Hello, friends: Newport Symphony Orchestra opens 37th season with Beethoven, Frank, and Runestad * Oregon ArtsWatch

""Hello friends!" This is how Newport Symphony Orchestra conductor and music director Adam Flatt greets the audience, both at the pre-concert talks and the concerts themselves. It's appropriate in multiple ways. The audience - the community - at an orchestra concert in an Oregon coast town like Newport is rather different from, say, the urban audience you'll find at any given Oregon Symphony concert at The Schnitz."

"Flatt called the specific subset of friends there assembled "the true believers, dedicated to deepening your understanding - or at least the good parking spots." We ourselves (Mrs. The Present Author and I, that is) had parked out on Olive Street, just across from the Newport Performing Arts Center where NSO performs, right about where Olive curves past the sea grass of Don Davis Memorial Park."

Newport Symphony Orchestra under conductor and music director Adam Flatt greets audiences with "Hello friends!" Pre-concert talks and concerts draw a coastal, community-oriented audience that differs from urban symphony crowds. Flatt describes attendees at the pre-concert talk as "the true believers, dedicated to deepening your understanding - or at least the good parking spots." Attendees parked on Olive Street near Don Davis Memorial Park, noting proximity to Nye Beach and its ocean views, kite flyers, dog walkers and murals. The program centers on an extramusical thread and features soloist Rachel Barton Pine in Glazunov's Violin Concerto.

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