Negro music in America; Spirituals

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Thank. God was too silent for a baritone and three instruments by Milton Babbitt. Members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago were conducted by

ROVs AP. The baritone soloist was Charles Van Tassel. Thank. Road Safety conductor. Charles. Castle. Soloists. Are taking another girl. Thank. You. We come now to the final number on tonight's program. Robert Lombardo's dialogues of lovers. Now here are members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago coming on stage to tune up for Robert Lombardo's dialogues of leopards. Tonight's performance will be the world premiere of this work.

Mr. Lombardo was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1932. He received his bachelor of music and master of music degrees in composition from the Harte College of Music and a Ph.D. in composition from the State University of Iowa. He has studied with Arnold fresh Eddy and Aaron Copeland among others. Mr. Limbaugh has received many awards and grants most recently that is 965 a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for which he composed the dialogues of lovers. His wife Kathleen wrote the text and has collaborated with him on several occasions. Most of them Bardot is the composer in residence at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Our soloists for this work coming on stage now with Rob save the conductor

are nieve a pilgrim soprano and Charles Van Tassel baritone. And in just a moment we will have the world premier of Robert Lombardo's dialogues of lovers. Our soloists are rearranging their music stand slightly. I. Don't know what you

mean. No mon. Amour.

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A. That was dialogues of lovers by Robert Lombardi. Ralphs a people inducted the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. And even Pilgrim and Charles Mann castle where the soloist score this world premier. Robert Lombardo was in the audience tonight. And now he's coming on

stage to take a bow with safety in the park over Charles Van castle. And members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago who have just performed the world premiere of his work dialogues of love these. Thank you. And that brings us to the end of tonight's concert by the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. Ralphs AP Music Directors. Are soloists tonight were nieve a pilgrim soprano and Charles Van Tassel baritone. Members of the contemporary Chamber Players heard on tonight's program where John Herron anger

flute and piccolo Gladys Elliott oboe Chester Milosovich clarinet and bass clarinet James Matterhorn trombone and Harvard's man Thomas iwi percussion. James Kidd piano Daniel Roseland violin and Misha cough Viola Shirley Evans cello David Beth e bass and Richard pick guitars. We hope you will be with us for our next concert which will feature baritone Charles Hamm Tassell and pianist James Kidd with members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. They will be performing the works of Schoenberg Handel I've said and others. This concert by the contemporary Chamber Players was produced for broadcast by the University of Chicago in cooperation with radio station WFM T. Your announcer has been t Kim heard Graham and this is the national educational radio network.