Published: Friday, March 13, 2009
Tonight, Everett Symphony takes a big swing at a difficult program
Conductor Paul-Elliott Cobbs described the Everett Symphony Orchestra's concert tonight as a showpiece program, the kind of music that separates the minor league players from the majors.
Cobbs predicted his team will hit this one out of the auditorium.
"It's a tough-as-nails program," Cobbs said. "It's exciting and it's what we are all about.
"My goal is to show the audience what kind of musicians we're attracting to the orchestra. This program, this is what the big boys do. It's the same kind of program you'd hear in London and Berlin."
The Everett Symphony Orchestra is presenting "An Evening Promenade" starting at 8 p.m. at Everett Civic Auditorium.
After the opening piece, "La Valse" by Ravel, often referred to as a tribute to the Viennese Waltz, the program goes into the featured highlights: the trumpet and soloist George Steward.
Steward really has a full lineup for the evening.
He is the featured soloist during a piece Oskar Bohme wrote for trumpet that Cobbs said will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
When Steward's not doing his solo playing, he is principal trumpeter for Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
"Pictures" was composed as a tribute to Mussorgsky's friend, a painter who died. The composer wrote the music to complement French impressionist paintings. The orchestration is so well done, Cobbs said, that the audience will see the pastels, the watercolors and the strident and shocking colors as well.
Two segments of the work are dark and foreboding, he said, the kind of soundtrack you might imagine as the background for an "Indiana Jones" movie.
But during this piece before each picture there's a promenade as if you are being led through an exhibition. And Steward is the one leading us, Cobbs said.
"So this is really a trumpet concert," Cobbs said. "He's really got a long night."
Everett Symphony Orchestra
"An Evening Promenade," 8 tonight at Everett Civic Auditorium, 2415 Colby Ave., Everett. Tickets range from $5 for children 12 and under to $36 for adults; call 800-595-4849. The box office opens at 7 p.m.
Cobbs predicted his team will hit this one out of the auditorium.
"It's a tough-as-nails program," Cobbs said. "It's exciting and it's what we are all about.
"My goal is to show the audience what kind of musicians we're attracting to the orchestra. This program, this is what the big boys do. It's the same kind of program you'd hear in London and Berlin."
The Everett Symphony Orchestra is presenting "An Evening Promenade" starting at 8 p.m. at Everett Civic Auditorium.
After the opening piece, "La Valse" by Ravel, often referred to as a tribute to the Viennese Waltz, the program goes into the featured highlights: the trumpet and soloist George Steward.
Steward really has a full lineup for the evening.
He is the featured soloist during a piece Oskar Bohme wrote for trumpet that Cobbs said will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
When Steward's not doing his solo playing, he is principal trumpeter for Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
"Pictures" was composed as a tribute to Mussorgsky's friend, a painter who died. The composer wrote the music to complement French impressionist paintings. The orchestration is so well done, Cobbs said, that the audience will see the pastels, the watercolors and the strident and shocking colors as well.
Two segments of the work are dark and foreboding, he said, the kind of soundtrack you might imagine as the background for an "Indiana Jones" movie.
But during this piece before each picture there's a promenade as if you are being led through an exhibition. And Steward is the one leading us, Cobbs said.
"So this is really a trumpet concert," Cobbs said. "He's really got a long night."
Everett Symphony Orchestra
"An Evening Promenade," 8 tonight at Everett Civic Auditorium, 2415 Colby Ave., Everett. Tickets range from $5 for children 12 and under to $36 for adults; call 800-595-4849. The box office opens at 7 p.m.
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