We’re into our first rehearsals with Music Director Carlos Kalmar for the upcoming Waterfront Concert at Waterfront Park at the west side of the Hawthorne Bridge on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. Let me tell you, the orchestra is a different animal than even the last couple of years since Carlos arrived. We have three
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Tonight we played a mixed-bag sort of program as part of the symphony-in-the-parks concerts at Harrison Park in S.E. Portland. We had a pretty good crowd, and the weather was warm (high 80′s) though the sun was largely down by the time we got to the 7 p.m. start time. The crowd was a pretty
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I know that I’m lucky to have the job that I do – I’m playing in a major (according to the American Symphony Orchestra League) orchestra that pays a living wage in a great city. I’m doing what I trained for almost 20 years to do. I get that. So are a lot of other
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My wife and I decided to go vegetarian two weeks ago, and we’re still doing fine – I’d have never believed it, being the two avowed carnivores that we’ve always been – but we’ve been doing a lot of reading about the state of industrialized food in the US, and thought it might be a
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Well, the Sunriver festival is now history for this year. It was a good run, very enjoyable in many ways. It was nice to have some time to hike (Newberry Crater trail) and bike (the 40 miles of bike paths in Sunriver) and just hang out with my friends and colleagues in the orchestra. The
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This past Friday (11 August) I was pleased to give my first public performance of the Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto with the Sunriver Festival Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Leighton Smith. I was quite happy with how it went (unusual for me, as those who know me well can attest), especially for a first time, and for it
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We’re back for just an overnight at home, then it’s off to Sunriver for some chamber orchestra action. The Methow Festival went very well. There were more than a few communication and logistical snafus, but given that Artistic Director and Pianist Lisa Bergman had to leave for Seattle during the middle of rehearsals due to
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