{"id":14894,"date":"2018-08-23T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14894"},"modified":"2018-08-23T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:55:51","slug":"preview-willamette-valley-chamber-music-festival-final-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/23\/preview-willamette-valley-chamber-music-festival-final-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"preview – willamette valley chamber music festival – final weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend the festival moves from the warm embrace of the J. Christopher Wines barrel room to two new locales. On Saturday, it’s Sokol Blosser<\/a>, and on Sunday, Elk Cove Vineyards<\/a>. The program is a nice mix – some newer music, music by a female composer, and a big, old favorite by a dead white guy.<\/p>\n

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Sasha Callahan and Leo Eguchi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Small-scale music by Philip Glass (who, like festival resident composer Joan Tower, is celebrating his 80th birthday year) opens the concert. His Four Duets for Violin and Cello<\/em> (extracted from his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello<\/em>), written in 2010, will be performed by festival co-directors Sasha Callahan and Leo Eguchi.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Poem<\/em> for string quartet by the British-American composer and violist Rebecca Clarke (active in the first quarter of the 20th century) follows. Most famous for her wonderful\u00a0Viola Sonata<\/em>, her compositional career was limited by her gender, and she eventually stopped composition entirely after marrying. What might have been, one wonders, if she had lived in a time where being female and being a composer weren’t mutually exclusive? Callahan and Eguchi are joined by Megumi Stohs Lewis and myself.<\/p>\n

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Marilyn De Oliveira – Photo: Jacobe Wade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, the great String Quintet in C-major by Schubert closes the program.\u00a0 Oregon Symphony Assistant principal cellist (and member of the Mousai REMIX<\/a> and Pyxis Quartet<\/a>) Marilyn De Oliveira joins the quartet for this sublime ending to the festival’s third season. Is Schubert’s Quintet perhaps the greatest and most perfect piece ever written for chamber ensemble? Many think so. Come decide for yourself!<\/p>\n

Tickets and information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend the festival moves from the warm embrace of the J. Christopher Wines barrel room to two new locales. On Saturday, it’s Sokol Blosser, and on Sunday, Elk Cove Vineyards. 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