Saturday, July 11, 2:30pm at the PMHC
Ernest Bloch – Ambler Through the Redwoods, Agate Beach Rockhound. Annual Music Symposium.
The Lincoln County Historical Society’s Ernest Bloch Legacy Committee will present their annual summer Ernest Bloch Music Symposium at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in the Doerfler Family Theater. The program will be on Saturday, July 11, 2026 beginning at 2:30pm. This year’s program is titled “Ernest Bloch: Ambler through the Redwoods, Agate Beach Rockhound.”
Live musical selections of the famous composer’s chamber music will be performed by Shauna Keyes, principal violist of the Newport Symphony and Constance Jackson, Portland based pianist. Lucienne Allen, one of the Great granddaughters of Ernest Bloch, will be sharing interesting and fun stories about her great grandfather and the Bloch family. Alexander Knapp, renowned Bloch scholar and musicologist, will share insights about the composer’s music. The overall theme of the presentations will be Bloch’s well-known love of nature and his obsessive collecting and polishing of agates that he found below his home that was situated above Agate Beach in Newport.
A reception will follow with mushroom coffee served, in honor of Bloch’s famous hobby for foraging wild mushrooms. Admission is free.
From left to right: Ernest Bloch in 1956, Lucienne Allen, Shauna Keyes, Constance Jackson and Alexander Knapp.