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Oregon Symphony

Oregon Symphony: Be As Water

April 15, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm PDT

Inspiring * Exhilarating * Riveting

In this wide-ranging meditation on the liquid we can’t live without, Handel’s irresistibly buoyant Water Music becomes a foil for five contemporary works that draw inspiration from water—three of them written by composers nominated for 2022 GRAMMY Awards—at a time when the planet is increasingly imperiled. Bookended by an electrifying percussion quartet by local favorite Andy Akiho and Nico Muhly’s 2007 masterpiece The Only Tune—a radical re-imagining of the timeless folk song “Two Sisters” featuring London-based avant-folk star Sam Amidon—this concert, performed by the Oregon Symphony, will offer listeners an opportunity to hear Handel’s classic through fresh ears while experiencing cutting-edge new works from rising stars Timo Andres, Gabriella Smith, and inti figgis-vizueta.

Program

Andy Akiho: Empty Your Mind
Handel: Water Music, Suite 1,
Inti Figgis-Vizueta: Mayu (The Great River)
Handel: Water Music, Suite 1
Gabriella Smith: Maré
Handel: Water Music, Suite 1
Timo Andres: Tides and Currents
Handel: Water Music, Suite 1
Nico Muhly: The Only Tune

Artists

Jeffrey Kahane, Conductor
Gabriel Kahane, Host
Timo Andres, Piano
Sam Amidon, Vocals, Banjo, and Guitar
Members of the Oregon Symphony

Beaverton, OR

$29 – $55

Oregon Symphony

503-228-1353

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symphony@orsymphony.org

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts

12625 SW Crescent St
Beaverton, Oregon 97005 United States
971.501.7722
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Gabriel Kahane: Magnificent Bird with the Oregon Symphony

April 14, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm PDT

Oregon Symphony joins Patricia Reser Center for the Arts’ Grand Opening Spring Season with the orchestral World premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s Magnificent Bird, a new song cycle written in the final month of a year-long, complete hiatus from the internet. At once intimate and ambitious, Kahane’s latest work toggles between personal loss and a series of public crises that continue to roil the nation. Interspersed among this new collection of songs are selections from Book of Travelers, Gabriel’s musical account of an 8,980-mile train trip that he took in the aftermath of the 2016 election, as well as the uproarious Twitterkreis, nano-songs he began to release serially on Instagram in 2018.

Equal parts raconteur, songwriter, and cultural critic, Kahane promises to shepherd the audience through a cathartic evening that probes our individual and collective relationships to technology, and the consequences that emerge from the contemporary digital regime: to our planet, our body politic, our dignity, and, perhaps most crucially, our ability to love.

“An exercise in lyric beauty… [Kahane] is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day…”
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Artists

Norman Huynh, Conductor 
Gabriel Kahane, Piano, Guitar, and Vocals
Oregon Symphony

$38 – $58

Oregon Symphony

503-228-1353

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symphony@orsymphony.org

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts

12625 SW Crescent St
Beaverton, Oregon 97005 United States
971.501.7722
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Oregon Symphony 125th Anniversary Gala

April 9, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm PDT

Saturday, April 9 | 6 PM PDT | Online
How To Watch The Livestream

Program
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Barber: Violin Concerto, mvmt III, performed on mandolin
Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Thile: Julep (Punch Brothers), arr. by Gabriel Kahane
and more

Artists
David Danzmayr, Conductor
Chris Thile, Mandolin & Host
Xavier Foley, Double Bass
Chien Tan, Violin

Free

Oregon Symphony

503-228-1353

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Oregon Symphony: Under the Sea

April 10, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm PDT

Dive in with us as we take you on a musical excursion into the watery depths with favorite music from The Little Mermaid and Pirates of the Caribbean, plus Debussy’s mysterious, magical La Mer.

Artists

Norman Huynh, Conductor
Pam Mahon, Narrator
Dance West
Pacific Youth Choir
Oregon Symphony
 

This concert is part of the Kids Series
$11 – $45

Oregon Symphony

503-228-1353

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Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97205
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Oregon Symphony: The Princess Bride In Concert

April 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm PDT

Director Rob Reiner’s film about a farm boy-turned-pirate in search of true love has become one of the most beloved comedies of all time. Featuring an all-star cast including Robin Wright and Billy Crystal, it’s a hilarious fairy tale adventure for the entire family. To miss it? Inconceivable!

BEST SEATS AVAILABLE: SUN APRIL 3 at 7:30PM

Artists

Norman Huynh, Conductor
Oregon Symphony

$45 – $139

Oregon Symphony

503-228-1353

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symphony@orsymphony.org

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97205
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