2017 2018 SEASON Justin Freer, conductor Friday, September 15, 2017 at 7:00PM Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 7:00PM Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 2:00PM JOHN WILLIAMS Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ (b. 1932) In Concert There will be one 25-minute intermission. Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsTM In Concert Produced by CineConcerts Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer Jennifer Wootton, Production Associate David Hoffis, Sound Engineer/Production Supervisor Ed Kalnins, Playback Operator and Synthesizer Production Marketing Director: Kory Kelly Press Director: Andrew Alderete Worldwide Representation: WME Entertainment Music Preparation: JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Editing: Ramiro Belgardt and Ed Kalnins Sound Remixing: Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios A very special thanks to Warner Bros. Consumer Products, The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie Richardson, Alex Rabens, and John Williams. HARRY POTTER characters, names, and related indicia are © and ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING’S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s17). JUSTIN FREER American composer and conductor Justin Freer was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. He has established himself as one of the West Coast’s most exciting musical voices and has quickly become a highly sought-after conductor and producer of film-music concerts around the world. Freer began his formal studies on trumpet, playing in wind ensembles, marching bands, and community orchestras. He quickly turned to piano and composition and composed his first work for wind ensemble at age eleven. Continuing trumpet performance while studying piano and composition, Freer saw multiple wind ensemble, choral, and big band performances of his music while still a teenager and made his professional conducting debut at age sixteen. Freer has written music for world-renowned trumpeters Doc Severinsen and Jens Lindemann, and continues to be in demand as a composer and conductor for everything from orchestral literature to chamber music. As a conductor Freer has appeared with some of the most renowned orchestras in the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Freer is the Founder and President of Cine-Concerts, a company dedicated to the preservation and concert presentation of film, TV, and media music with whom he has produced, curated, and conducted full-length music score performances for such wide-ranging titles as Gladiator, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s a Wonderful Life, and most recently Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He also spent several years as one of the principal conductors for The Lord of the Rings trilogy In Concert and conducted the European concert run of Titanic. Freer earned both his BA and MA degrees in music composition from UCLA, where his principal composition teachers included Paul Chihara and Ian Krouse. In addition, he was mentored by legendary composer and conductor Jerry Goldsmith. JOHN WILLIAMS In a career spanning five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of America’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than 100 films, including all sevenStar Wars films, the first threeHarry Potter films,Superman , JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, and The Book Thief. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, includingSchindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films,Munich , Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, and Lincoln. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre, and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-three Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center honors in December of 2004. In 2009, Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th life achievement award from the American Film Institute—the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer. In January 1980, Williams was named nineteenth music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops laureate conductor, which he assumed following his retirement in December, 1993, after fourteen highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of artist-in-residence at Tanglewood. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, he composed and arranged Air and Simple Gifts especially for the first inaugural ceremony of Barack Obama, and in September 2009, the Boston Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled On Willows and Birches. ON SALE NOW LIVE SCOREFILM + AN EVENING WITH NOV 3-5 LESLIE ODOM, JR. DEC 3 TM & © Universal Studios DEC 15-17 DEC 21-23 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DEC 29-30 © 2016 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved. FEB 16 LIVE SCOREFILM + LIVE SCOREFILM + LIVE SCOREFILM + MAR 17-19 FEB 24-25 APR 6-8 HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner MAY 12-13 Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING’S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. ©2017 Meredith Willson Music LLC & Happy Valley Foundation. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s17) All Rights Reserved. slso.org/liveatpowell SYMPHONYCARES CELEBRATES LIFE MAUREEN BYRNE Join musicians of the SLSO along with friends from Saint Louis University Cancer Center and SSM Health SLU Hospital for a special concert that celebrates life and the role of the arts in healthcare. Heidi Harris, violin Ann Fink, violin Allegra Lilly, harp Erik Harris, bass SLSO SymphonyCares Heart Quartet Joo Kim, violin Dr. Dawn Hui, violin Shannon Farrell Williams, viola Yin Xiong, cello Sunday, October 8, 2017, at 2:00pm St. Francis Xavier College Church 3628 Lindell Blvd SymphonyCares is sponsored by Marilyn & Sam Fox and United Healthcare. This SLUCare event is sponsored by Enterprise Holdings. .