Meet Percussion soloist Terry Longshore and learn about the program selections for Orchestra Concert II: Our Blue Home. The final piece of the Festival features Longshore as soloist for Losing Earth composed by Adam Schoenberg. This is a unique percussion concerto commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony in 2019. Schoenberg traced the history of percussion, the most earthy and grounded of instruments, and in many cultures is considered the heartbeat of music.
Longshore is the percussion soloist for the Oregon Coast premiere of Losing Earth. His genre-crossing work blends the artistry of the concert stage, the spontaneity of jazz, and the energy of a rock club. He maintains an active career as a performer, composer, and educator, serving as Professor of Music, Artist in Residence, and Director of Percussion Studies at Southern Oregon University, where he directs Left Edge Percussion and the SOU Percussion Ensemble. Longshore has premiered more than 100 works for solo percussion, ensemble, orchestra, and theatre, including the 2023 premiere of Teddy Abrams’ Mammoth with Yo-Yo Ma and the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave. Learn more at www.terrylongshore.com

Ian George delivers the sort of concert you’ll dance, sway, sing, laugh and probably cry too. The performance teems with whimsicality, clever arrangements – interrupted by triumphant tangents – and outlandish solos grounded by George’s emotive and gauzy voice and by the simple strength of a good song. Expect an engaging and dynamic string of gentle and not so gentle folk-rock adventures.

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Martin Majkut, Conductor & Music Director
Terry Longshore, Percussion Soloist

• Haydn: The Representation of Chaos from “The Creation”
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastorale.
• Adam Schoenberg: Losing Earth, Terry Longshore, percussion

The program for the finale will begin with Haydn: The Representation of Chaos from “The Creation”. This composition opens with unique sounds of infinite nothingness. The audience then moves to a landscape of serene beauty with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastorale. After intermission, the Orchestra will present the Oregon Coastal Premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s composition, Losing Earth with Terry Longshore, soloist, and 6 other percussionists. Losing Earth was inspired by the book of the same name on climate change by Nathaniel Rich that addresses the science of climate change. This concerto will provide an amazing journey of human life on earth and end on a hopeful note. Join us for a powerful evening of orchestral music inspired by our planet and natural world.

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