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520 SW 3rd Ave., Portland, OR 97204 • 503-796-9250
A full service
flower experience
•Birthdays
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Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm
Saturday 9am til 2pm.
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Owner, Operator
Thomas Lauderdale and Storm Large are am ong the special guest stars for the Oregon
Symphony’s New Year’s concerts.
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New Year’s Concert Spectacular
The Oregon Symphony is bring
ing 2013 to a crescendo with two
sp e cia l
p e rfo rm a n c e s
of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on
Monday, Dec. 30 and Tuesday, Dec.
31 under the direction of Music Di
rector Carlos Kalmar.
The concerts will feature soloists
Angela Niederloh, Carl Moe and
Richard Zeller, the Portland State
University Chamber Choir, the Pa
cific Youth Choir and the Portland
Gay M en’s Chorus. The evenings
also include music by a cavalcade of
guest stars: Thomas Lauderdale on
piano, director Gus Van Sant, and
vocalists China Forbes, Storm Large
(Dec. 30 only), the von Trapps, and
Cantor Ida Rae Cahana.
“Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
is one of the most loved pieces of
music ever written,” said Kalmar.
“I’m looking forward to performing
this triumphant and monumental
work to celebrate the Ne w Y ear with
the community.”
Thomas Lauderdale adds, “Pink
Martini has played with over 50
orchestras and I say with great con
fidence that the Oregon Symphony
is the best in the country. W e’ll end
the year with triumph and ring in the
new year with joy.”
For tickets and more information,
visit orsymphony.org.
Soul King to Ring in the New Year
The Radio Room, 1101 N.E. Alberta
St., will be hosting a free New Years Eve
event, with live music by Portland’s
“Soul King” Ural Thomas.
Thomas was a vital part of the long
gone Funk and Soul scene of the late '60s
and early 70s. In his career, he has
opened for Otis Redding, James Brown,
Stevie Wonder, and played in the studio
with the Quincy Jones band and the
Supremes.
Thomas has lived in the same Port
land house since the 1960s and has been
playing every Sunday for the past 40
years at the "House of Entertainment,"
the practice space and neighborhood
music venue that he built himself, out by
the back alley behind his house.
HisTuesday, Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve Ring in the New Year with with a New Year’s Eve perfor-
performance at the Radio Room will take mance by Portland Soul King Ural Thomas at the Radio
place from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Room on Alberta Street.
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