Collage
Maybe you’ve seen our contract, maybe you haven’t - either way, I want to explain what our deal is with “adequate shelter” and why it’s so incredibly important to us.
First, understand that most of us (the musicians of Collage) are from Oregon! We are happy to get wet, get dirty, muck around in the mud, [...]
I will be adding to this periodically; thought I’d start somewhere. I might put it in alphabetical order eventually…
Ensemble - a group of musicians
Processional - the entrance of family/honored guests and the bridal party at the beginning of the wedding ceremony, accompanied by music. The processional may be one piece of music for everyone [...]
Get this, from Victor Zuckerlandl, a philosopher of music:
Hearing a melody is hearing, having heard, and about to hear, all at once. Every melody declares to us that the past can be there without being remembered, the future without being foreknown.
I haven’t had much time to write but we have been out and about [...]
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys.
I don’t know if everyone’s like this, but I live my entire life with some piece of music or other stuck in my head at all times. Often more than one. Like right now, even: I have the Beach Boys on top, and then on another deeper [...]
Recently I came across the idea of separating the first dances, so that guests don’t get bored and start talking during the dances. You’d do the B&G first dance right as you enter the reception hall (perhaps the DJ or a band MC introduces you), then dinner is served immediately after. Then, once [...]
I just encountered this song and thought it would be a great one for a duet performance by me and Lesley…
Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden
I’m looking for a good excuse to work it up with her (if you need to know why, read my last post in which I gush forever about how great [...]
As you can imagine we musicians have our favorite places to play. I want to extol the virtues of one particular wedding venue which has grown on me - and literally grown, too! - over the last few years.
Garden Vineyards is … ok, how do I start? There are so many great aspects [...]
Last week I posted a “top ten” list of classical recessionals; now it’s time for an overdue discussion of non-classical/other/alternative recessionals.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long while. Years, actually. While Vivaldi’s Spring is a tried-and-true, can’t-go-wrong sort of piece for the recessional (and everyone loves it), and of course there are [...]
There’s something for everyone in that list!
This is not about music, but you really should know about Sock Dreams. Way back in the day, before there was Collage and before there was Sock Dreams, we all worked together at a little grocery store in Southeast Portland. Eventually we all got tired of [...]
This is all we could remember off the top of our heads (from the last, say, four years or so. We can’t remember further back than that).
Abernethy Center
Abiqua Country Estate
Academy Chapel & Ballroom
Acadian Ballroom
Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom