At a time when dwindling audiences have some classical music organizations concerned about the future, Snohomish County’s largest orchestras seem to have found permanent places in the local culture.
The venerable Cascade Symphony almost always sells out its concerts.
The 52-year-old volunteer orchestra, which has performed almost all of those years in what is now the Edmonds Center for the Arts, offers a seven-concert season, including a children’s concert and an ensemble performance.
Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, which successfully emerged from the collapse of the Everett Symphony in 2010, has a four-concert season, with top soloists performing at each.
Both groups are prepared for their spring concert season finales.
Everett Philharmonic, under the direction of the popular Paul-Elliott Cobbs, performs at 7 p.m. Saturday at Everett Civic Auditorium, 2415 Colby Ave., Everett. Tickets are $25
Cascade Symphony, under the baton of the energetic Michael Miropolsky, concludes its season at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $25.
The Everett concert features harpist Juliet Stratton performing Saint-Saen’s “Morceau de Concert” for harp and orchestra.
Stratton, who performed years with the Seattle Symphony and others, is a frequent soloist in the region.
The Philharmonic program also includes Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.”
The stage-side chat with Cobbs is at 6 p.m.
The Cascade concert features pianist Natalya Ageyeva as the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which was “written for America,” Miropolsky said. “She has dazzled audiences in her native Russia and throughout the United States, Italy, Austria and Israel.”
Ageyeva is the founder and artistic director of the Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle.
The Edmonds-based orchestra also will perform “Overture to Rienzi” by Wagner and the “Classical Symphony” by Prokofieff.
A pre-concert lecture at 6:30 will be given by KING-FM’s Dave Beck, who traveled to New York earlier this week to cover the Seattle Symphony’s concert in Carnegie Hall.
For tickets and more information about Cascade Symphony, go to cascadesymphony.org.
To learn more about Everett Philharmonic and for tickets, go to www.everettphil.org.
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