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Nicholas Hersh

Nicholas Hersh, BSO
associate conductor
and artistic director of the Baltimore
Symphony Youth Orchestras, has served
as music director of the Bloomington
Symphony Orchestra in Indiana and
assistant conductor with the National
Repertory Orchestra in Colorado. He has
appeared in concert with the New World
Symphony in Miami and the Southern
Great Lakes Symphony in Detroit, and
he has served as cover conductor with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen
Music Festival. In 2011 and 2012, he
was a conducting fellow at the American
Academy of Conducting at Aspen, and he
is a recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S.
Career Assistance Award.
Mr. Hersh grew up in Evanston, Illinois
and started his musical training with the
cello. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in music from Stanford University and a Master’s
degree in conductingfrom the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music. 
Mr. Hersh’s performance credits span
a diverse range of genres beyond the
traditional concert canon, including
opera, Broadway, pops, choral, Viennese
dance, ballet and film music. He continues to earn acclaim for arrangements and
orchestrations. His arrangements include
commissions from the Cleveland Pops,
the National Repertory Orchestra and the
Jackson Symphony. In 2013, Mr. Hersh’s
orchestral arrangement of Queen’s famous
“Bohemian Rhapsody” saw worldwide
success after the video of its premiere went
viral on the Internet.

The Nutcracker
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Thursday, November 3, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Music Center At Strathmore

Sunday, November 6, 2016 — 3 p.m.
Nicholas Hersh, Conductor
Nicole Cabell, Soprano

John Adams

Maurice Ravel

The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
Shéhérazade
I. Asie [Asia]
II. La Flûte enchantée [The Enchanted Flute]
III. L’Indifférent [The Indifferent One]
NICOLE CABELL

INTERMISSION
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Music from The Nutcracker, opus 71
Overture miniature from The Nutcracker
Act II
No. 10 Scène
[The magic castle of Confiturembourg,
entrance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy]
No. 11 Scène [Arrival of Clara and the Prince]
No. 12 Divertissement
a. Le chocolat [Spanish dance]
b. Le café [Arabian dance]
c. Le thé [Chinese dance]
d. Trépak [Russian dance]
e. Danse des Mirlitons [Dance of the Reed-Flutes]
f. La mère Gigogne et les polichinelles
[Mother Ginger and the puppets]
No. 13 Valse des fleurs [Waltz of the Flowers]
No. 14 Pas de deux
Intrada [The Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier]
Variation I (pour le danseur)
Variation II (pour la danseuse)
Coda
No. 15 Valse finale et Apothéose
[Final Waltz and Apotheosis]

The concert will end at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Thursday
and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

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Nicholas Hersh last conducted the
BSO’s September 22 Pulse concert,
featuring works of John Adams,
Arvo Pärt, and Houndmouth.

Er i k a D ufo u r

Nicole Cabell

Soprano Nicole Cabell,
the 2005 Winner of
the BBC Singer of the
World Competition in
Cardiff and Decca recording artist, recently