“The 14-year-old aspiring composer Dacey Tietz will witness the professional debut of her original orchestral piece ‘Adventurous Voyage’ on Saturday when the Oklahoma City Philharmonic performs it as part of an eclectic Classics concert titled ‘The Voyage,’ ” writes Brandy McDonnell in Sunday’s (9/29) Oklahoman. “The centerpiece of Saturday’s program will be Canadian composer Mychael Danna’s Oscar-winning suite from the acclaimed 2012 film ‘Life of Pi.’ … South Asian musicians, including Oscar-nominated Indian Carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashri, will join the OKC orchestra in performing the suite, [Music Director Alexander] Mickelthwate said…. The concert also will feature Benjamin Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’; Dinuk Wijeratne’s ‘Yatra’; Claude Debussy’s ‘La Mer’; and Dacey’s ‘Adventurous Voyage,’ which Mickelthwate discovered while working on a project with El Sistema Oklahoma … a nonprofit after-school program that offers music lessons and classes to metro area schoolchildren…. Dacey’s ‘Adventurous Voyage’ … started out as a minute-long piece for guitar and flute [and] expanded … into a five-minute piece for full orchestra, plus marimba and chimes…. When she learned that the OKC Philharmonic wanted to … perform her ‘Adventurous Voyage,’ she was stunned…. ‘I was over the moon with excitement,’ she said.”
Posted October 3, 2019
