The Entertainer • October 2015 • PAGE 11
Walla Walla Symphony begins its 109th season House Theatre will host a contemporary one-act opera for soprano and chamber orchestra about the life of Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank, by Russian composer Grigori Frid, he Walla Walla Symphony’s 2015- uses original text from Anne’s diary to 16 season, led by Music Director capture her different moods and varied and Conductor Yaacov Bergman, will emotions. have plenty of classical offerings and On April 5, the lively music of some modern overtones. The Mozart and Haydn will take the stage. orchestra’s 109th season will feature a The Walla Walla Symphony’s “Clasfive-concert Symphony Series, a three- sics in Concert” performance is full of concert Guest Artist Soirée series and delightful music and an impressive the annual free family concert and display of bassoon playing by Mark “foodraiser.” Eubanks. This season will also include a Four horn soloists will close the special “Cirque season on Musica Holiday May 10, and your Spectacular” help is needed concert. And this for that one, year, all Tuesdaybecause the night concerts will music will be begin at 7 p.m. so your choice. Visit you can enjoy a the website great evening of wwsymphony.org music and get and cast your home earlier than vote. before. You can Nationally choose the acclaimed pianist Symphony Pianist Stephen Beus and eastern Series fiveWashington native concert subscription or build your own Stephen Beus will open the season on with the “U-Pick-4” subscription. All Tuesday, Oct. 6, with Rachmaninoff’s Tuesday-evening Symphony Series Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. concerts will take place in Cordiner Described by the Salt Lake City Hall and will feature a free “Inside the Tribune as Music” pre-concert talk at 6 p.m. in the “mesmerizing…explosive…intelligent,” Reid Campus Center. Beus has performed recitals and played In addition to the Symphony Series, with orchestras in around the world. the orchestra will celebrate the holiday He’s a Whitman College and Juilliard season on Saturday, Dec.12, with two School graduate who grew up on a farm performances of the Cirque Musica in Othello and began playing at the age Holiday Spectacular. Cirque artists will of 5. He now teaches music at the perform incredible feats of strength, University of Oklahoma. skill, and grace while the orchestra Beus will perform twice while in plays great holiday favorites. Walla Walla. Before the symphony’s On Jan. 25, the annual free family opening-night performance, you can concert and “foodraiser” will feature a attend his solo recital at the first Guest collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Link Artist Soiree of the season on SaturUp program. This concert, conducted day, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. It wil be held in by Dr. Paul Luongo, will explore the Chism Hall at Whitman College, and way composers use motif, melodic your ticket will include a post-concert direction and dynamics. Admission is reception. free with a non-perishable food item On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the second donation! concert of the Symphony Series will If you’re looking for a more intimate combine Beethoven’s infamous Symsetting, the Guest Artist Soirée series phony No. 5 in C minor with the quiet may be your cup o tea. Soirée events anguish of Elgar’s Cello Concert in E feature guest artists performing solo minor featuring Sally Singer Tuttle, concerts, and each Soirée evening Whitman College faculty member and includes refreshments with your ticket renowned cellist. Considered by many price. to be one of Beethoven’s greatest Season and single tickets are musical works, his fifth symphony available online at wwsymphony.org, provides a narrative for the composer’s by calling (509) 529-8020, at the struggle with his loss of hearing. symphony office at 13½ E Main St., On Feb. 27 and 28, the Gesa Power Suite 201, or at the door.
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admitted free at Mastersingers concerts. Season passes are available for $80, and they include five tickets for the price of four, good for any combinaContinues from Page 2 tion of concerts. Tickets are available online at with Millicone’s wife Kathy. “Her midcolumbiamastersingers.org, at the experiences are not unique,” Millicone said. “They are, in fact, similar to those Mid-Columbia Mastersingers office and the Tri-Cities Academy of Ballet and of so many others who are forced by Music. For phone orders, call (509) poverty and violence to leave their 460-1766. homes and seek a better life in The Mastersingers will also host the America for themselves and their third annual Middle School Choral families.” Romancero Gitano and Misa de los Festival at Chiawana High School on Saturday, Oct. 24. This festival brings Inmigrantes will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16 and at 7:30 on middle-school singers from all over the the 17th. An afternoon performance on Tri-Cities together for a day of singing and community. Contact Sunday, Oct. 18, will begin at 1 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 info@midcolumbiamastersingers.org for more information. at the door. K-12 students are always
The Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band will play Oct. 17 at the Liberty Theater in Dayton.
Liberty Theater schedule includes film, music, drama Dayton’s historic Liberty Theater will present Unbranded, the award-winning documentary that follows four friends as they take 16 mustangs on a 3,000mile journey from Mexico to Canada. Unbranded opens with a 7 p.m. screening on Friday, Oct. 16, that will include a question-and-answer session with one of the film’s stars and producers, Ben Masters. Tickets for opening night are $10. Regular admission applies to all other show times. Also appearing at the Liberty in October is the Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band, performing one night only on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. Spend a delightful evening with this dynamic trio, winners of the national Western Music Association’s “Harmony Group of the Year” award in 2014. The Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band has traveled all over the United States and Canada, from Branson, Mo., to Southern California. Through their original and traditional songs, Horse Crazy has created an unmistakable
sound and is leaving an indelible mark on the new frontiers of Western music. With tight, warm harmonies and plucky performances the group’s most recent recording titled, “All I Need” is currently #4 on the national Western/Cowboy Music paylist! Tickets to the Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band performance are $20 for adult general admission and $10 for students. Tickets for both events can be purchased online at libertytheater.org and at the theater during regular boxoffice hours. The musical The Wizard of Oz will open on the Liberty stage on Nov. 13. The magical tale of Dorothy and her little dog Toto runs through Dec. 5. Tickets prices range from $12 to $20 and can be purchased online and at the box office starting Friday, Oct. 2. For more information on these and other Liberty Theater programs, including the theater’s film schedule, visit libertytheater.org or call (509) 382-1380.