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Portland Columbia Symphony’s Executive Director Rebekah Phillips and Music Director & Conductor Steven Byess

Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association’s Artistic Director, Mark Steighner will talk to Suzanne about their upcoming online auction event, The Show Must Go On! and discuss impacts of the pandemic on the Gorge area artists.

Program director John Pitman discusses the second release by the Calidore String Quartet, which contemplates the intersection of music and language. Violinist Estelle Choi, one of the four founding members of Calidore, share how “the desire to explore the innate human drive for communication”, became the focus of their new recording. Choi describes the inspiration for Three Essays by Caroline Shaw...

Scott Showalter of Oregon Symphony and Lorin Dunlop, Program Director of Murdock Trust, discuss The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust’s recent grant (of $1 million) to help the Oregon Symphony invest in new, state-of-the-art acoustics and the ability to livestream concerts at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Host John Pitman talks to Marin Alsop about her passion for mentorship in her work with the Taki Concordia Fellowship. The Taki Fellowship is currently a two-year award that primarily includes intensive coaching and mentoring with Marin Alsop and other music industry professionals.

Host and Producer Raúl Gómez-Rojas dives into the Recording Inclusivity Initiative. The Recording Inclusivity Initiative (RII) was created by All Classical Portland, a public radio station based in the Pacific Northwest, in collaboration with N M Bodecker Foundation and Naxos Records. RII seeks to address the gap of classical music composers and musicians from underrepresented communities that mak...

John interviews composer Osvaldo Golijov about the new album that features the Silkroad Ensemble. Falling Out of Time, which was written for the ensemble by longtime collaborator/composer Osvaldo Golijov, is an 80-minute tone poem based on David Grossman’s novel about parental grief and loss. In John’s interview with the composer, Mr. Golijov likened it to the dark, late works of Goya and Rembrand...

All Classical Portland's annual Lovefest Concert! Featuring performances recorded live at prior years' Lovefest Concerts, with music by Claude Debussy, James Taylor, Franz Liszt, Kenji Bunch, Cole Porter, and many more.

Join us as we share messages of thanks and love from our community, and express our appreciation for YOU, our listeners!

This program features All Classical Portland’s: Professional Artist in Residence Adam Eccleston, flute Young Artist in Residence Natalie Tan, piano Selected as Young Artist in Residence in partnership with Cognizart by Metro Arts Inc., and the 2020 Young Artists Debut! This recital was a joy to prepare, and from everyone at All Classical Portland, including Recording Engineer Daniel Hornbeck, Host...

The pandemic has disrupted the lives and professional routines of artists all over the world. In the realm of classical music, it has been a huge adjustment as musicians wait at home for concert halls to once again fill with audiences who can safely hear them. New York City-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein, having had to cancel her concert season, found herself at home like so many. In June, with...

Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), is arguably the most important female composer of the 20th century, and more and more, becoming established as a major figure in classical music. Yet despite the inherent quality of her works, the great range of genres (her opera, The Wreckers, was the only opera by a female composer performed at the Met, until Saariajo's L'Amour Loin in 2016), there are some works wh...

ICAN ADVENTURE: Oliver by All Classical Radio

Preview of Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror by All Classical Radio

The ninth episode of the Complete Works of Winnie-the-Pooh features A.A. Milne's tales ‘In Which a House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore’ and 'The Mirror.'

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation advances equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and promote positive social change with American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the United States.

“The Shape of Music” is a five-part series where Mete Bakircioglu takes you through the magic of music—how it works and what makes it sound so good. Music is an art form that we’re all familiar with to a certain degree. It’s the sounds that make us want to move or laugh or cry or try new things.

What do you give to the bear who has everything? A Pooh Party of course! We join Christopher Robin as he celebrates his best friend, plus! More beautiful stories from A. A. Milne.

The residents of the Hundred Acre Wood are back at it again! This episode is a telling of A.A. Milne's 'Solitude,' 'The Doormouse and the Doctor, ' 'Come Out with Me,' and more!

"Strings for Peace" is a beautiful expression of hope for peace by Isbin and a family of musicians in India, headed by sarod player, Amjad Ali Khan and his two sons.

A showcase of works written for Isbin by composers from all around the world. "Affinity" is the name of a new concerto written by Chris Brubeck (son of jazz great Dave).

A. A. Milne's 'In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole,' 'Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue,' 'The Three Foxes' and more!

In this episode you'll hear the classic tale from A. A. Milne, 'In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath' as well as Happiness,' 'The Invaders,' 'In the Dark' and more!

The State of the Arts: Chris Ayzoukian by All Classical Radio

Over the course of this free, six-part series created by Oregon Symphony Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane and director Holcombe Waller, you will experience dozens of heartfelt musical performances, each accompanied by stirring imagery inspired by the stories of essential workers in a particular sector. You will hear stories like that of an Oregon Symphony percussionist, whose cousin went from frontli...