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PERFORMANCE NOTES.


Byline: The Register-Guard

Oregon String Quartet The Oregon String Quartet is a resident ensemble of the University of Oregon School of Music. It is made up of:
  • Kathryn Lucktenberg, violin
  • Fritz Gearhart, violin
  • Leslie Straka, viola
  • Steven Pologe, cello
, and guests, to take stage

The Oregon String Quartet will be featured, along with other University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities.  music faculty members, in a recital at 8 p.m. Thursday in Beall Concert Hall at the UO School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

The program includes Claude Debussy's String Quartet string quartet

Ensemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work written for such an ensemble. Since c. 1775 such works have been perhaps the predominant genre of chamber music.
 in G minor (Op. 10). Bela Bartok's Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano will feature Fritz Gearhart, Wayne Bennett There have been two well-known people named Wayne Bennett:
  • Wayne Bennett - Blues Guitarist
  • Wayne Bennett - Former rugby league footballer and current coach of the Brisbane Broncos.
 and Victor Steinhardt. And "Four Indigenous Portraits for Flute and String Quartet" by William Grant Still William Grant Still (May 11,1895 - December 3,1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own (his first symphony) , will feature flutist Nancy Andrew.

Founded in 1982, the Oregon String Quartet consists of violinists Gearhart and Kathryn Lucktenberg, violist Leslie Straka and cellist Steven Pologe.

Tickets are $9 at the door (or $5 for students and senior citizens).

Young dancers to perform in noon hour Hult show

The dance group 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.  will perform in a free SHOcase concert in the Hult Center lobby at 12:15 p.m. Thursday.

Directed by Cindy Zreliak, assisted by Cheryl Lemmer, ZAPP consists of 30 dancers ranging in age from 13 to 24. The program combines contemporary jazz and hip-hop styles.

The performance is part of a weekly series produced by SHO, the Hult Center support group.

Free parking will be available in the Hult Center garage, on level three and above, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Pair to sing sacred music at Lutheran church today

Soprano Siri Vik and contralto contralto (kəntrăl`tō), female voice of lowest pitch. Originally, the term denoted a second voice set against (contra) a high voice (alto); thus, a second high voice.  Patricia Dewey will sing Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and other sacred music, with Andrew ElRay Stewart-Cook on the Brombaugh organ, at 4 p.m. today at Central Lutheran Church, 1857 Potter St.

Admission is free, but an offering will be taken.

Vik is an opera singer who recently won the National Kurt Weill Competition for Singing Actors.

Dewey is a choral singer who sang with the Austrian Radio Choir and the Arnold Schonberg Choir while studying in Vienna.
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