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Bob Knight to narrate Copland piece at concert by IU Orchestra on Nov. 3
Oct. 28, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University Basketball Coach Bob Knight will narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait as part of a performance by the University Orchestra on Wednesday (Nov. 3) at 8 p.m. EST that will be broadcast on the World Wide Web.
IU Music Professor and Director of Bands Ray Cramer will conduct the orchestra for the program in the Musical Arts Center. It will be open to the public without charge.
Copland is known as the "dean of American music," and the Lincoln selection is one of his most famous works. Cramer said he contacted Knight for the narration because he knew of Knight's interest in patriotism, American history and the writings of Lincoln.
The concert also will feature Carl Maria von Weber's Overture to Der Freischuetz, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Stravinksy's Four Norwegian Moods.
The Internet broadcast, one of four involving IU School of Music events in November, represents a pioneering use of computer technology. Other upcoming Web music events are the University Jazz Ensemble on Nov. 1; the IU Opera Theater production of Puccini's one-act operas Sister Angelica and Gianni Schicchi on Nov. 12; and the IU Philharmonic Orchestra directed by former Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Joseph Silverstein on Nov. 14.
Approximately 5,000 viewers and listeners in 23 countries accessed the first IU Internet music broadcast on Sept. 14, a concert by renowned cellists Janos Starker of the IU faculty and Mstislav Rostropovich.
The Web broadcast of the University Orchestra program will be archived for one month. Computer viewers will need RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2, which is included with Netscape 4.6 and above or can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.real.com/products/player/ It will take phone modem users 20 to 30 minutes to download and install the software from the RealNetworks site.
For more information on the University Orchestra program and other upcoming Web musical events at IU, go to http://broadcast.iu.edu/ or phone the IU School of Music at 812-855-9846 or visit the School of Music's Web site at http://www.music.indiana.edu
(Arizeder Urreiztieta, School of Music, aurreizt@indiana.edu or Richard Doty, 812-855-0084, rgdoty@indiana.edu)