Auburn Symphony Brings Mozart to Mountainview High
When the Auburn Symphony Orchestra was formed by music director Steward Kershaw 17 years ago it was in order, he … Continue reading Auburn Symphony Brings Mozart to Mountainview High
When the Auburn Symphony Orchestra was formed by music director Steward Kershaw 17 years ago it was in order, he … Continue reading Auburn Symphony Brings Mozart to Mountainview High
The title says it all. For the second year running, the Auburn Symphony Orchestra opened its season with “Music Especially … Continue reading Auburn Symphony Orchestra gets personal with Music Especially For You
The Rite is receiving many performances this season, one of them this past weekend by the Auburn Symphony Orchestra at that city’s Performing Arts Center. For this concert, conductor Stewart Kershaw coupled it with Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, a tone poem on essentially the same theme, composed some 22 years earlier. Continue reading Auburn Symphony’s Springtime “Rite,” With Strauss on the Side
This month, head to the classical concert hall for some serious time-traveling. Experience a cantata that was lost of the world for hundreds of years, then expand your horizons with new local music that’s hot off the press. No matter if you’re a fan of modern dance, medieval literature, or sports and games, there’s something on the calendar for you this April. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for April
Kershaw chose works which highlighted members of the orchestra, like Vaughan Williams’ arrangement of Greensleeves with principal flutist Karla Flygare, and Saint-Saens’ The Swan from Carnival of the Animals, with principal cellist Brian Wharton. Continue reading Auburn Symphony Benefit Treats Crowd to a Galop and Cancan
It isn’t one of his angry works. I didn’t hear any underlying angst in it. The violin plays almost without a break through the entire half hour of the concerto, serenely above lower winds and strings in the first movement, urgent but jaunty rather than ominous in the second. The unusual passacaglia which is the third movement has more ominous portent in the orchestra while the violin floats above, and at the end is a long cadenza for the soloist which feels like more of an emotional statement than a bravura display of fireworks. Continue reading Auburn Symphony Finds Greats Off the Beaten Track
It looks like April is the Month of the Symphony in Seattle. Our calendar is full of concerts featuring some of classical music’s most beloved works of the symphonic genre. Composers represented include Mozart, Mahler, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for April 2012