Hi MYSfits!
I will keep the most updated version of our schedule linked here, and on the sidebar (or “Quick Links” at the bottom if you’re on mobile).
Best,
Dr. G.
Hi MYSfits!
I will keep the most updated version of our schedule linked here, and on the sidebar (or “Quick Links” at the bottom if you’re on mobile).
Best,
Dr. G.
Hi everybody! Great to see you for our first rehearsal last Sunday. It was a wonderful start to the year. Also, congratulations to MYSfits on a FANTASTIC performance at the Schnitz before the Yo-Yo Ma/Oregon Symphony concert. I keep hearing wonderful feedback about our performance. Thanks to those of you who showed up to support. It meant a lot seeing you there!!
I’m sharing my rehearsal plan for next Sunday (9/17/23) below. Please be sure to prepare (i.e. practice between now and Sunday and learn your individual part before rehearsal). Additionally, I’m asking you to volunteer to annotate one of the pieces this season for ConcertCue. Finally, I’m keeping content from my previous e-mail below for your convenience (schedule, repertoire, part assignments, etc).
I updated the reference videos for both pieces on the sidebar (or down below under “Quick Links” if you’re on mobile). These performances match the original score that we’re playing. I will also create a separate post with the Disney Fantasia videos, where the pieces are cut and edited for the animations.
If you’re interested in volunteering to annotate one of our pieces this season for Concert Cue, please send me an e-mail.
We’ll work together to create the annotations and craft an informative and engaging experience for our audiences. This counts for volunteer hours if you need them at school, etc.
Below is the information that I shared last week, for your convenience.
You can check out this season’s repertoire by clicking the thumbnail below. I’m very excited about everything we’re playing. This document is subject to changes, but it will likely stay this way.
Up-to-date part assignments can be found by clicking on the link on the sidebar on the right (or the “quick links” towards the bottom of the page if you’re on mobile).
Happy practicing and see you Sunday!
Dr. G.
Hi everybody! Welcome back if you were with us last year, and a giant WELCOME if you’re new to Symphony Orchestra this year. We have a very exciting season ahead of us, ending with an international tour to Spain and Portugal, which I hope all of you can join.
This is just an introductory message about rehearsals, concerts and repertoire.
You can check out this season’s repertoire by clicking the thumbnail below. I’m very excited about everything we’re playing. This document is subject to changes, but it will likely stay this way.
Part assignments for all pieces will be communicated next week. Look for an e-mail from me on Tuesday.
Look for an e-mail from our office with information about our general orientation session via Zoom on Wednesday 9/6 at 7pm.
After our very successful introduction of Concert Cue for real-time program notes delivered to audience cell phones during our May concert (with Elaina Stuppler’s piece), we are excited to introduce Concert Cue for all Symphony Orchestra performances this year. We will be enlisting volunteers to create the interactive program notes for most pieces. More about this later, but I hope many of you will volunteer to create the content for a piece (or a movement) this season. It’s super cool.
That’s it for now. More soon!!
Dr. G.
Note: no rehearsal on Thursday, June 1st.
Concert: Friday, June 2nd, call time 4pm.
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
Thank you, and happy practicing.
Dr. G.
Tutti!!
Note: no rehearsal on Thursday, June 1st.
Concert: Friday, June 2nd, call time 4pm.
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
Thank you, and happy practicing.
Dr. G.
Note: percussionists will rehearse at The Melody from 4pm-6pm on this day (5/21)
@ Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University, Room LH37 (band room)
All strings + winds/brass who play the piano concerti.
Note: no rehearsal on Thursday, June 1st.
Concert: Friday, June 2nd, call time 4pm.
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
Thank you, and happy practicing.
Dr. G.
@ Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University, Room LH37 (band room)
Winds, brass and timpani: you only need to be there for the pieces that you do play (including alternate players).
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
Thank you, and see most of you tomorrow! (Thursday 5/11)
Dr. G.
@ The Melody Event Center (615 SE Alder St., Portland OR)
(Percussionists: Kevin will be there half of the time)
All remaining rehearsals (with locations and times) are listed here.
This will be a Mozart & Beethoven piano concerti rehearsals (without timpani). So, if you play the concerti, please plan to attend this rehearsal (including alternate players.)
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
Thank you, and see you Sunday 5/7!
Dr. G.
CANCELED! Hi all: unfortunately, the Marrostone Festival had to cancel the Olympia-Portland leg of their festival this year. We are all hoping for another opportunity for collaboration in the future. Thanks!
Led by Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) Music Director Juan Felipe Molano, SYSO’s two-week training program for advanced musicians will take place in Seattle in 2023. Marrowstone’s daily schedule of rehearsals, sectionals, chamber music, masterclasses and musicianship classes will culminate with performances in Olympia, Portland, and Seattle, with an overnight stay in Olympia at Evergreen State College.
SYSO would like to invite MYS Symphony and Concert Orchestra musicians to join us for an overnight stay at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA as part of Marrowstone’s mini-PNW tour. Students are welcome to meet us at Evergreen the afternoon of Tuesday, August 1 to rehearse and perform an evening concert on campus, followed by an overnight stay in the dorms. The following morning, everyone will travel together in buses to Portland to rehearse and perform another evening concert at the Melody Event Center. All meals will be provided.
For those who can’t make it to Olympia, students are also welcome to join us in Portland for the rehearsal and concert at the Melody Center on Wednesday, August 2.
Dear Symphony musicians,
This is going to be my final year with MYS! It’s been an amazing 9 years being part of the MYS community, getting to know so many of you and making great music together.
I wanted to extend the invitation to come play with Concert Orchestra for my final concert! We are playing Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger, one of the great late Romantic pieces of all time! We are also playing the Berceuse and Finale from Stravinsky’s Firebird, one of my all-time favorite pieces of 20th century music.
The concert is Sunday May 14th at 4:00 pm at the Melody Center. There is a sound check that day at 1:00 pm. If you can make the performance date, and would like to sit in on either piece (or both) please email me directly at jeffrey.peyton@gmail.com.
You can find parts on the MYS website. If you’d like to play, please come to rehearsal this Saturday morning (9:30 am -12:30 pm). You don’t need to stay for the whole rehearsal, just the part where we are rehearsing the piece you want to play.
I would love to have you come join us!
Mr. Peyton