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Program Notes } Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall B a lt i m o r e S y m p h o n y O rc h e s t r a Marin Alsop Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair Jack Everly Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation Friday, January 24, 2014 — 8 p.m. Saturday, January 25, 2014 — 8 p.m. Sunday, January 26, 2014 — 3 p.m. Series Presenting Sponsor: Jack Everly, Conductor Featuring Marissa McGowan, Vocalist M i chael Tam maro Program to be announced from the stage. Please see insert for complete cast information. Jack Everly Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), and the Music Director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS. He has been on stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and appears regularly with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center. His frequent guest conducting engagements include the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Ft. Worth, Edmonton, Oklahoma City and Toronto. Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mr. 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 in Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored, including The Goodbye Girl, They’re Playing Our Song and A Chorus Line. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions. Mr. Everly has conducted the songs for Disney’s animated classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame and led the Czech Philharmonic on the CDs In the Presence, featuring Daniel Rodriguez and Sandi Patty’s 2011 Broadway Stories. He also conducted the critically praised Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Broadway’s Jule Styne and was music director for numerous Broadway cast recordings. In 1998, Jack Everly created the Symphonic Pops Consortium, serving as Music Director. The Consortium, based in Indianapolis, produces new theatrical pops programs, and in the past 12 years, more than 235 performances of SPC programs have taken place across the U.S. and Canada. DHMH RSA # R24924 WWW.ELIZABETHCOONEYAGENCY.COM TRUST, INTEGRITY & EXCELLENCE SINCE 1957 January– February 2014 | O v ertur e 29