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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, January 25, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 8 pm
Sunday, January 27, 2019, 3 pm
Jack Everly, conductor
Ben Crawford, vocalist
Ted Keegan, vocalist
Ashley Brown, vocalist
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Anthony Blake Clark, director
Program to be announced from stage.
In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed
with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway
shows that Hamlisch scored. He
conducted Carol Channing hundreds
of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate
Broadway productions.
Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School
of Music at Indiana University, is a
recipient of the 2015 Indiana Historical
Society Living Legends Award and holds
an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from
Franklin College in his home state of
Indiana. He has been a proud resident of
the Indianapolis community for over 15
years and, when not on the podium, you
can find Everly at home with his family,
which includes Max the wonder dog.
Jack Everly last appeared with the BSO
in October 2018, conducting Tony DeSare:
I Love a Piano.
The concert will end at approximately 10:15 pm on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday and 5:15 pm on Sunday.
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Jack Everly
Jack Everly is the
Principal Pops
Conductor of the
Indianapolis and
Baltimore symphony
orchestras, Naples Philharmonic
Orchestra and the National Arts Centre
Orchestra (Ottawa). He has conducted
the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the
Hollywood Bowl, the New York Pops
at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco
Symphony and appears regularly with
The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom
Music Center. Everly conducts over 90
performances in more than 22 North
American cities this season.
As Music Director of the National
Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol
Fourth on PBS, Everly proudly leads
the National Symphony Orchestra
in these patriotic celebrations on the
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West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.  These
concerts attract hundreds of thousands
of attendees, and the broadcasts reach
millions of viewers and represent some of
the highest-rated programming on PBS.
Everly is also the Music Director of
the Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration,
an over 30-year tradition. He led the
ISO in its first pops recording, Yuletide
Celebration, Volume One, which included
three of his own orchestrations. Other
recordings include In The Presence,
featuring the Czech Philharmonic
and Daniel Rodriguez; Sandi Patty’s
Broadway Stories; the soundtrack to
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame;
and Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The
Complete Overtures Of Jule Styne.
Originally appointed by Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of
the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years,
where he served as music director.
Ben Crawford
Ben Crawford began
his Broadway career
when he covered the
roles of Javert and Jean
Valjean in the original
revival of Les Misérables. Crawford
is currently playing the Phantom in
Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera, which
just celebrated its 30 th anniversary on
Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
His other Broadway credits include
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Mr.
Salt), Shrek the Musical (Shrek), Big
Fish (Don Price) and On the Twentieth
Century starring Kristin Chenoweth
and Peter Gallagher. Other credits on
stage include Evita (Che), 110 in the
Shade (Starbuck), Next to Normal (Dr.
Madden), Titanic (Frederick Barrett),
Chasing Rainbows (Frank Gumm), Guys
and Dolls (Sky Masterson), Carousel
(Billy Bigelow), A New Brain (Gordon),
Oklahoma! (Jud), Oliver! (Bill Sykes),
Merrily We Roll Along, 35MM, Jasper
in Deadland (Mister Lethe) and Irma
La Duce (Persil de Noir). He performs
with symphonies throughout North
America and the National Arts Centre
in Ottawa.
Crawford has been featured on
many soundtracks including On the