Did a great ride up Rocky Butte, one of Portland’s great cycling climb routes. The views from the top make the grind worthwhile, and all things considered, it’s not that bad a climb (but not easy, either) at about 1.7 miles.
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From the Oregonian: see video after the jump:
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Did a nice ride up to Mt. Tabor and back today – it was a perfect early spring day, even the usual crappy Portland drivers seemed to be minding the road a bit better today! However, Mr. Lindberg is already entering my brain, exhorting me to start practicing his difficult piece Feria for Monday’s rehearsal…
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The seemingly tireless Zach Carstensen of The Gathering Note posted videos and commentary from our concert last weekend in Seattle. Swing by and take a look, and be sure to look around the rest of the site – Zach has put together a team of some of the best arts writers in the Northwest to
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Now, another Big Five orchestra is facing some serious belt-tightening, this time the Cleveland Orchestra (on the heels of the Philadelphia Orchestra): The Cleveland Orchestra said Tuesday it plans a series of “broad and deep” cuts in response to the financial crisis, another sign that not even great cultural institutions are immune from economic woe.
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From a musician press release: Musicians are upset because Texas Ballet Theater is using recorded music it made in China to replace them in the orchestra pit at Bass Hall. When it owed the Fort Worth Symphony Association and Bass Hall more than $300,000 for services and rent last season, the company’s artistic staff traveled
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Great, classic scene from last week’s episode of Family Guy – the Quahog Opera’s production of the OJ Simpson murders:
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Cellist Gregory Dubay plays the Brahms e-minor Sonata with pianist Bill Crane just after dawn. Pianist and organist Tamara Still plays selections from Bach’s Goldberg Variations at 8 a.m. Soprano Lisa Mooyman, pianist Bill Crane and cellist Justin Kagan. Cellist Justin Kagan.
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Can Portland afford the Oregon Symphony as it currently exists? There – that’s the elephant in the room. The question that is probably on everyone’s lips who has a real stake in keeping the Oregon Symphony a vital and powerful force in the cultural scene of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Is it a moot
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Most of the students in the area are now on their spring break, and the Oregon Symphony has joined them. Just in the nick of time, as I was in danger of being spring broken. I was up in Seattle with cellist Heather Blackburn, violinist Shin-young Kwon, and pianist Cary Lewis performing a program of
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Many exhausted musicians presented the finale to the 24/7 event at Weiden+Kennedy last evening at 6:00 p.m. To say that it was a successful event would be the understatement of the century, so here are some images and a video of the moments leading up to the performance from a seat inside the orchestra. Created
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Brett Campbell writes enthusiastically about the recent Oregon Symphony premiere performances of Tomas Svoboda’s Vortex for Orchestra, as well as the rest of the concert. It’s a nice, tight review, well-written and very nice to see in the pages (web) of the Willamette Week. The major local work premiered last week, though, was Svoboda’s Vortex
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Friends of Chamber Music has begun streaming its concerts online at InstantEncore.com. [thanks to David Stabler for the alert] If you, like me, are kicking yourself for not making it to last week’s concerts by the fabulous French Quatour Ebène, then now you can hear complete performances by clicking here (Monday’s performance of Haydn, Fauré
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Bill Crane, Howie Baggadonutz and Thomas Lauderdale have been organizing an event called 24/7: 24 concerts in 24 hours featuring many of Portland’s best musicians, all commemorating the seventh anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq. This marathon concert event will take place in the atrium of the Wieden+Kennedy building, which is between NW 12th
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