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Portland Chamber Orchestra | |
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Orchestra | |
Founded | 1946 |
Location | Portland, Oregon |
Concert hall | Kaul Auditorium, Reed College |
Principal conductor | Yaacov Bergman |
Website | www |
The Portland Chamber Orchestra is an orchestra based in Portland, Oregon. It is considered the oldest chamber orchestra in the United States, founded in 1946 by Boris Sirpo, [1] and hosted its first performance on May 27, 1947 at the Neighbors of Woodcraft Auditorium. Its home venue is Lewis & Clark College.
At the time of the orchestra's founding, Boris Sirpo, the founder, was a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College. Its early performers were female stringed instrument students at the College; this later changed to include those not actively studying there. [1] The first concert performed in 1947 was a tour de force of performance which included Gluck's Overture to Orfeo ed Euridice , Corelli's Concerto Grosso , John Humphries's Concerto for Strings, Carl Stamitz's Orchestra Quartet, Paul Hindemith's Three Pieces for Strings, Jean Sibelius's Romance in C, A. Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tschaikowsky, and Bach's Concerto in A Minor based on a Theme by Vivaldi.