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In 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the Seattle City Council adopted "Seattle, the Peerless City" (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn W. Ashley) as Seattle's official song. [2] By the early 20th century, Seattle had an upper-class society that established an ...
In the 1970s, Kohl joined the Seattle Recorder Society, attending and running classes at their meetings, as well as teaching privately. [3] In 1976, Kohl co-founded and became the board president of the Early Music Guild (EMG, now called Early Music Seattle) in Seattle, attracting international players to perform in the city.
Washington State has had a jazz scene since the early 20th century, primarily centered in Seattle. In the early years, there was an African-American jazz scene on Seattle's Jackson Street, led by the Whangdoodle Entertainers, featuring, amongst others, Frank D. Waldron (trumpet/alto saxophone). Waldron later joined the Odean Jazz Orchestra, one ...
Although Seattle in the early 20th century was more of a center for variety shows and vaudeville than for the high arts, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) was founded in 1903. Nor was the SSO alone: there were two separate Seattle Musical Arts societies, a Schubert Society, and a Seattle Choral Symphony.
In the early years, active members were all required to perform regularly at club events; associate members did not participate as performers, and this latter category of membership was opened to men by the 1893/1894 season. [4] 1920 ad for an LMC-sponsored performance by Jascha Heifetz at Seattle's Metropolitan Theatre.
Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová): early music ensemble; Musica Florea (Marek Štryncl): early music ensemble; Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony; Czech Ensemble Baroque - Roman Válek, Tereza Válková, Loučka: early music ensemble
Blecha was raised in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle. His family moved to Olympia in 1962, and at an early age he took piano and drum lessons. After graduating from Winlock Miller High School, he returned to Seattle in 1974 to enroll at the University of Washington, studying art history under Constantine Chrisfofides, art under Jacob Lawrence, and Northwest Coast art under Bill Holm.
Early annexations to Seattle. The greatest boom period for Seattle occurred during the Klondike gold rush. Seattle, as well as the rest of the nation, was suffering from the economic panic of 1893, and to a lesser extent, the panic of 1896. Gold was discovered in August 1896 in the Klondike region of Canada.