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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time. Now do you speak
with Maestro Lauren Green. And we've

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got a big show coming up on
the fourth. Tell us a little bit

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about it. Good morning, Tom, Yes, we do. This Saturday,

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the symphony is giving its final concert
of the season. And it's sort

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of an unusual premise for a concert. And because we selected three fairly unusual

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composers, and who might those be, well funny you should ask. I

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discovered just to browsing one day that
there are three composers who are somewhat fairly

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well known and who lived very long
live almost duplicating each other in terms of

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when they were born and when they
died. They were born in the middle

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of the eighteen hundreds, nearly in
the eighteen seventies sort of, and died

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in the nineteen fifties. And these
three composers are an America, Charles Ives,

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who's known for being rather experimental and
unusual, and Jean Sebelius, who's

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most well known for his piece Flandia
that most people would recognized, but he

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was from Finland. And then Rafe
Vaughan Williams, who is considered to be

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one of the great British composers,
and these guys all lived in their respective

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countries and wrote music that had a
lot to do with their respective countries,

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all at the same time, but
yet at the same time made three different

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kinds of music. So we threw
them all on a concert together, and

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that's basically where we came up with
the idea of Three's Company, and that's

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the name we called the concert.
Well, this is going to be really

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fun. We're going to get a
sample from around the world in pretty much

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a snapshot in time. It really
is. And of course there were a

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lot of even more famous composers composing
during that time, and these three are

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so unusual and so unique that it's
a real interesting comparison. Especially Charles I

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was the American. Not surprisingly,
he was sort of off doing his own

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thing, and he composed music that
sort of combined, you know, twenty

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tunes all at once, and they
were all sort of folk tunes and marches

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and things like this from his New
England background. And so contrast that with

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some of the beautiful other stuff with
Sabellilius and Penlandia and so forth, and

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it's going to be a wide variety
on this concert. Now, this is

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really great. It's a nice way
to kind of end up the season here

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with something so completely different and refreshing
and kind of an eye opener as well

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as an ear opener. Well,
you know, you use exactly i'ves He

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used to say, you know that
you needed open ears to hear his music,

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and that's true. But you're ear
exactly right that this would be probably

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like no concert people have experienced in
some ways. You know. There's also

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an even added thing here at the
end. We are doing three short little

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pieces. It all have to do
with Warren Peace, one by each of

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the composers. And to help us
out doing this, we have members of

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the Bartlestill Corral and the Tulsa Corral
combining to be singing with the orchestra on

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these pieces. And then on the
final piece, which is Sabelia Spinlandia,

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we also have members of the Bartlestille
High School Orchestra joining us. So we're

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going to have hundreds of people on
stage for the grand finale of this concert,

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and it's going to be really exciting. And it's a real good thing

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that the Community Center, as it's
such a big, big stage there in

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the auditorium it's huge. It'll fit
you all comfortably, right, well,

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well, funny should it's a conundrum, and without getting into the technical weeds

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too much, we perform as the
orchestra in this wonderful orchestral shell that surrounds

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us and it's this giant steel structure
that projects the found out. But the

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downside of that is it confines us
a little bit because we aren't able to

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expand into the wings and so forth. So the only way to expand really

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is towards the audience. So we'll
probably be moving the orchestra a little closer

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to the audience and adding in about
well, a whole bunch of chairs and

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risers for the singers and the wolf
fit. We'll make it work. It's

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going to be cozy, it'll be
interesting. It'll be interesting, but it'll

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be great fun. And it's a
great experience for the high school string players

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to be able to come in and
sit amongst professional players and playing this music

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that they've been practicing hard on and
to do it, you know, on

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such a high level. It's really
a great chance for everybody. And the

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pieces that we're they're singing and we're
performing are so interesting and so fun and

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again give three entirely different perspectives on
war and piece and just sort of getting

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along, and it'll be a really
inspiring way to end the season and end

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the concert. Now, how do
we get tickets for this show? Well,

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you just go to the Community Center, go to their website, whichever

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you prefer, and there are tickets
available there. All right, givem call

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and they can do it even over
the phone. Mike Stra, thank you

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very much for joining us early this
morning. Appreciate it. Well my pleasure.

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Thank you for calling me, Tom, and you have a great day,

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and we hope to see everybody at
the concert.