Gathering Note
Notes from the concert hall
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watch psych:9 movies online watch forrest gump full movie online This week’s Seattle Symphony concerts could be a sleeper hit of the 2009/2010 season. Thomas Dausgaard is in town to lead the orchestra in performances of Sibelius’ Fifth and Lutoslawski’s Fourth Symphony. These two 20th century view of the symphony bookend a 20th Century concerto…
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My series of interviews with the guest conductors taking the SSO podium continues with Vassily Sinaisky. Sinaisky wrapped up a series of four concerts with the SSO this weekend that paired Brahms’ Double Concerto for cello and violin and Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe.” This program is a departure, of sorts, for Sinaisky. In his previous…
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Frank Ferko is in town for a performance of his Stabat Mater by Choral Arts. He participated in a Meet the Composer last night at Fare Start. I live blogged the Q&A (you can find the transcript by clicking on the Live Blog page) and at the beginning of the question period I took this…
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download movie the green hornet hq Here is my second interview with Mikhail Shmidt. In this video Shmidt talks about Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments,” a piece he will perform this Saturday as part of Icebreaker V. “Kafka Fragments” is no ordinary piece; it is one of Kurtag’s most important works and one of…
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Starting Friday, the Seattle Chamber Players embark on their fifth Icebreaker festival – “Love and War.” While other Icebreakers have focused on American, Russian, and Baltic contemporary music, the latest festival centers on Western Europe. Mikhail Shmidt, one of SCP’s founding members spoke with me about the festival. You can watch and hear Shmidt’s thoughts…
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Gary Thor Wedow sat down with TGN to talk about his run of Messiah performances with the Seattle Symphony this weekend. Wedow is an active early music and opera conductor whose reputation continues to grow. He has conducted both the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Opera in recent years. This past fall, Wedow led the New York…
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Local violinist James Garlick held a recital Friday at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. I will be writing about the experience and performance in more detail. Until then, here is a short clip from the concert of Garlick performing two variations from John Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices. download the the violent kind movie psp…
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I talked with conductor Christopher Seaman yesterday. Seaman is in town guest conducting the Seattle Symphony in a series of concerts titled “Festive Holiday Encores.” Just as the name implies, the program is essentially one classical music hit after another. Popular pieces by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Dukas, etc. will fill Benaroya Hall this weekend. …
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The Northwest Sinfonietta returns to action this week with a program that features eight seasons — Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” James Garlick — friend of the Gathering Note, frequent concertmaster with the Sinfonietta, and occasional contributor — took a few moments to talk about Piazzolla’s “Seasons.” Garlick is soloing…