For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Performs
Jazz at the Orchestra: A Celebration of Dave Brubeck’s 90th Birthday
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
Central Lutheran Church
333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404
William Schrickel, Music Director
free admission – no tickets required
MINNEAPOLIS, November 5, 2010 – The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Schrickel present Jazz at the Orchestra: A Celebration of Dave Brubeck’s 90th Birthday on Sunday, November 21 at 4:00 PM at Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis. The free concert will include music of George Gershwin (Cuban Overture), Leonard Bernstein (Times Square Ballet from On the Town) and Darius Milhaud (The Creation of the World) and will feature three orchestral works by Brubeck: Elementals (for jazz quartet and orchestra); Regret (for string orchestra) and the U.S. premiere of Sleep Holy Infant (for solo violin and strings).
“I have performed the music of Dave Brubeck since I was fourteen years old and played in a jazz quartet with my brother and my two best friends,” says Schrickel, “and I have been lucky enough to get to know Dave over the years. He is as gifted an orchestral composer as he is an icon of the jazz piano. Darius Milhaud was Brubeck’s mentor and teacher at Mills College in Oakland, California in the late 40s, so it is a perfect fit to include Milhaud’s early jazz-influenced ballet The Creation of the World on this concert along with Dave’s symphonic pieces.”
The jazz quartet for Elementals includes Schrickel’s brother, Tom, on piano as well as saxophonist Steve Heinemann, who played with the Schrickel brothers in the Change of Pace Quartet back in the 1970s. They will be joined by bassist Brian Roessler and drummer Terry Vermillion. Barbara Savereide, the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, will be the violin soloist in the first American performance of Brubeck’s Sleep Holy Infant.
Program:
William Schrickel, conductor
Barbara Savereide, violin
Tom Schrickel, piano
Steve Heinemann, saxophone
Brian Roessler, bass
Terry Vermillion, drums
George Gershwin — Cuban Overture
Leonard Bernstein — Times Square Ballet from On the Town
Darius Milhaud — The Creation of the World, op. 81a
Dave Brubeck — Regret
Dave Brubeck—Sleep Holy Infant (American premiere)
Dave Brubeck — Elementals
William Schrickel and MSO
The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra celebrates William Schrickel's 11th season as its Music Director. He was an Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra for the 2005-06 season and was the Music Director of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra from 2002-2008.
The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra is in its 29th season. Founded in 1982 by Saint Olaf College graduates, the orchestra has grown from a small chamber ensemble to a full symphony orchestra, a magnet for some of the area's finest professional and amateur instrumentalists. The primary goal of the orchestra is to reach all corners of the metropolitan area with a full spectrum of orchestral music and to encourage audiences to experience the excitement of live symphonic performances. Visit the MSO website at
www.msomn.org for the full 2010–11 season program and directions to the performing venues.
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