Corvallis Guitar Society

Category: Meeting

  • Ensemble Sheet Music for April 3rd Guitar Society Meeting

    Please find below the music scores for the open ensemble session at the upcoming Guitar Society Meeting on April 6th. I am delighted that our member Martin Erwig is treating us to another composition that he has written for the Society titled “Sigh of Relief”. He has included an MP3 file so you can hear what it sounds like. Thank you Martin!
    I have also included an MP3 file for La Paloma to help anyone who wishes to practice their part in the context of the whole piece.
    Please download the parts, decide which ones you wish to play, and bring a copy along with your guitar and music stand to the meeting. Don’t worry if you don’t want to play all the pieces. If some seem too hard, then simplify your part. Just join in wherever you wish and have fun!

    The Greenwood Tree

    Tango-chacabuco

    Spanish_Harlem Arr Bill Tyers

    SighOfRelief-1
    SighOfRelief-2
    SighOfRelief-3
    SighOfRelief-4

    La Paloma

    The following piece Mysterious Barricades by Francois Couperin will be played at the meeting on May 1st. I am posting it now to give folks more time to look at it.
    Mysterious Barricades

  • Guitar Society Meeting April 3rd

    The agenda for the April 3rd Meeting is as follows:
    7:00 – 7:05pm Welcome
    7:05 – 7:40pm Open Ensemble: bring your guitar, footstool and join in. Music can be downloaded from the website one week ahead of time.
    7:40 – 8:10pm Open Stage: please share your music with us – all ages and abilities welcome.
    8:10 – 8:20pm BREAK and Refreshments
    8:20 – 9:00pm Featured Artist Ryan Walsh

    Entrance is FREE and open to the public (donations gratefully received).
    Location: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333. The entrance is between New Morning Bakery and Sedlaks Boots and Shoes.

    Music for the ensemble session will be posted to the website one week ahead of the meeting.

  • Ensemble Sheet Music for March 6th Guitar Society Meeting

    Below is the music we will be playing during the open ensemble session at the March 6th Guitar Society meeting. Please download the music, decide which parts you wish to play, and bring them along. Don’t worry if you can’t play all of it, the goal is to have people join in and have fun! Please note that we will begin where we left off last time in the Three’s Company set which is No. 3 Askham, then move onto No. 4. We will not play No’s 1 & 2. The parts for Zephyr are posted individually (just pick one to play) along with an MP3 file so you can hear what it sound like. See you on the 6th!

    Threes Company Scores & Parts

    Zephyr-1
    Zephyr-2
    Zephyr-3
    Zephyr-4
    Zephyr-Chords-3+4

    Tango chacabuco

    Spanish_Harlem Arr Bill Tyers

  • Ensemble Music Scores for February 6th Society Meeting

    Here are the scores for the music we will be playing in the open ensemble session at the upcoming Guitar Society meeting on February 6th. Please download the scores ahead of the meeting, review which parts you would like to play, print them off and bring with you. I am delighted to point out that Zephyr is a piece written by Martin Erwig, one of our members, especially for the guitar ensemble!
    If you can bring a music stand, that would be helpful too.

    Threes Company Scores & Parts
    Zephyr-1
    Zephyr-2
    Zephyr-3
    Zephyr-4
    Zephyr-Chords-3+4
    If you want to play parts 3 or 4, Martin included a very helpful additional sheet that shows the chords for these parts. If your music reading skills are limited, but know chords, this is also a great way to join in!

  • Newsletter January 2017

    Dear Guitar Friends,
    It’s time to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Corvallis Guitar Society, and what a great two years it has been.  Four wonderful concerts, twenty-three Society meetings including seventeen featured artists, but enough statistics, what’s most impressive is the quality of music that has been on show and not just from the professionals. There have been magical moments when our own members have got up at the open stage session to share their music and increasingly at our open group ensemble sessions where we are beginning to sound like something worth applauding J So a BIG Thank You to all our members for supporting our events and for joining in. Participation is a big theme for this guitar society and we want that to continue going forward.

    Monthly Meeting Location Change
    At the beginning of January we held the first meeting at our new monthly venue – Odd Fellows Hall and what a great venue it has turned out to be.  The location is downtown Corvallis:

    223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333
    The entrance is between New Morning Bakery and Sedlaks Boots and Shoes.

    Odd Fellows is the perfect setting with wonderful acoustics for a Guitar Society that is going to further inspire us going forward. And a special mention to Martin Erwig for writing a great piece of music for the ensemble! There is more to come, and I want to encourage everyone out there who has a modicum of music writing ambition to step up and write something for us to play! I am very pleased to announce that local acoustic blues guitarist Adam Scramstad will be our featured artist for our upcoming meeting on February 6th. Adam has played for us before and is a great musician and a great performer. Come along and enjoy a great evening of guitar music.

    The agenda for the February 6th Meeting is as follows:
    7:00 – 7:05pm      Welcome
    7:05 – 7:40pm Open Ensemble: bring your guitar, footstool and join in. Music can be downloaded from the website one week ahead of time.
    7:40 – 8:10pm Open Stage: please share your music with us – all ages and abilities welcome.
    8:10 – 8:20pm BREAK and Refreshments
    8:20 – 9:00pm Featured Artist Adam Scramstad

    The meeting will take place at the new location – Odd Fellows Hall in downtown Corvallis.

    Upcoming Events
    As we enter our third year, we have an exciting few months ahead of us:

    We have an impressive featured artist line up for our monthly meetings over the coming months including:
    Adam Scramstad – February
    Yuri Liberzon – March
    TBD – April
    James Bishop-Edwards – May
    Michael Harding – June

    Led by our very own Berto Boyd, Flamenco Pacifico will be performing at the Majestic Theater on January 27th and 28th starting at 7:30pm. Check out the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yjn-8GjdTxg and for more information and tickets are available on the Majestic Theater website: http://bit.ly/2ht7mtM

    I am delighted to announce that our headline performer for the Guitar Festival in June will be Chilean virtuoso Carlos Perez. If you have never heard Carlos play, this is a golden opportunity to see one of the world’s best classical guitarists right here in downtown Corvallis.  The Guitar Festival is scheduled to take place on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th June 2017. Please mark your calendars and please tell your friends!

    Classical guitar duo Neil and Tamara Caulkins are performing at the Willamette Heritage Center Pleasant Grove Church in Salem on the morning of Saturday 28th January at 10:30am. Neil and Tamara share a rich history of guitar and will be playing works from the early 19th century on period instruments. Neil and Tamara are planning to come to Corvallis to perform in May – more details will follow, and Neil is giving a paper on guitar improvisation in the early 19th century: Improvising Preludes in the Early Nineteenth- Century: Guitar Methods as an Uncommon Source for a Common Performance Practice. He’ll be speaking on Friday May 26th at 3pm at the Collier House on the University of Oregon campus.

    And on the Teaching Front…
    If you are interested in furthering your knowledge and playing of classical guitar in Corvallis by working with a teacher, there has never been a better time. There is a growing number of experienced and well qualified classical/related style guitar teachers in the area and we are all working together to create an environment to meet the needs and goals for all ages and abilities. If your want to know more, check out the guitar resources tab on the Corvallis Guitar Society website: https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/guitar-resources/

    Thank you and I hope to see you on February 6th.

    Best Regards
    Jon Sharp
    President, Corvallis Guitar Society