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.
In which we discuss holiday traditions new and old.
Summer brings sunny festivals to Oregon ears: Chamber Music Northwest inside, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival outside, and more.
The acclaimed Portland composer and cellist discusses her creative renaissance
Director Patrick Walsh is bringing a filmed production of a Greek tragedy to prisons across Oregon.
Bah, humbug! It’s too early for Christmas music, don’t you think? Just because December is upon us, with its flakey promises of snow, doesn’t mean there isn’t a nice pile of early unholiday presents waiting. We’ve got a good dozen or two
“Good afternoon! I’m David Shifrin, and I play the clarinet!” A big roomful of laughing clarinetists goes “woooo!” and welcomes the Chamber Music Northwest Artistic Director to Portland State University’s Lincoln Performance Hall for the first of the festival’s five New@Noon concerts.
The 49th Oregon Bach Festival has lately been looking a bit like a Blah-ch Festival. If the venerable University of Oregon music institution is ever to regain the cultural primacy it once enjoyed in its glory days, I’m afraid we’ll need to
Mahler’s symphonies seem like a closing chapter, a culmination of big, Romantic orchestral music. So large (and expensive!) are the forces required, that orchestras often save them for the end of the season. On Thursday, Francesco Lecce-Chong concludes his debut season with
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