LIFT opens Olympia Symphony’s 2026/27 season, Kaleidoscope, with American music in full color. From Jessie Montgomery’s Banner, a searching reimagining of the national anthem, to Wynton Marsalis’s sweeping Blues Symphony, this concert listens to America through joy, memory, resilience, and hope. Guest artist Calder Failla joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, where classical …
by Karen Lunde for OLY ARTS In June of 1947, the Olympia Symphony Orchestra (OSO) performed its first ever work — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Overture to Don Giovanni.” Now, at the culmination of its 65th season, the OSO will once again open with Mozart’s famous overture — in essence, coming full circle. The concert …
by Ned Hayes for OLY ARTS The Olympia Symphony celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Concert at the Capitol on July 31, 2016. This annual “Festival on the Green” takes place on the grounds of the Washington State Capitol campus, and is a decade-long tradition for the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. In an unusual move, the …