The Confucius Institute at Portland State University hosted a concert featuring the yanquin, a Chinese dulcimer, in Lincoln Hall on Sunday, Feb. 5. “Jasmine Blossoms in the City of Roses”…
PSU Orchestra ‘Remix’ features David Bowie
How does one erase months of classroom-induced stress? By basking in the wondrous reverberations of the Portland State Orchestra, performing downtown on Dec. 7 and 8 at the Mission Theater….
Choral concert spotlights PSU’s female composers
It has often been difficult for women to be accepted as musicians, especially as composers. Who knows what women like Clara Schumann and Ruth Crawford might have accomplished if they…
Noon Concert Series review: Joe Manis quartet
Joe Manis, a tenor saxophonist, bandleader and educator based in Eugene, gave an unusual concert Thursday, Nov. 3 in Portland State’s Lincoln Recital Hall room 75. The room was crowded…
Portland State of Mind concert
To kick off Portland State of Mind at PSU, !!! (pronounced Chk-Chk-Chk), EASTGHOST and Force Publique performed at a concert in Smith Memorial Student Union on Oct. 13, 2016. Video…
Thievery Corporation: ‘Hold your fists high, unify tribe’
Thievery Corporation made its way back onto the Portland stage on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Roseland Theater with opening guest That 1 Guy aka Mike Silverman. Silverman opened the…
The Connection
Like some of you, but also unlike some of you, I started college a little later. My first stop instead was radio—KBOO Community Radio—where I produced a program called “The…
Lincoln Hall performances celebrate Korean and Chinese traditions
The Institute for Asian Studies is starting off the fall term with a bang, hosting two traditional events reaching thousands of years into the cultural past of Korea and China….
Cult of Orpheus’ underground artistic renaissance
Portland composer Christopher Corbell is fostering a renaissance in the local artistic community. His project, Cult of Orpheus, fuses lyrical sonnets with classical guitar and chamber instruments to create a…
Get down with free, all ages music at PDX Pop Now!
On what will hopefully be a perfect, sunny weekend, the 13th annual PDX Pop Now! Festival will be held July 22–24 underneath the Hawthorne Bridge at Audiocinema (226 SE Madison…
Summer brings symphony outdoors
The mild summer Portland is enjoying provides the perfect opportunity to take in the high arts from a lawn chair. Local symphonies will be performing outdoors in a variety of…