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A Symphony of Hope

Philippa Kiraly — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:12:06 +0000

Andrew Manze has been better known in Seattle for his mastery of the Baroque violin and his ability to engage and pull in listeners like the Pied Piper, but for some years now he has been moving into conducting and expanding his range to the full classical repertoire. This week he is here conducting one … Continue reading →

What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for July

Dana Wen — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:30:28 +0000

The glorious Seattle summer has finally arrived, and with it comes a treasure trove of light-hearted and fun classical concerts. Experience the joy of live music outdoors at one of several concerts in local parks, or cool off with some chamber music favorites.

Auburn Symphony’s Springtime “Rite,” With Strauss on the Side

Philippa Kiraly — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:00:04 +0000

The Rite is receiving many performances this season, one of them this past weekend by the Auburn Symphony Orchestra at that city’s Performing Arts Center. For this concert, conductor Stewart Kershaw coupled it with Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, a tone poem on essentially the same theme, composed some 22 years earlier.

Morlot’s Seattle Symphony Celebrates Rhythms of Stravinsky, Gershwin, Varèse

Philippa Kiraly — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:18:08 +0000

The three works were all written within a span of about 15 years, Rite in 1913, Paris in 1928 and Ameriques between 1918 and 1922. It was a time of artistic ferment in Paris, even during WWI, beginning the same kind of musical upheaval which had occurred in Italy at the very end of the 16th and early 17th centuries when the Florentine Camerata and composers like Monteverdi realized that one could express all kinds of emotions dramatically in music, culminating in the birth of opera.