Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Southeast Symphony Orchestra with Anthony Parnther Perform Hailstork, Nash, Baker & Schwantner Feb. 12


[Anthony R Parnther]

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends this news:

The Southeast Symphony Orchestra with Anthony Parnther Music Director and Conductor will offer a uniquely relevant and significant orchestral African American History Month celebration on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at Marsee Auditorium El Camino College Center for the Arts. Maestro Parnther described the program to MusicUNTOLD as follows:


My Lord What a Mourning (elegies on the Death of martin Luther King Jr.) - Adolphus Hailstork

Big Medisonal Ceremonial - Gary Powell Nash

Subtle Hue of Blackbirds - Renee Baker (who is flying in from Chicago to Premiere and Guest Conduct the work)

(Maestro Parnther) commissioned 4 spirituals to be realized for Large Symphony Orchestra and soloists


Amazing Grace, A City Called Heaven, My Eye is On the Sparrow, My Lord What a Morning

A Major work for Large Symphony Orchestra and Narrator


New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom - Joseph Schwantner

New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom is Joseph Schwantner’s 1982 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The idea of a work honoring Dr. King was first suggested to Schwantner in 1981 by Robert Freeman, Director of the Eastman School of Music. Schwantner writes:
“I was excited by the opportunity to engage my work with the profound and deeply felt words of Dr. King, a man of great dignity and courage whom I had long admired. The words that I selected for the narration were garnered from a variety of Dr. King’s writings, addresses, and speeches, and drawn from a period of more than a decade of his life. These words, eloquently expressed by the thrust of his oratory, bear witness to the power and nobility of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas, principles, and beliefs. This work of celebration is humbly dedicated to his memory.”
New Morning for the World was composed under a commission from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for an East coast tour undertaken by the Eastman Philharmonia. The orchestra first performed the work on 15 January, 1983, in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., and was narrated by the renowned Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star, Willie Stargell. Following the premiere performance, the work was subsequently introduced in Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, N.Y.
The work has received hundreds of performances by major orchestras throughout the United States and has been narrated by such noted individuals as: Correta Scott King, Yolanda King, James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou, Danny Glover, Robert Guillaume, Alfre Woodard, and Vernon Jordan
John Malveaux

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