2007 in review

I guess this is something that I’m overdue in posting – I usually am so focused on what is either going on right now, or what might be going to happen that I immediately forget whatever has been going on in the past. So there are probably some major holes in my memory of what happened this past year – I really do need to buy a notebook so I can jot down thoughts for future entries…

Here are some high points:

• Pink Martini performances @ Carnegie hall
• Hearing the Emerson Quartet in Carnegie Hall playing Shostakovich and Beethoven
• Greg Ewer’s Prohibition Day recital at the Old Church with pianist Cary Lewis
• Rachel Barton Pine’s Mozart and encores at the Sunriver Music Festival
• Phillip Ruder’s swan song at the SRMF – last movement of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
• OSO performances with violinist/conductor Itzhak Perlman
• Philadelphia Orchestra w/ Christoph Eschenbach at Benaroya Hall
• Pianist Stephen Hough’s Brahms Second Concerto w/ OSO
• OSO Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony w/ Carlos Kalmar

I know I missed many things of note, but I’ll update this post as I remember other events.

In Memoriam:

Kjersten Oquist, violist, age 36 – killed by a drunk driver
Angela Svendesen, violinist, age 31 – killed by a drunk driver
Martha Herby, flutist, age 55 – gall bladder cancer
Gian Carlo Menotti, composer, age 95
Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, age 80 – intestinal cancer
Jean Vollum, philanthropist, age 80 – heart failure
Ingmar Bergman, film director, age 89
Beverly Sills, soprano, 78 – lung cancer
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, 71 – pancreatic cancer
Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, 82
Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer, 79

US military casualties in Afghanistan – 117 ¹
US military casualties in Iraq – 901 ²
Iraqi civilian casualties – between 22,586 – 24,159 ³