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chamber music = bliss

Paloma, Trevor, Marilyn, Ron, me, Shin

Tonight I had the pleasure of playing chamber music (and some of the great pieces in the repertoire, at that) with some of my colleagues from the Oregon Symphony.  It was part of the Parties of Note program put on by Friends of the Oregon Symphony (FOS).  The music for the evening was chosen and organized by Assistant principal cellist Marilyn De Oliviera and her husband, cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick.  The other musicians who took part were violinists Paloma Griffin, Shin-young Kwon, and Ronald Blessinger (who debuted his viola prowess in the Tchaikovsky sextet).

The program was of single movements of chamber works, going from the smallest element of chamber music – the duo, and adding one musician at a time ending with all six players.  The evening began with a Breval Duo for violin and cello, played by Shin and Trevor.  Next up was the final Rondo movement of Mozart’s great Divertimento, K. 563 for string trio, played by Ron, myself, and Marilyn.  The quartet was represented by the Scherzo from Beethoven’s Op. 18, no. 1 string quartet.  The longest movement on the program was the first movement of Schubert’s great Cello Quintet, played by Paloma and Shin, myself, Trevor and Marilyn.  The rousing finale of the evening was Tchaikovsky’s rousing finale to his string sextet Souvenir de Florence.

We played in the nicely proportioned (and quite acoustically lively) living room of a home in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, and it is always a joy for musicians to get to play chamber music in exactly the intimate spaces for which it was intended!

One reply on “chamber music = bliss”

Oh crap – Bummed I couldn’t make it last night. To be fair OSA (Kelly, Laura & Dave) did *all* the legwork as part of the revived Young Patrons Soiree… FOS is on summer break 😉

Looking forward to next seasons concerts, PONs & Soiree events!!!

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