Coeur d'Alene Symphony hits the high notes at Festival
Courtesy photo The Coeur d’Alene Symphony’s entry in the Festival of Trees fundraiser, themed around a “Holiday in Prague,” won the award for “Most Imaginative.” The tree was also auctioned for $8,000, the highest amount for a single tree at the festival.
It has been a great week for Coeur d’Alene Symphony.
The symphony’s entry into last weekend’s Festival of Trees, a fundraiser for Kootenai Health Foundation at The Coeur d’Alene Resort, sold at the live auction for $8,000, the highest price for a tree, and garnered the judge’s choice for “Most Imaginative” tree.
The themed tree, “Holiday in Prague,” was designed in honor of the Coeur d’Alene Symphony’s new conductor, Maestro Jan Pellant, who is from Prague.
Figpickels Toy Emporium founders Brett and Susan Sommer with designer Joan Massey created an olde-world look with miniature symphony instruments, wax candles with flicker flames, and ornaments and a topper created from old sheet music pages with violin bow accents. The gift package included round-trip airfare from Spokane to Prague, three nights in a Renaissance Suite at the Four Seasons Prague arranged by All Travel Guru in Post Falls, tickets for the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, a personal tour of Prague with the Pellant family, dinner at the Terrace of the Golden Well donated by Richard Trudell and Nancy Morrison, spa treatments courtesy of The Coeur d’Alene Resort Spa, season tickets for the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, and carry-on luggage.
Purchased by John and Caroline Griffin, the tree graces the interior of their business, Homestyles Lighting, 5648 N. Govenment Way, Coeur d’Alene.
Additional good news comes from the Symphony that this Friday and Saturday’s Christmas concerts with the 65-member Chorale Coeur d’Alene are sold out.
The next program is Jan. 18 and 19, “Classical Family Fun,” featuring Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” as well as Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”
Symphony musicians will be joined by the North Idaho Youth Symphony with premier performances of compositions by winners of the 2018 “Melody Contest.”
Tickets are available at cdasymphony.org and by phone (Monday to Thursday, from 10 a.m. to noon) at 208-765-3833.