Subscription Concert [5] "Music & Peace"
Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 3:00 PM
Native American flutist Keith Bear joins the BSO for The Fable of Old Turtle, an original work by Linda Tutas Haugen based on the children’s book, Old Turtle, by Douglas Wood. Haugen will join Bear on stage as narrator. Dr. Beverly Everett conducts.
Also on the program, The Planets (“Jupiter” & “Venus”) by Gustav Holst, and Russ Peterson’s composition, Between Two Cultures, a musical response to an artwork by White Earth Band member Wallowing Bull. Images of Bull’s work will be shown during the performance.
Keith Bear (O’Mashi! Ryu Ta – “Northern Lights”) is a world-renowned Mandan-Hidatsa storyteller and musician from the Three Affiliated Tribes in Fort Berthold, ND. He has appeared as a solo presenter, performer, and storyteller at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Kennedy Center, Lewis & Clark Bicentennial signature events throughout the US, the International Storytellers Festival in Wales, UK, for the North Dakota Arts Council, and in cultural programs throughout Europe. He has soloed with the National Symphony and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra in performances of the Old Turtle Symphony.
Native American flutist Keith Bear joins the BSO for The Fable of Old Turtle, an original work by Linda Tutas Haugen based on the children’s book, Old Turtle, by Douglas Wood. Haugen will join Bear on stage as narrator. Dr. Beverly Everett conducts.
Also on the program, The Planets (“Jupiter” & “Venus”) by Gustav Holst, and Russ Peterson’s composition, Between Two Cultures, a musical response to an artwork by White Earth Band member Wallowing Bull. Images of Bull’s work will be shown during the performance.
Keith Bear (O’Mashi! Ryu Ta – “Northern Lights”) is a world-renowned Mandan-Hidatsa storyteller and musician from the Three Affiliated Tribes in Fort Berthold, ND. He has appeared as a solo presenter, performer, and storyteller at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Kennedy Center, Lewis & Clark Bicentennial signature events throughout the US, the International Storytellers Festival in Wales, UK, for the North Dakota Arts Council, and in cultural programs throughout Europe. He has soloed with the National Symphony and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra in performances of the Old Turtle Symphony.
Composer Linda Tutas Haugen has received numerous
awards, fellowships, and prominent commissions. Her
works have been performed by such groups as the
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Carolina Symphony,
and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Our appreciation to Sanford Health for their sponsorship of "Music & Peace." |
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This activity is also funded, in part, by a grant from Target, and by a Region 2 Arts Council grant through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund passed by Minnesota voters on November 4, 2008.
The Fable of Old Turtle was premiered by the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra and was made possible by Meet the Composer and its New Residencies program, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Used with permission from Scholastic.
All concerts are held at the Bemidji High School Auditorium. Join us after each concert for a brief post-concert conversation with conductor Beverly Everett and BSO's guest artists and composers. All Tickets are for general admission seating. All concerts are at the Bemidji High School Auditorium, 2900 Division Street West, Bemidji, MN. Directions
