One of the city’s finest and most musically adventurous professional choirs teams up with the Javanese percussion orchestra based at Lewis & Clark College….
Brett Campbell, Willamette Week (read the full article)
Category Archives: Press
Headout Picks 3/5/14
Thirty-nine years on, critics still don’t know what to make of Lou Reed’s free-noise opus Metal Machine Music. When Portland composer Bob Priest listened to it, he heard the score for a butoh-style dance piece—which really is as legitimate an interpretation as any.
—Willamette Week (read the full article)
Metal Machine Music (Kogut Butoh): Lou Reed, with white kimonos and candlelight
Arrhythmic and discordant, [Metal Machine Music is] a perfect accompaniment for abstract movement, which is why Bob Priest instinctively paired it with butoh for his March Music Moderne festival this weekend.
—Aaron Spencer, Willamette Week (read the full article)
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)
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)
Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project: Flock of Strange Birds
Inspired by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), co-artistic directors Lisa Lipton and Justin Ralls founded CPOP in 2011 to provide an avenue for young and emerging West Coast composers to have their work performed. Their Strange Birds concert consisted mostly of electronic and electroacoustic works, and was a part of March Music Moderne, a Portland new music series founded by composer Bob Priest.
—Sam Reising, I care If You Listen (read the full article)