This weekend brings yet another stellar violinist to the Oregon Symphony, this time it’s returning soloist Stefan Jackiw (pronounced JACK-eev). He played some superb Mozart on his last visit, and this time he’s playing Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, a work that’s most often heard being butchered by young aspiring contestants at solo and ensemble competitions
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This past week brought a concert that was one of my favorites of this season. The two major pieces on the program were the Beethoven Violin Concerto with soloist Karen Gomyo, and Carl Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony “The Inextinguishable”. Throw in the delightful, nostalgic little Copland “Letter from Home” and you’ve got quite a nice concert.
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Yes, tonight was the last concert of the 2010-2011 season. Coming just over a week after our concert in Carnegie Hall, it was a whirlwind ending to a very eventful season. We had a nice crowd in Salem, who welcomed us warmly as they always do. Resident conductor Gregory Vajda led the concert, and
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Oregon Symphony Resident Conductor Gregory Vajda (who has announced that the 2011-2012 season will be his last with the OSO) has just been named Music Director of the Hunstville (Alabama) Symphony beginning with the 2011-2012 season. Many congratulations to Gregory on his new post! Huntsville Symphony website Gregory Vajda’s website
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If you were at last weekend’s classical series concerts, you know what this post’s title refers to. Of course, it is Gregory Vajda’s newly revised piece for orchestra, entitled Duevoe. It’s the transliteration of the sound that the Hungarian bass instrument makes as it swells within each note of the bass line of Hungarian folk
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Aside from seeing the front side of Resident conductor Gregory Vajda (most patrons see more of his back than his front at concerts), you also get to see the clarinettist Gregory Vajda. He’s good, too! The photo above is from last night’s rehearsal of Mozart’s Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, K. 498 “Kegelstett”, which
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Oregon Symphony Resident conductor Gregory Vajda conducts a recording of music by his mentor, the composer/conductor Péter Eötvös, entitled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. The recording is one of three nominated for the prestigious 2010 MIDEM Classical Award. Conductor Leonard Slatkin has a compelling essay up on his website detailing his experience of
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Gregory Vajda OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda is one of the conductors up for music director of the Fairfax Symphony (located in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.). He wrote a blog entry for the orchestra’s blog and gave a very kind shoutout to this blog, so I thought I’d return the favor. He
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OSO resident conductor Gregory Vajda is a candidate for the music director position in San Antonio, Texas. John Clare, of Texas Public Radio, alerted me to this video interview of Vajda. Enjoy! Maestro Gregory Vajda from John Clare on Vimeo. An interview with Gregory Vajda with John Clare at Texas Public Radio. Vajda conducts music
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In the sporting world, if you’ve got depth on your team, then you’ve got a “great bench”. Supporting players that can come in at a moment’s notice and make a crucial difference when one of your first string players is unable to play.
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OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda is up for two more music director positions: the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony. From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: The Fort Wayne Philharmonic announced its 2008-09 season during a news conference Tuesday. The season will feature at least 10 different maestros, including eight conducting candidates who
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OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda photo credit: Aaron Hewitt David Stabler reports that Oregon Symphony Resident Conductor Gregory Vajda is a finalist for the Fairfax (VA) Symphony. Fairfax is a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. I used to play in the Fairfax Symphony back in the day, *cough* years ago.
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Here’s a round up of the reviews I’ve spotted of our weekend of Classical 8 series concerts, featuring the Adams Chamber Symphony.
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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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