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All Classical Portland is committed to giving our arts leaders and performers a platform throughout the year, and during this unique and difficult time, it is especially important to understand what’s happening in our local arts ecosystem. Through a series of written articles and on-air interviews, we will share the mic with our arts partners and friends and ask them to tell their story highlighti...

The second episode in The Complete Works of Winnie-the-Pooh. This program features 'In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Stuck in a Tight Place.'

The first story in the Complete Works of Winnie-the-Pooh series. We are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh from the classic A. A. Milne books. This episode features excerpts 'In Which We are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh', 'Us Two', 'In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle', and 'Vespers.'

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, at 25, has already made a strong impression in the world of Baroque opera and beyond, with his powerful yet supple voice. The American countertenor, who has made several recordings (including contemporary music, such as by Kenneth Fuchs), specializes in 18th century music, when the male singer known as the Castrato reigned supreme. Nowadays a specially-developed voice techniq...

All Classical Portland is committed to giving our arts leaders and performers a platform throughout the year, and during this unique and difficult time, it is especially important to understand what’s happening in our local arts ecosystem. Through a series of written articles and on-air interviews, we will share the mic with our arts partners and friends and ask them to tell their story highlighti...

Host John Pitman chats with the great Swedish mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie Von Otter about her performance of a new work by American composer, Caroline Shaw.  Title "Is a Rose", the three-movement song cycle is sung by Von Otter with San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, as Shaw has written the work with Baroque ensembles - and Ms. Von Otter - in mind.  Next, John talks with the composer he...

All Classical Portland is committed to giving our arts leaders and performers a platform throughout the year, and during this unique and difficult time, it is especially important to understand what’s happening in our local arts ecosystem. Through a series of written articles and on-air interviews, we will share the mic with our arts partners and friends and ask them to tell their story highlighti...

The State of the Arts: Damien Geter by All Classical Radio

Where We Live: Olivenbaum by All Classical Radio

The State of the Arts: Cynthia Fuhrman by All Classical Radio

Violinist Niv Ashkenazi plays one of a handful of restored violins that survived the Holocaust, and his debut recording, "Violins of Hope" (Albany Records) is a document of the perseverance of the instruments' original owners. Mr. Ashkenazi, along with pianist and fellow Juillard student, pianist Matthew Graybil, breathe life into music that, in some cases, was written and played in the camps on t...

Suzanne Nance interviews Dr. Ethan Sperry; Artistic Director, Oregon Repertory Singers.

All Classical Portland is committed to giving our arts leaders and performers a platform throughout the year, and during this unique and difficult time, it is especially important to understand what’s happening in our local arts ecosystem. Through a series of written articles and on-air interviews, we will share the mic with our arts partners and friends and ask them to tell their story highlighti...

Donald Nally is the artistic director of one of this country's most adventurous and creative choirs, The Crossing. John Pitman talks to the conductor about Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man, a 65-minute choral work in 7 movements, which is a memoir of Gordon's life with his family on Desbrosses Street in lower Manhattan in the 1980s. New York, especially Tribeca, was very different then: the legendar...

The State of the Arts: Niel DePonte Cognizart by All Classical Radio

The State of the Arts: Sue Dixon by All Classical Radio

The State of the Arts: Scott Showalter by All Classical Radio

The Miró Quartet, who visited Portland in February hosted by Chamber Music NW, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth with the release of the complete string quartets. They began around 2005 with the Opus 18 (Beethoven’s first published set), recording them at the same age the composer was when he wrote them, in other words their late twenties. While they realized it might not...

Adam Eccleston shares personal reflections on his favorite music by Black and Brown composers.

Warren Black interviews Portland composer and pianist Darrell Grant, about his chamber opera in progress, Sanctuaries. It tells the story of a community experiencing gentrification in Portland’s Albina district. Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music....

The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) is an annual event of the Willamette Light Brigade, a non-profit arts organization. PDXWLF is presented to guests for free and builds community by bringing art and technology to inclusive audiences while invigorating Portland in the winter.

American pianist Jonathan Biss has just completed a 9-year journey exploring the piano sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven. In his conversation, Mr. Biss shares how each sonata revealed a different side of the composer's character, which was definitely much more than the scowling face we often see on CD covers and books. The journey was also one of discovery for the pianist himself: Mr. Biss certainly...

Black History Festival NW is a Celebration of Culture and Heritage Showcasing African American artists, businesses, organizations and leaders. Through arts, education and advocacy 365 days a year, utilizing Black History Month to celebrate Black excellence, bridge gaps, amplify truth, unity, and hope in the Pacific NW.

2020 (specifically, January 27) marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the WWII concentration camp that is symbolic of the persecution and murder of millions of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime. In addition to the handful of people who survived the camps, a small body of art, including music, has emerged over time. Music written by prisoners of the Nazis who persevered...

The Montenegro-born guitarist Miloš has just released his fifth album, and the first in about 3 years. Sound of Silence (Decca) is, in a way, autobiographical: in 2016, just after the release of his Beatles-inspired disc, Blackbird, Miloš began experiencing a tightness in his hand that affected his ability to play. He eventually stepped away from his busy schedule of successful international conce...