Arts & Culture
Classical Calendar
September 27–29 Seattle Latin-American Music (SLAM) A weekend festival of Hispanic composers. Chapel Performance Space, gschapel.blogspot.com. 27–30 Seattle…
Arts & Culture
Beth Fleenor Pushes New Music Into the Ring
Composers learn early on—with hard experience as their teacher, rather than anything in the music-school curriculum—that they have…
Arts & Culture
Classical Picks
Iphigenia in Tauris Since a lot of 18th-century opera (at least until Mozart started putting real people on…
Arts & Culture
Theater Calendar
September 26–Oct. 27 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s insouciant farce. Taproot Theatre. 27–Oct. 21 Halcyon Days…
Arts & Culture
A Sometimes Too-Faithful Young Frankenstein Has So-So Songs but Knockers-Out Performances
The casting is uncommonly deep, with all the leads demonstrating an old-school combo of versatility, chops, and star…
Music
You Could Say Crowded House Are Back, Though They Never Really Went Anywhere
A Neil Finn song is a Neil Finn song, and excited as Crowded House fans might be about…
Arts & Culture
Buzzed About
Our own (recently dethroned) spelling bee champ on the pressures of navigating the twisted jungle of the English…
Arts & Culture
Never underestimate the power of music, especially combined with nostalgia. If you
Never underestimate the power of music, especially combined with nostalgia. If you dont understand how anyone could get…
Arts & Culture
Voices Save a Choppy Sail of The Flying Dutchman
Just as the accursed wandering sailor in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman is redeemed by a woman’s faithfulness, so…