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A Season of Sounds

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Sat, December 14 4:00 PM, PST

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Capacity: 4 of 20 spots still available
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Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible
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This is a groupmuse

A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

Hosts

Laurie S.

Barbara B. Co-host

Daniel R. Co-host

We're opening the holiday season with an evening of music by Daniel Reyes Llinás and Latin American composers with guest violinist Andrew Ehrlich.

In case you hadn’t heard, Groupmuse recently organized its 10,000th groupmuse. To celebrate that astounding watershed, Daniel and Andrew are giving us an intimate concert to remember!

What’s more, they are donating 50% of the concert's proceeds to supporting Groupmuse — and can be written off as a tax donation! Just pay at https://www.groupmuse.com/pay like normal.

So if you’ve ever loved a groupmuse, if one of our wholesome neighborhood gatherings has ever lit you up and made you feel more alive and less alone in this stormy world, please consider joining — so that before long, we may notch our 100,000th groupmuse!

Bios:

Andrew Ehrlich has concertized widely throughout the Northwest as soloist, chamber and folk musician. He was concertmaster of both the Columbia Symphony (now "Nova") and the Portland Chamber Orchestra for a decade each and he soloed with both orchestras. He also was a founding season member of fEAR NO MUSIC, the contemporary Portland chamber ensemble. Andrew has been playing klezmer music for many, many years. He now plays with "Jack Falk and the Carpathian-Pacific Express." He is a member of the faculty of the Community Music Center where he teaches violin and conducts the CMC adult chamber orchestra.

Daniel Reyes Llinás, born in Bogotá, Colombia, commenced his formal guitar training with Carlos Castilla, subsequently pursuing studies at the Universidad de los Andes under Jaime Arias Obregón and Carlos Rocca Lynn. He engaged in masterclasses with artists such as Leo Brouwer, Robert Fripp, and Butch Morris, while also receiving private lessons from Fernando Otero, Mary Halvorsen, and others. Currently, he studies composition and orchestration with Ion Marmarinos and Julien Malaussena.
Performing globally, Daniel co-led the "Parias Ensemble" (2008-2017) in NYC, collaborating across New Music, Jazz, and Contemporary Music. He held the role of resident composer at Teatro Escarlata in Medellín, contributing to their play "1984," with his music featured in short and feature films and dance performances.
Now based in Portland, Oregon, Daniel is a member of the experimental ensemble Ex.tra.di.tion. His recent releases include "String Schemas," featuring Elliott Sharp and Harvey Valdes, and the solo guitar album "Códices," co-produced by Trey Gunn. Daniel is recipient of the Regional Arts Culture Council in Oregon and The Center for Contemporary Arts (NYC)

What's the music?

Daniel Reyes Llinás Guitar

Andrew Ehrlich Violin

Selections from the guitar album "Códices" - Daniel Reyes Llinás
Arhuaco Songs - Ernesto “Teto” Ocampo:
•Cheveri Vari Soyana
•Gallina Pollimodal

Intermission

Bachianas Brasileira #5 - Heitor Villa-lobos
Aria from Suite Antigua - Rádames Gnattalli
Selections from "Histoire Du Tango" - Astor Piazzolla:
•Café 1930
•Nightclub 1960

Where does this music come from?

"Códices" is a collection of études for acoustic guitar and improvised pieces on the 12-string guitar. Inspired by the spirit of modern Latin American guitar composers, Llinás pays homage through extensive use of shifting resonance, dissonance, rhythmic exuberance, and deliberate silence. The contrast between the written and improvised works serves as a conceptual gesture in the ongoing search for a sonic vocabulary.

The album was recorded in Santa Fé, NM by Grammy awarded engineer Marc Whitmore (Jon Batiste, T-Bone Burnett) and co-produced by Trey Gunn (King Crimson, Tu-Ner).

“Códices” is the latest album by Daniel Reyes Llinás comprising eight études on Spanish guitar and four improvisations on the 12-string. The pieces are quietly virtuosic with a scope that ranges across continents and eras. The music pays homage to the pantheon of Latin American composers who have written for guitar while also incorporating harmonies from contemporary jazz and such American and European composers as Feldman, Debussy and Stravinsky. Extended techniques appear as well with harplike harmonic arpeggios evoking windchimes, wide melodic leaps as if from birdsong, and driving ostinati that groove hard. One hears free-flowing ballads that turn questioning or flamenco fanfares that expand into ecstatic looping pull offs. A brilliant record that opens new vistas for both the listener and the classical guitarist. -Elliott Sharp

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