Entries from April 2009 ↓

TAPESTRY STRING QUARTET

Special Guest, Harris Orem, English Horn

May 6, 2009

Old Church 12:00 Noon

Quartet No. 7 (1960) Opus 108* Dmitri Shostakovich

Allegretto

Lento

Allegro

Berceuse Armas Jarnefelt

Arr. Peggy J. Swafford

Guest, Harris Orem, English Horn

String Quartet No. 1 (1952) Einojuhani Rautavaara

Presto

Andante

Vivace Assai

TAPESTRY QUARTET

Catherine Noll, 1^st violin

Janet George, 2^nd violin

Peggy Swafford, viola

Gayle Budd O’grady, cello

From Dorianne Reinhardt-Paul:

I’m sad to report that on Thursday, Oregon violists lost another wonderful member of our community. Anna Rapp – violist, teacher, former principal violist and my former stand partner at Maryhurst – lost her battle with cancer on Thursday morning and passed away quietly in her sleep. She was 72, as I discovered much to my shock last year – you wouldn’t have known it from looking at her or talking to her, she was so full of life and energy. Anna just exuded joy. She was one of the most positive, glass-half-full people I have ever met. I don’t think I ever saw her have a bad day. She absolutely LOVED the viola, loved playing the viola, and was so happy for every opportunity she got to play. She was a real inspiration to me – every time I think of her, I am challenged to grab hold of my life and live it to the fullest. She will be deeply missed, and will be yet another person I think of each time I open my viola case.

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The Marylhurst Orchestra has a concert tomorrow.

VIOLA DAY 12-5pm this SATURDAY the 11th of April, 2009

Lewis & Clark College’s Evans Music Center

The masterclass with Charles Noble will be from 12-2 and we will hear Walton, Bartok, Bloch, Bach and some orchestral excerpts.

The memorial recital for Kjersten Oquist begins at 3pm and will include movements of a Mendelssohn quartet, a Schubert quintet, a performance by talented 13 year old singer-pianist-composer Ian Harris, works by Piazzola, Vieuxtemps and more. Friends and colleagues of Kjersten from the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theater, Portland Opera and the freelance community will perform. We will conduct a raffle with prizes from Badbeards Coffee, Cupcake Jones, iTunes, and author Martin Goldman.

Oregon Symphony Principal and Fear No Music violist Joël Belgique will perform in the recital. “Please join us in celebrating the viola in Oregon and help us remember and recognize a true loss to our community of musicians in the passing of Kjersten Oquist. Hope you can be there.”

DIRECTIONS: Take Terwilliger Boulevard East from Barbur. Follow signs to stay straight for Lewis & Clark College. To get to the music complex & parking for Evans, take the second left after the roundabout. It will look like you are entering a parking lot and if you stay straight you’ll head down a steep hill past a running track. Keep straight all the way to the parking lot at the end there and you should be able to find a spot. From the last parking lot, when you turn to look back up the hill you’ll see a small square cream building on your left up a small driveway. That’s the back of Evans Music Center and the main hall is on the second floor. We’ll put up some signs to help you out.