David Stabler reports this morning that the Oregon Bach Festival will open its 2008 season by performing a concert (Bach’s B-minor Mass) at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. What next? Will the Eugene Symphony start a series in the Oregon Symphony’s home hall? The Seattle Symphony? It’s frustrating, because while we continually draw back the number of concerts that we offer both in Portland and around the state of Oregon (we are called the Oregon Symphony, after all) other arts organizations are presumably seeing needs that they can meet in the Portland market. Frankly, I’m worried about what this portends for the future.
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