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SUMMARY:EMBRACE-Elgar's Enigma Variations
DESCRIPTION:Some music feels like a hand reaching back.\nEMBRACE turns 
 Kaleidoscope toward the people beside us: the partners\, friends\, mento
 rs\, 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.\nPeggy Glanville-Hicks’ Sinfonia Pacif
 ica opens the program with a vibrant sound world shaped by travel and i
 magination. Though the title points toward the Pacific\, the music also 
 reflects the composer’s interest in sounds and colors she was explorin
 g for an opera set in India. The result is a bright\, unexpected opening
  work by one of Australia’s distinctive 20th-century musical voices.\n
 At the heart of the concert\, Seattle Symphony musicians Helen Kim and 
 Katie Liu join Olympia Symphony for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante fo
 r violin and viola. The piece gives both soloists equal voice\, not as r
 ivals\, but as partners. One phrase reaches out. Another answers. The vi
 olin and viola move together\, apart\, and together again\, creating mus
 ic that feels like trust.\nElgar’s Enigma Variations closes the conc
 ert with one of the great musical love letters to community. Before Enig
 ma\, Elgar was searching for the sound that would define him. The breakt
 hrough came when he turned toward the people closest to him. Encouraged 
 by his wife Alice\, Elgar wrote a set of variations inspired by friends\
 , private jokes\, personal memories\, and the relationships that shaped 
 his life. The mystery of the hidden “enigma” remains unsolved\, but 
 the heart of the piece is clear: Elgar found his voice by listening to h
 is own community.\nFrom the tenderness of “Nimrod” to the sweep of t
 he finale\, Enigma Variations reminds us that no artist creates alone. E
 MBRACE is a concert about the people we carry with us\, and the music th
 at carries them forward.\n\n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270207T150000
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LOCATION:512 Washington St SE
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