A weekly round-up of arts and culture news in Seattle.
Seattle Weekly, Brian Miller
At the center of the atrium at MOHAI, newly relocated to the Naval Reserve Armory in South Lake Union, is a permanent new sculptural installation that helps anchor the museum to our maritime past. From 1897 into the ’40s, the schooner Wawona carried cargo on Puget Sound. Then it was moored for decades, rotting, near the Center for Wooden Boats (now MOHAI’s neighbor).
Not just another night at the opera: La Boheme is back in Seattle
Crosscut, Thomas May
There will always be cynics who roll their eyes at mention of “La Bohème.” But for the rest of us who are defenseless against its attractions, the only thing that can make Giacomo Puccini’s turn-of-the-century opera about young love and loss grow tiresome is a lack of conviction. Even mediocre performances don’t seem to dampen the “La Bohème” effect. Yet any hint of auto-pilot, of relying on routine, tends to break the spell.
SSO mounts Marvin Hamlisch tribute
Seattle Times, Tom Keogh
Composer-conductor Larry Blank will lead the Seattle Symphony orchestra in a selection of Hamlisch hits in a series of concerts Feb. 21-24, 2013.
