Music Stories Brian McWhorter is a real homegrown genius: When he attended the University of Oregon music school in the 1990s, the Portland native earned a national reputation as a trumpet prodigy and local notice ... More
Beta Collide. Friday, Oct. 17
The fortuitous pileup of two Oregon virtuosos.
Music Stories Brian McWhorter is a real homegrown genius: When he attended the University of Oregon music school in the 1990s, the Portland native earned a national reputation as a trumpet prodigy and local notice ... More
Songs (and Strings) of Summer
Recent releases from five local classical and postclassical performers.
Performance Byzantium in Rome (cappellaromana.org), the ninth release from Portland vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, explores the little-heard yet immensely powerful 13th-century music chanted by expatriate Greek ... More
Imani Winds and Roberto Sierra
Classical music without the powdered wigs.
Performance Classical music is no longer the last bastion of white, upper-class Eurocentricity, and this week’s Chamber Music Northwest concerts prove it: The featured ensemble, Imani Winds, is composed of ... More
Agnieszka Laska-Dickson String Quartet
A remarkable family band tackles some serious strings.
Performance When the piano-playing siblings the Five Browns began packing concert halls for their performances of popular classics, their story—a truly musical family—was just as responsible for their ... More
Fanfare For The Fallen
Trumpeter turns to Copland for China quake relief.
Performance At 6:30 on the morning of May 11, Jay Chen awoke in his home outside Corvallis to a phone call from a friend in Chicago. He’d seen reports of a major earthquake in China, its epicenter just 50 m ... More
Too Cool For Words
NYC’s Wordless Music Series comes to Portland.
Performance Despite corporate music’s attempts to squish creativity into tidy, discrete pigeonholes, the more out-there manifestations of alt rock, free jazz, post-classical avant garde and electronica shar ... More
The Tudor Choir
Mozart: the original music pirate.
Performance Think corporate control over music is a hassle now? Consider the 17th century’s Devotional Rights Management. In the 1630s, the pope commissioned Gregorio Allegri to compose a musical setting of ... More
Third Angle: River of Life, Friday, Jan. 11
Music [ART FOLK] Pigeonholers often categorize music as either high or low—as “art” or “folk.” But composers have long been transforming folk songs into something more complex. And today’s postclassical tunesmiths draw on the very roots of such “common&rdqu... More
Third Angle: River of Life Friday, Jan. 11
Folk gets highbrow with endless drums and plenty of H2O.
Music Stories [ART FOLK] Pigeonholers often categorize music as either high or low—as “art” or “folk.” But composers have long been transforming folk songs into something more complex. ... More
Gandharv Bhatara, owner of Pi-rem
Music [UNDERGROUND] You probably haven’t heard of Pi-rem, and its owner, Gandharv Bhatara, doesn’t necessarily mind. Bhatara opened the Chinatown gallery/lounge/venue in April of 2006—not long after the 30-year-old research engineer (originally from India) obtained his Ph.D. from Stanfo... More
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Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Samurai Jazz
Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin gives experimental jazz its groove back. Lloyd Reynolds A Life of Forms in Art
A calligrapher’s life beyond letters. Morten Lauridsen (Portland State Choirs)
A Northwest homecoming. “The Spanish Hour” and “The Bewitched Child” (Portland Opera)
The Opera breaks out with two less-performed one-acts. Portland Fall Arts Guide 2012: Pearls After a Lazy Lunch
How will an Oregon Symphony violinist do as a downtown busker? Nancy King: Wednesday, Aug. 15
A legendary jazz singer struggles to make ends meet. Gandharv Bhatara, owner of Pi-rem
Jeff Mapes Pedaling Revolution.
A December Feast (In Mulieribus)
An ethereal antidote to Christmas schmaltz.
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