At 8 PM, Bob Priest visits with host Andrew Hosch to discuss March Music Moderne and to play some of the music you will be hearing at the concerts. Tune in to 90.7 FM or stream it here.
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Bob Priest talks about March Music Moderne IV
March Music Moderne, Portland’s annual celebration of new music, will be opening this Friday for a run of 10 days (March 7th through the 16th) at various venues all over the city. I caught up with impresario and composer Bob Priest to find out more about this years offerings. Here is the first of three installments of this interview:
—James Bash, Northwest Reverb (read the full article)
March Music Moderne preview: A River Unites Us
Composers and musicians from opposite ends of the Willamette will celebrate new connections between two river communities when the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE) and the Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project (CPOP) join forces for a March Music Moderne concert on March 8 at Portland’s AudioCinema studios.
—Gary Ferrington, Oregon ArtsWatch (read the full article)
March Music Moderne
It’s a most cohesive imaginative, magnanimous offering of sounds that surely will never be heard this way again.
—Brian QTN, The Southeast Examiner (read the full article)
MMM IV is dedicated to Paco de Lucia
March Music Moderne mourns the completely unexpected & premature passing of the master Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia — one of the very greatest musicians of all-time.
In “homenaje” to what Paco’s art has meant to those of us in Global Village PDX & millions of other music lovers around the world for more than four decades, we lovingly dedicate MMM IV to his memory with gratitude & humility.
Vete con Dios, querido Paquito. ¡Gracias por tu Vida!
For a wonderful article on Paco de Lucia by PDX writer, Claire Sykes, please see Fire and Heart: Remembering Paco de Lucia.
—Bob Priest
KBOO Co-Sponsors: March Music Moderne
KBOO has a Facebook event page for March Music Moderne here.
Winter Music Round-up
Portland’s most valuable musical rite of spring could become as much of a draw for contemporary music fans as the city’s more pop-oriented festivals.
—Brett Campbell, Oregon ArtsWatch/TravelPortland (read the full article)
News: Check Out the Schedule for the 2014 March Music Moderne
Whilst checking out my man Ben Kates’ favorite albums of 2013, I followed the thread of links over to the March Music Moderne website last night. And lo and behold, there was the schedule for the 2014 edition of this fine modern music and art event, happening from March 6 – 16th all over our fair city.
—Robert Ham, Experimental Portland (read the full article)
106 Keys Makes a Splash in Classical Music Scene
106 Keys has an exciting schedule of performances coming up, including a concert on Dec. 21 at the Portland Piano Company (711 SW 14th Ave., 503-775- 2480). This performance will feature a program of music by David Schiff, Philip Glass and Darius Milhaud among other Jewish composers. Other upcoming concerts include a Dec. 22 show at the Rose Schnitzer Manor and an “After Hours Candlelit Concert,” which is part of the March Music Moderne: Listening to the Here of the Now series. This unique performance, which features the aforementioned Schiff piece, will take place by candlelight at 11 pm on March 14. (Karp bills it as “21st century music, 13th century lighting.”)
—Kerry Politzer, Oregon Jewish Life (read the full article)
MMM 2014 Schedule Updates
Please visit our nearly fully-fleshed-out Schedule page where you will find lots more program & venue info . . .
Additionally, MMM now welcomes Three Friends Coffee House to our ever-growing famiglia. Three Friends will serve as MMM Centrale: our grounds-zero location for killer kaffeination, foxy eats, MMM brochures, informal jams & garrulous gatherings, late-night performance & a festival-themed art show of photography, paintings, music manuscripts & sonic sculpture.