“This piece is so close to my heart,” Jonathan Pasternack said. In his earliest memory of listening to music, there is Johannes Brahms. Throughout his boyhood, his parents filled the house with Johannes’ Brahms’ “German Requiem.” It was one of the Brahms masterworks Pasternack has loved ever since.
Featured soloist Stephen Schermer smiles at the audience during Saturday’s public dress rehearsal with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which brings musicians from across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula to the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center.