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 “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 […]