Grace Notes Music Studio

Sensory Friendly Concert
2016-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marylhurst University, St. Anne’s Chapel, Furman Drive, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Join the Portland Wind Symphony and the Marylhurst Music Therapy Student Organization for a sensory friendly concert.
Typical public concert venues are inaccessible to those who are unable to sit still or be quiet. Experiencing live music in the fine arts is totally elusive to the growing number of people in our society on the autism spectrum. This is not okay. – – – The Musical Artist
Sensory Friendly means:

lights up inside the performance hall
lower volume and consistent sound level
audience members are free to talk and leave their seat
props such as scarves are provided
audience members are welcome to bring and use headphones

The Marylhurst Music Therapy Student Organization will provide special activities before, during and after the show.
Music includes classic wind symphony repertoire, trumpet fanfares, tunes from Mary Poppins, Peter and The Wolf, and music from Star Wars.

Bye Bye Birdie
2016-03-05 19:00 - 21:15, 2016-03-06 14:00 - 16:15, 2016-03-11 19:00 - 21:15 | Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97220, United States
Madison High School Fine Arts presents Bye Bye Birdie. The pit orchestra is a nice mix of high school students and area pros.
Synopsis: Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60’s ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye.

Bye Bye Birdie - closing night
2016-03-12 19:00 - 21:15 | Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97220, United States

NW Wind Symphony performs Spring Concert this Saturday
2016-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Corbet Theatre, 600 Centralia College Blvd., Centralia, WA, 98531, United States
The NWWS’s Spring concert, “English Fare,” takes place April 16, 2016, at Corbet Theatre at 7pm. This final concert of its 25th season reminds us of the roots of our American wind music heritage. Featured are works of a newer breed of composers, some of which you’ve never heard. The music, however, is pure delight!
Program

Festivo – Edward Gregson
Downtown Diversions – Adam Gorb

Rich Pasko, trombone

Illyrian Dances – Guy Woolfenden

Rondeau
Aubade
Gigue

Colonel Bogey March – Kenneth Alford
Songs & Refrains – Daniel Basford

Arkendale
Strawberry Fair
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

Military March No. 1 – Edward Elgar
Lincoln Shire Posey – Percy Grainger

Folk Music Student Recital
2016-04-27 06:30 - 19:30 | The Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, 6125 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
Folk Music
The theme for the Spring Student recital is Folk Music. And we have a diverse and entertaining hour of music prepared for you!
Seven students have selected folk music that speaks to their own heritage. They’ve taken these songs and arranged them for duos, trios, and quartets.
We’ll be hearing music from China, Korea, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Poland, and a Civil Rights gospel tune for sax quartet.
A clarinet student will be accompanied by her sister on guitar. A saxophone student will be accompanied by his younger sister on piano. Another sax student will be accompanied by her high school friend on piano.
But wait! There’s more!
Our guest artists are Craig Bunch, a local music teacher playing clarinet duets with Sam Aquino. Craig teaches elementary music at West Powelhurst Elementary School and performs with the US Army Band. Both Craig and Sam play with Portland Gay Symphonic Band.
Free to attend
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to me by Monday, April 25, 2016.

Pops in the Park
2016-07-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Rose City Swing and Portland Gay Symphonic Band present a benefit concert raising awareness for Returning Veterans Project.
PGSB

Disney at the Movies
Over the Rainbow
Selections from West Side Story
Midway March

Rose City Swing

We Are Family
Lady is a Tramp – Laurie and Michael Duet
Nearness of You – Tenor Feature
Under My Skin – Michael Solo
Satin Doll – Laurie Solo
Kansas City
All of Me – Michael Solo
Sophisticated Lady – Alto Feature
Birdland – Laurie Solo
Mambo Swing

PGSB

First Suite in Eb
Over There
Armed Forces Medley
America the Beautiful
Stars and Stripes

See you there!

Angels & Demons
2016-11-19 19:30 - 21:30 | OR
Portland Gay Symphonic Band performs music of Angels & Demons for our Fall concert.

Portland Wind Symphony
2016-12-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Marylhurst University, St. Anne’s Chapel, Furman Drive, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Join us for our Winter concert, second performance of the 2016-17 season.
Playlist:

Centennial Celebration by Carnahan
Rest by Ticheli
Overture for Winds by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Symphony #2 by Ticheli
Greensleeves arranged by Alfred Reed
Russian Christmas Music by Reed

There may be some other Christmas-y surprises too!

Sensory-Friendly Concert
2017-02-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Marylhurst University, St. Anne’s Chapel, Furman Drive, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
The Portland Wind Symphony, in partnership with the music therapy program at Marylhurst University, is pleased to present its second Sensory-Friendly Concert on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 3:00 p.m. at St. Anne’s Chapel at Marylhurst University.
The Marylhurst Chamber Choir will join the Portland Wind Symphony to perform classical and popular works for choir and band in an environment that is comfortable and judgment-free.
Further information about sensory-friendly concerts.

Spring Wind Symphony Show
2017-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Legacy Emmanuel, 2801 N Gantenbein Ave, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Is it a show or a concert or a performance? I choose ‘show’ for the alliterative affect.
No matter what you call it, you’ll hear great classical and contemporary wind band literature. It’s a treat for the whole family.
One of my favorite works is a 2014 composition by David Biedenbender, Daybreak Crossing. Oh, wait! Paris Sketches, a four movement work by Martin Ellerby is another favorite. It was composed in 1994.
Then there’s the Intermezzo from Guglielmo Ratcliff composed by Pietro Mascagni and transcribed for band by Tad Suzuki. That’s a pretty little melodic interlude.
We’re also performing Camille Saint-Saëns’ Occident and Orient, opus 25 which Loras John Schissel arranged in 2005 for modern wind band.
Something for everyone!

Concert of Remembrance
2017-03-12 14:00 - 16:00 | oregon historical society, 1200 SW Park Ave, portland, OR, 97205, United States
This concert commemorates the 75th anniversary of FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which uprooted American citizens of Japanese descent all over the western United States and incarcerated them in camps and is in collaboration with Cascadia Composers and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.
Along with premieres of new compositions honoring the occasion by Cascadia composers Daniel Brugh, Ted Clifford, Denis Floyd, Janet Mittelstaedt, and Greg A Steinke, the program will feature photographs by New Mexico photographer (and camp documenter) Joan Myers, poetry/recitation by former Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Fusao Inada, and a video by the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.
The Cascadia Composers are the Cascadia Chapter of the National Association of Composers/USA.
I’m excited to be performing the new work by Ted Clifford, Poems in Stone. It’s scored for piano, bass, percussion, alto sax, and vocalist.
The concert program honors the thousands who were forced to spend the duration of World War II behind barbed wire in internment camps across the West.
The music, in a variety of styles and genres, includes works for solo oboe and a variety of mixed instrumental ensembles, including oboe and fixed media and jazz quartet; some with voice or recitation.
These works are poignant but also hopeful, as the composers drew their inspiration from sources including poetry by Japanese Americans Lawson Fusao Inada and Toyo Suyemoto, and from the book Children of Topaz by Michael Tunnell and George Chilcoat, based on diaries from a third grade internment camp classroom.
Jan Mittelstaedt, with lyricist Roberta Badger-Cain, based her work on interviews with the grandmother of one of her piano students, who was interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.
Concert of Remembrance performers include Colleen Adent and Dianne Davies, piano; Janet Bebb, flute; Tim DuRoche, percussion; Betsy Goy, violoncello; Mary Ellen Grace, alto saxophone; Barbara Heilmar, clarinet; Chris Higgins, double bass; Ann van Bever, Catherine Lee and Greg Steinke, oboe; Emily Nelson and Vakarė Petroliūnaitė, soprano; Nancy Wood, mezzo soprano.

Sounds of The Stage
2017-04-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Kaul Auditorium @ Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
The Portland Gay Symphonic Band plays the music of Leonard Bernstein, Johan de Meij, Johann Sebastian Bach and more in its production of Sounds of The Stage.
This is a FREE concert open to the public with a suggested donation of $15.00.
PGSB will be holding a silent auction at the concert to raise funds for concert percussion equipment. A case of wine, a year’s worth of free haircuts from Bishops, and many other fine items will be auctioned.

Sounds of Spring
2017-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 | West Linn High School, 5464 W A Street, West Linn, Oregon, 97068
Portland Wind Symphony will perform a variety of wind band classics for our free Springtime performance.
Program:

Suite of Old American Dances by Bennett
Andante Commodamente by Kallinikov
Army Of The Nile by Alford
The Gum-Suckers March by Grainger
La Fiesta Mexicana by Reed

Gratitude Recital
2017-05-09 18:30 - 19:30 | The Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, 6125 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
Twice a year, my students perform solos, duets, and other small ensemble works. This Spring we are using our musical powers for good. Each performer plays a song that expresses their gratitude towards one individual or place.
You’ll hear music ranging from a Polonaise dance to Hawaii 5-0 theme music; music from The Little Mermaid and The Wizard of Oz; some Schumann piano music arranged for three clarinets; and some children’s folk music.
Please contact me if you plan on coming so I can provide our venue with a head count.

Portland Wind Symphony Fall concert
2017-10-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Lincoln Hall, Portland State university, 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Portland Wind Symphony takes to the stage with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Henry Fillmore, and Camille de Nardis. We’ll also be playing this century works by Justin Raines, William Pitts, and our director of music, Dr. Christopher Chapman.
This concert is on Monday Oct. 30. We invite you to enjoy perhaps a new experience of an outing on a Monday evening.
Free admittance and donations welcome.

#Resist with Portland Gay Symphonic Band
2017-11-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Kaul Auditorium @ Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Please join the Portland Gay Symphonic Band for our fall concert titled #RESIST, featuring pieces from Del Borgo, Revueltas, Van der Roost, Shostakovich and more.
We are offering this concert for FREE to our community with a suggest donation between $15-40.

My Favorite Things
2017-11-28 18:30 - 19:30 | The Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, 6125 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
My favorite things are music! At this Fall recital, students will perform Take Five, Willow Weep for Me (sax quartet!), Mozart’s Sonata in C major, and Schubert’s Ave Maria and others.

PWS in Winter
2017-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Marylhurst University, St. Anne’s Chapel, Furman Drive, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Portland Wind Symphony welcomes Winter in a relaxing afternoon of seasonal music. Conducted by Dr. Chris Chapman.

Portland Wind Symphony @ PSU
2018-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Lincoln Hall, Portland State university, 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Join us for a Monday night concert! Our program:

A Savannah Symphony by Philip Sparke
Serenity by Ola Gjeilo
El Capitan by J. P. Sousa
Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson
Sojourn of Dreams by Kevin Walczyk
Morning Star by David Maslanka

Serenity is a beautiful expression of that concept in music. Rocky Point Holiday is fun to play, playful and adventurous.
Sojourn of Dreams is a beautiful African-themed commissioned suite that honors and celebrates the life of Jeff Cumpston. Cumpston was a percussionist and music educator in the Portland area who was killed in an accident while traveling in Africa.

PWS offers Sensory Friendly Concert
2018-03-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Marylhurst University, St. Anne’s Chapel, Furman Drive, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Portland Wind Symphony has offered these sensory-friendly concerts the last few years. All are welcome to attend a concert that breaks the rules of traditional concert behavior.
At this performance the lights will be up, audience members are encouraged to move in their seats or in the aisles as the music moves them, and feathers and scarves will be on hand to wave in the air.
Instrument petting zoo during intermission!

Anything Goes at Franklin High School
2018-03-09 19:00 - 21:30 | Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
Franklin High School drama department presents Anything Goes, musical by Cole Porter.
The orchestra is composed of student musicians and professional musicians from the area, including yours truly on clarinet and tenor sax.
Performances are March 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 7pm and a 2pm matinée on March 11.

Anything Goes final show
2018-03-17 19:00 - 21:30 | Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States

Portland Gay Symphonic Band presents Concerto Competition
2018-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Kaul Auditorium @ Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Earth Rising
The Rose City Gay Freedom Bands’ Young Artist Solo Competition is open to all 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students currently enrolled in their High School band program in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. The competition is open to all students regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The winner of the competition will receive a $500 scholarship and the opportunity to perform at the Portland Gay Symphonic Band’s Spring Concert in April, 2018.
Our program:

An OutDoor Adventure by Aaron Copland
The Leaves Are Falling by Warren Benson
The Moldau, a symphonic poem by Smetana
Sun Dance by Frank Ticheli
Early Light by Carolyn Bremer
Simple Gifts by Frank Ticheli

Recital: Hand Over Heart
2018-04-17 18:30 - 19:30 | The Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, 6125 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
On April 17, my students will be performing solos and small ensemble music for your enjoyment.
The theme is Hand Over Heart, calling to mind the feelings that music stirs in us.
Music will include Stranger on the Shore for clarinet and guitar and Diversions by Bernard Heiden, a concerto for alto saxophone and wind ensemble.

Wind Symphony Gets Cool at Beaverton Library
2018-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Beaverton Library, 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, Oregon, 97005, United States
Portland Wind Symphony will perform accessible classical music in an outdoor concert at the Beaverton Main Library.

Portland Wind Symphony Fall Concert
2018-10-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Lincoln Hall, Portland State university, 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States

Portland Gay Symphonic Band opens 29th Season
2018-11-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Kaul Auditorium @ Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Performance

Fall recital
2018-11-13 18:30 - 19:30 | The Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, 6125 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
The Fall recital date has been set and preparations are under way for another wonderful evening of music provided by active Grace Notes Music Studio students.
The theme is still TBD.
Students taking part in the Weekly SERI class (running Tuesdays from Sept 18 to Nov 6) will perform about three or four quartet arrangements. I’m especially excited about the arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody.
