This coming weekend – Sunday, March 2nd @ 2 p.m., to be exact – the Oregon Symphony will present the next concert in its series Inside the Score. Under examination this time around is the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Fifth Symphony. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2008
local connection to nyphil pyongyang visit
Many of you may be unaware that Oregon Symphony violinist Elena Hirsu’s father Valentin is a cellist with the New York Phiharmonic. He is profiled in today’s New York Times while the orchestra is visiting North Korea. He was asking for information from North Korean musicians as to the whereabouts of several orphaned North Korean refugee musicians whom he knew from music school in Bucharest, Romania, over 50 years ago, and who were later returned back to North Korea after the Korean War. Continue reading
best oscar moment
Photo credit: Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
The best moment of the bloated-as-usual Academy Awards ceremony had to be the second chance for Marketa Irglova to give her acceptance speech as co-winner of Best Original Song – Falling Slowly – from the movie Once. And it was a poignant and beautiful one, too: Continue reading
spring is almost here…
I can’t wait – it’s hit 60°F once already…
bela fleck and the flecktones
Not much to say about this one except – go, go tonight and come back on Monday night. I think it’s a must-see show, and a highlight of the pops season. I’ve heard rumors (quite possibly untrue) that this is the last tour of the Flecktones, so it’s literally a once in a lifetime opportunity to see them live in Portland for one last time. Rarely do I have the pleasure of just sitting and drinking in such incredible musicianship with an awestruck grin on my face. I know, you’re saying to yourself, “it’s just a banjo” – trust me, it’s much, much more – get your tickets now!