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Passio: Light in Darkness
Karen Thomas I’ve always admired the quality and imagination of Karen Thomas’s programming for Seattle Pro Musica, but their upcoming program, titled Passio: Light in Darkness, has me champing at the...
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Transfiguring the Night: Music of Remembrance
Rehearsal photos by Leo V Santiago photography. My preview of the upcoming world premiere by choreographer Donald Byrd for Music of Remembrance: The event that Music of Remembrance (MOR) will...
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The Bang on a Can Marathon Comes to Seattle
Bang on a Can All-Stars: image (c) Peter Serling Here’s a performance/happening you’re not going to be able to file away into one of the familiar musical categories. Is it classical (because, you know,...
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À la Recherche de l’Espace Perdu: Leo Saul Berk at the Frye
Leo Saul Berk: Wind Jangle, 2015Aluminum, fishing line, weights; courtesy of Leo Saul Berk There’s a house west of architecture-rich Chicago, in Aurora, that was scorned by other residents when it was...
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Rekindle your spirits with Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival
My preview of this month’s Winter Festival by the Seattle Chamber Music Society for the Seattle Times is now online.
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Collapsing Borders and Boundaries
My preview of two upcoming events at Stanford Live has now been psoted: The coming weeks feature two unusual programs in Stanford Live’s ongoing performance season—each featuring a uniquely...
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Igor Levit To Make Seattle Debut
My Seattle Times piece on Igor Levit has now been posted: Unclassifiable pianist Igor Levit finds meaning in composers from Bach to Prokofiev It’s common practice in the classical-music world — and an...
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Jordi Savall’s Weekend in Seattle
Here’s my Seattle Times preview of Jordi Savall’s upcoming weekend in Seattle (at the end of February): Call it folk, world or early music: Jordi Savall is the master artist who makes whatever project...
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Jeremy Denk’s “iPhone Shuffle about Syncopation”
UPDATE: This morning (16 March) I was informed that Mr. Denk — not uncharacteristically — has announced a last-minute change of program. The first half remains the same; the second half (originally...
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Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B...
Here’s my Seattle Times story on Karen Thomas and Seattle Pro Musica’s preparation for the Bach Mass in B minor, their concluding program of the season (this weekend): Many classical-music fans...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: Byron Schenkman & Friends
My preview of the final Byron Schenkman & Friends concert of the season has now been posted by The Seattle Times: When great artists are struggling, that pain sometimes comes through in their work...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja Comes to Town
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to Seattle next week for concerts on Jan. 29-30 and Feb. 1. (Marco Borggreve) My story about the matchless Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who comes to Seattle for a...
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All in the Family
Guest conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the Seattle Symphony and electric bass soloist Lauri Porra; photo (c) Brandon Patoc My review of this weekend’s program with guest conductor Dalia Stasevska:...
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