Program
Selections from
Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
Irving Berlin
"Carousel Waltz" from
Carousel (1945)
Richard Rodgers
"Crapshooters' Dance" from
Guys and Dolls (1950)
Frank Loesser
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“Overture” from
My Fair Lady (1956)
Frederick Loewe
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INTERMISSION
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“Overture” from
Funny Girl (1964)
Jule Styne
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"Comedy Tonight" from
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)
Stephen Sondheim
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“Overture” from
West Side Story (1957)
Leonard Bernstein
Selections from
Porgy and Bess (1935)
George Gershwin
Brian Stone
Artistic Director & Conductor
Prize-winning conductor and award-winning teacher Brian Stone has worked both in the opera pit and on the concert stage with professional orchestras throughout the world, including work with universities and conservatories across the country, to both public and institutional acclaim. In opera, Stone has conducted some fifteen different full productions and served as a judge for the National Association for Teachers of Singing and the Austrian-American Society’s Mozarteum Scholarship.
Dr. Stone is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied composition, viola, and literature. He received a Master of Music degree and a Doctorate in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz and Gustav Meier. Further studies in conducting took place at Le Domaine Forget in Canada with Otto-Werner Mueller and two summers at the Festival at Sandpoint with Gunther Schuller. He also studied with Harvey Pittel on saxophone, Jacob Glick on viola, Bill Dixon in improvisation, and Allen Shawn and Henry Brant in composition.
Emmanuel Rojas
Assistant Conductor
SCSO is happy to introduce our assistant conductor, Emmanuel Rojas. He recently received a Masters in orchestral conducting from the Bard Conservatory of Music in Upstate New York, while concurrently finishing his Doctoral degree in bass trombone from the University of Southern California. He has conducted both the Conservatory Orchestra and the Orchestra Now (TÅŒN) at Bard College and with members of the Thornton Symphony at USC. Emmanuel has also assisted at both institutions and is also a freelance bass trombonist.
Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra
Principals listed in bold.
Thank you to the sponsors listed underneath their sponsored musician or chair.
First Violin
Xaman Kryger, Concertmaster
Cassis Borish
Sponsor: Anonymous
Ellen Buczko
Sponsor: Treble Makers
Rebecca Kellogg
Bess Knight
Sponsor: Treble Makers
Gabriel Ramirez
Sponsor: Anonymous
Maria Scott
Karla Torres Vazquez
Double Bass
Eric Alleshouse
Clarinet
Eugene Kim
Jim Brown
Lyndsi Gutierrez
Tyler Harper
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Eb & BASS CLARINET
Lyndsi Gutierrez​
Eugene Kim
Trombone
Levy Barlevy
David Santamaria Ed.D.
Caden Piro
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BASS TROMBONE
Caden Piro
Guitar
Jerry Danielsen
Second Violin
Ashley Rose
Sponsor: Anonymous
Rebecca Barnard
Patricia Butterworth
Reginald "Regie" Espiritu
Mark Goodman
Ethan Lindsey
Noah Quinteros
Flute
Ashley Turner
Sponsor: All Heart Heating and Cooling
Vicki Galarneau
Megan Lee
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PICCOLO
Megan Lee
Bassoon
Tyler Harper
Peggi Stoffel
Tuba
Jeffrey Rice
Harp
Kenneth Pasewark
Viola
Natalie Spevak
Katie Adler
Lisa Curtis Saunders
Hailey Simmons
Oboe
Nathaniel Edison
Sarah Bloxham
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ENGLISH HORN
Sarah Bloxham
French Horn
J.R. Hills
Sponsor: Cathy and Phil Lichtenberger
Lori Howell
Hannah Mitchell
Andy Arensman
Timpani &
Percussion
Darryl Ball
Alysa Branda
Kristin Hedtke
Sandra Wilcher​
Cello
Stephen Hyde
Beryl Canale
Susy Christiansen
Leslie Marshall
Jennifer Miles
Sponsor: Busy Bee Studios
Mayte "Victoria" Ramirez
Sponsor: Cristina Ramirez
Grace Van Houten
Jean Wertz
Saxophone
ALTO
Eugene Kim
Nathaniel Edison
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TENOR
Lyndsi Gutierez
Tyler Harper
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BARITONE
Jim Brown
Trumpet
Ben Sanchez
Hessa Benfield
Francisco Butterworth
Piano
Harry Christiansen
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Mezzo Piano Level
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Piano Level
Vicki Galarneau
Huong Le and Thang Nguyen
Pianissimo Level
Lillian Appelby
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Megan Lee
Cristina Ramirez
Peggi Stoffel
Julie Vasquez
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Thank you!
Thank you to our donors and sponsors; your generosity helps us in our mission to support orchestral music in Santa Clarita and has made tonight’s concert possible.
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Thanks to our volunteers, our board members, and all the talented musicians who make this orchestra a strong and vibrant part of our community.
Special thanks to the Canyon High School Performing Arts Center, and to Mark Goodman for his support in feeding a hungry orchestra!
And the biggest thanks go to you, our audience members, for joining us tonight.