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CHOICE programming for Santa Rosa Symphony’s 90th Anniversary Season!! From Ann Hutchinson, Marketing Associate for SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY


Redwood Writers at the Sonoma County Fair


Sonoma County, CA. ~ Red- wood Writers will staff its booth in the EC Kraft Building from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM for the eleven day run of the Fair. At least eight authors of every genre will be on hand daily to sell and sign books and read from their published works.


The public is invited to meet the authors or relax and listen to authors read from children’s books, historical fiction, mem-


oir, mystery, detective novels, thrillers, literary fiction, how-to books, and even coloring books for both children and adults. Watch for book giveaways throughout the Fair. Other pub- lishing professionals will be on hand to answer questions about editing, marketing, social media, indie publishing, and other as- pects of getting one’s book to the market place. For more info, go to www.Redwoodwriters.org.


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Santa Rosa Symphony’s 90th season, its sixth as resident orchestra of the Green Music Center, is highlighted by its search for its next music director. Five of the most talented and ac- complished conductors, from across the nation and beyond, will conduct their handcraft- ed programs, each featuring a piano concerto played by a world-renowned pianist, from October through February.


In


March 2018, one of these five guest conductors will be cho- sen as the Symphony’s fourth Music Director, to begin the following season.


Bruno Ferrandis will lead the orchestra in his last two concert sets as SRS Music Director in the spring of 2018. In April, Ferrandis’s program includes Dharma at Big Sur by Pulitzer- prize-winning John Adams, featuring electric violinist Tra- cy Silverman, for whom the work was commissioned, and Alexander Nevsky, featuring the SSU Symphonic Chorus and mezzo-soprano Jacalyn Kreitzer. Ferrandis bids au re- voir with Mahler’s “farewell” Symphony No. 9 in early May. The Santa Rosa Symphony of- fers a variety of subscription packages to accommodate the varied schedules of North Bay classical music lovers for its CHOICE season. Classical mu- sic lovers may choose from the following 2017-2018 Classical Series subscription packages:


Full 7-Concert Classical Se- ries Subscription, a 5-Concert Conductor Candidates Series (October


through February


concerts), a 4-Concert Mini Subscription (good for any four concerts), Come As You Can package (8 vouchers, good for one ticket each) or the new Sweetheart Series package of two vouchers, each good for


two tickets to a Saturday eve- ning performance of the pa- tron’s choosing.


More information about the 2017-2018 “CHOICE” Season is available at srsymphony.org. Contact Santa Rosa Symphony Patron Services at (707) 546-8742 or tickets@srsymphony.org to discuss season ticket packages.


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