Stumptown Stages is a resident of the Brunish Theatre, which is the facility of Portland’5 Center for the Arts. Every year, Stumptown Stages puts on several acclaimed musical theater performances….
Enter ‘The Territory’ at Jazz professor Darrell Grant’s album release concert
Darrell Grant—a nationally renowned pianist and composer, and Portland State University School of Music associate director—will host a concert and celebration for the release of his new album The Territory…
Decomposition: Andrew Durkin speaks on his music manifesto
Decomposition: A Music Manifesto by author, jazz composer and Portland resident Andrew Durkin provides readers an innovative exposition on the topics of connectivity, authenticity and fallacy in our understanding of…
PSU Orchestra opens season with Northwest premiere of “Hrim”
The Portland State University Orchestra opened its annual performance season with a groundbreaking pre-Halloween concert on Saturday, Oct. 24, inside Lincoln Hall. The Portland State of Mind concert, led by…
A musician’s enterprise: the street venue
As marketgoers meander through cornucopias of freshly harvested vegetables on a soft, sun-draped Saturday morning, sweet sounds of country blues and folk waft through the air and into the ears…
Drama! Dance! Drums! to highlight Japanese culture
The Center for Japanese Studies is joining forces with the School of Music and Department of World Languages and Literatures for the fourth annual Drama! Dance! Drums! performance on June…
Progressive grade school orchestra to perform at campus cinema
I stumbled upon the Bravo youth orchestra by accident when a friend brought me to watch four members of the Oregon Symphony at a local restaurant fundraiser. Four young Rosa…
Global Rhythms IV sings music of the world
“One thing that is true about human beings—it doesn’t matter what time period or where on the Earth—every civilization that we know of has gotten together to sing,” said Ethan…
Music as the medium for education
Charley Gray’s career has been anything but uneventful. He created the jazz studies program at Portland State and co-invented the Portland Jazz Orchestra. Although the University of North Texas graduate…
Chamber choir puts on ‘Little Match Girl’ rendition
The Portland State Chamber Choir finished their performance season with the Little Match Girl Passion on May 17 and 19 at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in SE Portland. The chamber…
Where science and music collide
Dr. Adele Diamond will lecture at Portland State on May 7 at 12 p.m. on the subject of her most recent research on brain development, which uses knowledge about the…