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Serving the Puget Sound region since P1986 rimewww.NorthwestPrimeTime.com TimeVol. 13 no. 7 september 2013 Quincy Jones Seattle’s Own Music Man usic legend MQuincy Jones has had one of Music teachers Marcus Tsutakawa (left) and Clarence the longest, most Acox (right) pose with members of their orchestras and jazz ensembles (from a previous year) at James A. successful careers in Garfield High School in Seattle. Their combined 70 years at the school have resulted in numerous awards for popular music. student groups. Photo by Dan DeLong/Red Box Pictures The world-renowned record producer, Hitting a High Note conductor, arranger, film Orchestra leader Marcus Tsutakawa composer, television producer, and trumpeter, and jazz band conductor Clarence was inducted into the Acox inspire music students at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18. He Seattle’s Garfield High School has been nominated for …by Dean Paton a record 79 Grammys – won 27 – and in ou know the scene: a shabby stage 1991, he received the Grammy Legend Award. Ycrowded with eager high school He turned 80 in March. musicians. A young director steps onto Jones has worked with a long list of the podium, raises his baton, waves artists including Frank that first dramatic downbeat – Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy and for the next couple of hours the audience Dorsey, Duke Ellington, of parents, reluctant siblings, and loyal friends Miles Davis, Dinah endures “music” punctuated by tempos that drag, Washington, Sarah clarinets that squeak, and violin solos only a parent Vaughn, Lesley Gore, could love. Aretha Franklin, and High school music is what it is – usually Michael Jackson, to tolerable, now and then pretty good. Except in name just a few. Seattle, and especially at James A. Garfield High, In 2008, Seattle’s Music legend Quincy Jones has deep Seattle roots where it is exceptional, featuring arguably the best Garfield High School— program in the nation among public high schools. Quincy Jones’ alma mater—opened the Quincy Jones recalls his time in school. “I got in the Ask people here why the school is so successful, Jones Performing Arts Center as part of the school band and the school choir. It all hit me and they’ll give you two reasons: drummer Clarence school’s renovations. The namesake of that like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I Acox, who leads the jazz ensembles, and bassist new center was in town for the dedication. He played percussion for a while, and stayed after Marcus Tsutakawa, who conducts the orchestras. remains a good friend to his former hometown school forever just tinkering around with different “They set this expectation for excellence, of Seattle, where his youngest brother, Richard, things, the clarinets and the violins.” In 1951 and they know the kids can achieve it,” says is a federal judge. Jones won a scholarship to Seattle University, parent Laurie de Koch, whose son Bergen plays Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., known as Q to where a young Clint Eastwood—also a music the trumpet in both orchestra and jazz ensemble. his friends, was born in Chicago on March 14, major there—watched him play in the college “What if every educator had an expectation for 1933. When he was 10, his family moved first band. Eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, wrote the the achievement of excellence in every student? It to Bremerton and then to Seattle, where Jones foreword to The Complete Quincy Jones. After only would change the world.” began playing trumpet. “Every day, my daddy one semester, Jones transferred to what is now the It certainly has changed things at Garfield. The told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just Berklee College of Music in Boston on another jazz ensemble has won the prestigious Essentially begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour scholarship. But an offer from Lionel Hampton to Ellington competition sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln great or small, do it well or not at all.’ ” tour as a trumpet player with his band pulled him Center four times since 1999 and has toured Europe While still a kid, Jones met a fellow away from college. ten times since 1991. musician by the name of Ray Charles.“At 14 “I was 18 then, and I was ready. And I told The orchestra has been named Downbeat and 16 we used to sit in Seattle on those rainy the school I’d be back, but I guess down inside, magazine’s top high school orchestra of the year four days and dream about what would happen.” you know, when you go with a band like that you times since 2001, including a win this year, and has They became close, lifelong friends. In those never go back,” said Jones to NPR’s Terry Gross. toured Europe and Japan six times. And they have early days they played and wrote music She points out that while Quincy Jones started played at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. together, and watched the big-time acts that his career as a trumpeter, he didn’t become a noted The orchestra also produced a recording came through Seattle. “Most people don’t instrumentalist. What made him famous and nominated for a Grammy. understand; Seattle was one of the jumpin’-est, wealthy was his work as an arranger, composer, The programs don’t cater to just an elite few. hottest towns in America during World War producer and media mogul, work that spans “My mission is to teach all the kids about classical II,” Jones was quoted in the book, The Complete from the big bands through bebop, pop, movie music – not just the kids who have had private Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions (2008). soundtracks, film scores, TV themes and hip-hop. lessons since age 5,” says Mr. Tsutakawa, who this “It was on fire.” While still in school, Jones had While on the road with Hampton, the year, his 29th at Garfield, has about 180 students already started playing professionally in several young Jones showed talent as a song arranger. He ...continued on page 18 local bands. ...continued on page 18 2 Northwest Prime Time www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com September 2013

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From the Caribbean to Seattle on a Trail of Stories mother by bolstering my creativity when it flagged, deflecting sour moods ...continued from page 3 and lapses in patience, and offering countless paths to broader horizons for During the past 16 years, I have my kids as well as myself. also delighted in accompanying my Paying it forward is the principal son and daughter as they have grown reason I volunteer for Page Ahead. into avid readers. I have met dozens of Unlike my own kids and me, dinosaurs that have been discovered many of the children Page Ahead since I was a girl; explored anew our helps are growing up in poverty, with solar system and the star fields beyond; little or no access to books they can processed more facts and figures call their own. Their caregivers may about the critters that crawl, swim, not be willing or able to read with fly, slither, stomp, and dash their way them, or may lack confidence in around our planet than I ever thought their ability to make it a fun shared possible; and relived the tales of experience. Robin Hood, Ali Baba, the knights of For me, the Story Time program the Round Table, and fellow denizens has meant a joyful opportunity to of myth and folklore the world over. continue to share with young children It has been a joy to visit the great my love of reading, books, and stories, green room in Goodnight Moon; to now that my son and daughter are frolic alongside Henry and Mudge, both teenagers. Some Story Times a winsome boy and his jovial dog; go better than others. Some days can to reflect on friendship with Frog be challenging. However, I have and Toad; to root for the Baudelaire never left my Story Time classroom orphans as they confront A Series without a smile in my heart. It makes of Unfortunate Events; to minister me happy to think that I am offering to All Creatures Great and Small these children some small measure of in the Yorkshire dales; to share help as they learn to think of stories Nobody Owens’s journey through and books as friends: faithful, reliable, an otherworldly childhood in The lifelong friends that can offer comfort, Graveyard Book; and to board the encouragement, laughter, inspiration, Hogwarts Express at Platform 9¾ and and adventure, all by turning a Page be transported to magical mindscapes Ahead. v every bit as believable as our own. Margaret Wise Brown, Cynthia Would you like to become a Story Times Rylant, Arnold Lobel, Lemony volunteer, and bring reading fun and Snicket, James Herriot, Neil Gaiman, inspiration to children in need? Call or J.K. Rowling, and many other master email Jacki Crowther at Page Ahead, storytellers have helped me be a better 206-461-0123, [email protected]

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The average age of the flow had an 8% improvement in Life at when a person dies, then went participants was 73 and they drank the blood flow to the working areas expectancy back a year and measured their two cups of hot cocoa every day for of the brain by the end of the study. has increased health, then go back two years, three 30 days. They did not consume any However, there was no improvement significantly over years, and so on. other chocolate during the study. The for those who started out with regular John Schieszer the past two The researchers analyzed how volunteers were given tests of memory blood flow. The volunteers with decades in the well people were able to care for and thinking skills. The researchers impaired blood flow also improved United States and more Americans themselves. They looked at whether also did ultrasound testing to measure their times on a test of working than ever before are living well into the individual was able to cook, the amount of blood flow to the brain memory, with scores dropping from their 8th and 9th decades of life. Now, clean, bathe themselves, dress during the tests. 167 seconds at the beginning of the a new study is showing that Americans themselves, walk and manage money. “We’re learning more about blood study to 116 seconds at the end. There are increasingly healthier later in life. The researchers were then able to flow in the brain and its effect on was no change in times for people with “With the exception of the year determine how healthy people were thinking skills,” said study author Dr. regular blood flow. v or two just before death, people are relative to how close or far away Farzaneh Sorond, who is with Harvard healthier than they used to be,” said they were from dying. 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But in the throes of ability to help the liver detoxify the little seaweed into your diet: Apartment Hotel first opened adoration for apples, sweet corn and body of heavy metals and radioactive • Try dried dulse or nori (in in 1927. In its earlier decades, it heirloom tomatoes, many of us overlook compounds. In March 2011, just after gomasio, a store-bought condiment) as functioned as a sophisticated hotel a precious seasonal the Fukushima Daiichi a low-sodium salt replacement. and continued operating as a hotel vegetable: seaweed! reactor meltdown in • Boil kombu with beans to until 1962. At that time it was A bounty of sea Japan, Washingtonians improve digestibility and impart purchased by Presbyterian Retirement vegetables is ready thronged to the store to minerals; remove the seaweed after Communities Northwest and for harvest right now buy potassium iodide pills. cooking. transformed into a retirement living in the Northwest, Seaweed, however, is • Disguise the taste of wakame or community reflecting the elegance and these ancient naturally high in potassium sea palm strips in soups with spices like that imbues the building. plants are positively iodide, which helps to cayenne, garlic, curry or ginger. Her hotel days overflowing with protect the thyroid (and Or try this delicious recipe for a Being close to the heart of healing powers. sex organs) from absorbing double dose of the sea’s magic! v downtown Seattle and the old theater Seaweeds, which include primarily carcinogenic radioactive iodine from district, the Exeter Apartment Hotel the browns (kelp, kombu and wakame) nuclear reactors, X-rays and other was the first choice of countless and the reds (nori, dulse and arame), are background sources. Smoky Ginger members of the traveling public. excellent source of minerals. Essential Brown seaweed in particular Butternut Soup Because of its Tudor elegance and minerals like calcium, selenium, zinc contains potent detoxifying fibers that Iron-rich dried dulse seaweed imparts a décor, many ranked it second only to and iodine are scarce on land these bind easily to pollutants and heavy subtle smokiness to this creamy autumn the posh Olympic Hotel. days due to intensive industrial farming. metals like lead and mercury, helping soup, while a broth made with kombu A number of the Exeter’s hotel But where have these lost soil minerals to flush these toxins from the body adds minerals. Find these seaweeds in rooms had small kitchens and gone? Into the sea! before they can cause disease. These the store’s Asian section, or order online therefore were attractive for long- Seaweeds soak up minerals in plentiful fibers also promote regularity from NatureSpiritHerbs.com. term stays. When performing in levels up to 20 times those of land and growth of healthy gut bacteria. Seattle, touring film and theater stars Ingredients: plants, and those minerals can improve Incorporating small amounts of frequented the Exeter. Shirley Temple 1 2-pound butternut squash everything from hypothyroidism seaweed into your diet can increase was one of many famous Exeter guests. 2 tablespoons olive oil (iodine) to chronic fatigue syndrome, vitality at any age. In the Northwest, Over the decades, wealthy Alaskans 4 garlic cloves, minced insomnia and depression. Taking a quality seaweeds are available from “wintered” at the Exeter Hotel; it 1 onion, thinly sliced calcium supplement? A mere ½ ounce harvesters in the San Juans, British became their second home. 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger With dining featuring tables 1 sweet potato, diced (about 2 cups) topped with white linens, the Exeter 1 4-inch piece dried kombu or kelp was a sophisticated dinner location 5 cups vegetable stock or water for hotel guests and the dining public. ¾ cup apple cider or juice A café and soda fountain provided ½ teaspoon cinnamon Proven lunch and casual fare. The elegant 1 teaspoon dried dulse flakes lobby with coved ceilings and fine Results Salt and pepper, to taste furnishings continues to welcome Crème fraiche, to serve (optional) present-day visitors and residents. Instructions: Exeter House is located on First Preheat oven to 375°F. Cut the Hill (on Seneca Street between 7th 35,000 squash in half and remove the and 8th Avenues). During the 1920s, seeds, place halves on oiled baking 30s, and 40s, the Exeter commanded patient visits sheet and bake until tender, about views of the Olympic Mountains and 45 minutes. Puget Sound. Over the decades, the Warm oil in a 4-quart soup pot over Seattle skyline has grown; a stunning Bastyr Center, medium-low heat. Add the garlic, cityscape has replaced the mountain the largest natural onion and ginger; sauté until the and Sound views. health clinic in the onions are golden, about 10 minutes. The retirement community Add the sweet potato, kombu and During the late 1950s, a number Pacific Northwest, stock. Cover and bring the soup to offers approximately of church elders from the Presbyterian a boil, then reduce heat and simmer Synod of Alaska Northwest were 35,000 patients until sweet potatoes are soft, about visits each year. visionaries. They anticipated a future 15 minutes. Discard the kombu. need for gracious retirement living; Scoop flesh from cooked squash into communities that could not only soup, add apple cider, and puree until promise a home for independent smooth using a blender. Return the living but also residency throughout FREE LECTURE: soup to stove over medium-low heat. the years when higher levels of care Stir in cinnamon, dulse, salt and became necessary. The concept was Natural Treatments pepper. Serve hot with a swirl of for Menopause groundbreaking and Exeter House cream and sprinkle of cinnamon. resulted. Thursday, Sept. 12 Preparation time: 1 hour To fulfill their mission, these 6-7:30 p.m. Yield: four 2 cup servings church elders formed a nonprofit corporation, Presbyterian Ministries Copyright 2013, A. Bermann, Original Incorporated (PMI). 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renamed it Exeter House; the physical transformation needed for retirement living began. In Seattle’s ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION Madison Park neighborhood PMI commissioned the construction JOURNEY TO A CURE of the seventeen-story Park Shore Retirement Community – a modern FALL TEA structure that extends out from the shore and into the waters of Lake Thursday, September 26 Washington. Both communities opened in 1963. The Bellevue Club Her transitions In the early 1960s one factor Living well with Arthritis that may have predicated the sale of the Exeter Apartment Hotel was and other chronic diseases the pending construction of the . I-5 freeway. Unlike many adjacent properties, the Exeter Apartment Hotel was spared from the wrecking Featuring ball. It was correctly anticipated that during the construction pedestrian Steven Overman MD, MPH and vehicle access to and from the Seattle Arthritis Clinic

hotel would be restricted. All these The pleasure of your company is requested for an uncertainties had to have played in the minds of the hotel’s owners and afternoon of good conversation, valuable information were likely factors in their decision to and an opportunity to support Arthritis Foundation research sell. and life-changing exercise and education programs. In the mid-70s, Exeter House was

impacted by another major project Doors open at 1:30 pm - Program begins at 2 pm that, in turn, became one of its Reservations Required - Limited Seating Available greatest assets – the construction of Freeway Park. Giant beams were laid To reserve your seat contact: over the I-5 freeway, a lid was built, 206.547.2707 ext. 104 Exeter House front entrance and then fountains, soil and greenery [email protected] were installed. Freeway Park was opened and often remodeled or combined to dedicated on July 4, 1976 – the create larger living spaces. bicentennial of our country. Exeter Stepping to a new level of care, Mark Your House now looks out over the Exeter House has recently partnered ever-changing colors of the with its sister retirement community, Calendar! greenery and trees of Freeway Park. Skyline at First Hill. With Skyline The park provides a pedestrian being brand new and located causeway into the heart of Seattle just a few blocks away, Exeter and once again connects the Exeter residents are now able to receive to theaters, shopping and the health care at Skyline’s state-of- A ordable Cell Phone vibrancy of downtown. the-art health center. Over the years and being true Elegant, downtown living and to the vision of its founders, Exeter gracious hospitality are the hallmarks Service for All House remodeled several floors of Exeter House. If they could see it to accommodate the changing today, the founders and builders would per month needs of its retirees. The dining certainly be proud of what the Exeter $7.99 room, kitchen, meeting spaces has become over its fifty years as a Includes 50 free minutes and elevators have seen major landmark retirement community. v modernizations. To accommodate Happy Fiftieth Birthday, $9.99 per month today’s lifestyles, living units are Exeter House! Includes 100 free minutes

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Celebrate the Arts Best Bets for the 2013-2014 Season Tips from folks “in the know” Music Art Theatre Bryan Lowe, Program Director for KING FM 98.1, Brenda Tipton, author of the Seattle Art Blog (seattleartblog.com) Andy Jensen, Director of Programming for Theatre Puget provided these recommendations for upcoming musical and publisher of Art Guide Northwest (www.artguidenw.com)—the Sound—an organization dedicated to nurturing a healthy performances: guide to galleries, museums, and antiques in the Pacific Northwest— theatre community—provided a “Best Bets” list of theatre provides these ‘best bets’ for the visual arts world: and other performance events: When I die, I want my tombstone to read, “Work in Progress.” There’s always something new to learn, especially in our museums. Museums help us to remember the past, preserve the present and anticipate the future. Give Yourself the Gift of Great Music! Take a look at all the exhibits It’s time to celebrate the beauty that is mentioned here, and you’ll see what Brenda Tipton the Northwest arts scene! There are literally I mean. hundreds of concerts, with ticket prices from We have an entire museum specializing in high to low, featuring great classical music in Scandinavian art, The Nordic Heritage Museum, located Contemporary the area, including some truly “don’t miss” at 3014 NW 67th Street in the Scandinavian community Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Washington concerts! of Ballard—populated by the descendents of some of the Ensemble Theatre 9/13-10/7 This fall marks the 3rd season with Ludovic earliest settlers to Puget Sound. On view from September The Walworth Farce New Century Theatre Morlot as Music Director of the Seattle 27-December 7, Finnish artist Eino Romppanen marks Company 10/3-11/3 Symphony. There’s certainly something for 2013 as his 50th year of work as a stone sculptor, and this Bo-Nita Seattle Repertory Theatre everybody, from the SSO Pops conductor Jeff exhibition celebrates his work and career. 10/18-11/17 Tyzig, to concerts celebrating Hitchcock’s If you, like me, have a strong fascination with the Exit/Exist Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Psycho, opening night performances with ancient world of Peru, then a visit to the downtown Dance Theatre at On the Boards 10/24-27 classical superstar Lang-Lang, Beethoven’s 9th Seattle Art Museum’s Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and Jesus’ Son Book-It Repertory Theatre and the choral mega-hit Carmina Burana. I the Moon, on view from October 17 through January 5, 11/6-11/24 recommend the ALL RAVEL program 2014, is just the ticket. Included are rarely seen sculpture, Kylian + Pite Pacific Northwest Ballet in September, including Bolero and my metalwork, painting and textiles spanning 3,000 years 11/8-17 favorite, the Concerto for the Left Hand. The as well as superb works of the Mochica, Chimu and Inca Symphony’s Distinguished Artist Series cultures. Also on view at SAM from February 13-May 25, Classic includes violinist Joshua Bell, called “one of 2014, is Miró: The Experience of Seeing. Drawn entirely Sugar Daddies directed by Sir Alan the finest musicians of his generation.” That’s from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro Ayckbourn ACT Theatre 10/4-11/3 one not to miss! 98.1 Classical KING FM de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the exhibit offers a fresh 5th of July Theatre22 10/4-10/26 broadcasts thirteen Seattle Symphony concerts assessment of the late period in Miró’s work made in the Much Ado About Nothing Seattle on the radio every year – and this year is no period between 1963 and 1983 that testify to the artist’s Shakespeare Company 10/23-11/17 exception. So, if you miss a concert, remember ingenuity and inventiveness to the very end of his life. Be Hound of the Baskervilles Seattle Repertory to tune into listener-supported 98.1. Seattle sure to visit the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Theatre 11/15 – 12/15 Symphony broadcast schedules are online at Park. The exceptional Chinese collection was started by KING.org. Dr. Richard Fuller, the founding director of the Seattle Holidays It’s a big year for the Seattle Opera. This Art Museum, in the early 1900s. A Christmas Carol ACT Theatre is the last season for Opera legend, Speight Franz von Stuck, a joint project of the Frye Art 11/23-12/24 Jenkins, as General Director. I have to give Museum Seattle and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Oliver 5th Ave Theatre 11/29-12/31 up on choosing one opera here, they’re all will showcase masterworks by Stuck from leading Santaland Diaries and The Best Christmas so good… just buy season tickets. Some big museums in Europe and the United States. The show runs Pageant Ever Seattle Public Theatre opera favorites are coming this season, such from November 2 through February 2, 2014. The Frye Art 12/5-12-24 as The Daughter of the Regiment, Rigoletto, and Museum, located at 704 Terry Avenue, is Seattle’s only Cirque Dreams Holidaze Seattle Theatre the Tales of Hoffman. Even if those titles aren’t free museum, By the way, all of our area museums sponsor Group 12/20-12/22 familiar to you, I guarantee there are some great community programs and education classes throughout This October, Theatre Puget Sound melodies you are sure to recall. As Speight the year. The Frye, for example, has storytelling for presents the fourth annual Arts Crush—31 Jenkins says, “It’s going to be a great show, children from 11:15-11:45 am every first Friday of each days of creative adventures in art, literature, don’t miss it!” Really, don’t. By the way, you month. music, theatre, dance, film and more! There can also hear live broadcasts of every Seattle The Henry Art Gallery, on the University of will be hundreds of free events, special Opera production on 98.1 KING FM and on Washington campus, is devoted to contemporary art discounts and once-a-year interactive arts our KING FM Seattle Opera Channel, bringing and boldly showcases the new and different. Light Rein, opportunities for all ages. Arts groups, you opera 24/7 online at KING.org. James Turrell, Skyspace is a permanent installation artists and audiences from all over the Puget For those of you who love to plan further that has been immensely popular and well-worth seeing. Sound are joining together to explore, ahead, let’s jump to the holiday season. This Nearby, the Burke Museum of Natural History and excite, challenge and GET CRUSHED. is a time of year when Classical KING Culture features the fifth largest collection of Northwest For a full schedule of events and more FM has more listeners than ever. Classical Coast Native Art in the United States. On view from information go to artscrush.org. Christmas music is glorious. Pacific Northwest November 23 through March 9, 2014 is Elwha: A River On October 28th, the 5th Annual Ballet presents each year the Nutcracker, a Reborn, a discovery of the people, places and history Gregory Awards will honor excellence seasonal don’t-miss favorite. Throughout the behind the world’s largest dam removal project. in theatre in Seattle at the Neptune year, they are also performing some of the best- The Bellevue Arts Museum is the only museum in Theatre. In addition to the much- known works in ballet... Sleeping Beauty, the area to concentrate on arts and crafts. Belgian artist anticipated Theatre of the Year, and continued on page 11 continued on page 11 continued on page 11 September 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 11

Music Art milky cylinders feature drawings from Theatre ...continued from page 10 ...continued from page 10 Chihuly collaborators Kate Elliott, Flora ...continued from page 10 C. Mace and Seaver Leslie that draw on Giselle, and A Midsummer Night’s Isabelle de Borchgrave has produced a quintessentially Irish emblems, topography Sustained Achievement Awards, Dream. We’ve enjoyed the ballet completely original body of work in A and fiction, with specific focus on James this year includes five new Musical so much, that we broadcast their World of Paper, a World of Fashion: Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses. Don’t forget Theatre categories. concerts live on KING FM, too. Isabelle de Borchgrave meets Mariano to stop in the Hot Shop where you’ll Come celebrate a wonderful Another Christmas favorite is Fortuny, on view from November 21, usually find glass artists at work. season of theatre with the Handel’s Messiah, a must-see work 2013-February 16, 2014. She has created About an hour north of Seattle in performers and theatre artists for you to witness at some point in exquisite, life-size historical costumes and the town of La Conner, is the Museum whose work you’ve seen all-year your life. If you want a large scale fabrics entirely out of paper which were of Northwest Art, possibly the only round. For nominees and tickets concert version, be sure to go to the inspired from depictions in early European museum in the state devoted exclusively go to www.gregoryawards.org. v Seattle Symphony performances, paintings, iconic costumes, period to Pacific Northwest artists. Their but there are many others in the photographs, sketches, and descriptions. growing collection includes over 2,500 Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) is a region well worth seeing. Seattle Pro Dale Chihuly’s spectacular new contemporary art objects from the early leadership and service organization Musica, one of my favorite groups, Chihuly Garden and Glass is open to the 1900s to the present day. Continuing founded in 1997 to advocate for the is set to perform A Ceremony of public at the Seattle Center. It is here that further north, stop off in Bellingham to region’s growing theatre community’s Carols by Britten. That is glorious you can see how Chihuly’s work evolved explore the Whatcom Museum and more causes and administer much-needed music. Also watch for wonderful over his long and successful career. Pacific Northwest art as well as American services. TPS is now one of the children’s choirs in the area. The Chihuly, like no one else, has succeeded art from the middle of the 19th century to Northwest’s leading arts advocacy and holidays are the perfect time to hear in putting glass from our region on the the present. Vanishing Ice: Alpine and leadership organizations, providing them, especially the Northwest Boys world map. Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012 programming and services that benefit and Girls Choirs. Check out the changes at the will show from November 2 through both the theatre community and the To get a closer look at all of Tacoma Art Museum. A new wing houses March 2, 2014. larger regional arts community. In these great groups as well as musical the Haub Family Collection of Western Nearly every city and small town addition to Arts Crush, TPS sponsors previews of upcoming concerts, American Art, and the newly-designed throughout our area has a monthly art workshops and seminars, regional tune in to Classical KING FM’s NW front entrance improves accessibility, walk these days where the galleries and auditions, manages affordable rehearsal Focus, program, airing weeknights increases visibility, and beautiful spaces museums are open later at night. Art and performance space at Seattle at 8pm. Want to learn more about for outdoor art. As always, they have walks present an inexpensive and Center, produces the annual Gregory classical music but don’t know their extensive permanent collection of educational way to mix and mingle with Awards, and manages the most where to start? Start with our NEW Chihuly glass pieces on view in their own artists and gallery owners who are comprehensive online calendar for arts SEASON SHOWCASE September gallery as well as the Marioni collection. opening new shows. For a complete list events in our region at 1-30, where we play music all month On view from November 2 through April of all galleries in Western Washington, www.seattleperforms.com. from great concerts for the coming 20, 2014 is Optic Nerve: The Art of check out www.seattleartguidenw.com season. This will help you pick Perception, an exhibition where artists on the web or look for the hard copy YOUR next classical concert. Then, hope to trick the viewer’s mind or confuse in a museum or gallery. For daily art join Classical KING FM at 98.1 or their eye so that they experience art in information, log onto www.seattleartblog. Theatre Puget Sound presents listen to our four channels of music new ways. com where I religiously post current Arts Crush the entire month online at KING.org, from relaxing openings along with pictures and a blurb If you need another Chihuly fix, of October favorites to the opera. As your check out his rarely exhibited Irish about the shows. 31 days of creative adventures listener-supported classical music Cylinders, opening October 26 at I hope you enjoy visiting the in art, literature, music, theatre, station, we're here all season for you. the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the museums and galleries in Washington. dance, film and more We will see you in the only museum west of the Mississippi Trust me when I tell you they will be glad Hundreds of free events! concert hall! v devoted to glass. The 44 minty and to see you. Enjoy! v artscrush.org

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The Funny Side of Life I read it I got the point – the The ongoing life-affirming adventures of Rose and Dawn caterpillar was very hungry. The next time I went to Ann’s condo I brought along an old book The Next Stage Reading to that I had read to her when she was about 10-years-old. Okay, Summer Summer was only three-months-old but, of Our Lives like I said, she’s a genius. Actually …by Sy Rosen …by Diana Couture I was reading this book largely for One of the my own enjoyment. It brought back “Thanks so much for calling, great pleasures memories of when I originally read Pastor Laura. Yes, Dawn and I will be on your shoulder because we lost such of my being a it to Ann. The book is Beanpole and able to take care of the coffee service a good friend.” grandparent is it’s about a girl who was the tallest after the funeral. Yes, it’s very sad. The sky above the fragrant roses reading to my student in her junior high school. “Yes, I knew Robert pretty well. started to cloud over and the light in 3-month-old I started reading and came to a We were both members of the Monday the garden dimmed. Rose looked at granddaughter section about Grandma Woo Woo. Bible Study/Lunch group for years. Dawn and asked with a philosophical and watching her I remembered that about twenty “Uh-huh, I’ll call Dawn and Jackie tone to her voice, “Dawnie, do you Sy Rosen eyes close and years ago, I stopped reading and and they’ll get the telephone tree think this is the next stage of our lives? open, fluttering, told Ann of a personal experience I started. Alright. Yes, I’ll remember that The one where we start saying good as she eventually goes to sleep. It’s a had with someone nicknamed Woo he’s in a better place. Good bye Pastor bye to good friends and family and wonderful experience – I’m bonding Woo. I was a camp counselor and Laura.” wondering when it will be our turn?” with my granddaughter. And if she there was another counselor there, Rose hung up the kitchen wall She bent her head to fully take in this doesn’t fall asleep and starts crying, a very pompous nineteen-year-old, phone with the 25-foot tangled cord thought and leaned on the lattice fence. I can always turn the chore over to named Warren. He was very proud and thought for the umpteenth time “You know Rose, intellectually I my daughter and quickly leave the that the young campers nicknamed that she must get this cord replaced. understand that no one gets out of life room. him Uncle Woo Woo. He thought She absentmindedly turned to the alive, but I haven’t spent much time My daughter Ann had a it showed everyone how popular he fridge to get a glass of iced tea. While preparing for death,” whispered Dawn. bunch of books to choose from. was. That is, until he heard one of she poured the reviving liquid into “Whoa there girl! Let’s not get My granddaughter Summer can’t the young campers say he had to go her tall daisy glass, she thought of ahead of ourselves here. We’re still in really understand what I’m reading make a woo woo. how active Robert was and how he the process of living. And might I say yet (even though I’m sure she’s a I continued reading to Summer. was heading up the program to ‘Save that we’re doing a pretty good job of genius), but if the book interests I got caught up with all the troubles the Lighthouse.’ He even did the it. We’ve got grandchildren and great- me I can do a better job of acting this tall girl had in school. Because lighthouse tours. Who will do that grands. We’ve got marriages to witness, out the parts as I read. The first of her height she was kind of an important work now? graduations to attend and many, many series of books I tried were about outcast and given the nickname of Tears filled her eyes as she brought jumble sales to organize,” said Rose characters named Mr. Know It Beanpole. I could relate because I the glass to her lips. She knew she had with a smile. “Let’s just put on the best All, Mr. Grumpy, and Mrs. Uppity. had (and still have) a large nose and to call Dawn, but didn’t want to upset darn coffee hour for our dear Robert’s I’m sure it was well-written but I the kids nicknamed me Nose (they her with the voice of someone who’s memorial service and celebrate his life quickly became Mr. Bored. I then weren’t very creative). been crying, so she opened the back by going on and living our lives.” started reading another book, a Anyway, my daughter Ann came door and went to the garden to look at Thursday came with glorious classic called The Hungry Caterpillar. into the room and sat next to me her roses. That always helped to turn sun. What a perfect day, thought It was definitely well-written and as I was reading to Summer. It was aside sadness. Rose. Robert would have been at the informative but by the third time an unbelievable experience. I was A few minutes later Dawn was at lighthouse on a day like this. As the reading to my granddaughter while the garden gate panting after her jog girls set the thick, white coffee cups also thinking about the first time I up the back alley. “Rose, Rose, did you in rows, and Pat and Hazel worked in DEARLY DEPARTED read Beanpole to my daughter. I got hear about Robert?” Dawn asked with the kitchen, the congregants filed into If I sign an organ donor card really caught up in the story, reading a gasp. Rose nodded and opened the Greenlake church. it with great enthusiasm, when gate for Dawn. The women hugged. Then I can rest assured Pastor Laura came to the gathering Ann put her arm on my shoulder. I “Pastor Laura asked me to get the room in her most beautiful, celebratory That I will be thought she was giving me a signal word out.” Rose said while dabbing at robes and complimented the girls departed about how great I was doing but her eyes. “Well, she must have asked on how lovely everything looked. actually she was telling me to speak Hazel to do the same thing because she The flowers from Roses’ garden were In every softer, that Summer was getting called me about a half hour ago.” absolutely perfect, the Pastor said. sense of tired. And so I lowered my voice Dawn countered, “It’s a large Better than any from a florist, for sure, and Summer eventually closed her congregation and it takes several she went on. Rose smiled and stepped the word. eyes and drifted off to sleep. It was a people to get the phone tree started. I next to Dawn for support to keep --Pat D'Amico good day. v just wanted to see you, Rose, and cry from crying. “Well Pastor, we designed this coffee service as a celebration for Robert. He would have loved the lighthouse decorations.” “It's the best tribute we can give to Robert,” Pastor Laura announced. “The service will include a slide show of his lighthouse tours...just the kind of service Robert would have wanted!” The girls smiled as Pat and Hazel came out of the kitchen to ask the Pastor a couple of questions about the next jumble sale…and life goes on. v September 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 15 A 1958 Columbia Pictures production (see 58-Across)

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I began drawing and painting when I was very young. I went on to major in French with a second major in art from Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. But then the matter of making a living became imperative and I put art aside to become a medical librarian. It wasn’t until I was The best of Broadway, big band, and swing! 56-years-old that I embarked on watercolor with my Kate Barber pictured with some of her award- winning artwork. husband. Although we were SEPTEMBER 26–29 both still working, we took painting Prize Exhibition, London, England, GERSHWIN’S workshop vacations. Little by little my painting toured around Europe and PORGY AND BESS painting took on a more important Asia with 49 other chosen paintings place in my life. I began competing in from a field of 500. In the Pacific Art Jeff Tyzik, conductor

Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano Tyzik Jeff juried watercolor shows and sometimes League Mobile Art Exhibit, Palo Alto, Kevin Deas, bass-baritone winning prizes. With retirement, I California, 2013, my iPad painting Seattle Pro musica / Seattle Symphony could begin to call myself an artist. made it to the top 5 (in a field of 237), Don’t miss selections from Gershwin’s beloved Porgy and Bess. Program features legendary Now in my early 70s, I am not and won a prize. In 2011, I founded songs, including “Summertime,” “It Ain’t only a watercolor painter, but have an open Facebook group called the Necessarily So” and “I Got Plenty o’ Nothin’.” discovered the iPad and its wonderful iPad Painters for artists who want to painting apps. Painting and drawing learn, share and post their iPad art in DECEMBER 5–8 on the iPad gives me a new freedom this wonderful new technical arena. HOME FOR with my art. I use the iPad to plan Currently we have 214 member artists THE HOLIDAYS out paintings that will eventually from all over the world. Many have Jeff Tyzik, conductor reach paper, or become standalone become good friends. Seattle Symphony Perfect for the whole family! Jeff Tyzik leads paintings which will remain digital or As a senior, I have decided the Seattle Symphony and special guests in a be printed. I have entered two juried that being open to new paths and festive collection of seasonal favorites, served Chandler-Eteme Janice digital/mobile device competitions and endeavors is very important. And this up with plenty of wit and warmth for all ages. been chosen to exhibit. In the Lumen challenge will keep me young...v FEBRUARY 6–9 BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL WITH THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY Keep Living with Robert Bernhardt, conductor Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocals Seattle Symphony Broadway sensation and Glee guest star Brian the One You Love Stokes Mitchell returns to Benaroya Hall for a Seattle Symphony concert filled with romantic music.

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Oct 3, panel discussion, legal issues, Sept 26-29, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess; Dec Sept 19, 1-3pm, fall prevention workshop Hedgebrook Open House communicating with physician, handling 5-8 Home for the Holidays; Feb 6-9 Brian Stokes includes light lunch, free but RSVP; Sept Sept 14, 1 - 4pm, tours, snacks, entertainment, difficult behavior, caregiving tips and resources, Mitchell; Apr 10-13 Glenn Miller Orchestra; 23, 2-3:30pm, “Managing your Journey storytelling, 2197 Millman Road, Langley, 360- Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1315 N Stevens St., May 19-June 1 American Swing, Benaroya Hall, with Alzheimer’s” resources, Q&A, free, 321-4786, www.hedgebrook.org Tacoma, RSVP 253-798-8787. 206-215-4747, www.seattlesymphony.org, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, lower Level Good Hops & Crops Brew Festival Seattle Symphony Shepherd Center, Seattle 206-461-7825, Sept 14, noon-6pm, fundraiser for Olson Farm, Exhibitions Sept 15 opening night gala features piano wallingfordseniors.org live music, beer garden, farmer’s market, $7, “Grease was the word” superstar Lang Lang; Sept 19&21 All-Ravel; Senior Coffee Hour www.wrvmuseum.org/hopsandcrops.html Thru Nov 10 exhibit that “rocks, revs, and Sept 22 night of free music 11am-5pm from Sept 19, 10-11am, Seattle Mayor’s office for Providence Hospice Luncheon celebrates teenage years in the 1950s and classical to jazz to folk to rock and hip hop; seniors, speaker Randy Engstrom, director, Arts Sept 19, 11:30-1pm, Pediatric Luncheon WA 60s,” White River Valley Museum Auburn, 918 Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 206-215-4747, & Culture, 810 3rd Ave, Seattle, 1st fl, 206-684- State Convention Center, Seattle,206-694-5000, H Street SE, 253-288-7433, wrvmuseum.org www.seattlesymphony.org, 0500. www.wsctc.com Museum of Glass Icicle Creek presents The Met Managing Diabetes Museum of Glass Sept 25-Jan Bird Lovers 10th Anniversary, look Oct 5-May10, live HD broadcasts of The Sept 21, 8am-12:30pm, educational forum Sept 21, Red Hot Annual Auction Gala, dinner, for bird lovers weekend in Oct, 253-284-4750, Met operas, $10-$25, 7409 Icicle Road, hosted by MultiCare, workshops, diet info, panel live glassblowing, 253-284-4708. www.museumofglass.org Leavenworth, 509-548-6347 x42 discussion, Tacoma Community College, 6501 NW Chocolate Festival Folk Costume Fashion Show Vienna Boys Choir S. 19th Street, Building 11, in Tacoma, reg at Sept 20-22, WA State Convention Center Sept 25, 7pm, costumes from the Nordic Nov 3, 7pm, Vienna Boys Choir, one-night 800-485-0205 or www.multicare.org. Artists Studio Tour countries, enjoy Nordic food and drink, live folk only performance of world famous choir, Square Dance Lessons Sept 20-22, 10am-5pm, annual studio tour Gig music, dancing, $10-$12, 3014 NW 67th St, Benaroya Hall Seattle, 206-215-4747, Sept 22, 6-8pm, first lesson free, beginner level Harbor, free, www.gigharboropenstudiotour.org Seattle, 206-789-5707, nordicmuseum.org www.seattlesymphony.org dances presented by The Checkerboard Squares Journey to a Cure Fall Tea Ladies Musical Club Masonic Hall, 515 Dayton St, Edmonds, for info Sep 26, 2pm, Arthritis Foundation, Bellevue email calendar events to Free concerts throughout region, call Roy 425-338-2255. Club, RSVP, 206-547-2707 ext 104 [email protected] www.lmcseattle.org

Bellevue ChamBer Chorus 30TH ANNIVERSARY / 2013-2014 CONCERT SEASON Upon a Midnight Clear Saturday, December 14, 2013, 7:30 pm – Bothell United Methodist Church Sunday, December 15, 2013, 3:00 pm – Grace Lutheran Church, Bellevue Saturday, December 21, 2013, 7:30 pm – St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Bellevue Brahms Fest Saturday, March 29, 2014, 7:30 pm – Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle

Saturday,In May Praise 31, 2014, 7:30 pm – St.of Luke’s Lutheran Music Church, Bellevue Sunday, June 1, 2014, 3:00 pm – Location TBA, Bellevue

Special Senior Prices available. For more information, call the Chorus office at 425-881-0445, or visit www.bellevuechamberchorus.org. 18 Northwest Prime Time www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com September 2013

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