There’s a moment during Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” that everyone knows: the Hallelujah Chorus. The audience stands up, the trumpets ring high, the choir belts out those familiar four notes – and you can bet your bottom dollar that most of the audience is wishing they could sing along.
Doris Day, America's pert, honey-voiced sweetheart of the 1950s and 1960s, beguiled audiences with her on-screen romances opposite top Hollywood leading men Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and Jack Lemmon.
Imagine a shimmery-costumed couple whirling gently around on a giant metallic flower, while ethereal music vibrates like the wind through a glass tower. Or two people dressed like Tin Men, banging on their chests, elbows and heads like a percussion section gone crazy. Or a circle of glass spheres, playing plaintive music all by itself.
Shows by big touring acts or professional orchestras in the downtown theaters are wonderful experiences, but can be tough to attend if you’re on a budget.
ShoWareCenter announced today that Kelly Clarkson will bring her Stronger Tour to Kent for a March 22 show. Guest Matt Nathanson will join Clarkson. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday.
Live Nation announced Monday that legendary pop star Prince will bring his Welcome 2 America tour to Tacoma on Dec. 19. Prince has not performed in the Seattle-Tacoma area since 2004.
Cirque du The King of Pop returns to the stage – in spirit – when Cirque du Soleil brings “Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour” to KeyArena on Wednesday and Thursday. The two-hour tribute show brings 65 performers and musicians to the stage and is one of the biggest Cirque shows going, said publicist Maxime Charbonneau. It requires 38 trucks to haul gear and sets.
Soldiers dressed as nuns to seduce women. A silken ladder that allows all kinds of nighttime frolics. A barber who disguises his amorous friend as a music teacher. It’s safe to say that Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera plots often are as silly as they come, allowing his singers to show off their vocal abilities unencumbered by any seriousness.
The annual free community festival at Tacoma Art Museum celebrating Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, attracts all sorts of people who want to pay homage to loved ones who have died through art and music. This year’s celebration is Sunday.
If Halloween is getting a little too cutesy, here’s the place for you: Le Noir Bizarre, a Gothic-Victorian-steampunk All Hallow’s Eve celebration Sunday at Sanford and Son Antiques. Horror flicks will give way to Edgar Allen Poe, candy will be replaced by Gothic accessories, and pumpkins will make way for a steampunk tea party.
Music often is described as magical, but music written about magic itself goes a step further. That’s the step Tacoma Symphony Orchestra will take Saturday in it’s Enchanted Symphony concert.
We interrupt your regular Friday night of PBS programming to bring you rock ’n’ roll. Long-haired, messy, blaring, angry rock that would make Big Bird’s feathers turn red. “Pearl Jam Twenty” – which airs at 9 p.m. Friday on most PBS stations – documents how the Seattle band became an early architect of grunge, and nearly collapsed under the weight of what they had built.
The economy might be down, but the worst is over for Northwest Sinfonietta, and the orchestra is celebrating two years of fiscal smarts with a season of full-scale chamber works from Mozart to Mendelssohn. They’re even throwing in big Romantic works to boot, and three of them appear on this weekend’s program: Wagner’s prelude to Act III of “Tristan und Isolde,” Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” suite, and the Brahms piano concert no. 2.
Imagine Bumbershoot, only calmer, completely free and right here in downtown Tacoma.
Imagine Bumbershoot, only calmer, completely free and right here in downtown Tacoma.
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