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April foolery

March 31, 2010

By Peter A. Klein Here are some musical announcements and news for the week of April 1: Ever the Revolutionary. The Italian early music ensemble Mess’ Uppa di Voce will bring some hitherto-unknown works of Claudio Monteverdi to Seattle, at 2:00 PM Saturday in Our Lady of Perpetual Amazement Church in Wallingford. The group’s director, [...]

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Seaman conducts an energetic program Thursday

December 4, 2009

By: R.M. Campbell The Seattle Symphony Orchestra entered into its holiday season Thursday night at Benaroya Hall with a varied, easy–to-like concert, only some of which had any bearing to Christmas. No one seemed to complain. That is not surprising because the guest conductor for this program, to be repeated through Sunday afternoon, was Christoper [...]

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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Nutcracker” Returns to McCaw Hall

November 30, 2009

By: R.M. Campbell For more than 30 years now, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” is a fixture of the holiday season. Actually, its is in most American cities but few have similar visual charm and panache. And so, PNB opened its 2009 edition of this veritable warhorse over the weekend at McCaw Hall. [...]

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Norwegian conductor returns to SSO podium this week

November 20, 2009

By: R.M. Campbell Hearing a new conductor at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra used to be a simple pleasure. Now it has the hint of destiny since everyone may be a candidate to succeed Gerard Schwarz as music director in 2011. The motto at the symphony is that everyone is a candidate, no one is a [...]

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Another rising young performer

November 15, 2009

By: Philippa Kiraly It’s always awe-inspiring to hear the Seattle Youth Symphony. To see 125 children, yes, kids, on stage performing difficult orchestral works with all the professionalism and technique of musicians years their senior in age and experience is exciting and hopeful. Not every teen or preteen is glued to a computer screen or [...]

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Review: Simple Measures “Earth”

November 15, 2009

By: Gigi Yellen Two longhaired four-year-old girls danced during intermission, mimicking the Seattle Dance Project performers’ spins and holds. Whether from the front row, where these two little friends sat, or from a back corner just six rows behind them, where I and a dozen others stood, audience members got what they came for: close-up [...]

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