| 5/17/06 |
Recognition For A Rock Icon: A Park Named For Hendrix?
"Seattle's only official memorial to Jimi Hendrix, one of the city's most famous citizens and one of the world's most revered musicians, is a rock in the African Savanna section of Woodland Park Zoo. ‘I find that rather demeaning,’ said City Councilwoman Jean Godden, who wants to name a new park in the Central Area after Hendrix. Godden plans to present her proposal to the council's parks committee today."
-Seattle Times
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| 5/17/06 |
Schwarz Surprise Despite Sour Notes Behind The Scenes, Seattle Symphony Extends The Top Conductor's Contract
"The morning of May 9, Seattle Symphony Board President Mary Ann Champion made a rare visit to a Benaroya Hall rehearsal. With Music Director Gerard Schwarz standing silently at her side, Champion announced to the orchestra that the board had granted Schwarz a three-year extension to his contract, which had been due to expire in 2008. It now runs through the 2010-11 season. According to many present, a smattering of applause followed Champion's surprise announcement. Then, without a word of his own, Schwarz took the podium and began the day's rehearsal. If he completes the five-year contract just awarded him, Schwarz will have been in place 26 years. Such casual treatment of a major artistic announcement might seem surprising, but the Seattle Symphony's musicians and their principal conductor have had less and less to say to each other for the better part of a decade. This is not widely known, and the acrimonious relationship makes it reasonable to wonder if Schwarz's contract extension was such a good idea."
- Seattle Weekly
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| 5/17/06 |
Intiman Wins Tony As Best Regional Theater
"Intiman Theatre Tuesday won American theater's most prestigious prize for off-Broadway institutions, the 2006 Tony Award for outstanding regional theater."
-Seattle P-I
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| 5/10/06 |
The Winners Are . . .
"The results of Seattle Weekly's 2006 Music Awards poll."
- Seattle Weekly
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| 5/5/06 |
Energized Pearl Jam Makes An Explosive Return
"World Wide Suicide, the explosive first single from the Seattle band's new album on Clive Davis' J Records, is the fastest-rising, highest-charting single in the group's history. Since its release on Tuesday, the album has sold more than 300,000 copies and is expected to make its debut near the top of The Billboard 200 album chart next week."
-Seattle P-I
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| 5/4/06 |
Shame of the Game: Casual Vs. Serious At The EMP Pop Conference
"At the opening plenary session of the Experience Music Project's 2006 Pop Conference, I watched 100 people sit quietly and listen very closely to a song called Shame. Taken from Savage, Eurythmics' 1987 concept album of musical inversions, Shame was a nod to this year's theme: Ain't That a Shame: Loving Music in the Shadow of Doubt."
- The Stranger
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| 5/3/06 |
"Ring" Star Eaglen Will Teach As UW Artist In Residence
"Associate conductor Christian Knapp closes his tenure here with a mainstage subscription program, featuring violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky in the Sibelius Concerto, and the orchestra in the Debussy 'Nocturnes' and Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra'."
-Seattle Times
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| 5/1/06 |
Starbucks Links With William Morris Agency
"The Starbucks Corp. has hired the William Morris Agency to seek music, film and book projects for the coffee retailer to consider for marketing and distribution in its 11,000 locations worldwide."
- Billboard.biz
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| 4/28/06 |
Associate conductor bids musical farewell to Seattle Symphony
"Associate conductor Christian Knapp closes his tenure here with a mainstage subscription program, featuring violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky in the Sibelius Concerto, and the orchestra in the Debussy 'Nocturnes' and Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra'."
-Seattle Times
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| 4/27/06 |
House of Blues Plans Seattle Club
"A House of Blues live music club will open in 2007 next to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Seattle, officials with the California entertainment company and Seattle Theatre Group said Thursday."
- Puget Sound Business Journal
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| 4/26/06 |
Seattle Weekly Music Awards
-Seattle Weekly
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| 4/25/06 |
Alice In Chains Preps U.S. Club Run
"As a tune-up for a summer on the European festival circuit, Alice In Chains will play five U.S. club dates next month. As previously reported, the veteran Seattle rock act is touring for the first time since the 2002 death of lead singer Layne Staley."
- Billboard.com
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| 3/1/06 |
Longtime Music Director Shaped Seattle Symphony
"For 22 years, Milton Katims was "Mr. Music" to Seattle - a Seattle Symphony maestro so beloved that his photograph once adorned the cover of the Seattle telephone directory. Mr. Katims, an internationally renowned conductor and violist, died Monday morning in Seattle of heart failure, after a long and fruitful life in music. He was 96."
-Seattle Times
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| 2/24/06 |
The Triple Door, Already A Noted Music Venue, Attracts Big Fundraising Events
"You never know who is going to show up at The Triple Door, from podcasters and music executives this week dissecting the indie music scene, to Dave Matthews in the audience to hear Vusi Mahlasela's anti-apartheid songs. The downtown Seattle club, only two years old, with revenues up by 50 percent, is really getting noticed. People are packing in for dinner and concerts that span a range of music -- pop, rock, blues, gospel, country, world and the latest indie craze. Artists David Crosby, Mavis Staples, Rosanne Cash, Shelby Lynn, Robert Cray and comic David Crowe are among the performers raving about the venue."
- Puget Sound Business Journal
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| 2/22/06 |
One Reel Cancels This Year's Summer Nights Concert Series
"One Reel, the producers of the popular Summer Nights concert series, has canceled it for this year. The series, which was slated to be relocated to Seattle's Gas Works Park this summer, had run into neighborhood opposition amid concerns about parking, traffic and restricted use of the park."
-Seattle Times
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| 2/22/06 |
Suit May Keep Summer Nights Concert Series Out Of Gasworks Park
"A lawsuit filed against the city of Seattle and One Reel this morning could prevent the annual Summer Nights concert series from taking place this year at Gas Works Park."
-Seattle Times
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| 2/22/06 |
10 Local Bands To Watch In 2006
"Predicting which Seattle bands will break big in the coming year is like betting on the horse races. No matter how informed you try to become or how many charts you build, you often end up hanging your hopes on a dud…"
- Seattle PI
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| 2/22/06 |
Love Buzz Redux
"To most of the United States, Seattle music history begins with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (never mind Hendrix and Heart) and ends with a shotgun blast. Since then, Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie have emerged as the most successful Seattle-area postgrunge bands..."
- East Bay Express
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| 2/21/06 |
Lunch With the Lord: Church Offers Noontime Jazz Concerts
"You don't have to surrender yourself to God to get the most out of the Wednesday lunchtime Jazz Worship Service at Plymouth Congregational Church in downtown Seattle. The 45-minute service is more about lifting spirits and getting fingers tapping in the middle of the work week."
- Seattle Times
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