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Has any musician ever had a year like Leonard Bernstein did between November 1943 and December 1944? The 25-year-old wunderkind won national fame for fill-in … Continue reading
Everybody’s seen the movie. Many of us have read the book(s), seen Wicked and The Wiz, maybe even caught a high school production. So why see The Wizard of Oz onstage? … Continue reading
Tamolitch Pool on the McKenzie River near Blue River is one of our area’s most magnificent natural spaces. Its allure inspired Salem-based composer-pianist James Miley’s … Continue reading
Every summer, The Shedd’s Oregon Festival of American Music approaches its two-week series of concerts, films, talks and more from different angles, but its perennial … Continue reading
Guys and Dolls is an ass-backward classic. Instead of starting with a great story and setting it to music, a pair of producers engaged a writer … Continue reading
After the most tumultuous year in its history, the Oregon Bach Festival returns — its internationally acclaimed artistic director fired, its reputation tarnished by his mysterious … Continue reading
At a composers panel discussion at last summer’s Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) festival in Portland, Imani Winds hornist Jeff Scott noted that the wind quintet’s … Continue reading
Frat boys and jocks were popular subjects for Jazz Age musicals. Jerome Kern’s 1933 Roberta wasn’t as important or as lucrative as Kern’s earlier Showboat, but it scored … Continue reading
Mahler’s music seems like a closing chapter. It marked the end of a certain kind of big, Romantic orchestral music, so all-encompassing that 20th-century composers … Continue reading
“Born on a day God was drunk,” Maria inhabits a Buenos Aires demimonde populated by ghosts, criminals, marionettes, pasta makers, psychoanalysts and other shady characters. … Continue reading