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Moving 3 Mar 2008 | 05:49 am
This blog is moving and changing names. You can find everything on this site and more here: www.gatheringnote.wordpress.com. This is a move and a name change that I have been considering for awhile. ...
Focus: American guest conductors 27 Feb 2008 | 02:59 pm
The Seattle Symphony released its 2008/2009 season last week. The theme the season is built around is American guest conductors. I harbor ambivalence about season themes. On the one hand themes, espec...
Winter nights 26 Feb 2008 | 03:59 am
The history of Russian music and as a result Russian chamber music, can be divided before opera and after opera. Prior to the arrival of opera, Russian musical tradition could be generously described ...
Four concertmasters 25 Feb 2008 | 04:15 am
The Seattle Times reports the Seattle Symphony's four concertmaster experiment is causing some distress among the players. Essentially, no part time positions are allowed and with four concertmasters...
The Way 24 Feb 2008 | 07:06 am
Last night, St. James Cathedral demonstrated once again why they are central to musical and religious life in the Emerald City. The occasion was the Stations of Cross, presided over by Father Michael ...
New links 18 Feb 2008 | 01:50 pm
Just a quick post to draw your attention to two new links. The first is Cappella Romana. The ensemble is one of the few truly professional vocal groups in the Northwest. They perform frequently in ...
The commercial power of blogs 16 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
The Hollywood Reporter has a short piece on the commercial influence of blogs. According to an NYU professor, if a record is mentioned more than forty times the record sales three to five times above...
Flying Soloist 13 Feb 2008 | 10:46 am
So after listening to almost exclusively Mahler for just about 15 days running, I decided it was time for something different. In one of my constant attempts to stay on the cutting edge of what’s new...
"The pity of war" 11 Feb 2008 | 08:18 pm
The music of the Twentieth Century echoed through Seattle's concert halls this weekend. Michael Stern and the Seattle Symphony started the weekend with performances of Edgard Varese's rarely heard In...
Upcoming 10 Feb 2008 | 02:53 pm
Seattle Symphony: Guest Conductor Michael Stern is in town this weekend to conduct SSO in Rachmaninoff Symphony No.3 and Victor Herbert's addictive Cello Concerto No.2. Since taking over at the helm ...
