Music making at the library, on the radio, and more!

​Things are already underway, with a thrilling and jam-packed Kids concert last Sunday! 

We tend to focus on our six full-length concerts as the centerpieces of our annual Spring festival of free chamber music events, but there are more ways we’ve found to achieve our goal of making great music accessible to as many people as possible!  One of the best ways to reach many ears for free is to perform live on the radio, and thanks to our Media Sponsor All Classical Portland — who make classical music available to all, year round and 24/7! — we will be doing just that on Thursday, April 18 at 3:00. You may still be able to join us in the studio by going to the All Classical Thursdays at Three reservation page, or you can tune in on your radio at 89.9 or stream live at AllClassical.org. The performance will also be available for your listening pleasure in the archive for two weeks. Another way this is a great preview of our programs is that our MC for all six evening concerts, Christa Wessel, is the host of Thursdays@3, so you’ll get a sample of her warm, inviting presence. 

We are offering events during the entire symphony season now, with our Pop-Up concerts, but it all begins with a brief and intense festival of Blitzes and concerts in which we circumnavigate the Metro area in less than two weeks. What we’ve come to think of as the Spring Festival begins in earnest on April 20, in a way that is emblematic of how our festival works. At 10 am, we have a Blitz at Mt. Scott Park Community Center and at noon, a pair of basses and a pair of violins (including Concertmaster Sarah Kwak!) will perform in the Pearl Room on the third floor of Powell’s City of Books. These two partnerships illustrate something about how we do what we do, by finding community partners, whether non-profits or civic-minded businesses, to bring live performances of great music by top-notch musicians to our community, where you live, work and play.