How We Spend Our Summer Months: New Music and Dvorak
Fritz’s summer music plans take him to St. Paul, MN and Santa Cruz, CA. On June 5-6, he played Dvorak’s Legends with the Saint Paul...
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James Berkenstock, Principal Bassoon
- Jun 24, 2015
- 1 min
Lyric Players Celebrate "Midsummer"
For the past 25 years Door County, WI has been the home of Midsummer’s Music Festival featuring chamber music of all kinds in a wide...
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Terri VanValkinburgh, Assistant Principal Viola
- Jun 17, 2015
- 1 min
The Grant Park Symphony Connection
Ahh, summer in Chicago! It's a beautiful city in which to live and work this time of year, despite eternal re-routing to avoid...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Jun 3, 2015
- 1 min
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Twenty-five years ago Lyric Opera cellist Laura Deming and several orchestra colleagues performed the opening concerts launching The Pine...
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Mark Brandfonbrener, cello
- Jun 2, 2015
- 1 min
CLOO Musicians Perform at Mayoral Inauguration
On Monday, May 18, a trio from the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Concertmaster Robert Hanford, guest guitarist Steven Roberts, and myself,...
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Frank Babbitt, viola
- Jun 1, 2015
- 1 min
How We Spend Our Summer Months #3: In the Mountains
For many summers I have traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to participate in the Grand Teton Music Festival (gtmf.org) . It is a music...
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Melissa Kirk, Viola
- May 25, 2015
- 2 min
How We Spend Our Summer Months #2: Playing More Operas!
Around the middle of June every year my family packs up our dog, two cats, two children, a viola, a bassoon and a contrabassoon, and...
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Mimi Tachouet, Principal Flute
- May 18, 2015
- 2 min
How We Spend Our Summer Months #1: Performing in California & Washington
Hello from sunny San Diego! Since the end of the Opera season I have been doing a lot of traveling for work. As a proud Portland native...
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Susan Warner, Co-Assistant Principal Clarinet
- Sep 1, 2014
- 2 min
Cross-Cultural Family Concert
Last year my family had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Panama. The main purpose of our visit was to feed the passion of our son...
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Jack Zimmerman
- Aug 1, 2014
- 3 min
All in the Family
Last winter college sophomore Olivia Boen worked as an intern for Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center. It was a perfect fit with her being a...
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Calum Cook, Principal Cello
- Jun 1, 2014
- 4 min
My First Year with Lyric Opera Orchestra
So, how was Chicago?” I must have been asked this question at least five hundred times since my return to the UK following the end of the...
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