NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 16.
Reflective, calm, lush.
This is how Joy Lingerfelt describes the music she gets to play tonight and Saturday: Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio for Organ and Strings in G minor.
In these two performances, Lingerfelt will have the Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra and its new conductor, Jonathan Pasternack, backing her up.
This is the Chamber Orchestra’s first set of the season: Tonight at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., Port Angeles, and Saturday at the Sequim Worship Center, 640 N. Sequim Ave. in Sequim.
Both will start at 7 p.m., with tickets at $12 — or free admission to people ages 16 and younger when accompanied by an adult.
Orchestrating the organ with strings, Lingerfelt said, “is a wonderful way to hear this organ in a new light,” especially in this gentle work.
“Maybe, in this hurried society,” she said, “it is good to have a piece that, while in a minor mode, has a calming beauty.”
The Albinoni organ piece is just one among the masterworks, added Pasternack who’s just this season become the Port Angeles Symphony’s music director.
“The concert is full of some of the most wonderful melodies from the classical and Baroque times,” said the maestro, adding that while Lingerfelt’s adagio is “gorgeous and meditative,” then there’s Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, a fiery, romantic thing.
Pasternack believes this one will make listeners fall in love with the composer.
The concerts also offer Mozart’s Divertimento in B-flat major and a suite of instrumental music from Henry Purcell’s early opera masterpiece “Dido and Aeneas.”
These chamber performances run about an hour, Pasternack noted, adding that he looks forward to two sweet evenings.
“Come enjoy beautiful and exciting orchestra music,” he said, “in an intimate setting.”
For more information about this and other forthcoming orchestra concerts, visit Portangelessymphony.org or phone 360-457-5579.
For tickets, stop in at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles, The Good Book/Joyful Noise Music Center at 108 W. Washington St., Sequim, or Sequim Village Glass, 761 Carlsborg Road in Carlsborg.
Tickets will also be sold at the door of Holy Trinity tonight and the Sequim Worship Center on Saturday night.
