What a Gem Bellingham has in Marrowstone

I just came from a concert up at the Performing Arts Center at WWU, where the Marrowstone students put on a truly amazing concert.  Marrowstone is a summer camp for music students where they get to work with highly skilled professionals and then perform in ensemble performances for the public.  Tonite, the program featured the Brass Choir...many of whom were probably in the younger age range.  They were good...but the performance did show some shaky moments and sounded like a student group.  Still...they had worked hard and are to be commended.  After the intermission, a 17 yr old cellist played the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto #1...and he, and the orchestra were superb.  This lad has talent and, I think, a great professional career ahead of him.  This was followed by Beethoven's 4th Symphony.  For moments, I could have sworn I was listening to one of the great established orchestras.  Amazing.  Having heard the Seattle Symphony this season, and the Bellingham Festival Orchestra earlier this summer (which gave a truly transcendental performance of the Beethoven 1st Symphony), I am still dumbfounded at my good fortune to have found this community with so many riches.  Whatever were the forces that brought me here...I thank them profoundly.

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