SEATTLE BAROQUE ENDS SEASON ON COMIC NOTE.(Life and Arts) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: April 14, 2008| Author: Campbell, R.M. | COPYRIGHT 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Thomson Scientific by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: R.M. CAMPBELL P-I music critic

The Seattle Baroque Orchestra, which closed its season this weekend, has had a year of superb, invigorating programs, encompassing 17th-century songs, a jazz collaboration, Handel's "Messiah" at Town Hall and music tied together by its use of similar bass-line patterns, or ground bass.

Saturday night at Nordstrom Recital Hall was one of its most stimulating, enlightening and fun programs with a comic opera, "La serva ...

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