Seattle Collaborative Orchestra: Happiness
$20 ($15 senior, $10 student; ages 18 & under free)
- Dallas Neustel, clarinet
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163
Alice Mary Smith — Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra in D major
John Williams — "The Tale of Viktor Navorski" (Viktor's Tale) from The Terminal
This concert wil spread Happiness. AND it will celebrate the clarinet. All clarinet players (children AND adults) in the audience will be recognized and celebrated with photo ops and special clarinet stickers. Smith's Andante and Williams' Viktor's Tale are clarinet showcases for Dallas Neustel, SCO clarinetist extraordinaire.
Dvorák wrote Sympphony No 8 quickly with joy while on a summer holiday, and it is "cheerful and optimistic."
Assad's "Bonecos de Olinda" celebrates the Carnival procession in Olinda, an historic city in Brazil near Recife on the Atlantic Coast where huge, papier-mache puppets are worn on the shoulders of people marching in the parade. They are accompanied by a band which marches alongside. We will be that band!
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) published her first piece when she was 18, and went on to become the first known Britsh woman to compose a symphony, her Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Her Andante for Clarinet is described as "elegant" and features the clarinet in a lyric and classic role.
In the movie, The Terminal, Viktor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks) gets stuck at the airport, well and truly stuck in legal limbo (his country dissolved while he was on his flight, and the USA doesn't recognize his VISA.) Viktor proceeds to inhabit the International Lounge at the airport, with warmth and friendliness. John Williams created a theme to portray Viktor's attitude during his adventure.
About Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (SCO) is a diverse, multigenerational performing arts organization dedicated to diversity in symphonic classical music.
Students, community members, and professionals work together to create a unique and collaborative musical experience that includes a creative mix of traditional orchestral music and works by underrepresented composers
http://www.seattlecollaborativeorchestra.org/About Dallas Neustel, clarinet
Clarinetist Dallas Neustel is a principal teaching artist of the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, a founding member of the Agermos Chamber Music Project, and a former US Air Force clarinetist. Dallas has performed with the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, the North Corner Chamber Orchestra, and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. In 2018, his children's composition Incidental Music to the Tale of Peter Rabbit was performed in the Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival Family Concert.
Dallas holds the Master of Music degree from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, and Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Washington State University. He has toured in concert throughout Europe and the United States, has appeared as a guest-clinician in 65 university master-classes, and has maintained a private clarinet studio for over 20 years.
https://dallasneustel.com/