{"id":3786,"date":"2010-01-14T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:04:58","slug":"new-chamber-series-opens-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/14\/new-chamber-series-opens-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"new chamber series opens saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

45th Parallel<\/a>, a new chamber music series curated by Oregon Symphony violinist Gregory Ewer, presents its inaugural concert on Saturday evening, January 16th at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church in downtown Portland (1422 SW 11th Avenue).\u00a0 Seating is limited, and the concert is likely to sell out, so don’t get turned away at the door – buy your tickets now!\u00a0 The first season of concerts is sponsored by our great friends over at KQAC-FM, AllClassical.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s been a lot of work, but also a lot of fun, to put together the two pieces I play on for this concert.\u00a0 The Verdi string quartet was entirely unknown to me before getting the music for it last month, and I think that it will be a very enjoyable piece for lovers of both the string quartet and opera repertoire.\u00a0 As cellist Justin Kagan remarked (and he spent 8 years playing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), “it’s like all the hardest bits of Verdi’s operas crammed into one piece”, and it’s also got some beautiful melodies that are entirely operatic in their scope (and given to the cello, for the most part).\u00a0 The Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence is the big finish to the concert, and there’s little to say that hasn’t already been said about this piece.\u00a0 It’s a sprawling, dense, and athletic piece which makes a lot of demands upon the players, but for the audience, it’s an enjoyable virtual trip through the picturesque vistas of summertime Italy.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> for tickets.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> for map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

45th Parallel, a new chamber music series curated by Oregon Symphony violinist Gregory Ewer, presents its inaugural concert on Saturday evening, January 16th at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church in downtown Portland (1422 SW 11th Avenue).\u00a0 Seating is limited, and the concert is likely to sell out, so don’t get turned away at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[136,61,25],"tags":[2076,159,2077],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-oregon","category-portland","tag-45th-parallel","tag-concert","tag-gregory-ewer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3832,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/17\/45th-parallel-inaugurates-success\/","url_meta":{"origin":3786,"position":0},"title":"45th parallel inaugurates success","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo [L-R]: Jun Iwasaki, Charles Noble, Gregory Ewer, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Viorel Bejenaru, Justin Kagan. 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