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Composer to Speak at OLLI Program

- November 15, 2007

PITTSFIELD - The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will feature a presentation by Stephen Dankner, a noted composer from Williamstown, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Koussevitzky Hall, Room K-111, at Berkshire Community College.

Dankner has written eight symphonies, five orchestral tone poems and several song cycles as well as choral, chamber and electronic music. He a research associate at Williams College and is a composer-in-residence with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. His music has been commissioned and/or recorded by symphony orchestras such as Albany, Louisiana and Nuremberg and by the Aspen Music Festival and the Hawthorne Trio, among many others

Dankner will discuss his lifelong attempt to fuse classical, popular and religious musical traditions. He will illustrate how he blends traditional symphonic sound with folkloric Jewish music. The lecture precedes the world premiere of Dankner's orchestral composition "Out of Endless Yearnings – A Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra," by the Albany (N.Y.) Symphony Orchestra. It's debut will take place in December at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.

The cost for the lecture is $10 for members, $15 for guests; payment will be taken at the door. For information on this program and to register, call 413-236-2190 or visit www.BerkshireOLLI.org.
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