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Pacific University
and
Pies for Peace
present
A Benefit Concert for Mercycorp
3pm Sunday November 20th, 2005
United Church of Christ of Forest Grove
2032 College Way, Forest Grove OR 97116-1735
with NPM Recroding Artists
East West Continuo
Tickets: $10 adults/$5 students/free to children under 12 - tickets available at the door.
For more information contact Lark @ 503-640-6815 or Carol @ 503-357-2606
Tired of the havoc wreaked by nature and feckless humans?
Want to do something good for your conscience
AND your ears AND your stomach?
Come hear one of the Northwest's most original and effervescent classical groups perform trios and duos in honor of Mercycorp's ongoing efforts to help survivors of hurricanes, earthquakes and wars. An eclectic program from Michael Praetorius to Tom Flaherty will be presented, and six different kinds of pie will be available by the slice during intermission for $3, ("take and bake" frozen pies will be sold after the concert for $12-$15). All profits go to Mercycorp, a Portland-based relief and community re-building organization.
NPM recording artist Varsha Saxena's
upcoming recording schedule:
11/10/05, 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Nortel Health Fair
4655 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA
11/11/05, 5-9 p.m. (with others)
Hurricane Rita
Cal State
25800 Carlosbee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542
11/30/05, 5-8 p.m.
Filoli
86 Cananda Road
Woodside, CA 94062
2/5/05, 2-3 p.m. (with guest musicians)
Unity Palo Alto Community Church
3391 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA
NEW RELEASES
The reissued limited "collectors" edition Playerless Pianos - virtual music for pianos, virtual and otherwise, featuring a number of NPM affiliate artists from Gary Noland's 7th Species Composer's Series.
Three new titles from Teal Creek Records featuring some of the region's top jazz musicians:
Jobim Now - Hagberg/Bergeron Quartet
Clovis - Clovis
Family - Christopher Woitach & the Cathexis Orchestra.
NPM affiliate artist gal*in_dog performs at the 2005 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
"gal*in_dog seemed to be a priest engaged in the presentation of a ritual--the feeling was strong--but we had no idea of the content of the ritual..." - Jack Foley ALSOP Review
"I kept thinking as it was going that it all seemed kind of gimmicky, yet at the end it left me with a very powerful and moving impression." - Jonathan Russell Classical Voice Review
Carriage House Music presented NPM affiliate CHRISTOPHER SCHINDLER on The new edition Pleyel concert grand. He performed CHOPIN, DEBUSSY, FAURÉ and ALAIN.
NPM affiliate Dariush Dolat-Shahi performed The Voice of Water September 19 at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Newmark Theater
NPM affiliate composer Joe Waters' Flame Head was on the NWEAMO 2005 Festival Schedule: Ancient Knowledge and The Future: Neolithic Roots in the 21st Century, perfored with percussionist Joel Bluestone in Mexico City, San Diego and Portland.
NPM recording artists Tessa Brinckman and Mitsuki Dazai from Brinckman's East West Continuo were joined by recent NY refugee Justin Kagan in a performance with Agnieszka Laska Dancers at Corvallis' Majestic Theatre, Oct. 1. Justin performed Bach's cello Suite No. 6, premiered by Laska's dancers in August with Phil Hansen, who commissioned the choreography. Brinckman performed with Dazai, Jackie T. Gabel's Through a Gentle Rain. Dazai gave the first public performance of Thomas Svoboda's Autumn on koto, since it's 1982 premiere by Yoko Ito Gates, for whom it was commissioned.
Laska and Brinckman repeated this performance in Eugene at the WOW HALL (2 shows 7:00 & 8:30 PM - Oct. 26) with guest cellist Adam Esbensen.
NPM affiliate artists The Oregon Renaissance Band performed a concert Saturday, Oct. 1st at Milwaukie Ledding Library It featured German, Austrian and Swiss Music by composers Heinrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl, Mathias Greitter, Michael Praetorius, Johann Wannenmacher and many others. Instruments included recorders, violin, harp, sackbuts, rackett, curtal, corna musen, krummhorn, tabor, and voices. They also sang Isaac's famous "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen." Concert. The Oregon Renaissance Band is directed by Philip and Gayle Neuman; the other musicians were David Bryan, Daphne Clifton, Lori Fitch, Andy Harris, Kathy Langley, Kathryn Richer, and Laura Zaerr.
NPM recording artists fEARnoMUSIC launched their 2005 season with
Tango Explosion!
Special Guest Tango Pacifico
with Alex Krebs
October 14 at
Wieden + Kennedy, Portland
In the midst of Portland's Ninth Annual TangoFest, guests Tango Pacifico and tango master Alex Krebs joined Fear No Music for a program of tangos old and new, from classic works of Osvaldo Pugliese and Jose Bragato, to the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla, and the contemporary works of Joseph Waters and Paul Desenne.
October 15th SEVENTH SPECIES
presented
a concert of works by composers
Alban Berg, David Denniston, Jackie T. Gabel, Olivier Messiaen,
Gary Noland, Tomas Svoboda, Jeff Winslow
performed by
Janice Johnson, soprano, Gary Noland, piano & narration;
Christopher Schindler, piano; Trio Spektrum
: Marilyn Shotola, flute,
Stan Stanford, clarinet, and Tomas Svoboda, piano;
Terry Wergeland, piano, theremin, baritone, accordion & trumpet;
Jeff Winslow, piano, toys & gadgets
at
Day Music Auditorium
5516 SE Foster Rd, Portland, Oregon 97206
recently announced
2005 CINE GOLDEN EAGLE
AWARD RECIPIENTS
PROFESSIONAL FICTION DIVISION
&
Communicator Awards
Award of Excellence
both awarded to the DVD release
Goldfinch music video
violinist: Chien Tan
video director: Uehara Takafumi
Amazing Visions
audio engineering: Jack Gabel - NPM
And check out Chien on NPR
Varsha Saxena's NPM release, After the Storm is the background music in a fund-raising promotional video for the Bay-area-based Parents Helping Parents. On May 12, Varsha will also be performing in a fund-raising event for Parents Helping Parents ~ more info.
The title track from Tessa Brinckman's Glass Sky is in the process of being licensed for a documentary video on the work's subject, artist Helen Martins and her unique home, Owl House. Brinckman just returned from South Africa, where she periodically gives flute master classes and on this trip participated in videographing of the documentary. We'll be looking for it's release sometime in the coming year.
