NWS celebrates the holiday season with a special Drive-In WALLCAST® concert experience at Dezerland Park! It’s 100% cheer as the NWS Fellows perform seasonal favorites while decked out in their finest and funniest holiday costumes on Dezerland's 16 x 38-foot LED screen. Program selections include highlights from previous seasons, live performances by this season's Fellows and more surprises. Honk your horns and flash those lights for the standing ovation we've all missed.
This event celebrates of the communal concert-going experience, one of the great traditions of classical music, in a safe, socially distanced setting – from the comfort of your own cars!
** Current NWS subscribers at the Vivace and Allegro packages may contact the NWS Box Office to RSVP to include this event in your subscription package. Email tickets@nws.edu or call 305.673.3331. RSVP required bySaturday, December 19 at 4:00 PM.
*** Tickets will be available at the Dezerland Park gate on Dec. 19, beginning at 6:00 PM and for exact cash only ($50 per vehicle).
Tickets no longer available online.
Program
LEROY ANDERSON
(1908-1975)
A Christmas Festival
(1950)
ANTHONY DILORENZO
(b. 1967)
Navidad Latina!
(2019; NWS commission)
Mr. Goodman
MYKOLA LEONTOVYCH
(1877-1921)
PETER WILHOUSKY (1902-1978) Arranged by Richard Hayman
Carol of the Bells
(1914)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(1872-1958)
Arranged by Ralph Greaves
Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
(1934)
Mr. Whiteside
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893)
Selections from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
(1892)
Miniature Overture Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Trepak (Russian Dance) Pas de deux: Prince and the Sugar Plum Fairy
SAM HYKEN
(b. 1981)
Chanukah 5776
(2015; NWS commission)
LEROY ANDERSON
Sleigh Ride
(1948)
IRVING BERLIN
(1888-1989)
Arranged by Robert Russell Bennett
”White Christmas”
(1954)
Mr. Goodman
What to Expect:
SAFETY POLICIES
Click here to read Dezerland Park’s venue rules. Ticketholders must follow all posted instructions while visiting Dezerland Park. When outside your vehicle, face coverings and social distancing are required.
Tune your car radios to 106.9 FMfor the pre-concert performances and concert.
RESTROOMS
Restrooms are available on site. To access, cross the street outside the entrance gate to the Dezerland offices. A bathroom attendant is on duty and will clean and disinfect after each use.
WHERE IS DEZERLAND?
Dezerland Park is located at 14401 NE 19th Ave., North Miami, 33181. Gates open at 6:00 PM and the concert begins at 7:30 PM. For best viewing spots, we recommend arriving early.
WEATHER
NWS at Dezerland Park will take place rain or shine. There are no refunds for inclement weather.
Chad Goodman, conductor
Photo by Jiyang Chen
Chad Goodman serves as the Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony and as an Assistant Conductor to the San Francisco Symphony. With a flair for inventive programming and a bold presence on stage and in the community, he has been praised for "bringing innovation to classical music" (Forbes).
Mr. Goodman designs and presents programs which reimagine how orchestras connect with their audiences. His 2019 education program, “SPARK: How Composers Find Inspiration,” blended captivating light design and videography with engaging audience participation to explore how a composition is created and brought to life by an orchestra. In his first season as Conducting Fellow at NWS, he conducted on nearly a dozen programs and worked closely with Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas, sharing the podium with him on three programs.
Since 2018, Mr. Goodman has served as an Assistant Conductor to the San Francisco Symphony, assisting Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras-Casado, Simone Young and James Gaffigan, among others.
As Founder and Artistic Director of Elevate Ensemble, Mr. Goodman’s ambitious vision for concert programming resulted in the pairing of music from Bay Area composers with underappreciated gems of the 20th and 21st centuries. Under his leadership, Elevate Ensemble established a Composer-in-Residence program and commissioned 15 works from Bay Area composers.
Elevate collaborated with photographers, videographers, poets and culinary artists, bringing new music and vibrant multi-genre experiences to unique venues such as yoga studios, historic Victorian homes and art studio warehouses.
Mr. Goodman has previously served as Music Director of the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Peninsula Symphony. He has been a conducting fellow for the Atlantic Music Festival, a rehearsal and cover conductor for the San Francisco Ballet, and has collaborated with composer Mason Bates on his electronica-classical music project, Mercury Soul.
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Goodman has discussed the future of live performance as a panelist at Meyer Sound Laboratories and taught young musicians the business and entrepreneurial skills needed to successfully navigate the world as a working musician in his workshop “You Just Earned a Music Degree. Now What?”
Mr. Goodman holds a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a master of music degree from San Francisco State University. His mentors include Michael Tilson Thomas, Alasdair Neale, Cyrus Ginwala and Martin Seggelke.
Dean Whiteside, conductor
Dean Whiteside was born in New York City and trained in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts. He is a former New World Symphony Conducting Fellow. Mr. Whiteside is founder and director of the Nashville Sinfonietta, hailed byThe Tennesseanas “a virtuoso band.” He opened the Blair School of Music’s 2013-14 season directing a multimedia realization of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross called “innovative” by The Tennessean and “deeply meditative and satisfyingly original” by ArtsNash.
Mr. Whiteside’s European debut came in 2011 after winning the Jorma Panula Blue Danube Masterclass and Competition. He has conducted orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Orlando Philharmonic, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Sibiu Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tokyo Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester and Zagreb Philharmonic, as well as the Vanderbilt Orchestra on a five-city tour of China. He has served as Cover Conductor to the Dallas Symphony and San Francisco Symphony.
Mr. Whiteside is the winner of the American Prize in Conducting and received second prize and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Award at the Sixth International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić. Other awards include the 2017 Mahler Conducting Fellowship, Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Conducting Scholarship, Croatian Composers' Society Award, David Effron Conducting Fellowship, Bayreuth Festival Scholarship and David Rabin Performance Prize. He has received fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Castleton Festival.
Mr. Whiteside has worked closely with such conductors as Bertrand de Billy, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Jun Märkl, Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula, Leonard Slatkin and Robert Spano. He began his conducting studies with Robin Fountain at Vanderbilt University.
Musicians of the New World Symphony
A laboratory for the way music is taught, presented and experienced, the New World Symphony consists of 77 young musicians who are granted fellowships lasting up to three years. The fellowship program offers in-depth exposure to traditional and modern repertoire, professional development training and personalized experiences working with leading guest conductors, soloists and visiting faculty.
NWS Fellows take advantage of the innovative performance facilities and state-of-the art practice and ensemble rooms of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, the campus of the New World Symphony and home of the Knight New Media Center.
In the hopes of joining NWS, more than 1,150 recent music school and conservatory graduates compete for available fellowships each year. The Fellows are selected for this highly competitive, prestigious opportunity based on their musical achievement and promise, as well as their passion for the future of classical music.