Home Alone in Concert

Andrew Crust, conductor
Prairie Voices, choir, Philip Lapatha director
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

“Kevin!”

A true holiday favourite, this beloved comedy classic features John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by conductor Andrew Crust and the WSO. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who’s accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who
must defend his home against two bungling thieves.

Hilarious and heartwarming, Home Alone is holiday fun for the entire family!

Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Home Alone with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

Film screening of Home Alone courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.
© 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Soundtrack Album Available on CBS Records, Cassettes and Compact Discs

Color by DELUXE®

Media Partners

Home Alone in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.

Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson

Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill

Production Manager: Sophie Greaves

Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC

Technical Director: Mike Runice

Music Composed by John Williams

Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service

Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt

Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson

Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe

The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Twentieth Century Fox, Chris Columbus, David Newman, John Kulback, Julian Levin, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

Andrew Crust, conductor
Andrew Crust has developed a versatile international career as a conductor of orchestral, opera, ballet and pops programs. In his third season as Music Director of the Lima Symphony, Andrew programs and conducts the Grand Classics, Pops and Educational series and has led collaborations with soloists such as Amit Peled, Awadagin Pratt and Laquita Mitchell.

In the current and upcoming seasons Andrew will debut with the Arkansas, Elgin, Rockford and Vermont Symphonies as Music Director finalist with soloists such as Tracy Silverman, Stella Chen, Shannon Lee, George Li and Wei Luo, and with the San Diego Symphony,

Calgary Philharmonic, Billings Symphony and Sewannee Summer Music Festival as a guest conductor. Andrew will also lead performances of Le nozze di Figaro in multiple cities across Spain in 2023. Other recent engagements include performances with the Winnipeg Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Bozeman Symphony and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie in Québec.

Andrew is a 2020 winner of the Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award. In 2021 he was awarded “Prémio a la Proyección” at the Llíria City of Music International Conducting Competition. In 2017 he was awarded first prize at the Accademia Chigiana by Daniele Gatti, receiving a scholarship and an invitation to guest conduct the Orchestra di Sanremo in Italy. He was a semi-finalist for the Nestlé/Salzburg Festival’s Young Conductors Award competition, and was selected by members of the Vienna Philharmonic as a winner of the Ansbacher Fellowship, with full access to all rehearsals and performances of the Salzburg Festival.

Andrew is equally at ease in the pit, having conducted ballet with Ballet Memphis and the New Ballet Ensemble, and opera with Opera McGill, College Light Opera Company, Boulder Opera Company, and others. As a Pops conductor, Andrew has collaborated with such artists as Rufus Wainwright, Steven Page, Michael Bolton, Cirque de la Symphonie, and the United States Jazz Ambassadors. Andrew has also established himself as a conductor of films with orchestra.

Andrew served as the Associate Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony in Canada from 2019-2022, where he conducted a wide variety of programs with the VSO each season, and made dozens of recordings released on theconcerthall.ca. Andrew served as Assistant Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra from 2017-2019 where he conducted around forty concerts each season. Andrew also served as Conductor of the Memphis Youth Symphony Program. As the Assistant Conductor of the Portland Symphony Orchestra in Maine from 2016-2018, he conducted a variety of concert series, helped coordinate the orchestra’s extensive educational programs, and helped lead a program for concertgoers under 40 called “Symphony and Spirits”.

Andrew was the Assistant Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA) in the summers of 2017 and 2018, assisting Michael Tilson Thomas on an Asian tour, as well as Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop and James Ross at Carnegie Hall and in a side-by-side performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also served as Cover Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony and Nashville Symphony, Assistant/Cover Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic and Assistant Conductor of Opera McGill.

Abroad, he has led concerts with the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana in Italy, Hamburger Symphoniker at the Mendelssohn Festival in Germany, the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile in Santiago.

As an arranger/orchestrator, Andrew is currently working with Schirmer to make orchestrations of a set of Florence Price’s art songs, has orchestrated works by Alma Mahler and Prokofiev, as well as many pops and educational selections.

Andrew is dedicated to exploring new ways of bringing the classical music experience into the 21st century through innovative programming and marketing, creating community-oriented and socially-sensitive concert experiences, and utilizing social media and unique venues. Andrew is a firm believer in meaningful music education, having produced and written a number of original educational programs with orchestras.

John Williams, composer
In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and the concert stage. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman and the Indiana Jones films. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies and more than a dozen concertos commissioned by some of America’s most prominent orchestras. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty-two Oscar nominations, seven British Academy Awards, twenty-five Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. His other honors include the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, an honorary KBE from Queen Elizabeth II, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, and the Gold Medal from the UK’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society.

Prairie Voices, choir
Founded in 2000 by Dr. Elroy Friesen, Prairie Voices is an awardwinning choir of 18-25 year old singers. Currently led by Philip Lapatha. Prairie Voices performs in their own concert series, tours, is a regular guest of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and has recorded 6 CDs (including one as guest choir with the WSO).

While placing an emphasis on performing the music of Canadian and Manitoban composers, Prairie Voices also loves to perform innovative contemporary choral music from all over the world. The choir uses energy, expressiveness and movement to connect avantgarde composition with a popular audience. They are known for their passionate style of performance, which combines exceptional vocals with engaging presentation to provide the ultimate choral experience.

Prairie Voices has performed around the world. Working with choral legends such as R. Murray Schafer, Stephen Hatfield and vocal superstars Rajaton, Prairie Voices has managed to grow as an organization while still remaining true to their Canadian roots.

Philip Lapatha, director
Manitoba is abundantly rich in all things choral, and Philip is grateful for the many choral opportunities that have come his way. His parents, Noel and Rosina were part of the first wave of Filipino immigrants to Manitoba, and treasured the values of education, community, and family. Philip has two Bachelor degrees, Music and Education, earned in Manitoba, and a Master’s degree (piano and music theory), earned in Kentucky.

Philip is one of two full-time choir teachers at Maples Collegiate, teaching with Dorothy Dyck. The Maples Choral Program is recognized for its strong teaching, musical artistry, and community spirit. The Maples Senior Choir and Chamber Choir have earned awards at local and national music festivals, and invitations to perform with some of Winnipeg’s leading musical organizations.

Philip just completed ten wonderful years singing with and directing Ecco Singers. He has worked with Pembina Trails Voices Men and Singers, and has guest conducted the Eastern, Central, and Western Manitoba Youth Choirs, as well the senior years Provincial Honour Choir. Philip’s choral arrangements have been performed by choirs such as Camerata Nova, the Vancouver Youth Choir, and Those Guys. Currently, Philip finds himself on committees and boards for the Manitoba Choral Association, Choral Canada, Canzona, and the Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba.

Musician Nucleus

FIRST VIOLINS
Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster
The Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation
Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster
Jeremy Buzash (guest)
Mona Coarda
Tara Fensom
Trevor Kirczenow (guest)
Hong Tian Jia
Mary Lawton
Sonia Lazar
Julie Savard
Jun Shao
Rebecca Weger (guest)

SECOND VIOLINS
Chris Anstey, Principal
Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal
Karen Bauch
Kristina Bauch,
Elizabeth Dyer
Bokyung Hwang*
Rodica Jeffrey
Momoko Matsumura **
Susan McCallum
Liudmyla Prysiazhniuk (guest)
Jane Radomski

VIOLAS
Elise Lavallée, Acting Principal
Marie-Elyse Badeau, Acting Assistant Principal
Laszlo Baroczi

Richard Bauch
Greg Hay
Dmytro Kreshchenskyi **
Michael Scholz
Darryl Strain (guest)

CELLOS
Yuri Hooker, Principal
Emma Quackenbush, Acting Assistant Principal
Grace An **
Minna Chung (guest)
Arlene Dahl
Samuel Nadurak **
Alyssa Ramsay
Patricia Vanuci (guest)

BASSES
Emily Krajewski (guest)
James McMillan
Daniel Perry
Taras Pivniak (guest)
Ruslan Rusin (guest)
Eric Timperman

FLUTES
Jan Kocman, Principal
Supported by Gordon & Audrey Fogg
Alex Conway
Laurel Ridd (guest)

OBOES
Beverly Wang, Principal
Caitlin Broms-Jacobs (guest)
Robin MacMillan

CLARINETS
Micah Heilbrunn, Principal
Sharon Atkinson (guest)
Mike Dassios (guest)

BASSOONS
Kathryn Brooks, Principal *
Mark Kreshchenskyi, Acting Principal **
Allen Harrington (guest)
Elizabeth Mee **

HORNS
Patricia Evans, Principal
Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal
The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair
Caroline Oberheu
Michiko Singh

TRUMPETS
Chris Fensom, Principal
Paul Jeffrey, Associate Principal
Isaac Pulford
The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair

TROMBONES
Steven Dyer, Principal
The Stuart Bremner Memorial Chair
Keith Dyrda
Isabelle Lavoie**

TUBA
Justin Hickmott (guest)

TIMPANI
A. Nazer (guest)

PERCUSSION
Andrew Johnson, Principal
Caroline Bucher (guest)
Victoria Sparks (guest)
Brendan Thompson (guest)

HARP
Richard Turner, Principal
Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

KEYBOARD/OTHER
Donna Laube (guest)
Leanne Lee (guest)

PERSONNEL MANAGER
Isaac Pulford

MUSIC LIBRARIAN
Michaela Kleer

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
Aiden Kleer

*On Leave
** 1 year appointment