The Winds of Yarrow are blowing this Saturday….

Islander Sue (second from left) joins Pat (second from right) in Saturday's concert with Rainer & Tom with Chamber Music San Juans.

Jan Bollwinkel-Smith tells me this is going to be a special night at the Community Theatre:

CMSJ “Mixes It Up” on Saturday

Artistic director Patricia Kostek promises that Chamber Music San Juans’ second concert of its 24st season “will be a program unlike any we’ve presented in the past. If you love the sound of clarinet, your enjoyment will be quadrupled!”

Kostek’s ensemble, The Winds of Yarrow, includes four classically-trained clarinetists plus a string bass player THIS Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. on the Whittier stage.

The group will play a festive mixture not only of classical favorites but folk, jazz and a few surprises as well. Composers such as Mozart, Bartók (Romanian Folk Song), Piazzolla and Bechet (Waste No Tears) will be featured. The group will also play a new composition from San Juan Island’s own Richard Hieronymus, newly arranged for the group and described by him as “a haunting ballad.”

Joining Kostek will be string bass player Bruce Meikle and clarinetists Rainer Roth, and jazzman Tom Ackerman and guest  player Sue Collado. You may remember Sue from playing in last spring’s You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.  Sue and her husband, Jim, recently moved from California to live on the island full-time.  She performed with the San Diego Symphony and was the principal clarinetist for the La Jolla Symphony for 28 years.

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