PERFORMANCE NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Children's choir concert Monday at Hult A 350-voice super chorus will showcase music for treble voices when eight youth choirs from throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. combine for the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival's ninth annual gala concert at 8 p.m. Monday in the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. The program will feature `Untraveled Worlds,' an extended piece for choir, violinist, percussion and keyboard by Paul Halley, who earned four Grammy Awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. for his contributions as featured writer and performer on many recordings by the Paul Winter Consort Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group led by the soprano saxophonist Paul Winter. Founded in 1967, the group mixes elements of classical music, jazz, and world musics, as well as the sounds of animals and nature. . Tickets are $12 ($9 for students and seniors) through the Hult box office, 682-5000. The chorus will be accompanied by members of the Eugene Youth Symphony. Also, youth choral specialist Henry Leck Henry Leck is the founder and artistic director of the internationally famous Indianapolis Children's Choir. He is a highly sought-after choral clinician and is a specialist in the boy's changing voice. will direct a performance by the PICCFEST Chorus during the opening ceremonies of the Oregon Bach Festival The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held in Eugene, Oregon in late June and early July. It was co-founded by German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the former president of the American Choral Directors Association, Royce Saltzman, at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Hult Center lobby. At noon Saturday, Honors Lyric Singers and Phoenix Boys Choir will be spotlighted in the Oregon Bach Festival's "On the House" concert series in the Hult lobby. For a full PICCFEST schedule, go to www.piccfest.org. Bloch Festival opens Friday in Newport The 16th Ernest Bloch Music Festival kicks off Friday at the Newport Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. in Newport. Running through July 9, the festival celebrates the life and work of composer Ernest Bloch, who lived and worked at Agate Beach from 1941 until his death in 1959. The festival offers six public concerts, including a string orchestra concert featuring the music of Bloch and others, a composers' symposium, a young musicians' program and the third annual free Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. concert performed by the Newport Symphony Orchestra. All concerts will be held at the Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W. Olive St. in Newport. For tickets call (541) 265-ARTS. |
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