TULSA--The second of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s “Hear the World” concerts will feature the music of Italy.The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Chapman Music Hall of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
With David Lockington directing, the orchestra will perform works of Respighi and Mendelssohn.
Lise Glaser, the orchestra’s principal oboist, will perform in the Marcello “Oboe Concerto.”
That piece is one of the composer’s best-known works, and one of the most frequently performed oboe concertos.
Johann Sebastian Bach made the piece famous by writing a keyboard transcription of it, “Concerto in D Minor.”
“Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90,” another piece to be performed on Oct. 24, was written after Mendelssohn toured Europe from 1829 to 1831.
Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1” (which will be performed, as well) was a product of his scholarship and love of Italian masters, including Monteverdi, Verdi and Marcello.
Mr. Lockington has accumulated a broad conducting career in the United States.
A native of England, he has served as music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra since 1999, and assumed the same position with the Modesto Symphony in 2007.
Miss Glaser, first came to Tulsa in the early 1990’s after winning a national audition for principal oboe of the Tulsa Philharmonic.
She has also performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, participating in an European tour with the latter ensemble.
Miss Glaser is also principal oboist of the Tulsa Opera Orchestra, and teaches the instrument at the University of Tulsa.
