Auburn Symphony Gets Romantic with Chausson
Beck and Kershaw between them gave us a thumbnail sketch of 19th-century composer Ernest Chausson, with slides, and it was clear that the composer holds a place of great affection in Kershaw’s...
View ArticleAuburn Symphony Finds Greats Off the Beaten Track
It isn’t one of his angry works. I didn’t hear any underlying angst in it. The violin plays almost without a break through the entire half hour of the concerto, serenely above lower winds and strings...
View ArticleAuburn Symphony Benefit Treats Crowd to a Galop and Cancan
Kershaw chose works which highlighted members of the orchestra, like Vaughan Williams’ arrangement of Greensleeves with principal flutist Karla Flygare, and Saint-Saens’ The Swan from Carnival of the...
View ArticleAuburn Symphony Orchestra gets personal with Music Especially For You
The title says it all. For the second year running, the Auburn Symphony Orchestra opened its season with “Music Especially For You,” a special concert of short, favorite works, guaranteed to please a...
View ArticleAuburn Symphony Brings Mozart to Mountainview High
When the Auburn Symphony Orchestra was formed by music director Steward Kershaw 17 years ago it was in order, he said, to give the members of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra an opportunity to...
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