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FALL 2018 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP 2 • 0 • 1 • 8 JEWELERS & GALLERY When Only the Best Will Do Family Owned Celebrating 40 Years 3500 Factoria Blvd. S.E., Bellevue, WA . 425.643.2610 . www.dacels.com Untitled-1 1 7/5/18 11:29 AM October 2018 Volume 15, No. 1 WELCOMEFrom Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit arts organization Paul Heppner JEWELERS & GALLERY President Mike Hathaway Welcome to the start of STG’s 2018/2019 Performing Arts Season! This season When Only the Best Will Do Vice President offers artists from around the world, whose work is relevant in every sense Kajsa Puckett of the word. These performers are working at the highest level of their craft Vice President, - combining genres and mediums while addressing the social, political, and Marketing & Business Development emotional tenor of our times. With a diversity of voices on our stages, we present a snapshot of the most innovative and powerful artists working today in Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager music, dance, and theater. Production The season opens with Max Richter, the London-based, German-born Susan Peterson composer, who blends minimalist composition and electronic music to Design & Production Director mesmerizing effect. Richter’s scores for prestige television series like HBO’s The Leftovers create immersive sonic landscapes in which one may get blissfully Jennifer Sugden Assistant Production Manager lost. Snap Judgment Live returns to The Moore, featuring creator Glynn Washington Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers and his fellow WNYC storytellers, backed by a killer live rock band – it truly is storytelling with a beat! Sales Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Soweto Gospel Choir make their long-awaited return to The Paramount, with San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives a special program honoring the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela. The choir promises to uplift the listener with their signature style of African gospel music, Joey Chapman, Brieanna Hansen, sung in six of South Africa’s 11 official languages. Ann Manning, Wendy Pedersen Seattle Area Account Executives Goran Bregovic' makes Gypsy party music that is boisterous and celebratory, Carol Yip while also influenced by his multi-ethnic homeland of Sarajevo. Blending various Sales Coordinator musical styles, Bregovic' brings his aptly named Wedding and Funeral Orchestra to Seattle for a Balkan dance party that will leave you sweaty and joyful. Marketing Shaun Swick STG is particularly proud to present a new play from the National Theatre of Senior Designer & Digital Lead Great Britain – Barber Shop Chronicles, written by Inua Ellams. Set in barber shops in London, South African, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana, Ciara Caya Marketing Coordinator the play invites the audience into a uniquely masculine space of strength, vulnerability, laughter, and realness. The shop is a place to talk smack, to Encore Media Group confess, to give advice, and to discuss immigration, colonialism, sports, sexuality, and family. Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Global Party is a celebration of world cultures, featuring musicians and dancers Seattle, WA 98103 from our region as they join together to share the traditional performance p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 styles of their communities in a party not to be missed! f 206.443.1246 Seattle dance-maker Kate Wallich and her company The YC bring the return [email protected] of Industrial Ballet to The Moore. The sound is huge. The movement is virtuosic www.encoremediagroup.com and surprising. A live industrial rock band blasts and hammers on stage as dancers reimagine the boundaries of contemporary ballet and a sleek design sensibility permeates the senses. Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events Our Silent Movie Mondays Halloween Special The Cat and The Canary offers in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights a look at German filmmaker Paul Leni’s inventive film, which established the reserved. ©2018 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. haunted house horror-comedy genre. Following their sold-out show at The Moore, Black Violin returns to fill The Paramount with their signature “classical BOOM” sound—melding classical music, hip hop and rock in a way that makes it hard to believe their sound hasn’t been around forever. We are thrilled to have you join us for these groundbreaking performances as Family Owned Celebrating 40 Years we kick off another Performing Arts Season! Jack McLarnan 3500 Factoria Blvd. S.E., Bellevue, WA . 425.643.2610 . www.dacels.com Manager of Fine Arts Programs encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 Untitled-1 1 7/5/18 11:29 AM THE MOORE THEATRE Max Richter OCTOBER 2 As Richter points out, this is something buried in The Blue Notebooks’ very architecture. ‘‘On The Nature Of Daylight’ uses a palindromic structure, so the present and the past coexist.” This track has since become the album’s most prominent and best-known, most notably due to its pivotal inclusion in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and more recently Denis Villeneuve’s award-winning winning film Arrival, whose palindromic narrative, ideas on non-linear time and blurred visions of experiences, matched Max’s music perfectly. American Contemporary Music Ensemble The American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), led by Artistic Director Clarice Jensen, is dedicated to the outstanding performance of masterworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily the work of American composers. The flexible ensemble presents fresh work by living composers alongside the classics of the contemporary. ACME’s dedication to new music extends across genres and has earned them a reputation among both classical and rock crowds. ACME was honored by ASCAP during its 10th anniversary season in 2015 for the “virtuosity, passion, and commitment with which it performs and champions American composers.” Max Richter ACME’s instrumentation is flexible, and with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble includes some of New York’s most sought- after, engaging musicians. Their first Performing Infra and music from The Blue Notebooks released portrait album on Sono Luminus in Special Guest Narrator: Laura Hooper 2017, featuring music by members Caroline Shaw, Timo Andres, and Caleb Burhans, Infra resonates with Richter’s characteristic The Blue Notebooks include narrated texts plus John Luther Adams. The Strad raved, musical voice, minimalism combined taken from Franz Kafka’s ‘Blue Octavo “Warmth and care are fully evident in with sweeping melodies and harmonic Notebooks’ – whose title Richter adapted for the ensemble’s immaculate, considered complexity, mesmerizing the listener. his suite in order to “…reflect on my sense of performances –the four composers Originally composed for the Royal Ballet’s the politics of the time. Facts were beginning could hardly wish for more committed, 2008 production, Infra is a piece about to be replaced by subjective assertions in the convincing accounts of their music.” traveling and a reaction to the 7/7 bombings build-up to the Iraq war, which seemed to be in London, a meditation on the political viewed as inevitable and justified in spite of state of city and the tragedy of those events. all the evidence to the contrary. Kafka’s use of the absurd to investigate power structures The Blue Notebooks are Richter’s attempt struck me as highly relevant. He is, of course, for music to comment on society and exist the patron saint of doubt, and doubt – about as an anti-violence record. It is a subtle and politics, and the way society was heading – peaceful protest against political, social was what I was looking to express. The texts and personal brutality. Originally written were specifically picked because they refer in 2003, the canon-defining masterpiece to childhood, or the passing of time, when was radical at the time as one of the first to everything around is failing.” combine classical and electronic elements with a post rock sensibility. 4 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP My legacy. My partner. You have dreams. Goals you want to achieve during your lifetime and a legacy you want to leave behind. The Private Bank can help. Our highly specialized and experienced wealth strategists can help you navigate the complexities of estate planning and deliver the customized solutions you need to ensure your wealth is transferred according to your wishes. Take the first step in ensuring the preservation of your wealth for your lifetime and future generations. 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