This week we’ve been fortunate to have the wonderful violinist Chee-Yun in town (replacing the ailing Arabella Steinbacher) to play the Dvorak Violin Concerto. She’s playing so well – a great combination of clean playing and grab-you-by-the-throat intensity that’s often lacking in the newer generations of violinists (you often get either clean playing, or passionate
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If you came to tonight’s Oregon Symphony concert (and given the modest numbers in attendance, you most likely did not), you might have noticed that our principal flutist, David Buck, was not on stage. (He was capably covered for by assistant principal flutist Alicia DiDonato Paulsen in many solo turns in the Rossini.) It turns
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Monday marks the beginning of the rehearsal period for our next Classical concert, November 21-23. Conducted by Resident conductor Gregory Vajda, this program will feature a pretty diverse group of compositions. Though not the major work on the program, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for winds will feature four of our outstanding wind principals: David Buck, flute;
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Well, the 2009 edition of the Sunriver Music Festival is complete. I’m back home, the laundry is being done, the house vacuumed, and the obligatory pizza ordered for delivery. The final weekend of concerts was held at the Tower Theater in Bend, rather than the Great Hall in Sunriver Resort. This was due to the
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Over the weekend I had a wonderful musical experience. I was asked to take part in a musical memorial and holiday celebration on behalf of a long time Grants Pass resident. Her daughter, Paula, arranged the entire event and played violin with us. Grants Pass is a wonderful town in the southern part of Oregon,
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Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.
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David Stabler has a short Q&A with Molly Barth, who was a founding member of the new music ensemble eighth blackbird which just won a Grammy award last week. Click here to read it.
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This past Sunday’s Columbus Dispatch profiles three musicians from the troubled Columbus Symphony: principal trumpeter Justin Bartels, violinist Joyce Fishman, and principal flutist Randy Hester.
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So it’s crunch time. I can feel it in my bones – actually in my bow-arm’s shoulder and my back. News which would normally be met with a shrug and “what can ya do?” is instead met with grumbled obscenities and toe-curling rage on the drive home. I feel sorry for the people that have to drive on the roads with me on my way home this week – they’re getting called every name in the book.* On the bright side, I usually only feel a simple sense of tiredness by the time I get home.
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His name is Greg Patillo – he’s a classically trained flutist from Seattle who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and who developed some, shall we say, novel playing techniques while busking in the subways of New York City. He’s now better known as The Beatboxing Flutist. After the jump, some YouTube videos for
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