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We paid a visit to the Yale Street outpost of perhaps the ultimate NW coffee experience, David Schomer’s Espresso Vivace. It was worth the wait. Simply the best latte I’ve had to date. We also had a straight shot each, and it was [...]
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UPDATE 4/08 [link] The Utah Symphony/Opera cut 11.5% of of their benefits plus Keith Lockhart takes 10% pay reduction.
[link] The Atlanta Symphony musicians have reopened their previously negotiated CBA (which ran through 2011) and will be taking an 8.8% pay cut by the end of 2011 (the first drop will be 5% for 09/10, then [...]
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The seemingly tireless Zach Carstensen of The Gathering Note posted videos and commentary from our concert last weekend in Seattle. Swing by and take a look, and be sure to look around the rest of the site – Zach has put together a team of some of the best arts writers in the Northwest to [...]
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Most of the students in the area are now on their spring break, and the Oregon Symphony has joined them. Just in the nick of time, as I was in danger of being spring broken. I was up in Seattle with cellist Heather Blackburn, violinist Shin-young Kwon, and pianist Cary Lewis performing a program of [...]
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Back in the boom years of the dot-com bubble, technology start-ups bloomed like weeds in a vacant lot. They marketed premises, and sometimes only even just their names, and got tons of funding for just the idea of being something. We all know what happened to 99% of those corporations.
Here in Portland, we’ve got the [...]
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David Stabler found this article from yesterday’s Seattle P-I, written by guest columnist Bernard Jacobsen (who I remember as the program annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra back in the early ’90s). I’m not sure why the classical music writer(s) for the P-I and its sister publication the Times were not able to write what Jacobsen [...]
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The New York Times today published an article of not insignificant length dedicated to the Seattle Symphony and its intense level of discord between its musicians and its music director and conductor Gerard Schwarz.
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Crosscut Seattle reports:
Seattle Symphony conductor and music director Gerard Schwarz broke his left leg and ankle last Thursday in a skiing accident. He faces surgery later this week, the SSO reports, with full recovery expected.
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