Luis Cabrera –The Associated Press
PORT ANGELES — By day, Kim Bowlby jockeys a school bus over slick, winding, forest roads.
By night — on those very special nights — she dresses in elegant black, takes up her B-flat trumpet and joins her volunteer colleagues in the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
“I love it. I don’t know what I’d do without it,” said Bowlby, 49, a 25-year veteran of the community orchestra, which since 1932 has brought “The Greatest Music of the Greatest Composers” to an Olympic Peninsula town more closely identified with logging and heavy industry than the high arts.
“The community support is really miraculous,” said conductor Nico Snel, 67, former conductor of the Seattle Philharmonic, now in his 18th Port Angeles season.
“When I found out how much support there was here, and how willing these people were to serve on committees and do things, actually roll up their sleeves and go to work and make things happen — I haven’t regretted it for a moment,” he said.
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