Podcasts about Benaroya Hall

Welcome back to another inspiring episode of the Exploring Washington State Podcast! This time, Scott Cowan sits down with Meghan Storey, a talented musician with an extraordinary story of resilience, creativity, and passion. From her challenging beginnings on the streets of Seattle to becoming a celebrated artist, Meghan shares her incredible journey of triumph over adversity. Episode Highlights: A Musical Childhood: Meghan reflects on growing up surrounded by music, where family jam sessions and demo tapes sparked her early love for melodies. By age three, she was belting out "Jesus Christ Superstar," foreshadowing her future as a performer. Life on the Streets: At just 12, Meghan entered the foster care system and faced homelessness. She candidly recounts her experiences, from sleeping in doorways to finding solace in community programs like the YMCA's Independent Living Program and the Orion Center. The Healing Power of Music: Discover how Meghan used songwriting to cope during her toughest times. Music has been her lifeline and voice, from writing her first song at 14 to her latest releases. Denny's Days: In a surprising twist, Meghan's time at a downtown Seattle Denny's provided a job and a sense of home and community. Hear how a compassionate manager helped change her life. A Flourishing Career: Meghan discusses her collaboration with Raymond Hayden, the excitement of releasing their rendition of "Silent Lucidity," and the 19 songs they're working on. She also shares her dreams of performing at iconic venues like Benaroya Hall. Advocacy Through Art: With a deep commitment to raising awareness about homelessness, Meghan urges listeners to embrace empathy and human connection. Her insights are as heartfelt as her music. Tacoma Scene Love: Meghan shares her favorite spots to play and listen to music in Tacoma, from the Spanish Ballroom to hidden gems like Valhalla Coffee and the Church Cantina. Key Takeaways: The importance of resilience and goal-setting in overcoming life's challenges. Music can serve as a coping mechanism and a bridge for connection. Why empathy and human connection are vital in addressing homelessness. Listen Now: Tune in to hear Meghan's inspiring journey and gain a deeper understanding of the person behind the music. This episode is a heartfelt reminder that our stories matter and that creativity can shine even in the darkest times.

Join him at Benaroya Hall tomorrow with Thunderpussy!

Judge presses pause on WA's parents bill of rights law, SPD fires cop who made racist remarks, and Benaroya Hall celebrates 25 years. It's our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. You have the power! Make the show happen by making a gift to KUOW. We want to hear from you! Follow us on Instagram at SeattleNowPod, or leave us feedback.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cw: police brutality, description of injury, death, suicidal ideation, disassociation, warfare, emotional manipulation in a relationship,  We build the WORLD'S STRONGEST AU to start this (unfortunate rerecord episode). The barricades are up and (surprise!) we're already facing death. Enjolras shows us what leadership means to him, Hugo has a lot of hope for the future (yikes), and Marius tests our patience as he goes to find his death. WHO-HOO! EEEE!! Song used: Music Director Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony perform "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg at Benaroya Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nMUr8Rt2AI  This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

What happens when you combine a favorite film and a live symphony orchestra performance? An amazingly entertaining concert experience. For all ages. And for fans of both film and music alike. As a lifelong lover of film scores, join CH this week as she recaps her recent viewing of the The Harry Potter Film Concert Series as performed by the Seattle Symphony, and how it is an inspiring, unique (and dare we say hip?) way to experience an orchestral music performance (especially if you have never thought about going to one). Show Notes For more information on The Harry Potter Film Concert Series, check out HarryPotterInConcert.com for the current films being played by symphony orchestras worldwide. For additional information on The Seattle Symphony and Benaroya Hall, check out SeattleSymphony.org The Holiday can be rented or viewed on most streamers.

Eddie Vedder has a show coming up at Benaroya Hall...The new #1 Billboard song in the country is from a completely unknown rookie...and a funny Elvis story from 1977!

In September 2019, Malcolm Gladwell stepped on stage at Benaroya Hall as part of SAL's Literary Arts Series to discuss his book Talking to Strangers. That night, his talk brought us into the complicated layers that underlie our most fraught and violent interactions.  The Los Angeles Times called Talking to Strangers “a compelling, conversation-starting read.” It's a thoughtful and nuanced meditation on how we see others, and how we see the world. Like all of Gladwell's work, brilliant storytelling and razor sharp-observations carry us to understand the world in new ways.

In this rich, expansive, and warm conversation between friends, Krista draws out the heart for humanity behind Isabel Wilkerson's eye on histories we are only now communally learning to tell — her devotion to understanding not merely who we have been, but who we can be. Her most recent offering of fresh insight to our life together brings "caste" into the light — a recurrent, instinctive pattern of human societies across the centuries, though far more malignant in some times and places. Caste is a ranking of human value that works more like a pathogen than a belief system — more like the reflexive grammar of our sentences than our choices of words. In the American context, Isabel Wilkerson says race is the skin, but "caste is the bones." And this shift away from centering race as a focus of analysis actually helps us understand why race and racism continue to shape-shift and regenerate, every best intention and effort and law notwithstanding. But beginning to see caste also gives us fresh eyes and hearts for imagining where to begin, and how to persist, in order finally to shift that. Isabel and Krista spoke in Seattle before a packed house at Benaroya Hall, at the invitation of Seattle Arts & Lectures.[Content Advisory: Beginning at 21:16, there is a discussion of Nazi terminology and a quotation from Hitler with an epithet that is offensive and painful. We chose to include this language to illustrate the heinous nature of the history being discussed and Hitler's admiration for it.]Isabel Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize while reporting for the New York Times. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns, brought the underreported story of the Great Migration of the 20th century into the light, and she published her best-selling book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents in August 2020. Among many honors, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.___________We keep hearing that people don't know that this new season of On Being is happening. So please share with friends, family, book clubs, neighbors, colleagues! And if you can take a minute to rate On Being in this podcast app, you'll be bending the arc of algorithms towards this community of conversation and living.Also: sign up for our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, for replenishment and invigoration in your inbox — and of course all things On Being — at onbeing.org/newsletter. And delve more across our social channels: (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok).

Learn about the latest in local public affairs in about the time it takes for a coffee break! Brian Callanan of Seattle Channel and David Kroman of the Seattle Times discuss a new move to increase police hiring, a new lease for Benaroya Hall, the growing list of incumbent Councilmembers deciding not to run again, concerns over our state and local design review process for building construction, and a new look at rising deaths on Washington's roads. If you like this podcast, please support it on Patreon! 

Nino and Wes revisit the epic acoustic show and create a Part 2 of Pearl Jam Benaroya Hall.

Chegamos ao episódio 33 do Pepitas Sonoras. Este que é um número mágico, a “idade de Cristo”, ou aquilo que os médicos pedem pra você dizer quando vai fazer um exame.Então, ao invés do “diga 33”, convidamos vocês para que “ouçam o 33”, e desfrutem com a gente dessa resenha garimpeira da mais alta qualidade.Com: The Republic Tigers, Tori Amos e Barcelona.Dica da semana:Documentário “What Drives Us”, disponível no Amazon Prime: https://app.primevideo.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.8e41ed8f-29a4-466c-8c10-a184c361b7c9&territory=BR&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=webDica plus:Bob Moses canta “Save a Prayer”, cover do clássico do Duran Duran: https://open.spotify.com/track/2TMLHRfHlVvj4ukwVoWBVQ?si=ydR-N2BpSHilcXUvpoaTlw&dl_branch=1Links:Playlist Oficial do Pepitas Sonoras:Spotify: https://bit.ly/PlaylistPepitasSonorasNoSpotifyApple Music: https://bit.ly/PlaylisPepitasSonorasNoAppleMusicCanal do Pepitas Sonoras no Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/TxzUk41WFVsTdJv3The Republic Tigers tocam “Buildings and Mountains” no “Late Show with David Letterman” (2008): https://youtu.be/Qyu9PdIXyfMClipe Oficial de “Buildings and Mountains”, do The Republic Tigers: https://youtu.be/R6VuCl-fltoClipe Oficial de “Cornflake Girl”, da Tori Amos: https://youtu.be/w_HA5Czhtx4Tori Amos toca “Caught a Lite Sneeze”, no MTV Unplugged (1996): https://youtu.be/MhoeTB6Ng_QBarcelona toca “Falling Out of Trees”, no “Absolutes Live”, em Seattle (2016): https://youtu.be/y7vW3grx1nwMontagem de fã sobre o Trailer do filme “Água para Elefantes”, com a música “Please Don't Go”, do Barcelona: https://youtu.be/6fs_8h5YxQABarcelona toca “Please Don't Go”, acompanhado de orquestra, no Benaroya Hall, em evento beneficente em favor do “Seattle Children's Hospital”: https://youtu.be/d8nJ-Kwd6tI

Benaroya Hall, Seattle 2 November 2017 Broadcast Ian Bostridge Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Jessica Evotia Andrews-Hall is an award winning pianist who is in demand as a collaborative performer, teaching artist and arts advocate. Her past teachers include Michi North, Dr. Peter Mack, Dr. Rebecca Steele, Francis Walker-Slocum and Dr. Karen Walwyn. Under their guidance, she has performed at venues like Carnegie Hall, the White House and Benaroya Hall. In 2011, Jessica became a Seattle Symphony teaching artist where she was an early education childhood specialist and created music curriculum for babies and preschool. She also led Carnegie Hall Link Up residencies that taught hundreds of students to perform along side the orchestra. She also helped homeless families write and record songs with Seattle Symphony musicians for their children during The Lullaby Project. In 2013, she was featured in a traveling museum exhibit called Treemonisha: Celebrating African Americans in Classical Music. In 2019, Jessica became a pianist for the Pacific Northwest Ballet and recently completed her third tour with the Seattle Opera. As an avid arts advocate, Jessica uses music to inspire, motivate and empower people. She is the owner of JAM Studios which is a large vibrant piano studio where she teaches private and group lessons for ages two to senior citizen. Jessica is on faculty at Music Works Northwest where she created a popular Parent & Me group piano class and her Creative Keyboard summer camps sell out every year. As a Steinway teacher and educational partner, Jessica has been teaching piano for over a decade and her students have went on to music conservatories, competed on nation wide televised competitions, performed on Broadway in NYC and pursued professional music careers. Jessica has an equal passion for providing quality arts education and lighting up the concert stage and she feels extremely fortunate to be doing both every single day!To learn more go to: http://jessicaandrewsmusicstudio.comTop 5 Songs of Encouragement:1) Still Have Joy by Tye Tribbetthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfw6wOuN32M2) You Can't Stop Me by Andy Mineohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddPVKt3lYs3) Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gayehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2gAqn4I2A4) Run the World (girls) by Beyoncehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqo08TXbxWQ5) Grateful by Hezekiah Walkerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZWZeUR3rBQKeep this podcast Ad Free by going to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Encouragement today to make a one-time donation or become a monthly member.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Encouragement)

Eddie Vedder announced a couple solo shows at Benaroya Hall...Alec Baldwin said he never pulled the trigger on the deadly movie set...and HBO says James Gandolfini was binging hard on booze and cocaine during The Sopranos!

Synopsis “Are people still writing concertos for harpsichord?” you ask. Well, today, we have an answer, which is “Yes!” On today's date in 2002, this new Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra by Philip Glass had its premiere performance at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Glass was asked to write a new Harpsichord Concerto for the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and says he found the commission intriguing. “For one,” wrote Glass, “I have always been an admirer of the literature for harpsichord and have played a bit it myself. Secondly, I knew that the modern-day harpsichord was capable of a fuller, more robust sound than was available in ‘period' instruments and might make a handsome partner to a modern chamber orchestra.” Glass's concerto is in the traditional three movements of a Baroque era concerto, with a slower, more lyrical middle movement flanked by speedier, flashier outer movements. And perhaps surprisingly for a “minimalist” composer famous – or infamous – for his loping, seemingly endless repeated patterns, this Harpsichord Concerto, despite being recognizably a work by Philip Glass, is more varied and mercurial than usual, with a final movement in which the harpsichord soloist really needs to “go for Baroque!” Music Played in Today's Program Philip Glass (b. 1937) — Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra (Christopher D. Lewis, hc; West Side Chamber Orch./Kevin Mallon) Naxos 8.573146

Album 4 the Day - August 17, 2021 - Live Albums Brandi Carlile - Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/album4theday/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/album4theday/support

Recent performances by The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra will be featured on today's episode of Jazz Northwest. Included are selections composed, arranged and/or featuring Bill Anthony, Sidney Hauser and Jacqueline Tabor. The SRJO's final concert this season will feature bassist and composer Christian McBride on Saturday, June 19 at Benaroya Hall with limited seating and a livestream virtual concert. More info at srjo.org . Also, on this show is music by resident artists Tall & Small, Jovino Santos Neto, Richard Cole, Karin Plato, Francesco Crosara and Pearl Django. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by host Jim Wilke and airs Sundays at 2 p.m. Listeners may also subscribe to the podcast at KNKX, NPR, Apple, or Google.

Browse and listen to the entire series here . Subscribe to the latest episodes on Apple , Google and Spotify podcasts. Today for Off the Road , we conclude with guitarist and vocalist Nancy Wilson of Heart, as HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence wraps up two weeks of celebrating two pioneering women of rock: sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson . Hear part one with Nancy from yesterday's show. Hear Ann Wilson from last week: part one and part two ). Nancy recently released her first-ever solo album, You and Me , which she told us about when joining Off the Road back in January (hear part one and part two ). Now the project is out, and in part one of our two-part feature, Nancy explained how she’ll showcase some of the material, as well as some Heart classics, at a special show she’s doing July 9 th at Benaroya Hall in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony . The event will be livestreamed. Also included in part one we heard some of the new music, including the title track and 4 Edward ,

Browse and listen to the entire series here . Subscribe to the latest episodes on Apple , Google and Spotify podcasts. Today for Off the Road , it's guitarist and vocalist Nancy Wilson of Heart, as HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence continues two weeks of celebrating two pioneering women of rock: sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson . Hear Ann Wilson from last week: part one and part two ). Nancy recently released her first-ever solo album, You and Me , which she told us about when joining Off the Road back in January (hear part one and part two ). Now the project is out, and in part one of our two-part feature, Nancy explains how she’ll showcase some of the material, as well as some Heart classics, at a special show she’s doing July 9 th at Benaroya Hall in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony . The event will be livestreamed, she told us. Also included in part one we both hear some of the new music, including the title track and 4 Edward , Nancy’s instrumental tribute to Eddie Van

As our annual reading program, Summer Book Bingo wrapped up, we asked readers to reflect on their favorite reading experience of the summer. One of you wrote: “My favorite reading experience was reading So You Want to Talk About Race. It forced me to explore my white privilege and challenged me to really examine the ways I have thought about myself, how I view race.” Ijeoma Oluo, the author of So You Want to Talk About Race, writes that it was: “A grueling, heart wrenching book to write.” She gives us all a tremendous gift by sharing her personal stories of experiencing the pain and violence of racism at the hands of school systems and police officers, and even friends and loved ones. On January 25, 2018, the Seattle-based Oluo joined us at Benaroya Hall for the launch of what’s become an essential primer on the racial landscape of America. We’re excited to be able to share that talk with you today as the first episode in Season Three of SAL/on air.

“Sounds of the Silenced” uplifts and weaves together voices that have been oppressed – whether by circumstance of history, internal sentiment, or tragedy. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a Black composer from the 18th century. He was quite successful when he was alive, however, given that Mozart and Haydn were among his contemporaries, history did little justice to his prominence. Dimitri Shostakovich's eight-string quartet was dedicated to the victims of fascism and war. This work is at the center of a very complicated puzzle of Shostakovich’s life. Throughout his life it was believed that Shostakovich was a supporter of the Soviet regime, but to everyone’s surprise a revealing and controversial book – ‘Testimony’ (published four years after his passing) – depicts the composer as a closest dissident. This book revealed that this string quartet was instead a biographical work that expressed the most obscure struggles in the life of the composer. Webster Gadbois’ moving piece was inspired by Tahlequah, the Puget Sound J-pod Orca that publicly grieved for 17 days following the passage of her newborn calf. SEVENTEEN DAYS BY WEBSTER GADBOIS INSTRUMENTATION: 8 CELLOS PERFORMED AND RECORDED BY LASZLO MEZO COMPOSER’S NOTES BY WEBSTER GADBOIS In the summer of 2018, the southern J-pod of orcas residing in Washington states’ Puget Sound gave birth to a calf for the first time in years. 30 minutes later, the calf died of malnutrition. The mother, who has been given the name Tahlequah, proceeded to mourn the dead calf by carrying it around with her for the next seventeen days. This level of mourning is unprecedented in orcas, and the story made international headlines. The J-pod’s primary food source is Chinook salmon, which are endangered due to overfishing. This piece’s primary goal is to catalogue the tour of grief that the J-pod experienced throughout this time, with Tahlequah acting as the centerpiece. The central idea presented at the beginning of the piece initially serves as a beacon of hope for the J-pod, as it represents continued life in the face of starvation. As the calf dies, however, this idea becomes warped into a strained cry of grief, as the pod mourns the loss as a collective. As the music becomes more frantic and primal, the central idea becomes more focused on Tahlequah herself, and her refusal to let go of the calf. After a climax of suffering, the pod delivers one last eulogy, as Tahlequah learns to let go of the calf mentally, as well as physically. The piece concludes as the story concludes: with Tahlequah dropping the calf into oblivion as the pod moves on from mourning to mating with other pods. As a postscript to this tragic tale, Tahlequah is a mother again. The Orca and her calf were documented in September 2020 near the San Juan Islands. WEBSTER GADBOIS – COMPOSER Composer and improviser Webster Gadbois has sought to explore creative methods of communicating the impact climate change has had on the planet. This has led him to write music about wild orcas in his hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington. In addition to environmental motivation, Gadbois’s work centers around collaboration with artists in visual mediums, such as dancers and filmmakers. Holding a Bachelor of Music degree from Rice University and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, he is committed to the creation of work intended to foster a childlike sense of discovery and to increase dialogue around social change.   LASZLO MEZO – CELLO Born in Budapest, Hungary, Laszlo Mezo gained national recognition as one of the top musicians of his generation at the young age of 18. He forged a career as a soloist, recitalist, master teacher, and chamber musician, has performed extensively in Europe, Asia, and North and South America, and is currently a professor in cello at Chapman University and Saddleback College in California. He is a sought after soloist, and an active studio musician in Hollywood, having played in many film scores, including Star Wars, Ice Age, Life of Pi, Wolverine, and The Lone Ranger. His first CD is a recording of Dávid Popper’s works, and his second, “Made in Paris,” includes romantic cello pieces from the 19th century. BAINBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA QUARTET PATRICIA STRANGE, FIRST VIOLIN Pat is a performer of traditional and contemporary violin literature and has performed throughout the US and Europe. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from Calif. State University Fullerton and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Calif. San Diego. Before moving to Bainbridge Island in 2001 she held the position of Principle Second violin with the San Jose Symphony. She is currently the Concertmaster of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra, founder and director of Bridges; A String Orchestra and has frequently performed with Ovation! Performing Arts Northwest and BPA’s musical theatre productions. “Being in quarantine as a musician has been difficult. I’ve found it hard to have the motivation to practice alone. I really miss not being able to rehearse in person with my music community here on Bainbridge Island, whether it’s in orchestra, chamber music or musical theater performances. The Bainbridge Pod Accomplice is a wonderful project allowing us to make music again.”   PEGGY BRADY – SECOND VIOLIN Peggy Brady, violinist, studied at the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst in Vienna and Arizona State University in the 70’s. She has been a member of the first violin section of the Phoenix Symphony, the violin section of the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, the Braunschweig Staatsoper Orchestra, Principal Second Violin and Assistant Concertmaster of the Napa Valley Symphony and Principal Second Violin of the Marin Symphony. In 2004 she founded the Eloquence String Quartet and Trio of Napa Valley. The group is now in high demand for weddings and vineyard events throughout Napa and Sonoma. Soon to become a full time resident of Bainbridge Island, Peggy is enjoying a new musical project called “Olympic Serenade” – playing chamber music with other members of the Bainbridge Island Symphony. “A highlight for me during this pandemic has been providing outdoor musical therapy for ourselves, neighbors, and friends. We have been meeting on my large open driveway on Sunday afternoons to play chamber music. The neighbors are invited to come and enjoy the music while they sip a glass of wine. Our conductor Mario has joined us several times on viola. It’s been my favorite part of the summer.”   MARIO ALEJANDRO TORRES – VIOLA Mario Alejandro Torres is a conductor, teacher, and performer native to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Mr. Torres made his Benaroya Hall conducting debut in collaboration with Maestros Ludovic Morlot and David Alexander Rahbee in an exciting concert with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. For the past two years, he has served in a conducting fellowship with the Seattle Symphony, assisting Maestro Morlot in collaboration with artists such as Hilary Hahn and John Luther Adams. As the former Music Director of Poulsbo Community Orchestra, he brought a new and exciting sound to the ensemble. Outside of the United States, he has conducted performances with the Eddy Snijders Orchestra in Paramaribo, Suriname, and in his hometown with the professional Chamber Orchestra of San Pedro Sula, and Victoriano Lopez School of Music Choir. “Bainbridge Performing Arts has been a very special place to me by virtue of its unique position to highlight and welcome artists, creators, writers, and more – each coming from different backgrounds and perspectives in life. This key diversity nurtures a very special community, as it does our beautiful Bainbridge Island. As Music Director of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra it has been an incredible pleasure to follow those steps, and that is why I am very excited to present ‘Sounds of the Silence,’ the first October episode of BPA’s Bainbridge Pod Accomplice!”   ARLAYNE ESEMAN – CELLO Arlayne took her first cello lessons from Marcia Treend in 9th grade. A year later, she began studying with Thaddeus Markiewicz, assistant principal cellist with the Detroit Symphony, and continued with him until earning her Masters in Cello Performance. While in college, she performed in some Motown recordings and played in the pickup orchestras for Paul Anka and Sammy Davis (what an entertainer). In 2013, Arlayne retired as a “computer geek” and moved to Bainbridge Island, where she auditioned for the symphony and made many wonderful friends. In 2015, she started playing in local ensembles as well as musicals performed on the island. “It is not uncommon that I am performing up to 12 nights a month. I think that is a pretty good life. During shelter in place, my biggest accomplishment is not killing my husband. Being a basic introvert (yes, really), I enjoy being home. Typically, I play Sudoku, read about WW2 code breakers, and sew for my family or myself. When the weather permits, I take my cello out on my condo deck and play unaccompanied cello for my neighbors. So far, no one is complaining.”  

Kelsey Lee Cate shares her story of learning to play the piano from a young age, her passion to love others through music and the ministry opportunities playing in unique settings: Benaroya Hall, the Space Needle, Canlis, Bellevue Square and many more!

It's the 2 year anniversary of our podcast's birth and we thought it would be appropriate to give everyone, including ourselves, a little gift. This week we're covering Benaroya Hall - the 2,500 seat capacity Seattle venue usually known for being an orchestra concert hall was taken over by an insane Pearl Jam crowd there to witness the band perform some of their rarest cuts in rare form. The band usually known for their on-stage energy were confined to a seated position as they busted out, for the most part, an acoustic set of songs that fans hadn't heard live before. They were treated to live debuts of two original songs - Fatal and Man of the Hour and a rare Johnny Cash cover of 25 Minutes To Go. But alongside the debuting tracks were songs so deep in the band's back catalog that these fans might've needed to be on a different continent in order to have heard them before. Versions of Low Light and Around The Bend were sparse at the time and adding songs such as Parting Ways, All Or None, Dead Man and Masters of War gave the crowd plenty to cross off the checklist. We'll do it old school style and go song-by-song in full as we talk about the once in a lifetime event and what made it so legendary. We'll also recap the story shared by Kenny Mayne in our profile episode earlier this week about how a ticket to this show fell into his lap during a Sonics game. Every contribution we make on Patreon for the month of September will be donated to runfreely.org - Kenny's organization helps fund the creation of ligament braces for ailing veterans. if you'd like to chip in to help the cause, head on over to http://patreon.com/liveon4legs to donate by the end of the month!

This week we're celebrating our 2-year anniversary as a pod and joining the show to talk about his Pearl Jam fandom is none other than ESPN SportsCenter anchor Kenny Mayne. We get to chat with Kenny about some of his favorite shows, his friendship with Jeff Ament and how they met, and some great stories about meeting Stevie Wonder and Tom Petty. One of Kenny's best stories he shares is about the famous Benaroya Hall show from 2003 and how he was able to get his hands on a ticket. Stay tuned tomorrow as we'll be back in our regular episode time slot to talk about the Benny show in full. This month all of our Patreon contributions will be donated to Kenny's http://runfreely.org that raises money to help create mobility braces for veterans with limb salvage conditions. head to http://patreon.com/liveon4legs to help support Kenny's cause for the month of September.

Vania C. Bynum is a former Computer Engineer and graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. She has taught and choreographed throughout the Greater Seattle area for almost 20 years. Vania performed in the Paramount & Moore Theaters, Intiman Theatre, Benaroya Hall, the Meydenbauer, and the intimate space of local churches. Utilizing dance as her form of worship, Vania directed the Adult Liturgical Dance Ministry at New Beginnings Christian Fellowship for 11 years. Vania's works have been sponsored by the city of Seattle, 4Culture, Central District Forum, Bossak Heilbron, Microsoft, and Allied Arts Foundation. Artist Trust and Jack Straw are additional sponsors of her new work. Conversation recorded over Instagram Live on May 30, 2020. Watch Dani and Vania's conversation on CD Forum's Instagram. About CD Forum: The CD Forum is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to present and produce Black cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area. Our vision is to inspire new thoughts and challenge assumptions about Black Culture.

What drives storytelling? What is the story—who gets to tell it—and how? In a twist on the American road trip genre, Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive explores these tensions. As an artist couple and their children embark on trip from New York to Arizona, wrestling with their family’s crisis, a bigger one comes to them through the car radio: that of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American and Mexican children arriving in the U.S. without papers. Author Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. She was only able to write her new novel, she tells us, after writing a work of non-fiction first, Tell Me How It Ends. That book, a polemic about the US-Mexico border, is structured around the 40 questions that she translated and asked undocumented children facing deportation as a volunteer court translator. After Valeria’s talk about these two works she’s joined by Florangela Davila, news director at the Seattle-Tacoma NPR station, KNKX, for a Q&A. This event took place at Benaroya Hall in April of 2019.

What the 20th century economy typically required of Americans who wanted success was to step away from their passions and embrace sameness. Now, in this new century—amidst concerns about our jobs being stolen by computers, about the middle class vanishing, and about the super-rich getting richer, Adam Davidson sees another narrative. Davidson, who is the founder of NPR’s Planet Money and an economics writer at The New Yorker, argues that living a passionate life and living a financially stable life aren’t as separate as they used to be. Despite the pain and anxiety of around our current economy, Davidson admits that he sees a lot to be optimistic about in his new book, The Passion Economy. In this talk, he explores what’s next for Americans, from Amish furniture makers to accountants after the invention of AI, social media, outsourcing, and global trade. After Davidson’s talk, which took place at Benaroya Hall in January 2020, he’s joined by Jon Talton for the Q&A. Jon is a novelist and former long-time economics columnist for the Seattle Times.

The Seattle Symphony’s critically acclaimed “untitled” series explores new music in the informal atmosphere of the lobby of Benaroya Hall. Concerts are Fridays at 10pm, and attract a mix of new music fans and concert hall first-timers, intrigued by the event that's more like a nightclub experience than a classical concert. Nathan Chan is assistant principal cellist of the Symphony and a player in the next “untitled” program on Feb. 28th. Here, Chan talks about the rewards and challenges of new music.

The Seattle Men’s Chorus will perform its Love Beyond Borders concert on Friday, March 20 at 8 PM, and Saturday, March 21 at 2 PM, at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. It will reprise the performance at the GALA Festival 2020 in Minneapolis in July. 

The iconic American singer Billie Holiday is subject of tribute concerts by the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and guest vocalist Jacqueline Tabor performed at Kirkland Performance Center and Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The iconic American Singer Billie Holiday was active from the mid-1930s until her death in 1959 and her recordings are considered classics, still influencing singers today. Jacqueline Tabor has been performing professionally since 2005, has release three albums and currently leads her own band. She has won the Kobe Jazz Queen competition including a tour of Japan, has been named Northwest Vocalist of the Year at Earshot's Golden Ear Awards and is nominated for the award again this year. Clarence Acox and Michael Brockman are co-artistic directors of The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, which presents an annual series of concerts in Seattle, Kirkland and Everett. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by host Jim Wilke and airs Sundays at 2 p.m. Listeners may also

When Rachel Maddow, host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, set out to research her latest book, "Blowout," she wasn’t necessarily looking to write about the oil and gas industry. Instead, the question she was asking was this: At a time when democracy is falling and authoritarianism is rising globally, what do we do? In October of this year, Maddow gave a lecture and had a conversation with multi-media journalist Joni Balter at a packed Benaroya Hall. From man-made earthquake swarms in Oklahoma, to Ukrainian revolutionaries, to Russians hacking the 2016 election, Maddow unwinds the skein of the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry worldwide, and warns us what’s at stake if we leave the industry highly subsidized—and largely unregulated.

The late saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath appeared in Seattle several times, with The Heath Brothers and with The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. He was commissioned by the SRJO to compose a suite "The Endless Search" which the orchestra premiered in 2006 at a concert in Benaroya Hall. He returned a year later to make a studio recording of the suite with SRJO. Parts 2 and 3 of the suites will be featured on today’s episode of Jazz Northwest. Also featured are Randy Halberstadt, Greta Matassa, The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, Portland trumpet player and composer Charlie Porter, and saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Lockjaw Davis from a 1962 radio broadcast from The Penthouse in Seattle. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by host Jim Wilke and airs Sundays at 2 p.m. Listeners may also subscribe to the podcast at KNKX, NPR, Apple , Google or Spotify .

Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival brings together some of the finest musicians in the world, offering six exceptional chamber music concerts and a fun Family Concert during the last two weekends of January. To prepare us for this incredible festival, SCMS and Town Hall presented a special preview discussion focused on the immortal string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven, nine of which will be performed at the Winter Festival by the Ehnes Quartet. Geoffrey Block, musicologist and author of Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener’s Companion, presented a brief overview of the composition of Beethoven’s string quartets, which traversed the breadth of his compositional life. He shared his favorite passages in these legendary pieces of the chamber music repertoire, unpacking the techniques of this legendary composer and highlighting what makes them special and memorable. Sit in for a preview of the SCMS Winter Festival! Geoffrey Block is Distinguished Professor of Music History Emeritus at the University of Puget Sound. Block has published widely on Charles Ives, American musical theater and film, Beethoven, and Schubert. His recent books include The Richard Rodgers Reader, Richard Rodgers, Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener’s Companion, and Schubert’s Reputation from His Time to Ours. He is also general editor of the Yale Broadway Masters series and series of Oxford’s Broadway Legacies. About Seattle Chamber Music Society: Each year, SCMS presents a winter festival in January and summer festival in July at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall. In addition to its high quality performances, SCMS offers community engagement programs for adults, youths and the community-at-large to encourage audience appreciation and understanding of chamber music. These programs bring audiences of all ages in close contact with musicians and their music through informal, accessible and enjoyable formats. Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Seattle Chamber Music Society. Recorded live in The Forum on January 12, 2020. 

Welcome back to the Find Me in Seattle Podcast, Episode 008! This week is snowy and cold in Seattle but that didn't stop me from discovering some wonderful people and places around the city. In the news this week, Mayor Jenny Durkan and the City of Seattle awarded the winner of the new Small Business Stabilization Pilot Program to assist eight Seattle "micro businesses." All eight winners, who were either women-owned or minority-owned business, each will receive $25,000 grants to be used to cover "day-to-day operating expenses of the business, such as payroll or losses due to destabilizing events." Check out the article form the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog. The headline of this week's show was "Seattle Will Have Nation's First Human Composting Site." In May 2019, Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to cremation or burial. CEO of Recompose, Katrina Spade has created a process that involves composting a human body in individual containers with alfalfa, straw and wood chips. A month later, a square yard of soil is available for the family to plant in a home, or spread in another dedicated space. The Meal of the Week comes from Dolar Shop Hop Pot in the Bravern building of Downtown Bellevue. The highlights of the meal included getting your own individual hot pot for your choice of broth. We ordered a tower of assorted beef and lamb, a bowl of vegetables, handmade noodles, and the kicker at the end, a vanilla soft serve ice cream cone. The Featured Business of the Week is the Puget Sound Company. They are an 8 member a capella group based in Seattle. They invited me to watch their rehearsal leading up to the Seattle A Capella Festival at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday Jan 15th. Thank you so much for watching and listening to Episode 008 of the Find Me in Seattle Podcast!

Port Royal in Henry County, Kentucky has a population of less than a hundred. And it’s there that farmer, novelist, poet, and cultural critic Wendell Berry—whose family farmed Kentucky land for 7 generations—has been writing for much of his life. With work like The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Wendell has functioned as both literary maverick and visionary to Americans for half a century, issuing warnings about industrial farming and the breaking apart of rural communities—concerns that are more immediate than ever. Back in May 2011, Berry appeared at Benaroya Hall for what he, with his trademark humor, terms a “prose sandwich:” the reading of a few poems, followed by his short story “Sold,” and ending with a final poem. After, he is joined by editor and publisher Jack Shoemaker, who talks with him about what “sustainability” really means, how to save our agricultural landscapes, and advising the young (which he calls “a cheap form of entertainment”).

Performing on an instrument made of ice, introducing a high-tech concert hall and taking musical inspiration from the worlds of dance and martial arts are all in a day's work for the cellist Seth Parker Woods. He's the first ever Seattle Symphony Artist in Residence at the new Octave 9: Raisbeck Music Center in Benaroya Hall. A dedicated advocate of new music, Seth is also passionate about creating new opportunities for fellow African-American and Latinx musicians, woefully underrepresented in the world of "classical" music. Seth Parker Woods speaks with Classical KING FM's Dave Beck.

What happens when your world shifts, and you have to come to terms with a whole new reality? Barbara Kingsolver – the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and more – has some idea. In October 2018, SAL’s Executive Director, Ruth Dickey, sat down with Kingsolver to discuss her latest book, Unsheltered, at Benaroya Hall. The novel toggles between a small New Jersey town in 1870 and 2016, exploring both societal and family struggles. Unsheltered is a beautiful book about politics and economics and science and dogmatism and hope. It finds the parallels between the Victorian era, when Darwin’s theory challenged the Judeo-Christian worldview, and our own time, when global warming has challenged beliefs about the future of humanity. And Unsheltered is also—because this is Barbara Kingsolver we’re talking about here—a book about love and connection, about family and meaning and grief.

A signature programming approach of Seattle Symphony Music Director Thomas Dausgaard is to collaborate with folk musicians in exploring the roots of symphonic music by composers like Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. This week’s SSO performances of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in Benaroya Hall are preceded by a 20 minute presentation exploring the folk roots of Stravinsky’s revolutionary 1913 ballet score. Dausgaard talks with Dave Beck about the performers of traditional folk music and dance who will be on the Benaroya Hall stage this week with the SSO. We’ll find out how these folk artists take us into the ancient sound world of Lithuanian folk music that Stravinsky studied in creating "The Rite of Spring."

Why write about slavery in 2019? And when you write about, how do you defy the popular conceptions about slavery that readers have in their heads? How do you make the subject new? It took Ta-Nehisi Coates – author of the bestselling nonfiction works The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me – ten years of writing and meticulous research to produce his first novel, The Water Dancer, and in that time, he unearthed some incredibly powerful answers to these questions. Dr. Charles Johnson, author of 24 books and winner of the 1990 National Book Award for his novel, Middle Passage, sat down with Coates in October 2019 to discuss The Water Dancer at Benaroya Hall. Already a NYT bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick, his novel follows the life of Hiram Walker, born into slavery on a Virginia plantation. In the book, Harriet Tubman says of the Underground Railroad – “This is war. Soldiers fight in war for all kinds of reasons, but they die because they cannot bear to live in the world as it is.”

Augustin Hadelich returns to Benaroya Hall this week to play the Brahms Violin Concerto. In 2016, Augustin won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his performance of Henri Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, The Tree of Dreams, with the Seattle Symphony and Music Director Emeritus Ludovic Morlot. KING FM’s Dave Beck speaks with Augustin about his long association with the Brahms Violin Concerto, a work he first performed publicly when he was just 10 years old. We hear how Augustin Hadelich wrote his own cadenza for the Brahms Concerto, a piece he has recently recorded. We get an informative primer from Augustin on the tradition and history of the cadenza in famous violin concertos. And he talks about the challenges of writing a cadenza in the authentic style of Brahms. 

Dave Beck speaks with guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Together with his son, Masato Suzuki, Masaaki has created a performing version of Mozart’s very last composition, the famously unfinished Requiem Mass. The piece was written by Mozart on his deathbed and it was left to his students and others to complete the work. Masaaki Suzuki leads the SSO, Seattle Symphony Chorale and vocal soloists in Benaroya Hall this week in an edition of the Requiem that the Suzukis put together from fragments of the music Mozart left behind. All three of the works on the program this week explore topics of mourning and loss. There are also works by Toru Takemitsu and Karl Amadeus Hartmann on the program.

Thomas Dausgaard is the energetic, Danish-born conductor who leads his first concerts as the new Seattle Symphony Music Director this month. He is brimming with enthusiasm about the future of the SSO and about the view of Seattle from his new apartment near Benaroya Hall. He loves the stunning view of the Olympic Mountains and the Seattle Waterfront. That connection to nature is just one of the themes reflected in Maestro Dausgaard’s opening night program this week with the Seattle Symphony. Thomas Dausgaard speaks with KING FM’s Dave Beck.

In 2003, Azar Nafisi electrified readers worldwide with "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," which went on to become a long-running #1 New York Times bestseller. A modest professor of English literature, Nafisi taught at the University of Tehran as the Islamic Revolution raged around her, until she was fired in 1981 for her refusal to wear the mandatory veil. Before leaving the country in 1995, Nafisi spent two years holding secret classes on forbidden Western literature in her home.  "Reading Lolita in Tehran" recounts seven young women students passionately relating Nabokov’s works, as well as novels like "Madame Bovary" and "Pride and Prejudice," to their own lives, claiming intellectual freedom through their survey of banned literature. In episode, we hear from Nafisi, who joined us at Benaroya Hall in February 2006 for Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2005/06 Season. At the conclusion of Nafisi’s talk, Margit Rankin, then-Executive Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, joins her in an interview about teaching, intellectual integrity, and the dire consequences of banning books.

It's time for Part 3 of our Self Pollution Radio discussion as well as some great listener emails!

Join us this week as we talk through the 2006 performances from the AOL Sessions, and spend some time with some listener emails!

The Brads have a conversation about the loss of Shawn Smith and the April 5th curse. More to come about Shawn in a future Brad episode.

It's Tremor Christ week on SPT! The Brad's talk about one of their favorite Pearl Jam songs, and we say goodbye to Pearl Jam Story Time with an email from Chris Thomas! Thanks, Chris!

Thanks for being patient, my fellow nerds! Here is part two of our conversation about Self Pollution Radio. Thanks so much to Steven O'Brien for this week's Pearl Jam Story Time!

Hello, Nerds! This week we start a 4 part conversation about the '95 Self Pollution Radio broadcast. Thanks so much to Junebug Fugitt for this week's Pearl Jam Story Time!

Come join us as we reminisce about our sojourn to the wondrous world of Benaroya Hall in downtown sunny and heatwave-drenched Seattle as the boys (and two girls) ventured into the halls of retromancy (wait... not what that means) and modernity. Uematsu and Hama-isuzutrooper are at their heights this week! Topics include which FFs are our favorite, which we [haven't] played, which ones have the best OSTs, which videogame music podcasts you should listen to (just kidding, we didn't talk about this but I have a couple), and which games we want to play just based on the FMVs we saw as each game was being showcased behind the orchestra - a question we were inspired to ask by having seen Zelda performances elsewhere. These truly are some master works, some of the defining works that will last beyond many other pieces of the medium's finest productions, perhaps even outliving a world in which "Final Fantasy" is a common household franchise to namedrop. Some say Uematsu is regarded as a celebrity in Japan, and some of these pieces - especially some of the earlier ones, say some in our group - really bring that point home. Relevant links! Nobody knows who that is: Ross GellerPenny Arcade: Annarchy (this is hanging on Will's wall y'all)Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - Tifa vs. Loz Relevant podcasts! Super Marcato Bros.: A Videogame Music Podcast (lots of retro and really knowledgeable folks about scores)Train Station at 8: also A Videogame Music Podcast! (also videogamey, a bit more interviews and more unpredictable)