Bring your children --free -- to the Washington-Idaho Symphony Concert this weekend -- guest youth strings to play

["Louise D. Barber" <louiseb@moscow.com>]

Dear Visionaries,

 

Tis the season to try out the symphony -- especially if you have children between the ages of ca. five and eighteen. Youth strings in the Moscow-Pullman area are joining the Washington-Idaho Symphony orchestra!  Young musicians from the Moscow Junior High School, the Moscow Youth Orchestra, and Pullman High School  will be on stage to perform their hearts out and provide role models for your budding musicians.  (These groups have been prepared for this momentous event by, respectively, Carol Herbst, Sheila Kilcoyne, and Katherine Covill.)  And, each paying adult may bring one child to the concert for free -- thanks to the generosity of US Bank and the Pullman Rotary.  What a great way to introduce your child to the real thing -- the symphony orchestra -- LIVE!  

 

We are very fortunate to have a symphony in this region, and children are especially impressed by a live orchestra:  the animation of the conductor, the concentration of the players, the drama of  percussion, the size of the basses, and the contribution of the tiny triangle or piccolo.  Seeing and hearing each individual instrument contribute to the whole and watching the conversations between the sections evolve into a completed piece is not lost on children.  

 

The performances are on Saturday evening (12/14) at 8:00 in the Gladish Auditorium, Pullman, and on Sunday at the Clarkston High School at 3:00.  The program opens with Wagner's Overture to Tannhauser, and Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man and El Salon Mexico.  The guest string players join the full orchestra during the second half of the concert.

 

A rare opportunity indeed.  Come join the orchestra and celebrate the youth string players in our region.  See you Saturday or Sunday.  Call the symphony office at 332-3408 or me at 882-4899 for further information.  

 

Louise Barber