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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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We had one of our more interesting (in the Chinese curse meaning of the word) rehearsal/performance experiences Sunday afternoon and evening at the state fairgrounds in Salem. We were the backup band for Peter Cetera, lead singer of the band Chicago.
First of all, the commute down to Salem was pretty miserable. Pouring rain, and a [...]
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This shall be me on this Thursday evening, making my way to the stage for our first concert of the season at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (Thursday, Sept. 3 @ 7pm).
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The day’s final glow from Bastyr dormitory.
Photo: © Charles Noble
Tonight was the final faculty chamber concert of the 2009 Max Aronoff Viola Institute, a string camp that I started along with University of Puget Sound viola faculty Joyce Ramée back in 1990. It was a great concert on three counts: the quality of the performances, [...]
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Tonight was one of those nights where I was intimately reconnected with why I became a performer in the first place. It’s about people. The person the composer, who in their genius rendered their innermost thoughts into sublime music. The person the performer, who studied for years to be able to recreate and interpret that [...]
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Word from Elaine Calder is that the series of three Pink Martini concerts this coming week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evenings) have sold in excess of $500,000 worth of tickets. Amazing! It really is a tremendous gift to the Oregon Symphony that Thomas Lauderdale decided to use the Oregon Symphony to make this live recording, rather [...]
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If you’re looking for something to do today that involves great chamber works, then seeing the Arnica Quartet at the Salem Public Library might be just the ticket. What’s more, the concert is FREE! We’re being presented by Camerata Musica of Salem, and the program features three great works for string quartet:
Mozart – Adagio & [...]
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Neah-Kah-Nie Project String Quartet
Sunday, April 19, 2–3 p.m.
The Neah–Kah–Nie Project String Quartet was formed in 2007 to record the string quartet music of Ferdinand Sorenson and Sorenson’s grandson Dana Carlile. Sorenson’s music was featured in the documentary Susie Fennell Pipes and the The Neah–Kah–Nie String Quartet.
The current members of the quartet are four Oregon Symphony [...]
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I hope you all have a chance to come to the concert this weekend, it’s shaping up to be very interesting and very well played. Our dress rehearsal this morning was quite good, with the Mozart “Linz” Symphony jelling into what one should expect from this orchestra – elegant and flexible. Horacio Gutierrez is masterful [...]
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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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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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I have to say that I’ve got a new high point in my career with the OSO so far. Last night’s subscription concert was at such a high level of polish and sophistication that I almost want to shout from the rooftops that the Oregon Symphony is, without a doubt, one of the best orchestras [...]
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