At noon on Thursday, May 10, Lincoln Recital Hall once again hosted the Music Department’s Noon Concert, this time featuring all pianists. The concert opened with two movements from J.S….
Piano area
PSU’s baroque pearl
Contemporary classical guitar music mainly exists at the intersection of three musical traditions: Baroque lute music, Spanish guitar music, and the contemporary tradition which fuses modernist classical trends with diverse…
Noon Concert Series
The Portland State Noon Concert series is a weekly opportunity to experience the sounds of the PSU School of Music. The concerts take place in Lincoln Recital Hall, room 75…
Sing to the moon and the stars will sing
The April 26 noon concert in Lincoln Recital Hall was ostensibly a Jazz Area concert, but since jazz is as broad a term as classical, we were treated to a…
PSU’s Percussion Ensemble doesn’t miss a beat
At the crack of noon on Thursday, April 5, Portland State’s Lincoln Recital Hall hosted an uncommonly sparse audience. The music department’s weekly free concerts are usually packed—not least because…
PSU’s gorgeous strings
The trouble with unfretted stringed instruments—specifically the classical violin family—is they inherently sound bad. It takes years of practice to develop the skills necessary to produce a single pleasing tone…
Woodwinds transform differences into beauty
It’s a little weird to group everyone in the Woodwind Area together for one recital, but that’s what the Portland State School of Music & Theater did at their noon…
Power Without Pain: interview with Hamilton Cheifetz
After spending the last 40 years at PSU teaching cello, Professor Hamilton Cheifetz said, “I’m still smiling!” Cheifetz has one of those famous smiles, the kind with layers: an earnest,…