It took Simon Trpceski three encores, but Tuesday’s Meany Hall audience finally got their fill of the young, Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski. Trpceski was in town as part of the President’s Piano Series. Seattle holds a special place for Trpceski, it was, after all, the location for his North American debut. His fondness for [...]
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"Demonic character and boiling energy"
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From abroad forward
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Fredric Rzewski is celebrating his 70th birthday this year. For the last thirty years the composer, famous for such works as The People United Shall Never Be Defeated, has been living abroad. Naxos just released a Rzewski disk with this work and 4 North American Ballads. It is a good overview of the composer’s [...]
Review: Oregon Symphony presents smorgasboard of music
Posted in Portland, OR on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Oregon Symphony’s concert on Sunday evening contained an intriguing sampler of pieces from three eras of music: late Baroque, Romantic, and the Twentieth Century. On the program was music by Johann Christian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Bohuslav Martinů. Two of the work received their first performances with the orchestra and the Bach [...]
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