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Clips & Articles: Music
I review the Seattle and Portland operas for concertonet.com, a Web site based in Paris, France, featuring worldwide contributors and music. I occasionally write about Portland classical and jazz music for Northwest Reverb. For more stories and music reviews, check the archives at www.columbian.com (The Columbian) between 1995-2006. I won a National Endowment for the Arts and Columbia Journalism grant in 2005 to study music in New York City, and have reviewed opera for 10 years.
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"Max Raabe: sauve, sophisticated, hard to pin down"
Oregon Symphony review
Originally published on Northwest Reverb, Feb. 25, 2010
PORTLAND—In patent-leather shoes and tails, every hair slicked into place, Max Raabe led two hours of wit, elegance and impeccably presented music from the '20s and '30s at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
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"Reeves’ Vaughan-like performance seals her reputation"
Portland Jazz Festival and Oregon Symphony review
Originally published on Northwest Reverb (northwestreverb.blogspot.com), Feb. 16, 2009
PORTLAND -- Just when you think a Valentine’s date with the Oregon Symphony and glamorous jazz singer Dianne Reeves is shaping up to be utterly predictable and sentimental, the night throws in a few surprises.
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"Souza: far more than a singer"
Portland Jazz Festival review
Originally published on Oregon Music News, Feb. 25 2010
PORTLAND—If you were hoping for a red-hot Latina performance at the Portland Jazz Festival's opener Thursday, you didn't get it.
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"`Cosi' delivers flawless chemistry"
Portland Opera review
Originally published in Concertonet.com, Feb. 7, 2010
Portland, Oregon
Keller Auditorium
2/5/2010 and Feb. 7, 11 and 13
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart: Cosi fan Tutti
PORTLAND—Mozart's music, as singers say, is medicine for the voice. Light, lyric, and a century ahead of its time with its compositional cohesiveness, the maestro's melodies shaped a full-throttle comedic "Cosi" in Portland.
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"Terence Blanchard and the Portland Jazz Orchestra team up for fabulous concert"
Review of Blanchard at the Portland Jazz Festival
Originally published on Northwest Reverb (NorthwestReverb.blogspot.com), Feb. 14, 2009
PORTLAND -- When Terence Blanchard, trumpet in hand, asked the Arlene Schnitzer audience to chime in on a chorus of “A Tale of God’s Will,” bassist Derrick Hodge smiled sweetly.
There was little chance that the audience, as ardent as it was, could capture the deep emotion that New Orleans’ Blanchard did when he composed this music based on his hometown’s tragedy. Bets are, “A Tale of God’s Will” will stick around in the archives for years. Portlanders were truly lucky to hear it.
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"Pearl Fishers staging saves the libretto"
Review of Seattle Opera's "The Pearl Fishers"
Originally published on Concertonet.com, Jan. 27, 2009
When the harnessed “flying” dancer floated dreamily behind the blue scrim to signal the pearl harvest in a far-off country, we were invited into a visually arresting show of “The Pearl Fishers,” if not into the most compelling story.
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"Lauderdale and Gershwin: What a match"
Review of Oregon Symphony concert
Originally published on Northwest Reverb (NorthwestReverb.blogspot.com)
Photography by Leah Nash/Special to The Oregonian
Here's guest writer Angela Allen's review of the Oregon Symphony concert on November 15th. |
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"'Elektra' in One Gulp"
Review of Seattle Opera's 'Elektra'
Originally published on ConcertoNet.com
Photography by Rozaril Lynch
"Elektra" failed to sell out during Seattle Opera’s autumn run, but those who heard the early 20th-century piece were drenched in a tidal wave of post-Romantic music. |
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