JR. PHILHARMONIC 73RD ANNIVERSARY
TRIBUTE CONCERT SPECTACULAR

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

June 9, 2010

7:30 pm

TICKET INFORMATION BELOW

A tribute to the orchestra's founder

DR. ERNST KATZ (1914 - 2009)

Musical Program under the baton of

GARY S. GREENE

featuring

WINK MARTINDALE, MC

EDWARD ASNER

ASHLEY BROWN

PAT BOONE

JUNE LOCKHART

STEFANIE POWERS

RICHARD M. SHERMAN

CONNIE STEVENS

DICK VAN DYKE

THE VANTASTIX

rembering ARMY ARCHERD

with SELMA ARCHERD

and CORKY HALE

r

Star Spangled Banner

Carmen First Suite

Marche Slave

New World Symphony

II. Largo

IV. FInale

Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha

EDWARD ASNER, Narrator

South Pacific

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A tribute to the late

ARMY ARCHERD

produced by DEBRA GREENE

featuring

SELMA ARCHERD

and

CORKY HALE

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The Music Man

ASHLEY BROWN

DICK VAN DYKE

THE VANTASTIX

Soloists

A Spoonful of Sherman

RICHARD M. SHERMAN

Guest Conductor

The Stars & Stripes Forever

 

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TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets are limited and available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. There are 3 purchase options:

  1. Check
  2. Disney Hall Box Office
  3. Ticketmaster

1. Check

_____# Orchestra Reserved Seats @ $45.00 each    = $_______.____

_____# Balcony, Terrace East and West, Orchestra View Reserved Seats   @ $10.00 each     = $_______.____

_____# Total Seats Requested  Total Amount Enclosed = $_______.____

Make checks payable to:
Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra


and mail to:
Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra
157 S. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Please provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope.Tickets will be mailed to you within 10 days before performance.

2. Disney Hall Box Office

Tickets may also be purchased in person from the Disney Hall Box Office
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

3. Ticketmaster

Tickets may be purchased online through TicketMaster.com or by calling 800-982-2787.

(The Box Office and TicketMaster will accept credit cards.)

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The California Music Project

presents the

JR. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Gary S. Greene, conductor

in

Peter and the Wolf

Dick Van Dyke, narrator

Kevin McHale, master of ceremonies

the musical program also includes

Mary Poppins and The Music Man

on

Sunday, February 28

performances at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

at the

Broad Stage, Santa Monica

For Ticket Information: CALL (310) 288-1755

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THE JR. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

launches its 73rd Season

in concert under the baton of Gary S. Greene with

a musical journey from Beethoven to "Wicked"

Wednesday evening, December 9

7:00 pm

K. L. Peters Auditorium

Beverly Hills High School

241 South Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Program

Star Spangled Banner

Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture

Beethoven’s 7th Symphony (2nd & 4th movements)

Copland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody

Stephen Schwartz’ Wicked

Young’s When I Fall in Love with principal trumpet Steven Ravaglioli

Rose' Holiday for Trombones

Strauss' Radetsky March

premiere of works by Cavit Celâyir-Monezis and Kevin Schwarzwald

FREE tickets may be obtained by sending an email to Tickets@JrPhil.org tellling us your name, telephone number and the number of tickets you guarantee will be used. Tickets and seating are available on a first-come basis. You will receive an email confirmation that tickets will be held under your name at WILL CALL beginning at 6:00 pm on the evening of the performance.

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JR. PHILHARMONIC 72ND ANNIVERSARY
CONCERT SPECTACULAR

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

June 3, 2009

7:30 pm

TICKET INFORMATION BELOW

A Salute to 95-year-old Founder-Conductor

DR. ERNST KATZ

Musical Program

under the baton of

GARY S. GREENE

Star Spangled Banner

Schubert's Overture to Rosamunde

Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

IV. Saltarello

Copland's A Lincoln Portrait

DICK VAN DYKE, Narrator

Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1

III Allegro Vivace

TAMARA GYULNAZAROVA, Soloist

Sibelius' Finlandia

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A Salute to Broadway with a legendary cast

Show Boat

JUNE LOCKHART, Narrator

State Fair

PAT BOONE, Soloist

West Side Story

CAROL LAWRRENCE, Soloist

Bye Bye Birdie

DICK VAN DYKE, Soloist

The Music Man

DICK VAN DYKE

and the

VANTASTIX, Soloists

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

RICHARD M. SHERMAN, Guest Conductor

Les Miz

JORDAN BENNETT, Soloist

America the Beautiful

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TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets are limited and available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis.

_____# Orchestra Reserved Seats @ $30.00 each    = $_______.____

_____# Balcony Reserved Seats   @ $10.00 each     = $_______.____

_____# Total Seats Requested  Total Amount Enclosed = $_______.____

Make checks payable to Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra & tickets will be mailed to you.
Please provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Tickets may be purchased in person from the Disney Hall Box Office
111 South Grand Avenue

or through TicketMaster.com – (800) 745-3000

(The Box Office and TicketMaster will accept credit cards.)

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THE JR. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

continues its 72nd Season

in concert under the baton of

Gary S. Greene

with a musical adventure featuring

JUNE LOCKHART

narrating

Peter and the Wolf

Wednesday evening, March 4

7:00 pm

K. L. Peters Auditorium

Beverly Hills High School

241 South Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Program

Star Spangled Banner

Bizet's Overture to the Pearl Fishers

Grieg's Triumphal March

Brahm's Hungarian Dances

Kern's Show Boat

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

FREE tickets may be obtained by sending an email to Tickets@JrPhil.org telling us your name, telephone number and the number of tickets you guarantee will be used. Tickets and seating are available on a first-come basis. You will receive an email confirmation that tickets will be held under your name at WILL CALL.

 

 

THE JR. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

launches its 72nd Season

in concert under the baton of Gary S. Greene with

a musical journey from Mozart to Duke Ellington

Wednesday evening, December 10

7:00 pm

K. L. Peters Auditorium

Beverly Hills High School

241 South Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Program

Star Spangled Banner

Handel's Water Music (finale)

Haydn's Trumpet Concerto (III)

Mozart's 3rd Horn Concerto (I)

Beethoven Romance No. 2 for violin

Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnole

La Virgen de la Macarena

King & I

Sophisticated Lady

Les Miz

FREE tickets may be obtained by sending an email to Tickets@JrPhil.org tellling us your name, telephone number and the number of tickets you guarantee will be used. Tickets and seating are available on a first-come basis. You will receive an email confirmation that tickets will be held under your name at WILL CALL.

 

THE JR. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA'S

71ST ANNIVERSARY CONCERT SPECTACULAR

hosted by the Al Malaikah Shrine

Sunday afternoon, May 4, 2008

3:30 pm

Shrine Auditorium

Los Angeles

You are cordially invited to the Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra's 71st Anniversary Concert Spectacular under the baton of long-time concertmaster Gary S. Greene. Wink Martindale will MC and legendary Hollywood columnist Army Archerd will host the Annual Celebrity "Battle of Batons." Actress June Lockhart will be a special guest.

The concert program includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Clowns and Scheherazde, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Borodin's Dances from Prince Igor, Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, West Side Story, Stars and Stripes Forever and more!

Highlighting the evening will be an array of stars of stage, screen and television -including baseball legend TOMMY LASORDA, actors TIMOTHY BOTTOMS and STACY KEACH, comedian JUDY TENUTA and General Hospital’s JACKIE ZEMAN - conducting the orchestra in the hilarious Annual Celebrity “Battle of Batons,” as presented by Hollywood’s Army Archerd.

Join in congratulating founder-conductor Dr. Ernst Katz, who is celebrating his orchestra’s 71st anniversary season.   

 

 

 

JR. PHILHARMONIC 70TH ANNIVERSARY
PLATINUM JUBILEE

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

June 10, 2007

Stars and Alumni Gathered from Around the United States to Perform in the Platinum Jubilee Concert Honoring 93-Year-Old Founder-Conductor Dr. Ernst Katz

Before a capacity audience at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on June 10th, the 120-member Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra honored its founder-conductor, Maestro Ernst Katz, for 70 years of dedication to youth in music. Since 1937, tens of thousands of young lives have been influenced by the Jr. Philharmonic and Katz’ philosophy of “Give Youth A Chance To Be Heard.” Alumni from the past seven decades came from around the United States to pay tribute to Katz.

Under the baton of long-time concertmaster Gary S. Greene, the Jr. Phil performed Mozart’s Overture to Il Seraglio and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. Highlighting the evening was a retrospective of 70 years of Broadway and motion picture musicals with celebrity singers Jan and Mickey Rooney in “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” from Shall We Dance, Debby Boone in “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Dick Van Dyke in “Put On A Happy Face” from his Tony Award-winning performance in Bye Bye Birdie. June Lockhart, who was in the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, introduced the memorable “Trolley Song” and George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award for his role in West Side Story, introduced selections from the musical. Academy-Award winning composer Richard Sherman conducted his score to “Mary Poppins” with the star of the motion picture, Dick Van Dyke, as soloist. Alumni members of the orchestra from the past 70 years were reunited, and together, they performed Rossini’s Overture to the Barber of Seville and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. The program concluded with Andrew Lloyd Webbers’ score to The Phantom of the Opera. John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever was performed as an encore.

A special video that was broadcast during the concert told the story of Dr. Katz and his orchestra. Produced by Debra Marisa Greene, the piece featured Katz as The Music Man. To view this inspiring video, please go to the link, VIDEO STORY OF DR. ERNST KATZ, on the Home page.

At the Platinum Jubilee, Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd introduced a second video produced by Debra Marisa Greene entitled “The Best of Battle of Batons.” It features a who’s who of motion picture and television stars conducting the Jr. Philharmonic in its annual Hollywood tradition. To see this comedic video, please go to the link, Watch Videos, at right. Katz created the “Battle of Batons” nearly seven decades ago as a means of bringing attention to his young musicians. At each Jr. Philharmonic anniversary concert, celebrities wield the baton in this hilarious competition. The audience votes for its favorite who is presented with the Golden Baton. This year, by acclamation, Archerd presented the Golden Baton to Dr. Katz.

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