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The best birthday present: Willamette Valley Chamber...

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2025/07/29

WVCFM celebrates its 10th season with commissioned work from this year’s composer-in-residence, Akshaya Tucker, alongside music by Caroline Shaw, Kian Ravaei, plus Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Schubert.

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Nothing is safe from making art: Portland Summer...

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2025/07/29

Portland Percussion Group’s annual percussion camp at Portland State University hosted students for private lessons, masterclasses, and concerts.

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August DanceWatch: Linda Austin’s 25 Hours!, Art in...

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2025/07/28

High summer brings a swelter of dance performances, including a Vancouver arts festival, Summer Soup, NW Dance Project, and more.

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Splashing in refreshing New Waves

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2025/07/28

New Wave Opera’s summer party in Westmoreland featured a variety of songs, from children-themed to cat-themed to previews of upcoming NWO “bioperas” about Alice Tierney and Marie Curie.

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‘Voiceless’ finds its voice onstage in Bend

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2025/07/28

Theater companies in Bend and Sisters combine to stage the world premiere of "Voiceless: A Musical," centered on the story of a woman who loses her voice.

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Standing between darkness and light: A concert of...

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2025/07/28

OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson and guest pianist Awadagin Pratt combined music by Samuel Barber, Jesse Montgomery, Arvo Pärt and Vaughan Williams.

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This chant of life: Craig Hella Johnson’s...

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2025/07/27

The choral superstar and OBF artistic partner led the OBF chorus and modern orchestra – along with a few hundred surprise guests – through a heartfelt performance of his exquisitely crafted “fusion oratorio.”

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Keep our public library open, Grant County residents...

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2025/07/26

A packed public hearing in John Day this week shows substantial support for the library, with momentum building to create a special tax district.

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Astro-Zombie Bio-Labs: In McMinnville, a place to...

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2025/07/25

Mental-health therapist Matthew Taylor, who designed the makerspace for neurodivergent people, says it is based around inclusivity. “I would almost say we’re neurotypical inclusive.”

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Music news: Orchestra leadership shuffles and more

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2025/07/25

Turnovers at the Oregon Symphony, Orchestra Nova Northwest and Opera in the Park, plus awards, honors, cutbacks, education initiatives and deaths shift the Oregon/Vancouver music scene.

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A Tale of Two Venues: Discovering and Rediscovering...

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2025/07/24

Two OBF concerts, two venues – Mt. Angel Abbey and Beall Hall – and two totally distinct choral experiences with their own triumphs and challenges.

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‘Small Town Forgotten’: A family, a town, a brutal...

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2025/07/24

Bobby Bermea talks with the Portland makers of a podcast that has spurred the cold-case revival of a small-town 1989 killing that is only now getting ready to go to trial.

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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’...

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2025/07/24

Eager to reach a superhero-fatigued audience, the latest installment in the MCU skips the self-seriousness of recent entries, opting instead for the naïve altruism of its Silver Age comic roots.

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The funny thing about friendships: Musica Maestrale’s...

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2025/07/24

Reflecting on a decade-plus of friendship with the early music specialist on the occasion of Yamaya’s move to Utrecht.

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Art on the Road: Framing the World

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2025/07/23

A California exhibit of "doubled" artwork pairing different artists from Goya and Chagoya to Lorna Simpson, Naomi Savage and James Van Der Zee frames the ways we see and interpret the world around us.

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DramaWatch: A Palestinian playwright’s ‘Them’ brings...

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2025/07/22

Also onstage: The Devil, a Greek muse, and an Elvis-like character make appearances in musicals. Plus other openings, continuing shows, and theater news.

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‘The Story of Opal’: Opal Whiteley’s diary is a...

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2025/07/22

The Oregon author’s diary became a bestseller in the early 20th century, but rapidly vanished amid allegations it was full of lies or written by the adult Whiteley.

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PuzzleWatch: Fruitful Works of Art

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2025/07/20

This positively puzzling celebration of the sweet and the succulent is sure to tickle your brain and make your mouth water.

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Congressional takebacks of arts & cultural funding...

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2025/07/18

Friday's congressional slashing of previously passed budgets for PBS and NPR put Oregon outlets on a financial hot seat and exacerbate already tight arts and cultural funding across the nation.

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Once garbage, now art: Columbia Basin Basketry Guild...

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2025/07/17

Guild members used dog food bags, plastic tabs, and other debris to weave vessels for the exhibit opening Friday.

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