QUILCENE — “A Fine Romance: Salut d’Amour” is the theme of the Concerts in the Barn fundraising gala coming to Trillium Woods Farm, 7360 Center Road, at 2 p.m. Saturday.
This is the inaugural concert and party to generate support for the summer series and the only one with an admission charge. Tickets, at concertsinthebarn.org via the “purchase gala tickets” link, are $50 for lawn seating and $100 for seating inside the barn, which is sold only to 75 percent of capacity.
As with all of this summer’s farm concerts, the lawn is open to all, while only patrons who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can choose the indoor barn seating.
Romantic repertoire
Saturday’s concert stars violinist Charles Wetherbee and pianist Cameron Bennett, who will regale music lovers with a romantic repertoire. Jules Massenet, Edward Elgar, Robert Schumann, Pablo de Sarasate, Edvard Grieg, Fritz Kreisler and Ludwig van Beethoven are among the composers whose music will fill the air.
Also on Saturday, The Wine Seller of Port Townsend will pour beverages while the Old Alcohol Plant hotel of Port Hadlock will lay out canapes. After the concert, patrons will have a chance to meet and chat with the musicians in the public gardens.
Music on the Strait
Later this month, Concerts in the Barn will join Music on the Strait, the Port Angeles-based chamber music festival, to continue its free series of performances at the farm. On Aug. 15, the Takács Quartet will play Haydn, Ravel and Schubert; Aug. 22 has pianist Jeremy Denk, violinist James Garlick, violist Richard O’Neill and cellist Ani Aznavoorian offering music of Johannes Brahms, Paul Hindemith and Jessie Montgomery.
To close the season, the Fulton Street Chamber Players will appear Aug. 28-29 with a program including Benshoof’s “Tangos and Detours” for cello and piano, Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major and Ernö Dohnányi’s Serenade in C major.
All four free concerts will start at 2 p.m. with the farm gates opening at 11 a.m. Lawn seating and barn reservations can be made at concertsinthebarn.org via the “free tickets required” link.
For more information, phone the Concerts in the Barn office at 360-732-0732.
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Jefferson County senior reporter Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-417-3509 or durbanidelapaz@peninsuladaily news.com.
Violinist Charles Wetherbee will perform with pianist Cameron Bennett in this Saturday’s Concerts in the Barn fundraising gala. (Photo courtesy of Concerts in the Barn)
