OVCO

Community Orchestra founded in 2014 serving the Driftless area of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

Thanks! It’s been Epic!

[Fort Dodge Symphony @FtDodgeSymphony]

Wishing our friends at @OVCOrch all the best on their concert today. They’re doing Bruckner 4. What community ensemble does Bruckner 4? Rockstars, that’s who!!

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Appalachian Spring Full - Copland, April 2022

#20thcenturymusic
#notalwaysjohncage
#orchestralprogramming

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

Performed repertoire audit continues. Next category, 20th century.

Spoiler alert: We've done so much American music, we might be mistaken as a nationalist group...though could also be mistaken as the Copland house orchestra. sorry-not-sorry?

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

Lachian Dances - Janacek, Feb/May 2019
Lincoln Portrait - Copland, April 2019
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 - Barber, April 2019
Amahl and the Night Visitors - Jan, 2020
***Carmina Burana was programed but not performed due to pandemic*** 😥😥

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

With the cost of new music and the youth of our orchestra, I'd say that's pretty good. Looking forward to performing more AND adding to the orchestral repertoire.

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

It might be tax filing season for you, but for us it's time for a good old fashioned new music audit! (new = composer living, literature written in the last 30 yrs)

In 8 seasons, with 3 concerts each season, and 3 pieces on each concert, the OVCO has performed:

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Premiered as part of an Orchestra Consortium:
"Symphonic Overture" - Josh Reznicow, April 2019

Performed a number of new works for string orchestra at the Iowa Composers Forum Summer Symposium in August of 2019

"Danzon No. 2" - Marquez, Feb 2022

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

We have existed for 8 seasons! This twitter account? less than that....

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Join us at 300pm on the 17th in the CFL at Luther and decide for yourself!

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

Beethoven 8 fact 1: conceived at the same time as the 7th, some suggest the 8th is the comedy to the tragedy of the 7th.

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

Guess what!? We're back! Concert this Sunday the 17th at 3:00pm in the CFL at Luther College. IN PERSON!

[OVCO @OVCOrch]

@FtDodgeSymphony @jowrotethis Wonder when this pic was taken...So many white men! Also, the woman (clarinetist?) who broke the glass ceiling into the berlin phil is an interestingly sad story.

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Is this thing still on?

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@FtDodgeSymphony Boosey is especially bad...

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👀👀

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@FtDodgeSymphony Interesting info on why there aren’t saxophones in the orchestra....Parisians!! https://t.co/0WTGse9FZP

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Capriol was fun!

https://t.co/UQMduyIGpt