Shedd Institute executive producer Jim Ralph offers an overview Oregon Festival of American Music 2025, which in the course of this January's exploration of the relationship between jazz and the work of Songook greats Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin and Cole Porter and this coming August's look at jazz and a host of their colleagues, looks to explore (and enjoy!) the deep and fruitful relationship between these two currents of American popular music.