Thursday night’s free OSO concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park was a great success, as you can see from the photo above, courtesy of OSO principal violist Joël Belgique (who has the smallest camera I’ve ever seen!). It was great to see the music lovers in our community turn out in such numbers! Thanks for
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My OSO colleague Ron Blessinger is also the artistic director of the acclaimed new music ensemble Third Angle, and this September his group and the t:b:a festival (Festival of Time-based Art) are presenting a huge multimedia project devoted to the work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his choreographer wife, Anna within some of his
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We did another photo shoot for Fear No Music this evening, and Inés Voglar had found a pile of deserted violins that were about to be recycled from David Kerr Violins, so a pile of cast-off fiddles came to the shoot! If you come to the free Waterfront concert on Thursday the 28th @ 7:00
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This was in today’s Daily Journal of Commerce: Changes in store for Schnitz, Main Street New RFP issued by MERC calls for designs of an ‘iconic venue’ next to hall to transform Main Street POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Monday, August 25, 2008 BY SAM BENNETT The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall is ready for a makeover.
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Monday was my first day back  (the season began last Thursday, but I was off to wrap up the Sunriver Music Festival) at the OSO.  My first surprise: I now have a spot in the closer parking garage!  I guess I’m now old and decrepit enough to warrant a parking place a block from the
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We just got back today from the lovely high desert resort community of Sunriver, located in Central Oregon about 15 miles south of Bend.  This was the  Sunriver festival’s 31st year of existence, which is a great thing considering the quick and final (Chapter 7) demise of the Cascade Festival of Music this summer. This
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What do Jeffrey Work, Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Lauderdale, cycling to Mt. Bachelor, and 100 degree heat have in common? The 2008 Sunriver Music Festival, of course! Next week I’ll write a full recap of this year’s festival goings-on. Stay tuned!
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portland sunset 2 | Originally uploaded by nobleviola click photo to enlarge I’ll be out in central Oregon for the Sunriver Music Festival (whose continued existence I am very grateful for!) – so posting will be even more sparse than it has been lately – see you in two weeks for the opening of the
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I just spent a fine summer’s evening doing some new shots for fEARnoMUSIC’s so-to-be updated website. Portland is so beautiful (and so is fearnomusic!).
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I was reading a great collection of diary entries and columns by the great Bob “Bobke” Roll, who had a career racing both road bikes and mountain bikes in the 80′s to the early 90′s. He was also a training partner for a young upstart Lance Armstrong as he made his comeback from cancer. As
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