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This Bruckner symphony is 73 minutes, eh? I better use the restroom

This Bruckner symphony is 73 minutes, eh? I better use the restroom now.When I was back home in…

Cage prepares a piano.

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Fall Arts: Celebrating John Cage’s Zen-tennial

Music's inadvertent revolutionary influenced arts far beyond it.

Bernstein composed an elegy for New York City 45 years before 9/11.

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Ear Supply: In Memoriam

The Seattle Symphony's season opening recalls 2001's.

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A much more comfortable garment to play in.If I were in charge,

A much more comfortable garment to play in.If I were in charge, I’d abolish the unnecessary, indefensible tuxedo…

Off with his head? Phillips and Palombi.

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Opening Nights: Turandot

Seattle Opera piles spectacle upon spectacle.

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Ear Supply: Reading Between the Lines

A novel transformed into theater, via chance operations.

Ross with fairies Annette Dennis (center) and Miranda Troutt.

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Stage: Iolanthe

Gilbert and Sullivan skewer the 1 percent, tunefully.

Hamelin opens the festival Monday with a couple of his own works.

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Ear Supply: A Change Is Gonna Come

New tweaks to the SCMS's popular recipe.

In his day, Berlioz was notorious for his labor-intensive works.

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Ear Supply: Fausts of Fury

The Seattle Symphony plays Berlioz's not-quite-opera.

Nathan Haslip starts a tour from Victor Steinbrueck Park.View the slideshow here.

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Duck Dodge: The Seattle Free Walking Tour

Why ride an amphibious tank when a pair of shoes will do?

John Cage.

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Uncaged

A centennial overview of an avant-garde icon.

Banks and Wevers.

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Dance and Desire

A life in the closet bursts out in a new choral ballet.

Racette brings Butterfly heat and intensity.

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Stage: Madama Butterfly

Seattle Opera presents a tearjerker in two venues at once.

Chihuly's cold flame, onstage at Benaroya.

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Ear Supply: I Will Survive

An opera premieres at 40.

Whitehead and Wood steam up the locker room.

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Opening Nights: Damn Yankees

The 5th is back in top form with this period piece.

American music's jolly guru.

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Go East, Young Man

A new doc profiles the composer who made the gamelan safe for America.

The band played on.

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A Night to Remember

The music on the Titanic returns to life, exactly one hundred years later.

A player's-eye view of Schwarz.

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Ear Supply: Taken to Extremes

A young composer's gauntlet toss.

Soprano-whipped: Opuszynski tells Michael Uloth, as the Don, what's what.

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Split Personality

Three roles in one.

Burden brings pathos to his protagonist.

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Opening Nights: Orphee et Eurydice

In this mythic opera, the tenor bears the heaviest Burden.