Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church - Barnett Hall - 3534 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610
Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings, 7:00 - 9:30 PM. beginning on June 4th.
Rehearsals are held at OPC,1616 Franklin St., Downtown Oakland.
Local musicians are welcomed to join the orchestra. Please
be aware there is a $50 registration fee for participation to help
cover the costs of operating expenses, sheet music, and security.
Feel free to share this information with your circle of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
For
advanced high-school students, participation in the orchestra can be
used for community service credit on college applications. Students
should meet with the conductor to determine if their skill level is
advanced enough to ensure a successful performance.
To hear recordings of the concert repertoire and download available sheet music, please go to:
Tuscaloosa Tango
Winner
of the 2010 Alabama Orchestra Association Composition Competition, by
local Bay Area composer, Daniel Leo Simpson. Simpson is described as an
American Composer with a flair for creating "contagious" and engaging
music, and specializes in unusual, interesting and dynamic works of
every genre. From concerti and symphonies to commercials and film music,
he is distinguishing himself as unique in his field.
Tuscaloosa Tango is written in the form of a DOUBLE fugue - very interesting!
Capriccio Espagñol
by
Russian composer, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who initially planned this
piece as a fantasy for violin and orchestra but eventually decided on a
purely orchestral scoring. Korsakov possessed an exceptional knowledge
of the characteristics and capabilities of different instruments, and Capriccio Espagñol
strongly supports his reputation as a master orchestrator.
Rimsky-Korsakov notes this aspect of the work in his autobiography:
"According to my plan, the Capriccio was to glitter with dazzling orchestral color, and clearly I was not mistaken."
Lenox Avenue
by William Grant Still was originally performed as a CBS radio broadcast in 1936, and presents
a splendid panorama of life in 1930's Harlem. It was composed as a set
of musical vignettes depicting scenes and episodes one might run into
on the central street of New York's Harlem, Lenox Avenue. Critics
described the work as colorful, graphic, insinuating, a thrilling
experience, and exceptionally praiseworthy.
An October 31, 1937
review in the Los Angeles Times by Isabel Morse Jones states, "Life
moves fast on the Lenox Avenue of William Grant Still. There is more
real Negro character in it than in all of
Porgy and Bess... as it pictures a street in Harlem that is almost
human in its personal characteristics."
Incantation and Dance
for Oboe and Piano by William Grant Still. A
professional oboist himself, enthralled with the beauty of the human
voice, his music permeates with fluid lyricism. In this work, the melody
appears as a reflective piano solo, and the oboe proves the perfect
instrument to nurture and develop its introspective qualities.
Though the tempo picks up in the Dance, the mood remains as somber as it is beautiful.
Old California
by
William Grant Still is a symphonic tone poem, that holds thematic charm
by mingling Indian, Spanish and religious motifs, depicting their
influence on the historical development of California as a meeting place
of racial cultures. Critic Richard Saunders of the Hollywood
Citizen-News, 1941, calls it "a work of strong melodic appeal,
magnificently orchestrated, worth a permanent place in orchestral
repertory." A prolonged ovation was accorded William Grant Still after a
fine, initial presentation of this work.
For more information, please contact Artistic Director Sandra I Noriega at:
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