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And we've got a masterpiece coming up at the center on March 28th with the Martinville Symphony Orchestra.

We have Maestro Lauren Green here with us. Always pleasure to have you.

Fresh back from that red carpet welcome that you had down at the state capital.

Well, that was nice. Yeah, that was what a month and a half ago or something like that. I don't know what it was, but anyway back in February, it was great.

But yeah, received the Governor's Arts Award, which was very gratifying and me and Susan Mueller, who was a conductor of the Coral Society for many years.

We both received a service award, and so it was very nice.

That is great. You know, it's about time, you know, when you put your life's work out there, and you get recognized for it. It really got to feel good.

It does feel good. It was very gratifying and very gratifying for the support that I received in the nomination, frankly, from the Symphony.

And so, yeah. Well, you've only been doing this a handful of decades. Gosh, it lost count. But yeah, this is my 49th year doing this thing.

It's one of those things where suddenly you look back and say, oh, that was my life. And what a good time it was.

So, you know, like any life you have ups and you have downs and you're not quite sure what's around the next corner.

But this is just the way it worked out, and I'm so grateful that it worked out this way.

It's not every conductor who can look back and say, you know, I had this job, and I had an orchestra of this long.

And it's rare. It is very rare. I mean, usually it's like three to seven years, and then you're odd and like a player.

Usually they get sick of you, or you get sick of them, or something goes wrong, and you decide you find the next step on that ladder that doesn't really exist in this business.

But nevertheless, yeah, it's unexpected, but very gratifying.

We're going to be welcoming in a very special young musician coming up here on the 28th.

Well, yeah, we are. The 28th we have. This is what? The Saturday?

Yes.

My gosh, time flies. We have a concert. Bartolson simply has a concert. And part of that concert, there's many aspects to this concert.

It's a full of surprises and interesting music. But one of one of the aspects is the appearance of our, of the winner of our young artist competition for this year.

Sure. And his name is Nick Doe, and he's a sophomore here at Bartolson High School.

I see. He played for years.

Yeah, well, yeah, he's he's just astounding. And he won the competition back in January, and he'll be playing a movement of a piano concerto with a symphony.

And the movement he chose is a real virtue of so flashy one. And it's my, it's from a Sensol's piano concerto.

And if he got paid by the note, he'd be rich.

My goodness. I mean, nothing like challenging yourself.

Yeah, he did. He did really challenge himself with this one. And so it'll be exciting. That's that's going to happen in the middle of the concert.

But sandwiching that will be all sorts of other interesting music.

Well, it may ask to piece for nothing. Well, it is. You know, and there's, there's not, as I say in the program notes, you know, there are masterpieces and then there are masterpieces.

And sometimes just a masterpiece is something that you really like.

Something, sometimes it's something that will endure for all the ages. A lot of this music, because somewhere in between.

Yeah.

And, but it's all great music. And so we, we opened with an overture that people will probably recognize.

You know, I was thinking this morning, there are two pieces that we associate with horseback riding.

Okay. I'm going off on a real tangent here.

And one is the William Taylor Berger.

Oh, very good.

Okay, because of the lone ranger and everything. And it gets into that theme of.

No, no, I'm sitting in the wrong one.

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

I get these two pieces mixed up. My point is that they're so similar.

And the one in more plain is called the light cavalry overture, oh, my.

And it's another one of those that we've all grown up hearing and cartoons and stuff.

And he hear it with people riding horseback ride and this is the tune.

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

And so anyway people go, oh, I know that, but I don't know what it is.

That's, anyway, that's neither here nor there, but it's a little bit of trivia that you bring it to life after you've heard it for so many years.

You know, it's so weird that, you know, some of these tunes that people will hear and go, oh yeah, well, I know that, but what is it?

And that's where that came from.

It could have been a cartoon, it could have been a soundtrack, it could have been anything.

And the same with the lone ranger.

You know, William Tel-Overture, it may or may not have heard it with the lone ranger.

Most of us aren't old enough to have heard the radio show.

We're getting close, but I have.

But there was the TV show we grew up with.

You and I grew up with.

And it still used the lone ranger, Ohio Silver.

And so anyway, all that is to say that there's some interesting music.

We're going to have a bagpiper on this.

This is a little secret between you and me.

I don't tell anybody else, but we're doing a piece that is just hilarious.

It was written in the 1980s by a British composer.

And this British composer had decided he was going to live on the Orkney Islands.

Don't ask me where that is.

It's somewhere in Great Britain.

Surrounded by water.

I think it's surrounded by water, I've heard that.

And anyway, he depicted a wedding on the Orkney Islands,

where you get to get your band with your fiddles and your accordions and whatever they happen to have

and they get together in a pub or somewhere.

And they start playing.

And they start drinking.

And they have a wedding.

And they start drinking, keep drinking.

And the music just disintegrates in front of our eyes.

You know, what used to be really happy fiddletoons suddenly they can't get together

and their attitude and the drum bones often.

Anyway, but the wedding happens.

And they all sort of walk home through the countryside.

But it's so late that the sun's starting to come up.

And guess what happens when the sun comes up?

We hear the bagpiper.

Don't tell anybody.

This is supposed to be a surprise.

We hear a bagpiper enter from the back of the hall and march up onto the stage,

plane, and then the orchestra joins in this glorious finale chorus.

And it's just magnificent.

And it's funny.

It's called an Orkney Wedding with bagpipes.

You know, with sunrise.

I'm sorry.

Orkney Wedding with sunrise.

It just is wonderful.

It's glorious music, but it's also very funny.

Well, we got to get tickets now.

I got to see this.

That's just another piece of this puzzle of a concert we've put together for Saturday.

And then Boradine's second symphony, which is a wonderful Russian strong piece.

And it's going to be a great concert.

Oh, it is.

It really is.

And so, hence, we go back to the idea of masterpiece.

The masterpiece is what you make it.

And each of these speak deeply to people, whether it's to make them laugh,

or to, you know, feel strong emotions, or to just have fun, you know,

as the Hungarian cavalry comes marching in on their horses.

Oh, my.

You do such a great job of putting together the pieces to tell a story,

to create great entertainment.

You've been doing it for years.

And this really just sounds like it's going to be,

I dare I see it, masterpiece.

Well, thank you.

I hope so.

I think it will be.

I think it will be.

I think it will be.

So we got to get the tickets.

You can get them at the center box office through the BSL website.

That's right.

And which will redirect you to the community center website.

Oh, well, yeah.

Yeah.

And so you get them online.

You can get them by calling the center.

Any of those things, but it's this Saturday at 730.

As usual, I give a sort of pre-concert talk at 630, which is free.

You know, you just walk in and sit down and listen to it.

And where I hold forth on various things relating to the concert.

And you got to learn something and have fun listening, too.

And then we do the show at 730.

So it's great.

Yeah.

Now, are you going to be participating every now and then you pick up an instrument?

No, I'm not doing anything this time.

I'm not even playing the bagpipes.

We have a piper coming from Tulsa.

Right.

No, I won't be doing anything except waving my arms and maybe talking to them.

The hard stuff, as they say.

Somebody's got to pay attention.

Well, of course, I think I did my quota back in February.

We did our Valentine's Chamber thing on February 14th, which was a small concert feature.

It's just four of us.

And we did some fun music, but it was such a riot because I actually did.

I played my cello.

I played the bass.

I sang some songs.

I did a lot of stuff.

And to hear the, you can relate to this.

Two of the songs I sang were Tom Wait's songs.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my God.

So I went into a new area of my old age.

And it was tons of fun.

It was tons of fun.

And in all four of us, we were so versatile.

And we just mixed and matched all sorts of crazy music that was around the Valentine's theme.

We'll do it again in some fashion next February.

So look for that.

Okay.

We'll do that.

Long green is the Maestro here with our Bartles with Symphony Orchestra.

Cities our size don't normally have this blessing, this gem.

And we really need to support it, folks.

We really need to keep it going because it's been going with us for a good long time.

Yeah.

And get a ticket.

Enjoy yourself.

Have yourself a great time.

Enjoy the bagpipes.

Enjoy Nick Dude, the little guy that's coming out of you.

Absolutely.

More.

He's grown a little bit.

And he's going to be wonderful there.

It is going to be wonderful.

So it's a wonderful variety of music.

So if you think you know what a Symphony concert is all about.

No.

This will be changing every five or ten minutes.

So just come and have fun.

That's really all the key.

One thing I really like about our Symphony is you go back to Forrest Gump.

It's like a box of chocolate.

You really don't know what you get again.

Well, that's sort of my philosophy.

I try to make it that way.

And it's always something new, something different, something innovative.

But it's always something outstanding.

That's one thing that's consistent.

Thank you.

We try to.

And that's the good thing.

If the players are having fun, the audience is going to have fun.

And if the music is enjoyable and not boring.

And that's the way to do it.

And that's what we try to do.

We try to do it.

Mike didn't say it.

Well, go out and get yourself a ticket.

They're plenty affordable.

Once again, go to the center box office.

You can do that during regular business hours.

Go online.

Do it.

Get on the telephone.

You might have a couple there the evening of the show.

But don't risk it.

Don't leave that to chance.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's good to get them.

And just if we have a moment, just to plug our concert in May as well.

Which is our finale.

We're calling it Colors of America.

And the whole premise there is the variety of music that comes out of our country.

Of various ethnicities, of various racial backgrounds.

But also the fact it's built around Kershwin's Rhapsody in blue.

Oh, wow.

Which is like a favorite of everybody's.

And so we have a piano solo coming in doing not only the Rhapsody in blue,

but a brand new piece that was written for him and for an orchestra in one each of the 50 states.

And we are the orchestra in Oklahoma.

Primering this piece is called Rhapsody in red, white, and blue.

Wow.

And it's my Peter Boyer who's a Hollywood composer.

And so these two pieces are the cornerstone of this concert in May.

Rhapsody in red, white, and blue.

And then Kershwin's famous Rhapsody in blue.

It's going to be spectacular concert.

My goodness, thanks.

It sounds like it.

So that'll be our grand finale and sort of our also our celebration of the, you know,

country's 250th as well.

So folks, when you get into your tickets for Masterpiece, go ahead and see if you can't get some tickets for.

Yeah.

For a concert in May.

Yeah.

Lauren, thank you for being with us.

Well, thank you for having me.

Oh, it's always good to be here.

It's always open for you, man.

Well, thank you.

All right.

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