• Copland & Sibelius: Sounds of Spring

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    The first warm, fragrant breezes of spring waft through the pages of two beloved works: Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a tender portrayal of rural American life, and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony, with its heart-stopping vision of swans soaring across an April sky. Plus, Artist-in-Residence Xavier Foley returns to your Oregon Symphony to...
  • Spring Sunrise

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    As winter fades, let PYP lift your spirits with a program of heartwarming music. Feel the joy and charm of Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps as it fills the air with the promise of spring, a piece so special that PYP performs it for the first time in its...
  • Amadeus in Concert

    Amadeus in Concert
    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Amadeus—the dazzling story of the tortuous rivalry between world-renowned composers Mozart and Salieri—returns to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to celebrate its 40th anniversary! Accompanied by a live performance of the score with the Oregon Symphony and a full chorus, this is a sumptuous and astonishing movie experience that you...
  • Amadeus in Concert

    Amadeus in Concert
    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Amadeus—the dazzling story of the tortuous rivalry between world-renowned composers Mozart and Salieri—returns to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to celebrate its 40th anniversary! Accompanied by a live performance of the score with the Oregon Symphony and a full chorus, this is a sumptuous and astonishing movie experience that you...
  • Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Adored for centuries for its heartwarming "Air on the G String," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to "cast off the...
  • Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Adored for centuries for its heartwarming "Air on the G String," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to "cast off the...
  • Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Adored for centuries for its heartwarming "Air on the G String," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to "cast off the...
  • The Sounds of Science

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Discover the science of music! With the help of several popular compositions from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture to Debussy’s Clair de lune and onstage demonstrations by Oregon Symphony musicians, young scientists and curious minds will learn all about vibrations, pitch, volume, sound waves, and more! Put on your lab coats and...
  • Blockbuster Broadway!

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    The only thing better than spending Valentine’s Day at a hit Broadway show is spending an evening with ALL of them. Celebrate the biggest blockbuster musicals of all time like Hamilton, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Wicked, and The Phantom of the Opera and more in one thrilling crowd-pleasing performance....
  • Portland Arts & Lectures: Masha Gessen

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...
  • Brahms & Bruch: Romantic Reimaginings

    Brahms & Bruch: Romantic Reimaginings
    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Inspired by a simple chorale attributed to Haydn, Brahms breaks the bounds of his musical imagination with variations that span an ocean of undulating moods. Plus, Oregon Symphony Concertmaster Sarah Kwak captures the high spirits of Highland fiddling in Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, and music meets psychology in Nielsen's Second Symphony,...
  • Brahms & Bruch: Romantic Reimaginings

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Inspired by a simple chorale attributed to Haydn, Brahms breaks the bounds of his musical imagination with variations that span an ocean of undulating moods. Plus, Oregon Symphony Concertmaster Sarah Kwak captures the high spirits of Highland fiddling in Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, and music meets psychology in Nielsen's Second Symphony,...