Spectrum Portland Oregon Arts Magazine 5 issues 1977 Will Vinton, Bill Plympton, William Stafford, Tom Grant, Opera Symphony, Marcel Marceau

Title: Spectrum: Magazine of the Arts [Portland, Oregon] [five issues, 1976-1978]

Author: Editor: Mity Danko-Tilger

Description: Set of five issues (1976-1978). Covers rubbed; two issues show light soiling on front cover. Interiors are clean and unmarked. Black-and-white illustrated. Scarce. Lot of five issues of Spctrum, an arts magazine published in Portland, Oregon in the late 1970s, covering local art, theatre, film, and literature, but also featuring interviews with internationally known performers and writers.

Features:

- a cover illustration by Bill Plympton
- a feature article on animator Will Vinton's production of Martin the Cobbler
- Chick Corea interview with Tom Grant
- William Stafford interview
- Marcel Marceau interview
- summary interview with Eugene Ionesco
- summary interview with Lawrence Smith, Portland Symphony conductor/director (1973-1980)
- article by theatre set designer Carey Gordon Wong (then working with the Portland Opera)
- review of the Tacoma performance of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company/John Cage performance in Tacoma
- articles on the Portland Opera and the Portland Symphony
- two calligraphic art pieces by Susanna Lundgren (Reed '73): a Chinese and a Russian folktale
- article on local woodcut artist Steve Belzman
- article on Carolyn Cole and her mixed media art
- article on textile artist Maureen Bressler
- article on the magic realist illustrations of Martha Zackey
- review of the Locarno 30th International Film Festival
- articles on Maria Callas, Anais Nin, Borges, Berlioz, Plath, etc.
- photography by Craig Hickman and others
- poetry
- book & movie reviews

Five issues:

Volume 1, Issue 1 (Winter 1976)
Volume 1, Issue 2 (Spring 1977)
Volume 1, Anniversary Issue [Winter 1977?]
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 1978)
Volume 2, Issue 3 (Winter 1978)

Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Spectrum Magazine of the Arts Corporation
Place: Portland, Oregon
Year: 1976-1978

Keywords: Bill Plympton, Will Vinton, Susanna Lundgren, Ron Craig, Will Vinton, Tom Grant, Chick Corea, William Stafford, Marcel Marceau, Eugene Ionesco, Lawrence Smith, Portland Symphony, Portland Opera, Carey Gordon Wong, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Steve Belzman, Martha Zackey, Craig Hickman, Maureen Bressler, Carolyn Cole, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, arts, theatre, literature,