Performance French-horn player Leander Star and his partner, flutist Elise Blatchford, had already rented a truck to move from Chicago back to his hometown of Portland when they got the news. Their year-old   More

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More than almost any other single figure, long-time Oregon Symphony music director James DePreist, who died Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz. from complications following open heart surgery last spring, helped vault the state's major music institution to national prominence. He was 76.

During the years he led the orchestra, from 1980 to 2003, DePreist helped transform the OSO from a minor regional ...   More

Arts & Books It is a rare thing, in Portland, to witness spanking-new work by a renowned composer of contemporary classical music, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's career has been nothing if not storied—works played for the White House, first woman to win the Pulitzer, a career as one of the most performed composers in America. And so we can consider it a privilege when Friends of Chamber Music brings in her newest ...   More