Berman, Joshua

Castor, Lukas

Coffaro, Nicole

Crossland, Madilyn

Curtis, Sara

Furman, Monica

Gill, Leean

Green, Sierra

Hauser, Chase

Howard, Jeremy

Lara, Dante

Leone, Samantha

Mohseni, Bijan

Reinhard, Brandi

Russo, Niki

English

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Chapman UniversityChapman University Digital CommonsPrinted Performance Programs (PDF Format) Music Performances1-31-2014Get Happy: A Showcase of the Music of HaroldArlen and William FinnJoshua BermanChapman UniversityLukas CastorChapman UniversityNicole CoffaroChapman UniversityMadilyn CrosslandChapman UniversitySara CurtisChapman UniversitySee next page for additional authorsFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/music_programsPart of the Music Performance Commons, and the Other Music CommonsThis Other Concert or Performance is brought to you for free and open access by the Music Performances at Chapman University Digital Commons. Ithas been accepted for inclusion in Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format) by an authorized administrator of Chapman University DigitalCommons. For more information, please contact laughtin@chapman.edu.Recommended CitationBerman, Joshua; Castor, Lukas; Coffaro, Nicole; Crossland, Madilyn; Curtis, Sara; Furman, Monica; Gill, Leean; Green, Sierra;Hauser, Chase; Howard, Jeremy; Lara, Dante; Leone, Samantha; Mohseni, Bijan; Reinhard, Brandi; and Russo, Niki, "Get Happy: AShowcase of the Music of Harold Arlen and William Finn" (2014). Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format). Paper 829.http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/music_programs/829Get Happy: A Showcase of the Music of Harold Arlen and William FinnAuthorsJoshua Berman, Lukas Castor, Nicole Coffaro, Madilyn Crossland, Sara Curtis, Monica Furman, Leean Gill,Sierra Green, Chase Hauser, Jeremy Howard, Dante Lara, Samantha Leone, Bijan Mohseni, Brandi Reinhard,and Niki RussoThis other concert or performance is available at Chapman University Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/music_programs/829Specia{ fJhan~ to President James L. Doti and Dale Merrill, Dean of the College of Performing Arts for their help to make t~is evening possible. SPRING 2014 February 6 President's Piano Series Alexander Toradze and Vakhtang Kodanashvili, duo piano concert February 7 University Singers Post-Tour Concert Stephen Coker, Conductor Carol Neblett Associate Director February 8 Guest Artists in Recital Bruce Sledge, tenor with Cheryl Fielding, pianist February 13-15, 20-22 A Night of Noh Theatre Conceived and Directed by Tamiko Washington March 2 Guest Artists in Recital - Third Wheel Trio Adrienne Geffen, clarinet; Kantenwein Fabiero, flute; and Rebecca Rivera, bassoon March 6 President's Piano Series Jeffrey Siegel, piano April 3 President's Piano Series Christina and Michelle Naughton, piano April 4 University Choir & University Singers in Concert Stephen Coker, Conductor April 5 Artist-in-Residence in Recital Milena Kitic, mezzo-soprano with Vivian Liu, pianist April 9-12 Concert lntime Directed by Alicia Guy April 10-12, 17-19 Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Directed by Matthew McCray April 11 Chapman University Wind Symphony Christopher Nicholas, Music Director & Conductor April 25-27 Opera Chapman: Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) In collaboration with the Chapman Orchestra Peter Atherton, Artistic Director Carol Neblett & David Alt, Associate Directors Daniel Alfred Wachs, Conductor May 7-10 Spring Dance Concert Directed by Nancy Dickson-Lewis and Jennifer Backhaus May 10 Sholund Scholarship Concert Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Showcase Performance May 15 Beethoven: The Finale The Chapman Orchestra partners with The Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra Daniel Alfred Wachs, Conductor C H A P M A N For more information about our events, please visit our website at u N I v E R s I T Y http://www.chapman.edu/copa orcall 714-997-6519 COLLEGE OF PERFORMJNG ARTS or email CoPA@chapman.edu and The Office of the President present "Get Happy" A Showcase of the Music of Harold Arlen and William Finn lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Truman Capote, Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, and Ira Gershwin Featuring the Students of Chapman University's College of Performing Arts' Musical Theatre Class, TH 345 and Featuring Guest Artist Jeralyn Glass Music Director, Arranger and Accompanist Christoph Weinhart Conceived by Jeralyn Glass With Contributions from Dale A. Merrill January 31, 2014, 7:30 p.m. Salmon Recital Hall The Ensemble Joshua Berman - Sophomore, B.A., Theatre Lukas Castor - Sophomore, B.A., Theatre Nicole Coffaro - Junior, B.F.A., Theatre Performance Madilyn Crossland .. Freshman, B.M., Vocal Music Performance Sara Curtis - Junior, B.A., Theatre Monica Furman - Freshman, B.A., Theatre Leean Gm - Junior, B.F.A., Theatre Performance Sierra Green - Freshman, B.M., Vocal Music Performance Chase Hauser - Freshman, B.A., Theatre Jeremy Howard - Freshman, B.A., Theatre Dante Lara - Senior, B.A., Theatre Samantha Leone - Sophomore, B.F.A., Creative Producing Bijan Mohseni - Senior, B.A., Political Science, Music Minor Brandi Reinhard - Sophomore, B.F.A., Theatre Performance, Dance Minor Niki Russo - Freshman, B.S., Environmental Science and Policy Program William Finn (1952 --- ) "Heart and Music" - A New Brain .. Ensemble "I Speak 6 Languages" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Leean Gm "Anytime I'm There" - Elegies - Madilyn Crossland "My Unfortunate Erection" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee .. Lukas Castor "I'd Rather Be Sailing" .. A New Brain .. Niki Russo "What More Can I Say?" - Falsettos - Jeremy Howard "I Have Found" - The Royal Family- Brandi Reinhard "I'm Not That Smart" .. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Chase Hauser "Four Jews in a Room Bitching" .. Falsettos - Jeremy Howard, Leean Gill, Monica Furman, Lukas Castor "Be My Friend" .. Edges (Justin Paul) - Ensemble Program Harold Arlen ( 1 905 ...... 1 986) "Over the Rainbow" - The Wizard of Oz Lukas Castor, Sierra Green, Sara Curtis, Nicole Coffaro "The Jitterbug" - The Wizard of Oz .. Ensemble "Sleepin' Bee" .. House of Flowers .. Jeralyn Glass "Hooray for Love" .. Casbah .. Jeralyn Glass "I Wonder What Became of Me" .. St .. Louis Woman - Jeralyn Glass "A Woman's Prerogative" - St. Louis Woman - Nicole Coffaro "That Old Black Magic" .. Star Spangle Rhythm .. Bijan Mohseni "What's Good About Goodbye?" - Casbah - Sara Curtis "Down With Love" .. Hooray for What! - Brandi Reinhard "Blues in the Night" .. Blues In the Night .. Leean Gill "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' .. Rhythmania - Monica Furman "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" .. St. Louis Woman-Dante Lara Program "Out of This World" .. Out of This World .. Madilyn Crossland "Right As the Rain" .. Bloomer 6irl .. Bijan Mohseni, Sierra Green "Come Rain or Come Shine" - St. Louis Woman .. Samantha Leone "Stormy Weather" .. Cotton Club Parade - Nicole Coffaro "\'ou Gotta Have Me Go With \'ou" ... A Star Is Born- Niki Russo "This Time the Dream's On Me" .. Blues In the Night - Bijan Mohseni "Fancy Free" .. The Petty 6irl .. Sierra Green "If I Only Had a Brain" .. The Wizard of Oz- Joshua Berman "I Had Myself A True Love" .. St. Louis Woman - Jeralyn Glass Harold Arlen Medley: "let's Fall In Love" - let's Fall In lo11e "My Shining Hour" .. The Sky's the limit "Happy As the Day Is Long" - Cotton Club Parade "Ill Wind" .. Cotton Club Parade "Accentuate the Positive" - Here Comes the Wa11es "It's Only A Paper Moon" .. The 6reat Magoo "Get Happy" .. Summer Stock Ensemble Rios Jeralyn Glass (Guest Artist) is a celebrated artist on the opera and concert stages of the world. She is known as a "Mozart singer of the first order" for her performances as Susanna, Zerlina, Despina, Pamina, Ilia and Blondchen in many of the great opera houses in Europe and the United States. Praised as an artist with "glamour and style" by London's Opera Magazine, and honored as one of the most exciting young talents to emerge on the European music scene by the yearbook of Opernwelt, she has collaborated with Sir Neville Marriner, Placido Domingo, Sir Peter Hall, Michael Jurowski, Louis Langree, Kenneth Mont-gomery, Stefan Soltesz, Friedemann Layer and Andreas Delfs. Praised for her "radiant lyric expression," "brilliant coloratura," and "clear, sparkling soprano," Ms. Glass was a member of the Dortmund Opera Ensemble for 3 seasons, singing Gilda, Annchen, Micaela, and Mar-zelline. She has sung in the opera houses of Bonn, Leipzig, Munich, Nice, Toulouse, Stras-bourg, Montpellier, Marseille, Maastricht, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Zurich, Malaga, Venice, San Diego, Michigan, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, among others. She made her oratorio debut singing Mozart's C Minor Mass in Segerstrom Auditorium under the baton of Dr. William Hall. She has sung many of the great oratorio works for soprano including The Creation, Brahms' Requiem, Mozarl Requiem, Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew's Passion, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony in Japan, at La Fenice, Nice Festival of Sacred Music, in Paris, and throughout Germany and live radio broadcasts from the Schubert Festival in France and the West Deutsche Rundfunk Orchestra in Cologne. Ms. Glass appeared on European television in an arts documentary titled Erotic Intelligence. She has appeared on KOCE in Los Angeles. Her original show Red Tones was critically acclaimed in Germany. She is a regular guest artist at the Philharmonie am Gasteig, Munich, recently singing an evening of bel canto opera and starring in a New Year's Eve gala. Ms. Glass has been honored by Chapman University as the inaugural holder of the William Hall Visiting Professorship in its internationally renowned Conservatory of Music. She pre-sents workshops in musical theatre and group song and conducts master classes in vocal performance, both classical and in musical theatre. Her original show, Can't Help Singing, a personal look at the legacy of Broadway musical theatre greats like George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, played to sold out audiences in Los Angeles and at Chapman and has been enthusiastically acclaimed in Germany. In Can't Help Singing , she returns to the early days of her career, which began at age 19 in the touring companies of Jesus Christ Superstar, Showboat, and Camelot. She made her Broadway debut with Rex Harrison in the 25th anniversary revival of My Fair Lady. A leading vocal teacher in Munich for youth and young professionals, she was educated at USC, UCLA and on a scholarship at the Juilliard School, NY. She studied voice with Annette Smith, Nina Hinson, Martial Singher, Ellen Faull and Josef M.etternich. She studied opera in Italy with Renata Tebaldi and Carlo Bergonzi, and acting with William Esper and at The Actors Institute, NY. This native Californian has won the Young California Artist Award, and the Cali-fornia Mozart Competition, as well as honors in the San Francisco Opera Awards, NY NA TS, and the Liederkranz Competition in New York. Bios Ms. Glass is known as an innovative artist and teacher. She created "Powerful Communica-tion: Authentic Expression", a course for business professionals (http:www.powcom.de ). Ms. Glass is founder of the kids4kids World Foundation, http://www.kids4kidsworld.org/, a charitable organization which develops musical and theatrical talent in young people while awakening their social consciousness. The Foundation holds auditions every winter and pre-sents original musical productions at the SchauBurg State Theater and the Conservatory for Music and Theater, Munich. The proceeds support music therapy programs in Germany for traumatized youth. This project is the subject of a documentary film, No One is Alone, which was released in 2007. It is supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Family. Since its inception in July 2006, the Foundation has raised over $30,000 per year for music therapy programs for children in need. Christoph Weinhart (Musical Director, Arranger, Accompanist) was born in 1958 in Wurzburg, Germany, and started playing the piano at the age of six. Shortly afterward he wrote his first compositions. During his school years, he composed six piano sonatas, three piano concertos, numerous songs and an opera. He studied piano, composition, and theory in Wurzburg and in Paris. His most important professors were Bertold Hummel, Gaston Litaize, Klaus Hashagen and Zsolt Gardonyi. Mr. Weinhart soon started working for the stage and has since created incidental music for more than 100 plays. In 1994, he became musical director of the Feuchtwangen Kreuzgangspiele, a well-known summer theatre festival in Germany, and held this position until 2001. Mr. Wein hart worked with the famous German actress and cabaret singer Liane Hielscher until her sudden death in 2001. He has been teaching at Wurzburg Conservatory since 1983. In 1996, he started working at the newly founded Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in Munich, where he currently teaches. Mr. Weinhart's works have been printed by publisher Dohr, Cologne and a new CD with original works is in preparation. Presently, he is working on a chamber opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart". He is also director for kids4kids World Foundation. Dale A. Merrill (Movement Coach) is the Dean of Chapman University's College of Performing Arts. Prior to moving to Southern California, Mr. Merrill was the Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, Washington, a repertory contemporary jazz company of national prominence performing works by Ann Reinking, Lar Lubovitch, Dwight Rhoden, Trey Mcintyre and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Mr. Merrill has over 20 years of choreographic credits, including the Seattle Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Re-search Fundraising Auction, and Voices Across America starring Paul and Mira Sorvino for Public Television, in addition to numerous original works and musical theatre productions. Dale was instrumental in establishing the Department of Dance as an independent depart-ment at Chapman University and led the department to receive accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Dance. For the past seven years, Dale has also served as Artistic Director and Producer for American Celebration, helping to turn this production into Chapman's signature event and one of Orange County's most prestigious annual fundraising occasions. 

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