Month: November 2009
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I receive a regular stream of emails from arts organizations inquiring about TGN’s calendar and how their concerts can be listed. In an earlier version of this blog, I actually managed a Google calendar that was embedded into the site. I am one person, and keeping track of Seattle events was time consuming. Right about…
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By: R.M. Campbell For more than 30 years now, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” is a fixture of the holiday season. Actually, its is in most American cities but few have similar visual charm and panache. And so, PNB opened its 2009 edition of this veritable warhorse over the weekend at McCaw Hall.…
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It has been a busy fall for live performances and equally busy for new, recommendable album releases. A survey of some of the best, new recordings is overdue. One of the most notable releases, is the San Francisco Symphony’s recording of Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony. It is hard to get this piece to sound right…
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the kings speech hd download By: R.M. Campbell Lise de la Salle was by most accounts a prodigy. Born in France in 1988, the pianist made her recital debut, so to speak, at 9 in a live broadcast on Radio-France and her concerto debut in Avignon four years later. At 13 she graduated from the…
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It won’t be very long before concert stages will be filled with music customarily associated with the holidays. Last year, I asked who had the best holiday concert. The winner was Seattle Pro Musica. download movie the roommate For better or worse, Handel’s Messiah is standard holiday music. I want to know, who has the…
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Tchaikovsky and John Luther Adams don’t appear to have much, if anything in common. More than 100 years separate the two in time. They are separated by continents and countries. Their styles are hugely dissimilar too. Tchaikovsky epitomizes the lushness of the romantic period and Adams pushes the boundaries of music with his experimentations in sound.…
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By: R.M. Campbell Hearing a new conductor at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra used to be a simple pleasure. Now it has the hint of destiny since everyone may be a candidate to succeed Gerard Schwarz as music director in 2011. The motto at the symphony is that everyone is a candidate, no one is a…
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The Seattle Symphony is performing Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony this weekend with guest conductor Arild Remmereit. Remmereit and I had a good conversation about Tchaikovsky and Mozart a week ago Friday. The musicians I spoke with are excited to work with him again, remembering his successful concert with the orchestra three years ago. Be sure to…
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Two concerts this past weekend exemplified Seattle’s diverse classical music scene. Saturday night, acclaimed, local flutist Paul Taub celebrated thirty years in Seattle with an anniversary concert at the Cornish College of the Arts. The next day, the musicians of Philharmonia Northwest, one of the regions many talented community and semi-professional orchestras, tuned their…