PROGRAM
WEBER: Der Freischütz, J.277: Overture 
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
HANDEL: Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
ROSSINI: L’Italiana in Algeri: Overture (original version)
BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24
BEETHOVEN: Egmont: Overture
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PROGRAM NOTES
Normally, Symphoria programs emerge from intense discussions by our Artistic Operations Committee, made up primarily of players and conductor Larry Loh. Starting with some grounding element—a piece, a composer, a theme, a period or style—we work to come up with a coherent program that shows it off to the best advantage. This afternoon’s concert, brainchild of piccolo player Kelly Covert, has a different origin: we asked all the players in the orchestra to nominate the pieces they’d most like to play. After sifting through the dozens of recommendations (no easy matter), we ended up with an ...
Normally, Symphoria programs emerge from intense discussions by our Artistic Operations Committee, made up primarily of players and conductor Larry Loh. Starting with some grounding element—a piece, a composer, a theme, a period or style—we work to come up with a coherent program that shows it off to the best advantage. This afternoon’s concert, brainchild of piccolo player Kelly Covert, has a different origin: we asked all the players in the orchestra to nominate the pieces they’d most like to play. After sifting through the dozens of recommendations (no easy matter), we ended up with an eclectic mix of six chestnuts from four countries stretching over three centuries. What do they have in common? Each is on the program because at least one of our musicians felt strongly that he or she wanted to share it with you.
We open with the overture to the supernatural melodrama Der Freischütz (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826). It’s one of the most familiar overtures in the standard repertoire. Still, says principal clarinet Allan Kolsky, orchestral programming “can be like the lottery. We haven’t performed this piece in Syracuse in the 17 years I’ve been here.” Weber was especially fond of the clarinet, and when, about five minutes in, you hear “that wonderful, trumpet-like fortissimo melting into Weber’s lyrical, operatic melody,” you’ll understand why Allan would be “really looking forward to this performance.”
The 1910 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by far the most popular work of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), could hardly be more different. It’s scored for strings where the Weber is scored for full orchestra; it’s meditative where the Weber is dynamic; and most important, it looks backwards where the Weber looks ahead. Weber was one of the more progressive voices in the transition between classicism and romanticism; Vaughan William, part of a group of British composers trying to break free from the German romanticism that Weber had helped inaugurate, took his inspiration from British folk-song and, in this work, Renaissance English music. Violist Dana Huyge chose the Fantasia for a number of reasons. Partly it’s the magnificence of the work itself: “It is such a beautiful work, in its inventiveness, in the ways that the harmonies are fleshed out, in the way that it echoes back through history.” But he also loves the “intimacy of playing with just strings.” This work is especially rich in opportunities, since there are three different string groups—the main orchestra, an antiphonally placed second orchestra, and a string quartet. As a result, “you have three different modes of expression.”
We close our first half with Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), composed in 1749 for a fireworks display to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la –Chappelle that ended to the War of Austrian Succession. Handel was revered in England at the time—an open rehearsal for this piece reportedly drew well over 10,000 people. The premiere itself was a spectacular event, partly because of the huge assemblage of instruments (including nine trumpets, nine horns, and twenty-four oboes), partly because the fireworks set fire to part of the grandstand. For obvious reasons, we’re forgoing the fireworks. As for the original musical forces: we couldn’t afford to duplicate them, nor could your ears survive the racket that this outdoor music would create in such an intimate setting. But even in one of the more modest editions normally heard these days, the music is certainly thrilling. Trumpeter Roy Smith has chosen it not so much because it features the brass, but because of “the unique way it showcases whatever group is playing it.” Much more than most works in the standard repertoire, where “the score is what it is,” every performance of Fireworks is “unrepeatable.” Not only are there are different editions, but “there also very open-ended instructions about who should play what, what repeats you’re going to take, how you’re going interpret the French style of the overture. There are some improvised cadenzas and there’s room for ornamenting on the repeats. Whenever you hear that piece, it’s a unique experience.” To put it differently, this will be a “Symphoria” Fireworks—and the way Handel plays groups of instrumentalists off against each other allows the orchestra “to show off its stuff.”
A very different kind of orchestral showpiece opens the second half: the delightful overture to L'Italiana in Algeri, written in 1813 by Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868). It was chosen by conductor Larry Loh who, as a youngster, was especially taken with it because of the “unexpected phrasing” and the “weird pauses” in the introduction. Beyond that, as a woodwind player himself, he loves all the wind solos—and as a conductor, he loves “the kind of detail and articulation that you have to get across the board from everyone.”
Since its founding, Symphoria has had a close connection to the music of Samuel Barber (1910–1981)—so it’s perhaps no surprise that violinist Susan Jacobs chose to include his Knoxville: Summer of 1915, composed in 1947. Like the Vaughan Williams, it’s a low-key piece, although different in mood. Drawing on a brief poem by James Agee (later incorporated into A Death in the Family), it presents a double vision: the innocence of a young child soaking in the sights and sounds of a quiet summer evening, tinted with the melancholy nostalgia of an older man looking back on a time that will not return. The work is an almost perfect marriage of music and text. This afternoon’s soloist, Meredith Lustig, is “captivated” by the words, which “capture the perfect feeling of being so happy” combined with the “sadness that comes with it being so transient.” And the sweep of the orchestration—even though the ensemble is small—“gives a very child-like quality to the narrator. The orchestral world that Barber has created makes me, as a performer, feel that I’m just a small part of this huge world.”
As our concluding work, principal flutist Xue Su has chosen the rousing overture to Egmont by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). It launches his incidental music for a play by Goethe—a play that celebrates the heroic sacrifice of an individual for liberty. Xue sees a strong connection with Beethoven’s politically inspired Eroica Symphony, and she especially loves the music’s narrative (which “compresses the whole action of the play into one single musical work”) and its special combination of the “heroic and the dolce.” This vigorous end to the concert is also a beginning: 2020 is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and this is the first of a half dozen concerts, this season and next, that will celebrate that event.
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@ExperienceSymphoria.org
We open with the overture to the supernatural melodrama Der Freischütz (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826). It’s one of the most familiar overtures in the standard repertoire. Still, says principal clarinet Allan Kolsky, orchestral programming “can be like the lottery. We haven’t performed this piece in Syracuse in the 17 years I’ve been here.” Weber was especially fond of the clarinet, and when, about five minutes in, you hear “that wonderful, trumpet-like fortissimo melting into Weber’s lyrical, operatic melody,” you’ll understand why Allan would be “really looking forward to this performance.”
The 1910 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by far the most popular work of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), could hardly be more different. It’s scored for strings where the Weber is scored for full orchestra; it’s meditative where the Weber is dynamic; and most important, it looks backwards where the Weber looks ahead. Weber was one of the more progressive voices in the transition between classicism and romanticism; Vaughan William, part of a group of British composers trying to break free from the German romanticism that Weber had helped inaugurate, took his inspiration from British folk-song and, in this work, Renaissance English music. Violist Dana Huyge chose the Fantasia for a number of reasons. Partly it’s the magnificence of the work itself: “It is such a beautiful work, in its inventiveness, in the ways that the harmonies are fleshed out, in the way that it echoes back through history.” But he also loves the “intimacy of playing with just strings.” This work is especially rich in opportunities, since there are three different string groups—the main orchestra, an antiphonally placed second orchestra, and a string quartet. As a result, “you have three different modes of expression.”
We close our first half with Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), composed in 1749 for a fireworks display to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la –Chappelle that ended to the War of Austrian Succession. Handel was revered in England at the time—an open rehearsal for this piece reportedly drew well over 10,000 people. The premiere itself was a spectacular event, partly because of the huge assemblage of instruments (including nine trumpets, nine horns, and twenty-four oboes), partly because the fireworks set fire to part of the grandstand. For obvious reasons, we’re forgoing the fireworks. As for the original musical forces: we couldn’t afford to duplicate them, nor could your ears survive the racket that this outdoor music would create in such an intimate setting. But even in one of the more modest editions normally heard these days, the music is certainly thrilling. Trumpeter Roy Smith has chosen it not so much because it features the brass, but because of “the unique way it showcases whatever group is playing it.” Much more than most works in the standard repertoire, where “the score is what it is,” every performance of Fireworks is “unrepeatable.” Not only are there are different editions, but “there also very open-ended instructions about who should play what, what repeats you’re going to take, how you’re going interpret the French style of the overture. There are some improvised cadenzas and there’s room for ornamenting on the repeats. Whenever you hear that piece, it’s a unique experience.” To put it differently, this will be a “Symphoria” Fireworks—and the way Handel plays groups of instrumentalists off against each other allows the orchestra “to show off its stuff.”
A very different kind of orchestral showpiece opens the second half: the delightful overture to L'Italiana in Algeri, written in 1813 by Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868). It was chosen by conductor Larry Loh who, as a youngster, was especially taken with it because of the “unexpected phrasing” and the “weird pauses” in the introduction. Beyond that, as a woodwind player himself, he loves all the wind solos—and as a conductor, he loves “the kind of detail and articulation that you have to get across the board from everyone.”
Since its founding, Symphoria has had a close connection to the music of Samuel Barber (1910–1981)—so it’s perhaps no surprise that violinist Susan Jacobs chose to include his Knoxville: Summer of 1915, composed in 1947. Like the Vaughan Williams, it’s a low-key piece, although different in mood. Drawing on a brief poem by James Agee (later incorporated into A Death in the Family), it presents a double vision: the innocence of a young child soaking in the sights and sounds of a quiet summer evening, tinted with the melancholy nostalgia of an older man looking back on a time that will not return. The work is an almost perfect marriage of music and text. This afternoon’s soloist, Meredith Lustig, is “captivated” by the words, which “capture the perfect feeling of being so happy” combined with the “sadness that comes with it being so transient.” And the sweep of the orchestration—even though the ensemble is small—“gives a very child-like quality to the narrator. The orchestral world that Barber has created makes me, as a performer, feel that I’m just a small part of this huge world.”
As our concluding work, principal flutist Xue Su has chosen the rousing overture to Egmont by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). It launches his incidental music for a play by Goethe—a play that celebrates the heroic sacrifice of an individual for liberty. Xue sees a strong connection with Beethoven’s politically inspired Eroica Symphony, and she especially loves the music’s narrative (which “compresses the whole action of the play into one single musical work”) and its special combination of the “heroic and the dolce.” This vigorous end to the concert is also a beginning: 2020 is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and this is the first of a half dozen concerts, this season and next, that will celebrate that event.
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@ExperienceSymphoria.org
FEATURED ARTISTS
MEREDITH LUSTIG | soprano
Having recently completed her graduate studies at the Juilliard School, the captivating American soprano Meredith Lustig is already establishing herself as an emerging artist of great distinction. During the 2010/2011 season, she made her New York City Opera debut in L’Elisir d’amore. Of her performance as Giannetta, the Wall ...
Having recently completed her graduate studies at the Juilliard School, the captivating American soprano Meredith Lustig is already establishing herself as an emerging artist of great distinction. During the 2010/2011 season, she made her New York City Opera debut in L’Elisir d’amore. Of her performance as Giannetta, the Wall Street Journal writes, “Another find is Meredith Lustig, whose bright soprano and eye-catching good looks make her a scene-stealer.” Additionally for New York City Opera, she covered the role of Max in Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, and participated in the 2011 VOX Festival of new operas.
During the 2011/2012 season, Miss Lustig returned to City Opera as Cephisa in Telemann’s Orpheus, and joined the Aspen Opera Theater Center as Daisy in Harbisons, The Great Gatsby conducted by Anne Manson. Miss Lustig was selected as one of Caramoor’s 2012 Vocal Rising Stars with the New York Festival of Song, where she participated in the program, New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise at both Caramoor and Merkin Hall. In the fall of 2011, she made a last minute appearance as the First Officer and cover of Sophie in Peter Maxwell Davis US premier of Kommilitonen at the Juilliard School.
In 2012 Miss Lustig became a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera where she sang the roles of Clorinda in La Cenerentola and Carolina in Il Matrimonio Segreto, and covered the roles of Gilda in Rigoletto and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She also made her debut with the Erie Philharmonic as a soloist in Verdi’s Stabat Mater. Miss. Lustig is currently enjoying her second year as a Resident Artist where she will perform the roles of Papagena in The Magic Flute, Zina in Dark Sisters, and Musetta in La Boheme (Student Matinee). She aslo returns to the Erie Philharmonic to be the Soprano Soloist in Carmina Burana.
At Juilliard, where she also earned her undergraduate degree, Ms. Lustig’s operatic roles have included Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Venere in Cavalli’s La Doriclea, Isabel Wentworth in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, and the title role in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias. She has worked with the Baroque ensemble Juilliard415 in an excerpt from Thomas Arne’s Thomas and Sally at Alice Tully Hall, under the baton of William Christie. Miss Lustig’s concert appearances also include the soprano soloist in the Faure Requiem with Cantori New York.
A great lover of the recital repertoire, Ms. Lustig enjoyed the summer of 2013 at the Ravinia Steans Institute and made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Vaughn Williams Serenade to Music. Ms. Lustig enjoys a close collaboration with Michael Barrett and Steven Blier at the New York Festival of Song, with appearances in multiple programs including “Killer Bs,” “Latin Lovers,” “Road Trip,” and “Carried Away.” Equally accomplished in musical theatre repertoire, she made her debut at New York’s Town Hall, where she was named one of their 2010 Broadway Rising Stars. She has sung at Boston’s Symphony Hall as a soloist on the prestigious radio program “From the Top;” at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall with the New York Festival of Song, Alice Tully Hall, and at Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.
Miss Lustig has had the pleasure of spending past summers as a Young Artist with Glimmerglass Opera, where she made her debut as Ancella in Cherubini’s Medea and covered the role of Ruth in Later the Same Evening. She looks forward to returning to the program this summer to sing the role of Bella Griffiths in An American Tragedy. Miss Lustig has also been the recipient of a Stern Fellowship at the Songfest Program, where she was given the opportunity to work with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Margo Garrett, and John Musto. Awards and honors include 2012 Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Pittsburgh); third place winner of the Great Lakes District of the MONCA; the Barbara E. Maze Award and the Achtmayer Award from the Handel and Haydn Society; the Bel Canto Award and the New York Opera Project Award from the Bel Canto Institute; and the William Randolph Hearst, Dr. and Mrs. Gottfried Duschak, and Cecille Weber Memorial scholarships at the Juilliard School and was honored to be the recipient of the institution’s first Novick Career Grant.
During the 2011/2012 season, Miss Lustig returned to City Opera as Cephisa in Telemann’s Orpheus, and joined the Aspen Opera Theater Center as Daisy in Harbisons, The Great Gatsby conducted by Anne Manson. Miss Lustig was selected as one of Caramoor’s 2012 Vocal Rising Stars with the New York Festival of Song, where she participated in the program, New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise at both Caramoor and Merkin Hall. In the fall of 2011, she made a last minute appearance as the First Officer and cover of Sophie in Peter Maxwell Davis US premier of Kommilitonen at the Juilliard School.
In 2012 Miss Lustig became a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera where she sang the roles of Clorinda in La Cenerentola and Carolina in Il Matrimonio Segreto, and covered the roles of Gilda in Rigoletto and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She also made her debut with the Erie Philharmonic as a soloist in Verdi’s Stabat Mater. Miss. Lustig is currently enjoying her second year as a Resident Artist where she will perform the roles of Papagena in The Magic Flute, Zina in Dark Sisters, and Musetta in La Boheme (Student Matinee). She aslo returns to the Erie Philharmonic to be the Soprano Soloist in Carmina Burana.
At Juilliard, where she also earned her undergraduate degree, Ms. Lustig’s operatic roles have included Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Venere in Cavalli’s La Doriclea, Isabel Wentworth in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, and the title role in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias. She has worked with the Baroque ensemble Juilliard415 in an excerpt from Thomas Arne’s Thomas and Sally at Alice Tully Hall, under the baton of William Christie. Miss Lustig’s concert appearances also include the soprano soloist in the Faure Requiem with Cantori New York.
A great lover of the recital repertoire, Ms. Lustig enjoyed the summer of 2013 at the Ravinia Steans Institute and made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Vaughn Williams Serenade to Music. Ms. Lustig enjoys a close collaboration with Michael Barrett and Steven Blier at the New York Festival of Song, with appearances in multiple programs including “Killer Bs,” “Latin Lovers,” “Road Trip,” and “Carried Away.” Equally accomplished in musical theatre repertoire, she made her debut at New York’s Town Hall, where she was named one of their 2010 Broadway Rising Stars. She has sung at Boston’s Symphony Hall as a soloist on the prestigious radio program “From the Top;” at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall with the New York Festival of Song, Alice Tully Hall, and at Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.
Miss Lustig has had the pleasure of spending past summers as a Young Artist with Glimmerglass Opera, where she made her debut as Ancella in Cherubini’s Medea and covered the role of Ruth in Later the Same Evening. She looks forward to returning to the program this summer to sing the role of Bella Griffiths in An American Tragedy. Miss Lustig has also been the recipient of a Stern Fellowship at the Songfest Program, where she was given the opportunity to work with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Margo Garrett, and John Musto. Awards and honors include 2012 Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Pittsburgh); third place winner of the Great Lakes District of the MONCA; the Barbara E. Maze Award and the Achtmayer Award from the Handel and Haydn Society; the Bel Canto Award and the New York Opera Project Award from the Bel Canto Institute; and the William Randolph Hearst, Dr. and Mrs. Gottfried Duschak, and Cecille Weber Memorial scholarships at the Juilliard School and was honored to be the recipient of the institution’s first Novick Career Grant.
LAWRENCE LOH | conductor
Lawrence Loh, Music Director of Symphoria, was named Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony commencing in the 2017-18 season. Mr. Loh concluded his 12-year tenure as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in 2017. Mr. Loh had a decade-plus association with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra where he currently leads ...
Lawrence Loh, Music Director of Symphoria, was named Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony commencing in the 2017-18 season. Mr. Loh concluded his 12-year tenure as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in 2017. Mr. Loh had a decade-plus association with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra where he currently leads annual pops and other select programs.
Mr. Loh’s previous positions include: Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera; Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
Having a particular affinity for pops programming, Mr. Loh has been engaged for repeat performances with Chris Botti, Idina Menzel, Ann Hampton Callaway, the Texas Tenors and more. He has assisted John Williams on multiple occasions and conducted numerous sold-out John Williams tribute concerts. He is particularly adept at conducting concerts synchronizing live orchestral music with film, and he is has lead Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Pixar in Concert, Disney in Concert, The Wizard of Oz and Singin’ in the Rain, among other concert productions.
Mr. Loh is active as a guest conductor, both in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to annual concerts in Pittsburgh and Dallas, his recent engagements include the Boston Pops (Tanglewood); Detroit Symphony; San Diego Symphony; Seattle Symphony; Buffalo Philharmonic; and the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral. Past engagements include the National (Washington D.C.), Indianapolis, Tacoma, Utah, Naples, Knoxville, Florida, El Paso, San Luis Obispo, Edmonton, Colorado, Charleston (SC), Malaysia, Daejeon (South Korea) and Greater Bridgeport Orchestras. His summer appearances include the festivals of Sun Valley, Bravo Vail Valley, Aspen (CO), Mann Center in Philadelphia, Breckenridge, Las Vegas, Hot Springs (AR), the Kinhaven Music School (VT) and the Performing Arts Institute (PA). In the summer of 2016, he made his debut at Tanglewood, conducting Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and returned in 2017 to conduct the Boston Pops.
Mr. Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his BA, and Certificate of Management Studies, from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary. Follow him on instagram @conductorlarryloh or twitter @lawrenceloh or visit his website, www.lawrenceloh.com.
Mr. Loh’s previous positions include: Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera; Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
Having a particular affinity for pops programming, Mr. Loh has been engaged for repeat performances with Chris Botti, Idina Menzel, Ann Hampton Callaway, the Texas Tenors and more. He has assisted John Williams on multiple occasions and conducted numerous sold-out John Williams tribute concerts. He is particularly adept at conducting concerts synchronizing live orchestral music with film, and he is has lead Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Pixar in Concert, Disney in Concert, The Wizard of Oz and Singin’ in the Rain, among other concert productions.
Mr. Loh is active as a guest conductor, both in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to annual concerts in Pittsburgh and Dallas, his recent engagements include the Boston Pops (Tanglewood); Detroit Symphony; San Diego Symphony; Seattle Symphony; Buffalo Philharmonic; and the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral. Past engagements include the National (Washington D.C.), Indianapolis, Tacoma, Utah, Naples, Knoxville, Florida, El Paso, San Luis Obispo, Edmonton, Colorado, Charleston (SC), Malaysia, Daejeon (South Korea) and Greater Bridgeport Orchestras. His summer appearances include the festivals of Sun Valley, Bravo Vail Valley, Aspen (CO), Mann Center in Philadelphia, Breckenridge, Las Vegas, Hot Springs (AR), the Kinhaven Music School (VT) and the Performing Arts Institute (PA). In the summer of 2016, he made his debut at Tanglewood, conducting Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and returned in 2017 to conduct the Boston Pops.
Mr. Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his BA, and Certificate of Management Studies, from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary. Follow him on instagram @conductorlarryloh or twitter @lawrenceloh or visit his website, www.lawrenceloh.com.