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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020
Oregon East Symphony cancels remainder of season
HERMISTON HERALD
Due to the ongoing coronavi-
rus pandemic, the Oregon East
Symphony has announced it will
be canceling the remainder of its
2019-20 season, after the online
presentation of its Spring Chamber
Music Concert on Saturday, April
18.
The cancellation affects the
previously postponed “Winter
Moons” concert, scheduled for
March 14 in Pendleton and March
15 in Hermiston, and the season
fi nale, “Blow it Up, Start Again,”
scheduled for a Pendleton perfor-
mance on June 13. Symphony staff
and board of directors volunteers
have been reaching out to season
ticket holders and individual con-
cert ticket holders to inform them
of the development.
To close out the season this
year, OES’s annual Spring Cham-
ber Music Festival will be held
online, streamed Saturday, April
18 at 6:30 p.m. from the front
page of their website, www.Ore-
gonEastSymphony.org. The online
concert will be free to view for any-
one with an internet connection.
Musicians at this year’s concert
will produce HD video recordings
of themselves performing chamber
works from their homes or private
Photo contributed by Ric Walters
Hermiston-based mezzo-soprano singer Alexis McCarthy will perform as
part of Oregon East Symphony’s Spring Chamber Music Festival Concert.
The concert will be live-streamed on Saturday, April 18 on the symphony’s
website.
studios. These prerecorded perfor-
mances will be edited together into
the video that will be streamed on
OES’s website.
Performances this year include
OES violist Aurora Torres on “Two
Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and
Piano” by Charles Martin Tornov
Loeffl er, with Ryan Klein (oboe)
and Chad Spears (piano); OES
conductor and artistic director Dr.
Beau Benson presenting a selec-
tion of classical guitar repertoire
from 16th and 19th century Spain;
OES assistant concertmaster Viet
Block and OES principal cellist
Zach Banks performing “Duo for
Violin and Cello, Op. 7” by Zoltán
Kodály; mezzo-soprano Alexis
McCarthy performing Saint-
Saëns’s aria “Mon cœur s’ouvre
à ta voix” with piano accompa-
niment by Rachel Pariseau; and
Pendleton-born Hollywood com-
poser Chris Thomas providing a
fi lm scoring performance.
Even regular OES concert
emcees Bill Mayclin and Murray
Dunlap will prerecord their pre-
concert announcements in their
trademark tuxedos.
A feature of the Chamber Music
Festival that can’t be replicated in
a virtual environment is the spread
of hearty hors d’oeurves and wine
and beer provided by OES’s vol-
unteer board of directors. This year
the board of directors will be com-
piling a recipe book of hors d’oeu-
vres that will be electronically sub-
mitted to those on the symphony
mailing list prior to the concert.
Meanwhile, OES Education
Director Zach Banks has been
adapting as much of the sympho-
ny’s educational activities as pos-
sible to an online environment.
The Oregon East Symphony Youth
Orchestra, the Symphony’s inter-
mediate level youth orchestra,
kicked off its fi rst “OESYO Vir-
tual Jam Session” last week. The
goal of the weekly online classes,
held at the same time as regular
OESYO rehearsals, is to sustain
student engagement through play-
Hermiston runner gets creative after
Las Vegas marathon was canceled
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
When the thing you
were looking forward to
gets canceled, sometimes
you have to just make do
with what you’ve got.
For Liz Sharon, that
meant a “mini marathon”
in Hermiston on Friday
after her real marathon,
the Revel Mt. Charleston
Marathon in Las Vegas,
was called off because of
COVID-19.
Sharon had been in train-
ing since December and
planned to run the full mar-
athon on Saturday with her
younger sister, followed
by some vacation time
together. Instead, on Fri-
day she ran a half marathon
(13.1 miles) up and down
the bicycle lane on High-
land Avenue in Hermiston,
being careful not to touch
things along the route or get
too close to any passerby.
“When the race got can-
celed I was so sad, but I felt
so silly being sad when so
many more serious things
are going on in the world,
with people losing their
jobs and all the deaths,” she
said. “But it’s hard when
you work so hard for some-
thing, and have a goal.”
Trying to make lemon-
ade out of lemons, her hus-
band Joseph Sharon and
their children did what they
could to help create a race
atmosphere. They took
turns running segments
with her, handed out water
along the way and were
there to cheer for her at the
“fi nish line.”
Her sister called her to
cheer her on.
After her husband posted
about the family activity on
Facebook, several family
friends also took the time to
drive by and honk or cheer
from a safe distance away.
“That meant so much
to me,” Sharon said. “I
wanted to give them a hug,
but of course you can’t.”
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COMMUNITY
Contributed photo by Kim Puzey
Liz Sharon runs a half
marathon along Highland
Avenue in Hermiston on
Friday.
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HERMISTON HERALD
For the sixth year in a
row, youth-focused organi-
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communities can earn up to
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Whether it’s a Little
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— and the website makes it
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“Six years ago, we
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sponsoring college and pro-
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support youth programs that
provide kids here in Eastern
Oregon with fun and mean-
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day,” said Erryn Ander-
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Northwest at U.S. Cellular.
“We know there are several
groups in need of fi nancial
support, and by investing
in them we can help ensure
that all kids get a fair shot to
achieve their goals.”
Since launching the pro-
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nearly 3,000 groups nation-
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Electric cooperative to distribute $2.5 million
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approved the distribution of
$2.5 million to the coopera-
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The distribution is part
of UEC’s Capital Credits
program, and refunds will
be based on the amount
of power customers con-
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to a news release, a mem-
ber consuming an average
amount of energy during
2018 will receive a check
for about $70.
The refunds apply to
all classes of customers
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all. Checks should appear
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Refunds of less than $10
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In a statement, CEO
and General Manager Rob-
ert Echenrode said employ-
ing assignments and an in-depth
look at music theory and history
surrounding the pieces scheduled
to be performed at the OESYO’s
Spring Concert.
Banks has also been emailing
students in both OESYO and Pre-
ludes, the beginner level prepara-
tory orchestra, links to useful, free
online content like free stream-
ing concert recordings by the Ber-
lin Philharmonic, online master
classes, and free sheet music suit-
able for participants’ skill levels.
For the Preludes Orchestra, con-
ductor Melinda Tovey has been
producing short “play-along” vid-
eos for each of the students in her
ensemble.
Another educational activ-
ity OES provides that is mov-
ing online is OES’s private les-
son fi nancial assistance program.
OES will cover partial or the full
cost of private strings instruction
with an approved instructor for
students who lack the fi nancial
means to afford private lessons on
their own.
For more information about the
Oregon East Symphony and its
concert and education programing,
email the offi ce at info@orego-
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345 S.W. Fourth St. in Pendleton is
closed until further notice.
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