The OMP’s Rising Tides Concert featured, among other works, Alberto Ginastera’s Pampeana No. 2. Pictured above, a young cellist from Salem, OR, Koyuki Blaumer, gave a phenomenal performance as the soloist for the demanding piece. She was the senior division winner in the 2025-26 Young Soloist Competition here in Oregon. An enjoyable evening! [Photo above Max Vollmer, Click on image to enlarge]
Caroline Shaw composed In manus tuas, (In your hands), based on a 16th century motet by Thomas Tallis. Shaw won the Pulitzer prize for Music in 2013 for her composition, Partita for 8 Voices. She was the youngest person to ever win the prize. Her 2011 composition, Entr’acte, was a featured work in the Oregon Mozart Players’ February 2026 concert, After & Before.
Elkhorn Crest Trail, Baker County, OR. [Photo Copyright Max Vollmer, Click to Enlarge]The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting, She is present, and can welcome all things.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly… this is my way. (Anonymous)
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