Let the music make us whole
Voices in Vancouver; PGMC at The Reser; Aurora Chorus sings Joan Szymko.
Voices in Vancouver; PGMC at The Reser; Aurora Chorus sings Joan Szymko.
Matthew Neil Andrews spots composers everywhere, and a jazz festival, too.
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
This is what we fear…Nothing to think withNothing to love or link with From “Aubade” by Philip Larkin, excerpted in Shadow & Light. When Eugene Concert Choir and Vocal Arts director Diane Retallack approached Joan Szymko in 2014 to write a new
It’s a busy month of music in Oregon, from classical to hip-hop to experimental and more.
Folksy chamber operas, locavore choral music, doom and psych and loops, pairs of pairs of pairs.
The first movement of Melissa Dunphy’s new choral composition LISTEN sets texts from Anita Hill’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, with lines like “I thought he respected my work” and “When I was asked, I had to tell the
There’s an old Oregon saying: “April showers bring May showers.” Our famously persnickety springs tend to veer from warm noon-times of glorious blooming sunshine to those long desperate afternoons of deep drizzling gloom that have our S.A.D. souls begging the gods, “when
Oregonians today are lucky to be able to hear live performances of music from several centuries, not just the narrow 150 year swath of Central European music that once dominated classical concerts. This week’s concert schedule includes music from the Renaissance, Baroque,
by BRUCE BROWNE and DARYL BROWNE James DePreist, famed conductor of the Oregon Symphony from 1980-2003, once shared with me his thoughts on producing a recording. During his tenure, the orchestra produced 17 recordings, one of which, in 2003, garnered a Grammy
by BRUCE BROWNE Think of it as March Madness. No rankings, no betting on outcomes, but this (approximately) “Sweet 16” of choirs from all over the Northwest who converged in Portland last month for the Northwest Regional American Choral Directors conference was
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