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FESTIVAL OF CAROLS festival of carols SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2019 AT 8 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2019 AT 2 PM WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL GRANT GERSHON Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ERIC WHITACRE, conductor LISA EDWARDS, piano JOHN WEST, organ Caroling, Caroling ....................................................Alfred Burt (1920–1954) Carol of the Bells ....................................................Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921) arr. Peter J. Wilhousky (1902–1978) Lux Aurumque ........................................................ Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) Suzanne Waters, soprano It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year �� Eddie Pola (1907–1995) George Wyle (1916–2002) arr. Hawley Ades (1908–2008) Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer (Sing-Along) . Johnny Marks (1909–1985) Silent Night ..............................................................Franz Gruber (1787–1863) arr. David O (b. 1970) Brightest and Best .........................................................Southern Harmony Shawn Kirchner, piano arr. Shawn Kirchner (b. 1970) Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Sing-Along) �� John Frederick Coots (1897–1985) Haven Gillespie (1888–1975) O Holy Night ....................................................... Adolphe Adam (1803–1856) arr. John Rutter (b. 1945) O! What a Beautiful City ��Traditional Spiritual Shawn Kirchner, piano arr. Shawn Kirchner INTERMISSION P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE FESTIVAL OF CAROLS The Gift of the Magi . .Eric Whitacre Della .............Laurence Servaes Jim ..............David Castillo Sheila ............Suzanna Guzman Mrs. Sinclair ......April Amante Shopkeeper ......Mark Edward Smith Stage direction and costuming by Lisa Kable-Blanchard Scene 1. Home Della, Jim Scene 2. Watch Storefront Della, Shopkeeper Scene 3. Salon Della, Sheila, Mrs. Sinclair Scene 4. Home Della, Jim This program is made possible with generous support from The Blue Ribbon. The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Swan Family Artist-in-Residence is made possible by the Swan Family Trust. Texts and translations LUX AURUMQUE SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN Poem by Edward Esch (SING-ALONG) Translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri You better watch out, you better not cry, Lux, Light, better not pout, I’m telling you why: Calida gravisque pura velut aurum Warm and heavy as pure gold Santa Claus is coming to town! Et canunt angeli molliter And the angels sing softly He’s making a list, checking it twice, Modo natum. To the new-born baby. gonna find out, who’s naughty and nice. Santa Claus is coming to town. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER He sees you when you’re sleeping, (SING-ALONG) he knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, so be good for goodness sake. you know Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, You better watch out, you better not cry, But do you recall better not pout, I’m telling you why: The most famous reindeer of all? Santa Claus is coming to town! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games! Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, “Rudolph with your nose so bright, Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?” Then how all the reindeer loved him, As they shouted out with glee, “Rudolph the red-nose Reindeer You’ll go down in history!” LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 FESTIVAL OF CAROLS los angeles master chorale SOPRANO A LTO TENOR BASS April Amante Elizabeth Anderson Matthew Brown Michael Bannett Tamara Bevard Garineh Avakian Bradley Chapman Joe Bazyouros Emma-Grace Dunbar Lesili Beard Pablo Corá Mark Beasom Claire Fedoruk Rose Beattie Timothy Gonzales Michael Blanchard Harriet Fraser Sarah Beaty Steven Harms Reid Bruton Hilary Fraser-Thomson Aleta Braxton Blake Howard Tim Campbell Alannah Garnier Monika Bruckner Jon Lee Keenan David Castillo Colleen Graves Janelle DeStefano Dermot Kiernan Kevin Dalbey Kelci Hahn Amy Fogerson Charlie Kim Dylan Gentile Ayana Haviv Michele Hemmings Shawn Kirchner Will Goldman Marie Hodgson Callista Hoffman-Campbell Bryan Lane Abdiel Gonzalez Karen Hogle Brown Shabnam Kalbasi Charles Lane Scott Graff Virenia Lind Sharmila G. Lash Michael Lichtenauer James Hayden Amy Caldwell Mascio Sarah Lynch JJ Lopez David Dong-Geun Kim Deborah Mayhan Adriana Manfredi Sal Malaki Luc Kleiner Caroline McKenzie Cynthia Marty Matthew Miles David Kress Jennifer Paz Margaurite Mathis-Clark Robert Norman Edward Levy Beth Peregrine Julia Metzler David Rakita Matthew Lewis Holly Sedillos Alice Kirwan Murray Edmond Rodriguez Ben Lin Carrah Stamatakis Laura Smith Roethe Todd Strange Brett McDermid Courtney Taylor Jessie Shulman Matthew Thomas Steve Pence Rebecca Tomlinson Leslie Inman Sobol Matthew Tresler Jim Raycroft Suzanne Waters Niké St. Clair Doug Shabe Elyse Willis Ilana Summers Mark Edward Smith Sunjoo Yeo Kimberly Switzer David Williams Andrea Zomorodian Tracy Van Fleet Shuo Zhai The singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, Elyse Willis, AGMA Delegate. P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE FESTIVAL OF CAROLS eric whitacre SWAN FAMILY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is one A charismatic speaker, Eric has given keynote addresses for of the most popular musicians of our time. His concert music many Fortune 500 companies and global institutions, including has been performed throughout the world by millions of Apple, Google, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United amateur and professional musicians, while his ground-breaking Nations Speaker’s Programme, and two mainstage TED talks. Virtual Choirs have united singers from over 110 different countries. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Whitacre is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Swan Family Artist-in-Residence, and was composer in residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. As conductor of the Eric Whitacre Singers, he has released several chart-topping albums, including 2010’s bestselling Light and Gold. A sought-after guest conductor, Whitacre has conducted choral and instrumental concerts around the globe, including sold-out concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra. In addition to several collaborations with legendary Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, he has worked with British pop icons Laura Mvula, Imogen Heap, and Annie Lennox. LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 FESTIVAL OF CAROLS GUEST ARTISTS LAURENCE SERVAES DAVID CASTILLO DELLA JIM The Belgian soprano Laurence New Orleans native David Castillo Servaes has premiered several joined the Los Angeles Master Chorale new operas and performed in 2013 and served as a soloist in the her concert repertoire all over world premiere of Shawn Kirchner’s Europe. She sang the role of the Songs of Ascent, the Messiah Sing- Nurse in the contemporary opera Along, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Shell Shock by Nicholas Lens at and Alexander’s Feast. As a soloist the Philharmonie de Paris and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, premiered Juliette in Paternel by Castillo performed in Bernstein’s Frank Nuyts. She sang Pamina in Mass with Gustavo Dudamel, John Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Aréthuse Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2, and in the in Charpentier’s Actéon, Damigella in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione world premieres of Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World and di Poppea, and Romy Schneider in Elle est moi und töte mich War of the Worlds. by Joris Blanckaert. An inaugural company member of The Industry, Castillo was She has been the soloist in C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificatwith the NFM featured in Hopscotch, Bonnie and Clyde, Galileo, and Nimbus. Leopoldinum Orkiestry Kameralnej at the Berliner Philharmonie; He joined Jay Carlon for his L.A. Dance Project residency as Christus-Oratorium (J.S. Bach) with Akademie für Alte Musik co-producer and narrator of FLEX. With William Nedved and Berlin; Mozart’s Davide Penitente with Sigiswald Kuijken; J.S. Project Runway winner Kentaro Kameyama, Castillo served as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Lautten Companey; Mozart producer and as Lee “Alexander” McQueen in The Passion of arias with the European Philharmonia; J.S. Bach’s St. John McQueen, and as Perseus in Medusa at the Getty Villa with Deaf Passion with Aspetti Musicali; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; and West Theatre. As a producer, David created a multi-sensory Telemann’s St. Luke Passion with Michael Scheck. She has also production of Seven Deadly Sins. been soloist on a concert series with several of J.S. Bach’s works conducted by Paul Agnew. SUZANNA GUZMAN APRIL AMANTE SHEILA MRS. SINCLAIR Suzanna Guzmán, mezzo-soprano and A native of Southern California, television host, is an original Associate soprano April Amante is a versatile Artist of LA Opera, performing roles professional singer, regularly in over 400 performances. She’s performing solo and ensemble appeared as soloist around the repertoire ranging from early music world, including the Metropolitan, to contemporary musical theater. She Washington National, and Houston was most recently the soprano soloist Grand operas, and Opera de Genève,

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