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Spooktacular Music and Costume ConcertJohn Bytheway, narrator
Friday, October 28, 2016 • 7 PMSaturday, October 29, 2016 • 3 and 7 PMWillowcreek Middle School2275 West 300 North, Lehi
The Composer is DeadH A L L O W E E N C O N C E RT
Dear Friends,
elcome to the Timpanogos Symphony’s 2016 Halloween
concert. I’m very excited to bring you today’s performance. Last year,
our Halloween concert exceeded our expecta-tions. We had two enthusiastic, sold-out crowds that made it a memorable performance for all of us in the orchestra. While searching around for a theme for this concert, I came upon a piece of music, written for narrator and orchestra, entitled The Composer is Dead. I was intrigued when I learned that the story was written by none other than Lemony Snicket, the author of the rather famous books, A Series of Unfortunate Events. I had seen the movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, starring Jim Carrey, and had read some of the books to one of my grandchildren. I enjoyed this type of humor and was very pleased when I listened to a recording of The Composer is Dead. I thought it would be a great addition to a Halloween concert. It is not only a bit spooky, but is also educational and a lot of fun. The premise of the story of The Composer is Dead is that the composer has been murdered. An inspector is called in to investigate this terrible tragedy. Of course, the usual suspects happen to be the members of the orchestra. Each section of the orchestra is interrogated by the inspector to see where they were on the night in question. Through these interrogation episodes, the audience is introduced to each section of the orchestra with some fun, tongue-in-cheek dialogue that reveals some long-standing traditions (perhaps even folklore) about the personality and traits of the members of the different sections of the orchestra. I won’t reveal who is discovered to be the culprit—you’ll have to stay tuned to learn
the identity of the malefactor in this fun-filled murder mystery. I hope that you find this music and narration both entertaining and enjoyable. I also included some other music on the program that I hope will get you in the mood for Halloween. Some pieces are fun, popular music, such as “Ghostbusters” and Pirates of the Caribbean, while others are classical masterpieces such as Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain. I am delighted to again offer a family concert where children of all ages are invited to attend. Last year was the first time we had offered such a concert and I was very interested to see how the children would behave during the concert. I was thrilled with the interest and attention of the children. I hope we can repeat that level of acceptance and enthusiasm this year. We are repeating our costume parade, which will occur during Night on Bald Mountain, and our trick-or-treating, which will occur immediately following the concert. Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the concert!
John PewConductor and Music DirectorTimpanogos Symphony Orchestra
John PewDirectorTimpanogos Symphony Orchestra
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Concert Program
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Selections from The Phantom of the Opera (1986)Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)
Arranged by Calvin CusterThe Phantom of the Opera
Think of Me
“Witch’s Ride” from Hänsel and Gretel (1893)Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
The Composer is Dead (2006)Nathaniel Stookey (b. 1970)
Text by Lemony Snicket (b. 1970)Narrator, John Bytheway
“Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre (1856)Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
“Ghostbusters” (1984)Ray Parker, Jr. (b. 1954)
Arranged by Bill Holcombe
Night on Bald Mountain (1867)Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
Conducted by Douglas Pew
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)Hans Zimmer (b. 1957)
Arranged by Paul Lavender
“Thriller” (1982)Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
Arranged by Bill Holcombe
Our Guest Performer
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John Bytheway was born and raised in Salt Lake City, and he served his mission in the Philippines. Following his mission he attended the University of Utah, and later
graduated from BYU. John has taught the Book of Mormon at Brigham Young University, and the BYU Salt Lake Center since 1996. In 2003, he earned a Master’s Degree in Religious Education. He is the author of more than
two dozen books and CDs many of which, he says, are effective non-prescription sleep-aids. He loves to golf, write, read, and play the banjo and guitar. John is a founding member of the local chapter of the Andy Griffith Show Re-run Watchers Club, and does a “spot-on” impersonation of Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife. John was recently released as the bishop of the Salt Lake Winder 10th Ward. John and his wife Kimberly have six children and a completely full SUV which doubles in value when it’s full of gasoline.
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John Pew – Music Director
John Pew is Music Director of the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra. He is an energetic champion of live symphonic music known for his warm rapport with audiences and musicians alike and his genius for innovation and education. He has led the TSO since founding it in 2010. Now in its sixth season, the orchestra has grown to include 75 musicians, an actively 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. He is a tireless, enthusiastic teacher in many settings. He educates audiences through his choice of repertoire and program notes and by taking the TSO and its music to elementary schools and underserved communities from Tooele to Nephi. He reaches out to youth through the TSO’s Aspiring Musicians Competition and by inviting young musicians to play side-by-sides in the orchestra. He stretches the orchestra by programming a balance of challenging and accessible music, by inviting professional musicians to coach sections and to critique the orchestra as a whole, and by featuring superb guest soloists. The TSO has gained a reputation among community orchestras for excellent perfor-mance and innovative programming. Innova-tions have included new commissions, performance premieres, and outside-the-box programming such as an organ symphony, music from the Baroque and classical periods, family-friendly Halloween concerts, Broadway
classics and movie music, and an evening of classic rock. Past soloists with the TSO have included Richard Elliott, Principal Tabernacle Organist; violinists Jenny Oaks Baker, Monte Belnap, and Rosalie Macmillan; guitarist Lawrence Green; vocalists Nathan Osmond and Melissa Heath; pianists Jeffrey Shumway, Scott Holden, Robin Hancock, Vedrana Subotic, David Glen Hatch,
and Josh Wright; and narrators Bruce Seely and Lloyd Newell. Past concerts have included performances with the Deseret Chamber Singers and the Wasatch Chorale. John’s passion can be traced to early childhood; he began piano lessons at age five. In high school he held season tickets to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and began to amass a large collection of classical scores and recordings, spending countless hours studying the masters. He studied piano with Reid Nibley at Brigham Young University, but pursued a career in software engineering. John now works for SAP in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and telecommutes from his home office in American Fork. His prior posts include Assistant Conduc-tor of the Santa Clara Chorale, Music Director of the Oakland Temple Pageant, and Music Director of the Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra in Oakland, California, a position he held for eight years. John and his wife, Renee, reside in American Fork, Utah, and are the parents of five children.
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Program NotesOverture to Phantom of the OperaAndrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)Officially he is known now as The Right Honor-able The Lord Lloyd-Webber, with a life peerage and a knighthood. But when he completed his first hit musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, in 1970, he was just Andrew Lloyd Webber, son of a composer father and violinist mother. From the time of that first major success, Lloyd Webber has written a remarkable string of tremendously successful musicals that have made him a bona fide household name around the world. For the Overture to one of his biggest hits, The Phantom of the Opera from 1986, Lloyd Webber channels all the Romantic-era drama, tragedy, and passion of Gaston Leroux’s gothic horror novel into a menacing orchestral prelude. “Witch’s Ride” from Hänsel und GretelEngelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)The German Romantic composer Engelbert Humperdinck is one of those classical “one-hit wonders”—like Pachelbel, Holst, or Barber-known almost exclusively for a single piece of music despite having written many other compositions of equal or superior quality. For Humperdinck, it was his first operetta, Hänsel und Gretel, premiered two days before Christmas in 1893 (with Richard Strauss conducting), that established his reputation. Based loosely on the Grimm brothers’ version of the fairy tale, it was an immediate success, and the “Evening Prayer” from Act II became an independent success in its own right. Between the first two acts of this three-act operetta, the orchestra plays the “Witch’s Ride” as an interlude, capturing the innocence of the two young children, the rustic simplicity of German folk song, but most notably the dark foreboding of a 19th-century German forest.
The Composer is DeadNathaniel Stookey (b. 1970) and Lemony Snicket (b. 1970)Under the pen name of “Lemony Snicket,” American author Daniel Handler has written numerous children’s books, including the highly successful A Series of Unfortunate Events stories. In 2009, “Lemony Snicket” collaborated with American composer Nathaniel Stookey on The Composer Is Dead, a delightful murder mystery that takes place within an orchestral performance. Originally narrated by Snicket himself at the premiere, it tells the story of an inspector who interrogates each of the musical instruments in the orchestra to find out which one of them killed the composer. In the process, young audiences (and older listeners, too!) are introduced to the instruments, learning their sounds and capabilities as the inspector attempts to uncover the real truth about music by dead composers. “Ride of the Valkyries” from Die WalküreRichard WagnerThe culmination of German composer Richard Wagner’s aspirations as the creator of a Gesamtkunstwerk or “total art work” was the massive four-opera cycle known as the Ring of the Nibelungs, produced in Wagner’s own purpose-built theater in Bayreuth in 1876. One of the most recognizable excerpts from this opera epic is “The Ride of the Valkyries” from the second opera in the cycle, Die Walküre, where fearless warrior women gather to transport the souls of fallen soldiers to Valhalla. This thrilling “ride,” with its evocations burgeoning supernatural power, has subsequently been used in many soundtracks, from Birth of a Nation and What’s Opera Doc? to The Simpsons and Apocalypse Now.
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“Ghostbusters”Ray Parker, Jr. (b. 1954)The comedy film Ghostbusters was not only a huge popular hit in the summer of 1984, it was nominated for two Academy Awards. One of the nominations was for “Best Original Song” for the movie’s theme song, also titled “Ghost-busters,” which reached number one on Billboard’s singles chart that same summer. Written, produced, and performed (including vocals and all instrumentals) by Ray Parker, Jr., the song “Ghostbusters” was crafted in a couple of hours, and was modeled after the style of a late-night TV advertising jingle. The song has enjoyed continued popularity as a Halloween favorite in the decades following the movie’s release. Night on Bald MountainModest Mussorgsky (1839-81)Of the five Russian composers who constituted the “Mighty Handful” in the late 19th century-Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov—all but one were amateurs. And of this group, Mussorgsky (who worked as a clerk in the Forestry Department) had the least amount of formal training in music. Despite this lack of expertise, it was Mussorgsky’s music that became widely known internationally, producing some of the most famous compos-itions to emerge from 19th-century Russia: Pictures at an Exhibition, the operas Boris Godunov and Khovanschchina, and probably his best-known work, Night on Bald Mountain. Mussorgsky wrote several versions of this tone poem about a witches’ Sabbath, none of which were performed during his lifetime. It wasn’tuntil after Mussorgsky died that Rimsky-Korsakov fashioned an orchestral version based d on his friend’s score. The work quickly became very popular, even more so when it was included in the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia (in a new arrangement by Leopold Stokowski
Pirates of the CaribbeanHans ZimmerHans Zimmer started his career as a pop musician, and through that experience was one of the leaders in introducing electronic music into film scores. Some of his earlier film scores fused electronics with traditional orchestral scoring, though more recently his scores have tended to be more strictly orchestral. Nomi-nated ten times for an Oscar, his only win came for the score to the 1994 hit movie The Lion King. When Jerry Bruckheimer finished filming Pirates of the Caribbean in 2003, he asked Zimmer to provide a soundtrack. Zimmer was busy wrapping up an earlier project, but worked closely with Klaus Badelt on the soundtrack, contributing some of the main themes for the first installment of the Pirates franchise. Bruckheimer managed to get Zimmer on board completely when he made Dead Man’s Chest in 2006, and Zimmer also wrote the scores for the next two Pirates of the Caribbean movies, At World’s End and On Stranger Tides. “Thriller”Michael Jackson (1958-2009)Michael Jackson was unquestionably one of the most innovative and influential pop musicians of the last fifty years, achieving in his early twenties the same towering status as Elvis and The Beatles. Jackson’s Thriller album, released in 1982, won eight Grammy awards, and remains the best-selling album in history—over 65 million copies sold worldwide. A Halloween-themed performance of the album’s title song was turned into a now-classic 14-minute video the following year, and the song itself (written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones) was released as a single in 1984. In the extended music video, “Thriller” formed the centerpiece of a horror-movie narrative, complete with iconic zombie choreography that has become a celebrated symbol of the 1980s.
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ConductorJohn PewAssociate ConductorDouglas Pew1st ViolinKristi Jenkins*Whitney ArmantroutTristyn FarringtonBeverly HansenGae Lyn HendersonLinda JankowskiKathryn MooreDiane PetersonJanae PewKaitlin RackhamBonnie WhettenSophie Wilson2nd ViolinDianne Freestone*Dan BelnapRachel EbelingJenn FetzerMiriam Frazier
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