[Tvcb] FW: OSB Newsletter, September 28, 2007

Fri Sep 28 20:36:02 PDT 2007

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From: OSB Newsletter [mailto:newsletter at osband.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:20 PM
To: OSB Newsletter
Subject: OSB Newsletter, September 28, 2007

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Oregon Symphonic Band
1437 SW Columbia Street
Portland, OR 97201
503-681-9754
www.osband.org

Dear OSB Patron,

Fall is definitely upon us, and with the fall season comes a new concert
season by your Oregon Symphonic Band. We are especially excited about this
new season, as we have moved to a new home in The Auditorium at Jackson
Middle School. Located just off I-5, Jackson Middle School boasts not only a
beautiful auditorium for our patrons, but also a well-equipped band room in
which OSB can rehearse to prepare for our concerts. Click for a map
<http://www.osband.org/cgi-bin/dispatch.pl?ShowMap__JacksonMS_1185575687>
and directions to the school.

Please note that we only have one concert for you to enjoy this fall. Our
fall concert is slated for Saturday, October 27. Its entitled Lucky
Seven, and consists of music written or published in a year ending in the
number seven. (For those of you in the Clatskanie area, we're presenting the
same program on Sunday, November 4 at the Donavon
<http://www.osband.org/cgi-bin/dispatch.pl?ShowMap__ClatskanieHS_1185575984>
Wooley Auditorium at the High School.) The printed program will also include
trivia from the years ending in seven over the past fifty years. Here is the
music thats in store for you!

Charles Zimmerman	 March for the Class of 1907	
Robert Russell Bennett	 Symphonic Songs for Band (1957)	
David Bobrowitz	 Mall of America (2007)	
Jan Van der Roost	 Puszta (1987)	
Intermission	
Johan de Meij 	Sym. No. 1, "Lord of the Rings" (1987) Mvt. 1, "Gandalf"

Tom Root	 Polly Oliver (1977)	
Frank Ticheli	 Blue Shades (1997)	

March for the Class of 1907 is unquestionably the most famous march ever to
come from the U.S. Naval Academy. You might know it by another name, but you
will have to come to the concert to find out what that name is!

Symphonic Songs for Band  1957. If you know the Broadway music of Rodgers
and Hammerstein, you know the work of Robert Russell Bennett, the
orchestrator of every one of Rodgers and Hammersteins great hits. Bennett
wrote only a handful of works for band, and his Symphonic Songs is a
marvelous three-movement work that recalls his famous Broadway sound.

Mall of America  2007. In December of 2006, when OSB performed at the
prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago, one of the pieces on the program was
written by composer David Bobrowitz. Mr. Bobrowitz liked our performance so
much that he asked us to premiere his newest work, Mall of America. Written
as a tribute to the worlds largest shopping center and its 20,000 employees
(Yes, that figure is right!), this work is as upbeat and joyful as the mall
itself.

Puszta  1987. These four gipsy dances may make you want to dance in the
aisles of our new performance hall! Reflecting the alternation of exciting
and melancholic themes of gipsy music, Puszta is one of the finest band
compositions of the past quarter century.

Gandalf  1987. This first movement from Johan de Meijs Symphony No. 1 
Lord of the Rings was written long before the Peter Jackson trilogy hit the
silver screen. Bold, powerful and exciting, the two main themes represent
Gandalf and his fiery horse Shadowfax.

Polly Oliver  1977. This English folk song is more than a century and a
half old, but its beauty caused Tom Root to compose a stunning band piece
that holds a significant place in band literature. The song itself tells of
a young woman who dresses as a man so she can join the army in order to
follow her loved one.

Blue Shades  1997. Our finale is a blockbuster of a piece that pays homage
to jazz and the blues. The first section is fast and bright, while the
second recalls the atmosphere of a dark, smoky blues haunt. A roaring
clarinet solo brings to mind the playing style of Benny Goodman, and ushers
in a series of brass chords that echo the train whistle sounds commonly used
during that era.

We hope you can attend our concert in the Auditorium at Jackson Middle
School on Saturday, October 27 at 7:30 pm. As always, the concert is free
and you may purchase our compact discs at the door. Have a great autumn
season!

Sincerely,

The Oregon Symphonic Band

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