THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES ITS 2023/2024 SEASON, A BANNER ANNIVERSARY YEAR

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CELEBRATING THE ORCHESTRA’S 120 SEASONS OF MUSICAL LEGACY, 25 YEARS AT BENAROYA HALL  Bringing New Sounds to Seattle: More Than 35 Living Composers in Season Highlights  Contemporary works by Salina Fisher, Nina C. Young, Aaron Jay Kernis, Reena Esmail, Lauri Porra, David Robertson, Steven Mackey, Linda Catlin Smith, Gretchen Yanover, Donghoon Shin, Dorothy Chang, Han …

Take Effect Review: Beautiful Passing

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The Grammy Winning composer Steven Mackey brings us a portrait album, where 2 lengthy compositions are led by the conductor David Robertson and were recorded live.

“Mackey ends his piece with an aura that is part Ralph Vaughan Williams, part Led Zeppelin” – San Francisco Classical Voice

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After more than two years of development during the COVID pandemic, Treelogy, featuring a trio of nature-themed compositions by Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, and Steven Mackey, finally had its world premiere Feb. 23 at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts in Northridge, accompanied by the 16 members of Delirium Musicum. The spark that ignited …

“A double concerto for Mackey on electric guitar, violinist and Delirium leader Etienne Gara and strings, it also reflects on the equally impressive phenomenon of fairy rings” – LA Times

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Steve Mackey’s “Red Wood” takes root, so to speak, in the way trees pass life-giving materials underground to sustain the health of the forest. A double concerto for Mackey on electric guitar, violinist and Delirium leader Etienne Gara and strings, it also reflects on the equally impressive phenomenon of fairy rings, the name for the …

Familiar and Unfamiliar Both Shine

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Going into 2023, the Boston Symphony Orchestra had played Brahms’s Fourth Symphony 457 times. You could imagine BSO patrons might have had enough of the piece by now, but for No. 458 on Thursday, under music director Andris Nelsons, Symphony Hall was pretty well filled for a cold, windy January evening. It should be noted …

Mackey Ponders the Universe in Concerto for Curved Space

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In January, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons give the world premiere of Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space, a work that draws on the composer’s interest in physics and contemplates our perceived reality of the universe. A physics major in college, Mackey has frequently written works that reflect his awe and wonder of the …

GRAMMY-Winning Composer Steven Mackey Releases New Portrait Album of Music for Orchestra, Beautiful Passing

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Featuring the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Led by David Robertson in Mackey’s Mnemosyne’s Pool and his Violin Concerto Beautiful Passing with Anthony Marwood  On Friday, December 9, 2022, GRAMMY-winning composer Steven Mackey releases a portrait album of his music for violin and orchestra, Beautiful Passing, on Canary Classics. Works include Mackey’s violin concerto Beautiful Passing (2008), …

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

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On December 6th, the PRISM Quartet celebrates its 35th anniversary season with the release of its 25th recording, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, featuring music by Emma O’Halloran, Kristin Kuster, Steven Mackey, Anna Weesner, and Julia Wolfe. With the exception of Kuster’s Red Pine, all of the works on the album were commissioned by PRISM. More information …