Huw Edwards
Megan Sukys/Dave Beck
05/13/2005
Today's Featured Music Selection: The Seattle Youth Symphony
The Seattle Youth Symphony plays a concert of All American repertoire this Sunday afternoon, May 15th at 3:00pm in Benaroya Hall. The Seattle Youth Symphony is one of the musical organizations participating in this month's Made in America Festival presented by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Seattle Symphony clarinetist Laura DeLuca is the soloist with SYSO in this weekend's concert. This hour we listen to some of the compositions that SYSO will play as our daily music feature on The Beat. Also this hour we'll talk to the Welsh born conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, Huw Edwards. He conducts his final concert with SYSO this weekend.
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At 2:05pm - 'The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self'
Although some people take immediately to music, intuitively understanding the purpose and payoff of practice, others find it an unsolvable mystery. Music lessons often rob the joy from making music. In his book, The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self, William Westney shares how you can set your natural musicality free through practice. Playing a wrong note can be a perfect event: constructive, useful, even enlightening. Misplaced perfectionism, in contrast, can hamper learning and rob us of the fulfillment and transcendent enjoyment that music can bring. William Westney talks with Megan Sukys about transforming the experience of learning to play music.
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At 2:33pm - Huw Edwards
The Welsh born conductor Huw Edwards leads his final concert as Music Director of the Seattle Youth Symphony this weekend. By the age of 11, Edwards knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. At his first opera, Verdi’s A Masked Ball, he was mesmerized by the conductor’s baton. Seven years later, Edwards was on the podium himself as an active conductor when he was appointed Music Director of the Maidstone Opera Company in England. His career as a conductor has since taken him across Europe, Asia and North America. Huw Edwards speaks with Dave Beck about the important role that music has to play in shaping the lives of young people.
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The Seattle Youth Symphony performs in Benaroya Hall this Sunday, May 15th at 3:00pm. Huw Edwards will conduct.
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At 2:50pm - Film Reviews with Robert Horton
Robert Horton reviews Hollywood Blockbusters and art house rarities every Friday on The Beat. He joins us with a look at films screening in our region this weekend.
The Frye Art Museum’s monthly program Magic Lantern: Talks on Film and Art, hosted by film critic Robert Horton, continues Sunday, May 15th, 2:00 pm with Not a Hidden Agenda: Film as Provocation. Horton presents a discussion and screening of file clips that challenge—with riotous satire and exuberant humor—political, social and economic forms of power. It will be held in the auditorium of the Frye Art Museum (704 Terry Avenue). Admission is free.
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