The 130+ musicians onstage are rushing to the their chairs, checking the intonation of their instruments for the last time and shuffling their music into order. Then silence falls. The conductor steps up to the podium and raise...

“In the time before Man came across the land bridge from Asia, before he set sail from Viking lands, and thousands of years before Columbus conceived of his famous voyage into the unknown, there was Magic on the Prairie.” With these wo...