Email Author Gavin Borchert

2012 Stories by Gavin Borchert

• Opening Nights: Smokestack Arias

  published February 8, 2012

  Seattle composer Wayne Horvitz's latest musical tribute to America's labor movement is much more intimate than his 2004 Joe Hill,... More >>

• Four by Four

  published February 1, 2012

  Bartok's String Quartet no. 4—with its antagonistic opening, bad-dreamish slow movement, and aggressive fury—is... More >>

• Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic

  published January 25, 2012

  It's emblematic of Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot's devotion to new music that the first commission of his tenure (co-sponsored with... More >>

• Night and Day

  published January 25, 2012

  If in his first concerts with the Seattle Symphony last fall, music director Ludovic Morlot staked his claim with unconventional programming... More >>

• Opening Nights: Attila

  published January 18, 2012

  Seattle Opera's production of Verdi's Attila is like an Italian opera reimagined by Spike TV. The martial score's... More >>

• Ear Supply: The Borrowers

  published January 18, 2012

  For centuries, composers in the Western tradition based music on other people's music without thinking anything of it—all the way back to... More >>

• Opening Nights: Spring Awakening

  published January 11, 2012

  In the eagerly awaited Seattle premiere of this 2006 musical, directed by Eric Ankrim, Balagan Theatre's actors throw themselves with admirable... More >>

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  Opening Nights: West Side Story

  published January 11, 2012

  "They're all killers . . . I wanted to do a much tougher West Side Story," said book writer Arthur Laurents of the 2009 Broadway... More >>

• John Adams' Big Bang

  published January 4, 2012

  It would have been a fool's errand, composer John Adams knew, to try to represent orchestrally the sound of an atomic... More >>