2018

Bev and Maxine, Castilian Rhapsody

Beverly Owen and Maxine Brassel kick off the April 9, 2018 Monday Musical Club of Portland Duo Piano Concert with a piece by Frank Sanucci, a prolific L.A.-area composer originally from Buenos Aires who wrote Hollywood film scores and ran a children’s theater in Tarzana and died in 1991.

Janet and Don, Golliwog’s Cakewalk, Cortege

Janet Orjala and Don Frueh play two pieces by Debussy, the 1913 ragtime-influenced Golliwog’s Cakewalk, and Cortege from the circa 1888 Petite Suite.

Joan and Bev, Sweet and Lovely, Stranger in Paradise

Sweet and Lovely, the authorship of which is open to question but which was made popular by Gus Arnheim in 1931, and Stranger in Paradise from the 1953 musical Kismet and based on music by Alexander Borodin, is performed by Joan Diehl, in her Monday Musical Club duo piano concert debut, and Bev Owen. Both pieces are arranged by Brace Phillips.

Don and Janet, The Montagues and Capulets

The Prokofiev piece from his 1935 ballet Romeo and Juliet. Don Frueh and Janet Orjala performing it at the 2018 Duo Piano Concert at Reedwood Friends Church.

Maxine and Bev, It Is Well With My Soul, Country Rag

It Is Well With My Soul, by Philip Bliss arranged by Phillip Keveren; and Alexander Peskarov’s Country Rag, played by Maxine Brassel and Bev Owen, April 9, 2018.

Bev and Joan, Hoagy Carmichael Medley

Bev Owen and Joan Diehl play a medley of Skylark, Stardust, Lazy Bones and Lazy River at the Monday Musical Duo Piano concert on April 9, 2018.

Bev and Maxine, Morning from Peer Gynt Suite 1, 2018

Bev Owen and Maxine Brassel play Morning from Peer Gynt Suite 1, at the 2018 Duo Piano Concert. Composer is Edvard Grieg, arranged by Richard Simm.

Janet Orjala and Don Frueh, J.S. Bach

Bach’s Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, performed on April 9, 2018, at Portland Monday Musical’s Duo Piano Concert.

Don and Janet, Fantasia on Lobe Den Herren, 2018

Don Frueh on pipe organ and Janet Orjala on piano, closing the show with a 1995 organ/piano duet by James and Stan Pethel based on a 17th century German chorale, Lobe Den Herren, “Praise to the Lord,” by Joachim Neander.