ASO presents A Grand Tour of Europe

Auburn Symphony Orchestra closes its concert season with a symphonic program featuring Europe's greatest composers of all time.

For the Reporter

Auburn Symphony Orchestra closes its concert season with a symphonic program featuring Europe’s greatest composers of all time.

A Grand Tour of Europe begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Theatre at Auburn Mountainview, 28900 124th Ave. SE, Auburn.

The orchestra also performs the program for a 2:30 matinee Sunday, April 26.

The concert opens with Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, a work influenced by the adolescent genius’ second journey with his father to Italy. Vivaldi composed his Concerto for Bassoon in a minor around 1734. ASO principal bassoon Mona Butler will solo in this work as well as Elgar’s Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, a beautifully written and sensitive piece that is classically British in style.

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Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suites are concert hall favorites — energetic works taken from the incidental music the composer wrote for an Alfred Daudet play. The music is “an introduction to Bizet’s genius for color and melody, and a sample of his sense of atmosphere and theatrical flair.”

Prior to the performance, conductor Stewart Kershaw and KUOW host Dave Beck will give a pre-concert lecture, focusing on the composers and their works.

The concerts are sponsored in large part by the City of Auburn.

Reserved seats are $34 adults, $27 seniors and $10 students. Call 253-887-7777 or purchase online at auburnsymphony.org.