Orcas students present ‘Frozen Concert’
More than 100 Orcas music students will remind us all what winter is supposed to be like when they present a “Frozen Concert” on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Orcas School’s Old Gym.
“Our kindergarten through fourth grade students have been working very hard,” said Pamela Wright, Music Director. “Please come see what they have accomplished.”
The show will open with a shivering performance of “Snowy Rainy Icy Chilly” by the kindergarten children. They will follow that with “If I Could Fly Like a Snowflake.”
The first through fourth grade students will give a flashback to August with “In Summer,” before jumping to December with “Frozen Heart,” “I’m Letting it Go,” “Here Comes the Snow,” “First Day of Winter” and “For the Winter.”
The kindergarteners will join the first to fourth graders for two of their favorite songs from the movie “Frozen”: “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” and “Let It Go.”
A group of first and third graders will demonstrate their recorder skills on “Clock and the Moon.”
This is the third concert by Orcas School musicians this winter. The community is invited. All school concerts are free.
Community Band
An annual crowd favorite, the Orcas Island Community Band‘s Holiday Concert is Saturday, Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. at Orcas Center.
This festive concert is free. The band strongly believes everyone should be able to enjoy the band’s offering to the community and the audience may donate whatever they can afford.
After the concert, attendees are invited to stay for a free dessert party presented by the band.
The eclectic concert will have something for everyone. Co-conductors Jim Shaffer-Bauck and Karen Key Speck bring their different musical choices and styles to the audience through selections such as marches, period pieces, sea songs, opera selections and traditional holiday tunes. The band will feature two solosits: Bob Littlewood on clarinet on “Capricious Aloysius” and Matt Jenson on trombone performing “O Mio Babbino Caro.”
“It is rewarding to see our musicians featured as we have so many talented people in the band,” said Speck. “Bob has been with the band over 20 years and Matt is a relative newcomer to the Community Band.”
The concert is held midday so young and old alike can attend and not worry about being out after dark in inclement weather.
“Bring your house guests, neighbors and friends to this fun and festive event,” Speck said.
Susan Osborn in concert
Susan Osborn’s 25th Annual Victorian Valley Chapel Christmas Concerts are on Dec. 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Christmas Eve at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $15; children under 12 enter for free. Tickets are available at Siren Boutique in Eastsound and online at Brown Paper Tickets.
Joining Osborn this year will be Bruce Harvie, mandolin and guitar; Leah Ballou, violin and David Densmore, ukelele. Songs of the season old and new will be featured in this intimate, quintessential holiday musical experience.
“Join us in the candlelit Victorian Valley Chapel to help celebrate the season in song and story,” Osborn said. “We can’t do it without you.”
Jazzin’ with the Classics
Jazzin’ with the Classics for Christmas will be held on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 3 p.m. in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Eastsound. The suggested donation is $10; 18 and under enter for free
The concert will feature soprano Linda Tsatsanis, jazz flutist, pianist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and jazz bassist Nate Omdal. These instrumental musicians have “jazzed up” melodies familiar to them in the style of their day for centuries, and this team’s virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide favorites, and their renditions of classical standards such as arias from Handel’s Messiah will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds.
