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PAVILION
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JOSHUA GERSEN,
conductor
†
A SYMPHONIC NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Cast
JAMES STEWART
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
John “Scottie” Ferguson
KIM NOVAK
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
BARBARA BEL GEDDES
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Midge Wood
TOM HELMORE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gavin Elster
Directed by
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Associate Producer
HERBERT COLEMAN
Music by
BERNARD HERRMANN
Screenplay by
ALEC COPPEL and SAMUEL A. TAYLOR
Film Courtesy of
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Production Credits:
Producer: John Goberman
Live orchestra adaptation by Pat Russ
Technical Supervisor: Pat McGillen
Music Preparation: Larry Spivack
e producer wishes to acknowledge the contributions and extraordinary support
of John Waxman ( emes & Variations).
A Symphonic Night at the Movies
is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York),
and appears by arrangement with IMG Artists.
†
Ravinia debut
JOSHUA GERSEN,
conductor
Joshua Gersen conducted his rst concert at
age with the Greater Bridgeport Youth Or-
chestra in Connecticut, and he made his pro-
fessional debut ve years later with the Greater
Bridgeport Symphony, leading the performance
of one of his own compositions,
A Symphonic
Movement
. He has continued to pursue both
disciplines professionally, graduating from the
Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied con-
ducting with Otto Werner Mueller, and the New
England Conservatory, where he studied com-
position with Michael Gandol . Gersen is cur-
rently the assistant conductor of the New York
Philharmonic, with which he recently made a
critically acclaimed subscription concert debut
with just a few hours’ notice. For the past ve
years, he was also the music director of the New
York Youth Symphony, and he was previously a
conducting fellow with the NewWorld Sympho-
ny under the direction of Michael Tilson om-
as. In the latter role, Gersen led the orchestra
in numerous subscription, education, and fam-
ily concerts, including its Pulse concert series.
Gersen also attended the Aspen Music Festival,
where he won the Robert J. Harth Conducting
Prize in
and the Aspen Conducting Prize
in
before spending the summer of
as
assistant conductor to Robert Spano, the festi-
val’s music director. In
, he served as prin-
cipal conductor of the Ojai Music Festival and
made his debut with the San Francisco Sympho-
ny, which has invited him back several times, in-
cluding to lead a program at the new SoundBox
eater and to ll in for Tilson omas on sub-
scription programs. Gersen has also conducted
such ensembles as the Toronto, National, India-
napolis, New Jersey, Alabama, and Jacksonville
Symphony Orchestras, and he was a recipient of
Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award
in
and
. His work as a composer led
him to conduct several world premieres with
the New World Symphony and New York Youth
Symphony, and he has collaborated with such
composers as John Adams, Christopher Rouse,
Steven Mackey, and Mason Bates. Joshua Gers-
en is making his Chicago Symphony Orchestra
and Ravinia debuts.
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