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BY BRET CAMPBELL
Winter Thaw
FRANK TURNE
An oasis of music from warmer climes
AND THE SLEEPING SOU
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ack in the 1970s, one of the major
bands leading the welcomed
revival of Celtic music was
Planxty, a group that recreated the original
energy in what could have been musty old
tunes and forms and thereby revitalized
Irish music. Singer Andy Irvine
incorporated Eastern European elements
into the band, and he later co-founded
another all-star Irish band, Patrick Street,
which he continues to front.
Irvine also plays frequently with many
of the other legendary names in Irish
music, and maintains a solo career as well,
accompanying his own songs on bouzouki
and mandola. He’s performing at Cozmic
Pizza on Monday, Feb. 6, and no fan of
Celtic or folk music should miss him.
Singer/songwriter John Cruz is one of
the hottest stars in Hawaiian music,
winning major awards on the island and a
Grammy for his acoustic ballads. He’s
even co-written a song with Phish’s Trey
Anastasio and provided hits for Jack
Johnson. You can hear him at The Shedd
on Saturday, Feb. 4, and maybe channel a
little island sunshine during these bleak
winter days.
The week’s big concert at the University
of Oregon features the acclaimed Salzburg
Chamber Soloists in the Chamber Music
@ Beall series, performing music by
Mozart, Dvorak, Janacek and Benjamin
Britten’s lovely Les Illuminations, a take
on the fevered prose poetry of the great
French writer Arthur Rimbaud. Although
the composers’ names are familiar, it’s
fairly uncommon to hear these particular
works because they require a small
orchestra — too big for a chamber
ensemble, too small for a symphony — so
this is a rare and recommended musical
treat Sunday, Feb. 5, at Beall Hall.
The UO music school’s new Emerging
Artist Series gives its best students a
showcase every winter and spring. The
Feb. 3 concert at Beall includes music by
Gabriel Faure, Jacques Ibert, an original
dance work and more. Just in time for
V-Day, UO opera students will sing songs
of love and lust Feb. 10-11 at Beall. And
on Sunday, Feb. 12, the school’s other
program for new and emerging artists, the
always-stimulating Vanguard Series,
brings award-winning soprano Estelí
Gomez , who performs with Yale
University early music groups, to sing
music written for her by UO composers.
On Saturday afternoon, Feb. 4, the
UO’s award-winning Chamber Choir joins
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Portland State University’s terrific Cham-
ber Choir in a Beall concert led by famed
Harvard University choral conductor
Jameson Marvin , who will lead three of
the state’s finest young choirs in this col-
laborative concert featuring music by
Brahms, Renaissance and early Baroque
composers as well as contemporary works,
including spirituals.
You can also hear Baroque music on
Sunday, Feb. 5, at First Methodist Church
at 13th & Olive, when Cascade Consort
performs music by Handel, Monteverdi
and rarely heard other composers on lute,
harpsichord, viola da gamba and voice.
On Monday, Feb. 6, Beall hosts the
venerable Eugene Symphonic Band ,
now celebrating its 54th season with music
by Gustav Holst, Malcolm Arnold, Percy
Grainger and more. Congrats — if this
long-running Eugene musical institution
can survive more than half a century, we
can get through this winter.
Finally, another stalwart classical music
institution, the Oregon Mozart Players ,
completes its auditions for a new music
director — and an opportunity for artistic
renewal in a highly recommended Feb. 11
concert featuring conductor-candidate
Michael Nowak , a frequent guest conductor
of the OMP. At the Hult Center, this longtime
music director of the San Luis Obispo
Symphony (since 1984) will lead the
chamber orchestra in an attractive program
of music by Stravinsky, one of Mozart’s first
great symphonies, his 29th, and his lovely
Piano Concerto #17, with UO piano master
Dean Kramer as soloist.
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@ Cozmic
199 W 8th Ave, Eugene
$9 Adv | $13 Dr
thurs feb 2
Tracy
Grammer
8pm
$12 adv/$15 day of
“One of the only guys in the world
that can really play the traditional
stuff right.” -Kim Wilson
Advance tickets on sale at CD World, House
of Records, Museum of Unfi ne Art and Record Store
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Guy
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9pm • $16 adv/$20 day of
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Bill Rhoades &
T he Party Kings
(wit h Henry Cooper)
T he Vipers
Walker T. Ryan
A Benefi t for Food for
Lane County
$20 Advance | $24 Door
Advance tickets on sale at CD World, House of
Records, Museum of Unfi ne Art and Record Store &
online at www.cozmicpizza.com
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fri feb 3
Dan Jones (solo acoustic)
8:30pm • $8 adv/$10 day of
sun feb 5
Euforquestra
9pm • $5 adv/$8 day of
mon feb 6
Andy
Irvine
8:30pm • $14 adv/$18 day of
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