Auburn Symphony Orchestra to perform weekend concerts
Published 2:31 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2014
For the Reporter
The Auburn Symphony Orchestra is taking its act on the road.
The orchestra presents Old World Masters, its first chamber concert in Kent on Friday. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at The First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th, Kent.
The concert is sponsored in part by the Kent Arts Commission.
Four members of the Auburn Symphony offer standard works that are at the core of the chamber repertoire.
Also known as “The American Quartet,” Dvorak’s String Quartet in F Major was written when the composer was in the United States in the early 1890s. Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major is primarily referred to as The Lark because of the violin’s high bird-like melody at the very beginning. And Mozart’s String Quartet in B Flat Major is known as The Hunt because the music in the first movement is said to evoke the sound and the mood of the chase.
In addition, the orchestra kicks off its chamber series Sunday, featuring six of its outstanding musicians performing major works by Mozart and Schoenberg.
The concert, A Lot of Night Music, begins at 4 p.m. at St. Matthew Episcopal Church, 123 L St. NE, Auburn.
Mozart’s famous and light-hearted Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is “supreme entertainment on an artistic level that only Mozart could attain” while his Viola Quintet in G Minor is “startlingly dramatic and vivid in both personality and form.” Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is based on a poem of betrayal, acceptance, and forgiveness by Richard Dehmel.
Founded in 1996, the fully-professional orchestra is led by Stewart Kershaw, internationally-renowned conductor and former music director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra.
The concert is sponsored in part by the City of Auburn and the Garneau-Nicon Foundation.
For tickets, call 253-887-7777 or purchase online at www.auburnsymphony.org.
