As we edge our way into November, and I reflect on what’s going on in the classical music scene here in Portland, I’m finding it remarkable what all has happened already, and what’s about to happen. At the Oregon Symphony, we’ve just completed our third Classical series concerts. The Vancouver Symphony opened its [...]
by Charles Noble on April 17, 2009
fEARnoMUSIC 21st-century classical ensemble and video curators HELSINQI media studio
Present:
Parallaxis: Music and Moving Pictures: A live concert of 20th/21st-century classical music performed with original video/film
by contemporary artists — silent-movie style.
Friday, April 17
8 PM
Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church
2828 SE Stephens St
Portland OR 97214
(between Hawthorne & Division)
Tickets:
Online at www.artixpdx.pdx or at the door:
• $20 general admission
• $15 [...]
by Charles Noble on February 17, 2009
Wow, time is flying by! I was just getting my music together for upcoming non-OSO performances, and realized that a quartet concert with the Rovetti Quartet in Astoria’s Liberty Theater is taking place very soon – March 1st. As they say in the old country – holy crap!
Liberty Theater – Photo: Morgan Sapp
It’ll be a [...]
by Charles Noble on February 12, 2009
Agniezka Laska Dancers – Photo: Chris Leck
Fear No Music will be presenting its second concert of the season, Home Grown: Fresh, Delectable Sounds by Oregon Composers, at Disjecta (8371 North Interstate Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97217) this Friday February 13th at 8 p.m.
It should be a fascinating and enjoyable concert, featuring some of the best dancers [...]
by Charles Noble on December 19, 2008
Photo courtesy of Fear No Music – credit: Charles Noble
Congratulations to FearNoMusic, who were awarded a sizable grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council for their Home Grown concert coming in February 2009 as part of the Oregon 150 celebration, and the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, who won a grant to present works [...]
by Charles Noble on August 28, 2008
We did another photo shoot for Fear No Music this evening, and Inés Voglar had found a pile of deserted violins that were about to be recycled from David Kerr Violins, so a pile of cast-off fiddles came to the shoot!
If you come to the free Waterfront concert on Thursday the 28th @ 7:00 p.m. [...]
by Charles Noble on March 7, 2008
If you’re not set on what you’re going to do this Friday evening, why not go hear some spankin’ new music played to the hilt by some of the finest musicians around?
by Charles Noble on January 15, 2008 · 1 comment
Here’s some fun I had with one of the shots from the photo shoot for fEARnoMusic – OSO principal violist Joël Belgique will be participating in a work which will involve him playing a boom box – should be interesting!
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by Charles Noble on January 15, 2008
Just got this done for them today – we shot Adam (cello), Joël (boom box), and Joel (cymbals of death) in Joël’s living room against a blank wall with a sheet on the floor. Then I went home, picked the best poses and laboriously cut them away from the existing background using Photoshop, replacing [...]
by Charles Noble on December 28, 2007
David Stabler
David Stabler, the classical music critic of the Oregonian newspaper, has listed his top classical music happenings of 2007.