St. Louis and Seattle

[listener]

St Louis Lots of new concertos, Boulez on the opening program
http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/st-louis-symphony-orchestra-announces---season/article_6a689c5c-08ad-5bcc-87a7-7ac93d1a1f47.html
SEATTLE  Seattle Symphony 2016-17
https://issuu.com/seattlesymphony/docs/1617_seasonbrochure_final_singlepag
a rather nasty website that wants you to keep clicking to get anywhere, better to download the brochure,
includes Kernis Violin Concerto (Ehnes), Ligeti Requiem, Elgar Gerontius
Ives 'Holidays', Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges, Messiaen Liturgies, a Shostakovich concerto festival,

[Brian]

Hey Todd, you might need to road-trip to Seattle on March 23/25 to see Bertrand Chamayou play Bartok 2. The smart coupling: Martinu's Memorial to Lidice and its quote-ee, Beethoven's Fifth.

The March 10-17 week might be a Seattle trip for me. Kat'a Kabanova at the opera, AND Aaron Jay Kernis's new violin concerto as played by James Ehnes? Heck yeah.

[Todd]

Hey Todd, you might need to road-trip to Seattle on March 23/25 to see Bertrand Chamayou play Bartok 2. The smart coupling: Martinu's Memorial to Lidice and its quote-ee, Beethoven's Fifth.

Seattle twice in two weeks?  I don't know, and given the choice here, it's definitely Janacek. 

I also noticed that Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc Andre Hamelin are paired up for a two piano recital in Seattle.  Alas, the highlight is the two piano rendition of The Rite of Spring.  I don't think so.  (A few years back, I attended a ballet production of The Firebird and The Rite of Sping because, well, why wouldn't I, only to find out that The Firebird used a recording and The Rite of Spring was the two piano version.  Once is enough for that.  At least the new choreography for Rite was excellent.)