{"id":19960,"date":"2019-11-01T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=19960"},"modified":"2019-11-01T07:33:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:33:01","slug":"musical-cities-portland-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=19960","title":{"rendered":"Musical Cities: Portland, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since I couldn’t decide if Vienna, Paris or Berlin deserved the last slot of our mini series, I turned to Portland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have our very own resident composer of note, David Schiff<\/a>. You can find out all about him in a wonderfully comprehensive essay written some years back by Brett Campbell here<\/a>. This quote is a good introduction: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Bronx native, who turned 70 last month, credits his move away from the center of America\u2019s musical universe to Oregon for enabling him to find national renown. Oregon\u2019s best known living composer, and probably the American composer most accomplished at creating viable hybrids of classical music and jazz, Schiff is also one of the country\u2019s major composers of Jewish music (including klezmer) for classical forces. His music has been performed and recorded by major orchestras and ensembles around the country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More recently we can go to an informative, if weirdly titled, interview with the now retired Reed professor, describing how he got to where he is today. Worth a read, if only for the sentence “I gave myself permission to be eclectic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone whose middle name is eclectic <\/em>I had to stop and think for a moment. I never saw that attitude as a choice, something to be allowed or suppressed by some cognitive super-ego. Happens, sort of, more like a force of nature. But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Kind of Music Do You Listen to for Pleasure?<\/a><\/blockquote>