3 p.m. Sunday, December 13, 2020 Live streamed from Robinson Center Performance Hall

Home for the Holidays Laura Leigh Turner, vocal

Geoffrey Robson, conductor

VIVALDI L’estro armonico, Concerto No. 9, RV230 I. Allegro

3'

Ross Ahlhorn, piccolo trumpet

ANDERSON Suite of Carols I. Pastores a Belén

II. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

III. O, Little Town of Bethlehem

IV. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella

V. Away in a Manger

VI. Wassail Song

11'

VIVALDI Four Seasons: Winter, Op. 8, RV297 I. Allegro non molto

4'

Kiril Laskarov, violin

arr. Stapleton The First Noel 3'

Laura Leigh Turner, vocal

CAHN/Stapleton The Christmas Waltz 3'

Laura Leigh Turner, vocal

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ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ANDERSON/ Applebaum

Sleigh Ride 4'

GUETTEL/Purifoy The Light in the Piazza 3'

Laura Leigh Turner, vocal

ADAM/Ryden O Holy Night 4'

Laura Leigh Turner, vocal

arr. Phillips Midnight Christmas Eve 3'

"Suite of Carols for Strings" and

"Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson

arr. Samuel Applebaum

© Woodbury Music Company LLC (ASCAP)

Used with permission

www.leroyanderson.com

Laura Leigh Turner, vocals

Laura Leigh is an Arkansas native who moved to New York City after recently graduating from Oklahoma City

University with a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre. Laura Leigh is currently starring as Karen Smith in the

Tony-nominated Broadway Musical Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey and directed by Casey Nicholaw. She

made her Broadway Principal Debut in the show on March 10th 2020. She graduated from North Little Rock

High School where she gives credit to the beginnings of her theatre and performance journey. Past credits

include Memphis at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Hairspray, Sister Act, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and

Shrek: The Musical. Laura Leigh has also been seen on the stage of Robinson Auditorium in the Miss Arkansas

Pageant where she received 1st Runner-Up in both 2018 and 2019, garnering over $19,000 in academic

scholarships. It has been a dream of hers to sing with a symphony orchestra, and she is honored for the

opportunity to make music with the Arkansas Symphony here on the stage where she first began performing.

During the quarantine she has brought a creative dream to life by starting her own podcast called ”Living in

the Light with Laura Leigh“, where she interviews artists and creatives and they tell their stories of how Jesus

has taken them from the dark and into His glorious and powerful Light. Laura Leigh also leads a virtual Bible

Study community of women, where each week she teaches her Bible and gathers girls to grow in their faith,

read God's Word, and share life in community. She is home for this prolonged pause while Broadway is shut

down and is enjoying spending time with her family on their new farm in Scott, Arkansas.

Home for the Holidays GEOFFREY ROBSON, conductor Laura Leigh Turner, vocalist

VIOLIN Kiril Laskarov Concertmaster

Dora Paley Ronnel Concertmaster’s Chair

Andrew Irvin Concertmaster Katherine Williamson Assistant Concertmaster

*+Meredith Maddox Hicks Principal Second Violin

Eric M. Hayward Memorial Chair

Linnaea Brophy Trisha McGovern Freeney Leanne Day-Simpson Magdalena Ryszkowski

VIOLA Katherine Reynolds

Principal Dr. Howard & Celia Barnhard Chair

Joe Joyner +Timothy MacDuff

CELLO +David Gerstein

Principal Linda Garner Riggs Chair

Rafael León Jacob Wunsch BASS Barron Weir Principal Jordan Coleman ELECTRIC BASS Jordan Coleman

TRUMPET Ross Ahlhorn

George Worthen Memorial Chair

TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Rick Dimond Principal

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Guild Chair

PERCUSSION Ryan Lewis HARP Alisa Coffey Principal

KEYBOARD Carl Anthony Principal

GUITAR Jake Miller

*ASO-UA Little Rock Partnership Faculty +Member, Quapaw Quartet Member, Rockefeller Quartet

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