Listen here to some samples of ETHEL’s beautiful work…
(To Whom it May Concern: Thank You and Escape! from the Hours) will be a part of this weekend’s program
Senescence Music
(Cornelius Dufallo)
To Whom it May Concern: Thank You
(Mark Stewart)
Escape! from the Hours
(Glass/Dufallo)
High Octane, Passionate musicians – New York Times
When they want it to roar, they ROAR – LA Times
Vital and Brilliant – The New Yorker
ETHEL created a world in which classical music had never grown distant,
a world in which it was fresh and direct as crowds dancing in the street. – Wall Street Journal
It’s been SEVEN years since ETHEL was in Seattle. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see them live in our area - and find out why audiences around the world are falling in love with ETHEL!
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Friday, April 29 at 7:30 PM, Mt. Baker Community Club
Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 PM, Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Click here to watch the video, “Who is Ethel” and learn more about this, ”High Octane String Quartet”
For more information about the Present Beauty repertoire that ETHEL will be performing, please visit the programs page on this website.
The New York Times calls ETHEL, “a string quartet that has always wanted to be a rock band.” ETHEL tours the world, appearing on stages as varied as Venice Biennale, Sydney Opera House, Ravinia, TED, Lincoln Center, Holland’s TROMP Festival and the Kennedy Center. Embracing today’s most exhilarating music, ETHEL has performed with Joe Jackson, Kurt Elling, Bang on a Can, STEW and Ensemble Modern. Members of ETHEL have recorded/performed with some of today’s most compelling artists: Sheryl Crow, Gorillaz, Roger Daltrey, Yo Yo Ma, Ornette Coleman and Lenny Kravitz.
2010-2011 Concert Season
These compositions by the oft neglected Other Sex are indeed Significant. This program features works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and other significant women composers such as Rebecca Clark and Nadia Boulanger, culminating with Amy Beach’s lush, romantic Piano Quintet. Seattle’s own star violist Mara Gearman will lead our Simple Measures musicians.
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Saturday, Feb 5 at 2:00 pm Kenyon Hall (West Seattle)
Sunday, Feb 6 at 7:00 pm Bitter Lake Community Center
Monday, Feb 7 at 7:30 pm Q Café (Queen Anne/Magnolia)
The Glass Ceiling. We are presenting New York based ETHEL, a string quartet with an exciting and innovative presentation style. Featured music includes an arrangement by ETHEL of Philip Glass’ sound track to the movie “The Hours” based upon a story about Virginia Woolf, as well as other works by women (and men). Do not arrive late for we have a special musical surprise to begin the show.
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Friday, April 29 at 7:30 pm Mt. Baker Community Club
Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 pm Fremont Abbey
Web Designs. The Gossamer Collective will spin a multimedia musical web of art, photography, and clothing design creating a living tapestry of sound, color, texture and emotion. As presented by Simple Measures the multimedia work of the five women of the Collective will incorporate various musical works including the monumental Piano Trio by Ravel.
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Friday, June 3 at 7:30 pm Mt. Baker Community Club
Saturday, June 4 at 2:00 pm Good Sheperd Center
Sunday, June 5 at 7:00 pm Northgate Community Center
Friday, May 14, 7:30pm at Fremont Abbey
Saturday, May 15, 2:00pm at Miller Community Center (Capitol Hill)
Sunday, May 16, 7:00pm at Bastyr University Chapel (Kenmore)
Monday, May 17, 7:30pm at Mount Baker Community Club
Thank you Seattle Times for mentioning us in your weekend classical round-up.
Join KUOW’s Front Row Center and Simple Measures on April 17, 2PM at Kenyon Hall in West Seattle
KUOW’s Front Row Center is the station’s innovative new media and community outreach project. Think of it as a “book club for the arts.” KUOW listeners attend area arts events together then gather informally afterwards to talk about what they experienced. So far this season FRC participants have been to events at On the Boards, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Repertory Theatre.
On Saturday, April 17 KUOW’s Dave Beck will lead a Front Row Center discussion following the 2PM Simple Measures performance at Kenyon Hall in West Seattle.
Buy a ticket to the April 17 Simple Measures concert at Kenyon Hall and stay after for the KUOW Front Row Center conversation.
Find out more about Front Row Center at KUOW
And become a fan of Front Row Center on Facebook
Friday, April 16, 7:30pm at Northgate Community Center
Saturday, April 17, 2:00pm at Kenyon Hall (West Seattle)
Sunday, April 18, 7:00pm at Golden Gardens (Ballard)
Monday, April 19th – Cancelled
Alex Klein, world-renowned oboist and former University of Washington faculty member pairs his fiery music making with Simple Measures’ red-hot regular artists. Feel the heat and light of piano played by Mark Salman as the ensemble burns up works by Mozart, Britten and Bolcom.
Friday, February 12, 7:30pm at Q Café (Queen Anne/Magnolia)
Saturday, February 13, 2:00pm at Mercer Island Community Center
Sunday, February 14, 7:00pm at Mount Baker Community Club
Monday, February 15, 7:30pm at Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
