A new song cycle remembers the Wobblies.
The Seattle Chamber Music Festival gets a little gnarly. Just a little.
The latest from one of America’s busiest young composers.
Stealing–oops, paying homage–to other composers’ work.
“Help, help, I’m being oppressed!”
An explosive opera distilled into a half-hour symphony.
One instrument, many worlds.
Communism collapsed in the Soviet Union because it couldn’t satisfy the people’s unquenchable need for chartreuse checked suits and electric-blue…
Splashing sounds all around.
Music the avant-garde loved to hate.
A Cornish legend reborn.
A largely traditional production boasts better acting than singing.
Centuries of frank sensuality in song.
The ideal opera for opera virgins.
Ludovic Morlot drives best in the fast lane.
A conducting star’s big-screen stumble.
The Seattle Symphony’s Ludovic Morlot leads a musical exchange program.
How Oscar Wilde snuck subversion into a drawing-room melodrama.
Varese’s chaotic cityscape still sounds ballsy decades later.
Ludovic Morlot launches his Seattle Symphony tenure with dazzling performancesand a daring failure.
