“A welcome sound has popped up around the city. And it sounds a little like a comeback. The Sacramento Philharmonic is staging a series of ‘music invasions’ ” that began on Tuesday with brass players performing in Cesar Chavez Plaza, writes Ryan Lillis in Sunday’s (5/10) Sacramento Bee (California). “The philharmonic has been out of sight for a year … battling money woes…. Like a lot of arts groups, the philharmonic relies on the same small group of families to remain solvent.… ‘We have to find that new group of support,’ said Julian Dixon, the philharmonic’s director of community engagement and education…. Dixon said about 25 of the performances have been set over the next few weeks. The musicians will play at Burbank High School in south Sac, and they’re planning a big show on the west steps of the Capitol on June 17. Along the way, they’ll reach people who have probably never seen a symphony orchestra. ‘We’re taking the music out of the hall and into the community, so people can see that we’re humans,’ Dixon said. This all leads up to June 27. That’s when the philharmonic will launch a seven-concert season with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.”
Posted May 12, 2015
