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Danny Rosenberg is an inventor, technological genius, dear friend, ultimate frisbee afficionado, and genuine PDX treasure…

I’ll never forget the day last March when our orchestra went dark. We were in the middle of rehearsals for what would have been a spectacular performance…

As members of the Oregon Symphony and, by extension, the cultural community of greater Portland, we look forward every Holiday Season to sharing the joy…

When thinking about what I wanted to say for this week’s 45^th Parallel Universe blog, I was tempted to write a rather salty take discussing classical musicians’… let’s call…

Shortly after Antonin Dvorak arrived in the United States in 1892, he remarked to a Boston newspaper, “Here all the ladies…

“Why are you sabotaging your career?” That was the question one of my closest friends asked me just weeks before Trevor and I got married. “You’ve worked your…

Before the onset of the global pandemic, much of the news in the classical music sphere was concerned with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig…

The first time I heard Different Trains, I knew that Steve Reich was my kind of composer. I had the same reaction when I heard Bach for the first time.

I have always had a secret (well, not-so-secret) obsession with musical theater. I think if I had been taller (short guys never get the lead) and could dance…

In a normal year, we’d be in the thick of it by now with a full schedule of orchestra concerts, with pops shows, movie concerts, and classical programs as our weekly…

I met Maria and Tom in the autumn of 1994 in Canada, in the wonderful Banff Centre for the Arts. We played a lot of music together, and then we spent long nights…

Bach has been helping me get through the quarantine. During these unique months, I’ve spent a great deal of time cycling through the Violin Partitas/Sonatas as well…