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Pianist Mark André Hamelin has composed this ode to that most disturbing and recognizable ring tone – the Nokia Song.
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Saturday, December 19th, the quartet played the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon as part of the Newport Symphony’s 2009-2010 season. We were invited by the NSO’s music director Adam Flatt, who Heather and I know well from his years as an apprentice conductor with the Oregon Symphony over a decade ago. He asked [...]
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On this coming weekend’s performances there are two seminal works of two major composers who blazed a trail for their respective nation’s modern musical heritage: the composers are Charles Ives and Béla Bartók, and the works are Ives’ Three Places in New England and Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. To round out the theme (intended or [...]
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The Arnica String Quartet, with guest cellist Marilyn De Oliviera, will be playing a concert presented by the Newport Symphony at the Newport Performing Arts Center on Saturday, December 19 at 7:30 p.m. It’s an all-French program: the Debussy String Quartet, op. 10, the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello, and Franck’s grand Quintet for [...]
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It’s the middle of the summer. The dog days, one might say, at least here in Portland, where the mercury is expected to top 90°F again today. There is little going on, classical musically speaking in Portland right now, except for the final concerts of Chamber Music Northwest’s summer festival this Thursday through Sunday. The [...]
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I hope you all have a chance to come to the concert this weekend, it’s shaping up to be very interesting and very well played. Our dress rehearsal this morning was quite good, with the Mozart “Linz” Symphony jelling into what one should expect from this orchestra – elegant and flexible. Horacio Gutierrez is masterful [...]
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Cellist Gregory Dubay plays the Brahms e-minor Sonata with pianist Bill Crane just after dawn.
Pianist and organist Tamara Still plays selections from Bach’s Goldberg Variations at 8 a.m.
Soprano Lisa Mooyman, pianist Bill Crane and cellist Justin Kagan.
Cellist Justin Kagan.
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Tomas Svoboda
Tomas Svoboda’s new opus is opus 197, to be exact: Vortex for Orchestra. It’s quite a piece, very elegantly crafted, full of energy and vibrant textures, and it’s really something of a concerto for orchestra. Tomas Svoboda is clearly at the height of his powers these days (was he ever anything but thus?) and [...]
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Violinist Jonathan Dubay and cellist Gregory Dubay will give a concert of chamber music for strings and piano by Brahms with pianist Janet Guggenheim. It’s a selection of some of Brahms’ best works for strings – the A major Violin Sonata, the E minor Cello Sonata, and the Trio in B major, Op. 8. Should [...]
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Thanks to Alex Ross for pointing this out – check out the event listing carefully…
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Last night, after his brilliant performance of the Beethoven Second Piano Concerto, Kirill Gerstein played an encore that I’d never heard before, at least on piano alone. It was Erlkönig – originally a song by Schubert, transcribed for solo piano by Liszt. I had heard a similar transcription, by the violinist Max Ernst, [...]
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I just received a press release from the Oregon Symphony outlining improved ticket sales (up only slightly from last year, but with six fewer concerts (36 vs. 39) presented it represents greater attendance per concert). Read the complete release below.
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Oregon Symphony violinist Greg Ewer gave a recital at the Old Church last night in honor of the 74th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. As a way of signaling the importance of the date, Ewer brought a cooler full of tasty beverages for lucky audience members to imbibe during the performance.
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