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Article: BRAHMS A WINNER AT INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OF SEATTLE.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 21, 1997
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The International Music Festival of Seattle is fond of picking themes around which to build its two-week offering of concerts.
This year artistic director Dmitry Sitkovetsky is looking at what he calls ``Musical Migrations,'' composers who left the land of their birth to seek greater opportunity elsewhere. That could be George Gershwin, Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland in Paris; Handel and Haydn in London; Domenico Scarlatti in Lisbon, or Ferrucio Busoni in Berlin.
However, the formula is not rigid, so two evenings are devoted to Brahms and Schubert because they have anniversaries worth noting this year: the 100th anniversary of Brahms' death, in Vienna, ...