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Conducted by Nicholas Buc and complete with a choir, experience the beloved comedy classic featuring renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the MSO. View seats for all Boston entertainment venues and find great concert tickets today. Get 100% guaranteed tickets for all upcoming live music events and concerts in Boston at the lowest possible price.
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.
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Featuring a charming and delightful score by our own Pops Conductor Laureate and legendary film composer John Williams, "Home Alone" is holiday fun for the entire family. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-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. Philip just completed ten wonderful years singing with and directing Ecco Singers.
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 , earned in Kentucky. 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. 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.
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The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance. 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.
Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits. 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.
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Home Alone is the highest-grossing Christmas film of all time, and was nominated for two Academy Awards including one for Best Original Score for the John Williams compositions.
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. Different than anything we do is that you are so bound to what’s happening in the movie. I think it’s important that they understand the plot of the movie, where they’re singing, why they’re singing, and how they’re singing it. Normally, when you look at a piece of music, and you see a dynamic change from pianissimo to fortissimo or soft to loud, we just do it because it’s written on the page. Now, we understand that it’s because the first part of the piece is when Kevin McAllister is outside of the church and the second part of the piece is when he’s inside the church.
They are known for their passionate style of performance, which combines exceptional vocals with engaging presentation to provide the ultimate choral experience. 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.
But after learning the music and working so hard on it, and spending so many hours with the score, I think that watching the movie is so different, because you just focus on different things. Obviously, when you’re younger, you just focus on the plot and the characters, but actually listening to the music in the background and how it changes based on what the characters are saying, and how the theme changes is really interesting. Manitoba is abundantly rich in all things choral, and Philip is grateful for the many choral opportunities that have come his way.
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. 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.
Ultimately, director Chris Columbus and writer John Hughes chose a house because they thought it was both warm and menacing. The house, located at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, has since become a major tourist attraction. 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. 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.
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