Family concert scheduled by CdA Symphony
Harpist Leslie Norris Stratton and the Celtic sounds of An Dochas and the Haran Irish Dancers will be featured in the Coeur d’Alene Symphony’s Family Concert on Saturday at North Idaho College.
The first half of the program will include Respighi’s “The Fountains of Rome” and Handel’s Harp Concerto, Op. 4, No. 6, with Stratton. After intermission, An Dochas and the Haran dancers will join the orchestra.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Schuler Auditorium on the NIC campus in Coeur d’Alene. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $5 for students, through TicketsWest outlets (509-325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com), the NIC box office and Templin’s Best Western in Post Falls.
St. Olaf Band at Ferris
The St. Olaf Band will perform Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Ferris High School’s Brueggemeier Hall in Spokane.
Formed in 1891 as the St. Olaf Cornet Band, the group is the oldest music organization at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., which is famed for its choir.
Conductor Timothy Mahr will lead a program featuring classics by Elgar, Rachmaninov and Menotti, as well as contemporary works by Ewazen, Hesketh, Maslanka, Mahr himself and St. Olaf senior pianist Jake Fitzpatrick.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students, available by calling (509) 327-3772 or at the door.
Pacifica Quartet at UI
The Pacifica Quartet, recently featured on the Great Performer Series at New York City’s Lincoln Center, will perform tonight at 7:30 in Moscow as part of the University of Idaho’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series.
Since its last appearance at UI in 2003, the Illinois-based quartet has been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, becoming only the second chamber music group to earn the honor.
Tonight’s program includes Mozart’s “Dissonant” Quartet, Beethoven’s second “Rassumovsky” Quartet and Bartok’s Quartet No. 4.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors, $8 for students, at BookPeople in downtown Moscow and at www.auditoriumchamber music.org.
Quartet members also will coach the eighth annual Palouse Chamber Music Workshop on Saturday, working with 12 ensembles made up of teens from the region. There will be a free public concert at 4 p.m. in the university’s Music Recital Hall.