Gathering Note
Notes from the concert hall
Tag: Seattle
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Zach Carstensen : How were you introduced to the violin? ZC: Your professional career began at a young age – you were 12 when you performed with the New York Philharmonic – what was it like being a classical music star while you are also entering your formative, teenage years? M: When a youngster is…
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Simple Measures founder Rajan Krishnaswami and Mark Salman are holding a recital at Town Hall to benefit Simple Measures. The cello and piano duo will be playing music by Shostakovich, Debussy, Chopin, and others. The two talked about the music briefly in a video (May 29, 2009). Another cellist will grace Seattle this weekend as…
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The University of Washington is staging Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” (May 15-17). The Rainier Symphony takes on Mahler’s Symphony Nr.2 “Resurrection” this weekend (May 16-17). The American String Project is presenting their annual series of concerts this weekend too (May 14-17). This year, Barry Lieberman has arranged Prokofiev’s String Quartet Nr. 2 and Robert Schumann’s String…
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May is the start of the home stretch for the classical music season. There are a number of notable concerts this week to investigate. The Seattle Philharmonic ends their season tomorrow by performing Ralph Vaughan Williams Sixth Symphony and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. As far as I know, this is the only performance of a RVW…