I caught this poster and photo campaign over at Inside the Classics, and it’s one of the most simple and brilliant musician-centered media campaigns I’ve seen from any orchestra. And it’s true. In addition, you can see each of the “rock star” posters for each musician on their own at the orchestra’s Facebook page.
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We in the little ‘viola nook’ behind stage left at our hall have a running joke about one of our frequent trombone subs, Henry Henniger, who looks a lot like our bass trombonist, Charles Reneau, known as ‘Charley’. It took some of us a long time to get Henry’s name right, so we just called him ‘Not Charley’ for a while, and it almost stuck (some would say it has). Not long after this occurred, we realized that violist Brian Quincey fit right into the trombone section made up by Charley and Henry. Take a look at this photo and see if you don’t agree!
Henry, Brian & Charley
It took Brian a few moments of instruction for him to learn to hold the trombone correctly, as seen below:
Photos courtesy of Robert Taylor.
After our last classical series concert, the orchestra stayed for an extra 30 minutes to get an important job done: it was orchestra photo night. Every few years, a new portrait of the orchestra and its music director is taken. In virtually every other year, the photo is a standard, staid, and well, boring actually, affair. The camera is up in the balcony, and the orchestra and conductor are on the stage, looking up at the camera.
This year, our PR director, Carl Herko, had a different idea (and one which has been sweeping around the orchestral world lately) – put the orchestra in the audience, give a view of the people that make up the orchestra by showing them off of the stage. I haven’t seen any proofs from the photo shoot at the Oregon Symphony, but here’s an example of a similar photo done by the Concertgebouw Orchestra [click to enlarge]:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Photo: Simon van Boxtel
In a change of pace from recent posts, here’s a recent photo of some latte art that I’ve done. Doing a different kind of rosette these days, and getting a bit better at it…
Oh, and I recently completed my first half-century (50 mile) ride last weekend. Not much time to ride this week, but hoping the weather holds out for a metric century attempt this coming week (62 miles).