Friday, June 30, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795) Laszlo Lajtha (1892-1963) John Duke (1899-1984) Lena Horne (1917-2010) James Loughran (1931) Giles Swayne...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958) Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Bernard Hermann (1911-1975) Ra...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Review: Oregon Symphony closes its season with sublime Mozart Flute Concerto and Mahler's Fifth

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The Oregon Symphony wrapped up its 2022-2023 season with a well-balanced concert of music by Mozart and Mahler (June 10) at the Arlene Schni...

Today's Birthdays

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Napoléon Coste (1805-1883) Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Arnold Shaw (1909-1989) Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996)...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860) Toti Dal Monte (1893-1975) Karel Reiner (1910-1979) George Walker (1922-2018) Ruth Schönthal (1924-2006) ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958) Hugues Cuénod (1902-2010) Wolfgang Windgassen (1914-1974) Giuseppe Taddei (1916-2010) Syd Lawrence (1923-19...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) Arthur Tracy (1899-1997) Bill Russo (1928-2003) Kurt Schwertsik (1935) Carly Simon (1945) and Antoni...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Preview of Makrokosmos extravaganza published in The O

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 My preview of this five-hour concert of new music is available in Oregonlive . I think that it will appear in print in the Sunday edition. ...

Today's Birthdays

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Harry Partch (1901-1974) Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) Milton Katims (1909-2006) Denis Dowling (1910-1984) Terry Riley (1935) and Ambr...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Mieczyslaw Horszowski (1892-1993) George Russell (1923-2009) Adam Faith (1940-2003) James Levine (1943-2021) ...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Xavier Foley makes the double bass sing in Oregon Symphony concert

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Xavier Foley, the newest member of Oregon Symphony’s creative alliance, made a strikingly impressive debut with the orchestra (June 5) at th...

Today's Birthdays

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Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762) Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) Frank Heino Damrosch (1859-1937) Jennie Tourel (1900-1973) Walter Lei...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Sweeping preview of the Chamber Music Northwest festival - in OAW

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Oregon ArtsWatch asked me to write a preview that was more of a survey of the entire Chamber Music Northwest Festival. So I took a slightly...

Today's Birthdays

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Henry Holden Huss (1862-1953) Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) Harry Newstone (1921-2006) Lou Ottens (1926-2021) Lalo Schifrin (1932) Dieg...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Wilfred Pelletier (1896-1982) Chet Atkins (1924-2001) Ingrid Haebler (1926...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Chamber Music Northwest preview in The Oregonian

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 My preview of the CMNW festival is now published in Oregonlive here . It will be in the print edition this Friday.

Today's Birthdays

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François Rebel (1701-1775) Johann Wenzel Stamitz (1717-1757) Carl Zeller (1842-1898) Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893) Sergei Taneyev (1856-1...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) David Popper (1843-1913) Sir George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) Edward Steuerm...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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John Wesley (1703-1791) Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Hermann Reutter (1900-1985) Einar Englund (1916-1999) Ga...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Today's Birthdays

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Niccolò Vito Piccinni (1728-1800) Helen Traubel (1899-1972) Willi Boskovsky (1909-1990) Sergiu Comissiona (1928-2005) Lucia Dlugoszewski...