Contact:
Carl Herko
Vice President, Media & Public Relations
503-416-6347
cherko@orsymphony.org

March 18, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PINK MARTINI AND THE OREGON SYMPHONY
ADD A THIRD SPRING CONCERT DATE

(PORTLAND, Ore.) – Because of overwhelming demand from ticket-buyers, the Oregon Symphony and Pink Martini, Portland’s globe-trotting salon orchestra, have added a third performance to their two previously announced joint concerts scheduled for May and June at downtown Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

The newly added concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. It follows two previously announced performances scheduled for Sunday, May 31, and Monday, June 1. All three concerts will be recorded for Pink Martini’s first live album.

Tickets for the added performance will go on sale at noon Thursday, Mar. 19, and are expected to sell quickly. Ticket availability is very limited for the two previously announced concerts, with only a small number of seats – mostly singles – remaining for the May 31 performance.

Pink Martini, founded in Portland in 1994 by front man Thomas Lauderdale, has since taken the world by storm with live performances The New York Times describes as “jet set, vintage-chic, more than a little campy.” The band’s concerts are famous for drawing multicultural, multigenerational audiences in cities from Los Angeles to Istanbul.

The band has released three albums thus far, but the one that emerges from its three joint concerts with the Oregon Symphony will be its first live concert recording and its first with a symphony orchestra. Oregon Symphony Music Director Carlos Kalmar will conduct all three concerts, which will bring down the curtain on the orchestra’s 2008/09 concert season, its most successful at the box office in many years.  

Tickets for all three performances are $25 to $150 and available at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office, 923 SW Washington St., in downtown Portland. Ticket office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Tickets may also be purchased by phone at (503) 228-1353 or (800) 228-7343 during the same hours, or online at any time from the orchestra’s web site, orsymphony.org. Tickets are also available through ticketmaster.com or by calling (503) 790-ARTS.

Presenting sponsor of the concerts is First Independent Bank. The concerts are a sanctioned event of the 2009 Portland Rose Festival.

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CONTACT:
Carl Herko
Vice President, Media & Public Relations
(503) 416-6347
cherko@orsymphony.org