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MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, May 3, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, May 4, 2019, 8 pm
Sunday, May 5, 2019, 3 pm
Jack Everly, conductor
An American in Paris
Film courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Producer: John Goberman
Live orchestra adaptation: John Wilson
Technical Supervisor: Pat McGillen
Music Preparation: Larry Spivack and
Constantine Kitsopoulos
THE WORLDWIDE COPYRIGHTS IN THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN
AND IRA GERSHWIN FOR THIS PRESENTATION ARE LICENSED
BY THE GERSHWIN® FAMILY
A Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York)
andappears by arrangement with IMG Artists.
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately
10:40 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5:40 pm on Sunday.
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About the Artists
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
10
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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 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. In addition to his ABT tenure,
he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch
on Broadway shows that Hamlisch
scored. He conducted Carol Channing
many 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.
Jack Everly last appeared with the BSO
in April 2019.