Last weekend I had the pleasure of taking part in two very enjoyable, but very different, concerts of chamber music. The first was as part of the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, which presented its Asian Music Now concert on Friday evening, which highlighted music by Asian composers, with music both brand new and
Photo courtesy of Fear No Music – credit: Charles Noble Congratulations to FearNoMusic, who were awarded a sizable grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council for their Home Grown concert coming in February 2009 as part of the Oregon 150 celebration, and the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, who won a grant to present
Third Angle may soon need a Fourth Angle to supplement all of their recent activities, especially in the recording studio – read all about it here.
Wordless Music, a group that promotes cross-pollination amongst popular and classical music genres (to put it rather grotesquely) is presenting two concerts in Portland this week, on Thursday (tonight) the 17th and Friday the 18th of April, with the Friday concert featuring the Portland contemporary music ensemble Third Angle. Here is what they are about,