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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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This weekend comes Classical 4, which features an interesting program: Too Hot Toccata by Aaron Jay Kernis, Concerto in F by George Gershwin, and Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony.
It’s interesting because each work on the program is a standard form with an individual “take” on the form in the eyes of its composer.
The Too Hot Toccata is [...]
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I think it would be safe to say that Lang Lang’s Portland Oregon Symphony debut was a triumph. The roar that came from the sold-out crowd at the Schnitz at the conclusion of the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto was well nigh deafening, such was the response from the audience. I can’t say that I’ve ever [...]
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Photo: © Felix Broede / Deutsche Grammophone
Well, for the orchestra, the anticipation came to an end around 11:00 a.m. this morning. The unassuming, young, Armani-clad Asian pianist strode onto the stage, was introduced to the orchestra to polite applause, and then proceeded to mesmerize much of the orchestra with his off-the-beaten-path approach to the beginning [...]
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Whenever you get a guest conductor back after a year’s absence or more, it’s often a good time to take stock of where the orchestra is at artistically, where the guest conductor is artistically, and what sort of trends you can divine from these observations. When the guest conductor is a former music director, [...]
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pianist Valentina Lisitsa
This weekend’s first subscription concert at the Oregon Symphony is pretty much a must-see/hear. There’s a terrific piece of Dvorak – his Symphonic Variations – that I’ll bet you’ve never heard live before (and maybe not even on a recording) – but which is both totally charming and an orchestral showpiece. [...]
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