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Careful classical music listeners may have noticed a fuller sounding strings section at the Yakima Symphony Orchestra's season opener in October.
That's because the YSO was able to add musicians to its string section, thanks to a donation by Herb Frank and Larry and Bunker Frank. The use of the money was left to the discretion of YSO music director Brooke Creswell.
"It's a matter of having the right balance of strings to wind instruments," Creswell explained in October before the first concert of the 2008-09 season. "This allows us to play louder and softer with more grace."
You can hear for yourself at Saturday's YSO concert at the Capitol Theatre. The program opens with Antonín Dvorák's colorful "Slavonic Dances," followed by Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor" featuring guest pianist Stephen Beus, and concludes with Johannes Brahms' Third Symphony, which Creswell describes in the latest symphony newsletter as "the most adventurous and most poignant symphony of the four that Brahms left us."
Saturday's concert marks a return visit from Beus (pronounced Bee-oos), an award-winning, up-and-coming pianist born and raised in Othello, Wash., who performed with the YSO in October 2007.
Still in his 20s, Beus won first prize in the 2006 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (Salt Lake City), first place in the Vendome Prize International Competition (Lisbon, Portugal), and was recipient of the Max I. Allen Fellowship of the American Pianists Association (Indianapolis) -- all of which he did in the span of four months.
"We're lucky to have this young man who will be out of our price range real soon," Noël Moxley, YSO executive director, said last week.
Beus will also perform a piano recital at The Seasons on Sunday, kicking off "A New World: The Late Beethoven Piano Sonatas," a five-month series of solo piano concert recitals at the downtown performance hall.
-- Kim Nowacki
If you go
WHO: The Yakima Symphony Orchestra featuring pianist Stephen Beus.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
WHERE: The Capitol Theatre, 19 S. Third St.
HOW MUCH: For seat availability and ticket prices, call the Capitol box office, 853-2787, or TicketsWest, 800-325-7328, www.ticketswest.com.
CONCERT INFO: Pre-concert podcasts and the YSO's newsletter, Prelude, are available on the YSO Web site, www.yakimasymphony.org. And for an update on the YSO's search for a new conductor and music director, visit on.yakimablogs.com.
THEN ON SUNDAY: The Seasons kicks off its "A New World: The Late Beethoven Piano Sonatas" series with a piano recital by Beus. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at 101 N. Naches Ave. Tickets cost $20 and are available through The Seasons box office, 453-1888, www.seasonsmusicfestival.com. Series subscriptions and student discounts are available.
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