The Arnica Quartet is presenting their second concert of the season in Portland on Friday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Music Center. The concert is part of the month-long March Music Moderne festival curated by Bob Priest. The concert features music by some of the greatest composers from the 17th – 21st
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I just turned in my first set of program notes for the Oregon Symphony! I was asked to write notes that were a bit off the beaten path of program notes (which are normally all written for the Oregon Symphony by the excellent Elizabeth Schwartz), and it was fun and interesting to do. The notes
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What a genius Dudley Moore was, and what a shame that we lost him much too soon. A friend pointed me to this classic video of Moore doing two parodies of Britten and Weill, and then I discovered a brilliant version of Schubert’s Erlkönig, too… and then this parody of a Beethoven piano sonata,
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The first two of our three concerts here in Portland are done, and they’ve gone very well, indeed. (Salem residents, you get your chance on Tuesday night at Smith Auditorium at Willamette University.) I have to say, playing the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with Canadian violinist James Ehnes has been a supreme pleasure.
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Phew. This weekend is over. It seemed, on Thursday afternoon, that Monday would never, ever come. It’s been such a busy time for me over this past week, especially considering that it was the spring break week for the Oregon Symphony. But, as time during the season is relatively scant for doing outside musical
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The Arnica Quartet is going to tackle Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue this season, and I was made aware of two cool youtube clips concerning this greatest and wildest of late Beethoven quartet movements. The first (thanks to Elaine Fine at Musical Assumptions) is a visual representation of the fugue: The second is a clip from a biopic
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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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If you’re looking for something to do on this second day of Spring (with much different weather than yesterday), the Arnica Quartet (with guest cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick) will be performing at the Salem Public Library on the Camerata Musica series this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. The concert is FREE. We’ll be doing some core quartet
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”.Â
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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
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Jeremy Denk has a pretty clever “interview” with Sarah Palin regarding Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata.
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