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June 10, 2007

Enid Symphony Orchestra planning to present 'A Down Home 4th' on July 4

By Robert Barron Staff Writer

Enid Symphony Orchestra will present “A Down Home 4th,” for its Fourth of July concert at Meadowlake Park.

The performance will feature Enid and Oklahoma performers and composers, in-cluding local vocalist Kelsey Stark and fiddler Kyle Dillingham. The performance is sponsored by Liberty Federal Savings Bank, Oklahoma Arts Coun-cil and National En-dowment for the Arts.

“It’s a continuance of the celebration of the Centennial and Independence Day,” said Doug Newell, Enid Symphony music director. “We are focusing on state musical talent.”

The symphony will open with the world premier of Oklahoma composer Neil Clark’s “Centen-nial Overture.” The evening also will feature Stark singing “God Bless America,” and a variety of patriotic selections.

Dillingham will perform Bob Wills’ “Faded Love,” “Asho-kan Farewell,” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.”

Newell said he is trying to arrange for the Kiwanitrain to do a solo during the playing of “Orange Blos-som Special,” by Dillingham and the symphony string section.

Selections from “Oklaho-ma!” and two tunes by composer Jimmy Webb — “By The Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Oklahoma Rising” — will be played as part of the traditional fireworks medley.

Season tickets to the Enid Symphony are on sale. This season the concert series will open with a special performance of the R.W. Hampton concert “Oklahoma, Where the West Remains,” Sept. 15.

The program at Chisholm Trail Expo Center will feature former Miss America Susan Powell, fiddler champion Byron Berline, Dillingham, trumpeter David B. Hooten, guitarist Edgar Cruz, American Indian artist Bill Miller, Mitchell and Jimmy Webb in a special performance of “Oklahoma Ris-ing.”

That concert will be open to the public, but Newell said it will be part of the regular-season package for symphony ticket holders.

Also on the schedule this season will be pianist Alice Kahn, trumpeter David Hooten, a silver celebration of Newell’s 25th season with Enid Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor with the Canterbury Choral Society, Enid Symphonic Choir and soloists.

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