Drums Along the Columbia

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The Hanford Music Department is one of several local High Schools partnering together to present the Drums Along the Columbia Drum Corps International performance on Monday July, 1, 2013 at 7:00pm at Edgar Brown Stadium in Pasco.

Hanford High School has several students that will be performing with four of the Drum Corps during this show: Tony Braccia, Nick Smiley, Abe Martinez, Kaytlin Waggoner, Lauren Lofton, Tim Zilar, Kelly Yokuda, Jon Fickle, Conner Grisham, Mitchell Johnson, Tommy Hill, Nathen Salyer, Rachel Moore, Jared Osborn and Ryan Later will be performing with the Columbians Drum Corps; Tyler Salyer will be performing with the Blue Knights from Denver, CO; Patrick O’Toole, Hannah Mowry and Tyler Willis will be performing with the Oregon Crusaders; and Zoe Soran will be performing with the Spokane Thunder. Come see this fantastic show!

Watching this DCI Northwest Classic is a wonderful way to spend a summer evening.

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A DCI NORTHWEST CLASSIC

MONDAY, JULY 1st, 2013 – 7:00 PM
Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium
Pasco, Washington
A SHOW YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!!!

GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 in advance/ $15 at door
RESERVED: $18 in advance/ $20 at door
FAMILY SEATING: $35 for 4 people/ $45 at door

Fundraiser for Hanford High School Music Boosters
FOR INFORMATION and TICKETS contact: LORI WASNER: 539-3840 or at dakotaisdadog@aol.com

Visit our website at www.drumsalongthecolumbia.org

All ticket sales are pre-order only. Email the following information to dakotaisdadog@aol.com

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Swing Dance

 
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2013-Swing-posterwThe 10th Annual Swing dance

Friday, May 10th at 7:00pm in the Hanford High Commons

Everyone is welcome!

$10 ticket includes dessert and silent Auction.  Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance from Hanford High Jazz students, or at Ted Brown Music, Adventures Underground, and The Bookworm.

Seattle choir will perform student composition

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HannahfultonHannah Fulton, a junior at Hanford High School, was recently awarded first place in a Choral Composition Competition sponsored by Opus 7, a Seattle based professional choral organization.  The contest was seeking to select the best high school original choral composition between three and five minutes in length.

“Hannah worked hours on this composition and received help from Hanford High teachers, her parents, and a college professor from Whitworth University,” explained Kevin Swisher, HHS instrumental music teacher.

The choral group Opus 7 will perform her original composition, Sunrise for SATB choir, in Seattle, on May 11th, in St. Mark’s Cathedral. Details can be found on the Opus 7 website, http://www.opus7.org/. Prior to the performance, she will speak to the audience about what inspired her piece.

More from KVEW-TV (3/26/2013): http://www.kvewtv.com/article/2013/mar/26/gifted-teen-musician/

More from Tricity Herald (5/5/2013): http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/05/2383747/hanford-high-juniors-choral-piece.html

Editorial from the Tricity Herald (5/9/2013): http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/09/2387669/our-voice-little-things-add-up.html

Orchestra’s Diana Wang

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UPDATE: Diana Wang, Hanford High freshman, earned a second place medal in the violin division at the Washington State Solo & Ensemble Competition April 28 in Ellensburg.  She performed the Zigeunerweisen Op 20 by Pablo Sarsate. “It is an incredible honor to place at state,” says Chris Newbury, HHS music teacher.  “Diana continues to amaze me with what she is able to do on the violin.”

Congratulations to Hanford Orchestra musician Diana Wang. Below is a copy of the article that appeared in the March 15, 2013 Tricity Herald

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Young Artists winners to perform March 16

Dori O’Neal, Herald staff writer

The two overall winners of this year’s Young Artists Competition will make their debut with the Mid-Columbia Symphony on March 16 when the symphony presents its next concert in the In Love and War series at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick.

Pianist Justin James Chua, the junior overall winner from West Richland, will play the third movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Violinist Diana Wang, the senior overall winner from Richland, performs Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs).

“Zigeunerweisen is a showpiece for violin and orchestra featuring harmonics, left-handed pizzicato and other fireworks,” said maestro Nicholas Wallin. “The Rachmaninoff number is an incredibly demanding and virtuosic piece filled with lovely melodies.”

The rest of the program includes Wagner’s Prelude & Transfiguration from the opera Tristan and Isolde, and the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

“Prelude & Transfiguration has been an orchestral staple for nearly 150 years,” Wallin said. “The piece presents two excerpts from Wagner’s opera. The prelude at the opening of the opera sets the scene for the passionate drama about two lovers tormented by conflicting feelings of honor, responsibility and forbidden love.

“The second excerpt is Isolde’s music from the very end of the opera as she expires over the body of Tristan.”

Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story will wrap up the concert and includes the saucy dance number from Mambo, as well as the much-loved dance music from Cool and Maria.

Concert time is 8 p.m. Tickets cost from $27 to $52 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com or the Toyota Center box office. Tickets purchased at the box office avoid service charges.

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/03/15/2313553/young-artists-winners-to-perform.html#storylink=cpy