Well, yesterday, returning from a ride down Barbur and out on the Springwater Corridor to the Sellwood Bridge and back, I was faced with a quandry: low-angle return, or high-angle return. Normally, I’d ride back over the Hawthorne Bridge, get over to Broadway, and ride back up Barbur for a steady, but low-gradient rise out
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EMI has released a set of recordings from their huge back catalog devoted to major works (classics, if you will) of the previous century. There is a lot of great stuff to be found on these discs, including some definitive performances. Here’s a rundown and information on where to order or download: Messiaen Turangalila Symphony
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Conductor Bill Eddins, music director of the Edmonton Symphony, (the previous post of OSO president Elaine Calder) has some high praise for Elaine, which should keep everyone’s eyes on the ball, namely that we’re trying to ensure a secure future for the Oregon Symphony, rather than sitting back and watching it die, bit by bit.
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Today was a red letter day for me in my nascent cycling career – I hit the 122 mile mark for the week starting last Monday (the 21st). It’s great – my average speed is slowly climbing (to around 13 mph) and now a 30 mile day feels like a 10 mile day felt back
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Doubtless, many of you have seen (care of ArtsJournal.com and other online sources) the latest Portland Business Journal article about the imminent death of the Oregon Symphony. Well, the OSO is hardly dying, and to paraphrase an old saw, the reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.
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Orton sees a bridge | Originally uploaded by Zeb Andrews click photo to enlarge A great shot by Portland photographer Zeb Andrews of the landmark St. John’s Bridge in North Portland. Here’s his description of the photo: Orton sees a bridge Today is my day off of work, which means I spend at least a
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Had a nice ride this afternoon of one of my favorite loops, which brings me from Garden Home out to Lake Oswego via Tryon Creek Park, then through downtown Lake O, Lake Grove, and over in to Tigard and back to Garden Home. A nice, rolling 21 miles on a perfect day for cycling!
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Check out the new blog of the Columbia Symphony’s musicians – it’s a place to let your opinion be heard, give words of encouragement, or just check in for the latest news about the Columbus Symphony and their uncertain (for now) future. http://symphonycolumbus.blogspot.com/
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James Bash, one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet, met up with a patron at a recent Chamber Music Northwest concert who contributed in a significant way to his concert experience – by vomiting all over his back! Yech! Maybe CMNW should have air sick bags tucked into their seats for
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We took a nice outing to see Mt. St. Helens on Friday. We hadn’t been for perhaps a dozen years, and the amount of regrowth in the blast zone was pretty amazing. Also evident was some serious rebuilding of the mountain through the latest eruptive phase (recently completed) of four years. click on photo to
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Yesterday morning I did what I hope will be my autumnal commuting trip into downtown. I went down Barbur Blvd and was going to return via the same route, but then Terwilliger beckoned. Now, I’d ridden Terwilliger in the ‘easy’ direction – to downtown – which is more downhill than up, but not the reverse.Â
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There’s been a lot of coverage lately of the dismissal/downsizing of some of the nation’s top print classical music critics. And there should have been. Newspapers are one of the primary ways that orchestras communicate and market to their target audiences. Check out these statistics, courtesy of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA): 74% of
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Here is a slide show of images from the rehearsals, concerts, and classes of the 2008 Max Aronoff Viola Institute (along with some non-musical sights from the campus and our friends’ homes). It’s hard to believe that Joyce and I started this thing 18 years ago – almost two decades! Ok, now I feel old…
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