Part of the plan for the new Edmonds Center for the Arts was always partnering.
And Edmonds’ three arts partners, Cascade Symphony Orchestra, the Sno-King Community Chorale and Olympic Ballet Theatre, will come together this weekend under one roof to play as partners, colleagues and friends.
The three groups are combining their artistic forces to help launch the newly renovated performing arts center with a show aptly called “Coming Home,” starting at 3 p.m. Saturday.
These three are poised to be the mainstay community partners at ECA. The audience will reap the benefit.
Some of the highlights of the evening’s program include the orchestra performing Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” Bizet’s “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2” and Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes.” The Sno-King Chorale will perform various selections and Olympic Ballet will do “Requiem to Name the John Wilkins Memorial Stage,” among other selections.
Olympic Ballet Theatre was founded by Helen Wilkins and her late husband, John Wilkins.
More Cascade Symphony Orchestra: And if you didn’t get your fill of the Cascade Symphony you can hear them again, this time presenting a concert called “1812” on Mondayalso at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.
Music director Michael Miropolsky will lead the orchestra with featured guest soloist on the viola, Arie Schachter.
Schachter, a Seattle Symphony member since 2004, has performed at such festivals as the Aspen Music Festival and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. As a soloist, he’s played with the Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra and the Vogtland Philharmonie, and has given recitals throughout Israel, Europe and the United States, according to the Cascade Symphony Web site.
Selections for the concert include “Night on Bald Mountain,” “Concerto for Viola and Orchestra” and the “1812 Overture.”
Port Gardner Bay Chamber Orchestra: Accompanied by the Port Gardner Chamber Orchestra with conductor David Waltman, this concert will feature young soloists performing works of Beethoven, Mozart and Rutter starting at 3 p.m. Sunday. at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Everett.
The concert will include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, and “Suite Antique” by John Rutter.
The chamber orchestra will also perform a classical symphony.
The soloists were winners in the Snohomish County Music Teachers’ Association 2006 Concerto Competition.
“Concerts at the Floyd”: The final concert of the season will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the restored Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center in Stanwood.
This show features returning musicians George Shangrow and Jeffrey Cohan in a Baroque performance on flute and harpsichord. The program will include pieces by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, George Frederic Handel, Antonio Vivaldi and Michel Corette.
Camano Island artist Jeannie Burham will display her works, including acrylics, oils, colored pencils and encaustics.
For more information about the Floyd Norgaard Center and the “Concerts at the Floyd” visit www.sahs-fncc.org.
And a concert for the Floyd: The South End String Band is playing a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center.
All proceeds will go toward bringing future concerts to the Floyd. Several of the members of the South End String Band and their spouses are artists, so an art exhibit is also planned, including work by Erich Schweiger who will display his art of violin making; Jamie Schweiger with paintings; Chaim Bezalel and his wife, Yonnah Ben Levy, with paintings and ceramics; John Muhler with paintings; Bill Gum’s sports memorabilia; Paul Platis with ceramics and Jack Archibald, with stained glass and posters.
Adult refreshments will be sold and free desserts will be offered. For more information go to www.southendstringband.com.
Cappella Romana sings “Mount Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium”: The Washington Post called it “robust and intriguing music” and the Los Angeles Times said the pieces were “sung with such strength and commitment.”
Such are some of the accolades of this not often heard music from Egypt’s Mount Sinai.
Northwest audiences will get a rare opportunity to hear this medieval Byzantine music not heard in more than 500 years at a performance Saturday at Holy Rosary Church in Seattle
The music is taken from manuscripts at , including psalms and chants in honor of St. Catherine and from “The Service of the Three Holy Children in the Fiery Furnace,” Byzantium’s only liturgical drama, according to information about the performance.
For the Seattle show, Cappella Romana will be presented as a men’s ensemble.
Where to see them
“Coming Home”: Cascade Symphony Orchestra, Sno-King Community Chorale and Olympic Ballet Theatre perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. $5 at the ECA box office, 425-275-9595, www.cascadesymphony.org.
“1812,” by the Cascade Symphony Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. Monday Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. $20 adults; $15 students and seniors. 425-776-4938 or 745-5921 at www. cascadesymphony.org.
Port Gardner Bay Chamber Orchestra: 3 p.m. Sunday, First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. $12 adults; $9 student, at the door.
“Concerts at the Floyd”: 2 p.m. Sunday, Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. $15, at the door.
The South End String Band: 7 p.m. Saturday Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. $12 at Copy This/Mail That, 370 N. East Camano Drive, Camano Island; Snow Goose Bookstore, 8616 271st St., NW, Stanwood; Gallery in the Loft, 848 North Sunrise Blvd., Camano Island or at the door. For information go to www.southendstringband. com.
Cappella Romana’s “Mount Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium”: 8 p.m. Saturday Holy Rosary Church, 4139 42nd Ave. SW, Seattle. $12 to $25, ticketswest.rdln.com/ Artist.aspx?evt=49811.
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