The TSO Pops Series kicks off with
"The Golden Age of Black and White"

•  Jack Everly, conductor

•  Chapter Six, vocalists

•  Karen Murphy, vocalist

•  Farah Alvin, vocalist

October 25 at 8:00 pm;

October 26 at 2:00 & 8:00 pm

Roy Thomson Hall

Toronto, Ontario-- This inaugural Pops Concerts of the season is a presentation of the Symphonic Pops Consortium and features the chance to travel back in time to a 1950s TV studio. Those audience members, especially those who remember the time the television was first introduced to the market, will get a kick out of hearing some of TV’s most classic show themes. Themes from the hottest television and radio shows of the era introduced audiences to Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, and the "Elvis era" in rock and roll. Jack Everly and guests bring the Fifties to life with a "really big show" in the Ed Sullivan tradition. The programme includes Cry Me a River, theme from I Love Lucy, selections from Moulin Rouge, and the theme from A Summer Place. Jack Everly conducts vocalists Chapter Six, Karen Murphy, and Farah Alvin.

Jack Everly is widely recognized in the industry for his innovative and engaging original pops programming creations. He is a frequent guest conductor on the world’s concert, opera and ballet stages. He was most recently named to the new position of Principal Pops Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in May 2004. He is also Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, and has been ongoing Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s annual holiday production of Yuletide Celebration since 1994. Some of his guest appearances include the National Symphony of London, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Teatro Colon, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Hawaii Symphony, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and the Opera House Orchestras of Sao Paulo and the Teatro Massimo. Since 1998, Mr. Everly has been the Music Advisor for the Symphonic Pops Consortium (SPC), an alliance formed by the Indianapolis, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee, National and Seattle Symphony Orchestras to create and produce theatrical pops events of the highest quality. Mr. Everly was appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov as the American Ballet Theatre’s Music Director, and served for 14 years. He has also conducted specials for PBS and collaborated with an impressive list of greats: Marvin Hamlisch,

Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Schuur, Sarah Brightman, Mary Martin, Marilyn Horne, Carol Burnett, Gary Morris, Itzhak Perlman, and Frederica von Stade. Mr. Everly’s Hollywood assignments include serving as Music Director for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. His discography also includes numerous Broadway cast recordings and Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Broadway’s Jule Styne. For this recording, he created the critical editions and conducted all of the overtures of the famous Broadway composer. Jack Everly is an avid collector of classic films, and music from the stage and cinema.

Part of the ADP Pops Concerts Series, and part of the Air France October Concert Series.

Tickets:
Call the Roy Thomson Hall box office at 416 593 4828.

Eve: $92, $72, $69, $58, $52, $39, $34, $30.
Mat: $60, $54, $52, $46, $43, $32.50, $28.25, $25.25.

Mon-Fri, 9-8. Sat, 12-5. Sun, 3 hrs prior to concert start. Purchase online: www.tso.ca VISA/MC/AMEX.