April 2017

By Monty Siekerman
"Where the green grass grows." (check the photo at bottom of story)

Is this phrase a 1949 movie title, a 1998 song lyric, the public tennis courts in Ada, or all of the above. Yup, all of the above.

The four tennis courts in Ada need resurfacing after 17 years because the cracks in the courts are getting bigger...and green grass grows there.

Ada has an opportunity to do something about the condition of the courts by applying for a state grant.

The ONU Department of Music will present the Ohio Northern Symphony: “Heroes: Beethoven’s Eroica” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 6 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. 

Music Director Travis Jürgens will conduct this season finale, which features Beethoven’s monumental “Eroica Symphony” (Symphony No. 3, op. 55 in E♭ major), a world premiere titled “Perpetua” by Ohio composer Kurt Doles, and up-and-coming violinists from Romania. Radu Kis will perform the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and Maria Marica will play the finale of the Bruch G minor Violin Concerto. 

The ONU Wind Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 28 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts.

This is the opening concert of the annual ONU Spring Band Festival, now in its 42nd year. The Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Thomas A. Hunt, will offer a program of challenging music for winds and percussion, including works by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Antonin Dvorak, and the Spring Band Festival’s guest composer and conductor, Jay Bocock.

This program also will be performed by the Wind Orchestra when it tours Luxembourg and Germany in May.