I was impressed by Lukas’s chops, and her ability to imitate a very different instrument than the one she was playing. The work was composed in the style of Honkyoku, a type of music for shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) from the Edo period. Grossman’s “snowy egret, january messenger” at CMNW 2023. The composer wrote that it was inspired by “white egrets stand in the water among the brilliant green new shoots of rice plants,” and so this programmatic work was indeed redolent with powerful imagery.Īmelia Lukas performed Deena T. Amelia Lukas played the solo bass flute for this work that was written while the composer was living in Japan. Grossman’s snowy egret, january messenger opened the evening (read ArtsWatch profiles of Grossman here and here). This was disappointing at first, although it was hard to feel too let down after the later performance of his composition Panorama. There was a change in the programming, as composer/performer Stewart Goodyear’s commissioned work The Torment of Marsyas was not yet quite complete. The center felt elegant much like Coco Chanel’s little black dress, I don’t think it will be going out of style. Though I had never been there before it was comfortable, a little like coming home somehow. (As a bird nerd, I give giant kudos to The Reser for having the little dots on those windows to help prevent bird strikes).
The calming verdure was immediately accessible both from a courtyard outside and from immense picture windows inside. Modern but not imposing, expansive and yet intimate, it seamlessly integrated both the urban and the natural: entering from a street in a clean and quiet suburban downtown core, I heard ducks and geese calling gently in the adjacent wetlands. Photo by Tom Emerson.Ĭhamber Music Northwest’s Summer Festival continued at the brand-new Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton on July 13, with a concert entitled Uncovered Voices (the same program was also performed at Kaul Auditorium). Stewart Goodyear performed his “Panorama” at CMNW 2023.
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