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After Clay Center Collectors Club members traveled to San Francisco recently, the club bought two large drawings by Katina Huston for the Clay Center's art museum. The drawings cost a total of $17,500. Huston's large-scale ink drawings on Mylar depict her unique views of musical instruments from an orchestra's horn section. The Huston pieces complement an ink-on-Mylar portrait by Mary Borgman that the Collectors Club chose four years ago when members went to Chicago.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra offers a free and interactive family concert next weekend as part of "RADical Days" that salutes the activities of the Regional Asset District. Daniel Meyer will be joined by the orchestra's feline ambassador, Fiddlesticks, for an introduction to the instruments of the orchestra through Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's tuneful Fourth Symphony. After soprano Jessica George leads sing-alongs of songs from "The Sound of Music," everyone will be encouraged to conduct along in John Philip Sousa's "Washington Post March.
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LEWISTON - The Maine Chamber Ensemble of the Maine Music Society will present the Brandenburg Concertos, one of Johann Sebastian Bach's orchestral masterpieces, Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Franco- American Heritage Center. Under the baton of conductor John Corrie, the program features five charming and beautiful concertos, each of which highlights various instruments of the orchestra.
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The final program of the season by the Bowling Green Philharmonia, conducted by Dr. Emily Freeman Brown, director of orchestral activities, includes a special young people's introduction to the instruments of the orchestra and will feature a performance of Saint Säens' "The Carnival of the Animals.
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Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has come through on his pledge to help schools in Joplin, Mo., replace musical instruments lost in the tornado that devastated the town last spring. The Joplin Globe reports that hundreds of band, choir and orchestra students looked on Thursday as Manilow delivered $300,000 worth of musical instruments for the high school and middle school.
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NDI and the wolf Seventy years ago, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev received a commission to write a light children's piece for the Central Children's Theatre. He came up with the idea of using the characters of a folk tale to introduce all the instruments and sounds of the orchestra. The result: Peter and the Wolf, a still-beloved music piece about a boy (Peter) who leads a coterie of animal allies (including a bird and a cat) in a plan to capture the wolf that ate his duck.
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For this occasion von [Christoph Von Dohnanyi] selected three pieces representative of various parts of the 20th century: Arvo Part's, "Frates", a work for violin and orchestra written during the decade between the 80s and 90s; Sergei Prokofiev's "Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25," in the classical style, that was written and introduced April 21, 1918, and Gustav Mahler's Symphony N. 1 in D Major," written during the early 20th century and performed at the subscription concert of the Chicago Symphony in 1914 with Frederick Stock directing. Dohnanyi's presentation of the "Allegro" movement was expertly evenly balanced with solid variation, breadth, depth and coolness of sound. He continued the second "Larghetto" with rare cohesive blending of the orchestra's instruments and with impecca...
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LEWISTON -- The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra will give a free concert featuring a piece by American composer Lou Harrison and music from Central and West Java, Indonesia, on Thursday, Dec. 8. The Indonesian word "gamelan" usually refers to a collection of tuned percussion instruments that have been built and tuned to be used together. Joining the 10 members of the gamelan orchestra will be two Bates music faculty members: Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music William Matthews, who will play flute; and violist Robert Dan of the applied music faculty.
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They usually hide in the back, behind the strings and the woodwinds, with the trumpets, trombones and percussion instruments, playing warm, luminous tones that underscore the rest of the orchestra in most symphonic works. French horns will get a showcase of their own today, however, in the debut performance of the Evansville Horn Choir.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, a prolific German Baroque composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity, is sometimes referred to as the father of Western music. He was one of the greatest composers of all time, but during his lifetime, he was little-known and was mostly recognized for performing on the organ. His works were soon forgotten, they were hardly known during his lifetime, and many of his works were not published until a century after his death that spurred a world-wide interest that eventually his works were appreciated by the world, essentially for the first time. Fromm discusses the life and works of Bach and the influences to his compositions.
