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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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You may recall a year or so ago I posted an entry about the new Park Block that was being planned at SW Park and Taylor in downtown Portland. Included in the plan was a small, glass-enclosed restaurant space that had a lessee in place – and they planned to call the restaurant “Viola”. Being [...]
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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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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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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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There was an orchestral audition that took place this weekend at the local opera company. It was an audition for nine violin positions. There were twelve applicants. Of these twelve, two were advanced out of the preliminary round to the finals. It isn’t clear if anyone was offered a position at the time this was [...]
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Once again we were graced with absolutely perfect weather for our opening concert of the 2009-2010 season. And thousands of classical music fans as well. Not much to say about it other than it went very well, and was a lot of fun to play. Hope you had a great time watching/listening. Some photos from [...]
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This morning we had our dress rehearsal for tonight’s FREE waterfront concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Usually we have more than two rehearsals for this concert, but we were dealt half the usual four, and with lots of pieces on the program it made for quite the lively rehearsal!
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I got a few inquiries from organizations that wanted to submit info for the upcoming concert season after reading my first season preview post. So, here’s your chance – just send me an email with info, press releases, anything that you feel would represent your group/self the best. Photos are also welcome, please send as [...]
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Support the Oregon Symphony with your purchase of Symphony Blend coffee from Badbeard's! $2.00 of every purchase of this delicious blend of world-class Panama, Sumatra and Ethiopian coffees will be given to our local Oregon Symphony Orchestra. Our contribution to the forthcoming OSO debut in Carnegie Hall in 2011!
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