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BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Lauren Green, Music Director-Conductor
presents
AMERICAN FRONTIERS
Saturday evening, January 17 at 8 in the Bartlesville Community Center,
Adams and Cherokee, the Bartlesville Symphony will celebrate and embrace
the pioneering spirit which has permeated America throughout its relatively
brief recorded history. A variety of frontiers which have been, and are
being, explored will be musically represented. With the beginning of each
new year, a potential personal exploration begins for all of us.
We can imagine
these journeys in terms of medical, spiritual, personal, career, travel,
artistic, expressive, and for an expansive mind, the pursuit of space,
as exciting new frontiers. Some may be satisfied to read about these endeavors
as they happen for other people. Some may be among the intrepid who dare
to venture where the more timid would rather just watch their bolder brothers
and sisters. Then there are the ones who enjoy immersing themselves in
the music that has portrayed the emotions of the pioneers who made the
daring discoveries, taking chances that endangered their own lives. Of
such dreams America is comprised and the music which accompanies these
dreams is some of the most soul-stirring music composed in our country.
The Bartlesville Symphony will perform music uniquely American from well
known composers such as Aaron Copland, represented with music from "Appalachian
Spring," and a medley of songs from "Chester" to "Oh
Susannah" by Calvin Custer, aptly entitled "The American Frontier."
Edward MacDowell romanticized the American Indian culture in his Second
Suite "Indian". James Horner let us escape the bounds of earth
with his music from Apollo 13. The concert will end with Daniel Bukvich's
recent work, From the Journals of Lewis and Clark.
Joining the symphony
to perform this work will be the Bartlesville Choral Society, Susan Mueller,
conductor. The performance will commemorate the daring Lewis and Clark
expedition, which marks the bicentennial of the 1803-1806 event. Directed
in this venture by President Jefferson, these bold explorers and their
Shoshone interpreter, Sacagawea, walked and canoed from St. Louis to the
Oregon Coast and back. The remarkable feat was recorded as personal vignettes
by Lewis and Clark and composer Bukvich used these musings to create a
work which takes small pieces of the trek and weaves them into a work
of poignancy, grandeur, and the soaring heights the pioneering American
spirit has the capacity to reach.
Reserved seating is available by calling the box office at (918)336-2787
or (800)618-2787 at $15 for adults and $7.50 for students. Upbeat! with
Lauren, an informal preview of the music and composers featured in the
program will be presented at 7 p.m. free to ticketholders.
This concert has been made possible by corporate and individual donations
and with grant assistance by the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
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