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from the issue of April 12, 2007
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Chamber Orchestra presents April 13 jazz performance
The UNL Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Tyler White, will perform Darius Milhaud's ballet "The Creation of the World," at 7:30 p.m. April 13 in Kimball Recital Hall.
Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3 for students and seniors, and will be available at the door one hour prior to the performance.
Milhaud's ballet, composed in 1923, is generally credited as the first work of classical music written largely in a jazz idiom. Scored for a jazz band of 17 players, the work was inspired by the music that captivated the French composer during a 1922 visit to Harlem. The plot of the 16-minute ballet is based on African creation myths, as interpreted by the French writer Blaise Cendrars.
Also on the program is Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 81 in G major.
In addition, Jeffrey McCray, UNL lecturer in music, will join the orchestra as bassoon soloist in the Nebraska premiere of the "Concerto da Camera" for bassoon and small orchestra by Dan Welcher. Welcher, professor of composition at the University of Texas at Austin, composed the concerto in 1975 and revised it in 2006 as a centennial tribute to the Russian master Dmitri Shostakovich.
McCray will give a pre-concert talk on the concerto at 6:45 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building.
For more information, contact White at 472-7698.
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