CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
The New York Pops
Make the Season Bright
Performers
The New York Pops
Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor
Ann Hampton Callaway, Guest Artist
Liz Callaway, Guest Artist
Anthony Nunziata, Guest Artist
Will Nunziata, Guest Artist
Essential Voices USA
Judith Clurman, Music Director and Conductor
Program
ALL-POLA PROGRAMProgram to include:
POLA / WYLE "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (arr. Steven Reineke)
LOESSER "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (arr. Fred Barton)
BERNARD / SMITH "Winter Wonderland" (arr. Tim Berens)
SCHWARTZ / YOUNG "The Chanukah Song" ("We Are Lights") (arr. Ryan Nowlin)
LEONTOVICH "Carol of the Bells" (arr. David Hamilton)
TRAD. "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (arr. Steven Reineke)
HERMAN "We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame (arr. Robert Wendel)
BEAL / BOOTHE "Jingle Bell Rock" (arr. Steven Reineke)
BERLIN "White Christmas" (arr. Fred Barton and Jack Everly)
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.Bios
The New York Pops
The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, and the
only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Under
the leadership of dynamic Music Director Steven Reineke, The New York Pops continues to
re-imagine orchestral pops music. The orchestra performs an annual subscription series and
birthday gala at Carnegie Hall and a summer series at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New
York. The New York Pops is dedicated to lifelong learning, and collaborates with public
schools, community organizations, children's hospitals, and senior centers throughout the
five boroughs of New York City. PopsEd allows thousands of New Yorkers of all ages and
backgrounds to participate in fully customizable music programs that blend traditional
education with pure fun.
Steven Reineke
Steven Reineke is the music director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, principal pops
conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, principal pops conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and principal
pops conductor designate of the Houston Symphony.
Mr. Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on
the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include
performances with the orchestras of San Francisco, Seattle, Edmonton, Pittsburgh,
Vancouver, Ottawa (National Arts Centre), Detroit, Milwaukee, and Calgary.
As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,
Mr. Reineke's work has been performed worldwide.
Ann Hampton Callaway
One of the leading champions of the Great American Songbook, Ann Hampton Callaway has made
her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, television
host, and producer. She won the Theatre World Award and received a Tony Award nomination
for her starring role in the Broadway musical Swing! Ann made her Hollywood screen
debut in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd. She was also featured on the
soundtrack of Queen Latifah's Last Holiday. She has written more than 250 songs,
including platinum award-winning hits for Barbra Streisand and the theme for the hit
television series The Nanny.
Ann performs the critically acclaimed acts Sibling Revelry and Boom! with her
sister, Broadway star Liz Callaway. Recently, Ann has taken the symphony world by storm
with her tribute to her legendary mentor in The Streisand Songbook, which she
premiered with the Boston Pops and has since performed with more than 70 orchestras. Her
2014 CD, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project, was released to rave
reviews and went a long way in establishing Ann as one of the premier jazz voices in the
world. Mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Todd Whitelock, it is Ann's first live solo
CD, recorded at the height of her vocal and interpretive powers.
DownBeat gave Ann's latest CD, The Hope of Christmas, four stars. Visit
annhamptoncallaway.com for more information.
Liz Callaway
Tony nominee and Emmy winner Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's
Merrily We Roll Along. She has also starred in Baby, Miss
Saigon, The Look of Love, and The Three Musketeers; in addition, she
appeared for five years as Grizabella in Cats. Off-Broadway appearances include
The Spitfire Grill (Drama Desk Award nomination), No Way to Treat a Lady,
Marry Me a Little, and Brownstone.
Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song "Journey to the Past" in the animated feature
Anastasia. Other film work includes Jasmine in the two Aladdin sequels,
The Swan Princess, and The Rewrite with Hugh Grant.
She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready to Go, a daily, live children's
program on CBS in Boston. Other television credits include In Performance at the White
House, Inside the Actors Studio: Stephen Sondheim, Late Show with David
Letterman, and Senior Trip (a CBS Movie of the Week).
Her extensive concert and symphony career has included appearances in London, Paris,
Iceland, Vietnam, Australia, China, and nearly every major city in the US. She performs
regularly with her sister, Ann Hampton Callaway, as well as with composer Stephen Schwartz,
and has had the great pleasure of singing with Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, and the legendary
Johnny Mathis.
Liz has made six solo recordings: The Essential Liz Callaway, Passage of
Time, The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On &
Off-Broadway, Anywhere I Wander: Liz Callaway Sings Frank Loesser, and a
Christmas album, Merry and Bright. Visit lizcallaway.com for more information.
Will and Anthony Nunziata
Entertainers, recording artists, funnymen, and advocates of arts in education, Will and
Anthony Nunziata are the Brooklyn-born, classically trained, singing-and-comedy-brothers
duo hailed by The Huffington Post as "a nearly impossible pairing of talent, stage
presence, and charisma."
The brothers have brought their distinct take on classic and contemporary songs to
performing arts centers and theaters, as well as symphony concerts with orchestras that
have included The Cleveland Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, and the Detroit, Lancaster,
Annapolis, Cape Cod, Toledo, and Edmonton symphony orchestras, to name a few.
Featured on Good Morning America and the Rachael Ray Show, Will and
Anthony are extremely proud to have created their arts in education outreach program, Arts
Matter!, in which they visit schools and conduct master classes with students, providing
education and inspiration in supporting the arts as a significant component of young
people's lives.
Separately, Will is an acclaimed stage director and is the concert director for many of
Broadway's leading ladies, including Tony Award winner Lillias White. Anthony is an
emerging songwriter whose songs are featured on the brothers' Christmas EP, The Gift Is
You, which is available for purchase after tonight's concert.
Get social with Will and Anthony on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (@willandanthony).
Visit willandanthony.com for more information.
Essential Voices USA
Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA (EVUSA) is one of New York's preeminent choral
ensembles. It performs at many of the city's iconic venues and events, records and
premieres works by America's finest composers and lyricists, and regularly appears with The
New York Pops on its Carnegie Hall subscription series. It performed on NBC's televised
broadcast of the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular in 2014, and at the
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting in 2011 and 2012. The ensemble comprises a
talented roster of seasoned professionals and auditioned volunteers, dynamically fitted to
the unique needs of each project. Among other national highlights, EVUSA participated in
the 2013 Presidential Inaugural activities, and held a monthlong residency at National
Public Radio. The impressive cohort of musicians who have worked with EVUSA run the gamut
from young opera sensation Jamie Barton, to Broadway star Idina Menzel, to musical theater
luminaries Stephen Schwartz and Sheldon Harnick, to composers Milton Babbitt and Jennifer
Higdon. EVUSA currently produces The Composer Speaks, a series of musical
performances complemented by panel discussions with composers and lyricists at The DiMenna
Center for Classical Music. EVUSA Youth Workshop provides selected high school students
with the opportunity to participate with the main ensemble in the heart of New York City's
music scene. It has recorded works by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Shore. EVUSA has recorded
several CDs for Sono Luminus, and its latest release, Season of Light: Songs of
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year, was released in November 2016.