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Concert One • Holiday Pops • Concert Two May Pops Player Opportunity


Holiday Pops

Friday, December 10, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
8:00 pm

General Admission Tickets   $29.00

Memorial Hall, 590 Main Street
Melrose, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Selections

Bach
Littlie Suite

Waldteufel
Skater's Waltz

arr. Wright
The Little Drummer Boy

Anderson
Christmas Festival

Vocal Selections
with Renese King, gospel vocalist

Holcomb
Sounds of Hanukah

Herbert
March of the Toy

arr. Custer
Winter Wonderland

Finnegan
Christmas Sing Along



The Soloist



R
enese King, Gospel Vocalist

Renese King's array of musical talents have taken her from spiritual and gospel singing at the church podium to timpani playing on the Carnegie Hall stage.

Recognized regionally as a talented instrumentalist, choral director and arranger, she has appeared throughout the East Coast and toured internationally as a percussionist, pianist, and vocalist with a number of Massachusetts based choral and orchestral ensembles. However, it is her soulful and unforgettably moving voice that has piqued growing national attention.

She has made featured solo appearances in several holiday, gospel and patriotic concerts, two national television broadcasts, a compact disc release, and a 17-city national tour with the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Keith Lockhart, conductor (appearing alongside such noted personalities as Peter Jennings, Patti Austin, Amy Grant, Vince Gill and Cyndi Lauper). Her orchestral arrangements have been performed by the Boston Pops, Thayer Symphony, Cape Anne Symphony and the Melrose Symphony Orchestras.

Ms. King is Associate Director of Music and Director of the Re-Union Choir at the historic Union United Methodist Church in Boston's South End, Minister of Music and Choral Director for the Roxbury Seventh Day Adventist Church. In addition to a position in Student Development at Berklee College of Music, she frequently appears as a guest conductor and musician with the Boston Community Choir, and other Boston area groups.

Ms. King is a recipient of New England Conservatory's seventh annual Gospel Music Award, a Massachusetts State Senate Official Citation for musical contributions to the community, and a member of the International Music Competitions Artistic Advisory Council.


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Concert One

November 6, 2010

 Beethoven
Egmont Overture

Stravinsky  
Firebird 1919

Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin & Cello

Luci Lin, violin
Owen Young, cello
 

Holiday Pops

December 10-11, 2010

 Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Selections

Bach
Little Suite

Waldteufel
Skater's Waltz

arr. Wright
The Little Drummer Boy

Anderson
Christmas Festival


Vocal Selections
with Renese King, gospel vocalist


Holcomb
Sounds of Hanukah

arr. Custer
Winter Wonderland

Finnegan
Christmas Sing Along

 

Concert Two

March 5, 2011

 von Suppe
Beautiful Galathea

Gandolfi
Double Concerto for Bassoon & Clarinet (World Premiere)


Richard Svoboda, bassoon
Erin Svoboda, clarinet


Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian"

 

May Pops

May 7, 2011

 Berlioz
Roman Carnival

Holst
Somerset Rhapsody

Anderson
Fiddle Faddle

Bradshaw
Schooner Adventurer


Kenji Kikuchi
Marimba Concerto

Sylvie Zakarian, marimba

Williams
Harry Potter

Tchaikovsky
March Slav