Month: December 2010
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Charles Ives Piano Sonatas; Jeremy Denk (Think Denk Media) Along with Michael Tilson Thomas, Jeremy Denk is one of the few musicians fervently promoting Charles Ives in concert today. Through his regular appearances at the Seattle Chamber Music Society summer festival, Seattleites have come to appreciate Ives in large part because of Denk’s enthusiasm. With…
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With 2010 nearly over it is time for my annual list of the ten most memorable concerts of the year. In no particular order here are my favorite concerts from 2010. Seattle Youth Symphony and Mahler’s Second The Seattle Youth Symphony’s viscerally powerful performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony would have been in the top ten.…
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By R. M. Campbell The Seattle Symphony Orchestra does a slew of concerts during the holiday season, appealing to a range of interests. Most of them are pretty easy on the brain and popular. Themes come and go, but one remains a constant: Handel’s “Messiah.” It has been performed just about everywhere in the city…
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But love, this love has not ended: just as it never had a birth, it has no death: it is long river, only changing lands, and changing lips.
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Handel flash mob in Nordstroms. Seattle Symphony Chorale, Kimberly Russ, and Gerard Schwarz bring holiday cheer to shoppers.
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Kelley O’Connor talks about Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs with TGN from gatheringnote on Vimeo. Mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor sings Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs with the Seattle Symphony this week. Lieberson’s song cycle — drawn from five poems by Pablo Neruda — were originally written for his wife Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Each of the five songs meditates…
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By R.M. Campbell When Stephane Deneve made his Seattle Symphony Orchestra debut a few years ago, he was immediately recognized for the talent he was. His return to the SSO podium Thursday night at Benaroya did nothing to change that impression. His program had multiple virtues: two works because they were little known or not…
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It’s been a busy week for Cornish College, the college’s faculty, and one of the school’s talented soon to be graduates. A new president was unveiled — a violist — Nancy Uscher. That evening student composer Alexander Bishop’s music for viola was the focus at Poncho Hall. Toward the end of the week — innovative…
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By Philippa Kiraly Young American musician Lara Downes opened UW’s President’s Piano Series Wednesday night with an enlightening program of 20th century American music. All the composers but one are well known: Roy Harris, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, plus Florence Price, and all were born close together around the turn of the century,…