- Series
- NER concerts
- Air Date
- 1967-09-05
- Duration
- 00:29:25
- Episode Description
- This program, the first of four parts, presents the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir, and combined choral ensembles in performance honoring the centennial of the University of Illinois. The concert was recorded at Assembly Hall.
- Series Description
- National Educational Radio presents a series of recorded concerts.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- University of Illinois (Producer)
- Contributors
- Goodman, Bernard, 1914-1999 (Conductor)Becker, Harold (Conductor)University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra (Performing Group)University of Illinois Concert Choir (Performing Group)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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This is the University of Illinois
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where we're about to University School of Music. The
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centennial University of Illinois.
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Organizations participating sponsor the University of Illinois
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University of Illinois concert Harold Decker
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and the combined samples of the Oratorio Society women's
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club the varsity men's and the university.
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The first half of this concert will be presented by the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra
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opposition to the circus overture.
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And the symphony.
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Then there will be an intermission and during that time we will present a special
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intermission feature concerning the university's centennial year.
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The second half of this concert. The University of Illinois Concert Choir will
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present a selection of 100 years of American choral music including works
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by Charles Samuel Barber
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and Robert White. Then the combined
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University Symphony Orchestra will present the return of Odysseus.
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Will be the narrator of William and of us.
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All music program by American composer.
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The University of Illinois supply orchestra which begins our concert
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is an all student group to be equal to any professional organizations of
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its kind. Under the baton of.
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The office with reputation for spread throughout the nation and the Western
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Hemisphere. Membership in the orchestra is open to any
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university student champagne. Through
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competitive audition or ultimately achieve the required level of
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musical proficiency.
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In past years in addition to the annual tour throughout the Midwest and its regular
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series of on campus concerts the orchestra has presented programs in conjunction
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with the university composers exchange with Leonard Rowe's famous cellist
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and for the music teachers National Association convention. The orchestra
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also performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the University of Illinois oratory and Society
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recently. In addition to its regular tour it
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regularly performs with some of the standard University's star Corps series.
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Several years ago the orchestra made a most successful an extensive tour of Central and South
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America sponsored by the Department of State
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on March 20th 1966 the orchestra performed in Kansas City in the
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music educators national conference and received a standing ovation
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during the past several years.
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University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra educational
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symposium. The series of
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guest conductors.
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The conductor of the orchestra Bernard Goodman is also at the world famous Walton
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spring quartet in residence at the University of Illinois. Professor good but
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received an academic training at Western Reserve University of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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He was a violinist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and has been like in the midst of the Walden quartet
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since its organization in 1954.
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Now the audience at the assembly hall of the University of Illinois is greeting
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Professor Bernard Goodman as he walks to the podium.
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And we're about to hear the first selection of this concert.
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The circus overture sideshow for orchestra by William Shaw.
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The owner.
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The owner.
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Yes.
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I
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am.
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I am.
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You think.
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You're. You're.
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You're.
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Symphony Orchestra conducted by Professor Bernard Goodman has opened this
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centennial concert from the about a campus of the University of Illinois to the performance
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of the circus overture by the American composer William Shulman.
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We're about to hear the orchestra performance of the Symphony Number four
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by the American composer Charles Ives. This composition
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was written between the years one thousand nine thousand nine hundred sixteen. But had to wait almost
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50 years for its first performance by Leopold Stokowski and the American
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Symphony Orchestra in New York. The symphony is in four
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movements the first marked prelude Maestro So there's a setting of the
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hymn watchman. Tell us of the night for a small chorus and orchestra.
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The other grotto movement which follows as a huge comedy in which dozens of
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hymn tunes marching songs and popular refrains of the day are quoted.
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The third movement is a few based upon to hear
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from Greenland's Icy Mountains and all hail the power of Jesus name.
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And the fourth movement. Largo Maestro so is the setting of the hymn Nearer My God to
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the Symphony Number four by Charles Ives.
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Uh.
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Uh
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uh.
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Why.
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A.
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Will.
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It with.
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You.
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Will.
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It with.
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Rick.
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You know.
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You.
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Will you will.
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No.
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Why.
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