Heavenly Life— After only two performances, the Oregon East Symphony’s Mahler cycle has become national news, with a huge feature in the Oregonian exclaiming that “the OES gives Mahler the ride of his life!” Kenneth Woods and the OES now turn their attention to Mahler’s most intimate and personal work, the beautiful Fourth Symphony which culminates in a setting of a serene depiction of a child’s view of heaven, sung by soprano Esther Moses Bergh.

 

              Haydn—Symphony No. 59 “Fire”

              Mahler—Symphony No. 4

                               Amy Paden, soprano

Sunday, October 21

Vert Auditorium

3:15 pm

Saturday, November 17

Vert Auditorium

7:30 pm

Side by Side —Few orchestras in the country have as strong a record of supporting local musicians and music educators as the Oregon East Symphony. This evening begins with a new work by La Grande based composer Leandro Espinosa, the seventh work by a local composer to be premiered by the OES in the last five years. The grand finale of the concert will be a performance by the Oregon East Symphony and its preparatory orchestra, the A Sharp Players, of Beethoven’s exuberant and dynamic 8^th Symphony. The chance for aspiring musicians from around our region to play alongside some of the best musicians in the Northwest is part of what makes the OES youth program, Playing for Keeps, so special.

 

 

              Espinosa—Piece for Strings

              Dvorak—Serenade for Winds

              Beethoven—Symphony No. 8

                               OES with A Sharp Players

Saturday, December 8

Vert Auditorium

7:30 pm

 

Holiday Music Festival – OES and Chorale musicians are joined by the Young Voices of Eastern Oregon, A Sharp Players and the Holiday Bell Choir for our annual holiday celebration!

Saturday, February 2

Vert Auditorium

7:30 pm

Phoenix Rising – Jorja Fleezanis, concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and one of the most respected musicians in the world today, joins the OES as soloist and guest concertmaster in this program featuring two of the masterpieces of the early 20^th Century. Elgar’s Violin Concerto is perhaps the ultimate challenge for any violinist, widely considered the most epic and difficult piece ever written for the violin, while Stravinsky’s beloved Firebird Suite is often ranked as the most popular work among American audiences. Michael Steinberg, NPR commentator from Performance Today and author of the best selling listening guides The Symphony and The Concerto will be on hand to guide Pendleton audiences through this fascinating program. A glamorous and memorable evening featuring two of the music world’s biggest stars!

 

              Elgar—Violin Concerto

                               Jorja Fleezanis, violin

              Stravinsky—Firebird Suite

 

Featuring Guest Speaker Michael Steinberg from

“Performance Today”

 

Tickets:

Adults $15/$20, Seniors $12/$17, Students $3/$8

Sunday, June 8, 2008

First Presbyterian Church

3:15pm

Sunday, March 2

Vert Auditorium

3:15 pm

 

Puccini with Passion – It promises to be a grand night at the opera with a performance of Puccini’s most popular work, La Boheme, featuring a cast of singers from Portland Opera Works under the direction of Alexis Hamilton. Joining a world-class cast of soloists and the OES are the members of the Young Voices of Eastern Oregon and the OES Chorale.

             

              Puccini—La Boheme

                               OES with Chorale, Young Voices of Eastern Oregon and

                                                featuring Portland Opera Works

 

Tickets: Adults $15/$20,

Seniors $12/$17, Students $3/$8

Saturday, April 26

Vert Auditorium

7:30 pm

Death and  Transformation – It’s a spring showcase for the musicians of the orchestra, as the OES takes the stage in a season finale of Strauss and Brahms. Richard Strauss, one of the wittiest of composers said his last words with a smile- “dying is just like I composed it in Death and Transfiguration,” a powerful and dramatic tone poem that rises from despair to the heights of exaltation. Brahms was so determined to write a symphony that was a worthy successor to Beethoven’s 9^th that he spent 17 years composing his First Symphony. Like the Beethoven, its ending is one of the most exciting moments in all of music- a thrilling end to the Symphony’s season.

          

              Strauss—Death and Transfiguration

              Brahms—Symphony No. 1

 

Tickets: Adults $15/$20, Seniors $12/$17, Students $3/$8

Summer Music Celebration! - The OES Chorale performs Fauré’s ethereal Requiem with organ, harp,  and chamber orchestra. With special guests, the Pendleton Men’s Chorus. 

 

              Fauré—Requiem

              Fauré—Cantique de Jean Racine

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