Music News & Notes: New Music USA seeds new music in Portland
Brett Campbell
January 31, 2023
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
The exhibition “RingrIngriNrinG” explores technology and the human condition. Definitive answers are not part of the exploration.
Faculty transitions open up a new position and the opportunity to transform how the department teaches dance at the intersection of social, political, and creative movements.
Oregon loses compelling voices in theater, comedy, fiction, and photography. An appreciation of four who made a difference.
Love is in the literary air at several readings this month, and Literary Arts looks toward spring with its announcement of 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists.
Generations and cultures clash on court and off at Artists Rep, plus Broadway Rose’s Steven Schwartz hybrid revue/musical and The Theatre Company’s video theater stream
Seattle Opera produced the Saint-Saëns opera with minimal sets and big voices.
Against all odds, censored Iranian master Jafar Panahi creates another captivating concoction of fact and fiction; Brandon Cronenberg’s third feature is a shocking indictment of the rich and powerful; and Bill Nighy sparkles in “Living,” but it’s no “Ikiru.”
In a modern twist on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters, Ashley Song is energetic as Holmes and Kimberly Chatterjee’s Watson embodies many aspects of female experience.
Jennifer Rabin finds more than anticipated on a visit to the exhibition “A Call for Light” at the makerspace Past Lives in industrial Southeast Portland.
“I want to paint them the way the spirits would see them,” the artist says of the 40 portraits in the show, which opens Feb. 2 in Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
“Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception” marks a new era for contemporary art at the Portland Japanese Garden as well as a requiem for its late curator, Matt Jay.
At Lan Su Garden and the Portland Chinatown Museum, tradition meets new realities and possibilities – and the challenges of a houseless crisis.
Has the city lost its way? In the first of a series of urban portraits, K.B. Dixon reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Associate conductor Tham makes a stunning concert hall debut with the Oregon Symphony.
In the Portland writer’s new novel “Painting Through the Dark,” a young Irish artist fights for liberation in California.
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
Kate Hamill’s updated detective tale opens at Center Stage; plus “The Americans,” an all-too-pertinent “Cabaret,” and taco-loving dragons.
Hank Willis Thomas’s “The Embrace” in Boston is “a monument to love and joy, the twin wells of courage and perseverance.”
Generationally speaking, what we’ve got here is failure to communicate. And “Everything Everywhere” scores big with the critics circle.
Cappella Romana connects the music of Byzantium and England in their January concert “A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court,” and sings the “B minor Mass” in Salem with conductor Paul Klemme in February. A cappella music comes to a festival in Bend and a competition in Sherwood.
The quilts in Lorenz’s show “Strange Attractors” showcase nothing less than the vibrancy of the universe. Prudence Roberts reviews.
The medium is “having a moment in the arts world” due to interest in studio crafts and handmade work, sustainability, and local cultures.
The Portland writer, hip hop organizer, and activist discusses life as a Black Muslim in Oregon, the foundation of We Out Here Magazine, and monthly hip hop showcase The Thesis.
Since the upheavals of 2020 Portland and the nation have been in turmoil over race and more. A new play exploring the issues finds inspiration from a book of photographs from the 1950s.
Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.
Bored? Tired of aimlessly fiddling around? Maybe it’s time to try your hand at Daryl Browne’s latest crossword puzzle. No strings attached!
David McCarthy’s book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.
FNM’s recent concert at The Old Church celebrated 25 years of the Young Composers Project.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, beset by pandemic and environmental troubles, slashes leadership and other jobs – and Artistic Director Nataki Garrett adds more duties.
Also showing this week: Portland’s 10th EcoFilm Festival, Bollywood’s “RRR,” and the classic glories of Technicolor.
Jamuna Chiarini considers the Performance Works NW/Linda Austin Dance residency opportunity, which addresses barriers preventing parents from succeeding as movement artists.
“Read a book!” isn’t an insult. It’s a surprise, a pleasure, a punch in the gut, an eye-opening education, and a blessing.
As Studio Abioto’s African-diaspora “Red Thread: Green Earth” closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.
Artists Rep’s premiere of Kareem Fahmy’s “American Fast” does a fast break on sport, faith, and culture. Plus: Sondheim for a new generation.
January’s art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what’s on view in this month’s VizArts Monthly.
A pair of movies about women of low and high birth responding to repression; German and Japanese cinema at the Clinton; a flock of revivals: Welcome to 2023.
In an annual sewing challenge, members of the fiber arts group make wearable art. Themes in the Lincoln City Cultural Center exhibit include marriage, recycling, and women leaders.
The new year begins with jubilant productions from Broadway to burlesque and Pink Floyd to folk dance.
The women of the hit TV show “Grimm” team up again to tell behind-the-scenes stories, interview special guests and share their love of Portland in their podcast, “The Grimmcast.”
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
2023 begins with readings by authors including Erika Bolstad, Nathan Slinker, Leanne Grabel, Bill Siverly, Curtis White, Dianne Stepp, and Josephine Woolington.
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