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JOHN BOLTON to NARRATE RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER ,STEVEN REINEKE to CONDUCT THE NEW YORK POPS on DECEMBER 21, 2014 3:00PM @ CARNEGIE HALL

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 08:58 am EST 11/13/14

THE NEW YORK POPS and CARNEGIE HALL present RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER Family Concert Brings Beloved Rudolph Characters to Life STEVEN REINEKE to conduct and JOHN BOLTON TO NARRATE DECEMBER 21, 2014 3:00pm AT CARNEGIE HALL New York, NY – On Sunday, December 21 at 3:00PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute celebrates the 50th-anniversary of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER with a special holiday Family Concert with The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke. This semi-staged concert version of the iconic television special brings Rudolph, Santa and their friends to life through original choreography by director/choreographer Liza Gennaro, as performed by dancers from New York Theatre Ballet. In his debut with The New York Pops, Broadway actor John Bolton (Spamalot, Contact, Titanic) will narrate the classic Christmas tale, with additional characters voiced by Scot Cahoon, Rory Kulz, Bobby Underwood and students from TADA! Youth Theater. Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA will join The New York Pops to perform Johnny Marks’ beloved score. Following the Family Concert, the Notables—Carnegie Hall’s young patrons group—will host the Sixth Annual Family Party featuring food, crafts, cookie decorating, and other Rudolph-themed activities for children. Proceeds support the music education and community programs of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, which annually serve more than 450,000 people in New York City, across the US, and around the world, as well as The New York Pops’ PopsEd programs, which serve children across all five boroughs of New York City. Family ticket packages, which include admission to the concert and the after party, are available starting at $500 (4 tickets). Single tickets including admission to the concert and the after party are $200 for adults, $100 for children over 3, and $75 for children 2 and under. For more information or to purchase after party tickets, please contact the Carnegie Hall Notables office at 212-903-9734 or notables@carnegiehall.org. The Family Concert is one of three holiday concerts performed at Carnegie Hall this December by The New York Pops. On Friday, December 19 at 8:00PM and Saturday, December 20 at 8:00PM, Mr. Reineke and the orchestra will perform Kelli and Matthew: Home for the Holidays. The program will feature traditional holiday songs from two of Broadway’s favorite leading performers: Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) and Matthew Morrison (television’s “Glee”). Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA will also join the festivities. ABOUT THE NEW YORK POPS The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, and the only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Under the leadership of dynamic Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, The New York Pops continues to re-imagine orchestral pops music. The orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall. The New York Pops is dedicated to lifelong learning, and through its PopsEd programs collaborates with public schools, community organizations, children’s hospitals and senior centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City. PopsEd allows thousands of New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds to participate in fully customizable music programs that blend traditional education with pure fun. Visit www.newyorkpops.org for more information. Follow The New York Pops on Facebook (facebook.com/newyorkpops) and Twitter (@newyorkpops). Steven Reineke is the Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Edmonton and Pittsburgh. As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world. A native of Ohio, Mr. Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in New York City with his husband Eric Gabbard. ABOUT JOHN BOLTON John Bolton received critical acclaim starring both on Broadway and nationally as The Old Man in A Christmas Story: The Musical for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination, a Footlight Award, an IRNE Award nomination and appeared on several publications’ Top Ten lists. He was in the original Broadway companies of Spamalot, Contact and Titanic, all three of which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Also on Broadway, he was the villainous Grady in Curtains and was featured in the hit revivals of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Damn Yankees. Recent credits include Guys and Dolls In Concert (Carnegie Hall), Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook (New York Philharmonic), Titanic (Avery Fisher Hall), Show Boat (San Francisco Opera, filmed for PBS) and the host of Off-Broadway’s Pageant. He recently headlined productions of The Rocky Horror Show, Clybourne Park, Young Frankenstein, Same Time Next Year and The Music Man and has done extensive improv, cabaret and concert work, singing in New York’s finest nightclubs and performing with symphonies all across the country. Mr. Bolton spent 4 seasons as Bruce Caplan on TV’s “Gossip Girl” and has had guest-starring roles on “Blue Bloods”, “Boardwalk Empire”, “The Good Wife” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” among others. He had recurring roles on both “All My Children” and “As the World Turns”. ABOUT essential voices usa Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA (EVUSA) was recently featured under Judith’s baton in the NBC 2014 telecast of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. The ensemble performs regularly at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops and produces “The Composer Speaks” series at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. EVUSA produced and performed on the critically acclaimed CD Celebrating the American Spirit (Sono Luminus), recorded Marvin Hamlisch’s song “The Music in My Mind” for his children’s book, was featured in the 2010 Leonard Bernstein Celebration at Symphony Space, and also performed on NBC’s 2011 and 2012 national broadcasts of the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. EVUSA was thrilled to participate in the 2013 Presidential Inaugural activities: it performed in a community sing-along of the “Sing Out, Mr. President” song cycle at the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C, and had selections from Celebrating the American Spirit featured on NPR on Inauguration Day. Plans for the 2014-2015 season include several performances with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, “The Composer Speaks” programs of Bach (with commentary by Bach scholar Christoph Wolff) and Mozart (with participation by noted music librarian and editor Michael Ochs), the musical launch of Harvard University professor Carol J. Oja’s book Bernstein Meets Broadway, and the release of its Sono Luminus recording Cherished Moments which includes “Songs of Freedom: A Celebration of Chanukah,” “Set Me as a Seal” by Nico Muhly, and other traditional and new works of the Jewish musical tradition.

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