Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor

2010 Holiday Pops Ticket Order Form

Jean Danton, Soloist

13th Annual Holiday Pops to feature Soprano Jean Danton and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra Saturday, December 11 Balcony tickets and new concert gift baskets are available!

Marblehead, MA – Soprano and actress Jean Danton will join Maestro Dirk Hillyer and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra at historic Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on Saturday, December 11th at 8 p.m. for the 13th annual Holiday Pops Concert in an evening of musical favorites and cherished treasures. 

Danton has performed throughout the United States and Europe in opera, oratorio, recitals and with symphony orchestras. 

She has been a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra with Keith Lockhart and Bruce Hangen, Handel and Haydn Society under Christopher Hogwood and John Finney, Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, and Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman. 

The Associazione Culturale - Storici Organi del Piemonte in Italy has invited her back for her third series of baroque concerts in the 2011 season. 

Ms. Danton made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Masterwork Chorus and her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, in both instances performing Handel’s Messiah.

Ms. Danton’s operatic performances include roles with Boston Baroque, Greater Buffalo Opera, Cambridge Opera, Brown Bag Opera and Cambridge Community Chorus.  She has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Opera Theatre and the Boston Early Music Festival.

She is often a soloist for Pops concerts and musical theatre appearing with the Boston Pops Orchestra, North Shore Music Theatre, American Classics, Hillyer
Festival Orchestra and New England Light Opera. 

Her versatility also extends to jazz and she is a passionate advocate of contemporary music.  An acclaimed recitalist, she has performed on the N.Y. Trinity Church Concert Series in N.Y.C. and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.  She has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Festival, Yale Center for British Art, and the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival on Cape Cod.

Danton has several solo recordings on Albany Records and Newport Classic. She can also be heard as Jeanette MacDonald on the newly released CD of New England Light Opera’s world premiere production of Yes, Yes Jeanette! Her television credits include the PBS documentaries The Nobel Legacy, Apollo 13-To the Edge and Back, American Experiences: Stephen Foster and Mary Magdalen for Lifetime.  For more information about her schedule and her recordings, please visit www.jeandanton.com.

The Holiday Pops evening includes a pre-concert reception at Abbot Hall beginning at 7 p.m.

Floor tickets have sold out. Balcony seats are $35 each and are available in person in Marblehead at Arnould Gallery and Framery, 111 Washington Street; The Garden Collection, 155 Washington Street; and at National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant Street.  They are also available at VNA Care Network & Hospice at 5 Federal Street in Danvers.

Remaining tickets, subject to availability, can be purchased the night of the concert at Abbot Hall.  Notecards and giclees featuring the 2010 logo art “Dusting of Snow” by Joan Colt Hooper as well as raffle tickets for the original painting are available through the downloadable form on-line at www.rcomh.org and at www.vnacarenetwork.org.  

As a new feature this year, four dinner-and-a-show gift baskets are available and packaged for gift giving.  The basket begins with a $50 gift certificate for dinner at either Jack Tar Restaurant in Marblehead, 5 Corners Kitchen in Marblehead, Caffe Italia in Marblehead or a $30 gift certificate to The Grapevine Restaurant in Salem. The show part of the gift includes two balcony tickets to the Holiday Pops concert at Abbot Hall, a paper fine art giclee print of “Dusting of Snow,” the 2010 Holiday Pops Logo art, this year painted by Marblehead’s own Joan Colt Hooper, a package of note cards featuring the 2010 artwork and 6 raffle ticket chances to win the original artwork.  Baskets have an estimated value of $225 but are being sold for $125.  The supply is limited to the four baskets.  If you are interested, please contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900, ext 1363 or Jessica Barnett at 781-639-0624. 

Proceeds from this gala event will benefit the philanthropic projects of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and Rotary International and the local patient care services of VNA Network & Hospice. 

For more information, contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900, ext. 1363 or at jvigneron@vnacarenetwork.org or Jessica Barnett at 781-639-0624 or at jdharbar@comcast.net.

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2010 Holiday Pops Ticket Order Form

Celebrate the 13th annual fundraiser which has given back nearly $300,000 to the community through the nonprofit work of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor, VNA Care Network and Hospice.

Thursday, November 11, 2010, Holiday Pops Tickets go on Sale
Table tickets are SOLD OUT.  Balcony seat are available.

Order forms can be found at the Marblehead Reporter or on the Rotary or VNA websites.  Table seating is limited and traditionally sells out within 72 hours! Balcony seats will be available at locations around Marblehead -- watch for listings.

Thursday, November 18, 2010, Holiday Pops Artist's Reception at Abbot Library
Featuring "Dusting of Snow" the 2010 Holiday Pops original painting crated by Marblehead Artist Joan Colt Hooper specifically for the Holiday Pops.

Saturday, December 11, 2010, Holiday Pops Concert at Abbot Hall
Featuring The Hillyer Festival Orchestra conducted by Maestro Dirk Hillyer.

For more information, please contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900 ext. 1363 or visit www.rcomh.org or www.vnacarenetwork.org

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Joan Colt Hooper - Featured Artist for the 2010 Pops

Marblehead artist an Joan Colt Hooper has accepted the job as artist for the 2010 Holiday POPS, co-sponsored by Marblehead Harbor Rotary and the VNA.

Her painting will appear on note cards, programs and all publicity for the December concert, with the original painting raffled off the evening of the show, Dec. 11 in Abbot Hall.