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September 29, 2010
Contact: Cherry Blossom Musical Arts
Contact person: Nancy Wood
Company: Cherry Blossom Musical Arts
telephone: 541-334-0479
Email: nancyw@cblossom.org
website:  http://www.cblossom.org

      
Cherry
      Blossom Musical Arts
      presents "Art Music Live in the 21st Century", a contemporary
      classical concert series made possible in part by a grant from
      the Lane Arts Council with support from the City of Eugene Cultural
      Services Division and by Cascadia Composers, a division of the
      National Association of Composers USA. 

       

      The first concert in the "Art Music Live in the 21st Century"
      series is on November 5, 2010 at Central Lutheran Church, 1857
      Potter Street, Eugene , 7:30 pm. Adults $15, Students $10, children
      under 10 and under free. The concert includes:

      


      ·
      The world premiere
      of "Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allen Poe Songbook"
      by British composer, former U of O professor and resident of
      Brooklyn NY, Derek Healey, written specifically for Cherry Blossom
      Artistic Director, soprano Nancy Wood.  Mr. Healey's work
      has been performed world wide, most recently in Italy.

      ·
      New and recent work
      by Czech-American composer Tomas Svoboda, another world-renown
      composer whose work has been performed by such major orchestras
      as the Boston Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Prague
      Symphony.  Nancy Wood will perform Svoboda's song cycle
      "Summer Fragments" accompanied by Mr. Svoboda, who
      will also perform a piece for for solo piano.

      ·
      The Oregon Brass Quintet,
      a group of faculty artists from the University of Oregon School
      of Music including trumpet virtuoso Brian McWhorter, performing
      a quintet by Svoboda.  

      ·
      "Mama's Song"
      for solo violin by Portland composer, Jack Gabel, performed by
      Eugene Symphony assistant concert master Lisa McWhorter .

       

      On February
      10, 2011,  "Art
      Music Live in the 21st Century, part 2" features

      ·
      The world premiere
      of Paul Safar's "Concerto for Electric Guitar and Chamber
      Orchestra", written for the popular Eugene guitarist Olem
      Alves with Douglas Detrick conducting an orchestra assembled
      from the Eugene Symphony, The Oregon Mozart Players and the University
      of Oregon School of Music. 

      ·
      Douglas Detrick's "
      Single Petal of a Rose" for jazz orchestra, inspired by
      the work of Duke Ellington. 

      ·
      Portland composer and
      sound artist Dan Senn's humorous "Micro-Dramatic Songs"
      performed by Nancy Wood and Paul Safar 

      ·
      Paul Safar's solo piano
      composition "Fly On: Variations on a theme by Jimi Hendrix"
      performed by Paul Safar.

       

      Both concerts will take place at Central Lutheran Church, 1857
      Potter Street, Eugene, with the support of Lane Arts Council,
      Cascadia Composers, The City of Eugene, members of the faculty
      of the University of Oregon School of Music, Cherry Blossom Musical
      Arts and numerous private donors.

      
Cascadia
      Composers
For more information on individual composers
      or performers:

      Cherry Blossom Muscial Arts www.cblossom.org

      Tomas Svoboda: http://www.tomassvoboda.com

      Derek Healey: http://www.derekhealey.com/context.html

      Dan Senn: http://www.newsense-intermedium.com

      Jack Gabel: http://www.jackgabel.com

      The Oregon Brass Quintet: http://www.uoregon.edu/~music/people/ensemblesinresidence.htm

      Douglas Detrick: http://www.myspace.com/douglasdetrick

      Cascadia Composers: http://www.cascadiacomposers.org

       

      Reporters are invited to contact Cherry Blossom for more information.
      We can facilitate live, recorded and telephone interviews with
      any of the composers and/or performers desired. telephone: 541-334-0479
       email : nancyw@cblossom.org website: www.cblossom.org

       

      Cherry Blossom Musical Arts is committed to keeping contemporary
      classical music accessible, alive and thriving in this time in
      which arts accessibility is often limited by financial constraints.
      Our tickets are always affordable, and often free. We believe
      that all music, including contemporary classical art music, should
      be available to all who have the desire to hear, and in the past
      years of our organization, we have always paid our artists, paid
      the bills, and kept our productions affordable. This is because
      of the support we have received from people like you. We can't
      thank you enough and we look forward to this upcoming season
      together! If you would like to donate to Cherry Blossom, send
      an email to info@cblossom.org and we'll tell you how!