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May 8, 2010
Westover Church
Saturday - 8:00pm
Great American Songbook
Stuart Malina, conductor
The Great American Songbook offers a dazzling parade of American popular songs as seen and heard in some of them most beloved films ever made. The GSO welcomes the sultry Hilary Kole and Joel Malina for an unforgettable evening!
Don't miss, That Old Black Magic, Night and Day, I Get A Kick Out Of You and much, much more!
Co-sponsors:
Bluebell Foundation
About the conductor
Stuart Malina is Music Director and Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Malina’s other appointments have included Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2003 and Associate Conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He has guest-conducted the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Easter Music Festival, Nashville Symphony Pops, Opera Delaware, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Opera Delaware and Greensboro Opera.
Mr. Malina helped create “Movin’ Out” with director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, for which he won a Tony Award for Orchestration with Billy Joel in June 2003. He has also served as Associate Conductor of the national touring company of West Side Story and as conductor of an international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1995, Mr. Malina made his acting debut, sharing the stage with Broadway legends Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony Award–winning drama Master Class for its run at the Kennedy Center. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in February 2007, conducting The New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute including Rhapsody in Blue, conducting from the keyboard.
About the Artists
Hilary Kole began her professional career at the legendary Rainbow Room as the youngest singer ever to grace the stage. From there, she appeared in a sold-out run at the famed Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, made her concert hall debut at Lincoln Center as part of the “American Songbook Series” with Jonathan Schwartz, and in June of 2007, appeared at Carnegie Hall during a Tribute to Oscar Peterson as well as in January, 2008, at the Canadian Tribute to Dr. Peterson at Roy Thompson Hall.
Additional major concert appearances include headlining in New York City at Town Hall, Birdland, Iridium, Jazz Standard, The Blue Note, and Carnegie Hall with Michael Feinstein, as well as being featured at the 92nd Street Y’s concert series “Lyrics and Lyricists” and “Jazz in July.” In 2005, Hilary debuted at the Umbria Jazz Festival, as well as the Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland, and has appeared throughout Spain.
In the past year, Hilary has had the honor of recording with Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Michel LeGrand, Mulgrew Miller, David Frishberg, Monty Alexander, Benny Green, Freddy Cole, and concertized alongside Roger Kellaway, Alan Broadbent, Lee Musiker, Houston Person, Harry Allen, Joel Frahm, Russell Malone, and John Pizzarelli, among others. www.hilarykole.com
Joel Malina is thrilled to be performing once again with the Greensboro Symphony. After graduating cum laude from Yale University in 1986, Joel spent seven years as a musical theater actor, starring in numerous productions around the country, including: the title roles in Candide at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater and George M! at the Fireside Playhouse in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; the original cast of Fame: The Musical at Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse, Baltimore’s Morris Mechanic Theater, and Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater; and the New York productions of The Rothschilds, Philemon, and Forever Plaid.
Joel continues to perform as a member of “The Tone Rangers” (an award-winning a cappella septet - www.tonerangers.com); as a featured soloist in pops concerts with the Harrisburg, Greensboro and Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestras, and in numerous benefit performances (with his brother, Stuart Malina) for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra Guild and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Society.
Joel lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife, Nancy, and their two children, Benjamin and Hallie.
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