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The North State Sym- phony (NSS) opens its Sea- son of Discovery Sept. 20 and 21 in Chico and Red- ding, and a new face will lead the orchestra. Christian Baldini is scheduled to conduct an American and German pro- gram of selections from the classical, romantic and cur- rent eras. Baldini is one of four fi- nalists who will each con- duct an NSS concert this season as they compete to replace Kyle Wiley Pickett, the popular former music director. The young conductor will open the NSS season with Leonard Bernstein's Overture to "Candide," a Broadway show with lots of excitement and energy, followed by three vocal se- lections from Mozart's op- era "The Marriage of Fi- garo," sung by baritone Ryan Kuster. Kuster last sang with NSS in 2013 in Beethoven's Symphony #9, the "Ode to Joy." The up- coming concert will con- clude with one of the main- stream masterpieces of or- chestral music, Brahms' "Symphony #1." Baldini is the conductor of the U.C. Davis Symphony and the Camellia Symphony in Sacramento. A native of Argentina, he conducts ex- tensively in many countries. This summer, he conducted the same Brahms symphony in Sao Paolo, Brazil, that he will conduct in Chico and Redding. Tickets for the four-con- cert season as well as indi- vidual concert tickets are on sale and can be pur- chased until the day of the event. Season tickets can be purchased at a reduced price and afford the pur- chaser an enhanced oppor- tunity to evaluate all four conductor candidates over the course of the year. The opening night con- cert is at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Chico's Laxson Au- ditorium, with a free pre- concert talk at 6:30 p.m. in Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall by Baldini. Tickets are available at the University Box Office, 898-6333. The concert repeats at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Redding's Cascade Theatre. Tickets are available at the Cascade, 243-8877. A pre- concert talk takes place at 1 p.m. For more information about the symphony, visit www.northstatesymphony. org. Baldinitoconduct season's first concert COURTESYPHOTO Christian Baldini SYMPHONY Allison Scull and Vic- tor Martin will perform at Lassen Volcanic Na- tional Park for the 5th an- nual The Art and Wine of Lassen festival on Satur- day, Sept. 27 with special guest, Stefan Schittko. The event is sched- uled to run 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and music can be en- joyed 1-4 p.m. Wine tast- ings and art exhibits will also be celebrated in style at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor's Center, near the Park's southwest entrance. Park admission is free in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Allison will perform on guitar and vocals while Victor will play on sax- ophone and sing. Stefan Schittko will perform on keyboards. See www.al- lisonandvictor.com for artist information. Local wineries featured hailing from nearby Man- ton include Lassen Peak Winery, Alger Vineyards, Mount Tehama Winery and Indian Peak Vine- yards. This event also fea- tures many local visual artists. The festival is family oriented, with perform- ing magicians, clowns, face painter and balloon tying artists. Appetizers will be served in the café and the gift shop is open to the public. Call (530) 595-4480 for more park and event infor- mation. There will be a $7 tasting fee that includes a commemorative glass. Visit www.Lassenrecre- ation.com. LASSEN PARK Duo to perform at art and wine event COURTESY PHOTO Allison and Victor will perform at Lassen Volcanic National Park Sept. 27. Vivace is a modern and thrilling combination of four unique and excep- tional pop and classical singers. Based primarily out of Vancouver B.C., these art- ists merged their talents in 2010 performing at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Since then, they have gone on to tour extensively through the United States and Canada. Vivace is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at Red Bluff's State Theatre as part of the Tehama Con- cert Series. Vivace is the latest addition to the classi- cal crossover and pop- era genre. Their stirring combination of powerful male voices and emotion- ally driven female vocals come together to create a sound that is exclusively their own. With a rich and diverse repertoire ranging from pop, to arias, to their own self-written material, Vi- vace undoubtedly puts a fresh new take on the clas- sical and modern music scene. Learn more at the Te- hama Concert Series website, where you can view a Vivace video to give you a taste of their style, at tehamacon- certseries.org. Tickets at the door are $30 for adults. If you con- vert your $30 ticket into a season ticket, you will gain six concerts for a total of $60. Ask at the door how to do this. CONCERT Vi va ce to p er fo rm p op , cl as si ca l vo ca ls COURTESY PHOTO Vivace is scheduled to perform Sept. 25at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the Friends of Whiskeytown invite visitors to join the fourth annual Harvest Fes- tival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat- urday at the park's Tower House Historic District. This fun and family- friendly event will fea- ture apple tasting, an ap- ple-themed bake-off con- test, games for all ages and tours of the historic Cam- den House and orchards. New this year, the fes- tival will feature informa- tion on historic diets and cooking. Recipes from the Camden family will be highlighted, as well as his- toric cooking demonstra- tions and tastings. Local experts will be on hand to discuss diets of the early pioneers and present tech- niques of natural food preparation and preserva- tion. Several varieties of ap- ples will be available for tasting, all of which are heirloom cultivars, planted in the mid and late 19th century by local pioneers. The bake-off will be judged by a local panel that include representatives from the culinary industry. Prizes will be awarded to those with the best tasting creations. Please include the recipe for your dish, as it will be compiled into a harvest-themed cookbook featuring historic Whis- keytown recipes from the journals of early settlers. Visitors can park in the Tower House Historic Dis- trict parking lot, about 7.5 miles west of the Whis- keytown visitor center on Highway 299W, and follow the footpath to the Camden House where the festivities will be held. For information, call Jeffrey Gerbic at (530) 242-3421. For information about Whiskeytown Na- tional Recreation Area, visit the park website at www.nps.gov/whis. WHISKEYTOWN Fourth annual Harvest Festival slated Saturday Focus Film Festival cel- ebrates 10 years of hon- oring diversity and inclu- sion through documenta- ries and narrative films at its annual festival on Oct. 23 at Sierra Nevada's Big Room and Oct. 24-25 at CSU, Chico's Colusa Hall. This year's festival high- lights more than 30 films featuring stories that ex- plore the human condition and challenge our percep- tions about racism, sexu- ality, disability, incarcera- tion, tradition and courage, among many other themes. The Festival kicks off on Oct. 23 in Sierra Ne- vada's Big Room with the film "The Way Bobby Sees It," a gripping documen- tary about Bobby McMul- len, a mountain bike racer who rides downhill, fast and blind. Ticket info.: www.focus- filmfestcalifornia.com. 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