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Alex Ross, classical music writer at The New Yorker (and author of the acclaimed music history The Rest is Noise), has a great article in the UK’s Guardian newspaper on the role that outdated classical music etiquette plays in discouraging new audiences to the medium. Highly worth a read – here’s the opening gambit:
Last autumn, [...]
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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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45th Parallel, a new chamber music series curated by Oregon Symphony violinist Gregory Ewer, presents its inaugural concert on Saturday evening, January 16th at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church in downtown Portland (1422 SW 11th Avenue). Seating is limited, and the concert is likely to sell out, so don’t get turned away at the [...]
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Frank J. Oteri writes at NewMusicBox that he is not certain of the future of the relationship between composers and the symphony orchestra:
I just got back from a week in Minneapolis for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute followed by a day of jury duty. My time in the Twin Cities is always extremely inspirational. (My [...]
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For those of you who are not yet aware of it, there is a concert series up at the OHSU Auditorium on the OHSU campus on SW Sam Jackson Park Road. It’s been around the last few years, but due to the location and not much of a budget for publicity, it hasn’t gained a [...]
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After my relatively short post about Tuesday evening’s chamber music version of the ENDAC concert, I decided that some sort of more detailed recap might be informative to those who weren’t there, and provoke some feedback from those who were.
There were a few changes in the lineup due to unavoidable absences of key musicians, but [...]
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Last night was the annual Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert (otherwise known around the OSO as “ENDAC”). Instead of the usual program of warmed-over pieces from other concerts with a full orchestra, the action moved across the street to the Newmark Theater with a full slate of chamber works featuring OSO players. I hope that [...]
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The seemingly tireless Zach Carstensen of The Gathering Note posted videos and commentary from our concert last weekend in Seattle. Swing by and take a look, and be sure to look around the rest of the site – Zach has put together a team of some of the best arts writers in the Northwest to [...]
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Most of the students in the area are now on their spring break, and the Oregon Symphony has joined them. Just in the nick of time, as I was in danger of being spring broken. I was up in Seattle with cellist Heather Blackburn, violinist Shin-young Kwon, and pianist Cary Lewis performing a program of [...]
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The news around the world has certainly been dismal lately. I find myself hearing about the latest bad financial news, rising unemployment rates, people turned out into the streets, and watch as my anxiety level starts to rise, with my blood pressure in quick pursuit.
Then, I think of the quartet concert I played in Astoria [...]
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Violinist Jonathan Dubay and cellist Gregory Dubay will give a concert of chamber music for strings and piano by Brahms with pianist Janet Guggenheim. It’s a selection of some of Brahms’ best works for strings – the A major Violin Sonata, the E minor Cello Sonata, and the Trio in B major, Op. 8. Should [...]
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I just got an email a couple days ago from Susan Franklin, who along with former OSO concertmaster Amy Schwarz Moretti, has founded the Portland Summer Ensembles program at Reed College. Here’s a bit of what she had to say about the program and its genesis:
Amy and I started talking about having a chamber music [...]
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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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I was digging through my ever-growing iTunes library and listening to some old performances by the Ethos Quartet. We went through three incarnations – each time with a new violinist replacing the previous one. Denise Huizenga was the constant thread in the violins, with Lisa Hansen, Marty Jennings, and Tyler Neist taking the other chair [...]
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