Dan Locklair's Symphony No. 1 "Symphony Of Seasons" To Receive World
Premiere With Louisville Orchestra on October 19 - Opening concert of
orchestra's Hilliard Lyons MasterWorks Series
Dan Locklair's Symphony No. 1, "Symphony of Seasons" will be given its
World Premiere by Music Director Uriel Segal and the Louisville Orchestra
on Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 8:00 p.m. in Whitney Hall, Sixth and
Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. This will be the opening concert
of the orchestra's 2002-2003 Hilliard Lyons MasterWorks Series. The
concert will also feature Wagner's Prelude to Parsifal and violinist
Augustin Hadelich performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
Locklair's Symphony No. 1, "Symphony of Seasons," completed in January
2002, was inspired by The Seasons, a collection of poems by eighteenth
century British poet James Thomson. The work was the result of an
orchestral consortium commission led by the Louisville Orchestra and was
funded in part by the Copying Assistance Program of the American Music
Center.
Recognized nationally for being at the forefront of new music, the
Louisville Orchestra has recently been presented with its eighteenth
ASCAP Award for the Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
For more information about the orchestra and its season, visit
http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org.
Tickets for this concert may be purchased via the web at
http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org or through the Kentucky Center for
the Arts Box Office at (502) 584-7777 or (800) 775-7777, located at 501
West Main Street. Box Office hours are Monday-Saturday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00
p.m.; Sunday, 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Tickets are also available by calling
Ticketmaster at (502) 361-3100 and by visiting any Ticketmaster outlet.
Internationally recognized American composer Dan Locklair, a native
of Charlotte, NC, is Composer-in-Residence at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, NC. His compositional output, influenced by a wide variety
of traditions, ranging from Medieval to modern music, includes symphonic
works, a ballet, an opera, and numerous solo, chamber, vocal, organ and
choral compositions. His music has been performed throughout Europe and
North America by many major orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles
and soloists. Several of these works have received major awards, including
the 1989 Barlow International Competition Award for changing perceptions
& Epitaph and the 1996 American Guild of Organists Composer of the Year
Award. Among his other honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981
and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
His latest CD, Dan Locklair Orchestral Music (Albany Records Troy517),
has been released to great critical acclaim. For more information about
the CD, please visit http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/july02/DL_cd.htm.
For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a
bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit
http://www.locklair.com. His latest Rubric Newsletter is online
at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/june02/DL_nws_061702.htm. For
a calendar of recent and upcoming performances and other events for the
balance of 2002, visit http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/may02/DL_sked.htm.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-797-9166 -
phone and fax, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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World Premiere of Dan Locklair's Symphony No. 1, "Symphony of Seasons"
Louisville Orchestra Hilliard Lyons Masterworks
Saturday, October 19, 2002, 8:00 p.m.
Pre-Concert Conversation with Associate Conductor Robert Franz begins at
7:15 p.m.
Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts
Sixth and Main Streets
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
URIEL SEGAL, Conductor
LOCKLAIR Symphony No. 1, Symphony of Seasons
WAGNER Prelude to Parsifal
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61, Augustin Hadelich, Violin
Sponsored by Brown-Forman Corporation; media support provided by the
Courier-Journal and WUOL 90.5 FM.
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