Category Archives: Concerts/Events

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Master's Recital — Sospiro — ECCE

By Sam L. Richards | Published: December 17, 2009
In light of the pervasive yet productive insanity I’ve endured over the past few months, I wanted to give a belated shout out of thanks to all those who participated and played in my Master’s Recital last month. Over the course of the next few days I will be going though my site updating recordings [...]
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, Performance Video

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 27, 2009
I have posted a low quality video of the dance performance at the Faster Than A Speeding Bullet reception this last Friday, September 25th. Other than being a rather cramped space for dancers to perform in, I think it all went rather smoothly. Click here, or the picture below for a video featuring the entire [...]
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 22, 2009
On September 25th, 2009, as part of the preview reception for the Faster Than A Speeding Bullet exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus some of my original music will be featured in conjunction with the “original dance performance,” mentioned above. Two performances occur throughout the evening. FREE [...]
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Death Rides a Horse

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 23, 2009
Hot on the heels of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium was the live performance of an original score written by Gracin Dorsey and myself for the spaghetti western classic, Death Rides a Horse. As stated on the film’s Wikipedia entry, the film has landed itself a special place in popular culture, not to mention [...]
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ANIMA Program Notes

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 2, 2009
Pasted below are the program notes I wrote for this last weekend’s ECCE:ANIMA concert. Audience was packed in with standing-room only for both nights. Everybody involved did an outstanding job. Colleges and universities are typically designed to educate using the approach of specialty. As a result diversity is sometimes shortchanged, and communication between disciplines and departments on campus [...]
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ECCE-:-ANIMA

By Sam L. Richards | Published: May 18, 2009
  As the director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE), I am thrilled to announce its latest production: ANIMA. A concert of new compositions and choreography created in collaboration between graduate students of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. Two showings, May 29 and 30th @ 7:30pm in the newly [...]
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parallaxis—fEARnoMUSIC—collaboration

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 19, 2009
    I visited Portland this weekend to see a show by the new music ensemble fEARnoMUSIC. The show was titled parallaxis, and was a concert of modern chamber music, each work being combined and presented simultaneously with the work of a collaborative video artist. Great concert. Featured on the program were a smattering of movements from [...]
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