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William Traver Gallery turning 30
[5 Jul 2007 at 4:01am]
There wasn't a lot happening in the Seattle gallery scene when the Traver Gallery opened in the Denny Regrade on Sept. 7, 1977, with a...
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A sunny start to a summer chamber fest
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[5 Jul 2007 at 4:13pm]
A happy and sold-out crowd wafted across the sunny Lakeside School lawns on Tuesday evening, into the little St. Nicholas Hall ? where...
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A new chapter for "Ring": no Jane Eaglen in 2009
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[3 Jul 2007 at 8:03pm]
When Seattle Opera stages its Wagnerian "Ring" in 2009, it will be without the company's most famous Valkyrie: soprano Jane Eaglen. Seattle Opera general director...
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Preppy "Romeo," trying "Tiger" in Ashland
by mberson@seattletimes.com
[1 Jul 2007 at 4:01am]
With three outdoor Shakespeare openings and the premiere of a new chamber musical, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival quietly ends one artistic...
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Preserving "voices" of world's finest violins
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[1 Jul 2007 at 4:05am]
The owner of 15 irreplaceable violins, cellos and violas has launched a CD and DVD project to record the magnificence of the instruments, which are among the world's best.
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In debt, Northwest Actors Studio closes
by tvinh@seattletimes.com
[29 Jun 2007 at 4:02am]
After more than three decades of putting on shows, the Northwest Actors Studio made its final curtain call Thursday. The Capitol Hill nonprofit...
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Mahler's Third makes for stirring season finale
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[29 Jun 2007 at 8:31pm]
The end of an orchestra's main subscription season is an occasion that calls for something special, and Mahler's massive Symphony No. 3 certainly fills that...
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Finding splendor, sweetness in local Latino life
by sfarr@seattletimes.com
[29 Jun 2007 at 4:01am]
Hugo Ludeña's got the reflexes of a photojournalist and the eye of a painter. His high-voltage photographs tell it all. Ludeña's been roaming Seattle-area...
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Saks' Lakeside fest keeps moving forward
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[29 Jun 2007 at 4:01am]
If it's not broken, don't fix it. That has been the informal philosophy for the Seattle Chamber Music Society, which launched its summer...
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Putting on shows so shows can go on
by mberson@seattletimes.com
[29 Jun 2007 at 4:01am]
Leading Broadway composer Charles Strouse (of "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Annie" fame) will waltz into the Seattle area this week for a benefit...
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A seat in the war room in ACT's "Stuff Happens"
by mberson@seattletimes.com
[28 Jun 2007 at 6:24pm]
Shakespeare's observation that "All the world's a stage" underpins "Stuff Happens," the play currently transforming an ACT Theatre stage...
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The real-life movers and shakers in "Stuff"
by mberson@seattletimes.com
[28 Jun 2007 at 6:24pm]
Who are some of the many political in-players, European and American, who populate David Hare's Iraq war drama, "Stuff Happens"?
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First curator of MoNA dies at 88
by sfarr@seattletimes.com
[2 Jul 2007 at 3:08pm]
Barbara Straker James, a notable painter and the first curator of the Museum of Northwest Art, died Thursday in La Conner, Skagit County...
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Hothouses of imagination at SOIL
[30 Jun 2007 at 7:29pm]
"Crud," an enthralling exhibition of mixed-media work by five local artists, seems like it grew organically out of its current venue, SOIL...
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Podles´ comes, she sings, she conquers
by mbargreen@seattletimes.com
[26 Jun 2007 at 4:20pm]
Critics have called her "a force of nature," and audiences around the world cheer her concert and opera performances. Ewa Podles´, who returns...
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