The program of music for solo flute and electronics features music by Keiko Devaux, Alison Loggins-Hull, Nicholas Denton Protsack, Chloe Upshaw, and Oregonians Elaina Rae Stuppler and Daniel Vega.
The new year takes flight with a festival of Portland bands, a local pop star, and a bevy of chittering contemporary classical music.
NMG 2023 acknowledged loss and celebrated recovery with concerts indoors and outside.
The Portland-based ensemble performs Philip Glass’ science-fiction music drama under the Spruce Goose as the finale to its season exploring the human mind.
Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; “Ladies’ Night” with Third Angle.
Third Angle is coming out swinging for the return to live music, kicking off on July 11 at Topaz Farm with the three mini concerts of Fresh Air Fest. It was a much-needed retreat up to Sauvie Island for a midsummer Sunday
Third Angle moves out of the dark days with Sunday’s Fresh Air Fest on a Sauvie Island farm.
Cut to December: It didn’t get less weird. Seeing the music and larger worlds from our almost front-row seats.
First of all, how are you? Eating enough? Staying inside and entertained? Called your friends and/or family lately? Good. Let’s start by collectively admitting that we’re Not Doing Alright. It’s been a busy two weeks since last we spoke, dear reader: schools
Matthew Neil Andrews spots composers everywhere, and a jazz festival, too.
Several questions haunted this journalist’s mind during a series of fall concerts put on by three of Portland’s most excellent classical groups: Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, and Third Angle New Music. The music was all good, but was often upstaged by
Contemporary classical music composers–whom we might define as “those who look to the classical canon as root”–are frequently self-conscious about the historical and perennial shortcomings of modern art music (“that which seeks to transcend the history of western music”–again, my definition). Hyper
Our most excellent wrap of November music classical, new, jazzy, and hybrids in between.
Third Angle welcomes Oregonian composers home. Creative Music Guild improvises.
“Classical”? “Popular”? The week’s music ducks and dodges around a blurry line.
Caution: Radioactive glowing disk has returned to Oregon’s skies! Remember your sunscreen! Remember your sunscreen! Message repeats. Five weeks and one day There’s an old zen saying: you should meditate 20 minutes every day unless you’re too busy, in which case you
How do you evoke a city in music? George Gershwin used jazzy, brash orchestral music to summon 1920s New York’s bustling beauty. On Thursday and Friday, two Portland composer/sound artists will create a very different kind of soundscape to reflect our city’s
When Sarah Tiedemann was growing up in Hillsboro in the 1980s, the city looked quite different than it does now. Its residents were mostly white, its identity mostly derived from its agricultural heritage. Now, Hillsboro is Oregon’s fourth largest city, many of
The annual summer slowdown in Oregon’s live music season gives us a chance to catch up on some recent news. Do check out other events this week we’ve already previewed elsewhere, including a pair of vintage shows: an encore of a Aquilon
Third Angle New Music’s final 2017-18 season concert was titled “A Fond Farewell.” The title came from an Elliott Smith song, appropriate for a concert devoted to re-imaginings of the late Portland singer/songwriter/guitarist’s music. But it was appropriate for another reason: the
• This Saturday, March 3, Portland musicians and fans of long time radio host Robert McBride will gather to celebrate the All Classical Portland announcer and composer’s retirement from the airwaves in a live concert that you can hear over the air
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