Photo ©2008 Charles Noble

We did another photo shoot for Fear No Music this evening, and Inés Voglar had found a pile of deserted violins that were about to be recycled from David Kerr Violins, so a pile of cast-off fiddles came to the shoot!

If you come to the free Waterfront concert on Thursday the 28th @ 7:00 p.m. (at Tom McCall Waterfront Park/1020 SW Naito Parkway) - you may notice some new players - here’s a guide to the newest faces at the OSO from my post of last June.

If you’re not set on what you’re going to do this Friday evening, why not go hear some spankin’ new music played to the hilt by some of the finest musicians around? [Read more →]

Here’s some fun I had with one of the shots from the photo shoot for fEARnoMusic - OSO principal violist Joël Belgique will be participating in a work which will involve him playing a boom box - should be interesting!

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Just got this done for them today - we shot Adam (cello), Joël (boom box), and Joel (cymbals of death) in Joël’s living room against a blank wall with a sheet on the floor. Then I went home, picked the best poses and laboriously cut them away from the existing background using Photoshop, replacing it with the spotlit background you see, plus shadows for depth. All in a day’s work!

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David Stabler

David Stabler, the classical music critic of the Oregonian newspaper, has listed his top classical music happenings of 2007. [Read more →]