Take Jack Event Next Saturday at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa

[Larry Robinson]

> CRAZY COLD BEAUTIFUL • The John Beargrease Song Cycle 
> Composed by Robin Eschner - 2014 McKnight Foundation Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum
> WEST COAST PREMIERE
> MARCH 19, 2016 - TWO CONCERTS 3:00 PM or 8:00 PM
> Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA
> TICKETS •  General - $20.00, Students - $15.00
> LAST RECORD STORE and Brown Paper http://crazycoldbeautiful.brownpapertickets.com
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> CRAZY COLD BEAUTIFUL is a song cycle composed by Robin Eschner, 2014 McKnight Foundation Visiting Composer (to Minnesota) with the American Composers Forum.  CRAZY COLD BEAUTIFUL is about the history and culture of sled dog mushing in northern Minnesota. And, it's more than that. It is inspired by 19th-century Ojibwe mail carrier John Beargrease and by the annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. For twenty years between 1879 and 1900, John Beargrease delivered mail in the winter months with his sled dogs, traveling 90 miles each way over some fiercely formidable terrain in slicing winter cold. He was a beloved member of the north shore community of Lake Superior, respected and admired equally by members of his native Ojibwe community and by the European immigrants–Norwegians, Swedes and Germans–who were beginning their new lives along the shore of magnificent Lake Superior. The song cycle includes stories about John Beargrease, settings of journal entries written during the twenty years he was delivering mail, excerpts from letters delivered to the area during that time, songs about the importance of the sled dog through the centuries for survival and companionship and the side-by-side of everyday life, songs about mushers and the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon that takes place annually following the route that JB traveled. It is a remarkable world filled with beauty and heartbreak and hope and snow and wind and people coming together to make it through. And cold. And the dogs at every turn. 
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> Take Jack just returned from premiere concerts in Minnesota with The Borealis Chorale and Orchestra, directed by William Beckstrand, where they were warmly welcomed by the people there who arrived in their many layers to hear these songs about their community. The response was fantastic. Now they will be joined by Sonoma County's Kitchen Choir, directed by Sarah Saulsbury, for this west coast premiere. As well - orchestra, including Steve Adams, Cory Wright, Kyle Bruckman, John Tuttle, Oliver Tuttle, John Bidwell, Philip Beard, Sarah Jo Zaharako, Katie Harlow and Joseph Sabella. There will be a special guest appearance by students from Oak Grove Elementary School - directed by teacher Vicky Hill. The whole occasion will be conducted by award-winning Bay Area composer, orchestral conductor, multi-instrumentalist, revered educator and stellar photographer, Omid Zoufonoun. 
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> So put on a parka. Come if you can. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 3:00 PM or 8:00 PM, Glaser Center. Additional info below.
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> Purchase tickets - at LAST RECORD STORE in Santa Rosa, or:
> http://crazycoldbeautiful.brownpapertickets.com
> Take Jack:
> https://takejack.wordpress.com
> Article in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
> http://www.startribune.com/music-written-for-beargrease-dog-sled-race-inspired-by-north-country/366874181/
> More about the project on my blog:
> https://reschner.wordpress.com
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