5454 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SHOWCASE

Springtime in Parismar 3

Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8 pm Orchestra Hall

Springtime in Pariswith the Minnesota Orchestra

Sarah Hicks, conductor

Robb Asklof, vocals • Kersten Rodau, vocals

Gil Gutiérrez, guitar • Patrick Harison, accordion

U.S. Bank Pops Season

Stanley Edens/arr. George Maurer

Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli/arr. Adi Yeshaya

Michel LeGrand/arr. Yeshaya

Louis Guglielmi/arr. Aaron Grad

Joseph Colombo/Tony Murena/arr. John Hedges

Francis Lai/arr. Maurer

Django Reinhardt/arr. Yeshaya

George Gershwin

Jacob Gade/arr. Hedges

Claude Debussy/arr. André Caplet

David Baerwald/arr. Maurer

Django Reinhardt/arr. Yeshaya

André Popp/arr. Maurer

Bonjour Paris, from Funny Face Kersten Rodau and Robb Asklof

Minor Swing Gil Gutiérrez

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

La Vie en rose Kersten Rodau

Indifférence Patrick Harison

Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman)

Daphne Gil Gutiérrez

An American in Paris

Jalousie Patrick Harison

Clair de lune

Come What May, from Moulin Rouge Kersten Rodau and Robb Asklof

Nuages Gil Gutiérrez

L’amour est bleu (Love is Blue) Kersten Rodau

I N T E R M I S S I O N ca. 20’

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Singer-actress Kersten Rodau performed with the Minnesota Orchestra twice before, in Bernstein’s Mass in 2009 and Grieg’s Peer Gynt in 2007. She recently played Emma Goldman in Park Square Theatre’s production of Ragtime. She has also appeared in productions of the Guthrie Theater, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Ordway Center, North Star Opera, Opera Roanoke and Bloomington Civic Theatre.

Guitarist and composer Gil Gutiérrez has performed twice at Orchestra Hall with

Doc Severinsen and the San Miguel Five, also known as El Ritmo de la Vida. His many projects

include performances of his original compositions with the New York Choral Society; scoring such

fi lms as El Cochero, Una Causa Noble and El Alcázar de Chapultepec; and recording a

new CD with Severinsen, due out in 2012.

mar 3Springtime in Paris

Th e Springtime in Paris program was produced for the Minnesota Orchestra by Sarah Hicks and Lilly Schwartz.

Vernon Duke/arr. Chuck Sayre

Joseph Kosma/arr. Grad

Charles Dumont/arr. Grad

Joseph Colombo/Tony Murena/arr. Hedges

April in Paris

Les feuilles morts (Autumn Leaves) Robb Asklof

Non, je ne regrette rien (No, I don’t regret anything) Robb Asklof

Passion Patrick Harison

Sarah Hicks, conductorProfi le appears on page 71.

Tenor Robb Asklof is a veteran of many Minnesota Orchestra productions, most recently

“A Scandinavian Christmas” and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. He has sung with orchestras and

opera companies across the U.S., including the Santa Fe Opera, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Orlando

Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Western Plains Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Skylark Opera.

Accordionist Patrick Harison, now making his Minnesota Orchestra debut, is also a composer and bandleader who has performed extensively in New Orleans, New York and his native Minnesota. He has been a member of the Panorama Jazz Band, Loose Marbles and the Baby Soda Jazz Band, which he co-founded, and has appeared at international festivals. In 2005 he won a McKnight Artist Fellowship.

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