The Arnica Quartet will present a concert at the new OHSU Center for Health and Healing [directions] in the South Waterfront district on Wednesday, March 14th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be performing the string quartet of Claude Debussy and Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18 no. 6. This concert is part of a March
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I was doing some more scrounging around in my files and found this OSO program cover from March/April 2002. The OSO was doing a series of profiles on musicians and their work with students. Denise Huizenga (at lower left) was in the Ethos Quartet with me at the time, so they did our profiles concurrently.
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I found this on the fridge today while I was cleaning – it seemed to resonate quite a lot with me today…
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I’m in the process of figuring out what to play on a planned spring recital, and it’s made me think a lot about the largely forgotten art of programming – the act of picking what pieces will be on a concert.I was poking through some of my music that I haven’t looked at for a
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Lately I’ve been picking through old clippings of mine as well as albums of photographs and the like. It is an interesting time, to be on the cusp of 40 as a classical musician. You are neither the new young hotshot nor the seasoned veteran. You have neither the allure of being the unknown nor
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Check out this story by LA Times classical music critic Mark Swed, then come back and let’s talk. I wish that journalists were given the time and space to fully explore the ideas that they either come up with or which are assigned to them by their editors. Since not every music critic gets to
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Take five minutes and check out the video link below – it was done by Andrew Finch, son of OSO cellist Ken Finch (who is the featured performer in the video “duet”). It’s really an amazing, professional production, and the whole Finch clan should be (and I’d bet that they are) very, very proud!
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Photo credit: Cameron R. Neilson – theseenphoto.com. This is a bus in Jackson, Wyoming. The musicians on the bus should be familiar to Portland area concertgoers: they are the string players from FearNoMusic and the Oregon Symphony. From left to right they are: Erin Furbee, Inés Voglar, Adam Esbenson, and Joël Belgique. Jackson Hole photographer
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Yesterday afternoon I was in the studio with eight other string colleagues to play a backing track for one of the new songs on Pink Martini’s upcoming, highly anticipated third album. Recording is an interesting process. A friend who has done a lot of the really high-class movie work in the LA studios described recording
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snow at the pool, originally uploaded by nobleviola. We had an unexpected snow storm hit the Portland metro area Tuesday morning. Of course, it should have been expected, as our intelligence-challenged local forcasters insisted that only minor flurries would mar an otherwise pristine day. The rest of us, city governments included, forgot to use reverse
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The Arnica Quartet will be playing a concert (a short 1 hour concert) in the lobby of the new OHSU building (at the bottom of the famous ‘tram’) in the South Waterfront district on Wednesday, March 14th. We’ll be presenting the Debussy quartet and Beethoven’s Op. 18 no. 6. It is part of a project
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courtesy Wikipedia
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The great violist and educator Eugene Lehner was a Boston resident for many decades. He was a legendary and revered figure at Tanglewood while I was there as a Fellow (alas, I did not get to work with him), and he was the violist of the Kolisch Quartet, which performed many of its programs from
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This past summer I made the very wonderful acquaintance of Ken’s Artisan Pizza on SE 28th St. It’s a great place to have wonderful salads, artisan pizzas and appetizers of all kinds. I thought that the building in which it was housed was familiar to me, and now, looking through my archives, I realize that
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This week we’re doing a program which includes Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony (along with Ives’ Unanswered Question, a percussion concerto by Christopher Rouse (with soloist Colin Currie), and Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger). It’s been a while since I’d listened to a recording of any of the Beethoven symphonies (the last time was after buying the
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