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Brady (with Aaron Lamb) dispenses Wildean ironies.

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Opening Nights: An Ideal Husband

How Oscar Wilde snuck subversion into a drawing-room melodrama.

Varese, refusing to die!

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Ear Supply: French Connections

Varese's chaotic cityscape still sounds ballsy decades later.

Morlot: spreading cheer from the podium.

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New Kid in Town

Ludovic Morlot launches his Seattle Symphony tenure with dazzling performances—and a daring failure.

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My, How You’ve Grown!

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

Lost and Found

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Lost and Found

A sit-down with Jeopardy! champ-turned-author Ken Jennings.

Cline as icon.

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Ear Supply: Patsy Cline Can Do No Wrong

Her songs do anything she wants them to.

Bumbershoot trailblazer Morlot.

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Ear Supply: A Snowball in Hell

I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Wilson.

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Ear Supply: Guitar at Twilight

Late-summer refreshment at St. James.

Approaching the barn.

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Country Casual

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

Infinitely looping Asplunds.

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Ear Supply: Pieces of Music

Composition a la Lego.

Off like a rocket: Brown's Maria rules Catfish Row.

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Living, Breathing, Bleeding

Seattle Opera fills the stage with Gershwin's unforgettable characters.

Hansen among his arsenal of percussion instruments.

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Pit Boss

Seattle's busiest orchestra player makes the 5th Avenue ring.

Sir Ruthven (Brookes, left) and a menacing ancestor (Darkow).

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Opening Nights: Ruddigore

There's much to enjoy in Gilbert and Sullivan's melodrama.

Opening-night violinist, and SCMS associate artistic director, James Ehnes.

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Ear Supply: More Chardonnay, Daisy?

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

Schwarz brought "a time for greatness," said the SSO ads in 1984.

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Hall of Fame

A thundering farewell in the house that Schwarz built.

Also unfairly neglected.

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Ear Supply: Middle Child

The Jan Brady of the orchestra gets its own festival.

Schwarz: Making his last word one to remember.

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Ear Supply: A Grand Goodbye

Gerard Schwarz's final bow.

Strauss in (much) younger days.

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Ear Supply: The Long Goodnight

Richard Strauss made beauty from the ruins of World War II.

Passion (Martin) in the foreground, with reason (Anderson) to the rear.

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Opening Nights: Sense and Sensibility

Austen? Sentimental? Balderdash!

Jones, left, with SSO trombonist Ko-ichiro Yamamoto.

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Ear Supply: American Master

The SSO salutes Sam Jones.