‘Sanctuaries’: Tale of Displacement
September 6, 2021
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
A California pianist and activist brings music and an urgent sense of the present to the Oregon Bach Festival.
Brett Campbell talks with the composer of Portland Opera’s “Frida,”
about the artist’s extraordinary life.
William Deresiewicz’s new book “The Death of the Artist” shows why it’s so hard to make a living making art today.
Tualatin Valley Creates’ Arts & Leadership Incubator helps artists connect their work to the community.
Portland’s All Classical Radio moves to bring more diverse music to more diverse audiences.
The Oregon affiliate of Venezuela’s famed El Sistema education system gives diverse students access to music education
Composer Stephen Scott created singular music — and a unique instrument to play it.
Put together a composer with a post-Halloween idea, a passel of puppets, and the Portland Columbia Symphony. Add YouTube and instruments. Voila!
Good music in hard times: We can’t let 2020 slip away without noting some recordings by Oregon musicians, several explicitly in response to crisis.
Portland’s I Am MORE helps traumatized young people heal by sharing their stories
The pioneering composer’s shimmering new album with Roomful of Teeth caps a career devoted to the beauties of musical tunings — and started in Oregon
As the pandemic shuts down in-person shows, director Patrick Nims blazes a trail in live video theater.
When the pandemic struck it seemed music news would dry up. But musicians found new ways to connect.
The Portland choral director and educator leaves a rich legacy in sounds and singers.
Pandemic inspires youth orchestra to create a new music festival and commissioning program featuring new music by diverse voices Art is all about creativity, so when the pandemic struck, Portland Youth Philharmonic, facing cancellation of in-person classes and concerts, got creative. The
Portland theaters, shut off from the stage, find a future from the past: radio theater, updated for the digital age.
A riveting documentary tells the tale of an orchestra of musicians with mental illness — and a Portland affiliate.
A music-ed program that aids teachers globally is helping schools cope with the pandemic’s challenges.
Forced to quickly shift from live to virtual performances, the festival finds surprising intimacy and success.
The acclaimed piano duo brings a Portland twist — and adult beverages — to its multimedia extravaganza.
With so many performances going online, our news roundup follows suit with video and audio from Oregon musicians for your home streaming enjoyment
Recent recordings by Cappella Romana, the Broken Consort, Portland State University Chamber Choir and The Industry showcase Oregon choral and vocal music
This month’s Virtual Supper Club supports pianist Michael Allen Harrison’s program to bring music lessons to Oregon students.
Cascadia Composers’ In Good Hands expands students’ horizons and brings music to the next generations.
Oregon festivals spread the music online and in other virus-resistant forms. Brett Campbell counts the ways.
The good, the bad, and the adaptable: Oregon musicians make the best of a socially isolated summer.
Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Bach Fest lead parade of summer shows from onstage to online.
Let there be many: Brett Campbell’s radical resetting of Oregon arts policy for the post-Covid age.
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony gets savvy and shows that shutdown doesn’t have to mean shut up.
The Portland drummer and composer’s diverse projects embrace his expansive creative mentality.
Feeling down? Think local: Recent recordings by Oregon composers offer sonic solace in troubled times.
Oregon musical performances may be suspended, but Oregon music plays on. Oregon classical musicians aren’t letting a little thing like a deadly pandemic and total cancellation of live performances stop them from bringing the sounds. Tonight, Friday May 8, at 10 pm,
Brett Campbell gets down with the beat at home with a stack of recent Oregon jazz recordings.
After retiring from his last teaching job, at Eugene’s Spencer Butte Middle School, Paul Bodin “wanted to see what it was like to be a student again.” And he wanted to explore the music that had enchanted him since childhood but had
When Roger Saydack lived on a bare bones graduate student budget at the University of Oregon in the mid-1970s, the only way he could afford to hear classical music live was what’s now called the Oregon Bach Festival’s Discovery Series concerts. Following
Is it real, or is it covideo? Forced to shut down concerts, music groups turn to livestreaming.
A shipwreck brought musician Emily Lau to Portland. It didn’t happen in Oregon but off the Italian coast, where in 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground, capsized and killed 32 people. Lau was on her honeymoon, and though she and
The disability-arts champion’s death shocks the community. But the organization she built vows to keep on.
Fast break: PSU brings a choral music “rock star” and 500 singers to its campus basketball arena.
Pioneering contemporary classical composer Terry Riley brings his jazz chops to town.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.
New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.
Washington County Museum branches out under a new name, Five Oaks Museum, and a broader cultural umbrella.
Wobbly duo see a dangerous world: “Hate based crime directed against people with disabilities has gone up.”
• 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
As Ilana Sol’s new film about war and reconciliation screens this week, a look back at the Portland filmmaker’s first documentary
FearNoMusic commemorates the Portland murder of immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by white supremacists.
A conference introduces a national organization to Portland. Tackling of pressing issues in Oregon arts ensues.
This is what we fear…Nothing to think withNothing to love or link with From “Aubade” by Philip Larkin, excerpted in Shadow & Light. When Eugene Concert Choir and Vocal Arts director Diane Retallack approached Joan Szymko in 2014 to write a new
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