There were two major highlights to last weekend’s classical series concerts with the Oregon Symphony: Joshua Bell and our brass section. Due to changes in his calendar, Bell dropped the Shostakovich First Violin Concerto for the Brahms Violin Concerto. Basically, he was to perform the piece publicly for the first time this season, but several
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I hope that the Classical Beaver brings a change of underwear for the Oregon Symphony’s January 14, 15 and 16th concerts, because the ‘rock star’ violinist Joshua Bell will now be playing the great Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms in place of the previously programmed First Concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich. I’ll bet that principal oboist
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There was a review of last night’s concert by James McQuillen, which you can find here at the Oregonian’s website. I was interested to find that there was a pretty quick followup comment by “clarities” – I’ll quote the first paragraph here: If it’s true that “Carlos Kalmar intends for the orchestra to pull its
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Tonight marks the official opening of the Oregon Symphony season – it’s the gala concert with violin soloist Joshua Bell. The concert is selling well, but there seem to be tickets at all price levels available, so grab one or two quickly if you’re so inclined. The Lalo Symphonie Espagnole that features Josh is very
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