Saturday, March 5, 2005, 6:00PM
West Portland United Methodist Church
4729 SW Taylors Ferry Road, Portland, OR 97219

Admission: $10.00
Seniors & students $5.00

It seems musicians know the Universe better than astronomers...
Anatoly Kontush

Tamara Yurovskaya

As one of the best Russian piano player, Tamara Yurovskaya has received many honors and awards from the Soviet Union and Russian federation. For many years she gave concerts as a pianist and a concertmaster with many different groups and tours throughout the Soviet republics and outside country borders. She worked with famous conductors- Svetlanov, Rojdestvenski, and others. She preformed on Russian National radio and TV for several years.

  • Mikhail Glinka(1804-1857) The Lark (Zhavoronok)

  • Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Revolutionary Etude

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    Joaquin Toler, string bass,
    assisted by Alena Dubauskaya, piano.


    Joaquin Toler is currently studying with Ken Baldwin (assistant principle bass of the Oregon Symphony) at Portland State University where he is working on a bachelors degree in Music Performance.
    Alena Dubauskaya, a native of Minsk, Belarus, has worked as a piano instructor, accompanist, and vocalist for more than eleven years. She recently graduated from Portland State University with Master of Arts in music; Alena currently works as a piano instuctor at Carol Rich Piano Academy.
  • Concerto in D major" by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799).
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    Masha Mitkova, piano.





    Masha Mitkova,15, is a Lincoln High School student. She plays piano for 10 years.
  • Robert Schumann(1810-1856) Arabesk
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  • Sergey Rachmaninov(1873 - 1943) Italian Polka

  • Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Norwegian Dances





    • Inna Karakuz, vocal.





    Inna Karakuz has degree of Moscow's Gnesin's Musical University
  • G . Verdi (1813 - 1901) Caro nome Gilda from "Rigoletto"

  • Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Ah! Je veux vivre from "Romeo Et Juliette"

  • G. Puccini (1858 - 1924) Mi chiamano Mimi from "La Boheme"

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791) Aria Queen of Night from Opera "Magical Flute"

    Bene Basso Sextet.

    Victor Dvortsov, Doug Westervelt, Mary Rowell, Marya Kazmierski, Kathy Scopacasa, Elizabeth Goy.





  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). String Sextet in B Flat Major, Opus 18.


    • String Sextet in B Flat Major, written between 1858 and 1860, is the first work in this genre by major composer. Actually, Brahms had intended to write a to-be-famous quartet modeled after his idol Beethoven's (hence Op. 18), but since he was sort of spacey at this time, bewildered by his love to Clara Schumann and distracted by campaign against the "new" decadent music by characters such as Wagner and Liszt, he absent-mindedly clicked the "print" button twice for the viola and cello parts. (In our performance, 1st and 2nd viola and cello parts might sound different since viola and cello players did not practice, as they never do).

    Embarrassed by this flop, Brahms asked Clara Schumann to burn the manuscript, but it survived because her mad husband had snatched it from the fire. Nowadays, the Sextet became one of the most popular Brahms's chamber works. Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg were inspired to write their own compositions for the same set of instruments by Brahms's work. The Sextet is written in the key of B Major, but because during the first performance the instruments were out of tune, it got its present nickname Sextet in B Flat Major. By the fourth movement, Brahms ran out of ideas, so he made it a Rondo, where the same theme is repeated over and over again. References to Beethoven, Schubert and Philip Glass are evident even to a listener who never heard of either of these composers.