Bob Hicks (a.k.a. Mr. Scatter) has a review of the Oregon Ballet Theater’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which featured the return of the OBT orchestra after being absent due to budget cuts for all of the 2009-2010 season. Here’s the portion of the review that deals with the orchestra: Welcome back, orchestra. After
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As promised, here’s a pdf file of the program page from Thursday evening’s Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert. You’ll need either Adobe Reader to view the file, or most Apple computers will open it for you automatically. [endac_prog] Or, if you prefer, a jpeg version that might be a bit harder to read comfortably (click
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Color photo: © Peter Schaaf/www.peterschaaf.com It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of the great cellist David Soyer today, one day after his 87th birthday. He was the founding cellist of the legendary Guarneri Quartet, with which he played from 1964 to 2001. His former student Peter Wiley took over after
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I just got back from the post-concert drinks after our annual Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert (ENDAC) at the Newmark Theater. For years, ENDAC was an orchestra concert by the full orchestra, with most all of the orchestra’s donors invited. Last year, Elaine Calder suggested (I believe) that the concert feature smaller groups of musicians
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I caught this poster and photo campaign over at Inside the Classics, and it’s one of the most simple and brilliant musician-centered media campaigns I’ve seen from any orchestra. And it’s true. In addition, you can see each of the “rock star” posters for each musician on their own at the orchestra’s Facebook page. [click
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I’ve been catching up with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic via my web subscription lately, and here’s one of their free preview clips from their performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique – and it’s fantastic, indeed! (You’ll note that, like our recent performance, they use the coronet part in the “Ball” movement). Enjoy!
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If you were at Saturday night’s Oregon Symphony concert, you’ll recall resident conductor Gregory Vajda talking about a setting of a scene from the Andy Griffith Show to music of Anton Webern (his Op. 6 no. 3). Here’s the clip he was referring to:
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If you’re an assistant principal (as opposed to “assistant to the principal” for you UK Office fans), you’ve got a pretty cushy job. You don’t play any of the solos (unless there are solos for the second chair), you don’t do any of the bowings, and you basically try to help the principal do their
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Today I had two great Mozart experiences, and they were in two very different situations, but they shared similarities despite their different settings. The first: Mozart’s great Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. What a sparkling jewel of perfection this concerto is! And as played by Angela Hewitt, it is polished to its highest
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Chamber Music Northwest is beginning a new series that will put up and coming classical performers and ensembles in some of Portland’s most interesting non-classical venues, called the Protegé Project. The first group to appear will be the Imani Winds, this Thursday, February 18 at 8 p.m., in a special live taping of AllClassical.org’s Club
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Mei-Ann Chen, currently Assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, has been named the new Music Director of the Memphis Symphony! Congratulations to Mei-Ann!
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If you’re looking for something different this weekend, the acclaimed Imani Winds will be playing as part of Chamber Music Northwest’s Encore Series this Saturday night, February 20th at 7:30 at Kaul Auditorium on the Reed College campus. The program and instrumentation are a definite departure from the usual string-heavy fare that most chamber music
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