MusicWatch Monthly: What flowers may come
April 29, 2021
At least April ended on a high note: FearNoMusic’s headliner show capped off its season brilliantly.
At least April ended on a high note: FearNoMusic’s headliner show capped off its season brilliantly.
Looking forward to a wild summer where the masks start to come off and the concerts slowly start coming back.
Old Portland, new Portland, any way you like Portland: Charles Rose lends an ear to the music of March.
Portland Jazz Festival, rewatching Motchisuki, African films, Black composers, Sybarite5 and more.
This year the holidays take on a somber tone. Will we have to leave some of our favorite traditions behind?
Fear No Music’s new series starts with Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Adolphus Hailstork.
The last six months have left us starved for live music, with the country kinda-but-not-really shutting down to handle the pandemic. Luckily for us, a cohort of young singers took it upon themselves to stage the first full opera production in Oregon since March.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part Three of a three-part interview with the composer.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part Two of a three-part interview with the composer.
Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem”: Part One of a three-part interview with the composer.
Mourning the passing of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose music processes trauma.
Portland Percussion Group bangs the drums every which way. Is this the bridge the music world needs?
The Creative Music Guild’s Extradition Series summer concert confronts the sounds of silence.
CMNW performer-composer Boja Kragulj talks technology, creativity, education, and making connections.
Rolston String Quartet performs Mozart, Brahms, and R. Murray Schaeffer at Alberta Rose.
This state is just crawling with composers, though you might not know it if you only go to Oregon Symphony and Third Angle concerts—just to arbitrarily pick on a pair of robust local organizations with rather different ideas of what constitutes classical
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