From the Baroque to the Blues
Travel back in time for a while
At the moment, 21st-century America’s immediate future is looking a little scary. Maybe for just a few days, let’s try — musically at least — … Continue reading
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Pop Go the Classics
A week of everything from Renaissance to swing and beyond
Fleeing the centimeters of snow that turned what was once America’s hipster capital into an ice-bound hell, a pair of Portland bands brings music that … Continue reading
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Returns
Any scholar of South African music can tell you Ladysmith Black Mambazo — who perform at the WOW Hall Thursday, Jan. 26 — are a … Continue reading
Rize Up
Nattali Rize is a tender-spoken reggae artist who packs a political punch. Rize puts themes of love and hope front and center in her songs … Continue reading
The Whole World is Watching – and Listening
Eugene Symphony’s search for its next music director plays to a national and international audience
Choosing a new Eugene Symphony music director is big news here, of course, but it’s also national news. That’s because our little symphony, in a … Continue reading
Romeo & Juliet
Downtown Springfield is in the midst of a renaissance and, as Judith “Sparky” Roberts of Fools Haven Acting Company notes, “nothing fits better with the … Continue reading
Dial M for Mayhem
OCT’s The 39 Steps plays fast and loose with Alfred Hitchcock
What makes Hitchcock Hitchcock? Or, put more fancifully, what do we mean when we call something Hitchcockian? Certainly the British director of such classics of … Continue reading
The Lonely Road Songbird
Now and then, in order to make ends meet, a musician picks up an odd job. For some, that means waiting tables. And for others, … Continue reading
Ballet Fantastique celebrates a pair of premieres
Ringing in the new year, Ballet Fantastique (BFan) launches two exciting premieres, with stagings of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Aladdin. EW recently caught up … Continue reading
Boys Will Be Boys
Gentlemen scientists gather in VLT’s comic romp The explorer’s Club
Legend has it that when a team of British archaeologists outfitted themselves to excavate the tomb of King Tutankhamen, their journey began with an errand … Continue reading