Month: April 2009
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The Seattle Opera is doing it again; appealing to a younger demographic with a creative way to frame opera in a way that is understandable to most twenty and thirty-somethings. In conjunction with this summer’s production of “the Ring,” the Seattle Opera is launching a contest for one lucky winner to be part of a ten…
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Mendelssohn and Bach go together extremely well, and that shouldn’t be a surprise since Mendelssohn was the primary person who led the rediscovery of Bach’s music. Yet I haven’t attended many concerts in which their music was performed together until I heard the Bach Cantata Choir in its season finale on Sunday afternoon (April 26),…
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Hello from South Bend Indiana! I’m here as part of the Spectrum Dance Company’s four-city national tour. Rajan Krishnaswami (cello), Judith Cohen (piano) and myself (violin) are presenting the work of Irwin Schulhoff at Notre Dame’s magnificent DeBartello Performing Arts Center. The director of Spectrum, Donald Byrd, has brilliantly choreographed a deeply moving work titled…
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love and other drugs 1080 Sunday, April 26th, at Evanston’s Music Institute of Chicago, was the concluding day for this year’s Bach Week Festival, although really a weekend. The first concert was held on Friday and was a harpsichord affair. The concert on Sunday seemed to have representative works from the rest of Bach’s oeuvre,…
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seven brides for seven brothers Opera fans now have the chance to apply their twitter skills to their opera knowledge, because Marcia Adair, a freelance classical music journalist from Canada aka Miss Mussel, has organized this twittery competition, which sounds like a lot of fun. Here is the lowdown from her e-mail today: Starting tomorrow…
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For the past 36 years, there has been a heralding of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Chicagoland area. Spanning a full week and comprising as many as four programs, the Bach Week provides Bach fans with the opportunity to hear wonderful renditions of his best music in intimate and immediate settings. This…
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I had never before heard three of the offerings on the Seattle Symphony program this week, yet the composers are household words among classical musicians: Schubert and Liszt. Perhaps it’s weaseling to say I didn’t know Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy.” I do, but not in this transcription by Liszt where he has added an orchestral component…
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i want to watch the The Adjustment Bureau film The Esoterics close out their season this Saturday and Sunday with “Memoriam.” The program features contemporary, choral music that honors people who have risked their lives and died. One of the pieces on the program, “Meanwhile,” is an Esoterics commission remembering the ten year anniversary of…
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watch the entire movie of the expendables The last time Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman was in Seattle, he played for an encore the last movement of the Sonata No.2 by his compatriot Grazyna Bacewicz. The performance was memorable, so much so that at Meany Theater last night, he changed the program by request of those…