Month: February 2009
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Sound Magazine ran one of my posts from January where I observed the comparisons between the San Francisco Symphony and the Seattle Symphony. The conclusion I made in that post was the SSO is sitting a similar place as the SFS was when they hired Michael TilsonThomas. Who is chosen to replace Schwarz is vital…
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Last year’s Theater of Needless Talents, a dance production set to the music of Erwin Schulhoff, is on tour. James Garlick a friend of the Gathering Note and violinist will be blogging from the road. You can find his dispatches from the midwest and elsewhere here under Road Report. Thanks James! megan is missing movie…
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Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, plays Town Hall on February 28th. You like sackbuts, shawms, and krumhorns then Piffaro is for you. The LA Guitar Quartet comes to town on Tuesday, March 3rd, and will play with the Seattle Symphony. March 7th is the date the Puget Sound Symphony plays their winter concert. Alan Shen and…
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piranha full video download Portland Piano International has operated in Presto mode for its last two concerts, finding replacements for last minute cancellations. Last month Conrad Tao gave a terrific performance in place of an ailing Polina Leschenko. This time around, Xu Zhong came to the relief of Olga Kern, who had to attend to…
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The faux, brick frame used to set off Robert LePage’s production of Bela Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Arnold Schoenberg’s Ewartung did more than house a stage within a stage. Profoundly, the arrangement literally and figuratively created a window into the human condition. Seattle Opera’s success with these two difficult, 20th Century operas, depends on the…
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently released its next season, and I believe it is probably the most dynamic and varied season we have seen in recent memory. The season is focusing on the three conductors that make up the universe of excellence at the CSO: Bernard Haitink, who will be leaving us after this season,…
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jack goes boating download dvdrip There are no airs or temperamental drama about Susan Marie Pierson, the soprano who not only sings every performance of Schoenberg’s “Erwartung” in Seattle Opera’s double bill the next two weeks, but covers for the soprano in Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” as well. “When we did this production in Edmonton (Alberta,…
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Huw Edwards, music director and conductor of the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra has a knack for finding outstanding young artists and displaying their talent on stage. This time, for the PCSO concert on Friday evening, two teens demonstrated artistic abilities way beyond their years. The orchestra played a superb new work by 19-year-old composer Taylor…
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I was fortunate to be able to sit down with Maestra Falletta this weekend. Falletta has been in Seattle this past week for a series of three concerts with the Seattle Symphony. The concerts have been a compelling mix of the seldom heard, a dark showpiece, and a deeply moving requiem by the understated Gabriel…