Weekly preview: A different pace and a little later
Robert Ham
June 2, 2022
Psych-folk family Faun Fables performs at Misdemeanor Meadows.
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Psych-folk family Faun Fables performs at Misdemeanor Meadows.
Aurora and Satori Choruses bring light and laughter to June concerts; Cappella Romana celebrates Hollywood’s Orthodox composers.
Award-winning short film blends classical music, musicians, paintings, and an uplifting biography.
The rising artist performs at The Six in Southeast Portland.
The retired Reed College composition professor’s “Prefontaine” and “Vineyard Rhythms” come to Eugene and Portland.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra hires the former Oregon Ballet Theatre leader as its executive director, and other comings and goings in Oregon music.
PO’s artistic director and general director discuss their upcoming season.
King Hannah comes to Doug Fir; Sigur Rós subdues the Theater of the Clouds audience.
FNM performs music by Asian and Asian-American composers at The Old Church.
Oregon Chorale and PCC Rock Creek Choir combine jazz and Baroque; Bach Cantata Choir sings a history lesson.
An African American Requiem raises the roof in world premiere performance.
Celebrate the world premiere of Damien Geter’s ‘An African American Requiem’ with a crossword puzzle about Black music influencers, past and present.
As musicians play canary in the Covid coal mine, youth orchestras play concerti; cellos haunt The Old Church and Dante’s; Gaytheist and Eight Bells get hard.
Vancouver Master Chorale’s bluegrass-and-theatre jamboree; Nexus Vocal Ensemble sings the contemporary and unconventional; In Medio premieres Colin Cossi and Carlos Cordero.
Tuvan throat singer Enrique Ugalde opens for Bauhaus at The Schnitz.
Concert of music and dance, with a last-minute replacement, explores memory in a unique setting.
The restless wind quintet’s blissful concert featured new music co-commissioned by CMNW, OBF, and Anima Mundi.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s education program helps young musicians create new music.
In the vocal ensemble, the composer of this weekend’s African American Requiem found the ideal partner to make a musical milestone.
Soothing experimental music; distressing black metal; heartfelt folk-pop; nasty, brutish, and short punk rock.
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