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MusicWatch Monthly: The shape of things to come

Digging the Society of Oregon Composers; toasting the Miller Foundation’s Spark Awards; representing the Lollipop Guild.

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Orchestra Nova Reynolds High School Troutdale Oregon and The Reser Beaverton Oregon

MusicWatch Monthly: Back to comfort and joy

In praise of Christmas music, from Oregon Symphony to Portland Revels.

MusicWatch Monthly: Contentment’s numbing trap

“The Raven,” Witch Mountain, Shaw vs. Shaw, 45th Parallel’s Angel, Hannah Penn’s “Shakespeare Songs,” Ginette DePreist at Oregon Historical Society, and plenty more.

Nothing more nor less than a mask: Halloween in Portland

Creepy bands and tribute bands, Saloon Ensemble’s “Nitemare B4 Xmas” returns, and Third Angle does Glass’ “Dracula.”

MusicWatch Monthly: The eternal hourglass of existence, from Abronia to New Wave Opera to Takács Quartet

In which we consider the possibility that “without music, life would be a mistake.”

MusicWatch Monthly: The Great Work, featuring a new season of classical music in Oregon

45th Parallel Universe’s Garden Parties, Renegade Opera’s “Batman,” Deena T. Grossman’s new album, Fear No Music’s Oregonic season, and orchestras all over the state.

MusicWatch Monthly: All summer long, music festivals in Willamette Valley, Sunriver, and Siletz Bay

Also: Fear No Music throws down the gauntlet, announcing an all-local composer season to come.

MusicWatch Monthly: Waterfront Blues & Cathedral Park Jazz & Federale & Jenny Don’t & The Spurs

Tips for staying cool during yet another apocalyptic heat wave while enjoying the best in Oregon music.

MusicWatch Monthly: Summer is a’coming in, sing loud, seasons end

Resonance Ensemble celebrates fifteen years, In Medio Choir sings Randall Thompson and Judy A. Rose, Oregon Symphony plays Beethoven’s Tenth, Britt Music & Arts Festival warms up, and In A Landscape gets rolling.

MusicWatch Monthly: From doom to bloom with symphony orchestras and other cover bands

The 1905 continues to reopen; Eugene Symphony performs “Star Wars” and Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony”; Major Tomboys do the Lazarus trick.

MusicWatch Monthly: Appreciating the Dead White European Males with Oregon Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Rogue Valley Symphony, Festival Chorale Oregon, and Willamette Master Chorus

The big groups play the big names, from Beethoven to Dvořák to Tchaikovsky to Bach. Also: Renegade Opera at the Hampton Center, Kronos Quartet and Imani Winds at The Reser.

MusicWatch Monthly: Andy Akiho and Gemini Project, Chris Whyte and Maria Garcia, Roselit Bone, Eyelids, Yuvees, all the Beethoven you can stand, Christopher Brown plays Bowie

Percussion concerts with 45th Parallel and Third Angle; goth and punk and whathaveyou at Mississippi Studios; CMNW’s mini-festival of piano trios; neurologist Larry Sherman with Portland Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Brown Quartet plays “Blackstar.”

MusicWatch: Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee at Alberta Abbey, Nancy Ives and Charlie Martin with Metropolitan Youth Symphony

The Pulitzer-winning composer and Portland singer-songwriter’s new “electronic cinematic pop duo” Ringdown prepares for festival season with a concert in Northeast Portland; MYS performs two more Oregon composers and also Beethoven.

MusicWatch Monthly: Nasalrod at Mississippi, Gershwin with Ray Ushikubo, and a month’s worth of Black music from Michelle Cann to mousai REMIX to the Albina Music Trust

The pronk quartet returns to live music, Oregon Symphony celebrates the “Rhapsody” centennial, Grammy-winner Cann performans a recital of Black women composers for PPI, Eugene Concert Choir releases their “Black is Beautiful” CD, and the Albina Community Archive goes live.

MusicWatch Monthly: ‘The score is not the sound,’ starring Portland Music Month, Camerata PYP, Jimmie Herrod & friends, Locally Sourced Sounds with Fear No Music, Alex Ross & 45th Parallel Universe, Sarah Tiedemann & Third Angle

The new year takes flight with a festival of Portland bands, a local pop star, and a bevy of chittering contemporary classical music.

MusicWatch December: Dreaming of a White (Album) Christmas with concerts for the holidays, from YOB and Your Oregon Symphony to Pink Martini and Ural Thomas

Doom metal in Eugene, orchestras young and old, all the Strauss you can handle, Beethoven’s Glorious Ninth, New Year’s Eve parties, a burlesque extravaganza, and more.

MusicWatch: The examined life

YOB is love; Eugene versus Corvallis; Renegade Opera and PSU Opera; twangy Indian music; and the one true “Messiah.”

MusicWatch Monthly: Sounding together

Youth orchestras, Oregon poets, spiritual moments, and more.

MusicWatch: ‘I will show you the life of the mind’

!mindparade, Saloli, Via Mardot, and all the synths; Yawa with her voice and her technologies; a tribute to Svoboda; Delgani plays Golijov and Reza Vali; an All Hallows’ Evening.

MusicWatch Monthly: A long day’s journey into night

Xhurch and regular church; so many difficult Friday the 13th shows; LISTENing to Resonance; Prefontaine again; a new Machado Mijiga album.

MusicWatch: On this harvest moon

Green shows in Ashland, Indian music in Portland, Gustav vs. Gabe, queer and femme.

MusicWatch Monthly: Music is work

Working hard with Renegade Opera, Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, Cascadia Composers, Lose Yr Mind Fest, Ural Thomas, Amenta “Yawa” Abioto, and more.

MusicWatch Monthly: Becoming marble

Remembering David Bernstein, Tomáš Svoboda, and Metallica. A vinyl celebration of Roselit Bone, Spoon Benders, The Shivas, and Møtrick. Joe Kye sings about grandma.

MusicWatch Monthly: In veni vidi veritas

In which we consider the meanings of music with a Fresh Air Fest, a Columbia Riverkeeper composer-in-residence, a pair of rowdy rock concerts, and a sampling of Chamber Music Northwest.

MusicWatch Mid-monthly: Whose broad stripes and bright stars?

Hurtling into Fourth of July weekend and the height of summer with Waterfront Blues Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Bach Festival, and The Thesis.

MusicWatch Monthly: An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds

Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.

MusicWatch Monthly: May the flowers be with you

In which the Merry Month promises premieres, percussions, a plethora of Bandcamp Friday pickings, and plenty more.

MusicWatch Monthly: Out with the new, in with the new

New music, new music, and other new music. Also: old music.

MusicWatch Mid-monthly: Between form and formlessness

The Shivas and !mindparade shimmy into Doug Fir Lounge; 45th Parallel illuminates the Universe; Machado Mijiga’s new “Uncharted,” “Loss” and Third Angle; MF Zakir.

MusicWatch Monthly: What’s a tuba for?

In which we discuss Baroque music, marching bands, protest songs, and other acts of resistance.