A new era begins for Seattle chamber music
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The Seattle Chamber Music Society's new director, James Ehnes, may seem young, but he's also talented, knowledgeable, determined, and diplomatic.
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Crosscut Tout: For music fans, a week of classical innovation across Seattle
Posted Wed, Jan 25, 2 a.m.
A bold program of pioneering composers in Wallingford's music sanctuary; A pair of UW graduates make orchestra user-friendly; The Seattle Symphony unveils Morlot's inaugural season with a free performance.
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Bellevue's rendezvous with an urban destiny
Posted Tue, Jan 24, 2 a.m.
Updated: The 'Tateuchi Truce' over the Sound Transit wars on the Eastside made clear what a catalyst for an urbanized Eastside this long-aborning cultural center has become.
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Not your grandpa’s warlord: 'Attila' at Seattle Opera
Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.
Strong musical values and principal performances offset the company's unpersuasive modernization of 'Attila's' political struggles.
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Go south, young musician
Posted Tue, Jan 3, 2 a.m.
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
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Pike Place to Rolling Stone: Brandi Carlile's journey to 2012
Posted Tue, Jan 3, 2 a.m.
Award-winning local songstress, Brandi Carlile, rang in the New Year on her home turf, among friends at the Neptune Theatre.
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New Orleans is from Venus, Seattle is from....
Posted Wed, Dec 28, 2 a.m.
This town couldn't be another NOLA and wouldn't want to, but maybe it can learn something about life and living from the battered Big Easy.
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12 good things that happened the past year
Posted Sat, Dec 24, 9 p.m.
It's okay to be grateful around this time of year, so here are some suggested causes for lifting your wassail bowl.
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This year's best holiday show: a sparkling, Christmas-free 'Cinderella'
Posted Thu, Dec 8, 2 a.m.
The Fifth Avenue pulls out the stops for Rodgers and Hammerstein with a lavish staging, beautifully modulated performances, and unforgettable stepsisters.
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Seattle's Watershed Opera presents modernized, family-friendly arias
Posted Mon, Dec 5, 3:53 p.m.
New York transplant Watershed Opera scores high in the looks and originality departments, but might benefit from a little enunciation practice. Where's Henry Higgins when you need him?
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Seattle Weekender: Chick Corea, hadron colliders, and beer, beer, beer
Posted Thu, Dec 1, 3:20 p.m.
Crosscut's guide to a culturally enriching weekend in the city. Or at least some fun.
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Feist: Peformance proves she's more than '1234'
Posted Sat, Nov 19, 2 a.m.
Feist's Seattle performance starts out slow, but her delicate vocals and range of tempos catch on quickly with fans.
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Everett archivist hands over the keys to legendary NW folk library
Posted Tue, Nov 15, 2 a.m.
Folk archivist Bob Nelson has been recording Northwest folk songs for almost 60 years. Now, in the spirit of oral tradition, Nelson is giving his collection - the stuff of legends - to the public.
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Michael Jackson tribute a circus of error and bizarre subtext
Posted Thu, Nov 10, noon
Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson The Immortal comes to Seattle . . . and misses the mark completely. Included in the ticket price: bizarre menagerie, high tech snafus, pedophilic undertones, and offensive gestures.
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Out of Aberdeen: singer gets taste of big-city shows on her own
Posted Fri, Oct 21, 4 p.m.
After fronting for other acts and then moving to Vancouver, jazz-pop musician Roxi Copland played Seattle for the first time at the start of a Northwest swing.
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Tom Morello: A soundtrack to American revolution?
Posted Thu, Oct 20, noon
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello stopped by Seattle this week on a tour for his new solo project, The Nightwatchman. But in this latest iteration of his career, Morello has taken on an unexpected new role -- acoustic revolutionary.
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Old music, and an old church, made new
Posted Wed, Oct 19, 2:10 p.m.
The imaginative programming of Stephen Stubbs' Pacific MusicWorks holds its debut concert in its new home, the former First United Methodist Church in downtown Seattle. Here's a preview.
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Seattle Opera takes on 'Carmen,' a daunting cultural icon
Posted Mon, Oct 17, 8:41 a.m.
The production has a gripping Carmen and Micaela, plus an excellent conductor. But the overall impression is surprisingly restrained for an opera of unrelenting intensity.
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Hillman City neighborhood gets its great good place
Posted Tue, Oct 11, 2 a.m.
Tale of two Seattles: Poised between the very different worlds of Queen Anne and Southeast Seattle, our bipolar correspondent discovers what a difference a neighborhhood bar can make.
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More magic from the Symphony's new maestro
Posted Fri, Oct 7, 9:48 p.m.
Ludovic Morlot's smart programming reveals all kinds of connections, and the orchestra's playing has improved string focus and buoyancy. Two programs are reviewed, one of which is repeated tonight (Oct. 8).
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Crosscut Tout: The sound of Northwest music lands at Sea-Tac
Posted Wed, Jan 25, 9:15 p.m.
We're calling ourselves "the city of music," and we're offering local tunes all over the airport. Are you impressed now, Nashville?
MORECrosscut Tout: a new stage for Pacific MusicWorks
Posted Wed, Jan 11, 8 p.m.
The winter program playing this weekend offers an education in an alternative form of musical drama.
MOREKING-FM: Making the cut as a non-profit?
Posted Thu, Dec 1, 10 p.m. 2011
It's been six months since big changes in Seattle's classical music station. Time to ask some questions.
MORECrosscut Tout: A renaissance for the Renaissance
Posted Wed, Nov 30, 6 p.m. 2011
The Early Music Guild brings highly sought Renaissance choral music ensemble Stile Antico to Seattle on Saturday (Dec. 3). A week later, Seattle Pro Musica presents a Celtic program.
MOREKCTS-generated film paints Seattle music scene vividly
Posted Wed, Oct 19, 2 a.m. 2011
"Something in the Water" will give PBS audiences a glimpse into what keeps creative music coming from Seattle.
MOREWeekend Tech Blog: Celebrating the 4th with George (George M. Cohan, that is) and Microsoft
Posted Sun, Jul 3, midnight 2011
What July 4 weekend would be complete without "Yankee Doodle Dandy," or news from Microsoft?
MORECrosscut Tout: Choral inspiration
Posted Wed, May 18, 1:30 p.m. 2011
The 70-member a cappella group Seattle Pro Musica performs this weekend (May 21-22) at St. James Cathedral in its final concert of the season.
MORESeattle's classical station KING-FM tosses the profit motive
Posted Mon, May 2, 7:17 p.m. 2011
Expect more music each hour, an expanded playlist, and more live and local broadcasts from a wider ranger of performances. But ratings still matter to ensure "a broad and diverse audience."
MOREMaestro, cue the pledge drive!
Posted Thu, Apr 7, 7:39 p.m. 2011
KING-FM jumps the gun a bit in shifting to a public broadcast model. So long, mattress commercials!
MORECrosscut Tout: A dark and yet playful 'Don Giovanni'
Posted Wed, Apr 6, 12:24 p.m. 2011
A bright, young 'Don Giovanni,' by the Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program, plays April 7 and 9 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
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New nonprofit uses tech to provide personal concerts to sick kids When the new Melodic Caring Project provided a streaming concert to an 11-year-old leukemia patient in Seattle Children's, he was moved and inspired. He now practices guitar daily while staying at the Ronald McDonald House.
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'Soul Train's' Don Cornelius, a suicide at 75 The AP reports, "Don Cornelius, the silken-voiced host of 'Soul Train' who helped break down racial barriers and broaden the reach of black culture with funky music, groovy dance steps and cutting-edge style, died early Wednesday of an apparent suicide."
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NY Times gives Maestro Morlot a glowing mid-term grade A critic admires the Seattle Symphony's new conductor, whose "presence from downtown to Capitol Hill, from the seat of city government to young theatrical circles, is already a sign of the leader he would like to be and the orchestra he envisions: central to Seattle’s cultural scene, open-minded and with a taste for collaboration and experimentation."
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Ludovic Morlot reflects on his satisfactions with Seattle Symphony He's in Boston for some concerts, where a reporter got him to comment on Seattle and his busy career.
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Driver whose SUV killed star pharm student, musician boyfriend had caused fatal 2009 wreck The 43-year-old man, who had two children in his car at the time of Sunday's crash, also had pleaded guilty to reduced charges in a wreck where he hit three vehicles and killed a 65-year-old woman, Susan Peek. The victims this time Kristopher Martin, a member of the Touch My Hand for Tenderness band, and Laura Sheard, a UW student who had already been the lead author for a "Science" magazine article.
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