SCHROTTHAGEN: NEW WORLD TOUR 2026 at Holocene, Portland, Thursday, November 19, 2026 · 8PM · 21+ · $25 at the door. Formed by award-winning composers Giovanni Berg and Dieter Schleip, the German duo blends driving techno, trance, orchestral...
"Liquid State", presented by Rose City Pride Bands, explores music in constant motion. Through currents of sound, shifting colors, evolving rhythms, and sweeping emotional arcs, the program moves between stillness and momentum, tradition and transformation. Each work reveals how music, like water, can flow, gather force, change shape, and carry you somewhere new.
Program includes Omar Thomas' moving arrangement of Shenandoah, the sultry sounds of Vientos y Tangos (Gandolfi), fan favorite Bolero (Ravel), Masklanka's powerful Give Us This Day, and more...
$20 suggested donation at the door
The Rose City Pride Bands is a welcoming space for members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to forge connections through music. Cultivating a network of instrumentalists, music enthusiasts, and members of the LGBTQ+ community to entertain audiences and use music as a vehicle to unify the communities.
Music empowers communities to collectively build harmonious societies.
Portland Mezzo-Soprano and Composer Dr. Lisa Neher launches Pacific Art Song, a concert series dedicated to Western Classical Art Song, with a program titled Summer Nights. A celebration of French song, the program transports audiences to the era of intimate salons, where friends gathered in living rooms to enjoy music shared up close. The centerpiece of the program, Hector Berliozâs Les Nuits d'Ă©tĂ© (Summer Nights), explores longing, loss, and love across five songs that set vibrant poetry with closely interwoven parts for the voice and the piano. The work is the first major song cycle written by a French composer. Complementing Berliozâs groundbreaking piece are masterworks by Pauline Viardot and protĂ©gĂ© Lili Boulanger, brilliant French women composers long marginalized because of their gender. Completing the program are two world premieres composed by Neher herself. Chanson dâautomne (Song of Autumn) and Lâheure du berger (The Hour of the Shepherd) set poetry of Paul Verlaine. Dubbed âPrince of Poetsâ by his peers, Verlaineâs name is synonymous with French song.
Why art song now? âWeâre living in an era of 15-second TikTok videos and the constant dopamine rush of notifications on our devices,â says Neher. âBut what weâre all longing for is something real and embodied. This concert is an invitation to slow down and connect with your senses, to hear and see and feel the music in a community.â
Performers:
Dr. Lisa Neher, mezzo-soprano and composer
Hannah Early, piano
Susan McBerry, guest lecturer
There will be a pre-concert talk by Susan McBerry at 2:40 p.m.
The Reed Music Department invites you to a special collaborative concert featuring the Reed Orchestra, Chorus, and Collegium Musicum performing Requiem in D minor K. 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Admission is free.
Solid Brass takes you on a musical adventure through growth and change, to the end of the journey and what comes after.
Among the pieces presented are two written in the last 5 years. Konrad WaĂmann's A Brass Overture is a driving and exciting fanfare showing off the power of the brass choir. Likewise, Symphony for Brass by Kevin Sippel is itself a four-movement journey. I Can Go The Distance comes from Disney's Hercules, as he struggles to find a place where he belongs. George Frideric Handel's classic Arrival of the Queen of Sheba depicts the preparations for the arrival of a caravan from the southern end of the Red Sea up to Judah, led by the titular Queen of Sheba. At the end of the adventure, Karl King's Hometown Boy March celebrates a hero's return, while, on the other end of the spectrum, I Can't Make You Love Me, as sung by Bonnie Raitt, marks the end of a relationship. Finally, Edvard Grieg's Funeral March in memory of local trumpeter and teacher, Fred Sautter.
Chatter LateWORKS is a late-night series that explores modern, experimental, and avant-garde trends within contemporary classical music. Hear local composers alongside rarely heard masters from the past 75 years in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere inspired by our Sunday morning performances. Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm; beer, wine, and refreshments are available for purchase at Hallowed Halls Tiki Bar.
Featuring spoken word performance by Hieu Minh Nguyen.
Portland Baroque Orchestra performs in concert. For more information and tickets, please reach out to Portland Baroque Orchestra directly.
Chatter LateWORKS is a late-night series that explores modern, experimental, and avant-garde trends within contemporary classical music. Hear local composers alongside rarely heard masters from the past 75 years in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere inspired by our Sunday morning performances. Beer and wine available for purchase.