Hibernia to Sponsor LPO Tribute to Louisiana Purchase in Seven Cities; Citizens Collaborate With "Pied Piper of Classical Music," Bringing the Sounds of History Alive.Business Editors & Assignment Writers NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2002 Hibernia National Bank For other uses of "Hibernia", see Hibernia (disambiguation). Hibernia National Bank, founded in 1870, was a personal banking and commercial lending institution headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIB Hib abbr. Haemophilus influenzae type b ) has announced its sponsorship of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra's tribute to the Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase, 1803, American acquisition from France of the formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. Reasons for the Purchase The revelation in 1801 of the secret agreement of 1800, whereby Spain retroceded Louisiana to France, aroused Bicentennial bi·cen·ten·ni·al adj. 1. Happening once every 200 years. 2. Lasting for 200 years. 3. Relating to a 200th anniversary. n. A 200th anniversary or its celebration. Also called bicentenary. in 2003. American composer Robert Kapilow will conduct the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is an American orchestra based in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only full-time, professional orchestra in the Gulf South.[1] The music director is Carlos Miguel Prieto. (LPO LPO London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO Legal Process Outsourcing LPO Local Purchase Order LPO Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra LPO Legal Process Offshoring LPO Leading Petty Officer LPO Loan Production Office LPO Lattice Preferred Orientation ) in the world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 of his composition `03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World. Commissioned by the LPO and the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial, the piece will debut in Baton Rouge Baton Rouge (băt`ən r  zh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003. The LPO and
Kapilow then tour the state, performing in six other Louisiana cities,
including a gala performance by the LPO in March in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded .Dates for the touring performances in the six cities in addition to Baton Rouge are Jan. 28, Ruston; Jan. 31, Natchitoches; Feb. 2, Lake Charles Lake Charles, city (1990 pop. 70,580), seat of Calcasieu parish, SW La.; inc. 1867. It is located on Lake Charles at the mouth of the Calcasieu River in a rice, timber, oil, and natural gas region. ; March 13; Crowley; March 15, New Orleans; and March 16, Thibodaux. In Lake Charles, the LPO will play side-by-side with the Lake Charles Symphony The Lake Charles Symphony is located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It has about 50 players in the orchestra and is conducted by the great William Kushner. It regularly performs in the Rosa Hart Theatre and brings in guests from throughout the world. Orchestra. In creating '03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World, Kapilow has traveled across Louisiana, inviting citizens to participate in his musical and cultural research. Hibernia recently sponsored Kapilow's "Unbounded World" tour, a series of town meetings and creative workshops throughout Louisiana. Mayors, tribal elders, students and retirees joined Kapilow in the creative process and discussed the significance of the Louisiana Purchase. The inspiration for the title of Kapilow's `'03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World was the passionate congressional debate surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The composer has engaged in similarly lively discussions with the citizens of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. , which have given him insight into the historic event itself. While touring the state, Kapilow previewed his newest composition, giving people the rare opportunity to influence a classical work-in-progress. He also has engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Louisianians through a special Web site, www.lplpo.com. Kapilow's '03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World is a 20-minute composition in five movements for orchestra and chorus. It is a musical tribute to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, in which President Thomas Jefferson and his representatives negotiated the acquisition of the immense Louisiana Territory Louisiana Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1805 until December 11, 1812. It consisted of the portion of the Louisiana Purchase that was not partitioned off into Orleans Territory, which later became the state of Louisiana. from French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The territory's 820,000 square miles was the largest single parcel of land ever acquired by the United States, extending from the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east to the Canadian border and from the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountains. The transfer was effected Dec. 20, 1803, at what is now Jackson Square in New Orleans. According to Kapilow, interpreting the landscape of the Louisiana Purchase through music requires the participation of as many people as possible, because the purchase's effects were profound. "Lives were both ended and expanded; it (the era) was simultaneously wonderful and terrible," he says. "While (the Louisiana Purchase) set the tone and very much laid down the path for what America was to become, the deal was the death knell for the American Indians and forced many of the blacks in the territory to lose their freedom. The Louisiana Purchase was a kaleidoscope of experiences, and, through an ongoing discussion with the people of Louisiana, we hope to pay homage to them all." The interactive process is similar to the one Kapilow has used in such previous compositions as Union Station for the Kansas City Symphony The Kansas City Symphony (KCS) is a a United States symphony orchestra based in Kansas City, Missouri. The current music director is conductor Michael Stern. The current home of the Symphony is the historic Lyric Theatre, located in Downtown Kansas City on 11th Street and D.C.: Monuments, which was commissioned by the Kreeger Museum and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. But the Louisiana Purchase tribute marks the first time he has invited a state to take part in the creative process. Kapilow is celebrated for his ability to bring the wonder of classical music to new audiences. He studied at the age of 21 with famed composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, two years before receiving his master's degree from Yale University. The following spring he graduated from the Eastman Conservatory and immediately returned to Yale as assistant conductor of the Yale Symphony Orchestra Founded in 1965 to provide opportunities for undergraduate orchestral music, the Yale Symphony Orchestra has grown to become one of Yale University's best-known musical groups. The orchestra performs in Yale's Woolsey Hall and tours internationally and domestically. . Less than a year later, at the age of 24, he was appointed music director and lecturer at the university. Since then, as conductor or collaborator, Kapilow has performed with the symphony orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, St. Louis, Toronto, Atlanta, Indianapolis and Milwaukee, as well as those of New Jersey and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . He regularly hosts and conducts three of his best-known works -- Green Eggs and Ham and Gertrude McFuzz both based on stories by Dr. Seuss, and his own adaptation of Chris Van Alsburgh's Polar Express. Kapilow also has gained a wide following through his acclaimed educational series, "What Makes It Great?," frequently broadcast on National Public Radio and adapted for audiences at New York's Lincoln Center, Boston's Fleetbank Series, the Friends of Chamber Music series in Kansas City and the Cerritos Center near Los Angeles. The March 15 performance in New Orleans, at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts, will be dedicated to former Louisiana Congresswoman and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Claiborne Boggs. One of her ancestors was William C.C. Claiborne, who served as governor of the Louisiana Territory and subsequently became Louisiana's first governor after its admission to the Union in 1812. Boggs will celebrate her 87th birthday two days before the concert's performance. The libretto libretto (ləbrĕt`ō) [Ital.,=little book], the text of an opera or an oratorio. Although a play usually emphasizes an integrated plot, a libretto is most often a loose plot connecting a series of episodes. will be sung by university choruses in Ruston, Natchitoches and Lake Charles. The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans will appear in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Crowley and Thibodaux. The concert program for six of the seven cities will consist of the Bicentennial tribute and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). The exception is Lake Charles, where Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story is scheduled to replace Eroica, and other selections may be on the program which will be led by Bill Kushner of the Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra. Tickets for the March 15 New Orleans performance go on sale Aug. 15. Single tickets, priced at $20 to $45, will be available, as well as a special new subscription package that includes the Kapilow-Beethoven concert. Ticket prices and sale dates for the other six cities will be announced later. Information is available on the LPO's Web site, www.lpomusic.com, and by telephoning the orchestra's office at 504/523-6530. The Kapilow-Beethoven program also is part of a special subscription of three concerts by the LPO at its home base in New Orleans. The first is the world premiere Sept. 24, 2002, of composer-conductor David Amram's Giants of the Night, a concerto for flute and orchestra with flutist Sir James Galway as soloist. The second is a Three Mo' Tenors concert Nov. 24.
'03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World
An Orchestral Tribute to the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase
Performance Dates
Saturday, Jan. 18, through Sunday, March 16, 2003
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Kapilow: '03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World
Conductor: Robert Kapilow
Chorus: Symphony Chorus of New Orleans (unless otherwise indicated)
Sponsors: Hibernia National Bank and the Louisiana Department
of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
Also on the program: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
Saturday, Jan. 18: Baton Rouge, La., 8 p.m.
Independence Park Theatre
Tuesday, Jan. 28: Ruston, La., 8 p.m.
Howard Center, Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University Choir
Friday, Jan. 31: Natchitoches, La., 8 p.m.
Northwestern State University Auditorium
Northwestern State University Choir
Sunday, Feb. 2: Lake Charles, La., 3 p.m.
Side-by-side with the Lake Charles Symphony
Orchestra
Rosa Hart Theatre
McNeese State University Choir
With Virgil Thomson's "Louisiana Story,"
conducted by Bill Kushner of the Lake Charles
Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, March 13: Crowley, La., 8 p.m.
Grand Opera House of Crowley
Saturday, March 15: New Orleans, La., 8 p.m.
Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts
A Tribute to Former Congresswoman Lindy Claiborne
Boggs and the Claiborne family
Sunday, March 16: Houma, La., 2 p.m.
Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center
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