The music favors lush harmonies, long melodies and a grand scale. This grand scale is evident in the length of the piece, and also the number of the players. This particular combination of eight instruments is unusual, and also rather large for chamber music without a conductor.

The donor simply stated that they wanted to 'create some momentum' in the Mesa Symphony's fund-raising efforts. The anonymous donor's gift is not attached to a particular program, although the donors helping to match the anonymous donor gift with matching funds can be donor specific.

It has an uncanny ability to remind us of all things American.

We more than met our $10,000 matching grant challenge. We now have a new matching grant for $1,200 to keep the momentum going with this match expiring on March 4, the evening of this performance.

Our music, specifically, is hard to put into a genre, we've been told. Working with so many different bass players has helped us home in on the style and sound we've been looking for...and nine would be the number on that, by the way.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music