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John Adams (President)

  • Arts

    January 25, 2012

    Night and Day

    In Ludovic Morlot's hands, the Seattle Symphony reads two contemporaries as exact opposites.

  • Arts

    January 4, 2012

    John Adams' Big Bang

    An explosive opera distilled into a half-hour symphony.

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Celebrate Your Right to Drink on Repeal Day

    Booze-lovers around the country know that December 5 is Repeal Day, the anniversary of the ratification of 21st Amendment. On this day in 1933, the 18th Amendment--the one enacted in 1920 banning the production, sales and consumption of alcohol in these United States--was repealed. Our nation's lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    A Very Seattle Thanksgiving: Oyster-Stuffed Mushrooms

    Voracious this year asked local food producers to provide their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. We'll run one recipe each day through Nov. 23; if you collect them all, you'll have a complete feast. Pilgrims didn't eat jellied cranberry sauce or green bean casserole, but their first Thanksgiving dinn ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 14, 2011

    My, How You've Grown!

    In shaky times for classical music, how one local ensemble survived the terrible twos.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Teach a Man to Shellfish...Bainbridge Island Debuts Foraging Classes

    Photos by Ken Raskin​"Digging clams is kind of embarrassingly easy," wild foods writer Langdon Cook yesterday told a dozen aspiring foragers assembled at Dosewallips State Park. "It's amazing how people just don't realize that." Cook's listeners were participants in the Bainbridge Island Metr ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 26, 2011

    Spring Forward

    With Muhly, Varèse, and Zappa, the Seattle Symphony hopes to open ears and minds.

  • Film

    December 29, 2010

    The 10 Best Films of 2010

    With Muhly, Varèse, and Zappa, the Seattle Symphony hopes to open ears and minds.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Last Night at Benaroya: Generous and Exuberant

    Gerard Schwarz's new trio for horn, violin, and piano opens arrestingly with a prologue evoking Jewish musical tradition--the calls of the shofar, or ram's horn, to mark the Jewish New Year--though the work's not as overtly nostalgic, or narrative, as his recent Rudolf and Jeanette for chamber ensem ... More >>

  • Film

    June 23, 2010

    I Am Love: Tilda Swinton in Mad, Glorious Passion

    Gerard Schwarz's new trio for horn, violin, and piano opens arrestingly with a prologue evoking Jewish musical tradition--the calls of the shofar, or ram's horn, to mark the Jewish New Year--though the work's not as overtly nostalgic, or narrative, as his recent Rudolf and Jeanette for chamber ensem ... More >>

  • Film

    May 19, 2010

    SIFF Week 1: Picks and Pans

    Gerard Schwarz's new trio for horn, violin, and piano opens arrestingly with a prologue evoking Jewish musical tradition--the calls of the shofar, or ram's horn, to mark the Jewish New Year--though the work's not as overtly nostalgic, or narrative, as his recent Rudolf and Jeanette for chamber ensem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Last Night at Benaroya: Throbbing, but No Swooning

    Yes, it's perhaps a bit calculated, but I appreciated the programming strategy of Robert Spano, who guest-conducted the Seattle Symphony last night, of making Rachmaninoff more palatable by sweetening it with a little contemporary music: John Adams' Harmonielehre, the concert's second half, made his ... More >>

  • Arts

    February 17, 2010

    Spring Arts Calendar

    A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Metropolitan Opera at the Movies

    A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

  • Arts

    August 16, 2006

    Trouble in Camelot

    Chappaquiddick is immortalized in song in Black Water.

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