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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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You see an orchestra assemble, and you expect to hear a piece like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or a prelude, partita, or concerto. But Friday night, July… -
It's really not that long a stretch from "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" (Elvis Presley, 1961) to "I'm a sucker for the way that you move, babe"… -
Wes Montgomery is a big deal to jazz musicians. Pat Matheny once said he learned to play guitar by listening to "Smokin' at the Half Note," by Wes… -
Josh Gross is a musician, but we dare not ask who his influences are. We might be listening all day. Safe to say that Josh loves music in many forms, and… -
Silent since her death in 1959, the voice of Billie Holiday still echoes for generations of Americans. The story of "Lady Day" has been told many times,… -
They may be beautiful, but they came from ugly circumstances. Spirituals are, at heart, songs from slavery in America. And Ashland-based Siskiyou Singers… -
Elias Alexander traveled a long way to end up playing a gig in his home town. Elias is from Ashland and a musician... he went to college in New England… -
Any choral group can fill a concert, or a series of them, with works by the old masters. But there are new masters, too, and Southern Oregon Repertory… -
We have yet to find a musical genre that Josh Gross does not like. His enthusiasm for music in all forms is infectious, and reflected in his music columns… -
Be prepared to stretch your definition of music. Because a recently released CD features Southern Oregon University's Percussion Ensemble performing a… -
Is it possible the phrase "cry me a river" became common because of Julie London? She's the one who made the song by that title famous in the mid-1950s.… -
The Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'" is a rock anthem, one of the most famous songs of recent history. A guitar-driven song, sure, but the drums…
