Florence Beatrice Price

45th Parallel Universe: Currents

October 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

$20 – $25

The Gemini Project / Pyxis Quartet

We open our season with Gemini Project’s epic collaboration with PDX filmmaker Scott Ballard and BodyVox to present Shostakovich’s final symphony, arranged for sextet.

The program also features PDX animator Zak Margolis’ gorgeous film Andante, accompanied by the Pyxis Quartet.

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WORKS

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141 (arranged for sextet)

Ruby Chen, violin
Kevin Kunkel, cello
Yoko Greeney, piano
Michael Roberts, percussion
Sergio Carreno, percussion
Jon Greeney, percussion

Scott Ballard, filmmaker

Florence Price: String Quartet No. 1 in G major (Andante)

Greg Ewer, violin
Ron Blessinger, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, cello

Zak Margolis, animation

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U of O School of Music: Lara Downes Virtual Residency: THEME series – Uncovering Lost Treasures

April 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm

Free Registration required for this event.

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THEME (which stands for theory, history, ethnomusicology, music education) is a colloquium series for SOMD’s academic music students. The series includes professional development workshops as well as featured speakers from these academic fields. In this session, Ms. Downes will speak about her experience uncovering a set of previously undiscovered music by composer Florence Price, and her collaboration with musicologist J. Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) and other musicologists.

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Fridays with 45th Parallel: Adoration

February 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Virtual Concert

Free Donations accepted.

“I got probably more publicity nationwide than perhaps any other Pulitzer Prize winner. But not a single orchestra approached me about doing the piece or any piece. It materialized in nothing.”
 — George Walker

Fridays with 45th Parallel presents the Arcturus Quintet’s performance of Adoration, in honor of Black History Month, featuring brilliant music by Florence Price, Ed Bland, Valerie Coleman, George Walker, Justinian Tamusuza, William Grant Still, and Adolphus Hailstork.

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WORKS

Ed Bland: For Clarinet
Valerie Coleman: Fanmi Imèn for Flute and Piano
Adolphus Hailstork: Bassoon Set
Florence Price: Adoration (arr. James Shields)
William Grant Still: Incantation and Dance for Oboe and Piano
Justinian Tamusuza: Okukoowoola Kw’Ekkondeere (“Horn Call”)
George Walker: Wind Set for Woodwind Quintet

PERFORMERS

Joe Berger, horn
Martha Long, flute
James Shields, clarinet
Steve Vacchi, bassoon
Karen Wagner, oboe
Maria Garcia, piano

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Fridays with 45th Parallel: Voodoo Dolls

February 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Virtual Concert

Donations accepted.
photo of pyxis quartet

“Music is my connection to the world. It guides me to understand my place in relation to others and challenges me to make clear the things I do not understand. I imagine that music is a meeting place at which all people can converse about their unique differences and common stories.”
   — Jessie Montgomery

Unique differences and common stories, music as meeting place for fellowship and conversation… this is what Fridays with 45th Parallel has become since our first broadcast last May. This Friday will be our 37th show, and features the Pyxis Quartet performing music of Carlos Simon, Jessie Montgomery, and Florence Price, in honor of Black History Month.

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WORKS

Carlos Simon: An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Jessie Montgomery: Voodoo Dolls
Florence Price: String Quartet No. 1 in G major

PERFORMERS

Greg Ewer, violin
Ron Blessinger, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, cello

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