Dreamscapes
Sun, Jun 22
|Capital HS Performing Arts Center
The Olympia Chamber Orchestra will present a vibrant concert titled Dreamscapes on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. at Capital High School in West Olympia. The program features Dream Machine by Brian Balmages, Gli Uccelli (The Birds) by Ottorino Respighi, and Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony.
Time & Location
Jun 22, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Capital HS Performing Arts Center, 2707 Conger Ave NW, Olympia, WA 98502, USA
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About the event
Dream Machine is a vivid contemporary piece by American composer Brian Balmages. With driving rhythms and cinematic textures, the work captures the feeling of the stroboscopic device invented in 1959, offering a musical depiction of the colors, shapes, and visions that the device can initiate.
Respighi’s Gli Uccelli is a playful and elegant suite that brings 17th- and 18th-century harpsichord melodies to life through bird-inspired character pieces. The audience will hear music depicting the clucking hen, the graceful dove, the melodic nightingale, and the cheeky cuckoo.
The concert concludes with Schubert’s Symphony in B minor, widely known as the Unfinished Symphony. Though consisting of only two completed movements, it remains one of the most emotionally stirring and mysterious works in the symphonic repertoire.