Tonight at 7:30 at The Old Church Concert Hall on SW Clay downtown the Oregon Symphony is presenting its first(ish)* Open Music concert. Open Music is hosted and curated by our Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane and is focused upon composer/performers who bring their musicianship, heritage, and personal experiences to their compositions. The featured composer/performer for this first Open Music of the 21/22 season is Oregon’s own Kenji Bunch. Tickets are a steal at $20, and it will be a fantastic evening of discussion and brilliant music! I hope to see you there!
*The first Open Music actually took place in mid-March of 2020, with Caroline Shaw. There was no live audience due to safety concerns. It was recorded for OPB and will air sometime this year (I think) – the very next day the lockdown started and the OSO suspended the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Program & Players
| Traditional | Wayfaring Stranger |
| Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté | Tegere Tulon |
| Béla Bartók | Violin Duos |
| Morton Feldman | Viola in My Life |
| Kenji Bunch | Violin Duos |
| Johannes Brahms | String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 (first movement) |
| Kenji Bunch | String Circle |
| inti figgis-vizueta | Imago |
| Program subject to change |
Gabriel Kahane, Host
Kenji Bunch, Composer and Co-host
Ron Blessinger, Violin
Ruby Chen, Violin
Emily Cole, Violin
Shin-young Kwon, Violin
Kayleigh Miller, Viola
Charles Noble, Viola
Maia Hoffman, Viola
Kevin Kunkel, Cello
Trevor Fitzpatrick, Cello
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