I’ve been at the Sunriver Music Festival for the past 11 years or so, and this year is one for the history books. Our long time and beloved music director Lawrence Leighton Smith (or simply “Larry”, as he’s known to everyone here) has had to bow out of participating in the festival due to a
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Lawrence Leighton Smith, music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and formerly music director of the Oregon Symphony (1973-1980), has released information about his health, specifically that he suffers from Binswanger’s Disease (also known as subcortical vascular dementia), which, according to Wikipedia, is a form of multi-infarct dementia caused by damage to the white brain
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Well, the 2009 edition of the Sunriver Music Festival is complete. I’m back home, the laundry is being done, the house vacuumed, and the obligatory pizza ordered for delivery. The final weekend of concerts was held at the Tower Theater in Bend, rather than the Great Hall in Sunriver Resort. This was due to the
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The morning dawned cold (37 degrees) and foggy – not a typical Sunriver morning. They usually are clear and cool (usually mid-40′s). The view from our homestay – click to enlarge. The Great Hall was a bit chilly as well – there was a lot of hand rubbing and blowing upon going on in the
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Photo: © Charles Noble – Click photo to enlarge This morning we had our dress rehearsal in the Great Hall for this evening’s opening concert of the orchestral portion of the Sunriver Music Festival (there was a piano recital Thursday evening featuring Yeol Eum Son). This will be an interesting concert, with quite a bit
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I got in to the Sunriver Resort community around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, unpacked and promptly went to bed. The festival started right off the bat this morning with a 9:30 a.m. rehearsal. We worked on Schumann’s First Symphony “Spring” and the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with Van Cliburn silver medalist Yeol Eum Son. I
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The goal for the 30 days between July 2 – August 2 was to ride 300 miles. I came pretty close – 282 miles, to be exact. I finished with a 42 miler and a 35 miler, both out in Washington county, a place with some beautiful rides, lovely roads, and some really a-hole SUV
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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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We just got back today from the lovely high desert resort community of Sunriver, located in Central Oregon about 15 miles south of Bend.  This was the  Sunriver festival’s 31st year of existence, which is a great thing considering the quick and final (Chapter 7) demise of the Cascade Festival of Music this summer. This
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What do Jeffrey Work, Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Lauderdale, cycling to Mt. Bachelor, and 100 degree heat have in common? The 2008 Sunriver Music Festival, of course! Next week I’ll write a full recap of this year’s festival goings-on. Stay tuned!
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