The Oakwood Chamber Players return to Arts + Literature Laboratory on Sunday, April 6, at 2:00pm. OCP continues its 40th anniversary celebration with an extravaganza of chamber music for winds and strings rooted in nature. Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 seniors, and $5 for students. Advance ticket sales are available at oakwoodchamberplayers.com.
A special highlight of the program will be Scenes from Sand County, by Madison composer Doug Hill, a work commissioned for and by the Oakwood Chamber Players in 1999. Hill, a former horn professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, frequently draws inspiration from nature. In this piece scored for nine instruments and narrator, he breathes a new musical life into the writings of the celebrated Wisconsin ecologist Aldo Leopold, widely known for the concept of “land ethic” presented in A Sand County Almanac (1949).
Personnel:
Marilyn Chohaney, flute and alto flute
Valree Casey, oboe
Amanda Szczys, bassoon
Marie Pauls, viola
Maggie Darby Townsend, cello
Special Guests:
Eric Anderson, conductor
Buzz Kemper, narrator
Sahada Buckley, violin
Bethany Schultz, clarinet
Sarah Gillespie, horn
Matthew Boothe, bass
About Oakwood Chamber Players
Oakwood Chamber Players are a dynamic group of Madison-based professional musicians who present concerts of historically and stylistically diverse chamber music animated by engaging verbal program notes. Their delightful, curated mix of wind and string instruments lends itself to introducing culturally significant works by living and lesser-known composers and shedding a new light on standard repertoire. These vibrant individual artists can be seen performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Capitol City Band, and the Madison Opera.