“The skies, the Sound, the snowy Olympics: Thomas Dausgaard loves snapping photo after photo of Seattle’s maritime views in their constantly changing light,” writes Melinda Bargreen in Sunday’s (9/8) Seattle Times. “Seattle classical-music fans are equally attracted to his conducting…. This synergy between the Danish maestro and the city augurs well as Seattle Symphony opens its new season Saturday, Sept. 14—its first with Dausgaard as music director. The silver-haired Dane, 56 … has guest conducted with Seattle Symphony for years…. An orchestra finds its own voice, Dausgaard believes, through intensive endeavors like the Beethoven festival planned for June next year…. ‘I am excited that we are finding a way of engaging with the community to present Beethoven,’ Dausgaard says. ‘We spoke to a representative of the [Coast Salish peoples], Paul Wagner, about our collaboration for one Beethoven concert with Native American musicians and others joining in. We can really learn from them.’ … Dausgaard is very happy that ‘music from my part of the world’ has such a resonance in Seattle. His 2015 Sibelius Festival here … drew an overwhelmingly positive response from the audiences…. Dausgaard says, … ‘I’m really excited about the resonance that this music has here.’ ”
Posted September 11, 2019
In photo: Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Seattle Symphony. Photo by Brandon Patoc
