Oregon Music News

Those lucky enough to make up a part of the sold-out audience this Saturday can confidently say they attended the performance of a lifetime. / Photo by Anthony Pidgeon

Garth Fagan dancers have been praised for performing rigorously and lyrically, while creating “an affirmation of modern dance as a preeminent expressive idiom of the century,” according to The Los Angeles Times.

Miguel Zenon kept his cool like the well-mannered ensemble leader he is throughout the set, but when “Superstition” unfolds, he let any inhibitions go. And can he play? Yes, like a madman. And arrange? Yes, also. / Photo by Kevin Tomanka

The three Israeli-born siblings on horns and reeds were each too accomplished and affectionate to upstage one another. Instead, synchronicity and democracy dominated the 90-minute set with the gifted sidemen wedging in solos as well. / Photo by John Rudoff