The essence of life under Covid: Ellen Reid premiere in Seattle

By Philippa Kiraly, 04 February 2022

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“excitable percussion, or slithery glissandi dropped in, like short tempers exploding or meltdowns”

Reviewed at Benaroya Hall, S Mark Taper Auditorium, Seattle on 3 February 2022

Reid, Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today (World premiere, Seattle Sym com.)

Stenhammar, Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Op.23

Sibelius, Symphony no. 1 in E minor, Op.39

Seattle Symphony

Ruth Reinhardt, Conductor

Garrick Ohlsson, Piano

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Philippa Kiraly

Philippa Kiraly has writing classical music criticism since 1980, for several newspapers in northern Ohio and Seattle, magazines, both local and national, and blogs. She has covered dance in Seattle for a decade. Pippa has been steeped in classical music since early childhood and is passionate about the importance of independent criticism for the fine arts, an art in itself. Pippa is a keen gardener, a keen grandparent, and can get lost in a good book.

Life under Covid: Ruth Reinhardt and the Seattle Symphony premiere Ellen Reid's new work