Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time. Now do you speak with Maestro Lauren Green. And we've
got a big show coming up on the fourth. Tell us a little bit
about it. Good morning, Tom, Yes, we do. This Saturday,
the symphony is giving its final concert of the season. And it's sort
of an unusual premise for a concert. And because we selected three fairly unusual
composers, and who might those be, well funny you should ask. I
discovered just to browsing one day that there are three composers who are somewhat fairly
well known and who lived very long live almost duplicating each other in terms of
when they were born and when they died. They were born in the middle
of the eighteen hundreds, nearly in the eighteen seventies sort of, and died
in the nineteen fifties. And these three composers are an America, Charles Ives,
who's known for being rather experimental and unusual, and Jean Sebelius, who's
most well known for his piece Flandia that most people would recognized, but he
was from Finland. And then Rafe Vaughan Williams, who is considered to be
one of the great British composers, and these guys all lived in their respective
countries and wrote music that had a lot to do with their respective countries,
all at the same time, but yet at the same time made three different
kinds of music. So we threw them all on a concert together, and
that's basically where we came up with the idea of Three's Company, and that's
the name we called the concert. Well, this is going to be really
fun. We're going to get a sample from around the world in pretty much
a snapshot in time. It really is. And of course there were a
lot of even more famous composers composing during that time, and these three are
so unusual and so unique that it's a real interesting comparison. Especially Charles I
was the American. Not surprisingly, he was sort of off doing his own
thing, and he composed music that sort of combined, you know, twenty
tunes all at once, and they were all sort of folk tunes and marches
and things like this from his New England background. And so contrast that with
some of the beautiful other stuff with Sabellilius and Penlandia and so forth, and
it's going to be a wide variety on this concert. Now, this is
really great. It's a nice way to kind of end up the season here
with something so completely different and refreshing and kind of an eye opener as well
as an ear opener. Well, you know, you use exactly i'ves He
used to say, you know that you needed open ears to hear his music,
and that's true. But you're ear exactly right that this would be probably
like no concert people have experienced in some ways. You know. There's also
an even added thing here at the end. We are doing three short little
pieces. It all have to do with Warren Peace, one by each of
the composers. And to help us out doing this, we have members of
the Bartlestill Corral and the Tulsa Corral combining to be singing with the orchestra on
these pieces. And then on the final piece, which is Sabelia Spinlandia,
we also have members of the Bartlestille High School Orchestra joining us. So we're
going to have hundreds of people on stage for the grand finale of this concert,
and it's going to be really exciting. And it's a real good thing
that the Community Center, as it's such a big, big stage there in
the auditorium it's huge. It'll fit you all comfortably, right, well,
well, funny should it's a conundrum, and without getting into the technical weeds
too much, we perform as the orchestra in this wonderful orchestral shell that surrounds
us and it's this giant steel structure that projects the found out. But the
downside of that is it confines us a little bit because we aren't able to
expand into the wings and so forth. So the only way to expand really
is towards the audience. So we'll probably be moving the orchestra a little closer
to the audience and adding in about well, a whole bunch of chairs and
risers for the singers and the wolf fit. We'll make it work. It's
going to be cozy, it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting, but it'll
be great fun. And it's a great experience for the high school string players
to be able to come in and sit amongst professional players and playing this music
that they've been practicing hard on and to do it, you know, on
such a high level. It's really a great chance for everybody. And the
pieces that we're they're singing and we're performing are so interesting and so fun and
again give three entirely different perspectives on war and piece and just sort of getting
along, and it'll be a really inspiring way to end the season and end
the concert. Now, how do we get tickets for this show? Well,
you just go to the Community Center, go to their website, whichever
you prefer, and there are tickets available there. All right, givem call
and they can do it even over the phone. Mike Stra, thank you
very much for joining us early this morning. Appreciate it. Well my pleasure.
Thank you for calling me, Tom, and you have a great day,
and we hope to see everybody at the concert.