Burning Man without the dust and heat
A twelve-month project culminates tonight
Why the best film composer since Bernard Herrmann ought to take a break from films
To draw a crowd of a couple hundred for a viola recital (the string choir’s neglected middle child), as UW…
A new work from a moonlighting maestro
Combining ancient texts, new music, and innovative technology
A smoldering guitar duo leaps centuries and borders
A critical analysis of composition’s recent past, from Bernstein to Queen.
Seattle Operas mythic interpretation is a knockout.
Because music died in World War I, thats why
Guy Maddin’s latest fever dream
A stately Greek tragedy in music
Where a life under the big top begins
It has been not so quiet a week in Lake Wobegon
Gentlemen, dont start your engines
A first peek at the upcoming film fest
September 26 Steven Pinker This Harvard prof presents The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature. Town…
September 27–29 Seattle Latin-American Music (SLAM) A weekend festival of Hispanic composers. Chapel Performance Space, gschapel.blogspot.com. 27–30 Seattle Symphony Pianist…
Composers learn early on—with hard experience as their teacher, rather than anything in the music-school curriculum—that they have to be…
Iphigenia in Tauris Since a lot of 18th-century opera (at least until Mozart started putting real people on the stage)…
