Friends of Dorothy: A Queer Cabaret June 28th | 7:30 pm Come celebrate PRIDE with Poison Waters as she hosts the Friends of Dorothy: A Queer Cabaret. Featuring the cream of the crop from our local entertainment landscape, this one-of-a-kind live show will be fun for the entire family! Showcasing local talents like BinKyee Bellflower,…
Franz Schubert, the quintessential composer of art song, wrote more than 600 songs. The exquisite mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and Artistic Director Gloria Chien will perform selections from Schubert’s epic final song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan Song) that expresses his desire and longing for lost love. Schubert’s Fantasy from the same final chapter of his life, is simultaneously one…
Exceptional musical partnerships from critically acclaimed albums headline this program. Artistic Director Gloria Chien and heralded clarinetist Anthony McGill are longtime recital partners, and the exhilarating F Minor sonata was part of their recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas. McGill joins the Catalyst Quartet in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor quintet that is part of UNCOVERED—the Catalyst’s…
With two performance times at 11:30 am & 6:30 pm, Music Workshop’s Summer Soundwaves Series brings young people and their families to The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts for interactive performances with exciting and inspiring musicians. The musicians in this series represent a variety of genres and cultures and personally tell their stories and…
Vienna, one of the European musical capitals of the 18th to 20th centuries, was the home for some of the most important composers in history. At the heart of the First Viennese School of composition was the iconic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and two of his divinely beautiful works bookend this program that feature Artistic Directors…
With three performance times: 11:30 am & 6:30 pm on July 25 and 11:30 am on July 26, Music Workshop’s Summer Soundwaves Series brings young people and their families to The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts for interactive performances with exciting and inspiring musicians. The musicians in this series represent a variety of genres…
Our festival finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New England church hymns and popular tunes in Charles Ives, traditional Romanticism in Amy Beach, and modern-day lyricism in Chris Rogerson. The sensational Fleur Barron, who…
First Friday: Opening Reception Opening reception: Karl LeClair & Miroslav Lovric August 04 | 6 pm – 9 pm Memories are the snippets of moments processed and stored for later recollection and exploration. Artists Karl LeClair and Miroslav Lovric mine moments of the past, as well as elements from their dreams to create imaginative and…
Welcome to DJ Willy Wow’s Tiny Turntable Tour. During this two-hour event, Grammy Nominated artist, DJ Willy Wow, is providing an intimate look at his highly anticipated album “Hip Hope for Kids”, through a listening party. This intimate event promises to bring his signature high energy but also, for the first time, you will be…
Comedy Styles (FULL) Ages 10 – 14 August 7 – 11, 9am – 12pm Join the wait list! Live from Portland, it’s NWCT! Play wacky characters, explore absurd situations, and learn the key to making audiences laugh until their bellies hurt. Everyone will get a piece of comedy gold to perform! An informal demonstration will occur…
The Candyland Caper (FULL) Ages 6 – 9 August 7 – 11, 9am – 12pm Join the waitlist! Discover a super sweet fantasy world that’s full of sugar, spice … and sometimes things not so nice. Will you find the lost lollipops, or will the evil King Caramel and his jawbreaking goons get you stuck?…
Into the Woods (FULL) Ages 10 – 14 August 7 – 11, 9am – 4pm Join the waitlist! “Into the woods, then out of the woods, and happily ever after!” Or so they say. In this rendition of Lapine & Sondheim’s award-winning musical, classic storybook characters learn that while wishes can be granted, the consequences…