Northwest Reverb
Portland, Oregon
 | Reflections and musings on the classical music scene in and around Portland, Oregon |
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| Keywords: | classical, music |
| Updated: | Today at 4:28 PM |
| Added: | May 28th, 2007 |
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Tonight you have your choice of two outdoor concerts, the Oregon Symphony concert at Waterfront Park in Portland or the Vancouver Symphony concert at Esther Short Park in Vancouver, Washington. The musical extravaganza in Portland starts earlier than the event in Vancouver, because the Portland Youth Philharmonic under its new conductor David Hattner takes the stage at 5pm. The Oregon...
filed under: oregon symphony, symphony concert
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) Ivor Burney (1890-1937) Karl Böhm (1894-1981) Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) Richard Tucker (1913-1975) John Shirley-Quirk (1931) Imogen Cooper (1949) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) John Betjeman (1906-1984)...
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posted on Northwest Reverb in Portland - 8/28 - 4:28 PM
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) Eric Coates (1886-1957) Lester Young (1909-1959) Ann Murray (1949) Sian Edwards (1959) and Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
posted on Northwest Reverb in Portland - 8/27 - 9:42 PM
Sunday, August 24 marked the end of the 11th annual William Byrd Festival here in Portland. For this event Cantores in Ecclesia, under the direction of Richard Marlow of Trinity College, Cambridge, presented a concert consisting of selections from Byrd's Gradualia (1607), as well as the motet Ad Dominum cum tribularer. The concert took place at St. Stephen's Church in southeast Portland. I...
Arthur Loesser (1894-1969) Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923) Nicholas Braithwaite (1939) Sally Beamish (1956) Branford Marslis (1960)
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posted on Northwest Reverb in Portland - 8/26 - 8:13 AM
I caught up with Gregory Vajda, the resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony, to get his thoughts about conducting the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival. Vajda had been under contract as the cover conductor Peter Eötvös for in case he became ill. Well, did become ill after traveling back and forth between Salzburg and Glyndebourne. So, Vajda got the call to conduct on...
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Anna Song has accepted an interim position as the director of choirs at Linfield College. Consequently, Song is resigning from her assistant conductor position with the Portland Symphonic Choir. In her letter to her fellow singers, Song stated that her decision wasn't easy, but such opportunities don't come up very often and she just couldn't pass it up. PSC's artistic director and...
