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2007-2008
 Season
Apple Valley Honda Holiday Series
Call 509-663-ARTS
Holiday Series Tickets (save up to 20%): $36.50 general, $30 children (12 & under)
Available to PAC members Sept 4, General Public Sept 11
Individual Event Tickets: $20-26 adult, $15-$21 children (12 & under)
Available to PAC members Sept 24, General Public Oct 1
Student Rush: $10-16
Available day of show, in person, with student ID
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CWU Jazz Band performs
The Jazz Nutcracker and other Holiday Gems
Welcomed by Wenatchee Valley College
December 8, 2007 7:30 pm
Through special arrangement with Central Washington University’s Dean of Arts & Humanities and the Director of
Jazz Studies, the CWU nationally renowned Jazz Band spices up this Holiday classic for one evening in Wenatchee
with brass, rifts, and improvisation in place of the traditional point shoes, tutus, and leotards.
This marvelous jazz band arrangement of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s fabled Nutcracker Suite was first performed by
the Duke Ellington Orchestra in1960. It was most certainly an ambitious task undertaken by the prolific writing
cooperative of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. In substantially recomposing the ballet suite, Ellington and
Strayhorn didn’t simply overlay a “jazz beat” behind the Russian composer’s work; they transformed it into something
that is idiomatic to jazz, extending his basic ideas and harmonies in new and surprising ways. As orchestrators and
harmonists, Ellington and Strayhorn found inspiration in Debussy and Ravel. The jazz band piece incorporates an
intoxicating exotic element in this substantially recomposed work that stays true to both the Russian’s original
work and their own distinctive voice. Please join us for the fourth consecutive yearly performance of the piece by
the CWU Jazz Band.
Approx. 90 minutes plus one 15 minutes intermission
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A Holiday Evening with Tingstad & Rumbel
and David Lanz
Welcomed by Forte Architects
December 18, 2007 7:30 pm
Tingstad & Rumbel Audio Samples
David Lanz Audio Samples
Likened to a pair of Olympic figure skaters, Grammy Award winners, Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumble are artistically precise and musically expressive. Their comfort on stage with each other, their anecdotal storytelling, delightful humor and affinity with the audience engages everyone in an experience they live rather than a show they just see. The duo perform acoustic fingerstyle guitar with beautifully melodic woodwinds, inspired by music from America, the British Isles, and Spain.
Grammy-nominated contemporary pianist, David Lanz says that playing the piano is his greatest form of self expression, especially at his concert performances where he effortlessly blends his emotionally affecting music ("a gift to the soul" wrote one reviewer) with audience involvement and his own charming comic take on life. Joined by flutist, Gary Stroutsos, who combines a rich jazz background with dynamic explorations of Afro-Cuban and American Indian music, the duo create a musical experience that is direct, emotional, and honest.
These four musicians, together, promise a memorable evening filled with an enchanting musical experience!
Approx. 90 minutes plus one 15 minutes intermission
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