MARTIN MAJKUT
OREGON COAST FESTIVAL: SCHOENBERG'S LOSING EARTH AND U.S. PREMIERE OF KÕRVITS'S BEYOND THE SOLAR FIELDS.
The fabulous & always enjoyable Oregon Coast Festival Orchestra will play a pair of programs that are inextricably linked. I called the first one "Our Solar System." It opens with Nielsen's Helios Overture. Then the otherworldly bassoon virtuoso Martin Kuuskmann presents the U.S. premiere of Tõnu Kõrvits's Beyond the Solar Fields bassoon concerto. He will add von Weber's Andante & Rondo ungarese for the good measure. The program closes with Symphony No. 3 by Brahms.
"Our Blue Planet" is the second program. First you will hear the overture from Haydn's oratorio The Creation. The overture represents the chaos before the world was created. We then transition into a paean for nature that is Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony. The culmination of the program is Adam Schoenberg's Losing Earth percussion concerto with the astounding Terry Longshore playing many, and I mean many percussion instruments!
Hope to see you in Coos Bay, OR on July 21 & July 25.
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