Month: April 2010
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I’ll be up at Town Hall tomorrow from 1 pm until 1 am co-hosting May Day! May Day’s! new music festivities along with Dave Beck (KUOW) and Gavin Borchert (Seattle Weekly). I assure you, it will be a lot of fun. In addition to being fun, it only costs $5. When was the last time…
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Robert Spano’s debut with the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall started with Jean Sibelius’ Pohjola’s Daughter and ended with John Adams’ Harmonielehre. In between, Dejan Lejic, a rising, young Croatian pianist joined the orchestra for Sergey Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. In the build-up to the concert, the orchestra’s marketing emphasized Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto (“Before…
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The first thing I noticed about Robert Spano when I met him for the first time last summer was the exhilarating energy that surrounds him. His mind races through more thoughts than are possible to keep up with. His wit is quick and sharp (often at my expense). In my conversations with Spano, good ideas…
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One of the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s newer festival musicians – Augustin Hadelich – was earlier this week. buy how to train your dragon moivie high quality film psp A new classical music review mega site is being launched by Chicago based critics Lawrence Johnson. endeavors to be a one stop review site for people…
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The two pieces of sacred music I turn to most often are W.A. Mozart’s Requiem – the first piece of music I ever fell in love with – and J. Brahms’ German Requiem – the first Brahms piece I heard in its entirety. These two pieces shaped my formative listening years and instilled in me…
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By R.M. Campbell Every spring the Northwest Puppet Center presents an opera at its intimate, charming space in North Seattle. Spring would not be spring in Seattle, it would seem, without an opera by the Carter family at the center. This weekend a wonderfully amusing and endearing production of Giovanni Paisiello’s “Pulcinella vendicato” opened its…
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As the fates would have it, a volcano burping and spewing ash over continental Europe, prevented Xavier Philips (the Seattle Symphony’s scheduled soloist for the past weekend’s concerts) from performing a recital on Friday evening of French cello works. Even as one recital came apart, another, at Olympic Hall in West Seattle came together. Music…
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buy yip man 2 moivie high quality . I didn’t know Mr. Rich personally; we never shared conversation over a drink, or wondered about musical subjects together. But, I did know Rich’s writing. His contribution to arts journalism will be missed. Rich’s words can be found throughout the classical music world. His handiwork is on…
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By R.M. Campbell After two well-received visits to Meany Hall by the Compania Nacional de Danza, its third tour, which opened Thursday night, was much anticipated. With reason. The company, essentially a vehicle for the choreography of Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato, is known for the vividness of its movement, willingness to be expansive and ability…
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By Philippa Kiraly It’s the hall mark of a professional orchestra that when unexpected obstacles threaten to overcome a concert, musicians rise above them and achieve a high level of performance anyway. This week the Seattle Symphony rose to the challenge and triumphed. I’ve been at a performance elsewhere where the lights went out and…