"I spoke with Danzmayr on a frigid Tuesday morning. He arrived in Portland late the night before from working with the Pro Musica ensemble in Columbus. He showed up just in time for our ten A.M. interview, already brimming with enthusiasm, and spoke with verve. We discussed the origins of the festival, European and American attitudes towards music, and the Oregon Symphony's role in the state's musical culture and economy."
"When I became music director here, a lot of the music that was played was non-Portland-ish. Everyone does things different, so that's not me criticising things. The way I did programming once I became a music director of American orchestras more than ten years ago was to try and find a balance. Let me back track a little bit. I grew up in Salzburg in Austria, in the eighties and nineties."
The Oregon Symphony's Sounds Like Portland Festival features performances by the orchestra and local ensembles, including The Seven Deadly Sins with Storm Large. The concert programs two works by local composers plus a world premiere: David Schiff's Uptown/Downtown piano concerto for Darrell Grant and Ostinato by Alejandro Belgique. Music director David Danzmayr emphasizes balancing repertoire to include Portland-centric music. He traveled from Columbus prepared and enthusiastic. He noted that much earlier programming had been non-Portland-centric and that his programming philosophy seeks balance. He described growing up in Salzburg when German-language contemporary music was predominantly atonal and serialist, often lacking melody or rhythm.
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