ART
TALK
BY B O B K E E F E R
FRANCESCO LECCE-CHONG
NEW SYMPHONY
CONDUCTOR NAMED
And Eugene loses a quiet arts leader
T
o absolutely no one’s sur-
prise, Francesco Lecce-
Chong has been named
the new music director of
the Eugene Symphony.
Wednesday’s announcement
concludes the symphony’s year-
long search to find a conductor
to replace Danail Rachev, who
leaves his job as music director
after the season wraps up with a
final concert May 11.
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fered a huge loss Saturday
with the death of Dick Easley,
the founder and owner, with his
wife, Asian art scholar Hue-Ping
Lin, of the White Lotus Gallery,
Eugene’s most elegant art venue.
He was 82.
Having met in Taiwan, the
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South Eugene in 1992, at first
basing its offerings on Easley’s
large collection of modern Japa-
nese prints; they later moved the
business downtown and expand-
ed its range to include contempo-
rary Chinese prints and paintings
as well as work by contemporary
Northwest artists.
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for galleries and art lovers in Eu-
gene,” Eugene art collector Rog-
er Saydack said. “His love for art
and artists, his impeccable taste,
and his friendly and respectful
manner helped make White Lo-
tus a center of our cultural life.”
A quiet, self-effacing man,
Easley was a true mensch.
Some fifteen years ago, when
Karin Clarke decided to open
her own gallery right across the
street from White Lotus, Easley
stepped up to help a competitor.
“Dick always gave me very
smart and clear advice about run-
ning an art gallery, and I tried to
listen,” Clarke said. “The extraor-
dinary quality and elegance of
what they’ve been doing with the
gallery has been something very
unique to have in Eugene — not
just the work, but the knowledge
and passion they bring to it.”
Easley had been battling can-
cer for some time but contin-
ued to work at the gallery as his
health allowed. His death Satur-
day came after his hospitalization
from a fall and a subsequent heart
attack.
No memorial has been set.
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Renée Fleming. The regular sea-
son offers a new cello concerto,
Tales of Hemingway by Michael
Daugherty; a Messiah in Decem-
ber; and two works by Augusta
Read Thomas, who will be in
residence. See details at Eugene-
Symphony.org.
Perhaps the biggest symphony
news is this: After some years of
consideration, the orchestra next
season will join most of the rest of
the local performing-arts commu-
nity by moving the start time of its
concerts from 8 pm to 7:30 pm.
Se
EUGENE
National and even interna-
tional attention has been focused
on music director searches in Eu-
gene lately because three of the
last four people on the podium
— Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-
Bedoya and Giancarlo Guerrero
— have all gone on from their
jobs here to national prominence.
After sorting through hun-
dreds of résumés and perfor-
mance videos, the symphony
brought nine people to Eugene
for interviews. That group was
winnowed down to three final-
ists: Dina Gilbert, a Canadian
who has served as assistant con-
ductor at the Orchestre sympho-
nique de Montréal; Ryan Mc-
Adams, a symphony and opera
conductor who is former music
director of the New York Youth
Symphony; and Lecce-Chong,
a Colorado native who is assis-
tant conductor of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra. All three
finalists came to town to conduct
regular season concerts.
With its exquisite musical-
ity, Lecce-Chong’s March 16
performance left little doubt in
anyone’s mind who should take
up the baton next fall, and I’m as
enthusiastic as anyone about his
selection.
Meanwhile, the symphony
has announced its 2017-18 sea-
son, which opens with a special
concert Sept. 19 with soprano
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