Past Event
Friday, 21 November 2008
Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark College’s Faculty Contemporary Music Ensemble, kicks off the 2008-2009 season with a concert of enchanting works written for smaller chamber groups. The performance takes place Friday, Nov. 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Evans Auditorium. The event is free, with a suggested donation of $15 at the door.
The program features Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s lyrical, probing work, Seven Inventions and a Postlude, performed by Mitch Iimori and Dorien de León; György Kurtág’s dramatic and evocative Hommage á R.S., which pays homage to Robert Schumann, performed by Elizabeth Harcombe, Dunja Jennings, and Miriam English-Ward; Lowell Liebermann’s jazz-inflected Sonata for Flute and Piano, performed by Nancy Teskey and Carol Biel; Vincent Persichetti’s haunting and compelling Parable for Solo Horn, performed by William Stalnaker; the premiere of Lewis & Clark’s percussion faculty Brett Paschal’s Springwater Road for solo marimba; and Arvo Pärt’s lovely atmospheric work, Spiegel im Spiegel, performed by Elisa Boynton and Stephanie Thompson.
Past Event
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Amir ElSaffar and his sextet meld styles and seamlessly cross-pollinate the languages of ancient and modern, East and West. ElSaffar’s compositions are some of the first in the history of jazz to make use of Arabic modality and its non-western tunings.
The concert is co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark College Department of Music, Portland State University Middle East Studies Center, and the Arab-American Cultural Center of Oregon.
Tickets, available at the door, are $10 for students and senior citizens, $15 for general admission. A limited number of free tickets are available to the Lewis & Clark community in the music department office.
The concert is in Evans Auditorium, at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 26.
Past Event
Friday, 19 September 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy an evening of music by Finnish and Brazilian composers, performed by the Vaasa City Orchestra from Finland.
This fall, the orchestra is touring throughout the Pacific Northwest. This is the only appearance the orchestra will make in Portland.
The concert, which will take place in Evans Auditorium, is free for Lewis & Clark students; there is a $15 suggested donation for faculty and staff. General admission tickets are $15, and non-Lewis & Clark students will be charged $9 for admission.
Learn more about the orchestra online.
Past Event
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Join Camerata Vocalis, a 30-member mixed chorus from Germany’s University of Tübingen, under the direction of Tobias Hiller, and Lewis & Clark College’s Cappella Nova, under the direction of Dr. Gilbert Seeley, for a concert featuring a program of mostly German composers including Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schütz and Schein.
Past Event
Friday, 8 February 2008, 8 p.m.
The Alexander String Quartet concludes a three-day residency at Lewis & Clark with an evening recital in Evans Auditorium. They will perform Mozart’s Divertimento in F major, K. 138; Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”.
