March Music for Mods
We started out with contemporary music, and of course it IS March, so that means March Music Moderne continues in Portland. —Brett Campbell, Oregon ArtsWatch (read the full article)
View ArticleOregon Symphony and conductor Hannu Lintu deliver craft and inspiration
My heartfelt congratulations to the band and guest director Lintu for their totally absorbing performance of this most fascinating work and most substantial contribution to this year’s March Music...
View ArticleComposer Gwyneth Walker and choral director Justin Smith talk about concerts...
This week, Marylhurst University is hosting Gwyneth Walker as composer-in-residence on its campus. From her home-base in New Canaan, Connecticut, she maintains a busy schedule writing and traveling to...
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Jerusalem String Quartet March Music Moderne Live Show Review
Kyril Zlotnikov‘s cello sang out like a cherrywood Archangel, while the twin violins of Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler played the part of a fractured nervous system, passing the details back...
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Weekend MusicWatch: Modern Music Marches On
The tide of 20th century and contemporary music that commenced last month with the University of Oregon’s Music Today Festival and peaked with Portland’s March Music Moderne finally begins to recede...
View ArticleStrange Birds: Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project
Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project (CPOP) is presenting “When Strange Birds Passing Meet: Memory and Mimesis in the Soundscape” on Friday, March 22, at 11:00pm at Portland’s Bamboo Grove, in the...
View ArticleDmitri and Me: A Portland composer tried to ignore Shostakovich’s music. Then...
It would be hard to imagine a more seductive presentation. Despite their rather severe appearance, the Jerusalem [Quartet] projected a warm and lyrical sound, and their technique and ensemble were...
View ArticleMMM preview event – successful mix of performance and panel banter
The event was impressively assembled by impresario/composer Bob Priest, who sought a blend of high-level art and banter about new music. Because Priest kept each segment of the program moving forward,...
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Violist Belgique brings down the house twice in Free Marz String Trio concert...
I’m referring to two mind-boggling performances of Garth Knox’s pieces for solo viola that Joël Belgique gave at the Free Marz String Trio concert on Friday, March 8th at the Community Music Center as...
View ArticleContemporary Portland Orchestra Project: Flock of Strange Birds
Inspired by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), co-artistic directors Lisa Lipton and Justin Ralls founded CPOP in 2011 to provide an avenue for young and emerging West Coast composers to have...
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Good Fellas—There’s a new music mafia in Oregon: meet the godfathers
With minimal resources and maximal willpower, ingenuity and single-minded drive, this composer/impresario [Bob Priest] has herded a bunch of cats (me included) into the successful makings of this niche...
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Announcing the MMM 2014 Schedule
Schmokin’ hot release from MMM Cyber-Centrale: Yes indeedy, you can now view the MMM IV (6-16 March 2014) schedule of participants, dates & times by visiting the Schedule page. See y’all there . . .
View ArticleMMM 2014 Schedule Updates
Please visit our nearly fully-fleshed-out Schedule page where you will find lots more program & venue info . . . Additionally, MMM now welcomes Three Friends Coffee House to our ever-growing...
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106 Keys Makes a Splash in Classical Music Scene
106 Keys has an exciting schedule of performances coming up, including a concert on Dec. 21 at the Portland Piano Company (711 SW 14th Ave., 503-775- 2480). This performance will feature a program of...
View ArticleNews: Check Out the Schedule for the 2014 March Music Moderne
Whilst checking out my man Ben Kates’ favorite albums of 2013, I followed the thread of links over to the March Music Moderne website last night. And lo and behold, there was the schedule for the 2014...
View ArticleWinter Music Round-up
Portland’s most valuable musical rite of spring could become as much of a draw for contemporary music fans as the city’s more pop-oriented festivals. —Brett Campbell, Oregon ArtsWatch/TravelPortland...
View ArticleKBOO Co-Sponsors: March Music Moderne
KBOO has a Facebook event page for March Music Moderne here.
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MMM IV is dedicated to Paco de Lucia
March Music Moderne mourns the completely unexpected & premature passing of the master Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia — one of the very greatest musicians of all-time. In “homenaje” to what...
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It’s a most cohesive imaginative, magnanimous offering of sounds that surely will never be heard this way again. —Brian QTN, The Southeast Examiner (read the full article)
View ArticleMarch Music Moderne preview: A River Unites Us
Composers and musicians from opposite ends of the Willamette will celebrate new connections between two river communities when the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE) and the Contemporary...
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