Everett Philharmonic to perform audience favorites at finale
Published 1:30 am Friday, April 28, 2017
EVERETT — It’s a Listener’s Choice.
The Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, led by director Paul-Elliott Cobbs, offers up a delightful program for its season finale.
The Philharmonic’s annual listeners concerts include plenty of audience favorites.
At the Sunday matinee, hear Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s well-known “Russian Easter Overture” and Maurice Ravel’s score of Modest Mussorgsky’s showpiece “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
Rimsky-Korsakov’s overture celebrates the resurrection of Christ and the coming of spring. The piece begins with an emotional Orthodox chant, and ends triumphantly with a sense of merrymaking, orchestra cellist Cami Davis said.
Mussorgsky’s suite of 10 pieces describing the “Pictures at an Exhibition” was transcribed for orchestra by Ravel about 60 years after it was first written by Mussorgsky for piano.
Violinist Maria Sampen will perform the Brahms violin concerto. Johannes Brahms wrote the concerto for his friend, the famous 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, who then hailed it as one of the four great German concerti for violin.
Sampen teaches violin at the University of Puget Sound and is well known as a concert soloist and chamber musician, performing across the country and around the world.
A passionate supporter of contemporary music, Sampen has commissioned and premiered recent concertos for violin and orchestra by composers David Glenn, Marilyn Shrude and Robert Hutchinson.
She also is a recording artist, having recently recorded Georges Enesco’s Sonata No. 3, Zoltan Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Luciano Berio’s Duetti for Two Violins and Marilyn Shrude’s “Memorie di Luoghi” — all of which will be released in 2017.
Cobbs invites the audience to attend his 2 p.m. informal and informative Stage Side Chat, in which he shares insights and anecdotes connected with the evening’s composers and works.
Artworks by regional artists will be on display in the lobby before, during intermission and after the concert.
Everett Philharmonic Orchestra
Seventh season finale “Listener’s Choice,” 3 p.m. April 30, Everett Civic Auditorium, 2415 Colby Ave. General admission is $25, senior and active military is $20, students $10, children with adults admitted free. Additionally, 2017-18 season tickets will be on sale in the lobby at intermission. More at www.everettphil.org.
