F.O.G.

We are all F.O.G., because we are all Friends Of Greg…

F.O.G. is our musical laboratory. It’s the place where Ives gets paired with Gesualdo, where poetry gets paired with Beethoven, where jazz, Irish fiddling, baroque music and anything else that sprouts from the fertile mind of founder Greg Ewer is born.

F.O.G. is the place where Greg and friends will continue 45th Parallel’s eclectic tradition with concerts that amuse, challenge, provoke, and inspire.

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See Hear Fog Kenji
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Violin Squared
April 20, 2026

Béla Bartók: Duo #1: Párosíto (Teasing Song)
Béla Bartók: Duo #2: Kalamajkó (Maypole Dance)
Béla Bartók: Duo #3: Menuetto

Kenji Bunch: Duo #15: The Girl from Seattle
Kenji Bunch: Duo #16: Montuno Violino

Béla Bartók: Duo #8: Tót nóta (Slovakian Song)
Béla Bartók: Duo #9: Játék (Play Song)
Béla Bartók: Duo #22: Szunyogtánc (Mosquito Dance)

Kenji Bunch: Duo #17: The Ghost of Yost
Kenji Bunch: Duo #18: Haggis, Neeps, and Tatties

Telemann: Concerto # 1 in G major for 4 violins, TWV 40:201 (mvts. 1 & 2)

Béla Bartók: Duo #32: Máramarosi tánc (Dance from Máramaros)
Béla Bartók: Duo #35: Rutén kolomejka (Ruthenian Kolomejka)
Béla Bartók: Duo #36: Szól a duda (Bagpipes)

Kenji Bunch: Duo #19: Black Coffee
Kenji Bunch: Duo #20: I’m a Lover, not a Fighter

Béla Bartók: Duo #38: Forgatós (Romanian Whirling Dance)
Béla Bartók: Duo #39: Szerb tánc (Serbian Dance)
Béla Bartók: Duo #42: Arab dal (Arabian Dance)
Béla Bartók: Duo #44: “Erdélyi” tánc (Transylvanian Dance)

Kenji Bunch: Duo #21: Grit in the Oyster
Kenji Bunch: Duo #22: Contrafunktus
Kenji Bunch: We’d Better Call for Backup

Concert in Motion 2024 2025
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In Motion: An Evening with Musical Activist Vijay Gupta
March 1, 2025

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Passacaglia
Handel / Halvorsen: Passacaglia
Caroline Shaw: Limestone and Felt
Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae
Schubert: Death and the Maiden

2023 24 Season 13 Unaccompanied   May 23
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UNACCOMPANIED
May 23, 2024

Frank Duarte: Longing, from Through Them
Milad Yousufi: Anchorage
José-Luis Hurtado: Luminous
Earl Maneein: The Wandering
Kareem Roustom: Breviary
James Diaz: this is not America, part 2
Gabriela Lena Frank: Canto Mestizo
Shaw Pong Liu: Patch Work
Kenji Bunch: Ghost Mine

Concert #12   Treasures of The Baroque
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Treasures of the Baroque
March 2, 2023

J. S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BVW 1007 – Prelude
G.F. Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2 No. 5, HWV 390
Anna Bon: Sonata in C major, Op. 2 No. 4
Jean-Pierre Guignon: Les Sauvages
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza, Op. 4 Concerto No. 12 in G major, RV 298
Antonio Caldera: Ciaconna in B ♭ major, Op. 2 No. 12
Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 7 No. 1

Concert #9   when The Violin
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When the Violin
January 12, 2023

Reena Esmail: When the Violin
J.S. Bach: Andante from Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C major, Op. 56, Movements I & II
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata in G major, Op. 3, No. 1
Kenji Bunch: Melungeon Stew
Kenji Bunch: We Better Call for Backup (world premiere)
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Reena Esmail: Darshan

Leclairification
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Leclairification
April 23, 2021

Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for 2 Violins in D major, Op. 3 No. 6
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for 2 Violins in B flat major, Op. 12 No. 6
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for 2 Violins in C major, Op. 3 No. 3
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for 2 Violins in A major, Op. 3 No. 2

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