Recital Complete!

Angie's Dances

...if i should fall...

Dreamscape

Modern Classical

me, relieved that the performance went well

so much music that so many people learned!!
(so much viola music that Maria learned!)
so many people that i had to find!

Chris C. Anderson, Eddie Barksdale, Maria Boyer, Kylie Cassidy, Sage Coy, Rob Deitrich, Morgan Deters, Luke Engstrand, Dani Fenske, Helen Goldstein, Zein Hassanein, Heather Holland, Ian Kerr, Jaline King, Angie Misso, Rita Ombaka, Amory Parker, Caitlin Power, Branden Pursinger, Joseph Reed, Lucy Roberts, Lydia Simmons, Laura Specht, Abby Vining, Anya Walker, and Hanna White.

more pix: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150871051533275.526455.598863274&type=1&l=f70ff0cbc8

more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/159631387469017/

A New Conductor

Jeff - we haven't seen him this fancy yet

Much to our surprise, this year brought the advent of a new age for the Lewis & Clark College orchestra with the addition of Dr. Jeff Specht to the Music Department Faculty.

Jeff is from Minnesota - like me, YAY!!! - and has studied many disciplines in music.  When he conducts, you can tell he plays tuba, which is kind of funny.

I think Jeff is leading the LC orchestra to a new era of greatness!!!  In two rehearsals I feel we've accomplished more than we did in months with the last conductor.


I'm excited to work with him this year as a player and aspiring conductor (because the more people you play under, the better at reading cues you become and the more examples you have to work with for your own conducting!!)!

Ravel's String Quartet

Copyright 2011 Chrissy Misso.  Click for larger image

My favourite movement of the quartet is the second (Assez vif – Très rythmé), and although my favourite recording is the one on the CD I have from the Alexander String Quartet, I have posted the performance by the Hagen Quartet.  I have a visual poem-like thing that I feel embodies my response to the movement - think of the words as lyrics to the pizzicato melody.

ENJOY!! 

“In here can be found those well wrought, yet sensual melodies, amazing range of tone color, vibrant rhythm and touch of the exotic that characterizes Ravel’s music” (Joseph Way, programme notes 1994)