From the Oregon Cultural Trust’s press release [click here to download complete press release as a pdf file]:

The Oregon Cultural Trust reports that Oregonians donated a record $3.5 million to the Trust in 2007 - up 20 percent from 2006 receipts.

Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski commented “In 2007, for the first time in years, the state made a major reinvestment in art and culture.”

Donors who match or exceed their gifts to the Trust with contributions to any number of Oregon’s 1,100 cultural nonprofits may claim their Trust donation as a 100 percent credit against their state income taxes.

David Stabler offers an excellent compendium of links and photos that relate to the upcoming weekend’s Carter/Messiaen Project concerts by Chamber Music Northwest.

Don’t forget, if you are or know of a full-time college student who might like the Carter/Messiaen concerts, they can get free student passes online.

Stabler also highlights this Thursday’s (01/24) lieder recital by tenor Ian Bostridge presented by Friends of Chamber Music. He’s singing what looks to be a program of some of the best-loved songs of Franz Schubert - a must-hear concert by one of the leading lieder singers of his generation (perhaps the next Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau?).

Photo credit: ©EMI/Simon Fowler

Anne Midgette, writing for the Washington Post, talks about her non-response to the music of Johannes Brahms, which she describes thusly: [Read more →]