Fill the seats by giving the audience what they want.
So the Cascade Symphony Orchestra will do just that on Monday when they present the popular Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 16, by Edvard Grieg. Grieg wrote the piece at 25, and it was his first success.
The program will also include the tuneful overture to Guiseppe Verdi’s opera, “Nabucco,” which is based on the Bible’s account of the captivity of the Jews under King Nebuchadnezzar. It will conclude with Symphony No. 9 by Dmitri Shostkovich, a light-hearted shorter piece.
Led by music director Michael Miropolsky, the orchestra will feature Russian-born pianist, Natalya Ageyeva who has performed nationally and internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Benaroya Hall, the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow and the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia.
Ageyeva began formal training at age 13, when she was accepted by the Special Music School for Talented Children in Moscow. She graduated with honors from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Washington.
“A Russian Evening” begins at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. It will be preceded at 6:30 p.m. with a lecture by Dave Beck of KUOW.
Tickets are $15 and $20. Call 425-776-4938 or go to www.cascadesymphony.org or in person at the Edmonds Bookshop, 111 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424.
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