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BEN CRAWFORD:
BROADWAY AND BEYOND
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, January 17, 2020, 8 pm
Saturday, January 18, 2020, 8 pm
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3 pm
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
October 2019, conducting The Nat King Cole
Songbook featuring vocalist Denzal Sinclaire.
Jack Everly, conductor
Ben Crawford, vocalist
Ben Crawford
Program to be announced from the stage.
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately
10 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5 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 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.
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Everly is also the Music Director
of the Duke Energy Yuletide
Celebration, an over 30-year tradition.
He led the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra 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 (ABT)
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
Ben Crawford began
his Broadway career
when he covered the
roles of Javert and Jean
Valjean in the original
revival of Les Misérables. Since then,
his Broadway credits include Charlie
& The Chocolate Factory (Mr. Salt),
Shrek the Musical (Shrek), Big Fish
(Don Price and Ed Bloom, understudy)
and On The Twentieth Century
(Bruce Granit, understudy and Max
Jacobs, understudy) starring Kristin
Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher.
Other on-stage credits 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), Jasper In
Deadland (Mister Lethe), Merrily We
Roll Along, 35MM and Irma La Duce.
He has appeared in concert with the
Indianapolis, Baltimore, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, Grant Park and Chicago
symphony orchestras; Rochester
and Naples philharmonics; and The
National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Soundtracks inclue On the Twentieth,
Big Fish, Merrily, 35MM, Writing
Kevin Taylor and Frozen. Crawford
also appears in the film The Standbys,
a documentary focusing on Broadway
swings, standbys and understudies.
Ben Crawford last appeared with the
BSO in January 2019, performing in An
Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein,
Jack Everly, conductor.