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Frank Oden writes and performs lyrical concert programs merging poetry, humor, drama and education with live symphonic performance. He is perhaps best known for his Halloween concerts The Haunted Symphony, The House of Halloween, and Eerie Lake, all originally commissioned by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. His full-length program of original western poetry, Cowboy Jamboree, has been an audience favorite with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and The Vail Valley Music Festival. Mr. Oden's perfectly inept “mucisological” expert, Dr. Hayward Benson from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Podium has made several appearances with the Colorado Symphony by popular demand and also was invited by the CSO to create a comical look at Mozart's life and works in Happy Birthday, Wolfgang. For Marin Alsop's tribute to Leonard Bernstein, Mr. Oden wrote and performed a critically acclaimed beat poetry version of Romeo and Juliet for Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. He also appears regularly with symphony orchestras to perform traditional narrations, as well as his own lyrical version of Peter and the Wolf and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. |
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