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Playing their continuing series of the complete string quartets of Felix Mendelssohn (along with those of Debussy, Ravel, and Prokfiev), Mousai Remix continue their sophomore season at Ivories Jazz Lounge tonight, February 24th, at 7:00 p.m. with Prokofiev’s Quartet in B minor, Op. 50 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 44 no. 3. Tonight’s show, and the final [...]
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The Northwest Horn Orchestra makes its now annual appearance at Portland’s Old Church for an evening of fun that only a roomful of horns could provide. Plus, did you know that AllClassicalFM’s Christa Wessel is a fine french horn player and that she’ll be playing with the group? Now you have even more reason to [...]
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This is as fine an English album as I can think of, but even beyond the concept the individual performances are exquisitely rendered. Coming after the wild and wooly No. 4, RVW’s Fifth Symphony is a model of studied English pastoralism in its best sense; arching melody and stirring but sparse climaxes make this a work to enhance [...]
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From Angry Symphony Guy (aka Classical Beaver, Brian Horay, Huffington Post guest blogger) posting at the Portland Mercury arts listing pages: STEPHEN HOUGH, OREGON SYMPHONY (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) Chief cultural blogger for the Telegraph of London. Prodigious recorder of more than 50 albums. MacArthur genius. Theologian. Poet. Queer activist. Composer. The guy wears a lot [...]
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The Chicago Symphony has announced that its principal horn for the past 47 seasons, Dale Clevenger, will retire effective June 30, 2013. From the orchestra’s press release: Concluding a distinguished career of nearly five decades as principal horn with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Dale Clevenger will retire from the CSO, effective June 30, 2013. [...]
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I’m writing this post to ask you to support a valuable arts resource for Portland and Oregon. I’m talking about Oregon Arts Watch, an online arts ‘paper’ that has some of the best arts writers in the city covering as many events as they can get to on a daily basis. With the declining coverage [...]
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I was initially happy to notice this line in a recent New York Times review of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie Hall: To a large extent, the power behind these surges comes from the lower string section and the trombones, who in the Bruckner symphony, in particular, seemed to form the ensemble’s backbone. Then [...]
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[Warning: this is a rambling post, but not a rant. Do not read expecting logical cohesion. That is all.] I have been puzzling over this question for the past few days. What do we musicians want? I suppose I should clarify by what I mean by the musician label. We are, after all, not a monolithic [...]
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We just finished our three concert run of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony last night at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. It was, as many have observed, a bittersweet occasion. Sweet because of the great music making, bitter because of the recent passing of our beloved maestro James (Jimmy) DePreist. As violinist Ron Blessinger said in his opening [...]
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