Thursday, December 22, 2011

Phil Kline's "Unsilent Night" in Seattle, 12/21/11

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In my older blog , I mentioned the possibility of “experimental” Christmas music. As shown on the video (probably taken by Steve Peters), ...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Concert Review: Seattle Symphony plays Britten, Knussen, and Bedford; 11/17/11

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This is the first of a couple of blog postings that are late being posted, due to my being busy over the Thanksgiving weekend... Guest condu...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

World's Ugliest Music – Not!

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A friend sent me this link a couple of days ago. It’s supposed to be the “ world’s ugliest music ”, on purpose. But why isn’t it very ugly...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

“Modern Music” Weekend: Seattle Modern Orchestra 10/28/11 and Seattle Symphony plays Webern and Stravinsky (and Bach) 10/29/11

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This has turned out to be a Modernist Music Weekend. I attended two concerts with works by composers from the Second Viennese School, along...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Concert Review: Seattle Symphony plays Stravinsky, Gershwin, and Varèse; 10/1/2011

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Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring George Gershwin: An American in Paris Edgard Varèse: Amériques Two of these pieces are so familiar as to...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Concert Review: Tom Baker, String Quartet "Invisible Cities" – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 9/28/2011

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Before the performance, composer Tom Baker gave an introduction to the music, and to the book “Invisible Cities” on which it is based. Or m...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Concert Review: The Hexaphonic Three, Plus and Minus – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 9/16/2011

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I’ve been busy for the last week or so, and just gotten my computer back from the shop, so these next couple of blog postings are about a we...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Concert Review: Experimental Video and Music by Berner, Burns, and Evans – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 9/9/2011

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Open Mic at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church (before the concert) The open mic at WPPC was as in previous times, though this time there wer...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sounds of the Underbrush – Gallery 1412, Seattle, 9/6/2011

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I attempted to attend one of these “Sounds of the Underbrush” jam sessions last month; it had been cancelled at the last minute and there wa...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Concert Review: Seattle Composers Salon – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 9/2/2011

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“ The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At b...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Updates: Uploads and Upcoming Concert

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Concert on Friday, September 16th: I’ll be playing piano on one or more free improvisations with two of the Hexaphonic Three (Bruce Greeley,...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Concert Review: Neuma – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 8/27/2011

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The name “Neuma” could be a fusion between pneuma , meaning both “soul or spirit” and “to breathe”, and neume , an old system of musical not...

The Everett Street Pianos

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Speaking of fun in music (well, I was, on my last posting), here’s a crazy idea: take a bunch of old rickety pianos, rebuild them, tune them...

Arts in Nature Festival (put on by Seattle nonprofit Nature Consortium), Camp Long, Seattle 8/20/2011

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How does one go about doing a “concert review” of a music festival? Well, I’ll start by saying that two of the groups that I wanted to hear...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Concert Review: Larry Karush, piano – Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, 8/19/2011

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The Wayward Music website listed Larry Karush as a pianist who’d played with both Oregon and Steve Reich. That was enough to convince me t...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Abstract Art and Spirituality: Pawlowska at St. Mark’s, and “Landstracts” by Murray Fredericks

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I’ve often said that abstract art can express spirituality more deeply than “objective” art (the same can go for “abstract” music). But, th...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Two Concerts, 8/12/2011: Open Mike at Woodland Park Presbyterian and “Gradus” by Neal Kosaly-Meyer

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Open Mike (and a bonus street fair) This was the open mic that I previously mentioned. It was as interesting and beautiful as it had al...