Can't Miss It: Thursday
MOUNTAIN HIGH: This film tour originated as a Telluride film festival and then began venturing around the U.S. ten years ago. Movies that range in time from 4 to 60 minutes involve outdoor adventure sports, sustainable living, and cultural exploration. In other words, it's right up our alley. This is a film festival for those of us whose days are filled with thoughts of climbing, surfing, skiing, discovering and appreciating the world as it is -- challenging, powerful, diverse, and entirely worth preserving. All ticket proceeds support the Outdoors for All Foundation, an organization that uses outdoor recreation to enrich the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities. The three day tour features a different guest speaker each night. Tonight's speaker is Ed Viesturs, a UW grad and Washingtonian who is one of only 22 people people (and the only American) to have climbed each of Earth's peaks that are over 8,000 meters tall.
7:00 p.m. // Magnuson Park Community Theater 7110 62nd Ave NE // $10
FOR THE WIN: In 1924, George Gershwin composed Rhapsody in Blue, a piece for piano and orchestra that paired classical music with jazz elements, a combination that was unsurprisingly very experimental at the time (hey, it was 1924). Nearly 90 years later, it is still one of the most recognizable compositions in American history, and, starting tonight, it's one that Seattleites can see performed by our very own Seattle Symphony (Robert Spano conducts and Marc-Andre Hamelin plays piano). We know what you're thinking, "Rhapsody in Blue is only like 16 minutes long. What do I look like, a rube?" Of course you don't. And fear not. In addition to Rhapsody in Blue, the symphony will also perform Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D Major, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements.
7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall // $17-$115
ARE WE SCARED YET?: Frightened Rabbit hasn't been in the limelight long. Though with three solid albums and an equally solid live show, it's easy to imagine the Scottish group will continue to win fans and be a presence in the indie rock scene for a while. Frightened Rabbit came through with this year's release The Winter of Mixed Drinks, after gaining plenty of attention with 2008's "The Midnight Organ Fight." Their style fits well with that of popular Pacific Northwest Indie bands like Modest Mouse while maintaining strong ties to traditional old world sounds. Poppy but powerful and pub-like; good with a pint and a few pals.
(Check out our full preview of tonight's show later today)
8:00 p.m // Showbox Market // $17.50-$20
