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Auburn Symphony Orchestra gets personal with Music Especially For You

Philippa Kiraly — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:00:19 +0000

The title says it all. For the second year running, the Auburn Symphony Orchestra opened its season with “Music Especially For You,” a special concert of short, favorite works, guaranteed to please a diverse audience and draw people in who wouldn’t normally make the trip to hear classical music. These aren’t pop concerts—no, the music … Continue reading →

Auburn Symphony’s Springtime “Rite,” With Strauss on the Side

Philippa Kiraly — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:00:04 +0000

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.

What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for April

Dana Wen — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:30:08 +0000

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.

Auburn Symphony Benefit Treats Crowd to a Galop and Cancan

Philippa Kiraly — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:59:05 +0000

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.

Auburn Symphony Finds Greats Off the Beaten Track

Philippa Kiraly — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:42:55 +0000

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.

What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for April 2012

Dana Wen — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:52:37 +0000

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.