The March 17 concert featured commissioned work by Grant and Sei alongside music by Joel Thompson, Rosephayne Powell, and regular Resonance collaborator Melissa Dunphy.
Choral offerings from Bach chorales to world peace to Sweet Honey in the Rock.
The famed jazz pianist partnered with the choral ensemble and Portland poet/activist A. Mimi Sei to create “From the Book of Sankofa”; the former Linfield Music Department Chair returns to Oregon for the live premiere of her “Cycles of Eternity,” recorded in 2019.
The Orthodox choral ensemble and Gospel choir joined their voices for February’s “Black Voices in Orthodox Music: How Sweet the Sound.” Recent albums released by Oregon choirs feature music by Melissa Dunphy, Renée Favand-See, Naomi LaViolette, Morten Lauridsen, Stacey Philipps, Undine Smith Moore, Joel Thompson, and more.
The choral ensemble starts their semester-long residency at Linfield University in McMinnville. The recently shuttered jazz club has changed management and is making plans to reopen.
A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.
Punk, metal, jazz, and the Oregon School of Composition–just in time for the last Fee Free Friday of 2023.
The choral group’s CD release concert featured music by Melissa Dunphy, Renée Favand-See, Stacey Philipps, Mari Esabel Valverde, Vin Shambry, Dominick DiOrio, and Jake Runestad.
Xhurch and regular church; so many difficult Friday the 13th shows; LISTENing to Resonance; Prefontaine again; a new Machado Mijiga album.
A transcription of Dvořák’s mass, a setting of Anne Frank’s diary, a tribute to William Byrd, a history of Rachmaninoff, a Resonance CD release, and a bit of rediscovered Brumel.
Choirs all over Oregon and Southwest Washington celebrate the close of summer programs and the beginning of fall concerts.
NMG 2023 acknowledged loss and celebrated recovery with concerts indoors and outside.
The vocal ensemble partnered with Indigenous artists for a rained-in festival at Lewis & Clark’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel.
Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
In which we present a selection of Fee Free Friday albums–and timely concerts–featuring Y La Bamba, Caroline Shaw, Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Andy Akiho.
Oregon choirs present light shows, pops concerts, pianistic Byzantine chant, music by women and by Sir Arthur Sullivan, and an evening of “frostivities.”
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
Your guide to making last-minute holiday music plans through the New Year, from Nutcrackers to Pink Martinis.
Soweto Gospel Choir brings their “Hope” to Portland; a collaborative barbershop concert in close harmony; a salon in Eugene; the Yuletide concert season begins, from Jenkins’s “Miserere” to Geter’s “Requiem” to Britten’s “Saint Nicolas Cantata” to Rutter’s “Gloria.”
In which we discuss Niel DePonte’s chair change, Aminé with Oregon Symphony, Caroline Shaw at The Reser, PCSO premieres Nicole Buetti, Cappella Romana premieres Robert Kyr, Young Composers Project alumni with FNM and MYS and PYP, Dvořák galore, and more.
Choirs around Oregon prepare their fall concerts, featuring single-composer premieres, newly-scored old movies, and more.
Listening back to Oregon’s return to live choral concerts.
An African American Requiem raises the roof in world premiere performance.
In the vocal ensemble, the composer of this weekend’s African American Requiem found the ideal partner to make a musical milestone.
A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.
A Columbia Gorge haiku challenge. An interim leader for Portland Baroque Orchestra. Damien Geter and the Oregon Symphony go bicoastal. Classical jams. Oregon Fringe Festival.
Oregon choirs amass in Spokane for Northwestern American Choral Directors Association.
Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; “Ladies’ Night” with Third Angle.
Choral Arts Ensemble learns Gaelic; Cappella Romana records Pärt; Resonance Ensemble spotlights Indigenous composers.
A busy February as choirs return to the stage, some in preparation for upcoming NWACDA conference.
Celebrating artists in Oregon whose visions stood out and helped define and rethink a precarious year.
From Imogen Cunningham to the Brontë sisters to the new NEA chief and more, women take the holiday-season cultural spotlight.
Looking back with Katherine FitzGibbon on Resonance Ensemble’s year of provocative choral music
From Brahms to the Eagles, one of Portland’s most versatile choral composers explains her multifaceted influences and methods.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors swing open on live shows, PDX/NYC Tony connection, monthly guides & more.
When the pandemic struck it seemed music news would dry up. But musicians found new ways to connect.
Shining a light on rose gardens Oregon musicians are tending; listening to Kenji Bunch on behalf of the City of Roses.
Last week we talked all about how everyone should be making albums right now, and hopefully you all nodded your heads and muttered, “hell yeah!”
In an open letter, more than 1,000 individuals and 100 groups in PDX voice demands for racial justice.
In which we lament Geter’s Requiem, remember Menomena, and set Kevin down on the PDX Couch.
Notes for an extra day: A weekend of concerts and a Portland Weird undectet.
• Portland Opera has named Sue Dixon the company’s sixth general director, replacing Christopher Mattaliano, who departed in June after 16 years. She’s served the company in other capacities since 2014. PO also temporarily assigned Mattaliano’s artistic direction responsibilities to Palm Beach
Hip-hop haven, profiles in gender, museum Loverules, a new opera, un-holiday tunes, gibassiers & more.
Several questions haunted this journalist’s mind during a series of fall concerts put on by three of Portland’s most excellent classical groups: Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, and Third Angle New Music. The music was all good, but was often upstaged by
We stumble upon a Hall of Fame inductee, learn about joiking and konnakol, and hear from the audients.
Warm up your fall with saxophones, film and classical music, international virtuosi, and metallized Metroids.
Caution: Radioactive glowing disk has returned to Oregon’s skies! Remember your sunscreen! Remember your sunscreen! Message repeats. Five weeks and one day There’s an old zen saying: you should meditate 20 minutes every day unless you’re too busy, in which case you
The first movement of Melissa Dunphy’s new choral composition LISTEN sets texts from Anita Hill’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, with lines like “I thought he respected my work” and “When I was asked, I had to tell the
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