"ChatterPDX debuted their LATEworks series. The ensemble took to the Hallowed Halls studio to perform music by Steve Reich, Andy Akiho, Kaija Saariaho, John Luther Adams, and ChatterPDX artistic co-director James Shields. They also premiered Slip by Kimberly Osberg, one of Chatter's three composers-in-residence, who wrote the piece in only forty-eight hours."
"ChatterPDX have spent the last few years building up an audience for their Sunday morning shows downtown. Now the group is branching out, much like their mother ensemble in Albuquerque. ChatterABQ have their own performance space in downtown Albuquerque that they use for all sorts of projects beyond their Sunday morning series. Chatter's Lateworks series is thus of a kind with their performances at the Gordon House outside Silverton, where the group is exploring new spaces, new repertoire and new ensembles."
"The performance was part of the Oregon Symphony's Bang It! festival of percussion music. Oregon Symphony percussionists Sergio Carreno, Stephen Kehner, Jon Greeney and Michael Roberts (as well as Portland Percussion group member and PSU's percussion area coordinator Chris Whyte) joined Shields, his fellow artistic co-director Trevor Fitzpatrick and the rest of the Chatter crew. For its association with the Oregon Symphony's Bang It festival, there wasn't a ton of percussion music on the program."
"What we did get, however, was great: Music for Pieces of Wood by Reich, Karakurenai by Akiho, and Dark Wind by Adams. Hallowed Halls, like many recording studios and performance venues, didn't begin its life as one. The building sits near the intersection of Foster and 64th. It opened as a Carnegie library in 1919 before being purchased by the city in 1972."
ChatterPDX debuted the LATEworks series at Hallowed Halls studio, performing works by Steve Reich, Andy Akiho, Kaija Saariaho, John Luther Adams, and James Shields. The program included the premiere of Slip by Kimberly Osberg, written in forty-eight hours. ChatterPDX has built an audience through Sunday morning shows downtown and is expanding into new performance spaces and repertoire, paralleling ChatterABQ’s use of its own downtown venue and Chatter’s work at the Gordon House. The event was part of the Oregon Symphony’s Bang It! festival, with Oregon Symphony percussionists joining Chatter’s co-directors and ensemble members. The percussion offerings included Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood, Akiho’s Karakurenai, and Adams’s Dark Wind. Hallowed Halls is a former Carnegie library opened in 1919 and later purchased by the city in 1972, then founded as a recording studio in 2015 to honor Susan Joyce Linowes Allen.
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