Hear the First Notes of the New Year on Classical KING and find live concerts near you! 

 

First Notes of the New Year 

Local performers are returning to stages across the Pacific Northwest! Find concerts near you on Live Music Project. 

 

New Year, New Music 

Saturdays | 8pm-12am 

Join us Saturday nights for four hours of discovery, beginning with Second Inversion and followed by Pacific Notions, a serene blend of atmospheric and ambient soundscapes hosted by KEXP’s DJ Alex! 

 

Northwest Focus Live 

Sound Salon: Byron Schenkman and Gretchen Yanover 

Friday, January 9 | 7pm 

Host: Michelle Maestas Simonsen 

Cello and piano repertoire – both acoustic and electrified – this Friday on Northwest Focus Live! This program features acoustic works for piano and cello by Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Bologne, Piazzolla, LeBeau, and Zeitlin, plus two Yanover works for electric cello! For more information, visit classicalking.org/show/nw-focus-live. 

 

The Score with Edmund Stone 

Mark Your Calendar for Weird Holidays 2 

Saturday, January 10 | 4pm 

This week on The Score, join Edmund Stone as he marks the calendar for a year’s worth of quirky holidays including World Story Telling Day with 3000 Years of Longing, Good Neighbor Day with A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, International Sloth Day with Zootopia and more. A movie a month, and lots of fun. Next time on The Score. 

 

Mark Your Calendar for Weird Holidays 3 

Sunday, January 11 | 4pm 

Edmund Stone, creator, host and producer of The Score will help get your year off to a great start with the third annual Mark Your Calendar for Weird Holidays! Celebrate Lost Sock Day with Dobby from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.R.R. Tolkien Day with music from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, and Haunted Refrigerator Night with Ghostbusters. It’s a year of fun, packed into one Score! 

 

The Metropolitan Opera 

Bellini: I Puritani 

Saturday, January 10 | 10am 

Bellini’s final masterpiece, this Saturday from the Met! 

 

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