Full steam ahead!
The Festival's in the heat of its season starting with the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds!
See
below for WPR broadcast times of our Pre-Season Concert, which was
well-received – with three standing ovations and an encore!
Festival of Music
2007 Season
Widen Your Horizons
Friday, June 22
8:15 p.m.
Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College
8:15 p.m.
Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College
Sponsored by Ripon Printers
Preconcert conversation with the artists at 7:30 p.m.
Meet-the-artists reception at Rodman after the concert sponsored by the Friends of the Festival.
Back by popular demand, this select group of 50 professional musicians from throughout Northeastern Wisconsin will set your soul whirling with a repertoire that features dances – a tango by Michael Gandolfi, Leonard Bernstein’s dances from the much-loved West Side Story and Robert Russell Bennett’s Old American Dances along with great works by Percy Grainger, Vincent Persichetti and more.
The idea to create an adult, professional level wind ensemble was the outgrowth of a casual conversation between Rand Skelton and now-director Rob McWilliams during the fall of 2003. With the generous support of Dr. Andrea Gullickson, chair of the UW - Oshkosh music department, a rehearsal hall was offered, music was selected and the first concert season for the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds took place in the summer of 2004.
The musicians in this group come from Milwaukee, Ripon, Oshkosh, Green Bay, and the Fox River Valley. Many of them are professional music educators who value the unique opportunity to perform concert band music of quality at a high artistic level. It is their hope that the experience of making music at this level brings honor to the state and to music teachers, past, present and future.
Guest conductor Andrew Mast teaches at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from University of Iowa, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. Mast has also conducted the Quad City Wind Ensemble and founded the Quad City Area Youth Wind Symphony. He has worked as the Director of Bands at St. Ambrose University and as a member of the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
The first concert in the free Thomas E Caestecker Family Series is coming up on June 28: "A Hair Affair" with composer sketches by cellist Jason Duckles and performances by the Amelia Piano Trio. 1:30 p.m., Thrasher Opera House.
The Amelia Piano Trio performs "A Night in Vienna" with narrator Jim Packard of Public Radio International's Whad'Ya Know? in concert on June 30, 7:30 p.m., Thrasher Opera House.
Wisconsin Symphonic Winds, GLFM concert at Rodman Center for the Arts, 2006
Oboist Tim Sawyier with accompanist Jelena Dirks, GLFM concert at Thrasher Opera House, 06-02-07
Amelia Piano Trio performs June 28, 30 and July 10
Oboist Tim Sawyier with accompanist Jelena Dirks, GLFM concert at Thrasher Opera House, 06-02-07
Amelia Piano Trio performs June 28, 30 and July 10
Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio's broadcast of our Pre-Season Concert –
For more information,
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- Thursday, June 21, 2 p.m.: Kalliwoda Concerto in F, performed by Timothy Sawyier, oboe, and Jelena Dirks, piano
- Friday, June 22, noon: Encore – Madeline Dring: Italian Dance, performed by Timothy Sawyier, oboe, and Michelle Naughton, piano
- Friday, June 22, 1 p.m.: Telemann Partita No. 6 in E-flat, performed by Timothy Sawyier, oboe, and Jelena Dirks, piano
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LAST CHANCE FOR FULL SEASON DISCOUNT!
Your last opportunity to purchase full-season subscriptions at a 20% discount expires at the start of the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds concert!
NOTE: Full-season subscriptions are good for concerts only. Special events such as the Russian dinner or the Cabaret are not included and must be purchased separately.
Call the office for details: 800-662-7097.
RESERVED SEATING
The Green Lake Festival of Music would like to remind all season subscribers that we have special reserved seating at our concerts which will be held until 10 minutes before concert time when we'll open this seating to the general audience. Please make sure to take advantage of the special seating if you have purchased season tickets. There will be signs at all venues denoting the reserved seating area. If you have questions, Festival staff can assist you. We hope you have an enjoyable time at all of our concerts!
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Among the Festival's new offerings
this season will be a blockbuster event at the charming, historic
Boston Barn just west of Green Lake on Thursday, July 12. The ever-popular "Circle of Sound"
concert, which puts the audience in the middle of the barn, surrounded
by the awesome sounds of 30 stringed instruments, begins the evening at
5 p.m. Violinist extraordinaire Samantha George, associate concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, who has wowed us in past seasons, returns as the star soloist.
Following this concert at 6:30 p.m. will be a catered, sit-down Russian dinner, featuring grilled salmon, chicken Kiev, mushroom stroganoff, and accompaniments.
Capping off the evening at 8 p.m. we will be treated to "An Evening in Old Russia" performed by Russian virtuoso musicians Stas Venglevski, playing the "bayan", or button accordion, and Mikhail Litvin, who plays the "domra", a Russian relative of the mandolin. The evening will conclude by 9:30 p.m.
Think of this evening as Green Lake's version of a European opera, in which dinner is served in the intermission! Space for this evening is limited, and reservations are coming in quickly. Patrons may choose the entire evening or any part of it. Call the office, 800-662-7097, to reserve your space.
Following this concert at 6:30 p.m. will be a catered, sit-down Russian dinner, featuring grilled salmon, chicken Kiev, mushroom stroganoff, and accompaniments.
Capping off the evening at 8 p.m. we will be treated to "An Evening in Old Russia" performed by Russian virtuoso musicians Stas Venglevski, playing the "bayan", or button accordion, and Mikhail Litvin, who plays the "domra", a Russian relative of the mandolin. The evening will conclude by 9:30 p.m.
Think of this evening as Green Lake's version of a European opera, in which dinner is served in the intermission! Space for this evening is limited, and reservations are coming in quickly. Patrons may choose the entire evening or any part of it. Call the office, 800-662-7097, to reserve your space.