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Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.
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In the heat of inauguration excitement, you might want to stop in at Tacoma Art Museum, where we have our very own portrait of President Barack Obama. It's an oil by Northwest artist Bo Bartlett, and it's hanging in the event space just off the lobby (next to the cafe.)
According to director Stephanie Stebich, the portrait (which shows an Obama considerably more carefree than he looked on TV this morning) narrowly missed being chosen as the cover on Time magazine.
Here's what Bartlett has to say on the new president.
TAM is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays and through 8 p.m. third Thursdays. 1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma. 253-272-4258, www.tacomaartmuseum.org
It takes a lot to convince me to drive up to Seattle through evening rush-hour traffic in the kind of fog we're getting these days, especially mid-week. But tonight and tomorrow night there's the kind of reason that would make me go up twice in a row if I had the time:
The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
They're playing Benaroya Hall tonight and tomorrow, and they're playing Brahms, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. But even if they were playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" I'd still go and hear them. They're one of the world's best bands, playing with a sound in which every instrument speaks uniquely. Bernard Holland, reviewing a Carnegie Hall concert last year, called their sound European (rather than brassy American), with "a glow and a weight that begin below the surface of the sound and expand upward and outward."
They also have the best attitude toward younger audiences that I've found--their "Metallica" CD is a great example--with a website that really walks the talk with audio and video.
Tonight they're playing Berg, Copland and Brahms 1; tomorrow it's Prokofiev's 5th concert (Garrick Ohlson) and Tchaikovsky 5, plus a piece by their superb conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. It's part of the longest West Coast tour they've done yet.
Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. Benaroya Hall is on Second Avenue at Union and University Streets in downtown Seattle. Tickets: 1-866-833-4747, or www.seattlesymphony.org
