{"id":3832,"date":"2010-01-17T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:06:21","slug":"45th-parallel-inaugurates-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/17\/45th-parallel-inaugurates-success\/","title":{"rendered":"45th parallel inaugurates success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo [L-R]: Jun Iwasaki, Charles Noble, Gregory Ewer, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Viorel Bejenaru, Justin Kagan.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Northwest Reverb posted <\/strong>a review<\/strong><\/a> of the concert on Sunday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saturday evening saw the inaugural concert of a new presenter in town: 45th Parallel<\/a>.\u00a0 Founded by artistic director Gregory Ewer (also a violinist in the Oregon Symphony), it is a presenter that aims to showcase the best local musicians in intimate settings.\u00a0 Last night’s concert featured the Oregon Symphony’s concertmaster, Jun Iwasaki, as well as Gregory Ewer, myself, violist Viorel Bejenaru from the OSO, cellist Justin Kagan (from, well, everywhere), and OSO cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick.\u00a0 The program featured works inspired by or related to the opera or ballet.\u00a0 The program opened with a Duo Concertante<\/em>, op. 57, no. 1, by the “French Paganini”, Charles de B\u00e9riot.\u00a0 Then, the seldom-played, and little known Quartet in E minor by Giuseppe Verdi.\u00a0 The grand finale was an audience and player favorite, Tchaikovsky’s decadent and flamboyant string sextet, Souvenir de Florence<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was such a pleasure to play the Verdi and Tchaikovsky with such wonderful colleagues – Portland is blessed with many, many fine musicians, both from within the Oregon Symphony and from without.\u00a0 The Verdi was a revelation – it’s a cool piece – very terse and compact and dense.\u00a0 Not at all like much of his sprawling operatic output.\u00a0 It’s also hard as hell.\u00a0 The Tchaikovsky is a piece that I’d read many times at chamber music reading parties (yes, there are such things) and so it was nice to get a chance to learn it and perform it “for real” with some great musicians.<\/p>\n

The Old Church, where the concert was held, was nearly if not completely sold out, and this is an auspicious beginning for the series.\u00a0 Many thanks to all of the hard working staff and on-air personalities over at 89.9 FM Allclassical.org<\/a> – they really pulled out all the stops to make this a great success, and it’s worth saying again that we’re so very lucky to have a classical radio station of this caliber in Portland.<\/p>\n

The second concert of the season takes place on Friday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church, and will feature Portland Baroque Orchestra leader and violinist Monica Huggett with Gregory Ewer, Adam LaMotte, Tanya Tomkins, and Joanna Blendulf in works of Schuber (his great Cello Quintet) and Mozart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo [L-R]: Jun Iwasaki, Charles Noble, Gregory Ewer, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Viorel Bejenaru, Justin Kagan. UPDATE: Northwest Reverb posted a review of the concert on Sunday. Saturday evening saw the inaugural concert of a new presenter in town: 45th Parallel.\u00a0 Founded by artistic director Gregory Ewer (also a violinist in the Oregon Symphony), it is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,61,25],"tags":[2076,2077,3666,3662,1020],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-oregon","category-portland","tag-45th-parallel","tag-gregory-ewer","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-tchaikovsky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-ZO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3786,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/14\/new-chamber-series-opens-saturday\/","url_meta":{"origin":3832,"position":0},"title":"new chamber series opens saturday","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5460,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/21\/old-school-old-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":3832,"position":1},"title":"old school + old church","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I'm in rehearsals for a concert that I think you'll enjoy quite a bit.\u00a0 It's presented by the new Portland chamber music series 45th Parallel, now in its second season, which was founded by OSO violinist Gregory Ewer.\u00a0 Entitled Old School @ The Old Church, it's a salon-style\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":909,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/04\/jun-iwasaki-friend-concert-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":3832,"position":2},"title":"jun iwasaki & friends concert tonight","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An exciting concert will be presented this evening to endow the Naomi Blumberg Endowment Fund for Chamber Music Education at the Community Music Center. 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