What’s Special About This Concert:

• This concert features two rarely heard British composers, Ethel Smyth and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Ethel Smyth joined the women’s suffrage movement, composing March of the Women as an anthem for the movement. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was referred to as the “African Mahler” because of the success he achieved, paired with his symphonic writing.

• Austrian composer, Franz Joseph Haydn, composed his 104th symphony, titled the “London Symphony” for a trip to the symphony’s namesake city.

• It can’t be the British Invasion without music from the band that started it all, The Beatles.

The Program:

• ETHEL SMYTH: The Boatswain’s Mate Overture (1914) | 7 mins

• SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Ballade in A minor, op. 33 (1898) | 13 mins

• HAYDN: Symphony No. 104 in D major, Hob I:104 “London” (1795) | 29 mins

• LENNON & McCARTNEY/arr. Custer: Best of the Beatles | 5 mins

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Featured Musicians:

• Kaleb Benda, Music Director & Conductor

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

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