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Nicholas Hersh

Home Alone: Movie and Music
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Saturday, December 19, 2015 — 3 p.m. & 7p.m.
Nicholas Hersh, Conductor
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Presents
A JOHN HUGHES Production
A CHRIS COLUMBUS Film

HOME ALONE
MACAULAY CULKIN

Nicholas Hersh last appeared with the
BSO conducting John Luther Adams’
Become River at the Pulse performance
in November 2015.

JOE PESCI
DANIEL STERN
JOHN HEARD
and CATHERINE O’HARA
Music by
JOHN WILLIAMS
Film Editor
RAJA GOSNELL

Production Designer
JOHN MUTO

Director of Photography
JULIO MACAT

Executive Producers
MARK LEVINSON & SCOTT ROSENFELT and TARQUIN GOTCH
Written and Produced by JOHN HUGHES
Directed by CHRIS COLUMBUS
Soundtrack Album Available on CBS Records, Cassettes and Compact Discs
Color by DELUXE®
Film screening of Home Alone courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.
© 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Home Alone—Film with Live Orchestra produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture
of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.
Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson
Production Coordinator: Rob Stogsdill
Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC
Technical Director: Mike Runice
Marketing Coordinator: Dan Barry

Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service
Film Preparation for Concert Performance:
Ramiro Belgardt
Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson
Sound Remixing for Concert Performance:
Chace Audio by Deluxe

The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance. With special thanks to:
Twentieth Century Fox, Chris Columbus, David Newman, John Kulback, and Mark Graham.

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BSO Assistant Conductor Nicholas Hersh has
served as music director
of the Bloomington
Symphony Orchestra in Indiana and assistant conductor with the National Repertory
Orchestra in Colorado. He has appeared
with the New World Symphony in Miami
and the Southern Great Lakes Symphony in
Detroit, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
and the Aspen Music Festival.
In 2015 –2016, Mr. Hersh is co-curator
and conductor for the BSO’s new Pulse
series, pairing indie rock bands with
BSO musicians.
Mr. Hersh grew up in Evanston, Illinois,
and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music
from Stanford University and a Master’s
Degree in Conducting from the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society

The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now in
its 50th 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 in Europe.
Music Director Tom Hall is one of the
most highly regarded performers in choral
music today. Since 1982 Mr. Hall has added more than 100 new works to the BCAS
repertoire, and he has premiered works by
contemporary composers including Peter
Schickele, Libby Larsen, Robert Sirota,
James Lee III, Rosephanye Dunn Powell
and many other internationally acclaimed
composers. On local radio, Mr. Hall is
the Arts & Culture Editor for Maryland
Morning with Sheilah Kast and the host
of Choral Arts Classics on WYPR.
Baltimore Choral Arts Society last appeared with the BSO in Leonard
Bernstein's Candide, in June 2015,
with Marin Alsop conducting.