West Side Glory
Sunday, October 14, 2018
3:00 pm
Hosted by Inga and Joe Dubay
25 Guests • $75
Leonard Bernstein’s music, so familiar yet ever-new, is the focus of this afternoon of song in celebration of Bernstein’s 100th birthday. Tim and Nancy LeRoi Nickel, Kevin Walsh, and Beth Madsen Bradford perform his charming Arias and Barcarolles for mezzo, baritone, and 4-hand piano, along with a few other favorite tunes. Fine music, fine appetizers, and fine wines, all in a historic 1905 Willamette Heights home with a beautiful view.
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- More About Tim and Nancy LeRoi Nickel
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The LeRoi-Nickel Duo have been researching, arranging, and presenting ensemble keyboard music for over twenty-five years. As a piano duet team, Timothy Nickel and Nancy LeRoi Nickel have performed twice at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York and gave their UK debut at the Purcell Room in 1990 after studying at the Guildhall School in London. The Duo have performed the small but intriguing organ duet repertory throughout the Pacific Northwest and at concerts in England, France, and Germany. At their Berlin organ duet recital in August of 1996, the critic at Die Welt wrote of their “virtuosic playing, a virtual swirling dance without ever getting entangled.” The Duo have three CD’s available on the Arsis label from E. C. Schirmer in Boston (http://www.arsisaudio.com) - “Romantic Connections” - piano duets by Schumann, Goetz and Mendelssohn, “For Two to Play” - a collection of organ duets recorded on the Fritts/Richards organ at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Seattle, and “Family Classics” - French piano duets by Bizet, Ravel, Fauré and Florent Schmitt inspired by childhood. - More About Kevin Walsh
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American baritone Kevin Walsh is a multi-talented musician and performer, equally at home in the concert hall and the stage, and acclaimed for performances that are both intelligent and technically impeccable. He has appeared as soloist with PBO, PYP, Portland Symphonic Choir, ORS, Third Angle, Willamette University New Music Series, University of Portland, Symphonia Concertante, Abbey Bach Festival, the Music on the Mount Series, and in the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Music Series, as well as soloist in the Cathedral’s Treasury of Song recital series where he performed Barber’s “Dover Beach.” His credits also include the West Coast premier of Bernstein’s “Arias and Barcarolles” (duo piano version), the West Coast premier of Imant Raminish’s “The Nightingale” with the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, and the Badkhen, the town clown in David Schiff’s “Gimple the Fool,” which Opera News reviewed as “perfectly realized by Kevin Walsh.” He performed in Opera Theater Oregon’s productions as Mr Gobineau in “The Medium,” Sgt. O’Mara in “Werther”, and the Parson and the Badger in “The Cunning Little Vixen.” Mr. Walsh received his Master of Music from the University of Portland in 1985. He has recorded for Delos, Arkay, Naxos, PGM Recordings, OCP and GIA Publications and is Executive Producer of Recordings for Oregon Catholic Press. - More About Beth Madsen Bradford
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Beth Madsen Bradford, mezzo soprano, has been praised by critics for her “lovely, vibrant tone” and “gutsy” portrayals of some of opera’s greatest characters. She performs regularly throughout the West Coast, where her roles encompass the dramatic and comedic repertoire. A regular on the concert stage, Beth’s orchestral repertoire includes Verdi’s Requiem, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Handel’s Messiah. Beth was selected as a semifinalist in the 2012 Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, and performs frequently as a guest recitalist around the region.
Beth has sung with Portland Opera, Oregon Symphony, Portland Chamber Orchestra, Tacoma Opera, Eugene Opera, Skagit Opera, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Rogue Valley Symphony, Juneau Symphony, Vashon Opera and Walla Walla Symphony, among others. She received training with the International Vocal Arts Institute, the Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Program and Aspen Opera Theater Center. Beth makes her home in Portland, Oregon.
