“Although live performances with audiences are on hold due to the pandemic, the Olympia Symphony Orchestra now has not one but two concerts on its calendar,” writes Molly Gilmore in Sunday’s (11/1) Olympian (WA). “In December, the orchestra will play a holiday concert in The Washington Center for the Performing Arts as well as premiere a new composition in Seattle’s iconic Benaroya Hall. There will be no audience present…. The composers of the premiere piece: 50 Tumwater fourth- and fifth-graders who’ve been studying music with orchestra members and composition with … Brad Balliett and Claire Bryant … to compose a theme and variations on Woody Guthrie’s ‘Pastures of Plenty.’ … Sixteen of the orchestra’s musicians … will record the 10-minute piece on Dec. 12. It will make its livestream debut at 7 p.m. Dec. 13…. Plans … came together in the past week, after Symphony executive director Jennifer Hermann called Seattle Symphony Orchestra CEO and president Krishna Thiagarajan to find out more about the online concerts the Seattle orchestra began offering in September…. Thiagarajan offered to work with the Olympia Symphony…. ‘The Seattle Symphony is going to use their world-class camera equipment and audio equipment to help us record it,’ Hermann said.”
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