Program Schedule

10 a.m -12:30 p.m.

Attend rehearsal with Maestro Michael Palmer and the Festival orchestra; meet Maestro Palmer following rehearsal for the first short discussion of repertoire and orchestral techniques.

12:30 - 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 - 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George, repertoire overview

8 p.m.

Festival Concert Nr 3, Britten, Mozart, Brahms, (Garrick Ohlsson, pianist)

2 – 4 p.m.

Rehearsal - Verdi

6 – 9 p.m.

Rehearsal - Schubert-Brahms

2 – 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George

5 – 7 p.m.

Dinner

7 – 10 p.m.

Rehearsal - Schubert-Brahms

2 – 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George

5 – 7 p.m.

Dinner

7 – 10 p.m.

Rehearsal - Verdi, Maestro Palmer’s piano rehearsal for Verdi ending with Schubert-Brahms with Vance George

10 a.m -12:30 p.m.

Orchestra rehearsal with Maestro Palmer, open to all Choral Arts Symposium personnel, discussion with Maestro Palmer following

1 - 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 - 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George

5 – 7 p.m.

Dinner

Evening

SYMPOSIUM Concert -  Maestro Michael Palmer and Festival Orchestra, Bartok, Bruch, Barber, Schubert

2 – 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George

5 – 7 p.m.

Dinner

7 – 10 p.m.

Dress rehearsal, Schubert-Brahms on stage, chorus seated on individual chairs, palms, living room lamp beside the piano, oriental carpet to give the atmosphere of an European private salon

2 – 5 p.m.

Master Class with Vance George (your work will be videotaped in each master class)

5 – 7 p.m.

Dinner

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Warm-up on stage – WWU Performing Arts Center

8 p.m.

Performance at WWU Performing Arts Center: A SUMMER NIGHT OF LOVE IN OLD VIENNA, the choral and keyboard music of Schubert and Brahms for chamber choir, solo piano and piano four-hands, storytelling of the lives of the two composers, a short spoken biography with music

10 a.m -12:30 p.m.

Orchestra/Chorus Rehearsal of Verdi’s Te Deum, Mt Baker Theater, second discussion with Michael Palmer

12:30 - 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 - 5 p.m.

Master Class -  finish the week’s work, also an opportunity for observers to  conduct something of their choice, and short wrap-up discussion of the Symposium and ideas for Symposium 2014

6:30 p.m.

Warm-up at Mt Baker auditorium           

7:30 p.m.

Performance: Mount Baker Theater - Festival Concert Nr 5, Festival  Orchestra, Festival Chorus, and Guest soloists, Maestro Michael Palmer, conducting,  Haydn, Soprano Arias, Verdi’s Te Deum, Strauss Rosenkavalier excerpts.  Guest artist sopranos Frederica von
Stade, Heidi Grant-Murphy and Katie von Koote

Social post-concert