Purchase a digital Event Pass to join us for the Live Watch Party of the premiere of By Heart on Sunday, Feb. 7th at 2pm, and enjoy new Video On Demand* features that allow you to watch the concert again and again!
*Because this performance will be streamed LIVE on February 7th, the Video-On-Demand feature will not be available until 1 week after the Live Watch Party Premiere.
In a program that celebrates A Far Cry’s unique artistic values and our return to the stage as a full orchestra, we perform our signature piece, the Tchaikovsky Serenade, from memory! Democratically run and self-conducted, Criers rotate leadership on and off the stage, bringing fresh perspective to every piece of repertoire we perform. For the Tchaikovsky, one of the group’s earliest and most often concertized works, this means that layers of interpretation have accumulated – adding ever more depth to our collective memory of an old favorite. And, there’s nothing that deepens the relationship with a piece of music (and with each other) quite like playing it together by heart. To open the program, the mysticism of the Pärt plus the fresh classicism of the Bologne give a nod to Tchaikovsky’s deep love of Russia and admiration of Mozart. These styles come together as two poles of expression that unite in the Serenade.
Fridays with 45th Parallel: A Cool Yule with Members of the Oregon Symphony Brass Friday, December 11 @ 6:00PM PST Free virtual concert, donations accepted. https://www.45thParallePDX.org
Members of the Oregon Symphony Brass perform holiday classics for brass quintet. Patreon members get access to a post-concert Zoom reception.
Christmas with Cappella Romana Saturday, December 12 @ 7:30PM PST Free virtual concert, donations accepted. https://www.cappellaromana.org
The evening will include selections from our Christmas recordings including When Augustus Reigned, Sun of Justice and carols from Richard Toensing’s Kontakion on the Nativity & Orthodox Christmas Carols.You’ll also see interviews with a number of your favorite Cappella Romana singers.
The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus is proud to present Snowed In!, a special musical broadcast. Snowed In! imagines what would happen if Portland were blanketed in eight feet of snow! Snowed In! will feature a wide array of songs performed by socially-distant chorus members. Appearances by PGMC’s a cappella group – Cascade – and our contemporary dance ensemble – Locomotions – will also be a highlight of the evening. In addition, PGMC welcomes guest artist Jimmie Herrod, a recently featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony and guest vocalist with Portland’s own Pink Martini. The event will conclude with PGMC’s annual holiday tradition of a group sing-along. Tickets are free, however PGMC is asking you to “pay what you can” to help continue the support of our musical mission during this trying time. Opportunities for donations will also be available throughout the broadcast.
Amazonita with A Far Cry Saturday, December 12 @ 5:00PM PST Virtual concert, ticketed event: starting at $8 for 24 hour pass. https://afarcry.org/
“Amazonita” is musically grounded in the cultural traditions of Peru, Colombia, and Brazil – countries that touch the Amazon River and surround the Amazon rainforest. Struck by these natural wonders, the program revels in the awe and beauty of the Earth and ancestral societies, and contemplates how modernity interacts with them. In Milagros (Miracles), Gabriela Lena Frank imagines a visit to her mother’s native Peru and the “little miracles” she encounters along the way, from artifacts of long-gone indigenous civilizations, to the breathtaking vision of Lake Titicaca. Composed and recorded in 1972, Jacqueline Nova’s Creation of the Earth modifies recordings of creation chants of the U’wa peoples of Northeastern Colombia. The soundworld is both beautiful and terrifying, graphically depicting the ways technology and modernity can impact language, traditions, and human culture. Inspired by Bach and Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist Paulinho Nogueira’s painfully lyrical Bachianinhas Nos. 1 and 2 follow in response. Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad’s energetic Obrigado loosely follows the arc of a traditional Umbanda religious ceremony drawing on Afro-Brazilian Umbanda religious chants and dancesand ending with a “powerful message of gratitude for the gift of life.”
The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus is proud to present Snowed In!, a special musical broadcast. Snowed In! imagines what would happen if Portland were blanketed in eight feet of snow! Snowed In! will feature a wide array of songs performed by socially-distant chorus members. Appearances by PGMC’s a cappella group – Cascade – and our contemporary dance ensemble – Locomotions – will also be a highlight of the evening. In addition, PGMC welcomes guest artist Jimmie Herrod, a recently featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony and guest vocalist with Portland’s own Pink Martini. The event will conclude with PGMC’s annual holiday tradition of a group sing-along. Tickets are free, however PGMC is asking you to “pay what you can” to help continue the support of our musical mission during this trying time. Opportunities for donations will also be available throughout the broadcast.
Open Space: A Far Cry with Violinist Zenas Hsu Wednesday, December 16 @ 4:00PM PST Live stream concert. Ticketed event: $12 admission. https://afarcry.org/
A Far Cry violinist Zenas Hsu will perform an odyssey of some of his favorite pieces. These will include Shih-Hui Chen’s take on folklore and legends from the aboriginal Ami tribe in Taiwan, Steve Mackey’s musical language in recreating texture and light in different rooms of a house, Jessie Montgomery’s rhapsodic and touching homage to J.S. Bach, one of Fritz Kreisler’s ‘fictional’ compositions ‘by’ Pugnani (with a guest appearance by his wife, violinist Janny Joo), and an iconic and fantastical sonata by Grazyna Bacewicz.
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra: Hump Day House Concert Wednesday, December 16 @ 7:00PM PST Free live stream concert. Donations accepted. https://www.amadeuspdx.org/
Violinist Greg Ewer plays Bach’s brilliant Partita in B minor.
Open Space: A Far Cry with Violinist Zenas Hsu Thursday, December 17 @ 4:00PM PST Live stream concert. Ticketed event: $12 admission. https://afarcry.org/
A Far Cry violinist Zenas Hsu will perform an odyssey of some of his favorite pieces. These will include Shih-Hui Chen’s take on folklore and legends from the aboriginal Ami tribe in Taiwan, Steve Mackey’s musical language in recreating texture and light in different rooms of a house, Jessie Montgomery’s rhapsodic and touching homage to J.S. Bach, one of Fritz Kreisler’s ‘fictional’ compositions ‘by’ Pugnani (with a guest appearance by his wife, violinist Janny Joo), and an iconic and fantastical sonata by Grazyna Bacewicz.
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