Music News & Notes: a founder fallen
Brett Campbell
July 25, 2023
The passing of Cascadia founder David Bernstein, and other leadership transitions.
The passing of Cascadia founder David Bernstein, and other leadership transitions.
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.
Theaters and galleries ramp up for the holidays with a stone-age musical, a new adaptation of Dickens’ classic, art sales, and a Pride Winter Ball.
The married couple talk about making music together and their upcoming concerts with Third Angle at the OMSI Planetarium.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; “Ladies’ Night” with Third Angle.
The new musical drama from Third Angle delves into gentrification and its cost to Black communities.
The director and composer discuss their new opera “Sanctuaries” and staging it outside Memorial Coliseum.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
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
“There’s a lot this country needs to explore, and understand, and comprehend about itself. Transformation–that’s what ‘Revolution’ is about.”
I just have to tell you about this song I’ve had stuck in my head for the last nine months.
This year the holidays take on a somber tone. Will we have to leave some of our favorite traditions behind?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Holiday shows, making theatrical spirits bright, gallery art, new music, fresh flicks, passages.
In which we lament Geter’s Requiem, remember Menomena, and set Kevin down on the PDX Couch.
Strikes, unions, mega-corporations and the unpaid labors of love (with a tip of the hat to Bandcamp).
Bad news, everyone! No, it’s not quite the end of the world. But, yes, shows are being canceled.
Defining “American”: Caroline Shaw, nyckelharpa and hardanger fiddle, Carnatic voice & violin, harps & drums, American gothick.
Talking with “triple threat” Caroline Shaw, in town to perform her own music with Third Angle New Music.
Matthew Neil Andrews spots composers everywhere, and a jazz festival, too.
In which we bid adieu to Neil Peart and comfort ourselves with winey classical marimba, saturnalian psalms, and an operatic sistah.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
Hip-hop haven, profiles in gender, museum Loverules, a new opera, un-holiday tunes, gibassiers & more.
Portland Book Fest turns the page, downtown gets a new museum, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like … already?
“Classical”? “Popular”? The week’s music ducks and dodges around a blurry line.
It’s a busy month of music in Oregon, from classical to hip-hop to experimental and more.
By AARON SHINGLES From birdsong to sky to ocean, John Luther Adams‘s music venerates the natural world and reflects nature’s splendor. His 2018 string quartet Everything That Rises feels like a warm afternoon lying in the grass and staring at clouds. On
Well, that was the year that was, wasn’t it? Old Man 2018 limps out of the limelight with a thousand scars, a thousand accomplishments, and a whole lot of who-knows-what. The new kid on the block, Baby 2019, arrives fit and sassy,
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
Pop-up restaurants. Pop-up bars. Pop-up nightclubs, galleries, boutiques, publishing houses, concerts. We’re living in a pop-up world, so why not pop-up theater? The traditional method of producing is to start a theater company, announce a season, and run a half-dozen shows for
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