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Concert One
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Holiday Pops
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Concert Two
• May Pops•
Player
Opportunity
May Pops
Saturday, May 2, 2009
8:00 pm
General
Admission Tickets $27.00
Memorial Hall, 590 Main Street
Melrose, Massachusetts
Emil
Reznicek (1860-1945)
Donna Diana Overture
John Williams (b.
1932)
Liberty Fanfare
Arem Khachaturian
(1903-1978)
Lullaby from Gayaneh
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
Mvt. III from Symphony
No. 6
- Intermission -
Broadway Selections
Mara Bonde and Thomas Jones
- Intermission -
Tom Vignieri (b.
1961)
Sonic Debate
Webber/ arr. Custer
Selections from "Phantom of the Opera"
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Washington Post March
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Finale from "Pines of Rome"
Soloists
Mara Bonde & Donald Wilkinson
Mara Bonde, Soprano

Critically acclaimed for an electric stage presence and sweet purity
of tone, soprano Mara Bonde has performed throughout the United
States and Europe. Ms. Bonde made her Boston Pops debut under the
direction of Keith Lockhart in “Brush up your Shakespeare,” which
was nationally televised on PBS's Evening at Pops and
since then, has become a frequent guest artist with that orchestra.
Also on the concert stage, she has sung with the Utah, San Diego,
Charlotte, New Haven, Stamford, Syracuse, Nashua and Cape Symphony
Orchestras, the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque Orchestra and
the OPUS Chamber Orchestra. She performs regularly with Boston
Musical Theater, both here and abroad, and last spring toured with
them in Russia. She appears as soloist in Ravel's Trois
Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis on Robert Shaw's Telarc recording
Appear and Inspire and is also the featured soloist on Music
for Voices by Allen Brings, newly released on Capstone Records.
A National Semi-Finalist in the 2002 Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions and the First Prize winner in the 2003 Annamaria
Saritelli-DiPanni Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Awards, Ms. Bonde has
sung with Glimmerglass Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Company of North
Carolina, National Opera Company (Raleigh), and the Lake George
Opera Festival, in works ranging from Mozart to Mollicone and
Sullivan to Sondheim. Next October, Ms. Bonde makes her debut with
Opera Omaha singing Tiny in Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan.
Ms. Bonde holds a bachelor’s degree in French from Mount Holyoke
College and a master’s degree from Boston University, where she was
also invited to join the Opera Institute. She has studied at the
Sorbonne in Paris and has sung in music festivals at Tanglewood,
Aspen and at the Britten-Pears School with Joan Sutherland and
Richard Bonynge in Aldeburgh, England.
Thomas Jones, Baritone

Baritone Thomas Jones has appeared with
orchestras, opera companies, choral ensembles, pops concerts and on
recital series throughout North America, Europe and the West Indies.
Richard Buell of The Boston Globe calls the vocal and stage presence
of Thomas Jones "irresistible". Anthony Tommasini of The New York
Times proclaims that Mr. Jones sings "with plush sounds and musical
vigor".
Mr. Jones’ solo appearances include The Santa Fe Symphony, The Los
Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, The Apollo Chorus of
Chicago, The San Francisco City Chorus and Orchestra, The Vancouver
Chamber Choir and The Canadian Broadcast Orchestra, The Phoenix Bach
Choir, The Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, New York's St. Cecilia
Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, The Omaha Symphony, The
Pacific Chorale and The Pacific Symphony in Southern California, The
Battle Creek Symphony (Michigan), The Billings Symphony (Montana),
The Louisville Bach Society at The Kentucky Center
for the Performing Arts, The Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra of
Washington, DC, The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
Orchestra, The Bucks County Choral Society and The Philadelphia
Festive Arts Orchestra under conductor Robert Page. In Europe and
abroad, Thomas Jones has sung concert tours with various
organizations including appearances in Copenhagen, Stockholm and
Oslo with The Monadnock Chorus of New Hampshire.
Festival appearances include Saratoga Performing Arts Center,
Berkshire Choral Festival, The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival,
Great Waters Music Festival and Monadnock Music. Opera companies
include Boston Lyric Opera, The Harrisburg Opera Company of
Pennsylvania and Opera New England. In metropolitan Boston,
appearances include The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Civic
Orchestra, The Back Bay Chorale, Coro Allegro, The Worcester
Symphony, The Nashua Symphony, The Monadnock Chorus and The
Masterworks Chorale.
Mr. Jones has appeared with well over 150 choruses throughout The
USA, appearing under the baton of notable maestros such as
Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Dunn, John Alexander,
Jon Washburn, Daniel Beckwith, Joel Revzen, Robert Page, John
Oliver, William Gray, Tom Hall and Gerald Mack. And, he has
premiered new works by composers such as Libby Larson, Dave Brubeck
and John Goodman and others.
Thomas Jones was a semifinalist in the International Bel Canto
Foundation Vocal Competition and a semifinalist in the New York
Oratorio Competition. In addition, Mr. Jones is an accomplished
voice teacher and clinician, having conducted vocal master classes
throughout the United States at colleges and for community, church
and professional choruses. Thomas Jones teaches a full complement of
voice students through The Office for the Arts at Harvard University
and is the Vocal Coach for Harvard’s celebrated "Hasty Pudding
Theater".
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