Crushing the temple: “Samson & Delilah” in Seattle
January 26, 2023
Seattle Opera produced the Saint-Saëns opera with minimal sets and big voices.
Seattle Opera produced the Saint-Saëns opera with minimal sets and big voices.
FNM’s Legacies 1 concert followed a throughline backwards, from YCP composer Nathan Campbell and Ukrainian-Swiss composer Victoria Poleva past Schnittke and Mahler to Brahms and Wieck-Schumann.
The conductorless chamber orchestra premiered music by Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Michael Dudley, and Ricardo Herz.
SFO premieres the latest from John Adams.
The show, now open at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, presents food-related works from Schnitzer’s impressive collection. The result is a sumptuous feast (for the eyes).
Singer and Aquilon Music Festival founder Anton Belov joins with seven-string guitar duo for a series of Romani, Jewish, and Eastern European folk music concerts.
Multi-week Siletz Bay Music Festival brings classical, jazz, hip-hop, and a relaxed vibe to Lincoln City Cultural Center.
OrpheusPDX closes its inaugural season with chills and goosebumps.
A consideration of Chamber Music Northwest’s five-week summer festival.
New opera company OrpheusPDX debuts at Lincoln Hall with a magnificent new production of the Monteverdi classic.
The sax quartet and virtuoso pianist joined forces for a surprising CMNW concert.
Wine valley festival pairs old world and contemporary music.
An exchange with the Indian-American composer, featured recently at Chamber Music Northwest and set to return next month as this year’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival composer-in-residence.
The young composer, whose music was featured on a string of recent concerts at Chamber Music Northwest, discusses his formative musical moments.
The 23-year-old cellist’s recent visit to Oregon for Chamber Music Northwest included concerts, a master class, an afternoon with four cellists even younger than him, and “one of the best string recitals” Soovin Kim has ever heard.
Collaboration among Joe Cantrell, Ed Edmo, and Nancy Ives continues Portland Chamber Orchestra’s championing of new music.
Schiff’s latest, a tribute to the esteemed runner, was premiered by the Eugene Symphony.
The retired Reed College composition professor’s “Prefontaine” and “Vineyard Rhythms” come to Eugene and Portland.
FNM performs music by Asian and Asian-American composers at The Old Church.
The restless wind quintet’s blissful concert featured new music co-commissioned by CMNW, OBF, and Anima Mundi.
Portland Chamber Orchestra premieres the dynamic spoken-word and music collaboration “My Words Are My Sword.”
Music for clarinet and strings by Benny Goodman, Schiff, Schickele, and Mozart in Chamber Music Northwest concert.
PO’s dramatic, harrowing staging of the Pulitzer-winning opera.
PCO commission ‘My Words Are My Sword’ pulls together poetry and music.
Ten days and nights of live music with Diane Schuur, Domo Branch, Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group, Brandee Younger, and more.
Virtuoso pianist performs the complete J.S. Bach ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for CMNW at The Old Church.
Young, talented and the future of jazz, they were mentored by Portland music royalty. They learned to bang out “Back at the Chicken Shack,” “Green Dolphin Street” and “Autumn Leaves,” to listen carefully to the jazz greats, to practice diligently and often,
When Jimmy Mak’s disappeared, NoPo’s 1905 arrived – and it’s still Portland’s only all-jazz spot.
Queer-themed Canadian opera makes U.S. premiere at Hampton Opera Center.
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
Rock star clarinetist and PCO celebrate Hanukkah with klezmer improvisations and a Wlad Marhulets concerto
CMNW artists-in-residence perform the composer’s chamber works with complementary music by Cage, Machaut, Gesualdo, Verdi, and Beethoven
Vlatkovic, performing with CMNW co-directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, gets a five-minute standing ovation.
The singing’s terrific and the crowd shouted “Bravo!” But the story in Puccini’s 1900 hit can’t keep up with 21st century times.
The opera opens with a new artistic director, a new interim music director, a fresh slate of forward-looking priorities – and an old standby in “Tosca.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
New work by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori reflects Black experience in America.
Goofing around as a teen, Tines sang operatic-style to his choir-director granddad. “Well,” his grandfather said, “I think you have a voice.”
Angela Allen talks with the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival’s multifaceted resident composer.
In its sixth season, the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival will go hybrid this year, with live and virtual concerts from Aug. 7 through Sept 4. For safety’s sake, live concert audiences in Oregon wine country are limited — cut in half
From world premieres to brilliant performances, highlights of July’s Chamber Music Northwest Festival.
The new “Vesper Flight” is inspired by the soar of Vaux swifts, who alight in Portland every year.
The chamber music festival’s brilliant version of “Appalachian Spring” will also be available to view from home.
Portland Opera’s summer show is fresh and flashy, with sex, angst & art propelling it into contemporary times.
As audiences emerge tentatively from Covid, Portland Opera roars out of seclusion with big changes.
In 30 years of covering Portland Opera, Angela Allen writes, “I’ve never seen such a compelling program.”
Though each of the six pieces is contemporary — written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries — Geter chose somewhat established works as well as freshly minted ones…
Composer DBR transforms a “racist” classical music world with Prince, hip-hop, Rosa Parks and Nina Simone.
After 40 years, the clarinetist supreme retires from 40 years as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest.
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