FEST

OCT 25 | 7:30pm FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT MUSEUM, tacoma, WA
OCT 26 | 2pm pioneer park pavilion, puyallup, wa

Yaniv Attar Conductor
Kinan Azmeh Clarinet

Strauss Jr, Tales from the Vienna Woods
Schubert, Symphony No. 2
Jacobsen/Aghaei, Ascending Bird
Kinan Azmeh, Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra

Running time with intermission — 100 min

  • Opening with a mini-Oktoberfest celebration! We’re serving complimentary locally crafted brews from Camp Colvos and soft pretzels.

  • Step into the Vienna Woods with fluted bird song, folks tunes and yes, zither (rare instrument alert!). Zither player Kurt Eckroth joins us for the iconic Ländler country dance tune, which then whisks us into a whirlwind of 5 glorious waltzes.

  • Ascending Bird tells the story of a mythic bird that tries to reach the sun. It tries at first and falls back down. It tries again, then finally on the third time it receives the radiant embrace of the sun and loses its physical body, in a metaphor for spiritual transcendence. The music is an arrangement of an old Persian folk tune, starting gently and working up to a thrilling close.

  • Hailed as ‘spellbinding’ (The New Yorker) and ‘intensely soulful’ (The New York Times), guest artist and composer Kinan Azmeh brings us his genre-bending Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra. The suite takes us from Love on 139th Street in D, a vibrant homage to Harlem’s cultural mix, to November 22nd, a meditative reflection on finding home far from home, and concludes with Wedding, in the spirit of a Syrian village celebration.

  • Seating is at 8-top tables for both concerts, general admission. Come with friends and make new friends!

  • Parking at both Foss Waterway Seaport Museum (Saturday) and Pioneer Park Pavilion (Sunday) is free.

Concert sponsored by Concrete Technology Corporation