Season Concert

Smitten

featuring

Dawn Posey, violin

Tickets

February 1, 2026

3:00 pm

Mount Baker Theatre

Program*

Dario Marianelli, arr. John Moss | Music from Pride and Prejudice 2005 Film (4’)
Carl Davis | Pride and Prejudice Suite 1995 BBC Series (4’)
Felix Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto, Op. 64 (25’)
‍Louise Farrenc | Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36 (32’)**

‍Running time is 65 minutes

This concert highlights composers, authors, and women of the romantic era. From the iconic themes of Pride & Prejudice to Louise Farrenc’s gossamer textures of Symphony No. 3, with sizzling scales and romantic masculine pomp - Smitten is sure to arouse and excite anyone’s musical passions.

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Of Note

Fanny Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic period. Owing to her family's reservations and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brother's name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections.

The first orchestra in Bellingham was created by Mary Davenport. She invited Maud Powell to come out and do her first west coast appearance in Bellingham.

Pride & Prejudice languished for 14 years until, flush with the success of Sense and Sensibility, Austen revised the manuscript. It was published in 1813 when she was 37 years old.

Louise Farrenc was the only female professor at the Paris Conservatory, and she held the position for 30 years, becoming one of the best piano professors in Europe and a woman of high professional standing.