Music Stories Nik Bärtsch named his band Ronin after the pre-modern Japanese freelance warriors affiliated with no master, and his sixth and latest   More

Performance When Morten Lauridsen was growing up in Beaverton in the 1950s, students commonly headed out to the Tillamook Burn to plant trees. A few years ago, the composer returned to the once-barren site to see it now covered by towering firs.   More

Arts & Books The Oregon Symphony hasn't even completed its historic first performance at Carnegie Hall this May—but it's already going again in 2013. The orchestra announced Wednesday that it had been chosen to participate in the first and third    More

Arts & Books In those lists of buzzwords that should be banned every year, “sustainability” should be at the top. Not because the concept isn’t vital; certainly the idea of an economy and way of life that pays attention to the future has been neglected by our greed-is-good, I-want-it-now, consumer/casino economy for the last , oh, millennium or so. But the term has gotten so overused, folded, spindled, m...   More

Books When one of the Netherlands’ major advocates for bicycling was asked this fall to what he attributed Portland’s success in becoming one of the world leaders in alternative transportation, ...   More

Performance ’Tis the season of overfamiliar musical comfort food, so this unusual repast from one of the Northwest’s premier vocal ensembles, the all-women early music group In Mulieribus (“amon ...   More

Performance On an October night many years ago, I awoke suddenly, my heart pounding, gasping for breath, still in the grip of a terrifying nightmare. What sparked such nocturnal panic? I’d left the radio on ...   More

Special Section MUSIC MAN: Yaacov Bergman leads the Portland Chamber Orchestra. IMAGE: Duncan NeilsonWhen Portland Chamber Orchestra music director Yaacov Bergman was planning the company’s Sept. 10-11 Fr&eacu ...   More

Music Portland’s most eclectic band gets even more eclectic...with sexy results!

[UNBRIDLED ECLECTICISM] “We call it our ‘Wet Album,’” Courtney von Drehle says of 3 Leg Torso’s richest, most colorful record since its 1996 inception. The phrase is both a play on the Beatles’ White Album and a term for reverb, and it’s a fitting joke: Recordin...   More

Music Stories [UNBRIDLED ECLECTICISM] “We call it our ‘Wet Album,’” Courtney von Drehle says of 3 Leg Torso’s richest, most colorful record since its 1996 inception. The phrase is both ...   More