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Concert One Holiday Pops 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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Concert One

October 25, 2008

  Von Suppe
Poet and Peasant Overture

Opera Arias  
Junko Watanabe, Soprano

Beethoven
Symphony No. 7

 

Holiday Pops

December 12-13, 2008

  Shostakovich
Festive Overture

arr. D. Wagner
The Glory of Christmas with
The Jubilate Ringers

Anderson
Trumpeter's Lullaby

Torme
The Christmas Song with
The Jubilate Ringers

Vocal Selections with Robert Honeysucker


arr. Holcombe
Sounds of Hanukah


Chase
Christmas Favorites


arr. Finnegan
Christmas Sing Along


 

Concert Two

March 7, 2009

  Rossini
Barber of Seville

Beethoven
Piano Concerto #4
 
Miyuki Otani, Piano

Brahms
Symphony No. 2

 

May Pops

May 2, 2009

  Reznicek
Donna Diana Overture

Williams
Liberty Fanfare

Khachaturian
Lullaby from Gayaneh

Tchaikovsky
Mvt. 3 from Symphony #6

Vocal Selections

Mara Bonde & Donald Wilkinson

Vignieri
Sonic Debate

Webber arr. Custer
Selections from "Phatom of the Opera"

Sousa
Washington Post

Respighi

Finale from "Pines of Rome"