Music

Concerts

by Christopher DeLaurenti

CONCERTS

by Christopher DeLaurenti

chris@delaurenti.net

THURSDAY JULY 8



CARMINA BURANA

It's the rowdy, foot-stomping oratorio that classical-music writers love to hate. Carl Orff's setting of lusty Medieval poems is exciting for its insistent beat, thuggishly bellowed choruses, mind-numbing cymbal crashes, and general good fun. Also on the program: the 1919 version of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (anyone up for the recently restored period-instrument version with four offstage tubas, published by Schott?) and morsels of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada. Also Fri July 9 at 8 pm and Sun July 10 at 2 and 8 pm. Benaroya Hall, Third Ave and Union St, 215-4747, 7:30 pm, $18-$80.

FRAZIER/HAMILTON

Gordon Frazier, multi-instrumentalist of the mouth cavity and self-described "linguaphonist," teams up with longtime Seattle composer, prankster, and instrument inventor Jay Hamilton. Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 329-4224, 8 pm, $7.

FRIDAY JULY 9



PAUL DUTTON

It must be mouth-music week at Polestar. Canadian sound poet Paul Dutton creates an astonishing, almost orchestral variety of cries, whispers, and moans with his mouth. Joining him are three avant improvisers: Seattle's Bill Horist, bass clarinetist/vocalist Arrington de Dionyso, and the Italian percussionist Jacopo Andreini. Last week I caught the latter two at a Sound of the Underbrush gig; both were succinct and thrilling. I'm hoping de Dionyso reprises his fabulous Jew's harp playing. Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 329-4224, 8 pm, $7.

SUNDAY JULY 11



SOUTHEAST SUMMER SOUNDS

An afternoon of free outdoor jazz with trombonist Julian Priester, the Hadley Caliman Quartet, and James Whiton & the Downtown Apostles. Seward Park Amphitheater, one mile from park entrance at 5900 Lake Washington Blvd S, 760-4285, 1-5 pm, free.

EISENBREY/BORCHERT

Two seldom-heard Seattle composers perform their own solo and duo pieces for piano. Keith Eisenbrey, a whimsical and brilliant pianist, explores the inner sonorities of the piano with spiky notes, unusual chords, and confounding forms. Gavin Borchert, the superb yet woefully underutilized classical music scribe, composes just as he writes: sharply, with brainy and well-formed structures. Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 329-4224, 8 pm, $7.

MONDAY JULY 12



SCMS SUMMER FESTIVAL

Bring on the strings: Mozart's Quartet for Piano and Strings, K. 493, Paul Schoenfeld's Cafe Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano, and César Franck's Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor. Pianist Adam Neiman kicks things off with one of the masterpieces of solo piano music, Chopin's Twelve Etudes for Piano, op. 25. Lakeside School, 14050 First Ave NE, 283-8808, 7 pm, $7-$35.

TUESDAY JULY 13



MARC COPLAND & GREG OSBY

On their duo CD Round and Round (Nagel-Heyer), pianist Copland and alto saxophonist Osby share an elegant telepathy that ranges from loving allusions to bebop and sly, smoky inversions of after-hours cocktail jazz to quirkily phrased tunes and enticingly introspective chord studies gone gently awry. My nominee for sleeper gig of the week and one that's not to be missed. Also Wed July 14. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, 8 pm, $18.50-$20.50.

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