In the 400th anniversary year of the death of Byrd, who is called by some the “father of British music,” Seibert takes a look at the late Renaissance composer’s life and music.
by Peter Tracy “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” — popularized by Max Weinreich Writing history means investigating connections: between ideas […]
by Peter Tracy “Peace Shall Be Her First Glad Ringing”[1] “Our bell, her metal voice devoting Alone to grave, eternal things, Shall ever feel, while […]
by George S. Bozarth Co-Artistic Director, Musique du Jour Presents The path-breaking Nannette Streicher, née Stein, who was born in Augsburg in southern Germany in […]
by Peter Tracy The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel 1559 Overly specific conjectures about the musical traditions of the past should always […]
by Peter Tracy A 1558 Ottoman miniature depicting an Ottoman official registering Christian boys for the devsirme The Ottoman Empire lasted over six centuries, from […]
by Peter Tracy Minstrels in Herat 1973 In early 2001, just before the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were in almost full control of […]
by Peter Tracy Watercolor of the Vienna State Operas opening concert When the Vienna State Opera opened in 1869, its first concert featured Mozart’s Don […]
Fred Hauptman Reminiscences on Early Music Seattle board member and music director Fred Hauptman by his quarrelsome and devoted friend Theodore Deacon My first meeting […]
by Mauricio Roman Opera was born in Florence among the circle known as the Florentine Camerata, a group of artists who experimented with rediscovering the […]
By Mauricio Roman In the early 1600s, Florence witnessed two very talented women artists: Francesca Caccini (1687-1641) and Artemisia Gentilieschi (1693-1656). Francesca was a composer, […]
by Mauricio Roman On February 27, we presented a great selection of works from Spain, beautifully rendered by Accademia del Piacere. One reason to focus […]
By Mauricio Roman This year’s celebration of Venice’s well-known carnival, which ended this week, was steeped in melancholy feelings in this time of isolation, social […]
By Mauricio Roman For this year’s celebration of St. Valentine, we will consider the relation between love and jealousy. Since antiquity, erotic love has been […]
April 3, 1930 – January 29, 2021 Elizabeth “Betty” Swift passed away peacefully with her family around her on January 29 in Seattle, Washington after […]
By Mauricio Roman This 13th century sequence has been rendered into music by more than one hundred composers, among which Pergolesi’s composition stands out for […]
By Gus Denhard Alice Smith died in October 2019 after enjoying a multi-faceted 40 year relationship with the early music community in Seattle. Her generous […]
by Peter Tracy Vīta brevis,ars longa,occāsiō praeceps,experīmentum perīculōsum,iūdicium difficile. Life is short,and art long,opportunity fleeting,experimentations perilous,and judgment difficult. – Hippocrates (460 – 370 BCE), Aphorismi[1] […]
In the 400th anniversary year of the death of Byrd, who is called by some the “father of British music,” Seibert takes a look at the late Renaissance composer’s life and music.
On the confluence of Klezmer and Moldovan music
UW creates 45 year archive of Early Music Seattle
by Peter Tracy “let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty roarings with a light touch” – Claudian (c. 370 – 404)[1] “With the […]
by Peter Tracy “It is not implausible to view the history of Western music as a struggle on the part of musicians to have their […]
by Peter Tracy “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” — popularized by Max Weinreich Writing history means investigating connections: between ideas […]
by Peter Tracy “Peace Shall Be Her First Glad Ringing”[1] “Our bell, her metal voice devoting Alone to grave, eternal things, Shall ever feel, while […]
by Peter Tracy In the 2014 film Povodyr (The Guide), director Oles Sanin tells the story of an American boy who, to survive the […]
by George S. Bozarth Co-Artistic Director, Musique du Jour Presents The path-breaking Nannette Streicher, née Stein, who was born in Augsburg in southern Germany in […]
by Peter Tracy Music Box Music of Japan. Parsimoniously from the water clock the drops unfold in lazy honey or ethereal gold that […]
by Gerald Elias Author and Musician The year 2013 marked the 300th anniversary of a major changing of the guard in the music world. It […]
by Gerald Elias Go for it. What would you say has been the most important invention over the past five hundred years or so? The […]
by Peter Tracy The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel 1559 Overly specific conjectures about the musical traditions of the past should always […]
by Peter Tracy A 1558 Ottoman miniature depicting an Ottoman official registering Christian boys for the devsirme The Ottoman Empire lasted over six centuries, from […]
by Peter Tracy 1893 painting of a marriage procession in a Russian shtetl by Isaak Asknaziy Walter Feldman begins the preface to his book Klezmer: […]
Dear Orchestra Front Seats, It’s me, your old friend and patron: Thrifty Concert-goer. It seems that we’re all finally making our way back to live […]
by Peter Tracy Ataturk holding a Panama hat in 1925 shortly after making the Western style hat cumpulsory for civil servants In 1928, Mustafa […]
by Peter Tracy Minstrels in Herat 1973 In early 2001, just before the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were in almost full control of […]
By Hannah Lim There are two kinds of violin teachers. The nice ones, and the excellent ones. That’s what I used to think. Mine was […]
by Theodore Deacon Like so many things in Seattle, Early Music Seattle’s journey to fully staged period opera all started with a cup of coffee. […]
by Peter Tracy The workers in the field sing and shout together, a song about a great grey falcon: “zapevala soko tica siva!”[1] Their scythes […]
by Peter Tracy Watercolor of the Vienna State Operas opening concert When the Vienna State Opera opened in 1869, its first concert featured Mozart’s Don […]
by Peter Tracy | August 13, 2021 13th Century Spanish Lute Player We can point to any number of moments in music history, western or […]
Fred Hauptman Reminiscences on Early Music Seattle board member and music director Fred Hauptman by his quarrelsome and devoted friend Theodore Deacon My first meeting […]
By Mauricio Roman Any man who has had the misfortune of hurting a woman — even in her feelings — will certainly see himself portrayed […]
by Mauricio Roman Opera was born in Florence among the circle known as the Florentine Camerata, a group of artists who experimented with rediscovering the […]
By Mauricio Roman In the early 1600s, Florence witnessed two very talented women artists: Francesca Caccini (1687-1641) and Artemisia Gentilieschi (1693-1656). Francesca was a composer, […]
By Mauricio Roman On Saturday, March 13, we present “A Night In Hell: Ballo delle Ingrate” — an early Baroque dramatic work whose theme is […]
By Mauricio Roman With music we can express what we often have no words to say; early music has a particular and effective way at […]
by Mauricio Roman On February 27, we presented a great selection of works from Spain, beautifully rendered by Accademia del Piacere. One reason to focus […]
By Mauricio Roman This year’s celebration of Venice’s well-known carnival, which ended this week, was steeped in melancholy feelings in this time of isolation, social […]
By Peter Lippman European klezmer band, 19th century (from Odessa Jewish Museum) Klezmer is the traditional music of the East European Jews. Now a […]
By Mauricio Roman For this year’s celebration of St. Valentine, we will consider the relation between love and jealousy. Since antiquity, erotic love has been […]
April 3, 1930 – January 29, 2021 Elizabeth “Betty” Swift passed away peacefully with her family around her on January 29 in Seattle, Washington after […]
By Gus Denhard Alice Smith died in October 2019 after enjoying a multi-faceted 40 year relationship with the early music community in Seattle. Her generous […]