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About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla
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Sarah Palin: the liberal voter's worst nightmare
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A night to cheer Bellini fans: absolutely splendid music, excellent singers, and a chance to see a rising star tenor.
Gunther Herbig conducts the Seattle Symphony in a program full of spellbinding beauty. That's what happens when a conductor pays attention to the details and the essence of the music.
The magic of Gluck, now undergoing an international revival, comes to Seattle in a largely admirable production of Iphigenie en Tauride. The work is a feast of beauty and a perfectly proportioned masterpiece, so why the strange cuts and additions?
The singing is splendid and the production is admirable, but if Seattle really is Wagner-mad, why play it so safe in this most-produced of Wagner's operas?
I saw this coming. Last night after John McCain's GOP convention speech, the hall was blasted with the sounds of Seattle band Heart's rocker "Barracuda," which became the convention's theme music for Sarah "Barracuda" Palin (Barracuda was a high-school nickname). I figured an objection would be raised.
Seattle's Convention Center is taking a close look at expanding, perhaps at a different location. It might complicate the coming legislative session if it puts its hand in the state trough of money for tourism-related taxes. Also crowding around the trough are the Huskies, King County arts, Seattle Center, KeyArena, low-income housing, Puget Sound cleanup, and more. And the Convention Center might topple some other interesting transportation dominoes.