landscape and dance: the halprin collaboration June 24, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : chamber music, contemporary, music, portland, 1 comment so far
Tuesday morning Heather and I went to Pettygrove Park, and small urban oasis set in a 70’s urban renewal zone largely characterized by monolithic, concrete apartment blocks. It is one of three plazas in the area designed by renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, along with the Keller Fountain (formerly the Forecourt Fountain) and the Lovejoy Fountain. We went there, instruments in hand, to check out the acoustics of the site for a planned installation of music and dance for the 2008 PICA TBA Festival (Festival of Time-Based Art). (more…)
a far cry May 23, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, the orchestra world, 2comments
a far cry, a conductorless string orchestra from Boston, will be making a Portland stop on their West Coast tour tonight, May 23 at the First Unitarian Church downtown at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $20. You can order tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets.
My friend LC recommended this group to me, as she knows several of its members, and says that it should be a great show. Sounds interesting, and I plan to be there.
You can view a video of the group in action here, and you can read an article about the group here, and view a slide show here.
On a side note, this reminds me of the excellent group Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, also based in Boston, I believe, and I wonder if they still are concertizing as well, and if the two groups share any members. UPDATE: I was not able to find a working website for Metamorphosen, so I suspect they may have disbanded. UPDATE: SMB wrote to say that Metamorphosen suspended operations around 2004.
If anyone knows it they’re still playing concerts, leave a comment as to their status.
blog rankings 2008 April 8, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : bloggers, music, add a commentI stumbled upon a post over at Classical Convert which has published lists of the Top 50 Classical Music Blogs using four different metrics - most of which don’t mean that much to me. However, I was please to see that this blog has cracked the top 50 in 3 out of the 4 lists!
Google Reader Subscriptions method: #41
Technorati Authority Score method: #40
Google Incoming Links method: #49
And ACD over at Sounds & Fury posted his own methodology which listed DA at #49.
To this I owe you many thanks for reading, linking, and re-visiting my blog over the past year.
As I’ve said before, I don’t write this blog for fame or fortune, but just as a way of providing some badly-needed therapy, and it’s gratifying that it just so happens to be a place that you come to for whatever you come here for!
kalmar featured TAFTO contributer for 2008 April 1, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : bloggers, conducting, music, the orchestra world, add a commentOSO music director Carlos Kalmar is one of the contributors for Drew McManus’ Take A Friend To the Orchestra 2008 essay project.
Kalmar’s essay will appear on Monday, April 7, 2008.
You can find the list of contributors and other articles at adaptistration.com.
free student tickets! January 16, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : the orchestra world, add a commentChamber Music Northwest is offering free tickets to college students from around Oregon and SW Washington for their upcoming Carter-Messiaen Project concerts, coming up this January 25 - 27, 2008 at Kaul Auditorum at Reed College. For additional info, check the CMNW website or call their ticket office at 503-294-6400.
Interested full-time college students should surf over to www.cmnw.org/students and fill out the form. A pass will then appear on screen - simply print it out and bring it, along with a current student ID to the ticket table at the concert, and you’ll be inside for all the fun, absolutely free!
David Schiff, noted professor, composer and writer, has prepared an essay about the works presented during this project - click here to download a pdf file to print and read at home.
