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Today on the show: creativity and geography.

Salem Chamber Orchestra Files For Bankruptcy
Last month, the Salem Chamber Orchestra board announced the season would be cancelled because of financial difficulties. Now it has informed its musicians it will also file for bankruptcy.

Frank Almond\u2019s Famous Stradivarius
Violinist and concertmaster Frank Almond, the man behind the best-selling CD \u201cA Violin\u2019s Life,\u201d will perform on Tuesday in Corvallis at Oregon State University and on Friday in Bend as part of the High Desert Chamber Music\u2019s Spotlight Series.

The real star of the show, though, is Almond\u2019s famous, 300-year-old Lipinski Stradivarius. That Almond is playing it at all is a small miracle: a couple of winters ago, thieves tased him and ran off with the instrument, which is valued at $5 million to $6 million.

Paige Powell\u2019s Magnificent Ride Through New York City
When Portland native Paige Powell worked at \u201cInterview\u201d magazine in New York City in the 80s, she traveled in rarified circles. There were lunches with Bianca Jagger, dinners with David Bowie, late nights with Madonna, and an endless parade of parties with Andy Warhol. And she documented it all with her camera.

When Powell moved back to Oregon, she put all the photos and videos in boxes and didn\u2019t look at them for years. Now she\u2019s showing them for the first time in a multimedia installation at the Portland Art Museum called \u201cThe Ride.\u201d She gave producer Aaron Scott a tour.

Marc Acito\u2019s Broadway Breakthrough, Starring George Takei
The life of the \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor-turned-civil rights activist is inspiring a new musical on Broadway. \u201cAllegiance\u201d tells the story of George Takei and his family, who were sent to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. The New York \u201cObserver\u201d called \u201cAllegiance\u201d \u201cfresh,\u201d \u201coriginal,\u201d and \u201cpassionate.\u201d And the play\u2019s co-writer happens to be someone who worked in Portland for 20 years before returning to New York and Broadway: Marc Acito. We caught up with Acito between the play\u2019s rehearsals.

Liminal Wants To Offend You\u2028
Liminal Performance Group has a reputation for brassy, experimental, tech-rich theater productions, so we were intrigued when they announced that they were going to re-vamp a seminal anti-theatre work called \u201cOffending the Audience\u201d for \u201ca modern age of pan-surveillance and fractured media self-reflections.\u201d

What happens when you slap a pandemonium of surveillance and interactive technology, plus nude interpretive dances, onto the 50 year-old play by Peter Handke? For our ongoing series \u201cWhat Are You Looking At,\u201d we invited James Engberg and Eric Kilgore to see the show. You might know them from a theater podcast and XRAY-FM show they hosted called \u201c5 Useless Degrees & A Bottle of Scotch.\u201d
\u201cOffending the Audience" runs through Nov. 22 at Action/Adventure Theater.

Amazon Goes Old School With Brick And Mortar
Last week, while we were whooping it up at Wordstock, book lovers in Seattle were treated to the latest high-tech, new-fangled idea in e-commerce, cooked up by Amazon: the opening of a store. With books.

From Seattle\u2019s KUOW, Kate Walters reports on the retail giant's first permanent brick and mortar retail shop in Seattle. Then we call up Knute Berger, a writer for the blog \u201cCrosscut\u201d and \u201cSeattle Magazine,\u201d who wrote about the opening.

Jazz Composer Darrell Grant's Oregon Sojourn\u2028
In 2012, pianist, composer and Portland State University professor Darrell Grant started work on a song cycle called \u201cThe Territory,\u201d about his relationship with Oregon, its history, and its geography. \u201cThe Territory\u201d premiered last January in New York, and it\u2019s now being released on PJCE Records. Grant stopped by KMHD Jazz Radio this week to talk with Matt Fleeger about the genesis of the project in advance of a record release concert on Nov. 14 at the First Unitarian Church.