PERFORMANCE NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Modern dance and live music at WOW Hall Modern dance with live music is coming to the WOW Hall on Wednesday. The Agnieszka Laska Dancers, who have a neoclassical ne·o·clas·si·cism also Ne·o·clas·si·cism n. A revival of classical aesthetics and forms, especially: a. A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, style, will be joined by Tessa Brinckman's East West Continuo continuo or basso continuo In Baroque music, a special subgroup of an instrumental ensemble. It consists of two instruments reading the same part: a bass instrument, such as a cello or bassoon, and a chordal instrument, most often a harpsichord but sometimes , an ensemble of flute and stringed instruments that explores traditional and hybrid material. Laska is originally from Poland and has three decades of professional stage experience. Brinckman is a native of New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. who has worked with the Oregon Symphony The Oregon Symphony is an American orchestra based in Portland, Oregon. Its home venue is the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland's Cultural District. It is the sixth oldest orchestra in the U.S. and the Ernest Bloch Festival. Laska and Brinckman collaborated for the first time in 2003 on a performance called ``Through a Gentle Rain'' in Portland. Also performing Wednesday will be guest cellist Adam Esbensen, a Corvallis native, and koto player Mitsuki Dazai. The koto koto (kō`tō), a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. is a traditional Japanese harp. The performance will be staged twice, once at 7 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave. Tickets are $10 at the door. DIVA Halloween party set for Saturday Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts will hold its annual Come as You Art Halloween Costume Party from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Music will be provided by Mood Area 52 from 8 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. and Kafou Internacional from 9 p.m. to midnight. Admission includes surreal and macabre art by local artists as well as local wines and pastries. Also available are a selection of carnival masks. Admission is $17 and includes a downtown coupon book with freebies and specials from downtown merchants from Halloween through New Years. Tickets can be purchased at DIVA, 110 W. Broadway, or by calling 344-DIVA. Mime to perform for benefit of Encore Theatre James Donlon, a mime and movement theater artist who teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State , will present two performances this week to support Eugene's Encore Theatre. The shows will be at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Lord Leebrick Theatre, 540 Charnelton St. Admission is by $10 donation. Donlon, a friend of Encore director Eliza Roaring Springs, has performed internationally and taught at institutions as varied as Yale School of Drama Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. The "Dramat," which produced the American premieres of Albert Camus's Caligula and Shakespeare's and Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College. For more information, call 342-1630. LCC's fall dance concert coming next weekend Valeria Ball and her Traduza Dance Company will be the featured artists in the Fall Collage Dance concert Friday and Saturday night at Lane Community College. Ball will present "Amazon Awakening" with live drumming and featuring herself and dancers Barra Brown, Katie Brown, Hennah Downs, Justine Riva and Jane Marshall. Dance Theatre of Oregon will present "Grandiloquence gran·dil·o·quence n. Pompous or bombastic speech or expression. [From grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + Undone" choreographed in three sections by Pamela Lehann-Siegel to music by W.A. Mozart. Other performances will be by ZAPP ZAPP - Zero Assignment Parallel Processor. A virtual tree machine architecture in which a process tree is dynamically mapped onto a fixed, strongly connected network of processors communicating by message passing. Dancers, Rita Honka, Walter Kennedy, Aaron Barnhart, Sarah Nemecek, Mandy Barba, Bonnie Simoa and Cheryl Lemmer. The performances begin at 8 p.m. each night in the Performance Hall, Building 6 on the main LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. campus, 4000 E. 30th Ave. Tickets - $10 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens - are available at the door. High school choir festival to feature 650 voices Choirs from 11 area high schools will take part in the Metropolitan Choral Festival at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Willamette High School Willamette High School is a school in Eugene, Oregon. Willamette, or "Wil-Hi," is located in the Bethel-Danebo area of west Eugene, and is the only high school in the Bethel School District. , 1801 Echo Hollow Road. Each choir will sing two songs individually. Then the choirs will be combined to form a single, 650-member chorus to sing Paul Caldwell's "Hope for Resolution" and V.J. Singh's "Sanctus." Participating high schools include Thurston, Springfield, South Eugene, North Eugene, Churchill, Sheldon, Willamette, Pleasant Hill, Junction City, Cottage Grove and Elmira. Tickets are $3 per person or $10 per family and are available at the door or from members of the Kiwanis Club, which is sponsoring the event. Free brass concert today; donations go to charity The Oregon Brass Society kicks off its third season with a free concert at 4 p.m. today at First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
The concert will feature the Brass Band, which is fashioned after British brass bands; a brass quintet; and the Symphonic Brass Choir. The conductor is Roger Rush. Donations will be accepted for Food for Lane County. |
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