THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM IS A PBS
WISCONSIN ORIGINAL PRODUCTION.
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>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO
CONCERTS ON THE SQUARE.
I'M ANDREW SEWELL, MUSIC
DIRECTOR OF THE WISCONSIN
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA.
TONIGHT'S CONCERT CELEBRATES THE
RICH TRADITIONS, HERITAGE, AND
CULTURE OF THE HO-CHUNK NATION,
FEATURING THE WISCONSIN DELLS
SINGERS AND DANCERS.
WE'LL ALSO PRESENT SEVERAL
SELECTIONS FROM GUSTAV HOLST'S
WELL-KNOWN ORCHESTRAL SUITE,
"THE PLANETS."
SO SIT BACK, RELAX AND ENJOY A
PERFECT SUMMER EVENING, HERE AT
CONCERTS ON THE SQUARE.
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FUNDING FOR CONCERTS ON THE
SQUARE IS PROVIDED BY FOCUS FUND
FOR THE ARTS AND FRIENDS OF PBS
WISCONSIN.
>> WE'RE GOING TO OPEN THE
PROGRAM OF "PLANETS" - "THE
HO-CHUNK AND PLANETS."
WE WILL BE FEATURING THREE
MOVEMENTS FROM THIS AMAZING WORK
THAT WAS COMPOSED BY GUSTAV
HOLST - ENGLISH COMPOSER IN
1914 THROUGH 1917.
AND YOU MAY NOTE THAT VERY
FAMOUS COMPOSERS SINCE THEN HAVE
USED THIS IN THEIR WRITINGS.
ONE PERSON IN PARTICULAR COMES
TO MIND AND THAT IS JOHN
WILLIAMS, FOR HIS "STAR WARS"
MOVIES.
HERE IS "MARS, THE BRINGER OF
WAR" BY GUSTAV HOLST.
(APPLAUSE)
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
>> IT IS NOW MY VERY DISTINCT
PLEASURE - AND HONOR TO
WELCOME TO CONCERTS ON THE
SQUARE, ELLIOTT FUNMAKER AND
MARY FUNMAKER, THE WISCONSIN
DELLS SINGERS AND DANCERS, FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE OF WISCONSIN.
PLEASE WELCOME ELLIOTT FUNMAKER
FOR THIS NEXT PART OF THE
PROGRAM.
ELLIOTT.
(APPLAUSE)
>> THANK YOU, MAESTRO.
(SPEAKING IN HOOCAK)
>> WELCOME TO THE WISCONSIN
DELLS SINGERS AND DANCE TROUPE,
ALONG WITH THE WISCONSIN CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, TONIGHT'S FESTIVITIES
HERE.
WE'RE GOING TO START OFF WITH
THE GRAND ENTRY.
IT'S ALWAYS CUSTOMARY THAT WE
HONOR ALL OF OUR PEOPLE THAT ARE
HERE.
AS THE HOST TRIBE, THE HO-CHUNK
NATION - HO-CHUNK MEANS
"BIG-VOICED PEOPLE" - WE COME TO
YOU IN A GOOD WAY.
SINCE WE ARE THE CARETAKERS OF
THIS LAND HERE, WE WELCOME EACH
AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE TO
DEJOPE - MADISON.
HAHO.
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING OUR
GRAND ENTRY.
I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE
RISE, IF YOU POSSIBLY COULD, AS
WE BRING IN OUR DANCERS.
AT THIS TIME, THE GRAND ENTRY.
HAHO.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
(DRUMMING, SINGING & DANCING
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(DRUMMING, SINGING & DANCING
>> HOW ABOUT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE
FOR EVERYBODY!
ALL RIGHT.
HOLY MOLY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
YOU MAY BE SEATED AT THIS TIME.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
>> AGAIN, KEEPING WITH HO-CHUNK
TRADITION, WE ARE GOING TO BE
DOING THE DEJOPE SONG.
DEJOPE MEANS "FOUR LAKES."
THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE AT.
THAT'S THE NAME OF THIS PLACE -
THAT THE HO-CHUNKS NAMED THIS
PLACE, DEJOPE.
REPEAT AFTER ME: DEJOPE.
>> DEJOPE.
>> HAHO.
>> I MADE THIS SONG JUST FOR
MADISON.
I RESPECT THIS PLACE, AND I WANT
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO
THINK ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBORS
SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.
AT THIS TIME I WANT YOU TO SHAKE
HANDS WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR RIGHT
NEXT-DOOR.
SAY "HELLO, NEIGHBOR."
>> HELLO, NEIGHBOR.
>> THAT'S HOW HO-CHUNKS ARE.
WE ARE VERY WELCOMING.
SO, AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO
BE DOING DEJOPE SONG.
HAHO.
(DRUMMING, SINGING & DANCING)
>> HOW ABOUT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE
FOR THAT.
(APPLAUSE)
>> THANK YOU, ANDREW, FOR THAT
BEAUTIFUL PIECE THAT YOU
COLLABORATED WITH THE HO-CHUNK
NATION AND THE WISCONSIN DELLS
SINGERS.
>> AT THIS TIME IT IS ALWAYS
CUSTOMARY WITH THE HO-CHUNK
NATION TO HONOR OUR VETERANS.
WITHOUT OUR VETERANS, WE WOULD
NOT BE ABLE TO ENJOY OUR
FREEDOM.
SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WENT
OVERSEAS.
SOME OF THEM DIDN'T COME BACK.
THIS SONG IS A HEALING SONG FOR
ALL OF OUR VETERANS ALONG WITH
THEIR FAMILIES.
THE HO-CHUNK NATION IS PROUD TO
PRESENT ONE OF OUR HO-CHUNK
VETERANS SONGS, THE MARINE CORPS
SONG.
HAHO.
(DRUMMING, SINGING & DANCING)
>> ALL RIGHT!
HOW ABOUT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE
FOR ALL OF OUR VETERANS AND
THEIR FAMILIES.
HAHO.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
>> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS
NEXT PIECE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE
DOING.
WHEN WE HAD THE SESQUICENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION NOT TOO LONG AGO,
CAPITAL CITY BAND LEADER, JIM
LATIMER, COMPOSED A PIECE ALONG
WITH THE HO-CHUNK NATION,
WISCONSIN DELLS SINGERS.
AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU
UNDERSTOOD THAT, WHAT WE WERE
DOING.
AND SO I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT
OUR DANCERS UP HERE.
THEY GOT ALL GUSSIED UP JUST FOR
YOU GUYS!
(CHEERS & APPLAUSE)
HAHO!
(DRUMMING, SINGING & DANCING)
[APPLAUSE]
>> OUTSTANDING!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT
ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
IT WAS A PLEASURE BEING HERE
TONIGHT.
I WANT TO THANK THE MAESTRO AND
ALL OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OVER
HERE.
LET'S GIVE EVERYBODY A ROUND OF
APPLAUSE.
(APPLAUSE)
(DRUMMING, SINGING AND DANCING
AS DANCERS EXIT)
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
>> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT
THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING
EXPERIENCES ON THE SQUARE, TO
DATE.
I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS THE
EMOTIONS THAT ONE FEELS HERE ON
THE SQUARE.
AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS IS A
WELCOMING COMMUNITY, A WELCOMING
SPACE.
AND WE WELCOME EVERYONE HERE
TONIGHT.
WE CONTINUE NOW·
(APPLAUSE)
>> ON THAT NOTE, THE FOURTH
MOVEMENT FROM "THE PLANETS" BY
GUSTAV HOLST, IT'S "JUPITER, THE
BRINGER OF JOLLITY."
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(APPLAUSE)
>> WE WILL CONTINUE NOW WITH
"MERCURY, THE WINGED MESSENGER""
OF THE SEVEN MOVEMENTS - WE KNOW
THAT THERE ARE EIGHT PLANETS,
BUT OF THE SEVEN MOVEMENTS OF
THIS WORK, "MERCURY" WAS
PROBABLY THE MOST EXPERIENTIAL.
YOU'LL HEAR LOTS OF HARP AND
CELESTE.
CELESTE LITERALLY MEANS
"HEAVENLY."
IT WAS AN INSTRUMENT FIRST USED
BY TCHAIKOVSKY IN "THE
NUTCRACKER."
IT'LL BE PLAYED BY BETH WILSON.
HERE IS "THE WINGED MESSENGER,"
BY GUSTAV HOLST.
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(APPLAUSE)
>> WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'VE COME
TO THE LAST PIECE ON THE
PROGRAM.
THIS IS ELEVEN MINUTES.
AND PERHAPS SOME OF YOU MAY BE
FAMILIAR WITH THIS, IF YOU'RE
OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE GOOD
OLD DISNEY TUNES THAT BORROWED
THIS THEME TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
HERE IS "HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO.
2," AND IT FEATURES OUR
PRINCIPAL CLARINET, NANCY
MACKENZIE.
(APPLAUSE)
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
>> WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER ONE?
(CHEERING)
>> ALL RIGHT!
THIS HAS A REALLY GOOD TITLE TO
IT.
THIS A JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
SPECIAL.
IT'S CALLED "WISCONSIN FORWARD
FOREVER!"
(CHEERS & APPLAUSE)
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
FUNDING FOR CONCERTS ON THE
SQUARE IS PROVIDED BY FOCUS FUND
FOR THE ARTS AND FRIENDS OF PBS
WISCONSIN.