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This Sunday the Arnica Quartet will be performing on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the main branch of the Salem Public Library. The concert is at 2:30 in the afternoon, and is free to the public.
The big finish piece for the concert is Beethoven’s Op. 59 no. 1 – part of a set of [...]
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Violinist Stefan Jackiw
If you have time before your late night Halloween activities on Saturday night, you really owe it to yourself to head down to the Oregon Symphony’s Classical series concert on Saturday night (repeating Sunday afternoon only). Why? Well, I’ll tell you why.
First of all, you’ll get to hear our phenomenal woodwind section (and [...]
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Kiril Gerstein, pianist
Tonight is the last of the three concerts making up the first of Classical Series B at the Oregon Symphony. The program is a variation upon the famous “Three B’s” concert format – usually Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. This time it’s Bach, Bernstein and Beethoven. It pits two pieces by very well-known composers [...]
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Helene Grimaud – will rue the day
Photo: Mat Hennek/DG
Valentina Lisitsa – saved the day
Photo: Iran Issa-Khan
Pianist Helene Grimaud spaced out and learned the wrong Beethoven concerto for her planned CSO appearances this weekend, and Portland favorite Valentina Lisitsa was called in to pinch hit for the Beethoven Emperor Concerto. Grimaud recently recorded the piece, so [...]
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This Monday and Tuesday (March 16 -17) the young Ébène Quartet comes to Portland play on the Friends of Chamber Music series. The Monday program, at the First United Methodist Church, will feature the rarely performed Fauré String Quartet op. 121, as well as a late Haydn quartet and Schubert’s ever-present “Death and the Maiden”. [...]
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Yesterday (Wednesday) I and three of my OSO colleagues gave a free lunchtime brownbag concert at the Old Church in downtown Portland. As we were rehearsing on Tuesday, the conversation drifted around to the subject of dress – what would we wear for this concert?
The concert came at the instigation of the violinist and raconteur [...]
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Jeremy Denk has a pretty clever “interview” with Sarah Palin regarding Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata.
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Oregonian classical music critic David Stabler has posted a follow-up on his review of last Saturday’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony. You can find it here.
What I find most interesting is the discussion that has apparently begun about the efficacy of the stage extension that we use for large works for choir and orchestra. Carl [...]
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We’ve got two out of our three performances of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony out into the ether, and the reviews of the first performances have been mixed.
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In one of my recent posts, I happened to say that I didn’t care for the Ode to Joy from the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony. Well, I’ve reconsidered that stance a bit.
I still don’t do cartwheels over the long initial statement of the theme in the celli and basses, then the violas. I think [...]
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We had our first rehearsals on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony yesterday, and it was one of those days where I was tired from the very beginning, but I thought I could at least dredge up nine observations about this well-loved work from an insider’s perspective. In the spirit of full disclosure, I cannot vouch for the [...]
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As part of our partnership with different communities each year, our education department includes what is called the instrument petting zoo. Â No, it’s not a bunch of instruments in a fenced in area, with children walking around them petting them with timid hands. Â
What it is in actuality is a chance for kids to get [...]
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If you’ve got time in your lunch hour for a quick concert of chamber music masterpieces, come on over to the Old Church (1422 SW 11th Ave) at Noon today to hear (mostly) members of the Oregon Symphony play music by Beethoven and Brahms. Here’s the line-up:
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