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Special for Valentine’s Day, the Columbia Gorge Sinfonietta he orchestra is presenting an evening of music called “Scandinavian Romance,” and it features compositions by Jean Sibelius, Oskar Bohme, and Georg Philipp Telemann.

Randy Christopher Polzel, 41, of Hood River, passed away Monday, May 13, 2013, at Providence Medical Center in Portland, Ore., after a courage…

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Students at Chenowith Elementary School will soon be enjoying a “sound lab” with music-writing software and other perks paid for by their own fundraising efforts. Music teacher Corin Parker said she is pleased by the amount of money the students were able to raise through their “Run for the Arts” events.

Amid the noise of freeway traffic, construction and a busy four-way intersection, a lone trumpet tune faded quietly into the wind. It was a faint, calming sound that didn’t fit in with the uncaring mechanical racket of the day’s busy commerce.