CHIMACUM — Together with conductor Dewey Ehling and guest pianists Trent LaCour and Paul Creech, the Port Townsend Community Orchestra will give an unprecedented concert in the Chimacum High School auditorium, 91 West Valley Road, this Sunday.
Admission is free to the performance at 2 p.m. and to Ehling’s pre-concert talk at 1:15 p.m.
Premiere event
This is the premiere of original music created especially for this performance: Creech’s own works for two pianos and orchestra, with titles ranging from “Devil’s Dance” and “It’s Worth the Risk” to “Caribbean Concerto in Blue.”
“Many of the pieces you will hear were composed rapidly, from the soul,” Creech writes in his invitation to Sunday’s event.
The longtime owner of Paul Creech Pianos and Music Academy in Sequim, Creech has invited Trent, his student, to perform, calling him “off the charts . . . excellent.”
The 17-year-old Trent, for his part, calls it a high honor to perform with Creech, his teacher since 2009, as well as with Ehling and his community orchestra.
Along with Creech’s compositions, the 43-member Port Townsend Community Orchestra will offer Claude Debussy’s 1908 “Children’s Corner Suite” and the “Petite Suite d’Orchestre (Jeux d’enfants),” a piece Georges Bizet wrote in 1871.
For information about the musicians and to hear Creech’s piece “Devil’s Dance,” visit www.PortTownsendOrchestra.org.
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