"Can there be too much of a good thing? Audience members at the Fear No Music season-opening concert on September 26 made their own decision, and based on what I witnessed the number of listeners ebbed and flowed a bit but many lasted through the marathon reading by FNM in Eliot Hall Chapel on the campus of Reed College. A total of 32 scores by Pacific Northwest composers were presented at the concert, entitled "Looking Around.""
"What was scheduled for four hours stretched to five owing to a few numbers that were apparently longer than anticipated. The lengthy time made me think of the benefit concert of December 22, 1808 for Beethoven that lasted four hours. For the FNM marathon, the 32 pieces were divided into four sets punctuated by breaks for refreshment."
"The first set offered mostly slow, lovely numbers. Michael Johanson's The Musical Woods offered interesting exchanges of melodic lines, dramatic pauses and a beautiful, relaxed ending. Jeff Payne elicited a variety of colors from the keyboard to create a dreamy atmosphere for Lesa Ann Marsh's White Coral for solo piano."
Fear No Music opened its season with a marathon reading titled "Looking Around," presenting 32 scores by Pacific Northwest composers in Eliot Hall Chapel on Reed College campus. The program, selected from 66 submissions, included works by young composers in the Young Composers Project, members of Cascadia Composers, and unaffiliated writers. The event was scheduled for four hours but ran about five due to unexpectedly long pieces. Performers included Emily Cole, Keiko Araki, Kenji Bunch, Nancy Ives, James Shields, Monica Ohuchi, and Jeff Payne. The pieces were presented in four sets with refreshment breaks. The first set featured slow, lyrical works such as Michael Johanson's The Musical Woods and Lesa Ann Marsh's White Coral.
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