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Brandi Parisi Interviews Opera in the Park’s Ashley Clark

June 6, 2025

Opera in the Park has featured free world-class opera performances for the Portland community for over two decades. They recently announced the appointment of their first-ever Executive Director, Ashley Clark. Ashley has a very special relationship with the organization. All Classical host Brand Parisi spoke with Ashley about her new role, and Opera in the …

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John Pitman Reviews: Huang Ruo’s ‘An American Soldier’

May 23, 2025

All Classical Radio’s Director of Programming John Pitman’s latest Arts Blog interview is a timely one, in conjunction with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Memorial Day. Composer, pianist, and vocalist Huang Ruo’s latest recording An American Soldier is a powerful and moving opera based on the true story of a young Chinese …

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All Classical Radio: For Humans, By Humans

May 9, 2025

When you listen to All Classical Radio, you hear handcrafted radio programming that is locally produced and community focused. In collaboration with students from Portland State University’s Branded Media Course and the PSU School of Film, All Classical invites you to explore what it means to make radio for humans, by humans, with a brief …

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John Pitman Reviews: Yevgeny Sudbin’s ‘Ver La Flamme’

May 2, 2025

Renowned for his interpretations of the music of Russian composer and mystic, Alexander Scriabin, celebrated pianist Yevgeny Sudbin is host John Pitman’s latest guest for this Arts Blog interview. On Sudbin’s newest album, Ver La Flamme (Toward the Flame), the pianist shares his deep knowledge and appreciation for the music of the early 20th century …

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Host Brandi Parisi Interviews poets Dao Strom & Alicia Jo Rabins

April 11, 2025

April is National Poetry Month. All Classical Radio host Brandi Parisi recently spoke with Portland-based songwriters, composers, and poets Dao Strom and Alicia Jo Rabins about their new collaborative project/album, Wild Nights. Hear their interview, including details about the multi-year project, their music choices of folk and Americana, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson below:

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John Pitman Reviews: Les Korngold’s Korngold Symphony

April 3, 2025

Imagine if we could hear, decades after a composer has passed, a note-for-note set of instructions of what how they intended their music to be heard? It’s rarer than you might think. In this Arts Blog, program director John Pitman has a conversation with the grandson of the Austrian born composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold – …

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Host Brandi Parisi Interviews Eugene Symphony’s Alex Prior

March 22, 2025

Alex Prior, the newly appointed Music Director of the Eugene Symphony, speaks with All Classical Radio host Brandi Parisi. In this wide-ranging discussion, they talked about Alex’s phenomenal career (he was Assistant Conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17!), universality in music, the importance of outreach and community, his love of the Pacific Northwest, …

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Women's History Month 2025

Women We Love to Play On Air: 2025 Edition

March 7, 2025

At All Classical Radio, women composers have long been an essential part of our daily playlist. We’re proud to shine a spotlight on underrepresented composers, both living and passed, and introduce listeners to the wealth of music written by them. In celebration of Women’s History Month 2025, we’re exploring the lives and careers of eight …

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Elaina Stuppler, All Classical Radio's 2024-2025 Young Artist in Residence

Elaina Stuppler: Thursdays @ Three Videos

February 28, 2025

On January 30, 2025, host Christa Wessel welcomed Elaina Stuppler, All Classical Radio’s 2024-2025 Young Artist in Residence, to Thursdays @ Three. Elaina and friends performed several of her original pieces in All Classical’s Irving Levin Performance Hall in downtown Portland. Enjoy the music below, and tune in to Thursdays @ Three every week at …

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