PORT ANGELES — The annual Pops &Picnic concert will celebrate music and community in Port Angeles tonight and in Sequim on Saturday night.
These concerts open the 75-piece Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s 85th season.
In keeping with the pops tradition, conductor Jonathan Pasternack has assembled a variety of music from Broadway to light classics and from jazz to opera.
Music lovers are invited to pack a picnic supper while the symphony will provide soft drinks, popcorn and dessert at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 W. Fourth St., Port Angeles, tonight and the Sequim unit of the Boys &Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula, 400 W. Fir St., on Saturday. Show time is 7 both nights.
Admission is $10 for students and seniors, $20 general and $5 for children.
Tickets are available at Port Book and News in Port Angeles, at The Joyful Noise Music Center in Sequim and by calling the symphony office at 360-457-5579. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
The musical lineup includes:
• Vocal Unlimited, the 20-voice select choir from Port Angeles High School led by Jolene Dalton Gailey, singing “Jubilee” and “America the Beautiful.” “Jubilee” is a version arranged specifically for this choir and these concerts by composer and pianist Linda Dowdell.
• Tenor Mark Lorentzen with “Bring Him Home” from “Les Miserables.”
• A “Star Wars” suite featuring music by Oscar-winning composer John Williams.
• Port Angeles Symphony violinist Lauren Rankin performing Max Bruch’s First Concerto.
• Soprano Kristin K. Vogel with “Un Bel di Vedremo,” a classic aria from “Madama Butterfly.”
Vogel will make her debut on the North Olympic Peninsula at Pops &Picnic.
Rankin is a 17-year-old violinist who won the 2017 Young Artist Competition and who plays in the Port Angeles High School orchestra as well as the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
To find out more about Pops &Picnic and the coming season of five symphony orchestra concerts and six chamber orchestra performances, visit www.Port AngelesSymphony.org.
