Singing across the centuries
Excoriated musical Americana lives on with Portland Sacred Harp’s shape note singing convention.
Excoriated musical Americana lives on with Portland Sacred Harp’s shape note singing convention.
Contemporary classical music composers–whom we might define as “those who look to the classical canon as root”–are frequently self-conscious about the historical and perennial shortcomings of modern art music (“that which seeks to transcend the history of western music”–again, my definition). Hyper
A Mozart Players concert explores music by living composers—and raises questions of preparation and appropriated meaning.
A Delgani String Quartet concert featuring living local composers raises questions of tradition and timeliness.
The five Eugene Symphony concerts I attended in the first half of this year (I was unable to attend the all twentieth-century music Valentine’s Day concert) were of such diverse programming that it is hard to ally them all with one unifying
University of Oregon’s music technology program shows that instruments aren’t the only evolving aspect of music — so is the composer’s role
In the front row of Corvallis’s Majestic Theater a flock of fidgety youths — a posse of sjörå on shore leave — hoot and whistle as the string-driven, Swedish rhythm machine Sver cranks out a rousing set of relentless syncopated hooks, exhilarating
After the Eugene Symphony’s 2018-19 season opener, high like only a classical music geek can be and thoroughly lit by a stunning performance of Shostakovich’s fifth symphony, I wandered around the Hult Center’s cathedral-like atrium. Eventually, I paused in front of a
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