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february 2016
A Home Grown Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Yakima Symphony Orchestra’s exploration of The World of
Shakespeare will continue on February 6th with A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
the next offering from our Classical Series. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
is a comedic play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written
between 1590 and 1597. It is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works for the
stage and is widely performed across the world. While this Yakima Symphony
Orchestra season is filled with many masterpieces by many great composers,
probably the greatest of all Shakespearean-inspired pieces of music, over
the course of 400 years, is A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn.
What is even more incredible is that the overture to A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, upon which much of the rest of the incidental music is based, was
written when Mendelssohn was a mere 17 years old! Scholar George Grove
called it “the greatest marvel of early maturity that the world has ever seen.”
Joining the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and the women of the Yakima
Symphony Chorus will be Luisa Sermol, of the Portland Shakespeare Project,
who will present an abridged, one-woman version of the play interspersed
with Mendelssohn’s magical music.
Also on the program will be Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Another
world-class masterpiece, this is one of the most popular and most
frequently performed violin concertos of all time. Our guest soloist for
this piece will be the extremely talented Mexican-American violinist Elena
Urioste, making her debut with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.
I now invite Executive Director David Rogers to say a few words about
our upcoming Pops Series concert that he conceived, produced and for
which he made all the arrangements!
Yakima enjoys world-class amenities like any metropolitan center, and of
course great music is one. For our Home Grown concert, the symphony
teams up with Yakima’s own Planes on Paper as well as local favorites
Mikey and Matty to showcase some of our area’s most outstanding folkrock songwriter/performers. You’re in for a great evening of well-crafted
songs with a stage full of terrifically talented musicians! — David Rogers
We look forward to seeing you on February 6th for one of our most
delightful concerts of the year—A Midsummer Night’s Dream—on February
27th for Home Grown, and all month at our related community activities!
Sincerely,
Lawrence Golan
The Helen N. Jewett Music Director
Yakima Symphony Orchestra
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THE YAKIMA VALLEY CLASSICAL SERIES
CONCERT SPONSOR – Janet White
presents
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Saturday, February 6, 2016 • 7:30pm
Capitol Theatre
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Elena Urioste, violin
Luisa Sermol, narrator
Women of the Yakima Symphony Chorus;
Justin Raffa, chorusmaster
Music of Mendelssohn
fills the Capitol
Theatre, with his
monumental Violin
Concerto and
incidental music for
Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.
Photo: Alessandra Tinozzi
Dear Friends and Supporters of the YSO:
THE GILBERT ORCHARDS POPS SERIES
CONCERT SPONSOR - Tree Top
and GUEST ARTIST SPONSORS Doug and Laurie Kanyer
present
Home Grown
Saturday, February 27, 2016 • 7:30pm
Capitol Theatre
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Planes on Paper with Mikey and Matty
The YSO teams up with top local talent.
For Single Tickets:
853-ARTS or
(877) 330-ARTS
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Lunch With Lawrence
Friday, February 5 • 11:30am – 1:00pm
Zesta Cucina Restaurant, $25
Join Maestro Lawrence Golan and guest
violinist Elena Urioste, for a lovely light
lunch and convivial conversation about the
pieces and composers featured on the YSO’s
A Midsummer’s Night Dream concert on
February 6. Please contact the YSO office
(509-248-1414) or [email protected]
to place your ticket order.
Open Rehearsal
Saturday, February 6
10:30am – 1:00pm • The Capitol Theatre
See the final touches being put on the
evening’s program! Our dress rehearsals
for The Yakima Valley Classical Series
concerts at the Capitol Theatre are open to
the public, and FREE to those who bring a
canned food donation to benefit Northwest
Harvest. Cash donations to the YSO are also
welcome. Ideal for families and for other
patrons unable to attend evening concerts.
ConcerTalk
Creative Community Collaboration
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” (Aristotle) In February we
will share special opportunities that have come to fruition through our
creative community collaborations with the Dispute Resolution Center
(DRC) on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and with the Cowiche Canyon
Conservancy (CCC) on Home Grown. The YSO-DRC collaboration celebrates
beauty, synchrony and potential of the arts and LOGOS (words). The YSOCCC collaboration celebrates the beauty and synchrony of the arts and
nature. We invite you to take these special opportunities to deepen and
expand your enjoyment of the symphony and our community.
January 11–March 31, Essencia Artisan Bakery, 4 North 3rd Street, Yakima.
Home Grown Art Exhibit. Celebrating the images and sounds of the place
we call home.
February 3, Wednesday, 10:00am, Yakima Valley Museum. Meet the
Orchestra! See information on page 3.
February 3, Wednesday, 7:00pm, A.C. Davis High School KIVA,
212 South 6th Avenue, Yakima. A Midsummer Night’s Dream “Take Two”
A free dramatic performance wherein student actors take on the roles of
the king and queen of fairies (Oberon and Titania) and Hermia and her
father, Egeus, with DRC mediators facilitating the two conversations. The
results? Come see for yourself! Featuring student actors from West Valley
High School who presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Fall, 2015.
February 5, Friday, 6:00-8:30pm, Essencia, 4 North 3rd Street
First Friday @ Essencia. Home Grown Art Exhibit, Lookout Point Winery
Wines and Essencia’s Finest Fare.
Saturday, February 6
6:25pm in The Capitol Theatre
Main Performance Hall
February 23, Tuesday, 7:00pm, YVCC Glenn Anthon Hall, Rm G215
Home in the Mighty Oak. CCC presents a lecture by Ken Bevis, Stewardship
Wildlife Biologist, WA Dept of Natural Resources.
Join YSO Principal Horn Jeff Snedeker
before the YSO’s
A Midsummer’s Night Dream concert for
an inside look at the evening’s program.
Dr. Snedeker’s informative and entertaining
presentations have become so popular
we’ve had to move them into a larger space!
February 26, Friday, 6:00-8:30pm, Essencia, 4 North 3rd Street
Infusion Celebration. Home Grown Art Exhibit Artists’ Reception, Lookout
Point Winery Wines and Essencia’s Finest Fare.
February 27, Saturday, 7:30pm, at the Home Grown Concert in the Lobby of
The Capitol Theatre. Inspired by Home. Purchase exquisite, one-of-a-kind
CCC-inspired jewelry created by local artists.
Affiliate & Partnership Updates
Yakima Youth Symphony Orchestra (YYSO) &
Yakima Ensemble for Strings (YES!) www.yyso.org
Bruce Walker, YYSO Conductor and YSO Cover Conductor
Christy Baisinger, YES! Conductor
50 Years! Happy Anniversary to the Yakima Youth Symphony Orchestra!
Please join us at our upcoming performances:
• February 28, Sunday, 3:00pm at the Capitol Theatre: KinderKoncert!
Performances, instrument demonstrations, instrument petting zoos. FREE!
• March 18, Friday, 7:00pm at the Harman Center: Waltzing With the
Youth Symphony Gala Fundraiser! Dancing to waltz and swing music;
dance instruction; desserts; silent auction; FUN! Tickets are $15.
• April 24, Sunday, 3:00pm at the Capitol Theatre: Spring Concert!
With special guest, YAMA. The culminating concert of our 50th Golden
Anniversary Season. FREE!
2016-17 Auditions for all instruments: April 30, May 2, 7 and 9. For
requirements, information and to schedule an audition, please visit our
website www.yyso.org.
Yakima Symphony Chorus – Justin Raffa, Chorusmaster
Join the Yakima Symphony Chorus for our presentation of Duruflé’s
Requiem on Saturday, March 19 at 2pm at St Paul’s Cathedral in Yakima. This
performance will feature guest organist Dr. Kraig Scott, cellist Bruce Walker,
and vocal soloists Naomi Pomerantz and Steven Slusher. St. Paul’s Cathedral
is located at 15 S. 12th Ave. near downtown Yakima. This is a free concert
though donations are always gratefully accepted and appreciated!
Or make a weekend of it! We are also performing on Sunday March 20
at 3pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kennewick! St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church is located at 1609 W. 10th Ave. in Kennewick. Join your friends in
Tri-Cities for this unique musical opportunity. This is also a free concert
though again donations are always gratefully accepted and appreciated!
Yakima Music en Acción (YAMA) – Stephanie Hsu, Director
YAMA students are eagerly working on their presentation to Yakima
Downtown Rotary on Thursday, Feb 11th, as well as a preparatory feedback
panel with selected Rotarians to support the students in the process. The next
opportunity to hear YAMA students perform publicly will be on Saturday,
February 20th at 7:30pm at the Seasons Performance Hall. YAMA will open for
and accompany tenor José Iñiguez for his second annual “Encanto,” a concert
featuring opera and bolero.
Yakima Symphony Chorus
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Justin Raffa, chorusmaster
Dr. Kraig Scott, organ
Bruce Walker, cello
Naomi Pomerantz, mezzo-soprano
Steven Slusher, baritone
March 19, Saturday • 2:00pm
St. Paul’s Cathedral
15 South 12th Avenue, Yakima
March 20, Sunday • 3:00pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
1609 West 10th Avenue, Kennewick
Two FREE Performances • Donations Appreciated
Symphony Bus
Transporting YSO patrons
to the symphony and back home
RESERVATIONS
Call Brookdale Yakima two weeks
in advance of the concert
at (509) 965-0111.
Ask for the front desk staff and tell them
your name, address, phone number
and if you will need the wheelchair lift.
www.Brookdale.com
Congratulations
To Sandra Mena and Cecilia Vizcaino,
each of whom won a pair of tickets
to the YSO’s 2015-16 Capitol Series
(three classical and two pops concerts)
during the YSO raffle at the December
10th TEDxYakimaSalon, “To Be.”
Meet The Orchestra!
Children learn what they live…
The YSO joins the Yakima Valley Museum
on the first Wednesday of each month at
10:00am at their children’s story hour. FREE!
Wednesday, February 3
Themes: Shakespeare, Mendelssohn, the
Violin, Cowiche Canyon Conservancy
Special Guests: Denise Dillenbeck,
YSO Concertmaster, and Celisa Hopkins,
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy
Wednesday, March 2
Theme: Shakespeare, Lizst, the Bassoon
Special Guest: Sarah Thompson, bassoonist
Beethoven Bear’s
twin brother,
Berlioz Bear (with
the violin), joins
us this season. He
is looking forward
to meeting you!
Photo: Alessandra Tinozzi
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Elena Urioste
Elena Urioste, recently selected
as a BBC New Generation Artist and
featured on the cover of Symphony
magazine, has been hailed by critics
and audiences alike for her lush tone,
the nuanced lyricism of her playing, and
her commanding stage presence. Since
first appearing with the Philadelphia
Orchestra at age thirteen, she has
made acclaimed debuts with major orchestras throughout
the United States, including the Cleveland Orchestra, New
York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, and
the Chicago, National, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh,
Richmond, and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras.
Abroad, Elena has appeared with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National
Orchestra of Wales, Würzburg Philharmonic, Hungary’s
Orchestra Dohnányi Budafok and MAV Orchestra, and
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. She has performed recitals
in such distinguished venues as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall’s
Weill Recital Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Sage Gateshead
in Newcastle, and the Mondavi Center at the University of
California-Davis. An avid chamber musician as well as soloist,
Elena has been a featured artist at the Marlboro, Ravinia, La
Jolla, and Sarasota Music Festivals, as well as Switzerland’s
Sion-Valais International Music Festival.
Elena’s 2015/16 season highlights include debuts with
the San Francisco, Alabama, Kitchener-Waterloo, South
Florida, and Des Moines Symphony Orchestras; returns to the
Knoxville, Tucson, and Amarillo Symphony Orchestras and the
Heartland Festival Orchestra; and residencies at the Roman
River Festival in England, Verbier Festival at Schloss Elmau in
Germany, and Sedona Chamber Music WinterFest in Arizona.
Elena made her acting debut in the independent feature
film But Not For Me, written and directed by Ryan J. Carmichael,
as the lead female role of Hope. The film premiered at the 2015
Brooklyn Film Festival and won the award for Best Original
Score, to which Elena contributed.
Elena is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and
completed graduate studies at The Juilliard School. She plays
an Alessandro Gagliano violin and a Nicolas Kittel bow, both
on generous extended loan from the private collection of Dr.
Charles E. King through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Yakima Symphony Chorus
The Yakima Symphony Chorus was formed in the spring of 1971 by the Yakima
Symphony Orchestra’s founding music director, Brooke Creswell, as the official
choral ensemble of the symphony. Dr. Scott Peterson took over as chorusmaster
in 1977, and led the chorus for 38 years. During this time, the chorus performed
the standard orchestral/choral literature with the YSO as well as works from the
non-symphonic choral repertoire in their own right, including performances at
Carnegie Hall in New York as well as tours to Switzerland, France, China, and more
recently Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic. This year marks Justin Raffa’s
inaugural season as chorusmaster of the Yakima Symphony Chorus.
Justin Raffa
Currently chorusmaster for the
Yakima Symphony Orchestra and
artistic director of the Mid-Columbia
Mastersingers, Justin Raffa relocated to
the Tri-Cities in August 2008 from Tucson,
where he received a Master of Music
degree in choral conducting from the
University of Arizona. Since his arrival in
central Washington, Justin has endeavored to build increased
collaboration within the local performing arts community. In
addition to his current choral leadership roles, Justin served
for five years as orchestra manager of the Mid-Columbia
Symphony and chorusmaster of the Oregon East Symphony
in Pendleton. Justin has also served as an actor, music director
and board member with Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre, music
director with Columbia Basin College Summer Showcase
productions, and music director at All Saints Episcopal Church
in Richland. Additionally, Justin has served as an adjudicator
for local festivals and competitions for local music and theatre
education associations. Justin currently serves the local board
of the American Choral Directors Association as Repertoire &
Standards Chair for Community Choirs in Washington State.
Justin is a passionate advocate for the arts in the community,
and the City of Richland Arts Commission honored him with
its 2011 award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the
Arts.
Originally from South Jersey, Justin is a graduate of
Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton,
where he received a BM in music education with a vocal
concentration, having studied conducting and group vocal
technique with James Jordan. Justin has sung as part of the
Berkshire Choral Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Voces Novae et
Antiquae, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, the Berwick
Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival, and he continues to
perform as a founding member of the Tucson Chamber Artists.
Currently, Justin sings with Male Ensemble Northwest and
Chor Anno, two regional ensembles made up of professional
choral musicians in the Pacific Northwest. This season, he
served Male Ensemble Northwest in an additional capacity as
its board president. Justin lives with his partner Molly Holleran,
singer and voice teacher extraordinaire, and their long-haired
dachshund Coda.
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2015-16 Season
Program Notes
The music of Mendelssohn fills the Capitol Theatre, with his monumental Violin Concerto
and incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Felix Mendelssohn
(February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847)
A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix
Mendelssohn was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but
his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalize on his
talent. Still, he was given many early opportunities to study
music. He produced his first composition at age eleven, and
from that point on, he seemed to be constantly composing or
performing. His family travels and personal acquaintances also
allowed him to meet intellectual luminaries and exposed him to
poetry and literature that would be important to his composing.
Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany in particular,
where he also revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian
Bach. Stylistically, his conservative musical tastes align him more
with Robert Schumann and the German Romantic mainstream,
setting him apart from progressive contemporaries such as Liszt,
Wagner, and Berlioz. Still, he was able to achieve an international
reputation in short order, such that when he died at age 38 after
a series of strokes he was mourned throughout Europe.
Violin Concerto in E Minor, op. 64
(1844)
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor is his last
large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin
repertoire and is one of the most popular and frequently
performed violin concertos of all time. Mendelssohn originally
proposed the idea of the piece to Ferdinand David, a close friend
and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
The work was conceived in 1838, but it took another six years to
complete and was not premiered until 1845. During this time,
Mendelssohn maintained a regular correspondence with David,
seeking his advice.
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a
standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a
traditional form, the concerto included many novel features for its
time. Distinctive aspects include the almost immediate entrance
of the violin at the beginning of the work (rather than following
a typical orchestral exposition of the first movement’s major
themes), a cadenza composed by Mendelssohn himself (versus
the typical expectation that performers provide their own), and
the through-composed form of the concerto as a whole, in which
the three movements are melodically and harmonically linked
and played continuously, without breaks. Additional innovations
include placing the first movement’s cadenza before the
recapitulation (typically, it comes closer to the end), and having
the soloist play extended accompanimental passages with the
orchestra.
The concerto opens with the almost immediate entry of
the solo violin. Following a series of rapidly ascending notes,
the opening theme is then restated by the orchestra. The
transition to the second theme is somewhat frenetic, but the
arrival changes the mood entirely, to something wonderfully
tranquil. The lovely second theme is played initially by the
winds with the soloist providing accompaniment, and then
it is the soloist’s turn. The two themes are then combined in
the development section, where the music builds up to the
innovatively-placed cadenza. During the recapitulation, the
opening themes are repeated as the music gradually speeds
to an exciting conclusion. The bassoon sustains its note from
the final chord of the first movement before moving up a half
step to complete the transition to the second movement.
This movement is in three parts, with a lovely lyrical theme on
either end and a darker middle section. It ends gently, followed
immediately by a brief transitional passage for solo violin and
strings only. This leads directly into the lively finale, marked by
a trumpet fanfare. Fast passage work for the soloist gives way to
a contrasting theme involving a series of rapidly ascending and
descending arpeggios, reminiscent of the cadenza from the first
movement. The orchestra then plays a variation of the opening
melody, after which the music moves into a short development
section. After the themes are presented one more time, the
concerto concludes with a frenetic coda. The concerto itself
was an instant success, warmly received at its premiere and well
received by contemporary critics. By the end of the nineteenth
century, the piece was already considered one of the greatest
violin concertos in the repertoire. It remains popular to this day
and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all
aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first
Romantic-era concertos they learn.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, op. 21, and
Incidental Music, op. 61
(1826, 1843)
Composed when Mendelssohn was only seventeen,
the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates a
forward-looking programmatic approach, drawing direct
inspiration from Shakespeare’s play. In the 1820s, this descriptive
approach had only recently caught the attention of audiences
and the imaginations of composers like Berlioz and Schumann,
on the cusp of full-blown Romanticism. Mendelssohn’s overture
immediately inspires images of the fairy kingdom, with light,
gossamer figures, offset by sounds of the forest, with hunting
calls and boisterous activity (listen for the donkey braying,
anticipating Bottom’s transformation). It contains all the motives
of the play—the songs and dances of the fairies, the chases of
the lovers, the dance of the rustic clowns, the grace of Titania,
and the airiness of Puck. The overture opens with four sustained
chords in the wind instruments, introducing us to the fairy realm
with all its poetic beauty, grace, and lightness. The flowing first
theme is followed by a hunting-horn passage, in turn followed by
a love melody that is simple but full of graceful charm. This leads
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2015-16 Season
to a dance by the rustics, with more donkey noises. The horns
are heard again, and the fairy revels resume in all their dreamy
beauty. All of this is elaborated, and the overture closes with
charming elegance.
Later, in 1842, the King of Prussia commissioned Mendelssohn
to compose incidental music for the entire Shakespeare play.
The play was produced on October 14, 1843, at Potsdam. The
original Overture was incorporated as the first of 14 numbers in a
score that included vocal sections and other purely instrumental
movements. The Scherzo, with its sprightly scoring dominated
by winds and strings, was originally an intermezzo between Acts
I and II. After a short dialogue with underscore adapted from
the Scherzo, the March of the Fairies appears, suitably light and
fantastical. Next comes more underscore followed by a song with
chorus, “You Spotted Snakes,” sung by Titania’s fairies. After some
more dialogue with underscore, the Intermezzo that follows
accompanies Hermia’s desperate search for Lysander, followed
by the entrance of the comical rustics. Next, an underscored
dialogue sets the stage for the lovely Nocturne that features a
solo horn and bassoons, accompanying the sleeping lovers. The
next dialogue results in the reconciliation of all the confusion
among the lovers, setting the stage for the famous Wedding
March, probably the most popular single piece of music
composed by Mendelssohn. The next musical selection is a short
funeral march as part of the rustics’ play performed for the King
and Queen (the death of Thisbe), followed immediately by “a
bergamask dance” performed by the acting troupe that recalls
the overture, complete with donkey brays. A final underscore
using the Wedding March and a brief excerpt from the Overture
sets the stage for the epilogue, sung by members of the fairy
court to bless everyone as the play ends, accompanied by more
music from the Overture, bringing the work to a close in the same
magical way it began. t
Photo: Charity Rose Gervais
Planes on Paper
Since their first
appearance as Planes on
Paper just over two years
ago, Navid Eliot and Jen
Borst have played nearly two
hundred shows. Their first EP,
recorded live at The Seasons,
was described by Seattle
Music Insider as “a cohesive,
stark showcase of pure, unadulterated song craft.” Their
follow-up EP, “The Ruins,” received similar praise from media
outlets including The Seattle Times, KEXP, The Revue, WNYC,
and many more. You can currently find Navid and Jen’s songs
playing on independent radio stations across the continental
U.S., as well as select stations throughout Europe, and they
happily make their home in Yakima, WA.
Mikey and Matty
Consisting of brothers
Michael and Matthew
Gervais, Mikey and Matty’s
music spawns from decades
of serious, and anything-butserious, collaboration and
musical experimentation.
From their early obsession
with harmony, learning what
they could from The Everly Brothers, to their passion for
dust-bowl era blues and folk, ’40s and ’50s torch-song, ’80s
and ’90s punk and the independent music that surrounded
them during their formative years in Seattle, Washington, the
Gervais brothers have arrived at an approach to song-craft
that satisfies these disparate, but similarly indelible art-forms.
Photo by Kristin McLavey
Photo: Melissa Fenno
The Gilbert Orchards Pops Series
Home Grown
Planes on Paper with Mikey and Matty, 2016
A FREE Concert Especially For Children & Families
“SUPER HEROES”
Yakima Youth Symphony Orchestra
In Concert With
Yakima Ensemble for Strings!
Photo by Jen Borst
Sunday
3:00pm
February 28, 2016
The Capitol Theatre
www.yyso.org
Instruments provided by Ted Brown Music
Community Partner
Navid Eliot, Planes on Paper; Lawrence Golan, YSO;
and David Rogers, YSO prepare for Home Grown
After the concert, meet our student
musicians and try out a range of
musical instruments at our
INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOO!
the roger and beverly vandiver 2015-16 season
The World of Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday, February 6, 2016, 7:30pm
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Elena Urioste, violin
Luisa Sermol, narrator
Women of the Yakima Symphony Chorus;
Justin Raffa, chorusmaster
Home Grown
Saturday, February 27, 2016, 7:30pm
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Planes on Paper, with Mikey and Matty
gala fundraiser
> Impresario
Kara Hunnicutt, YSO Principal Cello
> Featuring Performances By
Maestro Lawrence Golan
Kara Hunnicutt
Too Close for Missiles
& More!
What a Wonderful World
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong
Saturday, April 23, 2016, 7:30pm
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Byron Stripling, trumpet and vocals
LOW
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sunday, april 10, 2016 • 4:30pm
4th street theatre
> Master of Ceremonies
Charlie Robin
A Stormy Night–Gold Medal Concert
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 7:30pm
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Stanislav Khristenko, piano
(Gold Medal Winner of the 2013
Cleveland International Piano Competition)
Michael Mendelson, actor
From Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story
Saturday, May 14, 2016, 7:30pm
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Laurie Gayle Stephenson, soprano
Steve Amerson, tenor
Yakima Symphony Chorus;
Justin Raffa, chorusmaster
Shakespeare in Love
> Sumptuous Dinner
> Themed Live & Silent Auction With Laura Michalek, Fundraising Auctioneer
“If music be the food of love, play on…”
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
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