“You can tell by the wild cheering emanating from Benaroya Hall: Thomas Dausgaard is back in town.” – The Seattle Times Marrying dynamism and theatricality, Music Director Thomas Dausgaard illuminates music by two influential Scandinavian composers and Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto with the riveting violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
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Thursday, 30 January, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 1 February, 2020 8:00PM
“Music is emotion; music is something we share from our life experiences, from our feelings, from our own discoveries and from the appreciation we feel when we are attentive and open.” – Gidon Kremer Thomas Dausgaard explores the vast emotional range of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and Weinberg’s Violin Concerto featuring Gidon Kremer.
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Thursday, 6 February, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 8 February, 2020 8:00PM
Composer, conductor and pianist Ryan Wigglesworth joins fellow pianist Marc-André Hamelin for a four-handed fugue and a romp through the showpiece that Mozart played with his equally gifted sister. Wigglesworth also presents the first American performance of his Mozart Variations for piano and orchestra. With boundaries blurred between composer and performer, this program rekindles the spirit of that golden age when Mozart was the toast of the town.
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Thursday, 27 February, 2020 7:30PM
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Friday, 28 February, 2020 12:00PM
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Saturday, 29 February, 2020 8:00PM
Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto is startingly fresh, weaving influences from African American spirituals into the tapestry of the orchestra. Prokofiev’s whimsical First Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s gut-wrenching Fifth show two Russian outsiders arriving at bold and highly personal strategies to cast aside the heavy mantles of Mozart and Beethoven.
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Thursday, 12 March, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 14 March, 2020 8:00PM
With a hair-raising plot adapted from Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play and explosive music crafted by the king of orchestral storytelling, Richard Strauss, Salome condenses all the thrills of grand opera into 90 minutes of edge-of-your-seat intensity.
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Thursday, 19 March, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 21 March, 2020 8:00PM
