Peggy Swafford, former OSO violist and indefatigable champion of music education, has set up a project through the Music Education Assistance Project (a program of Local 99, American Federation of Musicians) to provide $25,000 to get much needed instruments for instrumental music instructors in the Portland Public Schools. The programs are chosen by popular vote
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If you look to the right sidebar, you’ll see a donation button for Team in Training, which is an organization which raises money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by training teams of runners and cyclists for major full and half marathon events and cycling centuries around the country. My wife Heather has an aunt
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OBT is just past the halfway mark in reaching their critical $750K goal. Please give if you are able, or buy tickets to DANCE UNITED. Sorry, the $50 seats are all gone, however.
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An article was published today in the Detroit Free Press about the year-end fiscal situation at the Detroit Symphony, which had posted three consecutive years of balanced budgets – until this year. They were running an annual deficit for this year of $2 million, but managed to erase all but $190,000 for the end of
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I wasn’t able to attend the Oregon Symphony’s annual membership meeting this afternoon due to teaching commitments, but I did read the summary by local arts journalist James Bash, and I have some thoughts of my own. First of all, it must be said that the financial situation of the symphony is undeniably precarious. It
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Tektronix, one of the first companies to set up shop in Oregon’s celebrated “Silicon Forest” high tech community of companies, has been sold to a Washington, D.C. conglomerate. Tektronix was one of our featured sponsors of our first Classical A subscription week, and it was encouraging to have a prominent local company support the symphony
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