The Olympic Music Festival, 1984-2015 : Concerts in the Barn
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019].
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Book
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Port Angeles - Archives
ARCH 780.9795 MCPEEK
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Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019].
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xi, 605 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English

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This project presents the history of the Olympic Music Festival, a chamber music festival on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, from its 1984 founding through 2015, a period referred to as the Concerts-in-the-Barn years. Using information from a wide range of sources, including archival and contemporary documents, press articles and reviews, radio broadcasts, and extensive interviewing of founder Alan Iglitzin, performing artists, and others, the project details the festival's background and its first thirty-two seasons. During those years, a turn-of-the-century former dairy farm was the festival's home. The original barn, with superior natural acoustics, became the venue for the annual series of summer-weekend concerts performed by casually dressed world-class musicians. The festival presented a great variety of music but specialized in core Classical and Romantic repertoire. As many as 10,000 people attended the concerts each summer, and Iglitzin was given the Washington State Governor's Arts Award for the festival's founding.