@ The Melody Event Center (615 SE Alder St., Portland OR)
(Percussionists: Kevin will be there half of the time)
4:00pm-4:45pm
Stuppler
4:45-5:30pm
Mayer
5:30pm-5:45pm
(break)
5:45pm-7:00pm
Bernstein (whole piece)
REMAINING REHEARSALS
All remaining rehearsals (with locations and times) are listed here.
Heads up: Thursday, May 11th: rehearsal of piano concertos
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.)
Thursday, May 11th, 6:30pm-9:00pm (PSU, Lincoln Hall, Band Room)
Reference Recordings
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part Assignments
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
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.
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.
@ The Melody Event Center (615 SE Alder St., Portland OR)
(Percussionists: Kevin will be there half of the time)
Bernstein all rehearsal long!
Rumble (m. 730) to end
Scherzando (m. 141) to m. 276
Mambo
CUT in Emilie Mayer’s Faust Overture
We will cut from m. 43 to m. 133. In other words: we will finish the introduction, and then play at letter [G].
CORRECTED PARTS coming this Sunday
We printed new parts for all people with page-turning issues (and people missing Mayer). I’ll bring them with me on Sunday.
UPCOMING REHEARSAL CHANGES
Tuesday, May 2nd: Strings-only rehearsal:
Tuesday, May 2nd, 6:30pm-9:00pm – MYS Office (4800 S Macadam Ave.)
Thursday, May 11th: rehearsal of piano concertos
I had previously announced this date as a strings-only rehearsal. We are changing it to a Mozart & Beethoven piano concerto rehearsals (without timpani). So, if you play the concertos, please plan to attend this rehearsal.
Thursday, May 11th, 6:30pm-9:00pm (location update: PSU, Lincoln Hall, Band Room)
Time change for May 14th rehearsal
Because of an MYS Community Concert taking place on 5/14 at 4pm, we are moving Symphony Orchestra rehearsal to 7:00pm-9:30pm.
Concert week evening rehearsals will be at The Melody
Wednesday, 5/17 and Thursday, 5/18 rehearsals will be at The Melody.
UPDATED document with all current rehearsal information
All the changes outlined above are included in the document linked here.
Reference Recordings
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part Assignments
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
@ The Melody Event Center (615 SE Alder St., Portland OR)
(Percussionists: You’ll be with Kevin for half of the time)
4:00pm-4:45pm – Stuppler
4:45pm-5:30pm – Mayer
(break)
5:45pm-7:00pm – Bernstein
Scherzo (m. 347 to m. 399)
Cool and Rumble (m. 581 to m. 812)
UPCOMING REHEARSAL CHANGES
Adding two rehearsal dates for strings
Based on how rehearsals have gone so far, we’re adding two rehearsal dates for strings. Both of these rehearsals will be at the MYS Office (4800 S Macadam Ave.), from 6:30pm to 9:00pm:
Tuesday, May 2nd, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Thursday, May 11th, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Time change for May 14th rehearsal
Because of an MYS Community Concert taking place on 5/14 at 4pm, we are moving Symphony Orchestra rehearsal to 7:00pm-9:30pm.
Concert week evening rehearsals will be at The Melody
Wednesday, 5/17 and Thursday, 5/18 rehearsals will be at The Melody.
UPDATED document with all current rehearsal information
All the changes outlined above are included in the document linked here.
Reference Recordings
MAYER:
BERNSTEIN:
Part Assignments
Part assignments for all pieces can be accessed here. Please let me know if you spot any errors. Assignments are subject to change.
4:00pm-4:55pm – tutti (see parts assignments for detailed instrumentation. No low brass for concertos — if you don’t play the concertos you can come at 5pm)
Mozart Piano Concerto
Beethoven Piano Concerto
5:05pm-5:55pm – sectionals (Faust Overture)
Violins & violas with me
Cellos & basses with David Eby
Winds and brass with Tristan Weitkamp
6:05pm-7:00pm – sectionals (Faust Overture)
All strings with me
Woodwinds with Karen Wagner
Brass with JáTtik Clark
Part Assignments
I’m waiting on “leadership auditions” to create Bernstein assignments. Assignments for Faust Overture and the piano concertos can be accessed here.
LEADERSHIP AUDITIONS (optional) due March 24
I will hold voluntary leadership auditions this term for principal chairs. Record a video of 2 minutes (minimum) of your best playing. Any repertoire. Send to me directly by e-mail.
ADD ALL REHEARSAL DATES/TIMES to your calendar!
Go to our full season schedule here. Please mark your calendars very carefully for this term. Please note our weeknight and Saturday rehearsals on concert week.
