Celebrate Independence Day with PSO! If you missed the Fourth of July Summerfest ME Special on CBS13 never fear! The online version of the PSO’s program is here (with a bonus musical performance not included in the original TV broadcast)! Your Portland Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to have been invited to perform at SummerFest… Read More
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What is a concerto and how is knowing the definition going to increase your enjoyment of the PSO’s spectacular season finale: Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, May 12 & 13 at Merrill Auditorium. Join host Charlotte Gill (MA in Music Theory, Yale University and PSO’s own Corporate and Foundations Relations Manager) as she shares her wildly appropriate… Read More
Join PSO’s new Music Director Eckart Preu and PSO Graphic Designer Sarah McCullough as she interviews (and meets) Eckart on Skype. She poses the question that may be on the minds of many this 4th of July on the Eastern Prom. While fireworks are blasting, Portland’s very own BRAND NEW Music Director will be conducting…. Read More
Michael-Thomas Foumai’s “The Telling Rooms”
Jan 10 2019
The Portland Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of a piece commissioned by the orchestra and titled The Telling Rooms, written by Michael-Thomas Foumai, on Sunday, January 27 at 2 p.m. The concert will be repeated on Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30 p.m. Foumai is a leading contemporary composer known for composing works inspired by film, art, literature, poetry… Read More
The Telling Rooms Movement I
Jan 10 2019
The Happiest Color The Happiest Color Aubrey Duplissie It was the jacket That defended the boy From cascading rain, while Mother observed from foggy windows It coated the bus He rode for the first time While his parents watched, Hand in hand It was there on sweltering summer days, Within… Read More
The Telling Rooms Movement II
Jan 10 2019
Dressed In Red Dressed in Red Husna Quinn The tapping of her scarlet pin heels fills the family room. Her radiant red dress illuminates the faded gray shapes of objects surrounding her. My gaze from just outside the door follows her coal black eyes. Glimpsing at the art attached to the… Read More
The Telling Rooms Movement III
Jan 10 2019
Ink Wash Ink Wash Eliza Rudalevige She knew how every color tasted and blue was her favorite. Blues like moistly misty mornings, mosquitos dancing in a haze of left-over campfire and condensation. Blue settled softly over sloped tents then fading into husky, grass-fed violet the same color as lavender fields at dawn … Read More
