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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This week’s concerts by the Oregon Symphony feature three works that range from the well-known to the virtually unknown. It’s a good mix of the familiar and the new (though none of the pieces was written more recently than 67 years ago). Beethoven’s only violin concerto is one of those pieces that can only be
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I just turned in my first set of program notes for the Oregon Symphony! I was asked to write notes that were a bit off the beaten path of program notes (which are normally all written for the Oregon Symphony by the excellent Elizabeth Schwartz), and it was fun and interesting to do. The notes
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