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In the last few years, Oregon has become a beacon of contemporary classical music, with several new music ensembles and a composers’ organization, Cascadia Composers, … Continue reading
When Eugene Symphony began planning this month’s orchestra concert some two years ago, Executive Director Scott Freck wondered to himself: What are the things we’re … Continue reading
Someone should make a movie about Joseph Boulogne, le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Fencing champion, dashing soldier (an officer in Europe’s first all-black regiment, he was … Continue reading
Francesco Lecce-Chong, who started work last fall as music director at Eugene Symphony, has plunged into his new job with all the enthusiasm of a … Continue reading
Ernest Hemingway played the cello. He went on to do a bunch of other stuff, too, after those childhood lessons in Illinois, like bullfighting in … Continue reading
Francesco Lecce-Chong, Eugene Symphony’s still-new music director and conductor, has been named music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony, the California orchestra announced late on … Continue reading
Mahler’s music seems like a closing chapter. It marked the end of a certain kind of big, Romantic orchestral music, so all-encompassing that 20th-century composers … Continue reading