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Honors Ensembles Perform New Work

4/13/2019

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The Honors Wind Ensemble and Honors Orchestra will be performing in a special concert next week.  Our set will include the Wind Ensemble setting of Eric Whitacre’s Goodnight Moon - World Premier.  This is a beautiful work for Wind Ensemble and Soprano based on the famous children’s book.   
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From the Composer:
Over the first six years of his life, I must have read Goodnight Moon to my son a thousand times, maybe more. Somewhere around reading number 500 I began hearing little musical fragments as I read, and over time those fragments began to blossom into a simple, sweet lullaby. I knew it was a long shot, but I asked my manager, Claire Long, to contact HarperCollins and see if they would allow the text to be set to music. To my surprise and delight they agreed – the first time they had ever allowed Goodnight Moon to be used in such a way.
 
Both High Point University and Ragsdale will feature Lindsay Kesselman as our soloist for the evening.
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Hailed by Fanfare Magazine as an “artist of growing reputation for her artistry and intelligence…with a voice of goddess-like splendor” 
(read her bio)
https://www.lindsaykesselman.com/biography
 
The concert will be at High Point University Tuesday night at 7:30pm 
We will be in the Hayworth Fine Arts Center (number 2 on the map)  http://www.highpoint.edu/campusmap/
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