Live or Recorded: Live Event

SALEM PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA PRESENTS A SET OF FAMILY CONCERTS FOR ALL AGES ON DECEMBER 2 AND 3, directed by SPO Artistic Director, Jonathan DeBruyn! These concerts feature familiar shorter classical compositions from Mozart to Prokofiev, showing off the different instrumental sections in the orchestra. Concerts begin at 2:00pm on both days, Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3. Salem Phil’s venue is the East Salem Community Center, 1850 45th Ave. NE, Salem , OR 97305. SPO musicians will host an instrument “petting zoo”, beginning at 1:15pm in the lobby for youngsters to try out different orchestral instruments. Admission: $20 (Adults ages 18-64); $18 (Students 18-64/Srs. 65+); $0 (children/youth through age 17). Tickets may be purchased online at https://www.salemphil.org/buy-tickets/, or at the door on concert day. Contact information@salemphil.org with questions.

The Oregon Chorale is excited to continue our annual tradition, Christmas with the Chorale, with a concert of holiday music guaranteed to put you in the spirit of the season! Join us for selected movements from Bach’s “Magnificat”, “Go Tell It On The Mountain” by Stacey Gibbs, Saunder Choi’s poignant “Meet Me For Noche Buena,” lively Christmas carols featuring the Portlandia Brass Ensemble, and more!

Saturday, December 2, 2023 @ 4:00pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
3228 SW Sunset Boulevard
Portland, OR 97239

Sunday, December 3, 2023 @ 4:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
2194 SE Minter Bridge Road
Hillsboro, OR 97123

High Desert Chamber Music invites you to join us for our Sixteenth Annual Gala! Get dressed in your best and kick off the holiday season with emcee Bob Shaw. This festive party includes a performance featuring the Spotlight Chamber Players, Dinner, Silent Auction, and Dessert Dash. Proceeds to benefit the programs of High Desert Chamber Music – Concert Series and Educational Outreach programs. Semi-formal attire, Reservations required, seating requests taken!

This evening is made possible in part by Mission Building, Wells Fargo Advisors, and Three Graces & Co.

Tickets available through HDCM by phone or online. Come hear the music!

The Tilikum Chamber Orchestra presents a concert that could be pulled from the salons of Paris, circa 1925. This show of intimate chamber orchestra works features music composed in or nearby Paris, includes Mozart’s famous “Paris Symphony,” which Mozart wrote in the city while prospecting for potential employers at age 22.

Fauré’s “Masques et Bergamasques” and André Caplet’s “Légende” explore colorful orchestrations and gorgeous expressive melodies typical of the late Romantic style, while Gail Sophie’s masterful and newly re-discovered 1815 work “Overture to ‘The Jealous Two'” is full of vigorous energy and delightful charm. We are also delighted to present local composer Nicole Buetti’s work for string orchestra, “Sforza!”

Tickets are available online at https://www.tilikumchamberorchestra.com/concerts and at the door

Musica Maestrale presents

Go from my Window: Lute and Cittern in Elizabethan England

Hideki Yamaya, Renaissance lute and cittern

Lutenist Hideki Yamaya will perform a concert of music from the late 16th~early 17th-century England on Renaissance lute and cittern, a rarely heard instrument: wire-strung, played with a plectrum, and with a very unusual tuning. The program will feature music by John Dowland and Anthony Holborne, as well as arrangements of popular music from the period.

Tickets
Advance: $18 general; $8 student
At the door: $20 general; $10 student

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Fallen Giant
Music by Evan Meier & Libretto by E.M. Lewis

Commissioned by American Lyric Theater Lawrence Edelson, Artistic and General Director
Chamber Orchestration Commissioned by Portland State University

The game’s afoot! A giant is dead, and his body lies at the base of a great beanstalk. The police believe young Jack is responsible. But the boy insists that he’s innocent, and begs the help of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Dr. Watson. Can they untangle this magical mystery?

In this operatic mystery for all ages, Holmes turns to a magic harp for clues that come in the form of musical quotes from opera greats, all cleverly woven into the plot. This buoyant, inventive score is sure to have you on the edge of your seat.

PSU’s production of ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant’ is the second-ever presentation of this new opera.

The Fireside Social Orchestra will perform “An Old-Fashioned Christmas”: Saturday Dec. 2nd at 7:30pm at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., Portland, OR. Come hear the original versions of some familiar carols from the 1800s and early 1900s, along with some not so familiar, performed with voices, violin, tenor viola, rebec, cello, flute, recorders, saxophone, cornet, keyed bugle, alto horn, ballad horn, tenor horn, trombone, ophicleides and reed contrabass. Musicians are Gayle and Phil Neuman, Laura Kuhlman, Elizabeth O’Connor, Cindy Markham and Mark McCormick.

For tickets go to: https://early-music-guild-of-oregon.ticketleap.com/an-old-fashioned-christmas-at-community-music-center/

SALEM PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA PRESENTS A SET OF FAMILY CONCERTS FOR ALL AGES ON DECEMBER 2 AND 3, directed by SPO Artistic Director, Jonathan DeBruyn! These concerts feature familiar shorter classical compositions from Mozart to Prokofiev, showing off the different instrumental sections in the orchestra. Concerts begin at 2:00pm on both days, Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3. Salem Phil’s venue is the East Salem Community Center, 1850 45th Ave. NE, Salem , OR 97305. SPO musicians will host an instrument “petting zoo”, beginning at 1:15pm in the lobby for youngsters to try out different orchestral instruments. Admission: $20 (Adults ages 18-64); $18 (Students 18-64/Srs. 65+); $0 (children/youth through age 17). Tickets may be purchased online at https://www.salemphil.org/buy-tickets/, or at the door on concert day. Contact information@salemphil.org with questions.

PWS presents its not-your-typical-holiday-fare concert! The theme (Making Spirits Bright) refers to uplifting music in general, with some special holiday tunes as a bonus! The program includes music by Alfred Reed, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jack Stamp, an arrangement of “By and By” created by Composer/arranger Kenny Regan, 2014 Grant High School graduate. The holiday selections include new twists on old melodies – a whole new way to experience Christmas music!

The concert will also feature a performance by the Gresham High School wind ensemble, with the finale performed by the combined groups. More info can be found at http://www.portlandwindsymphony.org

The concert is free and open to the public.

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Fallen Giant
Music by Evan Meier & Libretto by E.M. Lewis

Commissioned by American Lyric Theater Lawrence Edelson, Artistic and General Director
Chamber Orchestration Commissioned by Portland State University

The game’s afoot! A giant is dead, and his body lies at the base of a great beanstalk. The police believe young Jack is responsible. But the boy insists that he’s innocent, and begs the help of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Dr. Watson. Can they untangle this magical mystery?

In this operatic mystery for all ages, Holmes turns to a magic harp for clues that come in the form of musical quotes from opera greats, all cleverly woven into the plot. This buoyant, inventive score is sure to have you on the edge of your seat.

PSU’s production of ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant’ is the second-ever presentation of this new opera.

The Oregon Chorale is excited to continue our annual tradition, Christmas with the Chorale, with a concert of holiday music guaranteed to put you in the spirit of the season! Join us for selected movements from Bach’s “Magnificat”, “Go Tell It On The Mountain” by Stacey Gibbs, Saunder Choi’s poignant “Meet Me For Noche Buena,” lively Christmas carols featuring the Portlandia Brass Ensemble, and more!

Saturday, December 2, 2023 @ 4:00pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
3228 SW Sunset Boulevard
Portland, OR 97239

Sunday, December 3, 2023 @ 4:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
2194 SE Minter Bridge Road
Hillsboro, OR 97123

Boris Giltburg, whose “pianism is ideally suited to late Beethoven … enormously pleasurable and revelatory” (BBC Music Magazine), opens his PPI recitals with the composer’s lyrically rhapsodic Sonata No. 31 — a work of both serene respite and operatic pathos that, even upon first listen, envelops the soul with its loving embrace.

From a dark, desolate opening to the heavenly ascension experienced in its final phrase, Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor charts a journey of emotional catharsis filled with plenty of heart-racing moments, while Rachmaninoff’s final preludes showcase the composer’s ability to create grand cinematic scenes using even the most miniature of musical forms.

GLORY OF CHRISTMAS
OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS and YOUTH CHOIR welcome UNION HIGH SCHOOL’s string orchestra for GLORY OF CHRISMAS! This season not only marks major anniversaries for ORS and ORS Youth Choir, but the 40th year of teaching for TIM SIESS, Union High School orchestra director and long-time member of Oregon Repertory Singers. Choir and orchestra will combine for movements of VIVALDI’s famous GLORIA, as well as music by OLA GJEILO, RANDALL THOMPSON, and a new orchestration of WRITTEN FOR YOU by ORS accompanist NAOMI LAVIOLETTE, also celebrating a milestone—20 years with ORS! The choir will also sing holiday favorites including ERIKS ESENVALDS’ STARS for choir and tuned wine-glasses, and ETHAN SPERRYS’ MEDLEY OF HANNUKAH SONGS.

featuring the ORS Youth Choir
Sunday, December 3, 2023 | 4 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023 | 4 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023 | 4 PM

First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, OR 97201

Oregon Repertory Singers and Youth Choir welcome Union High School’s string orchestra for Glory of Christmas! This year we’re not only celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Oregon Repertory Singers and the 30th Anniversary of ORS Youth Choir, but the 40th and final year of teaching for Tim Siess, Union High School orchestra director and long-time member of Oregon Repertory Singers! Choir and orchestra will combine for movements of Vivaldi’s famous Gloria, as well as music by Ola Gjeilo, Randall Thompson, and a new orchestration of Written for You by our very own Naomi LaViolette, also celebrating a milestone—20 years with ORS! The choir will also sing holiday favorites including Eriks Esenvalds’ Stars for choir and tuned wine-glasses, and Ethan Sperry’s unfortunate medley of Hannukah songs.

Project Chamber Music: Willamette Valley celebrates its eighth season of extraordinary chamber music with the acclaimed pianist Stewart Goodyear, the award-winning Aeolus Quartet, and the Oregon Symphony’s Charles Noble.

To date, nearly $25,000 in Project Chamber Music ticket sale proceeds have been donated to provide private instrumental lessons for local public school students for whom the cost would be otherwise prohibitive. As is tradition, 100% of ticket sale proceeds from this concert will be donated for this purpose.

Program:
Andrea Cassarrubios: Overture & Chorale
W.A. Mozart: Viola Quintet in G minor, k. 516
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34

Tickets are limited. Advance purchase highly recommended.

Classical Revolution PDX presents:
OUR SONG WILL NOT DIE. SLAVA UKRAINI!
A concert of Ukrainian music, and a benefit auction for the frontlines
Featuring Ukrainian musicians from the Pacific Northwest
Inna Kovtun, powerhouse folkloric vocalist
Valentyn Lysenko, bandura* master
Angelina Mitrianu, multi-award-winning 14-year-old pianist
Multimedia chamber music performances by Classical Revolution PDX musicians

Doors open: 6 PM
We encourage early arrival to browse auction items and to secure the best seats!
Over 20 local musicians!
Folk song, art song, and instrumental chamber music
Food and full bar available for purchase
All ages are welcome at the venue

100% of auction proceeds go to DAWN (https://dawnus.org/), which flies medical and emergency aid directly to the frontlines, and provides psychotherapy for the Ukrainian fighters.

*The bandura, in the lute/zither family, is the instrumental voice of independent Ukraine, and has been suppressed under both Imperial Russia and the Soviets.

Join us as we open our 2023-2024 concert season with an audible tour of a musical art gallery. There is no admission charge. Doors open at 6PM with artists and pre-concert music in the lobby.

Where artists paint on canvas with paint, composers paint in the air with music. The composers featured in this concert are experts at creating memorable pictures through with their music. There are adventures of men fighting dragons (Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons), stirring memorials (Silent Stands the Elm), gorgeous scenery (As the North Wind Blows), the clash of industry (Raging Machines), and more. The Gershwin medley is sure invoke images of Paris, the American South, and more. And of course, there will be a march to get your feet tapping. As an added bonus, Lakeridge High School’s band director, Daniel Hartley, will guest conduct two of these “paintings”. The uniqueness of this concert is that everyone’s experience will be different. There is no multi-media to tell you what the musical paintings look like; they will look like what your mind conjures up; personalized to your own artistic tastes, whether they be memories of your own past experiences or imaginings of something new and wonderful. We hope you will come join us and let your imagination fly free.

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

Fake Radio returns this December for an all-new Holiday show! We are thrilled to present our first-ever performance of an American holiday classic: Lux Radio Theater’s “Miracle on 34th Street”! Join our talented cast for a touching and rip-roaringly funny walk down memory lane with Macy’s, Gimbals, Kris Kringle… and, of course, Lux Toilet Soap.

Our special guest star is Lynne Stewart from “The Pee Wee Herman Show”!

Our production takes this great holiday classic and adapts it into a two-act radio theater experience that will bring back memories and create new ones. Especially when the cast goes off-script! As usual, we’ll be dressed to the nines, holding our scripts, and standing before microphones to entertain you.

The Lewis & Clark Wind Symphony and Percussion Ensemble present an evening of exciting music on Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 7:30pm in Evans Auditorium. Brett EE Paschal, conductor.

Program includes:
“Second Thoughts” (Evan Chapman
“Vibe Quartet No. 8” (Elliot Cole)
“Four on the Floor” (Jeffery Peyton)
“Clown Act” (Thomas Kahelin)
“Klezmer Classics” (Johan de Meij)
“Galactic Empires” (David Gillingham)

Tickets are available online and at the door one hour before the concert via cash or check.

$10 General Admission
$5 LC Faculty, Staff, Seniors, Alumni and non-LC students
FREE for LC Students (with ID)

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

Boris Giltburg, whose “pianism is ideally suited to late Beethoven … enormously pleasurable and revelatory” (BBC Music Magazine), opens his PPI recitals with the composer’s lyrically rhapsodic Sonata No. 31 — a work of both serene respite and operatic pathos that, even upon first listen, envelops the soul with its loving embrace.

From a dark, desolate opening to the heavenly ascension experienced in its final phrase, Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor charts a journey of emotional catharsis filled with plenty of heart-racing moments, while Rachmaninoff’s final preludes showcase the composer’s ability to create grand cinematic scenes using even the most miniature of musical forms.

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

Guest conductor Mélisse Brunet leads a sparkling program that will warm your heart at the start of the holiday season. Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Overture in C Major builds from an idyllic opening into a blazing final flourish. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony evokes the rolling highlands and stoic castles of Scotland, timeless and romantic. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s captivating and lush Piano Concerto, performed by pianist Spencer Myer, illustrates humanity elevated to soaring heights. To learn more visit: https://eugenesymphony.org/

Imago is bringing back to Portland its globe-trotting production ZooZoo this holiday season. Bugeyes, hippos with insomnia, arrogant anteaters, introverted frogs, paradoxical polar bears, acrobatic worms, self-touting accordions and tricky penguins fill the stage with wonder, awe and humor from December 8, 2023 to January 1, 2024! (Includes a sneak preview of our next family show Roo!.)

Be sure to catch it before those critters are packed off to company storage (Imago’s warehouse museum of fascinating creatures)!

Live at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97214

See dates and times at:
https://www.imagotheatre.com/zoozoo_portland.html

Tickets can be purchased at IMAGOTHEATRETICKETS.COM or by calling:
Imago Theatre at 503-231-9581. Tickets are also available at the door.

15% off tickets if purchased before Thanksgiving. Must use Discount Code PENGUINS

ADULT: $37.50
CHILD (ages 16 and under): $19.50
YOUTH (ages 17 – 26)/SENIOR (ages 65 and older): $29.50

Recommended for ages 4 and above.
MASKS OPTIONAL

“It’s been a long time since we’ve presented a program that focuses entirely on Christmas repertoire,” said Christian McKee, the orchestra’s music director. “So, this December, we’re going to do Christmas from top to bottom, in a variety of styles. Listeners will hear music from the early 17th century as well as contemporary favorites, and composers as diverse as J.S. Bach, and Johnny Hodges. Everything from carols to pop songs! There may even be singalongs!

“All in all,” McKee said, “it will be a musical equivalent of a cup of cocoa and a Santa hat — and every bit as cozy.”

Special guests: The Newport Nightingales

For the past seven years, this upbeat vocal trio has re-created the engaging, three-part harmonies and bouncy rhythms that captivated American radio audiences of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Drawing inspiration from the Andrews Sisters, Boswell Sisters, Peggy Lee and the Mills Brothers, the Nightingales have attracted a dedicated following in Portland-area clubs.

Tickets:  $20 in advance;  $23 at the door
Advance tickets: https://tinyurl.com/OMOHoliday2023

BEE زنبور is a new play from Off-Broadway that explores the strength of family, fleeing your home, and immigration. It is based on a true story about Izat, a young Iranian girl trapped in an abusive marriage in the 1940s. In an unprecedented move, her father is able to use his influence to secure a divorce for her. Moving back and forth in time from 1940 to 2009, the story follows Izat’s struggles on her path toward a better life. BEE زنبور takes further inspiration from a collection of interviews with Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees and weaves between the scenes movement and music.

To learn more visit: https://www.lesshakespeareco.org/

Join us at our beautiful Creative Center and celebrate the holiday season and our 20th Anniversary!

Our annual company-made family-friendly holiday shows are back! Each winter, we turn over the choreographic duties to our company members to conceive, create, and present delightful new dance works to you.

This year features new works from Artistic Director Sarah Slipper, returning guest creator Carla Mann (Reed College), as well as several company members.

Enjoy homemade dance and homemade warm homemade wassail in our intimate Creative Center.

Join us to celebrate the season and support our artists.

These shows sell out! – Limited Seating Capacity

To learn more visit: https://nwdanceproject.org/performances

Rejoice! The beloved holiday tradition returns featuring Handel’s complete oratorio. Discover why Messiah is one of the most-performed works in history, and experience it as it was meant to be heard performed on period instruments. Directed by illustrious guest artist John Butt, this year’s concert features professional chorus Cappella Romana and world-class soloists soprano Camille Ortiz, mezzo-soprano Hannah Penn, tenor James Reese, and bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca.

To learn more visit: https://pbo.org/concerts-events/handels-messiah-2023/

It’s the day of the show, y’all, and the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus has set out to put on “the gayest holiday concert of all time!” Inspired by classic variety and sketch shows—with a modern twist—join us as PGMC presents a joyous and humorous extravaganza filled with holiday cheer. One of Portland’s favorite traditions returns to the Newmark Theatre again this December. Nobody does the holidays like the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus!

Contains: mild innuendo, suggestive themes

Sponsored in part by US Bank & The Ritz-Carlton Portland
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December 8 | 8pm
December 9 | 8pm
December 10 | 3pm

Newmark Theater, Portland’5
1111 SW Broadway • Portland, OR

Find more info and purchase tickets at:
tickets.pdxgmc.org

This fall, Portland Opera will present a new 50-minute adaptation of Rossini’s La Cenerentola for the 2023 Portland Opera to Go tour. This lively staging tells the story of Angelina (Cinderella) who longs for friendship and love and finds it in the most unexpected of places—a prince who is disguised as a servant. Her bumbling stepfather and her two self-centered stepsisters create havoc along the way, but love rules triumphant in this tale of kindness, friendship, and compassion. Full of whimsy, comedy, and delight, Cinderella is the perfect first opera for kids and adults alike.

This adaptation of Cinderella is ideal for elementary school students, with modular scenery and age-appropriate staging. In addition to the performance, Portland Opera offers an arts integrated curriculum and classroom visits. Learn more about booking a performance at your school or community center here.