[Applause]
hello so when when my band first started
in 1994 you know we started out of we
played a lot of political fundraisers we
also played a lot of weddings 95% of
which ended in divorce and we also
played at nightclubs like La Luna and
the 12:01 for in the cover to cover
charge was in burbot YZ pan the cover
charge was $5 and but I realized that
there was a whole sort of segment of the
population who I thought would really
love the band but would never go to a
club and so at midnight on Saturdays we
went to we would go to zephyra which was
the sort of cultural epicenter of
Portland in the mid-1990s it was a great
restaurant and we would sort of clear
the tables in the dining room and two
huge Samoans would come in and with a
calling in a grand piano and we set up
shop in the middle of the dining room
and we would play our sets and in
addition to that we also threw a bunch
of sort of parties we threw parties like
the Wild Kingdom rumba and let’s get
lost and you know Adam Libby who was who
would later become Chyna Forbes is the
second husband was producing these
parties with me and he would run up and
down 23 to have a new it and make sure
all the shop girls were coming and he
would rent out a Nordstrom and make sure
all the sexy people were coming and so
we we had to suddenly head of this
dynamic blend of sort of like hipsters
and sexy people and matrons and and thus
building sort of like building a crazy
bridge that continues today our
audiences are very sort of all over the
map I realized actually there were so
many Trump supporters when I when we
were playing in Florida the week of
alien-dog Eurasian and I think that
and it’s nice to know that there are
all this was mistaken
[Applause]
so the big thesis is like bringing music
to people and I bet hunter Nowak about
four years ago and he moved to Portland
he’s actually originally from Portland
from Sun River his mother ran the Sun
River Music Festival and his father was
a golf pro who taught him how to hunt
and he’s a much more sort of like
dedicated he’s a better practice or than
I am he’s more responsible and he went
to in Turlock and then he went to USC
and then he went to Guildhall and when
he came back to Oregon he started a
music series called in a landscape which
is classical music in the wild where he
takes a nine-foot Steinway puts it on a
on a flatbed trailer and drives a pickup
truck all around Oregon and Washington
to spectacular locations like the Alfred
desert or crater lake or Fort Rock and
he sets up shop right methy sites and
and people come and are given sort of
headphones that are wireless so they can
actually listen to the music with
concert hall acoustics but explore the
landscape so that are not confined to
sort of sitting down so it’s this is an
unbelievable thing and and it was
inspired also by the WPA
federal music and theater projects which
thousands of plays and concerts and
productions in public parts public parks
across America for free and and so the
goal for these concerts has really been
to to allow people to come for a little
or no cost thanks to some subsidies by
grants and foundations and private
individuals and so I guess I’m over my
time uh actually this point introduced a
hundred Nowak who’s going to play and a
sort of a Reader’s Digest version of
Maurice Ravel’s on Dean and with footage
shot by Cory rude and Zach Lewis and and
and edited by mr. McCord for this for
today’s production
so please welcome hunter no act
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[Music]
thank you it’s so luxurious to play in a
big hall like this where I don’t have to
wear my long underwear and there are no
mosquitoes and no bears and I don’t have
to haul my thousand-pound 9 foot
Steinway but what I do miss is the smell
of sagebrush the accompanying the
singing creak and looking out through
through the piano lid and seeing birds
and children bouncing around poking at
little critters in the dirt and an inner
landscape concert about 200 of you would
be there wandering all around listening
to the music with headphones and the
headphones really do make a difference
because they give you personal surround
sound acoustics with personal surround
sound and the acoustics of a great hall
in any environment wandering around you
share a knowing glance if you say catch
a squirrel dancing to the beat of Mozart
or something like that or see a flock of
Canadian geese fly right behind the
piano just as the moon comes out through
the clouds another great thing about the
headphones is you won’t notice if your
neighbor is coughing or taking three
the content of each show varies slightly
from place to place I like to work with
artists wherever possible and then also
feature stories are some some aspect
that speaks to the historic or
industrial story of the place so for
example in Cottage Grove Oregon I might
read a poem by Opel whitely play a piece
that imitates the sound of a logging
mill or invite dancers or a visual
artist to come and do an installation
about the Bohemian mining days
once you’ve wandered around during a
concert for about an hour the music as a
soundtrack to your daydreams hearing
little stories and poems about the fairy
land around you you have a shared
experience with 199 other people most of
whom are likely very different from you
the city kids the matrons and patrons
and hipsters and ranchers and farmers
and performers all now have something in
common
and that gives us something to talk
about and it’s the conversations which
are the foundation for us getting to
know each other getting to understand
each other’s perspective and therefore
hopefully the beginning of building
bridges Thomas and I are going to play a
piece now together as an example of
something I might program on the Oregon
coast this is a piece by Ernest block
it’s a very short piece called prayer
originally written for cello and piano
and Ernest Bloch was a swiss born
composer but lived just north of Newport
at an agate beach for the last 18 years of his life so this is Ernest box prayer
hello so when when my band first started
in 1994 you know we started out of we
played a lot of political fundraisers we
also played a lot of weddings 95% of
which ended in divorce and we also
played at nightclubs like La Luna and
the 12:01 for in the cover to cover
charge was in burbot YZ pan the cover
charge was $5 and but I realized that
there was a whole sort of segment of the
population who I thought would really
love the band but would never go to a
club and so at midnight on Saturdays we
went to we would go to zephyra which was
the sort of cultural epicenter of
Portland in the mid-1990s it was a great
restaurant and we would sort of clear
the tables in the dining room and two
huge Samoans would come in and with a
calling in a grand piano and we set up
shop in the middle of the dining room
and we would play our sets and in
addition to that we also threw a bunch
of sort of parties we threw parties like
the Wild Kingdom rumba and let’s get
lost and you know Adam Libby who was who
would later become Chyna Forbes is the
second husband was producing these
parties with me and he would run up and
down 23 to have a new it and make sure
all the shop girls were coming and he
would rent out a Nordstrom and make sure
all the sexy people were coming and so
we we had to suddenly head of this
dynamic blend of sort of like hipsters
and sexy people and matrons and and thus
building sort of like building a crazy
bridge that continues today our
audiences are very sort of all over the
map I realized actually there were so
many Trump supporters when I when we
were playing in Florida the week of
alien-dog Eurasian and I think that
and it’s nice to know that there are
all this was mistaken
[Applause]
so the big thesis is like bringing music
to people and I bet hunter Nowak about
four years ago and he moved to Portland
he’s actually originally from Portland
from Sun River his mother ran the Sun
River Music Festival and his father was
a golf pro who taught him how to hunt
and he’s a much more sort of like
dedicated he’s a better practice or than
I am he’s more responsible and he went
to in Turlock and then he went to USC
and then he went to Guildhall and when
he came back to Oregon he started a
music series called in a landscape which
is classical music in the wild where he
takes a nine-foot Steinway puts it on a
on a flatbed trailer and drives a pickup
truck all around Oregon and Washington
to spectacular locations like the Alfred
desert or crater lake or Fort Rock and
he sets up shop right methy sites and
and people come and are given sort of
headphones that are wireless so they can
actually listen to the music with
concert hall acoustics but explore the
landscape so that are not confined to
sort of sitting down so it’s this is an
unbelievable thing and and it was
inspired also by the WPA
federal music and theater projects which
thousands of plays and concerts and
productions in public parts public parks
across America for free and and so the
goal for these concerts has really been
to to allow people to come for a little
or no cost thanks to some subsidies by
grants and foundations and private
individuals and so I guess I’m over my
time uh actually this point introduced a
hundred Nowak who’s going to play and a
sort of a Reader’s Digest version of
Maurice Ravel’s on Dean and with footage
shot by Cory rude and Zach Lewis and and
and edited by mr. McCord for this for
today’s production
so please welcome hunter no act
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
thank you it’s so luxurious to play in a
big hall like this where I don’t have to
wear my long underwear and there are no
mosquitoes and no bears and I don’t have
to haul my thousand-pound 9 foot
Steinway but what I do miss is the smell
of sagebrush the accompanying the
singing creak and looking out through
through the piano lid and seeing birds
and children bouncing around poking at
little critters in the dirt and an inner
landscape concert about 200 of you would
be there wandering all around listening
to the music with headphones and the
headphones really do make a difference
because they give you personal surround
sound acoustics with personal surround
sound and the acoustics of a great hall
in any environment wandering around you
share a knowing glance if you say catch
a squirrel dancing to the beat of Mozart
or something like that or see a flock of
Canadian geese fly right behind the
piano just as the moon comes out through
the clouds another great thing about the
headphones is you won’t notice if your
neighbor is coughing or taking three
the content of each show varies slightly
from place to place I like to work with
artists wherever possible and then also
feature stories are some some aspect
that speaks to the historic or
industrial story of the place so for
example in Cottage Grove Oregon I might
read a poem by Opel whitely play a piece
that imitates the sound of a logging
mill or invite dancers or a visual
artist to come and do an installation
about the Bohemian mining days
once you’ve wandered around during a
concert for about an hour the music as a
soundtrack to your daydreams hearing
little stories and poems about the fairy
land around you you have a shared
experience with 199 other people most of
whom are likely very different from you
the city kids the matrons and patrons
and hipsters and ranchers and farmers
and performers all now have something in
common
and that gives us something to talk
about and it’s the conversations which
are the foundation for us getting to
know each other getting to understand
each other’s perspective and therefore
hopefully the beginning of building
bridges Thomas and I are going to play a
piece now together as an example of
something I might program on the Oregon
coast this is a piece by Ernest block
it’s a very short piece called prayer
originally written for cello and piano
and Ernest Bloch was a swiss born
composer but lived just north of Newport
at an agate beach for the last 18 years of his life so this is Ernest box prayer
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