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Test your knowledge of some of the world's greatest conductors in this musical March crossword puzzle.
March 15, 2025Brett Campbell
Happenings in Oregon classical music, including news about a nationally acclaimed Oregon radio station, a rising young Oregon musician, a new orchestra leader in Eugene, the impending end of a couple of beloved musical traditions, and more.
March 13, 2025Daryl Browne
The 40th anniversary of the National Association for Music Education’s annual celebration finds Oregon choirs, orchestras, arts organizations and schools embracing this year’s MIOS theme, “United Through Music.”
March 12, 2025Alice Hardesty
Dr. Klefstad will discuss Shostakovich’s life and music at a series of lectures and discussions throughout this month's Friends of Chamber Music festival of the Soviet composer’s fifteen string quartets.
March 11, 2025Angela Allen
Mozart's marvelous, 233-year-old fantasy gets a colorful and brightly animated contemporary update at Seattle Opera.
March 11, 2025James Bash
The choir's "Canon for Racial Recognition" entered fascinating musical and cultural territory with its deft blend of sounds from different yet complementary traditions.
March 10, 2025David Bates
The festival, on Saturday in the Chehalem Cultural Center, grew out of popular jam sessions at Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery.
March 6, 2025Brett Campbell
Portland’s supreme saxophone quartet and guest musicians perform the singular, strangely seductive sounds of one of America’s great musical eccentrics
March 6, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Mizmor’s new hot sauce; Gaytheist’s super gay new album; Quadraphonnes get Moondogalicious; Song Suffragettes PNW celebrate International Women’s Day; Cascadia Composers get all jazzy.
March 5, 2025Daryl Browne
Three Willamette Valley choirs are just hitting their stride as they grow with and for their communities.
March 4, 2025Angela Allen
The Brazilian-American pianist-flutist-composer and his quintet performed a spontaneous set to an enthusiastic audience.
February 28, 2025Lynn Darroch
For most musicians, streaming has taken a big bite out of their pocketbooks. One Portland musical polymath is working on a strategy for surviving financially as an artist.
February 27, 2025Angela Allen
Despite some cancellations and a postponement by Erykah Badu, this year's festival has been flooding the city with terrific and widely varied sounds in 35 venues around town.
February 25, 2025Bob Hicks
The company's late-summer move to the World Trade Center will give it a 200-seat theater for small-scale shows and put it close to its performance spaces at Keller Auditorium and the Newmark Theatre.
February 20, 2025James Bash
Brain and heart: On Valentine's Day, Portland Chamber Music and neuroscientist Larry Sherman explored the many moods of love – and music's role in keeping it in tune.
February 19, 2025Daryl Browne
Elliott and the duo Ringdown–aka Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan–joined Resonance for a “Choir Grrrl” program of music by Elliott, Shaw, Judy A. Rose, Renée Favand-See, and Mari Esabel Valverde.
February 19, 2025Bob Hicks
More than 70 national and local acts, including Terence Blanchard and Eryka Badu, take to city stages Feb. 20-March 1 during the 2025 Biamp Portland Jazz Festival.
February 18, 2025Daryl Browne
From Cappella Romana’s “Canon for Racial Reconciliation” and Resonance Ensemble singing Margaret Bonds with Orchestra Nova Northwest to IWD concerts featuring In Mulieribus, Aurora Chorus, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, and the six women of Song Suffragettes PNW.
February 14, 2025Bob Hicks
The Portland choir's $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, snagged by the Trump Administration's freeze on approved grants, breaks free as the choir prepares for a key series of concerts.
February 11, 2025Angela Allen
Chamber Music Northwest hosted the pianist and cellist performing music of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Myaskovsky.
February 9, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
The veteran Portland Baroque Orchestra violinist, who'll be featured in PBO's "D'amore" concerts Feb. 15 and 16, takes an effervescent and ecstatic approach to music and to life.
February 7, 2025Brian Libby
The station’s longtime program director discusses the past, present and future of jazz radio in Portland.
February 7, 2025Angela Allen
The Oregon composer’s new chamber piece “Copper Variations” was featured in a concert of contemporary classical music alongside works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Daniel Wohl.
February 6, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
An abbreviated consideration of Black music in Oregon, from Jimmie Herrod and Darrell Grant to Machado Mijiga and esperanza spalding.
February 6, 2025Daryl Browne
The “unflappable” composer, pianist, and choral accompanist discusses her life in music.
February 5, 2025Daryl Browne
An impression of how FNM’s “De-Mystifying New Music” series–most recently with composer David Schiff and host Robert McBride–supports and highlights their all-Oregonian season.
February 1, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
In her new podcast, Stage & Studio's Dmae Lo Roberts talks with The Slants' cofounder about the band's battle to trademark its name, the Portland Chinatown Museum's exhibit on the band's history, and more.
January 31, 2025
Stephen Bacon, who founded the respected Southern Oregon sales and repair shop in 1985, sells it to store manager Will Scharen – and the tradition continues.
January 30, 2025Charles Rose
Dr. Lewis, who performs the music of Messiaen and Bartók alongside Bach and Chopin, explains why “Classical music has been dying for over a hundred years–but it’s still alive.”
January 29, 2025Angela Allen
The Portland trio–pianist Janet Guggenheim, violinist Carol Sindell, and cellist Hamilton Cheifetz–performed an evening of Mendelssohn, Haydn, and Beethoven.
