Cappella Romana, a Northwest professional vocal ensemble with international acclaim, will be hosting the Arvo Pärt Festival this coming weekend. Here is my preview article:
Arvo Pärt Festival preview: Spirituality in sound
Cappella Romana, a Northwest professional vocal ensemble with international acclaim, will be hosting the Arvo Pärt Festival this coming weekend. Here is my preview article:
Bill Frisell played in Eugene recently in support of his latest CD When You Wish upon a Star a tribute to film and TV music. It was one of the finest performances I have seen in quite some time. Here is a review I wrote for Oregon ArtsWatch:
http://www.orartswatch.org/bill-frisell-quartet-review-let-freedom-risk/
Here is a preview of Bill Frisell’s Thursday night concert at the Shedd. He is touring his new album When You Wish upon a Star. It’s Bill’s take on classic film and television music.
http://www.orartswatch.org/bill-frisell-preview-star-struck-memories/
Here is the link to an Oregon ArtsWatch preview I wrote for the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc concert that happened recently up at Nordia House in Portland.
http://www.orartswatch.org/nordic-fiddlers-bloc-preview-dancing-with-the-devil/
This is a video I put together to accompany music by Paul Safar.
Here is the first in a series of short videos pulled from material I gathered over
the last several months using my point and click camera and cell phone camera.
Summer, north point, Cayuga Lake. My boys and Rob.
Waldo Lake is a lonely place. Beautiful, but lonely. No fish, no raptors. Just deep sad blue below and merciless brilliant blue above. Surrounded by the hulking dark green or ghostly, burnt skeletal gray press of pines, spruce, cedar.