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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
“The times change, and we change with them. How? Time passing makes mankind worse.” That 17th-century epigram may sound depressingly apt to observers of our … Continue reading