Category Archives: Arrangements
Mike McCready with Seattle Symphony Previewed on Evening Magazine
Tonight’s Sonic Evolution concert, featuring special guest Mike McCready with the iconic rock group Mad Season, was featured yesterday on KING5’s Evening Magazine. You can view it here, starting at 23:17. After last season’s Sonic Evolution concert in 2014, a YouTube video of … Continue reading
Posted in Arrangements, Fretted Instruments, Orchestration, Rock, Symphony
Tagged Mad Season, Mike McCready, Pearl Jam, Sonic Evolution, Soundgarden
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Music May Not Be the Universal Language We Thought…
Often we hear the thought expressed that music is a universal language. While it is true that music in some form exists universally, different cultures can have very different perceptions of what music is and its role in life. I … Continue reading
Posted in Arrangements, Composing, Viola, World Music
Tagged Chile, Indigenous, Mapuche, Viola, World Music
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Dvo?ák’s Trip to the New World
This past week in the Seattle Symphony we played Dvo?ák’s New World Symphony as the final week of a three-week mini Dvo?ák festival. As we performed our concert this evening, I could not help remembering the time that we did the New World Symphony … Continue reading
Posted in Arrangements, Symphony, Viola
Tagged Czech, Dvorak, Iowa, Nebraska, New World
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