, these scores. Masterpieces all. Alex North’s Spartacus Love Theme has been called one of the most we recorded three volumes of Delerue music called The London Sessions , just three years before we beautiful love themes of all time. Our commemorative Spartacus boxed set presented a collection lost Georges so suddenly in 1992. Georges Delerue won the 1979 Academy Award for A Little of 22 variations on the remarkable melody, interpreted by a group of master composers and musicians, Romance . The wickedly difficult Main Title music was given its world premiere by flutist Sara Andon spread all over the world and recorded over the last 50 years. This year, composer Lee Holdridge with the Orchestra in February of 2013. Tonight Ms. Andon performs the American premiere delivered a masterful Fantasy On The Love Theme For Spartacus , especially for our flute soloist, Sara of this important, but joyously fun Delerue classic. Andon. We lost Alex North in 1991, though his extraordinary music is certain to endure for all eternity.

14 15 22 Producer Flute

As the most prolific producer of film music in the world, Robert Townson Flutist Sara Andon is an international soloist and recording has been averaging one new album release a week for over twenty-five artist known for her ravishing tone and deeply engaging years now. His work focuses not only on the most successful blockbusters musical interpretations. A versatile performer in many music of today but has, from the very beginning, made a priority of restoring and genres including solo, chamber, symphonic, , ballet, releasing the priceless musical treasures of ’s glorious history. new music, jazz and Broadway, she has performed all over In July of 2010, Townson celebrated the release of his 1000th album. the world in major concert venues, TV and radio broadcasts, Townson’s first album release was Jerry Goldsmith’s The Final Conflict as well as on many motion picture soundtracks. in 1986. Another early project was the Grammy ®-nominated album Ginger- Ms. Andon has performed with several American Ale Afternoon , composed by Blues legend Willie Dixon. Quickly following orchestras including the , Pasadena this, Townson produced the soundtracks for the Academy Award ®-winning Symphony, Tulsa Opera, New West Symphony, Los Angeles Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer) and (Elmer Bernstein). Master Chorale, Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops, 1990 saw Townson produce CDs for seven of the summer’s top eleven New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New , San films including the platinum-selling Ghost, plus Part Francisco Opera Theater, Miami City Ballet Touring III, 2: Die Harder , Robocop 2 , Jerry Goldsmith’s scores for both Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra. She has worked with such Total Recall and 2 , and John Williams’ Presumed Innocent . world-renowned conductors as Kurt Masure, David Zinman, , Jorge Mester, Jeffrey Kahane and The string of successes has continued, uninterrupted, ever since: The Esa-Pekka Salonen. Abyss , Predator (1 and 2) , Die Hard (1 , 2 and 4) , Big , Dead Poet’s Society , Ms. Andon has performed with the orchestras for many Broadway musicals including Les Misérables , Disney’s The Grifters , Green Card , City Slickers , Father Of The Bride , 2: Judgment Day , Basic Instinct , The Beauty And The Beast and the critically acclaimed hit Broadway show Wicked (L.A. Company). Player , Unforgiven , The Secret Garden , The Crow , A Little Princess , Babe , Air Force One , L.A. Confidential , Her countless film score recordings have included Marco Beltrami’s Wolverine (coming out soon) as well as Blade , Pleasantville , (1, 2, 3 and 4), You’ve Got Mail , , , , Gone Die Hard 5: , Trouble With The Curve , The Thing ; ’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins , In 60 Seconds , , Hour (2 and 3) , Shrek (1 , 2, 3 and 4) , , Unfaithful , The Bourne Lalo Schifrin’s Rush Hour 3 , ’s The Bourne Legacy , ’s Sex In The City II , Identity (and Supremacy and Legacy ), Ice Age (1 , 2, 3 and 4) , Bruce (and Evan) Almighty , Elf , Sin City , The Italian ’s Tron and the acclaimed documentary No Place On Earth . Her recent recording work for video Job , Meet The Fockers (and Little Fockers) , M:i:III (and Ghost Protocol) , X-Men: The Last Stand , Fast & Furious games includes the Grammy-nominated blockbuster game Journey , along with World Of Warcraft , Star Craft (3 , 4 and 5) , (and Smithsonian ), Frost/Nixon , Grey Gardens , Rise Of The Planet Of The II, WildStar , BioShock-Infinite and League Of Legends . She also records for many Disney projects including the Apes , Super 8 , The Help , Albert Nobbs , Rio , The Ides Of March , , The Lorax , the Grammy ®- new show Mickey's Magical Map opening at on May 25, 2013. Andon also took part in composer nominated albums for Million Dollar Baby , and Star Trek along with the Oscar ®-nominated Christopher Lennertz’s fund-raising recording and concert Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project . scores from House Of Sand And Fog , , and How To Train Your Dragon . Next As a soloist and chamber , Ms. Andon has performed throughout the , , France, up: . Townson has produced soundtracks for the television series Lost , Alias , 24 , True England, , Austria, , and China including performances at , Lincoln Blood , Spartacus , and , plus such epic television productions as , The Thorn Birds , Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall (NYC), St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, CBS Sunday Morning , Universal North And South , Mildred Pierce , House Of Cards and . Amphitheater, Hollywood Bowl and Hall in L.A. In addition to his always-full schedule of new film soundtracks, Townson has, over this same period, restored On February 23, 2013 Ms. Andon performed four pieces with the Macau Orchestra for the concert Hollywood and released CDs of the soundtracks from such film and film music classics as Taxi Driver , Chinatown , Lawrence Love Stories — Great Romantic Film Music at the Venetian Macau Resort and also joined Varèse Sarabande's Of Arabia , The Great Escape , Touch Of Evil , Casino Royale , The Omen , Cleopatra and . series of concerts celebrating the label's 35th anniversary. Andon will perform a selection of film music classics Townson has also been steadily producing the most comprehensive series of new recordings of classic film written or arranged for solo flute, including Alex North's Spartacus Love Theme , arranged just for her by Lee scores ever undertaken — traveling to Glasgow and London over the years with the likes of Jerry Goldsmith, Holdridge. Tonight's concert with the Golden State Pops Orchestra will be followed by a trip to Tenerife in Elmer Bernstein, Joel McNeely, John Debney and Cliff Eidelman. This series included such scores as Alex July for performances with both the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and also the de Canarias (for a North’s legendary unused score from ’s 2001: A Space Odyssey , plus A Streetcar Named Desire , tribute to composer Elmer Bernstein), as part of the Fimucité festival. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Patton, The Sand Pebbles , To Kill A Mockingbird , Out Of Africa , , She has been a featured soloist at numerous music festivals including the Ojai Music Festival (CA), Norfolk Somewhere In Time , Body , Sunset Boulevard , and The Great Escape. The series Chamber Music Festival (CT), Grand Teton Music Festival (WY), Music at Penn’s Woods (PA), Sunriver Music of Bernard Herrmann recordings included Citizen Kane , Psycho, North By Northwest , Vertigo , Fahrenheit 451 , Festival (OR), the London Baroque Music Festival & the Los Angeles Bach Festival. The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad , and The Day The Earth Stood Still , which was nominated for a 2003 Grammy ® award. Other solo performances include “Sundays Live at Six” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, most Townson began producing a series of film music concerts during his days with the Royal Scottish National recently with Sarah Jackson, flutist and piccoloist with the L.A. Philharmonic and Barry Gold, cellist with the Orchestra. Jerry Goldsmith’s 70th birthday as well as Elmer Bernstein’s 75th, and an ongoing series of programs L.A. Philharmonic, on an all-Haydn program, and on the “Jacaranda — Music At The Edge Series” in Santa Monica. conducted by Joel McNeely, set the stage for the international events that are occurring so frequently today. Ms. Andon was invited to perform the Double Flute Concerto by Steven Stucky (Pulitzer-Prize winning These have included the International Film Music Conference in Úbeda, Spain, the Fimucité Festival on composer and New Music Consultant-L.A. Philharmonic) with world-renowned flutist Ransom Wilson at Zipper Tenerife in the Canary Islands, the in Ghent, Belgium, and the Film Music Festival in Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Krakow, Poland. In August of 2011, Townson produced the official 80th Anniversary Concert Ms. Andon received her post-graduate Artist Diploma from studying with Ransom Wilson and in London, which featured Joel McNeely and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Townson’s summer 2012 her Masters of Music in Flute Performance at USC studying with Janet Ferguson, former principal flutist of the schedule included the official Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary Concert, with the Tenerife Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. also a collaboration with the Royal Air Force Band for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. In February 2012, Townson journeyed to Macau, China to produce and host the historic first-ever film music concert in this region. She is Principal/Solo Flute of the Redlands Symphony and is the Artist Teacher of Flute at the University of Redlands School of Music and Idyllwild Arts Academy as well as the Woodwind Coordinator for the Los Angeles In July 2010, Robert unveiled his 1,000th album — a deluxe box set presentation of Alex North’s masterpiece, Philharmonic Young Composers Fellowship Program, Mentors: Steven Stucky, John Adams, James Matheson, Spartacus . With nearly 1,200 albums to his credit, Robert Townson remains the most prolific producer of and A.J. McCaffrey. soundtrack albums in the world.

118 119 Steven Allen Fox ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR/COMPOSER With a driving mission to create, develop and present innovative and fresh orchestral concerts, the Maestro Steven Allen Fox is an innovative conductor and Golden State Pops Orchestra (GSPO) is quickly becoming nationally known as a pioneer in providing concert creator who has a passion for dramatic music; quality film music with a second life on the concert stage, in productions that absorb audiences from particularly film, television, video game, Broadway and beginning to end. Romantic era works. GSPO’s first notes were sounded in April of 2002 with the downbeat of the Star Wars Main Title . A piano and trombone student from an early age, Steven’s Beginning with this first production, GSPO’s audiences have grown exponentially from one season a-ha moment came at the age of 13 while watching Steven to the next. In 2011, GSPO was honored by the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce as the 2011 Business Spielberg’s Hook ; he would forevermore hold John Of The Year, a coup for an arts organization. In addition, GSPO has been honored with the

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values, while maintaining a focus on high-quality performance. Over the next 10 years, GSPO looks o t o h forward to building even more relationships with composers and entertainment industry professionals, Drum and Bugle Corps. He went on to earn a Bachelors P expanding our season to over 10 productions a year, producing multiple recordings and bringing our Degree in and Composition from Illinois State University (ISU) and a Graduate unique brand of entertainment to world-renowned venues throughout Southern California. Certificate in Film and Television Scoring from the University of Southern California (USC). The Golden State Pops Orchestra’s collaboration with Robert Townson on their salute to Varèse In 1999, Steven and his wife Leslie moved to Los Angeles where he keeps a busy schedule helping Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary began February 16th with a tribute to composer Alan Silvestri, and will raise three daughters and composing music to feature-length films, CDs, animated shorts and concert continue throughout the year. Next up will be Music From The Star Wars Universe on June 15th. works. In addition to his role as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Golden State Pops Orchestra Townson will return as host on October 19 for Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Gala . (GSPO), Steven is Music Director of the El Segundo and a freelance conductor. Steven And coming for the holidays will be Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Gala on founded the GSPO in 2002 to be a year-round pops orchestra that brings the dramatic music he December 21st. Come join us as the celebration continues … loves to the concert stage. GSPO has given Steven the opportunity to work with some of the most influential composers, artists and production companies in the industry and to conduct on such world- renowned stages as Nokia Theatre, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Paramount Studios and Skywalker Sound. Steven has also been branded as a “premiere conductor,” as he has presented over 70 World or North American concert premieres in the last seven seasons. Looking to the future, Steven aims to increase the GSPO’s stature on the world stage, and also hopes to expand his guest conducting career on an international scale. He continues to compose for films and video games with increasing recognition, and creates stage works that bring together different art forms in a collaborative format. Steven hopes that his unique approach to programming concerts in a dramatic manner will allow him to create an impact for millions of patrons in live concerts, recordings and broadcasts for many years to come. In collaboration with GSPO Music Director Victor Pesavento, Steven has arranged the Varèse Sarabande 35th Anniversary Overture , a world premiere he will conduct to open this evening’s gala.

Steven Allen Fox: F ounder / Artistic Director GSPO Board of Directors Inga Funck: M anaging Director A. Phoenix Delgado, P resident Victor Pesavento: M usic Director Erland Wittig, V ice President Emily Reppun: O rchestra Manager Rene Diaz, T reasurer f f o k A. Phoenix Delgado: R esident Guest Conductor Steven Allen Fox, S ecret i ary n n e S Jason Livesay & N olan Livesay: A ssistant Conductors Ryan Blaney y l l e h S Paul Henning: C oncertmaster Jack Tillar f o y s e Noel Salinda, S teve Salinda, K a t therine Wittig, r u o c Naomi & Erland Wittig: B ox Office / Ticketing Services o t o h

P Joseph Richard Negro: P hoto / Graphics STEVEN ALLEN FOX conducts the GOLDEN STATE POPS ORCHESTRA Ben Kanselbaum: S ound & Recording Engineer Great Composer Tribute: The Music Of Alan Silvestri Richard Taylor: L ighting February 16, 2013 Edie Rice: R eception Coordinator Holly Choe: A rtistic Director Intern Stephen Clark: G SPO Student Intern

20 21 The occasion of Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary has grown into our biggest celebration yet! It seems only right. After all, we’ve never had so much history to celebrate before! The exciting evolution in how we are celebrating this year is the scale of everything … the stage we are on. Literally! For the first time in our history, our 35th anniversary is being celebrated musically … not just with this new CD set, but actually on stage , with live concerts! This is exactly how a record label that represents so many remarkable composers should celebrate! All of this is happening due to a sequence of events that began during my years producing recordings with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It was during this time in the mid- and late that my recording trips to Glasgow with Joel McNeely, Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein began being supplemented with my first concert productions. It was very exciting to work with such a remarkable orchestra in this way, presenting wonderful programs of music by my composer friends. As the years went on, a new era of film music appreciation in the form of live concerts began to develop across Europe. The Ghent International Film Festival became the founding father of these modern events where film composers are treated like rock stars. Spain soon followed, and with a passion! – first a magical festival in Úbeda, which began staging concerts in 2006, and then the glorious Fimucité event in Tenerife, which was in full swing by 2007. Krakow, Poland was the next city to join the cause. Following that came . It has been a great honor for me to become part of all of these festivals in a variety of ways, expanding my concert activities across Europe. Still more one night shows were presented in London, Lyon, Chicago and, of course, Los Angeles. All of this set the stage for an epic celebration of Varèse Sarabande’s 2013 anniversary. The first concert of the year kicked off the centerpiece of our whole celebration: a series of five-concerts spread over the entire year, with California’s Golden State Pops Orchestra. First came February’s opening night of the GSPO season and our celebration of the music of Alan Silvestri. The very next weekend, I found myself producing China’s first-ever film music concert with the Macau Orchestra on the grand stage of the Venetian Macau’s theatre. Returning from this epic adventure landed me in the middle of the final preparations for the GSPO’s DISC ONE May 11 Varèse 35th Anniversary All-Star Gala … and completing work on this very CD! 1. DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (John Powell) (2:37) 2. HOP (Christopher Lennertz) (3:06) 3. KUNG FU PANDA 2 (Hans Zimmer Compiling the Varèse Anniversary CDs every five years is one of my great joys. Working away on and John Powell) (2:37) 4. DOLPHIN TALE (Mark Isham) (3:01) 5. BIG MIRACLE (Cliff Eidelman) (3:15) 6. NIM’S ISLAND (Patrick new film music releases every day, as I do, and have been doing for over 25 of Varèse’s 35 years now, Doyle) (3:56) 7. () (2:06) 8. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (John Powell) (4:12) 9. RIO (John Powell) (2:42) 10. DR. SEUSS’ HORTON HEARS A WHO! (John Powell) (7:46) can push certain albums from memory once they are completed and I’ve moved on to my meet my 11. ASTRO BOY (John Ottman) (4:32) 12. SPEED RACER (Michael Giacchino) (4:33) 13. REAL STEEL (Danny Elfman) (6:54) next deadline. It’s an overwhelming (but in the best way possible) amount of music that passes through 14. THE A-TEAM (Alan Silvestri) (6:11) 15. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino) (2:42) here! The anniversary CDs give me the opportunity of revisiting the best film music from the past 16. LARGO WINCH (Alexandre Desplat) (3:06) 17. FAST FIVE (Brian Tyler) (3:04) 18. KNIGHT AND DAY (John Powell) (4:54) 19. G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (Alan Silvestri) (2:22) 20. STAR TREK (Michael Giacchino) (2:38) five years and the revelation every time is that there is a lot of outstanding film music being written … still! We’ve lost so many legends who were dear friends of mine in the years since I started doing DISC TWO this, but there are so many new names from all around the world bringing their incredible artistry to 1. AMELIA () (4:59) 2. CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (James Newton Howard) (5:54) 3. HACHI Hollywood. Compiling just the recent highlights for a set such as this leaves no doubt that film music (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) (3:25) 4. THE HELP () (6:27) 5. (Marc Shaiman) (3:51) 6. LEAP YEAR remains the most vital, exciting and inspiring display of musical excellence there is. My hope with () (2:54) 7. THE TUDORS - SEASON 3 () (1:34) 8. BEL AMI () (1:55) 9. PARADE’S END (Dirk Brossé) (2:19) 10. YOUR HIGHNESS () (4:30) 11. ALBERT NOBBS (Brian Byrne) (5:16) these releases is always that you too will be reminded of a favorite score you may not have listened 12. GREY GARDENS (Rachel Portman) (2:45) 13. ANOTHER YEAR (Gary Yershon) (3:02) 14. LA FILLE DU PUISATIER to for a while or, more importantly still … that everyone will discover at least one, and hopefully many, (Alexandre Desplat) (3:27) 15. THE LAST STATION (Sergey Yevtushenko) (1:49) 16. SPARTACUS LOVE THEME new favorites among the contents here. Fantastic scores from films that pass with little or no fanfare (Alex North) (2:55) 17. THE VISITOR (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) (5:02) 18. LA LIGNE DROITE (Patrick Doyle) (3:37) 19. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Danny Elfman) (5:57) 20. COLUMBUS CIRCLE (Brian Tyler) (3:14) can be easy to miss. Here’s another chance to make that most exciting kind of musical discovery 21. FLASH OF GENIUS (Aaron Zigman) (1:55) 22. MILDRED PIERCE () (1:41) among this wealth of film music riches. Our 35th anniversary also marks something of a new beginning for Varèse Sarabande. Our merger DISC THREE this year with Cutting Edge Group may, to our fans, be a largely behind-the-scenes bit of Varèse news 1. FOOL’S GOLD () (4:23) 2. SANCTUM () (2:20) 3. THE FIRST GRADER () (2:21) 4. THE STONING OF SORAYA M. (John Debney) (3:12) 5. BLACK GOLD () (3:59) that began the year, but the benefit will show itself with increased activity on all fronts. An 6. IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (Gabriel Yared) (4:00) 7. THERE BE DRAGONS: SECRETOS DE PASIÓN amplification of all the things we have been doing — and an opportunity to add to those some () (2:54) 8. OSCAR: THE COLOR OF DESTINY (Diego Navarro) (6:17) 9. FOR GREATER GLORY wonderful things we haven’t! All in all, at a point where the challenges of the music world have forced (James Horner) (4:08) 10. VALKYRIE (John Ottman) (4:20) 11. THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (Jerry Goldsmith) (3:32) 12. THE WOLFMAN (Danny Elfman) (4:17) 13. DREAM HOUSE (John Debney) (5:40) 14. LET ME IN (Michael Giacchino) (6:00) so many labels to close or constrict their business, the next stage in the evolution of Varèse Sarabande 15. I AM LEGEND (James Newton Howard) (4:26) 16. NEVER LET ME GO (Rachel Portman) (3:00) Records is continued growth and ambitious expansion! With that agenda and with increased support 17. IGOR (Patrick Doyle) (3:03) 18. () (2:56) 19. ’S THE WARD (Mark Kilian) (2:35) 20. behind all of our film music activities, the coming years look very exciting indeed! FRIGHT NIGHT (Ramin Djawadi) (4:11) With our 35th Anniversary and all of the related activities and albums, this year is a particularly DISC FOUR thrilling time for me. The great thing about celebrating Varèse Sarabande is that, for us, the spotlight 1. THE GHOST WRITER (Alexandre Desplat) (1:41) 2. TOO BIG TO FAIL (Marcelo Zarvos) (4:30) is always on the composers. It will always be that way. We will never forget the composers who made 3. THE IDES OF MARCH (Alexandre Desplat) (2:04) 4. FROST / NIXON (Hans Zimmer) (4:27) 5. BRAKE (Brian Tyler) (3:18) us what we are. Jerry Goldsmith, Miklós Rózsa, Elmer Bernstein, Alex North, Georges Delerue, Basil 6. CAMELOT (Mychael and ) (1:35) 7. THE BORGIAS (Trevor Morris) (1:34) 8. GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 2 Poledouris and so many others. You will hear their music on new albums and in concerts around the (Ramin Djawadi) (1:46) 9. RISE OF THE (Patrick Doyle) (5:18) 10. BATTLESHIP (Steve Jablonsky) (3:15) 11. BABYLON A.D. (Atli Örvarsson) (5:34) 12. BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (Brian Tyler) (5:40) 13. COWBOYS & ALIENS world. And the new music we are so honored to be associated with — magical days in the recording (Harry Gregson-Williams) (3:07) 14. EAGLE EYE (Brian Tyler) (2:28) 15. CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (Rolfe Kent) (2:32) studio with Michael Giacchino, Patrick Doyle, John Powell, Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, and so 16. A THOUSAND WORDS (John Debney) (4:43) 17. THE MIGHTY MACS () (2:29) many more — continues to fill us with an enthusiasm for great film music that is not only undiminished 18. TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (Marco Beltrami) (4:30) 19. TOUCHBACK (William Ross) (5:18) 20. WILL (Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills) (3:10) 21. SUPER 8 (Michael Giacchino) (5:16) from our earliest years ... it has never been greater! 22. THE MUMMY 3: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (Randy Edelman) (3:01) — Robert Townson

22 23 left: RANDY EDELMAN , ROBERT TOWNSON , left: ELMER BERNSTEIN , ROBERT TOWNSON right: LALO SCHIFRIN , ROBERT TOWNSON right: ROBERT TOWNSON , JERRY GOLDSMITH

left to right: JOHN OTTMAN , , left to right: MYCHAEL DANNA , SEAN CALLERY , ROBERT TOWNSON , JOHN FRIZZELL , ROBERT TOWNSON ÁNGEL ILLARRAMENDI , DIEGO NAVARRO , DON DAVIS

left: , ROBERT TOWNSON left: BRIAN TYLER , ROBERT TOWNSON , PATRICK DOYLE , MARCO BELTRAMI right: , ROBERT TOWNSON , , JAN A.P. KACZMAREK right: ROBERT TOWNSON , ALEX NORTH

24 25 1 Special thanks Steve Biagini, Joseph Billé, Darren Blumenthal, Costa, Bryon Davis, Colette Delerue, Kevin Elliott, Laura Engel, Steven Juliani, Mark Graham, Lee Holdridge, Steve Knapp, Richard Kraft, Chris Kuchler, Cary E. Mansfield, Lisa Margolis, Alex May, Raul Perez, Bill Pitzonka, Zoë Poledouris, Todd Turner, Booker White, , Gernot Wolfgang

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