MusicWatch Monthly: Resolving from overexposure to relaxation
January 2, 2023
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
In which we discuss holiday traditions new and old.
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.
Classical mainstays move into their seasons, a choir dissents, new music sounds out, electronica and rock get experimental, plus jazz and post-punk.
The beloved Happy Valley festival returns.
Waterfront festivals, touring jazz giants, and local musicians transmute summer into fall.
CMNW’s New@Night series closed with location-inspired music by Eleanor Alberga, Vijay Iyer, David Schiff, and Dana Wilson.
The annual mini-festival of contemporary music celebrated its eighth year with five hours of music at PICA, featuring compositions from across Latin America.
Keep keeping your fingers crossed for an Augustful of festivals, from jazz to loopers to hip-hop.
The Pulitzer-nominated piece for percussion drew an epic crowd to CMNW’s penultimate New@Night concert.
With the titular “Moonshot” string quartet off the program, CMNW’s third New@Night features solo and duo works by Chris Rogerson, David Ludwig, and “grand old man of Turkish music” Ahmet Adnan Saygun.
Chamber Music Northwest’s contemporary music series continues in The Armory’s lobby, showcasing Zlatomir Fung, Viano Quartet, and two performers from CMNW’s Young Artists Institute.
Summer brings sunny festivals to Oregon ears: Chamber Music Northwest inside, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival outside, and more.
The first of CMNW’s New@Night concerts featured music by Jessie Montgomery, Kenji Bunch, Fred Sherry, and Du Yun.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
Change in the weather, change in the sound: The Oregon music scene begins to thaw and stretch its muscles.
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
MusicWatch Monthly: November brings a wave of sounds (and don’t forget Halloween and Day of the Dead).
David Danzmayr’s inaugural in-person season opens with Mahler, Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, and the massive “Constellation” sound system; Open Music finally commences at The Old Church
Symphonies, concerti, chamber collabs, extra-curricular improv, progressive jazz, and Zoomer B.S.
The new musical drama from Third Angle delves into gentrification and its cost to Black communities.
Exploring the Canadian composer’s contributions to acoustic ecology and the politics of noise
September attempts to get “real” with symphonies, operas, ‘90s bands
Charles Rose soaks up the sights, sounds & ideas of this year’s new-music festival, where women ruled.
It’s a busy August of album-release shows, neighborhood concerts, a renamed synth library, Hip Hop Week & more.
Third Angle is coming out swinging for the return to live music, kicking off on July 11 at Topaz Farm with the three mini concerts of Fresh Air Fest. It was a much-needed retreat up to Sauvie Island for a midsummer Sunday
In the opening remarks at last week’s Makrokosmos festival, pianist and co-Artistic-Director Saar Ahuvia said, “live music is finally back.” That is true, with an asterisk.
Since the pandemic shutdown, the classical ensemble’s hit the ground running with 50-plus streamed shows.
The Oregon Symphony’s new artistic leader talks about rage, suffering, authenticity, Mahler, and Metallica.
Charles Rose talks with the Oregon Symphony’s new music director about what’s to come.
As vaccination rates rise and infection rates fall, Oregon’s music world starts to take to the great outdoors.
With vaccines on the rise, the Oregon Symphony plans a fall return to the Schnitz – and has more news.
At least April ended on a high note: FearNoMusic’s headliner show capped off its season brilliantly.
Looking forward to a wild summer where the masks start to come off and the concerts slowly start coming back.
Old Portland, new Portland, any way you like Portland: Charles Rose lends an ear to the music of March.
Portland Jazz Festival, rewatching Motchisuki, African films, Black composers, Sybarite5 and more.
This year the holidays take on a somber tone. Will we have to leave some of our favorite traditions behind?
Fear No Music’s new series starts with Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Adolphus Hailstork.
The last six months have left us starved for live music, with the country kinda-but-not-really shutting down to handle the pandemic. Luckily for us, a cohort of young singers took it upon themselves to stage the first full opera production in Oregon since March.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part Three of a three-part interview with the composer.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part Two of a three-part interview with the composer.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part One of a three-part interview with the composer.
Mourning the passing of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose music processes trauma.
Portland Percussion Group bangs the drums every which way. Is this the bridge the music world needs?
The Creative Music Guild’s Extradition Series summer concert confronts the sounds of silence.
CMNW performer-composer Boja Kragulj talks technology, creativity, education, and making connections.
Rolston String Quartet performs Mozart, Brahms, and R. Murray Schaeffer at Alberta Rose.
This state is just crawling with composers, though you might not know it if you only go to Oregon Symphony and Third Angle concerts—just to arbitrarily pick on a pair of robust local organizations with rather different ideas of what constitutes classical
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