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Love Letter to Carmel Vol. 2

Love Letter to Carmel is back! The Monterey Symphony presents two outdoor pops concerts at the Forest Theatre in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Love Letter to Carmel, Vol. 2, includes works from local composers Mark Mancina, Alan Silvestri, and John Wineglass, as well as Clint Eastwood and Doris Day movie themes and more!

Featuring local vocalists Malinda DeRouen and Justin Gaudoin, backed up by the full Monterey Symphony orchestra.

Conducted by San Francisco based conductor Brad Hogarth. These concerts are family friendly and full of surprises.


Forest Theater, Carmel-by-the-Sea
General Admisiion

September 13, 2022 @ 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

September 14, 2022 @ 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

Brad Hogarth, conductor
Malinda DeRouen, vocalist
Justin Gaudoin, vocalist
The Montery Symphony Orchestra


PROGRAM

View the Digital Program Booklet HERE


Planes - The Competition
Mark Mancina

Suite from Sea Beast - New to Netflix!
Mark Mancina

Twister Theme for guitar and orchestra
Marc Teicholz, acoustic guitar
Mark Mancina

The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
Justin Gaudoin, vocalist
Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion


Hey There from Pajama Game
Malinda DeRouen and Justin Gaudoin, vocalists
Richard Adler & Jerry Ross (Music and Lyrics), orchestrated by Don Walker


Big Sur: The Night Sun
Commissioned by David Kaun, Rowland Rebele, & Big Sur Land Trust
Justin Gaudoin, reading Return by Robinson Jeffers
Emiliano Campobello, Native flute
Marcie Chapa, world percussionist
Jayson Fann, world percussionist
Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American singer from the Costanoan Ohlone and Chumash Tribes
John Christopher Wineglass


**INTERMISSION**



Captain America Suite
Alan Silvestri

Play Misty for me
Malinda DeRouen, vocalist
Erroll Garner
as recorded by Johhny Mathis


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Main Theme and The Trio
Ennio Morricone, arr. by Gottfried Rabl


Star Trek Suite
Michael Giacchino, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Roseman, and Cliff Eidelman

All programs and artists subject to change.


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Brad Hogarth

Brad is a conductor, trumpeter, and educator based in the Bay Area. He is the Associate Professor of Conducting at San Francisco State University, the music director and conductor of both the Contra Costa Wind Symphony and the Art Haus Collective and maintains a busy performance schedule as a trumpeter.

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Malinda DeRouen

A lifelong performer of music and theatre, Malinda has appeared as an actor and singer throughout the Monterey Peninsula and the Bay Area, gracing the stages of musical venues as well as theatrical playhouses. Most recently, she played the title role in The Western Stage's production of Evita, and will be portraying Mary Poppins this summer and other roles with the Pacific Repertory Theatre. Beyond the peninsula, Malinda was an understudy to multiple roles in San Francisco's long running music revue Beach Blanket Babylon and has toured as a vocalist with Royal Caribbean Cruises.

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Justin Gaudoin

A San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni and Monterey local, Justin Gaudoin has performed the lead roles of Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), Beast (Beauty and the Best), Hamlet (Hamlet), Che (Evita), Aldolpho (The Drowsy Chaperone), Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha), Leading Player (Pippin), and Escamillo (La Tragédie de Carmen). He has been teaching private voice lessons, to all ages and experience levels, for the past 5 years in Monterey, and thanks to online learning he has students throughout the country. His other passion is painting; he recently painted a commission of 6 paintings for Gordon Getty.


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