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Welcome to the 2008-2009  Season

The Olympia Symphony Orchestra's music director and conductor, Huw Edwards will lead the orchestra in some of the most thrilling and inspiring works, offering audiences an extraordinary spectrum of classical music during the 2008-2009 season. An OSO subscriber is someone who enjoys listening to dynamic music and believes in supporting the arts in our South Sound community.  Don't miss the opportunity to be a part of the OSO experience and "Come, explore with us..." Subscribe now!

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Dear Supporters of Community Art:

I am thrilled you have found our website and that the Olympia Symphony Orchestra (OSO) has caught your attention. One of this region's oldest and most treasured organizations, the OSO is flourishing at the moment, with many recent sold out houses at the Washington Center, the addition of several new players and as we come off a very successful "Emotional Encounters" season this past year. Our last concert in April was amazing, one which broached new heights and I am very much looking forward to our new season, "Come, Explore with Us..."

I and the Orchestra plan on continuing our success, growth and rewarding music making during the 2008-9 concert season. Our musical explorations include performing a great symphony on each concert by some of the most lauded masters who ever lived: Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Sibelius, Mendelssohn and Dvorak--we end our season with his popular "Symphony from the New World". Landmark symphonic works by Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Sousa and Rimsky-Korsakov will also be investigated, as well as a recent work by a young Northwest composer, Amber Gudaitis.

The OSO will present an attractive variety of soloists as we explore great concertos and solo works: mezzo-soprano Angela Niederloh of Portland will sing the ravishing "Songs of a Wayfarer" by Mahler; University of Washington Doctoral Student, Tonya Siderius, will perform Beethoven's poetic Piano Concerto No. 4 on an all-Beethoven program; our excellent concertmaster and principal cellist--Aaron Inglin and Holly Reeves--will be highlighted in Brahms' melodic "Double Concerto"; young keyboard sensation Angie Zhang will travel from New York's famed Juilliard School for a Mozart Piano Concerto; and our former principal clarinetist and Olympia HS graduate, Megan Watson, will return home from Indiana University for the jazzy Clarinet Concerto by Copland--which was written for the legendary Benny Goodman.

We kick-off our "Come, Explore with Us" season at the end of July with our second annual Concert-at-the-Capital--where we had over 4000 people at last year's inaugural concert--and we are proud to present two education concerts in October, a new and exciting expansion to our overall program this year.

I hope you will subscribe and come to our concerts; please do come and explore great symphonic music, right here in Olympia, Washington, and see how it will change your lives! I look forward to performing for you,

Huw Edwards, Conductor

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