Not long ago, going to a classical music concert in Portland almost certainly meant spending a couple hours in the musical company of long dead European composers. Not anymore! Over the past decade, ...

Women make up half the world, but their music has been only a fraction what’s been featured in the last few centuries of classical music programs. That’s changing, as this season’s splendid ...

Not everyone looks at the long-vacant husk of a former convenience store and gets visions of string quartets and piano recitals. But that’s exactly how it happened for Seth Boustead, the head of ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...

Venues for classical concerts, the concert repertoires, and the social etiquettes during concerts today still more or less follow the century-old models and paradigms. If we were to revolutionize ...

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