Dawn Posey, the Bellingham Symphony’s new concertmaster, “is the featured soloist in the first concerts of the 2021-2022 season, September 25 and 26 at Mount Baker Theatre,” featuring Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Symphony No. 2, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, writes Margaret Bikman in Wednesday’s (9/15) WhatcomTalk (Whatcom County, WA). “Due to COVID, this year’s BSO season will be a little different, says [Music Director Yaniv] Attar. The orchestra is much smaller, with fewer wind instruments and essentially no brass. There will also be two performances of each concert, on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, so audiences can be socially distanced. ‘The size of the orchestra also gives us the opportunity to do repertoire that normally we would not perform because we are such a big orchestra,’ Attar says…. ‘Our baroque concert on November 20 and 21 will be very cool,’ he says, ‘with seven soloists: Alex Klein on oboe, Michael Partington and myself on guitars, and four of our violin principals.’ Attar is also thrilled to [perform] a special commission by Jonathan Leshnoff…. ‘It’s so exciting to go back to live concerts,’ says Attar. ‘I know everyone has missed it.’ ”
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