The big groups play the big names, from Beethoven to Dvořák to Tchaikovsky to Bach. Also: Renegade Opera at the Hampton Center, Kronos Quartet and Imani Winds at The Reser.
The duo discusses how they met, where the name comes from, their recent deal with Nonesuch Records, the “Voice Memo Roulette” game, and a method for using Brahms chords.
Percussion concerts with 45th Parallel and Third Angle; goth and punk and whathaveyou at Mississippi Studios; CMNW’s mini-festival of piano trios; neurologist Larry Sherman with Portland Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Brown Quartet plays “Blackstar.”
The Pulitzer-winning composer and Portland singer-songwriter’s new “electronic cinematic pop duo” Ringdown prepares for festival season with a concert in Northeast Portland; MYS performs two more Oregon composers and also Beethoven.
In which we discuss the virtues of imperfection and risk-taking with the clarinetist, bar-owner, and Opera Theater Oregon executive director.
The choral ensemble starts their semester-long residency at Linfield University in McMinnville. The recently shuttered jazz club has changed management and is making plans to reopen.
An in-depth conversation with the pianist and singer, pairing up for their ‘Cycles of Life’ concerts Feb. 10 & 11 in West Linn.
The pronk quartet returns to live music, Oregon Symphony celebrates the “Rhapsody” centennial, Grammy-winner Cann performans a recital of Black women composers for PPI, Eugene Concert Choir releases their “Black is Beautiful” CD, and the Albina Community Archive goes live.
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.
A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.
Following jazz around Oregon, from Jack London Revue to Jo Bar & Rotisserie and beyond.
Doom metal in Eugene, orchestras young and old, all the Strauss you can handle, Beethoven’s Glorious Ninth, New Year’s Eve parties, a burlesque extravaganza, and more.
Punk, metal, jazz, and the Oregon School of Composition–just in time for the last Fee Free Friday of 2023.
YOB is love; Eugene versus Corvallis; Renegade Opera and PSU Opera; twangy Indian music; and the one true “Messiah.”
Youth orchestras, Oregon poets, spiritual moments, and more.
Oregon Symphony will perform Akiho’s latest this weekend, alongside Dvořák’s Othello Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique.”
!mindparade, Saloli, Via Mardot, and all the synths; Yawa with her voice and her technologies; a tribute to Svoboda; Delgani plays Golijov and Reza Vali; an All Hallows’ Evening.
Xhurch and regular church; so many difficult Friday the 13th shows; LISTENing to Resonance; Prefontaine again; a new Machado Mijiga album.
The singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader discusses her band’s new album “Ofrenda.”
Green shows in Ashland, Indian music in Portland, Gustav vs. Gabe, queer and femme.
Working hard with Renegade Opera, Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, Cascadia Composers, Lose Yr Mind Fest, Ural Thomas, Amenta “Yawa” Abioto, and more.
A conversation with the Nasalrod bassist and DIY label chief.
The new-music flutist joins an extensive roster of musicians at four concerts on the coast.
Remembering David Bernstein, Tomáš Svoboda, and Metallica. A vinyl celebration of Roselit Bone, Spoon Benders, The Shivas, and Møtrick. Joe Kye sings about grandma.
In which we consider the meanings of music with a Fresh Air Fest, a Columbia Riverkeeper composer-in-residence, a pair of rowdy rock concerts, and a sampling of Chamber Music Northwest.
Hurtling into Fourth of July weekend and the height of summer with Waterfront Blues Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Bach Festival, and The Thesis.
Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
In which the Merry Month promises premieres, percussions, a plethora of Bandcamp Friday pickings, and plenty more.
In which we present a selection of Fee Free Friday albums–and timely concerts–featuring Y La Bamba, Caroline Shaw, Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Andy Akiho.
The Shivas and !mindparade shimmy into Doug Fir Lounge; 45th Parallel illuminates the Universe; Machado Mijiga’s new “Uncharted,” “Loss” and Third Angle; MF Zakir.
In which we discuss Baroque music, marching bands, protest songs, and other acts of resistance.
Featuring KayelaJ, Donte Thomas, PDXJazz, Darrell Grant, and the latest edition of long-running hip-hop showcase The Thesis.
Listening backwards and forwards to the trends and traditions which (we hope) will continue into the next year.
Your guide to making last-minute holiday music plans through the New Year, from Nutcrackers to Pink Martinis.
In which we pull up a clutch of Halloween shows, screaming, by the roots.
From YOB to Bewitcher, just in time for Bandcamp Friday.
Choose your own adventure with a walking tour of Southeast Portland’s two-night music festival.
Black Bandcamp Matters: A wealth of sounds, from JxJURY to Darrell Grant.
As musicians play canary in the Covid coal mine, youth orchestras play concerti; cellos haunt The Old Church and Dante’s; Gaytheist and Eight Bells get hard.
A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.
Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; “Ladies’ Night” with Third Angle.
Christmas concerts, drag shows, música latina, doom metal, and everything in between
The Oregon ArtsWatch guide to giving musicians your money
Eschewing the “return” to “live” music in favor of a relieved, sustained, sustainable isolation.
Third Angle moves out of the dark days with Sunday’s Fresh Air Fest on a Sauvie Island farm.
The composer and Reed prof talks about doing what all composers should: releasing a whole album of her own music.
ArtsWatch’s new series asks music groups: How are you doing? How about that last Year of Weirdness? What’s next?
“There’s a lot this country needs to explore, and understand, and comprehend about itself. Transformation–that’s what ‘Revolution’ is about.”
Matthew Neil Andrews on the joy of following Machado Mijiga, plus Joe Henderson, Bobby McFerrin, Freddie Hubbard & more.
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