This Week on Classical Edge

Dear Friends who have a taste for the early innovators in music, Classical Edge Playlist for 4 and 9 June 2013

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Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
SEASON FINALE:
BEETHOVEN, WAGNER,
AND A WORLD PREMIERE
Music Director Geoffrey Larson conducts Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra in Season Finale
BEETHOVEN: Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus
STRAUSS: Wind Serenade
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll HAYDN: Symphony No. 101 "The Clock" ERYILMAZ: Miniatures No. 4 for String Orchestra (world premiere)

SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH
8:00 PM
FIRST FREE METHODIST CHURCH
3200 3rd Ave W.

SMCO's last performance of the 2012-2013 Season will be the orchestra's first at Queen Anne's First Free Methodist Church.
In addition to great works by Beethoven, Strauss, Wagner, and Haydn, this performance features a special world premiere of a piece by award-winning Turkish composer Erberk Eryilmaz. An electrifying short five-movement piece for strings reminiscent of Bartok and Kodaly, the work draws on the influence of native Turkish folk melodies.
This world premiere performance is a part of SMCO's initiative to premiere works of talented young composers.
TICKETS:
$15 general admission
$10 students and seniors
Click here for more information
and to purchase tickets. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/

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The Seattle Choral Company joins with musicians the world over to celebrate the Benjamin Britten Centennial in 2013. On June 8, the Seattle Choral Company will be presenting a rare performance of Benjamin Britten’s “Cantata Misericordium” (Cantata of Mercy), along with two of Britten’s a cappella choral works: “Hymn to St. Cecilia” and “Chorale after an Old French Carol.” This performance is deliberately timed for the weekend prior to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Britten’s “War Requiem.”   The Seattle Choral Company will present these three Britten masterworks along with two attractive new compositions by the gifted young Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.   8:00 p.m., Saturday, June 8, 2013 Saint Mark’s Cathedral 1245 10th Ave E   Seattle, WA 98102 please call Brown Paper Tickets at (800) 838-3006 or visit www.seattlechoralcompany.org.