“Chess,” with music by the guys from Abba, settles in for a two-weekend run at OSU. But, first, its directors needed to sort through the many versions of the show.
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Pianist Yeol Eum Son’s salute to the sonata
South Korean musician surveys the sonata form in Sunday concert — and ends with a modern whirlwind of a piece that straddles the line between classical and jazz.
Your Weekend Reader for Feb. 26-27
A note or two about Ukraine. The Oregon Legislature. Alden and Lee tussle some more. Clarence and Ginni Thomas. Unhappy students. Coronavirus good news, at last. OSU’s Andrea Aquino. Wordle. Oscar screenplays. It’s in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
The curious journey of “The Curious Incident”
It’s been a winding, and sometimes painful, road for the Majestic Theatre’s streaming production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” But the show found ways to go on.
“Be the Light:” Conductor offers OSU students a crash course in Justice Choir
It was just past 10 on a Saturday morning in the LaSells Stewart Center on the Oregon State University campus, and more than 100 OSU choral students were warming up their vocal cords. “We’re doing...
Coming to America: OSU student’s “Ellis Island” imagines meeting between two relatives
Leah Kahn once wrote an entire play about two Romans and a Trojan horse. Let her give you a quick critique about that one: “It didn’t go anywhere,” said the Oregon State University student. So she...
Your Weekend Reader for Jan. 1-2
Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2022 brings you nothing but good news -- and, now, let me set about breaking that particular resolution. (I promise this edition gets happier as it goes along --...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 25-26
Merry Christmas! I promise that I'll finally finish the last batch of Christmas cards this weekend and get them out in the mail pronto. (Who am I kidding: What I mean to say is, I'll get started on...
Songs of terror, violence earn Holiday Hall of Fame honors
A rollicking version of a song about life in an authoritarian surveillance state. And a jazzy, fun cover of a song about a horrible accident and mankind's indifference to the cries of others in...