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Magnifico!
Updated: Friday, July 17, 2009
Next week’s Oregon Coast Music Festival orchestra concerts have Teri Albert speaking Italian
“Bravo, bravo, magnifico!”
For 30 years, explosions of applause and shouted praise capped the orchestral performances of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. “Bella musica,” we cried, rising from our rented cushions in the acoustically revered Marshfield Auditorium.
Support among Coos County locals for the summer music festival has never wavered. From the first bowed notes of the Haydn Festival in 1978 (directed by local violin instructor and conductor Charles Heiden) through this year’s multi-venue events, we’ve been generous with our accolades and staunchly bilingual.
Because, when overcome by wonderful music performed by professionals, Italian says it best.
Allegro giocoso: quick, lively, sportively
OCMA’s music director James Paul will not lead the Festival Orchestra this year. Instead, the inimitable Jason Klein — popular conductor for each summer’s pops concert — will take the baton for Tuesday’s debut performance. He has selected “Alborada del Gracioso” by Maurice Ravel; Suite in F sharp minor, Op. 19, by Ernst von Dohnanyi; and finally, the Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms. The Ravel will re-introduce us to the festival’s gifted concertmaster, Hernan Constantino. We’ll hear his firm pizzicato and enjoy the extravagant violins during “Alborada del Gracioso.” We will listen closely, during the evening’s second selections, for the Hungarian Dohnanyi’s unerring sense of harmony. And the Brahms? We will be tempted to reward the allegro giocoso with an equally sporty round of cheers, but we’ll refrain until the symphony concludes — after the fourth movement.
Klein will return to the podium for Thursday’s pops concert. What is not known is how he will be clothed.
Flourish: execution of profuse but unmeaning ornamentation in music
Traditionally, the Thursday evening concert is a relaxed affair. Musicians (and occasionally audience) will join the maestro in donning costumes appropriate to the mood of the music.
This summer, Klein selected “Things That Go Bump in the Night” for the concert’s theme. He’ll offer Dvorak’s “The Water Goblin,” a bit of John Williams in the form of “Harry Potter Suite” and selections from “Jurassic Park,” and “Walpurgis Night” from Symphony No. 8 by Joachim Raff. Note that this is Raff’s “Walpurgis Night,” not Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” from the 1940 Disney film “Fantasia.” He has also selected the hard-driving Concerto for Timpani by Lee Actor, and will feature festival soloist Charles Dowd. We appreciate rhythm of every ilk, and our applause will be con fermezza, with firmness and decision.
The final orchestra concert on July 25 brings the cello center stage, when soloist Thomas Megee performs Edouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor. A stirring first movement should demonstrate the cello’s control and range, played, of course, con brio — with spirit, vigor and force.
This final concert will be led by guest conductor Hernan Constantino, longtime concertmaster for the Oregon Coast Festival Orchestra and celebrated artist in his native Philippines. Both Megee and Constantino are extremely busy, professional musicians who share a long history with OCMA. On July 25, they will present “Three Cornered Hat” by Manuel de Falla along with the cello concerto. And they will conclude with one of my favorite, evocative compositions: Swan Lake Suite by Tchaikovsky.
And I will applaud wildly — con passione e il fuoco.
Teri Albert reviews art and artists for The World. She can be reached at malbert3@verizon.net.
“Bravo, bravo, magnifico!”
For 30 years, explosions of applause and shouted praise capped the orchestral performances of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. “Bella musica,” we cried, rising from our rented cushions in the acoustically revered Marshfield Auditorium.
Support among Coos County locals for the summer music festival has never wavered. From the first bowed notes of the Haydn Festival in 1978 (directed by local violin instructor and conductor Charles Heiden) through this year’s multi-venue events, we’ve been generous with our accolades and staunchly bilingual.
Because, when overcome by wonderful music performed by professionals, Italian says it best.
Allegro giocoso: quick, lively, sportively
OCMA’s music director James Paul will not lead the Festival Orchestra this year. Instead, the inimitable Jason Klein — popular conductor for each summer’s pops concert — will take the baton for Tuesday’s debut performance. He has selected “Alborada del Gracioso” by Maurice Ravel; Suite in F sharp minor, Op. 19, by Ernst von Dohnanyi; and finally, the Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms. The Ravel will re-introduce us to the festival’s gifted concertmaster, Hernan Constantino. We’ll hear his firm pizzicato and enjoy the extravagant violins during “Alborada del Gracioso.” We will listen closely, during the evening’s second selections, for the Hungarian Dohnanyi’s unerring sense of harmony. And the Brahms? We will be tempted to reward the allegro giocoso with an equally sporty round of cheers, but we’ll refrain until the symphony concludes — after the fourth movement.
Klein will return to the podium for Thursday’s pops concert. What is not known is how he will be clothed.
Flourish: execution of profuse but unmeaning ornamentation in music
Traditionally, the Thursday evening concert is a relaxed affair. Musicians (and occasionally audience) will join the maestro in donning costumes appropriate to the mood of the music.
This summer, Klein selected “Things That Go Bump in the Night” for the concert’s theme. He’ll offer Dvorak’s “The Water Goblin,” a bit of John Williams in the form of “Harry Potter Suite” and selections from “Jurassic Park,” and “Walpurgis Night” from Symphony No. 8 by Joachim Raff. Note that this is Raff’s “Walpurgis Night,” not Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” from the 1940 Disney film “Fantasia.” He has also selected the hard-driving Concerto for Timpani by Lee Actor, and will feature festival soloist Charles Dowd. We appreciate rhythm of every ilk, and our applause will be con fermezza, with firmness and decision.
The final orchestra concert on July 25 brings the cello center stage, when soloist Thomas Megee performs Edouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor. A stirring first movement should demonstrate the cello’s control and range, played, of course, con brio — with spirit, vigor and force.
This final concert will be led by guest conductor Hernan Constantino, longtime concertmaster for the Oregon Coast Festival Orchestra and celebrated artist in his native Philippines. Both Megee and Constantino are extremely busy, professional musicians who share a long history with OCMA. On July 25, they will present “Three Cornered Hat” by Manuel de Falla along with the cello concerto. And they will conclude with one of my favorite, evocative compositions: Swan Lake Suite by Tchaikovsky.
And I will applaud wildly — con passione e il fuoco.
Teri Albert reviews art and artists for The World. She can be reached at malbert3@verizon.net.
Details on music festival’s other concerts
It pays to be a student. Ticket prices for students (with ID) are just $8 for each orchestra concert, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, July 21-25, at the Marshfield Auditorium. OCMA members pay $18; nonmembers, $20. Orchestra concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tomorrow, a free concert starring the local blues group Soulpie begins at noon at Shore Acres State Park.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, OIMB Boathouse will welcome the Eugene-based Latin jazz/rock group Inner Limits. Tickets are $25, and include a catered reception.
Darrell Grant leads On the Territory at the Black Market Gourmet at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $75 and include dinner. The six-member band covers songs by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, James Taylor, Rickee Lee Jones, the Neville Brothers and Darrell Grant.
Tickets for all events available by calling 267-0938, or at the following outlets: Bandon Mercantile; Tiffany’s Drug Store; Coos Art Museum; Huggins Insurance; Books by the Bay; Off the Record; Reedsport Coffeehouse.
It pays to be a student. Ticket prices for students (with ID) are just $8 for each orchestra concert, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, July 21-25, at the Marshfield Auditorium. OCMA members pay $18; nonmembers, $20. Orchestra concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tomorrow, a free concert starring the local blues group Soulpie begins at noon at Shore Acres State Park.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, OIMB Boathouse will welcome the Eugene-based Latin jazz/rock group Inner Limits. Tickets are $25, and include a catered reception.
Darrell Grant leads On the Territory at the Black Market Gourmet at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $75 and include dinner. The six-member band covers songs by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, James Taylor, Rickee Lee Jones, the Neville Brothers and Darrell Grant.
Tickets for all events available by calling 267-0938, or at the following outlets: Bandon Mercantile; Tiffany’s Drug Store; Coos Art Museum; Huggins Insurance; Books by the Bay; Off the Record; Reedsport Coffeehouse.
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