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The Program

Anna Clyne - Restless Oceans

Sam Wu - Hydrosphere


SPARK! Premieres

• Beatrice Luongo - Horses

• Teresa Wheeler - The Serpent’s Delight

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

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Concert Snapshots

• Restless Oceans is based on and named after the Audre Lorde poem A Women Speaks.

• Sam Wu is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Whitman College.

• Launched in 2022, SPARK! Premieres gives young composers from our SPARK! Composition Course a chance to have their music performed by the Walla Walla Symphony.

• Scheherazade is inspired by the collection of Middle Eastern and Indian stories known as The Thousand and One Nights (or The Arabian Nights).

Want to learn more? Click the button below to explore articles about the composers and the pieces, and read the program notes.

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Explore the Music

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WINE SPONSOR

Wine from our wine sponsor will be available before the concert and during intermission for $5/glass (all proceeds benefit the Walla Walla Symphony).

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Dig Deeper

• Composer Anna Clyne, a radical melodist with a painter's eye (NPR)

• Anna Clyne, a Composer Who Creates With Images (New York Times)

• 5 Questions to Anna Clyne (I Care If You Listen by American Composers Forum)

• Visual Music: The “blurred boundaries” of Sam Wu’s compositions (Harvard Magazine)

• Blurring Boundaries (University of Houston Magazine)

• Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story (NPR)

• The Story of ‘the Most Underrated Composer in History’ (New York Times)

• Scheherazade (Britannica)