University of Illinois concert, part one

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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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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.