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Articles by Gavin Borchert
Musical solidarity: Horvitz and Holcomb.
Opening Nights: Smokestack Arias
By Gavin Borchert • February 7, 2012 12:00 am

A new song cycle remembers the Wobblies.

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Ehnes takes the reins, onstage and backstage.
Four by Four
By Gavin Borchert • January 31, 2012 12:00 am

The Seattle Chamber Music Festival gets a little gnarly. Just a little.

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Muhly stands out from the crowd.
Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic
By Gavin Borchert • January 24, 2012 12:00 am

The latest from one of America’s busiest young composers.

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Liszt loved opera, warts and all.
Ear Supply: The Borrowers
By Gavin Borchert • January 17, 2012 12:00 am

Stealing–oops, paying homage–to other composers’ work.

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Jerick Hoffer as the tormented Moritz.
Opening Nights: Spring Awakening
By Gavin Borchert • January 10, 2012 12:00 am

“Help, help, I’m being oppressed!”

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Robertson leads a fusion of opera and symphony.
John Adams’ Big Bang
By Gavin Borchert • January 3, 2012 12:00 am

An explosive opera distilled into a half-hour symphony.

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Nicolella finally realized he doesn't have to choose.
Ear Supply: Split Personality
By Gavin Borchert • December 6, 2011 12:00 am

One instrument, many worlds.

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Like John Waters behind the Iron Curtain.
Hipsters: Not the Annoying Brooklyn Kind, but the...
By Gavin Borchert • November 29, 2011 12:00 am

Communism collapsed in the Soviet Union because it couldn’t satisfy the people’s unquenchable need for chartreuse checked suits and electric-blue…

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Artful dodger Josefowicz.
The Orchestra as Toy Box
By Gavin Borchert • November 15, 2011 12:00 am

Splashing sounds all around.

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A young Sibelius let it all hang out.
Ear Supply: The Sap Is Rising
By Gavin Borchert • November 8, 2011 12:00 am

Music the avant-garde loved to hate.

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Dancer in a box--or in a Cage?
Ear Supply: Dance Dance Revolution
By Gavin Borchert • October 25, 2011 12:00 am

A Cornish legend reborn.

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Rachvelishvili's smart, sly heroine.
Opening Nights: Carmen
By Gavin Borchert • October 25, 2011 12:00 am

A largely traditional production boasts better acting than singing.

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Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Song of Solomon 7:3
Ear Supply: Like Clusters of Grapes
By Gavin Borchert • October 18, 2011 12:00 am

Centuries of frank sensuality in song.

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Anita Rachvelishvili, one of SO's two Carmens, sees her fate in the cards.
Ear Supply: Bizet This Weekend?
By Gavin Borchert • October 11, 2011 12:00 am

The ideal opera for opera virgins.

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Rachmaninoff's music got spicier as he aged.
Young Man in a Hurry
By Gavin Borchert • October 11, 2011 12:00 am

Ludovic Morlot drives best in the fast lane.

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A symphony that even the Dude won't be able to keep you awake with.
Ear Supply: The Dude Picks a Dud
By Gavin Borchert • October 4, 2011 12:00 am

A conducting star’s big-screen stumble.

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Varese, the dark side . . .
Atlantic Crossings
By Gavin Borchert • October 4, 2011 12:00 am

The Seattle Symphony’s Ludovic Morlot leads a musical exchange program.

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Brady (with Aaron Lamb) dispenses Wildean ironies.
Opening Nights: An Ideal Husband
By Gavin Borchert • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

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

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Varese, refusing to die!
Ear Supply: French Connections
By Gavin Borchert • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

Varese’s chaotic cityscape still sounds ballsy decades later.

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Morlot: spreading cheer from the podium.
New Kid in Town
By Gavin Borchert • September 20, 2011 12:00 am

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

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