Whidbey’s Saratoga Orchestra presents A NOVEL IDEA – Listening to Music thru Storytelling on March 19, 3:00pm at The First Reformed Church of Oak Harbor and on March 20, 3:00pm at Island Church of Whidbey in Langley. The orchestra will be led by Music Director Anna Edwards and Assistant Conductor Sebastian Serrano-Ayala.
Like the pages of a great novel, music evokes a sense of imagination and pure wonderment. Join Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra on our journey through some truly exceptional composers and their works, including:
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a late 19th/early 20th century English composer of mixed-race who was also a conductor and political activist fighting against racial prejudice.
- Joseph Bologne "Chevalier de Saint-Georges", the son of an enslaved woman of Senegalese origin and a French plantation owner, a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn, champion fencer and music instructor of Marie Antoinette.
- Vivian Fine, an influentially prolific American composer who made her professional composition debut at Carnegie Hall in 1929, at the age of 16.
To enhance the experience, Marta Zekan (former KING-FM radio host), will take us on a journey to explore unique and perhaps surprising narratives that are right out of the pages of a classic novel. Kind of like a book club, with musicians! The music of George Harrison, Antonín Dvořák, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Gerald Finzi are also on the program.
In an effort to make the concert going experience affordable and accessible to all, we have maintained our pre-pandemic ticket prices. $25 Adults, $20 Senior & Military and students 17 and under Free. This is a great opportunity for families to attend. Perhaps you have the next W.A. Mozart or Florence Price living in your household and you don’t even know it! Advanced ticket sales at: Click Music - Oak Harbor, bayleaf - Coupeville, Blue Sound Music - Langley and day of events box office opens one hour prior to each concert.
Visit: www.sowhidbey.com for further information and the latest Covid-19 attendance policies.
