Gathering Note
Notes from the concert hall
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By Philippa Kiraly For the past year, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s artistic director, Peter Boal, dance historian Marian Smith, and Boal’s assistant and choreographic decipherer Doug Fullington, have been working on a restaging of the romantic ballet “Giselle” which goes back to the original score of composer Adolph Adam, original and extensive 1842 rehearsal notes, a…
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Composer Alexander Bishop’s music came into wider awareness last spring when SSO violist Mara Gearman played two of his works as part of Paul Taub’s May Day, May Day festival. Gearman was looking for a couple of new pieces of music to play for the festival, and Bishop was seeking a violist to to play…
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By Peter A. Klein The poetry of teenaged Jewish boys imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp will be given new life in the oratorio “Vedem,” by composer Lori Laitman and librettist David Mason. “Vedem” will receive its world premiere at Music of Remembrance’s spring concert on Monday evening, May 10 at 8:00 PM in Benaroya…
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By Philippa Kiraly The correct title of Paisiello’s 1770 opera is “Pulchinella Vendicato.” Y ou can translate vendicato as vengeance or revenge, or as puppeteer Stephen Carter put it, gets even. However you don’t have to wait long to find out just what Pulchinella does in that vein as the opera begins Friday this week…