November 30, 2004 :: No. 98
Who: |
Cal State Fullerton Department of Music |
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What: |
University Symphony Orchestra, Kimo Furumoto,
director |
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When: |
8 p.m. Saturday, December 4, 2004 |
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Where: |
Little Theatre, California State University,
Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. (Nutwood and State College Blvd.)
Fullerton |
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Program: |
Symphony No. 7 ......................................
Beethoven
Suite for Small Orchestra No.1 ............ Stravinsky
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus ..... Vaughan Williams
Serendipity ...............................................
Ken Walicki* |
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Background: |
The University Orchestra, directed by Kimo
Furumoto, is dedicated to the training of outstanding instrumentalists
in the performance of a wide range of styles in the orchestral
repertoire. In addition to the regular concert series, the
orchestra has collaborated in performances with university
choruses, opera theatre, CSUF faculty-artists and internationally
renowned guest artists. The students regularly participate
in orchestral master classes with members of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as well as
internationally acclaimed performers and teachers including
Yo-Yo Ma, Fredell Lack, the Turtle Island String Quartet and
others.
Music director and conductor Kimo Furumoto, is in his third
year leading this growing student ensemble. In addition to
his collegiate duties he is music director and conductor of
the Huntington Symphony Orchestra and has guest conducted
with orchestras both in the United States and Europe and worked
with musical greats including Leonard Bernstein and Robert
Shaw. Formerly music director with the Concert Orchestra at
the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music,
he has also held the position of conducting assistant with
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor
of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Furumoto holds degrees
in conducting from Chapman University and the University of
Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music where he was associate
conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Faculty composer Ken Walicki was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany
where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Helmut Lachenmann.
Since receiving his Ph.D. From Michigan State University where
he studied with Jere Hutcheson, he has worked with diverse
artists such as Lydia Lunch, Dora Ohrenstein, the Doug Elkins
Dance Company, producer/director Mark Obenhaus, Bermuda Triangle,
the Soldier String Quartet and ETHEL. The Kronos Quartet has
given frequent performances of his commissioned string quartet
“nada Brahma.” He has received grants and commissions
from groups including the American Composers Forum, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Mary Flagler
Cary Trust and Meet the Composer and others.
On this California premiere of “Serendipity”
the composer writes of his work, “Horace Walpole coined
the word Serendipity in 1754. He invented it in reference
to the title of an old Persian fairy story The Three Princes
of Serendip, whose heroes regularly discovered pleasant things
that they weren’t searching for. If you read the story
you will find that the princes were actually well educated
and intelligent men. Their good fortune was based on careful
deduction, not chance. Music, which can seem to be the most
serendipitous art, is actually grounded on great discipline
and knowledge. What can seem to be the most spontaneous, improvised
moment is based on years of study and practice.” |
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Admission: |
Advance sales $15 ($10 with advance Titan discount
& $6 with advance CSUF student discount) At the door all
tickets $20. |
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Box Office: |
Tickets available at the Performing Arts Center
box office 657-278-3371. Hours: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday-Friday
and one hour prior to performance. Or online at: www.tickets.com |
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Website: |
http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/ |
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Media Contact: |
Elizabeth Champion, College of the Arts at 657-278-2434 |