FRIDAY MARCH 31
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
I just returned from the Big Apple and heard the New York Philharmonic thunder through Tchaikovsky's dramatic Symphony No. 5, so I'm eager to hear how the hometown band stacks up. Two early works by great composers complete the program, the not-bad Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss and Stravinsky's fabulously frisky miniature, the Scherzo Fantastique. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4747, 7 pm, $15–$62.
TURN OF THE SCREW
Singers from Seattle Opera's Young Artist Program sing in a fully staged production of Benjamin Britten's operatic telling of the creepy Henry James tale. Also Sat April 1 at 7:30 pm and Sun April 2 at 2 pm as well as the following weekend, April 7–9. The Theater at Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE Sixth Ave, Bellevue, 389-7676, 7:30 pm, $15/$30.
SEATTLE COMPOSERS' SALON
A monthly informal presentation of new music by Seattle composers, the salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composer and MC Tom Baker has corralled composers Brad Anderson, theorist and composer John Rahn, clarinet pioneer William O. Smith, and Eric Flesher, who premieres a piece commissioned by the Salon. Soundbridge at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4747, 8 pm, $5 suggested donation.
SOUND AND FILM
Three sets of experimental music for experimental films: Na singer, guitarist, and improvising rakehell Kazutaka Nomura accompanies Super 8 films by Doug Lane and Jason Gutz; Withdrawal Method triggers scabrous tectonic "noisescapes" for 16mm films by Tyson Theroux and Noggin guitarist Eric Ostrowski; Bright Shiny Object, the duo of Corey Brewer and Noggin fiddler Michael Griffen, adorn Brewer's slideshows. Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave, 322-1533, 8 pm, $5–$15 sliding scale donation.
SATURDAY APRIL 1
MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE
Cabaret songs by composers who perished at the TerezĂn concentration camp in the mid-1940s. With mezzo-soprano Julie Mirel, baritone Erich Parce, and MoR director Mina Miller at the piano. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 365-7770, 2:30 pm, free.
TRIO MEDIAEVAL
Touring in support of Stella Maris (ECM), these three Norwegian sopranos sport a clean, almost vibrato-free blend, the sonic equivalent to gazing into a plate of flawless, bone-white porcelain. They sing Norwegian ballads as well as medieval polyphony from England and France. The trio commissions new music, too, so plan on pieces by Gavin Bryars—I'm hoping for his beautiful "Venite a laudare" from the Trio's 2004 disc Soir, dit-elle (ECM)—and Lasse Thorsen. Pre-concert talk starts at 7 pm. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 325-7066, 8 pm, $15–$34.
SUNDAY APRIL 2
SEATTLE JAZZ VESPERS
This monthly concert combines two sets of jazz with a brief worship interlude that even an atheist like me doesn't mind. Saxophonist Hadley Caliman, a disciple of tenor-saxophone giant Dexter Gordon, leads a straight-ahead quintet that features trumpeter Thomas Marriott, who can flit from a slow, creamy tone to incisive passage-work in a trice. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, 325-6051, 6 pm, free-will donation.
