Wieden+Kennedy radio is showcasing twenty-four straight hours of music in NW Portland this weekend. Curators Bill Crane and Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale have organized the concert to shed light on the fact that we’ve been in a war in Afghanistan for over seven years. Sadly, even with the new administration, there does not appear to be an end in sight…
Update: Wieden Kennedy 24/7 Concert Pictures
From the press release (website):
“24/7,” it will be a series of 24 dramatic concerts, each starting upon the hour, from 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 21, and continuing through to 7:00 p.m., Sunday, March 22.
All 24 concerts are free and will take place in the auditorium of the Wieden+Kennedy building, 224 Northwest 13th Avenue, between Davis and Everett Streets, in Portland’s Pearl District. Wieden+Kennedy join the performing artists to invite sincerely all area residents of good will to these concerts.
No tickets are required.
Neither a protest nor a memorial, “24/7″ nonetheless is a profound calling by its performers to their fellow citizens to remember that we are a nation at war. The musicians creating 24/7 hope to move their neighbors by their music to “do what must be done” as our city, region, and nation face many challenges. This will be music of encouragement as well as entertainment.
To add to the conviviality of this big occasion, the popular and award-winning restaurant Bluehour, next door to the concert venue, will be open all night and the following day. Restaurateur Bruce Carey and chef de cuisine Kenny Giambalvo are planning a special bar menu just for 24/7 performers and audience members.
Full schedule after the jump:
Saturday, March 21
7:00 p.m. — Program 1 — Portland Brass Quintet and Friends
Jeff Snyder, Fil Ovando, and Steve Conrow, trumpets
Jen Harrison, Jill Torberson, and Alan Stromquist, French horns
Greg Scholl and Ken Biggs, trombones
John Walling, tuba
Dean Hinkley, percussion
Aaron Copland: “Fanfare for the Common Man”
and music of Gabrieli, Richard Strauss, and Handel
8:00 p.m. — Program 2 — Rosa Li, pianist
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Prelude and Fugue in D Major”,
“Well-tempered Clavier, Book I”
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Sonata Opus 2, No. 3″
Frederic Chopin: “Ballade No. 4″
Robert Muczynski: “Desparate Measures”
9:00 p.m. — Program 3 — The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
Bob Mensel, music director and conductor Robert Seeley, “Brave
Souls and Dreamers” (on a libretto of Robert Espindola), a dramatic
cantata that explores the repercussion of war on the human
experience, with special soloists Jennifer Gill, mezzo-soprano,
Steve Fulmer, bass, Derek Becker, tenor, and Brian Robertson,
baritone.
10:00 p.m. — Program 4 — Peggie Schwarz, mezzo-soprano
Cycle of Love, a sassy but poignant set of cabaret songs by Aaron
Copland, John Adams, and Kurt Weill.
Les Green, tenor
Wonderful French chansons.
11:00 p.m. — Program 5 — Fear No Music, Ines Voglar, artistic dir.
Joe Waters: “Flamehead”
Reza Vali: “Folk Dance for String Quartet”
Robert McBride: “Jilted”
Sunday, March 22
12:00 midnight — Program 6 — Melegari Chamber Players, Paloma
Griffin, artistic director
Love Reign Over Me – Pete Townsend: “Love Reign Over Me”
(arr. David Gerow)
David Gerow, mandolin
Paloma Griffin, violin
Joel Belgique, viola
Nancy Ives, cello
Mozart: Oboe Quartet, K370
Karen Wagner, oboe
Paloma Griffin, violin
Jennifer Arnold, viola
Justin Kagan, cello
J.M. LeClaire: “Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 3, No. 2″
Gregory Ewer, Paloma Griffin, violins
John Lennon (arr. Evan Kuhlmann with Pink Martini): “Real Love”
Timothy Nishimoto (vocalist), Melegari String Quartet (Paloma
Griffin, Ines Voglar, violins, Joel Belgique, viola, Nancy Ives, cello),
and The Flash Choir led by Pat Janowski and Sarah Dougher.
Franz Bibel (arr. Aaron LaVere): “Ave Maria for 8 Trombones”
Edgar Meyer (arr. Evan Kuhlmann): “First Impressions”
Nicholas Crosa, violin
Paloma Griffin, violin
Thomas Lauderdale, piano
1:00 a.m. — Program 7 — Third Angle, Ron Blessinger, artistic dir.
Chen Yi: “Sprout and Burning”
George Crumb: “Black Angels”
Sunday, March 22
2:00 a.m. — Program 8 — Michele Mariana, jazz vocalist with
Reece Marshburn, piano
3:00 a.m. — Program 9 — Portland Cello Project, Doug Jenkins,
artistic director
4:00 a.m. — Program 10 — Thomas Lauderdale program or Chad
Heltzel, pianist, TBA
5:00 a.m. — Program 11 — Chad Heltzel, pianist or Thomas
Lauderdale program, TBA
6:00 a.m. — Program 12 — Ron Potts, pianist
Domenico Scarlatti: “Sonata”
Robert Schumann: “Arabesque”
Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Two Preludes”
Maurice Ravel: “Le tombeau de Couperin”
Bela Bartok: “Suite, Opus 14″
7:00 a.m. — Program 13 — Drumming and Brahms
Obo Addy, master drummer
Gregory Dubay,cello, Bill Crane, piano
Brahms: “Sonata for Cello and Piano in e-minor”
8:00 a.m. — Program 14 — Tamara Still
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Goldberg Variations”
9:00 a.m. — Program 15 — Jass Two Plus One , “Hot and Swing Jazz
of the 1920’s and 30’s”
10:00 a.m. — Program 16 — The music of Johannes Brahms
Justin Kagan, cellist
Bill Crane, pianist
11:00 a.m. — Program 17 — Jeffrey Payne, piano
Olivier Messiaen: “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus” (selections)
Sunday, March 22
12:00 noon — Program 18 — Marie Fiorillo, soprano, Carol Lucas,
pianist, Sara Watts, violinist, Irving Levin, cellist, and violin
students of Carol Sindell
1:00 p.m. — Program 19 — Lisa Mooyman, soprano, Sherry Olson,
mezzo-soprano, David Hattner, clarinet
Music of Claudio Monteverdi and Franz Schubert’s famous
“Shepherd on the Rock”
2:00 p.m. — Program 20 — Michael and Elizabeth Strickland,
piano. A wide-ranging program by a father and daughter team!
3:00 p.m. — Program 21 — Ida Rae Cahana, soprano, Abby Mages,
flute, Jerry Deckelbaum and Bill Crane, piano
Music from the historic Sephardim
Claude Debussy: “Syrincx”
Francis Poulenc: “Sonata for Flute and Piano”
Gabriel Faure: “Dolly Suite” for piano, four hands
4:00 p.m. — Program 22 — Angela Niederloh, alto; Julie Coleman,
violin; Janet Coleman, piano
5:00 p.m. — Program 23 — Carol Sindell, violin; Janet Guggen-
heim, piano
Cesar Franck: “Sonata for violin and piano”
Claude Debussy: “Sonata for Violin and Piano”
6:00 p.m. — Program 24 — Company
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, finale
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Sorry,
Taiko will be at 6PM this evening. We will have pics of it tomorrow on the site.
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