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Dates Wednesday,
June 23; 7:30 PM Hideki's directorial debut! He returns to the Astoria Music Festival to direct the famous and hilarious Coffee Cantata, BWV 211, by J. S. Bach. He will be joined by Julia Brown on harpsichord and talented young singers and instrumentalists. It will be stage-directed by Bereniece Jones. We will be sharing the bill with a production of Too Much Coffee Man, the world's first opera based on a comic book! Performing
Arts Center
This will be Hideki's first time playing with the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra, under the direction of Brian Oberlin. He will be playing the solo mandolino part to the C major sonata by Giuseppe Vaccari, which will be on his new CD for mandolino, due out this summer. Walters
Cultural Arts Center
Hideki, along with Ensemble De Organographia - Gayle and Philip Neuman - will be performing American music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries on a variety of period instruments and voice. This is part of the opening events surrounding the John Adams Exhibit at the Central Library in Portland. Music by John Hewitt, William Billings, Edward Riley, and others will be performed on flageolets, czakan (walking stick recorder), 19th century guitar, English guitar (or cetra), serpent, violin, and viola. Speakers will talk about the exhibit first, and then the concert will begin. Multnomah
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