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SIU CARBONDALE’S SYMPHONY WILL JOIN THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON STAGE IN SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR
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Symphony to share stage with
SIU Carbondale symphony
ASHLEY BENNETT
STAFF WRITER
The Southeast Missouri Symphony
Orchestra will present Sympho-
nic Spectacular, its final concert of
the season.This concert will fea-
ture the combined orchestras from
Southeast Missouri State University
and SIU Carbondale.
The program will include a
world premiere of the composition
“Two Brothers: A musical.”“Two
Brothers” was written by Ameri-
can composer James M. Stephen-
son about the CivilWar and families
being divided. Dr. Sara Edgerton
will conduct the concert.
“It will be a huge orchestra
because on the stage of Bedell it will
be the combined orchestras from
Southeast and from Carbondale,”
Edgerton said.“It will be like 100 of
us on the stage, and that allows us
to play some really special music
that’s composed for very large
orchestras. It will be a wonderful
sound to have all those players on
stage, and it’s a great learning expe-
rience, too, because we will have
students from our university and
students from Carbondale sitting
right next to each other sharing a
stand. So they will have a chance to
learn from each other, so that’s rea-
lly exciting.
“One of the pieces that we are
playing is a world premiere writ-
ten by James Stephenson, who is
a notable American composer. He
wrote a piece in honor of the 150-
year anniversary of the CivilWar. He
wrote a piece called‘Two Brothers,’
which literally describes families
that were torn apart by the Civil
War. If it be one brother is serving in
the confederate army and another
brother serving in the union, or
father and son on different sides. It
features diary excerpts and poems,
and it is really moving. I think it rea-
lly makes us think about that time
period.”
The narrators for the show will be
professor Chris Goeke and former
Southeast history professor Frank
Nickell.The program will open with
“Prelude to die Meistersinger” by
German composer RichardWag-
ner. After that selection the group
will perform“Afro American Sym-
phony” byWilliam Grant Still.
Still was the first African Ameri-
can composer to have significant
works performed by major Ame-
rican orchestras and opera com-
panies, and he was the first Afri-
can American to conduct a major
American orchestra.The second
half of the concert will feature“Two
Brothers.”The two symphonies will
play every song together.
The concert will begin at 7:30
p.m. Monday at the Donald C.
Bedell Performance Hall.
This will be the second time that
the students from Southeast will
perform on stage with SIU Carbon-
dale.The first time was two years
ago.
“It’s kind of tricky because we
will have a dress rehearsal in Car-
bondale.We have been practicing
the pieces on our own, but we will
have a big dress rehearsal in Car-
bondale and we will have one here.”
Edgerton said.“So we will have
two rehearsals with the big com-
bined orchestras and that gives
us a chance to tweak some things,
and then we will have two per-
formances, one here and one in
Carbondale.”
Musicians come from diffe-
rent backgrounds and have diffe-
rent playing styles, and being able
to bring everyone together is more
complicated than some may think.
Edgerton said that because the con-
ductor at SIU and herself have wor-
ked together in the past, they feel
confident that the musical styles
won’t be that different. She said that
lots of orchestras tend to be made
up of people from lots of different
musical backgrounds, so you learn
to adjust.
“One of the main things for
him [SIU music instructor] and
for myself is to make sure we are
using the same kind of tempos and
approach, so when we do get both
orchestras together it won’t be such
a shock, a lot of playing in a large
ensemble is learning to adapt to the
sounds around, and I feel this will
be a great experience for everyone,”
Edgerton said.
Edgerton said that after this con-
cert, she is open to doing more con-
certs with SIU Carbondale as well as
with other schools.
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