Saturday, October 27, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

Sunday, October 28, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
1200 SW Alder Street, Portland

Join Resonance as we celebrate the rich bounty of music inspired by Shakespeare’s texts. We’ll intersperse dramatic readings with expressive musical settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams (his lush Serenade to Music), operatic composers Benjamin Britten and Giuseppe Verdi, Americans Steven Sametz and Ned Rorem, and even international composers such as Jaakko Mantyjarvi and Richard Strauss – for composers around the world, Shakespeare’s music is indeed the food of love.

Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.
Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

Sunday, March 3, 2013, at 2:00 p.m.
Yale Union (YU)
800 SE 10th Avenue, Portland

Under the oppressive Soviet regime’s strict musical censorship, composers found different ways to cope: by writing rousing nationalist propaganda, subtly subversive works in “musical code” to sneak past the censors, or oppositional music that endangered their lives or forced them into exile. This concert, presented in conjunction with Yale Union (YU) as part of A Shostakovich Festival sponsored by Friends of Chamber Music, will include thrilling music by Shostakovich, Pärt, Ligeti, Prokofiev, and many other composers affected by the U.S.S.R.

Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

Sunday, May 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.
The Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta Street, Portland

This journey of love and lust concludes the season with an unforgettable concert. This concert, created first in Boston by Dr. FitzGibbon’s mentor Jane Ring Frank for The Boston Secession, earned rave reviews with its combination of choral numbers, solos, and duets that evoke different sorts of musical climax through history: the Big Oh! Whether you are one for the long, slow build or the meandering sensory journey, we’ll have works that will tickle your musical palate.