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Pacific MusicWorks season subscription 2014/15
Season tickets will be mailed out in September.
Our fourth season is made up of four exciting productions:
-PMW subscribers receive a substantial discount for our performances, preferred seating, invitations to private functions. Free parking will be provided to all our events with a contribution of $500 or more)
1. Monteverdi Book 8- Songs of Love and War
8pm, November 7, 2014
Nordstrom Recital Hall
Children 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult
Monteverdi had an extraordinarily long career, composing some of his most important and revolutionary works in his 70's and 80's. His last book of madrigals became the repository of the most important secular works of his final decades. Love songs were of course nothing new, but setting them next to the stirring rhythms of his newly invented depiction of war in music gives this repertoire unparalleled contrasts.
Featuring Catherine Webster, soprano; mezzo Danielle Reuter-Harrah, countertenor Reggie Mobley, tenors Ross Hauck and Aaron Sheehan and baritone Douglas Williams with Stephen Stubbs leading PMW's chamber ensemble including violinists Tekla Cunningham and Linda Melsted, gambist Elizabeth Reed and harpist Maxine Eilander.
2. J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio
A collaboration with Early Music Vancouver
8pm, December 19, 2014
St James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave, Seattle
The joyous festivity of Bach's Christmas Oratorio is too rarely heard in America. Celebrate the holiday season with a collection of North America's best period instrumentalists and vocal soloists in this festive performance of three of Bach's six Christmas Oratorio Cantatas. An exciting new regional collaboration featuring multiple presenters in the Pacific Northwest, and co-produced with Early Music Vancouver.
Soprano, Tess Wakim
Mezzo Soprano, Krisztina Szabó
Tenor, Zachary Finkelstein
Baritone, Sumner Thompson
Children under 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult
3. An American Tune
8pm March 21, 2015
Nordstrom Recital Hall
There is a growing awareness among early music performers in this country that we may be able to apply our viewpoint - taking earlier European music seriously on its own terms and in its original state - to the vast subject of America's own musical history. This program takes the era and music of Stephen Foster as our point of departure for a new musical adventure. All of these performers have grown up with one foot in the early music camp and one in some form of American traditions. Come and find out if we can walk with both feet!
Artistic Director Stephen Stubbs will be playing an original 19th century guitar with soprano Catherine Webster; Tekla Cunningham and Brandon Vance, violins, Tom Bergen, banjo and John Reischman, mandolin.
4. Mozart's The Magic Flute, Meany Theatre
7:30pm May 8 and 9 2015
2:00pm May 10 2015
a collaboration with UW School of Music.
Children 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult
One of Mozart's crowning achievements, the Magic Flute is a potent alchemical mixture of popular music and theater with a depth of meaning that is still mysterious and controversial. The fact that Mozart had steeped himself in the music of Handel and Bach in the years leading up to Magic Flute makes it also a personal testament to his admiration for their art. Our production will combine an entirely new staging conception by stage director James Darrah, with one of the reigning "Queen's of the Night" in our time, Cyndia Sieden.
Hear Mozart performed in the Northwest's first historically informed performance with a classical orchestra.
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Locationmultiple venues Seattle (View)
multiple venues Seattle
Seattle, WA 00000
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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