November 21, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland, Ore. … Musicians from the Oregon Symphony will pay their first of several monthly visits to Baker City, Ore, for a Dec. 6 Brass Quintet chamber concert to kick off a two-year Community Music Partnership (CMP) between the Symphony and the Baker City School District. Presented by the Baker Community Concert Association, the Brass Quintet performance will take place at 7 p.m. at the Nazarene Church at 1250 Hughes Lane in Baker City. Donations will be accepted at the door. CMP funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Cultural Trust and MetLife/ASOL.
Trumpets David Bamonte and Warren Bartold, Assistant Principal Horn Nathaniel Willson, Principal Trombone Aaron LaVere and Principal Tuba JáTtik Clark will perform a combination of solo brass repertoire and works for brass quintet at the chamber concert. For more information, contact the Baker Community Concert Association at (541) 523-3124 or (541) 523-4813.
Beginning in January, Symphony musicians will begin monthly school residencies in the Baker City community to present a concentrated series of music education events and activities for students, educators and community members. Designed to strengthen existing programs while integrating new arts programming into the curriculum and community, CMP events will culminate in May, 2006, with two full-orchestra youth concerts and a community concert. Year two of the partnership features the implementation of a sustainability plan to ensure the impact of the partnership continues into the future.
The Community Music Partnership, the Symphony’s largest and most significant education and community initiative, is a music residency program that focuses Symphony resources on rural or remote Oregon communities of 30,000 people or less. Symphony staff work with a local steering committee to craft the orchestra’s presence to meet community needs over a two-year period.
For more information about the Symphony’s Community Music Partnership, visit the Symphony’s Web site at www.orsymphony.org.
