OK, I’m a city boy for sure, but I’d never seen an actuall FIG TREE before! This is waaay to cool for me! This is in the courtyard of Bastyr University – a new addition since last year.
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June 2006
Greetings from Seattle. I’m up here doing an instrumental camp at Bastyr University, which is actually in the hamlet of Kenmore, Washington – right at the northern tip of Lake Washington. We’re in the midst of one of the earliest record heat waves in Northwest history. In Portland yesterday the official high was around 96
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tower theater, originally uploaded by nobleviola. If you have the occasion to visit Bend, central Oregon’s largest city, take in a show or concert at the lovingly restored Tower Theater in the heart of downtown. The Sunriver Music Festival will be presenting its annual pops concert here on Tuesday, August 8th: a selection of great
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planter 1, originally uploaded by nobleviola. This lovely planter was a gift from our dear friend Anna Schaum who retired from the orchestra at the end of the 2005-2006 season to pursue a private counselling practice. There were a variety of plants growing in it when she gave it to us, and we thought they’d
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I had the great fortune recently to engage in a late-night conversation at the Vermont home of a long-time friend and colleague during a stopover on the way home from the Int’l Viola Congress in Montréal. My friend (who I’ve known since our youth orchestra days) had just introduced me to the intricacies and humor
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A great loss to the music world – and especially violists, for whom he wrote his herculean masterpiece, the Solo Viola Sonata. nytimes link
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Well, my time at the XXXIVth Int’l Viola Congress has come to an end. It was a wonderful couple days for me in the middle of the schedule of the Congress. I played the world premiere of Dorothy Chang‘s Streams for solo viola Friday morning at around 10:00 a.m. I think I represented the piece
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