The Seattle Symphony, rebounding from a sweepingly critical article in The New York Times, has some good news to start the new year with. Music Director Gerard Schwarz was picked on short notice to conduct a German tour of the celebrated orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, when its regular conductor, the ageless Sir Neville Marriner, withdrew.
The tour runs from January 8-14, visiting Hamburg, Cologne, and Munich among other cities. Schwarz's next important gig, outside Seattle, is conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic, in Helskinki on March 5-6, with soprano Jane Eaglen.
University of Washington athletic boosters and regular fans have inundated President Mark Emmert, Athletic Director Todd Turner, and football Coach Ty Willingham with hate e-mail over the Huskies' abysmal performance. So found the Seattle Times from a public records request.
Of the 1,000 or so e-mail messages was Ed Hansen's pledge of $100,000 to fund a law school scholarship if Willingham was terminated and another $100,000 to also fund a law school scholarship if Turner was terminated.
Time to take note of Ed Hansen's other tie to UW.
The core reason for all the mismanagement is an antiquated structure, argues a former Port Commission candidate. A restructured port needs to serve a multi-county region. And we need to split up the fundamentally different businesses of seaport and airport.
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