The music of Don Gillis III Program 23
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You're listening to music and give us.
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Welcome once again. Oh.
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Whoever you are in radio land there's still another edition. Music by Don give us.
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And this is done give us of course sitting here at his desk in the division of Music School of the arts at
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Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas.
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Sitting microphone in hand to mention segment facts about program number 23 which
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this one is for instance number 23 along with all of the others is
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brought to you over the facilities of the national educational radio network. And because this is
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true you and countless millions of others of our listeners may hear it over your
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favorite station each week.
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Now for the next few minutes I want to tell you all about the music you're about to hear will hear
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only one score this week my Symphony Number seven subtitled The saga of a prairie
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school. So now if you'll all gather closely around the microphone
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I'll tell you all about the Seventh Symphony perhaps even more than you'd care to know.
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Anyway you going to hear it because once I get my teeth into the role of being a radio
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commentator really comment. My seventh symphony is
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a commissioned work that is. Someone asked for it to be written. Someone in this case was
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Texas Christian University of Fort Worth Texas and they wanted a new symphony because they
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were having their seventy fifth anniversary. I was selected because I was a graduate of
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Texas Christian. I had taught there and now I was to return to present this new work and
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to receive an honorary doctorate in music. The symphony was first
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performed as part of Texas Christian University seventy fifth anniversary celebration at
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which a program of my music at Will Rogers auditorium was one of the main events
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I conducted part of this program and then Dr. T Smith McCorkle dean of Fine
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Arts at Texas Christian conducted the world premiere of the Seventh Symphony with
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the DCU Symphony Orchestra. Later I recorded it
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in London with the new symphony orchestra of London and will hear it now in
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this particular reading. The Symphony Number Seven of done give us
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subtitled saga of a prairie school.
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The prairie school.
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Yeah.
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When the.
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Mum.
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Lists.
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11.
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Mum.
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Mum.
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Mum.
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I. Don't. Know.
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Eh
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eh 11.
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Ill. Luck.
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Good.
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Luck.
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Let's.
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See.
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Me. Me. Me.
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I
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am.
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Me.
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The last. Thing.
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The last song.
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Woo.
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Woo.
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Militant.
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Her.
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For her to.
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Her.
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With this performance of my Symphony Number Seven played for us by
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the new symphony orchestra of London conducted.
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The composer we've come to the end of another broadcast of music by Don Gillis.
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Next week we'll return with more words and music this time to present a tape made especially for us
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by the United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lieutenant Colonel Arnold
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Gabriel and it's titled is our tour of Tuscany a
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portrait of the century.
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Be sure to join us won't you because when the national educational radio network presents music by
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Darden give us dearly loves to know that you're listening with every fiber of your
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being. Music by Dan give us comes to you from the division of music of
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Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas and is brought to you
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by the National Education o Radio Network.
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Oh I. Already sent that one. Case in a radio network.
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Oh well until next week. This is done give us a so-long.
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