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Thursday, April 9, 2020
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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.
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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
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