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random thoughts for thursday evening

by Charles Noble on October 1, 2009 · 3 comments

First, I just have to say that the First Piano Concerto of Brahms is even better than I remembered it.  I think the last time we performed it was with Peter Serkin, and that was an amazing series of performances, but this time, with Jon Kimura Parker, and with the orchestra playing so well, it [...]

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tonight: fearnomusic parallaxis

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 [...]

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best oscar moment

by Charles Noble on February 25, 2008

Photo credit: Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
The best moment of the bloated-as-usual Academy Awards ceremony had to be the second chance for Marketa Irglova to give her acceptance speech as co-winner of Best Original Song – Falling Slowly – from the movie Once. And it was a poignant and beautiful one, too:

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steinway: the movie

by Charles Noble on November 7, 2007

I just spotted what looks to be a fascinating documentary: Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037. Take a look at the feature in the NY Times here.

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