Performing Arts
Making Clarinet Cool!
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, […]
Maestro Majkut Conjures Up a Kick-Ass Symphony Concert
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 […]
Jeff Kloetzel Releases New CD “Long Time Coming”
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 […]
“The Best Play I’ve Ever Seen” – by Lee Greene
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 […]
Crater Drama presents: “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail”
Crater Drama presents a poignant drama, “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
“‘If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of […]
Repertory Singers Usher Audience Into Another World
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 […]
“What Family Doesn’t Have Its Ups And Downs?”
“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 […]
A Very Different & Delightful Piano Duet Concert
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 […]
Three Generations of Virtuoso Pianists Unexpectedly Share a Concert Stage
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 […]
Community Concert Association Delights Audience With Piano Duo Concert Debut
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 […]