Gathering Note

Notes from the concert hall

Tag: Early Music

  • What’s 400 years between composers?

    transformers psp Seattle has struggled to create an identity as a major, American city for as long as I have lived here. Each time, it seemed poised to break out, the provincial mindset, which has long dominated the city’s culture, reasserted itself. For 72 hours last weekend, Seattle’s music and performance finally broke loose, bringning…

  • Scottish harp is the focus of Baroque Northwest

    By R.M. Campbell Baroque Northwest is one of those small ensembles in Seattle that lives a little below the public radar but  sustains itself with evocative programs, good music-making and a faithful audience. just go with it on dvd dirty movie showings buy machete moivie high quality

  • Baroque music for humans at the SSO

    By Gigi Yellen “Baroque Music for Humans” was the title of the pre-concert conversation between Nicholas McGegan and the critic Bernard Jacobson. What was that supposed to mean? Who cared? Fun was the attitude of the day at this last in a three-concert series at Benaroya Hall with the renowned music director of San Francisco’s…

  • Messiah Returns to Benaroya Hall

    By R.M. Campbell The performance of the “Messiah” during the Christmas season is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, traditions of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. There is nothing unusual in this commitment to Handel’s oratorio. It is a work of pure, seemingly inexhaustible, genius. Although the work was intended as a vehicle to…

  • OSSCS Messiah remains a Seattle holiday tradition

    By: Dana Wen Seattle’s Messiah purists got their annual fix this past Sunday during Orchestra Seattle & Seattle Chamber Singers’ single performance of Handel’s masterpiece.  OSSCS, led by George Shangrow, is well-known in the region for their true-to-the-score Messiah (no cuts or abridged versions here).  Sunday’s concert was held at the First Free Methodist Church…