Part of the March Music Moderne IV festival, “Retro-Moderne” will focus on new works for woodwinds, including “Shout Chorus” by Portland composer Kenji Bunch.

“This is a highly demanding, virtuosic work that pushes the instruments to the extreme,” Bunch says, “but one that was written in the spirit of the infectious dance rhythms, humor and joy of American big-band jazz of the 1940s.”

—Rob Cullivan, The Portland Tribune (read the full article)