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July 4th, 2009

OHIO VALLEY SYMPHONY
SUMMER ELIZABETH
FREE CONCERT

The fireworks on the Gallipolis river front won't all be in the sky this Fourth of July. For the first time in its 20-year history, the Ohio Valley Symphony will offer an evening of musical fireworks at a free concert at 8 p.m. in Gallipolis City Park. The concert -- the orchestra's first outdoors -- is a double birthday present to the people of Gallipolis, marking both the nation's 203rd year and the orchestra's 20th. The performance is also the culmination of the city's annual River Recreation Festival.

Expect a parade of great American music, including a salute to America's armed forces, Sousa marches, and classics of America's own music, jazz. Joining the OVS and music director Ray Fowler will be trumpeter Byron Stripling, who will honor the country's greatest trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Stripling portrayed Armstrong in Broadway's "Satchmo."

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July 4, 2009

JULY 4TH CONCERT

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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MUSICAL EXCELLENCE
By Thomas Consolo

There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the Ohio Valley Symphony's prospects at its first performance. The only heat in the auditorium, from portable gas heaters, had been turned off before the concert because of their noise. The audience and performers huddled in their coats on the folding chairs borrowed from the city's funeral homes. Besides  lacking seats and heat, the century-old hall -- until that night closed for a quarter century -- still needed extensive structural, mechanical and artistic renovation before it could be put back into regular service.

Then there was the challenge of building and basing a professional orchestra in a small city like Gallipolis.

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THE OHIO VALLEY SYMPHONY

The Ohio Valley Symphony, the only professional orchestra in the Ohio River Valley encompassing Gallipolis, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is the resident ensemble of the 1895 Ariel Dater Hall. In 2005, benefactor Ann Carson Dater purchased and donated the building to provide a permanent home

for the symphony, the youth orchestra and the performing arts. Designed around the Ariel Theatre's magnificent acoustics, the OVS,  under the direction of Maestro Ray Fowler, performs a wide variety of music selected to satisfy every musical appetite.

In 2008 The OVS helped dedicate the new state of the art Lillian and Paul Wedge Auditorium located at the Point Pleasant Junior/Senior High School Complex.

OVS musicians hail from six states and play with a number of other prestigious orchestras such as the Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, West Virginia, Roanoke, Toledo and Pro Musica Symphonies. Some of the musicians are freelancers who play in more than one ensemble; many also teach at various institutions such as Ohio University, Marshall University, Ohio State University, Cincinnati Conservatory, West Virginia University, Shenandoah Conservatory and Capitol University.

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