This year’s festival features a variety of choral concerts and lectures, most of them free, at churches around Portland.
The Protégé Project string quartet performed Mozart and Grieg at Lincoln Recital Hall for CMNW 2024.
Greater Portland’s August dance schedule is busy — and a lot of it’s happening in the great outdoors in parks and squares and other public spaces.
Despite July’s theme of slowing down, I still feel like it came and went so fast! Even so, my efforts did yield some results: I started noticing small details of my everyday life. One of those previously overlooked details was the vibrant
The Portland opera company’s annual pair of productions–David Hertzberg’s “The Rose Elf” and Handel’s “Acis, Galatea, & Polyphemus”—pit natural love against human villainy.
August shows also include a family of ceramicists at Linfield University and stories from the forest at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s cultural center.
Bobby Bermea talks with the Tony-nominated author of “Hell’s Kitchen” about theater, writing, family, deadlines, underdogs, and Diaz’s basketball story opening at Portland’s Profile Theatre.
Other literary events include appearances by authors of books on whitewater canoeing in Alaska, Eugene’s first organic vegetarian restaurant, and American explorers.
Vlautin discusses the real-life inspiration behind the book, the beauty of disappearing into songs, and why unsuccessful musicians keep chasing their dreams.
Also this week: “Seven Samurai,” newly restored in 4K, plus Hong Kong horror comedy “The Seventh Curse” and Soviet sci-fi in “To the Stars the Hard Way.”
As the city puts its parks and arts programs under the same umbrella, it considers replacing the arts tax with a new levy for both. And one of Keller Auditorium’s major tenants comes out staunchly in favor of PSU’s proposed replacement halls.
Nature is as much a character in the novel as the two women who bond over birds and their mutual concern for a 5-year-old boy who has stopped speaking.
Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival is off and running. Plus: “Reggie Hoops,” the return of Eliza Doolittle, site-specific plays in a century-old country store, farewell to Sam Mowry.
Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s smart and sharply choreographed “Beautiful” tells the inspiring story of singer and songwriter Carole King’s musical journey.
A rural Oregon grocery store-cum-creative hub provides a source of freshly devised plays — and a showcase for a new way of creating them
Sitka’s success has inspired a new dance program in the Knappa School District to be taught by Astoria Arts and Movement Center instructors.
CMNW co-commissioned the venerated American composer’s “conversation” for violin and percussion quartet.
The percussion quartet, whom Adams considers “the foremost interpreters of my music,” dazzled a surround-sound audience at Kaul Auditorium before repeating the feat at Oregon Bach Festival.
The beloved Portland actor, known over his 40-plus year career for his distinctive voice and his devotion to family, friends, the stage, and radio theater, leaves a giant legacy.
Test your knowledge of famous American composers in this July crossword puzzle.
The one-day modernist music festival continues to justify the words of George Crumb, performing music that “depends for its very existence on a type of pioneer performer” by Juri Seo, Steve Reich, Terry Longshore, and Crumb’s “Makrokosmos” in its four-part entirety.
How to make an image that rises above the ordinary? It’s simple – and complicated, K.B. Dixon declares.
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Celebrating International Listening Day, recalling the evocative soundscape of a pastoral Oregon childhood
With a population of more than 40,000 stretching from Forest Grove to Beaverton to Hillsboro to Clark County and beyond, greater Portland is a hub for native Hawaiian culture and arts.
A warm, synaesthetic performance of “Symphony of Psalms” preceded the multi-media “The Planets,” both under Alevtina Ioffe’s commanding direction, at OBF 2024.
Also this week: psychic horror in “Oddity,” “Noir City: Portland” at the Hollywood Theatre, and a new documentary about the life of Faye Dunaway.
Belluschi found a mentor in Anderson, an acclaimed artist who divides her time between Carrara, Italy, and Nehalem on the Oregon Coast. The two are among more than a dozen artists participating in the July 20 tour.
The choral composer and conductor, artist-in-residence at this year’s OBF, performed his radiant “The Sacred Veil,” a collaboration with Charles Anthony Silvestri in memory of Silvestri’s late wife.
The “Czar of Noir” talks with Marc Mohan about film restoration, digital technogoloy, and Argentine and American noir ahead of a weekend of films at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre.
CMNW protégé artist doubles down on the double bass with gusto.
The reigning king of organ performed J.S. alongside Damien Geter, Lowell Liebermann, and Saint-Saëns.
Broadway actor Russell Fischer stars as Frankie Valli in Lakewood Theatre Company’s exuberant and entertaining jukebox musical “Jersey Boys.”
The design team proposes a new welcome center, colorful paint jobs, bold signage, and justice-oriented collaboration to transform the university campus and help revitalize downtown.
The intensive education program for talented string players from around the world includes performances throughout the community, including free showcases, pop-ups around town, and a new mobile concert stage.
A summer arts celebration reflects the inclusive approach of its home, M&M Marketplace, and provides a welcoming environment for the city’s increasingly diverse communities.
The author of several books about the natural world will talk about her latest on Aug. 12 at Powell’s Books; on Aug. 24 she will lead a tree walk and talk at Hoyt Arboretum.
Lloyd DeWitt’s first shows as curator of European and American Art Pre-1930 at the Portland Art Museum offer crowd-pleasing beauty and deep questions about what museums and audiences look for in art.
Richard Hertzberg’s book brings back the fervor and flavor of the political upheavals of a decade that divided the nation – and the handout leaflets that spread the word of cultural dissent.
After 13 sterling years with Oregon Ballet Theatre, the 38-year-old character dancer finishes his career to a shower of bouquets, balloons, and cheering applause. He earned every bit of it.
Also this week: thrill-seeking rooftoppers in “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” and the surreal, Soviet-era “Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel” at the Clinton Street Theater.
OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson conducted a concert of new, old, and revitalized choral music.
The autobiographical novel suffers from jumbled organization but nevertheless provides a revealing look at 19th-century Oregon life.
Chamber Music Northwest and the Oregon Bach Festival present the world premiere of a new work for percussion ensemble by one of the most lauded living American composers
CMNW keeps things fresh as its Beethoven-themed 2024 Summer Festival opens.
Portland’s four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat — and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.
A retrospective of the Seattle artist’s work ranges from artifacts of Fluxus-inspired performance art to encaustic/mixed media pieces that conflate ideas, stories, history, and cosmology.
The author will appear July 10 at Powell’s Books in Portland to read from and discuss her first novel.
An exhibit tells the extaordinary tale of businessman and civic leader Bill Naito, who lived through anti-Japanese fervor and made Portland a better city at a key time in its growth.
On the opening day of the Waterfront Blues Festival, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the sights and sounds from the stages to the crowd to the fireworks.
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