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 All That Jazz, Portland Chamber Orchestra
Liberty Theater Presents Season 5
Portland Chamber Orchestra
All That Jazz with Lindsay Deutsch and Dick Hyman
Yaacov Bergman, Conductor and Music Director
Sunday, March 25, 2012 3:00 pm
Virtuosic violinist, Lindsay Deutsch, returns to Portland Chamber Orchestra in an exciting program along with world-renowned jazz pianist and composer, Dick Hyman. Hyman's long career includes his performances as member of the Benny Goodman trio, and his music can be heard in cinema from Woody Allen's films to Moonstruck. This program will premiere a new transcription of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for violin and orchestra, and offer works by Hyman for jazz trio, violin, piano and orchestra - get ready for All That Jazz!
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Lindsay Deutsch (on an 1845 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin).
“vibrant, mesmerizing … a definitive musical force.”
Danny Gaisin, Oakvilly Today (Canada)
Hailed by the L.A. Times as having “… the technical equipment and temperament for a big career…”, American violinist, Lindsay Deutsch, brings a fresh perspective to classical performances. Taking the listening experience to the next level, she plays with a passion and energy that has thrilled audiences throughout the US and Canada. At 26, critics find that she demonstrates “…fine maturity even during the most physical and demanding passages” (San Francisco Classical Voice), and “…has a stage presence and style far beyond her years and a charisma that enthralled her audience.” (LCF Outlook – La Canada, CA).
Ms. Deutsch is currently the Principal Guest Artist for Orchestra Nova. Her newly commissioned "Rhapsody in Blue" for violin and orchestra was recently premiered with the National Academy Orchestra in Toronto and will see its US premier this season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. She made her debut at the Disney Hall performing John Corigliano’s Red Violin Chaconne with the California Philharmonic. Ms. Deutsch made her solo orchestral debut at the age of 11 with the Clear Lake Symphony in Texas.
Ms. Deutsch feels strongly that the young people of today need to be exposed to the world of classical music. She is actively involved in outreach programs to present classical music in new and exciting ways that will thrill and inspire the young audiences of today. She also has a page on her website specifically aimed at young musicians and their parents which attracts 70,000 hits per month. She has garnered corporate support for this site, which encourages young musicians and selects a “Student Musician of the Month” which highlights and recognizes outstanding young musicians from all over the U.S. and Canada.
In addition to her music, Lindsay was a formidable racquetball player. She won the gold medal in the World Junior Olympic Racquetball Championships in 1997 and was selected to the 2000 U.S. Junior Olympic Team.
Dick Hyman
Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early ‘50s, Dick Hyman has been a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under his own name. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller. Other solo piano albums include variations on the songs of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers.
Mr. Hyman’s concert compositions for orchestra include his Piano Concerto, Ragtime Fantasy, The Longest Blues in the World, and From Chama to Cumbres by Steam. A cantata based on the autobiography of Mark Twain was premiered with the choral group, Gloria Musicae, in Sarasota. Among his recent chamber music compositions are Quartet for Strings in G, Quintet for Piano and Strings, Sextet for Piano and Strings, and Danzas Tropicales, which he premiered in Sarasota with members of La Musica Chamber Players. Mr. Hyman has often been heard in duo-piano performances with Derek Smith, in Three-Piano Crossover with Marian McPartland and the late Ruth Laredo, and in pops concerts under the direction of Doc Severinsen. In 2004, after serving as artistic director for the acclaimed Jazz in July series at New York’s 92nd Street Y for twenty years, he stepped down, but he continues individual performances throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. A ballet based on Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, was performed by Ballet Eugene, in Oregon, and another, Minotaur, was recently danced in New York.
In years past, Dick Hyman was music director for Arthur Godfrey and orchestrator of the hit musical Sugar Babies. He has served as composer/arranger/conductor/pianist for the Woody Allen films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hanna and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says “I Love You”, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Melinda and Melinda. Other film scores have included Moonstruck, Scott Joplin--King of Ragtime, the Lemon Sisters, and Alan and Naomi.
His encyclopedic “Century of Jazz Piano” an extended history on 6 discs, has been released by Arbors Records.
Yaacov Bergman, Conductor and Music Director, has received consistent rave notices and standing ovations for his interpretations of a highly varied repertoire, and has been acclaimed worldwide as an intensely communicative musician. Maestro Bergman is Music Director of the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the Walla Walla Symphony, The Moscow ID Summer Rendezvous Chamber Players Ensemble, former Music Director of the Colorado Springs Symphony, The New York Heritage Chamber Orchestra, and the 92nd St. Y Orchestra in New York City. His versatility has led to frequent guest appearances across the globe conducting the symphonic, operatic, oratorio and pops repertoires.
Born in Israel, Yaacov Bergman’s early musical training began with violin and vocal studies, but he soon expressed an avid interest in composing and conducting. After graduation from the Rubin Academy of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with majors in conducting and composition, he completed post-graduate studies at the Mannes College of Music in New York as a student of Richard Westenburg. He pursued further conducting studies under the guidance of Charles Bruck, a disciple of Pierre Monteux, as well as private study under Leonard Bernstein. In 1998 he was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Colorado Technical University.
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Show Begins at 3:00 PM
This event is presented by the Liberty Theater
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