Resurgent Everett Symphony vows to reflect the community
Do you remember the Everett Symphony Orchestra? Well, it's back. Beset by financial problems and having to cut its season short in...
Date: 08/01/10 | Living
Drewel gives Everett Symphony helping hand
EVERETT — The beleaguered Everett Symphony has enlisted help from one of Snohomish County’s star leaders with hopes that his savvy in the areas of economic development and problem solving will lead the symphony to play music once again.
Date: 02/06/10 | Local News
Economy may silence Everett Symphony's season
The stagnant economy has sucked in another victim as declining ticket sales and a drop in corporate and private donations are forcing the Everett Symphony to make some painful cutbacks to save the orchestra. Patrons will feel that pain immediately.
Date: 11/23/09 | Local News
Manilow's donation shows kids that every note is precious
If you ask a group of Tulalip Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders what music they listen to, they’ll say AC/DC or Green Day. There’s no mention of the Grammy-winning Barry Manilow. And though few, if any, of the students have ever heard...
Date: 10/13/09 | Local News
Violinist Swil Kanim shares his spirit
He has toured North America with the Indigo Girls, worked on the hit TV series “Northern Exposure” and was one of the stars in Sherman Alexie's film “The Business of Fancydancing.” Swil Kanim, a musician from Bellingham, has...
Date: 10/09/09 | Entertainment
Disney family concert superb, magical
Sometimes I’m totally depressed by world news; there seems to be so darned much to worry and fret about. Then along comes the experience of an Everett Symphony Family Together concert and one’s world returns to the wonderment of joy of...
Date: 10/03/09 | Letters
Thanks to New Life Center for supporting music
This letter is written to sing the praises of the Everett Symphony and of the New Life Center for their sterling presentation of the Magical Music of Disney on Sept. 26. As a long-ago percussionist with Tacoma’s Stadium Band and with the UDub...
Date: 10/03/09 | Letters
Everett Symphony says marketing deal with Comcast Arena operator will pay dividends
A new partnership for the Everett Symphony should be cause for patrons to whistle a happy tune. That's because the partnership is a money-saver for the symphony, allowing the nonprofit organization to leverage its limited resources in other areas...
Date: 08/11/09 | Business
Everett Symphony retools approach, venues for new season
There’s so much that’s new about the Everett Symphony and its 2009-10 season that to say the symphony has rewritten its score goes beyond cliche. Let’s start with the fact that the symphony is bringing back concert programs for...
Date: 07/19/09 | Living
Barry Manilow's pledge will bring 45 violins to local schools
Barry Manilow played Everett last month. Besides memories and autographs, the Grammy-winning musician left something else: a promise. The singer, through his Manilow Music Project, plans to donate 45 Yamaha violins, with a retail value of $36,000,...
Date: 04/12/09 | Local News
Not even a stroke kept violinist from Carnegie Hall
EVERETT -- The stroke had paralyzed Jan Simpson's left side. It looked like she would never play the violin again. That simply wouldn't do. She started with the Everett Symphony at 16 years old. After turning 74, the prize was finally hers. She was...
Date: 04/03/09 | Local News
Everett Symphony offers great experience
This is a letter of thanks to the Everett Symphony on behalf of the area's blind and partially sighted. On Nov. 6, the Everett Central Lions Club sponsored a V.I.P. (Visually Impaired Person's) Concert in cooperation with the Everett Symphony...
Date: 11/15/08 | Letters
Economy may silence Everett Symphony's season
The stagnant economy has sucked in another victim as declining ticket sales and a drop in corporate and private donations are forcing the Everett Symphony to make some painful cutbacks to save the orchestra. Patrons will feel that pain immediately.
Date: 11/23/09 | Local News
Violinist Swil Kanim shares his spirit
He has toured North America with the Indigo Girls, worked on the hit TV series “Northern Exposure” and was one of the stars in Sherman Alexie's film “The Business of Fancydancing.” Swil Kanim, a musician from Bellingham, has...
Date: 10/09/09 | Entertainment
Everett Symphony performs music kids can relate to
It's what busy parents in Snohomish County have been asking for: the chance to introduce their young children to classical music in a way that's convenient, inspiring and fun. That opportunity begins this weekend with the first in a series of mini...
Date: 10/09/09 | Entertainment
Everett Symphony season opens
Violinist Svend Ronning will perform Sibelius' impossibly complex Concerto for Violin, Opus 47 in D Minor. Ronning has the experience to handle it all when he...
Date: 10/09/09 | Entertainment
Everett Symphony delivers Disney
After the Everett Symphony plays the music of Disney on Saturday, assistant conductor Ron Friesen is betting that the audience will walk away amazed. “This is a big-league production. This is the kind of stuff you would see at the Paramount or...
Date: 09/25/09 | Entertainment
Fred Chu, Everett Symphony make beautiful music
The year was 1978. The Cultural Revolution was over and the Chinese government released its iron grip on the country's cultural throat, allowing Western influences to flow more freely. Fred Chu had just finished the early shift at the fabric factory...
Date: 05/29/09 | Entertainment
ESO's 'Night' celebrates American music
They called it "A Night of Jazz." I call it a night of firsts: the first night I heard, really heard jazz; and the first night I heard Dr. Paul Elliott Cobbs come alive, I mean really alive, from the tip of his baton to the toes in his shoes. The...
Date: 04/29/09 | Stage
A trip down Memory Lane
In a career that spans more than 50 years, Burt Bacharach has demonstrated that changing time signatures, lush harmonies, strings, horns, and timpani have a well-deserved and much-appreciated place in American popular music. The Everett Symphony's...
Date: 04/01/09 | Out and About
Tonight, Everett Symphony takes a big swing at a difficult program
Conductor Paul-Elliott Cobbs described the Everett Symphony Orchestra's concert tonight as a showpiece program, the kind of music that separates the minor league players from the majors. Cobbs predicted his team will hit this one out of the...
Date: 03/13/09 | Entertainment
'Mostly Mozart' was mostly good
They knew whereof they spoke when they titled the program "Mostly Mozart." Mozart's music was all there. As for the excitement Mozart's music can generate? Not entirely. Without a doubt, featured guest artist, Janelle R.A. Barrera, stood out head...
Date: 03/04/09 | Stage
Everett Symphony features flutist during Mozart show
Flute player Janelle Janovich-Barrera will put her brand new flute on debut tonight when she plays with the Everett Symphony Orchestra at the "Mostly Mozart" concert at Historic Everett Theatre. Janovich-Barrera's flute has a 14-carat gold head...
Date: 02/20/09 | Entertainment
Everett Symphony celebrates Crazy 8's and 2008
When he starts to reminisce, Everett Symphony conductor Paul-Elliott Cobbs can't help but think about growing up in Detroit, attending the same church as Aretha Franklin and listening to Motown. So don't be too surprised if you hear some Motown...
Date: 12/26/08 | Entertainment
It isn't Christmas without 'The Nutcracker'
It isn't Christmas without 'The Nutcracker' "The Nutcracker." It's as much a part of Christmas as stockings on the fireplace, stories about Rudolph and holiday cookies. And there's lots of these Tchaikovsky-backed ballets to choose from. We're...
Date: 12/17/08 | Out and About
A real 'pop' concert with the Everett Symphony
Kids get a bang out of it: Imagine the childlike fun of popping a paper bag during a classical concert. Then imagine hundreds of these bags popping all at once. The sound brought giggles and laughter to the audience who participated with its "boom,...
Date: 11/13/08 | Living
Pops Ala Cobbs
Call it a concert. Call it a celebration. Call it Everett Symphony's "Ala Boston Pops" at Everett Theatre last weekend. It was a blast. A stiff, serious, Rachmaninoff-Beethoven program kicked off their 70th season. Fun and games prevailed this time.
Date: 11/12/08 | Stage
The symphony must go on
Who could have guessed Dr. Cobbs would take the stage on crutches and conduct Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, seated, on a dining room chair? Not I, say I. But mind you, we're talking Everett Symphony Orchestra's 22nd season opener last Friday night at...
Date: 10/15/08 | Out and About
'70 Years of Virtuosity' begins in Everett
Everett Symphony Orchestra is going to rock the house tonight. From Aaron Copeland's stirring "Fanfare for the Common Man" to Beethoven's emotionally charged "Symphony No. 5," conductor Paul-Elliott Cobbs is promising that Everett Symphony's opening...
Date: 10/10/08 | Entertainment
A high note for Everett: Symphony Plays Carnegie Hall
They've played in Austria. They've toured Italy. A China appearance may be in their future.
Date: 06/28/06 | Local News
Symphony to play Carnegie Hall
EVERETT - Start spreading the news: The Everett Symphony Orchestra will play New York City's Carnegie Hall in June 2006.
Date: 02/26/05 | Local News
