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2 Thursday, April 9, 2020 GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon LISTEN Oregon East Symphony offers online concert Free performances will be streamed April 18 D ue to the ongoing closures due to the coronavirus crisis, the Oregon East Symphony will cancel the remainder of its 2019-2020 season after the online presentation of its annual Spring Chamber Music Concert on Satur- day, April 18. The cancellation affects the pre- viously postponed Winter Moons concert, scheduled for March 14 in Pendleton and March 15 in Herm- iston, and the season fi nale, “Blow It Up, Start Again,” which was scheduled for a June 13 Pendleton performance. Symphony staff and board of directors volunteers have been reaching out to season ticket hold- ers and individual concert ticket holders to inform them of the changes to the schedule. To close out the season this year, the symphony’s annual Spring Chamber Music Festival will be held online, being streamed at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18, from the front page of their website — www. OregonEastSymphony.org. The on- line concert will be free to view for anyone with internet connection. For this year’s concert, musi- cians will produce HD video re- cordings of themselves performing chamber works from their homes or private studios. These prere- corded performances will be edited together into the video that will be streamed on OES’s website. Performances this year include OES violist Aurora Torres on Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano by Charles Martin Tornov Loeffl er with Ryan Klein (oboe) and Chad Spears (piano); OES conductor and artistic director Dr. Beau Benson presenting a selec- tion of classical guitar repertoire from 16th and 19th century Spain; and OES assistant concertmaster Viet Block and OES principal cellist Zach Banks performing Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 by the recipes. This free concert is generously sponsored by Collins Law Offi ce, Dr. George and Sue Nelson, and Sylvia Clawson. Meanwhile, Zach Banks, who also serves as the OES educa- tion director, has been adapt- ing as much of the Symphony’s educational activities and weekly classes as possible to an online environment. The Oregon East Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Symphony’s intermediate level youth orchestra, recently kicked off its fi rst “OESYO Virtual Jam Session.” The goal of the weekly online classes is to sustain student engagement through playing assignments. Come check out our inventory of Photo by Ric Walters Hermiston based mezzo-soprano singer Alexis McCarthy will perform Saint-Saen’s aria Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix as part of the online Spring Chamber Music Festival Concert on April 18. Zoltán Kodály. Hermiston-based mezzo-soprano Alexis McCarthy will perform Saint-Saëns’s aria Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix with piano accom- paniment by Rachel Pariseau, and Pendleton-born, Hollywood com- poser Chris Thomas will provide a fi lm scoring performance. Even regular OES concert MCs Bill Mayclin and Murray Dunlap will prerecord their concert an- nouncements in their trademark tuxedos. A feature of the Chamber Music Festival that can’t be replicated in a virtual environment is the spread of hearty hors d’oeuvres and wine and beer provided by OES’s volunteer board of directors. Instead, the board of directors will be compiling a recipe book of hors d’oeuvres that will be electroni- cally submitted to those on the Symphony mailing list prior to the concert. Viewers can prepare these WEEKEND OUTLOOK recipes on their own to enjoy as they watch and listen to the con- cert from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The Great Pacifi c and Prodigal Son Brewery will respectively be providing sugges- tions for wine and beer pairings for 2700 Bearco Loop La Grande 541-963-8898 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY High 66 Low 40 High 59 Low 37 High 55 Low 31 Partly sunny Cloudy and cooler Partly sunny