Month: June 2010
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The Seattle Symphony has a new music director and his name is Ludovic Morlot. The announcement came over my iPhone in an email during a meeting late this afternoon. I scrolled and skimmed my way through its contents and began to count the hours until I could sit in front of a computer to write.…
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36 year old Ludovic Morlot will be the Seattle Symphony’s next music director starting in 2011. More details to come. In the meantime, you can get a Morlot refresher and . Dan Wakin has a good piece in the too. movie ice quake download hd faster fillm movie yip man 2 on dvd shrek forever…
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By Philippa Kiraly Seattle Men’s Chorus celebrated the end of its 30th anniversary year with a gala concert this past weekend at McCaw Hall. Together with its seven-year-old sister group, Seattle Women’s Chorus, it used the opportunity to enhance the occasion with a grand finale to the city’s three-month long tribute to Leonard Bernstein, joining…
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To close the Seattle Symphony’s current season, Schwarz assembled a program of Leonard Bernstein and William Schuman works. This season finale also closes out the Seattle Celebrates Bernstein festival — a city wide effort to honor the 20th anniversary of Bernstein’s death. Personal struggle has been a theme in season finales over the last few…
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Two innovative new releases highlight the course of classical music in the 21st Century: Cortical Songs (Nonclassical) by the duo John Matthias and Nick Ryan and Provenance (Innova) cellist, Maya Beiser’s new album. Both albums underscore a growing desire by musicians and composers to avoid confining forms, formats, and labels. Both releases come right up…
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By Dana Wen One of the great joys of chamber music is the conversation that unfolds between the musicians on stage. Each performer is given a chance to contribute to the musical dialogue in a very prominent way. In such an intimate environment, the personality of each musician inevitably emerges. Sometimes the going gets rough,…
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By R.M. Campbell film divx download hanna hd Nearing the end of its current season, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra is pairing the famous with the obscure for three concerts at Benaroya Hall starting Thursday night. Both composers are in the pantheon of Western icons — Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn — but the works offered…
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By now most people have heard the Philadelphia Orchestra has found a new music director. – YNS for short. He is a predictable choice given the youth movement afoot these days. Chicago bucked the trend by appointing Ricardo Muti. They are the only orchestra which ignored the orchestra group think these days (does that make…