What's On In Salem Oregon This Month

[Tom Roche]

>From http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=76261



huh what? This caught my eye....





March 16
*	Oregon Symphony Classical Concert, with James DePreist 
conducting soloist John Cox in Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4, the 
world premiere of a John Peel symphony and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 
4, 8 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Willamette University, 900 State St., 
Salem. Cost: $17 to $35. Call: (800) 992-8499.
*	New releases on video today include "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in 
the Hat," "21 Grams," "Quicksand" and "Veronica Guerin."



so here's his bio...


JOHN PEEL
Composer, Sinfonia Romanza (U.S. Premiere): March 13-15, 2004

Born in Texas in 1946, composer John Peel's earliest musical studies 
were on the clarinet and oboe. While in his teens, Peel began the 
study of piano and composition. After completing an undergraduate 
degree at the University of Texas, Peel pursued graduate studies in 
music composition at Columbia University and Princeton University 
where his teachers included Milton Babbitt, Benjamin Boretz, J.K. 
Randall, Claudio Spies and Charles Wuorinen. Peel's works range from 
solo and chamber pieces to symphonic and operatic compositions.

Major ensembles that have commissioned and performed Peel's music 
include the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, 
Riverside Symphony, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, American String 
Quartet, Collage, Music Today, New Arts Trio, Cuarteto 
Latinoamericano and Parnassus. Peel has been the recipient of awards 
and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome 
Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Heinz Foundation, 
Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, Meet-the-Composer and the American 
Music Center. Recent major performances include the opera-oratorio 
Voces Vergilianae, commissioned by Willamette University for the 
dedication of the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center and the Concerto 
for Violin and Orchestra, premiered in New York's Lincoln Center with 
the Riverside Symphony and violinist Joseph Lin. Recordings of Peel's 
music are available on the Vienna Modern Masters label (with the 
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic) and on Americus Records (with soprano 
Susan Narucki).

Since 1990 Peel has lived in Oregon where he is 
Composer-in-Residence, Irene Gerlinger Swindells Professor of Music 
at Willamette University. In this position he teaches music 
composition, music history and aesthetics and has created New Music 
at Willamette, a series of concerts, residencies and lectures 
dedicated to presenting the finest performers and composers of our 
time.




Will the symphony resemble a Grinderswitch B side perhaps?


tom