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Christopher Briscoe/Martin MajkutMartin Majkut has conducted and studied music around the world, but in Oregon, he’s been known since 2010 as the adventurous, growth-oriented music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony. He also has a long-standing collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Now, he's adding another title -- music director of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. He recently shared his packed performance calendar with JPR’s Vanessa Finney. -
Roy Sutton passed away in March while in the middle of three projects. JPR revisits his 2024 conversation with "My Better Half" host Vanessa Finney.
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Folk music was BIG for a time in the early 1960s. There was even a TV show featuring folk music, until the British Invasion (Beatles, anyone?) eclipsed… -
Jazz is alive, and played enthusiastically across the country. Even on a big scale: proof comes from right here in the region, from Martin Behnke's… -
People learned a long time ago the beauty of human voices raised together in song. But that doesn't mean the only good choral music is old choral music.… -
Malek Jandali creates music and believes in peace. It's no surprise he's combined the two in an ongoing project called "Pianos for Peace."It was only last… -
Sergei Eisenstein's silent film, "Battleship Potemkin," retains its status as one of the most influential and deeply studied films of all time. But as… -
Benares, India (Varanasi, if you prefer) is nearly 7,500 miles from the Rogue Valley. But Deobrat Mishra, musician and teacher, made the long trip to… -
The Oregon Bach Festival's 2019 season starts Friday in Eugene and runs through July 13. One highlight is the Bach in Motion project premiering on Friday,… -
"How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, practice, practice." An old joke, maybe, but also a reality for the leaders of the Jefferson State Choral… -
The longstanding connection between Southern Oregon University and its sister school in Guanajuato, Mexico includes many cultural interchanges. And those… -
Many heroes emerged from the Second World War, some more obscure than others. Chiune Sugihara is credited with saving thousands of European Jews by… -
The Rogue Valley Symphony reached out for a world-class pianist to perform in its final concerts of the season, "Masterworks 6." And RVSO reached all the… -
We'd call Josh Gross a music aficionado, but it's hard to say that on the radio. What he has is great love for, and knowledge of, music. And we ask him to…
