~ Journal 18 ~
I ended up down a rabbit hole about the first piece on this album: the violin sonata by Gabriel Pierné. I've known this work from a different recording I found while chewing through Pierné's music, but this performance really grabbed me. The energy of it — the ardent nervousness — ta...
Tonight I went with my son to hear the Seattle Symphony play Shostakovich and Prokofiev, conducted by Pablo Rus Broseta. The program:
- Shostakovich: Festive Overture
A fizzy, witty light piece that I don't remember now.
- Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beatrice Rana, piano)
This concert...
Tonight I went to a fantastic performance by Ballaké Sissoko (kora) & Vincent Segal (cello) held in the auditorium at the Seattle Art Museum, part of the Earshot Jazz series. The two musicians have been playing together for a while, and it shows, and the music they have created from multiple traditi...
Tonight I saw The Florida Project at the Egyptian in Seattle. I've been looking forward to it showing up here and it was worth the wait. Not so many movies follow small children around, and fewer still focus on the particular socioeconomic fringes that these characters live in. Children have licen...