Mar 16, 2013
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Nice shout-out from EP's team!
Packed house, great music, fun concert!
Photo: Leo Daedalus
Last night we played at the historic Old Church in downtown Portland as part of the third annual March Music Moderne festival. It was a program that just fell together, largely by accident, but which garnered a lot of praise just for the varied pieces which it contained. We gave the Portland premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Homunculus for string quartet (2007), and accompanied it with works by Arvo Pärt and Osvaldo Golijov, and rounded out the program with the relatively rarely performed Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 by Bartók.
Photo: Jennifer Arnold
We had a bit of a hitch with the church being opened on time, but it was fun to hang out with some of the early bird concertgoers before the building manager arrived - and thank goodness it was not raining or freezing! It was also fun to see the results of a pretty intensive marketing blitz - a nearly full hall! Many thanks to Bob Priest at MMM for his help in getting the word out about our concert (and for the Polish potato vodka he gave us afterward!).
We’re going to do a few touch-ups on the Salonen before we send him a copy of the recording, hopefully he’ll be happy with the result. It’s definitely a piece that we want to keep in our repertoire, and hope to play it a couple times again next season.
Thank you to everyone who turned out to support us and the music! See you next year!
Photo: Jennifer Arnold
Yes, the mega maestro himself is now following our progress! Now feverishly in rehearsals for a Skype coaching with EPS on March 6th.
Keep your eyes peeled for a semi-in-depth look at the piece in the next couple weeks.
DSC_0360 on Flickr.
In the lovely McTavish Room at the Liberty Theater in Astoria, Ore. January 2012 - Photo: Alex Pajunas - The Daily Astorian.
Tickets for March 15th go on sale Friday at Noon.
http://www.esapekkasalonen.com/compositions/composition-performances?p=0
We had a great turnout on Super Bowl Sunday for those with a more cultural bent, and it was a joy to perform for such an enthusiastic and attentive audience! We love playing at the McTavish Room - not just for the great acoustics and intimate setting - we love the people of Astoria that have supported us for three years and counting!
Special thanks go out to the concert underwriters: Marge Bloomfield, Thron Riggs, Betsey Ellerbroek, Steve Forrester, and Brenda Penner. Thank you so much!
Astoria concert is almost here!
We had one last rehearsal today, running through the entire program this afternoon, and working on those few, last, stubborn transitions that still didn't work exactly as we'd hoped. Things are feeling really good, and we're looking forward to a great concert Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, Feb. 3rd we play our third consecutive concert at the Liberty Theater McTavish Room in Astoria, Ore. The concert is a 2 pm, perfect as either an after brunch culture fix, or as preparation for a leisurely dinner at one of Astoria's many wonderful restaurants (which we plan on hitting ourselves for a post concert meal!). Hope you can make it - tickets are available at the door Sunday afternoon.