UPDATE: Stabler has an expanded print interview here. From today’s online edition of the Oregonian, courtesy of David Stabler:
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Saturday, Heather and I were on the road with Pink Martini – playing as part of the expanded string section that’s been known as the Harvey Rosenkrantz Orchestra. The concert was a new sort of experience for me. Rather than the usual Pink Martini routine of arriving at the venue and having an extended sound
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Happy New Year! Today was a very low-key day, after the New Year’s Eve celebrating Heather and I took part in as part of Pink Martini’s festivities at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall last night. The orchestra doesn’t start to get going until next week, so it will still be pretty quiet around the blog
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First, I just have to say that the First Piano Concerto of Brahms is even better than I remembered it. I think the last time we performed it was with Peter Serkin, and that was an amazing series of performances, but this time, with Jon Kimura Parker, and with the orchestra playing so well, it
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If you’re looking for good seats, you’ll be paying plenty – at least if you go on eBay to do your purchasing: [click photo to enlarge]
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Word from Elaine Calder is that the series of three Pink Martini concerts this coming week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evenings) have sold in excess of $500,000 worth of tickets. Amazing! It really is a tremendous gift to the Oregon Symphony that Thomas Lauderdale decided to use the Oregon Symphony to make this live recording, rather
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David Stabler has put together a video feature about this weekend’s upcoming Oregon Symphony/Pink Martini live concert recording sessions for an album due out in 2010. David Stabler: Pink Martini’s live recordings
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Given that string players are most likely to complain about what they perceive as bad rehearsal technique on the part of a conductor, how about seeing what happens when they try to do it themselves? Not typical of a string quartet rehearsal, but things start to get unwieldy when you’ve got eight players all of
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Thanks to Joël Belgique and Inés Voglar for furnishing the photos.
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If you’re interested in hearing the late show from Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, here’s the link from NPR, who broadcast the concert live on its Toast of the Nation show. Enjoy!
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photo: © Charles Noble This year Heather and I will be ringing in the new year with Pink Martini at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, presented by the LA Philharmonic. We’ll be part of the Harvey Rosencranz Orchestra, the extra complement of strings that Pink sometimes hauls out of Portland for big shows.
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Well, I’m back in Portland in one piece, which considering my day yesterday (Friday) is no small achievement! Aside from a ferry, the four days I was in New York involved traveling in most every other form of conveyance. I was transported in a jumbo jet, taxi, passenger van, bus and a two types of
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Last night I got to play Carnegie Hall! Was it with one of the world’s great orchestras, or even our wonderful Oregon Symphony? No – it was with Portland’s own sensational band Pink Martini. There were over 20 of us on stage for the (long) evening, and we all received a hero’s welcome to the
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Pink Martini just got back from a European tour a few days ago, and already some new stuff has popped up on YouTube. Here is a clip of their single “Hey Eugene” from the British show Later with Jools Holland.
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This past Tuesday and Wednesday were spent rehearsing and playing for the CD release party concerts for Pink Martini‘s new CD, “Hey Eugene!” It was fun as usual – it’s good to see the people in the band who I haven’t seen for ages, particularly cellist Pansy Chang and guitarist Dan Faehnle, who used to
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