Chamber music or jazz - your choice this week.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Whether your musical tastes run to classical or tend more towards jazz, you'll find some live music to enjoy in the coming days in Eugene. First, the classical. The Oregon Mozart Players Oregon Mozart Players is a professional chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. The orchestra presents six concert sets in a typical season, in addition to numerous small ensemble performances and recitals by guest artists. present "Paris Caf, Moscow Tea Room" - a concert of chamber music featuring piano trios of Dmitri Shostakovich Noun 1. Dmitri Shostakovich - Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975) Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Shostakovich , Maurice Ravel Noun 1. Maurice Ravel - French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) Ravel and Paul Schoenfield Paul Schoenfield is a composer. He also enjoys mathematics and to the best of his abiity tries learing Talmud. External links
The concert features violinist Robin Erickson, cellist Dale Bradley, and pianists Sandy Holder and Genevieve Mason. It will be followed by a sampling of Euphoria chocolates. This program transports the audience from a Russian tea room The Russian Tea Room is a restaurant in New York City, located at 150 West 57th Street between Carnegie Hall Tower and Metropolitan Tower. History to a cafe in fin-de-sicle Paris, rounded out with Schoenfield's "Caf Music," an exuberant musical survey of the varieties of the American immigrant experience. Tickets are $15 general admission and $12 for students and seniors; call 682-5000 or purchase at the door. The church is at 2230 Washington St. The Mozart Players will continue its chamber music and chocolate series in Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). at 7:30 p.m. April 6 with "Oboe and Strings Spring Salute," a concert of chamber music featuring W.A. Mozart's oboe quartet and string duets by Dale Bradley, Jean Baptiste Breval, Friedrich Dotzauer and Mozart. The concert features Mozart Player musicians Cheryl Denice, oboe; Dale Bradley, cello; Matt Fuller, violin; and Clark Spencer, viola. The performance will be followed by a chocolate dessert from Fleur de Lis Patisserie pa·tis·se·rie n. A bakery specializing in French pastry. [French pâtisserie, from Old French pastiserie, from pasticier, to make pastry, from *pastitz, and Cafe. The performance will be held at the Cottage Theatre, 700 Village Drive, Cottage Grove. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 students and seniors, at www.cottagetheatre.org and at the door. For a completely different musical experience, check out "Ain't Misbehavin'?" on Saturday and Sunday at Eugene's Hult Center, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. "American Idol" 2003 star Ruben Studdard leads a cast that performs this musical revue, which is built around the songs of early 20th century jazzman Fats Waller. It features such songs as "Honeysuckle honeysuckle, common name for some members of the Caprifoliaceae, a family comprised mostly of vines and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, especially abundant in E Asia and E North America. Rose," "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" and, of course, "Ain't Misbehavin'." The traveling national production also features "American Idol" alums Frenchie Davis and Trenyce Cobbins. "Ain't Misbehavin'" made its Broadway debut in 1978 and won two Tony awards. Showtime is 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $30 to $50 through the Hult box office, 682-5000. |
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