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Next Concert February 27 - Bach & Gounod
Join the Port Townsend Community Orchestra for their Winter concert on Saturday, February 27 at 7:30 PM – at the Chimacum High School Auditorium. Come at 6:45 to enjoy a pre-concert conversation with Maestro Dewey Ehling. The orchestra will be accepting food donations on behalf of the local Food Bank, contributions are welcomed.
Our guest artist is the orchestra’s principal flutist, Judy Johnson, performing the Suite No. 2 in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Judy studied flute performance at Pacific Luthern University where she was principal flutist in the University Orchestra while also performing as a regular member of the Tacoma Symphony. As a student, she studied flute with Scott Goff, Principal Flutist, Seattle Symphony, and Felix Skowronek of the University of Washington. She is a regular performing member of the Port Angeles Symphony and Chamber Orchestras
The evening’s program includes additional music from Bach, the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, arranged for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski and Ave Maria by Bach as arranged by Gounod for harp and orchestra.
The second half of the concert includes Gounod’s First Symphony in D Major, and ballet music from his grand opera, Faust.
Port Townsend Community Orchestra is supported by generous contributions from its patrons and from local businesses. Admission to the concert is free and donations are appreciated. Children are welcome.
The Port Townsend Community Orchestra has been active on the Quimper Peninsula of Washington State since 1987.
We are your friends and neighbors, and the people you see and work with every day in your community. We are also musicians who volunteer our time to play together each week, and our goal is to give you - our neighbors, co-workers and friends - beautiful music to enjoy.
We offer four concerts a year, in October, December, February and April. Our concerts are free! We do not charge admission because we want everyone to have the opportunity to attend.