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Productions 4 olyarts.com | October 2018 olyarts.com | October 2018 5 oly arts MUSIC Coffee With Friends By Molly Gilmore n Saturday, Oct. 27, Emerald City OMusic invites you to the musical version of a Parisian café — warm and intimate. Café Music spotlights a group of 20th-century French composers known as “Les Six,” who hung out with other avant-garde artists at Paris’ Stephen Stills and Judy Collins celebrated Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit. It also showcases Emerald City’s mission to welcome devotees and novices alike to Sell Out Olympia Performance its series of chamber concerts. “Emerald City Music … is expanding the traditional notions of classical music, By Adam McKinney their voices are still in remarkable condition. Yes, the spry making concerts more intimate, eclectic elasticity of youth may be gone, but in its place is a richness and easily accessible for the frst-time n addition to being a legendary singer-songwriter – and of character and the telltale signs of experience. It should listener,” executive director Andrew the frst person to put Leonard Cohen’s songs to record, I come as no surprise that Stills – whose work with Crosby Goldstein said in an email interview. even before the man himself – Judy Collins is one of the best and Nash made glorious meals out of pristine harmonies “As if having a cofee with a friend, storytellers around. For someone with such a momentous you get to know each of the musicians and fascinating life, it’s hardly surprising she’d have some – would mesh so well with Collins’ buoyant vocals, but there’s a special thrill in hearing such well-acquainted voices personally throughout the evening as great yarns to share. Coming of age in the folk scene of they perform and tell stories about the become joined on record. Tere’s a healthy mix of originals Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Collins quickly entrenched music.” herself in the American music landscape, her efortlessly and covers, though Stills and Collins’ opening rendition of expressive voice being her secret weapon. the Traveling Wilburys’ “Handle With Care” is like hearing a Concert audiences will make the summation of an entire generation of artists. O acquaintance of some top musicians, Around the end of the ’60s, Collins would fnd herself said artistic director Kristin Lee. “James in a turbulent, torrid relationship with Stephen Stills of Stills and Collins’ performance at Te Washington Center Austin Smith is the leading oboist of our Crosby, Stills & Nash. Tough their romance would be for the Performing Arts is, as of this writing, sold out, but time,” Lee said in an email interview. short-lived, the afermath would make music history, with those who are feeling lucky can contact the box ofce to Both Smith and Peter Kolkay, whom Stills penning two of CSN’s best songs in 1969 (“Suite: Judy inquire about getting on the wait list. Lee described as “my absolute favorite Blue Eyes” and “Helplessly Hoping”) about the dissolution bassoonist in existence,” are making of the partnership. Tough they were no longer romantically their Emerald City Music debuts linked, they remained musically connected: When Stills WHAT in a program designed to showcase wrote “So Begins the Task” about accepting rejection, Stephen Stills and Judy Collins woodwind instruments. Collins responded by covering it. Te program begins with Camille WHERE Over the last few decades, the pair found love with other Saint-Saëns’ Sonata for Bassoon and people. Both found the power to put aside their tumultuous The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Piano, moves on to works by two history and become great friends. Even so, it took until late Oboist James Austin Smith, photo courtesy Emerald City Music. 512 Washington St. SE, Olympia of “Les Six” (Francis Poulenc’s Trio last year for Collins and Stills to not only collaborate on for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano and WHAT WHEN an album together (Everybody Knows), but actually share WHEN Darius Milhaud’s Sonatina for Oboe a stage. Stills and Collins’ inaugural tour was a smashing 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 and Piano) and concludes with Paul Café Music 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27 success, with the duo pulling from deep inside their Schoenfeld’s Café Music, composed respective songbooks and regaling audiences with tales that HOW MUCH in 1986.