When it turns cold and rainy, that's a good time to go find a stage.Byline: Paul Denison The Register-Guard Unlike bears and couch potatoes, musicians, actors and dancers do not hibernate. They actually become more active and do everything they can to lure the rest of us out of our dry, cozy dens. This seems particularly true this winter. Musical offerings between now and the end of March will include three festivals, a string of class jazz acts, an opera singing contest, a choral concert in memory of a Eugene composer, a rare work by the never-late P.D.Q. Bach and a Mahler song cycle in Chinese. Plays by David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Gertrude Stein, Lanford Wilson, Neil Simon and others will be staged, along with the theater version of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." In dance, "Peter Pan" will fly in and those too timid to go airborne will be shown that "You Can Dance." Here are some highlights, and a three-month checklist of events. Giancarlo Guerrero and the Eugene Symphony Orchestra will start the new year off with a Tchaikovsky Festival that will include two concerts in the Hult Center's Silva Hall as well as related community events. In the first concert, on Jan. 27, Stefan Jackiw will be featured in P.I. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. The program also includes the waltz from ``Eugene Onegin,'' the Andante Cantabile can·ta·bi·le Music adv. & adj. In a smooth, lyrical, flowing style. Used chiefly as a direction. n. A cantabile passage or movement. for string orchestra and ``Francesca da Rimini Francesca da Rimini (fränchĕs`kä dä rē`mēnē), fl. 13th cent., Italian beauty, daughter of Guido da Polenta of Ravenna. .'' After resting for a day, the orchestra will come back Jan. 29 with a program that features Stewart Goodyear in the Piano Concerto No. 1, along with the "Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. " fantasy overture and the 1812 Overture, a very loud part of the Tchaikovsky cannon. At 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, the biennial Music Today Festival of 20th and 21st century music will have eight concerts under its umbrella between Feb. 16 and Feb. 23. Music Today guest artists will include soprano Ann Crumb on Feb. 16, avant-garde composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros on Feb. 18, the Santa Fe Guitar Quartet on Feb. 19 and Benjamin Bagby's "Beowulf" on Feb. 23. The series also includes a ``20th Century American Sampler'' featuring UO faculty members on Feb. 17, the Eugene Composers Collective (at Cozmic Pizza) on Feb. 20, the Pacific Rim Gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. on Feb. 21 and Trio Pacifica on Feb. 22. The Oregon Festival of American Music Oregon Festival of American Music is an eclectic, thematically-based two-week summer music festival that has been held annually in Eugene, Oregon since 1992. Produced by The John G. will feature soprano Maria Jette in two American Symphonia concerts of music that was popular from the mid-19th century to World War I. The Feb. 16 program will be devoted to American music, the Feb. 17 concert to British composers. The Oregon Mozart Players' winter will include one business-as-usual program and two not-so-usual concerts under artistic director Glen Cortese. Robert Sullivan of the Cleveland Orchestra will be featured in Johann Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major and, with oboist Cheryl Wefler, in Aaron Copland's "Quiet City." The program will be presented twice this coming Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 8 and 9. On Feb. 19 and 20, the orchestra will feature mezzo-soprano Beth Clayton and tenor Marc Deaton in Cortese's new chamber orchestra version of "Das Lied von der Erde This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. " by Gustav Mahler. Instead of using German translations of eighth-century Chinese poems, this version uses the originals. In a single performance on April Fool's Day April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day, holiday of uncertain origin, known for practical joking and celebrated on the first of April. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1564, the date was observed as New Year's Day by cultures as , the Mozart Players will present the Northwest premiere of "The Abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. of Figaro," a Mozart comic opera spoof by Peter Schickele, better known as the "discoverer" of composer P.D.Q. Bach. If you're a bit tired of "American Idol" contestants who can't sing but might be marketable, why not check out the real thing? Eugene Opera's Belle Voci (if you can't pronounce it, you can't enter) competition for opera singers will include semi-finals Feb. 11 in Beall Concert Hall, finals followed by a concert in Silva Hall on Feb. 13. Lane Community College plans to pit lyric soprano Kimberly McConnell and mezzo-soprano Kristina Armetta in a "Dueling Divas" faculty concert in the Blue Door Theatre on a Sunday afternoon in February, date to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . 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). , 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. and the Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble will honor the late Jon Sutton in a Jan. 22 Soreng Theatre concert featuring the world premiere of the Eugene composer's cantata "The Family of Man," which includes texts from the Sioux, Navajo and Pueblo peoples as well as William Shakespeare, Kahlil Gibran, William Blake and Carl Sandburg. The Oregon Festival of American Music will keep the town jazzed up until spring with a string of headliners including violinist Regina Carter on Jan. 28; Directions in Music (pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Michael Brecker and trumpet player Roy Hargrove) on Feb. 3; pianist, singer and composer Mose Allison on Feb. 11; the Bill Charlap Trio on Feb. 12; Tim Berne's Hard Cell on March 11; and the Tomasz Stanko Quartet on March 17. Not to mention composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson on March 12. Actors Cabaret of Eugene will revive its production of ``Seussical: The Musical'' for afternoon and evening performances in the Hult Center's Soreng Theatre on Jan. 15. Disney's "Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in " will open Feb. 4 and run through March 12 at Actors Cabaret, the ACE dinner theater. In the smaller Actors Cabaret Annex, Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July Fifth of July is a 1979 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment with America in the wake of the Vietnam War. " will open on Feb. 14, and Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" will open March 11. The Lord Leebrick Theatre Company will stage "A Life in the Theatre A Life in the Theatre is a 1978 play by David Mamet. It focuses on the relationship between two actors, the play's only characters. One, Robert, is a stage veteran whilst John is a young, promising actor. " by David Mamet beginning Jan. 14, and University Theatre will open "A View From the Bridge A View from the Bridge is a play by Arthur Miller originally produced as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955. It was based upon an unproduced screenplay that Miller developed with Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, entitled The Hook, dealing with corruption on the Brooklyn " by Arthur Miller in the Robinson Theatre on Feb. 25. The university also will present "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" by Gertrude Stein in a Second Season production opening Feb. 2 in the Villard Hall arena theater. Arthur Miller will pop up again at the Very Little Theatre, where "Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play by Arthur Miller and is considered a classic of American theater. Viewed by many as a caustic attack on the American Dream of achieving wealth and success without regard for principle, Death of a Salesman " will open Jan. 14. The second VLT show this winter will be Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," opening March 18. Dale Wasserman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" will open Jan. 21 at the Cottage Theatre in Cottage Grove. In dance, Eugene Ballet will present "Peter Pan, the Ballet" in the Hult Center's Silva Hall on Feb. 19 and 20, and Dance Theatre of Oregon will present "You Can Dance" with the Oregon Festival Choirs and DTO II in the Soreng Theatre on Feb. 25 and 26. CAPTION(S): Above: Stewart Goodyear will be the piano soloist when the Eugene Symphony Orchestra presents its Tchaikovsky Festival later this month. Left: ``Peter Pan'' is the winter offering from Eugene Ballet, coming in February. |
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