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October closes with a plenitude of pianistic delights for classical music fans, beginning with Thursday’s Eugene Symphony concert at the Hult Center featuring the rising young pianist … Continue reading
Carole King vaulted to fame by co-writing a slew of sensational ’60s hits for various bands, most notably the Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” She … Continue reading
Before it was a band, Nerve was a jam session at a little New York bar that quickly grew into a regular dance party at … Continue reading
A few years ago, Oregon-born pianist Hunter Noack was scheduled to play Arnold Schoenberg’s famous 1899 composition Transfigured Night at London’s Barbican Center. Since the original poem … Continue reading
Not all orchestra music directors live in the city where they conduct. Most have multiple gigs and spend much of their time on airplanes and … Continue reading
Every artist wants to build a brand these days, so it takes some courage to change your name after building up a reputation and a … Continue reading
These days, we take pop songs and turn them into musicals: Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Beautiful, etc. It used to be the other way around, back … Continue reading
Some things just won’t wait. Only two days before he was scheduled to conduct the Oregon Bach Festival’s opening night concert, Matthew Halls received urgent … Continue reading
There’s less of the Oregon Bach Festival than there used to be. Some of that amounts to addition by subtraction. Gone are the bloated, historically … Continue reading
The overture to Gypsy kicks off the show with one of those rousing, familiar tunes that practically bellows “classic American musical.” And a classic this is, the … Continue reading