Also: Freddie Vilches Meneses with Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Nancy Ives and Giancarlo Castro D’Addona and Sylvan Talavera with Portland Youth Philharmonic. Also also: bands, bands, bands, and more bands.
The new year takes flight with a festival of Portland bands, a local pop star, and a bevy of chittering contemporary classical music.
A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.
Youth orchestras, Oregon poets, spiritual moments, and more.
Authentic music making and memories highlighted the recent PSCO concert “Authentic Self,” which featured music by Mozart alongside works by Florence Beatrice Price, Gerald Finzi, Joaquín Turina, and more.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Brett Deubner perform not one but two world premieres.
Symphonies, concerti, chamber collabs, extra-curricular improv, progressive jazz, and Zoomer B.S.
When the pandemic struck it seemed music news would dry up. But musicians found new ways to connect.
Bad news, everyone! No, it’s not quite the end of the world. But, yes, shows are being canceled.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Big crowds & small artists at the big boom, new art & dance, a fresh film fest.
Matthew Neil Andrews on a trio of Portland orchestras keeping the American symphony alive.
As Lou Harrison said, music is basically a song and a dance. Welcome to a week of it.
Our most excellent wrap of November music classical, new, jazzy, and hybrids in between.
“Classical”? “Popular”? The week’s music ducks and dodges around a blurry line.
Oregon’s leading classical music public radio station All Classical Portland has launched a brand-new second radio network, for children. The International Children’s Arts Network (ICAN) is a 24-hour radio service and, the station announcement says, is the first of its kind in
The weather’s changing, the climate’s changing, the Congress is changing, our linens are changing (flannel sheet season FTW!) and ensembles coming through Oregon this week are changing the formula for chamber music. • Take the combo of violin, viola, drum, and DJ.
“Born on a day God was drunk,” Maria inhabits a Buenos Aires demimonde populated by ghosts, criminals, marionettes, pasta makers, psychoanalysts and and other shady characters. She’s seduced by tango, becomes a prostitute, is murdered — and then things get really weird.
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus is hosting the Beijing Queer Chorus — China’s first LGBTQ choir — in a week-long community residency that culminates in a pair of public concerts. Friday and Saturday’s Pacific Voices shows at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium feature both
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