Philharmonia Northwest / Program Notes
February 1, 2017

Concert I – Drumroll, Please… Program Notes

October 23, 2016 Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868): La gazza ladra (overture) Philharmonia Northwest begins its 41st season quite literally with a drumroll—the opening of Rossini’s overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie). This was one of four (!) operas by Rossini that premiered in 1817, and

January 10, 2016

Concert III Program Notes

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Nocturne in B Major, Op. 40 Antonín Dvořák’s Nocturne, Op. 40, began its life as the middle section of a single-movement string quartet written early in his career. Although Dvořák eventually discarded the quartet, he kept the haunting central section, which he had originally