Here’s a great article by David Brewster about the much-respected and financially secure Chamber Music Northwest from the online journal Crosscut. Here’s the opening:
 If Seattle is a bright beacon flashing out its grandness, Portland is a bushel basket, under which well-kept secrets gleam. My favorite example is Portland’s Chamber Music Northwest summer festival, now in its 37th year and one of the finest in the country. My family has been going for the past 25 years, but I rarely encounter a music lover in Seattle who’s ever been. CMNW, doing just fine, thank you, shows no inclination or need to market to a Seattle audience.