EMBRACE
Sun, Feb 07
|Washington Center
Some music feels like a hand reaching back. Program Peggy GLANVILLE-HICKS: Sinfonia Pacifica Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra Edward ELGAR: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Time & Location
Feb 07, 2027, 3:00 PM – 4:50 PM
Washington Center, 512 Washington St SE, Olympia, WA 98501, USA
About the event
Some music feels like a hand reaching back.
EMBRACE turns Kaleidoscope toward the people beside us: the partners, friends, mentors, and quiet companions who change the way we hear the world. This is a concert about friendship, conversation, memory, and the communities that help us become ourselves.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Sinfonia Pacifica opens the program with a vibrant sound world shaped by travel and imagination. Though the title points toward the Pacific, the music also reflects the composer’s interest in sounds and colors she was exploring for an opera set in India. The result is a bright, unexpected opening work by one of Australia’s distinctive 20th-century musical voices.
At the heart of the concert, Seattle Symphony musicians Helen Kim and Katie Liu join Olympia Symphony for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. The piece gives both soloists equal voice, not as rivals, but as partners. One phrase reaches out. Another answers. The violin and viola…