If you look to the right sidebar, you’ll see a donation button for Team in Training, which is an organization which raises money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by training teams of runners and cyclists for major full and half marathon events and cycling centuries around the country. My wife Heather has an aunt
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[Justin Kagan, cellist and coffee roaster extraordinaire, was at the Itzhak Perlman recital Tuesday evening - the following is his exclusive review. - C.N.] AN INFORMAL “REVIEW” OF ITZHAK PERLMAN RECITAL @ THE SCHNITZ 4-27-2010 Since my esteemed friends and colleagues of the OSO were doing yeoman’s work in Salem (four straight nights of Tchaik
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Just got back from Salem tonight after our final concert of this weekend’s classical series with the violin soloist Midori, and the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony. Every so often in the life of a professional musician, there comes a time when one simply “phones it in”. What exactly does this mean, you ask. Well, it is
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I’m halfway through this week’s Classical series run (if you include the runout on Tuesday evening to Willamette University in Salem), and my thoughts are starting to turn back to what’s happened thus far in the performances and rehearsals, and looking forward to the two remaining performances. First, the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony. It’s an absolutely
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Last night we played our first of four concerts with the violinist Midori, who is performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with us this weekend. Her visit here has been a puzzling one for me and perhaps for others in the orchestra as well. Midori has been on the forefront of the concert violinist ‘scene’ since
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Here’s a video that’s been going around the blogosphere lately – it’s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony. The catch? He’s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end). Pretty cool, but I think
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So, you know that Yo-yo Ma is playing with the Oregon Symphony next season, right? And it’s a one night only deal, right? And tickets are only available to renewing or new subscribers, right? Did you also know that as of 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday there were only 12 tickets left in the entire Arlene
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Badbeard (aka Justin Kagan, of Badbeard’s Microroastery and Portland Cello Project, and every other cello-included gig in town) has a connection to the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star‘s upcoming season: his cousin has been selected as a finalist who will appear on the show! Read all about it here. Not surprisingly, she’s a coffee
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John Von Rhein – Chicago Tribune The standard orchestral fare — Spanish and French works written for the dance or later appropriated for the ballet — that surrounded the Cerrudo premiere didn’t promise much. But Kalmar, who was making his subscription series debut as a replacement for Esa-Pekka Salonen (who canceled for personal reasons), lifted
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Sunday was one of those days in which I took off my Oregon Symphony hat and put on my freelance violist hat. I was on leave from the pops series, so I was not at the hall for the OSO’s pops matinee on Sunday, but I was at the hall for an evening performance of
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The Classical Beaver has a great open letter to Commissioner Dan Saltzman, which I reprint here in its entirety: “After being alerted to the Mercury’s blog posting this week [“Should City Pay To Send the Symphony to NYC?”], I can only assume that many moons ago, young Daniel Saltzman must have been emotionally damaged by
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The 2009-2010 season has about six weeks left before it ends, and we’re just about to enter the home stretch. May is a super-busy month, but April still has some compelling concerts to see and hear. I’ve very much looking forward to our next Classical series (April 24-26), which features the return of the violinist
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With the local news all a-buzz about the red-tailed hawk chicks hatching in downtown Portland, I thought that a bird of another feather might appreciate a moment in the limited lime-light that this blog is able to provide. I present to you “Bird”, a peacock who lives near the Badbeard Roastery off of Johnson Creek
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Do you want to know why the arts face an uphill battle in the country? Check out the comments over at the Mercury that arose after it was discovered in the proposed city budget that $200,000 had been appropriated to help send the Oregon Symphony to Carnegie Hall in 2011. Somehow, in the course of
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Here’s a movement of Beethoven’s not-so-well-known String Quintet in C major, op. 29 -
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