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Newport Symphony - Latin Fireworks
2022-03-20 14:00 - 16:30, 2022-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Mónica Abrego, soprano
Soprano Mónica Abrego will light up the Performing Arts Center stage with her incandescent renditions of Latin favorites, and the orchestra will round out he season with super-high voltage Mexican repertoire in what is sure to be great evening of music.
Blas Galindo: Sones de Mariachi
Aaron Copland: El Salón México
Arturo Marquez: Danzón no. 2
José Pablo Moncayo: Huapango
Juventino Rosas: Sobre las Olas
Plus, a spectacular set of selected songs from the Mexican and Spanish repertoire
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Japanese American Incarceration in CA & OR: My Mother's Experience
2022-02-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Brown Club of Oregon and The Brown Club of San Francisco have invited me to talk about my mother’s family experience being incarcerated during World War II for no crime beyond being of Japanese ancestry.
During the talk I will be sharing family photos and historical notes, and will include video clips of talks mom (who turns 90 y.o. this year) has given in the past. Mom plans to connect and take part in Q&A after the presentation.
More information and free registration can be found on the Take PART website.
This talk will be online and is free to the public. You must register to obtain the Zoom link.

Take PART: Talk on Japanese American Incarceration During World War II
2022-01-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Take PART (Portland Anti-Racism Team) has invited me to talk about my mother’s family experience being incarcerated during World War II for no crime beyond being of Japanese ancestry.
During the talk I will be sharing family photos and historical notes, and will include video clips of talks mom (who turns 90 y.o. this year) has given in the past.
I warmly invite you to join the presentation live, but if you cannot, a recording will be published afterwards.
More information and free registration can be found on the Take PART website.
To attend, you must register (for free) to obtain the Zoom link to join.

Take PART is the Portland Anti-Racism Team, a group whose mission is to confront
racism and engage in dismantling the systems that continue racial inequality. This is their website.
I am very impressed with their talks and presentations which I find thought provoking, respectful, and very enlightening. Past presentations can be viewed online here.

Newport Symphony: Piano Spectacular
2022-01-16 14:00 - 16:30, 2022-01-15 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Van Cliburn Junior Piano Competition prizewinner Clayton Stephenson makes his Oregon Coast début with the most electric of all piano concertos.
Hector Berlioz: Rákóczy March from The Damnation of Faust
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony no. 2
Gabriela Lena Frank: Three Latin American Dances
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Vancouver Master Chorale: Christmas Joy
2021-12-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, WA, 98663, United States
Feel the “Christmas Joy” of Handel’s Messiah and your favorite traditional carols. Come and celebrate the Joy of Christmas as the Vancouver Master Chorale begins the 2021-2022 live concert season with a soul-stirring roof-raising performance of Handel’s Messiah accompanied by orchestra. An assortment of other seasonal sounds will round out the experience with the choir harmonizing on English carols by Rutter, again with orchestra, and raising voices in the Appalachian carol Brightest and Best with a sprightly fiddle setting the mood.
