Liberty Theater to host Rising
Stars in an evening of music
ASTORIA — Portland Piano In-
ternational launched its Rising
Stars program in January with
four recitals around the state by
Rachel Kudo. It continues in
March with free, one-hour per-
formances by Viktor Valkov. In a
program that includes Beethoven,
Froberger, Wagner, Nenov and
Bartok, Valkov will perform (no
ticket needed) at the Liberty The-
ater at 6 p.m. Thursday, March
19. There will be a brief break
after the recital and then the Third
Thursday Comedy Series be-
gins with Irish comedian George
Casey at 7:30 p.m. (tickets for
the comedy show are available
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Valkov is currently pursuing
his doctorate at Rice University,
studying with Jon Kimura Park-
er. Born in Bulgaria, Valkov be-
gan his studies at the State Music
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in Essen, Germany. He has a mas-
ter’s degree from Juilliard, where
he studied with Jerome Lowenthal
and Matti Raekallio. He won the
2012 New Orleans International
Piano Competition and has toured
the U.S. and internationally.
An extension of PPI’s exist-
ing educational outreach pro-
grams, Rising Stars represents
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to free performance opportuni-
ties for music-lovers. With Ris-
ing Stars, PPI brings talented
young pianists, not yet fully em-
barked on professional careers,
to small venues across the state,
producing recitals outside Port-
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year history. The family-friendly
recitals offer a new way to wel-
come audiences to the classical
piano experience: They are free,
short, and conversational. After
the recital, audience and per-
former can engage in question
and answers about the overall
program and individual pieces.
Rising Stars will expand in the
fall to include collaborations with
the Oregon composers selected to
participate in PPI’s Commission-
ing Project. The Commissioning
Project, awarded a $90,000 Cre-
ative Heights grant from the Fred
Fields Fund of the Oregon Com-
munity Foundation, supports the
composition of new solo works
for classical piano. Each commis-
sioned composer will be paired
with a Rising Star to develop the
work, which will then receive its
world premiere in a Rising Stars
Peninsula Quilt Guild celebrates 20 years
Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum hosts three-day show
ILWACO, Wash. — The 20th an-
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bition will take place Friday
to Sunday, March 20 to 22 at
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Museum, located at 115 S.E.
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Lake St.
Pianist Viktor Valkov will perform works by Bee-
With more than 100 quilts
thoven, Froberger, Wagner, Nenov and Bartok at on display in three separate
6 p.m. March 19 at the Liberty Theater.
galleries, the show exhibits
work from some of the area’s
recital. Composers selected for most talented fabric artists,
the Commissioning Project will all members of the Peninsula
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be announced this spring.
The guild started in 1995
Portland Piano Internation-
al is dedicated to presenting the with veteran quilt maker Pat
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recital settings and to enriching ter Ethel Boler, culminating
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through outreach activities. PPI’s museum, which showcased
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and sponsors include the Re- Guild has 67 members from
gional Arts & Culture Council, Washington, Oregon and Cal-
Work for Art, James F. and Mar- ifornia.
The quilts displayed will be
ion Miller Foundation, Oregon
Community Foundation, May- as varied as the quilters them-
belle Clark Macdonald Fund, Or- selves done in many different
egon Arts Commission, National styles, from art to scrappy and
Endowment for the Arts, Oregon both machine and hand quilted.
Cultural Trust, Portland Piano Various quilting demonstra-
Company, Higgins Restaurant, tions, such as paper piecing,
Portland State University and All hand quilting, appliqué and
more will take place through-
Classical Media.
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off during the exhibition.
This year’s quilt is done in
an Amish style and titled
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the raffle will be available
throughout the show for $1
per ticket. The drawing will
be held Sunday afternoon; it
is not necessary to be pres-
ent to win. Proceeds from
the ticket sales will go to
various charitable organiza-
tions on the peninsula and in
Pacific County.
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Show is free. Hours are from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, and from noon to 4
p.m. Sunday.
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Quilt Show attendees can purchase $1
raffle tickets with the chance to win “Beach
Cabins,” the Amish-style quilt on display here.
out the three-day event.
Each year guild members
participate in constructing
Partners for the PAC hosts a Girls Night Out
Watch Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant in 1963 thriller ‘Charade’
ASTORIA — Lookout ladies,
it’s Partners for the PAC’s Girls
Night Out. On Thursday, March
19, you’ll want to get yourselves
over to the Clatsop Community
College Performing Arts Cen-
ter for an entertaining evening
designed expressly with you in
mind. A night of fashion and fun
is yours for the price of $10 at the
door. Doors open at 7 p.m.
First, there’ll be a showing of
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Then, you’ll sip bubbly and eat
chocolate during intermission.
Be sure and get glamorous be-
fore you arrive too; there are
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the audience. So, dust off those
tiaras, get out the evening gloves.
This will be your night to shine.
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cast its spell on the big screen.
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mouse thriller and romantic
comedy all-in-one from director
Stanley Donen. Audrey Hepburn
stars as widow Regina Lampert,
who spends most of the movie
looking for money her charac-
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romancing Cary Grant who, as
Peter Joshua, is a distinctly sus-
picious character however dev-
astatingly handsome he might
be.
A cadre of miscreants re-
mains on their trail, looking for
the money as well — played by
popular actors George Kennedy,
James Coburn and other familiar
faces from the 1960s. The re-
doubtable Walter Matthieu has a
small, but key, role as a private
investigator.
The action moves from
one gorgeous location to an-
other—from a ski lodge in the
Alps in Haute-Savoie, France
and the glittering streets of
Paris at night, to an outdoor
Punch and Judy puppet show
in the Jardins des Champs
Elysees and many other fa-
mous locations in the legend-
ary City of Light.
Proceeds from this event will
go to the continued operation
of the PAC facility as a venue
for affordable public arts and
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Watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in
“Charade” during the Partners for the PAC’s
Girls Night Out.
educational offerings. For more
information visit www.support-
thepac.org
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