On November 5, SOU’s Music Recital Hall hosted a concert, “West Coast Bass Clarinet Takeover”, conceived and fashioned by clarinet students in SOU’s Music Department, and featuring the unique American bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles, in addition to several student clarinet ensembles. (Edmund Welles is not the name of a person, but the name of […]
One would not ordinarily associate the term, “kick-ass” with a symphony concert. So how does it come to be applied to the second concert of the 2014-2015 season by the Rogue Valley Symphony? Well, the term was originally tendered to describe piano soloist, Tanya Gabrielian’s performance of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in this concert […]
The incredibly popular singer-songwriter Jeff Kloetzel has just released his latest CD, “Long Time Coming!” Fans will remember that Jeff won the first-ever Southern Oregon “Rising Stars” music competition in 2012. He used the prize of recording time to record this new CD. He’s also been named in the Sneak Preview 2014 Reader Poll as […]
On Friday, October 31, I had the privilege of attending the Robert Schenkkan play, The Great Society in the Bowmer Theater at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland. The Great Society is the sequel to Schenkkan’s previous play, All the Way. Both plays are part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions: The United […]
“‘If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.’ So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in 1849. Three years […]
On Sunday, Oct. 26, the audience at the Bright Orb of Harmony Concert at the SOU Recital Hall in Ashland were ushered into the musically rich world of Dr. Paul French, Director of the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers. It is a world that is substantially richer and more expansive musically than that of virtually anyone […]
“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” sardonically cries Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Livia Genise) in Camelot Theatre’s production of the ultimate dysfunctional family drama, The Lion in Winter by James Goldman. This is an extremely well written, intelligent, literary play exploiting true historical facts about the 12th century royal family of Henry II […]
In the November print issue of the Jacksonville Review, I describe the Rogue Valley as a “cornucopia of performing arts” for the volume and variety of performing arts events available. That point has been validated over the last two weeks, by the wide variety of available concerts which I have been able to enjoy and […]
On Friday night, October 17, a packed audience went to see the opening concert of the Tutunov Piano Series at the Music Recital Hall at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University. They purchased tickets in advance, expecting to see a concert by Grammy winning, often recorded (25 compact discs to date), internationally renowned piano soloist, recitalist and […]
The Jackson County Community Concert Association (J.C.C.C.A.) is like a hidden gem among the performing arts organizations in Oregon’s Rogue Valley. For over 75 years it has been presenting live entertainment in Jackson County: “artists . . . carefully chosen to provide the highest quality entertainment. . . .” Yet the J.C.C.C.A. doesn’t receive the […]
Duo-pianists Michele Alspach and Joyce Stevens will present a classical piano concert featuring music from Bach, Bizet, Debussy, and Mozart on Sunday, October 19, from 3 – 4 p.m., in the Naversen Room of the Jacksonville Branch Library, 340 West “C” Street. Please use California Street entrance.
Ashland Contemporary Theatre’s production of the Off-Broadway play, “Freud’s Last Session” has been a stupendous success! And now we are bringing it to Jacksonville.
Performances will be at the U.S. Hotel Ballroom on the second floor (there is a U.S. Bank branch on the ground floor). Saturday, Oct. 18th at 8pm, and Sunday, Oct. 19th at […]
Five years ago when Martin Majkut took over the reigns as Music Director of the Rogue Valley Symphony, he quickly transformed a moribund little local orchestra into a top notch regional symphony orchestra, bringing high energy to the task of running the orchestra and it’s musicians, offering new pieces of music as well as a […]
Summer is over, the leaves are turning, and Britt Festival concert goers are thinking back over good times and great concerts presented this summer on the Britt hill in Jacksonville, while contemplating enduring a long, dreary winter before again getting an opportunity to enjoy some good music at the Britt Pavilion. But wait! There are […]