PuzzleWatch: Maestro – The Bernstein Puzzle
The iconic conductor, composer, and music educator, back in the limelight after getting the biopic treatment, now receives the greatest honor of them all: his own ArtsWatch crossword puzzle.
The iconic conductor, composer, and music educator, back in the limelight after getting the biopic treatment, now receives the greatest honor of them all: his own ArtsWatch crossword puzzle.
This week at the movies: Bradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein, Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel comes to the silver screen, plus documentaries, the return of Hayao Miyazaki, and a few holiday favorites.
Also this week: “Radical Wolfe” pays tribute to an iconic New Journalist, and a hungry Hindu demon haunts a group of teens in “It Lives Inside.”
On an April evening in 1944, a young dancer from Portland made history in Jerome Robbins’ first ballet.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
Evan Lewis considers OJMCHE’s exhibition of artifacts from the career of a musical legend
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
by MATTHEW ANDREWS “We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art.
“Good evening everyone!” Vancouver Symphony Orchestra music director Salvador Brotons told the full house at Skyview Concert Hall. “This evening: all American music. We usually play only the dead composers,” including this night’s classics by Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber. But this
Queer, like pride, is a verb. As a verb, it can have two opposing meanings: to problematize, and to normalize. In a single September weekend, Portlanders heard both, in very different approaches to queering art music. Third Angle’s September 14 season opener
by MATTHEW ANDREWS The Oregon Symphony Orchestra started its season in September with two of the more unusual, less typically classical types of concerts it regularly produces. The first was part of the film-with-live-score series, always among the OSO’s most popular concerts;
Has any musician ever had a year like Leonard Bernstein did between November 1943 and December 1944? The 25-year-old wunderkind won national fame for fill-in conducting the New York Philharmonic on short notice in a nationally broadcast concert from Carnegie Hall, conducted
The adventurous Portland/Seattle ensemble Sound of Late premieres Book of the Dark by American composer Alan Shockley at their Saturday night informal, hour-long show at Portland’s New Expressive Works. The chamber music score incorporates references to James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, moody English
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