This Weekend: Music For A Time Of War @ Oregon Symphony | Carnegie Send-Off, Live Recording
May 4, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEFrom our sponsors at Oregon Symphony:
Music For A Time Of War
Saturday, May 7 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 8 @ 2 p.m.
Tickets are $20-90
Purchase tickets at www.orsymphony.org/war or call 503-228-1353
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway
Just before Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon Symphony head off to New York and their long-awaited Carnegie Hall debut, they’ve got one very special themed program planned for their home audience in Portland: “Music for a Time of War.” It was the strength and dramatic coherence of this program that won the Oregon Symphony its invitation to the first annual Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall, to take place on Thursday, May 12. The program includes:
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
John Adams: The Wound-Dresser (based on texts from Walt Whitman's poem The Wound-Dresser)
Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4
Audiences at both performances will be part of a live recording of the Symphony's first CD under music director Carlos Kalmar. Baritone Sanford Sylvan makes his Oregon Symphony debut at these concerts in the Adams piece, which was written for him in 1989.
Immediately after the Sunday performance, backstage crew members at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall will start loading large instruments, music and some musicians' concert dress clothes into a truck for the cross-country journey to West 57th Street.
