REMEMBER ME      SATB a capella

Performed by Portland Vocal Consort: Best of the Northwest Concert

Joined by the Pacific University Chamber Choir,Portland Vocal Consort presents world and northwest choral premieres of works by Northwest composers:

February 25 at theFirst Presbyterian Church, 1200 S.W. Alder

February 26 at Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center on the campus of Pacific University in Forest Grove.

RAIL RIDE
      solo busker wth dancer and electroacousticsfrom the Dog Star CD

Agnieszka Laska Dancer Heidi Nelson with Harrison Welter

March 5, Monday, 7:30 pm
EARS WIDE OPEN
Preview Party & Panel Discussion
Hipbone Studio * FREE

COMET CRASH 9
     electroacoustics from the Dog Star CD

rendering of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem,
      I am like a slip of comet
with video montage by Agnieszka Laska - presented by Cherry Blossom Musical Arts
Visual Music 2012

     March 29, 2012, 8:00 pm
Bodyvox, 1201 NW 17th Avenue,
Portland, Oregon     MAP

COMET CRASH 9
     electroacoustics from the Dog Star CD

rendering of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem,
      I am like a slip of comet
with video montage by Agnieszka Laska - presented by Scrratch PDX

     February 11, 2012
Hipbone Studio
1847 E. Burnside
Portland, Oregon     MAP

COMET CRASH 9
     electroacoustics from the Dog Star CD

rendering of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem,
      I am like a slip of comet
with video montage by Agnieszka Laska - premiere presentd by Cascadia Compores on Sighs and Spirits

     October 29, 2011
Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church
2828 SE Stephens Street
Portland, OR 97214     MAP

COMET CRASH 9
     electroacoustics from the Dog Star CD

rendering of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem,
      I am like a slip of comet
with original choreography by Agnieszka Laska - premiered by Ciudad Interior

     October 29, 2011
Museo de la ciudad
Queretaro, Mexico

Elegy on a theme by Jean Sebelius for solo cello

Performed by Diane Chaplin
     March 19, 2011
PSU, Portland, Oregon

             
               video

Mama's Song for solo violin

Performed by Lisa McWorter
     Nov. 5, 2010
Cherry Blossom Musical Arts, Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon

             
               video

Three Diameters (IX, XI, X) (fl., vln., trpt., perc.)

Performed by Celine Thackston, flute; Tatiana Kolchanova, violin; Brian McWhorter, trumpet; Florian Conzetti, percussion
     Oct. 30, 2010
Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon
     Oct. 29, 2010
Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon

             
               video

Farewell to Wang Wei for a cappella choir

Performed by Portland Vocal Consort
     Mar 9, 2010
First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon
     Mar 10, 2010
Nazarene Church, Longview, Washington

Spring Quartet for sting quartet

KUHF Chamber Ensemble
     Nov. 2, 2009
Menil Collection, Houston, TXexas

" Whale Hunt Dream... evocative, mysterious tone poem of considerable beauty."
-- David W. Moore, The American Record Guide

" In the Land of Wu...a remarkably quieting piece, it has an affecting sense of great emotional space."
-- John Duffy, Choral Magazine

"...the most forward-looking work of the evening, Jack Gabel's gorgeous Farewell to Wang Wei, which invigorated this program..." -- Brett Campbell, Willamette Week

"...Through a Gentle Rain places the Japanese stringed koto in delicate conversation with the alternating timbres of flute, piccolo and alto flute," -- Donald Rosenberg, The Gramophone

"I am especially taken by the Gabel, an exploration of different colors created by the flute and Japanese Koto." -- Christopher Chafee, American Record Guide

"Gabel's voice is distinct...style: a broad lyricism, nuanced electronics, New Age moodiness, modernist roots and humor."
-- David Stabler, The Oregonian

"...the aural ecstasy of Turtle Island...One of the most original and challenging CDs I've heard all year...a dreamtime journey that is as contemplative as it is hallucinatory."
-- Matthew Moon, Crossroads

"...intriguingly brainy yet intensely heartfelt Portland composer..." -- Grant Menzies, Willamette Week

"...Gabel's appealing work sounded like no one else's... a unique and valuable Northwest voice."
-- Brett Campbell, Eugene Weekly

"Through a Gentle Rain is a piece by American composer, Jack Gabel, influenced by his experience of Japanese life and culture and writing for flute and koto mellifluously and evocatively." -- Peter Mechen, Music Matters New Zealand

" Hellenic Triptych... hails from another musical world... epitomizes imagination and courage..."
-- Eleonora M. Beck, Sforzando

Jack Gabel, (b. 1949 -) presently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has traveled extensively, throughout Europe, Africa and Asia and worked many summers as a commercial fisherman in Alaska.

Jack Gabel has written numerous concert hall works for many different combinations of instruments and voices, with and without electroacoustic accompaniments and/or enhancements. He also creates mixed-media works alone and with collaborators, using musique concrete and poetry, frequently his own, some of which has been published apart from its use in contemporary performance pieces and more traditional settings for singers.

Though classically trained with composers Derek Healey, Tomas Svoboda and poet Ralph Salisbury, Gabel recounts as his most memorable musical experience, the impromptu jam session he had with an Afghan tribesman in a Herat tea house in 1972 -- the composer on mouth organ and the local talent holding forth on his handmade, rough-hewn, 3-string lute. The two miraculously found a common modality straight away and carried on for several hours. "No concert-hall premiere or recording session can to date compare," adds the composer, "nor likely ever will."

Today, Gabel's work is infused with widely varied ethnic and ancient colors and motives, most notably those of the ancient, native cultures of North America.

His 1997 article History of Electronic Music for the All Music Guide can be found at www.allmusic.com

In addition to his NPM releases, Jack Gabel's discography includes

Whale Hunt Dream on the MMC (2000) release Viola Concertos, Vol. II by Karen Dreyfus with the Silesian Philharmonic, Jerzy Svoboda conducting

Etude de la Saison for solo koto, by Elizabeth Falconer on the Sparkling Beatnik (2000) release, Water Colors

Auto-Mobile from original poetry for tenor sax, processed string bass and narrator/percussionist on a percussion battery infused with junked car parts, on the The Third Angle New Music Ensemble's Gagliano Records (1999) release, The Junkyard Concert

Akademische Fantasie Variationen
solo piano

Auto-Mobile
(sax, processed bass, percussionist/narrator)

Hopi Flute Song
(large chamber orchestra)

In the Land of Wu
(SATB choir with string quartet
setting of poetry by Li Po )

Island Phantasy
(string quartet tone poem
on Japanes folk song)

Lion Hunt Dream
(saxophone quartet)

Whale Hunt Dream
(solo viola with full orchestra)

Jack Gabel

Turtle Island Dreams

Turtle Island Dances

Jack Gabel

Dog Star

20-years of
electroacoustics

Jack Gabel

Spring Quartet
and selected works for strings
performed by fEARnoMUSIC

Truhisa Fukuda

Shakuhachi Banquet

Tessa Brinckman

Glass Sky

East West Continuo

Seventh Species

Playerless Pianos
music for pianos
playerless and otherwise

Karen Dreyfus
Silesian Philharmonic
Jerzy Swoboda (Cond.)
Viola Concertos, Vol. 2
(MMC)

Bunkyo University
Wind Orchestra
Concert Live 1990
(Victor Japan)

Elizabeth Falconer
solo koto
Water Colors
(Sparkling Beatnick)

Third Angle Percussion Quartet
The Junkyard Concert [Live] (Gagliano)

Farewell to Wang Wei (2009)
acapella choir
Portland Vocal Consort
Ryan Heller(conducting)

complete - 10:19

score

Remember Me (1994)
acapella choir
Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland(conducting)

complete - 02:32

score

POOL (1980)
paino (prepared) + percussion & electroacoustic playback
Seattle Composers Forum (1987)
Nippomn Kan Theatre

complete - 16:43

score

Whale Hunt Dream MMC2079 (2000)
solo viola & orchestra
Selisian Philharmonic
Karen Dreyfus (solo viola)
Jerzy Svoboda (conducting)

complete - 11:57

Akademische Fantasie Variationen (1994)
solo piano - midi version

excerpt - 06:06

score

Auto-Mobile (1981)
sax, bass-w/electronics, perc.;
Baker, Moyer, Walters

complete - 09:38

score

3 DIAMETERS (IX, XI, X) (1980-90)
     DIAMETER IX (flute and tom toms)
Cleine Thackson, fl; Florian Conzati, toms
     DIAMETER XI (violin and marimba)
Tatiana Kolchanova, vl; Florian Conzati, marimba
     DIAMETER X (trumpte and cymbals)
Brian McWorter, tpt; Florian Conzati, suspended and antique cymbals

complete - 14:46

score

Etude de la Saison (2000)
solo koto, Falconer
from Water Colors - SBR0018

excerpt - 00:59

Equinox from Passiones (2001)
electroacoustic
for Nomadas del sol, dance company

complete - 04:38

Hopi Flute Song (1992)
orchestra (midi version)

excerpt - 4:25

In The Land of Wu (1989)
SATB choir & string quartet
Oregon Rep. Singers & Virtuosi della Rosa

excerpt - 3:40

Lion Hunt Dream (1988)
saxophone quartet
Joseph Wytko Saxophone Quartet

excerpt - 5:07

Sounding the Furies (1990)
solo alto saxophone & electroacoustics
Tom Bergeron, solo alto saxophone

excerpt - 7:35

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THE FALL '01 from Jack Gabel on Vimeo.

DIAMETER IX from Jack Gabel on Vimeo.

Hellenic Triptych - choreography: Agnieszka Laska
from Agnieszka Laska on Vimeo.

AUTO-TOMY from Jack Gabel on Vimeo.