NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” mean Friday, July 26. “Saturday and Sunday refer to July 27 and 28.
QUILCENE — This weekend out on the farm: Beethoven. Inside the barn, in the air, out on the lawn.
It’s weekend No. 5 of the Olympic Music Festival, with two afternoons of Beethoven works played by musicians who come here from around the country for casual, classical “Concerts in the Barn.” As with each festival weekend through Sept. 1, performances start at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
This weekend, festival founder and violist Alan Iglitzin, pianist Paul Hersh and cellist Bonnie Hampton of San Francisco, plus newcomer Stefan Milenkovich, will play at the Olympic Music Festival farm, 7360 Center Road. Patrons can sit inside, on pews or hay bales, or loll outside on the lawn as the music is broadcast on a sound system.
Milenkovich, a violinist, is making his debut with the festival. He has a background in the classics and in rock, jazz and dance: he performed as both a violinist and a dancer with the Slovenian Ars Tango ensemble, producer of “Tango Story.”
Hampton, meanwhile, is coming back after a long hiatus from the festival. Once a student of Pablo Casals, she taught for three decades at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
This Saturday and Sunday, the foursome will offer Beethoven’s “Spring” Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major; the “Ghost” Piano Trio in D Major and the String Quartet in C Major known as the “Rasumovsky.”
Concerts in the Barn tickets range from $18 to $33 depending on whether patrons want seating indoors or outside. The farm gates open at 11 a.m. both weekend days for picnicking, strolling on the 55 acres and shopping in the souvenir-CD-snack store. Then the barn doors open at 1 p.m.
To reserve tickets and find out more, phone 360-732-4800 or visit www.OlympicMusicFestival.org. Directions to the farm, which is 18 miles south of Port Townsend, can also be found on the website.
