Astronomical Images Accompany Holst in Anchorage

Astronomer Jeffrey Hull will present cosmic projections while the Anchorage Symphony plays Holst’s The Planets in the season finale April 19. Anchorage Symphony. The program will include the world premiere […]

Seattle: Electronics Feature in Björnsson Premiere

May 2 marks the world premiere of Gulli Björnsson’s ljósíd (light), performed by members of the Seattle Symphony, featuring JIJI on electroacoustic guitar & electronics with visuals by Björnsson. This […]

Women’s Lamentations at Oregon Bach

Cappella Artemesia, an all-female vocal and instrumental ensemble, presents laments and lamentations from 16th- and 17th-century Italy as they might have been heard in that most exclusively female environment: the […]

Tan Dun Conducts Own Works in Seattle

Conductor and composer Tan Dun conducts the Seattle Symphony in a program featuring two of his works on May 15-16. The first is Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, […]

Muhly’s ‘Dark Sisters’ in Eugene

Eugene Opera will present Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters on May 30-31. Dark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Latter […]

McGill Introduces Seattle to New Flute Concerto

Principal flute Demarre McGill performs the West Coast premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Flute Concerto with the Seattle Symphony on June 12-22. Conductor emeritus Ludovic Morlot will also lead two beloved […]

Oregon: Recreating An 1800 Beethoven Concert

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Oregon Bach Festival’s Berwick Academy for Historically Informed Performance, the festival will recreate a benefit concert held by Beethoven in 1800. “Beethoven’s First […]

Youth Choir Ponders Social Issues in Oregon

Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy, a training program for the nation’s most talented high school choral singers, will present a program of socially-conscious works at Oregon Bach Festival. Led by […]

Oregon Bach: Jazz Meets Baroque in Oratorio

Jeff Scott’s Grammy-winning oratorio, Passion for Bach and Coltrane, is full of inspiration from two giants of music – Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane, along with the spoken-word poetry […]

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