William Byrd Festival: auspicious anniversary

As the summer Renaissance music festival celebrates its 20th edition, it continues to expand its scope

‘The Other Mozart’ review: sister act 2

Sylvia Milo’s one-sister show at Chamber Music Northwest gives Mozart’s talented older sibling Nannerl, her music stifled by sexism, her own voice at last

‘Ordo Virtutum’ review: sister act 1

In Mulieribus’s mix of theater, music and explanation at Chamber Music Northwest proved too much of a good thing

David Lang: from iconoclast to eminence

Pulitzer Prize winning composer and Bang on a Can founder’s music performed at Portland Opera and Chamber Music Northwest

‘Romeo & Juliet (Layla & Majnun)’: cross cultural combination

Bag and Baggage Productions’s new theatrical mashup of Shakespearean and Persian classic tales involved collaboration across cultures

‘Cabaret’: the darkness behind the razzle-dazzle

Unlike the current stage revival, Bob Fosse’s film made evil real by making the political personal

Cascadia Composers and Third Angle: Northwest inspirations

Oregon composers create music inspired by the sounds of their home

Lou Harrison’s Oregon trails

Portland State University throws a 100th birthday party for Oregon’s greatest composer. Plus: excerpt from the new biography.

Bag & Baggage Vaults into the Future

Theater company’s loss of longtime Hillsboro home is also its gain

 

Lou Harrison California centennial: Old Friends, New Revelations

Rare Music Emerges at Lou Harrison Centennial Concerts