This June, Seattle’s ending the concert season with a bang, in the form of a month-long flurry of world premiere performances. Celebrate another year of local classical music with brand-new works by talented composers from near and far. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For June
Spring is in full bloom around Seattle! With seasonal transitions come musical changes as well; local ensembles and concert venues look towards warmer weather this month with music of growth, rebirth, and summer sunshine. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For April
On October 26, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra performed their season opener concert at Wallingford’s Chapel Performance Space, featuring a delightful program of music by Hector Berlioz and Igor Stravinsky. Continue reading A Blissful Autumn Afternoon With the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
The evening was an awesome physical feat for any performer, but at the very end, Parker’s fingers were as nimble, as accurate, his touch as relaxed, his playing as clean and rhymic as it all had been at the start. And after it, he played an encore, a quiet, rippling Rachmaninoff prelude. Continue reading Jon Kimura Parker Takes on Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev & Stravinsky
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. Continue reading Auburn Symphony’s Springtime “Rite,” With Strauss on the Side
This month, head to the classical concert hall for some serious time-traveling. Experience a cantata that was lost of the world for hundreds of years, then expand your horizons with new local music that’s hot off the press. No matter if you’re a fan of modern dance, medieval literature, or sports and games, there’s something on the calendar for you this April. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for April
Starting with an aggressively forceful start and very fast, Lim’s playing insistently reminded the listener that the piano is a percussion instrument. This impression came back many times during the performance, but in between she created a beautiful tone with a sensitive touch, particularly during the second movement. Continue reading HJ Lim Drops the Hammers on Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto
