The March 17 concert featured commissioned work by Grant and Sei alongside music by Joel Thompson, Rosephayne Powell, and regular Resonance collaborator Melissa Dunphy.
The family-friendly opera by composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney was premiered in 2021 Houston and runs in Portland through March 24.
This year’s festival of “Black American Music” featured hot touring artists and returning Oregonians alongside up-and-coming new locals.
PYP geared up for their upcoming East Coast tour with a thrilling concert featuring music by Amy Beach, Jessie Montgomery, and Jeff Scott.
The famed jazz pianist partnered with the choral ensemble and Portland poet/activist A. Mimi Sei to create “From the Book of Sankofa”; the former Linfield Music Department Chair returns to Oregon for the live premiere of her “Cycles of Eternity,” recorded in 2019.
SO co-produced the revival of the 1986 Anthony Davis opera, revised and re-premiered in 2022 by Detroit Opera.
The Orthodox choral ensemble and Gospel choir joined their voices for February’s “Black Voices in Orthodox Music: How Sweet the Sound.” Recent albums released by Oregon choirs feature music by Melissa Dunphy, Renée Favand-See, Naomi LaViolette, Morten Lauridsen, Stacey Philipps, Undine Smith Moore, Joel Thompson, and more.
The pronk quartet returns to live music, Oregon Symphony celebrates the “Rhapsody” centennial, Grammy-winner Cann performans a recital of Black women composers for PPI, Eugene Concert Choir releases their “Black is Beautiful” CD, and the Albina Community Archive goes live.
The Albina Music Trust celebrates its trove of recordings, photos, memorabilia, articles, and oral histories with a searchable archive and a Feb. 3 release party at Oregon Historical Society.
The Pulitzer-winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels makes its way across the country.
The electric jazz trio will perform at the Portland night club in October.
The Cuban-born keyboardist and Senegalese kora player returned to Oregon for another popular concert of high musical energy.
How The Thesis became one of Portland’s premier live music showcases.
Neither snow nor Covid could cool this year’s jazz festival.
Featuring KayelaJ, Donte Thomas, PDXJazz, Darrell Grant, and the latest edition of long-running hip-hop showcase The Thesis.
The Portland writer, hip hop organizer, and activist discusses life as a Black Muslim in Oregon, the foundation of We Out Here Magazine, and monthly hip hop showcase The Thesis.
Chamber Music Northwest’s December concert featured the baritone with pianist Gloria Chien, performing some of his favorite storytelling works.
The conductorless chamber orchestra premiered music by Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Michael Dudley, and Ricardo Herz.
Black Bandcamp Matters: A wealth of sounds, from JxJURY to Darrell Grant.
An African American Requiem raises the roof in world premiere performance.
The restless wind quintet’s blissful concert featured new music co-commissioned by CMNW, OBF, and Anima Mundi.
In the vocal ensemble, the composer of this weekend’s African American Requiem found the ideal partner to make a musical milestone.
A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.
Darrell Grant’s “Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite” reveals the continuing relevance of historic struggle.
Esteemed Morehouse Glee Club director teaches local choral students at three-day event in Portland.
Portland Chamber Orchestra premieres the dynamic spoken-word and music collaboration “My Words Are My Sword.”
PO’s dramatic, harrowing staging of the Pulitzer-winning opera.
Award-winning new opera by Tazwell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori arrives in Pacific Northwest.
Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera shows how racism helped send innocent teens to prison
PCO commission ‘My Words Are My Sword’ pulls together poetry and music.
The new musical drama from Third Angle delves into gentrification and its cost to Black communities.
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
A California pianist and activist brings music and an urgent sense of the present to the Oregon Bach Festival.
Portland’s All Classical Radio moves to bring more diverse music to more diverse audiences.
“There’s a lot this country needs to explore, and understand, and comprehend about itself. Transformation–that’s what ‘Revolution’ is about.”
Matthew Neil Andrews on the joy of following Machado Mijiga, plus Joe Henderson, Bobby McFerrin, Freddie Hubbard & more.
In Black History Month, a good time to freshen up and start a new tradition of seeking out and hearing Black music.
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