Dances and Rhapsodies
Pianists take center stage this week

Everybody knows Rhapsody in Blue, which likely ranks in the top three most recognizable works of American classical music. From that famous bluesy opening clarinet … Continue reading
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Everybody knows Rhapsody in Blue, which likely ranks in the top three most recognizable works of American classical music. From that famous bluesy opening clarinet … Continue reading
Classical music is great at going big — witness Eugene Symphony’s concert Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Hult Center featuring Tchaikovsky’s monumental Piano Concerto No. … Continue reading
Cappella Romana is one of Oregon’s most famous classical music institutions. Founded in 1991, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the … Continue reading
Long before the #MeToo movement, the classical music establishment had a long and inglorious history of sexism. Even in the supposedly liberated 20th and 21st … Continue reading
As 2018 mercifully closes, there’s so much wrong in our country that a significant portion of the music and theater being created today seems to … Continue reading
It’s December and, these days, that means omnipresent standard holiday tunes have already crossed the threshold between inspirational nostalgia and annoying oversaturation. So it’s a … Continue reading
Millions of Americans celebrate Christmas, but let’s face it: The Yuletide is hardly an American original. Sometimes it seems about the only thing we’ve contributed … Continue reading
It’s no coincidence that Black Violin’s latest album is titled Stereotypes. “We’ve been stereotyped from the moment we picked up the instruments,” the duo’s violist Wil … Continue reading
Any contest for the greatest songwriter of all time has to rank Franz Schubert near the top. He wrote 600 of them, after all, despite … Continue reading
October’s big show is the Eugene Symphony’s Thursday, Oct. 18, Hult Center concert featuring eminent Portland composer David Schiff’s Stomp, Leonard Bernstein’s ambitious “Age of Anxiety” symphony … Continue reading