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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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Since the November election, some of our friends and neighbors speak in terms of "resistance." There's a similar message in the musical program "Resist,"… -
The First Friday in February has arrived, and with it, a look ahead to a passel of performances and exhibitions in the arts. We call it our First Friday… -
Complete this sentence: "Moon River, wider _____________." If you said "than a mile," you're familiar with the music of Johnny Mercer. His songs form the… -
The British Invasion in popular music gave way to more free-form sounds as the 1960s went on. And that phase gave way to "glam rock" and David Bowie and… -
Josh Gross has an addiction, and it's one we're only too happy to share. He loves music, and across a wide spectrum of genres and styles. Josh makes… -
"Composer" usually implies music, and Ashland resident Webster Young has written plenty of that. But he also writes books about his life as a composer,… -
The Meriwethers are not just singers and musicians, they are historians, in a sense. Their music tells the story of the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis… -
Much of the world first learned of the South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo when they performed with Paul Simon in the 1980s. But… -
Leslie Kendall has the kind of singing voice that makes people widen their eyes and ask "who's THAT?" We'll answer that question as we visit with Leslie,… -
It's been almost 52 years since The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, turning the flame of Beatlemania into a raging inferno. Penelope… -
We'd be hard-pressed to find another person who is as passionate about music as Josh Gross. Or at least as passionate and ARTICULATE before 10 AM as Josh… -
Over the course of 12 months, we meet a LOT of interesting people on The Exchange. And some of them arrive in-studio with musical instruments in hand.…
