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When Ron Blessinger called me back in May to be part of the Portland Social Distance Ensemble, it all sounded like magic to me. I feel most at home…

When we began this experiment in social distance music making, we were simply trying to give quarantined musicians a way to connect while isolated. My dear friend…

I used to feel a certain way on concert weekends. This set of feelings was specific to what day it was during the weekend of a Classical series at the Oregon Symphony.

It’s been an interesting seven weeks, hasn’t it? Virtually no one has been spared the adverse effects of the spread of COVID-19.

It’s been interesting to see how many performers are using these quarantine days to find solace in the music of Bach. There’s no surprise here, since the solo…

I had a lot of free time on my hands last spring. On January 15, 2019, I had a submuscular ulnar nerve transposition on the left side. You can Google that if you…

It’s been a tough stretch, for sure. Reality is setting in, and for myself and my orchestra colleagues it’s been death by a hundred slow-motion body blows, with every day…

Music historians begin most descriptions of the Romantic period in Western classical music by referencing a timeline. That is, most of what was composed during the…

The Arcturus Quintet, five virtuoso wind players who love finding repertoire that will inspire, excite, and entertain, preview their March 6 concert, Northern Lights…

Our January 17th performance, Les Boreades, is many things – a concert, a visual art exhibit, an experiment in…

Writing on the music of Ravel, Pierre Boulez considered his output to be that of “a musical organism which had lost its…

Music of heroic suffragette composers, a happy half-hour of delectable dishes, and a final course of fantastic folk inspired music that also features the release of our…