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I just got back from the post-concert drinks after our annual Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert (ENDAC) at the Newmark Theater. For years, ENDAC was an orchestra concert by the full orchestra, with most all of the orchestra’s donors invited. Last year, Elaine Calder suggested (I believe) that the concert feature smaller groups of musicians [...]
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I’ll be spending the early part of Valentine’s Day by taking part in the 2010 Worst Day of the Year Ride here in Portland.
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This is the first local, large-scale benefit for victims of the Hatian earthquake that I know of, organized by local dynamo/musician/blogger/organizer Stephen Marc Beaudoin. It’s called Songs for Haiti, and it features a who’s who of local Portland’s classical and non-classical musicians. And it benefits Mercy Corps, which is notable among major charities in that [...]
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Photo [L-R]: Jun Iwasaki, Charles Noble, Gregory Ewer, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Viorel Bejenaru, Justin Kagan.
UPDATE: Northwest Reverb posted a review of the concert on Sunday.
Saturday evening saw the inaugural concert of a new presenter in town: 45th Parallel. Founded by artistic director Gregory Ewer (also a violinist in the Oregon Symphony), it is a presenter that [...]
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Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist neé coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler. It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here. Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more:
Coffee [...]
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This summer, as part of a series of financial concessions from the Oregon Symphony’s musicians, the Oregon Symphony Association discontinued its contract with HealthNet Health Plan of Oregon and transferred all of its employees to one of two available Kaiser Permanente health plans. The reason? Out of control health care cost increases. [...]
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If you want live music with your ballet this holiday season, there’s only one place to go: Portland Ballet. They’re collaborating with the PSU Symphony Orchestra to put on a production of Rossini’s La Boutique Fantasque – a holiday company tradition.
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Proof that musicians just keep on going and going – a wonderful profile of Wilsonville violinist Harold Wolf from today’s Oregonian newspaper:
WILSONVILLE — Harold Wolf’s beloved 1745 violin is gone now, passed to a granddaughter who shares his passion. But at 88, Wolf still plays, practicing twice a day on another violin.
And twice a year, [...]
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If you’re from out of the Portland metro area and want to have a great night at a great hotel the night after a great evening at the symphony, the Modera Hotel has a new Oregon Symphony package:
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We did our monthly pops runout to the Smith Auditorium at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon tonight. It’s usually an interesting trip regardless, with the very different acoustics (often described as better than the Schnitz both on stage and in the audience seats) and backstage “amenities”. Tonight, there were lots of extras.
First of all, we [...]
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The first three days of this week were spent with my colleagues Shin-young Kwon, Sarah Roth, Trevor Fitzpatrick, and Jason Schooler, playing Kinderkonzerts in three different area elementary schools: Lents Elementary in outer SE Portland, Penisula Elementary in North Portland, and Lincoln Street School in Hillsboro. We played three 30 minute concerts at each [...]
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There have been a couple of recent classical music groups that have appeared recently in Portland that have garnered some well-earned recognition or have dropped new albums that are receiving acclaim in the world-wide press.
The first of these is the Ebène Quartet, a young French ensemble that gave a spectacular concert as part of the [...]
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This Sunday, September 27th, at 2:30 p.m., the Chagall Quartet will be playing as part of the Salem concert series Camerata Musica at the Salem Library auditorium. The group’s members are Adam Lamotte and Gregory Ewer, violins; myself on viola; and Justin Kagan, cellist. It will be a delightful classical period concert – here’s the [...]
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We had one of our more interesting (in the Chinese curse meaning of the word) rehearsal/performance experiences Sunday afternoon and evening at the state fairgrounds in Salem. We were the backup band for Peter Cetera, lead singer of the band Chicago.
First of all, the commute down to Salem was pretty miserable. Pouring rain, and a [...]
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