Month: March 2010
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By Peter A. Klein Here are some musical announcements and news for the week of April 1: Ever the Revolutionary. The Italian early music ensemble Mess’ Uppa di Voce will bring some hitherto-unknown works of Claudio Monteverdi to Seattle, at 2:00 PM Saturday in Our Lady of Perpetual Amazement Church in Wallingford. The group’s director,…
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By R.M. Campbell The opening gambit of any artistic director is often a sign of what to come in terms of style and intent. And so, one looks at Clifford Odets’ “Paradise Lost,” which opened last weekend at Intiman Theater, with considerable interest, for it is the inaugural gesture of the company’s new artistic director…
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The performance of “Daphnis et Chloe” at the Seattle Symphony put me in a hopeful mood. What other seldom heard, secular pieces for chorus and orchestra could the SSO perform next? By no means is the following poll an exhaustive list of the many pieces composed for chorus and orchestra. But, if you had to…
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Bach, of course, anchored the program, with his Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067, and his Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. For the second half, music director Christophe Chagnard chose one of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ tributes to the composer, the “Bachianas Brasileiras No 5” in an arrangement for string orchestra by J. Krance; and lastly,…
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By R.M. Campbell
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watch psych:9 movies online watch forrest gump full movie online This week’s Seattle Symphony concerts could be a sleeper hit of the 2009/2010 season. Thomas Dausgaard is in town to lead the orchestra in performances of Sibelius’ Fifth and Lutoslawski’s Fourth Symphony. These two 20th century view of the symphony bookend a 20th Century concerto…
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KING FM has finally decided to make the switch. And it only took six decades. In a press release yesterday, Seattle’s classical radio station announced they would become a listener-supported station effective July 2011. Since 1948, when the station was founded by Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, it has used a commercial broadcasting model. The switch to…
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By R. M. Campbell the a-team film divx Not only is Peter Boal, in his few short years as artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet, adding new works of George Balanchine to the company’s repertory, he has also been introducing pieces by Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian, Mark Morris and Alexei Ratmansky…
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My series of interviews with the guest conductors taking the SSO podium continues with Vassily Sinaisky. Sinaisky wrapped up a series of four concerts with the SSO this weekend that paired Brahms’ Double Concerto for cello and violin and Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe.” This program is a departure, of sorts, for Sinaisky. In his previous…