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Rainier Symphony - A Salute to Broadway

This year's Pops Concert will feature Broadway singer Katie Travis as she takes you on a tour of some of her favorite musicals and Broadway songs. She'll also be joining the orchestra on Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Closing out our 2018-19 season will be Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, an orchestral suite comprised of themes and scenes from his beloved musical of the same name.

"I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story
Selections from Phantom of the Opera (medley)
"You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel
Carousel Selections (medley)
"Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera
Knoxville: Summer 1915
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Saturday 6/1/19 7:30 pm
Sunday 6/2/19 3:00 pm

Tickets:
$18 Adult / $12 Student or Senior
Children 12 and under Free

Concert location:
Foster Performing Arts Center
4242 S 144th St, Tukwila

Jeffery N. Lund, Music Director
Ilkka Talvi, Concertmaster

More about the concert:
The Rainier Symphony is thrilled to close out its 2018-19 season with guest artist Katie Travis, Broadway star extraordinaire. Katie recently finished her run of over 700 shows in the touring production of Phantom of the Opera, in the leading role of Christine Daaé. No longer on tour, Katie comes to the Pacific Northwest from her home in New York to join the Rainier Symphony on a concert that features some of her favorite Broadway hits, including works from West Side Story, Carousel, and Phantom of the Opera.

In addition to these Broadway show stoppers, Katie will join the orchestra in a work that is a change of style, but a beautiful song in its own right: Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This piece captures the nostalgia and reflection felt by all of us as we move from adolescence, to young adulthood, to our "golden years". The subtle harmonies and textures composed by Barber offer a beautiful blanket of sound for the vocalist to wrap around her shoulders as she shares memories of days gone by.

Closing out our season will be Leonard Bernstein's most well-known work, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. This musical served as a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but changes the setting to the streets of New York in the mid 1950's. The influence of jazz, folk, and Latin music is infectious to musicians and audiences alike, and captures the spirit of the colliding cultures represented in this tragic love story.

In the event of unforeseen circumstances, programs and artists may change without notice.