Classical Music - Orchestra - Traditional Music Events in Seattle, United States

Moritz of Hesse-Kassel was the first patron of Heinrich Schutz, financing the composer's first trip to Venice, where he studied with Giovanni Gabrieli. We will perform selections from Schutz's Italian Madrigals and settings by the dedicatee of that collection, Duke Moritz ..

When was the last time you heard classical music live? Emerald City Music is Seattle's home for eclectic, open-bar classical music shows featuring the world's best musicians. In our busy world, rest comes with a price. 17th Century Count Keyserling was no stranger to rest ..

When was the last time you heard classical music live? Emerald City Music is Seattle's home for eclectic, open-bar classical music shows featuring the world's best musicians. Hear two remarkable and colorful clarinet quintets in one night! Carl Maria Von Weber's Clarinet ..

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics." - George Crumb In this special theatrical evening, Emerald City Music hones in on ..

Here we present works written for specific occasions: a cantata for the 1734 wedding of Johann Adolf II of Saxe-Weissenfels to his second wife, composed by our namesake, J. S. Bach; and-in what is likely its first, complete performance in the U.S.-funeral music for the 17 ..

This epic performance tells the tale of the world's most loved and versatile instrument, the piano. Listeners will follow its physical evolution and the iconic music written at each stage of technological development: from the harpsichord through the forte-piano, contemporar ..

Seattle Bach Choir, conducted by Dr. Daniel A Mahraun, closes their season of Perseverance, looking forward with hope to a return to in-person rehearsal and performance. To illustrate the journey of waiting, we offer musical descriptions of the Last Judgement and St. Michael ..

Explore chronicles of the world's most versatile family of instruments: the keyboard. From harpsichord and piano to the modern-day synthesizer, this evening is packed full of both iconic and eclectic keyboard tunes. The Tunes Jordan Machine Poem no. 2 for piano an ..

The Violins of Hope are instruments owned and played by Jews before and during the Holocaust. Lovingly restored, they can now be heard again even though their owners were silenced. Music of Remembrance brings a quartet of these historic instruments to Seattle for a special ..

An ardent pacifist and humanist, German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's abhorrence for his country's actions during World War II resulted in compositions that were cries for justice and brotherhood; one work was described as "a protest against what Zimmermann perceived as ..