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If there is one event this year every classical music lover should make an attempt to hear, it is Cornish College’s four-day festival: Drums Along the Pacific. Over the course of four days various musicians, including the Seattle Chamber Players, Stewart Dempster, Stephen Drury, and Gamelan Pacifica will play music by former Cornish faculty members Lou Harrison and John Cage, and Henry Cowell who mentored both Cage and Harrison. This may be the only chance you will ever get to hear this much John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Henry Cowell music live –ever.

The Early Music Guild is bringing the Tallis Scholars to Town Hall on Sunday. This group of early music specialists will be exploring Spanish High Baroque. There are few groups with the authority and expertise of the Tallis Scholars. I am sure Seattle’s eager early music community will be out in force for this concert.

The Seattle Opera Young Artists kick off a run of Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream starting Friday. Benjamin Britten’s operas are performed too infrequently around these parts. These performances should be welcome news for anyone who loves 20th Century opera.

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