Haag has also spent considerable time thinking about Igor Stravinsky’s score. “Having live music for any dance performance elevates the experience for both the audience and the performer. It turns a performance into a living, breathing thing.” Haag said about working with Orchestra Next conductor Brian McWhorter on selecting…
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https://www.registerguard.com/entertainmentlife/20190131/romeo-amp-juliet-eugene-ballet-moves-to-flaming-score “Guiding this emotional tempest is Eugene’s Orchestra Next performing Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s original score, which has never been played live with the Eugene Ballet’s production. “Anytime we get to present a performance with live music, it’s the ultimate goal,” Pimble said. “This will…
Dec202018
“The entire performance is set to Tchaikovsky’s original score, performed live by Orchestra Next. “Dancing to live music is incredible,” Kosterman said. “It’s so different than dancing to a CD — it brings a whole other element to the production, and it’s definitely a give…
Sep042018
In partnership with the University of Oregon’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL), Orchestra Next hosted its first Summer camp in August of 2018. SAIL ON provides classes in music technology where the students get hands-on experience with world class resources. The students, no matter…
Dec282017
I Dream Of… BEST LOCAL CLASSICAL RECORDING 2017 “You may have missed the show itself last spring when Eugene Ballet staged its $300,000 production of The Snow Queen, an original full-length ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale that inspired Disney’s Frozen. Whether you…
Apr292017
Denis de Coteau, the late conductor of the San Francisco Ballet, once remarked that “music in ballet is either overlooked or underlooked by various sectors of the arts fraternity… . The critic comments on almost every detail of the ballet and at the end you…
Apr042017
KLCC: The Snow Queen: Eugene Ballet’s World Premiere, with Score from Kenji Bunch and Orchestra Next
Eugene Ballet will present the world premiere of their original ballet of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen on April 8th and 9th at the Hult Center. It’s the first time Eugene Ballet has created a complete ballet from scratch, including commissioning an original score from Portland…
Nov092016
Despite its name, James Joyce’s renowned 1914 story, “The Dead,” has earned a long life. Still widely read and loved, the story was transformed into a gorgeous film by John Huston in 1987, and in 2000 a musical version by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey…
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“Brian McWhorter and Orchestra Next brilliantly played jazz selections composed by Wynton Marsalis. McWhorter’s trumpet solos gave me goosebumps, they were so good! What a gift is Orchestra Next!” [download here: Ballet premieres focus on different connections | Arts | Eugene, Oregon] Register Guard: ‘Ballet premieres…
Apr102016
“Set to music by Wynton Marsalis, the full-length work pulses like a pot on simmer, that slowly comes to a rolling boil, heating up with intrigue and the omnipresent humidity of an inescapable (pre air conditioning) New York summer. The music is like its own…
Feb152016
It’s wonderful, essential, to have live music – an orchestra! Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, pulled out all the stops in a tour de force collaboration between EBC, the Eugene Concert Choir (along with talented children from the Festival Choirs, under the direction of Chris Dobson) and…
Sep262015
“Brian McWhorter and Orchestra NEXT provided professional-level accompaniment for the dancers of the world-class ballet company.” Gwen Curran [download here: Scheherazade|RG|21714]
Dec182014
“McWhorter kept up a zany pace, delivering direction and criticisms in a stream of sometimes-profane consciousness. “It’s a Christmas ornament,” he said of one stretch of music. “It’s a fucking Christmas ornament on a fucking Christmas tree.” The musicians laughed, and poured more Christmas into…
Oct272014
“This story may be old, but Toni Pimble and the Eugene Ballet Company completely transformed the exquisite dancing, the stunning costumes (add- ing fascinators or fancy hats worn by posh English women), romantic sets, and the fabulous live sound of Brian McWhorter’s Orchestra Next.” Gwen…
Oct182014
Orchestra Next and Eugene Ballet: Creating The Total Dance Experience Orchestra brings live music to dance, training to musicians, a complete experience to audiences. OCTOBER 18, 2014 // DANCE, MUSIC // OREGON ARTSWATCH By GARY FERRINGTON When the Eugene Ballet Company performs Sergey Prokofiev’s 1944 ballet…
