Worldwinds

Michelle Mullin
Blog Post #1
Music Concert Review
 
                I went to see Worldwinds, Samantha Bosch’s senior flute recital in Poncho Theater on Monday, April 6. I thumbed through the program just minutes before 8:00 PM, when the concert was supposed to begin. I took note of the entities that were on the stage: a couple chairs, a [...]

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Seattle Chamber Players

Concert: Seattle Chambers Players
Performers: Laura De Luca, David Sabee, Mikhail Shmidt, Paul Taub
April 21st, 2009
Poncho Concert Hall
I was very impressed by the first piece of the concert, by Jim Pfeffer. As soon as I walked in to the concert hall, the music started playing, softly, quietly. It was a quartet playing: a clarinet, a cello, [...]

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Robot Monsters 2

Robot Monsters 2: Gran Rapids, Mad Rad, & Fresh Espresso
Hip-hop/ rap duo
Columbia City Theater
April 9th, 2009
I get to Columbia City Theater, excited to see some new local hip-hip bands. With dim lighting, hot from the crowded mass of people sitting at tables and standing on the dance floor waiting for the guys to begin [...]

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STS9

Last August I attended a concert of Sound Tribe Sector 9 at the Showbox in downtown Seattle. STS9, as they are often referred to, defines themselves as a “Santa Cruz-based, 5-piece electronic jam band fusing live instruments with electronica. It was the first concert I had ever attended at the Showbox. It was also the [...]

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It kind of felt like falling in love…

If you don’t know who Andrew Bird is, change that! I’ve been developing an increasingly large crush on this multi-talented tall, dark and handsome musician for about a year and a half now, but it was only recently (upon seeing him live at the Moore back in February) that I fell head over heels for [...]

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summer lovin’ music

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I did not often get a change to experience live music outdoors. I am conditioned to sitting in a school gym or auditorium, and although there really is not much to see, positioning myself so to have a continuous view of the performers. This past summer at Bumbershoot offered [...]

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Cornish Music Department event virginity… lost, on Friday, April 17th

Sarah Burgess – vocalist.  Another overachiever (maybe).  But nonetheless a wonderful artist.
It must be so hard to be a singer.  I can’t sing any ballad in my car without crying.  Emotions just fill my heart and my mind and tears just emerge almost routinely.  What I loved about Sarah Burgess’s recital was her honesty.  I [...]

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Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a modern musical adapted from the 1895 novel The Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind. It is currently playing on Broadway, and on an international tour. For the purpose of this review, I will be focusing on the choreography by Bill T. Jones
With music by Duncan Sheik (Tony Award), book and lyrics [...]

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Harps and Angels Make Me Fall Asleep

Suor Angelica is a sleepy opera. It’s about nuns. It was written by Puccini. It’s one act.
In other words – nap time!
Suor Angelica is part of a triptych of Puccini one-acts: Il tabarro (“The Cloak”- peeps die in this) Suor Angelica (“Sister Angelica”-our opera at hand), and Gianni Schicchi (remembered for the pretty aria “O [...]

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Matt and Kim!

Who: Matt and Kim
What: Alternative/Lo-Fi/Dance band
Where: Chop Suey, Seattle, WA
When: Jan 29th (9 days after their CD was released!)
Why: “Grand” (their 2nd album) tour
Though skeptic at first, only because I had no idea who Matt and Kim were, the minute they started playing my skepticism was replaced with more excitement than I can explain. Everyone [...]

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