Author: Andrew Holm

Mary wanted to clean out her freezer, so she brought some treats that are on the break room table.  Please help yourself!

If you know anyone who is or might be attending the Magic Flute matinee at the Civic Center downtown on March 7, please let me know.  We are only performing act one for this performance.

Beth’s daughter Penelope is selling girl scout cookies, and her chart and money envelope is in the breakroom.  If you are wanting to write a check, Beth still needs to determine who to make it out to.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Des Moines Metro Opera, and this organization and the Des Moines Symphony are collaborating together and performing W.A. Mozart’s The Magic Flute.  Concerts at the Civic Center are Saturday March 5th at 7:30 PM, and Sunday March 6th at 2 PM at the Civic Center.  If you know any students in the DSM area, we are performing act one on Monday March 7th as a student matinee at 11 AM.

https://desmoinesperformingarts.org/events/dmmo-magic-flute/

There is no online viewing for this event unfortunately.

Be sure to purchase your online access for this weekend’s concerts!

https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/0/6040

Some letters written by Beethoven to an unknown person will be read as part of the performance.  The pianist joining us for Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is awesome!

Masterworks 4 is coming up, and one of the pieces will be Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto.  Here is the link to purchase online access, and you will have up to 30 days after the intial performance to watch it:

https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/0/6040?queueittoken=e_newdmpasafetynet~q_6d5e19af-0b6e-4eda-9b77-a66bfc7398cc~ts_1642004674~ce_true~rt_safetynet~h_7d0bced1da62567adcc26f56c8d0498c13cb8e58a00de626af9ce20e9d062bbf

Chocolate Mint Brownie Cookies

1 devil’s food cake mix

1/3 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

3 Tablespoons water

1 10 oz. package mint or peppermint bark chocolate chips

Mix first four ingredients together.  Add chips.  Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.  Cool on wire rack.

Please help yourself to a chocolate mint brownie cookie in the break room when you have a chance today!

https://desmoinesperformingarts.org/events/new-years-eve-pops/

This is a link for purchasing tickets to the New Year’s Eve pops concert.  We will be performing music of Elton John.

Be sure to purchase your access for this weekend’s concerts:  https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/0/6041?queueittoken=e_nov17onsale~q_9486eca7-0fd4-4166-93e3-7d3bb44c8947~ts_1637255705~ce_true~rt_safetynet~h_9effe1d32a626c5200ea14000a20c42bba47f5e8be2e26b05c3be446dc019344.

We are playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Paul Huang as soloist, Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony, and Masquerade by Anna Clyne.  Hope you enjoy it!

https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/tchaikovsky-s-fourth-2/

https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/0/6037

https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/overview/5609

The above links involve info on how to purchase tickets, online streaming, and concert info.  The concert is available for viewing for 30 days after the performance.  We are playing Lyric for Strings by George Walker, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.  The concertmaster, principal cellist, and Drake piano professor will be the soloists in the Beethoven.

The first pops concert of the season is Saturday October 9th, at 7:30 PM at the Civic Center, and we are playing music of the Beatles.  https://desmoinesperformingarts.org/events/revolution-the-music-of-the-beatles/.  Please be sure to bring a Covid vaccination card as well as a mask if you are attending, and it should be amazing!

I will be playing a requiem with a Drake alumni choir on Sunday October 3rd at 3 PM at St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown Des Moines.  It’s free and open to the public.

All Des Moines Symphony Masterworks performances will be livestreamed this season (along with having a live audience), and here is a link to purchase access to Masterworks 1. We are playing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Egmont Overture, John Corigliano’s Promenade Overture, Piano Concerto in one movement by Florence Price, and Hector Berlioz’s Hungarian March.  You will have until 30 days after the initial broadcast to watch the performance.

https://my.desmoinesperformingarts.org/0/6043

Final reminder about the FREE symphony pops concerts this weekend at Waterworks Park near Gray’s Lake.  Saturday the 4th at 7:30 with Aretha Franklin music, and Sunday the 5th at 7:30 with John Williams music.

I had a Panera snack with Abbi Waugh, former JPL librarian yesterday, and she said to tell everyone hello.  She is enjoying working at the downtown library in the tech services department, and her daughter Eleanor starts school at the downtown school this week.

Please help yourself to a Mississippi mud brownie at anytime today and the next few days.  I brought some since my birthday is on Friday, and I will be gone tomorrow through Sunday.  Thanks for a great summer reading!

The symphony will be back to having in person audiences Labor Day weekend at Waterworks Park’s Lauridsen Ampitheater in Des Moines:

Saturday, September 4th:  Aretha: A Tribute, 7:30 PM

Sunday, September 5th: John Williams Celebration, 7:30 PM

Should be an exciting weekend, hope you all can attend as both are FREE!

The Pleasant Hill Public Library will be closed from August 9-29 due to the installation of a new HVAC unit.  Curbside will be available from 4-6 PM weekdays during that time.

Don’t forget to tune in to the following channels at the following times for Yankee Doodle Pops this weekend:

July 2nd at 8:30 PM on Iowa PBS

July 4th at noon on Iowa Public Radio Classical

July 4th at 6 PM on Iowa PBS

July 5th at 11 AM on Iowa Public Radio Classical

The PBS Video and Iowa Public Radio apps are free to download from the app store.  After downloading the IPR app, be sure to select Classical, as that is the network the YDP will broadcast.  97.7 FM and 105.9 FM should be the radio stations for IPR Classical if you wish to use a radio.  Iowa PBS is 11.1.