August has been glorious weather in Seattle, with the exception of recent smoky days from nearby wildfires. After finishing the Whidbey Island Music Festival concerts and the run-out to
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A live performance of Pacific MusicWorks and soloist Reginald Mobley from a concert called Songs of Love and War, October 2014.
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At age 19, Georg Frideric Händel, not satisfied with being simply a local wonder in his native Germany, set off for Italy-the center of the 18th century musical universe-to find fame and fortune. In Rome, he
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A small thank you to all our Give Big 2018 donors! We reached our goal!
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The Berkeley Festival in early June was a delightful opportunity to present our New World program: Missions and Mysteries to a really appreciative and attentive audience, and with SHAK’s
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We were delighted to have soprano Amanda Forsythe back with us for our program called Roman Holiday. The “back-up band” was equally spectacular with Ingrid Matthews joining Tekla Cunningham
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An evening with Stephen Stubbs and the terrific performers of Pacific MusicWorks always gives you more than you could have expected or hoped for. This imaginative program - 'Roman Holiday: Young Handel's Italian Adventures' - not only gave the audience a wonderful evening of music, but it educated the listener in Handel's early influences, his germinating ideas, the influence of the Roman Arcadian Academy on the development of baroque opera and oratorio, and, as always, a visual education on how baroque music looks as well as sounds.
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Last Sunday, May 13, Seattle had the opportunity to hear soprano Amanda Forsythe, a specialist in Baroque style and singing technique, performing Handel cantatas, while just a little earlier in the month Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva, also steeped in Baroque style and singing technique, had sung Handel as well as Vivaldi. It was a fascinating experience to hear two very different, equally fine voices of the same range in the same style in such close juxtaposition.
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As I wrote last month, I am now in New York working on Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, in a large-scale production at the Juilliard School, with Stephen Wadsworth stage directing and Zack Winokur
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Having completed our highly successful March concert with Reggie Mobley (full house, standing ovation, glowing review) and our recording of virtuoso violin repertoire of the 17th century (Stylus
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St. Mark’s Cathedral was full Sunday afternoon to hear the young, remarkable countertenor Reginald Mobley, presented by Pacific MusicWorks. The performance, titled “Every Time I Feel the Spirit,” celebrated black voices in American music over the past 200 years.
Mobley possesses a deep understanding of not only black music but of the baroque countertenor literature — and it took only a few notes for listeners to recognize they were in the presence of a rare vocal talent.
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Back in Seattle after an epic trip to South Africa, including safaris in magnificent landscapes with myriad animal sightings – some at extremely close quarters – and then two weeks of recording
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Happy New Year from sunny South Africa! Maxine, Hannah, Julianna and I are enjoying a long-overdue family reunion with the added luxury of having a second summer in the midst of our own winter.
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This first week of December has us doing a series of Underground Concerts under the title Feliz Navidad (Dec. 2 on Whidbey Island, Dec. 3 at Bellevue’s Resonance at SOMA Towers, and Dec. 5 at
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