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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
Twentieth Century (New Broadway
Cast Recording), Big Fish (Original
Broadway Cast), Merrily We Roll
Along (PS Classics), 35MM: A Musical
Exhibition (Original Cast Recording),
Writing Kevin Taylor and Disney’s
FROZEN. He also appears in the film
The Standbys, a documentary focusing
on Broadway swings, standbys
and understudies.
Ben Crawford last appeared with the BSO in
March 2018, performing Vienna to Broadway,
Jack Everly, conductor.
Ted Keegan
Ted Keegan has been
seen as the Phantom
in The Phantom of the
Opera on Broadway, in
the national tour and
in Phantom–The Las Vegas Spectacular.
Keegan has performed the role in over
24 states across the U.S. and live from
Rockefeller Center for the Today Show
on NBC. He also sang the role in front
of the largest audience ever when he
made a flying entrance from the dome of
Madison Square Garden during the half-
time show of the NBA All-Star Game.
He performed unpublished Gershwin
at the opening of the George and Ira
Gershwin Room at the National Archives
in Washington, D.C., which The New
York Times reviewed as one of the ten best
musical events of the year. He appeared
in the Frank Loesser Celebration in New
York City and was a soloist at the Lincoln
Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. A few of the
orchestras Keegan has performed with
as a soloist include the Detroit, Syracuse,
Charleston (WV), Portland, Pittsburgh,
Ottawa, Omaha, Baltimore, Las Vegas
and Fort Worth symphonies and the
Dayton Philharmonic, as well as
the National Symphony at the Kennedy
Center. Keegan is founding member
of The Phat Pack, which was named the
Best All Around Performer of 2013 by
Las Vegas Review Journal.
Ted Keegan last appeared with the BSO in
March 2018, performing Vienna to Broadway,
Jack Everly, conductor.
Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown originated
the title role in Mary
Poppins on Broadway,
for which she received
Outer Critics, Drama
League and Drama Desk nominations
for Best Actress.  Brown also starred as
Mary Poppins in the national tour of Mary
Poppins, where she garnered a Garland
Award for Best Performance in a Musical.
Brown’s other Broadway credits include
Belle in Beauty and The Beast, and she
has starred in Jack O’Brien’s national tour
of The Sound of Music and Disney’s On
the Record. Brown has starred in both
Oklahoma and Showboat at Chicago’s
Lyric Opera and has performed with
virtually all of the top orchestras in North
America including the Boston Pops, the
New York Philharmonic, the Hollywood
Bowl Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony,
New York Pops, Fort Worth Symphony,
Cincinnati Pops and the Philadelphia
Orchestra. Brown’s PBS special, Ashley
Brown: Call Me Irresponsible, received a
PBS Telly Award. Other television credits
include NBC’s The Sound of Music. Brown
is the voice of Disneyland celebrating
its 60 th anniversary singing the newly
penned Richard Sherman song, “A Kiss
Goodnight.” Brown’s album of Broadway
and American Songbook standards is
available on Ghostlight/Warner Brothers.
Ashley Brown last appeared with the
BSO in February 2013, performing
The Best of Broadway with Ashley Brown,
Jack Everly, conductor.
Anthony Blake Clark
and the Baltimore
Choral Arts Society
For the past 22 years, WMAR
Television has featured Choral Arts in
its special, Christmas with Choral Arts,
which won an Emmy Award in 2006.
The chorus was also featured in a PBS
documentary called Jews and Christians:
A Journey of Faith, broadcast nationwide,
and on National Public Radio’s Special
Coverage in the fall of 2001. The ensemble
has been featured frequently on The First
Art, Performance Today and VOX. In
Europe, Choral Arts was featured in a
program devoted to the music of Handel
broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande.
On local radio, Baltimore Choral Arts
was featured on Choral Arts Classics, a
program on WYPR Radio hosted by
Music Director Emeritus Tom Hall that
features the Choral Arts Chorus and
Orchestra. In 2010, Choral Arts released
Christmas at America’s First Cathedral on
Gothic Records, recorded at the Baltimore
Basilica. A recording with Dave Brubeck,
featuring Brubeck’s oratorio, The Gates
of Justice, was released internationally on
the Naxos label in 2004; Choral Arts is
also featured on Introducing the World of
American Jewish Music on Naxos. Choral
Arts has two other recordings in current
release: Christmas with Choral Arts and
a live recording of the Rachmaninoff
All-Night Vigil.
Acclaimed artists collaborating with
Choral Arts have included Sweet Honey
in the Rock, Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck,
the King’s Singers, Anonymous 4, Peter
Schickele, Kathy Mattea and others.
Baltimore Choral Arts’ innovative
programs often feature both choral and
orchestral music, stage and theater works.
BCAS last appeared with the BSO in
December 2018, performing Home for the
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now
in its 53 rd season, is one of Maryland’s
premier cultural institutions. The
Symphonic Chorus, Full Chorus,
Orchestra and Chamber Chorus
perform throughout the mid-Atlantic
region, as well as in Washington, D.C.,
New York and Europe. Conductor and
composer Anthony Blake Clark is in
his second year as Music Director of
Baltimore Choral Arts Society.

Holidays, Andy Einhorn, conductor.
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