University of Illinois concert, part one

This is the University of Illinois

where we're about to University School of Music. The

centennial University of Illinois.

Organizations participating sponsor the University of Illinois

University of Illinois concert Harold Decker

and the combined samples of the Oratorio Society women's

club the varsity men's and the university.

The first half of this concert will be presented by the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra

opposition to the circus overture.

And the symphony.

Then there will be an intermission and during that time we will present a special

intermission feature concerning the university's centennial year.

The second half of this concert. The University of Illinois Concert Choir will

present a selection of 100 years of American choral music including works

by Charles Samuel Barber

and Robert White. Then the combined

University Symphony Orchestra will present the return of Odysseus.

Will be the narrator of William and of us.

All music program by American composer.

The University of Illinois supply orchestra which begins our concert

is an all student group to be equal to any professional organizations of

its kind. Under the baton of.

The office with reputation for spread throughout the nation and the Western

Hemisphere. Membership in the orchestra is open to any

university student champagne. Through

competitive audition or ultimately achieve the required level of

musical proficiency.

In past years in addition to the annual tour throughout the Midwest and its regular

series of on campus concerts the orchestra has presented programs in conjunction

with the university composers exchange with Leonard Rowe's famous cellist

and for the music teachers National Association convention. The orchestra

also performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the University of Illinois oratory and Society

recently. In addition to its regular tour it

regularly performs with some of the standard University's star Corps series.

Several years ago the orchestra made a most successful an extensive tour of Central and South

America sponsored by the Department of State

on March 20th 1966 the orchestra performed in Kansas City in the

music educators national conference and received a standing ovation

during the past several years.

University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra educational

symposium. The series of

guest conductors.

The conductor of the orchestra Bernard Goodman is also at the world famous Walton

spring quartet in residence at the University of Illinois. Professor good but

received an academic training at Western Reserve University of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

He was a violinist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and has been like in the midst of the Walden quartet

since its organization in 1954.

Now the audience at the assembly hall of the University of Illinois is greeting

Professor Bernard Goodman as he walks to the podium.

And we're about to hear the first selection of this concert.

The circus overture sideshow for orchestra by William Shaw.

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The owner.

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am.

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Symphony Orchestra conducted by Professor Bernard Goodman has opened this

centennial concert from the about a campus of the University of Illinois to the performance

of the circus overture by the American composer William Shulman.

We're about to hear the orchestra performance of the Symphony Number four

by the American composer Charles Ives. This composition

was written between the years one thousand nine thousand nine hundred sixteen. But had to wait almost

50 years for its first performance by Leopold Stokowski and the American

Symphony Orchestra in New York. The symphony is in four

movements the first marked prelude Maestro So there's a setting of the

hymn watchman. Tell us of the night for a small chorus and orchestra.

The other grotto movement which follows as a huge comedy in which dozens of

hymn tunes marching songs and popular refrains of the day are quoted.

The third movement is a few based upon to hear

from Greenland's Icy Mountains and all hail the power of Jesus name.

And the fourth movement. Largo Maestro so is the setting of the hymn Nearer My God to

the Symphony Number four by Charles Ives.

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