This preview has been provided by the North Carolina Symphony.
Resident Conductor William Henry Curry will lead the North Carolina Symphony in some of the best-loved songs from the movies of Walt Disney in the program “Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies,” in three performances Friday, May 10 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 11 at 3 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. The performances take place at Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
Music from Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas and many more classic films will fill Meymandi Concert Hall, along with guest vocalists Candice Nicole, Whitney Claire Kaufman, Andrew Johnson, and Aaron Phillips, rare original storyboard art, and video from the Disney archives projected on a giant screen.
Tickets to “Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies” range from $18 to $67. Student tickets are $15. For more information, go to the North Carolina Symphony’s website at www.ncsymphony.org, or call 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724. Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh.
North Carolina Symphony Pops Series partners are CEI: The Digital Office, Highwoods Properties, Triangle Business Journal, and North State Strategies.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175 concerts annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 65 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn and Resident Conductor William Henry Curry.
Headquartered in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington—as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year—and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
Program Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor
Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies
“Disney Classics Overture”
Arranged by Bruce Healey
© 1993 Walt Disney Music Co. (ASCAP)
& Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“Disney’s The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite”
Music by Alan Menken
Arranged by A. Menken, R. Merkin, T. Pasatieri and T. Ricketts
© 1990 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“Colors of the Wind”
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Arranged by Danny Troob
© 1995 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI) & Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP)
“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite”
Music by Alan Menken
Arranged by Danny Troob and
Franck van der Heijden
Edited by Ted Ricketts
© 1992 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“I Wan’na Be Like You”
Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Arranged by Franck van der Heijden
© 1966 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
“Medley From Disney’s Mary Poppins”
Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Arranged by Bruce Healey and Ken Whitcomb
© 1963 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
“Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite”
Music by Alan Menken
Arranged by Michael Starobin
Edited by Ted Ricketts
© 1996 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“Disney’s Aladdin Orchestral Suite”
Music by Alan Menken
Arranged by Danny Troob and Bruce Healey
© 1992 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“Pirates of the Caribbean Suite”
Music by Klaus Badelt
Arranged by Ted Ricketts
© 2003 Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP)
“Disney’s The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite”
Music by Elton John
Words by Tim Rice
Score by Hans Zimmer
Arranged by Brad Kelley and Ted Ricketts
© 1994 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
“It’s a Small World”
Music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Arranged by Ken Whitcomb
© 1963 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
