{ Program Notes
Emil de Cou
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
B a l t i m o r e S y m p h o n y O r c h es t r a
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
A Symphonic Night At The Movies:
Casablanca
Thursday, June 12, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Friday, June 13, 2014 — 8 p.m.
With the score performed live
by The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Emil De Cou
Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner
Music by Max Steiner
Film Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
The Cast
Humphrey Bogart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ilsa Lund
Paul Henreid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor Laszlo
Claude Rains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Captain Renault
Conrad Veidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Signore Ferrari
Peter Lorre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ugarte
S.K. Sakall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl
Madeline Lebeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yvonne
Dooley Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam
Producer: John Goberman
Live orchestra adaptation by Patrick Russ
Technical Supervisor: Pat McGillen
Music Preparation: Larry Spivack
Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions Inc. of New York
and is presented by arrangement with IMG Artists.
The producer wishes to acknowledge the contributions and extraordinary support
of John Waxman (Themes & Varriations).
This film is presented with one intermission and will end at approximately 9:45pm.
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Supporting Sponsor:
Supported in part through the Samuel and Margaret
Gorn Endowed Guest Pops Conductor Fund
www. bsomusic .org
American conductor Emil de Cou
appears regularly as
guest conductor with
orchestras across the United States. After
serving as associate conductor with the
National Symphony Orchestra for eight
years, he was appointed as music director
of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, a position
he began in 2011.
Mr. de Cou has appeared as guest
conductor with many leading orchestras,
including those of Philadelphia, Chicago,
Houston, Saint Louis, Detroit, Montreal,
Boston Pops, Minnesota, Denver, Portland and San Francisco. He was acting
music director for the San Francisco Ballet
and conductor of the American Ballet
Theatre for eight seasons conducting
performances at Lincoln Center as well as
national and international tours.
Mr. de Cou’s innovative concerts at
the Wolf Trap Pavilion have included the
first screenings of The Wizard of Oz with
the score performed with live orchestra,
the first ever live Twitter program notes
(Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony ) and
live in-time pod cast for a concert called
"Fantastic Planet." In 2008, he conducted
the first performance of “Rodgers &
Hammerstein at the Movies.”
In 1985, Mr. de Cou was hired by
Mikhail Baryshnikov to be the conductor
of the American Ballet Theatre, before
joining the San Francisco Ballet as music
director, where he ended his tenure in
1998. He has also worked with the New
York City Ballet, National Ballet of
Canada, Pacific Northwest Ballet and the
Suzanne Farrell Ballet, among others.
About the concert:
Casablanca
Music by Max Steiner
Born in Vienna, Austria, May 10, 1888; died in
Hollywood, California, December 28, 1971
The 1942 movie Casablanca is now considerably more than a classic World War II
film; it is a cinematic legend and perhaps
the most beloved movie ever made.