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Summer Music Festival

  • A man in tux and tails conducts a rising wave on a rocky shoreline.
    Christopher Briscoe
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    Martin Majkut
    Martin 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.
  • Jacksonville, Ore., hosted a music festival long before The Britt Festival began in the 1960’s. In 1889, more than 2,500 [twenty-five hundred] people…