svendsen/oquist trial in session June 4, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : News, crime, 2comments
This from KVAL’s website in Eugene:
ALBANY, Ore. - A Salem woman is on trial in Linn County for the deaths of two members of the Eugene Symphony.
Fivea Sharipoff, 26, at left, is charged with manslaughter, assault and driving under the influence after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 last year.
The crash killed Kjersten Oquist and Angela Svendsen, both members of the Eugene Symphony.
Jury selection began Monday, and the district attorney started making the state’s case on Tuesday.
The DA finished calling witnesses Wednesday morning, and the defense called its first witness in the afternoon. The family of Angela Svendsen said that’s a couple days faster than they were originally told by the DA’s office.
The prosecution called about 25 witnesses, including paramedics, state police, at least one person from the eugene symphony and employees at the Abbey’s pizza where the prosecution contends Sharipoff was drinking.
Sheripoff is out on bail. She and the people walking with her had no comment.
Friends and family of the women killed in the accident gathered outside the courtroom after today’s proceedings. Svendsen’s husband said it was difficult to relive the accident in the courtroom.
One witness was called to the stand in Sherifpoff’s defense, who testified about the two of them drinking at an Abby’s pizza the night of the accident. The other witnesses for the defense were not able to make it today cause the trial is moving faster than expected. The court will not be in session tomorrow but will resume on Friday.
Video coverage can be found at the story’s page on KVAL’s website.
Photo of the defendant, Favea Sharipoff, aged 26:
Photo: KVAL, Eugene.
Madame Harold in Pyongyang March 28, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, photography, politics, the orchestra world, 2comments
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New York Philharmonic violist Dawn Hannay kept a blog of her tour of North Korea. You can find it here, along with photos here. UPDATE: link to Dawn’s blog fixed.
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Thanks to MH for the link.
postcards from the edge… February 27, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : appreciation/criticism, bloggers, music, the orchestra world, 1 comment so farBoise Phiharmonic violist/blogger/cyclist/survivor Jen Drake tells us about the audiences in Boise. Worth a look - it’ll make ya laugh.
if I’m tired it must be january January 14, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, the orchestra world, 1 comment so farClassical Program 6
Gregory Vajda, conducting
Bartók - Miraculous Mandarin, complete version, first OSO performance
Intermission
Debussy - Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2, Ingrid Fliter, pianist
Dukas - Sorcerer’s Apprentice
T.S. Eliot thought that April was the cruelest month, but for me it’s January, with February a close runner-up. It’s because December is full of marginally fulfilling holiday stuff, followed by frantic running around for the holidays themselves, then a bit of blissful oblivion, followed by a panic that the season starts up again in five days, with really difficult programs, and I haven’t touched my viola since that last Nutcracker. Then it’s a sprint to the end of March, when the spring break arrives. (more…)
carrie dennis plays paganini and schumann January 11, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, add a commentCarrie Dennis, the phenomenal violist who has (by the anything but grizzled age of 30!) already been Assistant principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and was just named as Principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a couple videos up on youtube. See and hear her for yourself - viola ain’t second fiddle no more! (more…)
violist kim kashkashian on npr December 30, 2007
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, soloists & recitals, add a commentArguably one of the great violists of the 20th/21st century, Kim Kashkashian has made many critically-acclaimed recordings (almost all on ECM New Series) of both the standard repertoire and new works, many written especially for her. Born in Detroit, she was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md., but ended up spending much of her early career in Europe, teaching at several music schools in Germany (Freiburg and Berlin) for years. Luckily for American violists and music lovers, she recently returned to the US to take a position at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Mass.
I was fortunate to take part in a week-long master course with Ms. Kashkashian in 1993 at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England. It was a great experience, and one of the most profound and concentrate periods of musical learning that I’ve experienced - the results of which I’m still processing to this day.
There’s a great interview/performance program that aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday today - click here to take a listen. It’s centered around her recent ECM recording release: Asturiana. It’s an excellent recording that I do own, and I’d recommend it highly.
Thanks to B. Moran for the tip.
