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Symphony Season Begins on Sunday STORY & PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ourney from darkness to light when the Edgar M. Bronfman “In Focus” Series explores “The Sacred and the Profane.” The chamber music series, which precedes the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s regular season, will feature works by Bach and Stravinsky. It will start at a new time—6 p.m. each night at the Sun Valley Pavilion—and each performance will be about 90 minutes. Symphony Music Director Alasdair Neale will have a young sidekick in new co-host and conductor Teddy Abrams. An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras. He was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra for seven seasons and in 2012 was appointed assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. “He’s precociously gifted, extremely talented and bright and he has an unslakable thirst for music. I first became acquainted with him when he played with the San Francisco youth orchestra and it’s been my pleasure to see him grow up,” Neale said. Abrams has been working with Neale behind the scenes for the past two years, as well as offering a few of the free preconcert talks. “He will share the podium with me during our ‘In Focus’ Series. He’ll introduce some of the music; I, the others. And he’ll conduct some pieces,” Neale added. The free four-program In Focus Series kicks off on Sunday with a young tenor, Nicholas Phan. Phan will sing J.S. Bach’s “Ich traue seiner Gnaden” from “In allen meinen Taten,” Britten’s “My Beloved is Mine,” and Handel’s “Descend, Kind Pity” from “Theodora.” The evening will also feature Ives’ “The Unanswered Question” and Bach’s “Prelude from Cello Suite No. 2,” as well as music by Debussy and Mihaud. Phan was named one of National Public Radio’s Favorite New Artists of 2011. He is considered one of the rising young stars of the opera world, and his first solo album, “Winter Words,” made many “Best of 2011” lists, including those of The New York Times and The New Yorker. Monday night’s performance will feature pianist Orion Weiss playing “The Devil’s Trill” sonata with violinist Juliana Athayde. He will also perform selections from Granados’ “Goyescas” and St. Saens’ “Danse Macabre” and Messiaen’s “Louange a Immortalite de Jesus” from “Quartet for the End of Time.” Weiss will play the latter two pieces with violinist Erin Schreiber. Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists in his generation of young American musicians. He graduated from the Juilliard School where he studied with Emanuel Ax. The Wednesday, July 31, concert will feature Balinese ceremonial music. The series will conclude with Igor Stravinsky’s retelling of the Faustian legend, “A Soldier’s Tale,” in a performance that will include a narrator and dancers, in addition to the musicians. tws
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Frisbee Fun Daisy Finds Success With Frisbee Following Adoption, Animal Shelter Looks to Find More Homes for Daisys
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hen Hank Nicolais goes flying, Daisy goes flying,
because she’s so exuberant. And, while my husband was the one who was most adamant that we didn’t need another dog, now he’s the biggest cuddler on the couch when it comes to Daisy. She’s really added to our family.”
too. While her 17-year-old master Hank is flying off Baldy on the wings of a paraglider, Daisy is flying through the air jumping GALA EVENT and twisting in pursuit this FRIDAY of a purple Frisbee at The Animal Shelter the landing zone at Sun of the Wood River ValValley’s upper River Run ley will parade adoptparking lot. able dogs like Daisy “We throw the Frisbee was during its annual to Daisy while we’re waitgala fundraising event ing for our son to land,” Friday at Trail Creek said Jane Nicolais. “She Pavilion in Sun Valley. jumps eight feet in the air, The event is the she can catch anything largest fundraising you throw, and she’s got a effort by the 31-year-old lot of fans in the landing shelter, which is a nozone.” kill shelter. The Nicolais family This year’s live were not in the market auction will feature an for another dog when they African safari, a trip went to the Animal Shelto the Arctic to see the ter’s Dog Days of Summer polar bear migration benefit last summer. They and animal art by already had a 10-year-old Wood River Valley artLab-border collie cross ist Brandis Sarich. A named Zeke that they’d scooter package for two adopted from the shelter will be drawn in a rafnine years ago. And they fle contest, and a couple had a 9-pound rat terrier dozen one-of-a-kind named Star that rules the homemade birdhouses roost. will be available in the But they couldn’t help silent auction. but fall in love with The shelter has Daisy, an 11-month-old facilitated the adoption Lab-border collie that was Mike Nicolais has Daisy’s complete attention as he prepares to throw the Frisbee. of more than 12,000 anhomeless and living at the imals. It provides a free shelter. it again! spay/neuter clinic, community education “She was so very charming. My son But when the Frisbee is put away, Daiprograms, a Paws for Hunger pet food said, ‘Mom, we need her.’ I said, ‘But we sy becomes a total lap dog—calm, loving, bank and more. have two other dogs.’ But he was just so cuddly, warm. Tickets to the benefit are $175 per insistent, we ended up adopting her,” said “It’s like she has two personalities,” person and reservations are required at Jane. said Mike Nicolais, “one that’s obsessed animalshhelterwrv.org or 208-788-4351. Daisy is totally obsessed with the with the Frisbee and the other a dog who tws Frisbee when it’s within sight. Try to get was housetrained almost overnight and is a word in dgewise and she ignores you, totally protective of our little dog.” RELATED: Rescue Dog Makes her attention zeroing in on the Frisbee “She’s the perfect dog,” said Jane. “She like a laser. wakes up in the morning and is so joyful Believer Out of Sceptic, page 9 All she can say in that moment: Throw and happy. She makes us laugh every day