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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Eugene hosts a selection of music from across time
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his month offers opportunities to explore music’s ancient past and promising future
— and how the two interact. Folk music especially relies on older musical forms
to seed or even evolve into new compositions. The veteran Swedish power-folk
trio Väsen , performing this Thursday, April 20, at The Shedd, deploys traditional
instruments in music that blends old and new folk traditions into a rich, danceable
modern mix that fans of Celtic and bluegrass music will also enjoy.
It’s not dissimilar from what Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler have done since 1980
in their Celtic group Golden Bough , which uses fiddle, guitar, whistle and other traditional
acoustic instruments in both new and traditional Irish music. They’re at Tsunami Books
this Friday, April 21. The next night, Celtic music fans can dance over to The Shedd to hear
the latest of many appearances by the great Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist
Natalie Haas , one of the most engaging acts in folk music.
You have a week to recover before the superb trio Celtic Fiddle Festival arrives at
Tsunami Saturday, April 29, offering takes on that great tradition from three different
perspectives: Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany) and André Brunet
(Quebec).
On April 28, a guitarist who specializes in older music brings a mix of new and old to
Creswell Coffee. David Rogers plays Spanish, Flamenco, Latin, boomer rock, J.S. Bach
and originals, including music from his new CD, Winter Sunrise.
Rogers sometimes plays with Oregon Bach Collegium , which concentrates on really
old music. Their April 30 show at United Lutheran Church features music by the under-
heard Italian composer Benedetto Marcello for men’s choir, harpsichord and cello. There’s
more early music April 23 at Central Lutheran Church when Cappella Artemisia , an
ensemble of female singers and instrumentalists, performs music from Italian convents in
the 16th and 17th centuries.
Another young Eugene classical musician, cellist Eric Alterman , moved here a year
ago to join Delgani String Quartet, Eugene Symphony and Oregon Mozart Players.
On April 23 at UO’s Beall Hall he’s performing old music (Bach, Beethoven, Schumann,
Villa Lobos and Ginastera) with pianist Ednaldo Borba . On April 30 at First Methodist
church, another cello and piano team, Jeffrey Allen and Sandy Holder , performs music of
Scarlatti, Scriabin, Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven.
A rising Portland jazz star, drummer Chris Brown , leads a band of that city’s jazz
aces (saxophonist John Nastos, keyboardist Greg Goebel, bassist Dylan Sundstrom) in a
concert titled “Back to the Future” at Broadway House on April 22. During his years on the
East Coast before returning to his Portland hometown (he’s the son of renowned Portland
drummer/bandleader Mel Brown), Brown has established a reputation as a fine player in
his own right. Reservations at pbodin@uoregon.edu.
Another emerging jazz star, prize-winning New York pianist and composer Helen Sung ,
looks back at the music of the great mid-20th-century jazz composer Thelonious Monk
and plays her own originals at The Shedd April 26. And The Shedd features another fine
female updater of older music in chanteuse Siri Vik ’s April 28-30 run of shows featuring
20th-century-spanning music that shares the common theme of femme fatale. Backed by
a seven-member ensemble, she’ll sing a startling range of songs from Alban Berg’s scary
opera Lulu to Puccini’s Tosca, Bizet’s Carmen, rock classics by The Velvet Underground,
Rolling Stones, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, dark songbook stands from films noir and even
contemporary songwriters Björk, Nick Lowe and Laura Mvula.
It’s great to explore and update the past, but how about the music of tomorrow? The
UO’s biennial Music Today Festival , which begins this week and runs through May 13,
has served as both showcase and incubator for new music by young Oregon composers
since its 1993 founding by UO music prof Robert Kyr.
With almost all concerts in the university’s Aasen-Hull Hall being free, it’s a great chance
to glimpse the future of Oregon classical music. This weekend’s concerts feature works by
Oregon Composers Forum students Friday, music inspired by the students’ exploration of
the old-growth H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest just east of Eugene this Saturday. Next
weekend offers music by contemporary women composers Saturday performed by Ova
Novi Ensemble .