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Concert date: 5 October 2008 (Sunday)
Venue: Castro Valley Center for the Arts, Castro Valley, California, USA
The Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra presents the World Premiere of
EISENHOWER FAREWELL ADDRESS
for orchestra and orator by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, conducted by Josh Cohen, orated by Scott Budman.
Also on the program is Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony #41.
DATE: Sunday October 5, 2008, 2pm
VENUE: Castro Valley Center for the Arts, 19501 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, CA 94546. (Cross Street is Heyer Avenue.)
TICKETS: Suggested Donation: Adults $ 10.00. Students over 13 & Seniors $ 5.00. Children 12 and under are free
BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available at the door, or at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts Box Office, open Thursdays and Fridays from 3:00 - 5:00 PM and one hour before the start of every CVUSD or CVAF production. Castro Valley Center for the Arts telephone 510-889-8961. Or call the Castro Valley Adult School Office 510-886-1000.
Sunday, October 5, 2008, the Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra will premiere a new, half-hour, major work by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, conducted by Josh Cohen, and featuring NBC11 reporter Scott Budman as orator. Eisenhower Farewell Address, like Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, uses a speaker in conjunction with live orchestra. The text is excerpted from one of the most renown Presidential speeches in US history.
Dwight David Eisenhower, Five-Star General and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, resigned his Army commission in order to become thirty-fourth President of the United States. Eisenhower served two terms as President, and delivered a televised Farewell Address on January 17, 1961 from the Oval Office.
In his speech, Eisenhower warned the country of a growing danger he called the “military industrial complex.” This was the first use of the term to describe the iron triangle of the military, the government, and the defense industry. The speech is remarkable for its prescience and its relevance today. Although many feared the “red menace,” Eisenhower was keenly aware that changes in society had established a permanent arms industry at home, and he called for an alert and responsible citizenry to be wary of it so as to ensure worldwide security and liberty.
Eisenhower Farewell Address marks the second collaboration of this composer and orchestra. The Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra, with the Mount Eden Chorus, premiered Dubowsky’s Quaker Peace Testimony December 19, 2007 at All Saints Church in Hayward.
The concert will be held at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts, 19501 Redwood Road, in Castro Valley. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and children 12 and under are admitted free of charge.
Composers
Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart