Performance With the economic and political Depression of ’09 hammering the arts world, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival decided to make some lemonade out of today’s sour reality, turning to a great vo ...   More

News

For all the big name (in avant-performance circles at least) national and international acts that come to town for TBA, some of my favorite festival moments over the years have come courtesy of the Seattle and Portland performers featured in Ten Tiny Dances, the semi-annual local perfor...   More

Performance This fascinating project has more names than a ’50s jazzbo had euphemisms for Benzedrine. The third in an ongoing series of jazz-accompanied readings derived from Robert Briggs’ evocative ...   More

Special Section DIRTY BEGGARS: Michael Herrman (left) and Stephen Marc Beaudoin. IMAGE: Christine TaylorDuring the darkest days of the Bush administration, Opera Theater Oregon founder Katie Taylor sought a productio ...   More

Visual Arts Oregon Shakespeare Festival accountants, rejoice: In his world-premiere production of Bill Cain’s magnificent Equivocation, artistic director Bill Rauch has found a work that pleases both OSF&rs ...   More

Performance Mandolinist Chris Thile’s splendid work with his prog-bluegrass trio, Nickel Creek, hardly prepared us for the ingenuity and ambition of his Punch Brothers project with classically trained, blue ...   More

Special Section June 22-July 26: Chamber Music NorthwestAs usual, some of the world’s finest classical musicians (Alan Vogel, David Shifrin, Daedalus Quartet, Fred Sherry, Colin Carr, André Watts, the re ...   More

Music The Portland Jazz Orchestra heads in a funky new direction.

[AFRO-LATIN JAZZ] Wynton Marsalis calls Afro-Cuban music the “roux” of jazz, providing its essential flavor and body. Those rhythms—what Jelly Roll Morton called “the Spanish tinge”—“have been very much a part of jazz from the beginning,” says Charley Gray, co-director of the ...   More

Music Stories [AFRO-LATIN JAZZ] Wynton Marsalis calls Afro-Cuban music the “roux” of jazz, providing its essential flavor and body. Those rhythms—what Jelly Roll Morton called “the Spanish t ...   More

News

"I was blessed with the gift of excessive volume," declares soprano wannabe Florence Foster Jenkins. The portly New York City classical music warbler was also cursed with the gift of, shall we say, unintentional microtonality, as well as a breezy indifferenc...   More