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August 30, 2018

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: A Cast of Characters

Buy Tickets   Huw Edwards, Music Director & Conductor Bizet: March of the Toreadors from Carmen Ravel: Mother Goose, complete ballet Prokofiev: Symphonic Suite, Lieutenant Kije Offenbach: Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld   “A cast of characters” will appear in the OSO’s season finale — from Spanish toreadors in a famous excerpt from Bizet’s…
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August 21, 2018

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: Around the Horn

Buy Tickets Huw Edwards, Music Director & Conductor Weber: Overture to Oberon R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 (guest artist: Danielle Kuhlmann, horn) Grainger: “O Danny Boy” (Irish tune from County Derry) Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82   The OSO has played many works by the Finnish composer, Jean…
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August 21, 2018

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: Lovers Lane

Due to weather and hazardous road conditions, the February 10 concert of “Lovers Lane” presented by Olympia Symphony Orchestra has been rescheduled to February 18, at 3:00 pm, at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. ​ Tickets for the February 10 concert will automatically be honored for the concert on February 18. If you…
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August 21, 2018

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: We Shall Never Forget

Buy Tickets   Huw Edwards, Music Director & Conductor Bridge: Lament Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 (guest artist: Lauren Yoon, piano) Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow Barber: Adagio for Strings Ravel: Le Tombeau de Coouperin   World War 1 concluded 100 years ago this year, so this concert…
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August 21, 2018

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: By Land and Sea

Buy Tickets Huw Edwards, Music Director & Conductor Bernstein: Overture to Candide Copland: Down a Country Lane Glazunov: Violin Concerto (guest artist: Felicity James, violin) Daugherty: Route 66 Debussy: La Mer (The Sea)   The Olympia Symphony’s “Highways & Byways” season opens with a concert featuring music by three notable American composers: 2018 is the…
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