“Okay, we GET IT,” my friend whispered to me during Friday’s performance of Semele by Pacific Music Works. She was … Continue reading UW School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks Partner to Present Handel’s Semele
Handel’s cantata Apollo e Dafne is an opera in miniature, with emotions as sharply delineated as you’d find in Puccini’s Tosca but in a fraction of the time. Continue reading At Pacific MusicWorks, a Greek God Turned Frustrated Stalker
The music was glorious. From the Medici wedding came the “Ballo del gran duca” by Cavalieri, performed by all the singers who joined with the dancers who wove around and between them, swirling with flowing arms. The dancers, Elizabeth Cooper, Alexandra Dickson, and Ellie Sandstrom, brought finely trained bodies to the choreography, which was more timeless in style. Continue reading Note to Pacific MusicWorks & SDP: Bring Back “Wayward Sisters”
Right from the start, the performance’s high caliber became obvious, with Daniels’ clarion tenor ringing out, the high cornettos sounding like velvet and the pure sound of the two sopranos hanging in the air. Continue reading Pacific Musicworks Lets “Glorious Music” of the Monteverdi Vespers Sing
Saturday night saw the debuts of two old/new players on Seattle’s music scene: a new old hall containing a contemporary voice for early music. The First United Methodist Church at Fifth and Marion was built in 1907, serving the community there until it moved in 2008-9 to Belltown. Now the old church, having escaped demolition thanks to enlightened developer Kevin Daniels, has reopened its sanctuary as a concert venue: Daniels Recital Hall. Continue reading Pacific MusicWorks & Les Voix Baroques Introduce a “New” Concert Hall
