Symphonic Traditions – 2013-2014 Season

 

Join us for our 2013-2014 season as we bring to life the great symphonic traditions, with composers from the Baroque to Modern eras. As we grow our education programs and welcome young, aspiring guest artists to our stage we truly are celebrating the past while looking toward the future. Make attending our concerts with friends and loved ones a tradition you cherish.

October 12

Legends of Middle Europe

Featuring Brahms and Dvořák.

Special guest: Sasha Starcevich, piano

Sponsor: Kitsap Bank

November 16

Mostly Masonic Masters

Music of Sibelius, Mozart, and the Military.

Special guest: Marianne Martinoli, violin

Sponsor: William H Upton Naval & Military Lodge #206 and The Free & Accepted Masons of Washington from around the Sound

December 14

Christmas Oratorio

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Yuletide favorites, including the audience favorite, Finnegan’s Christmas Singalong.

Sponsor: Harrison Medical Center

March 15

Ludwig’s Legacy

An all-Beethoven concert.

Special guest: Lara Lewison, violin

Co-sponsors: Agency Insurance Center – Pat Patterson and April Fleming; Edward Jones – Todd Tidball and Jim Thatcher

April 4, Poulsbo
April 5, Bremerton

Chorale Concert: But Come Ye Back

Friday concert at Gateway Fellowship, Poulsbo
Saturday concert at Sylvan Way Baptist Church, Bremerton

Bremerton Symphony Concert Chorale sings Celtic music of the British Isles.

Co-sponsors: Art Anderson Associates; Tim Quigley Insurance; Edward Jones – Todd Tidball

May 10

Victory on Land and Sea

This military musical program ventures from the depths of the ocean with Wellington’s Victory at Sea to the far reaches of the science fiction universe with music from Star Wars and John Williams.

Sponsor: Kitsap Credit Union

Concert: May 11, 2013 – Bremerton Symphony honors 70 at the end of its 70th season

Concert: That “70″ show

Date/Time: Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.

Place: Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St., Bremerton

Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior / $8 youth

Concert Sponsor: Kitsap Credit Union

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The Bremerton Symphony Association season finale, That 70 Show, will be held on Saturday, May 11th at 7:30 p.m. at the Bremerton Performing Arts Center.

In the season finale of the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra’s 70th season, the number 70 will be celebrated with a selection of “70s” music for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Selections include Haydn’s Symphony #70 and the opening of Bach’s Cantata #70. Saint- Saëns’ Opus 70 features pianist and Concerto Competition Winner Mya King, student of Dr. Irene Bowling. Also featured is Soprano Yoshiko Yamamoto in Mozart’s K. 70, excerpts from Dvořák’s Symphony #7 and Opus 70, plus three choruses from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Opus 70. The planned encore is an excerpt from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, which is exactly 100 years old in May.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. with a pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Individual concert tickets are $24 for adults, $19 for senior and military, and $8 for youth and students. Purchase tickets at the door or in advance by calling (360) 373-1722.

Concert: Second Sacred Concerts, April 13 and 14, 2013

Concert: Second Sacred Concert
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 7:30 p.m. AND Sunday, April 14, 2013, 2:00 p.m.
Where: Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 1513 6th Street, Bremerton
Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior & military / $8 youth & student
Concert Co-Sponsors: Art Anderson Associates; Tim Quigley Insurance

Call (360) 373-1722 to purchase advance tickets.

 

The Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, Bremerton Symphony Concert Chorale and Anna’s Bay Chorale will perform our Second Sacred Concert at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church featuring Mozart’s Requiem, a monument to late classical style that was his very last work. If Mozart, in his final days, began to realize that he was writing his own requiem, this incredible work becomes all the more poignant as the last musical thoughts from the greatest composer of all time. Soloists include Tess Altiveros, LeeAnne Campos, Les Green and Paul Nakhla. The concert opens with Heinrich Schütz’s Absalom fili mi (Absalom, My Son), one of the musical gems of the late Renaissance/early Baroque, and the Agnus Dei of Samuel Barber, this composer’s exquisite vocal setting of his famous Adagio for Strings.

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The Symphony Sampler Subscription includes three concerts in the spring of 2013:

• Nordic Voices, March 16
• Second Sacred Concert (at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church), choice of April 13 or 14
• That 70 Show, May 11

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Concert: Nordic Voices, March 16, 2013

Concert: Nordic Voices
When: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton WA 98337
Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior & military / $8 youth & student
Concert Co-Sponsors: Agency Insurance Center – Pat Patterson and April Fleming; Edward Jones – Todd Tidball and Jim Thatcher
Call (360) 373-1722 to purchase advance tickets.

Our Nordic Voices concert celebrates the Norwegian heritage of Kitsap County. The persistence of such organizations as the Sons of Norway and the Norwegian Men’s Chorus attest to the lasting cultural impact that Norwegian immigrants have made to our region. This concert will reinforce and reinvigorate this cultural heritage by presenting music sung in Norwegian. In addition, both the concert and the pre-concert chat will feature traditional Hardanger fiddles which were brought to Kitsap County in the 19th Century.

Performances of Edvard Grieg’s music with Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt invariably engender great linguistic debates. Ibsen’s text is not in the Nynorsk of West Norway, nor the modern Bokmål of Oslo, but rather in a slightly archaic dialect sometimes called Dano-Norwegian, which has been described by Norwegian patriots as “bowing to the language of the Danish oppressors”. Ironically, many of the 19th Century Norwegian immigrants to the United States spoke this same dialect. This performance will include some of Ibsen’s spoken dialogue for Peer Gynt, Solveig, The Mountain King’s Daughter, and the three Trolls.

Soprano Rebekah Kenote AuYeung is the perfect soloist to perform this repertoire as she personally embodies this tradition. Rebekah’s family, up to her parents’ generation, still spoke and read the Norwegian language.

Ms. Kenote AuYeung, who gained prominence last season by performing in the New York Philharmonic chamber series, will also join the Bremerton Symphony for the finale of Gustav Mahler’s luminous Symphony #4 and in two of the most exquisite pieces ever penned for the female voice; the final songs of Richard Strauss.