University of Illinois concert, part three

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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No.
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Yes.
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Will.
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A.
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A.
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University. Comfort just performed for nation
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by itself. This was preceded by the song
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67 by Charles Ives next where to hear LART
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written by Aaron Copeland.
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So the West is baritone James job or.
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Load.
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Load.
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Eh
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I never.
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The University of Illinois cancer center must gain mischief.
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Next we'll hear for Indian X why Robert White.
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God.
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A concert prior I'm going to receive Illinois has just performed for an Indian
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lyric. By Robert Reich's. The
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songs were titled song of a passionate lover the wind listening
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and ship.
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It are based on. So what.
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As many of you know the concert choir has been invited to sing at
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the iRobot contact which is a federation of youth choirs to be
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held. In Europe this summer. One of the things that they asked us
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to prepare and that Europeans always love to hear. Negro
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spirituals with your permission. If you'd like to hear if we are facing
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one spiritual at this time.
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I saw one is Chris Yoda.
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Oh.
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Good morning. The growth spirits were arranged by Chester terrace a
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feminist writer script.
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And that brings to an end part of our centennial concert
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from the University of Illinois Assembly Hall Park to
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100 years of American choral music presented by the University of Illinois Concert
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Choir. The third part of this
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afternoon's performance will be presented by the combined choral
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ensembles of the university oratory on society and women's glee club.
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The march of the men's glee club the university chorus and begin to verse of the Symphony
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Orchestra under the direction of Harold Decker.
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The composition is the return of Odysseus by Burl Phelps
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Mr. Phelps was born in Omaha Nebraska in 1970 and he studied at the
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Denver College of Music and at the Eastman School of Music where his teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard
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Rodgers. Incidentally he has a great nephew of Thomas Jonathan
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Berle acting regent at the University of Illinois from 1891 to
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1894. Mr. Phillips has functioned in a great
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variety of musical capacities. He has served on the faculties of the
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Eastman School of Music University of Illinois Colorado College and
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Bennington College to name a few. He has received scholarships and awards
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from the Juilliard School of Music and from the Eastman Fulbright and
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Guggenheim Foundation's
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compositions by Mr. Phillips have been commissioned by many distinguished sources
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including the league of composers the Koussevitzky foundation
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge foundation Sigma Alpha
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and the University of Illinois and the frum foundation. The last
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two organizations commission the return of Odysseus the 1957
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festival of Contemporary Arts held by annually at the University of Illinois campus.
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The return of the day was written by the composer
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intended to celebrate
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a great
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reunion with his wife.
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The characters and.
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The speaker are of sorts. The chorus
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of the changes. At the beginning of
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the stage and describing the situation in the house of a disservice when he returns to
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the Men's Chorus the suitors boast of their
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half of the chorus and equivocal answers by the other half the women's chorus
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describes a sad and seemingly awaits her
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husband's return.
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Immediately after this quiet music. The orchestra chorus
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a short.