Sotto Voce "Plog Premiere" Midwest Tour (Radio Broadcast)

[Mike Forbes]

Leaves are changing, temperatures are cooling, and Sotto Voce is rearing up for our fall “Plog Premiere” tour! This tour will be one of the most spread out in Sotto Voce history covering 3 large Midwest states! We’ll begin on Thursday, Nov. 19 at the Nebraska Music Educator’s Conference in Lincoln where we’re present both a concert and a clinic. Then we’re off to Ames, Iowa to do the same at their Music Ed. Clinic followed by an evening masterclass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On Saturday we visit the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where we’ll do a masterclass in the afternoon followed by an evening concert. We will perform my “mini-requiem” for tuba quartet AND countertenor that evening along with our guest singer, Lon Ellenberger. He will then join us again for a performance the following day, Sunday, Nov. 22 on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Live from the Chazen” series in Madison. It is on that event that we will officially premiere the new tuba quartet that Anthony Plog has written for us: “Fantasy Movements.” We hope you can tune in via the internet at 12:30 PM Central time on

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We’ll finish off the tour on Monday with a visit to Stoughton High School and a free public concert at my school, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. We hope those of you who are interested can attend these events…most are free and open to the public with some possible wrangling needed for the music education conferences. Here is a detailed itinerary:

Wednesday, Nov. 18
Sotto Voce Arrives in Lincoln, NE for rehearsal

Thursday, Nov. 19
Nebraska Music Educator’s Conference
9:30 am Mike Forbes Low Brass session "Brass Tacks"
11:00 am Sotto Voce Concert Hour Performance
1:30 pm Sotto Voce "Overtures for Overtones" Session

Friday, Nov. 20
Iowa Music Educator’s Conference
11:00 am KeyNote Speaker & Sotto Voce Mini Concert
1:15 pm “Overtures for Overtones” Session
8:00 pm University of Wisconsin-Madison, Masterclass/Coaching

Saturday, Nov. 21
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
3:30 pm Masterclass
7:30 pm Recital (Michelsen Hall)

Sunday, Nov. 22
12:30 pm “Live from the Chazen” Wisconsin Public Radio Broadcast
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Monday, Nov. 23
10:30 am Stoughton High School Band Presentation
2:00 pm University of Wisconsin-Platteville Concert at Velzy Commons in Ullsvik Hall

Tuesday, Nov. 24
Whitnall High School outside of Milwaukee, 7:15 AM (!)

Hope to see you along the way!
Mike
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[Mike Forbes]

tour starts THURSDAY!

RADIO on THIS SUNDAY!

Hope you all can tune it via the internet to wpr.org on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 12:30 PM CENTRAL TIME.

Best,
Mike
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[Hiram]

When will the Plog be available for purchase?

Thanks!

Hiram Diaz

[Mike Forbes]

From Cimarron Music VERY SOON! Hopefully by the new year.

-Mike

[Sean Greene]

Very cool! Knock 'em dead, man.

Sean

[Mike Forbes]

PREMIERE TODAY @ 12:30 CENTRAL TIME!

[BVD Press]

For anyone interested in the sheet music, it is now up on the Cimarron Music Press site:

http://www.cimarronmusic.com/

There is also a sample page of a couple of the movements!

Wishing Sotto Voce well,

[TubaNerd88]

Just got through listening to the premiere of Plog's "Fantasy Movements." Wonderful piece! Very dissonant and mysterious.