Under the baton of Alan Shen, this extraordinary all-volunteer orchestra performs an ambitious program including Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture; selections for guest vocalists Larissa Humphrey, soprano, and Frances Hoffman, soprano; Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture.
Erik Larson: ‘In the Garden of Beasts’
Monday, May 21, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
The bestselling Seattle author of The Devil in the White City brings another past world alive—this time, the ominous realm of Nazi Berlin. With its focus on William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professor who becomes America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd’s flirtatious and free-spirited 24-year-old daughter Martha, Erik Larson’s new book In the Garden of Beasts examines the people, politics, and social life of Berlin during Hitler’s first full year as chancellor
Peter Menzel & Faith D’Aluisio: The World on a Plate
Friday, May 18, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Through stories, anecdotes, and a visual feast of more than 500 images, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio lead a geographic and gastronomic adventure of what people eat around the world. It’s all deliciously compiled from their books Hungry Planet and What I Eat, the basis for a current exhibit at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle.