Thursday: Joshua Bell @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall | Oregon Symphony
September 13, 2010 — PDXPIPELINEFrom our partners at Oregon Symphony:
The Oregon Symphony presents Superstar Violinist Joshua Bell
Thursday, September 16th 7:30pm.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Back for one night only to help kick off the Oregon Symphony's star studded 2010/11 Concert season. Violinist and enchanter Joshua Bell, a one-time teen-age prodigy, is now 40-something and the closest thing classical music has to a rock star. Program includes "Suite from The Tender Land" by Aaron Copeland and Bell will be playing Edouard Lalo's "Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra"
Bell performs on a violin made in 1713 by Antonio Stradivari that is known as the Gibson Stradivarius, which is infamous for having been stolen in 1936 from the Carnegie Hall dressing room of violinist Bronislaw Huberman while Huberman was on stage playing another instrument. After the theft, the Gibson Stradivarius disappeared without a trace for more than a half-century, until it was offered for sale in London in 1987. Bell acquired it in 2001.
Bell's playing … does nothing less then tell human beings why they bother to live. – Interview magazine
Call or click for tickets 503-228-1353 | www.OrSymphony.org
September 16, 2010 at 13:45
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