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As I’ve written in the OSO’s program books in years past, the business of booking soloists and conductors takes place years in advance of their appearances with the orchestra. So when there are last minute emergencies such as illness or accident, it’s an all-hands-on-deck scramble to find a replacement who will meet or exceed the [...]
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Violinist Jennifer Koh (last heard with the Oregon Symphony in performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto, and before that the Szymanowski 1st Violin Concerto) has a new solo recording out on Cedille Records, entitled Rhapsodic Musings. It features works by Elliot Carter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Augusta Read Thomas, and John Zorn for solo violin. Based upon [...]
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Violinist Stefan Jackiw
If you have time before your late night Halloween activities on Saturday night, you really owe it to yourself to head down to the Oregon Symphony’s Classical series concert on Saturday night (repeating Sunday afternoon only). Why? Well, I’ll tell you why.
First of all, you’ll get to hear our phenomenal woodwind section (and [...]
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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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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’m not quite sure what being the David Beckham of the violin means, but I guess it can’t be all that bad!
Embedded video from CNN Video
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If you’re following the violin competition circuit (and who isn’t really?) here are the finalists in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium:
You can also watch video on demand of the semi-finals here.
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Emanuel Borok
Interesting video/audio story of Dallas Symphony concertmaster Emanuel Borok and his 401 year-old Amati violin.
Click here to read/see/hear about it.
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Happened to catch this shot of Itzhak Perlman fooling around on Associate concertmaster Peter Frajola’s violin during the break of one of last week’s rehearsals. It shows what a nice, down-to-earth guy Perlman really is.
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Friday we had our second set of rehearsals for our next Classical series concert with beloved violinist Itzhak Perlman at the helm. He’s really a genial guy, he acts like “one of the guys” with the orchestra and generally lets us do whatever we want to (within reason). He had a couple good comments during [...]
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An Italian violin teacher (Fabbio Paggioro, aged 36) was stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife by a 15 year-old student after the teacher said ”See how you manage to do well when you put the effort in?” Yikes!
Read the whole story here.
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Just ran across this video on YouTube of OSO violinist (and Arnica Quartet violinist for this year) Fumino Ando playing traditional Japanese music along with Koto players Masumi Timson (a regularly featured performer with Pink Martini) and Noriko Dozono. Enjoy!
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