Cd'A Symphony to end season with a bang

Coeur d'Alene Symphony will present two performances of its season finale concert.

The grand finale concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 2 at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene, 1765 W. Golf Course Road.

Ticket prices are $27.95/adults, $21.74/seniors 65-plus, $16.56/youth and students, $10.35/high school musicians and youth orchestra members.

Tickets can be purchased by calling (208) 660-2958 or online, www.cdasymphony.org/

The program will begin with "The Egmont Overture," a powerful and expressive work from the end of Beethoven's middle period - similar in style to his famous Symphony No. 5.

Next, two young artists - Bronwyn James of Seattle and University of Texas master's student Timothy Angel - will join the symphony.

James has performed extensively as a soloist, as well as with her quartet and as a member of the orchestra. This summer she will be touring in China with the National Youth Orchestra of the U.S.A. and then attending the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. James will be playing the first movement of the "Nielsen Violin Concerto."

Timothy Angel played assistant concertmaster of the Coeur d'Alene Symphony during his studies at Whitworth University. He will be playing the "Glazunov Violin Concerto," one of Glazunov's most popular pieces.

Finally the season will draw to a close with Beethoven's "Eighth Symphony," a lighthearted and cheerfully loud piece, full of musical jokes and odd accents. Tchaikovsky called the fourth movement of this work "one of the greatest symphonic masterpieces of Beethoven."

The Coeur d'Alene Symphony will host a reception for the audience, volunteers and orchestra members following the Saturday performance.