In a Landscape expands horizons
Brett Campbell
July 5, 2023
Pianist Hunter Noack’s wandering combination of classical music and natural beauty is reaching new audiences in new places.
Pianist Hunter Noack’s wandering combination of classical music and natural beauty is reaching new audiences in new places.
Legislators and cultural figures gather at Salem’s Elsinore Theatre to launch the Legislature’s new Oregon Arts and Culture Caucus.
As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon’s Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.
Barbara Sellers-Young’s book “Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story” tells a tale of the state’s artists as leaders in environmental awareness.
When the pandemic struck it seemed music news would dry up. But musicians found new ways to connect.
With so many performances going online, our news roundup follows suit with video and audio from Oregon musicians for your home streaming enjoyment
The good, the bad, and the adaptable: Oregon musicians make the best of a socially isolated summer.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
Hunter Noack grew up in Sunriver cherishing both classical music and outdoor Oregon. His mother, Lori Noack, directed the Sunriver Music Festival, which each year included top American classical pianists. “Growing up in central Oregon, I spent all my time outside when
Portland’s classical music scene is experiencing a leadership transformation. This season, Third Angle New Music selected Sarah Tiedemann as its artistic director, replacing Ron Blessinger, who had moved over to 45th Parallel Universe as interim artistic director of the now collectively run
Women: bad, deceptive, must be tamed. Seeking knowledge: bad, dangerous to entrenched power. Blind obedience: good. That’s how a certain sexist serial Twit might regard the Adam & Eve myth, which describes original sin, all right — by a misogynistic patriarchy against
We Oregonians can’t wait to for summer, and then when it gets here, we kvetch — the heat! The smoke! The kids underfoot! Not enough concerts! Wait, that hasn’t been true for awhile. But school’s back, for some, the heat wave is
It’s probably not accurate to say that Yamhill County is in the midst of a “renaissance” of live entertainment, because definitions of the word (beyond the obvious historical reference to Europe in the 1300-1600s) typically rely on synonyms like “renewal,” “rebirth,” “revival”
What began as an informal neighborhood musical soiree has blossomed into one of Portland’s jazz treasures. The fifth annual Montavilla Jazz Festival at Portland Metro Arts, 9003 SE Stark, is headlined by the Grammy-nominated team of primo pianist Randy Porter’s Trio with jazz
Every summer, The Shedd’s Oregon Festival of American Music approaches its two-week series of concerts, films, talks and more from different angles, but the Eugene festival’s perennial subject — American pop music from the 1920s to just before the rise of rock
Portland’s summer music scene would feel incomplete without Portland SummerFest Opera in the Park, the annual free, family friendly opera performance in Washington Park Amphitheater, with the audience arrayed on their blankets gazing down at singers and orchestra on the amphitheater stage.
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