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 Tim McFadden owes his career as a
musician to a "wascally wabbit"
known for his love of carrots and
his penchant for saying, "Nyaah,
what's up, doc?"
"All I knew as a kid was that I
wanted to play music for cartoons,"
said McFadden, now the principal
trumpet of the Tulsa Symphony
Orchestra. "It was later that I
learned the music I loved was
classical music."
McFadden will get the chance to live
out that original dream when the
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra presents
the multi-media show "Bugs Bunny on
Broadway," April 28-29 at the Tulsa
Performing Arts Center.
The concert features some of the
classic cartoons from Warner Bros.'
"Looney Tunes" series that will be
projected on a screen above the
Chapman Music Hall stage.
"The cartoons have all the dialogue
and sound effects intact," said TSO
president and founder Frank Letcher.
"What they don't have is the musical
soundtrack. That's what the
orchestra will be providing live."
Tickets for the concerts -- 7:30
p.m. April 28 and 1 p.m. April 29 --
are $20 to $65, and available at the
PAC ticket office, 596-7111, and
online at www.MyTicketOffice.com.
George Daugherty, an award-winning
conductor and music director for the
Sinfonia Britannia who has led most
of the world's major orchestras,
came up with the idea of "Bugs Bunny
on Broadway" in 1990.
A number of the best-known "Looney
Tunes" used scores adapted from
classical works and operas -- "The
Rabbit of Seville" and "What's
Opera, Doc?" to name just two.
"The problem was, most of the
written orchestrations for these
scores had been lost," Letcher said.
"They literally had to be
reconstructed note-by-note. So it
was a loving and painstaking
restoration process."
Daugherty will be in Tulsa to
conduct the Tulsa Symphony in these
concerts.
"This show has sold out just about
everywhere it's been presented,"
Letcher said. "It's one of those
evenings that truly appeals to all
ages. In fact, I think the real
audience for it isn't children, but
adults. It's a chance to see and
hear classic cartoons in a entirely
new way."
TM &
© Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
(s07)
TICKETS AVAILABLE !!
Saturday, April 28,
2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
at 1:00 p.m.
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James D. Watts Jr. 581-8478
james.watts@tulsaworld.com
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