Friends of Chamber Music: Melodrama Melodies
$75
- Cary Lewis, piano
- Robert McBride, speaker
Longtime All Classical Portland announcer Robert McBride brings his passion and emotion to this dramatic presentation of tales like The Raven and Don Quixote. Pianist Cary Lewis helps conjure up the mood, from haunting to heroic, with music by Arthur Bergh and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Legendary wines and epic morsels will add to this memorable affair, set in an engaging Southeast Portland home.
Robert McBride will show off more of his storytelling talents by sharing some anecdotes from his 35-year career in the radio business. He's got chilling tales of operator error in Seattle to computer failure in Washington, DC, from being on the air live during a solar eclipse to interviewing a conductor who wouldn't talk to anyone else!
Hosted by Jim Kopp.
Please review Friends of Chamber Music's current COVID-19 protocols before attending this event: https://focm.org/tickets/coronavirus-covid-19-update/
About Cary Lewis, piano
Pianist Cary Lewis is in frequent demand as a collaborative pianist for soloists and chamber music groups. He joined William Preucil (concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra) and his wife, cellist Dorothy Lewis, to form the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the complete Dvořák Trios was honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Ten Best Recordings in 1993. With degrees from the University of North Texas as well as a doctorate and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, he was a Fulbright scholar for two years in Vienna. His teachers included Eugene List, Brooks Smith, and Dieter Weber. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Bargemusic, the Library of Congress, the White House, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, and in other music capitals of the United States and Europe. Dr. Lewis is retired from the faculty of Georgia State University in Atlanta and is now based in Portland, Oregon. In recent years he has participated in festivals in Montana, Colorado, Michigan, Maine, Hawaii, St. Croix, and Turkey, and has recorded over three dozen albums featuring works from the standard literature as well as music by American composers.
https://coastarts.org/artists/cary-lewis/