What makes that spirit still so strong: Eugene Symphony Celebrates an Oregon Legend
Brett Campbell
June 2, 2022
Saturday’s multimedia concert pays tribute to track star Steve Prefontaine.
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Saturday’s multimedia concert pays tribute to track star Steve Prefontaine.
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.
A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.
Legendary but long dormant Oregon music showcase returns with a new vision and a new venue.
Former Yeasayer member’s solo act arrives at Holocene.
An interview with the classical guitarist about her upcoming Spanish-inflected concert and masterclass.
Area choirs collaborate on Ukraine benefit concert; the Tallis Scholars sing Antoine Brumel, David Lang, and Tomás Luis de Victoria; ISing brings “Stuck in the Americas” to The Reser; Willamette Master Chorus gives thanks to educators.
Portland State Opera’s therapeutic production of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.’
Drum ‘n’ bass gathering Juice celebrates its 17th anniversary at Holocene.
In Mulieribus performs Sungji Hong, Joanne Metcalf, Steve Reich, James MacMillan and James McCarthy; Choral Arts Ensemble commissions Timothy Takach; Oregon Repertory Singers pair superstar Eric Whitacre with Ily Matthew Maniano, Ko Matsushita, and Darius Lim.
Darrell Grant’s “Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite” reveals the continuing relevance of historic struggle.
Bay Area rapper and podcaster performs at Jack London Revue on Friday.
An instrument cannot truly be owned, the luthier says: “You are its custodian, for as long as you keep it, or for as long as you live,” but the instrument belongs to history.
Test your knowledge of the music of Richard Rodgers and others in a brand-new crossword puzzle.
Esteemed Morehouse Glee Club director teaches local choral students at three-day event in Portland.
Portland Chamber Orchestra premieres the dynamic spoken-word and music collaboration “My Words Are My Sword.”
Former Portland Opera director discusses new company.
Gabriel Kahane’s magnificent online embargo; Spiritualized semicircles at Revolution Hall.
Bach and MacMillan in Portland; Brahms in Bend; Vivaldi and Mozart in Eugene; Schubert in Salem.
Music for clarinet and strings by Benny Goodman, Schiff, Schickele, and Mozart in Chamber Music Northwest concert.
Local rapper/producer performs at Kelly’s Olympian this week.
Local ensemble’s release show celebrates debut CD with gusto.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
Faded, worn-in roots-pop; bubbly synths; brutal noise-punk; emotionally charged player piano; deluxe hip-hop.
Guest conductor/bass-baritone Jonathan Woody leads PBO through a concert of Bach and relations.
Oregon Bach Fest loses a director candidate after sexual harassment accusations. Women arts leaders take Oregon groups to new heights. A new opera company with a familiar face.
BodyVox and Akropolis Reed Quintet dial back to the ‘20s with Chamber Music Northwest concert.
PO’s dramatic, harrowing staging of the Pulitzer-winning opera.
Award-winning new opera by Tazwell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori arrives in Pacific Northwest.
Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera shows how racism helped send innocent teens to prison
Anthony Davis’s shattering work at Portland Opera opens deep and disturbing questions about race and policing in the United States.
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