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March 2, 2007
Notes on a Wild, Woolly, Wet - and Entertaining - Weekend (Feb. 24 concert review) Kitsap Sun A&E Section
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January 5,
2007
Find a Home for Our Symphony! Kitsap Sun A&E Section ...The Symphony needs a better office, a home — a one-stop shopping-style place where they can conduct their business, meet and rehearse, store instruments, et cetera, all under one roof. Much as Seattle built Benaroya Hall for the Seattle Symphony, Bremerton needs to take an active hand in helping its Symphony find a permanent digs, in recognition of the 63-year-old organization’s growth and its contribution to Kitsap’s way of life, and in recognition of the dogged work done by music director Elizabeth Stoyanovich, her staff and all of her musicians to bring outstanding classical music performances to our area. ... Let’s get the Symphony situated. View full story here. [site registration may be required] |
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October 8,
2006
Symphony Doesn't Miss a Beat in Season Opener Kitsap Sun A&E Section
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May 12,
2006
Symphonically, We're Lucky, and That's An Understatement Kitsap Sun A&E Section ...I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: To be able to hear great music, played the way it’s supposed to be played, and to be able to do it without first having to get on an eastbound boat, is a wonderful, exciting thing. I don’t know how many communities our size can boast an orchestra and chorale that can take a piece like Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana" (not to mention all the other challenging works they so ably performed during the season) and wring it out for all it’s worth. But that’s what music director Elizabeth Stoyanovich, Chorale director LeeAnne Campos and their volunteer companies did Sunday in the stirring 2005-06 season finale. The audience — a near-full house, by the way — got to appreciate "Carmina" not just for its roof-rattling beginning and ending, but for all the fascination they bookend. It is a fascinating piece, too, one that took every musician Stoyanovich could find room for on the stage, including two pianos, bells, gongs and probably every other piece of percussion equipment they could find in the BSA storage room. Sure, they sent for reinforcements. Contributions from the Tahoma Boys’ and Girls’ Choir added charm, and from the Cora Voce Choir added even more throat to the Chorale. Soloists Jessica Robins Milanese, Paul Karaitis and Barry Johnson all were top-drawer. (A tip of the hat, too, to violinist Steven Bryant and violist Gwen Franz, who were front and just-left-of-center for the concert’s opener, Mozart’s "Sinfonia Concertante.") ...The occupied seats and the other signs of support are well deserved. BSA is on the right track — there’s ample evidence of that at every concert. View full story here. [site registration may be required] |
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May 12,
2006
Symphony, Chorale Announce Blockbuster '06-'07 Season By Kitsap Sun Staff Excerpt: Following the formula that produced such positive results in the season just passed, BSA’s Symphony and Chorale will combine twice, during the Yuletide season and again for a grand finale that will rival, if not surpass, the Orff: Beethoven’s Ninth. As it did for the 2005-06 season-ender, BSA also has called in reinforcements for its May 12 finale. The Symphony and Chorale will be joined by the Olympic College Chorale and soloists Janeanne Houston, Lori Summers and Stephen Wall (with a fourth soloist to be announced. The season — Elizabeth Stoyanovich’s fourth as music director and conductor — will open Oct. 7 with a trio of familiar works, staring with the overture to Rossini’s opera "The Barber of Seville" and Ravel’s "Bolero" and anchored by the second symphony of Jean Sibelius. View full story here. [site registration may be required] |
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November 18, 2005
Save Symphony dates: They're worth it! Kitsap Sun A&E Section, page 4 Excerpt: [On November 5] we were rewarded with a second straight Classic Series offering that challenged both the orchestra and the audience. The showpiece was Brahms' lovely Fourth Symphony, but Maestra Elizabeth Stoyanovich et al had a little extra something up their sleeves with Paul Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber." The four-movement, four-mood "Metamorphosis" is a load, a musical fireworks display with every color of the spectrum represented, and the locals gave it a real good ride. It's as difficult a piece as you could imagine — not one you're liable to have the chance to hear played live very often — but the Symphony never seemed the least bit intimidated by it. Their performance allowed the piece to be just as beautiful, and just as much fun, as it can be. ... " View full story here. |
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November 18, 2005
Building the Music: Director John Falskow of the newly minted Bremerton Symphony Youth Orchestra is enjoying his challenge of recruiting young musicians and teaching them to work together. Kitsap Sun, page B1 Excerpt: "The sparks really fly," Falskow said of working with young musicians. "It seems a little more pure and naive. The students are really the energy behind it." View full story here. |
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