Stages about to get busy again.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard As the weather begins to cool, the performing arts scene heats up. Violinist Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished violinists of the late 20th century. Biography returns to town this fall for a performance with the Eugene Symphony The Eugene Symphony is an American orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. Its home venue is the Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Approximately 22,000 people attend Eugene Symphony's classical and pops concert performances each year. , which has also snagged this year's Van Cliburn Van Cliburn (b. Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. Piano Competition winner for its opening night concert. Eugene Ballet The Eugene Ballet Company (EBC) is a ballet company based in Eugene, Oregon. It is a resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Under the Artistic Direction of Toni Pimble and Technical Director Jim Bradford, this 20-member ensemble performs a blend brings "Giselle" to the Hult Center and Eugene Opera reprises REPRISES. The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say it is worth so much a year ultra reprises, besides all reprises. 2. its vocal competition from last February, before opening with "Barber of Seville" at year's end. In theater, musical comedy is solidly in fashion. A singing cowboy Christmas musical leads off for Willamette Repertory Theatre; "Urinetown the Musical" leads off for Actors Cabaret of Eugene; and "Assassins" kicks off the season for Lord Leebrick Theatre. Here is a look at the fall performing arts season in detail: Music Eugene Symphony kicks off its season with a piano concert by the Cliburn winner. Alexander Kobrin plays piano, and Giancarlo Guerrero conducts in the season opener Sept. 22. The program includes Claude Debussy's "Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun L'après-midi d'un faune (or The Afternoon of a Faun) may refer to the following:
Perlman and his violin join the symphony for an operatic program Oct. 17 that includes the overture from Gioacchino Rossini's "Barber of Seville," selections from Georges Bizet's "Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. ," and a violin concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven. The symphony comes back with Gustav Holst's "The Planets" on Oct. 20 and P.I. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1, "Winter Dreams," on Nov. 17, with guest conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Eugene Opera opens its season with what it calls the "second annual" - actually, they're doing it for the second time this year - Belle Voci National Competition and Concert, bringing emerging talent to Eugene for an operatic sing-off. The fun begins Friday Oct. 21 at the University of Oregon's Beall Concert Hall, with morning and evening performances for 25 semi-finalists. Then, 10 finalists go to the Hult Center on Sunday Oct. 23 for the final shot at $10,500 in prize money. Actual opera by the Eugene Opera kicks off Dec. 30 and 31 with "Barber of Seville." Eugene Concert Choir Eugene Concert Choir is a non-profit choral organization based in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It consists of two mixed-voice choruses: the 100-member Eugene Concert Choir (ECC), and the semi-professional chamber group Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble (EVAE). performs F.J. Hayden's "Lord Nelson Mass" and Antonio Vivaldi's "Gloria" on Oct. 29 and 30. 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. , who will celebrate their namesake's 250th birthday with a Hult Center blowout in January, start off the season with pianist Lisa Leonard and trumpeter Mark Reese in a concert of music by Dmitry Shostakovich on Oct. 1 and 2; on Nov. 5 and 6 the players play "Music About Music," with cellist Ronald Leonard and a program of Ravel, Tchaikovsky and W.A. Mozart. The 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. School of Music has a steady stream of performances and concerts through the fall. Highlights include the Mozart Piano Quartet on Oct. 6; saxophonist Otis Murphy and pianist Haruko Murphy on Oct. 13; violinist Andrew Manze on Oct. 30; and pianist William Chapman Nyaho on Nov. 15. The Shedd Institute is bringing a solid lineup to Eugene this fall. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys go Cajun at the Shedd this Friday; trumpeter Dave Douglas plays music inspired by Fatty Arbuckle on Oct. 25; Alison Brown sings, with banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. , on Oct. 27; country/folk singer/songwriter Ian Tyson plays on Nov. 9; Eugene's Ken Peplowski and the Emerald City Jazz Kings jazz it up Nov. 11; and Iris DeMent de·ment tr.v. de·ment·ed, de·ment·ing, de·ments 1. To make (a person) insane. 2. To cause (a person) to lose intellectual capacity. sings on Dec. 2. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra dance party, featuring Arturo O'Farrill and Paquito D'Rivera, takes place at the Cuthbert on Sept. 11. And "Sophisticated Ladies," a re-creation of the Duke Ellington big band sound hits the Hult stage on Sept. 18. Theater Willamette Repertory Theatre launches into its seventh season on Oct. 3 with "Ashland Salutes Willamette Rep," a benefit for its student program; the $100-a-seat evening features actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October. . Willamette Rep's regular season begins Nov. 23, with "Chaps! A Jingle Jangle Musical." Lord Leebrick Theatre Company opens "Assassins," a musical comedy. on Sept. 23; and continues in a comic vein with "Fully Committed" on Nov. 11. "Urinetown the Musical" opens Friday at Actors Cabaret of Eugene; ACE comes back with "The Rocky Horror Show" on Oct. 21. The ACE Youth Academy opens "Cinderella" on Sept. 24. Very Little Theatre kicks off its new season with "Lend Me a Tenor," a farce by Ken Ludwig, on Oct. 21. A traveling production of "The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial," based on the 1925 Scopes trial, comes to the Hult Center on Oct. 25; the cast includes Ed Asner, Marsha Mason and James Cromwell. University Theatre at the UO stages Neil Simon's "Rumors" beginning Nov. 11; UO's Second Season kicks off with "A Piece of My Heart A Piece of My Heart is the 18th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson, published in 2006 and is 16th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks series. Plot summary ," Oct. 26. At Lane Community College, "Noises Off" opens on Sept. 16. Cottage Theatre in Cottage Grove opens "Sugar," a musical adaptation of "Some Like It Hot," on Oct. 7; "A ... My Name is Alice" opens Dec. 2. Dance Eugene Ballet stages a full-length production of "Giselle" in October. The Agnieszka Laska Dancers come to the WOW Hall for two back-to-back shows with live music by Tessa Brinkman'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 on Oct. 26. LCC's Fall Collage Faculty Dance Concert is on Oct. 28 and 29; among the dancers will be Dance Theatre of Oregon. Children "The Stinky Cheese Man," a touring performance by Dallas Children's Theatre, arrives on Oct. 29. Christmas Actors Cabaret of Eugene performs "A Christmas Carol" on Nov. 11. Eugene Concert Choir puts on "An Old-Fashioned Christmas - With a Splash of Salsa," with performances by Dance Theatre of Oregon, on Dec. 4. The Oregon Mozart Players do a "Candlelight Concert: Baroque for the Holidays" on Dec. 12 and 13. Eugene Ballet brings ``Nutcracker'' to the Hult Dec. 16-18. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Eugene Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Handel's "Messiah" on Dec. 10. And the symphony's "Yuletide Celebration," complete with tap-dancing Santas, lightens up the Hult on Dec. 22. CAPTION(S): FALL ARTS PREVIEW Eugene Ballet's fall performance will be ``Giselle,'' a classic romantic ballet about a courtship between a peasant woman and a nobleman. The Eugene performances will be Oct. 8 and Oct. 9. |
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