Concert by the Oberlin Orchestra and Musical Union to be Broadcast Live on WCLV by Marci Janas '91
			The Oberlin Orchestra with Steven Smith conducting. Photo by Al Fuchs A concert by the Oberlin Orchestra and featuring the Oberlin Musical Union will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM, Cleveland's classical music radio station, this Sunday, May 4, at 8 p.m. The free public concert in Finney Chapel will also be simulcast on the station's web site, wclv.com. Associate Professor of Conducting Steven Smith will lead the orchestra; Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting Hugh Floyd will conduct the Musical Union. The program includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. With text by Walt Whitman, the work was first performed in 1936 as a warning when Europe was moving towards war. Soprano Marie Masters '05 and baritone Todd Boyce '05 are the vocalists. Also on the program: Bartôk's Concerto for Orchestra and the world premiere of Razorbladelight by senior composition major Clinton McCallum. A student of Associate Professor of Composition Lewis Nielson, McCallum says the title "refers not only to the sounds of the piece but also to the extramusical narrative of it as well." "I use the term narrative not to suggest that the piece tells a specific story, but rather that the sequence of sounds and the relationship between the orchestra and the four vocalists mean something extramusical to me," says McCallum. The vocalists for Razorbladelight are Clara Hunter Latham '04, Katherine Young '03, Benjamin Nisbet '03, and Stephen Emhof '03.
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