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St. Olaf Orchestra on six-state tour; coming 'home' Oct. 27

Nancy J. Ashmore
October 27, 2002

The St. Olaf Orchestra is on its annual fall tour, this time performing virtuosic works by Strauss and Ravel in six states. The weeklong series of concerts, which began Saturday, Oct. 19, will take the 92-member ensemble to Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota. The tour program is filled with varied yet popular works, notes director Steven Amundson. ?Don Juan [by Richard Strauss] is a work very seldom done by students since it is so technically virtuosic. La Valse [by Maurice Ravel] is not far behind,? he notes. Other offerings include pieces by Carl Maria von Weber, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Reinhold Gliere. The orchestra returns to St. Olaf on Sunday, Oct. 27, when it will perform a ?home? concert at 7:30 p.m. in Skoglund Center. The performance is free and open to the public.

Contact Nancy J. Ashmore at 507-786-3315 or ashmore@stolaf.edu.