Category Archives: Concerts/Events

Everything that Rises Must Converge, by Benjamin Krause

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 28, 2010
While I’m at it, I might as well post a link to my peer’s work Everything That Rises Must Converge, which was featured on the same concert as my Suite of Roads. This performance feature’s the composer as soloists, with myself conducting. Everything That Rises Must Converge from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.
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Suite of Roads, Movement II.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 27, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, have been posted on separate days, with the first movement along with the works program notes having [...]
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Suite of Roads, Movement I.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 26, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, will be posted on separate days, with the second movement coming tomorrow. My program notes from the [...]
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Lucy Shelton Unaccompanied Workshop Concert Tonight!

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 18, 2010
Tonight @ 7pm in Beall Hall at the University of Oregon, my work, Beauty’s Birth, will be performed by Juliana Urban and Alli Bach as part of Lucy Shelton’s residency here as Trotter Visiting Professor. Although I won’t be able to make it to the concert myself, I can most certainly vouch for my own [...]
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“Tangential” Performance at Conduit

By Sam L. Richards | Published: March 16, 2010
I have finally edited and posted the video from a performance of my collaborative work Tangential with choreographer Valerie Ifill. The original work was premiered at Dance For a Reason in late January, but Val and I proceeded to create an extended and final version for Instrinsic Environment, a concert featured at Conduit Dance, Inc. [...]
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“with bated breath” Performance, This Friday @ 8pm

By Sam L. Richards | Published: March 11, 2010
This Friday in the Dougherty Dance Theatre on the University of Oregon campus my work “with bated breath” will be featured along with choreography by Tiffany Alexandra Taylor. The work has been a collaborative process and has been a long time in the making, resulting in a 12-minute production—my longest collaborative choreographic work yet. Winter Loft [...]
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“My Own” Performance at Conduit

By Sam L. Richards | Published: March 9, 2010
Last weekend, on February 27th, two of my works were featured in Portland, one a premiere, at Intrinsic Environment: A dance and music collaboration. A video of My Own, with choreography by Valerie Ifill and Emily Baumann, can be found here. A video of the other work, Tangential, which was an extended version of the piece [...]
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Intrinsic Environment, Tonight in Portland!!!

By Sam L. Richards | Published: February 27, 2010
Tonight at Instrinsic Envirnonment: A dance and music collaboration two of my works will be performed along with choreography by Valerie Ifill: My Own, and Tangential. Choreography and music by my colleagues David C. Horton, Jeremy Schropp, and A.T. Moffett will also be on the program. Rehearsals last night looked great! Featured at Conduit Dance, [...]
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ECCE: New Website

By Sam L. Richards | Published: February 11, 2010
Although it has been in use for over a month now, I have failed to mention it here on my own blog: ECCE (the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble), the new music ensemble which I currently direct and conduct, has a newly refurbished website that is so hot I think my own servers will fry if I [...]
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Dance For A Reason — "Tangential" With IfillDance

By Sam L. Richards | Published: January 13, 2010
One of my recent collaborations with choreographer, Valerie Ifill, and her newly forged company, IfillDance, will be featured later this month at Dance For A Reason, slated to be at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts’ Silva Concert Hall on January 23rd. As stated on Dance for a Reason’s website: In 1992, Geni Morrow had a vision of [...]
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