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Chamber Music

  • Arts

    February 1, 2012

    Four by Four

    The Seattle Chamber Music Festival gets a little gnarly. Just a little.

  • Arts

    August 10, 2011

    Country Casual

    Making a day of it at the Olympic Music Festival, where swallows and Schumann mingle.

  • Arts

    June 29, 2011

    Ear Supply: More Chardonnay, Daisy?

    Downtown, the Seattle Chamber Music Society gets a little less posh, but stays exciting.

  • Arts

    April 27, 2011

    Ear Supply: Jack and Ethel

    Two visiting string quartets bring the genre into this century.

  • Arts

    March 2, 2011

    Ear Supply: Song of the Exile

    A lament for a lost Europe.

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2010

    Last Night at Benaroya: Domino Effect

    Compared to Beethoven and his taut, driving musical dramas, Schubert's a more discursive composer, more concerned with lyricism than construction, with rumination than inexorable forward motion ("exquisitely musical thoughtlessness" was George Bernard Shaw's phrase). Yet in a piece like his String Q ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2010

    The Round 57

    Compared to Beethoven and his taut, driving musical dramas, Schubert's a more discursive composer, more concerned with lyricism than construction, with rumination than inexorable forward motion ("exquisitely musical thoughtlessness" was George Bernard Shaw's phrase). Yet in a piece like his String Q ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    Opus

    Compared to Beethoven and his taut, driving musical dramas, Schubert's a more discursive composer, more concerned with lyricism than construction, with rumination than inexorable forward motion ("exquisitely musical thoughtlessness" was George Bernard Shaw's phrase). Yet in a piece like his String Q ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Chamber on My Mind: Wednesday's Best Earshot, Steak & Chamber at the Sorrento

    Chamber music just doesn't give us enough to write about, except this week. As part of the Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle musician and composer Wayne Horvitz's These Hills of Glory, a chamber music piece, will be played by on the violin, piano, clarinet and flute at the Nordstrom Recital Hall, 7:00 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2009

    Town Hall Turns 10 on Sunday

    After Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster moved on from this paper in the late 90s, he wanted to continue his civic involvement with the city, which began well before the 1976 birth of SW. So he identified a little-used church just east of downtown, the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. It lay b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    American String Project

    After Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster moved on from this paper in the late 90s, he wanted to continue his civic involvement with the city, which began well before the 1976 birth of SW. So he identified a little-used church just east of downtown, the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. It lay b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2009

    Eighth Blackbird

    After Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster moved on from this paper in the late 90s, he wanted to continue his civic involvement with the city, which began well before the 1976 birth of SW. So he identified a little-used church just east of downtown, the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. It lay b ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 17, 2008

    How to Enjoy Fall Arts

    Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2008

    Seattle Chamber Music Society

    Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    The American String Project

    Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

  • Arts

    September 19, 2007

    Classical Calendar

    Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

  • Calendar

    February 14, 2007

    Wednesday 2/14

    Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

  • Arts

    January 24, 2007

    A Norwegian Foursome and Female Throat-Singers

    Classical music (and more) this week.

  • Arts

    January 10, 2007

    Taking the Piano Beyond Playability

    Classical - and uncategorizable - music this week.

  • Arts

    October 18, 2006

    From Melia Watras to Wayne Horvitz

    Also: Pink Martini with the SSO.

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    Fall Classical

    Also: Pink Martini with the SSO.

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    Strings Theory

    Cellist Rajan Krishnaswami hypothesizes that more people would listen to chamber music if it weren't so stodgy.

  • Arts

    March 22, 2006

    Crossed Bows

    Keeping kids playing through friendly competition.

  • Diversions

    December 7, 2005

    Old Dogs, New Licks

    Is it too late for the middle-aged to learn to make sweet music?

  • Arts

    September 14, 2005

    Classical Music Favorites and Calendar

    Is it too late for the middle-aged to learn to make sweet music?

  • Arts

    August 10, 2005

    Echo Chamber

    The new Eastside edition of the Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival duplicates Seattle's successful formula.

  • Arts

    September 8, 2004

    Fall Arts Calendar

    The new Eastside edition of the Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival duplicates Seattle's successful formula.

  • Arts

    June 9, 2004

    Performance Picks

    The new Eastside edition of the Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival duplicates Seattle's successful formula.

  • Music

    October 1, 2003

    GALLERY CONCERTS

    The new Eastside edition of the Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival duplicates Seattle's successful formula.

  • Arts

    May 14, 2003

    Peak Performance

    Pianist Craig Sheppard reaches for the summit with Beethoven in tow.

  • Arts

    June 19, 2002

    Viola envy

    Violinists are laughing, but the joke's on them.

  • Arts

    March 20, 2002

    Classical CD Reviews

    Violinists are laughing, but the joke's on them.

  • Arts

    January 23, 2002

    Breaking the chamber

    New groups seek out new sonic paths.

  • Arts

    September 26, 2001

    Earthy intellect

    Bartok gets a suitably asymmetrical performance.

  • Arts

    July 4, 2001

    The sound that says “love”

    Classical music's stickiest etiquette problem.

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    Classical events

    Classical music's stickiest etiquette problem.

  • Arts

    January 3, 2001

    Unplugged pleasures

    Restoration for holiday-frazzled ears.

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    Classical picks

    Restoration for holiday-frazzled ears.

  • Arts

    June 28, 2000
  • Arts

    June 28, 2000

    Coming home

    A musical reunion for the summer festival circuit.

  • Arts

    April 5, 2000

    Last, but not least

    A renowned ensemble brings Shostakovich's final string quartet to town.

  • Arts

    February 9, 2000

    Ahn Guard

    A lively sister act shakes up chamber music.

  • Arts

    September 8, 1999

    Fall arts preview

    Classical music picks

  • Arts

    July 28, 1999

    The halls are alive . . .

    With the sound of chamber music.

  • Arts

    June 2, 1999

    Playing by numbers

    Two local groups make it a weekend at Benaroya

  • Arts

    May 26, 1999

    Bach for more

    Oregon's premier classical festival turns 30.

  • Arts

    January 13, 1999

    Scherzophrenia

    A Seattle Chamber experiment delivers mixed—but mostly good—results.

  • Arts

    November 4, 1998

    Enemies of the Third Reich

    Remembering musicians lost to the Holocaust.

  • Music

    October 28, 1998

    Kron-ology

    The Seattle-born Kronos Quartet hits the quarter-century mark.

  • Arts

    September 9, 1998
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