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“The public really does not like to be blindsided. Being on the Tree Committee, I have been asked what I know, sadly I do not have any information that I could share.” The city’s Tree Committee was formed in July of 2013 following
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ing the performance will be somehow less than top-notch. “None of (the orchestra members) are professional musicians, but many of them could be,” Futterman said. “The Bremerton Symphony is an amazing story. With orchestras failing all over the place, Bremerton has maintained an outstanding orchestra since 1942.” There are lots of teachers, a couple of physicians, various other professionals and the principal bassist is an underwater surveyor. “That’s got to be unique among orchestras, but here we are in Bremerton and the submarines have got to know where to go,” Futterman said. For his part, Futterman holds a master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music with two years of Doctoral studies in Musicology and Baroque Performance Practice. He spent one year pursuing jazz studies and composition at the Berklee
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a public backlash when a proposal was floated by Public Works to remove all the trees along Fourth Street between Washington and Pacific avenues. A year prior to that, city street crews cut down 30 globe locust trees along Fourth Street between Naval and Warren without any notification to the public or city administrators. The crews left the bases of the trees in place, but eventually cut
down the trunks to street level several weeks later. The Highland Avenue stumps will also be ground down and crews will pour a section of new sidewalk in front of at least one of the trees, if not both. Tom Kay, who has owned homes in the neighborhood for a couple of years, says his next door neighbor was the one who called the city about removing a tree. Kay subsequently asked
that the city to remove the tree in front of his property as well. “It’s nice to have trees on the street, but it’s kind of a love-hate relationship,” Kay said. “I mean, look at the condition of the sidewalk.” Kay was taking advantage of some sunshine on Monday afternoon to make improvements to the home he owns that fronts one of the new tree stumps. “Our goal is to try and
bring it up and make it a nice place for people to live by fixing it up,” he said. “I’m glad to see the city doing that, too. I like that the city is committed to improving things around here.” Hawkins-Bates said that the city is in the process of looking at some trees near the intersection of Naval Avenue and Gregory Way that a resident has raised concerns about. She says
there will also be ongoing discussion about the remaining trees along Highland Avenue and what could or should be done there. She also said that the tree committee is working on an inventory of street trees to develop a ranking system about which trees should be removed and whether they should be replanted and with what types of trees.
School of Music in Boston with Charles Mariano. While still a doctoral candidate, he served as assistant conductor to Maestro Vladimir Kin of St. Petersburg and participated in master classes with Sir George Solti and Leonard Bernstein. Here is a closer lookup at Saturday’s musical lineup: • The Egmont Overture commemorates the life of Count Egmont and the war of independence for the people of the Netherlands. Beethoven wrote this rousing and heroic overture to accompany the play by his idol Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. • The Beethoven Violin Concerto is the basis and the template for every great concerto that followed. The themes are simple, powerful and memorable. This will feature superb 16-year-old soloist and Northwest native Lara Lewison, who has already won several competitions and appeared with various orchestras. • The finale, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, a work that Beethoven himself sin-
gled out as one of his greatest creations, is known for its insistent, driving and exciting rhythm. The second movement of this Symphony is one of the most eloquent and profound statements in any music. It has been a favorite of musicians and audiences since the premier performance, when the Viennese public demanded that it be encored before they would allow the rest of the symphony to proceed. Individual concert and season subscriptions for the Bremerton Symphony’s 20132014 season, which runs until May 2014, are still available. Individual concert tickets are $24 for adults, $19 for senior and military, and $8 for youth and students. Information on concerts and tickets can be found at www.bremertonsymphony.org or by calling 373-1722. A pre-concert chat with Maestro Alan Futterman will be held in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th Street in Bremerton.
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was the first to make a “reluctant” motion. After considering the bids of 11 different companies, including local ones, the price was still too high for the board to accept at the moment. “Having always had a very comfortable reserve fund, I am hesitant on depleting it at this time. However, I also am a very, very, very strong advocate of the STEM academy,” said Perkins. “I’d just like to make sure we are fiscally
sound and not operating on a hope and a prayer.” Perkins made a motion not to accept the bid due to financial constraints. All other board members agreed with the motions Perkins made, except for Ken Watkins who was absent from the meeting. The next Bremerton School Board meeting will be March 20 at 5 p.m. in the board room at the District Administration Building at 134 Marion Ave. N. in Bremerton.
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