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Thursday, OcTOber 21, 2021 • The buLLeTIN
CENTRAL OREGON ARTS SCENE
bendbulletin.com/gosee
Central Oregon Symphony returns
with pandemic-safe program
“The whole
philosophy of
it was based in
the pandemic
predicament of ‘We
just don’t know.’
We didn’t know if
we could. We didn’t
know if people
wanted to come.
We didn’t know if
musicians wanted
to participate. …
So we thought
we wanted to go
small.”
— Michael Gesme,
shown at left, will
lead the Central
Oregon Symphony
in concert Sunday.
submitted photo
BY DAVID JASPER • The bulletin
I
t’s been nearly two years since the last Central Oregon Symphony concert, but come Sunday, the community orchestra will once more fill the
Bend High Auditorium with the worldly sounds of two of Europe’s better-remembered composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard
Wagner. That’s “fill” in the sense of the sound of music, to borrow a phrase. The Fall Concert will look a little different from concerts of years
and decades past, including its last full production, the 2020 Winter Concert — held in February of that year, a few beats before the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine it engendered. Things have largely been quiet since. This is why, though the audience capacity will be
halved, with seating for 700 patrons per concert, it’s still an exciting development in local live music.
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