Thursdays at Three Episodes

January 9, 2025: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Portland Youth Philharmonic’s chamber orchestra Camerata PYP with award-winning pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, and New Wave Opera to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall. Camerata PYP will share highlights from their concert with Sanchez-Werner, featuring music by Joaquín Turina, Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Liszt, and more. Then, New Wave…

December 19, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Grant High School’s Royal Blues Chamber Choir and the Adent & Moore Piano Duo to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall in downtown Portland. The Royal Blues Chamber Choir will continue the station’s Roger O. Doyle Choral Series. Named for the beloved Portland professor of music, All…

December 12, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland and Northwest Piano Trio to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall in downtown Portland. Choral Arts Ensemble will present the first large vocal group performance in the new space, launching the station’s Roger O. Doyle Choral Series. Named for the beloved Portland…

December 5, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes 45th Parallel Universe and Dianne Davies to the All Classical Radio studios. 45th Parallel Universe shares an exclusive preview of their Cello Christmas holiday events, featuring music by Tchaikovsky performed by the North Pole Cello Sextet. Pianist Dianne Davies decks the halls with new arrangements of traditional holiday…

November 21, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s MYSfits and Cascadia Composers to the All Classical Radio studios. MYS’s self-conducted string chamber ensemble will perform music by Mozart, A. R. Rahman, and more. Cascadia Composers will preview their Fearless Lieder concert, which features songs by 11 composers on poems by four recent Oregon…

November 14, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Portland Opera to the All Classical Radio studios. Portland Opera’s Resident Artists will preview their upcoming production of The Juliet Letters, with music and lyrics by British post-punk icon Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. Based on Shakespeare’s character, Juliet Capulet, she continues to captivate us four hundred…

November 7, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Hevreh Ensemble. The Hevreh Ensemble will preview their upcoming concerts in Portland, showcasing their eclectic repertoire of worldly music inspired by the musicians’ passion and diverse backgrounds, as well as compositions by group member Jeff Adler. Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in…

October 31, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes touring guitarist and composer Aaron Larget-Caplan. Aaron will preview his upcoming concert with the Coaster Theatre Playhouse, featuring “spooky music” for the Halloween season. Enjoy Nikita Koshkin’s ‘The Usher Waltz,’ Keigo Fujii’s The Legend of Hagoromo, plus poetry by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and more. Join us Thursday…

October 24, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Trinity Music with an exclusive preview of their upcoming Halloween event: PipeScreams. Enjoy a family-friendly celebration of spooky, silly, and creepy-crawly music for the Halloween season. Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world via the live…

October 17, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes New Wave Opera with an exclusive preview of their upcoming Halloween event: Night of the Living Opera. Enjoy creepy contemporary operas in English that are the perfect way to get in the mood for Spooky Season, including works by Del’Shawn Taylor and Joanie Brittingham; Portland composer Kimberly Osberg;…